Great time travel

Chapter 1: When will the singing and dancing in Jinling stop? (three)
On the Qinhuai painting boat, all the scholars from the south of the Yangtze River talked about the world, recited poems and composed Fu, watched dances and listened to music... It was really enjoyable.After they are overwhelmed with alcohol, the red ladies (the red ladies are the ones who sleep with them, and the pure ones only play the piano and sing songs) will help them into the boudoir, and have a good time with them.

But Yu Guozhen, a few time travelers, and a few idlers who joined in the fun, as second-class companions, did not have such chic and charming treatment—although as long as they were willing to pay their own money, they should be able to be called girls.But the problem is that today's Qinhuai River is really a "gathering of talents". Facing so many suave and suave scholars, the business of the young ladies and gentlemen is extremely hot. It is estimated that the brothels are already full. Even if they were willing to spend a lot of money, they couldn't get any famous actors... So, after they were full of wine and food, they bid farewell and disembarked from the ship with winks.

When Yu Guozhen led the team off the boat, the sun had already slanted to the west. Standing on the stone embankment by the river and looking out, I saw that the ten-mile Qinhuai River under the twilight was full of ribbons dancing lightly, light boats like forests, and wine on both sides of the river. , there are many arch bridges, golden powder towers, row upon row, painting boats lingbo, the sound of boats and lights... On the Qingshi small street by the river, there are not only Confucian scholars in square scarves swimming together, debating scriptures, but also rich businessmen and businessmen in gorgeous clothes, shouting and hugging. There are also some official ladies' sedan chairs wandering along the river, and from time to time, a little bit of gauze curtain is lifted from inside, revealing Qianqian's jade hands and a small half of a delicate pink face...

And on the rippling river surface, where the lights are reflected and the water is rippling, the exquisitely painted boats are bursting with silk and bamboo, singing and laughing... Everywhere there are countless beautiful girls singing and dancing on the boats or on the terrace of the river house. From time to time, a touch of snow-white skin is revealed, which is really what I see...

——This is Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty, the most splendid place in the south of the Yangtze River. "Three mountains gather treasures to connect economics, and Hongwu Chaoyang will make peace." The gathering of celebrities for thousands of years, the poetry and prose, the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River for hundreds of years, outstanding people, and the wealth and heritage accumulated in half the world are all gathered here, which is not like the city of Beijing. In the same way, it is necessary to face the danger of foreign invaders at the frontier, so this city has created a world-famous Wuhua Tianbao, just like a dreamy prosperous demeanor!

It is a pity that the dream of prosperity in the troubled times is false after all, and it will eventually dissipate quietly in a wisp of smoke amidst the smoke of war.

Whether it was the ten-mile foreign farm in Shanghai during the Republic of China, or the ten-mile Qinhuai River in Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty, their ultimate fate was the same.

"... The seven strings are elegant, and the wonderful sound is lightly plucked; the Qinhuai River is ten miles away, and the yushu is smoked; I can’t watch it for a few days! If you want to investigate, you have to hurry up!”

Under the setting sun, Yu Guozhen supported the drunk senior sister Ma Tong with one hand, and supported the willow tree on the river embankment, and sighed to the old professors beside him, "...the photos and videos of all the scenic spots in Nanjing city are beautiful. What's the matter? How many places have you not been to the 48 scenes of Jinling?"

"...Uh, except for the Imperial Palace in Nanjing, which is really hard to get in because of the new monarch, I can see almost everything else."

An old professor of archeology replied, "...Actually, many of the so-called 48 scenes of Jinling are far-fetched. For example, the so-called Wuyi Xizhao, the Wuyi Lane in the Ming Dynasty is actually just an ordinary house, an old house in the Eastern Jin Dynasty It has long since disappeared (for a period of time in the Tang Dynasty, Nanjing City was almost completely abandoned, like the ancient Mayan city), and it is really not worth seeing. There is also the Pingdi Lake on Xuanwu Lake. In fact, the scenery is in modern times. Nanjing in the world is exactly the same. It is also a Xuanwu Lake and a Taiping Embankment. There is really no need to make a special trip to the end of the Ming Dynasty to see it... In short, it is the same as our tourism industry at that time. Come up with a good-sounding number, but there is actually nothing to see..."

