"Huzhou City in the north of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Post in the south, Xianyan for ten miles, well houses are lined up, hundreds of thousands of fireworks, and residents in the city are not alone."

"If Ning and Shaoren are outside, I don't know why there are so many teeth."

"This "Hangzhou Mansion Chronicles" is not wrong at all......"

On the second day, when Zhu Ciran and Liu Shun changed into satin robes and went out, they walked to the street to welcome the crowd that sent them, which surprised them.

When they came to Huzhou City, the lively Huzhou City made them even more dumbfounded.

The luxury of the people of Hangzhou is not only the luxury of the high-ranking officials and nobles, but also the luxury of the small people.

Some landless migrant workers wear embroidered clothes, and a set of clothes is worth hundreds of Wen, and people like this don't know how much it is?

The waterways of Huzhou City and Zhejiang Post are vertical and horizontal, the waterways are painted on the shoulders, the boats are shy and good, and several singers sing and accompany, and the extravagance can be seen.

The so-called Huzhou City and Zhejiang Station refer to the two commercial districts in the north and south of the Hangzhou city wall, which is the part of Hangzhou city itself that extends to the outside of the city wall.

The commercial area outside the city wall alone has reached the scale of "stretching for ten miles and hundreds of thousands of fireworks".

Walking in the market of Huzhou City, Zhu Ciran can see Pingpo fruit, yellow squirrel and horsetooth pine in Beijing, and can also see tripe vegetables, autumn white pears, Wenguan fruit and sweet seeds in Shandong.

Continuing down, the fruit and grocery stalls along the street have more local characteristics.

Fujian's Fu Mandarin, Fu Ju Cake, Kraft Candy, Red Sufu, Jiangxi's Qinggen, Fengcheng Preserved Fruit, Shanxi's Smallpox, Suzhou's Bone-in Abalone, Shanchading, Shancha Cake, Pine Nut Sugar, White Round, Dried Olives.

There are also Jiaxing horses, fish breasts, Taozhuang yellow birds......

Nanjing's set of cherries, Taomen dates, ground chestnut balls, bamboo shoot groups, and Shancha sugar......

All kinds of watermelons, chicken beans, lotus roots, leek sprouts, bamboo shoots, tangerines, bayberry, lettuce, doves, green carp, persimmons and other items are available, and the price mostly starts with five cents, which is staggering.

In addition to these things, walking in Huzhou City, Zhu Ciran and they can also see the market vendors picking up some dairy products for sale, and they can buy a bottle of half-catty milk for six cents, and the pedestrians around them don't look at it, it seems that milk is also common in this season.

These vendors carry not only milk but also a variety of dairy products made from milk.

"Master, the street market in Hangzhou is almost more lively than that in the capital."

Walking on the streets of Huzhou City, Liu Shun couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time couldn't help but say: "The wages of the people of Hangzhou are probably not inferior to the capital." ”

"Almost......" Zhu Ciran responded lightly, and at the same time, his eyes also saw a recruitment notice posted on a vegetable shop.

[Recruit three workers, Chen out of the unitary, daily wage 25 Wen]

"Twenty-five? This is higher than the capital! ”

Looking at the notice marked with twenty-five texts a day, Liu Shun's jaw dropped in shock, while Zhu Ciran stepped forward to look at the vegetables.

Seeing Zhu Ci come up, the guy at the vegetable shop also greeted with a smile:

"Eating tender cucumbers in winter has a unique flavor, guest officer, you see, these cucumbers are cultivated by local vegetable farmers in Hangzhou from the warm hole, and they are local cucumbers."

Hangzhou in February is still a little cold due to the advent of the Xiaoice River period, and cucumber cultivation has to wait for a while, but now this guy says that these cucumbers are all from the warm cave in Hangzhou, which makes Zhu Ciran can't help but be curious:

"You said that this cucumber came out of a warm hole, what kind of warm hole?"

After all, Hangzhou is a prosperous place, and the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty may not work anywhere, but in the big city, the official dialect must be spoken well.

Therefore, in the face of Zhu Ciran's official dialect, the guy also explained to them in the official dialect with a Hangzhou accent.

The so-called warm cave is actually a kind of greenhouse in the Ming Dynasty, which is a cellar-type or semi-cellar-type house.

