Cheongju Castle Station.

"What do you mean? Did you see Xiao Baoxian? ”

Zhang Shangying, who was drunk, had just returned to the pavilion with the support of Yan Po'er, and when he couldn't distinguish between east and west, north and south, Wu Haogu suddenly came to report to him about "meeting Xiao Baoxian".

What's going on? Zhang Shangying pondered: Aren't you drunk? Xiao Baoxian was not the envoy of the Liao people, or was he left behind in Nanjing? I haven't seen this official, why did Wu Haogu see it first?

"Yan Niangzi, quickly help Zhongshu to sit down, and get some sobering tea soup."

"Whoa."

Wu Haogu instructed Yan Niangzi to help the drunk Zhang Shangying onto a seat, let him lean on the back, and asked her to get tea and soup again.

Seeing Yan Niangzi go out, Wu Haogu said again: "Zhongshu, I just went to Xiaofanlou to listen to Qiao Jinniang's singing, but somehow, Xiao Baoxian was also there, so I met it." ”

"If you meet, you meet...... No, isn't Xiao Baoxian the Liao envoy? We'll see him tomorrow, and we'll have to get drunk again!" ”

Zhang Shangying was talking nonsense, it seemed that he had drunk too much. To be an official in the Great Song Dynasty, you really have to have a good amount of wine, there are too many entertainments, and the degree of good wine of the Song people also exceeds the imagination of later generations. Otherwise, there would not be 72 stores in Kaifeng Mansion that may sell wine.

In addition to wine, color is also a huge industry! Qinglou brothels are all over the large and small cities of the Song Dynasty, and the high-class fireworks women are almost the entertainment stars of later generations! In addition, gambling is also a huge industry...... Well, the urban industrial structure of the Song Dynasty is not very healthy.

And Wu Haogu has now occupied the highest end in the "color" industry - first-class profiteers sell standards! Now the standard of Oiran is in the hands of Wu Haogu!

In the wine industry, Wu Haogu has a "second pot head", just waiting for the opening of the Jiehe Commercial Market, Wu Haogu will build a new "Lighthouse Liquor".

As for gambling, Wu Haogu will not let it go. Wanda in Jiehe Commercial City, no, if it is Wanda, it will be a place where the gambling industry gathers!

Yan Po'er had already hurriedly brought in the tea soup and poured a bowl for Zhang Shangying, and then saw that this drunk Qingtian vomited Yan Po'er's body, and she was a little sober.

"Yan Niangzi, you can go." Wu Haogu hurriedly sent his "queen model" to wash it up, and then said to Zhang Shangying: "Zhongshu, is it better?" ”

"It's better, it's just a headache...... Zhang Shangying touched his forehead and said with a wry smile, "It's not easy to be an official, now that I think about it, Su Dongpo is easy and happy." ”

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "It's just that Mr. Dongpo is a lot older, it's a pity to stay in Danzhou." ”

"It's a pity?" Zhang Shangying's brows furrowed, looking at Wu Haogu.

Wu Haogu smiled: "His words are valuable...... If you write a piece of paper a month, you can sell it for at least 15,000 when you take it to Christie's, and that's 180,000 a year! In my opinion, the court should punish him for selling words to atone for his crimes. ”

"Selling words to atone for the crime......" Zhang Shangying leaned forward and leaned back with a smile, "You are young, how did you fall into the eyes of money?" Let me tell you, now there are many people who want to ban the calligraphy and painting of the traitorous party, and they all want to destroy the ban. If you have it, sell it as soon as possible. ”

"I'm not afraid," Wu Haogu waved his hand, "The true handwriting of Mr. Dongpo in my house was given by King Duan. ”

Zhang Shangying was speechless for a while, and looked at Wu Haogu thoughtfully: This official seems to have something to say! Is it telling yourself that he is the one who is the king of Duan?

Wu Haogu then said: "And it doesn't mean much to destroy Su Dongpo's calligraphy and paintings...... Writing and playing calligraphy and painting should not only be good, but also rare. Mr. Dongpo's handwriting is not much, and if he destroys some of it, it will be sky-high when the limelight passes in the future. ”

Zhang Shangying nodded when she heard this, "It seems to make sense." He paused, and did not continue to discuss the topic of Su Dongpo, but asked, "Xiao Bao knows your identity first?" ”

"Yes," Wu Hao Gu said, "he knows the identity of the lower official. He also said to his subordinates: As soon as the Jiehe commercial market is opened, the Liao and Song dynasties will be fraternal states, and they should support each other in the future, so that the north and the south can be at peace with each other. ”

"Oh? So will the negotiations go well? ”

Wu Hao Gu said: "It seems that Zhongshu can return to the dynasty soon." ”

Zhang Shangying nodded: "But his brother's state...... How does it sound like there is something in the words? Chongdao, do you understand what he means? ”

"Understood," Wu Hao Gu said, "He is saying that we put a commercial market that gathers hundreds of thousands of merchants and billions of billions of dollars on the bank of the boundary river, and the mouth of the Liao State is to regard the Liao State as a brother." ”

"This ......" Zhang Shangying was a little stunned when Wu Haogu said this, "What Xiao Baoxian said is reasonable!" ”

"It is indeed reasonable," said Wu Haogu, "so the market must not be completely unprepared. ”

"But how do you prepare for it?" Zhang Shangying asked, "It is impossible for the forbidden army to be stationed, and it is impossible to build a city for protection, otherwise it will violate the alliance of the Yuanyuan." ”

Wu Haogu thought for a while and said, "The commercial market should be protected by a dam. ”

"Levee?"