"...Hehe, if you follow your idea of ​​picking faults everywhere, where are there any scenic spots worth seeing in this world?"

Yu Guozhen shook his head and smiled, "...don't be too demanding! Let's see as much as possible before all this is gone in the war!"

Generally speaking, although the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River were scorned and indifferent on this day, the mood of the travelers is still very good.After all, I have seen so many antique street scenes in the late Ming Dynasty, and experienced the wonderful atmosphere that cannot be felt in any film and television city or theme park.As for the poor attitude of the Jiangnan scholars... Everyone is generally more tolerant of guys who are about to suffer bad luck or even die without a place to bury them.

However, when they arrived at the rented Sanjin mansion in Nanjing, they found that there were already two uninvited guests waiting inside.

——Student Wang Qiu, who sat on a chair with his legs crossed, with "envy, jealousy and hatred" written all over his face, and Commissar Guo, who also had an old face.

In this quaint flower hall with carved beams and painted buildings and flickering lights, there seems to be an atmosphere called "condemnation" in the air.

"...cough cough! Comrades, professors, speaking of it, the world over there is full of children and grandchildren, and you are about to receive retirement wages! Why are you still running so hard to the Qinhuai River for the past two days?" Commissar Guo coughed dryly. , so said, "…… Pay attention to the impact!"

Although Commissar Guo’s words are very righteous, all the professors of history and archeology don’t take it seriously—you came to Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty but didn’t visit brothels, so how can you study the folk culture of this era?Besides, at this moment in the late Ming Dynasty, the older the man, the more he likes to visit brothels!

——The land in the south of the Yangtze River has always been prosperous in culture and deficient in martial arts.According to traditional Chinese habits, most literati gatherings in the Han and Tang Dynasties were in taverns. For example, Li Bai yelled "The water of the Yellow River comes from the sky, and it will never return to the sea" while drinking wine... As for the literati gatherings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties , most of them will choose to hang out in brothels, from white-headed old men to yellow-mouthed children, they all regard group tours in brothels as a very elegant pastime, which is almost the same as going to celebrity concerts in later generations-because of the cash-strapped Because of this, many people really just drink tea and listen to music in the brothel.

Just like the idol stars of later generations, those first-class courtesans are invited to countless gatherings and banquets every year in order to take advantage of their fame, just like later generations invite stars to attend the opening ceremony, Signing and so on.And they can also take part in the event to publicize their reputation, which will benefit both parties.In addition, in the absence of newspapers and magazines, the brothels at that time were also very important information circulation centers. If ordinary people wanted to know the latest poetry and literature, market gossip, and celebrity affairs, the most convenient way was to go to the brothels. .

Moreover, as far as the grade and classification of brothels are concerned, the more high-end the brothel these days, the older the customer group it is targeting, and the more strict the rules are, as soon as you enter the door, you have to sing promises, burn incense, play the piano, couplets, and poems , Hequ, etc. Those who know it will understand that it is a ritual before mating, and those who don't know it may think it is the etiquette of meeting the emperor... Although the steps are cumbersome and dizzying, they are very appetizing to those old guys.

Famous senior figures in the literary and political circles like Qian Qianyi, Xia Yunyi, and Ruan Dacheng all like to linger in various brothels.If any girl gets their attention and writes a poem or something, then this girl will immediately become a carp and jump over the dragon's gate, and her net worth will increase by a hundred times.Therefore, under this social background, the market rules of brothels in various places in the south of the Yangtze River are naturally "there are cowards in bed, and there are no white girls in the first night".And there is an unwritten rule, if a high-end brothel is going to open, the first thing to do first is definitely not to do decoration, but to ask a master to write an invitation card at the first time, and then send it respectfully. Go to the mansions of those bigwigs, and ask them to come and support them... If it is placed in the modern world, it is equivalent to the opening of a certain high-end nightclub. According to the usual practice, Mama-sang has to find Mo Yan, Zheng Yuanjie or Lang Xianping to promote business immediately!

