Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 288 Girl, get out of the way
The purpose of Zhao Xin's visit to Guangzhou this time is to buy medicinal materials.Before leaving Beihai Town, Hong Tao had a special talk with him, and the topic was medicinal materials.

Now Beihai Town's population has exceeded [-], it is no longer enough to rely on Zhao Xin and Hong Tao to buy medicine from another time and space.As the head of Beihai Town's health system, Hong Tao urgently needs to find alternative medicines in this time and space.

After discussing with the Wu brothers, the two suggested that Zhao Xin should buy some medicinal materials from the south, and made a list.

For example, Tian Qi for stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis, Wujiapi for dispelling rheumatism and swelling, tangerine peel and Tianzhuhuang for eliminating cough and phlegm, green skin for eliminating accumulation and stagnation, rhino horn for clearing heat and cooling blood, and king cobra—commonly known as Guoshan wind and so on.

The biggest advantage of buying Chinese medicinal materials in this time and space is that there are no chemical fertilizers and no pollution, and you can buy casually like ox yellow rhino horns.With these alternative Chinese medicinal materials, Zhao Xin only needs to purchase those medicines that cannot be replaced in this time and space; such as antibiotics or medicines for chronic diseases.

In fact, this kind of thing can be entrusted to the Cai family, and there is no need to go to the city by yourself.So there is another reason for Zhao Xin to enter the city that is hard to say. Laidu is the most magical Chinese-style exhortation word. Countless people have compromised under this sentence, and Zhao Xin is no exception.

It is said that wanting to send an unidentified person into the city of Guangzhou is nothing more than a trivial matter for the Cai family of Wanhexing. It only needs to deal with the city gate officials and soldiers bravely.It's just that for Zhao Xin, it's a bit aggrieved for him to be a big man sitting in the carriage of the carriage.

When the carriage entered the city from the west gate, no one checked it. The soldiers guarding the gate saw that it was Wanhexing's carriage, so they didn't ask at all.After entering the city, a group of people walked eastward along Hui'ai Street, turned left at the intersection of Gongchenfang, and saw the flower pagoda of Liurong Temple.

Zhao Xin looked out from the carved window of the car, and saw that the street was very crowded with people of all kinds, and various shops occupied the street and set up stalls, making the street that could originally accommodate two carriages parallel extremely congested.

In the Qianlong era, about 100 million people lived inside and outside the city of Guangzhou, and the commerce was extremely prosperous. The destination of their trip was the Yaowang Temple north of the Liurong Temple, which was the largest medicinal material market in Guangzhou.

According to the accompanying steward Wanhe Xingyu, the most famous traditional Chinese medicine shop in Guangzhou is "Chen Liji", which was established in Wanli year. His tangerine peel is the best; if you want to buy Tianqi and other medicines for reducing swelling and dampness, Then go to "Feng Lioxing"; as for herbs such as Guoshanfeng, you can go to "He Mingxingtang".

"Does Wang Laoji have it?" Zhao Xin asked, blinking.

Steward Yu was stunned: "Wanglaoji? What do you sell?"

"Herbal tea."

"I've never heard of it. Master Wang, do you want to drink herbal tea? The herbal tea of ​​'Chen Liji' is very famous."

Zhao Xin asked again: "What about Pan Gaoshou?"

Steward Yu thought for a while, then shook his head blankly.He clasped his hands and asked, "Master Wang, excuse me for being ignorant, where did you hear the names of these two shops?"

Zhao Xin said: "North."

Steward Yu stroked his beard with a smile and said, "Master Wang must have misunderstood. I almost know the names of the famous medicine shops in Guangzhou City. If the two shops you mentioned are medicine shops, there must not be any."

Zhao Xinlu was timid. He didn't know that Wang Laoji and Pan Gaoshou were not even seen at the moment.Want to drink Wanglaoji?Wait another 40 years!
When Zhao Xin followed the instructions of the Wu brothers and pretended to choose the tangerine peel in "Chen Liji" and prepared to pay, Yu Guanshi came forward.

For the Cai family of Wanhexing, they are like an escort agency accompanying bandits and thieves shopping. They must take good care of this visitor from the North with the surname "Wang".

