Five days later, we finally arrived at the Nanchengwai Wharf in Guangzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

From the boat, a sinuous green link stretches all the way to the horizon, this is the Pearl River, and in the distance is the majestic city wall of Guangzhou. The surrounding houses and forts can be seen with the naked eye, and the docks are scattered with large and small Chinese hard sailing boats, mixed with European-style soft sailing boats, and fences have been laid around the pier to prevent them from being attacked by pirates.

The Pearl River Estuary in 1630 was not as busy as it was in later years. At this time, although Guangzhou was the richest city on the southern coast of China, it was only in the Qing Dynasty that it reached the peak of prosperity in the feudal period, and the Qing Dynasty designated Guangzhou as the only foreign trade port.

After going ashore, Xia Nan was not in a hurry to do things, and asked Liu Quan to lead the way around the city of Guangzhou, and after crossing to a place where birds don't, he was very curious about the ancient rich city. Liu Quan has been to Guangzhou several times and is quite familiar, and he took a group of people through a few small streets to the downtown area.

There are many shops here, and it is very prosperous. Merchants from all over the world are gathered, including goods from the north and south of Beijing, provinces, and foreign countries. In terms of age and scope, there are all kinds of antiques since the Tang and Song dynasties, sometimes fashionable brocade, silk, embroidery, cloth, household utensils, as well as Western bells and strange toys.

Shops are classified by industry, each occupying a section of the street. As soon as breakfast is over, the streets are crowded with people, both large and small, and when the time comes, they are crowded. People have to buy things, some to see the lively, some to see the strange eye-opening, and some are designed to see people, crowded around, laughter, it is really better than how many movies and TV series are beautiful, Xia Nan can't help but be stunned - thinking that in less than 20 years, in the alternating melee of the Ming and Qing dynasties, how many of the three hundred years of accumulated wealth and goods in the prosperous southeast capital in the red dust have been accumulated, or burned, or looted away, and how many people who make a living and sightseeing here want to turn into dry bones, I can't help but feel emotional.

The more crowded people go, the more lively the business becomes, and everyone doesn't know what to watch. As he was walking, Xia Nan saw a big cloth shop on the side of the street, the name of the store was "Zhang's Cloth Shop", could it be the partner's shop? He gestured to go in and have a look.

There are many customers in the store, and one customer is bargaining: "My family buys forty pieces of cloth, can't the price be less?" ”

The guy in the shop replied respectfully: "It really can't be less, our Qiongzhou cloth is comparable to silk, but the price is the same as ordinary cotton cloth, and the price is quite real." The guest officer wants a lot of goods, although the price can not be less, but we can deliver to the door. ”

The guest smiled: "I knew you would say that, so wrap it up for me and send it to Gao's house on Huifu Street." This cloth is really good, I have to make a few more sets of living clothes for my masters and mothers, and you can also reward the maids and maids during the New Year's holidays, and they can do a few decent outfits. ”

The guy asked: "When you get to Huifu Street, you just say that Gao's house can deliver it?" ”

The guest said proudly: "Who doesn't know our Gao family in the whole Huifu Street?" ”

It seems that this Gao family is quite famous, and the guy hurriedly responded.

Liu Quan said to Xia Nan flatteringly: "Master, this is really our cloth, it looks like it sells well!" ”

Xia Nan said with a smile: "It is precisely in this way that we have to increase the number of workers and weave more cloth, and in the future, our cloth will dominate the Guangzhou market, hehe." ”

Liu Quan joked: "The old man is mighty! ”

There were only guys in the cloth shop, and they didn't see Zhang Mingli, and there was still something to do, so they didn't contact the people in the cloth shop and left directly.

Coming out of the cloth shop, talking all the way, talking and laughing, and looking at the scenery, Liu Quan was already exquisite, coupled with deliberate flattery, Xia Nan was in a very good mood. He was very interested in street snacks, but he was afraid that there would be problems after eating, so he had to endure saliva all the way.

The street scene in front of it gradually became cold, and the wasteland was exposed on the side of the road from time to time, but there were still human voices. Liu Quan stopped and said, "Master, we have arrived at the human market in front." ”

Xia Nan heard the destination of this trip, and waved his hand: "Walk." ”

Of course, this is not actually a professional population market, in fact, it is just a large piece of wasteland where refugees from all over the country have fled, there is a small temple that has collapsed on the wasteland, and there are even a few panicked graves, and there are nests built everywhere.

The refugees who fled from all over Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and even Jiangxi and Fujian were sitting or lying down with sluggish faces like living ghosts, some were still moving slowly with sticks asking for food, and some were cooking leftovers that they didn't know where they were coming from, emitting a rancid smell of swill, smoky miasma, and a strange smell of musty smell that was not musty and not scorched.

Leaning against the collapsed temple wall, there was a row of straight and straight corpses, all covered with rotten straw mats, and only a pair of withered and chapped feet were exposed. There are still some ashes of paper money...... If he went back to before the time travel, this scene alone would have shocked Xia Nan, but now he was used to the death of this plane as a common thing.

There are local officials in the field, and there is a soup kitchen, and I can finally see a little relief from the local government. However, there are also some well-dressed people who come in and out - all of them come to buy people.

As soon as the well-dressed men came in, a number of people came up to sell their goods: "How do you always look at this girl?" A mouthful of glutinous rice and fine teeth bite the golden broken jade - how about fifteen taels? ”

"Look at this girl's hair, it's jet black and ......"

"I don't look older, but I can read! Born in a scholarly family, the old bustard near Cuilou is willing to pay fifty taels, and I haven't sold it! ”

"How many of you want to serve people, right? This girl is good, it turns out that she is the maid ring of a big family in Fujian, and she has been trained well, and her appearance and figure are all made! I'll pay a price, twenty-five taels! ”

The commotion made Xia Nan and his party miserable for a while, how could they have seen such a scene.

I saw that these seven or eight people were foaming at the mouth and dragging the girls to their side, pulling their hair, and pulling up their arms to show them their skin. These girls, who are as young as thirteen or fourteen years old and as old as their early twenties, are still upright, but they are all yellow and thin, and they are so pinched by their teeth that they want to cry but don't dare, and they look like they are holding back tears and sadness. Xia Nan came from a civilized society, how could he have seen such a scene, Yang Youji and others were born in poverty, and they felt the same way, and they all showed unbearable expressions.