Chapter 3: Is This Still a House?

In order to catch up with the speed, Chen Ying did not even take the "Wan'an" steamer, but took the small wing wheeler, and the steamer finally sailed smoothly into the Weihe River after a night and a day at full speed, changing eight waves of boatmen.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Chen Yingfu thought about it.

is about to achieve a positive result with Li Xiuning, but Chen Ying is full of Li Daozhen in his mind. I haven't seen Li Daozhen for almost a year, and his son, Li Siye, is now 100 days old. In this era, there was no photographic technology, and nothing could be seen just by the portrait.

As Chang'an got closer and closer, Chen Ying didn't know what Li Xiuning thought of Li Daozhen. The position of the main wife is Li Xiuning's, and Li Daozhen has no way to be so confused without a name or share.

Chen Ying was a little impetuous, but Fukada Huayin was very frightened. At the intersection of the Wei River and the Jieyu River, the water surface became wider, and at this time, there were more boats on the river. Especially when he came to the ferry port of Chenjiabao, Chen Ying felt unbelievable, the wharf was crowded with boats, Chen Ying did not sound his flag, and the small wing wheel boat finally found a vacancy to squeeze in and dock.

The wharf yard used to be a row of blue brick and black tile shops, the shop street was three or four hundred steps long, behind the shops was rows of roofs, I don't know how many were hidden into the courtyard, the end of the stone street extended out of the blue brick paved avenue, all the way to the direction of Chenjiabao in the Qing forest.

Originally, there was no wharf here, and there was no grass market here. However, in just over half a year, not only a wharf has been built here, but also a grass market has been formed. At this time, it is the time of the lantern, but the grass market is still lively, wine shops, restaurants, hospitals, cooking cakes, soup cakes, cooked meat shops, crude medicine shops, gold and silver shops, pawn shops, tea shops, inns, inns, and there are even half-covered doors (that is, ancient private prostitutes) to count carefully, there are more than 300. In addition to the shopping street in front of you, you can also see alleys stretching deep in, and the streets are full of various stalls. In front of the shop street and the wharf, there are bustling people everywhere, there are also shipbuilders or porters who work as coolies on the wharf, there are craftsmen in the workshop, and there are villagers looking for work here. There are also women dressed in red and green, and the shouts and shouts of pack horses and mules and donkeys come and go, so it is not lively.

Where has Fukada Huayin seen such a prosperous place, looking at the passing crowd, Lin stumbled full of goods and shops, and said dumbfounded: "Lord, is this Chang'an City?" It's so prosperous, much more prosperous than our Fukada City! ”

Chen Ying laughed when he heard this, and the original worry in his heart was swept away: "This is not Chang'an, it's still far from Chang'an, if you go, it will take almost a day." ”

Not to mention that Fukada Huayin was surprised, in fact, Chen Ying was also surprised. He went all the way from Qinglin to fight, from Shaanzhou to Henan, from Luoyang to Zhaozhou, almost all over the Central Plains, but except for those state capitals Dayi, I have never seen any county town so prosperous, even Liyang City, a state (equivalent to a prefecture-level city in later generations), has not been as prosperous as the wharf in Qinglin.

As soon as he walked to the official road, he saw Hou Mo and Chen Xu looking forward to it.

"Fifth brother!" Hou Mo Chen Xu arched his hand towards Chen Ying, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please. Hou Mo Chen Xu let go of his body, and a wide four-wheeled carriage slowly stepped forward.

At this time, Chen Ying was not in a hurry. He smiled at Mo Chen Xu and said: "In the past six months, the changes have been really big, my own home is almost unrecognizable!" ”

Hou Mo Chen Xu smiled: "That's not the fifth brother's discernment, that Ma Zhou under your door is really a rare talent." You are not in Qinglin for a period of time, this place has been operated by him on such a scale, over time, I am afraid that Qinglin will be even more prosperous than Wannian County! ”

At this moment, a group of inexplicable more than a dozen men armed with water and fire sticks, wearing black power suits and round hats, lined up in a neat line and patrolled along the street. There were even tax collectors, carrying large baskets, and collecting taxes from house to house. Seeing Chen Ying frowning slightly, Hou Mo Chen Xu explained with a smile: "According to this dynasty, the merchant's city tax is set at the ratio of thirty to one, and the official city collects the city tax at the ratio of thirty to one. ”

Thirty to one, that is, 3.33 percent, this tax law is absolutely a conscience tax law when looking at the whole world. Of course, this is only nominal, and with the exploitation of tax officials and the government's additional sales to merchants, the actual tax borne by merchants in the official market is far more than the ratio of 1 out of 30.

