Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 240 IX Jinan

At the beginning of October in the 11th year of Chongzhen, Jinan.

In the current Jinan prefectural city, there are many crowns and crowns, and most of the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Shandong, as well as the rich and right gentry, are all gathered in this huge prefectural city.

In terms of area, although the city walls of Jinan Prefecture cannot be compared with those of Huai'an, Suzhou, etc., they still stretch for more than 80 miles. In terms of prosperity, although they are not as large as Beijing, Nanjing, Kaifeng, etc. The exact number, but according to the density of the population, the amount of consumable materials for daily expenses can be calculated. The population of this famous Shandong city should be between [-] and [-].

This number is slightly more than Linqing, Jining and other prosperous Shandong cities, and it is quite a lot more than Qingzhou and Laizhou. [

If it was Zhang Shouren who came, he must also be surprised by the prosperity and excitement of the city at that time.On some of the most open and bustling commercial streets in the city, there are signboards covering the sky and the sun everywhere. The yelling of the shopkeepers is one after another, which is very lively. The types of goods are also particularly complete. , does not conflict, there are also special products from overseas, Korean ginseng, Japanese folding fans and Japanese knives, Nanyang spices and famous gems of various colors. The special products are also grandly placed on the counter of the oldest shop.

There are bustling crowds everywhere. Although people's faces show poverty, sorrow, and worry, most of them are calm and tranquil, and also plump and full. No matter what, there is a kind of vitality. The people of Daming, no matter how poor they are They are the lowest-level military households, refugees, and disaster victims. People who can live in a prefecture like Jinan have escaped from the lowest level. They have basically no worries in life. Living in a big city like Jinan, there are many opportunities. As long as you work hard Practical, at least one can earn a living, and the Chinese are the least afraid of suffering. As long as they can feed their wives and children, how many men are willing to work hard?

suffer?This is really not the case for the Chinese...

Therefore, in the cities, most of the faces are full of red, rich and happy faces, especially the gentry class. This kind of prefecture is countless times more than that of a small place like Fushan. They wear all kinds of robes and long gowns, their faces are very rosy, and their expressions are casual and gentle. , Walking in the market, many people are looking for business from these people. They also look around casually, mainly focusing on antiques or calligraphy and painting goods. Reporting your own address, asking the boy to deliver it at night, or keeping accounts, or spending on the spot, are all casual matters.

In Chinese society at that time, integrity had not been lost. No matter whether the store was doing business or the buyer was doing business, it would be difficult to move forward without integrity. Those who bought something and paid the bill on the spot were foreign customers. Whether it is a buyer or a seller, they are all desperately asking for a price, which is very lively.

There are also many refugees in some important places in the city or near the city gates, 99 out of [-], all of them came from Henan.

In the past few years in Henan, there have been locust plagues after the drought. The government neither provided relief nor exempted them from paying taxes.