Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1794, Eat and wear
Liu Jin wandered around very casually, looking at the shops one by one.

If you want to see the living conditions of the people in a country, the best place is to go to the vegetable market, the neighborhoods where the people are shopping, and the types of goods, prices, etc.

There are a variety of goods, from all over the world, and the prices are cheap and affordable, which means that the living standards of people in this country must be quite good.

If the goods are rare and expensive, then the standard of living will not be much higher. The less developed and richer the area, the scarcer the goods and the higher the price.

Liu Jin looked casually, wandering around the shops.

Because the end of the year is coming soon, and it is the peak sales season of the year, the merchants have already prepared in advance, and all kinds of goods are very complete, with a wide variety of types and varieties, not only from the north and south of Daming, but also There are also a large number of goods from all over the world, with many types, large quantities, and quite cheap prices.

In later generations, if it is imported red wine, the starting price will be three digits, and it is normal for better red wine to cost several thousand or tens of thousands.

However, here in Daming, Liu Jin saw a store that specializes in selling all kinds of wine. There are a lot of red wines from Europe, France, Spain, and Italy. On the contrary, some local famous wines in Ming Dynasty are more expensive.

Prices like Xinghua Village, Shaoxing Rice Wine, Nv'erhong, Zhuyeqing, etc. are not cheap, even costing hundreds of pennies for a small altar, and the price of Daming Guojiao wine produced by the distillery invested and built by Liu Jin himself is even more expensive. It's expensive, a small bottle costs several hundred Wen.

For Daming people, this wine is naturally more used to drinking the wine brewed at home. Red wine or something, it tastes astringent, far inferior to all kinds of fine wines from their own home, so naturally their own wine is better. , are also more popular and more expensive.

In addition to wine, there are more foodies of all kinds, with a wide variety and variety. In the stores selling dry goods alone, Liu Jin saw dry goods from all over the world.

The dried salmon on the Golden Island is made of dried migratory salmon. The meat is extremely delicious, and it is very suitable for cooking porridge for children and pregnant women.

The dried ginseng from the northern border is large and cheap, and the dried salted fish from the northern border is large in quantity, cheap, and good in quality, so it is very popular.

Beef jerky, mutton jerky, and kangaroo jerky from Nanjinzhou and Zhuopu. These two places have become famous meat warehouses after years of grazing and development because of their vast pastures. Daming was far away from home, so it was impossible to transport fresh meat and live cattle and sheep.

As a result, the jerky industry developed. The beef and mutton are dried and sold all over the world. It is the most popular in Europe, because even if it is shipped to Europe, it is cheaper than their local beef and mutton. The key Still after drying.

Jerky kangaroo meat has now become a sacred product for nourishing yin and nourishing yang. I don’t know who released this false news. Anyway, this thing is now more expensive than beef.

Dried abalones from South Africa and the East Island of Australia are big and beautiful. The key is that these things are cheap now. The output of these two places is very large, and there are extremely large abalones everywhere.

Dried durians, dried bananas, dried pineapples, etc. from the Nanyang region, all kinds of dried fruits exude a strong fruit fragrance, and there are also a lot of dried seafood in the Nanyang region, a variety of dried seafood, dazzling ,cheap price.

There are also a lot of dry goods from the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. Dried dates are also a favorite snack for children, with high sugar content.

European cheese and ham are also popular in Daming. Children like to eat cheese, and adults like to have some Spanish acorn ham when drinking.

Because Spain owed the Ming Empire a war loan of up to [-] million taels of silver, the interest alone cost several million taels of silver every year.

In order to pay off the war loan, the Spanish Empire is now living with its belt tightened. Ham, red wine, cheese, and everything that can be exported are desperately sold to Daming.

The price is much cheaper. As long as the people of Ming Dynasty want it and give them money, they will sell it. It is very fun to borrow money for war, but it is painful to pay back the debt.

But they didn't dare to rely on the loan from the Ming Empire, so the colonies were desperately robbing and squeezing, and a huge amount of wealth was continuously sent from the Spanish Empire to the Ming Empire.

It's okay not to eat ham for a while, if the people of Ming Dynasty like it, they can export it to them.

