Daming kill

Chapter 272 Dazzling
Leaving the theater building with her maid, Liu Rushi happened to meet a four-wheeled carriage passing by on the bustling street.

Although she has been fortunate enough to witness it several times in the past few days in Nanjing, but this time she still couldn't help staring curiously.

The number of four-wheeled carriages in Nanjing is actually not many, at least not so that they can be seen at any time.

Although these styles passed down from Shi Mingjun and sold are lighter and more flexible, less bumpy, and more in line with Daming's aesthetics, there are still many restrictions on use, especially the use of horses to drag, resulting in The scope of use is still very small.

Most people don't know Shi Ming's name, but Liu Rushi does.

And she also knew that this kind of carriage was nothing new, the Franji red-haired people in the south had been using it for a long time, and Shi Ming was not the first Ming to start using this kind of carriage in large quantities, but his transformation was the most successful.

But no matter what, the four-wheeled carriage always makes the scenery of Nanjing different from before.

Moreover, because he had just seen the carriage and thought of Shi Ming in the theater building, a sedan chair carried four times came towards him, so Liu Rushi immediately looked at the lap of the bearer carrying the sedan chair reflexively.

Sure enough, all four bearers were wearing leggings without exception.

This is also a new thing, but it is much wider than the four-wheeled carriage, and the speed of diffusion is much faster.

Playing leggings has not only completed the rapid spread across the country, but also covers almost all occupations that require long-term walking.

When Liu Rushi was in a daze, a long voice of selling soap came again.

Surprised, Liu Rushi searched for the sound.

She is no stranger to soap, but selling it on the street is unheard of.

Soon, a peddler carrying a pole appeared in Liu Rushi's line of sight, and in the small baskets at both ends of the pole were stacks of khaki-colored soaps, which were particularly eye-catching.

This is a completely new profession.

Even the current Nanjing natives are still very uncomfortable with being freshmen.

Countless eyes were staring at the peddler curiously, staring curiously at the soap in the hawker's basket.

Although the price of soap is falling, it is still a luxury item for most ordinary people. It is no wonder that hawkers come to this high-consumption street to sell it.

Of course, if a poor Shanghainese traveled here in the late Qing Dynasty, he might scoff at it, because it is almost a replica of Shanghai peddlers selling foreign soap along the street in the late Qing Dynasty.

Because of the novelty, Liu Rushi quickly joined in.

But he quickly chose to leave empty-handed.

Although the soaps in the hawker's basket were not expensive, they were all the crudest and crudest in workmanship. Not only did they not have any other additives, but even the color was only the natural color of khaki.

This is not attractive to Liu Rushi who is not short of money.

But after leaving, Liu Rushi still looked at the hawker from a distance for a long time. She knew that the appearance of the hawker had indicated that soap would soon become a mass commodity, and the price might continue to drop to a level acceptable to most ordinary people.

However, just before Liu Rushi's thoughts were over, a few neighboring cloth houses not far away suddenly attracted her attention.

At the same time, several shop assistants came out from the cloth houses at the same time, yelling at the door to attract passers-by to buy cloth in their shops.

It is very rare for the guys of the cloth shop to come out and shout along the street, and then come out at the same time and all announce that the price of the cloth in the shop is greatly reduced.

This made Liu Rushi not surprised, but shocked!
Not to mention that due to the war, the price of cloth should remain high, and Nanjing is not an area with a large number of spinning wheels, including a large number of centralized textile workshops, like Suzhou where she lives.

Shocked, Liu Rushi hurriedly took her maid into a cloth shop at random.

And the price inside is really dropping. Although the rate is not as exaggerated as the guy shouted, it is also the lowest price in the past few years.

Feeling amazed at the good quality cloth, Liu Rushi asked the cloth seller like many customers in doubt.

Then she quickly knew the answer.

Bu Zhuang has nothing to hide about this kind of thing.

A new type of household single-person spinning wheel and a large spinning wheel driven by water power or animal power are spreading in Nanjing area.

These new spinning wheels not only completely crush the previous spinning wheels at spinning speed, but also greatly reduce the phenomenon of broken ends, which improves the quality of cloth simultaneously.

And even if that's not the end, these new spinning wheels are constantly improving and changing, and they are becoming more and more efficient.

At the same time, due to the war, the north-south transportation was also seriously affected. Although the north urgently needed a large amount of supplies, the amount that could be transported was limited. As a result, the stock of goods in the south was not greatly affected, but instead had a certain backlog.