It is not surprising that merchants in this era have close personal relationships with foreign businessmen.In order to gain a place to survive in the fierce competition environment where the world focuses, merchants must have extraordinary management methods.

For Thirteen Bank merchants, the reason why they can gain the trust of foreign businessmen is closely related to their shrewdness and international vision on the one hand, but more importantly, they pay great attention to the interconnection of business expansion and emotional communication.Commercial development in this era is not a flattened pure interest activity of later generations, but must be based on mutual trust and communication.

The excessive demands of the Qing court intensified the conflict between officials and businessmen, which was also one of the reasons for the large-scale smuggling of opium by merchants in the later period;

It is said that it is so difficult to do business, and someone said that I quit and quit.

dream!The government's requirement is that all debts, arrears and fines must be paid off, and the court must approve it.And even if he retired, one day the imperial decree would come, even if he pinched his nose to borrow money, he had to do it. If he didn't want to do it, he would just wait for the house to be confiscated and exiled.

This time, Beihai Town borrowed money from the Cai family, and the Cai family underpaid 10,000+ taels of silver just for the interest.Taking a few thousand taels out to shop for Zhao Xin is really nothing.

So Zhao Xin didn't need to pay for anything he bought today.What he wants, the Cai family can settle the payment with the store; and the Cai family is a well-known merchant, and the transactions with each store are kept in accounts, and the store will not come to settle the payment until before the three festivals.

However, from the manager's point of view, Zhao Xin bought a lot of things, and the posture was like emptying out all the other people's inventory.

"How old is Chen Pi?" Zhao Xin was asking.

"Master, the tangerine peels in our store are all high-quality products that have been produced for 15 years."

"Okay, here are two hundred bags."

"Ah? Yes! My lord, please sit down and serve good tea!" The shop assistant almost went crazy with joy, it's a big deal!
So when Zhao Xin and his party walked from one end to the other, the pharmacies on the whole street knew that a big customer came today. Tian Qi bought it for three hundred dan (a load of one hundred catties), and rhino horns cost a hundred. root
As a result, after Zhao Xin bought all the medicines on the Wu brothers' list, Manager Yu's liver began to tremble.This "Master Wang" bought more than 5 taels of medicinal materials at once!Now Wanhexing is at a big loss!
Fortunately, Guangzhou is the distribution center of medicinal materials in the whole south. If Zhao Xin went to Yangzhou to buy them, he would not be able to buy so many products.Steward Yu asked the shopkeeper to open an order with trepidation, and sent people to send it to the warehouse of Baixionghang, which is also the property of Wanhehang.

Zhao Xin also saw Manager Yu's anxiety at this time, and said: "Mr. Yu, don't worry, I will transfer the money for the medicinal materials to your account after returning."

Steward Yu originally wanted to say "no", but it was not 500 taels or 5000 taels, but 5 taels. He really didn't have the courage to refuse.

It was past noon at this time, and Zhao Xin and his party walked around the medicinal material market for a long time, and they were a little hungry.Manager Yu wanted to ask Zhao Xin to go to a restaurant to ask for a private room for dinner. Zhao Xinxin said that it would be so troublesome. He pointed to a small restaurant on the corner of the street and said, "Don't bother. You have to go to other places after eating. That's fine."

Seeing Zhao Xin's insistence, Yu Guan had no choice but to agree.When I walked over to see it, it turned out to be a porridge shop.Because it was past noon, there were not many people eating, and there were only three people eating in the shop.

It is said that in the current Guangzhou cuisine, there are not many rice rolls, shrimp dumplings and the like.Those snacks or big dishes that are familiar to later generations will not appear until the late nineteenth century.

The staple foods of Guangzhou people these days are rice, porridge, noodles, noodles, and cakes; there are many types of vegetables, and even snow peas have been introduced and planted; as for specialties, dogs, snakes, mice, centipedes, and dragon lice.

The porridge shop was not big, so Guy Cai found a table and chairs at the door to sit down. They decided they would not enter the house and eat at the same table as Zhao Xin.

Manager Yu accompanied Zhao Xin into the shop, each ordered a bowl of porridge and two crisp silkworm cakes, asked the shopkeeper to cut up a chicken, and ordered a pot of rice wine.

