Jinling City, I'm here!

Zhu Qizhe sat on the speeding wheel boat, his face flushed with excitement.

It’s not easy. After several months of preparation, he can finally go to Jinling, which is the capital he booked!

At this time, Bi Maoliang and Liu Ruoyu had already taken office, one was the left censor of the Nanjing Censorate and the other was the eunuch in Nanjing. Although it could not be said that he was powerful and had only one hand to cover the sky, it was still quite a bit of a slap in Jinling City.

The Miwei had already bought a considerable shop on Confucius Temple Street on the Qinhuai River. It is said that it was a restaurant and inn, which covers a considerable area, so the offer price was quite high. After some bargaining, the final transaction price reached a terrifying 15,000 taels.

You know, even on the streets of Beijing, a yard covering an area of ​​about one acre will only cost about one hundred taels and tenty-five thousand taels. Most people cannot imagine that even rich people will not spend money to buy it randomly. After all, it is not easy to recover this cost.

The Crazy King Zhu Qi is different. He has money. As long as the area covers a large enough area, it doesn’t matter if it costs more. He believes that he will make it back soon.

He prepared a lot of luxury goods, including Yunshang, Huarong, and Yaochi Fairy Fruit. He had already thought about them. Later, he came up with many other things.

For example, a luminous cup is a glass cup. If it is placed in later generations, the glass cup is naturally not worth a lot of money, but it is different at this time, because glass is still a rare thing, and the cup made of glass is really like the legendary luminous cup. It is not a problem to just package it well and sell it at a good price.

For example, rabbit-haired boots are actually very common in the mountainous areas of northwest Zhejiang and Sichuan, and he has several pairs of them himself.

Because his refugees raised too many rabbits, they produced more than 100,000 yuan a month. The rabbit meat was basically dried and sold, but not many people bought the rabbit fur. After all, the nearest of Nanyang, Shaanxi, Henan and Yunyang were basically affected by disasters. The people were not full of food, so how could they still have money to buy fur?

So these refugees made rabbit fur into various things, such as leather jackets, leather hats, even leather blankets, quilts, etc. The most beautiful thing among these things is rabbit leather boots. Both sides of the inside and outside are sewn with fluffy rabbit leather, and the bottom is thick cooked cowhide. It is so warm when worn.

You should know that this is the Little Ice River Age. The north is barren and there is no grass growing, but the south is filled with ice and snow, which is extremely cold. According to rumors, during the Tianqi period, even Fujian and Guangdong, which never snowed, had heavy snow. The cold climate was conceivable.

In such cold weather, wearing cloth shoes can freeze all your toes, so rabbit hair boots are different. You can even sweat when you walk while wearing them!

Rabbit fur boots are very common in his territory, but not in Jinling City. After all, a pair of boots requires the fur of several rabbits. Who can raise so many rabbits without any trouble?

He believed that this thing would definitely become a hot item.

There is also a clairvoyance. Men should be very interested in this thing. After all, this thing can bring the scenery in the distance closer.

Legend has it that there are many beautiful women in Jinling City, and how many men don’t want to see beautiful women.

However, these days, if you stand close to stare at others, it is rude. If you stand far away and look at them with a thousand miles apart, it will be different. Anyway, no one else knows it, so you can just look at them whatever you want.

Of course, what he prepared was not the kind of high-magnitude telescope that could see more than five miles. That thing was strategic materials and it was impossible for him to sell it to the enemy for use. What he prepared was low-magnitude, and at most he could see the scenery one mile away.

This kind of telescope is possible for cold weapons to fight. After all, the attack distance of bows and arrows is only about a hundred steps, but it is useless for hot weapons to fight. After all, the attack distance of artillery can reach five or six miles.

The long fleet was running on the river, but Zhu Qizhu's thoughts had already floated to Jinling City.

He has never seen a metropolis these days. How prosperous is Jinling City?

Nanyang is only about two thousand miles away from Jinling, and the wheels are down the current, and the speed is simply too exaggerated. Although it is not as exaggerated as a thousand miles a day, it took less than three days in total.

It was early winter, and it was quite cold outside. It was like sitting in the wheels and it was like turning on the heating. It was not too comfortable.

When Zhuqiu walked out of the cabin, she couldn't help but wrap her cotton robe. The Little Glacier Natural Disaster was indeed not covered, and the south side was even colder than the north side.

They are foreign ships, and it is still very troublesome to drive into Jinling City directly. Therefore, the fleet just docked at the Hekou Wharf outside Jinling City, which is the intersection of the Yangtze River and Qinhuai River, and is still a little distance from the real Jinling City.

However, this place is already quite prosperous, and the port pier is already filled with various buildings. Teahouses, restaurants, shops and theaters can be seen everywhere, and the courtyards of ordinary people are even rising one after another, extending directly under the city wall in the distance.

On the dock, the secret guard general Yang Lianhua had been waiting there for a long time. There was a stitch in casual clothes standing next to her, which was Liu Ruoyu's confidant.

As soon as Zhu Qizhu got off the boat, the two of them came up and bowed respectfully, "Shopkeeper Zhu has worked hard all the way."

Well, it is natural that the two of them call him Prince in this place. Zhu Qizhu also changed his original name back to Zhu Qiqi, and his identity is the boss of Hua Yutang.

Zhu Qizhuo nodded slightly and then asked: "Shopkeeper Yang, the carriage is ready."

Yang Lianhua hurriedly pointed to a long carriage lane not far away: "It's ready, right there, maybe the villain will accompany you into the city first, and leave it to them for unloading."

Zhu Qizhuo nodded slightly and said, "Okay, let's go to the city first."

After saying that, he took Ning Choudan and several experts from the Secret Guard toward the direction of the carriage. There was not only a flat carriage for transporting goods, but also a large carriage with a tent.

It is no problem to squeeze in five or six people in such a carriage, but only Zhu Qizhu, Ning Choudan, Yang Lianhua and the gear head got on the carriage, and the other secret guards followed each other quickly on both sides of the carriage.

As soon as everyone got on the carriage, Liu Ruoyu's subordinates bowed and apologized repeatedly: "Prince, our father-in-law and Lord Bi are not in a position to come to greet each other, I hope he can't let him go."

Liu Ruoyu was also a custodial eunuch, equivalent to a grandson in the capital's cabinet. Naturally, it was impossible for him to come to the dock outside the city to greet him as a "vendor".

As for Bi Maoliang, it is even more impossible. He is the left censor of the Censorate. Although he is from Nanjing, he is also responsible for supervising officials. He must set an example and go out of the city to welcome him as a "vendor"!

Zhu Qizhe just nodded slightly, indicating that it didn't matter, and then opened the curtain next to him and looked out.

The Nandu Jinling City is really not as prosperous as it is. It is already very lively outside the city. When you enter the city, there are even more traffic and crowds, just like a pedestrian street in a metropolis in later generations.

According to historical records, in the 26th year of Hongwu, there were more than 160,000 households and nearly 1.2 million people in Yingtian Prefecture. In this case, it was still a registered official population. Those slaves and servants were not included. During the Tianqi and Chongzhen periods, according to relevant historical materials, the population of Yingtian Prefecture was at least more than 2 million, and there were about one million people in Jinling City alone.

What is this concept?

You should know that at this time, the total population of Jiannu was less than 800,000, while the total population of the sea overlord, the Netherlands was only about 1.2 million.

In other words, the combined population of Jinling City and its surrounding suburbs exceeds the total population of Jiannu and the Netherlands!
Chapter completed!