Great time travel

Chapter 1: When will the singing and dancing in Jinling stop? (one)

The first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Nanjing

When Hebei and the Central Plains were already fighting and the people were struggling to survive, the ancient capital of Jinling, located in the south of the Yangtze River, was still sleeping soundly amidst prosperity and prosperity.

Here in Nanjing, the Ming Empire set up a team based on the six departments and nine ministers in Beijing, so it was called the "Liudu"... In addition to the benefits of the Yangtze River and the canal, Yingtianfu in Nanjing was the highest political power in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty. The center was also one of the world-renowned economic centers at that time.

At this time, Nanjing is the largest and most magnificent city in the world, even surpassing Beijing in terms of scale.There are two main walls in the whole city. The outer gate is 120 li in total and has [-] gates. Except the gates are covered with bricks, most of the walls are rammed earth, which are relatively short.After entering Wai Guo, it is already considered an urban area. Although small patches of vegetable fields can still be seen, there are already many houses and shops, densely populated, and pedestrians and horses are constantly on the way.

——To put it simply, Nanjing built another outer wall outside the earliest city wall to include the developed satellite towns.

Walking a little further in from the outer gate, you can see the real Nanjing City Wall. This city wall was expanded by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty.The city is about 200 miles around, with [-] battlements, more than [-] nests and shops on the city wall, and [-] city gates. Peaceful."

In general, the city walls of Nanjing were built based on the local terrain, not only using the city walls of Yingtianfu in the Yuan Dynasty, but also making extensive use of the hills around Nanjing as part of the defense system.Some areas directly use the mountain as the foundation of the city wall.It is thus irregularly shaped.It is connected to Zhongshan Mountain in the east, Shitou Mountain in the west, Xuanwu Lake in the north, and Qinhuai River in the south.The base of the city is also extravagantly made of granite or limestone strips, and the two walls are built with large bricks. The joints between the bricks are poured with lime and glutinous rice juice mixed with tung oil, and mixed into mortar for watering, so it is extremely strong.

It is a pity that this seemingly impenetrable city defense system has never exerted its due defensive capabilities in the hands of the Ming army...

(Strange to say, although Nanjing's city defense system is so strong, it was the peak in the cold weapon era, no less than Constantinople in the Eastern Roman Empire. But in the hands of the Ming army, whether it is Zhu Di's battle with Emperor Jianwen In the Battle of Jingnan, when the Qing army crossed the river to destroy the Nanming Dynasty, Nanjing always surrendered in anticipation. However, it experienced many fierce battles under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. From resisting Zheng Chenggong’s landing in the early Qing Dynasty to the [-] Revolution in the late Qing Dynasty, Nanjing was an important battlefield. .)
For those literati and poets who are full of fantasies and poetic charms, when they mention Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties on the left of the Yangtze River, they will never forget the road that seems to be full of poetic and picturesque flavors, charming dreams, and left countless legends about talented men and beautiful women. Qinhuai River.

——This world-renowned Qinhuai River flows from the southeast to Nanjing, and then passes through the Tongji Bridge and enters the Tongji Water Gate. The place where the river enters the city wall is Huaiqing Bridge, which is also the starting point of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.The Qinhuai River flows from the Huaiqing Bridge to the southwest, passes through the Wende Bridge, Wuding Bridge, and Zhenhuai Bridge, joins the Qingxi River, and finally flows out of the Sanshan Water Gate into the Yangtze River.

Among them, the land of love and moon on the Qinhuai River is called "Jiuyuan", also known as "Nanqu". There are both official prostitutes and private prostitutes of the Jiaofang Division. The two romantic places, "Nanshi" and "Zhushi", are where low-end prostitutes live-"Nanshi" is where vulgar prostitutes live, and traffickers come and go in and out of it, let alone. The "Pearl Market" is mostly crooked prostitutes with half-closed doors (similar to red apricots who go out of the wall). Although they are occasionally gorgeous, the scenery is much worse. They are called Gou Lan by the locals, and it is also the low-level brothel that literati will call Gou Lan in the future. origin of the land.Only Nanqu is famous all over the world, and literati and inkmen flock to it. There are about two thousand official prostitutes in Leji, and there are many private prostitutes and maidservants, which are innumerable.

