While Huang Hankun rubbed the grain samsara on his shoes vigorously on the ground, he cursed the officials of the Ming Dynasty in Guangzhou. Guangzhou, a good city, could not be governed as well as the little Lingao of the thief Kun. They were really incompetent.
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As he was wandering around, he suddenly heard the shouts of a street vendor: "Pull out the O-chip, pull the O-chip!" A group of children ran out of the alley and ran past Huang Huang Kun, knocking him into the unsteady Huang Henkun.
Staggered.
"Azai, don't worry, you can read it once for one penny, and you can read it twice for one penny of circulation coupons -" Huang Hankun didn't see the circulation coupons that he was already familiar with in Lingao, and he didn't know that the evolution would start from a baby.
He started talking, but seeing the way the children were flocking to him, he knew that things would not go well when he came to Guangzhou.
"Thief Kun, his intentions are so poisonous."
After much hesitation, Huang Henkun settled down at the joint inn in Qiweizhan. Not only was it clean and tidy, but the key was that he could use circulation coupons directly, so that Huang Henkun would not have an economic crisis for a while - something unknowingly happened in the Lingao market.
Silver has become increasingly rare and has gradually turned into negotiable instruments. The money boxes in Huangjiazhai have also become negotiable instruments. You can’t even see a silver coin nowadays. Although Mr. Huang is still buried under the study
There are five or six hundred taels of silver hidden in a few earthen jars, but they are the Huang family's old capital and cannot be used easily - the silver he used was obtained by going to Delong with "route certificate": a total of
I exchanged twenty taels. I had to go to a private dealer in Dongmen City to exchange a dozen taels.
Huang Hankun rested in the store, took a bath in the store's bathhouse, put on clean clothes, and felt relaxed. The unpleasant feeling of entering Guangzhou City also disappeared.
However, along the way, he also realized how deeply the Kun thieves had penetrated Guangzhou. "It's better to settle down and think of a solution."
The only way Huang Hankun can think of is to find talented people on Tuomen Road. The most ideal thing is to be able to join the curtain. But he is just a scholar and an unknown person from a small border county. He wants to join the curtain.
This is only possible if you find a strong recommendation from a powerful person.
However, my family is still considered a "prominent family" in Lingao. When compared to the whole of Guangdong, it is too small. In Guangzhou city, it is not known how many people know that there is a county in the province called Lingaodu.
He has no relatives here. The distant relative who is planning to move to Lingao is not from Guangzhou and cannot be of much help. There is an eight-line letter written by Liu Dalin in his pocket, entrusting one of his
Jinshi "of the same year". But he had just inquired that this gentleman had just passed away a few months ago.
When he thought of this, he felt that his ambition was very slim. When he was a boy, he came to Guangzhou with his father to do business. Because the Cantonese vernacular was stammering and mixed with many dialects, he still remembered how much ridicule and ridicule he suffered.
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After thinking about it, the only way was to "study abroad" and try to get in touch with the local scholar circle and try to integrate into it. Although the scholars were rich and poor, it was not difficult to make friends with them because of their status as scholars.
It's just that some people have to pay it carefully, and some don't, so it takes a lot of thought. Huang Hankun is going to go to the book store and buy a copy of "Jin Shen Lu" to see who is on it. He needs to pay more attention.
After settling down, Huang Xunkun followed the instructions of others and came to a large bookstore in Guangzhou on the second day. As soon as Huang Xunkun entered the door, he saw the greeting people at the door. He opened his front teeth and greeted: "
Sir, please come in. We have all kinds of newly arrived Australian books..."
Huang Hankun couldn't hear the word "Australia" the most, and his face suddenly darkened. He kept saying: "No, no, no."
The waiter hit a snag in vain. Hearing his strange accent, he muttered: "It turns out he's a country boy!"
However, for the sake of sales commission, he still spared no effort to promote it.
"Sir, look at the storybooks in the bookstore. Apart from the four great scholar's books, the magazines from Australia are the most interesting. Take a look, sir -"
"I want "Jin Shen Lu"!" Huang Hankun's tone was a little impatient.
"Yes, yes, this book is very ordinary. I don't want you to read other books first..."
Huang Xunkun waved his hand impatiently, and the waiter could only go to get it angrily.
While the waiter was holding the goods, Huang Hankun could also stroll around and read in the bookstore. The tables were full of popular books. There were traditional collections of contemporary anthologies and stories, which are useful for home use.
Not to mention traditional books and other books, most of the tables on the table were so-called "new books." Judging from the horizontal layout and popular characters, these new books were definitely Kun Thief's books - he had seen it in Lingao.
Quite a few.
In addition to "The Record of Zheng's Rebellion" which he has read, there are many that he has never seen. In particular, there are many "Australian books" that he has never seen in the collections and bookstores of Australians in Lingao: what is "Red Sleeves"?
"How to practice it", "Thirty-six strategies to keep pets at home? Bed chapter", "Soup-making skills to maintain health", "Learning to cook Australian cuisine", "Battle of wits with the examiner-Eighteen provinces to understand the scientific examination mentality",
"The Art of Serving Shangguan", "The Way of Serving the Curtain"...
