Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 512 Opening of Times Square

In September, Li Shimin was finally willing to end his southern tour and set off to return to Chang'an. Sun Xiangfu also returned to Chang'an after finishing the three-month-long research phase of the steel structure keel ship.

Now, all the kings, princes, and more important ministers under the jurisdiction of Anxi Dadu Protectorate have all rushed to Chang'an one after another. Since the main personnel of the Ministry of Rites are all on missions, the old Yu Shinan can't do it alone, and Sun Xiangfu is so young. Those who are strong will naturally come in handy.

Therefore, Sun Xiangfu feels that Datang urgently needs to open a foreign language translation school.

For the languages ​​from the western countries, he feels a little dizzy now. The most depressing thing is that he has face blindness to foreigners, and he can't tell who is who for people whose characteristics are not obvious.

Fortunately, these people have more or less basic Chinese, and they finally settled down one after another, and then there are some activities of eating, drinking and having fun. This does not require Sun Xiangfu to accompany them in person. After all, even if they were the lords of a country before, After surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, the highest level is only the county level. Some, because the country is too small and the population is too small, can only get a title of county level. The middle and low-level officials of the Ministry of Rites will introduce the situation in Chang'an to them. They're free to move around.

The real big event is that the first commercial plaza in Chang'an is about to open. It was built in Times Square between the former Anxingfang and Daningfang. After nearly two years of construction, it is finally completed. It is a two-story building with thousands of shops. All businesses have also settled in, and all the entertainment facilities in the super large free playground on the top floor have been completed, and even the complete set of services and sanitation personnel have been properly arranged.

On the Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of September, early in the morning, rich and powerful families drove their families to Times Square in their own rickshaws or horse-drawn carriages. As early as a few days ago, they were dressed in various colorful costumes The propagandist was in the city of Chang'an, and the publicity was carried out several times like a parade. Empress Changsun sent invitations to almost all the ladies, and Changsun Wuji also invited all officials who were qualified to go to court to attend today's ribbon-cutting and opening ceremony.

In fact, most people will come without an invitation, either because they have a store in Times Square at home, or because the children at home like all kinds of cute cute clothes during the promotion, and the All kinds of big crawling beds inflated on the roof are clamoring to come.

Today, not only Sun Xiangfu came by himself, but also the whole family, one wife and two concubines, and the four children in the family were all dressed in playful attire. Uncle De followed behind with towels, water bottles and the like.

Sun Jing and Sun Wanting are already two years old, and Sun Feng and Sun Wanyu are also one year old. They can run around on the ground. It's time to play. After watching the performance of beating gongs and drums at the door, Empress Changsun invited Sun Xiangfu held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with some of the top ministers in the DPRK and distributed a lot of candies to the onlookers, and then led a group of courtiers, dignitaries and their families into the shopping mall.

On the first floor, the outermost shops facing the roadside are all shops selling tricycles, bicycles, and luxury carriages. Now, the cars in the depot have produced several styles. Bicycles are divided into men’s, women’s, and There are all kinds of tricycles with novel designs, both for people and goods, and even divided into grades. There are cheaper and less comfortable wooden frames and wooden wheels, and there are also all-steel structures with spring cushions. High-end cars with shock-absorbing fish rubber tires, two or four wheels, and luxury carriages with various comfortable cushions installed inside.

Previously, these things were not available for sale except in the car factory in Weinan, and they were usually bought by the rich and powerful through their connections. Now, it has become the only place in Chang'an City where they are openly sold to civilians.

Just because there are bicycles and tricycles for sale here, many people can’t wait to come here. Recently, many people are greedy when they see these cars on the street. It is said that Weinan has become popular when they get married. Now that Times Square is open, the people in Chang'an City can buy a car with money like the workers in Weinan.

The people present today are not only the people of Chang'an, but almost all the state leaders and ministers who came to Chang'an, including the border town generals like She Long who arrived in Chang'an yesterday. All kinds of cars are very attractive. In their eyeballs, Shelong took his son Xinuluo around the car shop for a long time. He planned to leave his son in Chang'an to study the advanced culture of the Han people. The emperor of the mansion had prepared it for him. He has to buy furniture, carriages and horses by himself, anyway, he is not short of money now.

However, for the things sold in Times Square, all kinds of cars are not so novel.

After entering the interior, hundreds of exquisitely crafted gold, silver, jade, glazed jewelry, porcelain, carved ornaments, etc., simply blinded everyone's eyes. This mode of commodity sales, in the interior of the shopping mall illuminated by hundreds of white wax, they looked as if they had entered a world of golden mountains, silver seas and jade waves. The waiters, their makeup is very dignified, their clothes and manners are very capable and energetic.

Why do you feel this way?Because these women are all from the palace and have received very strict etiquette training.

Empress Changsun listened to Sun Xiangfu's suggestion before, and abolished a large number of maids and servants in the palace to support the entire service industry of Times Square. She hardly recruited from the market, and the few squares that will open later will be like this In the past, thousands of court ladies who were paid tribute by ethnic minorities in various foreign countries, and some criminals who were used as court ladies, will be released from the palace to do specific work and enjoy fixed wages.

The things are beautiful, the service is considerate, and the price is naturally high. Almost all the products in the mall are clearly marked. After passing the jewelry area, you will arrive at the big staircase area on the second floor. However, there is a life service supermarket on the first floor .

Here, there are a whole row, a whole row of shelves, filled with all kinds of food, all wrapped in very exquisite paper packaging, printed with the place of origin, raw materials, dates suitable for eating, and several commonly used foods. How to eat and so on.