Although this day is not a festival, it is still a lively scene full of crowns and capes on the "Nanqu" of the Qinhuai River for ten miles.

——Fang Yizhi, a well-known Tongcheng scholar who volunteered to lead a passionate scholar to go south to Qiongzhou to investigate the details of the "Kun Thief", after falling into the hands of the thief, actually managed to return to Nanjing with a ticket for the "Donglin Tour Group" and boasted a lot by the way Their wonderful and ups and downs "Escape from the Enemy's Rear"...

So, Fang Yizhi's good friends Zhang Pu, Zhang Dai, Mao Xiang and other famous Fushe celebrities, as well as some senior elders of the Donglin Party in Nanjing, after learning about the incident, mobilized the Fushe scholars in Nanjing to hold a banquet on the Qinhuai River To set up wine and hold a grand meeting, one is to clean up the dust for Fang Yizhi and others who "escaped from danger"; Celebrate the situation.

As the leader of the Fushe Scholars, the idol star of this era, Zhang Pu's appeal among scholars in Jiangnan is naturally extraordinary.All of a sudden, there was an endless stream of literati in Confucian and Ge robes in the streets and alleys leading to the Qinhuai River.And after the news spread, many rich and idle people came to join in the fun... Finally, people crowded everywhere along the Qinhuai River, full of laughter.Beautifully dressed daughters, suave teenagers, yellow-haired old men, and young children with long hair are like a stream.In the Qinhuai River, there are picturesque boats and cruise ships shuttling back and forth, silk and bamboo orchestras, and music like strands of music, what a scene of peace and prosperity!

——Even from the perspective of modern people, the ten-mile Qinhuai River in the late Ming Dynasty was full of cars and horses, extremely lively, and full of wealth and luxury, and some sedan chair windows were even made of ivory.The traveling women talked and laughed loudly along the street, appearing to be very open-minded.The clothes of the common people are also luxurious.In particular, women's clothes are even more colorful, with bright colors and rich styles, which are not much worse than modern urban women's clothes.

Even though Huaiyang is only separated by the Yangtze River at this time, it is already groaning in the midst of fighting horseshoes and beacon fire...

"... Sigh, this is really singing in a leaky boat, drinking in a burning house! I don't know how long we can see this scene?"

Among the largest luxury boats on the Qinhuai River, Yu Guozhen, a newly promoted talent who followed Fang Yizhi back to Nanjing and is known for his bravery, "Young Tiger" Yu Guozhen, held a cup of fragrant hot tea while admiring the sights on the boat. Potted plum blossoms, while looking at the scholars from all over the place greeting each other on the various painted boats in the river, listening to the fluttering bursts of silk and bamboo music and Wu Nong's soft words of the singer, could not help but sigh in a low voice.

The painting boat he is staying at now has two floors on the deck, except for the deck below. The downstairs is the hall, and the upper floor is the bedroom and terrace. The hall is very spacious and the interior is also very well decorated. There is a sitting table on the side, a coffee table, and a big round table in the middle.At this moment, the guest of honor of this event, Fang Yizhi, whose skin was slightly tanned by the scorching sun of the South China Sea, was sitting at the big round table, spitting and telling the story of his "escape from the thief's cave in Qiongzhou" to a group of scholars. Note", while Yu Guozhen, who is also a party involved, tactfully hid aside, drinking tea and eating snacks silently.

Although Fang Yizhi described their trip to Hainan Island as ups and downs and thrilling, no matter which version of the "real experience" is actually quite boring-specifically, the first is the "Donglin Tourist Group" The playboys came to Guangzhou all the way to travel, eat, drink and have fun, and then they were scared away by the rumor of "the thieves are attacking".Then, after the rumor of "the thieves are coming" was falsified, the remaining people crossed the sea to Hainan Island ignorantly under the influence of Yu Guozhen, a fellow Jiangnan scholar, the inner ghost of the traveler. "Exploring Thief Love", first landed in Lingao, and then took the train to Sanya.During the period, Yu Guozhen managed to get in touch with the "relevant departments" and revealed his identity as a time traveler. By the way, he sold Fang Yizhi as a voter... Finally, this group of stunned youths threw themselves into the trap. The hotels in Sanya were wiped out.

