Ma Yuan let go of his worries and entered Lan City with the Guishan caravan.

But the sorrow here has been put down, and the stench that permeates the Lan Clan City is really unbearable.

Looking at the calm appearance of the Guishan merchant, Ma Yuan couldn't help but complain to the envoy of the Dawan King, Thatch.

"Don't you think it smells bad? The smell is tight, how can these Kushan people feel like they don't care at all? ”

Thatch looked at the indescribable expression on Ma Yuan's face, and the same expressions of the surrounding merchants who accompanied him, so he had to shake his head.

"It's very normal, maybe they're all used to it, right? Although I also think that the taste here is stronger than the taste of the national capital of Japan. ”

This is the truth, when they were in the Dawan royal capital, it was probably because it was relatively dry, but the smell was okay, and the place where they traded with each other was relatively clean, and there was no strange smell.

Of course, the most important thing is that the population is small, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the taste is not too strong, nor can it be rich, unlike those big cities where hundreds of thousands of people are often used.

Lan City is obviously a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands, and it is inevitable that it will have a taste.

Thatch actually felt that these merchants of the Central Plains Empire were a bit hypocritical.

Doesn't it just stink?

Isn't that normal?

How clean is the place where they live?

Don't the people in the hundreds of thousands of people need to excrete?

Or are they so rich that they deliberately use such a statement to show that they are rich and clean?

Thatch was unhappy with them.

But it's also true that the smell here is quite strong, and the smoke is a little hard for Saatchi.

So Thatch went up to the Kushan merchants and asked them how they could bear the smell so strong.

"The taste? Ah, it's a little, but it's much better, it rained yesterday, and it diluted the smell a little, and if the sun comes out, the smell will be even worse, and it's still good, so take a few more breaths now. ”

The Kushan merchant said with a smile.

Rao is Thatch was finally shocked by such a statement.

Is this okay?

So what does it look like when it's bad?

Guishan is a big country that has conquered Dawan and played with fetters and rules, but the capital of the country is actually this kind of virtue?

Didn't their emperor live in such an environment?

After thinking about it, Thatch felt that he was also thinking too much.

Of course, the emperor has special treatment, incense is hygienic or something, it is absolutely clean, no one can stink the emperor, the emperor must be fragrant.

Ma Yuan covered his nose and stepped forward to ask Thatch what they had said, and Thatch told Ma Yuan what the Kushan merchant had said, and Ma Yuan was shocked.

This place is not to stay for long!

He thought of these six words in an instant.

He thought that as the national capital, there should be at least some kingly atmosphere here, who would have thought that the king's weather would not be seen, but the smell of feces and urine was full.

In fact, he should also have thought that if it weren't for Guo Peng's strong promotion of the sanitation plan and the manure production plan to improve the sanitary conditions in Wei, the Wei State would be like this at this moment.

Without Guo pushing for health regulations, more than a thousand years later, the imperial capital would still be like that.

Once the wind blows under the feet of the Son of Heaven, the sand and rocks will fly, and everyone will seem to be walking in the fog.

When it rains, everyone who walks on the muddy road will collapse, and no one can insist on not changing their shoes.

Feces and urine are scattered all over the street, and when you walk on the road, you have to worry about being splashed with feces and urine at any time.

Snuff bottles are all the rage because they stink.

Only "indulging in the mountains and rivers" is the king.

Because there are few people, it does not smell, and there is no flying sand and rocks, so the air will be relatively fresh.

The so-called outing is just to breathe a few breaths of fresh air.

Ma Yuan didn't know these facts that only Guo knew about, he was just proud that the emperor he was loyal to was such a great emperor.

After walking through the outermost slum settlement of Lan Clan City, we went deep into the inner city of Lan Clan City.

After entering the inner city, Ma Yuan found that the entire environmental conditions of the inner city were completely different from those of the outer city.

The ground is relatively clean, the smell is much lighter, the streets are relatively spacious, the houses are neatly arranged, most of the people who come and go are well-dressed, and there are a lot of cars and horses, and basically their feet do not touch the ground.

There was no confusion, no numbness, only shrewdness and curiosity and arrogance in the eyes of those people.

It is conceivable that the people who can live in the inner city are either high-ranking officials or wealthy businessmen, and only they can enjoy such a costly cleanliness and hygiene.

Although Luoyang is also divided into the outer imperial city and the palace city, no matter which part it is, at least it can't smell the diffuse smell, and it is also paved with stone slabs.

There will be no flying sand and rocks and muddy roads in wind and rain, the whole person will look clean and hygienic, and there will be no need to spend more time taking care of their appearance.

If this were not the case, how could there be so many local county officials who would rather be inconspicuous petty officials, living in the outer city with the people of Li and entering Luoyang?

Because the Son of Heaven is also quite merciful to the people of Limin, Luoyang City is really comfortable to live in.

It is really not cheap for outsiders to live in Luoyang.

Since the first year of Jian'an, so far, although the houses have been continuously expanded and the area of Luoyang City has been expanded, the housing prices in Luoyang City have risen for seven consecutive years, and ordinary outsiders cannot afford to buy them, and even petty officials from other places who have entered Beijing cannot afford to buy them, so they can only rent them.

But fortunately, the price of grain in Luoyang has been crushed, and the prices of some other daily necessities are also quite reasonable.

The four major cities of the East City, the West City, the South City, and the North City have a complete range of commodities and reasonable prices, and with the smooth flow of the silk trade route in the future, there will definitely be more foreign goods entering.

Then business will inevitably be more prosperous.

It is better to say that the Son of Heaven is too merciful to the people of Limin, often thinking about reducing taxes, but he is quite unfriendly to officials and wealthy businessmen, thinking about how to raise taxes and how to collect taxes all day long.

Look at the people of Wei, and then look at the people of Guishan.

Ma Yuan pursed his lips, and the corners of his mouth turned downward, expressing his sadness.

The emperor and the emperor cannot be compared, and a comparison can make people angry to death.

Ma Yuan and others lived in more than a dozen suites that were not bad under the introduction of Guishan Business Travel, and hundreds of people rented several large courtyards to store their goods, and then began to prepare for business.

However, rather than doing business, Ma Yuan wanted to meet the Guishan Emperor, wanted to meet the Guishan Emperor on behalf of the Wei State, wanted to reach some trade agreements, and invited the Guishan business travelers to go to the Central Plains to do business, and the two countries exchanged ideas and exchanged with each other.

So Ma Yuan made such a request to the Guishan business travel who helped them, and wanted to ask if it was possible.

Thatch was in the middle of the translation.

The Guishan merchant was surprised at first, because Ma Yuan had never said that they were envoys of the Wei Empire.

Ma Yuan said that it was indeed not an official envoy of the Wei Empire, but he had an official position, and this caravan was also a semi-official caravan.

Half of the reason is to do business, and the general reason is also to hope to trade with Guishan and invite Guishan's merchants to do business in Wei.

His Majesty the Emperor of Wei wanted to start trade with the Kushan Empire in order to promote economic exchanges and economic growth between the two countries.

"Are you an official of the Wei State?"

After asking about the name of the Wei Empire, the Kushan merchant Putiai was quite surprised.

"Yes, I am an official, I have the certificate of an official, and the talisman given to me by His Majesty the Emperor, this is my token as an official, and it is also the reason why I lead this caravan, although I am also here to trade, but I hope to reach a trade with your country."

Ma Yuan said so, and in order to confirm such a statement, he also took out his official uniform.