Zhao Xin took a sip of the rice wine and said, "It would be nice if it was iced."

Steward Yu was about to strike up a conversation, when the voices of the three people eating on the left suddenly became louder.

"Mr. Liu, your prescription is wrong!"

The one who spoke was a woman with a delicate face, who looked about seventeen or eighteen.Sitting on her left is a middle-aged man in his 40s, and on the left of the middle-aged man is an elderly man in his 50s.

"Oh?" The elderly man surnamed Liu said with a faint smile: "Why is my prescription wrong? The patient has a sneezing nose, retching, aversion to cold and fever, and chest tightness. In the method of clearing away heat, although the cold and heat are intertwined in the middle burner, then Sini powder is used to harmonize the yin and yang."

"That's right, Brother Liu has transformed himself into a state with the help of the emperor and his ministers. What nonsense are you talking about!"

The woman spoke with a Nanjing accent, and argued unconvinced: "Father, I'm not wrong. The patient is prone to drinking, and besides internal dampness, he also has external dampness. Guangzhou is rainy and humid, and he eats the mausoleum with dew. It is unavoidable, you should use Guizhi to remove Guijia Fuling Baizhu decoction."

"Huh?" The old man surnamed Liu was taken aback for a while, then he slapped the table suddenly and said, "That's right! How could I forget about this!"

When Zhao Xin and Guanshi Yu heard this, they already knew that the three people next to them seemed to be doctors.

wait!Did the Qing Dynasty have female doctors?

Thinking of this, Zhao Xin couldn't help turning his head to look at the woman.It doesn't matter if you look at it, the three people next to him have noticed that Zhao Xin is tall and dressed like a banner official.The three of them were afraid of causing trouble, so they got up to check accounts and left in a hurry.

Zhao Xin was surrounded by many crowds when he was buying medicine at the pharmacy in the morning, so he didn't take it seriously at this time.

After lunch, Zhao Xin told Guanshi Yu that he wanted to visit Fuxue West Street in the city.When he was buying medicinal materials in the morning, he had inquired about it, and the bookstores in the city were all concentrated near several academies on Fuxue West Street.He wanted to see if there were any Song edition books for sale.Anyway, the business has been done, and idleness is idleness.

It is said that the old engravings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties became increasingly rare in the Qing Dynasty, and the style of Song Song became more popular in the Qing Dynasty.Back then, Lu Liuliang and Huang Zongxi had a very good personal relationship, but they turned against each other because of a few sets of Song edition books.One scolded the other party as a screaming pig, and the other scolded "rebellious", "absurd", and "nuyan".
What is the current price of Song edition books?The most expensive is six taels per volume in good condition, and eight coins per volume in dilapidated condition. This price is also extremely expensive for most scholars.

It is easy to understand with the analogy of food.At present, a stone of rice in Guangzhou City costs 1.6 taels of silver, and a copy of Song edition books in good condition is almost 600 catties of rice.

This price is not even a hair in Zhao Xin's place. A set of 360 copies of "Taiping Yulan" costs 240 taels. It is not too easy to get another time and space to double the price by [-] times.

Although there are a lot of Song edition books in this year and month, it is not a big carrot on the roadside.Yu Guanshi took Zhao Xin to seven or eight bookstores, and finally bought a total of three sets of Song edition books: "Taiping Yulan", "Chunqiu Fanlu", "Longkan Handbook"; I bought more than a dozen sets of books.

When he came out of the bookstore, Guanshi Yu saw Zhao Xin's unfinished look, so he proposed to go to Gaodi Street, where there are also several bookstores.In fact, when you reach Gaodi Street, you are already not far from Jinghai Gate.Anyway, as long as they stay closer to the outside of the city, the members of the Cai family can feel more relaxed.

Gaodi Street mainly sells groceries from Suzhou and Hangzhou. There are not many bookstores, but the prices are very affordable.In addition to books related to the imperial examination, there are also various books such as story books, calendars, almanacs, and arithmetic.

Zhao Xin switched to a bookstore and found nothing. When he reached the second one, he just stepped over the threshold when he heard a somewhat familiar voice coming from the room.

