[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

In the 24th year of Hongwu, Quanzhou Port in Fujian welcomed the most distinguished guest since the establishment of the port—the grandson of the emperor of Ming Dynasty.The empress dowager and grandson traveled southward with a group of civil and military personnel. After more than ten days, their ships finally arrived at Quanzhou port on this day.

The main purpose of Taisun's trip is to inspect the preparation of Japanese in Fujian.The coastal defense line with Xiamen City as the main defense point that was started several years ago has been completed, and great results have been achieved in the past two years. It is reasonable for Emperor Hongwu to send the eighteen-year-old emperor's grandson to inspect.

However, the well-informed local booksellers still found out another news. Taisun came here for another purpose, which was to secretly visit and select a printing bookseller who could undertake the "Great Documents" that Ming was compiling.

As the largest and most prosperous publishing resort in the country, there are more than 20 booksellers of all sizes in Fujian, and there are more than [-] booksellers in Quanzhou Port alone. These booksellers were very excited when they heard the news. .

What does it mean to be able to publish a book for the Crown?That's the rhythm of going to the top!

With official financial support, they can find the best carvers and send books to all over the world through official channels. How big is this market?

And most importantly, who are these books for?There are noble people in the court in the palace. After making this vote, their bookstore will print books for the emperor in the future.

With imperial air, as the No. [-] IP of Ming Dynasty, having the word "Emperor" means countless sources of customers.

This is the biggest benefit! ! !

Therefore, before the emperor's grandson arrived in Hong Kong, the various bookstores in Quanzhou Port in the other side had already started to decorate the lanterns and festoons in unison. The books were placed in the most conspicuous position of the bookstore.

The owner of the well-informed foreign bookstore gritted his teeth and went all the way to Quanzhou Port to set up a shop on the busiest street. He hung up a plaque, wrote a bibliography, tied red silk, and stacked up the latest books. Books, a serious bookstore immediately released fresh ones, and they were extremely eye-catching.

It should be known that the main source of customers for the existence of the bookstore in the past was candidates from all over the country, and its shops were mostly located near the Academy and the Confucius Temple.Places like the downtown area are not only incompatible with their prestige, but also the customers are mixed and different in quality. Books are easy to break and dirty, so they never come.

But someone immediately realized the benefits of doing so. After all, the grandson of the emperor is a young man. Can the young man not go for a stroll in the downtown area when he arrives at a place?When the time comes, His Highness the Grandson walks into the downtown area, isn't that the first time he sees the bookstore?And he has a mission on this trip, so he will definitely go in and take a look!

At that time, there will be only one bookstore on the street, and it will be the first bookstore Taisun visits. Will this bookstore that opened a branch in the downtown area impress Taisun deeply?

Despicable, so despicable!

As a result, a scene that was incomprehensible to the residents of Quanzhou Port happened like this—several shops in the downtown area closed their doors one after another. Books that make people not interested in reading just by the title.

However, even if the bookstore is deserted every day, these shopkeepers are not in a hurry. Every day, they hold a feather duster and carefully dust off the dust from the books, as delicately as caring for a delicate baby.

Moreover, these shopkeepers stood smiling at the door every day when they had nothing to do, looking very weird.What's even more frightening is that the smiling eyes of these shopkeepers seem to flash a cold light from time to time. Every time they see young people entering the store, there is a wave of enthusiastic greetings, serving tea and water. A person introduces the history of one's store.

Young people who enter the store are usually taken aback by this weird enthusiasm, and have to buy a few books when they leave, otherwise, they always feel embarrassed to go out.As a result, scholars in Quanzhou Port suspected that this was a new marketing method of the book club.

Obviously the power is not great, but the damage is amazing!

In fact, this is the strategy of the shopkeepers of the bookstore after a lot of calculation.They guessed that His Highness the Grandson would visit the book club in disguise. Although they didn't know what the Grandson looked like, they knew the age of His Highness. Every young person in this age range could be His Highness, so , Absolutely treat them well!

In fact, they guessed right, Mu Bai had indeed made a private visit in Weifu, but unlike their imagination, he was not alone.

Mu Bai traveled south with his little friend Mu Chun.

