Chapter 984 0979 [The increasingly rich entertainment life of Ming Dynasty]
A few days later, Li Renxiao was taken to Kaifeng.
The house given to him by the imperial court is located south of Longjin Bridge on the central axis of Kaifeng City.
It was originally the residence of Deng Xunwu. Deng Xunwu belonged to Cai Jing's party and served as the privy envoy during the Huizong period.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, because the location of this house was relatively good, the two sides facing the street were transformed into shops. Some shops were rewarded to meritorious officials, and some shops were auctioned off to merchants.
The walls in the remaining area were rebuilt and private residences were given to the founding heroes. After the capital was moved, the private residences of many heroes were again awarded in Luoyang, and the residences in Kaifeng were taken back by the imperial court.
It can be seen from this that the Zhu family and his son are really stingy. They even gave him a house instead of a house, and they just cut out two rows of shops.
The main reason is that the house is too big and the architectural details are seriously illegal!
Li Renxiao liked this house very much. Although the area was very small, it was excellent in other aspects.
Going out from the main entrance of the house, you will see the Wu Temple across the street. When you open the back door, you will see the Cai River. This is a river view room.
Across the river, there used to be the Xijiofang Division. Half of it was converted into shops and the other half was converted into a printing factory. The printing factory belonged to the Ministry of Rites before the capital was moved. After the capital was moved, it was auctioned to a private bookseller. You can smell the ink across the river.
smell.
Across the street to the southeast of the house is even more interesting. It used to be the site of the Imperial College and the old campus of Imperial College. Now it belongs to the Kaifeng campus of Imperial College in the Ming Dynasty. Some foreign students study here and then go to Luoyang to study.
Next to Taixue, there is a whole street of bookstores.
To the south of Taixue is the expanded Kaifeng Medical College and the Kaifeng Cooked Medicine Benefiting Bureau.
Cooked medicine in traditional Chinese medicine generally refers to processed medicinal materials.
However, the cooked medicines that emerged in the Northern Song Dynasty specifically refer to pills, ointments, powders, tablets and other proprietary Chinese medicines. In the Song Dynasty, this was an official business, and with the word "Huimin" added, it can probably be understood as official affordable Chinese patent medicines.
shop.
In the Ming Dynasty, it became half-official and half-business.
Cooked medicine bureaus and cooked medicine shops must be officially operated by the Ming Dynasty, and the prices of medicines are strictly regulated so that ordinary people can afford them.
Cooked medicine stores are licensed private enterprises and are subject to official supervision at any time. The price of medicines is relatively high. Such private pharmacies are often opened in more remote neighborhoods or outside the city, and can be regarded as a supplement to official pharmacies.
Under Zhu Guoxiang's guidance, the familiar medicine bureaus and medical clinics all over the country have gradually turned into public hospitals.
Moreover, large pharmacy bureaus located in provincial capitals often have a medical school next to them.
Many of the outstanding graduates from medical schools are assigned to pharmacies and pharmacies, where they work as public doctors with regular staff but average salaries.
This kind of public doctor is also commonly known as "a doctor with a crown" because he has an official status when he is a senior doctor, and he can usually wear official uniforms when walking around.
After staying for a few days, the servants of Li Renxiao's family also arrived.
The government said they hired them from the market, but Li Renxiao always felt that one or two of those servants must be here to monitor him. Therefore, he was polite to the servants, for fear of provoking the monitors among them.
There was a clever servant named Li Huo who actually knew many words used in daily life.
Li Renxiao thought that this person must be the watcher, so he placed Li Huo beside him as a follower to show the Ming Emperor that he had no two intentions.
Taking his wife Zongshi and accompanying Li Huo, Li Renxiao went out to visit Kaifeng City for the first time.
First go to the Martial Arts Temple across the street, which is the closest.
Unfortunately, the core area is not open to the public, and is usually open only when there are official sacrifices. Ordinary tourists can only visit the peripheral area, where monuments are engraved with the achievements of famous generals.
Li Renxiao read the inscription with great interest and found that the titles of famous generals were particularly interesting.
It's not a lengthy posthumous title or title, but two very short words.
The protagonist is of course Jiang Ziya, who is titled "The Soldier Ancestor". Zhang Liang is the "Sage Seeker", Sun Wu is the "Sage Soldier", Han Xin is the "Soldier Immortal", Xiang Yu is the "Martial Saint", Li Jing is the "God of War"...
Li Huo introduced from the side: "Mr. Lang doesn't know that since these military monuments were erected, their stories have been widely circulated. Folk dramas and novels also like to fabricate their deeds. In recent years, a kind of storytelling has emerged,
It’s about Li Jing and the Red Buddha Girl who became popular.”
The word "storytelling" has been around since at least the Yuan Dynasty.
But the real rise was after the Song Dynasty moved south. It was originally used to comment on Buddhist classics and stories, talk about karma and retribution, and persuade people to do good.
"What is storytelling?" Li Renxiao asked curiously.
Li Huo explained: "It is to comment on the stories of characters in the past dynasties, mainly stories in novels and operas. Nowadays, movable type printing is very convenient and the price of paper is much lower. Novels are written longer and longer. Even the court
The husbands here also like to read novels. Many people in the city are illiterate, so storytellers tell the stories to the people. This is called storytelling."
The majestic Xixia Emperor Li Renxiao has never read a novel, let alone what a novel is.
He asked Li Huo carefully, and the more he listened, the more curious he became, and soon he went straight to the bookstore.
Coming to the bookstore street, Li Huo recounted:
"There are two book markets in Kaifeng, one is next to the Daxiangguo Temple. The bookstore there was originally owned by the Daxiangguo Temple and sold some Buddhist scriptures in the early Song Dynasty. Later it became a book market and sold all kinds of books.