The grass market in Qinglin is not recognized by the government and is a private market. The commercial tax in Qinglin can naturally fall into Chen Ying's pocket, but long before Chen Ying's death, the planning of Qinglinli not only has the function of a market in later generations, but also has sanitation workers, who are responsible for cleaning the market.

Although the streets of Qinglin are spotless, at least they look free of stains and garbage, the reason why the grass market in Qinglin can rise is that it is located in a convenient place with convenient transportation, which is convenient for collecting and circulating products from all over the world, and on the other hand, controlling the taxes receivable by the grass market is mainly used for the income of the grass market in Qinglinli.

In the forest, there are not only sanitation workers cleaning the road and trimming the branches and flowers on both sides of the official road, but also responsible for all the street lights along the street.

There are two lanterns hanging every thirty paces on a street, and these outdoor lanterns are hundreds or thousands, and it is not known how much money will be burned overnight.

It is precisely because of the street lamp that even when it is time to hold the lamp, the street is still full of people coming and going.

If Qing Linli was only shocked by Chen Ying, but when he saw Chen Jiabao, he was already intimidated.

The tall and majestic city gate tower, full of three stories of the later generations, looks very spectacular in the Qing forest, it is said that the courtyard wall of one zhang eight feet high is not too high, but the key is that the wall of Chenjiabao is about one zhang and six feet thick, nominally the courtyard wall of this outer courtyard, in fact, it is a row of houses, but Chen Ying knows, where is this house, only doors and windows, all of which are rammed cooked soil, these cooked soil is still watered with glutinous rice juice, steamed, hard as iron.

The width of three feet and three feet, as long as Chen Ying needs, as the courtyard wall can be increased, there is no need to consider whether the foundation can bear the load.

On the gatehouse, it looks plain and unremarkable, however, Chen Ying only found out after looking at it that there are actually six bed crossbows installed on it, and the most amazing thing is that the six bed crossbows do not need to be wound by dozens or hundreds of people at all, just need to gently move the machine bracket, and the heavy objects hanging on the pulley will fall, and the bed crossbow will be wound instantly.

That is to say, the efficiency of the six bed crossbows in front of Chenjiabao is ten times higher than that of ordinary bed crossbows, and the bed crossbows can be used as strong crossbows.

Hou Mo Chen Xu said: "Our Hou Mo Chen family has suffered a big loss, so your eldest brother in this house invited Yu Wenshu, the son of Shangshu Yu Wenkai of the former Sui Ministry of Industry, to personally handle it, and the mechanism map has been sent to the mansion, this organ takes the river water of the Jieyu River as kinetic energy, once the mechanism is activated, the whole house is full of killing machines!" ”

Chen Ying covered his head, he felt really incredible. The key to this dock fort is that it has only been six months, and it has been basically completed.

Chen Ying didn't look at the drawings to know that this ordinary to the extreme Zhaobi was actually equipped with a large number of crossbow machines, once the gate was breached, from the gate to the front of the wall thirty steps in front of the wall, it was the place of death blocked by the crossbow machine.

Chen Ying walked to the gatehouse, stood on the gatehouse, and looked back. Only then did I find that this dock fort was much larger than the original plan, and it was roughly estimated that it would cover an area of at least more than 500 acres. Five hundred acres of land is not big at a glance, but the key is that the city in this era is actually not big.

If Chen Ying's dock fort is converted into square meters, it is about 330,000 square meters, then the problem is that the ancient city of Loulan is only 120,000 square meters, and Chen Ying's house is 2.75 times the size of the ancient city of Loulan, nearly three times.

Is this still a house?

This is a proper city of Nima!