On this issue, the Foreign Intelligence Service has conducted in-depth discussions. Obviously Zhao Yingong cannot be associated with the Australians. Jiangnan is not Guangzhou, and it is not under the gunfire of the Senate. Unlike in Guangzhou, Guo Yi has been semi-open from the beginning.
Identity is in action.
With the help of historical researchers from the Grand Library, Jiang Shan finally decided to fake his nationality for Zhao Yingong.
With the help of the Senate's momentum in Guangdong and the small officials who were willing to work for the Australians for money, Zhao Yingong easily pretended to be a native of Sanshui County, Guangdong. Not only did he pretend to be a native, he also left Guangdong.
He spent hundreds of taels of money on his academic career to get a "promoted" meritorious service in Sanshui County. He can be regarded as a dignified scholar. Jiangshan is also planning to get him another meritorious service during the Guangdong Provincial Examination to facilitate further study.
activity.
With the status of a scholar, one is no longer an ordinary commoner in the Ming Dynasty society. All kinds of evil spirits and monsters must be taboo. The personal safety and social activities of the elders are quite guaranteed.
After a group of people settled down, Zhao Yingong took care of Sun Wang before immediately going to look for a house. If he wanted to integrate into Hangzhou society, he must have a house worthy of his status. It should not be too luxurious, but it should also show the grace of a descendant of the Song Dynasty clan.
Of course, there is also an authentic Zhao and Song royal family in this time and space, which is the descendant of Zhao Ruohe, the king of Minchong County in the Song Dynasty who built Zhaojiabao in Fujian. The ancestors of Zhaojiabao built the Zhaojiabao with the permission of Zhu Yuanzhang during the Hongwu period.
The surname was restored to Zhao, which restored the identity of a descendant of Zhao and Song Dynasty. Jiangshan once considered whether to contact this family and endorse Zhao Yingong's identity. But in the end, after discussion, he decided not to cause this trouble. Anyway, the official status of this family is not obvious.
, and he retreated to the forest in the twenty-eighth year of Wanli. He didn’t have much influence.
"I think it is not appropriate to publicly reveal that you are a member of the Zhao Song clan for at least a few years." Yu Eshui said after thinking about this issue again and again at the meeting of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, "Because many of the things you do are of a mass nature.
Public welfare. It is suspected of buying people's hearts - and having the title of a descendant of the Great Song Dynasty clan will bring you some unnecessary suspicion."
Yu Eshui suggested that before the time comes, you can only reveal a little bit about your extraordinary background, but you must never make your identity public or clear.
"Okay. But won't my idea of building an ancestral temple be ruined?"
"You can practice it at your own home. Just don't practice it near Phoenix Mountain or West Lake." Yu Eshui said, "It needs to show a little bit of the style of the Song Dynasty to make people feel nostalgic..."
"The style of the Song Dynasty?" Zhao Yingong scratched his head a little. He did know a little about the style of the Republic of China. What did the style of the Song Dynasty look like with bare legs and cheongsam?
"Just show some Song Dynasty style in your daily life." Yu Eshui said, "I will get you a pamphlet at that time - about interior decoration in the Song Dynasty, as well as a guide for furnishings and arrangements. Just follow it."
"Okay. Let's see if we can get some antiques from the Song Dynasty to display."
"This thing is not easy to get, and the price won't be too low." Yu Eshui said, "Just take your time. If the real thing doesn't work, start with the imitation. Just make it interesting."
However, so far, Zhao Yingong has not figured out what "the style of the Song Dynasty" is. Generally speaking, it seems to be elegant and elegant. He is thinking about how to explain it clearly to Sun Wang.
"The house should be bigger and the location should be quiet. But it should not be too remote." Zhao Yingong explained in detail, "There must be a garden. If the location is suitable, it can be an abandoned house or garden." Finally, he added,
"When you go out, stop by the dock and have a look to see if there is that mark."
Dao Quanzi traveled with him all the way, but broke up before reaching Hangzhou. The Taoist leader thought it was best for the two groups to enter the city separately.
"You will know that I have arrived safely when you see my mark." The Taoist priest said, "Don't come looking for me. I will naturally come to you when the time comes."
"You have to look clearly. If it's not there, you have to take a look every day when you go out."
Sun Wang then agreed and went to look for a house.
It is not easy to live in a place like Hangzhou, and it is especially difficult to find a suitable house. Although Zhao Yingong brought several thousand taels of silver, he had to cover a lot of expenses with this money - he had to save money as much as possible. Sun Wang searched for several days before he found it.
For a suitable house, it took more than ten days for the sale and deed to be completed.
There was nothing secretive to do in the inn, so Zhao Yingong and his entourage walked through the streets and alleys of Hangzhou every day to familiarize themselves with the local cultural and geographical environment. By the way, they also reviewed Hangzhou Mandarin.
Hangzhou in the Ming Dynasty was no longer the place of the Song Dynasty - not even many traces of the place were left. In the second year after the surrender of the Song Dynasty, a fire destroyed the palace of the Southern Song Dynasty in Fenghuang Mountain. In April of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty
, a fire broke out in Hangzhou, extending from the southeast to the northwest, burning half of the official and civilian residences for nearly 30 miles, destroying a total of 15,755 official and civilian houses, public houses, temples, 10,797 households, 38,116 people were affected, and 74 people were burned to death. The following year, there was another fire in Hangzhou.