In short, after witnessing with my own eyes the flamboyant demeanor of all the elders in the literary world of the Ming Dynasty who slept in flowers and willows all day long, the old professors here have already lost their lower limit, their integrity has been shattered, and their three views have been destroyed. Now, there is no psychological pressure to go shopping in brothels and flirting with little girls...

Um?Already old and frail, the lower body is not strong enough?It doesn't matter, we are all modern people, don't we still have Shenyou and Viagra to help us!Even if you use those medicines, it won't help... Ahem, but if you don't have that kind of dream as a man, what's the difference between life and salted fish?
Therefore, the professors and comrades ignored the preaching of Political Commissar Guo... As for Miss Ma Tong, she is still drunk!

And Wang Qiu didn't care much about the fact that these old men who lack integrity formed a group to go whoring. As a time traveler who was so tough that he didn't need to explain, he thought he was very restrained in terms of female sex, but he had already fallen asleep. The two women (Ju Chuan Shizuka and Nan Lixiang) may eat two silver-haired loli in the future (Hansel and Gretel are being raised), so I feel that I have no position to say about these old professors no.

However, the ability of these old men to squander public funds made him deeply surprised-the speed of spending money can catch up with the gamblers who go to Macau.

"...Comrade Yu Guozhen, Comrade Ma Tong, and these professors, can you please explain to me that the cost of traveling in the mountains and rivers from Guangzhou to Jiangnan is not mentioned for the time being. The problem is that now you After only a few days in Nanjing, why did you spend a total of 5000 taels of investigation funds?! Even if you go to the Qinhuai River to listen to music, prostitutes and drink flower wine under the banner of 'investigating folk customs', you can't Splurge public funds like this, spend a lot of money! Or, you actually used the public funds of the organization to support women, and each of you found a famous prostitute to redeem yourself?"

"...How can there be! We have been in Nanjing for less than half a month, and we haven't recognized all the names of those famous prostitutes on the Qinhuai River!"

"...How is it possible? We are not from this world. No matter how extravagant and wasteful we are, we won't support famous prostitutes in the late Ming Dynasty?"

"... You can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense! Lao Guo, we shouldn't have any grudges, right? Do you want me to be beaten to death by my wife after I go back?"

"...I have been unaccustomed to the water and soil for the past two days, vomiting and diarrhea. I haven't even been to the Qinhuai River. I just listened to Liu Jingting's storytelling once!"

"...I have been inspecting several markets in Nanjing these days, but I just bought some groceries! Uh, there are also a few small antiques."

In response to Wang Qiu's questioning, all the old professors screamed, "...the expenses have been kept in accounts these days, you can check the accounts yourself!"

After a while, Wang Qiu and Commissar Guo's expressions became more and more strange when faced with the account books presented by the old professors of history and archeology.

"...The numbers on the ledger seem quite similar. But... a stone of brown rice in Nanjing costs ten taels of silver? Everyone needs 25 taels for a storytelling session? The monthly rent of your house is about 700 taels. [-] taels? Are you liars?! Please don’t fool my IQ!”

Wang Qiu rolled his eyes angrily, and cast a contemptuous glance at those old professors, feeling that these pious old men really knew people, but they didn't know what they were doing, "...I know, they were disguised as a group of Ming Dynasty professors. Traveling long distances among people is a very hard job. Of course, the relevant departments don’t care that you take the opportunity to corrupt at public expense, but it’s best not to go too far! You’ve already traveled to another world, don’t you forget to embezzle project funds?”

"...Ahem, Comrade Xiao Wang, you don't have to believe what we say, but you can't despise our personality!"