An earthen kang is built in the house, the fire is burned to increase the temperature, and vegetables are planted in the "warm hole", which can grow normally in the middle of winter.

In this way, not only cucumbers, yellow sprouts, leeks, radishes and other fresh vegetables are grown, but also a variety of flowers.

Zhu Ciran hadn't heard of it because he hadn't gone to the vegetable market in the capital before, otherwise he would have known what Nuandongzi was.

All in all, the emergence of Nuandongzi has enriched all kinds of vegetable varieties in winter, and in terms of categories, it is basically no less than that of later generations:

"This warm cave has everything, you look at the vegetables we have here, they are all produced by the warm hole."

The work was enthusiastic, and Zhu Ciran also looked at the things on the table.

A long table of one zhang and two zhang is placed on the ginger, taro, radish, carrot, rape, water chestnut, ginger, green onion, leek, garlic, manna seed, mint, perilla, yam and other vegetables that are not in season.

In addition to these, there are also various imported products such as tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and onions.

In addition to these vegetables, the store also has an abundance of fruits.

Lychee, longan, olive, betel nut, nut, coconut, orange grapefruit, pineapple, chebula, sheep peach, mountain peach, grape, oleander, honey wang, Yimu, human noodles and all kinds of mountain fruits, everything, the price is expensive.

"Buy five catties of lychees." Seeing that the guy said so much, Zhu Ciran gestured to weigh five catties of lychees.

"Howler!" Hearing Zhu Ciran's words, this guy packed up five catties of lychees, and weighed them after picking the fruits, unlike some places where even the branches are weighed.

"Five catties, I will charge you forty yuan."

The job smiled and handed over the lychee in the cloth bag, and Zhu Ciran also signaled Liu Shun to give money when he heard this.

The two took the lychee and continued to walk around Huzhou City, and after walking away, Liu Shuncai said: "Eight pounds of lychee, this Hangzhou is obviously so prosperous, why are fruits and vegetables cheaper than small places?" ”

"It's because it's prosperous that it's cheap......" Zhu Ciran explained, and Liu Shun nodded as if he didn't understand.

The two continued to stroll, but as the sky became brighter and brighter, there were more and more people in Huzhou City, and finally to the point where people were crowded and shoulder to shoulder.

For the sake of Zhu Ciran's safety, Liu Shun escorted out of Huzhou City, but when they came to the outside of the city, there were still a lot of people outside.

The white wall and gray tile horse head wall are the characteristics of Hangzhou, and Zhu Ciran and they tried to find a place with few people to explore, so they did not go to the West Lake.

For them, since the Hangzhou Railway Station has only been open for more than a year, they are not in a hurry.

Maybe after they go back this time, they can take the train to Hangzhou next year, the year after next, or at any time, and it will only take eight or nine days to go back and forth.

What they want to see is the style of the old city of Hangzhou, as well as the scenery of the river in Hangzhou.

Walking on the small streets facing the river at the back door of some houses, the two finally felt a trace of tranquility in the lively city of Hangzhou.

The long, winding streets, and the paved stone paths next to each other, seemed to have no end.

On both sides of the small street, there are almost all black eaves and green tiles, and the eaves of small buildings are winged, with a line of blue sky on the top and a shadow of people on the bottom, which is a subtle and profound artistic conception.

On the rippling city river, small boats come and go, babbling the oars, and from time to time when you are tired of walking, you sit down, and look at the water pavilion reflected in the water and the rippling trees on the shore.

During the break, a sixty-year-old woman stopped the boat and asked Zhu Ciran if they wanted to take the boat, and Zhu Ciran could not refuse with her thin body and hopeful eyes.

He and Liu Shun got on the boat, and when the old woman saw them on the boat, she greeted them with a smile, and paddled them through one bridge after another with her thin and short body.

In Hangzhou, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the arch bridge is a very common landscape.

From the embarkation point, they only had to take a mile along the way, and they passed eight ancient stone bridges.

Maybe it's because of the different construction years, these ancient bridges have a variety of styles and different styles, looking at them one by one, Zhu Ciran seems to have taken a time machine.

It is undeniable that the shape of the arch bridge is beautiful, and the ripples caused by the shaking of the oars add a bit of elegance to the tranquility.

Although Zhu Ciran was not going to see the West Lake, in order to let the old man earn a few more pennies and relax himself, he still let the old man row to the West Lake.

