Wu Haogu, Ximen Qing and Zhong Ge'er walked together on a lively street, the street was full of boards, and there were faces of businesses everywhere, all of which were hung with signboards of various colors to recognize their flags. One of the big mansion doors, Shen Guang didn't know how much, and the business was even more prosperous, and even the threshold was trampled on. On the door of the house hangs a gilded signboard "Han Family Fengle Building".

Needless to say, this "Fengle Building" belongs to the Da Liao Han family, and the name of "Fengle Building" is mostly from the Kaifeng Mansion cottage.

"Pan Guanren, this is Xijin Mansion, no, it should be the best place to go in Daliao, several Langjun of the Han family said that this side is on par with Fengle Building in Kaifeng Mansion."

Brother Zhong pointed to the cottage Fengle Building, and said with a smile: "I'm tired of walking today, so it's better to go and sit in the building, while watching the street scene of this Beishifang, drink some mare's milk wine, and eat some Yandi food." ”

"It's just Brother Zhong'er."

Wu Haogu also felt that his legs were a little sore, and today he went to the three largest squares in Xijin Mansion with Zhong Ge'er: Nan'an Fang, Dong'an Fang and Beishi Fang.

Although these three squares are crowned with the titles of "South", "East", and "North", they are all located in the northern part of the castle of Setsu Prefecture, and they are three adjacent squares arranged in the shape of a pin. Among them, Nan'an Fang is located in the southwest, Dong'an Fang is in the southeast, and Beishifang is in the north.

The functions of the three workshops are similar, and they are all places where industry and commerce converge in Xijin Prefecture.

Among them, Nan'an Fang and Dong'an Fang are "the gathering place of hundreds of workers", and there are a large number of handicraft workshops, all of which are government-run, and are under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Three Divisions and the Nanjing Transit Mission. The products manufactured are varied, with the exception of silk porcelain, which does not produce salt iron (there are iron shops, but does not produce wrought iron). It's just that the scale of the workshop doesn't seem to be large, and it's not very busy...... are all suspected of grinding foreign workers.

And Beishifang is the real prosperous place of Xijin City. After the rise of the Western Xia, with the decades-long tug-of-war between the Song and Xia, the traditional Hexi trade route was almost completely cut off. The main passage of the overland Silk Road turned to the grasslands. The Great Liao Nanjing Xijin Mansion has become a new starting point of the Silk Road, and it is also the largest convergence point for exchanges between the West and the Central Plains.

livestock, furs, and medicinal herbs from grasslands, forests, and seas; the beautiful jade, glass, BMW, and frankincense of the Western Regions; The tea, porcelain, and silk of the Central Plains all converge in the North Market of Xijin Province.

The whole market is noisy and noisy, and people of various nationalities are staggered. Columns of camels and wagons and horses kept passing through the city. The wooden wheels wrapped in iron rings crushed the stone slabs that paved the streets. Dressed in a somewhat dirty robe (a nobleman must have been a nobleman in the household register), a Khitan merchant with a knife pinned to his waist and a rosary around his neck, swaggered through the streets. Merchants from the Song Dynasty wore silk robes and carried one or two local Yanyun guards behind them, and walked carefully along the streets. There are also Goryeo merchants from the Goryeo Kingdom, who are dressed almost the same as the Song people, but they nod their heads when they see everyone. The braided Bohai people can also be seen everywhere, most of them are merchants who sell furs and crude medicines, and they do not have shops, so they set up a street stall on the street and sell their goods, but the business is also prosperous.

Like the other two dozen or so squares in the province, it is full of beggars, weaving through the streets and alleys. The officials and soldiers of the Nanjing Police Patrol Yuan, who managed this city, were also a bit like the military patrol soldiers of Kaifeng Prefecture, who all wandered lazily on the streets, sometimes looking for trouble with the Bohai people and extorting a few small sums of money.

The whole fang market is filled with a kind of deformed vitality.

Wu Haogu, accompanied by Zhong Ge'er, climbed to the third floor of the Han family's Fengle Building and entered a private room with a good line of sight.

……

"I don't want Yanyun to have such a prosperous place."

Standing at the window of the private room, Wu Haogu looked at the bustling street outside the window, and suddenly let out a sigh of emotion.

"Bustling?" Brother Zhong, who had just ordered wine, sneered when he heard Wu Haogu's words, "Could it be that this place is more prosperous than Kaifeng Mansion?" ”

"Kaifeng Mansion is inferior," Wu Haogu shook his head and said thoughtfully, "But Xijin Mansion is still more prosperous than someone originally thought."

By the way, Brother Zhong, do you know where the merchants here come from? ”

"It's everywhere," Brother Zhong pointed to Ximen Qing, who was standing beside Wu Haogu and accompanied him to watch the scenery, "Your little lady from Ximen used to come here often." ”

"Oh, is the business of Xijin Mansion easy to do?"

"It's not easy to do." Ximenqing said, "If it weren't for the Zhao family and the Ma family's care over the years, my family's business would have collapsed long ago." ”

If the Ximen family does not admit the master-slave relationship with the Zhao family in Zhenzhou, then they are ordinary businessmen in Yanyun...... In this kind of place where the big family monopolizes everything, businessmen without background can't survive at all.