Mu Chun's father is the current Xiping Hou Muying. After Hongwu led the army to capture Yunnan in 14 years, Muying has been guarding here for ten years.As the eldest son of Mu Ying, Mu Chun stayed in the capital for a long time as a bridge between the imperial court and the frontier fortress after 15 years in Hongwu. This time he went south, and his mission was to go to Yunnan to convey the will of the central government—Emperor Hongwu planned to relocate next year. 30 Nanjing residents have entered Yunnan, so Yunnan needs to make some preparations.

In fact, this kind of decree is just a matter of one sentence. To make him travel thousands of miles is actually just a chance for Emperor Hongwu to reunite with his adopted son and grandson.

I have to say that Emperor Hongwu can really be called quite loving when it comes to treating his relatives.

As the eldest son of a guardian, Mu Chun's current status is strictly speaking a half-hostage. According to the routine, not only can he not leave Beijing, but he doesn't even think about passing the edict to Yunnan where his father is.

But in fact, Mu Chun can be said to be free to come and go in Yingtian Mansion. Emperor Hongwu loves this all-round talent in civil and military affairs very much, and he once took care of the adopted grandson of his eldest grandson. The trust in the Mu family and his son can be seen.

And the Mu family has never failed his trust. During the ten years that Muying guarded this place, the social and economic situation in Yunnan has greatly improved. Now the total number of farmland in Yunnan is nearly 90 mu, and the food for the officers and soldiers in Yunnan can be completely self-sufficient. There is even surplus food for emergency relief.

At the same time, Mu Ying broke strict restraint on local officials, and now Yunnan can be called a clean and bright place, and the domineering local officials that Mrs. Shexiang encountered in the past have never appeared again.

With the help of some local officials, many water conservancy facilities were built in Yunnan to divert water to irrigate the farmland and prevent floods at the same time.

And Yunnan's relaxed business environment has provided the local area with a lot of foreign materials. Today, the market prices of Shu brocade and cotton cloth in the local market have dropped by more than half, and Yunnan's local tie-dye and batik products have also been spread along with the caravans. According to the feedback from the market, this kind of exotic beauty is very competitive in the market.

The environment for living and working in peace and contentment and the support for cultural undertakings have made more and more candidates come out of Yunnan, and their grades are getting better and better.

As Emperor Hongwu repeatedly moved people to Yunnan, more and more young people from Yunnan came out of the mountains. Now it is no longer a rare thing to see foreigners wearing Yunnan costumes in other places.

For example, now, seeing two young men who are obviously dressed differently from the locals enter the bookstore, the shopkeeper didn't even blink, and ran to receive and introduce them with a smile.

——But for these two people, the shopkeeper did not introduce the history of the store as before.

As the saying goes, where there is demand, there will be supply.

After Hongwu officially resumed the scientific examination in 14 years, the number of scholars in the Ming Dynasty increased day by day, which naturally created a demand for books.

Of course, this is also related to the education sent to the countryside that Emperor Hongwu had previously promoted.After Emperor Hongwu forcibly stipulated that counties and townships must set up social studies, and urged county officials to carry out literacy teaching, the literacy of the people increased gradually. As more people were literate, the demand for books would naturally increase.

In addition, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu put a lot of effort into the construction of roads and the dredging of rivers.In order to promote the circulation of private goods, the current commercial tax of Ming Dynasty is unprecedented in history.

Taxes, the convenience of transportation, and a large number of demands have also virtually reduced the cost of raw materials.

The result of all this is that bookstores have sprung up in the land of China like mushrooms after a spring rain. Although books are not to the extent that every household can afford books in the Song Dynasty, they are no longer extremely precious in the past. exists.

However, there are too many bookstores, so there are good and bad, and there is no standard for the quality of printing. Today, the book market in the Ming Dynasty relies entirely on commercial self-positioning to set prices.

If the quality is good, the price will be higher, if you go to the high-end market, if the quality is poor, the price will be lower.

This can be regarded as an unspoken rule of the industry.

In Quanzhou Port, most of the bookstores have some tall sage theories or predecessors' notes and poetry collections.Of course, it was not without surprises.

Mu Bai, who was wearing Luoluo costume, saw a book on the bookshelf - "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

As the publisher of "Three Kingdoms", Mu Bai has no memory of cooperating with this bookstore.

So this!yes!Steal!Version!Book!

Moreover, it is more expensive than the original version! !Is this reasonable?

