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Chapter 730, Travel Notes of the Ming Dynasty in Tianjin (Part 2)

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    This is the second day after I arrived in Tianjin.

    In the morning, I woke up from a very comfortable big bed.

    This kind of bed is different from our European beds. I did some research first. This kind of bed is called a spring bed by the Ming Dynasty. There are many springs made of steel under the bed.

    When someone is on it, it is very soft and comfortable.

    I have to admire the wisdom of the people of Ming Dynasty again. This bed is really comfortable.

    After getting up, I went to the bathroom to wash myself.

    The cities in Daming have a kind of tap water. When you open the faucet, the water will flow out by itself. The reason why their city is very clean depends entirely on this tap water.

    They built huge underground drainage and sewage systems in the city. All the dirty things in life are discharged underground through these things, and then they are processed uniformly.

    Very clean, but also very convenient and comfortable.

    They use a toothbrush and toothpaste to brush their teeth in the morning. The toothbrush is made of pig hair and the toothpaste is a white paste. I tried to use it.

    It is very easy to use and very comfortable. My teeth have become whiter and bad breath seems to have disappeared.

    In the Ming Dynasty, I had a somewhat inferior self-esteem in the General Administration. It seemed as if I was a barbarian who came to a civilized country. I didn¡¯t know or understand many things, so I had to ask the waiter in the store.

    We had breakfast here in the lobby of the inn.

    Daming¡¯s breakfast has a wide variety of types, including noodles, rice noodles, steamed buns, dumplings, wontons, pancakes My favorite is their noodles, I ate five bowls of them.

    While having breakfast, I discovered an interesting phenomenon.

    People in Ming Dynasty like to drink morning tea while reading newspapers.

    Newspapers are a very magical thing. Because I knew very limited characters, I couldn¡¯t understand the content on them. I asked the owner of the inn.

    He told me that newspapers are an important tool for everyone to understand world events. Almost everyone here in Ming Dynasty likes to read newspapers. If you can't read newspapers, you can go to the teahouse and there will be a special newspaper reader to teach you.

    Hearing this, I made up my mind to learn the writings of the Ming Dynasty carefully, so that I can understand the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty and know the major events that happened in the Ming Dynasty.

    I was very curious about what the newspaper said, so I asked the innkeeper to tell me some of the things written in the newspaper.

    The boss is very nice and accepted my request very happily.

    He said that today¡¯s newspapers mainly reported that the Ming Dynasty encouraged immigrants to the three provinces of Xianglin, Jiaozhi and Zhenghe.

    In order to encourage Ming people to immigrate to new provinces in Nanyang, the Ming court provided that every Ming citizen who immigrated to Nanyang could receive thirty acres of land for free and a five-year tax exemption. At the same time, the Ming court would bear the food and lodging during the immigration process.  cost.

    The Ming Dynasty recently launched a war in Nanyang and annexed many places one after another, incorporating these places into the Ming Dynasty's territory. Therefore, in order to develop these places, the Ming Dynasty court is encouraging immigrants.

    I asked the boss about the situation in Nanyang in detail.

    Nanyang is located to the south of the Ming Dynasty. There were originally many countries there, but these countries united and offended the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty launched a crusade.

    The Ming Dynasty was extremely powerful. It is said that it dispatched 100,000 troops and used hundreds of warships. It easily swept through the Southeast Asian countries, wiped out several countries, and incorporated these places into the Ming Dynasty's territory.

    In addition, it is said that India, Persia and the Middle East can be reached by going west from Nanyang.

    God, you know how excited I was when I heard the news.

    I can already roughly draw a world map of the earth we live in in my mind.

    ??Going east from Europe, that is the Middle East, and further east you can reach Persia. To the east of Persia is India, and to the east of India is almost the Ming Dynasty.

    The Ming Dynasty went east and crossed the vast Pacific Ocean to reach the Americas. The Americas went east and crossed the Atlantic Ocean and returned to Spain again.

