Mixing ancient times with Taobao

Chapter 383

Since the Song Dynasty, it has become a consensus among flower growers that good men should not serve as soldiers.Serving as a soldier is not a career for common prosperity. Serving as a soldier is an act of unfilial piety. Serving as a soldier has no heart of kindness...

Such absurd remarks have been circulating since the Song Dynasty, and they were well-founded, so that the common people finally believed that those who served as soldiers were all villains and unscrupulous!
How can a country expect soldiers to have a sense of honor if they don't honor them?How can we expect them to be desperate when fighting on the battlefield?
What is more terrible than the backwardness of weapons and equipment is the loss of people's hearts.An army that has no beliefs, no goals, and is not respected by the whole society has no combat effectiveness.

This time the common people actively responded to the blind date activities of the soldiers, although they are speculative, but doesn't this also mean that the social status of the soldiers has improved?

The folks from all over the world rushed to Qiongshan, and the blind date organized by Zuo Fu also started smoothly.Half a month later, every good guy found a girl he liked, and the girls also found their own husbands.

This ground-breaking blind date event left a strong stroke in the history books.Some historians and sociologists in later generations called this blind date event a symbolic event of free love and anti-feudalism. chapter.

Of course, Zuo Fu, who has become history, did not know that his arrangement would bring so many effects.Anyway, judging from this activity, she felt that the effect was good.

Women can choose whoever they like, and men can also choose whoever they like, which is much better than blind marriage.

After dealing with the personal problems of the personal guards, Zuo Fu called some of his maidservants, and after some discussion, he proceeded to arrange a blind date for them.

This blind date meeting was not a big one, and no notice was posted, but she still asked Zuo Gui to release the news.Now it's all right, a group of young men came to apply, even willing to sell themselves as slaves, so that they can live in the yamen with maidservants like Zuo Fu, and become high-ranking servants in the Duke's mansion from then on.

These people's ideas are quite practical, but these people's behavior is a bit too explicit, which makes Zuo Fu somewhat displeased.

Although there is nothing wrong with the idea of ​​finding a good partner to marry, but if you are willing to do things like selling yourself as a slave, you have to consider your character.

And Zuo Fu's maidservants also looked down on these people, they always felt that their minds were not pure, so in this way, the blind date would be a failure.After a long time, one of them didn't hold hands, so they had to find a partner by themselves.

After dealing with the personal affairs of his employees, it was time for Zuo Fu to start working.This year's task is not light.With the launch of sea trade last year, products from Taobao have gained a reputation.This year, the weather has only warmed up, and many merchants have come to Qiongzhou to look for these things.

They are not maritime merchants, but they just learned from them that Qiongzhou produces strange but practical and cheap daily necessities and small hardware.

These things are also very marketable if they are sold inland.And I heard that Qiongzhou produces a lot of salt, and there are several salt farms with a daily output of tens of thousands of catties.It sounds like a fairy tale, but many small maritime merchants who are cooperating with Qiongzhou swear that Qiongzhou has enough salt to give mud legs as welfare.In foreign trade, Qiongzhou salt is also an important commodity.

High-quality refined salt and snow-white sugar are key products in Qiongzhou's foreign trade.And although this thing is good, the price is outrageously cheap.In Nagasaki, Japan, as soon as Qiongzhou's ships docked, countless merchants flocked to buy Qiongzhou's salt and sugar.

And I heard that the magistrate will expand the planting of sugar cane, and this year he will open a sugar factory, soap factory, textile factory, etc. in Qiongzhou.

What does factory mean? These merchants don't understand very well, but after thinking about it, it should mean workshop, right?

Therefore, relying on the high-quality and affordable Taobao products and locally produced salt and sugar, Qiongzhou immediately attracted the attention of many Guangzhou merchants, who came to investigate the truth.

The new city built in Qiongzhou in less than a year has also attracted the attention of many tourists.In the Ming Dynasty, there were not a few people like Xu Xiake.In fact, traveling has always been a very fashionable thing in ancient times.

Scholars' study tours, merchants' visits, rich people's relaxation...

In short, since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, a large number of people ran out of their lairs and took a few servants and old horses out to wander.

Those small sea merchants who cooperated with Zuofu came to Qiongzhou and were inevitably attracted by Qiongzhou's cleanliness, beauty and novelty.And such a diorama is not available anywhere else in Daming.Coming to Qiongzhou, the horizons are greatly opened, and it is inevitable to brag about it when I return to my hometown.

In the bathroom, there is a shower with hot water when you turn on the faucet, a lamp that glows when you put it in the sun, a super big Huimin supermarket...

All kinds of miracles were spread by these small sea merchants, and some tourists who had money and leisure and liked to watch the excitement also started to go to Qiongzhou, and Qiongzhou became lively all at once.

In order to deal with these tourists and merchants, Zuo Fu called together the local gentry and merchants and proposed the idea of ​​a commercial street.

In fact, after a year of hard work last year, the construction of the new city has basically been completed.The demolition and reconstruction work in the city was also completed by the end of March.

All the houses in the old city adopted the construction methods of later generations. Except for the Yamen and the Confucian Temple, there is no wood in all the buildings, and they are all made of bricks, cement and steel bars.

The old craftsmen in Wujin have already accumulated rich experience in Wujin, and it is not difficult for them to build a one-story or two-story house.You know, in Wujin, they built six-story buildings.So a two-story building?Trifle!
It's not difficult, and it's not difficult to learn. One person brings a group of apprentices, follow along for a few days, and supervise the work by himself, and soon a house can be built.As for the layout of the city, they also have a wealth of experience.According to Zuo Fu's instructions, a commercial food street has long been planned in it.

So now the houses and shops are all built, just waiting for the merchants to settle in.

A group of merchants and country gentry felt that this was a profitable business after hearing Zuofer's description.The only thing that frustrates them is that the shops in the commercial street are only rented and not sold.This magistrate is indeed a good hand in business. He said that the rent will remain the same for five years. If the business is booming at that time, he may not know where it will go after five years.

However, considering that there are libraries, hotels and other properties funded by government offices on that street, I feel that it is not wrong to follow along.After all, it's impossible for Yamen to lose money, right?If you miss this time, you will not have such a good opportunity in the future.

At that moment, many people followed the people from the yamen to visit the shop, and many people signed the contract on the same day, and every two days, firecrackers were set off, and the store opened...

(End of this chapter)