The West Lake of this era has a lot of natural scenery, it has no fences, and there is no traffic in later generations, only pedestrians stopping on the road to watch the scenery, as well as painting boats and canopy boats on the lake.

When you enter the West Lake by waterway, you need to pass through the Fengbo Pavilion, which was built in the Hongwu period in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 200 years.

It is not so grand, but only a solitary pavilion standing by the lake, and the trees around it have been cut down, which seems to have been deliberately landscaped.

But Zhu Ciran also admitted that the Fengbo Pavilion isolated by the lake did make Zhu Ciran think of many things.

Of all the people he knew, there was no one more lonely than his uncle.

When he looked at the isolated Storm Pavilion, he naturally thought of his uncle.

"I used to be young and ignorant, but now that I think about it, everyone has a burden on everyone's shoulders."

"My father's burden has been carried by my uncle for so many years, although I can't afford it, but I can always share it."

Sitting on the boat, Zhu Ciran looked at the Storm Pavilion that was gradually disappearing in the distance, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

In this regard, Liu Shun also bowed his head slightly in agreement, but he didn't dare to say anything, after all, he was just a small Jinyi Wei Baihu official.

Zhu Ciran understood him very well, and did not force him to express any attitude.

The two fell silent, and only the sound of the old woman introducing the scenery along the boat was left.

Half an hour later, when the old woman sent them to the nearest river to the inn, she was also embarrassed to say the price of "Wuwen".

Perhaps in her opinion, five cents is already a lot.

"After rowing for so long, the old man has consumed so much energy, how can it be worth only five yuan?"

Before Zhu Ciran could speak, Liu Shun smiled and took out two ten-wen Heavenly Apocalypse Tongbao from his arms, and forcibly put them in the old man's hand: "That's the price!" ”

After that, Liu Shun turned around and left with Zhu Ciran, leaving only the old woman standing on the boat stunned.

After a while, she carefully put the copper coin in her arms.

Just as she was rowing and about to leave, she touched the place where the money was put uneasily, and after making sure that they had been there, she smiled and rowed the boat to continue preparing to find the next guest.

Twenty wen is a copper coin that she doesn't necessarily earn in a day, but she can't slack off because of this, because compared to life in Hangzhou, this money is nothing.

"...... by boat"

"Bang bang bang-"

Just as the old man shouted to get on the boat, fierce artillery fire broke out in the small western sea thousands of miles away.

In the distance of a fleet that obscured the sky, a pirate ship that tried to escape was sunk, and all the pirates were sent into the sea to feed the fish.

"What does the little Western Fleet eat? How many thieves in the sea area of the jurisdiction don't know?! ”

On the deck of the 3,200-ton Kunlun, Huang Fei was scolding at the moment.

He didn't expect that he had only been away from Xiao Xiyang for a few years, and Xiao Xiyang even had pirates.

You must know that nearly seventy percent of the ships trading between the East and the West are ships of the Imperial Store.

If the ship of Huangdian is hijacked, then he, the governor of the navy, will not want to do it.

His anger was understandable, but at this time, Xu Xiake, the leader of the team, also stepped forward to comfort:

"This is the West and the West, after all, it is close to Persia, the Rumi Kingdom (Ottoman) and the Garabi Sea, and the situation is understandably complicated."

"I haven't encountered pirates along the way, so it can be seen that the generals below are still working hard, Huang Dudu, don't be angry."

Xu Xiake's comfort played a certain role, and after Huang Fei lost his anger, he no longer reprimanded the small Western Fleet for joining the army, but waved his hand to signal him to retreat, and then discussed other things with Xu Xiake.

"Is Xu Shilang going to go south through Wandao County, or is he going to take the coastal waterway?"

"Naturally, I will take the coastal waterway, and while promoting my Ming national prestige, I will also supply supplies by the way."

Xu Xiake replied without thinking, and this answer also made Huang Fei very satisfied.

Huang Fei participated in the third operation to the Western Ocean as the Governor of the Navy, and Zhu Youzhen's purpose was to let Huang Fei know more about the marine situation around the world.

At present, Huang Fei only knows about the situation in the Western Ming Sea (Pacific Ocean) and the South Sea, as well as the situation in the Little Western Ocean, and does not know the situation in the Red Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Qi State Sea.

