Chapter 295 The era of the alternation of old and new
"Master, you are back."
Two servants standing at the door saw Zhang Zhenxun coming back with a middle-aged Chinese man who looked like an official, and they jogged a few steps forward to please him.
"Is Miss in the backyard?"
"My lady went out with Miss Wu today. I heard that she went to Nanhua First Women's College to observe her studies."
"Um."
Zhang Zhenxun whispered, turned to Sun Bin and said, "Master Sun, my daughter is not at home today, but I made your trip in vain."
"Mr. Zhang, you're welcome." Sun Bin waved his hand and said with a smile, "This place is only half a stick of incense away from Nanhua First Women's College. If Mr. Zhang doesn't mind the trouble, why not take a bus to Nanhua First Women's College and take a walk on the way?
What do you think Mr. Zhang would like to see the scenery around Chang'an City (Cordoba)?"
"According to Lord Sun's words."
Zhang Zhenxun nodded in agreement, and then the two of them got on the carriage they came from, turned around and drove towards the other side.
Nanhua First Women's College is a women's higher education institution under construction. The school is located in Xicheng District, Chang'an. The surrounding area is mostly newly relocated garment factories, spinning mills, textile mills and other light industrial textile factories. It has not yet officially
Put into production and operation.
After passing through a gravel official road, the carriage entered a lively commercial district. Both sides of the street were lined with two-story Western-style brick and stone buildings, but the owners of the buildings were replaced by Chinese Argentinian whites.
"Sir, if you walk two miles ahead, you will reach Nanhua First Women's College."
Arriving at the entrance of the street, the driver and horseman said respectfully.
"The streets are crowded with people, so be careful when driving."
"Hey, sir, don't worry."
The carriage slowed down and slowly passed through the crowded crowd. Zhang Zhenxun opened the curtain of the carriage and turned his head to look outside. Everywhere he saw were hawking vendors and Chinese people in various costumes.
People are divided into three, six or nine levels, and business is divided into high, middle and low levels. Among the merchants engaged in commercial activities in Han Dynasty, according to the size, from high to low, they are divided into shop merchants, fixed stall merchants, mobile traders and rural salesmen.
Merchant merchants are those who have been in business for several years and have substantial wealth. They are usually able to buy one or several storehouses to engage in commercial activities. In a broad sense, Zhang Zhenxun also belongs to this class of merchants, but Zhang Zhenxun used his relationship with the Governor of Dutch East India
personal relationships to make business bigger.
Fixed stall merchants and mobile vendors are easy to understand. They either rent a small stall or carry goods with them for mobile business. However, mobile vendors are different from the first three. Most of them are overseas Chinese who have lost their land and went abroad or live in urban slums.
The unemployed lack the funds and connections to rent fixed stalls. They use small carts to load groceries and department stores all day long.
Vegetables and other daily necessities, or carrying a salesman's pole on his shoulders, walking through the streets with a salesman's drum, shouting and hawking, or
Go deep into the "Jiapi Valley" of a certain village to buy local specialties, come in the wind and go in the rain, get up early and go in the dark, wear the stars and the moon, keep to yourself, and earn a small amount of profit with the hardest work.
The country salesman is the lowest status among the traders.
As early as in Nanyang, there was a popular saying among the Chinese people, "Don't be a small salesman when doing business."
When the Chinese went to Nanyang to make their fortunes, due to environmental constraints, many people were willing to work as country peddlers even if the conditions were difficult. The income of Chinese pedlars in Nanyang was meager. Most of them could only sustain one person's living expenses, and they could not take care of their families.
Therefore, nine out of ten Chinese men who traveled to Southeast Asia could not save the capital to get married and start a family, and in the end they had to die of illness in a foreign land and be buried in a wasteland.
Like the Chinese who went to Southeast Asia, Zhang Zhenxun also started from the lowest level as a country salesman and worked hard for more than 20 years to reach his current position. However, compared with the Chinese who risked their lives to go to Southeast Asia dozens or hundreds of years ago, today's Overseas Chinese have another way out, which is to immigrate to South America.
