[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

If you want to talk about the natural allies that exist among scholars, the first to bear the brunt is the same year, and among them, those who are on the same list in the provincial examination have the best relationship.

Why?

First of all, in the era when the imperial examination must be in the place of household registration, being able to take the exam in the same place proves that each other must be from the same hometown.

The loneliness of living in a completely strange place is difficult for people who have never left their hometown to experience.At this time, it is natural to meet people who speak the same language, have the same food culture, and life culture. It is natural to have a group.

Moreover, the relationship between fellow villagers is that they are on the same list, so they must also be companions who went to Beijing to rush for the exam together.In this era where all travel is by horses and horses, it is difficult to go smoothly on the way to the exam. Under such circumstances, supporting each other and taking care of each other, the relationship is naturally a little deeper than others.

Therefore, after the announcement of the provincial examination, Mu Bai and the other two naturally formed a small group that advances and retreats together.

Perhaps due to luck, the three candidates who are about to go to Beijing for the exam in Yunnan Province are all young people.Not to mention the youngest, Mu Bai's age is eye-catching all over the country, and his achievements in both civil and martial arts are even more outstanding.

The second is a Naxi teenager named Achu Atu, who has just turned eighteen this year and is a big boy with a shy smile.

The Naxi nationality has a special way of naming. They will take their father's name as their surname, so Achu Atu's name is actually Atu, and Achu is his father's name.

Atu is the eldest grandson of Ajia Ade, the leader of the Naxi tribe in Lijiang. His grandfather was the deputy envoy of the Lijiang Xuanfu Department appointed by the Yuan Dynasty. Because this forward-looking grandfather voluntarily joined Fu Youde and Mu Ying before they attacked Lijiang, it was a reward. , his family and property have been preserved, so this is a real rich N generation official N generation.

Although his status is prominent, Ah Tu is actually a boy as simple as his name.Unlike Mu Bai who studied with his husband, Ah Tu's cultural lessons are entirely out of his own interest. He has been fascinated by Han culture since he was a child, and his father and grandfather were also willing to let him receive diversified education.

Therefore, when the provincial examination was held in Yunnan, this teenager took the exam with the encouragement of his family, and then he encountered the biggest blow since birth—losing to a child who was only half his age.

For this reason, Atu boy was actually very depressed when he was behind the others, but he found that this kid was very good at fighting in the subsequent martial arts, and he was not depressed after he even won the oldest Halati in the competition.

People, always find happiness in comparison =w=

Halati, the oldest, has the simplest identity. He is a local herdsman in Mangbu Road. His parents died early and he was brought up by his fellow tribe.

The 22-year-old youth came to take the exam because he wanted the prize in Mumbulu - he needed the bag of sea salt to treat his family's illness.

Therefore, after taking the provincial examination and meeting the conditions for receiving the prize, Halati originally wanted to give up going to Beijing.He did not tell anyone about this decision.But when he saw that Mubai handed over his share of sea salt to the people of Halati when he learned that his people were suffering from big neck disease, and he took the initiative to invite Er, who came to accompany Kao, to go back to Mangbu Road. Changed my mind.

Facing his new good brother, Halati patted his chest and promised that he would take good care of Mu Bai. Since Mu Bai planned to go to Beijing, he must accompany him to take care of him.

"From now on, he will be my real brother, Harati! Whoever dares to bully you will step over me!"

...In fact, in terms of self-care ability and force value, it's really hard to say who is stronger.But forget it, who would think that there are not enough people to take care of the younger brother.Er Xia's eyes fluttered slightly, and then he held Halati's hand with a full face of trust, and handed over his dear junior brother to him.

Behind the scenes, Er Xia took the little junior brother by the shoulders and told him a lot of precautions, especially repeatedly telling the little junior brother to think twice before acting, and not to do risky things in a rush. Raising your hands in surrender means that you must act cautiously before giving up.

At the end of autumn, there are two passages from Yunnan to Yingtian. One is to go north to Shu, and then go to the ancient capital Chang'an through the ancient Shu road, and then go from west to east, passing through Luoyang and Shangqiu, and passing through Fengyang, the central capital, to enter Yingtian.

