Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 263 What Big Brother Said Is All Right
Caishanglou is a brothel located on the banks of the Qinhuai River. At this moment, it is brightly lit and full of people.

"Tell me, why does a brothel have such an elegant name?"

Outside the Caishang building, Zhu Biao looked up at the gate building, very surprised.

Chen Yunfu made a correction: "My lord, this is a brothel, not a brothel."

"Is it different?"

Zhu Biao was very surprised.

"Essentially speaking, it's the same." Chen Yunfu said after thinking for a while, "It's all for the high price, but the brothel is cheap, and when they come up, they just do those dirty things with straight eyebrows, and the brothel is a little more secretive. Just like this garment building.

Zihui thinks of me, and the clothes are sheqin, from "Zheng Feng·Jiang Zhongzi", which means, if the lover misses me, I should lift up my clothes and cross the water to visit my lover. This skirt building is located on the bank of the Qinhuai River. This poem complements each other, you see, this is the difference between a brothel and a brothel, which is more elegant and higher-grade. "

Zhu Biao groaned, and patted Chen Yunfu on the shoulder: "You are also quite educated, it seems that this kind of place has come a lot, today's money, you spend it."

After speaking, he stepped forward, and Chen Yunfu's face turned bitter immediately, but he didn't dare to wait for long, so he hurriedly pulled up his legs to keep up.

Behind him, Jixiang followed closely with a dozen or so guards, and outside the garment building, hundreds of big Han generals in different costumes quietly guarded the streets and alleys.

It is not clear, but from now on, no one can enter or exit within a radius of one mile centered on the Changshang Building.

There are a lot of guests in the Changshang Building, and their clothes are also very elegant. Looking at it, one can see what is meant by no white people. The accessories worn by Zhu Biao and Chen Yunfu are really not very conspicuous here.

A young woman who was absolutely revealingly dressed greeted her.

"It's the first time for the two young masters to come here, and their faces are tight."

"Oh?" Zhu Biao glanced at the woman with a half-smile, "How do you know, it's our first time here."

"The slave family has no other skills, but remembers people. The young master has a dignified face, and he looks like a dragon and phoenix at first glance, but the slave family has no impression. He must be a new customer."

The woman casually said that everyone knows that people are dragons and phoenixes, but Jixiang still trembled when he heard it, and his legs were almost weak. He can't hear this dragon word now.

Zhu Biao laughed: "It's clever, yes, our brother and I are indeed coming back for the first time, find a good place for us two."

"Then invite the two of you to go up to the attic. You can see clearly from the top."

The woman led the way first, and then glanced at Ji Xiang and the others behind Zhu Biao: "These are the followers of the young master, can you please leave them outside, please rest assured, we are very safe inside the Changshang building of."

"no!"

Before Zhu Biao, Jixiang jumped out: "My son has a noble status, and there must be no shortage of guards."

"This." The woman hesitated for a while, and then smiled like a flower: "Okay, okay, but if there are too many people, it may be necessary to open two pavilions, at this price."

Zhu Biao reached out and took out the two ingots of treasure notes from Jixiang's arms and handed them to the woman, but the clinker woman said.

"My lord, the precious banknotes are not so valuable to us. Yours are all worth a thousand taels, and one ingot is only worth 30 taels of silver."

As mentioned earlier, one ingot of precious banknotes is fifty pieces, and the denomination of one thousand coins is 50 taels, but the value of the precious banknotes is not preserved, because the treasure banknote lifting department printed a lot in the early years.

Hearing that one ingot is only worth 30 taels, Zhu Biao's face was a bit ugly, but he didn't have the nerve to get mad here, so he said: "Even if it's only worth 30 taels, two ingots are worth 60 taels, which is not enough to open two taels." Is it a pavilion?"

"This is really not enough."

Zhu Biao couldn't help being startled secretly, but now that he had no money in his pocket, how could he not panic, and was thinking about what to do, when Chen Yunfu at the side took out an ingot, gold?

"15 taels of gold is 300 taels of silver, is it enough?"

In the early Ming Dynasty, the price of gold was absolutely firm, and the exchange rate with silver was as high as [-]:[-]. This is still the official price, and if we talk about it among the people, it can be even higher.

The woman smiled when she took it.

"Enough is enough, please hurry up, two young masters."

The two followed the woman upstairs, and Zhu Biao asked in a low voice, "Where did you get the gold?"

"I brought it before entering the palace."

"You have already thought about bringing us to the brothel?"

Chen Yunfu chuckled: "I never fight uncertain battles, you see, without this ingot of gold, you really wouldn't see anything today."

Zhu Biao sucked his teeth: "Why is this place so expensive?"

After talking about the cost, Zhu Biao suddenly frowned again: "The customers here come like a cloud, so doesn't that mean that the benefit in one day can reach a thousand taels?"

Chen Yunfu didn't say a word, just said after Zhu Biao entered the pavilion on the second floor: "My lord, I will tell you a story.

It is said that there was once a country with internal and external troubles, and it was about to perish. There were rebellions against the people inside, and the momentum was huge.

The king was very worried. While dispatching troops to suppress the rebellion, he also had to guard against foreign aggression in the frontiers. But wars cost money, so the king took the lead in saving money.

But he still couldn't save much money, so he had to collect taxes and ask for donations from the emperor's relatives and relatives everywhere, and finally raised a few 10 taels to pay the army.

The result is that the country is destroyed, and the rebels rushed into the capital of the country. Guess what, the princes, nobles, civil and military ministers in the capital, in order to survive, even collected tens of millions of taels of ransom money for the rebels, hey, You say it's not funny. "

Zhu Biao listened attentively, but at the end he smiled disdainfully.

"Your story is a bit outrageous. Since the courtiers of this country can pool tens of millions of taels, why don't they use it for the king to help the army, so that the rebels will be wiped out? How can they use it to redeem their lives?" .”

"Don't you say it's outrageous." Chen Yunfu also smiled: "So, my lord, you can listen to the picture as a story."

Zhu Biao didn't think about it any more, and began to concentrate on watching the dancers on the first floor of the Changshang Building, but watching and watching, Zhu Biao frowned again.

Why did he always feel that there was something wrong with the story Chen Yunfu just told.

Which country is this talking about?
Internal and external troubles, the emperor is poor and the ministers are rich.

Sui Dynasty?No, the Sui Dynasty was very rich until its demise. The prosperity of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was just a joke, with 890 million households and more than 6000 million people, which is no less than that of Daming, which has just inherited the rule of Hongwu.

Is that the Tang Dynasty?

But the Tang Dynasty was not overthrown by anti-people.

Song?
It is true that the Song Dynasty had internal and external troubles, but the Song Dynasty was not poor. If the Song Dynasty said it was poor, no one in the Sui and Tang Dynasties would dare to say that they were rich.

Zhu Biao, who really couldn't figure it out, could only force himself not to think about it, so he could sit down and watch the performance.

Until the first familiar figure appeared in the eyes.

Cao Guogong Li Jinglong!

Zhu Biao's face darkened suddenly, and he snorted coldly.

"My lord of the Ming Dynasty actually came to visit the brothel."

Chen Yunfu beside him hastily coughed twice, and said weakly: "My lord, this subject is also a Duke."

"I don't know, I'm still the emperor." Zhu Biao corrected: "But we two came here to catch them, so we don't count."

Well, there is nothing wrong with what Big Brother said.

(End of this chapter)