The Yanyun cuisine of the Liao Dynasty was served on the table in the same way, and the Beijing cuisine more than 900 years later is really a bit similar, the main dish is a hot pot in the middle, and several large barrels of raw mutton are placed around it, all of which are cut very coarsely - this is different from the Beijing mutton shabu that Wu Haogu often ate in later generations, the oldest and most authentic mutton shabu was originally brought up one by one!

Next to the barreled mutton, there are also condiments such as garlic, shredded green onions, sauce, salt, vinegar and so on.

In addition to mutton, Zhong Ge'er also called a dish called "wet meat", which is salted pork soaked in salt water, which is said to be a famous dish of Yanyun. It is also cut into large pieces, full of the painting style of Liangshan heroes.

In addition to the meat served on a large plate and in a large bucket, Wu Haogu also saw a large bucket of vegetable rice - not salted meat rice, but mutton rice, a bit like the Xinjiang hand-grabbed mutton rice in later generations. With vegetables that I can't tell what kind of dish it is, rice imported from the Song Dynasty, and dry rice cooked with mutton, it smells very fragrant and tastes very greasy.

The wine also came up, and it was full of "muddy" wine. "Mud" is a wine reservoir made from a whole cowhide. After taking it up, Ximen Qing held it and poured wine for Wu Haogu and Zhong Ge'er - it was a cowhide wine! It's also a shame that Ximen Qing is a woman who has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and she can really be a strong worker.

What comes out of the "cowhide" is not a wine made from grain, but a "milk wine", a wine made from ** who don't know what kind of livestock.

The vessel used to drink wine is called a gourd, which is a ripe gourd (a variant of the gourd) with a shell that can hold a lot of wine.

After drinking half a gourd of wine and eating half a barrel of meat, Wu Haogu had no appetite and began to continue to discuss with Zhong Ge'er the idea of establishing a "free city" near Yanyun.

He studied oil painting in his previous life, and he also knew a little about the history of the Western Renaissance, so he naturally knew the role played by the free cities in the initial stage of the European Renaissance and capitalism - it is not an exaggeration to say that they were the cradle of capitalism! Not only did the Renaissance begin with the free city-states of Italy, but even the various systems and laws of later capitalism originated in city-states such as Venice and Genoa.

And Wu Haogu now wants to replicate the successful experience of European free cities a little. Of course, this envisioned free city was not for the feudalism of the Great Song Dynasty, but was set up specifically for the Liao State.

Generally speaking, the current Liao State is a country with a very bad political and economic situation. The family has a monopoly on everything, and the political struggle is fierce and there is no bottom line. Although the entire family has not been exterminated, the tragedy of the destruction of one family is a frequent occurrence.

In the upcoming change of power, if he doesn't exterminate dozens or hundreds of households, how can Yelu Yanxi be worthy of his tragic father and grandmother?

Moreover, if you don't kill a little more, you can't stand your way! A group of big families are all, who is afraid of the emperor if they don't kill a little more?

In addition, the infighting in the family is still constantly creating a "son of evil" like Brother Zhong - this Brother Zhong is very capable of fighting when he looks at it, and he is not completely unliterate, he is also Mr. Murong's protégé!

Mr. Murong is a Jinshi and a Confucian who has been the prince's companion, can the students he hand over be worse?

Wu Haogu guessed that it would definitely not work to let this product go to the Wen Jinshi of the Song Dynasty, but if Wu Jinshi didn't do it well, he would go to high school.

This kind of capable son of a sinister son, the Liao State does not want ...... It can't be used (if you use it, it will break the rules of the world election system), and the Great Song Dynasty can be completely co-opted.

Da Song can be an official with his ability!

One by one, because they couldn't reincarnate or not, they got the opportunity to receive the education of the six arts of the family, but they had no place to play their talents, all of them were talented, and they were recruited to the Great Song Dynasty, and they would be the vanguard of the Northern Expedition in the future!

This Brother Zhong in front of him must get it back, set up a "typical surname Zhao", not only "one word" to solve, but also let him win the martial arts champion or something, roll call outside the Donghua Gate, and catch his son-in-law under the gold list...... It is also called a man who is not worthy of a surname or anything in the north to see: Da Song can be an official with his ability!

Moreover, these "Brother Zhong" will not be wooed by the Great Song Dynasty, and as soon as the troubled times of Liao Kingdom arrive in the future, they may turn to the Jurchen barbarians, so they will ...... That's a big problem.

However, if you want to let "Brother Zhong" enter the Song Dynasty, you can't rely on Wu Haogu to enter Liao like this, and the efficiency is too low. There must be a "Free City" that will attract them.

This place must be very close to the Liao State, and it must be easy to enter and exit, and it must also reflect the superiority of feudalism in the Great Song Dynasty......

Of course, what Wu Haogu wants to attract is not only the "Brother Zhong", but also the capital of Liao!

Liao is definitely not a good place to invest in real estate, not to mention that it is difficult for ordinary businessmen to survive in Liao, even if they are from a big family, they can also raid their homes at any time.