Li Mingyuan led the South American Chinese to take root in the La Plata region little by little. After more than ten years of external propaganda and influence, coupled with the penetration and expansion of the Taiping Society and the Military Intelligence Department in the Nanyang region, the development of the Han Dynasty The real life conditions of the Chinese immigrants are gradually becoming known to overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and other regions.
From the beginning to the end of each year, groups of overseas Chinese from all over the world gather in South America. Among them are mainly Nanyang small traders who are engaged in selling small commodities. They have worked hard in Nanyang for half their lives but earned little. If they sell in the countryside, Unfortunately, they contracted an illness when they were making small commodities and were attacked by natives, leaving them with only a dead end.
In contrast to the living conditions in Nanyang and South America, nine out of ten young traders in Nanyang chose to leave Nanyang, where the heat was unbearable and poisonous insects were infested, and they followed the boatloads of immigrants with only a few copper coins. to South America.
The South American Han Kingdom has been in the expansion period of developing industry and reclaiming wasteland. After arriving in the South American Han Kingdom, some small traders went to work as workers in factories after being introduced by government officials. Most of the small traders saw the new immigration strongholds all over the country. For business opportunities, I still choose my old business, carrying a simple peddler's load and going deep into each Chinese settlement, delivering necessary daily necessities to the Chinese immigrants, while earning profits several times higher than in Nanyang.
The plains of La Plata, the Pampas, the dense forests of northern Argentina, and even the relatively desolate wilderness of Patagonia are all covered with the marks of small traders.
When the country develops, all walks of life start from scratch and develop rapidly from small to large. In such a historical opportunity that may exist for decades, the hard-working and hard-working Chinese can easily accumulate their initial wealth.
Time passed slowly. The young Nanyang shopkeepers who came early earned their starting capital and began to turn their attention to other directions such as industry and agriculture. The shopkeepers who came later followed the footsteps of the first comers and continued to start step by step. Your own entrepreneurial process.
The vendors hawking on the roadside reminded Zhang Zhenxun of his early business days, and the pedestrians wearing different clothes on the street gave Zhang Zhenxun a sense of the change of the old and the new, and the atmosphere of a prosperous era.
Measures such as cutting braids and changing clothes, abolishing bad habits such as foot binding and infant drowning, encouraging ordinary Chinese to wear new Hanfu with narrow sleeves and short shirts, and issuing new laws every few months show that the Han government's reforms are not It was only a short period of time, but it has been ongoing. According to the information revealed by some senior government officials, the reform and restoration movement in Han Dynasty may continue for decades.
Although the new Hanfu has been formulated as the standard clothing of the Han Dynasty, due to the influence of the people's wisdom and the trend of learning from Western science and technology, Western-style dresses and military casual clothes can also be seen in some big cities in the Han Dynasty. For example, the head-offering German generals
He wears a Lushi hat, wears rubber shoes developed in the Han Dynasty, his upper body is a short shirt uniform of the Han National Guard Army, and his lower body is a British suit and dress.
Walking on the streets of Chang'an City in Han Dynasty is like an international clothing exhibition.
Zhang Zhenxun had stayed in the Han Dynasty for several months, and had already adapted to the streets of Chang'an City (Cordoba) and the unique historical scenes of this era. However, sitting in front of the carriage, the two servants who drove the carriage saw something strange in their eyes.
Full of curiosity.
A young woman with Chinese hair accessories, a pink slim-fitting mattress skirt, and wooden clogs passed by the carriage on her arm with a Chinese man wearing an old-fashioned Wehrmacht uniform, causing a servant to peek secretly.
"Everyone has left, don't watch."
Another servant driving the carriage reminded in a low voice, "It's not like I haven't seen Japanese women before. There are many Nanyang sisters (Japanese women who go to Nanyang) in Singapore, and I haven't seen you so fascinated."
"Hey, the Nanyang sister over there is not as pretty as this."
"You are not responsible for her beauty. I didn't see a man wearing an old military uniform next to her. He was the man who used to conquer the world with the King of Han. How can you compare with him?"
"I'm just saying it"...
"Zhang An, Zhang Ping, don't talk too much and be careful on your way."
A majestic scolding sound came from inside the car, and the two servants immediately stopped making any sound.