casket of old days

Chapter 26

Hearing Chu Qiguang's inquiry, the guy said: "Isn't it? I heard that the monsters from the northwest are coming again, and all roadside towns will block official roads and water transportation. The price of food and medicine will follow suit." It's starting to rise."

During this period of time, Chu Qiguang followed Qiao Zhi to learn about the situation in the world, and he also knew that for the past 200 years, the grasslands in the northwest of the Han Dynasty have always been ravaged by monster races.

The monster clan is a race bred by entry-level monsters. The monsters in the clan are born with spiritual intelligence and can cultivate.

On the northwest grasslands, the most powerful demon clan is the wolf demon tribe. This wolf demon tribe is divided into more than a dozen tribes. One of them calls itself the Yongri tribe and believes that they are the gods who descended from the sun to the world.

After the Yongri tribe unified the wolf demon tribe, they swept across the entire northwest grassland, changed their year name to Tiancheng, and their country name to Dagan, becoming one of the seven great monster tribes in the world.

In the past 20 years, this wolf demon tribe has often led troops southward to plunder in the Han territory.Lingzhou, where Qingyang County is located, is one of the northern states of the Han Dynasty, and it has always been the target of the wolf monsters.

"The wolf clan is going south again?" Chu Qiguang thought to himself, "Go back and ask Qiao Zhi to see what he knows."

"But it's rare to come here once, so why don't you just go to the county town to have a look and collect information."

The Taoist temple in Qingyang County is not located in the county seat, but in the outskirts of the city.So after Chu Qiguang left the Taoist medicine shop, he went to the gate of the county seat.

Most of the soldiers I saw when I entered the city were thin and wearing worn-out military uniforms. The original bright colors had faded away, and instead they were all greasy stains.They either stood or squatted, but none of them stood guard properly.

Chu Qiguang shook his head secretly. Even if there are martial arts and Taoism in this world, the role of masters is highly valued in war, but the mental outlook of these soldiers is too bad, which shows the problem of the Han Dynasty at the moment.

After stepping through the city gate, all you can see is South Street. The bluestone paved street is full of garbage, excrement and other things on both sides. Chu Qiguang squinted his eyes because of the smell as soon as he came in.

However, he didn't expect this kind of hygienic situation in the feudal era, so he rushed over at a faster speed while covering his nose.

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Just as Chu Qiguang passed through the city gate, two pairs of eyes stared at him in an alley beside the street. They were two brown dogs, one of which sniffed in the direction of Chu Qiguang. Sniffing his nose, he said with disgust, "It smells like a cat."

The other dog also sniffed its nose, wondering, "Why didn't I smell it?"

"Your morality is not enough. Hmph, this person loves being with cats so much, he doesn't look like a serious person at first glance, and he must end up badly."

"Look, it's the Taoist priests from Qingyang Temple who have entered the city."

"What are you looking at, waiting to be made into a dog meat pot? Slip away."

Two dogs disappeared into the alley with their tails between their legs.

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Chu Qiguang walked all the way to the busiest West Street in the county. Along the way, there were all kinds of vegetable farmers, bearers, fortune-tellers, fortune-tellers, and snack sellers. Shops, silver shops, pharmacies, clothing and shoe stores, restaurants, teahouses, dental shops and other shops.

The streets here are much cleaner and more comfortable without feces and garbage on both sides.

Of course Chu Qiguang knew that this was not because the people here were hardworking and clean, but because this street was relatively close to the county government, so the city's Qingjiaotou would come several times a day to clean the street and collect excrement.

Collecting dung sounds like a lowly job, but it is actually very lucrative, because you can get a lot of money for collecting dung, and you can get a lot of money for collecting and composting the dung and selling it.

Chu Qiguang had already thought about this business idea in his head, but unfortunately, people in this world already knew the importance of fertilizers, and the feces in the city had already been packed by various dung tyrants, and it was not Chu Qiguang's turn. step in.

"Newly baked pancakes! Two cents each!"

"Newly arrived Wuzhou silk! Red cloth among the clouds! Would you like to see the guest officer?"

"My lord, this is the frosted paper sent by Qi County. It is as firm and clean as jade, thin and smooth..."

Chu Qiguang was walking on the street, listening to the sounds of selling and talking in various colors, he had the illusion of going back to modern times and visiting a famous ancient town.

However, many people passing by on this bustling street are wearing silk clothes and cotton gowns, and there are fewer short jackets like Chu Qiguang, and the shop assistants hardly pay attention to him.

'This is also the CBD of Qingyang County. '

'It is necessary to buy a set of clothes. '

The so-called clothes and horses depend on saddles, especially in this kind of ancient feudal society, it is still very useful for a person to dress better, at least it will provide a lot of convenience in receiving people and things.

So Chu Qiguang first went to the silver shop and exchanged a tael of silver for a sling of 600 Wen copper coins. This is because the copper coins in this shop are of good quality and have a high copper content. Only 1000 Wen can be exchanged for one tael of silver.

As for why it is exchanged for silver, it is naturally more convenient to use copper coins for daily food and drink.

Then he spent 4 copper coins to buy two pancakes to pad his stomach from the peddler, and then spent another one or two taels of silver to buy a blue silk knitted gown with a round neck and large sleeves.

This kind of gown was originally stipulated by the imperial court, and only scholars who had achieved fame could wear it.

After all, at the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, there were detailed requirements for the dress of civil servants, generals, merchants, farmers, craftsmen and other occupations, including the color and style of clothes, and even the width and length of sleeves. to divide people into different classes.

However, today, the descendants of the major official families and rich merchants and wealthy families all want to wear whatever they want, and the government can't control them, so they gradually don't care about these, and even the clothes of ordinary people are becoming more and more free.

"These ancient clothes are really expensive. If you buy a few more pieces, they will be comparable to Ergou's land."

It cost one or two dollars for a piece of clothing, so Chu Qiguang couldn't help but shook his head.

He changed his clothes and walked around blindly, but he was not very interested in restaurants, teahouses and Goulan wash houses when he was shopping, and he didn't even look at them.

On the contrary, they sell grain, medicine, coal, iron, and all kinds of groceries from the north and the south, such as coarse salt, fine salt, brown sugar, white sugar, dried goods, and dried fruits.

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Chu Qiguang went shopping from the morning until the afternoon before leaving the county seat. His mind was full of the prices of various commodities, the flow of people on the street, the volume of freight at the gate of the city, the origin of the goods, and other data.

At this time, the Han Dynasty became more vivid, vivid and three-dimensional in his mind than Ergou's memory and Qiao Zhi's narration.

'There are more handicraft products than I imagined, such as grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coal, silk, cotton cloth, paper, oil, wood, copper, porcelain...not only the local products of Lingzhou, but also from Donghai Prefecture in the south , Quanzhou, Yuezhou and other places in the south of the Yangtze River. '

'This shows that commercial capital is active, and industrial and commercial towns have sprung up, so the local eunuchs and gentry must have participated in them. '

'However, silver is still the main currency for transactions, and the official currency is far from enough, which shows that the imperial court is still not really aware of the importance of industry, commerce and finance, and may only be used as a source of wealth. '

Looking at the gate of the city where people were coming and going, Chu Qiguang took a deep breath, feeling a little high-spirited.

"The imperial court's supervision is unfavorable, land annexation is serious, commercial capital is rising...the future is promising, the only pity is...the country may be about to perish. '“ €?br />
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