However, although the reputation of this group of Jiangnan scholars was very loud in the late Ming Dynasty, for the modern way of thinking traversers, the use value of Fang Yizhi and his gang of dudes is really pitiful-after using Doraemon After Meng's 22nd century black technology props were hypnotically interrogated, and it was confirmed that they were not Ming 007, let alone the legendary masters of Jin Yiwei, but really just a bunch of rich young masters seeking excitement, this group of people became related. The tasteless in the eyes of the department: such a group of frail scholars who can't lift their shoulders, have no physical strength to dig stones in the mine, but their bad tempers are more stubborn than the other. It is also difficult to instigate rebellion and win over, and it is impossible to carry out ideological reform... ...how to deal with it?
In this regard, someone suggested at the time that they should simply shoot all these wastes and throw them into the sea to feed the sharks!
Fortunately, under Yu Guozhen's intercession, the above cruel proposal was finally not implemented.And the few archaeologists who came to this time and space, because they were planning to inspect the scenic spots in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, so they also took the opportunity to propose a "waste utilization" suggestion... Although Yu Guozhen felt that he was fully qualified as a tour guide, but If Fang Yizhi and others fell in Qiongzhou, how dare he go back to Jiangnan by himself?

So, after another round of hypnosis and instilling memories, Fang Yizhi and others, whose minds were already muddled, finally walked out of the detention center tremblingly. After being greeted, I boarded a big ship bound for Guangzhou.

——According to Yu Guozhen's description and instilled false memories, when Fang Yizhi and others were arrested by the Qiongzhou Kun bandits because of a "misunderstanding", Yu Guozhen, who had been away for medical treatment because of illness at the time, and Yu Guozhen, who escaped by luck, immediately mobilized everywhere relationship, trying to get them out of jail.It's just that they couldn't find a way out for a while, so they had no choice but to let Fang Yizhi and the others spend a few days in prison.

Fortunately, in the end Yu Guozhen finally found a well-known sea merchant, and then through the relationship of this sea merchant, he used money to deal with the Qiongzhou Kun thieves, and finally got them out.However, in order to prevent nights and dreams, it is better for everyone to return to the territory of Daming by boat as soon as possible...

Strictly speaking, this kind of rhetoric is full of loopholes. Fortunately, the foreign aid Yu Guozhen received this time is really strong-the "relevant department" Fang Yizhi and his party used extremely strong hypnotic hints.On the other hand, after all, the "Donglin Tourist Group" that boarded Hainan Island escaped safely, not even a single servant and bodyguard was missing, but they lost some belongings (if they were in prison, there would be no one in their luggage). If there is no loss of money, it is not normal).Therefore, all the dandies who have become frightened, naturally accepted Yu Guozhen's explanation.

Next, after arriving in Guangzhou and resting for a while, Fang Yizhi, under the introduction of Yu Guozhen, visited the "big merchant who rescued them from the Qiongzhou thieves"—although most scholars in the late Ming Dynasty were arrogant. Pride, contempt for any lowly people except scholars and gentry, usually look at merchants with their nostrils, but after all, the other party is his "savior", so he should thank him anyway...

Then, after some courtesy to each other, the big merchant played by the former Lingao Senate agent—in fact, he was in this line of work, but he joined the Lingao Traversing Group after being defeated, so It's a true performance - he took advantage of the situation and proposed to Fang Yizhi and Yu Guozhen that he has several family members, elders, brothers and friends, and he wants to go north with you Donglin scholars to see the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River...

For such trivial matters, Fang Yizhi readily agreed without the need for Yu Guozhen, the inner ghost of the time traveler, to beat the side drums.