"What about the scholars?" Wu Haogu asked again, "Is Xijin good?" ”

"What a wreck!" Brother Zhong snorted, "A place to eat people." ”

His words were full of hatred! I don't know if I hate Da Liao or the Zhao family? Maybe they hate both, right?

"Cannibalism?" Wu Haogu smiled, "There are a lot of talented people like Brother Zhong in Xijin Mansion, right?" ”

"Every family has it!" Zhong Ge'er said, "Da Liao's side is not an official based on ability, but about background...... But the number of places in the world is limited, which one is not a chicken and a dog? ”

"The one surnamed Yelu and the one surnamed Xiao also fight?"

"Fight!" Brother Zhong sneered, "They fought harder!" The internal struggle of the Yan four family will end when they have no surname, and they will fight until they lose their lives...... Even the emperor's wife, children, uncles and sons-in-law were killed, let alone others? ”

As he spoke, he snorted coldly a few times: "Da Liao is not as good as the Song State here, and the fight will be over until the official is demoted." Every dynasty on the side of Daliao has to fight and kill several royal families and important ministers of close branches! Don't look at them now proudly, when King Yan ascends the throne, I don't know if there is still a life. ”

Is this a curse?

Wu Haogu glanced back at Brother Zhong, who was full of resentment, and Brother Zhong also found Wu Haogu's strange eyes, and smiled: "This is not a curse." When Yelu Yixin was in power, who didn't scold him? When the prince Zhaohuai was harmed, who didn't fall into the well? Even my teacher, Mr. Kayama, ...... Alas, don't say it, everyone on the stage must protect themselves! ”

Wu Haogu thought to himself: It turns out that Old Man Murong has also done something sorry for Prince Zhaohuai! No wonder I want to go with myself to see Zhang Dian, this is to defect!

Brother Zhong suddenly leaned forward and laughed as he spoke, and said, "But who knew that the emperor would not be able to give birth to children...... In the end, no one inherited the throne, so he had to find his grandson to succeed him, and when King Yan ascended the throne in the future, I don't know how many families will be destroyed! ”

This is indeed a joke, it is not uncommon for the emperor to kill the prince, but after the emperor killed the prince, there was no one to succeed him, so he had to let the son of the prince who was killed take over, which is a rare thing.

And when everyone framed Prince Zhaohuai together, no one expected that the strong emperor would not be able to give birth to a child...... He had four children with Queen Xiao Guanyin before, but he couldn't give birth to any other woman!

For a period of time, the nobles of the Great Liao Kingdom were trying to find a way for Yelu Hongji, looking for a woman surnamed Xiao who could give birth everywhere and send it to Yelu Hongji, and Yelu Yixin's son was the most loyal, and gave his wife who was very capable of giving birth to the emperor......

But in the end, I just can't give birth, let alone a son, and I don't have half a daughter.

After several years of busy work, Yelu Hongji was also discouraged, so he had to arrange for his grandson (it's hard to say whether he was close or not) to take over. And Yelu Hongji's most trusted minister, Yelu Yixin, was unlucky, and his family was ruined.

However, it was not only Yelu Yixin's family who followed Prince Zhaohuai together, this matter is a matter of attitude! If you don't follow it, then you will be suspected of the prince's remnants! And at that time, seeing that Prince Zhaohuai and Yelu Yanxi were both dead tigers, who would have thought that there would be such a plot reversal?

Now seeing that the old emperor's body is getting worse day by day, Yelu Yanxi may become the new emperor of Daliao at any time, and he may not know how to counterattack at that time.

Therefore, the families of the great Liao ministers who had participated in the framing of Prince Zhaohuai's mother and son were all worried, and no one knew that a good family would be destroyed by Yelu Yanxi......

"Why isn't there a place for everyone to hide?"

Wu Haogu suddenly proposed something that seemed simple, but it was very difficult to do.

"Hide?" Brother Zhong sneered, "Where to hide?" Song Kingdom? ”

"Can't you?" Wu Haogu smiled, "For example, today is not a country. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the nobles went to other countries when they were in trouble? ”

"Yelu Yixin wanted to run," Zhong Ge'er said, "but he didn't run...... As for the others, they are all big families, how can they say that they can walk away? And when you get to the south, what is the bottom of what to eat? ”

"Can't you prepare in advance when you're fine?" Wu Haogu asked again.

This is a common occurrence in the decadent capitalist society of later generations, where part of the assets and family members are placed abroad to reasonably spread the risks.

"How to prepare?" Brother Zhong asked rhetorically, "Is the border pass of the Great Song Dynasty as good?" If there is no answer, after you go, your eyes will be black, and you can do it with a few small dollars? ”

The Great Song Dynasty was not completely open, and the flow of capital and personnel was not very convenient, and the prosperous places of the Great Song Dynasty were far away from Yanyun, and the towns on the edge of the Jiehe River were in tatters, so there was no way to show the superiority of the Great Song feudalism.

Wu Haogu nodded with a smile, and said to himself: "You are reasonable, if you can have a place to go, between Song and Liao, it is also a place outside the law, which can allow people to enter and exit freely, and the water and land transportation is convenient, and it can also allow the talented people in the north who live there to apply for the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty...... Brother Zhong, do you think there will be many frustrated scholars and merchants from the Liao Kingdom who have emigrated to the past? ”