If there are more goods, the price will naturally drop.

And no one in this industry doubts that due to the obvious advantages, those new spinning wheels will soon spread to Suzhou, a textile center 500 miles away from Nanjing.

At that time, the price of cloth will also fall further.

Hearing such an explanation, Liu Rushi was a little stunned, which reminded her of another public item in a similar situation.

meat!
The price of meat in Nanjing is also falling against the current environment of natural disasters, man-made disasters and war.

This was first discovered by Liu Rushi's maid.

Since she has been here for a few days, and it is the servant girl's job to pay for every meal, her maid naturally found out that the price of meat in Nanjing is not high, especially the price of chicken and duck is very cheap.

After a little inquiring, this is also not a secret and something hard to say.

It is said that a few months ago, some people outside the city suddenly started to raise chickens on a large scale. Later, from Wuchang to Chuzhou across the Nanjing River, Xu Wenqi, the former grain governor who took office and participated in politics, was also not doing business properly. earthworm.

The methods of raising chickens and earthworms on a large scale are fully disclosed.

Earthworms can be raised, and I don’t know who figured this out!
But no matter what, with earthworms that can be provided in large quantities, and large-scale chicken breeding methods that can be used for reference, while the production of chickens is increasing, the production of ducks, the favorite food of Nanjing people, is also increased by the way.

The supply of chickens and ducks has increased, and the price has naturally dropped, and then the demand for other meats has also been compressed, and finally the price of the entire meat has dropped.

Of course, the price of chicken and eggs has fallen the most.

Maybe it was touched by the soap and cloth. After Liu Rushi came out of the cloth shop in a daze, he felt that he should go to a tailor shop specializing in women's clothes and a rouge and gouache shop to see if there were any good things.

After all, Nanjing is the most developed place in the entire Jiangnan area, which is completely incomparable to Changshu County where she lives and the nearest Suzhou Prefecture.

It has been several days since she came to Nanjing, and she has been paying attention to the current affairs, but she has never bought anything, and she doesn't know what is currently popular on the Qinhuai River, which she used to be most familiar with.

Not long after that, Liu Rushi felt that her eyes were not enough.

From a wide variety of new perfumes and soaps to unprecedented women's intimate clothing and special period items that bring subversive gospel to women, and even cheap and soft handy paper, Liu Rushi was almost in a shop. lost.

Liu Rushi was greatly surprised that the gouache shops started to sell instant paper, which was also called toilet paper, and the price was so low that it was not much more expensive than ordinary paper.

And those new women's underwear with weird styles refreshed her cognition even more.

At first, Liu Rushi was a little apprehensive about this kind of clothes that were too bold and provocative in style, and she was ashamed to take a closer look and buy them.

But when she found that every store was selling them, and many women who entered the store were buying with a calm face and even discussed the size with the girls in the store without any shyness, she was shocked again.

Then after chatting with several girls from the Qinhuai River, Liu Rushi finally knew that this kind of clothing first appeared on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, and it was said that it was passed down from Zuo Liangyu's army.

At first, most of the prostitutes and singers in the left army were forced to wear by the generals, but soon they became spontaneous behaviors, and then the noble ladies in the left army followed suit.

When this kind of clothing was brought to the Qinhuai River by prostitutes and thoughtful old bustards, it quickly became popular. Those who didn't wear it would not only be ridiculed for their hypocrisy, but also lose the favor of the guests.

In the end, more and more ladies and wives of Nanjing City, who have always been relatively open, began to accept and rush to buy.

Hearing this, Liu Rushi was decisive and courageous enough to start shopping.

Finally, when she started to walk back, in addition to the maids who followed, she also followed several strong women sent by the shop to help carry things.

On the way, Liu Rushi looked at the big and small packages and couldn't help feeling deeply moved.

Nanjing is already different, and it is becoming more and more different from the Nanjing in her memory. This is the change she has seen, and there are many changes that she has not seen yet.

And when passing by a street full of fried noodles being made for the government, Liu Rushi's thoughts were also fully opened.

There are no impenetrable walls in officialdom.

Soap, perfume, leggings, four-wheeled carriage, and fried noodles were all handed down from Zuo Liangyu's army or were the first to be sold.

It can be said that a considerable part of the changes taking place in Nanjing now come from Huguang, which is currently at war.

