In late autumn in October, the north wind is howling in my ears, and the wilderness on Hebei East Road is bleak.

However, when Wu Haogu and his party approached the Beijing Daimyo Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty, they immediately felt a different kind of prosperity.

The roadside is no longer barren, it is all farmland that has just been harvested.

Now is the time for lunch, and the villages and manors that can be seen everywhere near the official road are all wafting with smoke, giving people a sense of abundance.

Further on, you can see the tall city gate tower.

The high and solid city walls exude a majestic atmosphere in the sun.

The carriages and horses coming and going on the official road are endless, and they are filled with porcelain transported from the neighboring Cizhou and Dingzhou, and from time to time there are groups of cattle and sheep being driven towards the Daimyofu City, showing a vibrant scene.

Wu Haogu led the horse, walked side by side with Ximen Qing in front of his group, and walked slowly with the flow of traffic and people. While he breathed in the prosperous atmosphere that was almost exactly the same as Kaifeng Mansion, he felt incredible.

Because of the "Three Easy Returns to the River" incident, Hebei East Road was depressed almost everywhere, but it prospered a famous mansion city. It's really a bit of a "big name poverty circle".

However, if you think about it carefully, the city of Daimyo prospered in the middle and late Tang Dynasty because of the strong town of Weibo, and became the largest city in Hebei.

In the Great Song Dynasty, the Daimyo Mansion was raised to the position of the accompanying capital, and it was also built as the base camp of the anti-Liao on the east and west roads of Hebei. Xiongcheng Jiansai, although it was not used to resist the Khitan iron cavalry that ate fasting and chanted Buddha, but it blocked the surging Yellow River. Let the Daimyo Xiongcheng be safe and sound in the previous Yellow River breach incidents.

Therefore, the wealthy merchants and wealthy families on Hebei East Road all moved from their hometowns to the Daimyofu City, which greatly prospered this big city no less than Kaifeng Mansion.

At the same time, because the Yellow River flows north through the outside of the Daimyofu, the amount of water in the waterways near the Daimyofu has increased greatly, and the navigable capacity has also increased several times. Cow fur from the Khitan, porcelain from Dingzhou and Cizhou, and all kinds of goods brought from the south along the Middle Canal-Yellow River were all gathered in the Daimyofu City.

"Dalang, in front of you is the Beihe Gate, and not far from the right side of the Beihe Gate is the Xiashui Pass, where is the waterway where the Yongji Canal enters the Daimyo Mansion City from the north. Because the Yongji Canal is also connected to the Yellow River, which flows north, there are many ships entering and exiting the sewer gate, and it is often blocked. ”

Ximen Qing's hometown Yanggu County is next to the Daimyo's Mansion, and the Ximen family also has people in the Daimyo who open a medical hall pharmacy, so she is very familiar with the situation of the Daimyo's Mansion. Before entering Beihe Gate, he took the initiative to be a tour guide for Wu Haogu.

When they reached the unusually wide moat in the north of the Daimyo's mansion, Wu Haogu and others also encountered a traffic jam. There was a long line of cars and horses and pedestrians entering the city, moving at a speed similar to that of a snail.

"Eldest sister," Wu Hao Gu Dao, "the land route into the city seems to be blocked. ”

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "I didn't block it when I came back, I don't want it to be blocked like this today." ”

The great monk Lu Zhishen, who was walking behind, interjected: "It should have something to do with the battle of Hengshan in the west. ”

Guo Jing and Lu Zhishen walked side by side, and then said with a smile: "I don't know how far Hengshan is from here...... How can the road blockage in this daimyo's mansion be related to Yokoyama? ”

"It matters," said the great monk, "that it is October now, and if the thieves do not fight again, it will be cold on this day." The Sprinkle family estimated that now is the time for the big war.

And this war is most likely to be very disadvantageous to the Western Thief!

At this time, the east and west roads of Hebei had to be strictly guarded against the Liao people going south, and the inventory of the Daimyo's mansion entering the city was naturally strict. ”

Not to mention, this great monk's analysis is quite reasonable.

