Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 729, Daming Travel Notes Tianjin Chapter
Gilt took his quill pen, looked at the Four Treasures of the Ming Dynasty Study on the desk, sucked up some ink, and continued to write slowly.

Daming is very big. It took several days to go north from Songhu in the south to Tianjin in the north. It is said that there is an equally huge land from Songhu to the south.

The people of Ming Dynasty are very proud, but also very confident. They think that Ming Dynasty is the largest and most powerful empire in the whole world, and the whole of Europe is only as huge as them.

I didn't believe it at first, but I always thought that Europe was the center of civilization, and the world outside of Europe was an ignorant world.

But when I came to Tianjin, I realized that we were wrong.

Tianjin is very large and has a very large population. It is said that the population of Tianjin alone is larger than the population of our entire Spain, with a population of more than six million.

You may think that such a large population gathers in a city, then the city must be terrible, full of disgusting things, pungent smells everywhere, etc.

But you are wrong.

Tianjin is very clean. There are many high-rise buildings here, and the streets are very spacious. They use a building material called cement, which is a very magical thing.

Add some water and mix it with sand, and it will become as hard as stone in a few days.

The people of Ming Dynasty used cement to repair bridges, pave roads, and build houses. Their cement roads were so wide that more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages could walk side by side at the same time. They built straight cement roads to connect all directions, and the traffic was extremely convenient.

It is said that His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty appropriated tens of millions of taels of silver to build concrete roads in various places in Ming Dynasty, connecting north to south and east to west.

Oh, God!
When I heard the news, I was completely shocked and speechless.

As I said before, the Ming Dynasty is so vast that it can be compared with the whole of Europe. Can you imagine building a road from Constantinople to Lisbon?
The kind of road that allows many carriages to travel in both directions at the same time.

What a huge amount of funds, what a huge courage, and more importantly, very advanced construction technology is required.

This is beyond imagination.

The wealth of the Ming people can be seen just from this. Their emperor was keen on building concrete roads, embankments, reservoirs, bridges and so on.

They shouted a slogan, if you want to get rich, build roads first.

Oh God, what a rallying cry that is.

In fact, if you come to Daming to see for yourself and feel the spaciousness, comfort and convenience of the concrete road, you will agree with it.

There is a road of more than [-] kilometers from Tianjin to Wangdu in Daming. If there is no concrete road, it may take several days to arrive.

But with the cement road, they only need one day to arrive, and they will arrive at night.

Tomorrow I am going to visit the cement factory in Daming to see if I can learn how to make cement. I think if I can learn how to make cement and build a cement factory here in Europe, I will definitely be rich overnight. .

Speaking of wealth, I have to mention what I saw in Tianjin Port today.

God, I swear, I've never seen so much gold and silver in my life.

The fleet that came back from America consisted of more than [-] large ships, each of which was filled with gold and silver. They piled the gold and silver on the pier like hills.

That charming light, I will never forget it in my life.

There is definitely a lot of gold and silver in America, please believe me, I have absolutely no exaggeration.

It is said that the Ming people conquered two huge Indian kingdoms and asked them to pile up pyramids of gold and silver to atone for their sins.

In addition, I know from the Ming people that the Ming people have established dozens of large and small colonial strongholds on the west coast of America. They have discovered thousands of gold and silver mines there. There are tens of thousands of them. Mining here in America.

If we don't step up the development of the Americas, I think that within a few years, the entire Americas will be occupied by Ming people.

However, if you come to Ming Dynasty, you will find sadly that not to mention our Spain, even the whole of Europe may not be able to compete with the huge Ming Dynasty.

Just here in the port of Tianjin, I have seen thousands of ships. Their port is very huge, and it is full of countless ships.

And this is just a port in Daming. There are many ports like this in Daming, such as Songhu, Quanzhou, Ryukyu Port, and Guangzhou.

I plan to travel around Daming here in the coming days.

In addition, Ming also has a strong military force.

It is said that the total number of Ming's army exceeds half a million people, among which there is a specialized naval force, and they also have a professional Royal Military Academy.

