"Prosperous? This is not true, the horse street in front is the prosperity of the city. Brother Jin Qing can make the younger brother miserable this time, Wang Xiang will not spare it, my life will be suspended......"

Li Gonglin was very disdainful of Wang Xu's evaluation, and pointed to the east with a fan, indicating that the good show was still ahead, and at the same time he did not forget to cry poor, and alluded to Wang Anshi's poor character and was very good at killing people.

Wang Anshi's character is not clear to Hong Tao, but his face must be thick enough. Listening to others slandering his character, his face did not change color and his heart did not beat, pretending not to hear, and he fought hard for this stuttering.

Sure enough, before turning north, Hong Tao had already found that the number of pedestrians on the street had increased, and when he reached the intersection of Hengjie and North and South Streets, it was basically equivalent to entering the team of the Spring Festival temple fair.

This made Hong Tao a little trance, as if he was back in the first few years of the Donghuamen Night Market, when the Donghuamen Night Market was about the same level, and he wanted to squeeze to the front of the stall to buy a snack, and he couldn't grab the freshly cooked without any internal strength.

But now it was a thousand years ago, but there was such a bustling street market during the New Year, which shows that the people's willingness to consume is very strong, and it also shows that everyone has spare money in their hands and dares to spend it.

This is not a trivial issue, it is worth taking the time to discuss and see how the Great Song Dynasty stimulated consumption and boosted domestic demand.

This street is not full of restaurants and restaurants, this section is already the north end of the restaurant, and a street to the north, after the gorgeous Pan Building, the pedestrians are gradually reduced by half, but the quality has increased a lot.

What is quality? It's not about looks, it's about net worth. Without Li Gonglin's introduction, Hong Tao can see signs of wealth and wealth from these people.

Not only people, but also the shops on both sides of the street are rising with the tide, every family is solemn and atmospheric, and there are many jugglers at the door, and the game is basically a trick, playing monkey!

"Brother Bo Shi, these shops are all pharmacies?" Hong Tao couldn't understand why he was playing monkeys at the door, but he could roughly understand the signboard of the store.

Du Jin Hook Family, Cao Family Du Shengyuan, Shanshui Li Family Oral Throat Medicine, Silver Boy Bailang Chinese Family Medicine Pediatrics, Big Shoes Ren Family Obstetrics ...... It's clearly a street in the pharmaceutical industry.

"Yes! This one is the most magnificent......" Li Gonglin replied in the affirmative, reaching out and pointing to the left side of the street.

"I'm ...... How dare you scream! Hong Tao looked in the direction of Li Gonglin's finger, and was so shocked that even the spoken words of later generations involuntarily slipped out.

This is a larger shop, and there are two surprises: the first is that there is a tiger-eyed tiger locked in the large iron cage at the door, and it is alive and still barking at pedestrians.

The second is that the name of this shop is even more terrifying than the tiger, it is called Tiger Wolf Medicine!

Didn't this Nima smash his own business, who would dare to buy it if he was a tiger and a wolf medicine. It's a pity that Hong Tao guessed wrong, there are not only customers in the store, but also a lot. It seems that the Song people are still relatively strong in their bones, and they dare to eat anything!

After crossing the Great Song Dynasty's Gui Street, the Pharmacy Street and the Dyeing Courtyard Bridge on the Wuzhang River, the appearance of both sides of the street has changed again. No matter what the flower building looks like or what is written on the wine flag, there is a string of red lanterns covered with bamboo hats at the entrance of the store.

"Brother Boshi, this is not suitable, I still have my family with me." This time, Hong Tao doesn't have to consult others, there are also many restaurants with red lanterns in the cities of the Southern Song Dynasty, the meaning is basically the same as that of later generations, red light district!

The pornography industry in the Song Dynasty was legal and divided into two types, prostitutes and prostitutes. The former is relatively high-end, belonging to a talented woman who can write words, is good at talking, balances characters, and deals with a degree of intellectual talent; The next level also has silk and bamboo orchestras, beautiful songs and dances, and salty and refined abilities, which can be regarded as talented.

Prostitutes do not sell their bodies, they only accompany the guests to eat, drink, and recite poems, even if they sleep with the guests, they have to be happy with each other, and they will be laughed at by cultural people just by smashing money, and they have to be pleased by their appearance and talent.