Wu Haogu suddenly thought of Ma Zhi at this time, "Second Brother Ma won't be in trouble when he enters the city, right?" ”

"No," Ximen Qing said, "I have already arranged the citation, and I can keep it." Besides, there are Master Zhishen and Xiaomi officials, who will embarrass Master Zhishen and the friends of the Mi family? ”

Ximen Qing said well, when the group passed the customs, Lu Zhishen showed the official photos of the monks and monks, and the soldiers guarding the door probably also believed in Buddhism, and they all saluted the great monk with their hands folded, and there was no intention of leaving trouble for everyone who came with Lu Zhishen.

Entering the Beihe Gate, it is a straight and wide street, leading directly to the palace of the Daimyo's Mansion - the Daimyo's Mansion City is the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and there is also a palace city with many palaces in the center of the city.

On both sides of the street, like the inner city of Kaifeng Mansion, there are shops and restaurants one after another, and the alleys that intersect with the intersection of this street are also prosperous. Ximenqing Expressway Wuhao Gu, the most prosperous part of the Daimyo Mansion City is the northeast corner. The most lively in the northeast corner of the Daimyo Mansion City is Anping Street, that is, the left side of the street where Wu Haogu and others are now, and both sides of the Yongji Canal.

The former is the largest cattle, sheep and horse trading center in the entire Great Song Dynasty.

The latter is the largest collection of porcelain in the Great Song Dynasty - now China's porcelain production center is still in the north, and Dingzhou and Cizhou on Hebei West Road are famous porcelain capitals. The products of the kiln and the magnetic kiln will be gathered in the Daimyo Mansion. Porcelain merchants then sold them to Kaifeng or Haizhou, and most of the porcelain exported from Haizhou was shipped from the Daimyo's Mansion.

Wu Haogu had little interest in porcelain, but he was already preparing to set up a horse farm, so he took a look and found that there was a horse market street that specialized in selling horses in the alley that crossed Anping Street. So I thought about settling down, and then pulled Ximen Qing and Ma Zhi, who knew horses, to come over and take a look, if there was a good horse, I would buy it first and ride back to Kaifeng Mansion. Then find a way to build a small manor somewhere in Hebei, which can raise dozens of stallions, and about a hundred foals are enough.

He has already thought that his horse farm does not seek quantity, but wants to breed tall and strong mares, and when the mares are "fixed", he will be able to breed them with stallions of the sweat or Arabian breed, and he will probably be able to raise high-quality war horses.

Of course, this is probably a money-burning business that requires continuous investment for decades to see the effect, and it is similar to the Six Arts Academy that Wu Haogu is preparing to open......

If you can make money, you can only work together, and you can burn money to save the world!

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To the south of the Daimyo's house, a tall wall encloses an old mansion under construction. The house occupies a large area, and dozens of pavilions can be seen from the heights, but all of them look dilapidated. Workers are coming in and out, erecting shelves around some of the pavilions in preparation for overhauls.

In the garden of the big house, there are also many people dressed as farmers who are cutting weeds, and some people are busy cutting out the ridges that have been opened at some point.

In the back garden of the mansion, on the second floor of a renovated pavilion, there was a man in his fifties with clear eyebrows, wearing a cyan hat, a Confucian shirt, a few strands of long hair, and fluttering sleeves, looking straight like Uncle Cao Guo in the Eight Immortals, who was watching the construction in the courtyard with his hands behind his back. Between the eyebrows, there is a lot of joy, and you can't hide it.

This man is the head of the Pan family's generals, Pan Xiaoyan, who has just sealed the history of Enzhou, is Pan Xiaoan's brother.

His current mood is really good. Because the Pan family will open the door, double happiness is about to come!

Yixi is his son Pan Yi marrying a German princess. This is actually nothing, the princess of the Great Song Dynasty has no power, and she will not be able to hold a real position. That is, the Jiangmen of Kaifeng Mansion are keen to marry the Heavenly Family in order to consolidate their existing wealth.

The second joy is amazing! Duan Wang Zhao Ji fell in love with Pan Xiaoyan's eighteenth sister Pan Qiaolian!

This Duan King is likely to be the emperor in the future! If he marries Pan Qiaolian, then Pan Xiaoyan will be the uncle of the country at that time.

And Pan Qiaolian is not the kind of woman who can't help but be weak, she is a body type that can give birth to children, and she will be the prince if she gives birth to a son in the future!

At that time, the Pan family is Kaifeng Mansion, no, it is the first general of the Great Song Dynasty!