The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 390 Temple Fair
After going to the Fox Fairy Temple to make a wish, the whole family took a car to Liuquanju for lunch, and then went to the temple fair separately.

The temple fair of the Qixi Festival in the capital is definitely lively enough. Since the new emperor ascended the throne, the rule that foreigners must pay tribute to China has been revoked.

Father Li Zhao is a person who has personally gone to the sea to do sea trade. Whether he admits it or not, the emperor has a certain degree of businessman thinking in his bones. Co-production is the only way to see Song Qingyue who grew up under the influence of the market economy environment so pleasing to the eye.

The first thing the emperor did when he came to power was to abolish the tributary system of "those who come and go in favor of each other". For a "kingdom of heaven" like the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is no need to win their submission by giving benefits to other small countries.

He has guns, cannons, and steam-powered "ghost workers". In the past six months since he took the throne, he has changed the original Suwang Mansion's sea trade caravan into a royal sea trade caravan, and reduced the size of the original fleet. It has tripled in size. In the past six months, the three shipyards in which Li Zhaoming owns shares have not received any foreign orders, and only received orders for their own merchant ships.

The emperor's next plan is to use all the money earned from sea trade to build steam-powered warships.

As long as you drive the fleet of black-smoking ghost craftsmen south and drive around those small countries a few times, are you afraid that they won't come to pay tribute?
However, although the tribute trade has been changed to free trade, it is not truly free. There are still restrictions on the number of foreigners entering the territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom, but from the original 70 people a year, it has been changed to 300 people per quarter, so that 1000 people a year Two hundred people.

The imperial court will strictly supervise these foreigners. Apart from doing business, they are strictly prohibited from preaching in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and their residence time in the Great Zhou Dynasty shall not exceed two months. After finishing the business, they must leave immediately.

When these foreigners entered the Great Zhou Dynasty, they would get a "customs guide" similar to a modern passport. This small book would record the time they entered the Great Zhou Dynasty. The officials of the shipping department arrested them and handed them over to the Ministry of Punishment, and then took them to mines or road construction.

These foreigners who come to China are not allowed to move freely in the Great Zhou Kingdom. They can only live in the "foreign hotels" designated by the Department of Shipping for foreigners. Trade must also be carried out in the "foreign trade market". , the imperial court will tax them at a rate of [-]% of the trade volume.

In short, there are many restrictions, but it is finally much more "open" than before.

However, when there are restrictions, there are exceptions, that is during festivals, such as the Lantern Festival, such as the Shangsi Festival, and such as the Qixi Festival... During these important festivals, these foreign businessmen are allowed to trade outside the "foreign trade market" place to do business.

So when Song Qingyue went to the temple fair with Li Zhao, she saw a lot of foreigners. Of course, foreigners with blonde hair and blue eyes like Father Ai were a minority, and Southeast Asians with dark skin and thin stature accounted for the majority. People and Baekje people, and a small number of burly Walla people and Tatars.

Song Qingyue stood by the side of the road and ate the mutton skewers made by the Wala people. When she bit the fat, she handed it to Li Zhao for him to eat. Then she continued to eat the lean parts. Mo Zhu, Mo Lan, Lin Wanfu, and Qin Jifu stood Behind the two of them, there were a lot of strange gadgets that the princess had just bought in their hands.

After a while, Song Qingyue took Li Zhao to eat the stinky tofu fried by the merchants in southern Hunan. There was also delicious chopped pepper sauce in it. Flavored milk tea.Song Qingyue ate spicy stinky tofu while drinking milk tea, and lamented to Li Zhao that the popularity of chili is really fast, and people in Hunan have already eaten chili!
Song Yaxin and Xu Youzhong were sitting in a simple and elegantly decorated tea house not far away drinking tea, watching the third younger sister downstairs standing on the side of the street with His Royal Highness standing in such an inconspicuous manner eating street stalls was a bit dumbfounding.She really can't do this kind of thing.

Xu Youzhong smiled and said, "Isn't this the charm of your third sister?"

Song Yaxin snorted, "Could it be that you also want to go down and eat that stinky tofu?"

Xu Youzhong waved his hands again and again: "I don't think so, let's drink tea here."

Next to them, another luxuriously dressed girl squeezed the teacup in her hand, her knuckles turned white with such force.She looked downstairs, her heart seemed to be soaked in ice water, tears were about to fall.

Your Highness, you actually like such a vulgar woman!

He was actually willing to stand with her on the side of the street and eat that stinky thing!
impossible!
How can it be?

Why?
Why!
(End of this chapter)