So, several professors of archeology and history who put on the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the guards accompanying them, followed Fang Yizhi and other scholars from the south of the Yangtze River, and embarked on the journey back to the north, stopping all the way. Stopping, visiting various places of interest (especially those ancient buildings that no longer exist in the 21st century), it took half a year to finally arrive in Nanjing.Moreover, due to the huge difference in thinking and concept between ancient people and modern people, all kinds of troubles encountered during the period are simply countless... Thanks to the golden signs of Donglin Party and Fushe, they have a lot of face in the southern provinces, and Yu Guozhen is here. After trying every means to cover it up, coupled with instant messaging support from the rear, there was finally no major disturbance.

However, when the group finally arrived in Nanjing, Yu Guozhen was still exhausted physically and mentally, and he felt ten years older.

What's more, after arriving in Nanjing, Yu Guozhen still has a lot of things to do for the smooth progress of the "ancient cultural investigation tour" of senior intellectuals, including not only guest tour guides and narrators, but also Some even more embarrassing things... Yu Guozhen couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he looked back at Miss Ma Tong who was wearing a blue shirt and a wig.

"Take a girl disguised as a man to go to a brothel", a plot that only exists in third-rate costume dramas, how could it also happen in the reality around me?

Not to mention that Miss Ma Tong, who disguised herself as a man, didn't seem to be low-key at all. Instead, she was very interested in everything around her. Yu Guozhen asked in a low voice.

But on the other hand, Yu Guozhen also has to admit that in the city of Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty, there were indeed many "interesting" things worth seeing.

"...Hey, Xiao Yu? What happened to that non-mainstream guy on the other side of the river? Is he a man disguised as a woman? Or a woman?"

Following Miss Ma's fingers, Yu Guozhen squinted and saw a red figure standing on the opposite bridge.At first glance, I thought it was a woman, but on closer inspection, it turned out to be a man with red ribbons on his hair, bright red ointment on his lips, white makeup powder on his face, and a little red rouge on his belt. There was a red sachet with a jade pendant hanging on it, a long red dress with flowers, plants, birds and animals embroidered on the hem, and a purple short jacket on the outside, "...uh, I have a little impression of this guy , seems to be a Juren from Songjiang Mansion..."

"...Really a man?" Ma Tong was a little surprised, then looked back, but saw two women in men's clothes, and another man in women's clothes, coming out of a small building, smiling and talking to the river. The man dressed in women's clothes at the side greeted each other, flirting with each other with orchid fingers, and couldn't help sighing with great emotion: "...women wear men's clothes, men wear women's clothes, and there is more than one... Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty is really fashionable enough ah!"

"...That's right, there are a lot of strange people in this place in the south of the Yangtze River, and they still show off all day that they are celebrities. Tang Bohu, a poet and painter, used to wear women's clothes to meet guests. Before that, there were people riding deer in the downtown area. Staggering around..." Yu Guozhen replied.

"... riding a deer to the streets? Is this really the case?" Ma Tong blinked curiously.

"...That's right, it's a real deer, and there are also those who make deer to pull carts, those who drink with diva shoes, and those who buy black African slaves dressed as monsters to visit the door... In short, it's all about how cool it is." Yu Guozhen shrugged his shoulders, "...the same virtue as those modern rich money..."

Ma Tong seemed to be quite interested in the anecdotes that Yu Guozhen said, but unfortunately he couldn't witness them with his own eyes, so he continued to look around the Qinhuai scenery with his eyes wide open. Much less.Although the Qinhuai River passes through the city, as seen from the boat, the water is still crystal clear and fish can be seen everywhere.All kinds of painted boats are parked on the bank, and towers and song pavilions stand erect. They are really Zhulan Qishu, carved beams and painted buildings, window panes facing the street with bamboo curtains and light gauze.

Compared with the set props in the modern film and television city, the original Qinhuai street scene in front of me is obviously more charming.

Regrettably, as a rotten girl who likes to read Tanmei novels, Miss Ma Tong's focus on observing the scenery seems to be different from ordinary people...

