Originally, the Tang envoys sent by the Japanese State to Youzhou through Youzhou, and then entered Goguryeo through the border and then transferred to Silla, were 'kidnapped' by Li Chengqian to Dengzhou, Shandong, but fortunately, they could also go straight to the Wa Kingdom by sea from Dengzhou, so Hui Ri didn't say much, and the Tang prince coerced them to Shandong.

Of course, even Hui Ri can't say anything, because he must be acting on the ground of the Tang Dynasty now, and if the Tang prince doesn't want him to go north, I'm afraid that he won't even be able to cross the Yellow River.

But along the way, Hui Ri also discovered that Li Chengqian seems to have a soft spot for Gao Xiangxuanli's daughter, and the two go out and go together, and they enter together, almost all the time together. And Gao Xiangxuanli's daughter seems to be obedient to this Tang prince, and it is as good as mixing oil in the secret.

As for Gao Xiangxuanli's son Gao Xiangtian's ......, he is not so important, if it weren't for the identity of an elder brother, it is estimated that he would have been driven out of Li Chengqian's team a long time ago.

As the deputy envoy to the Tang Dynasty, Hui Ri naturally had to take on the responsibility of the envoy when the envoy was hanging, so he would take time out to chat with Li Chengqian every day. However, after a long time, he found that Li Chengqian's energy was not on him at all, and slowly he stopped moving forward.

Anyway, he has a psychological shadow on Li Chengqian, and it is better to be farther away, otherwise once he says something badly, he will be dragged out and irrigated, and he will be embarrassed and suffered.

In this way, the two teams of people one after the other, first took five days to enter Shandong, and then took more than ten days to Dengzhou, half a month, to complete the distance that originally took a month to complete.

This made Hui Ri have to sigh, this Tang prince is really a person who does not play cards according to common sense!

However, it was not the Tang prince who made Hui Ri feel the most along the way, because since he entered Shandong, he found that there was a fundamental difference between this place and other places in the Tang Dynasty.

The first thing that is different is the road, all the roads in Datang are rammed dirt roads, but in Shandong Road, they are paved with smooth gray ashlars.

Each of these stones is the same size, about three zhang long and one zhang wide, and each of them is separated by small gaps, I don't know why.

The road is very wide, if the estimate is correct, it should be about ten zhang, this is not because Hui Ri has a good eye, but because the gray stones on the ground are arranged in a row of ten.

In the middle of the road, there is a tree wall called a 'separation zone' that divides the road into two parts, and all vehicles and pedestrians follow certain rules, and no one will go in the opposite direction.

The roads separated by the 'separation zone' are also marked with white lines, once again dividing the road into different sections, with the middle four lines being wagons or horses.

The outermost line separates pedestrians, and horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians go their own way, without interfering with each other, and look orderly.

If you look off the road and look in both directions, you will see that there are 'green belts' of poplars and willows on both sides of the road. Of course, Meri also didn't understand the usefulness of the 'green belt', but that didn't affect the fact that he thought it was beautiful.

Along the way, you will encounter villages on the side of the road, and unlike other places, the villages here are clean.

The roads in the village are also paved with gray stones, which look very neat and clean, but the style of the houses in the village is very strange, each with edges and corners like a fortress, each house has two floors, the height should be about one and a half zhang, the style is basically the same, the color is basically the same, people have an indescribable feeling at a glance.

From entering Shandong to Dengzhou on the coast, Hui Ri felt like he had entered another world, and he had seen bustling commercial streets full of people, smoky industrial areas, and even breeding factories with tens of thousands of livestock.

The journey of more than ten days in Shandong, Huiri made a summary here, not much, only two words, that is: rich! If I had to use three words, it would be: really rich!

Li Chengqian is also very satisfied with the current state of Shandong, this is the first time he has set foot on the land of Shandong since he left Zhenguan in the second year, but these four years have not affected his feelings here.

Thinking of the half a year he had been here, Li Chengqian unconsciously brought out a smile on his face, fiddling with Xiao Wu's hair and asking her, "Mei'er, do you remember here?" ”

Xiao Wu lay on the edge of the window of the carriage, let Li Chengqian fiddle with his hair, stretched his hand out of the window, and pointed to a not very strong locust tree not far away. "Here...... It seems that it was the place where Brother Xue led people to wait for us, right? I remember the tree, and it still hasn't changed ....... ”

Along the way, there are all kinds of memories, there are Li Chengqian's and Xiao Wu's, but many things have changed, such as those who came to Shandong together, and now there are only two of them left.

The memories are sweet and sad, so later, Li Chengqian and Xiao Wu didn't say anything outside the window, just silently thinking about their own thoughts.

Dengzhou, later also called Penglai, is also the birthplace of the legendary Eight Immortals crossing the sea, but in the Tang Dynasty, the legend of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea has not yet risen, so it is not very famous here.

Du Gou, the boss of Du Ruhan's family, has been here for two years, and in line with the principle of serving as an official and benefiting one party, Dengzhou has been governed in an orderly manner by this somewhat wooden young man, and it seems that he has lived up to his lofty ambitions.

"Big brother, how is it, are you still in the habit of staying here in the past two years?" In front of the Dengzhou Mansion, Li Chengqian got out of the carriage and teased Du Wei with a smile who came out to greet him.

Du Gou responded with a sneer: "His Royal Highness the Prince, thank Your Highness for your guidance. ”

In Dengzhou in the past two years, he has suffered a lot, but also suffered a lot of crimes, many times he will write to the old man at home to complain, bitterly that he was ignorant at the beginning, always in front of the old man to point out the country, stirring up words, now for the official side to know, many things are not so simple.

If nothing else, let's just talk about road construction.

Originally, it was a good thing to build roads, which could facilitate transportation, and also transported some special products produced in Dengzhou as quickly as possible, which was supposed to be for the benefit of the people, and the people should understand and support.

But in reality, the situation is that to build roads, you have to destroy the fields, but the fields are the people's own, if you destroy them, what will the people eat?

Well, as a local state capital can compensate the people.

But how much should I make up? The acres of land occupied by the people of the Tang Dynasty are all fixed, and the number of Yongye fields and the number of subdivisions cannot be changed.

If you take possession of the land that has been planted and divide a piece of wasteland, then how will the harvest be calculated? You can't just take it back as before, right? But if you don't collect according to the previous income, who will make up for the shortage?

The most important thing is...... This is compensation, the people don't agree to the one-to-one compensation, and if the people don't agree, they can't force it, right?

The contradiction that came and went was thus produced, and the original good thing turned into a very embarrassing thing in the end, and it was at this time that Du Wei realized how stupid some of his ideas were!

(End of chapter)