If it's a street where wealthy families gather, it's fine. There aren't many houses on one street. For ordinary middle-class families, there are many houses on the street, so it's easy to count them incorrectly. If you knock on the wrong door, you will inevitably be scolded by the resident again.
Zhang Yu saw that the girl from the tofu shop was not in front of the store, so he returned to the shop, only to see his parents packing up a few pages of paper - but he recognized them as his house deed and land deed. This is the most precious thing. Zhang Yu has never seen it a few times since he was a child. He usually puts it in an iron box and collects it solemnly. Why did you take it out again today?
After asking, I found out that the Australians came today not only to "check the household registration", but also to check the house deed and land title, and to measure the dimensions.
"No, it's even stamped with the inspection stamp," his father said.
Zhang Yu looked over, and sure enough, there was a new red stamp stamped on the house deed and land deed. This stamp is different from the official seal of the Ming Dynasty. It is round, with a "four-pointed star" in the middle - Zhang Yu knows that this is called "Morning Star" - and surrounding the Morning Star is a line of flat Song characters: "Guangzhou Special City Real Estate Registration Office For Authentication" chapter".
"Once this stamp is sealed, the land of this house will be secure." Zhang Yuniang said with emotion. Every change of dynasty is a redistribution of social wealth. For urban petty bourgeoisie like them, generations of hard work can only earn them this little house and land. Nature is more important than anything else.
"How much did it cost?" Zhang Yu knew that all official business must involve expenses. He took the boy's exam last year and had to spend money to get the test paper. After entering the number room, he had to spend a few dollars to "give out rewards" to those who read the number.
"The money has not been spent..." Zhang Yu's father said in a low voice, although he was happy but there was still a bit of worry in his eyebrows, "I'm afraid this change of dynasty is not reliable."
If the government comes back and the Australians leave, the stamp on the house deed will not be erased. If the government intends to make things difficult, things could be big or small. If you encounter someone who is ruthless and evil, it is not impossible for you to break your family because of it.
After saying this, Zhang Yuniang became nervous again and stammered: "This... this... what should we do?"
But Zhang Yu's father couldn't tell how tall he was. certainly. It's okay to say "no" when re-registering and authenticating, but he heard that Australians have posted notices all over the city: Anyone who can't get the title deed will be considered an "illegal construction" and will be demolished within a time limit. This is not just talk - it doesn't matter whether you are a century-old shop or a small shop on Chengxuan Street. As long as it is an "illegal construction", everything will be demolished.
Zhang Yuque said: "I think... the government, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back..."
His voice was very low, but it still shocked his parents. Although this will be a world dominated by Australians, it has only lasted a dozen days. No one dares to say that Ming Dynasty is over. I won’t call back to Guangzhou again.
"Don't talk nonsense..." his father scolded in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense outside!"
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "I don't have to worry about this. But from what I've seen these days, the Australians are very disciplined, and they are united and have no desires. The whole world must have gathered to respond, and they will win food and follow the rules." He saw that his parents couldn't understand him. He pulled the article and then said, "The Australian police came into the store to do business, and they didn't eat a snack or take a penny. Just because of this, Ming Dynasty won't be able to come back!"
Liu San walked from the narrow and dark shop to the bright street. I suddenly felt relieved: I was really depressed inside. The shop of about ten square meters not only has a counter, but also a huge noodle table and a large oven. All kinds of money-making tools and raw materials fill the remaining space. After the census team entered, there was literally no place to turn around.
The room was filled with a strange smell, the unique aroma of grease, dried fruits and flour from baked snacks; the musty smell of the materials after being damp; the smokey smell of charcoal fires, and an indescribable body odor and - ―He saw that the bedding was stuffed messily under the large chopping board. It was probably the chopping board where the apprentices slept at night. There was actually a chamber pot stuffed next to the oven.
Looking back at the "Designated Supplier of the Great World" sign in the store, Liu San couldn't help but secretly smile - how did Yi Kun get this picture? They also designated suppliers. With such hygienic conditions, it would be surprising if there would be no problems in eating the food.
Liu San was wearing a police uniform - in order to conceal his identity as a veteran. He proposed to Lin Baiguang that he wanted to go deep into the streets. Take a look at the public health situation in Guangzhou. Lin Baiguang arranged for him to join a census team every day and inspect with the team, so that he would not attract attention and could go deep into places that are usually difficult to enter in the name of registering for household registration.
He wanted to take a real look at the actual health situation in Guangzhou. Especially how much pressure we face in epidemic prevention.
The Cantonese Raiders don't expect many battle casualties. The biggest pressure on the health department actually comes from epidemic prevention. Guangzhou is a large city with a population of 500,000 to 600,000 people. Even now, the pressure on health and epidemic prevention is not small, let alone the 17th century when sanitary conditions were poor and infectious diseases were rampant.
