Chapter 387 Troubles of Growth

Chapter 387 Troubles of Growth

Before these Western ships entered the port, Shi Chuan was the defensive commander of the Navy, responsible for splitting the fleet on the sea surface. When the sea merchant arrived on the shore of Haizhou, Shi Chuan turned into one of Zhang Shuye's secretary, helping the prefecture office to deal with the issue of sea ship registration - the entire process of entering the port of Western ships was completed independently.

Zhang Shuye was not willing to ask about how many sea boats came from the West this time, or how many "five-born" personnel had settled in Haizhou. He didn't want to ask about it very much, and the officials of the Maritime Bureau were afraid that the disposal of Shipeng would cause controversy in the court, so he did not dare to ask about it. For them, as long as they received various tax empowerment, they would just pretend to be confused.

Afterwards, the tax revenue of more than one million yuan per day made the officials of the Maritime Bureau very satisfied. Seeing that sea ships were constantly entering the port and sea ships were constantly leaving the port, the officials of the Maritime Bureau only carefully calculated the immediate income, and did not pay attention to the traffic and number of ships. At the end of the year, when the officials of the Maritime Bureau took the account, they found that there were more than 300 ships entering the port and more than 4,000 naturalized foreigners... they would never dare to investigate again.

Four thousand people are four thousand households. They stayed overseas for many years and finally set foot on their hometown. They often couldn't wait to contact their hometown. They would immediately call on friends and invite villagers to come and live with them - to live together with their clans. This is the tradition of the ancients. There were only a few households in Donghai County. What's important is that there were not much arable land in Donghai County. These people lived in Donghai, so they had to engage in maritime trade every year. So many people moved every year... Oh, that's amazing.

The imperial court has always been afraid of the movement of residents. Even in modern times, there was a letter of introduction system and a shelter system to control slaves to leave limited residential areas. Although the Song Dynasty was enlightened, it still restricted refugees. Doing so in time was equivalent to poking a big leak on the court's law on settlement... So, the city officials hurriedly sealed the accounts, and the whole thing went through in a daze.

However, the sailing ships entering the port are far more than the number of books. The ships entering the port are only open, but only part of the fleet. These people are basically thinking about returning home overseas - Piao Tianwen - idle preparation days until September when the imperial examination officially begins.

Compared with other solemn young scholars, Shidai's mood was extremely relaxed in taking the exam. However, his fancy entrance style made the people of Haizhou talk about it for several years. When he entered the tribute school, although he was just wearing a cloth shirt and carrying a standard test basket. His appearance was simple, but behind him was full of flowers. There were more than 20 girls from the Shi family alone. Those who were already married took their husbands and sister-in-law from their husbands' family to congratulate them. These famous Shi family girls have been leading the fashion of Haizhou. Their appearance has caused many young people to be entangled in their dreams and have committed serious lovesickness.

More than that, on this day, in order to celebrate their mountain master and the textbook composer "entering school", Cuizhuang Girls' School specially gave all the female students a holiday. So, the bored female students of Cuizhuang also came to congratulate the mountain master on the scientific examination. After they dressed up, they performed a completely Song Dynasty roadshow on the song and dance taught by the female students... The scene was really a "a sea of ​​flowers".

Then, the news on the road alarmed the Huang family of Haizhou, Shi family of Donghai County (Yanei), as well as the sea merchants and wealthy merchants on Jinxiu Street. Some of these people rely on Shi Chuan to do business, while others simply cooperate with Shi Chuan for many years. Their children and nephews always talked about the style of Shi’s daughter... So when Shi Chuan entered the venue, Zhang Shuye, who was in charge of the court at the entrance of the Gongyuan, said helplessly: "In such a big scene, if he fails the exam, I can't explain to the people of Haizhou."

Shi Can, the son of Shi's clan of Baihu Mountain, entered the venue side by side with Shi Chuan, so the farewell sent by Baihu Villa had to be added to the farewell sent by Baihu Villa. These people occupied half of the street at the entrance of the Gongyuan, so that others could not reach the front. However, the people of Haizhou had completely seen what kind of beauty should be like during this farewell.

Chu Suzhen, a talented woman from Haizhou who had lived in seclusion for a long time, also appeared during this imperial examination. The tons of books brought back by Shi Chuan were given to Chu Suzhen. Chu Suzhen's "Canglangge Printing and Bookstore" will be responsible for reprinting these books into Chinese and printing and publishing.

The most important part of this batch of books is about military, medicine and machinery. According to Shi Chuan's suggestion, the text is printed in a horizontal arrangement, punctuation marks and paragraphs are added between the sentences, and a large number of maps are also drawn - including military infrastructure born in the West since the Spring and Autumn Period, such as the "Hui Hui Cannon" that eventually caused the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty...

