"This Longquan Temple is dedicated to the Buddha tooth relics of Sakyamuni, and it is a holy place of Buddhism" Yang Lihua seems to be an authentic Yanjing pass at this time, familiar with the way, and is very happy to introduce the customs of Yanjing to her brother Yang Xingmi.

In the sixth year of Qianfu, Yang Xingmi rescued hundreds of captured soldiers of the Qin army Hu Douzhou, and established a relationship with Li Jing, the king of Qin. Yang Xingmi took the initiative to take refuge and join him, not only worshipping Li Jing as his teacher and becoming the twelve disciples of King Qin, but also marrying his sister Yang Lihua to Li Jing. It turned out that he made an excellent move, and the investment paid off handsomely. Since then, Li Jing has fully supported Yang Xingmi's operation in Huaixi. Dignitaries gave money, asked for money, not only provided Yang Xingmi with huge loans, but also sent military observation missions, as well as the sale of ordnance and armor, and even reached many commercial cooperation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

It is with the full support of Li Jing, Yang Xingmi with this strong support, sufficient financial resources, and constantly expand his military strength, after that, with Luzhou as the center, has won Hezhou, and Xuanzhou south of the Yangtze River, just this year, he took Shuzhou in the west, and truly became a strong town in Huaixi.

Now Yang Xing's secret official is the Duke of Wu Guo, and he is the envoy of Huaixi Jiedu, holding the four states of Lu, He, Shu and Xuan, with more than 60,000 soldiers and horses, which can be described as a lot of strength. Even Gao Yu of Huainan, he can fight against him, the former famous general of the Tang Dynasty, the overlord of Huainan, but now there is only the land of Yang and Chu, and even the momentum is not as good as Yang Xingmi.

However, Yang Xingmi also knows who he relies on to have today's momentum, at least, in Huainan. At the moment, the strongest is not Gao Yu. It's not that he's Yang Xingmi. It is the power of Li Jing, the king of Qin. After Li Jing led his army south to fight against Gao Piao, Li Jing had already occupied the three prefectures of Chu Haoshou on the south bank of the Huai River, plus Xu Si and other states on the north bank of the Huai River, as well as the Qin army's naval division on the sea outside the mouth of the river, the Qin army has actually been the strongest force in the Jianghuai region.

At present, Gao Yu is becoming more and more mediocre and losing people's hearts. Yang Xingmi had the idea of challenging the former Tang God of War, and this time Yang Xingmi took the initiative to lead a huge fleet to the north to congratulate Li Jing on his birthday. However, at this time, it was still early for Li Jing's birthday on the sixth day of September. He came three months in advance, and also raised a large amount of food and various gifts, obviously intending to come to Yanjing to obtain Li Jing's support for his plan to send troops to Gao Yu. Li Jing was also very warm to Yang Xingmi coming at this time, and specially asked Yang Lihua and the officials of the Ministry of Rites to accompany Yang Xingmi and his party to enjoy the scenery of Yanjing.

Longquan Temple was founded in the great calendar of this dynasty, the temple has a Zhaoxian pagoda specially built for the worship of the Buddha's tooth relics, the tower is eight dissolution shapes, built with carved bricks, the scale is large. There are ten floors of the tower and eight floors, commonly known as the portrait of a thousand pagodas. There are sixteen iron nail niches around the base of the tower. There is a well spring in Taxi, which is about five feet deep and wide. Yang Xingmi and Yang Lihua listened to the introduction of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and lifted the corner of the carriage curtain and peeked outside. When he was in Luzhou, Yang Xingmi sometimes felt that he was not what he used to be, and he felt that he also had the strength to be on an equal footing with Li Jing. You can go to sea from Luzhou along the river, when you pass through Dengzhou, you already feel that the prosperity of Dengzhou is almost like a paradise on earth, and when you arrive in Tianjin, you find that Tianjin is really a coastal fortress, but when you enter Yanjing, you find that there seem to be countless shocking cities in the Qin Domain.

At this time, they saw everywhere that there were crowds of people, as if the people of the entire Luzhou City were gathered together, and it was not as lively as in front of this temple.

Especially the carriage they were riding in at this time was even more strange. This is not only a four-wheeled carriage, but also a railroad carriage. On the roads in Yanjing and the suburbs, there are such carriage tracks that are level with the road surface, and the steel rails are laid on them, and the carriages travel on the steel rails, which is fast and smooth, and the same horse can pull a carriage that is twice the weight of the original. According to my sister, in today's Qin Domain, although this kind of rail carriage has not yet been popularized on all roads, there are already rail carriages in cities with more than 10,000 people. In metropolitan cities such as Yanjing, Tianjin, Dengzhou, and Dalian, there are many rail carriages, even in the suburbs. Not only do ports and mines have special cargo transporters, but rail carriages in the city also assume the function of public carriages.