That's all. Such "life books" have existed in Ming Dynasty's bookstores since ancient times. They're just not as "comprehensive" and "plain". If you pick up a book at random, there will almost always be a large number of books in it.
The pictures are lifelike and completely different from the embroidery paintings in ordinary books.
Judging from the wear and tear on the book covers, these books are very marketable, with many people reading them, and probably a lot of people buying them. However, he is not interested in these. His eyes turned to books on "Macao Studies": First
There is a large sailing ship painted on the cover, which looks similar to the gunboats of the Red Mao Yi people. The title of the book is "Ship Knowledge". It is rare to see such a large picture on the cover of a book.
There are also subtitles in the lower right corner of the book, "Why did the Spanish Navy lose to the English pirates?", "The Battle of Luliang"... Huang Huangkun didn't know who Spain was, nor where the so-called "Luliang" was, but it seemed that they were all.
They are some military science and war history, I guess. There are also some similar books nearby. The volumes are not small and the pages are not thin. There are books like "With Horses and No Horses - The World of Inertia", "Research on the History of War" and so on.
These books are not cheap: one or two taels of silver each.
The national affairs are becoming increasingly difficult. Even the thieves know that nowadays scholars and scholars are most concerned about military matters. Huang Hankun sighed secretly. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a book, "You can win after reading it - How to exterminate the Donglu".
Humph, what a big tone, Kun thief is really shameless, brazenly saying that you can win after reading it? Picked up this book, it doesn't look very thick, and there is no cover, just a plain cover, the author is Shi Zhengxin, open it
The title page, at first glance, made Huang Hankun startled. On the title page was a portrait of a man with a bald head and a beak like a wolf, wearing a bandit's military uniform, wearing round glasses, and carrying this on his shoulder.
A fine Japanese sword, this person looks like a monk, a general and a scribe. What's even more surprising is that the image is lifelike, as if this person is right in front of you. Huang Huangkun was so absorbed in looking at the picture that he didn't notice that the waiter had wrapped it.
Okay, "Jin Shen Lu" stood aside, "Sir, the book you want is ready."
"Oh, who is in this book?" Huang Hankun asked the clerk, pointing to the image.
"Reply to the old man, I heard that everyone said that this person is the author. It is said that he is a veteran of the Australians. His surname is Shi Zhiqi, his alias is Zhengxin. He is currently leading the army and living on Hong Kong Island in the south." The waiter said indifferently.
Said, "Back then, Chief Shi led his men and horses in small boats across the Pearl River. It was like a deserted place."
Kun Kun nodded thoughtfully, and the clerk quickly said, "Sir, although this book costs four taels, if you use Australian circulation coupons, you can get a 20% discount."
"I don't want it!" Huang Hankun suddenly became very angry. He hurriedly paid the bill for "Jin Shen Lu" with money and turned around and left. The waiter looked at his leaving back with squinting eyes: "You bumpkin!"
Huang Hankun ignored the clerk's disdainful gaze and returned directly to the hotel with "The Records of the Jin Gentlemen" in his arms. He thought to himself that Kun was a thief selling his kindness to the public, but the people in Guangzhou were so sought after. I'm afraid it might not be the same for the Jin Gentlemen.
What a thief!
Huang Huangkun read "Jin Genn Lu" over and over for a long time but couldn't see anything interesting. He circled more than a dozen names among the Jin gentry marked "Registered" in Guangzhou Prefecture, but when he looked at their resumes, they were the worst.
Juren, who had been a county magistrate, with his status, even his family members probably didn't bother to say a word to him, let alone go to see him if he was not a relative.
It seems that he still needs to make more friends with scholars. He called his clerk and asked where in Guangzhou city the literati gathered. The clerk said that there are eight scenic spots in Guangzhou, and there are banquets and gatherings of literati almost every day. If
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So Huang Xunkun put on a 80% new leather jacket the next day and went to "travel". However, he was soon disappointed. It turned out that there were many literati holding elegant gatherings in these places, and they were surrounded by servants and guards, let alone
When I approached him to talk, I was already dismissed as "an idler" before I even got close.
After much deliberation, I decided to shamelessly go to Nanhai County School to see if I could strike up a conversation.
Nanhai County is Fuguo County of Guangzhou. The size of the county school in this largest city in the south is not comparable to that of Lingao County. Even Qiongzhou Fuxue is not as big as it. Not only is the scale magnificent, the repairs are also neat, and it is the same as Lingao County in the past.
The grass-deep desolation in Gaoxian School was completely different. In those days, because they could not receive money and rice every month, the scholars could hardly go there throughout the year.
Scholars were coming in and out, the sound of books in the lecture hall was loud, and the servants were courteous. This is the real "Ming Dynasty". Huang Huangkun sighed as he walked around. If all the states and counties in the world were like this Guangzhou, how could the thieves be like this?
How can we succeed? At best, he is just an ordinary person like Fo Lang, stealing a small island to do business. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!