back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 142

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After strolling for more than an hour, the imperial guards behind them were already full of things, ranging from a small handkerchief to a basket of fruits, preserved fruits, food, etc. Even Lu Chengqi had a lot of rouge and powder on him, and it was almost too late. I can't bring it up.

Wang Yanchen looked at Zhou Zhiruo, who was still enjoying himself, with a mournful face, approached Lu Chengqi quietly, and said in a low voice, "Master, please spare me, my purse is already empty... I will be scolded by that woman for being a big-headed ghost when I go back." .Master, see if you can pay two months' salary in advance, or else you really have nothing to cook..."

Lu Chengqi laughed and scolded: "You cunning, you beat around the bush to remind me to pay you back the money. You are also cheap. Earlier, I said to return the money to you, but you didn't want it. Now it's all right. When I run out of money, I want it again! That's fine! , that's all right, as soon as I go back, my son will pull out the money from the inner treasury and return it to you, okay?"

After hearing these words, Wang Yanchen smiled and said: "It is a small blessing to be able to serve the Lord!"

Lu Chengqi was annoyed and funny, and said, "Virtue! You contributed money to increase consumption in Dashun's economy. It's a credit. Why is your awareness so low?"

Wang Yanchen muttered in a low voice: "It's not that I'm low-minded, it's because your consciousness is too high..."

Fortunately, there were so many voices at this time, Lu Chengqi couldn't hear his words.

After dusk, night began to fall, and the Dazhuangyan Temple has closed all the gates except the mountain gate.At this time, there are already stall owners holding lamps, all using some tung oil for porcelain lamps.At this time, the ceramics of the Dashun Dynasty had made great progress. All kinds of ceramics, such as Ru kiln, Ge kiln, Jun kiln, Ding kiln, official kiln and other official kilns, as well as Raozhou kiln, Longquan kiln, Jianyang kiln, etc. , Jizhou kiln and other large folk kilns, and countless other small folk kilns.Because porcelain lamps are more fuel-efficient than metal lamps such as copper lamps, these small vendors have always used porcelain lamps.There are porcelain lamps in Sichuan, which can be filled with water into the edge of the lamp, which can save half of the fuel.The wall of this oil lamp is a hollow interlayer with a small hole on the side through which water can be poured into the wall of the lamp.Clean water can lower the temperature of the lamp lamp and reduce the volatilization of oil when the lamp is lit, so as to achieve the purpose of saving fuel.This kind of oil lamp soon became popular throughout Dashun, and was loved by poor people.

It's not that there are no candles at this time, but the price of candles is too high, and ordinary people are discouraged.Candles have less black smoke than oil lamps and have a wider lighting range, and are mostly used by dignitaries.

Oil lamps are mostly used by ordinary people and poor students because of their simple production and low price.Although the oil lamp is good, but because of the quality of the oil and the material of the lamp cord, the smoke generally produced is very large, which is disgusted by the high-ranking officials and the upper class.

Dashun now has some public welfare lamps and candles for public lighting, which are set up for the yamen who work at night and the yamen servants who return at night.These public lighting candles should be the prototype of street lights.

The development of lighting has enriched the nightlife in Dashun.Ever since Lu Chengqi ordered the abolition of the curfew across the country, and the curfew was not allowed unless there were special circumstances, the nights in Dashun were even more brightly lit.Now there are already people who have a leisurely meal at night before going home. These people indirectly make the nighttime catering industry flourish.

These people have a nickname, "Long Shou Jiao Min". They even buy water to wash their face and mouth in the morning, not to mention setting fires (cooking) at home, and they don't even turn on the stove in ordinary homes.These residents of Chang'an City, after waking up to the clear voice of the time teller, now go to work after breakfast.Before breakfast, buy some body wash at the breakfast stand to wash your face.

Residents of Chang'an City after breakfast, what to do, saw monks begging for alms on the way, and occasionally threw them a few pennies.If you have finished your work in the afternoon and have nothing else to do, you can go to the playground with your friends and watch theatrical performances or something.The playgrounds in Dashun are called "Wazi", "Washe", "Goulan" and so on. "Wazi" and "Washe" are relatively large-scale comprehensive theatrical performance venues in the city, and most of the performers are professional artists. Compared with Gou Lan, they are much more high-end. Separated, divided into small venues one by one.

