It's okay if it's a street where big families gather, but there are only a few on the same street. For ordinary middle-class houses, there are many houses on the street, and it's easy to count them incorrectly. If you knock on the wrong door, you'll inevitably be scolded by the residents.
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Zhang Yu saw that the girl from the tofu shop was not in front of the shop, so he returned to the shop, only to see his parents packing up a few pages of paper - but he recognized them as his house deed and land deed. These are the most precious things, and Zhang Yu has been collecting them since he was a child.
I haven't seen it a few times. It's usually kept in an iron box and stored solemnly. Why did you take it out again today?
After asking, I found out that the Australians came today not only to "check the household registration", but also to check the house deed and land title, and also to measure the dimensions.
"No, it's even stamped with the inspection stamp," his father said.
Zhang Yu looked over, and sure enough, there was a new red stamp stamped on the house deed and land deed. This stamp was different from the official seal of the Ming Dynasty. It was round and had a "four-pointed star" in the middle - Zhang Yu knew that this was called "Morning Star"
-- Surrounding the morning star is a line of flat Song characters: "Guangzhou Special City Real Estate Registration Office Special Authentication Seal."
"Once this stamp is stamped, the land of this house will be considered secure." Zhang Yuniang said with emotion. Every change of dynasty is a redistribution of social wealth. For small urban assets like them, generations of hard work can earn enough.
It's just a house and land. Naturally, it is more important than anything else.
"How much did it cost?" Zhang Yu knew that all official business must involve expenses. He took the boy's examination last year and had to spend money to get the papers. After entering the number room, he also had to spend a few dollars to "give out rewards" to those who read the number.
"The money was not spent..." Zhang Yu's father said in a low voice, although he was happy, but there was still some worry in his eyebrows, "I'm afraid this change of dynasty is not reliable."
If the government comes back and the Australians leave, the stamp on the house deed will not be erased. If the government intends to make things difficult, things could be big or small. If you encounter someone who is ruthless, I will ask you to do it.
It is not impossible to break up the family.
After saying this, Zhang Yuniang became nervous again and stammered: "This...this...what should we do?"
Zhang Yu's father couldn't tell him that he was tall and ugly. Of course, it's okay to say "no" when re-registering and authenticating, but he heard that the Australians had posted notices all over the city: Anyone who can't get the property deed will be arrested.
Even if it is an "illegal construction", it will be demolished within a time limit. This is not just talk - no matter whether it is a century-old store or a small shop on Chengxuan Street, as long as it is an "illegal construction", it will be completely demolished.
Zhang Yuque said: "I think... the government, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back..."
His voice was very low, but he still shocked his parents. Although it was said that this would be a world dominated by Australians, it had only been a dozen days. No one dared to say that the Ming Dynasty was over like this and that they would not come back to Guangzhou again.
"Don't talk nonsense..." his father scolded in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense outside!"
Zhang Yu nodded and said: "I don't have to worry about this. But from what I've seen these days, the Australians are very disciplined, and they are united and have no desires. The whole world must have gathered to respond, and they will win the food and the scenery will follow." He saw that his parents didn't quite understand him.
He pulled the article and then added, "The Australian police came into the store to do business, and they didn't eat a piece of snacks or take a penny. Just because of this, Ming Dynasty won't be able to come back!"
Liu San walked from the narrow and dark shop to the bright street. He breathed a sigh of relief: it was really depressing inside. The shop of about ten square meters not only has a counter, but also a huge counter and a large counter.
The remaining space was filled with ovens, various money-making tools, and raw materials. After the census team entered, there was no room to turn around.
The room was filled with a strange smell, the unique aroma of grease, dried fruits and flour from baked snacks; the musty smell of the materials after being damp; the smokey smell of charcoal fires, and an indescribable body odor and -
―He saw that the bedding was stuffed messily under the large chopping board, which was probably where the apprentices slept at night. There was actually a chamber pot stuffed next to the oven.
Looking back at the "Big World Designated Supplier" sign in the store, Liu San couldn't help but secretly smile bitterly - How did Yi Kun do this? He also designated a supplier. With such hygienic conditions, there will be no problems in eating the food.
Strange.
Liu San wore a police uniform in order to conceal his identity as a veteran. He proposed to Lin Baiguang that he would go deep into the streets and alleys to investigate the public health situation in Guangzhou. Lin Baiguang arranged for him to join a census team every day and inspect with the team.
Not only does it not attract attention, but it can also go deep into places that are usually difficult to enter in the name of registration.
He wanted to take a real look at the actual health situation in Guangzhou, especially the pressure on epidemic prevention.
The Guangdong strategy is not expected to have too many battle casualties. The biggest pressure on the health department actually comes from epidemic prevention. Guangzhou is a big city with a population of 500,000 to 600,000 people. Even now, the pressure on health and epidemic prevention is not small, let alone the poor sanitary conditions.
