In the summer and autumn of the third year of Yuanfu, Wu Haogu, who finally had his own one-acre and three-point land, began to deal with the specific matters of the business market in high spirits.

His one-third of an acre of land is actually very small, that is, tens of thousands of acres of land in the north and south of the Jiehe River. Under the special needs of the Liao and Song dynasties, or under the cover of Zhao Ji's huge protective umbrella, it has become his world for a while. Wharves, bazaars, schools, horse farms, embankments, all kinds of big works are being built at a very fast pace under the dual effect of money and government orders.

As for someone's small report and the covetousness of various forces, there is no way to shake Wu Haogu's rule in Jiehe Shang City for the time being. After all, his backstage is the Great Song official himself!

Moreover, the so-called "Shang City Autonomy" has only separated the Shang City from the civil official system of the Great Song Dynasty, and has not left the control of the imperial court.

Wu Haogu is the confidant of the official family, and most of the elders of the Jiehe Shang City have the background of Kaifeng Jiangmen, and the Fengying Bureau, which directly represents the official family, has now also opened to Qingzhou City, and will move over when the scale of the Jiehe Shang City begins to take shape.

And Uncle Zhang is also arranging for people from all walks of life disguised by the forbidden army (maybe their forbidden army is pretended) to settle in the commercial market.

In short, everything is under control!

With the joint efforts of all parties, Jiehe Commercial Market has gradually begun to prosper. Soon after the first settlement of the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce, the Wu family in Haizhou, the Ji family in Pingjiang, the Su family in Kaifeng Mansion (Su family old vinegar), the crude medicine shop and the golden arch building of the Yanggu Ximen family, the Yihong Courtyard of Yan Po'er, the gold and silver silk silk silk shop of the Pan family, the Wangbeilou real estate store of the joint venture between Gonghe Bank and Ma Zhi, and many merchants selling crude drugs for cattle, sheep and horses, fur and fur have also settled in one after another.

It doesn't hurt if you don't have a house for the time being, just build some tents and set them up on the leveled open space first!

It is not entirely because everyone is optimistic about the future of Jiehe Commercial Market, but because the newly opened Jiehe Commercial Market is really a bit of a preferential policy.

First of all, the Jiehe City Shipping Division has not yet been operating normally - although the Jiehe City Shipping Division has been established a long time ago, but because the Jiehe Commercial City has been under construction, the officials of the Municipal Shipping Division have not been able to gather for a while. At present, Wu Haogu only set up a checkpoint at the wharf of Jiehe Commercial City, and collected city tax and ship tax on ships entering and leaving, which were lower than those elsewhere, and did not implement "and buy" (in fact, it was forced to buy at a low price). This allows merchants who go in and out of the boundary river to make a lot more money than if they go through other passes.

The second is that Ma Zhi also released water on the other side of the Jiehe River, and the trade between the Liao and Song dynasties was never completely free, and each had goods that were prohibited from being exported.

The Song Dynasty controlled items such as copper, iron, books, and so on—yes, books! The Great Song court seemed to be worried that the surrounding countries would become powerful after learning the Confucian truth, so they kept controlling written books. Even Buddhist scriptures are not allowed to be exported...... Maybe it's because I'm worried that foreigners (I don't know if it includes Tianzhu people) can get the blessing of the Buddha by chanting too many scriptures, so that the country will be strong?

The Liao State controls the export of horses, and does not allow the export of war horses that meet a certain standard of shoulder height. Horses and pack horses are also subject to stricter control.

But now, under Ma Zhi's release of water, the Liao side has temporarily opened the export of walking horses and pack horses, that is, war horses sometimes appear in the Jiehe commercial market - in fact, it is not that Ma Zhi intends to release water, but that there are many nobles on the grassland in the Liao country who want to inject capital into the Jiehe commercial market, and it is unlikely that silk silk will be transported from the Liao country to the Great Song Dynasty (the silk silk of the Liao country is much more expensive than that of the Song country), and they do not have much gold and silver, so they can only appropriately relax the export of horses.

Under such circumstances, it is natural that many merchants selling cattle, sheep and horses came to the newly opened Jiehe Trading Market in search of business opportunities.

In addition to handling various affairs of the Jiehe Commercial Market, contrary to Wu Haogu's expectations, he also made a new friend on the side of the Jiehe Commercial Market - Bai Siwen of the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce.

A Celestial Cultist!

Moreover, Wu Haogu also learned a very different Tianfang Sect from Bai Siwen!

This Heavenly Sect is very different from the Heavenly Sect that Wu Haogu recognized in the 21st century in the later generations......

"You are really knowledgeable, you know Greece and Rome...... That's all in the past! Now the center of world civilization is in the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Eclipse. The Baghdad school of the Great Eclipse is in the 140th year of the Celestial Calendar, uh, Olga, is it the 140th year of the Celestial Calendar? ”

In a temporary viewing pavilion on the bank of the Jiehe River (the property of Wangbeilou Real Estate Company), it was Bai Siwen who was chewing and cutting cakes while talking about Western allusions.

But I don't seem to know much, and from time to time I have to ask a "Rakshasa cat" named Olga.

"It was about 850 years after the birth of Jesus." Olga replied in Chinese with a Quanzhou accent.

