Chapter 112: When will Jinling’s singing and dancing take a break?
On the Qinhuai Painted Boat, the Jiangnan scholars chatted, recited poems and composed poems, watched dances and listened to music.
It was really fun.
After they were too drunk, there were all the red beauties who would accompany them to bed, while the pure beauties would just play the piano and sing songs to help them into the boudoir, and have fun with them.
As for Yu Guozhen, a few time-travelers, and a few idlers who were joining in the fun, as second-class companions, they did not receive such elegant and glamorous treatment, although as long as they were willing to pay out of their own pockets, they should be able to get girls.
But the problem is that today's Qinhuai River is really "gathered with talents".
Faced with so many elegant scholars, the business of the Qing Dynasty and Hong Kong people is extremely prosperous.
The brothels are probably already full.
Ordinary people Even if they were willing to spend a lot of money, they couldn't get a date with any famous actors, so after they had had enough wine and food, they said goodbye and disembarked with a wink.
When Yu Guozhen led the team down the painting boat, the sun had already set in the west.
Standing on the stone embankment by the river and looking out, he saw the ten-mile Qinhuai River under twilight.
Colorful ribbons were dancing everywhere, light boats were like a forest, and wine tables were fluttering on both sides of the bank. , there are many arch bridges, row upon row of golden powder towers, painted boats rippling waves, and the sound of paddles On the small bluestone street by the Dengying River, there are Confucian scholars in kerchiefs walking together and debating the classics, and there are also rich businessmen and businessmen in gorgeous clothes, cheering in front of and behind; there are also some official ladies' sedans, which are also wandering along the river, from time to time.
A tiny bit of gauze curtain was lifted from inside, revealing the beautiful hands and half of the pretty pink face.
And on the river where the lights are reflected and the water is rippling, the exquisite boats are lined with silk and bamboo, singing and laughing.
Everywhere, there are countless girls in beautiful flowers, singing and dancing on the terraces of the boats or river houses, revealing their faces from time to time.
A touch of snow-white skin really makes me feel lonely This was Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty, the most beautiful place in the south of the Yangtze River.
"Three mountains gather treasures to connect the economy, and the rising sun of Hongwu establishes peace."
Thousands of celebrities have gathered together, poems and prose are romantic, hundreds of years of Jiangnan prosperity, outstanding people, and the wealth and heritage accumulated by half the world are all gathered here, unlike Beijing.
Similarly, it is necessary to face the danger of foreign invaders at the border, so this city has created a world-class natural treasure and a dreamy and prosperous demeanor.
Unfortunately, the dream of prosperity in troubled times is ultimately false, and will eventually turn into a wisp of smoke and dissipate quietly in the smoke of war.
Whether it was the ten-mile foreign market in Shanghai during the Republic of China or the Qinhuai River in Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty, their ultimate fate was the same.
"The seven-stringed strings are elegant, and the wonderful sounds are gently plucked; ten miles away from Qinhuai, there are jade trees and smoked radish; the wind, flowers, snow and moon, the poems are harmonious; the years pass by in the blink of an eye, and I am drunk with a clear night's dream.
I'm afraid I won't be able to see such a lively scene of singing and dancing.
Oh my God, if you want to investigate, you have to hurry up."
Under the setting sun, Yu Guozhen held the already drunk senior Ma Tong with one hand.
While holding on to the willow tree on the river embankment, he sighed to the old professors around him, "How are the photos and videos of various scenic spots in Nanjing?
After seeing the Forty-eight Scenic Spots of Jinling, there are still many places I haven’t been to yet.”
"Well, except for the imperial palace in Nanjing, which cannot be entered because a new king has moved in, we have pretty much seen other places."
An old professor of archeology replied, "Actually, many of the so-called forty-eight scenes of Jinling are far-fetched.
For example, the so-called Crow Clothes Sunset, Crow Clothes Alley in the Ming Dynasty are actually just ordinary houses, and the old houses in the Eastern Jin Dynasty have long been Nothing remains.