A short and fat old professor of history was so angry that he blushed and his neck was thick. "...you can go to the street and ask if the prices in Nanjing are so high!" Others nodded their heads one after another. They echoed and complained in unison that the prices in Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty were too exaggerated.

Seeing that these guys didn't seem to be fake, Wang Qiu couldn't help feeling a little suspicious, "...In this way, are the prices in Nanjing really so outrageous? But...the prices in Beijing and Jinan are so high. Because of the spread of the war, water and sea transportation were all cut off, food and materials in the south could not be transported, and children were eaten by each other during the siege, so there was a high price of 40 taels of silver for one stone of rice. But Nanjing is still on the border of Taiping, the Yangtze River Wharf Merchant ships come and go, and the south of the Yangtze River is a land of fish and rice, so how could prices soar to such an extent?"

"...Well, although the north is full of wars, the south is actually not peaceful. Now the Wenxiangjiao uprising army has swelled to hundreds of thousands, and they are fighting repeatedly with Nanzhili troops in Yangzhou Prefecture. Zhang Xianzhong's bandits are burning Feng After Yanghuang Mausoleum, they have recently confronted the government and army in Chuzhou and Hezhou. The actual control area of ​​the Nanjing court in Jiangbei has been compressed to the line along the river, and the enemy is not far from the river bank."

Yu Guozhen sighed, stood up and explained to Wang Qiu in this way, "...so, in order to avoid refugees and war disasters, rich gentry and rich men from all over the Jiangbei packed up their belongings and moved their families across the south of the Yangtze River. Even Yangzhou, which is the most wealthy in the world, has A large number of salt merchants, gentry, and official families chose to escape from the city. After crossing the Yangtze River south, some of them went to Suzhou and Songjiang, but most of them habitually flooded into Nanjing, causing the city’s population to rapidly explode. Increase, it is hard to find a house in the inner city... The rent will naturally rise to the sky, if you don't pay a high price, you won't be able to rent it at all!"

"...That's why the rent of this house is so outrageous? But why is the price of eating and drinking so expensive?" Wang Qiu continued to ask.

"...On the one hand, the rich gentry and gentry who fled from Jiangbei usually carry a large amount of gold and silver, and then settle down in Nanjing, socialize, spend a lot of money, which naturally raises prices. On the other hand, it is because of the war. The panic caused the locals to desperately sweep up the goods.”

Another professor of history who seems to have done some research on ancient economics replied to Wang Qiu, "...you should have learned in your history textbooks that when the War of Liberation was going on, when Generalissimo Chiang issued gold coupons wantonly, Jiangnan's Prices seem to be going up like a rocket like this!"

"... These seem to be different! One is a banknote with no guarantee at all, and the other is a precious metal that is real gold and silver!"

Political Commissar Guo frowned and retorted, "...Chairman Chiang during the War of Liberation could frantically run the money printing machine to raise money. But the Ming court's treasured banknotes have long been discarded, and the market can only be traded with real money. Come on! Can hyperinflation be caused by using only precious metals?"

"...That's right, the market in the Ming Dynasty was indeed dominated by precious metal currencies. There is no way to print money like Chairman Jiang." The history professor interjected, "...But, even if the total amount of money cannot be doubled instantly, but Compared with the amount of total social funds, the total number of commodities on the market will always be in short supply—money will continue to accumulate and flow rapidly, but the quantity of commodities has its own production rules, which will cause it to always be in short supply when facing total social funds. is in short supply. Especially in the retail market and agricultural products with a long production cycle, this problem is particularly manifested.

Did the Russians fight when the Soviet Union collapsed? *********** Is it crazy to print money?But didn't the ruble in the hands of ordinary people in the Soviet Union suddenly depreciate and become waste paper?And South America in the modern world is already peaceful enough, right?But why every few years there will always be a price hike in a Latin American country?The depreciation of the currency is even more exaggerated than that of the war-torn Middle East? ! "