Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 852 Master Zhao
On this issue, the Foreign Intelligence Service conducted in-depth discussions.Obviously Zhao Yingong cannot be associated with Australians.Jiangnan is not Guangzhou, and it is not under the gunfire of the Senate.Unlike in Guangzhou, Guo Yi has been active in a semi-public capacity from the very beginning.

With the assistance of the historical researchers of the Great Library, Jiang Shan finally decided to pretend to be Zhao Yingong.

Taking advantage of the popularity of the Senate in Guangdong and the help of petty officials who are willing to work for Australians for money, Zhao Yingong conveniently pretended to be in Sanshui County, Guangdong. Not only did he pretend to be, but he also left Guangdong. The way of Xuezheng spent a few hundred taels of silver to get a reputation for "increasing growth" in Sanshui County.It can be regarded as a dignified talent.Jiang Shan is also planning to give him the title of Juren during the Guangdong Provincial Examination to facilitate further activities.

With the status of a scholar, in the Ming Dynasty society, he is not an ordinary commoner, and all kinds of ghosts and snakes should be taboo.The personal safety and social activities of the elders are quite guaranteed.

After the group settled down, Zhao Yingong took care of Sun Wang and went to find a house immediately.If he wants to integrate into Hangzhou society, he must have a house worthy of his status.That is, it should not be too extravagant, but it must also show the graceful style of the descendants of the Song dynasty.

Of course, this time and space also has an authentic Zhao Song clan family, which is the descendant of Zhao Ruohe, king of Minchong County in Song Dynasty, who lived together in Fujian and built Zhaojiabao.The ancestors of Zhaojiabao were able to restore their surname to Zhao with the permission of Zhu Yuanzhang during the Hongwu period, which can be regarded as restoring their identity as descendants of Zhao and Song.Jiang Shan once considered whether to contact this family and endorse Zhao Yingong's identity.But in the end, after discussing it, it is better not to cause this trouble.Anyway, the official position of this family is not obvious, and they retired to the forest in the 28th year of Wanli.Not much influence.

"I don't think it's appropriate to publicly declare that you are Zhao Song's clan for at least a few years." Yu Eshui said after thinking about this issue at a meeting of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, "Because many of the things you do are mass-oriented. Public welfare. There is a suspicion of buying people's hearts-and you have to hang the title of a descendant of the Song Dynasty clan, which will attract some unnecessary suspicion."

Yu Eshui suggested that before the time comes, you can only reveal a little about your extraordinary background, but you must never publicly and clearly state your identity.

"Okay. But my idea of ​​building the ancestral hall will be ruined?"

"You can repair it in your own home. Don't repair it to the Phoenix Mountain and the West Lake." Yu Eshui said, "It should show a little touch of the Song Dynasty, and make people feel nostalgic..."

"Da Song Faner?" Zhao Yingong scratched his head a little.He does know a little bit about the style of the Republic of China, what does the style of the Song Dynasty look like with bare legs like a cheongsam?
"It just needs to show a little Song style in daily life." Yu Eshui said, "I will make you a brochure at that time-about the interior decoration of the Song Dynasty, and there is a guide to the decoration. You just follow it."

"Success. Let's see if we can get some antiques from the Song Dynasty."

"This thing is not easy to get, and the price won't be too low." Yu Eshui said, "Take your time. If you can't buy the real one, come to the imitation one first. If you have something interesting, just do it."

However, so far, Zhao Yingong hasn't figured out what "Da Song Fan'er" is. Generally speaking, it seems to be elegant and elegant.He was thinking about how to explain clearly to Sun Wang,
"The house should be bigger and the location should be quiet. But it can't be too remote." Zhao Yingong explained in detail, "There must be a garden. If the location is suitable, even an abandoned house or garden is fine." Finally he added, "When you go out, stop by the pier and see if there is that mark."

Daoquanzi walked with him all the way, but broke up before arriving in Hangzhou.The Taoist leader believes that it is best for the two groups of people to enter the city separately.

"You will know that I have arrived safely when you see my mark." The Taoist priest said, "Don't come looking for me, I will naturally look for you when the time comes."

"Look at it clearly, if not, you have to take a look every day when you go out in the future."

Only then did Sun Wang agree, and then went to look for a house.

It is not easy to live in a place like Hangzhou, and it is especially hard to find a suitable house.Although Zhao Yingong had a few thousand taels of silver with him, this money had to meet a lot of expenses - he had to save money as much as possible.Sun Wang searched for several days before he found a suitable house.It took another ten days for the transaction to be completed.

There were no secret things to do in the inn, so Zhao Yingong and his entourage walked through the streets and alleys of Hangzhou every day to get familiar with the local cultural and geographical environment.By the way, also review Hangzhou Mandarin.