For a period of time in the Tang Dynasty, the city of Nanjing was almost completely abandoned.
It was like an ancient Mayan city.
There was really no trace of it.
What to see.
There is also the flat embankment on Xuanwu Lake.
In fact, the scenery is exactly the same in Nanjing in the modern world.
It is also a Xuanwu Lake and a Taiping embankment.
There is really no need to make a special trip to see it in the late Ming Dynasty.
In short, it is just like ours It was the same as the tourism industry at that time.
It was just a gimmick, and you had to come up with a nice number.
In fact, there was nothing to see."
"Haha, if you follow your idea of finding faults everywhere, there are no scenic spots worth seeing in this world."
Yu Guozhen shook his head and smiled, "Don't be too demanding.
Before all this disappears in the war, try to see as much as possible."
In general, although this day was full of contempt and indifference from the Jiangnan scholars, the travelers were still in a good mood.
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After all, I have seen so many quaint and authentic street scenes of the late Ming Dynasty, and experienced a wonderful atmosphere that cannot be felt in any movie theaters or theme parks.
As for the bad attitude of Jiangnan scholars, everyone is generally more tolerant of those who are about to be in bad luck or even die without a burial place.
However, when they walked to the Sanjin house they rented in Nanjing city, they found that two uninvited guests with bad intentions were already waiting inside.
Classmate Wang Qiu, who was sitting on a chair with his legs crossed and "envy, jealousy, hate" written all over his face, and Political Commissar Guo, who also had an old face.
In this antique flower hall with carved beams and painted beams and swaying lights, the air seemed to be filled with some kind of atmosphere called "condemnation."
"Ahem, fellow professors, speaking of which, you are full of children and grandchildren in the world over there.
You are about to receive your retirement salary.
Why are you running so diligently to Qinhuai, ten miles away, in the past two days?"
Political Commissar Guo coughed dryly and said, " Please pay some attention to the impact.”
Although Political Commissar Guo said it very righteously, professors of history and archeology disagreed with it.
If you come to Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty and don’t visit brothels, how can you examine the folk culture of this era?
Besides, in the late Ming Dynasty, , the older the man is, the more he likes visiting brothels.
The land south of the Yangtze River has always been prosperous in culture and lacking in martial arts.
According to Chinese traditional habits, most literati gatherings in the Han and Tang dynasties were held in taverns.
For example, Li Bai would drink wine while shouting, "The water of the Yellow River comes from the sky and rushes to the sea and will never return."
As for the literati gatherings in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Most of them choose to go to brothels Huafang, from the white-headed old man to the young boy with a yellow mouth, all regard visiting brothels in groups as a very elegant pastime, which is almost the same as going to attend celebrity concerts in later generations.
Due to the lack of money, many people really go to brothels.
Just drink tea and listen to music.
Just like the idol stars of later generations, those first-class courtesans are invited to attend countless gatherings and banquets, large and small, in order to take advantage of their fame, just like later generations of celebrities are invited to attend opening ceremonies, Book signings and more.
And they can also promote their reputation by attending events, thus benefiting both parties.
In addition, in the absence of newspapers and magazines, brothels at that time were also very important information circulation centers.
If ordinary people wanted to know the latest poetry, gossip, and famous stories, the most convenient way was to go to the brothels to inquire. .
Moreover, judging from the grade and classification of brothels, the more high-end brothels these days, the older the customer base is, and the rules are stricter.
As soon as you enter the door, you have to sing promises, burn incense, play the piano, couplets, and antiphonal poems , and music, etc.
Those who know it understand that it is a ritual before mating.
Those who are not familiar with it may think it is a courtesy for meeting the emperor.
Although the steps are so complicated that it is confusing, it is very appetizing to those old guys.
Famous literary and political elders like Qian Qianyi, Xia Yunyi, and Ruan Dacheng all like to hang out in brothels everywhere.
