Chapter 44 Daming Divine Sword
Hearing the voice of this middle-aged official floating at the city gate, Su Ze couldn't help but applaud him.
The etiquette for meeting officials stipulated in the "Da Ming Hui Dian" is the salute, which is the etiquette that the new prefect just performed for the commander.
But under normal circumstances, lower-level officials always like to kneel down when meeting superior officials. In the Qing Dynasty, they even knelt down at every turn.
The standing Nanping Jiaoyu made a standard salute to the new prefect, which was even more standard and more elegant than the new prefect's actions just now.
The new prefect was naturally a little displeased to be contradicted like this when he first took office, but if he argued with this unworthy official in person, wouldn't it lower his worth even more?
The new prefect simply pretended not to see it, and then entered Nanping County surrounded by other officials.
Naturally, there was no time to pay homage to the City God today. The new magistrate rejected the invitation from the wealthy people in the city and took his family to live temporarily in the back of the City God's Temple.
Fortunately, the prefect's guard of honor was collected quickly, and Su Ze and his party finally entered Nanping County. The people were talking about the new prefect.
But Su Ze lowered his head, thinking of the middle-aged instruction that was as tall as a mountain.
Wait, Nanping, Jiaoyu, couldn't be that person, right?
Su Ze thought of the "History of the Ming Dynasty" that he had read, and suddenly remembered that record!
Judging from the time, it seems to be right, that person really has a magnificent Ming Dynasty sword!
Unexpectedly, the historical celebrities I met when I traveled to the Ming Dynasty were such famous figures from ancient times to the present!
Su Ze laughed, why couldn't he get an SSR like this when he was playing rubbish mobile games?
Just as Su Ze was thinking about it as he entered the city, Lin Xianyang led the donkey cart and said:
"Our Lin family has a relative in the county. Let's stay at his house today. However, the new magistrate has arrived and we don't know. Can you still pay the fine for fighting tomorrow?"
Lin Xianyang was a little depressed. If the government's money is not paid, there will be interest every day. If the thirty-two taels of silver are not paid, it will not be safe to keep it around.
However, there was nothing that could be done about it. Lin Xianyang continued: "Tomorrow I will accompany you to see the junior student you have made friends with. Then Brother Aze can go to the county government office to register for the childbirth test." Su Ze quickly agreed, and the
group People are walking along the county street, which belongs to the busiest Chaotianfang in Nanping County. The government office and the county government are at both ends of this street. There are all kinds of shops along the street.
Nanping County is worthy of being the capital city of Yanping Prefecture. The entire county is very lively in the evening. The horizontal and vertical streets actually make Su Ze feel like traveling to an ancient town before traveling through time.
Although Su Ze doesn't like the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty is indeed an important historical node of Chinese civilization.
Before the Song Dynasty, all transactions were done in special "markets". For example, the East and West Second Markets in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty were the centers of trade in the Tang Dynasty. It was absolutely not allowed to open a shop on the street casually in the Tang Dynasty. You could only carry a carrying pole. Even if you sell some small commodities, you will be chased away by unscrupulous people patrolling the streets.
But by the Song Dynasty, street-facing shops were commonplace. Song Shenzong was furious because the street-facing shops occupied the road and continued to expand their stores to the streets. He also tried to re-concentrate merchants to the market to do business, but in the end he struggled a lot. It also failed to succeed, but allowed powerful officials to seize the opportunity to seize ordinary people's shops.
It is now the 33rd year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty. Although there are still specialized markets, they are already places for large-scale transactions. Ordinary people will go to the shops on both sides of the street to buy things.
Grain shops, butcher shops, pickle shops, and fish shops were lined up along the county street. Su Ze also saw bookstores and tea shops that were closing down.
Lin Liangjun and Lin Anzai looked at the lively streets excitedly. Compared with the county seat, Chang Ningwei was really too remote!
Su Ze even saw a shop specializing in selling sugar, with flags with the words "Fujian and Guangzhou Brown Sugar", "Fuqing Rock Sugar" and "Jiaozhi Sugar" floating at the door.
Lin Liangjun and Lin Anzai looked at the candy store and drooled. Su Ze looked at the copper coins in his pocket and said to them:
"Go and have a look!"
The four of them walked into the candy store. In this era of sugar, It is considered a luxury product. I only saw the short boss holding a bamboo stick in his hand and driving away the flying insects. There were balls of dark brown sugar on the bamboo basket in the shop.
The boss saw Su Ze with his two children, and saw that although Su Ze was simply dressed, he was tall and well-built, so he immediately welcomed her warmly. "My dear husband, this is the finest Fujian and Guangzhou brown sugar. It costs two cents and four cents per catty. Do you want some?" Su Ze
then remembered that now Fujian and Guangzhou have begun to plant sugar cane on a large scale, and it has begun to become a It was the center of the sugar industry in the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing the appearance of this candy, Su Ze had no idea of eating it, but the two carrot heads drooled looking at the dark brown candy.
Su Ze had an idea and suddenly thought of a way to make money. He asked again:
"Do you have any rock sugar or icing sugar for sale?"
When the candy store owner heard that Su Ze wanted to buy rock sugar and icing sugar, he became even more convinced that he was a big customer. He quickly took out a porcelain jar from behind the counter, opened it and said,
"My dear husband, this is the finest Fuqing rock sugar, worth one or two and a half cents per catty."
Lin Liangjun and Lin Anzai took a breath, So expensive!
The technology of making rock sugar has already appeared in the Song Dynasty, but the production process is complicated and the output has never been high. Fuqing County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province is a famous rock sugar production center.
"Is there any icing sugar?"
Sugar icing is white sugar. The boss shook his head and said, "The price of icing sugar is high and cannot be sold in the county. My husband has to go to Fuzhou City to buy it."
Sure enough, white sugar is still a luxury product now. When thinking of this, Su Ze thought again He learned the magic skill of a time traveler, the "Yellow Mud Water Sprinkling Sugar Technique".
This technology can refine black sugar into white sugar. According to the records of "Tiangong Kaiwu", it should have appeared in the middle period of Jiajing.
I don’t know if it has been invented and not popularized yet, but the price of white sugar is still very high today.
In fact, the price of sugar in the Ming Dynasty was not expensive anymore. A pound of brown sugar cost two cents and four cents of silver, which was converted into copper coins of 360 cents per pound. Even wealthy people could afford it.
In the past, when Lin Liangjun followed his father to the county town, he would buy a piece of brown sugar to try.
Seeing the two little carrot heads like this, Su Ze was about to pay, and then asked the boss:
"Store, is there a sugar workshop in our county?"
Of course, Su Ze was not going to the workshop to buy sugar, he just wanted to Find a workshop to develop the "sugar making" skill.
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then said: "There is also a sugar shop in Xuanyifang near Guo outside the city, but that shop only does bulk business and does not retail." The shopkeeper rolled his eyes and said, "If my husband buys more
, , our store also sells Cochin sugar, and the price is only half of local sugar."
Cochin sugar is naturally smuggled sugar. Su Ze lamented over and over that smuggling is flourishing in the southeast, and even he dares to sell smuggled sugar with a sign.
"Take it out and see, what's the difference between this Cochin sugar and local brown sugar?"
(End of chapter)