The other is to go to Guizhou to enter Huguang Wuling, cross Dongting Lake, and go west along the Yangtze River all the way to the capital.

The biggest difference between the two roads is that one takes the land road and the other takes the water road. In terms of distance, the water road is closer, but for the Yunnan people living in the inland areas...

It's scary to think about shaking on the boat for dozens of days, isn't it? !Moreover, none of the three of them can swim. For the landlubbers, it is really insecure to take a boat or something. They would rather be bumpy on the horse for several months.

Of course, the most important thing is that in this era where you may only travel far once in a lifetime, it is extremely rare to be able to travel with the blessing of fresh candidates. At this time, their household registration books and road guides are simply glowing golden Yes, you can enter anywhere, how can you not take advantage of this opportunity to play enough!

The northern line passes through all the famous historical cities and popular tourist attractions!Xi’an and Luoyang, the ancient capitals of the thirteen dynasties, Shangqiu, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the Longmen Grottoes, the Imperial Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty, and the Land of Longxing in the Ming Dynasty, you can see them all as long as you take a short detour. Isn’t it fascinating to think about it? Excited?

Han culture lover Atu boy strongly recommended this route, and Halati had no objection to it, but Mu Bai looked at the route map drawn by Atu and reminded: "It is very cold to take the north road in winter, and you will encounter Freezing and snowfall, there may be delays on the way."

In this regard, Atu, a southerner who grew up in the most comfortable and pleasant plains in Lijiang, tilted his head, showing his expectation for the snowy north.

Well, since he wants to accept cold beating so much...

Both Mubai and Harati, who grew up in the snow-line area of ​​the plateau, looked at their younger brother.Out of conscience, Mu Bai sincerely advises him to prepare some thick clothes and charcoal fire, and if there is time, he might as well prepare some warm leather clothes.

"Isn't it? I'm in good health. In winter, I go directly to the river to take a bath." Achu Atu was a little dubious.Just as summer insects cannot be described as ice, obviously, you will never be able to explain what kind of experience "cold" is to a person who lives in a place where the seasons are like spring and has never seen a snow line.

However, although Ah Tu has some southern naivety, the butler of their family has seen the world.This is proved by the fact that he packed a considerable amount of leather clothes in the carry-on luggage he prepared for Atu.

In addition to the leather jacket, he also brought a thick mattress filled with kapok wool to both Mubai and Harati.

Kapok is a common ornamental plant in the local area. The flowers of this plant are gorgeous, and the flowering time is in the winter and spring when most plants are dormant. In addition to being beautiful, it can also be used as medicine, so it is very popular among the local people.

When the kapok fruit matures, it will be wrapped in a layer of flocculent fibers. This fiber is fluffy and soft, but has poor elasticity. It can be easily compacted when placed in a bedding, and it is an excellent filler.

But also because of the poor elasticity, when it is used as a warmer, it is a bit tasteless. Every time you use it, you must find a way to shake it fluffy, otherwise the warmth retention will be greatly reduced.Therefore, in the main producing area, it is only a raw material used by the poor to keep out the cold, and it has the same status as the reed flower in the north.

It wasn’t until the Li people on the island of Hainan introduced the kapok weaving method to the mainland that kapok turned over and became an extremely important economic crop. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was promoted as a supplementary economic product of silkworms and popularized throughout the country. Degree.

But it is worth mentioning that over the past few years, Daming in the north seems to have found a crop similar to kapok but with superior fiber and elasticity, but that kind of crop does not grow on trees, but in fields. cotton.

Cloth woven from cotton is softer, more elastic, and better dyed than that of kapok. Under the promotion of the Ming emperor, there is a tendency to catch up with silk and become the main cloth for wearing and dyeing in the North.

However, for the people of Yunnan under the rule of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, this kind of fabric is only in legends. Now the warmest bedding in Yunnan is the bedding made of kapok, apart from the silk quilt made of silk. .

The former is a legendary existence. Even in Xiumang Village, where silk is produced, no one can be extravagant enough to use silkworm cocoons to make silk quilts, so it is quite a luxury gift to receive such kapok quilts.

