Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1557, children

Emperor Hongzhi walked out of the vegetable market with a smile on his face. The small vegetable market also allowed Emperor Hongzhi to see the prosperity of Ming Dynasty and made him feel relieved.

At least, the common people don't have to worry about eating.

The price of food is very cheap. The cheapest coarse grains, sweet potatoes and corn, only cost one penny per catty. This price can be said to be very cheap, enough to guarantee the minimum food demand.

The problem now is that people in Daming are no longer limited to the problem of having enough to eat, but are developing toward eating well. The meat is divided into three, six, and nine grades, such as pork, mutton, beef, various sea fish, river fish, and so on. Local food, food from outside the customs and overseas, provided the Ming people with extremely rich food.

Emperor Hongzhi was very happy to see that the common people did not have to worry about food.

He clearly remembered the tragic scene of heavy snowstorms in the three northern provinces and famine in the next year, starvation in Beijing and Tianjin, and the bark of the trees being gnawed off.

It was so miserable.

How good it is now, there is more than enough food to eat, and I can still pick and choose.

"I, a Ming person, finally don't have to worry about filling my stomach."

Emperor Hongzhi said to Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Zhang Mao, and Liu Jin with a smile on his face.

"All of this is due to your Majesty's hard work and great talent, so that the people of Ming Dynasty can have a happy life today."

When Liu Jian heard this, he immediately flattered him.

"Yes, Your Majesty, all of this is due to your foresight and leadership, your dedication and hard work for the tens of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, and this is the reason for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty today."

Li Dongyang also quickly flattered him. It's one thing to be capable, but another thing to make the boss like you.

"Haha~"

Emperor Hongzhi laughed happily.

Thousands of wears and thousands of flattery, not to mention the fact that the lives of ordinary people in Ming Dynasty are indeed very easy, and he is indeed the emperor who has the greatest credit.

Everyone was walking on the street very casually, watching the prosperity and bustle of the capital, chatting with the common people about life, and soon, they came to a residential area.

I saw a lot of children gathered together, fighting and playing with each other, each wearing nice clothes, with bulging bags, and the old man followed with a smile on his face, chatting with each other.

"Old Wang, how many grandchildren do you have?"

"There are thirteen, and there are still some in the newly bought little concubine."

"Your family is really powerful. You have thirteen grandchildren. I remember that your granddaughter also has twelve?"

"Isn't it? The sum of the big and small is already twenty-five. Every meal is like a war. One meal is not enough for a sheep."

"What a nice person, how nice a person is, how many children is the blessing, anyway, it's not like your son can't afford it, he's already a manager, earning thousands of taels of silver a year, and he can afford to support dozens of children. "

"Raising is not a problem. The times have changed, food is cheap, and eating is not a big deal. The key is that raising a child is not just a matter of eating. The child needs to wear clothes, go to school, and start a family when he grows up. There are plenty of places to spend money."

"What are you afraid of? Your family already owns more than a dozen houses, and every grandson has a house to spare. Your son is also amazing. He can make money and invest. I heard that buying stocks has also made a lot of money."

"So-so, so-so, your son is also good, he is a sailor, and he makes a lot of money every time he goes to sea. I heard that your family also has a plantation here in Nanyang."

"There is a plantation, but it's not big, just over [-] mu of land, but it doesn't make much money a year. Sugar cane is no longer profitable. I'm thinking about planting rubber, but the rubber saplings are so right, I need another Invest a lot of money."

"I told my son not to spend that money on it. If you have this money, go to North Korea and Japan to take some concubines, or simply buy some female white slaves and come back to give me more grandchildren."

"But he just didn't listen. Up to now, there are only two grandsons and six granddaughters. Together, they are not as much as you. He just won’t listen, you say you’re not angry.”

"That's really annoying."

"If you have money or not, you can live a careless life. If you want to have more children, it's not that you can't afford it."

"It's actually beneficial to take concubines. There are more people and more strength. It's also a good thing to have more concubines and a long line of descendants."

"My son has taken several concubines one after another in the past few years, from North Korea, Japan, and Siam, and even bought a few white slaves to be concubines."

"Don't tell me, this white slave is good at giving birth. She is not as delicate as our Daming girls. You can ask your son to buy some more. This white-skinned child is also good-looking. Look at my grandchildren. , all of them are white, so pretty."

"Yes, but if my son doesn't listen, I can't help it."

The two elderly people chatted while looking at the child, not even noticing that Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin and others were listening.

Listening to their conversation, Liu Jin looked at the group of children playing, and could clearly see that many of them were of mixed race.

