[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

There was an uproar between the government and the opposition because of Emperor Hongwu's words, and these Mu Bai and others were totally unaware of it.

In fact, they didn't even know about the various small movements in the crowd before. As fresh candidates, they really didn't have time to inquire about any gossip.

The old gentleman invited by Brother Fu is surnamed Zhou. It is said that he really worked as a mountain clerk at the beginning, but he retired because of poor health. Now he seems to have found his old enthusiasm for work in these students. .

Mr. Zhou is really strict to the extreme.

Even Mu Xiaobai, who advocated hiring someone, never expected that just after the third year of junior high school, this guy would move a chair, set up a board at the entrance of the boarding area, blocking everyone's way, and announced with practical actions; The vacation is over, let's continue to study!

If you want to go out, of course you can. After all, this is a boarding area and not a real school. It’s just that for the sake of safety, everyone who travels has to write on the board, who and who will go out and come back.

The board stood in front of everyone, and it was clear at a glance.

This method is simply outstanding for Xueba.Is the travel time written on this board?No, every hour above that is their wasted life, and it is the possibility that they will be chased and surpassed by other students!

But for two days, except for the necessary outings to socialize, more than 100 students in the four warehouses here were all nested in the warehouses and no one went out, and they were all sprinting before the exam.

The days of struggling in the boundless world of learning are too depressing. The happiest time of the students every day is actually when they take a bath. Only when the body is soaked in hot water can the brain be free for a while.

All of a sudden, the number of people visiting the bathing place increased exponentially.At that time, the meritorious boy who rented the warehouse to build a bathhouse was earning a lot of money. If he hadn't been sane, he would have wanted to open the second phase of the project immediately.

Driven by the trend of bathing for all, even students who used to be afraid of catching cold, or simply didn't like bathing, now go to the bathhouse when they have nothing to do.

However, due to the surge in passenger flow, the current bathhouse does not want to be able to wash at any time. It takes time to boil water for bathing, and more and more students refuse to come out of the hot water. The bathhouse can only take out Time-limited measures for taking numbers.

As the saying goes, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. The timing of the bathhouse is calculated by the bathtub, but it does not count how many people are in a bathtub...

After discovering this loophole, the students... began to build bathtubs.

They are all old men. We all strip naked together, and we are used to "being honest with each other". It doesn't make much difference to soak in a bucket, and there are friends to rub their backs. It doesn't feel too good!

Uh, even if the water is a little dirty, we still have to find someone with similar cleanliness to take a bath together, otherwise conflicts will easily arise.

Mu Bai and the others don't have this problem, they have a small bathroom of their own.However, they don't have wrestlers here to help boil the water and carry it, so the preparation time before bathing will take longer, but after all, there are few people taking baths, so it's not a big problem to take a bath.

It's just that the water tends to be cold in winter, which is a bit troublesome. If you want to not reduce the fun of bathing, you have to find a small partner to help add water.

At this time, it is time to test popularity. Fifteen students are simply showing their talents in order to take a bath. There is no need to mention Mu Xiaobai, the representative of the popularity faction, whether it is Atu, Harati, or the newly recognized senior brother Wang Shen. They are all willing to lend a hand.

After him, the second most popular person is Jian Rong. This young man from Chongqing is a kind person. No matter who he talks to, he always smiles. In modern terms, he is full of healing power.

And the least popular one was a young man named Shen Wenlun, uh, but because the name was a bit hard to remember, everyone usually called him Shen Er.

Shen Er's hometown is Qiongzhou Prefecture, which is located at the southernmost tip of Guangdong Chengxuan Political and Envoy Division. It is warm and hot in all seasons, and the locals wear short-sleeved shorts almost all the year round. Therefore, before rushing for the exam, Shen Er had no concept of winter at all.

On the road, he was full of expectations for the snowy north, but after he officially came into contact with the cold in the north, he was like Ah Tu, who is also a pure southerner - freezing and crying.

