Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 485 Journey to the West ([-])
Three months later
Yan Gong 240 Year Autumn (451 Years)
Jiankang
Xu Xiake stopped and stopped along the way, and it took three months to arrive at Jiankang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

Since the decline of Luoyang, Chang'an, and Chengdu, Jiankang has become the most prosperous place in the Central Plains, with merchants gathering from all over the place, dignitaries everywhere, and in terms of luxury, it is comparable to Yan.

Jiankang City not only has square markets, but several, each of which is very large in scale. There are many brothels in the city at the same time, and there are brothels that train little girls from childhood and train them to be playthings for men. These little girls Most of them are the daughters of refugees from the north who fled and had to sell their sons and daughters.

Moreover, Jiankang City is actually a city wall made of blue bricks, which is incompatible with most of the mud city walls in the Central Plains, and it looks very luxurious.

In Jiankang City, Xu Xiake also saw the employment relationship. Some wealthy merchants hired handicraftsmen for production. Although this is very common in Yan State, it is still very rare in the Central Plains.

The handicraft production activities in other places in the Central Plains are either produced within the small peasant family, that is, the so-called male farming and female weaving, or are produced by slaves in the manor. This is how the Wang family hundreds of years ago, let the maids in their manor Weaving wine.

However, Jiankang City actually began to have a long-term and stable employment relationship, which shows that the urban economy of Jiankang City has been well developed.

However, unlike the urban economy of Yan State, the urban economy of Yan State is dominated by handicrafts, supplemented by service industries, while the urban economy of Jiankang City is dominated by service industries, supplemented by handicrafts.

This shows that the urban economy of Jiankang City was completely matured by a large number of aristocratic nobles who gathered together. The urban economy here is completely attached to these aristocratic nobles and has little to do with ordinary people.

In Yandu, a large number of handicraft workshops can be seen everywhere, and although there are service industries such as brothels, they are not mainstream.

In Jiankang City, on the contrary, service industries such as brothels, restaurants, and casinos are the mainstream, and production workshops are only incidental.

After choosing an inn to stay in, Xu Xiake went to Fangshi for a stroll as usual.

The square market in Jiankang City is still very prosperous. There are actually many shops selling breakfast here, as well as old people who set up stalls. There are also blacksmith shops selling weapons and equipment. The East Market sells long guns, the South Market sells iron armor, and the West Market sells vests. North City sells Madden saddles.

And there are some roadside stalls selling snacks, such as a juice stall.

Xu Xiake stepped forward and asked the boy selling juice, "How do you sell this juice?"

"A bamboo tube only costs twenty dollars."

"You can pick any of these fruits, and I'll squeeze them out for you. No matter what kind of fruit they are, they cost twenty dollars a tube."

Juice boy was very happy to see business coming.

At this moment in Jiankang City, the commercial prosperity is no less than that of the small rural markets in later generations, and it can be said to be very lively.

In Jiangzuo, the five baht coins of Yan State can also be circulated, and merchants are more willing to accept the five baht coins of Yan State with sufficient weight. On the contrary, the five baht coins minted by Song State itself are not popular. If the government does not force the five baht coins of Song Dynasty I'm afraid no one will use the money.

Xu Xiake directly bought a bowl of aloe vera juice with five baht coins from Yan, and the juvenile juicer was even happier. The five baht coins from Yan are more circulated in the market than the five baht coins from Song Dynasty, because Yan Guo is too honest, and the minted Currency is too good not to cut corners.

In the Central Plains, from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to Wang Mang, to Liu Bei, Sun Quan and others, they have been cutting corners on currency and using bad money to harvest folk wealth. confidence.

Soon, the juicy boy planed the aloe vera into a large stone bowl, and then used a wooden awl to crush it repeatedly. During the rolling process, he used a bamboo tube to beat water from the water tank from time to time, poured the water into the large stone bowl, and added some wild vegetables. Grind the roots together to get the juice.

Finally, the juice boy carefully poured the aloe juice from the stone bowl into the bamboo tube, and finally handed the bamboo tube filled with aloe juice to Xu Xiake.

Afterwards, the juice boy washed his hands soaked in aloe vera juice in another water tank, dried them on a pitch-black rag, and waved his hand to drive away the flies and mosquitoes on the juice stand.

Looking at the clean and hygienic aloe vera juice in the bamboo tube, Xu Xiake drank it without frowning, but the aloe vera juice was too sticky, and he couldn't stop biting, so he could only swallow it.

Leaving the fruit juice stand, I saw several straw sandal and cloth shoe stands, so Xu Xiake bought a few pairs of cloth shoes that fit my feet, so that he can walk around the world in the future.

But when passing by a corner, a middle-aged man with a fleshy face approached and asked, "Brother, do you want Sister, there are young and mature ones."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to a side alley, where several women were standing. The youngest was only eight or nine years old, and the oldest was over 40 years old. There were even grandmothers, mothers and daughters who worked as prostitutes for three generations.

However, not all prostitutes are voluntary, especially those who are very young. Many of them are controlled by some local gangs, lose their personal freedom, and have to sell their bodies to avoid abuse. There are people from the government as the backstage, so they dare to be so unscrupulous.

In the era of camera surveillance, there will still be forced buying and selling. In the era of no camera surveillance, such things will only happen more and more terrible.

Needless to say, harvesting, cutting, and the like have been repeatedly banned in the past dynasties. Gangs such as local beggars and rangers will turn living people into deformities, and then use this as a novelty to attract spectators to reward money .

Etc., etc.

Linked with picking and cutting, it is the aristocratic families and royal relatives' desire for immortality and aphrodisiac. They are very interested in various strange "immortal methods" of magicians, such as using virgin menstrual blood to make alchemy, using The heart of a baby is used as a medicine for the elixir of life, and the lychee of a virgin is used to make aphrodisiac pills, and so on.

Because the ruling class dignitaries have these shady demands, there will be more raw harvests on the black market.

Of course, it is still moral for them to do these shameful things secretly. Some rulers don’t even bother to cover them up. They want to do these things openly, and they are finally recorded in the history books by historians.

Therefore, the absurd things recorded in the history books are relatively less perverted, and those that are truly more perverted will not be written into the history books at all.

A ten-year-old girl in an alley, with many bruises on her face, must have been abused because she was disobedient.

Seeing these tragedies in the world, Xu Xiake could only shake his head and sigh, push away the pimp standing in front of him, and continue to observe the bustling market in Jiankang City.

Behind the prosperity, there is always a lot of darkness. Since we have no ability to change, we can only turn a blind eye.

Xu Xiake is not an indifferent person, but he knows that there are too many such things in the world. Whether it is the Song Dynasty, Wei State, Yan State, or other countries in the world, there are always countless tragedies in the world. He is just a person who travels the world. The wanderer has no ability to change all this.

(End of this chapter)