It is still a trivial matter to be scolded for being ineffective, once you enter this industry, there is no advance or retreat, Hao Ren clearly remembers how the previous one disappeared, and the family of seven disappeared overnight, which made people shudder when they remembered it.

"Boss, it's a little strange for him to go to Yangzhou this time, do you want to start with this matter?"

Hao Ren's iron-clad face twitched, and from all indications, Zhen Qian's so-called study tour to send friends this time was a little out of place, although he registered the purpose of the trip in the county office, but the time seemed to be in a hurry. Thinking of a series of recent events, Hao Ren suddenly became suspicious, and couldn't help but think: "Is Zhen Qian hiding from something, or does he know that we are investigating him?" ”

"Yangzhou also has his industry, I'm afraid it's not easy to go to Yangzhou, send someone to contact our people in Yangzhou first, let them investigate the situation of the drunken immortal building and the Tang envoy, remember not to alarm anyone?"

Hao Ren took out a few letters from his arms and said: "Send someone to send these letters to the capital immediately, inform the general, and ask the general to adjudicate!" ”

"And what about this messenger?"

Hao Ren waved his hand to stop the dog-headed military advisor's move to kill people, "It's just an ordinary messenger, give him a string of copper coins and tell him to shut up, just act as if this thing didn't happen, otherwise destroy his whole family!" ”

After saying that, Hao Ren jumped on the war horse and ran south along the official road, the dog-headed military advisor touched the goatee under his chin, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, in his opinion, Hao Ren was favoring Zhen Qian, when did the secret spy supervisor become timid in doing things, as long as it was not a few important ministers in the court, the secret spy supervisor directly came to arrest people, even if Zhen Qian and the concubine could ask several times a day, there was still such trouble.

"No! This matter must be reported to the general? ”

Although the dog-headed military division obeyed Hao Ren's dispatch, he also had the right to secretly play to the general, and restrain each other to prevent one person from becoming bigger.

The messenger thought that he had met a robber, and he was uneasy, and after waiting for a long time, the bad luck did not come, but the robber threw down a string of copper coins to shut himself up, and the messenger was terrified and naturally did not dare to refute, so he ran away with the money.

Just after everyone around the broken house had left, a figure fell from a large tree in the distance, looked at the disappeared people, and turned to leave to the south.

Five days later, in the afternoon, Zhen Qian and his entourage appeared outside Yangzhou.

Outside the city of Yangzhou, the willows have been green, small knots protrude on the branches, this year's spring cold is extraordinarily long, the air is still full of cold, and the trunk is also condensed with a layer of hoarfrost visible to the naked eye.

"Finally arrived in Yangzhou!"

After eleven days of intense travel, he finally came to Yangzhou before the Shangyuan Festival, less than half a month before the Tang envoy left Datang.

"Isn't it a dozen days before we get on board? Fujiwara-kun is homesick? ”

The joy on Fujiwara's face diminished slightly, his eyes stared at the majestic city in front of him, and his dark eyes revealed a rare resoluteness and decisiveness: "Hmm! The wanderer's return to his hometown made Zhen Lang smile! ”

"yes!" Zhen Qian did not have the slightest prejudice against the perseverance of the Tang envoys, and this kind of thing could not be imagined without a rock-solid conviction, and many nationalities could not do this.

In the first year of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan, the country was divided into 10 provinces, and Yangzhou belonged to Huainan Province. In the first year of Xuanzong Tianbao, Yangzhou was changed to Guangling County. In the first year of Su Zongqian, Guangling County was renamed Yangzhou, and it was called Yangzhou for the convenience of reading.

The history of Yangzhou can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn period or even earlier. The "Yangzhou" referred to in the ancient "Kyushu", which is different from what is called Yangzhou today, is a broad geographical concept that corresponds to the southeastern region of China south of the Huai River.

In 319 BC, the state of Chu built the city of Guangling. Guangling is the birthplace of Yangzhou today. During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang named his nephew Liu Bi as the king of Wu and Guangling as the capital. During the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Wu were in turmoil, and Guangling became a military center in the Jianghuai area. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Guangling was renamed "Wuzhou".

Emperor Wen of Sui destroyed Chen, razed Jinling of the Six Dynasties to the ground, Yangzhou gradually became the political, cultural and economic center of the southeast, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug a canal, dredged the Cao Yun, Yangzhou became the center of the Cao Yun again, the materials of the southeast half of the country were concentrated here, and they were continuously transported to the important place of Beijing, and also achieved the commercial reputation of Yangzhou.

Now see the Yangzhou city is still very small, later generations called the sub-city, thirty years later a larger city has Huainan Jiedu Chen Shaoyou ordered to build, the newly built city is called Luocheng, the area of Luocheng is four times that of the sub-city.

The silk brocade, copper and iron, rice grain, aquatic products, etc., even the spices, jade, ivory, pearls and other strange things transported from overseas, are all gathered here in Yangzhou, and then transported to the capital by Caoyun.

The feudal dynasty is based on agriculture, no matter how developed the business is, it is inseparable from agriculture, the fertile soil in the south of the Yangtze River is thousands of miles, the lake fields in Runzhou, Changzhou, Huzhou, Suzhou and other areas, 5,000 hectares of Guangliang fields, ten stones per mu, and the Jiangdu is a good businessman, not a farmer, with goods and tea as the industry, coming and going between Huai and Zhejiang, when there is nothing to do in all directions, Guangling is the place of the song bell, the rich businessman is a big man, and there are more than 100 people. In the Tang Dynasty, the transportation of grain, grass, salt, money, and iron from the north and south had to pass through Yangzhou. Many merchants from all over the country lived in the city and engaged in trade, which made Yangzhou City prosperous in industry and commerce, and became the first metropolis in the southeast of the Tang Dynasty between the Jianghuai River.

In this way, there was a situation of "Yang Yi Yi Yi Two" in the major cities of the Tang Dynasty, so that the merchants gathered in Yangzhou, and also led to the exhibition of handicrafts, silk fabrics, porcelain, paper and pen, all kinds of workshops, and even appeared 500 silk machines of 1,000 people workshop, with an annual output of tens of thousands of silk brocades.

After the Wutang Dynasty, the military center of gravity gradually shifted to the border states, coupled with the decline of the military system, Yangzhou's military function has been greatly reduced, and even the official position of the metropolitan governor is in vain, until after the Anshi Rebellion, the feudal towns were divided into chaos, and the rich Jianghuai land once again became the target of various warlords.

Zhen Qian looked at the endless flow of people at the gate of Yangzhou City, the tourists who went out to go out returned from outside the city, and the people who went into the city to do business hurriedly returned home with carts and shoulders.

"Into town!"

Yangzhou belongs to Shangzhou, with 60,000 or 70,000 household registrations and a population of about 450,000, not counting foreign merchants, porters, garrisons and a large number of stateless black households, if you really want to count more than 500,000 or 600,000.

The carriage and horse slowly moved into the traffic into the city, looking at the tall city wall, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, from here I will really spread my wings and fly high, leaving the land of right and wrong in the Tang Dynasty, stepping on the strange and familiar land of the Japanese Kingdom, and my heart can't help but be full of pride, "The Japanese Kingdom, I'm here!" ”

(End of chapter)