Daming people all have black eyes and black hair. Many of these children have blond hair, fair skin, and blue eyes, but at the same time they have some characteristics of oriental people, and a few of them are not like Daming at all. people.

At this moment, no matter whether they look like Daming people or not, these children all speak fluent Daming dialect, and they are even competing to recite ancient poems.

"I know how to empathize with farmers. My brother learned it at school and taught me. When we hoe the rice at noon, the sweat drips down the soil. Who knows that the food on the plate is all hard work."

A little girl with blond hair and blue eyes is wearing red traditional clothes of Ming Dynasty, reciting ancient poems very seriously.

"I can too, I can too, my brother taught me too~"

When the children next to him heard it, they immediately started yelling.

"The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. I raise my head to look at the bright moon, and lower my head to think about my hometown. This is Li Bai's thoughts on a quiet night~"

"Among the colorful clouds of the emperor's speech to Baidi, a thousand miles of rivers and tombs return in one day, the sound of apes on both sides of the bank can't stop, and the light boat has passed ten thousand mountains. This is also Li Bai's poem~"

"I like Li Bai the most~"

"I like Du Fu the most~"

"I like Wang Bo because he writes the best."

"I think Li Bai is the best. He has written a lot of poems and they are super good."

"It's not Li Bai, it's Du Fu~"

A group of children were arguing somewhere, which made Liu Jin couldn't help but laugh when he saw it.

If this is placed in later generations, it is estimated that a group of children competed to speak English.

Several children were arguing, and they didn't know which one was the first to take out a piece of jerky and said, "I have beef jerky, do you have any?"

"I also have beef jerky, which is from the Western Regions. It's delicious."

"Mine is mutton jerky, better than your beef jerky."

"Mine is dried fish meat from Huangjinzhou. I dare to eat chili, do you dare to eat it?"

"I also dare to eat chili, my father is super good at eating chili."

"My dad is also super good at eating chili, he can eat a pot of chili in one sitting."

"My dad can eat chili, he can eat a whole house of chili."

Children are always comparative and quarrelsome.

Someone took out the snacks, and the other children immediately took out the snacks one after another, eating and comparing each other.

Each snack is very rich.

All kinds of jerky, candies, dried fruits, melon seeds, peanuts, beans, etc., are of all kinds, and they fall to the ground while eating, and then pick them up and continue eating, regardless of whether they are dirty or not.

The old man who looked at the child on the side sighed again and again.

"The current world is better. This kid eats jerky as a snack."

"In the past, don't talk about eating meat, thank God if you have a full mouthful of food."

"Isn't it? Back then, I gave birth to five sons, but three died of illness and one died of starvation, leaving only one seedling. Fortunately, he was lucky, and now he has given birth to more than ten grandchildren for me. Old Wang’s family is also flourishing.”

"Yeah, it's better in the world now. It's good to eat meat. Eating meat will make your body strong and not easy to get sick. Look at the children today, all of them are like calves. One is stronger than the other, and their bodies are also in good shape." Many, not easy to get sick, easy to feed."

"Isn't it? In the past, when you had children, it was considered good if you could raise half of the seven or eight children. Now it's different. All the children are easy to raise. Some eat, some wear, and even drink water. Only then will there be no stomach troubles, and everyone can be raised."

"In the past, we didn't understand anything. It's not like we have newspapers now, and we can learn a lot from them. Taking care of children is different from what we used to. In the past, we took care of children as long as we had enough to eat. Where? What else is there to pay attention to?"

"It's different now. You have to drink boiled water. You have to wash your hands before eating. You have to use soap when you take a bath and wash your hair. There are too many places to pay attention to."

"Isn't that right, but it's good to pay attention to health, pay attention to hygiene, and keep in good health. When children grow up, they won't get sick easily when they are in good health. It's also good to pay more attention to health when they are young."

The two old men were chatting and looking at the children. After a short wait, a few women walked towards them, and suddenly a child among the children rushed towards them.

"Elder-in-law, let's go home for dinner~"

A few women, they were not Ming people by appearance, they were all white slaves, blond and blue-eyed, they came to the old man named Old Wang together, and saluted very respectfully.

"Hmm~"

Old Wangtou nodded old-fashionedly, and then said to the old man beside him: "Old Li, I'm going back to eat first, how about going to the theater together after dinner?"

"Okay, your family is so nice, this meal is cooked much faster than my family's."

The old man next to him also agreed without hesitation, and when he saw Lao Wang leaving with a group of grandsons and granddaughters, he also muttered to himself: "I must ask him to take more concubines later, because there are fewer people, and the cooking is slow. "

PS: Do you think how good a child is?

(End of this chapter)