Even if it is not the turn to raid the house and destroy the door now, after waiting for the battle of Hubu Dagang in 1115, the officials of Daliao really don't need a place as a way out? Of course, the Free City on the edge of the Boundary River is not really a retreat, but an entrance to a retreat through which money can flow to safer places.

But the Song Dynasty is here...... It's much better than Liao, but it's not particularly regular, the prefect of the door is talking about it - it's not easy to deal with the matter of destroying the door - but there are still quite a lot of county orders that can make people bankrupt.

Therefore, the place used to attract Liao's capital and talents must be a free city with a relatively complete judicial system...... And this kind of special city can only be used in the name of the "united front" against Liao to persuade Song Huizong to support.

In addition to attracting talent and capital, Wu Haogu also wanted to turn this free city near Yanyun into the starting point of the overland Silk Road.

In fact, Sijin Province is not an ideal place for a commercial center.

First of all, Setsu Province is not close to the sea, and if you don't want to travel thousands of miles by land, you have to send it to Setsu Province by sea and inland waterway.

However, inland waterway transport vessels are not exactly the same as sea vessels, and it is very inconvenient to use sea vessels to go through inland waterways, especially inland rivers with weak navigation capacity, such as the Sanggan River. The sea ship can only be built relatively small, so the ability to resist wind and waves is insufficient.

Secondly, the industrial and commercial environment of Sijin Province is extremely bad, and the city itself is not built as a commercial center, it is a military fortress. The city is divided into 26 squares, and the traffic is very inconvenient.

In Wu Haogu's opinion, if a commercial city can appear on the edge of the Jiehe River, it will be about the vicinity of Tianjin in the future, and it will definitely be able to rob the business of Xijin Mansion......

At the same time, this free city can also be used as a big base for the Xuanhe Northern Expedition in the future!

The failure of the Xuanhe Northern Expedition in history was largely due to the terrible logistical support. If there can be a "Tianjin Free City" and a large number of maritime merchants and ships can rely on "Tianjin City" to carry out trade, the transportation of hundreds of thousands of stone of military grain should not be a problem.

And once the Jin soldiers go south, relying on the Jiehe River and the "Tianjin City" with the sea at its back, it can exist as a stronghold to resist the Jin soldiers!

Although "Tianjin" could not be built as a city in the first place. But Da Liao actually didn't collapse overnight. Historically, the Battle of Hubu Dagang took place in 1115 A.D., and the Jin soldiers went south in 1126, and there can be 11 years in the middle to build Tianjin City! As long as you are willing to spend money, what city can't be built in 11 years?

And along the boundary river-Sanggan River, you can go straight to Yanjing City! If this stronghold is not pulled out, will the Jurchen Iron Cavalry really dare to wave south?

Should...... Don't dare, right? Even if you dare, "Tianjin City" still has the value of existence.

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"Did you really come up with this idea?"

It was already two days since I returned to Xiangshan. Wu Haogu was accompanied by Ma Zhi, who was busy with the handover procedures, and returned to Xiangshan from Xijin Mansion City to Xiangshan, which belongs to Yuhe County. did not go to the Huayan Temple in Xiangshan immediately, but first went to Mr. Murong's Xiangshan Academy - Ximen Qinghui lived in the academy, and the Huayan Temple in Liao was not like those temples in Japan, where women could live a small life in it, and of course meat was not eaten.

Therefore, when Wu Haogu created the large-scale mural "The Last Supper", he could only place Ximen Qing in Xiangshan Academy and take the time to hold hands with her......

In Xiangshan Academy, Wu Haogu gave his "Free City Idea" to Murong Wang...... It is indeed giving, not telling.

Because Wu Haogu was not going to give advice himself, but wanted to let Mr. Murong give advice. Murong forgets worries and is a great Confucian of Yanyun, and his "weak strategy" is more like a thing. Wu Haogu has no hair on his mouth, and others are not likely to listen to what he says.

And after Murong forgot to listen to Wu Haogu's idea, he looked at Wu Haogu even more differently. At the moment, they are a little suspicious that there are masters behind Wu Haogu.

"Mr. Murong, this is the next thought." Wu Haogu gave an affirmative answer.

Murong forgot to worry and thought: Da Song is really full of talents, such a plastered disciple actually has such a strategy!

"It's a good idea, it should work." Murong nodded and thought about it seriously, "There is no problem here in the Liao Kingdom...... For 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, you can get permission to build a farm. ”

This free city must not be built in the name of a city, because according to the "Alliance of the Yuanyuan", the Song Dynasty was not allowed to build additional cities in the border area.

However, it can be built, but both parties have to agree, and there is no clear rule on how big the field is, and there are loopholes that can be drilled.

"Over there in the Great Song Dynasty," Wu Haogu thought for a moment, "as long as there is a gentleman's advice, there is always a way for a certain family to implement it." ”

He didn't know what Zhao Xu and Zhang Dian would think? It is of course good to use the "free city" to attract talents and capital from the Liao State, but this thing is also subversive to the Great Song Dynasty itself, and the monarch and prime minister will not allow it easily.

However, Zhao Ji is frivolous and relatively easy to be fooled......