Chapter 193 End of the Year
The twilight drum sounded outside the window, and Bianliang's nightlife began
After the end of the discussion in the political hall, Lv Yijian went out of the palace and went straight to the prime minister's house. When he came to the door of his house, it was almost a day. Other officials also dragged their tired bodies back to their respective residences, ready to start enjoying the prosperous night of Bianliang.
Xu Shi (20:15), one more day.
Bianliang, the city that does not sleep in the east.
From autumn to winter, the cold and summer are about to change places. The winter solstice is approaching, and the end of the year is approaching. The people living in the city begin to walk out of their homes to prepare for the winter. For a while, the supply of seasonal things such as ginger, class, red silk, entrails, goose pears, Lili, clams, crabs, etc. in the city were in short supply, and even the clothing stores selling winter clothes were very popular.
To say that the big merchants in the inner city are the first choice of rich families and princes and grandsons, the small merchants and hawkers in the outer city are the paradise of the common people and the favorite of the people. Here, silk, hemp and wool are still the mainstream of citizens' life. Even winter clothes are mainly based on these three raw materials. The application of cotton is far from popular, and the price is also very expensive. Even if you buy it, only rich people can afford it. The vast majority of small citizens in Bianliang City still wear hemp winter clothes to keep out the cold.
Su Su originally wanted to open a 'warm foreign cotton-padded clothing store' near the New Song Gate in another city, but the commercial land in Beijing is really limited. Even if you pay for it, no one may be willing to sell it unless you are willing to spend a lot of money.
If he only spent a lot of silver to open this clothing store, it was more or less not worth it. Even if Su Su didn't mind, Wu Liang would be worried. He knew that as long as Su Su waved his big hand, the money in his pocket would be gone. As the treasurer of the General Equipment Department of the Song Dynasty (Part 7), he had the right to protest.
Wu Liang's reason is very simple. How much money can that clothing store sell?
Yes, if compared with the various new equipment produced at the foot of Wolf Mountain, how much can a few cotton-padded clothes be worth, unless you can open a large store like Nantong Lane, the house is majestic, the facade is wide, and the hope is clear. Every transaction is often tens of millions, which is really appalling.
Perhaps it is because of an innate preference for cotton products. Su Su often thinks so. She plans to open a store in Bianliang City if there is a chance, so that every Bianliang people can put on the clothes in her store. She wants the whole Bianliang City to know that cotton-padded clothes are better in the Song Dynasty.
Although it didn't come true immediately, God let Su Su fulfill another wish.
That's what happened a week after the completion of Xiangfu's Wolf Mountain Castle.
At that time, Xiangfu New Town had been built. Although there was no wall, it was also very beautiful, very similar to the rural town in the western film.
There is a small square in the center of the town. There was originally a well here. Later, after a long time, the well somehow dried up. The people living nearby also moved away, and the field became desolate.
If it hadn't been for Huangzhuang nearby, it would have been forgotten long ago.
When Su Su came here, she looked at the well. After her field survey, she found that it was blocked by something. In order to find out what blocked the outlet at the bottom of the well, she had to take a look in the well.
However, Su Su has now become a noble scholar (the normal name is: judge the General Equipment Department). Her every move will affect the views of people around her, especially doing this kind of rough job.
That's impossible. At that time, as the supervisor of the General Equipment Department, Li Xiangong said, "Lord Su, you are a noble scholar. Don't go down. Just find a subordinate to go in and have a look."
Since there was opposition, Su Su didn't want to go his own way. He found a local old river worker and asked them to go down and have a look.
The river worker is proficient in water and waterways, and knows the operation of nearby underground water veins very well. After his investigation, he found that something was indeed stuffed under the mouth of the water hole, but the hole was too deep to see what was stuffed, and even the stick could not be detected.
For the convenience of getting water, the old river worker suggested to drill a new well. Su Su said that the well must be drilled, but not here, but there.
Su Suyao pointed to the willow forest behind the embankment of the Jinshui River. There is a flat open space there. There are no mountains and rocks near the high terrain. It is easy to take soil and dig wells. However, the old river workers are worried that the distance is too far and it is not convenient for the people in the town to fw water.
Su Su said that this is called tap water. I plan to use a water pump made by Wolf Mountain to take water from the ground and connect it to each household with a water pipe. As for the center of the town, I have my own method. You can first call people to the open space to standby.
The old river worker surnamed Jiang thought Su Su was fooling around, but with a joke attitude, he invited all the craftsmen in the auspicious land to go to the open space behind the embankment to standby.
Unexpectedly, before dawn the next day, Su Su ordered someone to transport the well drilling equipment from the Wolf Mountain. After a day of on-site command, the tap water tower was soon completed, and the well in the center of the town also gushed out again.
The old river worker surnamed Jiang was dumbfounded at that time and thought he had seen the ghost, but he didn't dare to say that he saw the ghost. He just kept bowing to Su Su and praised, "Your excellency is really a god!"
Unexpectedly, Su Su took advantage of the night to throw a piece of explosive into the well and blew it out of the water. Because the hole was too big, she sent a mason to build an ancient Egyptian-style fountain in place. The green water gushed out, which was very beautiful.
The square is surrounded by gravel paved roads, and the road can pass through three carriages side by side. In order to beautify the town, many willow trees have been planted on the four streets leading to the center of the town.
In the north of the town is a white stone government office (the office of the General Equipment Department). It occupies a small area, only two floors, which is smaller than the general county government. The design pays attention to the natural return and a strong pastoral atmosphere, so Su Su adopts the American architectural style.
On the day of the completion of the government office, Su Su ordered people to erect a flagpole on the grass at the door. The flagpole was made of pine wood and brushed with tung oil, and then led the seven large and small officials to hold a short flag-raising ceremony in front of the grass. The flag is a blue flag embroidered with Su characters.
This matter was later spread to the palace. Renzong thought it was very interesting. He also ordered people to erect a flagpole in the middle of the imperial street in front of Xuande Tower and raise the golden dragon flag belonging to the royal family!
The above is the famous national flag raising incident in front of Xuande Tower in October of the second year of the Qingli calendar. Later, Lv Yijian started this matter in an early morning. With the consent of Emperor Renzong, the Song Dynasty officially included the raising of the national flag in the law, stipulating that all state governments should have their own flags, and the specifications are the same as the royal dragon flag. It is the material and color, and the rest can be imitated in the style of the seventh part.
To get back to the point, the nightlife of Bianliang.