"Kiln ......"

At night, when the sound of the twilight drums completely stopped, the only people who could still walk on the streets in the entire Nanjing City were the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and the soldiers of the Twelve Guards.

When the soldiers were all marching in groups, Zhu Gaoxu, who was alone, was very abrupt.

Because of this, many soldiers on the road still stepped forward to interrogate him even though they saw him wearing the armor of the Yulin Left Guard.

Some low-ranking soldiers hurriedly confessed when they saw the bronze medal of Baihu, while those with high official positions asked him why he was still wandering the streets.

However, when they knew Zhu Gaoxu's identity, they confessed one after another, handed back the bronze medal with both hands, and their faces were full of nervousness, for fear that Zhu Gaoxu would reprimand them.

These actions allowed Zhu Gaoxu to further understand his identity.

In this Ming Dynasty, his future status as the king of the county is superior, and he is at the top of the class pyramid.

Theoretically, as long as he didn't rebel, even the emperor couldn't kill him.

However, this set of theories is only applicable to Zhu Yuanzhang, who formulated him, once Zhu Yuanzhang dies and Zhu Yunwen ascends to the throne, history will still repeat itself.

"Squeak......

Walking back to the residence, Zhu Gaoxu took off his helmet after opening the door, turned around and closed the door.

Looking at the dark-lit courtyard, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what to say, but returned to the study with the help of the moonlight, and only after lighting the candle with the fire fold did he begin to take off his armor.

He didn't laze and lay down, because the weight of the day was not so tiring for him.

He put the armor on the table, brought a basin of water, prepared two coarse rags, put one in the basin of water and soaked it, wrung it out, and wiped the armor pieces.

When the wiping was over and the armor had dried, he applied a little oil to another rag and maintained it on top of the armor.

When all this was done, he put the armor on the armor rack.

Since he had eaten at the Yingguo Mansion, he was not hungry, so he came to the courtyard with a lamp.

There was firewood in the kitchen prepared by the governor's house, and he skillfully burned the fire and water, and after two quarters of an hour of such busyness, he took a hot bath in the courtyard, and then slowly fell asleep in exhaustion.

When he woke up the next day, it was still a little foggy.

"The morning bell shouldn't ring yet, lie down for a while and then go out for breakfast."

Lying in the hazy room, Zhu Gaoxu had a feeling of returning to his hometown at this moment.

It seems that only at this time can he lie down with confidence.

It's just that this lying down didn't last long, and when the morning bell was ringing, he got up unhurriedly and began to wash.

After half an hour, he finally packed everything up, and after taking out half a hanging of money from the cash box in the house, he went out and came to West Chang'an Street.

At the moment, many people have not gotten up yet, and only the officials of the Ming Dynasty have gotten up and gone to work.

So after he walked out on the street, the people who passed by were Ming officials who rode donkey carts or walked to work.

Zhu Gaoxu was dressed in short brown and looked like a flat-headed commoner.

If it weren't for his tall height and relatively white complexion, I'm afraid that the officials who came and went would think that he was a small citizen who didn't know how to respect and humility.

Zhu Gaoxu could ignore their gaze, because he knew his identity.

On the street where officials come and go, this guy walks gracefully along West Chang'an Avenue to the west.

The farther west you go in the inner city of Nanjing, the more prosperous it becomes, and after crossing the Dazhong Bridge, Zhu Gaoxu walks in the direction of Zhongzheng Street.

After coming here, there were more ordinary people on the streets.

Zhongzheng Street is about ten zhang wide on the left and right, and most of the shops on the street are single-slope tile houses with one ridge and two vertical streets, and a few are structures with one ridge and four vertical verticals.

These shops are bricks and billets, some have bluestone wall foundations, built-in hidden columns, and some hold pillars out of the building, wooden pillars and stone foundations, and the eaves of the corridor are dripping.

But in any case, the structure of their roofs is made of wooden beams, and the purlins and rafters are mostly made of Jiangnan miscellaneous wood.

The ground in the shop is basically a piece of bluestone slabs, which complement each other with the blue brick road on the street, without any abruptness.

On the street, many people only get up and open the door, and the doors they use are all the board doors that Zhu Gaoxu had seen when he was a child.

The so-called board door, is in the front face of the store frieze frame and door rails chiseled out of the outer frame, fixed with tenon, and then with strip-shaped wooden boards, piece by piece into the outer frame, each other climbing, coercive, so called the board door.

These doors are also topped by carved friezes or hanging plaques.

However, most shops still choose to use the simplest method, which is to make a wooden pole that can be retracted at the door, and hang a white cloth with the name of the store written on the wooden pole.

When Zhu Gaoxu was strolling, he could clearly see that almost all the shops along the street had steps in front of their doors, and the simplest ones also had a layer of steps, which not only made it easier for customers to enter and exit, but also prevented rainwater from backflowing.

The steps of these shops are generally made of bluestone strips of moderate size, and the steps are more common in odd numbers, mostly one to three storeys, and very few are five storeys.

Moreover, there is an opening on the left side of the green bricks of the shop, and a section of bamboo extends from the inside to the outside, which is estimated to be the external discharge outlet of rainwater in the courtyard.

These vents are very particular, the sewers in Nanjing City are on the right side of the store, so after the water on the left side comes out, it flows around the steps in a circle, although I don't know what the meaning is, but Zhu Gaoxu looks at it very seriously.

He picked a fang market and walked in, and most of the buildings in the fang were connected with the shops on the street, the shops on the street were the front door, and the shops there were the back doors.

Therefore, relatively speaking, the decoration and structure of the shops in Lifang are simpler.

For example, the roof of the lane is flat-roofed, and after the beam purlin rafters are built, a layer of reeds is put on it, covered with ash and slag, and after the workers hammer it strongly, they will build a convex edge around the perimeter, open the drainage outlet, and install dripping.

The tiles of these houses usually face their own courtyards, and Mr. Zhu asked a jewelry store that wakes up early, which they say means "the fertile water does not flow into the fields of outsiders."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu smiled and didn't say much, just walked out of the lane and continued to wander around Zhongzheng Street.

Perhaps it was not early, so after he walked out of the inner square, most of the shops on the street were already open.

After all, it is an agrarian society, so most of the shops on the street in Nanjing City focus on daily necessities such as clothing, food, housing and transportation to serve people.

The shops on both sides of Zhongzheng Street, Zhu Gaoxu walked all the way, and saw countless shops, but the industry was basically cloth village, bullet flower room, rice shop, pharmacy, small hotel, grocery store, pawn shop.

Of course, in addition to these, the most open are snack bars.

During the Hongwu period, the management of the inner city was strict, and it was rare to see food stalls placed at random like the outer city, and the city was dominated by shops.

Zhu Gaoxu walked into a "Liu Ji Shop", which mainly sold noodles, wontons, xiaolongbao, steamed dumplings and other foods.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered a bowl of chess pieces and pork noodles, and then ordered two steamed dumplings and xiaolongbao, and then sat on a chair in the store, quietly looking at Zhongzheng Street, where the flow of people was gradually increasing.