"...Eh? What happened to the brothel on the other side of the bridge? Why are there so many men dressed in seductive clothes hooking their shoulders, but there is no girl?" Ma Tong, who has good eyesight, suddenly frowned. Asked Yu Guozhen, "...Even if it's a cowherd shop, there should be a few female customers!"

"...Oh, that's a small restaurant..." Yu Guozhen replied reluctantly, "...it's a place where women sell their butts to entertain men..."

"...What? There were also gay bars in the Ming Dynasty? It's really advanced!" Ma Tong, who is a rotten girl, suddenly heard her eyes sparkle, "...By the way, since there are gay bars, are there any? What about Lily who entertains the female guests? If there is one, I would really like to see it..."

"...Sorry, I really haven't heard of this...Please consider the current environment!" A drop of cold sweat suddenly appeared on Yu Guozhen's forehead, "...those rich ladies and young ladies with spending power, Except for going to the temple to burn incense, generally speaking, you rarely go out...Of course, if you really want to engage in that kind of flirting, you can also spend a few taels of silver to buy a maid, and you can do whatever you want..."

"...That's unnecessary, little girl, you can buy it everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, so there's no need to come to Nanjing..."

Ma Tong waved his hands in a disinterested manner, "...I just want to experience the mood and atmosphere on the Qinhuai River... just forget it!"

——It's really tiring to communicate with the rotten girl Lily clan... "Young Tiger of Wuwei" Yu Guozhen rolled his eyes, expressing that he was also very upset today...

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Since it was still early at this time, the guests did not come together, so the girl who was arranged on this painting boat was still dressing in the small building (river room) on the bank (although there are beds on the painting boat, generally speaking, there are few Who will really live on the boat, the girls only get on the boat to receive business when they attract business).But even so, the store will not let the customers who came first sit down, and soon a little maid came out to say a blessing, served the hot tea that had just been brewed, and another little maid served a cup of tea on the coffee table. The details of the tea pairing—the hot steamed buns just out of the pan, as well as the honey-refined bayberry, golden silk crisps and mille-feuille crisps, are all served in small dishes, and the quantity of each is not large, but they are very delicate. There is also a small cup of freshly made pine nut candy.

So, Yu Guozhen, who was being questioned by the rotten girl Ma Tong, was in a cold sweat, took the opportunity to change the topic, pointed at the hot little steamed stuffed bun and said with a smile:
"...Look, this is the authentic Huaiyang Wuding steamed stuffed bun. It looks simple, but it is the most exquisite. First of all, the skin of the steamed stuffed bun must be whiter than snow, and it tastes soft but tough, not sticky to the teeth. The so-called "five ding" is developed from its "san ding". San ding is also called "three delicacies", that is, chicken, meat and bamboo shoots; Stir-fried ribs with moderate fat heads; diced bamboo shoots are made of fresh bamboo shoots according to the season. Three delicacies in one, with relish, you can fill your stomach in the morning and not hungry until noon. Using these three diced as stuffing, it is fresh, fragrant, crisp and tender, fat but not Later, some chefs were ingenious and added two flavors: freshwater shrimp and sea cucumber on the basis of Sanding, which became "Wuding Baozi". It is said to be "nourishing but not nourishing, delicious but not fresh, oily but not fresh. But greasy, crunchy but not hard, tender but not soft.'... Try it while it's hot."

"...Oh, there are so many ways? It sounds like an advertisement... Well, the taste seems to be really good..."

Ma Tong muttered like this, but still took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun according to his words, and his mouth was really delicious, and his lips and teeth were fragrant.Seeing Ma Tong eating sweetly, Yu Guozhen continued: "... I heard from Zhang Dai that it is even more amazing to eat this steamed stuffed bun with 'Kuilongzhu' tea. This kind of tea is selected from Zhejiang Longjing and Anhui Kui Acupuncture, Jiangsu Zhulan and other famous teas are made with scenting. It takes the color of Kuizhen, the fragrance of Qiulan, and the taste of Longjing. It can be said to be excellent in color and fragrance. A great writer, when it comes to food, no scholar in the world can compare to him..."

