The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

Kangxi's holy car lived here for a few days, but what happened in the past few days was very exciting, enough for the officials to make up a play.

But then Kangxi started driving, and he continued to go south, and his destination was Guangzhou.

Elder Fourteen also stopped by to see his swimming coach, Ergenjueluo Huswen.

He is now the deputy commander-in-chief, and he still has a title on him. His wife, Wu Yashi, has been in contact with Wu Ya Mansion in central Beijing, and has become a well-known married woman of the Wu Ya family.

And Wu Yashi is a very easy-going woman.

During the New Year's Eve, the Fourteenth Elder Brother gave Wu Ya a New Year gift in the name of Concubine De.

Brother Fourteen didn't know whether Kangxi had ever been to Guangzhou in history, but he knew that Kangxi's arrival made the city of Guangzhou completely boil.

Guangzhou is the home of Thirteen Banks.

Guangzhou Shisanhang was a dental firm specializing in foreign trade in the Qing Dynasty and a monopoly agency designated by the Qing government to specialize in foreign trade.

During the period of "one-port trade", the development of the "Thirteen Banks" reached its peak and became the "Tianzi Nanku", which had direct trade relations with major countries in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Historically, the Qing Dynasty was an era when foreign trade was opened and closed.

The Qing Dynasty continued the open policy since the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, and implemented the policy of opening up the sea and trade.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, along with the increasingly frequent international business exchanges, the earliest official foreign trade professional organization in Chinese history: Guangzhou Shisanhang came into being.

It is a foreign goods company established by the Qing government at the port of Guangzhou to franchise import and export trade. It is a foreign trade monopoly organization with a nature of half official and half business.The Qing government stipulated that merchants of foreign goods firms must be "well-off and wealthy", in order to ensure the business background of foreign firms and the reputation of foreign trade.

Together with the Lianghuai salt merchants and the Shanshan merchants, the Thirteen Bank merchants were known as the three major merchant groups in China in the Qing Dynasty, and they were the wealthiest merchant groups in China before modern times.

It's just that it hasn't developed yet, and it doesn't have the right to independent foreign trade. It was still in the Qianlong period, but at this time, the Thirteen Banks had begun to take shape.

This time they left, they also brought Cao Yong with them as the accompanying student of the [-]th Baylor. Although the status of the accompanying student was temporarily added, the two of them had a lot of time to spend together, and the two girls from the Cao family accompanied them. The three Cao family members are honest and not domineering at all.

Compared with Cao Yong's cousins, they are much stronger!

The thirteen lines have no principals yet, and they all act independently. In addition to making inspections, Kangxi called the people from the thirteen lines to introduce Cao Yong to them: "Cao Yong will be the person in charge of the thirteen lines in the future. , you have to listen to his words, remember, this is my personal order, and no one can surpass him."

Regardless of Cao Yong's young age, he has seven or eight people around him. The people Cao Yin recruited for him all show their shrewdness.

In addition, Kangxi personally said that Cao Yong was the person he appointed to speak, and no one dared to violate it.

As for the fourteenth brother, he has arrived in Guangzhou!

Guangzhou in the summer is very hot, he just lay in the house to enjoy the coolness when he came here, he refused to go out for life and death, it was too hot!

After Kangxi finished giving his orders, when he came back, he saw Elder Brother Fourteen lying on the bamboo couch, hugging Mrs. Bamboo and refusing to let go, eating and drinking without appetite.

"What's the matter?" Kangxi laughed when he saw him like this.

"Huang Ama, can we come in autumn next time? Or winter? It's really hot right now!" Elder Fourteen felt that he was about to be overheated.

"The south is very angry, it's good." What Kangxi thought was that it's right to let the fourteenth elder brother come here, let him warm up, maybe it will be better?

That problem has always been Kangxi's heart disease.

He didn't want too many people to know, so holding it in his heart made him depressed.

"But I'm hot, Huang Ama!" Elder Fourteen complained very much.

But Kangxi has plenty of ways to deal with him: "Come on, Huang Ama will take you to Guangzhou city."

The fourteenth elder brother got up in a blink of an eye, and he really regained his energy: "Okay, okay!"

Today's Guangzhou city is very quaint and prosperous. After all, this is a place where Kaifu was opened earlier.

You can still see a lot of foreigners sporadically.

The arrival of Sheng Jia made this place even more prosperous.

The food stalls on the street are much cleaner.

Brother Fourteen fell in love with the snacks as soon as he saw them.

Cantonese-style rice rolls, roast goose, and grilled oysters are all very popular with him.

Kangxi was also very curious about these, after all the palace would not make snacks for them.

