The purpose of Zhao Xin's visit to Guangzhou this time was to buy medicinal materials. Before setting off from Beihai Town, Hong Tao had a special talk with him, and the topic was medicinal materials.
Now that the population of Beihai Town has exceeded 100,000, it is no longer enough for Zhao Xin and Hong Tao to buy medicines from another time and space. As the boss of the health system of Beihai Town, Hong Tao urgently needs to find alternative medicines in this time and space.
After discussing with the Wu brothers, they suggested that Zhao Xin should buy some medicinal materials from the south and made a list.
For example, Tianqi is used to stop bleeding and blood stasis, Acanthopanax bark is used to dispel rheumatism and swelling, tangerine peel and Tianzhuhuang are used to remove cough and phlegm, green peel is used to eliminate accumulation and stagnation, rhinoceros horn is used to clear away heat and cool blood, and King Cobra - commonly known as Guoshan
Wind and so on.
The biggest advantage of buying Chinese medicinal materials in this time and space is that there is no chemical fertilizer or pollution, and you can buy bezoar and rhinoceros horns at will. With these alternative Chinese medicinal materials, Zhao Xin only needs to purchase those medicines that cannot be replaced in this time and space.
Yes; such as antibiotics or medicines for chronic diseases.
In fact, this kind of thing can be entrusted to the Cai family, and there is no need to go to the city yourself. So there is another reason why Zhao Xin went to the city that is difficult to explain, and he has come... As the most magical Chinese advice
When it comes to vocabulary, countless people have compromised under this sentence, and Zhao Xin is no exception.
Speaking of sending an unidentified person into Guangzhou City, this is just a trivial matter for the Cai family of Wanhe Xing. They just need to get the gatekeepers and soldiers at the city gate. But for Zhao Xin, he
The big man felt a little uncomfortable sitting in the carriage car.
When the carriage entered the city from the west gate, no one checked it. The soldiers guarding the gate saw that it was Wanhe's carriage and didn't ask at all. After entering the city, the group walked east along Huai Street and turned left at the Gongchenfang intersection.
The flower pagoda of Banyan Temple is clearly visible.
Zhao Xin looked out from the carved window of the car and saw that the street was very crowded with people of all kinds. Shops also occupied the street to set up stalls, making the street that could originally accommodate two carriages running parallel congested.
During the Qianlong era, there were about one million people living in and around Guangzhou, and commerce was extremely prosperous. The destination of their trip was the Yaowang Temple to the north of Liurong Temple, which was the largest medicinal market in Guangzhou.
According to the accompanying manager Wan Hexing, the most famous traditional Chinese medicine shop in Guangzhou is "Chen Liji" which was founded in the Wanli year. His tangerine peel is the best; if you want to buy Tianqi and other medicines for reducing swelling and removing dampness,
Then go to "Feng Liao Xing"; for herbs such as Guoshan Feng, you can go to "He Ming Xing Tang".
"Does Wong Lo Kat have it?" Zhao Xin asked, blinking.
Manager Yu was stunned: "Wong Lo Kat? What are you selling?"
"Herbal tea."
"I've never heard of it. Mr. Wang, do you want to drink herbal tea? 'Chen Li Ji's' herbal tea is very famous."
Zhao Xin asked again: "What about Pan Gaoshou?"
Manager Yu thought for a while and shook his head blankly. He raised his hands and asked, "Mr. Wang, I'm sorry for my ignorance, but where did you hear the numbers of these two shops?"
Zhao Xindao: "To the north."
Manager Yu stroked his beard and smiled and said: "Then Mr. Wang must have heard something wrong. I almost all know the numbers of the famous medicinal shops in Guangzhou. If the two you mentioned are medicine shops, they definitely don't exist."
Zhao Xinlu was timid. Little did he know that Wong Lo Kat and Pan Gaoshou were nowhere to be seen at the moment. Want to drink Wong Lao Kat? Wait for another forty years!
When Zhao Xin followed the Wu brothers' instructions and pretended to select the tangerine peels at "Chen Li Ji" and was about to pay, Manager Yu came forward.
For the Cai family of Wanhehang, today they are like an escort accompanying bandits and bandits when they go shopping. They must take good care of this visitor from the North named "Wang" and must not let him get into a lawsuit in Guangzhou, and must ensure a good shopping experience.
