On this issue, the Foreign Intelligence Service conducted in-depth discussions. [No pop-up novel website] Obviously Zhao Yin 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 operating in a semi-public capacity from the beginning.
With the help of historical researchers from the Great Library, Jiang Shan finally decided to fake his nationality for Zhao Yingong.
With the help of the Senate's momentum in Guangdong and the small officials who were willing to work for the Australians for money, Zhao Yingong easily pretended to be a native of Sanshui County, Guangdong. Not only did he pretend to be a native, he also left Guangdong. He spent hundreds of taels of money to get a "proliferative" reputation in Sanshui County. He can be considered a distinguished scholar. Jiang Shan is also planning to give him a title of Juren during the Guangdong Provincial Examination to facilitate further activities.
With the status of a scholar, one is no longer an ordinary commoner in the Ming Dynasty society, and all kinds of evil spirits and monsters must be taboo. The personal safety and social activities of the elders have been fairly guaranteed.
After a group of people settled down, Zhao Yingong took care of Biewang before immediately going to look for a house. If he wants to integrate into Hangzhou society, he must have a house worthy of his status. That is to say, it should not be too extravagant, but it should also show the graceful style of a descendant of the Song Dynasty clan.
Of course, there is also an authentic Zhao and Song royal family in this time and space. They are the descendants of Zhao Ruohe, the king of Yuechong County in the Song Dynasty, who built the Zhaojia Fort in Fujian. The ancestors of Zhaojiabao were able to regain their surname Zhao with the permission of Zhu Yuanzhang during the Hongwu period, which was regarded as restoring their status as descendants of Zhao and Song Dynasties.
Jiang Shan once considered whether to get in touch with this family and endorse Zhao Yingong's identity.
But in the end the discussion came down to not causing this trouble. Anyway, this family's official position is not prominent, and they retreated to the forest in the twenty-eighth year of Wanli. Not much influence.
"I think it is not appropriate to publicly reveal that you are a member of the Zhao Song clan at least within a few days." Yu Eshui said after thinking about this issue again and again at the meeting of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, "Because many of the things you do are the work of the masses. xìng public welfare. If you are suspected of buying people's hearts and you still have the title of a descendant of the Great Song Dynasty clan, it will attract some unnecessary suspicion to you. "
Yu Eshui suggested that before the time comes, you can only express your extraordinary origins, but you must not say your identity openly or clearly.
"Okay. But won't my idea of building an ancestral temple be ruined?"
"You can practice at your own home. Just don't practice near Phoenix Mountain or the West Lake." Yu Eshui said, "It should show a little bit of the style of the Song Dynasty" to make people feel nostalgic..."
"Great Song Dynasty style?" Zhao Yingong scratched his head. He does know a little bit about the style of the Republic of China.
Just wearing cheongsam and the like, what does the Song style look like?
"As long as you show some Song Dynasty style in your daily life, you will leave." Yu Eshui said, "I will get you a pamphlet about Song Dynasty interior decoration and a guide for furnishing and arrangement. Just follow my instructions."
"Okay. Let's see if we can get some antiques from the Song Dynasty to display."
"This thing is not easy to get, and the price won't be too low." Yu Eshui said, "Just take your time." If the real thing doesn't work, try the imitation first. As long as it makes sense. "
However, so far, Zhao Yingong has not figured out what "Song Dynasty style" means. Generally speaking, it seems to be pure and elegant. He was thinking about how to explain it more clearly to Bi Wang, "The house needs to be bigger and the location needs to be quiet.
But it can’t be too remote. "Zhao Yingong explained in detail, "We must have a garden. If the location is right, even an abandoned house or garden will be fine. Finally, he added, "When you go out, stop by the dock and take a look to see if there is that mark." "
Dao Quanzi traveled with him all the way, but broke up before arriving in Hangzhou. The Taoist priest believed that it was best for the two groups 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 to me. I will naturally come to you when the time comes."
"Look clearly, if not" you have to take a look every day when you go out. "
Sun Wang then agreed and went to look for a house.
It’s not easy to live in a place like Hangzhou, and it’s especially hard to find a suitable house. Although Zhao Yingong had several thousand taels of silver with him, he had to spend as much money as possible to cover a lot of expenses. Biewang searched for several days before he found a suitable house. It took another ten days for the sale and purchase to be completed.
Since nothing secretive could be done in the inn, Zhao Yingong and his entourage walked through the streets and alleys of Hangzhou every day to familiarize themselves with the local cultural and geographical environment. By the way, I also reviewed Hangzhou Mandarin.