If any girl gets their favor and writes a poem or something, that girl will immediately leap over the dragon gate, and her worth will increase a hundred times.
Therefore, under this social background, the market rules of brothels in Jiangnan are naturally "there are cowards when you go to bed, and there are no virgins on the first night."
And there is an unwritten rule.
Generally, if a high-end brothel is going to open, the first thing it does is definitely not to decorate it, but to ask a master to write an invitation as soon as possible, and then send it respectfully.
Going to the mansions of those big guys and asking them to come and support them, if you put it in the modern world, it would be equivalent to after a high-end nightclub opens.
As usual, Mama Sang has to find Mo Yan, Zheng Yuanjie or Lang Xianping to promote the business as soon as possible.
In short, after witnessing with one's own eyes the romantic behavior of the elders of the Ming Dynasty literary circle who slept in flowers and willows all day long, with red sleeves adding fragrance, all the old professors here have already lost their bottom line, their moral integrity has been shattered, and their three views have been ruined.
Now, I no longer have any psychological pressure when I visit a brothel and flirt with young girls.
Well, I'm old and frail, and it doesn't matter if my lower body is not strong enough.
We are all modern people.
We still have magic oil and Viagra to help.
Even if I use those medicines, it won't work.
But as a man, if you don't have that ability What is the difference between dreams, life and salted fish?
Therefore, all professors and comrades turned a deaf ear to Political Commissar Guo’s preaching.
As for Miss Ma Tong, she is still drunk.
Wang Qiu, on the other hand, didn't care much about the group of old men who lacked moral integrity to visit prostitutes.
As a time traveler who was so tough that he didn't need to explain himself, he thought he was very restrained when it came to sex with women, but he had already slept with two of them.
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The women Shizuka Marikawa and Rika Minami might also eat the two silver-haired lolita Hansel and Gretel in the future, so I feel that I have no position to say anything wrong with these philandering old professors.
However, he was deeply surprised by the ability of these old men to squander public funds as fast as gamblers in Macau.
"Comrade Yu Guozhen, Comrade Ma Tong, and these professors and comrades, could you please explain to me, let's not mention the expense of traveling and enjoying the mountains and rivers on the road from Guangzhou to Jiangnan.
The problem is that you are just entering now.
I have been in Nanjing for so many days, how come I have spent so much money?
The investigation fund is 15,000 taels of silver.
No matter how much you go to the Qinhuai River to listen to music, go whoring, and drink wine under the guise of inspecting folk customs, you can't squander public funds and spend a lot of money like this.
Or, you are actually supporting me with the organization's public funds.
Women, each of them found a famous prostitute to redeem themselves."
"No way!
We have been in Nanjing for less than half a month, and we haven't even recognized the names of the famous prostitutes on the Qinhuai River."
"How is it possible that we are not from this world?
No matter how extravagant and wasteful we are, we will not support the famous prostitutes in the late Ming Dynasty."
"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense, Lao Guo, we don't have any grudges, right?
Do you want me to be beaten to death by my wife when I go back?"
"I have been suffering from vomiting and diarrhea for the past two days.
I have never 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 and a few small antiques."
In response to Wang Qiu's question, the old professors all expressed their displeasure, "All expenses these days are accounted for.
You can check the account books yourself."
After a while, facing the account books presented by the old professors of history and archeology, Wang Qiu and Political Commissar Guo's expressions became increasingly weird.
"The numbers in this account book look very similar.
But a stone of brown rice in Nanjing costs ten taels.
Everyone listens to the story and it costs twenty-five taels.
Your monthly rent for this house costs seven hundred taels."
This is a lie.
Please don’t fool my intelligence.”
Wang Qiu rolled his eyes angrily, and glanced at the old professors with disdain.
He felt that these sanctimonious old men really knew who they were and what they were doing, "I know, they disguised themselves and mingled among a bunch of Ming Dynasty people."
Traveling long distances is very hard work.