It is not surprising that merchants in this era have close personal relationships with foreign businessmen. If merchants want to survive in a fiercely competitive environment focused on the world, they must have extraordinary business methods.
For Thirteen Businessmen, the reason why they can gain the trust of foreign businessmen is closely related to their shrewdness and international vision, but more importantly, they attach great importance to interconnecting business expansion and emotional communication.
Business development in this era is not a simple profit activity that will be flattened in later generations, but must be based on mutual trust and exchanges.
The Qing court's excessive demands intensified the contradiction between government and businessmen, which was one of the reasons why businessmen smuggled opium on a large scale in the later period; otherwise, the Qing court would not have been able to support various forms of exploitation.
It is said that doing business is so difficult, but someone said that I would quit and quit.
What a dream! The government's requirement is that all debts, wages and fines must be paid off, and they must be reported to the court for approval. And even if you withdraw, one day the palace decree comes out, and you have to borrow money even if you pinch your nose. I think
If you don't do it, just wait until your home is confiscated and exiled.
This time Beihai Town borrowed money from the Cai family. In terms of interest alone, the Cai family paid hundreds of thousands taels less. Taking a few thousand taels out to buy Zhao Xin was nothing.
So Zhao Xin didn't have to pay for anything he bought today. Whatever he wanted, the Cai family could settle the settlement with the store; and the Cai family was a well-known businessman, and they kept accounts for all transactions with the stores.
Only then will you come to your door to settle the payment.
However, in the opinion of the manager, Zhao Xin bought a lot of things, as if he wanted to empty out all his inventory.
"How old is the tangerine peel?" Zhao Xin asked.
"Sir, the tangerine peels in our store are all top-quality products that are fifteen years old."
"Then, here are two hundred bags."
"Ah? Yes! Sir, please take a seat and serve some good tea!" The shopkeeper almost went crazy with joy. What a great deal!
So when Zhao Xin and his party walked from one end to the other, all the drug stores in the street knew that a big customer had come today. Tian Qiyi bought three hundred dan (one hundred kilograms per load), and the rhinoceros horn opened his mouth for one hundred.
root......
As a result, after Zhao Xin bought all the medicines on the list given by the Wu brothers, Yu Guanshi's liver began to tremble. This "Master Wang" bought more than 50,000 taels of medicinal materials at once! Now Wanhe can do it.
What a big loss!
Fortunately, Guangzhou is the distribution center for medicinal materials in the entire south. If Zhao Xin had gone to Yangzhou to buy, he would not have been able to buy so many goods. Manager Yu cautiously asked the store to place an order and have it sent to the warehouse of White Bear Store, which is also owned by Wanhe Store.
industry.
Zhao Xin also saw Yu Guanshi's anxiety at this time, and said: "Mr. Yu, don't worry, I will transfer the money for the medicinal materials to your account after I return it."
Yu Guanshi originally wanted to say "no", but this was not five hundred taels or five thousand taels, but fifty thousand taels. He really didn't have the courage to refuse.
It was past noon, and Zhao Xin and his party were a little hungry after walking around the medicinal materials market for a long time. Manager Yu wanted to invite Zhao Xin to a private room in a restaurant for dinner, but Zhao Xinxin said it was not so troublesome, and he pointed to a small restaurant on the corner of the street.
The restaurant said: "Don't bother, if you have to go somewhere else after eating, just go there."
When Manager Yu saw Zhao Xin's insistence, he had no choice but to agree. When he walked over, he saw that it was a porridge shop. Because it was past noon, there were not many people eating, and there were only three people eating in the shop.
By the way, there are no rice rolls, shrimp dumplings or the like in Guangzhou’s current delicacies. The snacks, snacks or dishes that will be familiar to later generations did not appear until the late 19th century.
The staple foods of Guangzhou people in these years were rice, porridge, noodles, noodles, and cakes; there were many types of vegetables, and even snow peas were introduced and started to be cultivated; as for the specialties, dogs, snakes, rats, centipedes, and dragon lice were introduced.
The porridge shop was not big, so the Cai family's waiters found tables and chairs at the door to sit down. They were determined not to enter the house and eat at the same table as Zhao Xin.