The sanitary conditions in ancient cities were very poor. Although Liu San read many papers, monographs and documentaries on the sanitary facilities in ancient cities in the 21st century, they were full of "the wisdom of ancient working people" and "leading the world." ” and other kind of complimentary words. If there were not a large number of real images and written materials left by the late Qing Dynasty, a living specimen of medieval society not far away from them. Perhaps he believed it to be true and thought that Hengdian Film and Television City was a replica of the ancient city.
But this is not the case. Liu San knew very well that most cities in medieval society had no or very few hygienic water supply and drainage systems. Every spring and summer, explosive epidemics will rage. "Sha" caused by unhygienic diet has even become one of the common causes of death in summer.
This is also the reason why the Senate stayed away from the cities of the Ming Dynasty and would rather build a new city to live on the wasteland. Wen Desi said: "The ancient city was essentially a garbage dump full of rats, bedbugs, fleas and various pathogens. No amount of silk, marble and scenic spots can cover up the stench it emits."
One of Liu San's tasks is to protect the health of the city. In particular, we must try to eliminate various potential health and epidemic prevention risks in this city-malignant infectious diseases were no joke in the 17th century.
But as the census team took a look along the way, he knew that this task was not easy. Guangzhou in the 17th century was not a crowded city. Like all traditional Chinese cities, there was a lot of wasteland within the city walls. Some were left after the abandoned houses and temples, and some were houses that had never been built. Not only did they have vegetables. Some of the land has been reclaimed into fields to grow vegetables and rice, and there are even scattered cemeteries.
However, the residents' residences and shops are quite narrow. This strange phenomenon was difficult for him to understand. After asking Jia Jue, the clerk of the household who was retained, he found out that although there was a lot of land in the city, the land price was not too expensive. But the cost of building a house is not low. Many citizens can afford to buy a small piece of land, but not many people can afford to seriously build a large house - bricks and tiles are too expensive. Not to mention ordinary small households, even middle-class families have to use some broken bricks and old bricks to build their houses. Houses that can be built with decent bricks and tiles by "grinding the bricks to the seams" are all places like wealthy families or temples and official offices.
The traditional method of making bricks and tiles relies entirely on manpower, and firing requires time and fuel, so the output is very low and the price is naturally not cheap.
Bricks and tiles are expensive, and wood such as beams and columns is not cheap either. Guangzhou is located in the Pearl River Delta. There is no timber production capacity nearby to build houses, so it relies on counties in the middle and upper reaches of the Pearl River to supply it. After a long journey, the tofu also became the price of meat.
He stayed in Guangzhou for more than ten days and gained a deeper understanding of the lives of residents in the 17th century. Not only industrial products, but also natural resources were very expensive. Compared with the extremely cheap labor force, the only way to explain It’s just that labor productivity is too low.
There is land, but the housing is so narrow, and the population density in the residential area is very high. It can be said that it is a common phenomenon in urban merchants' workshops that the clerks and apprentices of Zhang's Walnut Shop sleep in the shop at night.
What’s even more frightening is that just outside the city wall, on the official land next to the city, there are still many shantytowns for the urban poor - these are not shantytowns renovated in Chinese cities in the 21st century, nor are they slums like Brazil and India, but shanty towns. It is a lower-level version. There are basically no houses higher than one person, and some are just "rolling dragons". Use bamboo poles, straw, and waste wood to build it directly next to the wet and muddy river. Often there are mass graves next to them. Some shanty towns are simply built on "righteous land". Living next to the dead.
Crowded living environment, almost no drainage facilities, no public toilets, open cesspools everywhere, and smelly rivers running across the streets that have not been silted for many years...Liu San thought to himself, this could not be more perfect. An infectious disease outbreak. I wonder how Guangzhou persisted in the past? You have to ask for clarification when you go back.
He originally didn't want to go into the tofu shop again - the situation of this shop was no better than that of the Walnut Cake Shop. But then I thought about how the tofu shop consumes a lot of water. It is impossible to carry water to maintain production. There must be a well. It is better to check the water quality.
When I walked into Tofu Fang, I saw that registration was in progress. He ignored it and just looked at his surroundings. This is also a small shop that combines a shop and a workshop. The ground is muddy, because making tofu requires a lot of water, so it is very muddy. Probably for the convenience of operation, straw bags were laid on the ground. The pot for boiling soy milk, the wooden barrel for holding soy milk, and the board for making tofu look relatively clean, and are covered with yellowed white cloth. However, behind the stove where the soy milk was cooked, there were piles of excavated ashes and a lot of firewood. The beans packed in straw bags were just lying on the dirt floor, with nothing more than a broken reed mat underneath them. (To be continued.)