People like Zuo Liangyu and Shi Ming, including Li Ping, who is currently the most popular, are all hot business partners in the near future besides fighting, and they are doing very well.

Especially Zuo Menggeng, despite the fact that he didn't fight the war very well, he did a very big business.Moreover, he was no longer satisfied with being made a fortune by the merchants, and he sent ships directly to Nanjing for sale of many goods.

Among them, toilet paper is a big source of profit for Zuo Menggeng.

As a result, the Zuo Army, who once frightened the soldiers and civilians in Nanjing to the point of breaking their hearts and looting everywhere, has now become the most active group in maintaining smooth shipping on the Yangtze River and the safety of commercial routes.

What an irony!
Even Xu Wenqi, the Minister of the Taipu Temple who came from Qizhou to promote chicken farming and sweet potato planting, also did not care about feathers and did not get involved in these businesses. It is said that many boats running back and forth between Nanjing and Wuchang are due to him. Take care of.

If it is said that the wars in the northwest and the north could make Liu Rushi see one, two, three, four, and then feel anxious, but the Huguang war that is so close at hand makes her more and more unable to understand.

There are only ruins in wars in other places, and then no matter what they need to be supported by other places, the only output that can be exported is basically only gold, silver, jewelry and people from looting.

However, Huguang’s business has become more and more prosperous as the battle has been fought. Although there are gold, silver, jewelry and people exported out, they are not all, or even most of them, and the proportion is getting smaller and smaller.

It is a variety of commodities that account for the bulk of the weirdness, including new commodities that are constantly emerging.

Then, a large number of craftsmen were absorbed in reverse.

Zuo Liangyu, tell him he avoids fighting!
However, Fang Guoan, Chen Keli, Wu Xueli and other generals under him all died in battle when they took the initiative to attack, losing more than 10 soldiers and horses.

At the same time, Zuo Liangyu also took the initiative to recruit Liu Hongqi, who had more than 10 people in Henan, Li Zicheng's hinterland, and this Liu Hongqi lived up to expectations and caused Li Zicheng a lot of trouble.

Moreover, Zuo Liangyu's former and current generals have also made many outstanding achievements.

Not to mention Li Ping.

Zhao Jin, Shi Ming, Ma Jinzhong, and Ma Shixiu, including Wang Yuncheng, who looted the most viciously near Nanjing, were not good enemies.

Liu Rushi really wanted to find someone to discuss with.

She couldn't understand the current situation very much!
The north is really corrupt, and there is no hope at all, but Huguang survived the desperate situation, and the fierce generals appeared one after another, making the situation weird.

Liu Rushi had a strong urge to go to Wuchang.

She wants to go there and have a look.

But when she thought of her husband, she became very helpless again.

Qian Qianyi, you say he doesn't care about current affairs, right? He is more active than anyone else in inquiring about news from the officialdom, especially from the top.

Without Qian Qianyi, it would be impossible for Liu Rushi to know many things in Yushan, including the emergence of such a fierce general like Li Ping.

It can be said that Qian Qianyi cares about current affairs.

Qian Qianyi only pays attention to the news in the officialdom, and always pays no attention to everything outside the officialdom.And even the news in the officialdom, he just paid attention to it and didn't discuss it, giving people an appearance that he didn't intend to seek a comeback.It seems that since he was dismissed from his post and returned to his hometown in the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), he really only wanted to study in peace.

Even this time when she came to Nanjing, she was forced to come here by Liu Rushi.

Qian Qianyi feels that Nanjing is not a central decision-making center, and its functions are very limited, so it is meaningless to come here. Moreover, he is not an official at present, so he really lacks interest.

Embarrassing at the same time!
Therefore, even when he arrived in Nanjing, Qian Qianyi just stayed in the room and read a book without leaving the gate.

Even Liu Rushi was very unwilling to admit that Qian Qianyi was not as good as Mr. Ruan, whom she admired, in terms of worrying about the country and the people.

Liu Rushi knew Ruan Dacheng on the Qinhuai River.

Otherwise, she would not have made a special trip to listen to the play of the Ruan family troupe after coming to Nanjing.

Thinking of this, Liu Rushi felt a little helpless.

Suddenly, she woke up startled and looked back at the strong women following her, only to realize that she liked Guangtu again, and she didn't even think about the stimulation of a bunch of bold women's clothes to the self-proclaimed Confucian husband.

At present, Qian Qianyi probably cannot accept it.

Then, Liu Rushi's head started to hurt.

(End of this chapter)