Atu was better than him. After all, Atu detoured to the north of Xi'an and Luoyang. After going there, the coldness of Yingtianfu was really just a trivial matter!

Now Ah Tu can calmly walk outside against the cold wind, but Shen Er can't do it at all.

Even if he wears the thickest clothes he can buy under economic conditions, he is completely unable to adapt to the wet, cold and rainy winter here, so this person's need for a bath is much higher than others.

If it is purely like this, he will not become the least popular TOP1 in the bathing group. It is because this person is afraid of the cold as well as the heat. Even Mu Bai, a child with thin skin and tender flesh, can bear the water temperature. It can be so hot that it screams!

These days, who can accurately control the temperature to the point where Shen Er is neither hot nor cold?Unless you sit aside and add hot water again and again.

"It's not my fault! We don't need to boil the bath water at all! Just take some water and pour it on your body." Shen Er, who was attacked by everyone with the same ideals, was extremely wronged, "And you take Junior Brother Xiaobai and me Bi is too rude!"

"...If Junior Brother Xiaobai heard what you said, your ending would be even more rude."

Shen Er hurriedly covered his mouth, looked left and right, heaved a sigh of relief when he didn't see Mu Bai, he showed everyone his invention with great interest: "This is an artifact I asked the craftsman in the workshop to make for me!! "

"This thing is sealed and can be placed directly in the water. As long as charcoal is burned inside, the water temperature will always be warm, and the temperature can be adjusted through the air inlet on the top."

The young man's face was radiant: "From now on, you don't have to worry about the water getting cold halfway through the shower!"

Everyone was silent.

How should I put it, theoretically it sounds like it can be done, but this conical shape, this half-moon-shaped air outlet, this principle... how come the more you hear it, the more familiar it is?

"Shen Er, you are treating yourself like a hot pot..." a student murmured.

That's right!This is it!Isn’t this water boiler (wait, why did it suddenly get its name?) the principle of hot pot from the north?

It’s just that the hot pot in the north has a circle around this utensil. After adding water, put pork and mutton slices or rabbit meat slices, and cook and eat now. This is to boil people directly in the water.

Ah this...

The young people urged one after another: "Go and try!"

"Wait, don't push, this one has to boil water! Such a small charcoal fire can only keep warm and can't boil water, don't take off my clothes, hey!"

So, when Mu Bai came back to pick up his younger brother, he was surprised to find that the number of people queuing at the bathroom door had reached a new high today.

Mu Bai handed the basket in his hand to his friend who was standing by the stove to prepare hot meals, and then put his younger brother down, and said, "There are Yuanxiao in it, and there are all kinds of fillings, let's share some .”

Mu Wen was holding an exquisite pony Lantern in his hand. As soon as he was put down, he asked his elder brother to help him light the lamp. After Mu Bai warned him to be careful when playing with fire, he helped him light the candle inside. The lamp instantly lit up together with Mu Xiaowen's round eyes.

"... Has it already reached the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?" A young man with a red complexion and long hair tightly wrapped in a cloth bag came out of the bathroom in full armor. Looking at the small lantern in the child's hand, he suddenly felt a little bit embarrassed , "It's only been twelve days?"

The pain will make people feel that time passes extremely slowly. For the students, the period from the ban on the third day of the first month to the present is like a year.

"I thought it had been more than a month!" The student groaned in pain.

Seeing this, a young man who came out right behind him gave him a push: "Why are you standing here in a daze? Why don't you go into the room and perm your hair, does it want to freeze?"

The students who were reminded by him could only look at the little horse lantern having fun in the snow with nostalgia, then quickly wrapped their clothes and rushed into the warehouse.

This is the bad point of taking a bath in winter. Not to mention the slow drying of the hair, if you are not careful, it will be frozen.

Although it is very interesting to make various shapes after freezing, it is easy for the parties to catch cold, so most people choose to take a bath at noon.

As the exam period is approaching, in order not to let the bath affect their studies, this group of students invented a special way of drying their hair - perming their heads.