Raisins and dried dates from the Western Regions, dried beef and mutton from Hezhong and Central Asia, raisins and red wine from South Asia.

It can be said that in this small dry goods store, Liu Jin saw dry goods from all over the world, and the quality was very good. Beef and mutton were all real beef and mutton, and they were all made of high-quality beef and mutton. , it is impossible to fool you with other meat.

The price is also quite cheap, generally in the tens of pennies per catty, which is quite cheap for the current income level of the people of Ming Dynasty.

You must know that the price of a catty of beef and mutton in later generations will be dozens of yuan, and this is still fresh beef and mutton. As for dried meat, the price will be even more expensive.

The consumption power of the Beijing-Tianjin region is absolutely beyond doubt.

Liu Jina looked at people taking home big bags, big bags, and small bags, and didn't care about the price at all. The business of the merchants was also very hot, and they were busy non-stop. While busy replenishing goods, they were also busy collecting cash .

The uniform use of silver coins and silver bills also greatly facilitates goods and business transactions. Unlike before, when you get silver, you have to carefully distinguish the fineness of the silver, carefully weigh it, and use scissors. It's very troublesome to cut something.

"People really don't have to worry about eating."

After reading these, Liu Jin knew it in his heart.

Regarding food, I really don’t need to worry about anything now, food is absolutely guaranteed.

The food in Liaodong and Hezhong is enough for the Ming people, and the railways have been built, so the transportation is extremely convenient. In Beizhili, there is no one to grow food anymore. They should grow vegetables, Farming and cotton growing have started, but the price of food is still very stable and cheap.

Grain merchants can't do it even if they want to unite to raise prices, because the railway transportation is very convenient, and the government can mobilize a large number of grains from Liaodong, Hezhong, Henan, Shandong, Jiangnan and other regions anytime and anywhere.

At that time, not only will you not be able to make money, but you will be labeled as a profiteer, and everyone will exile you to the black soil province.

Look at what you're wearing.

You can see a lot of clothing stores everywhere on the street. There are many styles of clothes in them, and the types are very complete. You can see cotton, wool, linen, and even fur.

In the past, Daming was an all-cloth shop, and everyone bought cloth and went home to make clothes by themselves.

If you make clothes by yourself, it’s better if the craftsmanship is better, and you can still look at the finished clothes. If the craftsmanship is not good, the clothes you make will be ugly. The key is that you still waste fabrics.

Now it is gradually becoming popular to buy ready-made clothes. The key to saving trouble is that the ready-made clothes are all specially designed and cut. The clothes are decent and beautiful, dyed and beautiful, and some have various patterns. What.

Starting from the Caiyun Textile Factory of the Wang family making ready-made clothes, there are more and more factories making ready-made clothes now, and fewer and fewer people are buying cloth directly.

The key is to buy cloth to make clothes. It turns out that the price is not much different from buying ready-made clothes. A cheap dress is enough for tens of pennies. You can wear it directly when you buy it home. If you buy cloth and go home, you can cut it yourself. Not to mention wasting time, the clothes made are not good-looking, and the cost is actually not much different.

Looking at the people on the street, everyone is well-dressed, and they are well-dressed, so you know that the clothes of the people of Ming Dynasty are no longer a problem.

This winter, if you have nothing to do in the past, you will never go out, because you don’t have enough clothes to keep out the cold, you can easily catch a cold and get sick when you go out, it’s better to stay at home.

But now, it's freezing cold, but everyone likes to run outside, because it's so lively outside, it's so good to go shopping, you won't be tired after a day of shopping, look at all kinds of products, and when you meet something you like buy some.

Many people spend their weekends like this, enjoying the joy of shopping.

What's more, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and everyone's pockets are bulging, so what if you don't come out to spend?
You need to buy clothes for your parents and children, and you need to prepare gifts for visiting your father-in-law during the New Year. When you go home to celebrate the New Year, you should bring some New Year’s goods back home, right?

Many New Year's goods are only sold in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and they cannot be bought in small places.

A year of hard work, isn't it just for the sake of being able to look good when you go home? You have to wear nice clothes. Anyway, there are a lot of things to buy, and now I have time to go shopping. As for whether the weather is cold or not, this It's not a problem at all, just wear one more dress.

(End of this chapter)