This is very similar to the geisha in Japan, which is an acting profession. Perhaps the geisha came to Japan from the Song Dynasty, but we lost it due to the change of dynasty and kept it in Japan.

The author has not researched it, but Japan does have a lot of Tang and Song relics, and it respects the culture of the Tang and Song dynasties, and does not attach so much importance to China after the Yuan Dynasty.

This can be seen from the ancient architecture of the two countries, look at the existing Song Dynasty architecture in China, and then go to Kyoto, Nara and Kamakura to see the ancient architecture of Japan, and you will find that it is very similar, and it is similar to the bones. But compared with the architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is basically not a style.

Prostitutes are lower than prostitutes, they can eat and drink together, and they can sing and dance, but if you want them to play something elegant with you, you won't. As long as you are willing to pay, you can get your hands up and down in the private room, and it is also common to press it down directly.

Red lanterns are hung at the entrances of these restaurants, and they are covered with bamboo hats, called gardenia lanterns, to indicate the scope of their business.

In the Song Dynasty, this kind of hotel was called "Nunnery Hotel", which belonged to a very low-grade entertainment consumption place, in today's words, it is not literary at all, only the nouveau riche and the local buns like to buy red fruit in this place. A man with a little bit of identity, even if he comes, he has to sneak in through the back door, and he usually has to have a very disdainful expression when he talks about this place.

Jiang Zhuyi was sold to this kind of hotel back then, and he happened to meet himself, a pure bad guy, and he was saved, so it's okay to come and visit now. But the timing is not right, I still have my family with me, I can't let the princess wait outside for me to go in and prostitute it!

If that's the case, it is estimated that tomorrow the emperor will have to take someone to his house, and it won't work if he gets any illness, he will have to be kicked to Yazhou. If you really want to go to Yazhou, you can do it, and then play with the Tan family. I'm afraid that if I change places, I will be blind.

"No, no, no, Wang Xiang is not a pickled person. Jin Qing is not in a hurry, the front is ......" Li Gonglin did not sarcastically mock Wang Anshi this time, and pointed forward again with a fan.

"Isn't this a horse market, are you going to eat some soup cakes after going around most of the city?" Hong Tao looked in the direction pointed by the fan, and didn't see anything special, there were many horses and cattle at the corner of the street, and there was a Wang Po soup cake on the corner of the street.

"Official, it's Bai Alum Tower, now your brother can suffer ......" At this time the princess spoke, she has been walking behind Hong Tao's left, and also uses the incense fan in her hand as a baton, but not in front, but on the top of her head.

Because the color buildings on both sides are very high, Hong Tao is more close to the right side of the street, and there are no other buildings on the upper right. When he moved to the left side of the street, he noticed that there was a huge pavilion not far to the right. Not only is the pavilion tall and mighty, but even the colorful building is also huge, almost half a building high.

In fact, what Hong Tao saw was only a corner of the alum tower, which should be called the building complex, which was composed of five four-story wooden buildings in the southeast, northwest, and north. The second and third floors of each building are connected by corridors, which can be connected as a single building or exist independently.

"It could be Fan Lou...... It is indeed higher than the Imperial City! Hong Tao had never heard of the name of the alum tower, but when he was in the Southern Song Dynasty, he had heard that there was a fan tower in the east of Bianliang City, and standing on the fourth floor, he could look out at the interior of the imperial city not far away.

Probably estimated with your eyes, if you count the foundation, these four floors must be about seventeen meters, which is indeed high enough, and it is indeed much higher than the imperial city wall not far to the west.

If you stand on the fourth floor, you can definitely see the interior of the imperial city, if you have a pair of binoculars...... The faces in the harem can probably be seen.

It's not just tall, it's big. Each floor has a heavy eaves, and the four corners are hung with red lanterns and colorful flowers, which is very magnificent. The building in the middle is simply made into an octagonal shape, and the lanterns and flowers on the floor are dazzling.

And it's not just a restaurant, each building has a different effect. The first floor of the building facing the street on the west side is a ready-to-wear store, the first floor on the north side is said to be the largest pharmacy in the city, and the first floor on the south side has various performances to watch.

According to the name of later generations, this should be regarded as a comprehensive shopping center integrating eating, drinking and playing. The concept of cost-effectiveness was not invented by later generations, and was already implemented by the Song people a thousand years ago.