To perm your hair is to place an iron plate and two rags on a raised charcoal stove. When you lie flat, put your long hair on the cloth. It doesn’t take a while for your hair to dry until it’s eight percent dry. There is no need to squeeze everyone into taking a shower at noon!

However, in this process, a small partner needs to keep stirring, otherwise the hair will not dry evenly, and it is easy to scald the hair, and it is not impossible to accidentally burn it.

Therefore, the premise of perming your head is that you have to have a reliable little partner who can't express himself.

It's a pity, as we all know, young men of this age are naive, and when the first person who wants to take a shortcut to dry his hair quickly stretches his sinful hand to the iron tongs, everything is doomed Controlled.

Wrapping your hair around hot tongs does dry it quickly, but it also makes it frizzy.

Although modern women are the main force of fashion, but in Daming or even earlier, it was men who were at the forefront of the times.So these students didn't hesitate to pick up the tongs after they were pleasantly surprised to see more volume when curled (shh).

So, the result is now...

Don't look at some students who seem to be no different from ordinary scholars. If you tie up a square scarf, you will look like a scholar, but when you take off the hat, your head is full of waves.

Big waves and small waves with wheat spikes, what kind of hairstyle this time depends on the craftsmanship of the friends, as one of the few people who can see these people not wearing hats, Mu Bai: "..."

I can only say that as long as you are happy, just treat it as decompression in the busy study life! !Isn't it just a hot head?This decompression method is quite harmonious.

Mu Bai himself once shaved his head, but until now his hair has only grown to the length of his ears, so he doesn't have any troubles about his hair being dry, and naturally he can't enjoy the perm treatment.

But Wooden is different.

Mu Wen is still a child, and a child who is very keen on trying new things and has self-aesthetics, so he has always been at the forefront of Xiangshan Bookstore's aesthetics.

For example, today, the children who were taken out by Fu Zhong wore two buns...no, that's called Zongjiao, which is the patent hairstyle of eight or nine-year-old children.Although Mu Wen is not at this age, his hair is thick enough to be combed.

Although Chinese people have a set of rules of etiquette, they have a tacit understanding of tolerance for children's hairstyles, so when Mu Wen went out to watch the lanterns today, he wore a bun with curly hair.

The curly hair will make people feel soft and fluffy visually, coupled with the child's round face raised by his elder brother, and the little vermilion on the forehead, Mu Wen's whole person is like It is a piece of soft and sweet cake, so soft and cute that people's hearts melt when they look at it.

This also caused his little face to be flushed when he came back—it was full of rouge marks, and he didn't know how many young ladies he met on the way.Mu Wen is a face control, a young lady who is not good-looking probably won't let people kiss her.

"Don't you become a little scumbag playing games in the future." Mu Bai wiped his younger brother's face with a hot handkerchief in some distress.The rouge rubbed off had three or four colors at first glance, and Mu Bai frowned suddenly: "You still have to treat girls with respect, and don't provoke them if you don't like them, you know? Keep a distance from them, don't let them People misunderstand."

When being dragged by his elder brother to wash his face and eat Lantern Festival, Mu Xiaowen breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, he has been completely exhausted by the little fairy playing, and Mu Bai's chatter is like a lullaby in his ears. It directly caused the child to doze off halfway through eating, and his little head and body began to shake.

Mu Bai reached out and pinched his younger brother's face: "Swallow what's in your mouth before going to sleep."

After chewing the sugar-wrapped Lantern Festival a few times with his small mouth, the child showed a sweet smile.

However, after being cruelly asked by his brother to wash his mouth before going to bed, the smile disappeared immediately.

Seeing his younger brother stretching out his hand to hug him in a half-dream and half-awake state, Mu Bai could only put him on the bed first, and then washed the child with Mrs. Tang and stuffed it under the quilt.

Mu Wen turned over on the bed, still muttering about the pony in his mouth, the older brother could only run to extinguish the candle in his pony lantern and put it next to the small bed.