Both Mubai and Halati expressed their gratitude to the chief manager of the Naxi nationality, and the kind old man said politely that everyone went out to represent the face of our Yunnan, and only when we are good can everyone be good. The blood of the three teenagers was so passionate that they almost swore to be brothers on the spot.

In fact, Atu, as the future second-generation heir of the family, participated in the Daming scientific examination. It doesn't matter whether he passes the examination or not. The important thing is its political significance.

Atu's family had just surrendered to Ming Dynasty, and the heirs of the family took the initiative to learn the culture of Ming Dynasty and participated in the imperial examination of Ming Dynasty, which naturally showed their political inclinations.

Therefore, even if Atu failed the exam, he would basically be given special consideration and arranged to study in the Imperial College for appeasement reasons. If there was no accident, he would be able to return with a solid job as a native official in the future.

However, the manager didn't mean to tell Atu about this.

For young people, the years when you can fight on your own without knowing it are more precious than gold. If you can meet a few like-minded friends, it will be an important wealth in your life.

The old man smiled very kindly when he saw the three young people giggling and preparing for the trip.

Then he flicked his sleeves, took out a stick of caramel from nowhere, and handed it to Mu Xiaowen who was chasing the peacock at home.

Mu Wen has been told by his elder brother since he was a child that he is absolutely not allowed to eat food fed by strangers, so even if he saw this delicious-looking candy, he just swallowed his saliva, holding back without reaching out, but Nuo Nuo Di told the old man that he could only eat it after asking his elder brother.

Then the child ran off to find his brother.After a while, he ran back again, this time his running speed was much faster than chasing Ah Hua, his two short legs were almost flying, and he still had a big smile on his face.

When receiving the candy, he also put a stone in the hand of the old housekeeper: "This is the stone that Ah Wen likes very much, and I will give it to grandpa."

The stone he gave to the old housekeeper was a very ordinary quartz stone, which had a rather unique surface luster, and looked a bit like crystal at first glance.Mu Wen is a small face control, and he likes to collect this kind of shiny things the most.

The old man's eyes narrowed with a smile. After getting the consent, he touched Mu Wen's little head, and stuffed him with an amulet in the shape of a calf: "You will have good luck on this trip."

Mu Wen immediately became happy, he beckoned the old man to bend down, and then kissed the Naxi boss who was under one man.Children who grow up surrounded by everyone love to be coquettish and clingy, and when they express intimacy, the effect is unmatched.

Mu Bai saw from afar that Mr. Housekeeper took out all kinds of gadgets from somewhere and stuffed them into Mu Wen's hands, and he couldn't help sighing.

My brother's mysterious charm... Hey, forget it, as the first victim, what right does he have to say about others?

The considerate Mu Bai adjusted his position, quietly blocking the view of Atu boy.

At the beginning of November, Mu Bai and his party left Yunnan and entered Sichuan Xingdusi, where they met the first group of caravans who were going to Yunnan to eat crabs.

These people are all merchants who went to Kunming to exchange salt for Yinyin with various official needs.

Salt production is a controlled commodity that has never been relaxed in the past dynasties. In Daming, if you want to sell salt, it is useless no matter how rich you are, you must have salt.

No one can leave salt. Even if the government has strict control over the price of salt, as long as there is communication of goods, the profits are enough to make every businessman tempted.

It can be said that having a salt guide is equivalent to mastering the wealth code.

However, the distribution of Yanyin is in the hands of the government. Emperor Hongwu was stingy with the distribution of Yanyin. Except for some government merchants, the only way for ordinary merchants to obtain Yanyin is to transport grain to the north, but this is not true for merchants in Shu. The cost is prohibitively high.

Therefore, when Emperor Hongwu announced that the goods delivered to Kunming could be exchanged for salt, the merchants in Shu who had rich salt mines and stored grain naturally couldn't sit still, and they went to Kunming before the snow season came.

Because of this, Mubai also met the unique horse of Shu-Guoxia horse.

This kind of horse has the same short legs as the Dian horse, a unique breed in Yunnan. This is a breed bred in the local mountainous and hilly environment, and has a history of more than a thousand years of breeding.

