Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1487
As soon as New Year's Eve passed, the capital city became very lively. People came out to hang out everywhere, and some people passed by on the street on bicycles, attracting many people's attention.

Mass production of bicycles has already started, but the price is still very high. People in the capital call them "big pieces", and ordinary people have to be cruel to buy them.

The snow was cleared to both sides of the street by workers in the morning, a large number of lanterns were hung on the ropes, and there were small vendors hawking on the street.Vendors who sell snacks such as rice cakes and candied haws are often welcomed, because passers-by who are wandering are tired from walking, so they naturally stop to buy some snacks.Vendors selling New Year's goods take advantage of this time to make a lot of money.

Chu Yun brought several women, Ling'er and Xue'er to the street, surrounded by plainclothes guards and intelligence personnel secretly protecting them.

"There are more and more goods sold every year, and it seems that people's living standards have improved."

Chu Yun saw the shop billboards lined up on both sides of the street, and there were more people riding the inflatable rubber bicycles produced by the Phoenix Bicycle Factory on the street. He felt that he had come to a modern ancient city instead of the 17th century.

"My lord, you spent money on it." Da Yuer saw the investment behind it.

"Money is also taxed from ordinary people to have fiscal revenue. They are the main body of outward development and production. Agricultural tax is still the bulk of the income. We produce fertilizers and steam plows in order to increase agricultural harvests." Chu Yun had to admit a fact.

This is still an agricultural country. The land income of hundreds of millions of people is the main source of fiscal revenue. Handicrafts and industrial production are just in their infancy. It may take a lot of time to make the income ratio of light industry and heavy industry higher than that of agricultural tax.

A large population is an advantage, but it is also easy to cover up the fact that when the technology is backward, the income supported by a large population and agricultural land appears to be a big country, but in fact it is often strong from the outside, such as the current Mughal Empire.

"Mom, I want to eat candied haws." Ling'er grabbed Ella by the corner of her clothes, and looked at a pedestrian vendor selling candied haws not far away.

"Eating too sweet things will cause tooth decay..." Ella seemed unwilling to agree.

"It's okay to let him eat one during the Chinese New Year." Chu Yun was not as strict as usual at this time, but agreed easily.

"Daddy, you are so kind." Ling'er hugged Chu Yun's thigh excitedly.

This guy is a mother if he has milk.Chu Yun had nothing to do with Ling'er, who was getting smarter and smarter. This little guy had already started reading and writing before he knew it, and his IQ was quite high.

After a while, Ling'er was already holding a bunch of candied haws.In fact, all the candied haws in the hands of the itinerant trader were bought, and the guard gave a bunch of them to the young master after he tasted some of them without any problems.

The gourd seller knew that all the candied haws in his hands had been bought, and it was the guards of the military lord who bought them. He hurriedly expressed that he didn't want money, but the guards still stuffed a piece of silver into his hand.

The guards who bought the candied haws also distributed a bunch of candied haws to each other to avoid waste.A group of people walked on the street while eating candied haws, which seemed a little strange.

Not far away, a family was also shopping, but this family was even more strange, communicating in two different languages, and one of the blond old men held a small red lantern in his hand.

"This lantern symbolizes wealth and auspiciousness? It seems that you in the East really like red, flowers, birds, fish and insects, and dance pavilions." Lord Greenville ignored the curious eyes of some residents around him, but focused his attention When it comes to the lantern itself, I don't understand why the residents of the capital like lanterns so much.

"Every civilization has its own culture, and this lantern is part of our culture."

After Li Jinde traveled to many countries in the West, he has seen many civilizations. He has seen all three of the most important civilizations in the world. Civilization also has a deeper understanding, knowing the difference from other civilizations.

"When you were away, my husband, it was me and my aunt who went out to buy new year's goods, and you came back after changing the Spring Festival couplets two or three times." Selina was choosing the Spring Festival couplets.

Mrs. Grace also looked at the ink on the couplets curiously. Some of the couplets were written in cursive and seal script, so that even though she had lived in the capital for a while, she couldn't recognize what the couplets meant to express.

On the contrary, Aunt Li was holding Li Yinger wrapped in a small padded jacket. She did not expect that Selina's family seemed to have immigrated here, and now she had to communicate with her in-laws in two mixed languages.

"It's Mr. Chu!"

Sir Greenville, who spent the most lively festival in the East for the first time, found Chu Yun and others who caused quite a stir when he was looking around for new things.

Chu Yun has minimized the movement of travel as much as possible, but there are still many residents gathered.

"Let's pay a visit to the military leader." Li Jinde said to Selina and her party.

He was able to get his current position from one of the local businessmen in Fujian. His career can be said to be inseparable from Chu Yun. He happened to meet here, so his family walked over.

"My lord!" Li Jinde saluted Chu Yun.

Sir Greenville and Mrs. Grace followed the western etiquette.

"The old woman has met the Lord of the Army!" Among them, Aunt Li was the most excited. When Chu Yun wiped out the pirates in the southeast coast, he helped her avenge her husband's death at the hands of the pirates.

"Ma'am, you are welcome, you are still young, so you don't need to call yourself an old woman." Chu Yun was very polite.

"My lord, you are joking, how can you be so young when you are old..." Aunt Li said so, but her heart was full of joy.

This is the supreme ruler of the empire, to get a compliment from him is better than 1 people saying that!

"This is the young master. This is the new year's money given to you by your uncle."

Seeing Ling'er following Chu Yun, Li Jinde hesitated for a while and took out a red envelope to Ling'er.

He thought about a lot of things in a flash. He never thought that he would meet Chu Yun's family here. He didn't have a red envelope for Ling'er, so he had to give Ling'er a red envelope for his colleagues' children, fearing that the number would be too small.

Ling'er was a little hesitant, he didn't know what to look at his father for a moment.

"Since it was Uncle Li's wish for you, you can accept it. What should I say at this time?" Chu Yun said to Ling'er.

"Thank you, Uncle Li." Master Ling'er cupped his hands to Li Jinde like a little adult, and then accepted Li Jinde's red envelope.

At this moment, Chu Yun glanced at Aila, and she immediately understood the meaning. This is to reciprocate the courtesy, and she cannot owe any favors.

(End of this chapter)