Mu Wen was satisfied now, he blinked his already heavy eyelids twice, and tried to use the last bit of energy to tell Mu Bai: "There is also a lamp for the brain ax... I said I will give it to brother later, but I can't give it now. , yes, keep it secret~"

What light is so mysterious?Still have to wait later?This idea just flashed by, Mu Bai stretched out his hand to tuck him in the quilt, and patted him comfortingly: "Brother, I know, you go to sleep, brother is going to study, if you want to shush, you must remember to call Me, don't pee on the bed."

"...Wen'er can't!" Mu Wen's eyes, which had only one slit, widened suddenly, but under the comforting pat of his elder brother, the child gradually drooped his eyelids and fell asleep.However, before falling asleep, the child insisted on yelling out his own voice: "Wen'er is an older child!"

However, the eldest child Mu Xiaowen still lived up to expectations and drew a map that night.

If a child plays too crazy and tired during the day, he may not wake up in the middle of the night even if he is urgent to urinate, and Mu Wen is like this.

He slept soundly. Even though his brother touched his pants and changed his mattress, he still couldn't wake up. This also caused Mu Wen to look at the completely different bedding from before he went to bed when he woke up the next day. A question mark face that doubts life.

"Wen'er, get up quickly and see what Second Brother Shen made for you." Seeing that the child was struggling, Mu Bai quickly interrupted his self-doubt.Shen Er helped Mu Xiaowen make a miniature bath heater, "Look, as long as you put it in your tank, the water will heat up by itself, and your piggy dragon doesn't need to be placed on the stove. It's been heating up!"

Watching the child happily move the small tank with the alligator from the outdoor stove to the indoor, and find a place he likes most, Mu Bai was about to thank Shen Er when someone waved his hand, "Don't Thank you, this is an apology."

"A few days ago, before I boiled water for a bath, I suddenly panicked. I added some firewood into the stove and rushed to the toilet. Then, ahem, I forgot to take it away." Shen Er rubbed his nose and said awkwardly, " If it wasn't for the pottery vat you replaced earlier, which is more heat-resistant, this alligator would probably be cooked."

This sentence is so associative, Mu Bai couldn't help but imagine that if Mu Xiaowen went to see his beloved little pet and saw a pot of crocodile soup, it would be a big event at the level of childhood shadows.

Fortunately, the iron pot was vacated because of the need for cooking. In this way, this piggy dragon has escaped death twice, and it must be a promising crocodile in the future.

But when everyone talked about it during the night, Mu Bai learned that the crocodile named Zhuzhu not only escaped death twice.

Don't ever expect a group of old men to be sophisticated enough to do things, especially if this group of people comes from all over the world and they don't have much tacit understanding with each other.

Just forgetting to be brought down and put on the stove to cook, this alligator has experienced many times. In addition, it’s okay to be fed all kinds of strange things. The water was warm, so I leaned over to drink water or something, and the combination of all these things was terrifying.

You know, juvenile alligators are also on the diet of many animals.Therefore, it is really not easy for Zhuzhu to be alive now.Mu Bai couldn't help but shed tears of sympathy for it in his heart.

"Is this guy actually a cat?" A student poked the little crocodile at the bottom of the water and complained, "This is more than nine lives."

"Actually, I don't think it's the piggy dragon it used to be, maybe it's already cultivated to become a master." Another student whispered, "Why don't you pay homage to it before it ascends to immortality?"

"..." Mu Bai opened his mouth wide, seeing that they were actually planning to set up an altar with incense and hastened to stop them.Seeing the regretful expressions of a few people, Mu Bai had to say...he often feels out of place with these students because he is not enough sand sculpture.

In the end, Mu Xiaobai, who was powerless to stop him, could only cover his face, and together with Jian Rong, who was smiling gently, and Wang Shen, who was frowning but had no intention of stopping, watched these people hold up the Chinese alligator and carry out some superstitious activities.

Uh, although his own existence is actually the biggest unscientific here, but Mu Bai still wants to complain, human beings really...

Gee tut.

