Daming Military Empire

Chapter 443 Crazy Dragon Coin

The capital of the Ming Empire is really scary. It took nearly half an hour to ride a carriage from Daming Business College in Beicheng District to the four main offices in Dongcheng District. This journey really scared Useda. Such a large area is full of people, how many people does this city have!
When they got near the four main halls, the flow of people became even denser. Looking at the shoulder-to-shoulder pedestrians, Uceda, who had just got off the carriage, couldn't help but exclaimed, "How many people are there in the capital of the Ming Empire?"

He really asked the right person, Shivira is an old capital city, and he doesn’t know how many old friends he has in the capital, and he doesn’t know how many of them he visited in the past two nights, so the development of the capital will naturally be talked about in his speech , this guy said proudly: "The population of the capital of the Ming Empire reached 300 million in the past two years. After the expansion of the capital last year, it is estimated that there are at least more than 400 million people. This is only the permanent residence in the capital. If you add in business and There are at least seventy-eight million people playing games!"

When Uceda heard this, he was so frightened that he almost stumbled. Spain is already one of the largest countries in Europe. However, if the natives of the colonies are not counted, the population of Spain is only 800 million people. One city The population of China is as large as that of a large European country, what a terrifying thing!
After being stunned for a while, Uceda came back to his senses. Looking at the flow of people in front of him, he said a little timidly: "Are we really going to walk there like this?"

There are no guards, no entourage, just two people walking on the street, Useda has never tried it, not to mention that there are too many people on the street, and they are not even the same skin color as the people of Ming Dynasty, and their clothes are also different. Not the same, wouldn't people treat them as monsters?
Shivela put his arms around his shoulders and walked into the crowd, smiling while walking: "Don't worry, my lord duke, I used to walk alone on the street before, and nothing happened to me."

Uceda said with a guilty conscience: "Of course nothing will happen if you walk on the streets of Portugal, but this is the Ming Empire!"

Shivira laughed and said, "Hahahaha, what I'm talking about is visiting the capital of the Ming Empire."

His loud laughter immediately attracted a lot of attention, but these didn't seem to be looking at orangutans or monsters, but looking at neuropathy.

Seeing this, Shivela quickly covered his mouth and fled the scene with Uceda.

Seeing this scene, Uceda couldn't help but feel a lot more relaxed. He smiled as he walked: "It's embarrassing, but their behavior is too ordinary, don't they often see us like us?"

Shi Weila shrugged, and said indifferently: "What's the matter, anyway, I don't know it, and I forget it when I pass by. There are many people like us in the Ming Empire. I heard that the foreigners living here are all under ten. Well, of course they won't be curious anymore."

The two chatted and laughed, and soon walked to the gate of the main building of the Daming Royal Xinglong Company. Looking at this huge building, Uceda couldn't help but exclaimed again: "Oh, those who bought cakes, such a big house, they How was it built, it can hold at least thousands of people inside!"

Shivira said lightly: "What is this? They have cement and steel bars, and they can build houses no matter how big they are. Have you seen the bridge on the dragon coin? I don't know how many times bigger than this. It's still on the water. , they didn't build it just like that."

Walking into this huge building, there are rows of huge columns inside, and there is a circle of counters under each column, with all kinds of goods on display. Countless customers walk among the counters, choosing their own products. What I want, that scene is really spectacular.

Shivela didn't take Uceda to the counter right away, but turned around and walked to the corner on the right side of the wall, where there were many small carts neatly placed, and each small cart had a person sitting on it. A young man dressed as a servant.

He walked up to a young man who looked smarter, took out a silver coin and threw it over, the young man dressed up like a servant immediately stood up and reached out to catch the silver coin, then pulled the cart to Shivela, nodded and bowed Said: "Guest officer, how long do you want to visit, we charge twenty copper coins an hour."

After all, he took out a money bag from his pocket, put the silver coins in it, and took out a handful of banknotes and copper coins in it, as if he was going to give Shivera some change.

Shi Weila shook his hand grandly and said: "You don't need to look for it, I will reward you a lot."

