Chapter 466: Wandering around the East Market
Yi Qiulou and Li Feng each went out to attract people to join the chivalrous company, but Xia Hongsheng was a little worried that the chivalrous company would grow stronger in the future, whether it would cause internal infighting between the official faction headed by Li Feng and the Jianghu faction led by Yi Qiulou. It's not that I think too much, but infighting has always been a "traditional virtue" of the Chinese. In the wars in China's history, there were far more internal strife than foreign strife, and even in the modern society of later generations, the people of the provinces were flying against each other. Xia Hongsheng immediately felt that he must think of a way to prevent this kind of thing from happening - relying only on moral constraints is actually the most unreliable, and rules are the most reliable constraints. Because in a dirty country, if everyone talks about rules instead of morality, it will eventually become a normal country with human feelings, and morality will naturally gradually return; And in a clean country, if everyone talks about morality and nobility without paying attention to the rules, and talks about moral norms every day when everything is fine, and everyone is impartial, the country will eventually degenerate into a dirty country full of hypocrites.
This is determined by man's animal instincts.
After thinking about it for a long time, Xia Hongsheng suddenly felt that he wanted to think about such a headache by himself?
When the Xia Kexing organization is established and makes a contribution, so that Li Lao Er can see the benefits and can't bear to let go, raise this question for Li Lao Er, and then let him have a headache! He himself is so cunning, and there is a group of old yin people around him, not much better than his own headache.
Ha ha! What a wit! Xia Hongsheng gave himself thirty-two likes.
Thinking of this, I was relieved and decided to go to the bookstore. The Datang version of "Dragon Babu" was put on sale, and I heard the good news from the shopkeeper that it was very hot to buy, so I decided to take a lazy day off. Go over and take a look. Stop by and visit both cities.
went out and called Yuexian and Qi Yong. went to call my sister-in-law, but I heard that my sister-in-law went out to Xu Hui's house early in the morning. As for whether the sister-in-law went to Xu Hui's house or went under the city wall again, Xia Hongsheng didn't bother to care. Naturally, you don't have to worry about going to Xu Hui's house, you can go to buy food after going under the city wall to disguise, and there are also people secretly following and protecting, so don't worry.
So he only took Yuexian and Qi Yong, and the three of them went out. They were all dressed in ordinary clothes, and Yuexian also covered her face with a light veil, and the three of them did not ride a horse or ride a carriage, so they walked while walking.
After the new construction, there are more people in the second city than before, and people have become accustomed to it from the shock at the beginning. Even if you don't buy anything, you can walk around here in your spare time and see so many people and so many kinds of things. It's also excellent.
There are many women on the road, and this era is far from the point where women are bound to the home and cannot take half a step out of the boudoir. Most of the women on the street wear Hu clothes. It also looks heroic and sassy, and it has a bit of a man's pride. Naturally, there are also girls' houses with skirts like clouds and skirts flying, passing by the streets.
It's a good time! Xia Hongsheng looked around at the passers-by on the street and couldn't help but sigh. People's faces are more confident than cowering, laughing more than sad, calm and slow more than not angry, this is the best sign of the good times.
There were still many people in the bookstore, and there were still many people reading books, but there were also obvious long queues at the counters to buy books.
When the three of them entered the bookstore, they didn't alarm anyone, they just walked around the bookstore, and they were very happy to hear someone discussing the plot or characters in "Dragon Babu".
"Thanks to Gongzi, many scholars from poor families in Chang'an City now have a place where you can see many books." Yuexian looked at the full bookstore, and whispered beside Xia Hongsheng with some feelings.
"Hehe, it's not bad to have a library!" Xia Hongsheng laughed and said: "Now that printing is convenient, it will only be more convenient and faster in the future." There will be more and more books, and people will become more and more knowledgeable. ”
Although Yuexian and Qi Yong couldn't quite understand Xia Hongsheng's words, their son-in-law always said something from time to time that was difficult for them to understand and understand, and they were used to it.
More and more people are contributing, and nowadays, newspapers don't have to write their own articles. Of course, the pen name is used, and the newspaper will keep the authors of the articles that have passed the review and published the report confidential, so that people dare to discuss the gains and losses of the government in the newspaper.
It's just that there are almost no long books that can be published alone......
Xia Hongsheng didn't bother the shopkeeper, and the three of them went out to the bookstore again and walked around the East Market.
The antique and antique, and accompanied by the modern architectural atmosphere in the later generations, are lined up on both sides, oh, until now, but they have become the imitation modern elements in the ancient buildings, and the addition of glass floor-to-ceiling windows can be described as complementing each other, unique and full of charm.
"Childe, there are a lot of people gathered in front of you!" Qi Yong suddenly said behind Xia Hongsheng.
Xia Hongsheng withdrew his gaze from the shop next to him, and saw a large group of people gathered not far away, and a burst of commotion erupted from time to time. So he walked up to join in the fun, and when he got closer, he heard a strange accent constantly being introduced, and felt familiar, and squeezed in further, who could the Persian with a strange accent not be Arhan!
So it was interesting to see what Arkhand was selling, and when Arhan came back, he didn't care about what Arkhand had brought back from the west, except for the books.
After standing below and listening for a while, I found that what Arhan had brought out was not a novelty, and it seemed that the people around him were not interested in it, and the desire to buy it was not strong. Xia Hongsheng felt that maybe the people around him were just holding a kind of mentality of watching monkeys, and watching Alhan jump up and down in an awkward Chinese dialect was far more than looking at the goods.
This can't do it, it won't attract people's curiosity and arouse people's desire to buy!
I don't know how this Arhan sold the goods before, no wonder he has to stay in Chang'an for more than a year when he comes back, and then he will go west again. It turns out that things are bought too slowly!
However, Arhan should not be regarded as a person who does not know how to do business, which is also reflected from the side, and today's Datang people are no longer very interested in what Hu Shang brings. In the past, Hu merchants operated in Datang, mostly jewelry, goldware, spices, glass, etc., as well as catering. Among the jewels, there is nothing more valuable than glass, but now it is no longer a rare thing. And the things that Arhan brought were mostly jewelry, and they were not very good for sale.
It's so stupid that I obviously brought glass products and sold them to the West, but I didn't think that since Datang already has better things, how can it spend more money to buy Western glass products! Nowadays, the glass products made by Datang are only different in appearance and style compared with those brought by Hu Shang.
"I have to teach him, or I'll lose the money I brought back so much!" Xia Hongsheng shook his head and said. (To be continued.) )