    I have an idea. When I return to Spain, I plan to return to Spain via routes from the South China Sea, India, the Middle East, and Africa. However, I am afraid I will have to take a Portuguese ship to return.

    The Portuguese had arrived in the Indian Ocean and India a few years ago, and they must have met the Ming people.Take a look.

    Here in Tianjin, there are cement factories, textile factories, shipyards, car factories, glass factories, dyeing factories, coal factories, furniture factories, etc., all kinds of factories and workshops, large and small.

    The goods produced here not only met the huge demand of the Ming Dynasty, but were also marketed overseas outside the Ming Dynasty through large and small businesses here.

    Having said that, I went to a very important place in Tianjin, Shili Yanghang!

    Shili Yanghang is the most important street in Tianjin. The street is very long. There are high-rise buildings on both sides. Each high-rise building is an overseas trading house.

    There are countless large and small trading firms. These firms not only built factories and workshops in the Ming Dynasty, but also had fleets traveling to various parts of the Ming Dynasty and overseas for trade.

    They also built huge plantations here in Nanyang, planted sugar cane, and then boiled it into sugar.

    God~

    When it comes to sugar, I have to praise it again.

    Sugar is a very expensive thing in Europe, and only the real aristocrats and wealthy people can enjoy it.

    But here in the Ming Dynasty, its price is very cheap. One Ming Dynasty silver dollar can be sold for several kilograms of sugar. They even add sugar to their tea, which is extremely luxurious.

    Sugar was brewed by the Ming people who planted sugar cane in Nanyang. In order to meet the Ming people's demand for sugar, the Ming people established countless plantations in Nanyang.

    I even suspect that the Ming people launched a war in Nanyang not because the Nanyang people offended the Ming people, but because the Ming people wanted to obtain their land for growing sugar cane.

    Sugar is a very important thing. It can also be sold to Europe in the future, and it will definitely make a lot of money.

    There are many commercial banks here in Shili Foreign Bank. They are all doing big business and big business, and they all use banknotes.

    Silver ticket is the currency issued by Daming First Bank. It is just a piece of paper, but it can be used like silver coins. It is very convenient and exquisite.

    Because I am a European Spaniard, the bosses here received us very warmly.

    I chatted with them all morning, invited me to tea and lunch.

    I had a great time chatting with them. They really wanted to know about the situation in Europe from me, and they were also very eager to do business in Europe.

    I told them that I am a big noble in Spain and I have a huge business in Spain. If they are willing, they can contact me in Europe and I will definitely be able to help them.

    Therefore, I have made some good friends in Daming. Maybe when I come to Daming to do business in the future, things will become much simpler.

    The bosses of these trading houses are very useful. Many of them own a lot of merchant ships and own many industries in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. They have their own factories, workshops, and plantations.

    Even Ming Dynasty recently passed a bill that allows Ming Dynasty¡¯s commercial banks to have certain private armed forces overseas.

    God, I can foresee that in the future, the Ming Dynasty¡¯s giant ships and cannons will walk on every ocean in the world. No one is their opponent and can only surrender to their powerful power.

    At noon, I had a pleasant dinner with businessmen from Ming Dynasty. In the afternoon, they very enthusiastically invited me to watch a football match together.

    ¡°I swear, anyone who comes to a football game will instantly fall in love with this damn sport.

    Football is a sport. There are 11 people on each side chasing a football. Whoever scores more goals wins.

    I dare say that the football stadium in Tianjin is bigger than the Colosseum in ancient Rome. People in Ming Dynasty who live a prosperous life basically watch football games in the afternoon.

    A football stadium that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, it is said that every football game is packed.

    People in Ming Dynasty love football very much. Of course, if you come to watch a game in person, you will, like me, immediately fall in love with this magical sport.

    Whenever a goal is scored, the entire stadium cheers and turns into a sea of ??celebration. Of course, there is also the hot dance at the beginning and the free money after winning the bet.

    Thank God, I actually won hundreds of taels of silver betting on the football field today.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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