Never expecting to see pirated copies of their bookstore’s best-selling products in Fujian, Mu Xiaobai, who made a private interview on Weibo, choked and almost couldn’t keep the smile on his face.

He managed to stabilize his emotions, stretched out his hand to beckon the shopkeeper and asked a few words before he understood what happened.

According to current standards, the book "Three Kingdoms" is a vernacular book, and its audience should be the middle and lower classes of society. It belongs to the kind of serious scholars who will be slapped by their husbands after reading it, but it is published by a top book club. products, agreed that you take the Yangguan road and I take the single-plank bridge, isn’t this just a fishing trip?

However, there is a demand in the market, and Mubai's bookstore did not extend its tentacles here, so it gave the locals a bright opportunity!If you don't follow the rules, you can't blame us!

As a result, pirated books of "Three Kingdoms" appeared.

And the most embarrassing thing is that many book club bosses themselves don't know that this is a pirated version, because in fact they are also setters or even setters.

Good guy!Really good guy! !

↑There are even more unreasonable bandit logics in this world than the old Zhu's family. Mu Bai blinked several times before he could figure out the logic of these people's thinking, and he was speechless.

If you want to make money, you can make money. In business, why do you have to find other people's faults to hide your shame like a certain lighthouse country? It is better to be honest.

In fact, piracy is not a modern product, it has a deep historical origin. In the era when there was no formal publishing industry, piracy was once an assistant to help authors spread their ideas, but now, this is the real thing. Grab business.

It was still Mu Xiaobai's business that was being robbed, which was very unbearable.

Is Mu Xiaobai's money easy to grab?Do you know how hard it is to make money these days and how easy it is to spend money?Do you know how many foodies he has in his family?His younger brother's huge edible tiger is his food expenses!

Mu Bai had inherited almost all of his mother's dowry and private property before.The princess’s natal family is the founding hero Chang Yuchun. As the eldest daughter of the family and the future mother of the country, the dowry that Chang Yuchun prepared for her daughter is not an exaggeration. Tian Qi in the box.

In the early years of Hongwu when the land was sparsely populated, these land deeds were really nothing, but when it comes to Mubai, the output of these lands for one season alone is enough for an ordinary family to live comfortably for a lifetime. The small treasury given by grandparents, logically speaking, there is no need to worry about money.

But the problem is that Mu Bai still has a younger brother. According to the current inheritance system, although Mu Bai and Mu Wen are both the sons and daughters of the Crown Princess, Mu Wen can only inherit about [-]% of his mother’s dowry. It still depends on the conscience of his elder brother and future sister-in-law.

Of course, there is still a long way to go until the day when Mu Xiaowen officially divides the family property, and with the affection of their brothers, Mu Wen will also be a proper little rich man in the future, but that is the future, before the future comes, it will come first What is more is the growing appetite of small animals.

Alligators, pigs and pigs that can eat a chicken at a meal, Siberian tigers that can eat a deer at a meal, and the family of peacocks with amazing reproductive ability are not small, and those big geese that have been bred for several generations... …Even though Mu Wen is really thrifty, his finances are still in deficit every month.

Since two years ago, in order to earn food for his beloved pet, Mu Wen drooped his head and joined the child labor team of Lao Zhu's family, barely making ends meet by running errands for his father and elder brother.However, even so, Mu Wen is still at the bottom of his circle of friends.

Seeing that the current third heir of Ming Dynasty is getting worse and worse, and has even considered reducing his food expenses to provide for his beloved pets, Mu Bai, who loves his younger brother, can only sigh and take over his younger brother's biggest expense, Tiger.

And now, the cerebellar ax that used to roll on Muwen's knee is the mother of three sub-adults. One can imagine how much food this family can eat now.

Mu Bai, who is scratching his abacus to calculate living expenses, and Mu Xiaowen, who is crouching in a corner with his head in his arms to reflect, has become a routine sight at the end of every month in the Spring Harmony Palace.Mu Xiaowen even swore repeatedly that he would never keep weird pets again, especially large beasts. Even if he watched his little friend's leopard drooling every day, he would never keep it again. up.

Therefore, it is conceivable how Mu Bai felt when he found out that the pirated books appeared, he was furious.

Back then, Mr. Luo went to every publishing house, and you have the ability to reject manuscripts, so don't go pirate now!Don't dare to eat the cake when it's delivered to your mouth, and run like a wolf to cut the cake when you see that others are selling well.