But whether it is "Washer" or "Goulan", the programs are extremely rich.There are all kinds of performances that people like to see, such as sumo wrestling, puppets, movies, dramas, reciting business riddles, and learning folklore.

The night life of the people in Chang'an City is extremely rich. Every night, the lights in Chang'an City are brightly lit, the crowds are surging, and the red lights are hung high.Various voices from artists and citizens came from restaurants and teahouses from time to time.

Especially the Qianjian opposite the Dashun Palace, which is Dashun's banknote printing factory, and there are hundreds of officials in it.These people are the main body of high consumption.After get off work, these people go out to restaurants together, and never eat at home.After eating, you can also go to the bathhouse to take a bath, then go shopping, and don't go home until it's time to sleep.

There are also many restaurants in Chang'an City. In addition to the most famous Yingke Building, there are Hele Building, Hefeng Building, Zhonghe Building, Chunfeng Building, Taihe Building (, West Building, Taiping Building, Fengle Building, Xi'an Building, etc.) Chunlou, Sanyuanlou, Wujianlou, Shangxinlou, Huayuelou, Rixinlou and more than [-] restaurants. The rest are called "foot shops", which are not very famous. There will be a carriage to take you when you are drunk When you get home, you can say that the service is thoughtful. The price is also very expensive. Lu Chengqi learned through the investigation of the Supervision Department that each person spends no less money in restaurants and teahouses every day. The business tax of Jingzhao Prefecture is more than one-fifth. Get it from these restaurants.

After visiting the temple fair, not to mention the imperial guards carrying many things, even Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo were a little hungry.I found a restaurant called Hefenglou, got an elegant seat on the second floor, and started eating and drinking.

The imperial guards, on the other hand, went to buy some cooked food from a small stall to deal with it. After all, they were still at work, so they dared not slack off too much.Don't underestimate the cooked food on these small stalls. The variety is as rich as the restaurant meals of later generations.Such as water rice, non-cooked meat, dried dried meat, Wang Louqian scorpion, wild fox, dried meat, chicken, domestic goose, domestic duck, domestic rabbit, pork belly lung, eel, steamed stuffed bun, chicken skin, kidney kidney, minced chicken ( chicken offal), etc., each costing only fifteen Wen.There are also wine soaked in the river, zhangju oyster meat, turtle feet, lock pipes, midin, crispy snails, horseshoe crab sauce, French, roe, fish and many other seafood.The so-called high quality and low price is nothing more than this.

Most of these small vendors are attached to the big restaurants and sell some food other than soup.If you go from Zhuquemen to both sides of Yujie, there will be more food for sale, and there will be countless foot shops.There are: rotary fried, white sausage.Preserved bream, frozen fish head, ginger bean curd, batch-cut sheep head, spicy feet, ginger and spicy radish, Xiayue sesame curd chicken skin, sesame drink powder, plain sugar, ice and snow cold yuanzi, crystal soap, raw water Eat desserts such as papaya, medicined melon, chicken head rice granulated sugar, lentil beans, licorice ice, snow and cold water.And some dried fruit such as lychee paste, mustard melon, pickles, apricot slices, plum ginger, lettuce shoots, mustard melon, finely ground scorpion, fragrant candy, Jiandaotang lychee, Yuemei, knife purple Su Gao, Jinsi Dangmei, Xiangyuyuan, etc. are all stored in plum red boxes.

Some large foot shops will provide such as Dongyue pan rabbit, spin-roasted pork skin, wild duck, dripping crispy crystal meat, fried clips, pig offal and so on.The smell of food, even if the stomach is full and round, will make the index finger move again.

After watching the repertoire and tasting the fragrant tea, these long-sleeved and arrogant people bought some cooked food on the street to fill their stomachs.From the street to the end of the street, until the middle of the night, I went home bitterly late at night.A good night of life is the end of the curtain.

Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo also walked back to the palace slowly after having fun.Since the internal treasury allocated the money that Wang Yanchen and other guards paid in advance today, they also gave a lot of rewards.At this moment, the ever-burning lights in the Hall of Renming were brightly lit, and Lu Chengqi secretly lamented that the life of the people of Dashun was exceptionally happy, not much better than that of later generations.

(End of this chapter)