A total of more than 40,000 houses were burned down. The fires were unprecedented and the land, which had been crowded for hundreds of years, was gradually declining.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng destroyed Jiuqu City, rebuilt Hangzhou City, and sent 200,000 civilians to open a river along the city. However, not long after the city was built, Chang Yuchun attacked Hangzhou again. The city was besieged for more than three months, and the food roads were cut off.
Sixty-seven out of ten people died of starvation. When the army retreated, most of them died of disease.
It was not until the Yongle period that the city of Hangzhou gradually regained its vitality and prosperity. As the most prosperous area in Zhejiang, merchants gathered here and all industries were prosperous. The south of the Yangtze River was the most prosperous and prosperous place in the late Ming Dynasty. According to modern estimates, Hangzhou
The permanent population of Guangzhou is more than 500,000. Zhao Yingong walked around the city and outside for a few times and felt that there was greater potential to be tapped here than in Guangzhou.
The house is in "Shangcheng", which as the name suggests, is the "high-class area" of Hangzhou. The house is a five-bay main house with three entrances, left and right wing rooms, a sedan hall in the front, and a large garden in the back, but it is completely
Most of the house was abandoned, and the original owner built a unique small garden in a part of it. The other part was left abandoned. Zhao Yingong looked at it and felt very satisfied. Although the house itself is not too big, the area of the abandoned garden is very large. In addition to expanding the garden, there is enough space.
The land can be used to expand the house.
The quality of the house itself is quite good - it is said that this was the house of an official family in the past. After the death of the master, the children were unworthy and soon fell into decline, so they sold the house in order to divide the family. Only then did Sun Wang know that when buying a house and land, he was most afraid of encountering disputes among his children.
The problem of property was involved, and the trouble would be endless. So he did not hesitate to spend more money at the brokerage office, and specially filed a record in the household room of the county government office to handle the matter in a solid manner.
After buying the house, Sun Wangcai went to the tea party to find a building to build wooden cabinets, and renovated and renovated the entire house. At the same time, he slightly renovated the abandoned garden: at the moment, he did not have the financial resources or energy to expand the garden.
All kinds of furniture and daily necessities were bought in a hurry - Zhao Yingong warned not to buy too many things for the time being, and only bought all the necessary furniture items for now.
You can only buy half-used furniture. Fortunately, Hangzhou is a provincial capital. There are many large gentry families. Ups and downs, there are always a few who have failed and sold off their property. There are many officials here, and the next official will have to deal with inconveniences before he leaves.
They carry furniture and miscellaneous items. Therefore, there are many items in the secondhand shop, the business is booming, and the prices are not expensive.
Zhao Yingong didn't want to appear like a nouveau riche, but he found it difficult to grasp what "the style of the Song Dynasty" meant. After much thought, he found that nouveau riche always like new, big, and expensive things. They should be low-key to appear tasteful.
You have to have "old goods". But the price of this old goods cannot be lowered. In short, things that seem worthless are actually very valuable. Based on this measurement, he asked Sun Wangcai to buy half-old rosewood first.
Tables, chairs, and some furnishings were laid out first.
As for calligraphy and painting, he brought a lot of them - many of them were works by minor famous artists from Guangdong and Guangdong, and some were by scholars who were officials in Guangdong. This not only showed his Guangdong origin and strength, but also seemed elegant.
"I have to find a Qingke husband." Zhao Yingong thought, otherwise if he does all these things by himself, he will definitely be embarrassed - no matter how many history books he reads, he is not a person of this era.
If you have money, it's easy to do things. After the wooden cabinets were repaired, a group of people moved from the inn to their new home. It only took three or five days. Everything was in order. Even the cook in the kitchen, the porter who looked after the door, the sedan driver who carried the sedan chair, the rough maid, etc.
Waiting for the servants to be hired one by one - this is a typical consumer city with a huge population engaged in the tertiary industry.
Of course, these people cannot be said to be reliable, but there are no ulterior activities at Guangzhou Station at the moment. He needs to support the situation before he can carry out activities. In the future, he will slowly select reliable and suitable candidates.
He was in his newly built study, thinking hard about the problem of supplementing staff.
There are many reliable people in Lingao. Talents from all walks of life can be found among the naturalized citizens who have passed the political examination in Lingao, but most of them are from Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Hunan. There are a few from Zhejiang
Most of them are from southern Zhejiang. There are very few people from the Jiangnan area. And what he needs most now is the local "Path-Leading Party".
In Guangzhou, they had Gao Ju, but in Hangzhou they looked the other way. Gao Ju had some business contacts in Jiangnan, but his friendship was not very strong. His main connections were in Beijing, so the only purpose of Cong Gao Ju was to provide some business partners.
Li Luoyou didn't have a lot of connections in Jiangnan, so it was quite difficult for him to open up a social network in Hangzhou. The scholars obtained by the Intelligence Bureau had too low status and lacked literary names, so it was difficult to open up a situation from this. Zhao Yingong Sizhi
I have repeatedly thought that I have to start with fresh goods from Kit Kat and Xinji. By opening a store to sell new products, I can attract the attention of local businessmen and even gentry, so that I can slowly enter the social circle of the local gentry.