However, there is no copyright protection law in today's Ming Dynasty. Even if Mu Bai finds out who is behind the scenes, he can only be condemned morally and cannot protect his rights legally.

Unless he uses the power of privilege, there is really no way to do anything to people.

But being plucked like this?That's even thinking about it.

Holding a list of dozens of lists that were written in the little notebook of vengeance, Mu Bai smiled.

The author has something to say: the civil and martial arts in the early years of the Ming Dynasty were really good, so there is a saying in later generations that all the generals of the Ming Dynasty were in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Mu Chun’s father, Mu Ying, is also Prince Zhu Biao’s elder brother (adopted brother) who has been in Yunnan for a long time, so his reputation is not very prominent. In the past, Myanmar and Laos were quite capable of fighting, and there was also a Luchuan regime established by the Dai regime. To what extent was this Luchuan Kingdom capable? In its heyday, Dali, Thailand, India, and Laos were all under its influence. Scope (it is the sphere of influence, not the actual occupation, mainly the nature of beating down to grab a vote and making people pay ransom). The Yuan government's repeated crusades were useless. In the end, the Yuan government's rule over Yunnan was actually only Dali and the north of Kunming. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the overlord of Southeast Asia.

This country has a population of millions, and it claims to have 30 soldiers. This country is a system where all the people are soldiers, and the place it occupies is a humid mountainous area. When it broke through Yunnan in the early days, it did not dare to confront the opponent head-on. It can only be accepted first. Lu Chuan bowed his head and claimed, but in fact both sides wrote each other down in the small vengeance notebook.

The two sides repeatedly tested and provoked each other, winning and losing, and finally the Battle of Dingbian broke out in the 21st year of Hongwu.

To put it bluntly, the Battle of Dingbian was when Ming launched a mobilization to attack Luchuan, and the Luchuan regime decided to destroy the Ming army before the arrival of the opposing army. Mu Ying, the commander of the Ming army in Yunnan at the time, used the small-to-many strategy and used The three-column shooting method abruptly brought down the Luchuan Kingdom in its heyday.

However, after the Luchuan regime submitted the surrender letter, it encouraged the Tu people within the sphere of influence to rebel one after another, and then they were beaten down one by one. In the end, the Tu tribes did not dare to rebel again, and the Luchuan Kingdom officially surrendered.

PS, it is worth mentioning that the condition for Zhu Yuanzhang to accept the opponent's surrender is that Luchuan must compensate Daming for all military expenses, and he has made a list of tributes, so Lao Zhu made a lot of money in this battle.

As for the later decline of the Luchuan Kingdom, Luchuan King was robbed of the throne by his courtiers and asked Daming for help. After a hundred years, he rose again and was beaten down by Ming Yingzong to bully others. He also encountered the rise of the Dongyu Dynasty. Finally, he was pressed and rubbed against him. Later on.

The border of Yunnan has been guarded by the Mu family and the Mu family throughout the Ming and Ming Dynasties. Although there are minor turmoil, it is generally not hurt. I have to say that Lao Zhu is really discerning.

PSS: In fact, there is also an incident in modern times, that is, a general of the KMT army was defeated all the way and ran to the Golden Triangle of Myanmar to hide. The strength of the army is very strong, but the army is strong and weak, so many Indian soldiers went to become mercenaries) to encircle and suppress the Chinese Party X army, but they did not expect that this large army would lose with more fights. The Indian army They became ruthless, captured the captives and the local people and put them at the front of the team to attack as human shields, saying, "Let you Chinese kill the Chinese" and so on, so the KMT army became ruthless, chasing this hired army in the counterattack The army beats, does not accept surrender, shoots and kills, and kills 4 3700K Indian soldiers in a situation of inferior numbers. In the end, this army fled without saying hello to Myanmar, (their leader is a British man, committed suicide during the escape)

Later, this command may have been inflated because the civil war has been lost and the foreign war has been won. During an interview, a reporter asked him, "You are known as the king of Yunnan, so when will you return to Yunnan?"

The man replied: "It is not easy to be the king of Yunnan, but it is easy to be the king of Myanmar! The key depends on whether I want to do it or not." (probably this meaning, I forgot) angered Myanmar, and then Myanmar went to the United Nations to file a complaint , the United Nations ordered Taiwan to evacuate people, so this force left the Golden Triangle.