Manager Yu accompanied Zhao Xin into the shop, and each ordered a bowl of porridge, two crispy silkworm cakes, asked the shopkeeper to cut a chicken, and ordered a pot of rice wine.
Zhao Xin took a sip of rice wine, and then said, "It would be nice if it was iced."
When Manager Yu was about to talk, the voices of the three people eating on the left suddenly became louder.
"Mr. Liu, your recipe is wrong!"
The speaker was a woman with a delicate face, who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. Sitting on her left was a middle-aged man in his forties, and to the left of the middle-aged man was a man in his fifties.
Year old man.
"Oh?" The elderly man surnamed Liu smiled faintly and said, "Why is my prescription wrong? The patient had rhinorrhoea, retching, aversion to cold, fever, and slight chest tightness. I first used Aconite Decoction to warm Yang, and then Dachengqi Decoction.
With the method of purifying heat, although cold and heat are intertwined with each other in the middle burner, Sini Powder can be used to coordinate yin and yang."
"That's right, Brother Liu has been transformed into a state of healing by using the medicine. You kid, what are you talking about!"
The woman spoke with a Nanjing accent and argued unconvincingly: "Dad, I'm right. The patient likes to drink, and he is not only wet inside but also wet on the surface. It is rainy and humid in Guangzhou, and if he eats exposed in front of the mausoleum, he will be attacked from both inside and outside, and the disease will be wet."
If it is inevitable, you should use cinnamon twigs to remove the cinnamon and add Poria and Atractylodes decoction."
"Huh?" The old man surnamed Liu was stunned. He sat blankly for a while, then suddenly slapped the table and said, "That's right! How could I forget this!"
When Zhao Xin and Manager Yu heard this, they already knew that the three people next to them seemed to be doctors.
Wait! Were there female doctors in the Qing Dynasty?
When Zhao Xin thought of this, he couldn't help turning his head to look at the woman. It didn't matter. The three people next to him all noticed that Zhao Xin was tall and looked like a banner official. The three of them were afraid of causing trouble, so they got up to check the account.
, and left in a hurry.
Zhao Xin was surrounded by people when he was buying medicine at the drug store in the morning, but he didn't take it seriously at this time.
After lunch, Zhao Xin told Manager Yu that he wanted to visit Fuxue West Street in the city. When he was buying medicinal materials in the morning, he inquired with someone and found that the bookstores in the city were concentrated near several academies on Fuxue West Street. He thought
Let’s see if there are any Song edition books for sale. Anyway, all the business has been done, so it’s just free time.
It is said that old engravings from the Song and Yuan Dynasties became increasingly rare in the Qing Dynasty, and the style of Song Dynasty became even more popular in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Lu Liuliang and Huang Zongxi had a very good personal relationship, but they ended up turning against each other because of several sets of Song editions. One of them scolded the other.
The pig yelled and screamed, and the other one responded with "disobedience", "false learning", "nu Yan"...
What is the current price of Song edition books? The most expensive ones in good condition are six taels per copy, and those in poor condition are eight taels of silver each. Even at this price, it is extremely expensive for most scholars.
It is easy to understand by using an analogy of grain. At present, one stone of rice in Guangzhou costs 1.6 taels of silver, and a copy of the Song Dynasty edition in good condition is equivalent to more than 600 kilograms of rice.
This price is nothing for Zhao Xin. A set of 360 copies of "Taiping Yulan" costs 240 taels. It is not easy to get another time and space for ten thousand times the price.
Although there are a lot of Song-printed books in stock these days, they are not just big carrots on the roadside. Yu Guanshi took Zhao Xin to seven or eight bookstores, and finally bought three sets of Song-printed books in total: "
"Taiping Yulan", "Spring and Autumn Fan Lu", "Dragon Shrine Handbook"; and other books such as the Yuan and Ming editions, I bought more than a dozen sets.
After coming out of the bookstore, Manager Yu saw Zhao Xin looking like he was still unfinished, so he suggested going to Gao Di Street. There were also several bookstores there. In fact, when you get to Gao Di Street, you are already not far from Jinghai Gate. Anyway, as long as you leave the city
The closer the outside is, the more people in the Cai family can feel more relaxed.