Thinking of this, Huang Fei glanced at the huge fleet under his command.

"With so many sea vessels, is there a place along the coast to replenish them?"

Huang Fei asked about the supply, to which Xu Xiake nodded:

"The ports of Persia and Lumi can be replenished, and in addition, there are reclaimed lands of various vassals along the coast of Levia, although it is not possible to supply supplies for two or three months at once, but the supplies for ten days are still possible."

"After arriving at the South Kunlun Supervision Division, you can supply supplies to Europe in one go, and then you can sell the goods on the ship in Europe and buy all kinds of materials to go to North Asia Melica."

"North Asia Melica and South Asia Melica are rich in resources, and there are cities on the east coast that can be replenished by Dark Hellia, Franca, Francji, etc., and can be supplied all the way to Qi State."

"After arriving in Qi State, I will supply supplies for three months in one go, and then return to Daming by the northern shipping route, and arrive at Beizhou Capital in the north of Yingzhou in about two and a half months."

Xu Xiake explained to Huang Fei in detail the places that could be replenished along the way, and Huang Fei nodded when he heard this: "Just go where there are supplies." ”

"However, this time, His Highness wants to let the Great Francisco, Dark Eliah, Francha and other countries hand over the territory of Melica in South Asia, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to implement."

"I don't think it's better to send troops directly to take these places." Huang Fei opened his mouth angrily.

"This ......" Xu Xiake was embarrassed by what he said, and he didn't dare to agree with Huang Fei's opinion.

"Afraid of what?" Huang Fei said directly: "As long as you complete His Highness's order." ”

"Unified caliber, let's say that the Europa people shelled us first, and we fired back."

"This really doesn't work...... Hearing Huang Fei say more and more outrageous, Xu Xiake hurriedly stopped and explained:

"The navies of the countries of Europa have long been afraid of tigers, how dare they take the initiative to provoke, as soon as such a thing is played, His Highness will definitely have an insight."

"What's more, at present, the trade profits between the countries of Europa and the Imperial Dian are as much as three million taels, and if the war rashly starts and the dynasty loses these three million taels of trade profits, I am afraid that His Highness and Banzai will be furious."

"This is also ......" Speaking of the problem of trade, Huang Fei's IQ occupied the high ground, but he thought about it for a while, and said:

"Most of Europa's gold and silver are shipped from North and South Asia, and if we take down the land, won't all the gold and silver be ours?"

"Uh...... This ......" Xu Xiake is good at writing but not eloquent, Huang Fei's words stunned him for a while.

Sometimes he had to admire Huang Fei's brain circuit, but after groaning, he still shook his head and said:

"At present, the country does not have the strength to cross half the world to immigrate, and the Qi country cannot divide the strength to occupy these places, even if it is occupied, but when the fleet leaves, I am afraid that the local people will pull the flag and rebel again, this time we did not bring rifles."

Xu Xiake mentioned a key point, which is also a point of itchy teeth.

In order to prevent the Europeans from coming into contact with the firing pistols too early, Zhu Youzhen did not let the fleets that went to the West bring the firing guns, which led to the fact that their entire army was equipped with rifles.

Although even if there is only a rifle, the military technology of the Ming army is decades higher than that of the Europeans, but there will definitely be casualties in such a fight.

There are a lot of casualties, and Huang Fei will definitely be impeached, he doesn't want to lose his title.

Thinking like this, Huang Fei could only give up: "Okay, just do what Xu Shilang said." ”

Seeing that Huang Fei agreed, Xu Xiake also breathed a sigh ......of relief.

The two continued to talk about the voyage, and almost at the same time, Wu Aheng, who supervised the envoy of South Kunlun, also received the situation and progress of the third voyage to the West brought by the clipper.

When he knew that Xu Xiake and the others had arrived in Jiugang on the third day of the first lunar month, he immediately returned from Changning County in the north to Kunlun County in the south.

It is another year, and the development of Kunlun County is more prosperous.

With the grain supply of the small Western feudal domains, Kunlun County has reclaimed more than 300,000 mu of paddy fields and more than 500,000 mu of irrigated fields.

With the support of these cultivated lands, the Southern Kunlun Inspectorate increased their food support for the feudal domains, and the feudal domains were able to invest more and more troops and population in Levia.