If you want to eat it, you have to ask someone to prepare it, but here, because of the proximity to the sea, there are all kinds of delicious seafood, and because there is fresh water flowing, there are also a lot of river seafood.

The father and son walked and stopped together, and met a few jugglers during the period, and the fourteenth elder brother generously gave ten taels of silver as a reward.

But at noon, he was considerate of Kangxi and went to a restaurant for lunch.

The restaurants in Guangzhou are different from other places. They sit facing east and west, and only have bamboo curtains, without doors and windows.

On the contrary, the courtyard of the restaurant here is deep and full of green vegetation.

"It is said that creepers are planted in the courtyard of the restaurant here, which is shady! And the brothels in the Chu Pavilion are planted with wisteria flowers, which are beautiful." Kangxi pointed to the decoration here, and said what he knew about the local customs.

The fourteenth elder brother whispered: "Ama, have you been to the brothel Chuguan? Be careful, I will tell Erniang!"

Kangxi told him about the customs, and he turned to folk customs.

"You bastard, have you listened carefully? If you don't go, you can also learn about it from some people. Don't think about it." Kangxi knocked the fourteenth elder brother on the head with a fan : "Go up to eat."

The father and son went to the second floor.

Leaning on the railing and looking out the window, it's clear at a glance!

They don't have many dishes, but they are very local.

The waiter in the shop was also enthusiastic, and said in awkward Mandarin: "This is our old Cantonese special dish, please use it slowly."

Cantonese cuisine is Cantonese cuisine, which is one of the four major cuisines and one of the eight major cuisines in China.

Cantonese cuisine in a narrow sense refers to Cantonese cuisine (that is, Guangzhou cuisine), and in a broad sense, it includes Chaozhou cuisine (Chaoshan cuisine) and Dongjiang cuisine (also known as Hakka cuisine).Cantonese cuisine originated from the Central Plains, inheriting the Central Plains food style advocated by Confucius, "never tire of fine food, never tire of delicate dishes". Therefore, Cantonese cuisine is more complicated and refined, such as claypot rice and roast suckling pig in Cantonese cuisine, which originated in the Zhou Dynasty "Bazhen" food; roast goose is derived from roast duck, a famous dish in the Song Dynasty; dim sum has evolved from the Central Plains to Guangdong, and today's Cantonese dim sum such as shrimp dumplings and dry steamed shumai have evolved.

And what they put on the table is roast suckling pig, roast goose and claypot rice.

Barbecued pork in honey sauce and white-cut chicken are also on the table, and the baked lobster in soup is a big plate.

Seafood includes boiled geoduck and sea cucumber with abalone sauce.

"I want oysters too, let's each have an oyster!" Elder Fourteen really wanted to eat oysters.

The waiter was taken aback for a moment: "Well, oysters are not allowed on the table..."

That's what fishermen love to eat.

"If there is something that is not on the table, go to the food stall outside to get some, or you can make it." Elder Fourteen said with a smile: "The most important thing is to be authentic!"

"Okay, you've already said that, the little one will go to the next door and ask for [-] oyster roasts for you. The shop next door may not be considered small, but it is a family with three generations of oyster roasting skills." The waiter in the shop is quite generous.

"If you say that, won't your boss be angry?" Elder Fourteen laughed.

The fourteenth elder brother has a noble temperament but has no airs, and the waiter in the shop is also happy to say a few more words to such a rich man: "It's okay, the old shop next door is the husband's house of our shopkeeper's sister."

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The father and son brought more than 30 people out and ordered [-] oyster rolls.

The staple food is claypot rice.

The father and son ate here, drank tea, and watched the endless stream of people downstairs, the locals speaking with a Cantonese accent, and the foreigners who stuttered and communicated in Chinese.

Cantonese cuisine has its own unique taste. Elder Fourteen was very satisfied with his meal. While eating and drinking, Kangxi lowered his head and glanced outside: "Ah Fourteen, look outside."

The fourteenth elder brother was eating the head of the roast suckling pig, and raised his face: "Huh?"

The corner of Kangxi's mouth twitched: "Stand up and look out."

The fourteenth elder brother held the roast suckling pig's head with both hands, and was "kissing" the roast suckling pig. He stood up and looked out with a greasy face.

It turned out that a very beautiful carriage came downstairs, and it looked like it was for the female relatives. The driver was a groom, a man, and the escorts were two strong men, who looked like guards.

But there were two women following the car, and the two women seemed to be very energetic.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the powder shop on the opposite side, the groom put down the stool, and a girl dressed as a maid got out of the carriage. One voice: "Miss Xia Mei."