Wu Haogu looked at this "Rakshasa beauty" with a smile, her eyes were the same color as sapphires, her golden hair was as shiny as silk, her eye sockets were deep, and her facial features were delicate and gorgeous, as if they were carefully carved.

According to Blasven, this Olga and another woman named Maria were both handmaidens who followed the evil Crucidian robbers to the Great Eats, and were captured during a combat operation and sold into slavery. The Aladdin Chamber of Commerce bought them in Baghdad, transported them all the way to the Great Song Dynasty, and gave them to Wu Haogu and Ma Zhi to warm their beds......

What a tragic fate!

But Wu Haogu is really infatuated with Bai Feifei now, and he is not interested in holding hands with Olga for the time being, but when he asks Bai Siwen about the situation in the Western world, he finds that Bai Siwen often asks her.

Olga's answer shows that she is a woman of some knowledge, and that she is a very stubborn Christian.

But even this Christian does not deny that the center of Western scholarship has now shifted to Baghdad.

"As we all know, from about 850 years after the birth of Jesus until twenty or thirty years ago, the caliphs of Baghdad have been funding academic research, collecting a large number of books and documents that have been handed down from Rome, Greece, Persia, Babylon and Egypt, and translating them into the language of the Great Eclipse," Olga said. With the funding of the Caliphate, the Celestial Catechism also established in Baghdad the Hall of Wisdom and the Niezemia Academy, an academic institution dedicated to the study of these texts......"

Oh, and this is the so-called "Centennial Translation Movement"!

In the memory of Wu Haogu's previous life, there is indeed some content in this regard. It is the century-old translation movement of the Arabs, and it is said that the results of this movement were later absorbed by Europeans and became an important impetus for the Renaissance.

The Celestial Catechism mentioned by Olga was a school of great influence in the Celestial Sect world before the "Mongol minority" went south to Baghdad and underwent the "Great Fusion", also known as rationalism, and was once on a par with Sufism. It is only because of the high threshold of rationalism and the excessive concentration of the essence in Baghdad that it has not escaped the devastation of the "Mongolian minority".

In a sense, neither the Tianfang civilization nor the Chinese civilization escaped the scimitar fusion of the Mongolian ethnic minorities, and only the Christian civilization, which was far inferior to the Tianfang civilization and the Chinese civilization, escaped the catastrophe and ushered in the era of the Renaissance!

"The ...... of the Teachings of the Heavenly Side"

Wu Haogu couldn't help but think of "Cheng Zhu Lixue". Although later generations generally held negative opinions on "Cheng Zhu Lixue", Wu Haogu, who had really studied Confucianism systematically (Wu Haogu was also a Confucian student in his present life), knew that the theoretical system of Confucianism was incomplete and was flawed in terms of world outlook and methodology. After absorbing some of the views of Buddhism and Taoism, Cheng Zhu Lixue sorted them out and built a relatively complete Confucian system.

Of course, this Confucian system is not perfect. After all, the theorists of the Song Dynasty could only draw nourishment from Buddhist and Taoist theories. And what Buddhism and Taoism can provide is also extremely limited, and there are many fallacies.

If Confucianism is to be truly perfected in the Song Dynasty, it is necessary to broaden the horizons of Confucian scholars and let them draw nourishment from Western academic thought...... Wu Haogu himself was just an "art student" in his previous life, and there was some ideological nourishment that he could provide. And the "education of the six arts" that he now advocates can only cultivate "samurai" rather than thinkers, philosophers and scientists.

As for Shen Kuo's "Dream Creek Writings", although there are also many scientific and technological things. However, there are many fallacies, and they are more like a collection of "mechanic's manuals" - of course, the value is very high, but this does not give up the opportunity to absorb the essence of the "Centennial Translation Movement".

But how can we copy the books collected in the "Wisdom Museum" and bring them to China? Wu Haogu thought to himself, I'm afraid I can't get it just by spending money, right?

"Outside the White Staff," Wu Haogu suddenly asked, "have you ever been to the Niezemian Academy and the Wisdom Hall?" ”

"No, no......" Bai Siwen shook his head.

In fact, he has never been abroad at all, and he doesn't know much about the language of Dashi.

"If you go," Wu Haogu asked again, "will you be able to get the books from the Niedemia Academy and the Hall of Wisdom?" ”

"This ......" Bai Siwen couldn't answer at all, and could only look at Olga.

"The Niezemian Academy and the Hall of Wisdom are open and open to foreign students and scholars...... However, I am afraid that Bai Yuanwai is not qualified to study there. ”

"If," Wu Haogu thought for a moment, "if Bai Yuanwai became an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and brought gifts and Confucian classics, would he be able to obtain the science books in the Wisdom Pavilion?" ”

"What's the hell?" Bai Siwen was taken aback by Wu Haogu's proposal, "Big, big official, you don't mean it, right?" ”

"Don't want to go?" Wu Haogu looked at Bai Siwen and asked with a smile, "The envoy of the Great Song Dynasty is an official!" And you can see the caliphate...... Maybe you can go to Jerusalem, to Rome, to Constantinople, to travel the world, wouldn't it? ”

Sounds promising! Bai Siwen thought to himself: But can this military official really facilitate the dispatch of a mission to the West?