After coming out of the Mercedes-Benz Bicycle Factory, Liu Yuan casually walked around the capital.
Thinking about it, it seems that it has been a long time since I took such a leisurely stroll in the streets and alleys of Beijing.
The capital is more prosperous than before. This weekend, the streets and alleys are full of people, especially the commercial pedestrian street in the new city of the South District, which is specially used for shopping.
There were so many people, almost a sea of people, filling the entire pedestrian street.
The business of shops large and small is also very prosperous, selling clothes, accessories, food, supplies, gold, silver and jewelry, etc. There are many kinds of shops with a dazzling variety of products.
There are a large number of factories, schools, and businesses in the New Town of the Southern District, which makes the consumption power of the New Town of the Southern District second only to that of Zhuque Street in the capital.
Because Zhuque Street is an area of powerful and wealthy people close to the center of the capital, the goods sold in the shops are of a high quality and the prices are also very high.
The New Town area in the Southern District is much more friendly to the people and has a more local atmosphere. It is a place where ordinary people spend their time and there are naturally the most people.
On weekends, everyone can rest, go out to play, and go out to spend money. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Everyone’s pockets are bulging, and their spending power is also rising sharply. All kinds of New Year’s goods can be purchased in advance.
Liu Jin watched with interest, with a smile on his face.
Look at the people of the Ming Dynasty now. Everyone has no worries about food and clothing. They are well fed and clothed warmly, and they look much better. There are many beautiful girls.
Unlike in the past, when people were not well-fed and clothed, the color on their faces was obvious and they did not look so good-looking. Girls from wealthy families rarely showed up, and they wanted to see a few beauties.
All difficult.
Looking at now, if you look around, you can always see many beautiful girls, and there are also many mixed-race children. A large number of female slaves were sold to the Ming Dynasty, and they also gave birth to many mixed-race offspring.
Everyone's clothes are quite good, good-looking and decent. It's rare to see anyone wearing patched clothes. There is no doubt that this is because in the Ming Dynasty, the output of cloth is very high and the price is very cheap.
, all kinds of clothes and so on, the prices are also very cheap, so there is no need for everyone to be as frugal as before.
This is especially true for these young people. They grew up in the new era of the Ming Dynasty and had no worries about food and clothing since childhood. How could they understand the principles of diligence and thrift.
As for the young men on the street, all of them are tall and strong.
Compared with before, the height and weight of Ming people have increased significantly.
The new-style school has physical examinations every day. The height of the new generation in the Ming Dynasty has grown very obviously. There is not enough food to eat, and meat is getting cheaper and cheaper.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were several large meat warehouses in the Northern Province, the Western Region Province, the Hezhong Province, and the Central Asia Province. Coupled with the convenience of railway transportation, so many cattle and sheep were constantly transported there.
At the same time, the marine fishing industry is becoming more and more developed. There are more and more fish caught in the ocean, and the price is cheap. There are also dried meat from Australia, dried fish from Golden Island, etc.
Vegetable greenhouse technology has also been promoted in the north. Ryukyu, Qiongzhou, and Nanyang can produce enough vegetables and fruits.
All these have greatly enriched the Ming Dynasty people's dining table, and the result is that the height and weight of the Ming Dynasty people are constantly growing, and the little girls and boys are becoming more beautiful, handsome and handsome.
To see whether a country is strong or rich, you only need to see whether its people are well-fed, well-clothed, and whether their people look rosy and shiny.
This reminded Liu Jin of the late Qing Dynasty in later generations. Even in places like the capital, the people were still sallow, skinny, gray-headed, and dirty. You could tell that the Qing Dynasty at that time was not far away from its demise.
The foreigners of the same period were all tall and strong, so that everyone has always felt that we are not as good as them in terms of race.
In fact, they ate much more meat than we did, and they were full, so they were strong. Later, as our living standards continued to improve, our heights and other things also continued to increase.
Looking at the current Ming Dynasty and Europe, the height of the Ming Dynasty people is no worse than that of Europeans, and the younger generation is even taller and stronger than Europeans.