"En." Miss Xia Mei nodded, the wives let go, but Miss Xia Mei stretched out her hand: "Miss."

"Xia Mei, are you here?" A nice voice inside asked, "Which makeup shop is this?"

"Miss, it's Mei Lai's balm and powder shop. They have imported rose dew." Miss Xia Mei spoke in a loud voice, and she could hear clearly across a road.

A soft pancreas protruded from the curtain of the car, and a girl came out after it.

This should be the lady.

In the Qing Dynasty, in terms of clothing, men followed women but not women, to show the Qing government's respect for women.However, women's clothing in the Qing Dynasty also has Manhua, but it is just like some Manchu costumes in structure.

The upper and lower dressing styles and the toga with large sleeves are the biggest differences between Han women's clothing and Manchu women's clothing.Han men basically lost the characteristics of upper garments and lower garments.

During the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods, women of the Han nationality still retained the style of the Ming Dynasty, and fashionable small sleeves and long skirts.

But seeing this lady, she has a delicate face, big eyes, willow-leaf curved eyebrows and a cherry mouth, and a pair of bright moon pendants on her ears.

Wearing a small-sleeved blouse with plain makeup on a light yellow background, an eight-sided Xiaoxiang embroidered skirt of emerald blue weeping willow and dark flower silk satin that stretches across the floor, and a silver and white veil with emerald patterns.

Glossy black hair reaches to the waist, the head is coiled in a chic bun, and the red gold pearls are inserted into the lightly curled temples, and a golden bracelet with red gold and emeralds is worn on the hand with creamy skin. As white as jade, her waist is tied with a honey-colored peacock pattern girdle, and her slender waist is slender.

On the girdle hung a violet sachet with embroidered white crane wings. When she got out of the car, she stretched out her feet, which were only three inches in size. On her feet were embroidered shoes with white ivory and stalked lotus flowers, with small pointed points... The dress and temperament of the whole person are elegant and quiet.

After getting out of the car, she turned her head inadvertently, raised her face slightly, and met the fourteenth elder brother's eyes!

Fourteenth brother's appearance at the moment is really... not so handsome, the woman suddenly smiled, then raised her hand, covered her mouth and bowed her head, the whole person suddenly lost that kind of quiet energy, and seemed to be gentle and kind. And naughty.

Then he turned around and entered the rouge and gouache shop opposite.

When walking, it was indeed like a willow supported by a weak wind, moving forward gracefully, and there was a big maid supporting her.

Brother Fourteen frowned, bit the roast suckling pig in his mouth, and after swallowing it, he said, "Huang Ama, what do you want me to see?"

Kangxi was taken aback for a moment, then smiled: "Is that woman okay just now?"

"What's the matter? I almost threw up!" Elder Fourteen said with a look of disgust, "How deformed is that little foot? It's not as big as the pig's hoof I gnawed on, tsk tsk tsk! I don't like it, it's still natural Her feet are better, and she stands still, seeing her like that, running is a problem even if something happens to her."

Kangxi's head was full of black lines after he said the truth.

"By the way, Ama, what are you asking me to watch her do? You won't give me any money." Elder Fourteen lowered his head and quickly took another bite of the roast suckling pig: "Fortunately, there is a roast suckling pig to comfort me."

Kangxi sighed: "That's the woman someone specially arranged for you, the oiran of Huacheng."

Among the nicknames of Guangzhou, there is the term "Flower City".

"Ah?" Fourteenth elder brother was dumbfounded: "For me... the oiran?"

Although he had fantasized about the oiran in his life, he never wanted to have it, let alone this oiran... good-looking is good-looking, but when he thinks of her deformed feet, he has the urge to feel sick.

"Well, in fact, Jiangnan salt merchants have also prepared oirans. Your poems in Zuixianlou have already been sung in Hualou. It's just that you didn't give them that chance. When I started driving in Guangzhou, people from Guangzhou Shisanhang had already Let’s get started. The oiran is ready and I’ll give you this fourteen beile.” Kangxi lowered his head and took a bite of the food: “I also prepared a girl from an official family for me, and two sisters for three beile.”

Fourteenth elder brother lowered his head and chewed the roast suckling pig's ear: "That has nothing to do with me, I feel disgusted when I see that woman, that foot is too deformed! I don't like it."

"Well, that's good." Kangxi said lightly: "However, people from the Thirteenth Line will not let it go. They spent a lot of money to redeem this woman. How can I not use it!"

"Huh?" Elder Fourteen looked up at Kangxi: "Ama, you seem to know everything."

"Of course, because that woman is your Ama and my spy." Kangxi's tone did not change, but the fourteenth elder brother almost complained.