I have seen the artillery and muskets of the Ming people, they are very advanced, even more advanced than our Europeans, I think it is wiser for Spain not to offend the Ming people.

The mighty Ming can dispatch a fleet of hundreds of large ships to sweep one side at any time. When I was eating in a restaurant, I heard a lot of people discussing one thing.

Daming has recently won a huge victory here in the southern waters of Ming Dynasty. They conquered the countries in Nanyang who did not obey them. It is said that the amount of compensation alone is more than [-] million taels of silver, which is roughly equivalent to the finances of our Spain for decades income.

God, what a magical East, full of gold.

Even if it wasn't Ming Dynasty, other countries in the east were also very rich, and war indemnities were often tens of millions of taels of silver.

When writing here, Gilt paused slightly, his eyes were red, and then continued to write slowly.

If we Spain can conquer the countries in the east, then getting rich overnight will not be any problem.

There is so much wealth here.

Today, my friend Mr. Wang Dashan, he is an oceangoing captain and navigator, he is very rich.

His house in Tianjin is worth several thousand taels of silver, and he also has a large plantation of his own among the islands in the southern waters of Daming.

Of course he was also a very generous, warm friend.

He invited me to eat at a restaurant called Wanghailou in Tianjin.

God, I swear the food there is definitely the most delicious food I have ever eaten in my life. All the dishes I have eaten before are like the stinky rats on the boat in front of it.

Daming’s delicacies are definitely not to be missed, and you must try them when you come to Daming.

Of course, the price is also quite expensive.

We are just three, me, my Ming friend Mr. Wang Dashan and my deputy Mr. Pablo, just the three of us, we ate twelve taels of silver for one meal.

Twelve taels of silver is almost equivalent to ten eight riel silver coins in Spain, which is enough for our average Spanish family to spend for almost a year.

And that's just one meal for the three of us, and you should pretty much get the idea of ​​how expensive it is.

Having said that, I have to emphasize again how rich Ming is.

The consumption here in Tianjin is very high.

Because I am not an envoy sent by the King of Spain, all the expenses here in Daming need to be borne by me.

Here in Tianjin, even the inn where I live now is still very expensive. The twelve of us need about three taels of silver for a day.

If we want to live in the best inn here, a room will cost hundreds of taels of silver.

God, Daming people are so rich, so rich.

I think we may need to save some money in the future, otherwise the little silver and gold brought over may not last long.

Porcelain, which is as expensive as gold in our Europe, is just ordinary tableware used in daily life here, and the clothes people wear are very bright in color.

The windows here are all made of glass, and the light is very good. At night, when you overlook Tianjin City from a height, you will be deeply shocked.

This is a city that never sleeps, and it is very orderly at night, and it is resplendent and dazzling everywhere.

They use a large number of various glass products, and the chandeliers made of glass are beautiful. With whale oil lamps on, the whole room is as bright as daytime.

There are many mirrors here, very large.

Please believe me, don't bring your wife to Tianjin, she will definitely spend the last Riel in your pocket here.

The clothes in the store here are really beautiful.

Also, people in Daming take a bath very much. They like to use a kind of soap when they take a bath. This kind of thing is really good. fragrance.

When I want to go back to Europe, I must take some of this soap back, it will be very popular.

But there is one thing I am very puzzled about.

In our Europe, we always say that taking a bath will make you sick, so we don’t take a bath very much in the whole of Europe, but in Daming, the people of Daming take a bath very much.

They believe that if a person does not take a bath, his body will be very dirty, which will breed various diseases. Taking a bath can clean his body and make him healthier.

At the same time, Ming people also like to shave off their hair and beards. They are their navigators, and they all only have short hair and shaved beards.

They think that this is not only convenient for life and work, but also more healthy. Hair and beard are too long, which is easy to breed various diseases.

I'm really conflicted, and I don't know who is right, but from my experience in Daming and sailing, it is indeed a good idea to shave off my hair and beard.

(End of this chapter)