Since the main working environment is the plank road with many stairs and steep walls like the Shu Road, the legs and neck of the dismounted horse are shorter than those of the Dian horse. This physiological structure also makes them better at dragging goods, and it is not easy. Come across a low cliff.

The main direction of service of the Dian horse is to climb mountains and carry goods, so its head and neck strength is not as good as that of a dismounted horse.

But in terms of appearance...

"This horse looks so cute." The boy Atu, who was riding a Yunnan horse, rubbed his hands, his eyes sparkled, "I'm going to buy one for my brother when I get back."

Mu Bai took a deep look at him, then glanced at his younger brother who was eager to be careful but thoughtful but didn't speak, a raging flame called working hard to make money suddenly burst out in his heart.

The only way to reach Hanzhong from Sichuan through Daba Mountain is the ancient Shu road built in the pre-Qin period and matured between the Tang and Song Dynasties.Most of the traffic arteries built by these Shu people by breaking mountains and breaking rocks are wooden plank roads.Therefore, whenever dynasties change, Shu Road, as the main traffic artery entering Shu, is always the first to suffer.

Whether it is for the defense of the Shu area, or for the strategic layout of the attacking army, a number of plank roads will always be burned.

Most of the wood on the road today is not the original batch, and only some of the stone steps that were carved out of the mountain still retain the breath of the ancestors.

Shu roads are narrow, and there is only one passage in most areas, and they come and go on the same road.For the sake of safety, since the Song Dynasty, there have been common rules here.

That is to say, "give way to come, less to more, light to heavy, pedestrians to cavalry".

In this one, Mu Bai's group accounted for more than half, so they stopped and stopped to avoid, and they saw the first snow this year in the post station.

As a southerner who has never seen snow before, Ah Tu was so happy when he woke up and saw the snow. cheer up.

For a long time after that, the boy Atu maintained an extremely excited mood, and he could even write a few lines of poetry in Chinese under the indifferent eyes of his friends when he was on the road in the snow.But this kind of happiness is also extremely short-lived. It didn't take long for Ah Tu to cry because of the wet, cold and windy weather in Sichuan.

A wolf from the south, which is said to be healthy and resistant to cold, put on a leather coat in shame in the cold of the north. At this time, even the youngest Mu family boy was only wearing a coat.

Mu Bai calmly handed over a handkerchief, and comforted the boy when Ah Tu was moved to wipe his tears: "Remember not to cry next time, the tears will freeze on your face if you go a little further north, and the frostbite will disfigure you."

Ah Tu: TAT

The author has something to say: This chapter is also called: You can never let a southerner know that the north is cold.

Lijiang, where Atu is located, actually has snow-capped mountains, but Atu boy has been in the plains, so he is a pure southerner who has never experienced sub-zero, which is different from Mubai + Halati who live on Mangbu Road in a plateau mountain climate.

Ahem, you young people, don't always think about falling off the horse, meeting, Shura field, etc., you have to study when you get home (hey), let Xiaobai be happy for ten more chapters.

Welcome everyone to participate in the Miracle Xiaobai Tour Daming game. Today we followed Xiaobai's footsteps and arrived in Sichuan Province.

In a narrow sense, the Shu Road refers to the eight main traffic roads that were built from the pre-Qin period and used until the founding of the People's Republic of China, linking the Hanzhong area and the Bashu area.

Among them, five roads cross the Qinling Mountains and three roads cross the Daba Mountains. Except for the Litchi Road, which is said to be built to transport litchi to Chang'an, the rest of these eight roads have basically been... destroyed.

After all, Sichuan's geographical environment determines that it is the main place to win the world in Bashu, so basically everyone who wants to control Bashu has to destroy the traffic channels to avoid being beaten in, so every time there is a war in Shu The roads are basically going to be destroyed, especially the few roads that are dominated by plank roads. It is not too convenient to set them on fire.

However, with the gradual southward movement of the administrative center and the gradual maturity of river transportation technology, people's dependence on the Shu Road gradually decreased during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the main mode of transportation in Sichuan and other regions began to gradually shift from the Shu Road to the Yangtze River. transportation.The main arterial roads of the Shu Road were gradually reduced from eight to two or three, and the rest were gradually abandoned due to damage, rockfall, or road blockage.