The grandeur of Nanjing in this time and space also left a deep impression on Zhou Dongtian. [No pop-up novel website] Needless to say, a small county like Lingao, even if he once went to Guangzhou for "internship", the two city walls in Hangzhou, which were regarded as the first-class cities at the time, could not compare with it.
Zhou Dongtian visited many cities in the old time and space, and Amjing was considered a visit here. Even though the Nanjing City Wall was in ruins at the time, he was amazed by Ming Taizu's determination and investment in defending his capital at all costs.
The city walls of Nanjing were built entirely according to the local topography of Nanjing. Not only did they use the city walls of Yingtianfu in the Yuan Dynasty, they also made extensive use of various hills around Nanjing as part of the defense system. In some areas, the mountain is directly used as the foundation of the city wall. Therefore it is irregularly shaped. It is connected to Zhongshan Mountain in the east, Stone Mountain in the west, Xuanwu Lake in the north, and Qinhuai River in the south. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has extraordinary momentum. The city foundation is also luxuriously made of granite or limestone strips, and the two walls are built with large bricks. The brick joints are poured with lime, glutinous rice or rice juice mixed with tung oil to form a slurry, which is extremely strong.
At this moment, although there has been no war for many years, Nanjing's city walls and defense facilities are inevitably in decline. But the city walls are still in good condition. Although Zhou Dongtian is not a soldier, he also knows that the current artillery fire of the army cannot destroy the city wall of Nanjing at all. The artillery fire of the Japanese army in the 1930s could not destroy the city wall of Nanjing, not to mention the smoothbore of the Fubo army, which was much backward than the Japanese artillery. gun.
“If the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty could resist resolutely, the Qing army would not be able to capture the city.
Zhou Dongtian said with emotion. When the Hunan army besieged Tianjing, the 20,000 hungry and exhausted Taiping troops in the city could still resist for a long time relying on the city walls. The conditions in Nanming were much better than those of the Taiping troops. It was a pity that the small court was tired of party struggles inside and outside. Centrifugal, finally surrendered without a fight.
Merlin was thinking about the Qinhuai River. He gave up the idea of going to meet Qinhuai Bayan for the time being.
Zhao Yingong gave him some historical knowledge before setting off. Now one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai has long been an ancient. The other seven, except Liu Rushi, who was born in 1618, are over 14 years old. All the other seven are real children. Loliì.
"Can you do it?" Zhao Yingong asked, "Even Liu Rushi is too young." Merlin is a modern person after all, and there are limits to many things. However, since the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai cannot enjoy the Qinhuai River for the time being, they still have to go to the famous Ming Dynasty Golden Grottoes, which is said to be a place where beauties gather. Merlin really wants to experience what it is like. By the way, it also verifies whether the aesthetic taste of the ancients is really special.
The bustling streets make it hard to believe that this is the end of the Ming Dynasty. Although the activities of "building captives" and "roving bandits" have appeared in everyone's ears more and more, news of "suffering from hunger everywhere" and "deaths of hungry people" are constantly heard in various places. Even the terrible news of "changing children to eat", which was not often heard in the past, has been heard. There are famines, defeats,
With the news of extra factions and civil commotion, the situation in the country is becoming more and more chaotic day by day. Even the price of rice in Jiangnan, which has always been considered prosperous, has risen to three taels of silver per stone. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the price of rice in Jiangnan has never been so high. However, none of this seems to have cast the slightest shadow on this Jiangnan city.
However, many unsettling shadows can also appear here. Those who speak southern and northern accents are not only officials, gentry and wealthy people, but also many homeless beggars. There are obviously more such people on the streets, and there are more and more people. Many trends. In winter, many more corpses were picked up by shops in the city than in previous years. There were so many refugees fleeing famine from various places, especially from Jiangbei, Anhui and other places, that a large number of people sold into slavery crowded the markets outside the city. So much so that the price of population plummeted.
Cai Yibang, a member of the Nanjing branch who had been accompanying the sedan, stopped drinking the sedan, slightly opened the curtain of the sedan, and said to Zhou Dongtian: "Master! Sanshan Street is ahead.
Could you please tell me which bookstore to go to? "Zhou Dongtian didn't know how to answer for a while. His purpose was to inspect the local book engraving industry. He had long heard that Sanshan Street in the Ming Dynasty was the center of book engraving in Jiangnan at that time, so he came here because of its reputation, but he didn't know which one he went to. .
After pondering for a moment, he said: "We will get off the sedan here and walk around the street to see if the sedan will wait here." Yi Bang responded. Under his command in Nanjing Mandarin, the sedan rolled sideways. Zhou Dongtian got out of the sedan and stretched his waist. Although it was hard for the person carrying the sedan, sitting in the sedan for a long time was not necessarily pleasant. The sedan is not a sofa chair, not even a cane chair, but a standard hardwood back chair. People sitting in the sedan can only sit upright and cannot move their bodies. To outsiders, it looks majestic and comfortable, but in fact it looks like sitting there for a long time. Lumbar pain and numbness.