The Hangzhou of the Ming Dynasty is no longer the Xingzai of the Song Dynasty—there are not even many traces of Xingzai left.In the second year after the surrender of the Song Dynasty, a fire burned down the palace of the Southern Song Dynasty court in Phoenix Mountain.From Yuan to Zhengyuan in April, a fire broke out in Hangzhou, extending from the southeast to the northwest, and nearly 30 miles away, half of the official and civilian houses were burned. A total of 15755 official and private houses, public houses, and temples were destroyed, 10797 households were affected by 38116 people, and 74 people were burned to death.In the following year, there was another fire in Hangzhou, and more than 4 houses were burned down.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng abolished Jiuqu City, rebuilt Hangzhou City, and sent 20 civilian workers to open the river along the city.But shortly after the city was built, Chang Yuchun attacked Hangzhou again.After besieging the city for more than three months, the food roads were cut off, and six or seven out of ten people in the city starved to death.Most of the retired soldiers died of disease.

It was not until the Yongle period that the city of Hangzhou gradually regained its vitality.restore prosperity.As the first good area in Zhejiang, merchants gather here and all industries are prosperous.Jiangnan was also the most affluent and prosperous place in the late Ming Dynasty. According to modern estimates, the permanent population of Hangzhou is more than 50.Zhao Yingong wandered around the city for a few times, and felt that there was a greater potential to be tapped here than in Guangzhou.

The house is in the "upper city", as the name suggests, this is the "upper class area" of Hangzhou City.The house is a five-bay main house with a total of three entrances, left and right side rooms, a sedan chair hall in the front, and a large garden in the back, but most of it has been completely abandoned, and the original owner circled a part of it to repair a unique small garden.The other term is abandoned.Zhao Yingong looked at it and felt very satisfied.Although the house itself is not too big, the area of ​​the abandoned garden is large. In addition to expanding the garden, there is still enough land to expand the house.

The quality of the house itself is still very good - it is said that this was the house of an official family in the past. Since the death of the master, the children were unworthy and soon fell down, so they sold the house to separate the family.Sun Wang knew that when buying a house or land, he was most afraid of encountering the problem of his children competing for property, and there would be endless troubles if he got involved.So he didn't hesitate to spend more money in the brokerage office, and made a special record in the household of the county government office, so as to handle the matter firmly.

After buying the house, Sun Wangcai went to the tea party to find a house that built wooden cabinets, and refurbished the whole house.At the same time, the abandoned garden will be slightly renovated: there is no financial and energy to expand the garden at the moment.

All kinds of furniture and daily necessities were rushed to buy——Zhao Yingong advised not to buy too many things for the time being, and only bought all the necessary furniture items at the moment.

You can only buy semi-old furniture. Fortunately, Hangzhou is a provincial capital. There are many big gentry families. There are ups and downs, and there are always a few who fall down and sell their properties. There are many officials here, and it is inconvenient to deal with the next officials before they leave. Carried furniture and sundries.Therefore, there are many items in the thrift shop, the business is booming, and the price is not too expensive.

Zhao Yingong didn't want to show the taste of a nouveau riche, but he felt that it was difficult to grasp what a "big Song fan" was. After thinking about it, nouveau riche always like new, big and expensive things.If you want to look low-key and tasteful, you have to have "old goods".But the price of this old product can't be lowered.In short, things that look cheap are actually very valuable.After weighing it in this way, he asked Sun Wang to buy half-worn rosewood tables and chairs first, and then matched some decorations, and laid them out first.

As for calligraphy and painting, he brought a lot of them—many of them were works of famous artists from Guangdong and Guangxi, and some of them were scholars who were officials in Guangdong.It not only shows his Guangdong native place and strength, but also looks elegant.

"I have to find a clean gentleman." Zhao Yingong thought, otherwise, if he made up all these things by himself, he would definitely be embarrassing - no matter how many history books he reads, he is not a person of this era.

Money is easy to do, the wooden cabinet has been repaired, and a group of people moved from the inn to the new house. It took only three to five days, and everything was settled.Even the cook in the kitchen, the porter at the door, the sedan chair for the sedan chair, the maid for the rough messenger, etc. have all been hired one by one-this is a typical consumer city, and the population engaged in the tertiary industry is very large.

Of course, these people are not reliable, but there are no ulterior activities in Guangzhou Station right now.He has to support the scene before he can carry out activities.In the future, we will gradually select reliable and suitable candidates.

In his newly completed study, he was thinking hard about the problem of replenishing personnel.

There are plenty of reliable people in Lingao.Talents from all walks of life can be found among the naturalized people who passed the political examination in Lingao, but most of them are from Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Hunan.There are a few from Zhejiang, mainly in southern Zhejiang.There are very few people from the Jiangnan area.And what he needs most now is a local "leading party".

In Guangzhou, they have exalted.In Hangzhou, they were blinded.Gao Ju has some business contacts in Jiangnan, but his friendship is not close.His main contacts are in Beijing.So the only use from exalted is to provide some business associates.

Li Luoyou didn't have a lot of connections in Jiangnan either.Therefore, it is quite difficult for him to open up social situations in Hangzhou.The status of the scholars acquired by the Intelligence Bureau is too low, and they lack literary names, so it is difficult to open the situation from this.Zhao Yingong thought again and again that he had to start with the fresh goods of Kit Kat.By opening shops to sell new products, attract the attention of local businessmen and even gentry, so that they can slowly enter the social circle of large local gentry.

(End of this chapter)