Of course the relevant departments don’t care if you take advantage of public funds to commit corruption, but it’s best not to go too far.
We have already traveled to another world, so why don’t we forget about the corruption issue?”
"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 history professor suddenly blushed with anger and said, "You can go to the street and ask if the prices in Nanjing are so high."
Others nodded in agreement.
Complaining about the prices in Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty is really an exaggeration.
Seeing that these guys didn't seem to be faking it, Wang Qiu couldn't help but become a little suspicious, "In this case, are the prices in Nanjing really so outrageous?
But the prices in Beijing and Jinan are high because of the spread of war and water transportation. and sea transportation were completely cut off, and the southern Food and supplies could not be transported across the city, and people were eating each other during the siege.
Only then did the price of one stone and forty taels of silver appear.
However, Nanjing was still the border of Taiping, with merchant ships coming and going on the Yangtze River pier, and the south of the Yangtze River was rich in products.
How could prices soar in this land of plenty?"
"Well, although wars are raging in the north, the south is actually not peaceful either.
Now the Wenxiang Sect rebel army has swelled to hundreds of thousands, and they are fighting fierce battles with the Southern Zhili soldiers and horses in Yangzhou Mansion.
And Zhang Xianzhong's rogue bandits are burning After arriving at the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, they have recently been engaged in confrontations with the government and troops in Chuzhou and Hezhou.
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The actual control area of the Nanjing imperial court in the north of the Yangtze River has been reduced to the line along the river, and the enemy territory is not far away from the river bank. " Yu Guozhen sighed, stood up and explained to Wang Qiu, "So, in order to avoid the refugees and the disaster of war, the wealthy gentry people in various places in the north of the Yangtze River packed up their belongings and moved their families across the Yangtze River to the south.
Even Yangzhou, which is the richest in the world, has a large number of Salt merchants, Jin gentry and official families chose to flee the city.
After crossing the Yangtze River south, some of them went to Suzhou and Songjiang, but most people still flocked to Nanjing out of habit, causing the city's population to increase rapidly.
It is natural that it is difficult to find a house in the inner city.
The price has skyrocketed, and 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 are the prices for food and drinks so expensive?"
Wang Qiu continued to ask.
"On the one hand, it's because the wealthy gentry families who fled from Jiangbei usually brought large sums of gold and silver with them, and then settled down in Nanjing, where they socialized and spent a lot, which naturally drove up prices.
On the other hand, it was because of the panic caused by the war.
Psychologically, local people are also trying their best to buy goods.”
Another history professor who seemed to have done a lot of research on ancient economics replied to Wang Qiu, "You should have learned in the history textbook that during the War of Liberation, when Generalissimo Chiang was issuing gold yuan coupons, prices in Jiangnan seemed to be That’s how it shoots up like a rocket, right?”
"It seems that they are different.
One is paper money with no guarantee at all, and the other is real gold and silver precious metals."
Political Commissar Guo frowned and retorted, "Chairman Chiang Kai-shek during the Liberation War could run the money printing press like crazy to collect money.
But the Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes have long been used up, and they can only be traded with real gold and silver in the market."
Is it possible to create hyperinflation using precious metals?”
"Yes, the market in the Ming Dynasty was indeed dominated by precious metal currencies.
There was no way to print money like Chairman Chiang did."
The history professor said, "But even if the total number of currencies cannot double instantly, compared with society The amount of total funds, the total number of goods on the market is always Money that is in short supply will continue to accumulate and flow rapidly, but the quantity of commodities has its own production rules, resulting in a permanent shortage in the face of total social funds, especially in the retail market and agricultural products with long production cycles.
This problem is particularly obvious.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, did the Russians go to war?
Did they print money like crazy?
But the rubles in the hands of the Soviet people suddenly devalued into waste paper.
South America in the modern world was already considered peaceful enough.
But why is it that every few years there is always a Latin American country that experiences skyrocketing prices and currency depreciation that is even more exaggerated than in the war-torn Middle East?"
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