"That's right," said Wuhao Ancient Road, "a semi-circular embankment that protects the southern bank of the merchant market from flooding...... Since the Yellow River entered the boundary, the water volume of the Jiehe River has increased greatly, and it will flood once every three to five years, and it will flood this summer, so the Jiehe commercial market must be protected by embankments. Otherwise, as soon as the flood is gone, the losses will be heavy. ”

"But the embankment is not a city wall after all, and the shape is different." Zhang Shangying understood what Wu Haogu meant, which was to use the flood of the Jiehe River to build the embankment into an earthen wall for defense, but the embankment could not be built like the city wall after all.

Because the embankment has to withstand blisters and water pressure for a long time, it is easier to climb by repairing a trapezoidal shape with a large slope, and the height is also limited. Although a trench can be dug outside the embankment of Jiehe Commercial Market to prevent smuggling, how wide can such a trench be? It can't be compared to a moat.

"You can build a house on top of the embankment," said Wu Haogu, "and the house can have a wall." ”

In fact, Wu Hao has planned for a long time, the flood control embankment in Jiehe Shang City does not need to be built high, one zhang to one and a half zhang is enough, and there is no need to cut the external side into a cliff shape, but it must be thick enough to form a large angle slope on the outside.

At the same time, the top of the embankment must be of considerable width to allow for the construction of Hakka tulou-style houses and a fence of about one zhang. The "tulou" should be square, one corner of the square stretches out beyond the wall, and the height is between two and three zhang, and the wall connected with the tulou is not semicircular, but a multi-faceted, roughly arc-shaped rammed earth clad brick wall.

"But even if there is a wall," Zhang Shangying shook his head, "it won't work without soldiers." ”

"How can there be no soldiers?" Wu Haogu smiled, "My Great Song Dynasty still has the "Armor Protection Law", and the "Armor Protection Law" is also applicable to the Kuofang households. ”

Wu Haogu is actually "playing the game", because Jiehe Shang City is "between the Liao and Song Dynasty", which is a vague area, and whether the "Baojia Law" of the Great Song Dynasty is applicable is debatable.

Moreover, the Jiehe Commercial Market is controlled by the Chamber of Commerce, and if there are really tens of thousands of merchants, then twenty of them are guaranteed...... If the "Baojia Law" is really implemented, tens of thousands of Baoding can be placed under the leadership of the Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, the Chamber of Commerce controls not only Jiehenan City, but also Beishi north of Jiehe! It was not only the Song people who lived in Jiehe Shang City, but also the Liao, Goryeo, Zubu, Uighurs, and even the Japanese......

"That's okay," Zhang Shangying didn't think much about it, after all, the "Armor Protection Law" was formulated by the Great Song Dynasty itself. "As long as the merchants and people of Jiehe strictly abide by the "Armor Protection Law", the imperial court will not have any objections."

"That's nature." Wu Haogu said, "In the negotiations with Liao, it can be proposed that the commercial market should follow the "Baojia Law" of our dynasty and follow the example of Liaoguo to set up a police patrol court. ”

Wu Haogu put forward these two opinions in order to use the form of the Song-Liao Treaty to confirm the legitimacy of the Baoding and the Police Patrol Yuan in Jieheshang City.

"That's all." Zhang Shangying thought for a while and said, "The location and size of the commercial market, the Liao people will not have any objections, right?" ”

"No, it won't." Wu Haogu said with great certainty, "It's just 30,000 acres of land, and I don't take them for nothing." ”

According to the plan formulated by Wu Haogu, there are 30,000 acres of land in the north and south of Jieheshang City, which together is equivalent to more than 20 square kilometers in later generations.

However, Jiehebei City will not be developed on a large scale, and most of it will be used as a yard for stacking timber, and a pasture for temporarily raising cattle and sheep (trade goods) will exist, and only a small part will be developed into a wharf, trading station and bridgehead.

In Jiehenan City, what was really developed into a commercial market was 15,000 mu (Song mu, about 10% smaller than the city mu in later generations), which was about 9 square kilometers in later generations.

The "100,000 households" mentioned by Wu Haogu and Xiao Baoxian are impossible, and there are not so many people in nine square kilometers. However, there should be 10,000 households, and most of the people who live there all year round will exceed 100,000.

As for the general urban planning of the commercial market, Wuhaogu has also done a good job, and it will be a semi-circular layout with the port square as the semi-circular center.

The remaining 9 square kilometers are a long and narrow strip of river. According to Wu Haogu's plan, it will be handed over to the Lighthouse Academy, Lighthouse University, Lighthouse Sea College, and Lighthouse Ranch.

In addition to the lighthouse ranch, the academy, the university, and the sea academy will all have tall buildings, walls, and moats to support them, similar to the fortresses of the Han Hao clan north of the Jiehe River.

Among them, the Lighthouse Academy will have the largest area among the three colleges because it will have the most teachers and students, and once Jiehe Shang City has to be abandoned because of the fall of Youyan, the Lighthouse Academy will become a bridgehead against the southward movement of ethnic minorities.

Of course, the construction of the Jiehe Merchant Market and the "Lighthouse Fortress" was not done in one step, Rome was not built in a day, and the Jiehe Merchant Market was not built in a day. Instead, it will be divided into several phases, and the whole project will last for more than 20 years!