Chu Suzhen, who reappeared, seemed to have no shadow left by the divorce storm. Her personality was still so ostentatious. She led the Shi family girls and twenty or thirty young girls found from somewhere, and staged a grand fashion show, fully showing the Song people's pursuit of personality in fashion. The forty or fifty girls on the scene, and the clothes and jewelry were not the same. Their gorgeous and varied colors and incredible tailoring methods opened the eyes of the people of Haizhou. Of course, what opened the eyes of the people of Haizhou even more was the beauty of those girls, as well as the new cosmetics they showed: lipstick, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, small makeup mirror, etc.

The beautiful things were short-lived. Shi Chuan was talking to the female disciples at the entrance of the Gongyuan. The family of the scholar who was blocked aside started to make a fuss. He had to enter the venue and open the road. Then, Chu Suzhen, who was staying outside the courtyard, became the focus. The family members of the female parents who came to see her off, surrounded her and greeted her. In the following days, Chu Suzhen once again set off a fashion storm in Haizhou.

With her comeback appearance, she accepted invitations to attend various banquets everywhere - on poetry parties between men and garden parties between women. During this period, Chu Suzhen gave a lot of gifts. The lipstick box she gave was twelve shades of red, which were much brighter than the rouge at that time, and was easy to use. As for other colors of eyeshadows, it opened the eyes of women of Haizhou. For example, silver eyeshadows, from light gray to reflect silver, there are more than a dozen colors; and the purple eyeshadow series, black series, and dai green series are...

The recent course for Cuizhuang girls to learn is makeup. This time, foreign ships entered the port, and the female slaves purchased by the Hai Gongzi from India and the Black Khan Empire also took up their posts. They spoke blunt Chinese, which actually talked about modern makeup... However, under the demonstration effect of Chu Suzhen, no one cared about where this makeup technique came from. Women from Haizhou rushed to Cuizhuang girls to listen to it one by one, so that the course was repeated and repeated at the request of the woman. The woman who listened to the class copied every word and sentence in the class, classified and summarized it based on her own experience, and then took it home to teach her children or sisters. Then the copy they wrote was dispersed among their best friends. After their best friends were constantly supplemented and improved, they became heirlooms of various families and gradually developed into their own schools...

In men's society, Chu Suzhen did not let go of the comeback this time. The gift he gave to his boyfriend was a new version of Western books. Among them, among which, the astrology and medicine are the most popular. At this time, Western medicine has clearly stated that the disease is not caused by changes in the five elements and eight trigrams, but by various bacteria. This subversive conclusion first caused the medical community to fall into aphasia, and then, the most brilliant part of Arabic medicine appeared - surgical injury treatment.

Three days later, when Shi Chuan returned from the exam, Chu Suzhen had become the most popular woman in Haizhou. Various party invitations were sent to her. Sometimes she needed to attend four or five banquets a day. Of course, because the spiritual impact she brought was also fermenting rapidly. In the past, not to mention medical debates, scholars have gradually tasted the taste of those books on astrology and Western military books. The consensus that was previously only circulated among some scholars has gradually spread this time. It turned out that the distant West was not entirely a barbarian place. The ongoing Crusader battle and the military skills adopted by both sides of the war also made people feel refreshed.

After a few days of this kind of life, when scholars in Haizhou were talking the most lively, some Western ships set out from Yizhou entered Haizhou Port. The merchants who arrived this time all had big noses, blue eyes, and golden hair, red and brown hair.

After Chu Suzhen's efforts in the past few days, the people of Haizhou Port did not regard this group of people as wild beasts with red hair and green eyes. On the contrary, many people had the idea of ​​pursuing Westerners to go to the West. Two years later, China's first book, "Zhufan Zhi", which comprehensively introduced the West, was born early.

This group of Westerners came in, which brought not only the shock of the reopening of the routes to the Song Dynasty, but also the first equal contact between Eastern and Western civilizations. The goods brought by Westerners were nothing, and the medical technology and mechanical technology innovation brought by thousands of Arab prisoners were nothing. What was important was the renewal of concepts. The Song Dynasty was the only country in ancient China that could view diplomatic partners equally. They could calmly accept the existence of another national system, rather than shouting "Is it the king's land under the world?", thus demanding diplomatic envoys to kneel down in humiliation.

Later, Song Huizong, who likes novel things, learned the news. Zhang Shuye was completely fine. Emperor Daojun not only did not pursue Zhang Shuye's private acceptance of the sea boat entering the port, but immediately promoted Zhang Shuye to Zhang Shuye to the transfer envoy of the East and West Roads of Beijing, and ordered Zhang Shuye to accompany the group of Western merchants to Beijing... Oh, there were also three-star squads who were recruited along with him.

When the Samsung class master heard this news, it seemed like a bolt from the blue hitting his head. They did a good job in Haizhou. Three years after the project order was received, the official family not only had to bear the responsibility for breaking the contract, but also did the work for the official family. It was a government project. There were too many entries in the middle. If they were not careful, they would miss the construction period and the whole family would become slaves, let alone make money from the emperor.