There are dozens of canned fruits and dried meat, as well as dried fruit, various life seasonings, and hericium erinaceus, black fungus, white fungus from Shannan Road, lotus seeds, chestnuts, and Lingnan Road. Various flavors of candies, various flavors of instant noodles produced in Luoyang, various flavors of biscuits, bread, many kinds of jams in porcelain bottles, various flavors of dairy products, dessert drinks, and various cleaning and toiletries, etc. Wait, there are countless.

Even fresh fruits and vegetables are placed in bamboo baskets or baskets, in very beautiful packages, with prices written in Sun's algebraic symbols, and placed on various ice-covered shelves. There are more than a hundred of them. There are no less than a thousand kinds if you count all the commodity types.

From the flying birds in the sky, the beasts running on the ground, to the delicacies growing in the mountains and forests, all kinds of fish swimming in the sea, crabs and prawns, there are almost everything here. For people in this era, basically as long as you If you have money, there is nothing you can't buy.

Moreover, the transaction is also very convenient. You only need to pick up a shopping basket or shopping cart at the entrance, and you can put all the things you want into your own basket or cart. There will be a cashier at the exit. This abacus will be priced for you one by one according to the price of the commodity, and there will be special service personnel to help you sort and pack it. If you buy a lot and need to move it, there will be a male waiter who will directly push it to the door with a shopping cart to help you move it. Get in the car, or call a car for you, service, that's all kinds of thoughtful things.

Sun Xiangfu held his daughter Sun Wanting with his left hand, and Yu Xiuer's left hand with his right hand. With her right hand, she held her son Sun Jing, while Hongmei and Chuntao followed behind them with their daughter Sun Wanyu and son Sun Feng in their arms. After walking a few steps in the life service area, the little ones became uneasy. They wanted the products on the shelves, especially the candies wrapped in colored paper. They had eaten them before.

Sun Xiangfu had no choice but to ask Uncle De to get a shopping cart and let them take what they liked and put it in the shopping cart.

Those who can't resist the temptation are not the children of their family. After entering such an environment with everything that one expects to find, the children and adults can hardly resist the temptation and make their moves one after another. After the rich people passed by, the waiters will start to replenish the goods, because there are many products here that could not be bought in the market before, and many people who are not short of money are buying them by panic buying.

After walking around for a long time and going up the stairs to the second floor, the style of painting suddenly changed. Fabrics of various colors and patterns and exquisite costumes were made, and the quilts were put on wooden models and placed.Men's clothing, women's clothing, spring, summer, autumn and winter are available, which makes many ladies crazy. Before the clothing reform tide promoted by Sun Xiangfu came, there were only a few styles of clothing in Datang, and the main differences were in workmanship and color. above.

Now, dye factories have already released dozens of fabrics of colors that were not available before, as well as various printings, and garment factories even have hundreds of styles of clothing designs. You can buy well-fitting and exquisite clothes here. Not only that, but there is also a special makeup shop on the second floor. Some makeup artists who specialize in makeup in the original Wangjiang Tower are the managers of the shop. They can help them with various hair styles and various makeup looks. , coupled with such exquisite clothing, is enough to raise a woman's appearance score from failing to over [-] in one fell swoop.

There are also all kinds of exquisite furniture and bedding such as royal family furniture. Here, you only need to order the complete set of goods, fill in the address, and pay the deposit, and someone will directly deliver the goods to your home and help you arrange them. Install.

However, these are not high-end products anymore. The stationery store opened by the Yu family directly occupies one-fifth of the entire second floor, because in addition to selling various high-end pens, inks, papers and inkstones, There are thousands of beautifully printed books alone, almost comparable to the types of books in the palace. These things were not something that could be bought with money.

Not only that, there is also the treasure of the town store, reading glasses for sale, but they are expensive.

Many courtiers almost came to this stationery shop. Only here can they release their hobbies. Even letter paper and drawing paper can be divided into more than a dozen grades here, and flowers are sold here. Previously, Datang does not have paper that can emit fragrance, and there is no paper that is as white as snow, smooth as silk, different in softness and hardness, and different in ink absorption. These good things that add to the effect of writing and painting will make them very generous. Open your wallet.

The difference between Times Square and the previous shops in the eastern and western cities is that all its products are relatively high-end, and there are some in other places here. The appearance is more exquisite, the quality is better, and it has a fixed brand name.

There are also things that are not available elsewhere, such as perfume, full-length mirrors, and glazed products.

Due to the previous limited sale, perfumes are not available to anyone who wants to buy as much as they want, it depends on the availability of goods in the market, but the 'Sunyang Perfume' store on the second floor of Times Square has everything that one expects to find.

Dozens of scented perfumes are even divided into many levels, some are in ceramic bottles, some are in glass bottles, and even the top-notch ones are directly packed in transparent glass bottles, but the price is a bit scary, which makes those expensive The women gave up their rush to buy, but many people asked about the characteristics of these top perfumes, especially about the perfume with several scents and the feeling of smelling those scents. They asked in great detail. The price of the bottle makes them afraid to buy more, but they are still willing to buy a bottle for occasional use or as a gift.

Of course, like perfumes, there are also full-length mirrors that are wildly sought after. On the second floor of Times Square, there is actually a shop that sells this kind of precious mirrors that can make people see everything, but the price of the largest full-length mirrors , It's a little scary to look at.

However, for this price, no one would complain about it. You must know that before this kind of mirror, only a few dollars were released on the market every year. , have their potential political significance.

Now, if you have money, you can buy it, which is already a kind of progress. The big round mirror like the head is inlaid with a very exquisite shelf carved with silver. Make-up mirrors are sold at a price of several hundred guan, which is acceptable to ladies.

Of course, even if some can’t afford it, they will take the opportunity to take more photos in the store. For most people, this is the first time that they can see their own appearance so clearly, including the kings and queens of the small countries who surrendered. Ministers and such.

(End of this chapter)