, the 17th century when infectious diseases were rampant.
The sanitary conditions in ancient cities were very poor. Although Liu San read many papers, monographs and documentaries on the sanitary facilities in ancient cities in the 21st century, they were full of "the wisdom of ancient working people" and were "ahead of the world."
"If there were not a large number of real images and written materials left by the late Qing Dynasty, a living specimen of medieval society not far away from them, he might have believed it to be true, thinking that Hengdian Film and Television City was a replica of the ancient city.
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But this is not the case. Liu San knew very well that most cities in medieval society had no or very few hygienic water supply and drainage systems. Every spring and summer, explosive epidemics would rage for a while. This was caused by unhygienic food.
"Sha" has even become one of the common causes of death in summer.
This is also the reason why the Senate stayed away from the cities of the Ming Dynasty and preferred to build a new city to live on the wasteland. Wen Desi said: "The ancient city was essentially a garbage dump full of rats, bed bugs, fleas and various pathogens.
No amount of silk, marble and monuments can cover up the stench it emits."
One of Liu San's tasks is to protect the health of the city. In particular, he must try to eliminate various potential health and epidemic prevention risks in the city - malignant infectious diseases were no joke in the 17th century.
But as the census team took a look along the road, he knew that this task was not easy. Guangzhou in the 17th century was not a crowded city. Like all traditional Chinese cities, there was a lot of wasteland within the city walls, some of which were left after abandoned houses and temples.
Some of them have never built houses. Not only do they have vegetable plots, some of them have been reclaimed into fields to grow vegetables and rice, and there are even scattered cemeteries.
However, the residents' houses and shops were quite narrow. This strange phenomenon was difficult for him to understand. After asking Jia Jue, the clerk of the household who was retained, he found out that although there was a lot of land in the city, the land price was not too expensive. However, the cost of building a house was
Not low. Many citizens can afford to buy a small piece of land, but not many people can afford to build a big house seriously - the price of bricks and tiles is too expensive. Not to mention ordinary civilians
Small households, even middle-class households, still need to mix some broken bricks and old bricks to build their houses. Houses that can use serious bricks and tiles to "grind the bricks and seams" are all for large and wealthy families or places such as temples and official offices.
The traditional method of making bricks and tiles relies entirely on manpower, and firing requires time and fuel, so the output is very low and the price is naturally not cheap.
Bricks and tiles are expensive, and wood such as beams and columns are not cheap. Guangzhou is located in the Pearl River Delta, and there is no nearby production capacity for building houses. The wood must be supplied by counties in the middle and upper reaches of the Pearl River. As the journey progresses, tofu becomes the price of meat.
He stayed in Guangzhou for more than ten days and gained a deeper understanding of the lives of residents in the 17th century. Not only industrial products, but also natural resources were very expensive. Compared with the extremely cheap labor force, the only way to explain
It’s just that labor productivity is too low.
There is land, but the housing is so narrow, and the population density in the residential area is very high. It can be said that it is a common phenomenon in urban merchants' workshops that the clerks and apprentices of the Zhangjia Walnut Shop sleep in the shop at night.
What’s even more frightening is that just outside the city wall, on the official land beside the city, there are still many shantytowns for urban poor people - these are not shantytowns renovated in Chinese cities in the 21st century, nor are they slums like Brazil and India, but shantytowns like those in Brazil and India.
It is a lower-level version. There are basically no houses with more than one person, and some are just "rolling dragons". They are built directly next to the wet and muddy river with bamboo poles, straw, and waste wood. Often there is a mass grave next to it.
.Some shantytowns are simply built on "righteous land" and are adjacent to the deceased.
Crowded living environment, almost no drainage facilities, no public toilets, open cesspools everywhere, and smelly rivers running across the streets that have not been silted for many years... Liu San thought to himself, this could not be more perfect.
It’s an outbreak of infectious diseases. I wonder how Guangzhou managed to survive in the past? I’ll have to find out more when I go back.
He originally didn't want to go into the tofu shop anymore - the situation of this shop wouldn't be any better than that of the Walnut Cake Shop. But then he thought about how the tofu shop consumes a lot of water. It's impossible to carry water to maintain production. There must be a well.
, it is better to check the water quality.
When he walked into the tofu shop, he saw that they were registering. He ignored it and just looked at the surrounding environment. This was also a small shop that combined a shop and a workshop. The floor was mud, because making tofu requires a lot of water, so it was very muddy. Approximately
For the convenience of operation, straw bags were laid on the ground. The pot for boiling soy milk, the wooden barrel for holding soy milk, and the board for making tofu looked relatively clean, and were covered with a yellowed white cloth. However, behind the stove for boiling soy milk
The ashes dug out were piled up, and there was also a lot of firewood. The beans were packed in straw bags and lay on the dirt floor, with only a broken reed mat underneath. (To be continued.)