Time goes back to the third day of Zhu Youjian's patrol.
After coming out of Xiancai Pavilion, Zhu Youjian has been thinking about a question, that is, why do men like to go to brothels?
Although these women don't have crooked melons and cracked dates, they are not very beautiful either.
Although their programs are good, things are just like that in Zhu Youjian's eyes.
"Sir, we are approaching Tongzhou ahead."
"Let's go in and take a look."
Zhu Youjian said.
Tongzhou is an important town in Gyeonggi Province. It is a city that prospered with the opening of the canal and began in the Yuan Dynasty. It achieved great development in the Ming Dynasty.
Tongzhou was originally a city that originated from water transportation. There are docks in the cities along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Tongzhou dock is located at the northernmost end of the Grand Canal, and materials transported by water are concentrated here, and then transferred to the capital, and Tongzhou prospers as a result.
In the 14th year of Zhengtong (1445), a new city was built outside the west gate of the old city of Tongzhou. The circumference of the new city is only "nine miles and thirteen steps"13, and the old and new cities combined are about 4 square kilometers.
Since the mid-Ming Dynasty, Tongzhou has become prosperous.
There are many markets inside and outside the city. The markets within the city include the rice market, cattle market, fish market, north and south fruit market, and money market; the markets outside the city gate include the pig market, vegetable market, mule and horse market, and grass market. The ones that moved from the city to the outside include the firewood market (from the inner street of Nanmen to the south of the stone bridge outside Nanmen), the mule and horse market (from the inside of the city to in front of Yaowang Temple in Nanguan), and the miscellaneous grains market (from the inside of the city to the south of the stone bridge outside the south gate). Dongguan). In addition, there are many markets16 outside the city.
The commodities traded in the market mainly include cotton, sophora japonica, indigo, oil, hemp, noodles, vinegar, sauce, Western paper, hinterland blue (the name of the paper), bamboo leaf green (the name of the wine), etc. 17 Most of them are for people's daily life. The items needed reflect the large floating population in Tongzhou City.
Historically, the decline of Tongzhou was due to the cessation of water transportation and the rise of railway transportation.
But now, although Ming Dynasty is building railways everywhere, it is also vigorously developing maritime transportation. But it has not had much impact on Tongzhou so far.
Instead, because of the successful construction of the Beijing-Tongzhou Railway, Tongzhou was given a shot of stimulant in a short period of time.
Although he knew in his heart that Tongzhou would definitely decline in the future, Zhu Youjian also felt a little regretful about this, but it was just a pity.
The wheel of society is rolling forward.
Along the way, anything that cannot adapt to the times and is unwilling to change will inevitably be ruthlessly eliminated.
Although man-made consciousness can slightly influence him, if he forcibly goes against nature, he will be punished.
If the Ming Dynasty refused to change and develop science and technology for the sake of Tongzhou's prosperity and the interests of vested interests, then sooner or later a foreign race would open the door to the Ming Dynasty with advanced weapons and butcher knives.
Benevolence, righteousness, and civilization are nothing but a cover-up for human beings. In the face of real money and silver interests, you will appear even more powerless.
A recognized reason for the decline of the Eagle Kingdom in later generations is that it did not take the express train of the second industrial revolution.
The reason why this is so is because their vested interests are unwilling to develop.
This is not a matter of eyesight, but a matter of interests!
None of those who can mix well are so-called saints. Not one of them is stupid.
It’s not that they can’t see the possibilities in the future, and they don’t know how to solve them, but they will still choose to blind themselves for the sake of current interests!