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After chatting about food and drink, all the refreshments served were eaten up, but Zhang Pu, who was the host, still didn't arrive, and the geisha on the boat would naturally not show up.Instead, several old professors who dressed up as people from the Ming Dynasty and went to hang out in Qinhuai Flower Street came back one by one.

So Ma Tong happily chatted with them about what he had seen on the street—in general, although the "Nanqu" of the Qinhuai River is a famous place of love and moon, it is not only brothels and painting boats.On the contrary, there are restaurants, inns, theaters, grocery stores, and clothing stores here, and it looks more like a modern high-end comprehensive shopping and consumption plaza.Of course, there will be no shortage of brothels.The streets are made of bluestone, very tidy, shaded by green trees on the roadside, embellished with green bamboos, and clear streams and springs on both sides of the canals, which made the old professors of history and archeology linger and forget to return, and secretly took many photos back.

Looking at the exquisite small buildings in the photos that look like Suzhou gardens, Ma Tong, who went directly to the [random door] to visit Nanjing, couldn't help being quite surprised: "...this house is a brothel? Why is it so plain and elegant, not like a high-end Like a villa area? Isn’t there a lot of red and green silk cloth hanging on the TV, creating a rich and noble atmosphere, and then there are a few girls with heavy makeup standing at the door, waving handkerchiefs and calling, “Master, come and play”… "

"...What kind of grade is that? It's just the director messing around with the setting. This is the top clubhouse of the Ming Dynasty, like Beverly Hills..."

The old professor who showed her the smart phone couldn't help shaking when he heard the words, and couldn't help laughing in a low voice: "... Do you think these brothels will entertain knights in costume dramas? Their customers are all It is the literati and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, who are arty and elegant, pursuing style! If it is true that such a red and green space is arranged, it will definitely be ridiculed as vulgar. How can there be literati willing to patronize?

Even those high-end clubs in the modern world seem to be trying their best to look like classical gardens or western-style garden palaces!Among the real rich people, except for those uneducated local tyrants, who would go to the noisy and low-end MTV nightclub for entertainment? "

"...Uh...it seems so! I really can't imagine that Qinhuai Bayan will appear in Wei Xiaobao's Lichun Courtyard to solicit customers..."

Ma Tong rolled his eyes and muttered like this, but then his eyes lit up again, and he said to Yu Guozhen, "... By the way, I said Xiao Yu, since we have come to the Qinhuai River in the late Ming Dynasty, can we find a way to see Let’s take a look at the elegant demeanor of Qinhuai Bayan? Otherwise, I always feel a little regretful..."

This time it's Yu Guozhen's turn to roll his eyes, "...Please, the so-called eight beauties of the Qinhuai River were simply made up by later generations. The story of Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan happened about ten years later, and they are only a few years old now. She is not old enough to be sold out. Liu Rushi is [-] or [-] years old this year. I heard that she has already made her debut, but she is a famous prostitute in Wu County, Suzhou, and she hasn't come to the Qinhuai River for activities yet! Among the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai, the most The old Ma Xianglan, who was born in the Jiajing period, has been dead for many years... Do you want to visit her grave?"

When Ma Tong heard this, he immediately collapsed again.Yu Guozhen, on the other hand, heaved a sigh of relief—talking about whoring with a girl of vitality and a group of old professors on the Qinhuai River, no matter how you look at it, is a matter of losing moral integrity... During the recent period, he has always felt his moral integrity Falling less and less...

Just when Yu Guozhen was thinking wildly like this, he suddenly heard the boat lady call out from outside the cabin: "... Tian Rugong has arrived!"

Before the words were finished, a middle-aged man stepped into the cabin, and saw that this man was tall and straight, wearing a brocade gown, with beautiful jade hanging from his waist, and a scholar's scarf on his head, with a refined bearing, a beautiful beard over his chest, and an indescribable expression His calmness and arrogance... This is the head of the Jiangnan scholars, Zhang Pu, the king of heaven!