C4048 (1/2)
Qing Wen coughed lightly, resolving the awkwardness and placed the hot milk in Fu Hui's hands. ”Madame only knows that it's a joke, that's not what I meant …”
”Do you remember? Last spring, that shopkeeper called Fan Jin brought us a gift from the Second Wife, a gift from Fu Sang. ”
”The westernmost weave, the add silk, the fan, the iron pot, the tortoise shell, the smeared tea etc …”
”That day, Madame was in the buddhist hall greeting buddha, I accompanied shopkeeper Fan Jin and chatted for a while, and within it, we chatted about the current Capital's luxurious atmosphere!”
”He is, after all, a Trader. He travels far and wide, even going overseas frequently. The story he told me made it hard for me to guess!”
”It's said that among the Imperial palace, no one goes to a banquet with less than a thousand taels of silver. What white tongue, that's just a small thing. Ever since our Special Administrative Region's glass factory began production, many warm rooms were built around the Capital!”
”In the cold winter, you can eat the freshest watermelon, and those Prince watermelons will only eat a spoonful of Center. Sometimes, during a feast, a plate of watermelon will cost you over a hundred watermelons …”
”There's no need to talk about the rare delicacies from the mountains and the seas. They even like to import products from the western seas now!” Right now, the new foreign trade houses in the Capital are opening one after another, every one of them has a thriving business! ”
”With the help of our Chinese's shipping facilities, they have truly enjoyed some of the world's good stuff! Who had ever eaten a Monarch crab in the deep seas before? Now, we can fish them up from the north side of Fu Sang and the corydalis radix s. Then, we can send them thousands of miles away using ice cubes to the Capital s! ”
”What red wine from the Europa, wild game from Africa, coffee from the South America … I heard that there is a USA Merchant ships that specializes in selling buffalo from the North America! ”
”To drive a living buffalo onto a boat, float across the ocean and travel across the entire Pacific Ocean, and then deliver it to the Beijing for the royal officials to enjoy!”
”What kind of old master gave us caviar, ham, cheese... Right now, Capital is no longer a rare place, there are plenty of them! ”
”These are all shipped from overseas. The freight is more than ten times more expensive than the ingredients themselves!”
”Not only do they care about food, they also care about dressing up... I heard that Sharif is in the middle of a good deal right now, there are countless white bears and white seal sea lions in the north … ”
”That leather goods are definitely top-notch, it is even better than the quality of the outside's leather goods … There's really a shortage of supply in Capital, buy as many as you want! ”
”The Prince Kung used to spend one hundred and sixty thousand silver to buy ten whole pieces of white bear skin! The silver Flower is like a drizzle of water, it didn't even blink … ”
”The size of the eight major alleys has been exactly twice that of the first year of Xian Feng, and the number of women who are scum has been increased by at least three times. It's practically a night's worth of songs, and those Official s have gone crazy playing around!”
”Even the craftier the wiser. The entire Beijing is so extravagant that it has turned into a wind, and is several times more vicious than before the incident with the long hair!”
Fu Hui had never heard these stories before. She held the milk in her hands and even forgot to drink it, ”You … What's the point of saying all this? What does this old master have to do with this? ”
”After listening to it for half a day, it seems that it's because the Chinese has increased the scale of the ocean trade, making it easier for luxury goods to enter the capital from overseas. It's more convenient for them to buy them … …”