Lu Da and the other three gathered together to discuss with their daughter-in-law, and they were at a loss. In the end, the wife came up with an idea: "Let's discuss this with the master, the master will always have a way."

Lu Da and the other three turned around unsteadily, and their wife hurriedly greeted: "Today is also the day for the imperial examination. Why not ask if the master has won the imperial examination? If he wins the imperial examination, bring some gifts to congratulate the master, and tell me about this matter and let the master think of a solution."

Afterwards, Lu Da and the other three walked onto the street like sleepwalking... In fact, there was almost no suspense about Shi Chuan's passing. It was recognized in Haizhou that Shi Chuan was knowledgeable. Zhang Shuye and Professor Xueshe were also willing to let go. Shi Chuan used the paste method to piece together some imperial examination articles from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and passed the imperial examination almost meaninglessly.

Therefore, Lu Da and others rushed to Tianshui Lane and found that the people who congratulated the master were filled with all the alleys, and even the Tofu Lane where the back door was located was filled with car sedans.

The three of them discussed at the door, and entered the tofu shop in Xishi's tofu shop in Tofu, and then walked along the path into Shizhai next door. They also knew that Shi Chuan could not take off his body, so they went to see Huan Niang.

At this time, Huang E was wearing a nanny costume and was accepting congratulations from the women, and Mo Shao was in charge of housework and was busy arranging the maids to entertain the guests. Only Huan Niang was idle. So Lu Dayu summoned him. After a while, Huan Niang, who was wearing a bun on her hair, jumped over and told Lu Dayu and the other three: "Your master is with Zhang Dayin... Oh, now it's a fortune transfer, and they are talking. The news of you congratulations. I have told Sister E Niang that Sister E Niang can't get out of her way. She said that she is all her family. Now the master is busy. If there is nothing to do, you can go back first and choose a quiet time to come and talk to her."

Lu Da bowed and replied: "I am really in trouble. If the master is busy, I will be busy first. We will help the master entertain guests until the evening before talking to the master. Sister Huan Niang, we are our own people. If there is any need to help with the guests in front, we will go there."

Huan Niang sighed: "I originally wanted to go over and help greet guests, but I was in a bad mood today... Do you know, the guy Zhang Shuye came over and said: My brother is a scholar now, so it is not good to manage the streets of Haizhou as a general. In that case, someone would impeach Haizhou and insult Swen, and treat scholars as generals. He asked his brother to hand over several streets."

Lu was shocked and asked quickly: "Have the master agreed?"

Huanniang replied depressedly: "What can I do? The court system, as a scholar, enjoy more, and I still hold on to several streets. I still want the juren who I have worked hard to win... Alas, West Street is okay, but if I lose it, I will lose it. Jinxiu Street, Zuoxie Street, we have controlled the entire street tightly through the shareholding shop. My brother had already expected this day, so even if we hand it over, we will inevitably gain.

Hehehe, the few net street money collected by the general is not enough for me to spend. After collecting the money, there are too many things to manage and troublesome. It is not a pity that if I give up - it's a pity that I'll go out to play in the streets in the future, and I'm afraid I won't be so majestic, and those shops will no longer rush to give me things."

Qu Xin comforted, "Actually, sister, don't worry. West Street is just a place where the master uses to accommodate the old and weak. The rules set by the master in the past are very good, and those flirting people are all because we live a good life. Therefore, no matter who takes over West Street, you must follow the old rules of the master. Well, as long as the master's rules are still there, others will still respect the younger sister when she goes out.

As for Jinxiu Street outside the city and Zuoxie Street, the master is managed like an iron bucket. Without a master nodding, who dares to take over? I guess these three streets will eventually have to arrange generals who are familiar with the master, and finally act after listening to the master's words - this is no different from the past."

Huan Niang nodded: "I also thought that since Zhang Shuye made a move, his brother would definitely not let him take advantage, but E Niang's sister said: Since my brother has passed the imperial examination and I have grown up, I shouldn't play wildly on the street. I should have the demeanor of a juren...ah..."

Lu Da and the other two couldn't think of words to comfort themselves, Huan Niang thought about it alone, and sighed like a little adult: "Oh, it's really not good to grow up. The bigger the heavier the more worries, I really don't want to grow up."

Lu Da and the other two comforted her a few words and urged Huan Niang to lead them to the front yard to help greet guests. Huan Niang didn't care about her sadness during her adolescence, so she had to lead Lu Da and the other two to the front yard in depression.

The banquet was on hand, and the congratulations of guests began to eat and drink...

In the evening, the courtyard became quiet again. Lu Da and the other three met Ling Fei who came from Shuyang in the courtyard. The three apprentices gathered together into four. After they cleaned up the mess in the courtyard, they had the opportunity to rush to the living room and congratulate the master in person.

Ling Fei first bowed to the master. After saying the usual congratulations, Ling Fei asked: "Master, when are you going to leave to Beijing to participate in this year's provincial inspection? If the master leaves, will I accompany the master as usual?"

Chapter 387 The Troubles of Growth,
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