"There is Mr. Gaoxi's book here! Quickly show it to me."

Zhao Xin saw that it was the woman he had seen in the porridge shop during lunch, but the two middle-aged men were not in the bookstore.

"Guest officer, what book are you looking for?" The store clerk saw Zhao Xin's clothes and hurried forward to greet him.

Zhao Xin was a few steps away from the woman at this time, so he asked the guy in a low voice curiously: "Who is Gaoxi?"

"Dai Dongyuan."

Zhao Xin blinked, never heard of it.

The guy looked at Zhao Xin's appearance, and thought that he was also an idiot, but he said: "The guest officer has never read "Pythagorean Cutting Circles", right? This is a new book published by the bookstore."

"Oh, show me." Zhao Xin was very curious about the level of mathematics in the Qing Dynasty. The few mathematicians he knew were all after the Opium War.

After a while, Zhao Xin took the book from the assistant and opened it.

"Cut~~ What do I think it is, isn't it just spherical geometry?"

As soon as he said this, several people in the bookstore looked over in surprise, especially Manager Yu and the young woman.Everyone thought that this tall man looked like a fighter, but he also knew arithmetic?

Zhao Xin didn't look up, picked up the second volume, opened it and looked at it again, the disdainful expression on his face became more obvious, thinking what the hell is this!

Seeing this, Steward Yu stepped forward and asked, "Master Wang, Mr. Gaoxi is a well-known university student all over the world."

"Great scholar?" Zhao Xin sneered, "The good trigonometric functions make him difficult to understand, and the simple principles are written like heavenly scriptures. Is this intended for people to learn or not? This person is pure It’s unconventional and opportunistic.”

While talking, he opened a page of the first volume, and said to Guan Shi: "Tangent and cotangent are not used, and we have to create a moment and sub-moment to separate them. The 360 ​​degrees of a circle were originally introduced by Westerners. He insisted on talking about ancient The law is that 360 and five degrees are strange, isn’t this nonsense.”

Recently, Zhao Xin has been teaching artillery range measurement in Beihai Town, and from time to time, he discussed map measurement with Lin Ziping. Now he is very familiar with spherical geometry.

Steward Yu was taken aback when he heard this. Although he likes arithmetic, he has never learned this kind of spherical geometry.

At this time, Zhao Xin put down his book and was about to go out, only to hear the young woman say: "Then according to Mr., how to cut a circle for a Pythagorean?"

"Ah?" Zhao Xin turned his head to look at the woman and was stunned. "Girl, aren't you a doctor?"

The woman said unconvinced: "Medical skills are passed down from family, I am actually very interested in arithmetic. Sir, since you said Mr. Gaoxi was wrong, what should you say is correct?"

Zhao Xinxin said that my old man is talking about your little girl, and he said to the steward: "Let's go to another house to see."

The woman suddenly stopped at the door and said loudly: "No! If you don't make it clear today, don't even think about going out. Mr. Gaoxi is famous all over the world, and you can't ruin your reputation."

Zhao Xin was amused, and said with a smile: "Is he writing books for people to read? Can't tell if he made a mistake? Girl, don't get in the way, I have something else to do."

"You can leave if you want, bow and apologize to Mr. Gaoxi's book."

"Why!" Zhao Xin couldn't laugh or cry, this girl is too awkward.If he went out without hesitation, the two sides would make physical contact, which is long-winded now.

He thought for a while, and asked the bookstore clerk, "Please bring me a stick of charcoal and two pieces of white paper."

While waiting for the clerk to pick up the paper, Zhao Xin said to the woman, "You can thank God for allowing me to teach you a lesson today. Then again, if you don't understand after I finish the lecture, you won't blame me." Close the door and not let me go?"

The woman's face turned red, and she spat, "Bah! Who's going to rely on you. You made it clear, I, I naturally won't block it."

　In the Qing Dynasty, one stone was not one hundred catties as mentioned on the Internet. The weight of one stone was different for different grains. For rice, one stone was 160 catties; if it was wheat, it was 120 catties.As for mung beans, soybeans, buckwheat, etc., the serving size is different.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)