Just when the Zhu Polong in the jar was gradually less in need of charcoal heating, the Xiangshan Bookstore located on the south bank of the Qinhuai River welcomed a group of staff in official uniforms.

These people were sent by the Ministry of Rites to collect the body data of the candidates.After the candidates pass the general examination, they will then take part in the palace examination. Two days after the palace examination, they will wear official uniforms to participate in the ceremony of passing on a group of people. Therefore, everyone's clothes have to be prepared in advance.

Of course, such a short period of time is definitely too late to do real tailoring. This so-called customization is actually to collect a rough figure data, so that the examinees will not lose their dignity.The official uniform is wide, except for those who are particularly short or round like Mubai, who need to be specially customized. Generally speaking, everyone can wear the same size.

It seems that to take care of the young Mu Bai, the apprentice tailor who was sent to measure his figure looks quite good-looking, and the measurement and gestures are full of professionalism, and the two even chatted briefly.

The apprentice was also very kind when he saw Mu Wen poking his head and looking around curiously. He even invited children to tidy his clothes and taught Mu Bai how to match the clothes for the children.Seeing that Mu Wen's clothes didn't fit well, he took out a needle and thread on the spot to help change the stitches.

Not to mention, after all, there is a specialization in surgery, Mu Bai just picks and hooks and sews a few stitches, but Mu Xiaowen looks a lot more energetic.

"Children's body is hot and sweats easily. Silk is soft and good, but once it sweats, it will be a bit cold. It is best for children to wear white cotton cloth inside." The apprentice also shared the baby-raising skills with Mu Bai, "especially It is the Wunijing cloth from Songjiang Prefecture, which is the hometown of Huang Po, and the weaving method is quite different from other places, and it can be woven as soft as silk, which is very suitable for children's underwear."

Mu Bai's eyes lit up immediately, but they darkened again when he heard the sentence "the price is expensive".

Seeing this, the apprentice smiled: "It's okay, now His Majesty has promoted cotton planting, I heard that cotton has been planted in many places along Huating County, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, so the price of this kind of fabric will drop in a short time. "

"Maybe, before your brother grows up, Mr. Lang can buy this thing at a suitable price."

Mu Bai was stunned: "You mean... all the area around Songjiang Mansion now grows cotton?"

Plant economic crops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the main rice producing areas?Mu Bai asked in disbelief, "Is Daming's grain production so abundant?"

This is exactly the fact, and today's Daming can really be said to be "sufficient food and grass".

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang learned from the military system of the Tang Dynasty and the farming system of the Western Han Dynasty, and created a brand-new "Military Household Military System", which is the famous Weisuo system.

The principle of this system is quite simple to say, that is, officers and soldiers have nothing to do to fight and farm.

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the soldiers had better farming equipment, not to mention their own strength, tool horses and tool donkeys, and they were very motivated to reclaim wasteland. Food turned out to be quite impressive.

Zhu Yuanzhang also associated the soldiers' household registration with the land. Driven by more work, more rewards, the soldiers' income increased year by year, not to mention how hard they worked in farming.

This income is Zhu Yuanzhang's confidence in gesturing for tax exemption and rent reduction at every turn during the war.

In addition, the later "open middle system" attracted many merchants to buy land and farm at the border, which promoted the development of "commercial villages". The abundance of grain in the Ming Dynasty even reached the point where the border generals waved their hands to indicate that the warehouses could not fit.

Speaking like this can make most of the frontier guards in history cry with envy, and it did happen in Daming today.

Therefore, the current Ming Dynasty can really be extravagant enough to encourage the people to use their own fields to grow cash crops.

Of course, except for Songjiang, which is rich and powerful and has the advantages of branded products, most people who still have spare capacity still choose to grow food on their own land, and then grow cotton in wasteland or fields with low yield per mu to subsidize their households. But even so, the amount of cotton planted in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is considerable.

It has only been 16 years since Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, and the cotton output of Ming Dynasty and the promotion speed of cotton spinning technology have gradually taken the shape of the clothes and quilts of the next generation.