As soon as there are many people, there is demand, and when there is demand, there is trade, so as a necessary passage for maritime trade between Europe and Asia in this era, Kunlun County has naturally prospered.

On the scale of the original old city, Yan Yingyuan drove the local labor camp workers to build the outer city 16 miles away, so that the inner and outer city could accommodate nearly 200,000 people.

The city was built entirely of cement, and Yan Yingyuan also built 30 artificial cement yards in South Kunlun Province, and used the gold mined in the mines to buy many local labor reformers from the Europa and put them into the excavation of the mining area.

The prosperity of Southern Kunlun Province was not only the prosperity of the Levian domains, but also caused many Europeans who had experienced the war to go south and spontaneously form slave hunting teams.

The price given by the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy was one tael of silver per person, and what the slave hunting team had to do was very simple.

There was no need for Da Ming's guidance, they themselves knew how to arrest the labor campers.

They sent people directly to some tribes in central Levia to communicate with them, and supported the local tribes in annexing other tribes, which they bought for the price of one iron knife per captive.

There was a criterion for the captives they bought, that is, as long as they were men, and they were still men over the age of fifteen.

Not only that, but these captives also had to be treated and survived, and only such slaves would they buy and send them to the Southern Kunlun Inspectorate in the south.

Compared with the rough European slave catchers, the Ming Dynasty was much more enlightened.

For RTL workers who have not undergone special treatment, they will release them at the end of the 10-year RTL period and give them a sum of money to go home.

For the processed labor campers, the Ming Dynasty will arrange for them to live in Yongping County and give them fields.

However, in the Southern Kunlun Supervision Mission, if there are no descendants after death, the land needs to be reclaimed.

Of course, they can also adopt some children, but most of these children are orphans sent from India.

Without the Ming, they would have been sent to colonies in the Americas after defeat, or beheaded by other tribes.

They don't know whether what they have experienced is the standard required by the Ming Dynasty or the bad taste of the slave catcher.

They only know that they can still survive in the territory of Daming.

"How many fields and labor campers are there in the house?"

When Wu Aheng returned to Kunlun County from the north in military uniform, Yan Yingyuan greeted him at the gate of the county seat and chatted with him while riding back to the county office.

"There are 520,000 mu of paddy fields in South Kunlun Prefecture, 3.27 million mu of irrigated land, and the grain output is estimated to reach about 3 million stones."

"The number of labor reformers is now 1.47 million, which is enough for the time being, and the lower officials have not purchased any more."

Yan Yingyuan responded to Wu Aheng, and at the same time looked at the situation on the street.

Buildings full of Ming and Han style are all over the city, and a large number of local faces of Yingzhou and Daming fill the streets, and occasionally you can see many Europa faces who have sold slaves for recreation.

While Yan Yingyuan was looking at the street, Wu Aheng also said that Xu Xiake and they were about to arrive in Kunlun County.

He asked Yan Yingyuan and Yan Yinshao to prepare 300,000 stone of grain each to supply the Western Fleet, but Yan Yingyuan felt that there was no problem.

The two hurriedly returned to the study of the county government, and only after sitting down did Wu Aheng stroke his beard and say:

"I came this time, in addition to preparing food, I just wanted to ask you and Gengming (Yan Yinshao), how many immigrants can be accepted by the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy Division."

Faced with Wu Aheng's question, Yan Yingyuan responded without hesitation:

"It's about 500,000, but if you still need to divide the land, you can only move more than 60,000 people per 50 acres."

"Hmm...... In this case, when Xu Xiake arrives, I will ask him to bring it back to the country, and let the 60,000 immigrants from the country come to South Kunlun to supervise the embassy. ”

"In addition, this time the fleet also came with more than 30,000 people, if we can eat it, take us to eat half of it first, and distribute the remaining half to the three kingdoms of Tang, Huai, and Ji."

"The subordinate officer receives the order...... Yan Yingyuan responded, and Wu Aheng also got up and said:

"Okay, since you can arrange it, then I won't interfere much, there are many natives in the north attacking south, and I have to go back tomorrow to consolidate the defensive line."

After Wu Aheng finished speaking, he waved his hand to signal that he was going to rest, and Yan Yingyuan also withdrew from the study after returning the salute.

(End of chapter)