.When the Ming Dynasty was founded, the Daxiangguo Temple Book Market was confiscated, stripped out and sold to private booksellers."
"Another book market is here, next to the Imperial College building. The Imperial College and the Imperial College used to be here. The students and princes wanted to buy books to read, so it naturally became a book market. It also sold the Four Treasures of the Study and some paints for painting.
"
Li Renxiao was quite happy: "This Taixue Book Market is very close to my home. From now on, it will only take a few hundred steps to buy books."
Li Huo took him into a bookstore and went straight to the novel bookshelf: "Lang Jun, these are all novels."
Li Renxiao saw a tome at a glance.
It is too conspicuous, has the largest number of pages and is thickest, and it is also bound with yellow paper.
"What novel is this?" Li Renxiao reached for it.
Li Huo quickly shouted: "Lang Jun, this novel must be invited with both hands. It was written by the current official when he was a boy."
Li Renxiao was taken aback, and quickly changed his hands from one hand to both hands, and respectfully took down "Journey to the West".
The final printed version of "Journey to the West" was released only four years ago and has undergone an official overhaul.
Mainly modifying the gods in it, for example, Erlang Shen should not be called Yang Jian, firstly because there is no name for this god yet, and secondly because Yang Jian was an evil eunuch who was around Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
There are many similar gods, all of which emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. They are very different from today's gods.
Li Huo said: "This book tells the story of Tang Sanzang's journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures."
"That's a good thing to read." Li Renxiao believed in Buddhism and was immediately more interested.
But he didn't know that "Journey to the West" has never been liked by monks. Instead, Taoist priests regard this book as a classic. It contains a lot of Taoist terms and Taoist poems. How would the monks react when reading it?
In addition to giving him a house and land, Ju Ming also gave some silver coins and daily necessities. Li Renxiao immediately spent money to buy a copy of "Journey to the West".
Li Renxiao glanced towards the lower row of bookshelf, where there were many booklets.
The entire series of books is called "Records of Knights of Ancient and Modern Times", which selects and expands stories of knights from the Tang, Song and Five Dynasties. It is similar to "Thirty-Three Swordsmen" of the Ming Dynasty, but it lacks the knights of the Southern Song Dynasty.
There are a total of six volumes in the set. There are discounts for buying them together, or you can just buy one volume.
There are Nie Yinniang, Kunlun Nu, Fengchen Three Heroes and so on.
The story of Zhang Yong, Zhang Yong's ancestor, is in a single volume called "Guaiya Sword Collection", totaling more than 30,000 words. The first half tells about Zhang Yong's sword-fighting in Shandong and Hebei before he became an official; the second half turns into a conclusion.
The story is about Zhang Yong trying various unjust cases after becoming an official.
Li In-hyo randomly pulled out a volume, which contained eight stories including "The Old Man Transformed into an Ape" and "The King of Buyeo".
Jin Yong's "Yue Nu Sword" is an expansion of "The Aged Ape"!
Li Renxiao read the two stories and found them very interesting. He planned to buy the entire set of "Ancient and Modern Heroes".
Soon, he saw another copy of "Arabian Nights".
Li Huo introduced: "This "Arabian Nights", also known as "One Thousand and One Nights", was compiled by officials from the Ming Dynasty together with scholars from various overseas countries. The final version was edited and edited.
The book is by the famous Li Bangyan. It is full of overseas stories, including many foreign countries. It was printed at the beginning of this year. It was reprinted twice after it was opened. It sold very well and storytellers also love to tell this story."
Li Renxiao opened it to read again and found that he also liked this book.
The bookstore owner was very happy. An hour later, he sent Li Renxiao away enthusiastically because he had bought six sets of novels.
There were actually more than a dozen sets of novels that Li Renxiao liked, and he gradually realized that something was wrong. If he followed his preferences, he could buy up the entire bookshelf of novels.
When he came out of the bookstore, he couldn't help but sigh: "In the past, I only knew that the Ming Dynasty was powerful in military affairs, but I didn't know that there were so many novels telling stories. The nobles of Xixia were rich in clothing and food, but how could they have ever been lucky enough to read them?
Ming Dynasty novel?"
Li Huo laughed and said: "A lot of them copied each other. Some people copied novels into plays, and some copied playbooks into novels. They often got into lawsuits because of plagiarism. In the end, it was often found that everyone copied, but they copied from Tang Chuanqiu.
Or a folktale."
"It's really interesting." Li Renxiao also laughed.
While the master and servant were talking, a man came quickly and shouted: "I borrowed it, I borrowed it..."
Li Renxiao asked: "Is he carrying a food box?"
Li Huo explained: "Those are the idle men (takeaway boys) who deliver orders. They existed in the Song Dynasty. Now that people are getting richer, more and more people ask for orders. They just order food in restaurants and restaurants.
Send it over when the time comes."
Li Renxiao clicked his tongue and exclaimed: "My Ming Dynasty is really rich. You can't see beggars along the street. Even food is delivered to your home."
Not long after I finished speaking, I saw some unkempt people begging on the street.
There is only one beggar in the whole street, and the patrolman doesn't care about him.
Li Renxiao said: "Give him a few copper coins. His clothes are not shabby, but he is reduced to begging on the street. He must be a sad and frustrated person."
Li Huo smiled and said: "Mr. Lang, please don't worry about him. This man is the former prince of the Song Dynasty. He lived a very prosperous life in the past few years. He is in this state all because of himself. And he is not begging. If he really gives alms,
He also yells at people who don't have money."
"Prince of the former Song Dynasty?" Li Renxiao was greatly surprised.