One penny for every ten miles of road, one penny for getting on the bus. For example, the railroad carriage in Yanjing City has even reached the outskirts of a hundred miles. From Yanjing to Tianjin City, the whole journey is 300 miles, and the whole track has been laid, taking the rail carriage, it can transport 100 people at a time, 300 miles, as long as it takes one day to arrive, the fare is only 30 yuan, and there are 20 carriages back and forth every day. This is even more convenient than taking a boat, and when he first heard the news, Yang Xingmi couldn't even believe it.

Qin Fan has actually become so rich and powerful that he paves steel rails on the road?

He now occupies the most important section of the Yangtze River waterway, and is even a wealthy land of fish and rice, and he also monopolizes the distribution rights of countless Qin Domain's commodities in this area, but compared to Li Jing, it is really a small thing. Li Jing had already used steel to pave the way, and their Huaixi Town was not completely self-sufficient in steel, so they had to buy a large amount of steel and ordnance from the Qin Domain at a high price.

The little self-satisfaction when he came was completely shattered at this time!

"Just to put the carriage a little more, go a little faster, and be a little more stable, you have to take out so much steel to pave the way? How much steel, how much manpower? Xu Wen's eyes widened and he looked at Yang Lihua incredulously.

Yang Lihua said with a smile: "Don't underestimate this railroad carriage, such as in Huainan, the ordinary yellow mud road, can only take a two-wheeled carriage, a strong ox can only pull eight stones at most, the ordinary mother year five stones, under normal circumstances, the double ox cart is about ten stones." And if it is replaced by the cement road that is being built in the territory of the Qin Domain, then it can pass through the four-wheeled carriage, and the carrying capacity of the four-wheeled carriage can be increased by nearly three times, and the load of the two-oxen cart can reach thirty stones. But if it is replaced by a rail lane, a two-ox cart can pull sixty stones at a time, and if it is replaced by a two-horse-drawn carriage, it can even reach a hundred stones. Calculation, 100 stones, but equivalent to the load of ten one-wheeled ox carts on the Yellow Clay Road. Don't you see the point? ”

For Yang Xingmi and others, whether they are doing business or fighting, their transportation mostly relies on water transportation, so they are not very clear about the important dependence of large-scale wars on logistics and transportation in the Northern War, but Yang Lihua still understands a lot when she explains this. In any case, it can multiply the shipping tenfold, which is a remarkable number anyway.

But thinking about the cement road and carriage track, Yang Xingmi still shook his head, only Li Jing can pave cement and steel rails on the road in the world, others can't afford to play.

The carriage went all the way, and the elongated carriage did not feel the slightest bump, and it was extremely smooth. The cup of tea on the small table in front of Yang Xingmi did not spill out in the slightest.

Yang Lihua kept introducing all kinds of things and buildings to Yang Xingmi and Xu Wen in the car, such as banks, post offices, schools, shops, and even supermarkets. Guests can choose directly by themselves, and then go to the cashier at the door to settle the bill after choosing. Yang Xingmi, who listened, shook his head, he couldn't believe it at all, how could there be such a business.

Yang Lihua was talking, when she suddenly heard Xu Wen ask in a suppressed voice, "Then what is that?" ”

She looked in the direction of his finger and saw a procession marching in front of her, and countless people standing in the streets on either side, but the team was an army of wild beasts. The first was a herd of deer that amazed Xu Wen like a countryman, a group of deer that were two feet tall. However, two zhang high is not what makes Xu Wen so discolored, what makes him marvel is that the deer's feet are already higher than the war horse, seven or eight feet, and the higher is its neck, at least one zhang high, to that station, the deer's head is already towering into the clouds. And Xu Wen, who had excellent eyes, also found that this deer did not only have a pair of horns, but also a pair of not very obvious horns behind his eyes and ears, and some deer also had a pair of horns in the middle of their foreheads.

Oh my God, what kind of monster is this, with seven feet of legs, an eight-foot neck, and seven pairs of horns!

Yang Lihua smiled strangely: "That's the giraffe, I heard that the maritime merchants got it from the distant south of the Sahara Desert, it is said that what is called Africa, we have a caravan passing through the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, and when we came back, we brought a group of African beasts back from there, which are these giraffes, lions and hyenas." ”

"Africa?"

"Well, it is said that it is very far away from here, it is a huge continent, even wider than the Tang Dynasty, and the people there are as long as black charcoal, blacker than our Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty. The animals there are also different from those of the Tang Dynasty, and now Yanjing has also built a new zoo in imitation of Dengzhou, which has all kinds of rare birds and beasts, including suckling ducks, a big bag of wallabies on the belly, kangaroos that stand upright with two hind legs and jump forward, giraffes with long necks, and zebras with white spots on their bodies. ”

The younger sister was elated, but Yang Xingmi gradually fell silent.

If you don't come to the Great Wall, you are not a hero, and if you don't come to Yanjing, you don't know how strong King Qin is!

Looking at his sister, who is now full of joy, he even feels a little strange. At the beginning, he asked his sister to marry Li Jing for his own future, although his sister agreed at that time, she was full of reluctance. But now, only joy and happiness can be found on her face.

Li Jing is always so unfathomable, his sister married him, just as a concubine, but she was so satisfied. (To be continued......)