Hangzhou in the Ming Dynasty is no longer where it was in the Song Dynasty, and there are not even many traces of it left. In the second year after the surrender of the Song Dynasty, a fire destroyed the palace of the Southern Song Dynasty in Fenghuang Mountain. In April of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, a fire broke out in Hangzhou, which spread from the southeast to the northwest. Half of the official and civilian pavilions of nearly 30 miles were burned, and a total of 15,755 official and civilian houses, public houses, temples and temples were destroyed. 38,116 people in 1,797 households were affected, and Yang people were burned to death. The next year there was another fire in Hangzhou. A total of more than 40,000 houses were burned. The fire was so severe that it had never been seen in hundreds of years. The vast area was gradually withering away.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng destroyed Jiuqu City and rebuilt Hangzhou City. 200,000 civilians opened rivers along the city.
However, not long after the city was built, Chang Yuchun attacked Hangzhou again. The city was besieged for more than three months, food routes were cut off, and sixty-seven out of ten people in the city starved to death. Most of the troops retreated and died of disease.
It was not until the Yongle period that the city of Hangzhou gradually regained its vitality. Restore Jirong.
As a good area in Zhejiang, merchants gather here and all industries are prosperous. Jiangnan was the most prosperous and prosperous place in the late Ming Dynasty. According to modern estimates, the permanent population of Hangzhou was more than 500,000. Zhao Yingong walked around the city and outside for a few times and felt that there was greater potential to be tapped here than in Guangzhou.
The house is in "Shangcheng". 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 hall in the front, and a large garden at the back. However, most of it has been completely abandoned. The original owner has circled a part and built a unique small garden.
garden. Other terms were 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 very large. In addition to expanding the garden, there is enough land to expand the house.
The quality of the house itself is quite good. It is said that this house belonged to an official family. After the death of the master, the children were unworthy and quickly fell into decline. The house was sold to facilitate the separation of families.
Bie Wangshou knew that when buying a house or land, he was most afraid of encountering the problem of his children competing for property, and the trouble would be endless. He did not hesitate to spend more money at the brokerage office, and specially filed a record in the household room of the county government office to get things done smoothly.
After buying the house, Bie Wangcai went to the tea party to find a wooden cabinet builder and renovated the entire house. At the same time, the abandoned garden will be slightly renovated: currently there is no financial resources and energy to expand the garden.
All kinds of furniture and daily necessities were bought in a hurry. Zhao Yingong warned not to buy too many things for the time being, and only bought all the necessary furniture items for now.
You can only buy half-used furniture. Fortunately, Hangzhou is a provincial capital. There are many large gentry families. Ups and downs, there are always a few who have failed and sold their property. There are many officials here, and the next official will have to deal with inconveniences before he leaves. Carry furniture and miscellaneous items. Therefore, there are many items in the second-hand shop, the business is booming, and the prices are not expensive.
Zhao Yingong didn't want to sound like a nouveau riche, but he found it difficult to grasp what "Song Dynasty style" meant. After thinking about it, nouveau riche always liked new, big, and expensive things. To be low-key and tasteful, you must have "old goods".
But the price of this old product cannot be lowered. In short, things that seem worthless are actually very valuable. After weighing this, he asked Bie Wangcai to buy half-used rosewood tables and chairs, add some ornaments, and lay them out first.
As for calligraphy and painting, he brought a lot of works by minor famous artists from Guangdong and Guangdong.
There are also some scholars who are officials in Guangdong. It not only shows his Guangdong origin and strength, but also looks elegant.
"I have to find a Qingke husband." Zhao Yingong thought, otherwise if he did all these things by himself, he would definitely be embarrassed. No matter how many history books he read, he was not a person of this era.
Money makes it easy to do things. The wooden cabinets were repaired and everyone moved from the inn to their new home. It only took three or five days for everything to be in order. Even the kitchen cooks, doorkeepers, sedan bearers, rough maids and other servants are all hired one by one - this is a typical consumer city with a huge population engaged in the tertiary industry.
Of course, these people are not reliable, but there are no ulterior activities at Guangzhou Station at the moment. He must first support the scene before he can carry out activities. In the future, we will slowly select reliable and suitable candidates.
In his newly built study, he was thinking hard about the problem of supplementing staff.
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 people 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.
What he needs most now is a local "leading party."
In Guangzhou, they have Gao Zhi. In Hangzhou, they turned a blind eye. Gao Ji had some business dealings in Jiangnan, but his friendship was not very strong. His main connections are in Beijing. So the only use from aloft is to provide some business partners.
Li Luoyou doesn't have many connections in Jiangnan. Therefore, it is quite difficult for him to open up a social situation in Hangzhou. The talents acquired by the Intelligence Bureau were of low status and lacked literary names, so it was difficult to open up the situation from this point of view. Zhao Yingong thought again and again that he had to start with fresh goods from Qiqiao Yinji.
By opening shops to sell new products, you can attract the attention of local businessmen and even gentry, so that you can slowly enter the social circle of local gentry. a.
