Last time, it was mentioned that Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youzhen and his concubines, and Zhang Sanfeng held a meeting together in the "Qianqing Palace" to discuss the affairs of the court meeting and magnify Lubanmen.

"Haha, no problem, thank you Zhang Daoyou for reminding me!" As soon as the words fell, Zhu Youxiao closed his eyes and recuperated, seemingly meditating on his knees and refining qi, but in fact, he was actually running the "sprout" of "Seventy-two Techniques of the Left Way of the Side Door", and instantly foresaw that Xu Xiake had arrived at the border of Guangxi at this time, and was leisurely playing in the mountains and rivers. So, Zhu Youxiao looked around at the crowd: "You guys are out of company for the time being, the widow has to go and pick up the uncle back first and then continue to talk." ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Youxiao turned into a flash of light and flew straight to the boundary of Guangnan West Road, thousands of miles away, I want to see how my uncle is doing?

As we all know in different time and space, the Ming Dynasty traveler Xu Xiake may be the most well-known travel self-media author in ancient China, because he spent 31 years from 1608 to 1639, and after traveling through most of China, he finally wrote a geographical masterpiece of more than 600,000 words "Xu Xiake's Travels", which is well-deserved "China's first generation of travelers"! From ancient times to the present, I am afraid that no Chinese has been so arrogant!

In order to commemorate Xu Xiake, later generations from 2011 onwards, the opening day of "Xu Xiake's Travels" on May 19 was designated as "China Tourism Day".

As we all know, tourism is a very "money-burning" thing. Not to mention in ancient times, even in modern society, for ordinary people, traveling is still a "luxury". Even many middle-class families are afraid to travel easily because the expenses are too high!

Therefore, the question arises, that is, Xu Xiake, who has never participated in work, why can he travel for 31 years? And what exactly is his source of finance? In fact, future generations may not know that Xu Xiake himself is not an ordinary person, but a proper "rich second generation" during the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Xiake is a native of Jiangyin County, Nanzhili, his hometown is in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province in later generations, and his family is a famous local family in Jiangyin, because his ancestors also produced many high-ranking officials. By the time of Xu Xiake's ancestor Xu Jing, the Xu family had more than 30,000 acres of land in Jiangyin and was a well-known big landlord!

The Xu family has countless properties and also has a special private library, called "Wanjuan Building", which contains a large number of rare and ancient books that survived the war and chaos in the Song and Yuan dynasties. At that time, the collecting industry was known as "a page of Song edition books is equal to one or two gold", so "Wanjuanlou" was equivalent to a vault!

Xu Jing had a good relationship with "Tang Bohu", one of the "Four Great Talents of Jiangnan", and once went to Beijing by boat to participate in the examination in 1499. When he was in the capital, Xu Jing took 6 scholars to swagger through the market, which attracted people's attention, because the average rich family of readers, at most only one or two scholars around him are responsible for carrying luggage and taking care of daily life, and Xu Jing actually brought 6 scholars at one time, how not to be jaw-dropping? After all, you have to raise it first!

Xu Xiake's father, Xu Youmian, has never been an official in his life, but just relying on the inherited ancestral business, he has easily lived a lifetime, and his life is very chic, because he often travels. And Xu Xiake spent his life to visit famous mountains and rivers to a large extent, which was influenced by his father.

Moreover, Xu Xiake's mother is also very supportive of his "tourism career", after all, "the family has surplus food, and I don't panic." So, with the support of the family's financial resources, Xu Xiake, as a rich second generation, can still play around although he has never participated in work. And according to folklore, when Xu Xiake went out to travel, he also brought a servant named Wang Er by his side.

At the same time, because Xu Xiake has traveled all over the world, and his identity and status are relatively special, some friends have sponsored Xu Xiake.

However, although the Xu family is a famous local family, after the "efforts" of Xu Youmian and Xu Xiake for two generations, they have gradually been eaten.

Xu Xiake was still very chic when he traveled (traveled) in his early years, but in the second half of his life, he gradually became shy and could no longer be chic. Fortunately, at this time, Xu Xiake's friends from all over the world also extended a helping hand to him and took the initiative to provide him with various funds.

When Xu Xiake traveled for the last time, he once came to Guangnan West Road, and after Tang Yuping, a member of the Central Army of the Guangxi Senate, met Xu Xiake, he couldn't help but admire him for having a bit of the romance of the ancients, and also made an exception to give him a "horse card" to help him have a happy journey. As everyone knows, "Continental" is not simple!

It turned out that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, post stations have been established all over the country, similar to the "official guest houses" of later generations, which are specially designed to provide official receptions for officials carrying horse plates. And since Xu Xiake has this "horse card", he can go to the post station to eat, drink and sleep as an "official".

Even if he doesn't need the "horse card" for the time being after the trip, he can still "fold it into silver and use it as a boat fare" and exchange it for a sum of cash.

In 1637, Xu Xiake met the Confucian Tengkentang father and son in the "Yingxia Nunnery" in the "Huguan" suburb of the "Taiping Mansion" in Guangxi. So, Tengkentang invited him to go all the way to Nanning Mansion with him. In this way, in the next nearly two months, Xu Xiake relied on the "horse card" of Tengkentang's father and son, and once again enjoyed various value-added services such as shoulder-lifting, luggage-picking, and free food and accommodation, which was simply too stylish, even the "beautiful travelers" of later generations were envious!

In addition, Xu Xiake also received funding from his friend Tang Dashi. And Tang Dashi also wrote a letter to his friends and asked them to help Xu Xiake along the way. As a result, Xu Xiake does not need to "buy tickets" no matter where he travels. Of course, there are no "tickets" to the various scenic spots in ancient times.

Rear point of view: When people go out to travel, they have a very important expense, that is, "buying tickets", because at this time, "tourism industrialization" is one of the signs. According to the "Research Report on the Trend of China's Leisure Tourism Customer Demand" released by the China Tourism Academy, the proportion of "scenic spot tickets" in tourism expenditure is about 21.92%. Almost all of the scenic spots, temples, and nunnery throughout the country are allowed to enter by purchasing a ticket.

And the "ticket fee" ranges from a few tens of yuan to several hundred yuan in RMB. Therefore, in addition to the "big tickets", many tourist attractions also deliberately set up a variety of "small tickets" in the scenic spots, in order to let the "travelers" take the initiative to pay money. And the total price of the "small ticket" is even higher than the "big ticket."

However, Xu Xiake should feel lucky, because in the era in which he lived, the "scenic spots" across the country had not yet been circled by the government to collect "admission fees". Temples, nunnery, and Taoist temples are also free to enter and exit without charge. Therefore, Xu Xiake saved a lot of "ticket expenses" and enjoyed the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, which is really the envy of modern people. As everyone knows, Xu Xiake also wrote his own travel diary.

In addition, Xu Xiake traveled to various places, traveled all over the mountains and rivers, and traveled more than 50,000 kilometers! However, Xu Xiake mainly relied on trekking and wading through mountains and rivers, and only a small part of the distance was horsebacking, boating, and sedan chairs. In this way, he also saved a lot of transportation expenses to a certain extent.

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