Gaodi Street mainly sells Suzhou and Hangzhou groceries. There are not many bookstores, but the prices are very affordable. In addition to books related to the imperial examinations, there are also various books such as scripts, calendars, almanacs, and arithmetic.
Zhao Xin went to a bookstore without much success. When he reached the second bookstore and just stepped across the threshold, he heard a somewhat familiar voice coming from the room.
"There is a book by Mr. Gao Xi here! Show it to me quickly."
Zhao Xin took a look and saw that it was the woman he had seen in the porridge shop during lunch, but the two middle-aged people were not in the bookstore.
"Sir, what book are you looking for?" The clerk saw Zhao Xin's clothes and hurriedly came forward to greet him.
Zhao Xin was a few steps away from the woman at this time, so he curiously asked the waiter in a low voice: "Who is Gao Xi?"
"Dai Dongyuan."
Zhao Xin blinked, never heard of it.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When the clerk saw Zhao Xin's appearance, he thought that he was also a fool, but he said: "The guest has never seen "Pythagorean Cutting the Circle"
Right? This is a new book published by the bookstore."
"Oh, show it to me." Zhao Xin was very curious about the level of mathematics in the Qing Dynasty. The few mathematicians he knew were all figures after the Opium War.
Not long after, Zhao Xin took the book from the clerk and opened it.
"Tsk~~What do I think it is? Isn't it just spherical geometry?"
As soon as he said this, several people in the bookstore looked over in surprise, especially Manager Yu and the young woman. Everyone thought that this tall and tall man looked like a killer, but he actually knew arithmetic?
Zhao Xin didn't even look up. He picked up the next volume and opened it and read it again. The disdain on his face became even more obvious. He thought to himself, "What the hell is this!"
Seeing this, Manager Yu stepped forward and asked, "Mr. Wang, Mr. Gao Xi is a world-famous scholar."
"A great scholar?" Zhao Xin sneered: "He makes trigonometric functions so obscure and difficult to understand. The simple principles are written like a bible. Are you planning to let others learn them or not? This person is purely
It’s unconventional and opportunistic.”
As he spoke, he opened a page from the previous volume and said to the manager: "There is no need for tangents and cotangents. We have to make some sort of moment and divided moments to separate them. The three hundred and sixty degrees of a circle were originally introduced by Westerners. They
Isn’t it nonsense to say that the ancient method has three hundred and sixty-five degrees of wonder?”
Zhao Xin has been teaching artillery ranging recently in Beihai Town, and has discussed map surveying with Lin Ziping from time to time. He is now very familiar with spherical geometry.
Manager Yu was stunned for a moment. Although he liked arithmetic, he had never learned anything about spherical geometry.
At this time, Zhao Xin put down his book and was about to go out, when he heard the young woman say: "Then according to Mr. Pythagorean's opinion, how to cut a circle in Pythagorean?"
"Ah?" Zhao Xin turned to look at the woman and was stunned. "Girl, aren't you a doctor?"
The woman said unconvinced: "Medical skills are a family tradition, and I am actually very interested in arithmetic. Sir, since you said that Mr. Gao Xi was wrong, what do you think is the correct one?"
Zhao Xinxin said what the hell am I, a great man, talking about to your little girl? He said to the manager: "Let's go to another house and have a look."
The woman suddenly stopped at the door and said loudly: "No! If you don't make it clear today, don't even think about leaving. Mr. Gao Xi is famous all over the world, and you can't help ruining his reputation."
Zhao Xin was amused and said with a smile: "Did he write the book for others to read? Why can't he tell me if he made a mistake? Girl, please stop blocking me. I have something else to do."
"You can leave if you want, bow to Mr. Gao Xi's book and apologize."
"Why!" Zhao Xin was made to laugh and cry. This girl was too arrogant. If he went out without caring about her, the two parties would have physical contact. This is too long-winded.
He thought for a moment and asked the bookstore clerk: "Please bring me a piece of charcoal and two pieces of white paper."
While waiting for the clerk to get the paper, Zhao Xin said to the woman: "Just thank God for allowing me to teach you a lesson today. Then again, if you don't understand after I finish speaking, you won't return the favor.
Are you holding the door and not letting me leave?"
The woman's face turned red and she spat: "Bah! Who wants to rely on you? You make it clear, me, of course I won't stand in the way."