The southeast is beautiful, the three Wu cities, Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times. Smoked willows painted bridges, wind curtains and green curtains, there are hundreds of thousands of homes. Clouds and trees surround the dike and sand, raging waves roll up frost and snow, the sky is endless. The cities are lined with pearls, and the houses are full of flowers.
Competing for luxury.
Liu Yong's poem "Looking at the Sea and Tidal Road" shows the prosperity of Lin'an Prefecture!
The south and southwest of Lin'an City are hilly areas, and the north and southeast are water network areas. It is a typical water city, with Fucheng as the center, rivers as the backbone, and combined with large and small rivers in the suburbs to form a large water transportation network around the city.
Mainly, there are more than 12,000 large and small bridges in the city.
Li Jie entered the city along the Genshan Gate in the northeast direction. There is a bridge behind the city gate called Bazi Bridge. For the residents in the city, everyone prefers to call Genshan Gate Bazimen.
Gen is one of the eight trigrams, the northeast hexagram, symbolizing mountains. Genshan means the hill in the north of the city, and there is neither a mountain nor a mountain here at Genshan Gate.
There is Genyue Shoushan in Bianjing, which is a royal garden built by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. The garden is planted with exotic flowers and trees, rare birds and animals are raised, and the flying towers are magnificent. It is extremely luxurious. The name Genshan Gate in the Southern Song Dynasty was taken from the memory of the homeland.
, meaning looking at the Central Plains in the distance.
However, as I lived in a corner of Lin'an for longer and longer, looking at the Central Plains from a distance really became looking at the Central Plains from afar. Even the people at the lowest level knew that the Central Plains had become an elusive dream.
In the early Southern Song Dynasty, there were still many refugees who migrated south and claimed to be refugees. Although these people settled in Lin'an, they did not register in Lin'an. They still referred to their place of origin and claimed to be refugees in Lin'an. They believed that sooner or later the imperial court would be able to regain control of Lin'an.
Lost land and returned to the Central Plains.
Just like everyone is accustomed to calling Genshan Gate Bazimen, there are fewer and fewer people claiming to be exiles. In the north, regaining lost territory is just a dream.
The area around Genshanmen is full of individual silk weaving households and machine workshops. The sound of machines can be heard from household to household. The famous Hangzhou Textile is produced here. The streets are crowded with people. There are many shops on both sides, with flags fluttering.
The ones in the water are all kinds of silk and cloth.
Following the guidance of passers-by, Li Jie headed southwest, passing through Guanqiao, Zhongan Bridge and other bridges, and finally arrived at today's destination - Yujie.
Yu Street is the main north-south road of Lin'an Prefecture. The middle part of Yu Street is the Imperial Road, which was specially used for the emperor to travel. In the Northern Song Dynasty, strictly speaking, even the prince could not cross the street, and the residents on the east and west sides were even more restricted.
No contact until old age and death, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, the implementation of this rule was not as strict as in the Northern Song Dynasty.
According to functional classification, Royal Street is divided into four sections. The southernmost section is close to Da Nei. The market in the southern section mainly supplies the daily needs of the palace and the central government offices. The most popular ones are restaurants. Many well-known restaurants are located in the southern section of Royal Street.
The middle section of Royal Street is the most prosperous section. It is home to large hotels, large-scale luxuriously decorated high-end consumer goods professional stores, large entertainment venues, and bustling markets with rich meals and entertainment. It is a well-deserved entertainment and cultural center, high-end professional goods
Consumption center, financial and trade center, simply put, this is the largest CBD in Lin'an Prefecture.
Only here could Li Jie sell sugar frosting without attracting any attention, because important industry organizations, trades, and trades at that time were gathered here. Almost well-known stores had branches here, and the flow of people coming and going every day was huge. Although sugar frosting was
The value itself is very precious, but here it is just one of the dazzling array of commodities, nothing special.
There are more than a dozen large and small candy shops in the middle section of Yu Street. Li Jie sells a little bit at each shop without attracting any attention. Sugar frosting is rare and expensive in the outside world, but this is Lin'an, and it is also the most prosperous place in Lin'an City. Similar to Li Jie,
I have seen people like Jie selling frosting in many stores, so I just thought he was a boy from a family that had received a reward, but the economy was relatively tight.
Li Jie brought a total of two kilograms of icing sugar this time, and sold six taels, eight taels, eight taels and ten taels to four sugar shops far away from each other. He got a total of thirty-two taels of silver. The four shops took action against him.
None of these batches of frosting showed any surprise, and two of them were even more vocal.
Next time I go to their store to sell it, they will only find it too little, not too much, and if the quantity is large, they will even be willing to raise the price to buy it.
Li Jie naturally agreed. In the past two years, he had no plans to make or sell sugar on a large scale. After all, things are rare and expensive. Once a large amount of high-quality icing appears on the market, its price will inevitably be affected.
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And now that he has just entered the dungeon, his strength, influence, and influence are at the lowest ebb. Many things are still in the dark. Now he just needs to lie dormant quietly. When everything is ready, he can show off his grand ambitions.
when.
It was approaching noon, adhering to the principle of saving as much as possible in the early stage of his career, Li Jie randomly found a soup cake shop on the roadside and had a meal. Even though the restaurant was small, there was no one that could open a shop on Yujie without ordering flowers.
live,
There is no shortage of Zhuyang'an raw noodles, shredded chicken noodles, three fresh noodles, fish skin noodles, salt fried noodles, bamboo shoots and pork noodles, stir-fried chicken noodles, large stewed noodles, and dried shrimp noodles with other ingredients.
Some restaurants on the market can make it.
The taste is naturally unique, but the price is a little distressing. Li Jie just ordered a bowl of three-fresh noodles and it cost a hundred yuan. The price is several times more expensive than the soup cake shop in Furong Town.
After dinner, Li Jie saw that it was still early, so he thought about asking for information. This was at the feet of the emperor, and there was probably no place as good as this place for being well-informed.
As for which place is the most well-informed, it is tea houses and wine shops. In ancient times, there were few entertainment methods, so wine shops and tea houses together became places for socializing, leisure, entertainment and entertainment in the capital.
As a comprehensive entertainment venue, Wazi also has the necessary stages, shops, entertainment areas, restaurants, restaurants, and teahouses. The Zhongwazi in the middle of Yu Street is one of the busiest Wazi in the city. Considering this
Gu is only nine years old, so it is obviously inappropriate to go to a wine shop, so he has no choice but to go to a teahouse.
There are four hundred and fourteen rows inside and outside Lin'an City. The division of labor has reached its extreme. Even the small teahouses are divided into three levels. The first level is the big teahouse, which is a place for learning musical instruments and singing lessons.
Most of the people here are children from wealthy families and literati and officials, so they are called hanging children.
The second level is the Renqing teahouse, whose customer base generally includes two types of people, one is prostitutes, and the other is wage laborers who sell their skills from all walks of life, called market leaders.
The third level is the flower teahouse. This type of teahouse is opened by prostitutes and has prostitutes inside. The people who come and go here are mixed, mostly young people who have been seduced, literati, people in the world, children of rich families, and businessmen.
, there are many soldiers.
Li Jie planned to see people and drink scented tea during this trip. It was not that he was not determined, but that there was a mixed crowd of people there, and if there was any slight disturbance in the officialdom, there would definitely be people there to discuss it.