Zhou Dongtian got off the sedan and looked at the street. Sanshan Street is much quieter than the busy city we just walked through. There are not many pedestrians on the narrow bluestone road, and most of them are dressed in clothes... Most of them are wearing long gowns, and occasionally some short-haired people are also sent here by the owner. Servants buying books.
The two people got off the sedan and attracted the attention of passers-by on the street. Compared with the people around them, they are indeed too different: burly physiques, dark skin, and taller than ordinary people.
Merlin was a little uncomfortable with the fact that he had not received any special training from the Intelligence Bureau. He only studied in a short training class for a week before departure. The gown always felt ill-fitting to him, and the bun and headscarf always felt like they were about to fall off. I also feel like I don’t know where to put my arms and legs.
Zhou Dongtian is much better in comparison. After all, he serves in the intelligence management bureau. According to the decision of the joint security meeting, the personnel of the intelligence management bureau must undergo certain staggered training, so he has studied in the "farm" system. .
"Let's go." Zhou Dongtian said to Cai Yibang, "Please lead the way. Let's take a look around here." "Yes, sir."
There is a faint fragrance of ink in the air, which is the real fragrance of ink with the smell of pine smoke. Zhou Dongtian once smelled such an aroma in the warehouse of the Rare Books Department of a certain library. It was the smell of fine Song edition books. Richer than here.
On both sides of Sanshan Street, there are almost all large and small bookstores. It's so big that it has five bays, but it's so small that it only has one bay. But regardless of the size of the facade, the eaves of the shop are very high. Looking in from the street, you can see rows of tall bookshelves placed against the wall, filled with various books.
Every bookshop has its own font size and signboard. Most of the bookstores here are "comprehensive bookstores" selling various types of books. Some specialize in certain categories. For example, Buddhist scriptures,
There are also religious books such as Taoist scriptures that specialize in "Wei Mo". The so-called Wei Mo refers to the Chinese-style eight-part essays, test poems, policy discussions, etc. that are used in every scientific examination. According to the old time and space, it specializes in selling "teaching aid materials." Although people at that time scorned "Wei Mo", the imperial examinations created a great demand for this industry. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the speed of book publishing was very slow. From the completion of the manuscript to the beginning of publication, a book was printed. Books, at least three or four years. Only the eight-part essays from the imperial examination that year were compiled and printed basically as soon as the exam was over. This shows the strong demand.
Zhou Dongtian learned from the lecture in the big library that bookstores specializing in selling "Wei Mo" are basically opened by people from Jiangxi. In addition to selecting and publishing "Wei Mo", their other main business is to participate in examination papers. The disadvantage is to build a bridge between the examiner and the candidates. In addition to the less important regular exams and boy's exams, they can handle the business of opening up joints for almost every level of imperial examination. By the Qing Dynasty, this business even became their main business.
Except for some bookstores that sell books on behalf of others, almost every larger bookstore has its own printing and printing workshops and stores a large number of plates. Almost every bookstore like this has a front store and a back store model. Standing outside the store, you can hear the sound of printing workers rubbing, inking, and brushing bristles in the backyard. Sometimes when the front and back doors are open, you can even Go directly to see the busy figures of stereotypes and printing workers.
Zhou Dongtian strolled with great interest, looking at the conditions of various bookshops. This place is somewhat similar to the book market of the cultural market in old times, but it doesn't have the hustle and bustle of the cultural market. The quiet atmosphere mixed with the faint fragrance of ink and paper made him feel a sense of pleasure.
But such a happy mood will not shake his determination to personally destroy the printing industry on Sanshan Street. If printed books are published according to traditional printing methods, books will always be cultural luxuries that only a very small number of people can possess. If the Senate wants to completely smash this system, cheapening and popularizing knowledge is a necessary condition.
With such a mood, he strolled into a bookshop, followed by Mei Lin and Cai Yibang.
This bookstore does not have the largest business among its counterparts on Sanshan Street, but its facade is three bays wide, tall and bright. There are a wide variety of books inside. On the tall bookshelves that cover three walls, there are all kinds of collections of classics and history, manuscripts from Wei Mo's studio, play novels, and even medical calligraphy and painting manuals and wine records and tea classics.
Zhou Dongtian and Mei Lin's appearance and clothing are different from ordinary people. The shopkeeper was very flattering and immediately came to welcome them and asked them to sit down. He also asked the waiters to make tea and put on the fruit plate, and then asked them their last name and hometown.
"My surname is Zhou, from Guangdong." Zhou Dongtian said, "I studied here while traveling." "I wonder what books Mr. Zhou would like to read?" The shopkeeper's humble face revealed, "The shop dare not say that it has all the books. But the goods on this street can be considered complete."@.