When Zhu Houzhao led an army of 300,000 men across Eastern Europe, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had a strong physical advantage when fighting the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate and the Slavs of the Muscovite and Ryazan Principalities.
The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were tall, strong and well-trained, and even the horses they rode were taller and stronger, which left a very deep impression on Europeans.
These are enough to show that whether you are tall or not has a lot to do with your diet. Where you eat more meat, people will be taller and stronger.
In addition, a balanced diet is also very important, related to physical fitness.
Of course, the most intuitive thing is whether it looks good or not.
If people don't eat enough, they will have a sallow complexion and look ugly. If coupled with malnutrition and imbalance, all kinds of strange diseases will appear, and they will look even more ugly.
Ugly.
If you can eat enough, eat well, and have balanced nutrition, people will look much better. Men will be handsome and handsome, and women will be beautiful.
Liu Jin could tell from just the people he saw on this pedestrian street that the Ming Dynasty was very prosperous and prosperous. The people were not only full, but already eating well and paying attention to balanced nutrition.
With lots of vegetables and meat, the little girls raised are all juicy and the boys are full of vitality.
"Not bad."
Liu Jin nodded while looking at it.
You can also see spirituality in everyone's eyes, instead of being sluggish and lackluster after being forced by life and falling into poverty.
The new generation of Ming people not only have good food and warm clothes, but also know more and understand more because they have received new education and read books since childhood, which gives people a different feeling.
Thinking back to when I just traveled through time, even on the streets of the capital, most ordinary people were still short in stature, dressed in tatters, with colorful faces, and dull and dull eyes.
It is not at all the Hongzhi Zhongxing or Hongzhi prosperous era that is most recorded in history books. The Hongzhi Dynasty was actually far from the prosperous era that those civil servants boasted.
On the contrary, the Hongzhi Dynasty was actually the beginning of the decline of the Ming Empire. Many problems and shortcomings were constantly highlighted, which would gradually exhaust the strength of the entire Ming Empire and eventually lead to its demise.
It was also because of his own time travel that caused changes in the Qi of the Ming Dynasty, and that led to everything happening now.
Look at the young men and women on this street. In addition to being better-looking, they also seem to be more bold with each other. There are actually young lovers and young couples openly holding hands in public places.
You and I.
This was almost impossible to do before.
You must know that the Ming Dynasty has always had strict etiquette. Even couples must keep their distance when they are outside. They cannot walk next to each other. Men are required to walk in front and women follow behind.
As for holding hands, it will make people scold you, say you are shameless, and say you have ruined the social atmosphere and so on.
But now, there are actually quite a few young couples holding hands, not caring about anything else, and everyone seems to be more accepting of this, and won't look at them strangely.
This shows that people have seen more of this kind of thing, become accustomed to it, and their minds have become more liberated, and they no longer think there is any problem with it.
A couple, a young couple, go shopping together or something, just holding hands.
"Times and ideas change very quickly!"
Liu Jin couldn't help but laugh.
Sure enough, all development has historical inevitability. With the development of industry and cities, ideas and concepts will naturally change.
Although it is still relatively conservative now, this is also a beginning, and it is estimated that it will definitely become more and more open in the future.
It's just that I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Thinking about future generations, Liu Jin feels that being more conservative may not necessarily be a bad thing. The messy things in later generations are really due to attitude. The divorce rate is frighteningly high and very scary.
Excessive pursuit of freedom and liberation, pursuit of enjoyment, has also brought many, many problems to society, lack of sense of responsibility, fear of hardship and hardship, and even unwillingness to have children. What hope does such a nation have?
So sometimes it is actually good to be more conservative. Many of the Western ideological concepts of later generations are actually dross. The good things have not been learned, but the bad things have been learned by Westerners who are even better than Westerners.
Liu Jin had a lot of thoughts. He was walking on this street and thinking a lot while looking at it. After comparing it with many things from later generations, in fact, the current Ming Dynasty is the best.