Hearing this, the young man quickly put the money back into his purse, and said excitedly: "Thank you, sir, what do you want to buy, I will guide you."

Shivira immediately turned his head and asked Useda, "Master Duke, what do you want to buy?"

Uceda thought for a while, then hesitated and said, "Then buy something for writing first, I'm talking about writing Chinese characters."

Shivela nodded, and said to the boy next to him, "Go to the counter that sells the Four Treasures of the Study."

The young man said "Okay", then pushed the cart and led them inside, and after a few turns, they arrived at the counter for buying the Four Treasures of the Study.

The old shopkeeper at the counter was still negotiating with a customer. When he saw these two, he knew it was a big customer. He immediately raised his hand and recruited a young man to take over from him to bargain with others, while he himself quickly He ran to Shivela and Useda, and said enthusiastically, "Two guest officers, what do you want?"

Shi Weila immediately said fiercely: "I want pens, inks, papers and inkstones. What kind of prices do you have?"

The shopkeeper replied like a few treasures: "We have a set of several hundred yuan, a few taels, a few tens of taels, and a few hundred taels. No matter how expensive you are, you have to go to Nikko Bank. Over there, they sell tens of thousands of taels over there."

Shivela discussed with Useda for a few words, and immediately said to the old shopkeeper: "First take a few sets of tens of taels and have a look."

The shopkeeper immediately ran to one side of the counter, took out some exquisite bamboo baskets, placed them in front of Shivela and Useda, and introduced: "This is a set of 30 taels, and this is a set of 50 taels." In a set of two, this is a set of 55 taels, this is a set of 60 taels, and this is a set of 75 taels."

These bamboo baskets are all about the same size, and there are two exquisite wooden boxes and a thick stack of white paper inside. The two wooden boxes can be seen from the relief on the top, one is for brushes and pen holders, and the other is for Contains inkstone and ink.

Useda immediately picked them up with great interest. These things are really exquisite. There are exquisite reliefs carved on the pens, pen holders, inkstones, and even ink blocks. There are ladies, scenery, and various animals. , the two of them were fascinated by watching.

In the end, Uceda couldn't help but pick two sets, the most expensive.

The shopkeeper couldn't close his mouth with a smile, rubbed his hands and said, "Thanks for your patronage, the total is 130 five taels of silver."

Shivira was about to take out the money, but Uceda blocked him, asked the price, then took out a stack of 100 taels of dragon coins, drew two, and handed them nervously to the shopkeeper.

He wanted to see what the shopkeeper's expression was when he saw the banknotes, but the shopkeeper's expression didn't change at all, he was still smiling so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

Uceda was still a little unconvinced, and he directly said to Shivira, "Let him find gold and silver coins."

Shivela nodded with a smile, and said to the shopkeeper: "My friend likes gold coins and silver coins."

The shopkeeper immediately nodded and said: "Okay, okay, guest officer, please wait a moment."

After that, he turned around and went to the cash drawer, opened the top drawer, took out six gold coins, then pulled out the second drawer, took out five stacks of silver coins, put them neatly on a small wooden tray, and brought them to Shi Wei Pulling in front of him, he smiled and said: "Guest officer, please click. There are six gold coins and fifty silver coins in total."

There is no need to click on this point. The problem is that Useda didn’t bring a purse. It’s so big, how can I get it!
The shopkeeper seemed to see Useda's predicament, so he turned around and brought a brand new money bag, handed it to Useda and said, "The cotton one is not very good, so let's make do with it first."

Uceda squeezed the money bag in his hand, he couldn't believe it, paper money can really buy things, and he got back so many gold and silver coins!

Immediately afterwards, he started a shopping spree, buying a lot of silk, cloth, tea, dried fruit, etc.

Looking at the pile of things in the cart and the bulging money bag in his hand, Uceda couldn't help but say something in his head: "Crazy, really crazy, how many things can be bought with a few banknotes, how can this dragon coin be so real?" can be used as money!"

(End of this chapter)