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After Li Jing had breakfast, he carried a silk horse and two cloths to the town.

The town is called Chishan Town, but this town is not a township in later generations, but a military town. Chishan Military Town is not far from Wangli Village, on the edge of Fahua Temple at the foot of Chishan Mountain. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the military system has long been corrupted, and the imperial court mostly uses recruitment. There is a Shence army in the center, and the local is the soldiers and horses of each town, the big town is called the army to set up a festival envoy, and the smaller one also has a military city, a military town, and a guard, and each has a military general and a horse, and it is in various places.

Wendeng County, Dengzhou is a coastal area in Shandong, and there is Chishanpu on the seaside of Wangli Village. Chishanpu is a very good harbor, and Japan and Silla are across the sea, and the waterway is only three days away. Datang Guangzhou Port and Dengzhou Port are two major sea routes, Guangzhou Port leads to the South Seas and the Western Regions, and Dengzhou Port leads to Liaodong, Bohai Sea, Silla and Japan, these two sea routes are called the Maritime Silk Road.

The main port of Dengju Port is in Pengrai, but the Chishanpo in Wendeng is the closest shipping route to Silla and Japan, and it has always been prosperous. The Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu Embassy, which was in charge of the five prefectures of Deng, Qing, Lai, Zi, and Qi, established Chishan Town at the foot of Chishan Mountain behind Chishanpu, which was directly under the command of the Pinglu Army.

There are 3,000 garrisons in Chishan Military Town, and even the families of the soldiers are also with the army, and Chishan Town is very populous and lively. The entire Chishan military town is nearly square in plan, each side is about 1,100 meters long, and the outline is irregular in order to adapt to the topography of the hills and coasts. The city wall is built of bricks, each side opens a gate and each has an urn city, the gatehouse corner tower is 7 altogether, and there is a water gate at the entrance and exit of the river on one side. The main street between the east and west gates in the city is the main road, and the drum tower is built across the street to the west. The streets inside the north and south gates are also arterial roads, but they are not straight. Secondary streets are largely parallel to main roads.

Due to the large number of these soldiers and their families in Chishan Town, over time, it became the center of the southwest of Wendeng County. Although Datang stipulates that only counties with more than 3,000 households can set up cities, the government decrees have become more and more relaxed in recent years. Chishan Military Town is a large city with many people, and it is close to the largest temple in Wendeng County, Fahua Temple, so it is extremely popular. The town general of Chishan Town still has the official position of the town suppressor, and his power is very great, which is higher than the level of the Wendeng county commander, and he usually doesn't look at the face of the county officials at all. He built a market in the military town, and almost all the people in the vicinity came to Chishan Town for business.

Originally, the main duty of Akayama Town was to guard the safety of Akayamaura from pirates and robbers, and it was also responsible for collecting duties on the cargo of ships in the port of berth. However, when Tang Wufu became the country, this group of generals was domineering, and when they were stationed here, they almost became the emperor of the soil, and even the county officials had to see their face. The southwest of Wendeng has almost become the boundary directly under the jurisdiction of Chishan Military Town, not only the common people buy and sell things to Chishan, but even if there is a dispute and a lawsuit, they all go to Chishan Town to deal with it, not to Wendeng County.

Li Jing went out, and Han was still leaning on the door and looking at his back until he was far away, and then he returned to the courtyard.

At this time, the sun had just revealed half of its face, and the hoarfrost on the ground had not yet faded. Stepping on the frosty village road, there is a beeping sound.

It was late autumn, the winter wheat planted in August had sprouted, and most of the men in the village had gone to the fields. In the past, the villagers of Liwang Village planted rice, millet, sorghum and soybeans, but in the past few years, there has been either drought or locust plague, so everyone can only grow winter wheat and soybeans, which are relatively drought resistant. Wheat is planted in August, and after the harvest in May of the following year, it is just right to plant another season of soybeans or millet or sorghum.

Although the round-necked robe Li Jing was wearing was sandwiched, there was no cotton filling at this time, and the family could not afford a leather robe.

After walking for almost an hour, Li Jing walked to Chishan Town, at the foot of the northern side of Chishan.

At this time, it was still early in the morning, and the gate of the urn on the east side had not yet been opened, and hundreds of people had gathered in front of the gate. Some of these men led donkeys and mules, and some drove carts. More of them carry things on their shoulders, and most of them come to the town to buy and sell. There are charcoal and firewood, fish, meat, sheep and pigs, and so on. However, most of the people were yellow-faced, hungry and thin, pale, and thin. Although the clothes on his body were quite neat, they were all patches on top of each other.

Looking at these people who were stomping their feet in the cold wind to keep out the cold, Li Jing also sighed in his heart. Although the people are living a hard life now, they can finally live. When Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao rebel next year, everyone will have no way to live. Although I have the impression that Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's thieves did not come to Dengzhou, they also once killed in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Ziqing Pinglu.

Natural disasters are already continuous, and together with this chaotic army, there are even more bandits everywhere.

After a little more waiting, the drums finally sounded in the town, and the gates of the East Urn creaked open. As the drawbridge was lowered, the people began to line up to enter the city.

"Two cents for entering the city!" A city defender with a horizontal knife in his arms and his eyes half-open and half-closed said to Li Jing.

For this Li Jing, he also understood that he had just seen anyone who entered the city, whether it was a car or empty-handed, for two pennies. With the current price of two hundred yuan for rice, this entry fee of two yuan is not expensive, Li Jing took out the string of money he carried, took out two Kaiyuan Tongbao and put them in the bamboo basket in front of the sergeant.

After entering the Wengcheng Gate, he did not go straight, but walked around the city wall to the left for about 100 steps to reach the east gate of Chishan Town. This is naturally done in order to strengthen the defense of the military town. Even if the urn gate is lost in wartime, the enemy cannot immediately rush to the inner gate, but has to walk around the city wall for a long time, which gives the defenders time to organize a defensive counterattack.

When he entered the city gate again, this time there was no charge, but there were a few more guards guarding the city, and although everyone who entered the city did not need to be searched, they were looked up and down. If it's an unfamiliar face, they'll be pulled aside for questioning. However, Chishan Town has been peaceful for a long time, and it is heavily guarded, but no eyeless bandits, horse bandits, and pirates dare to make up their minds, and everything has become a scene.

Entering the city, along the east gate is the main street between the east and west gates, and the west city is a specially zoned market. However, the city is a shop market, and most of them are engaged in wholesale and other bulk and valuable goods transactions. Ordinary people in the vicinity go into the city to buy and sell things, but most of them set up stalls along the main roads and streets of the east and west. Selling things on this street does not require high shop rent, just pay a little money for the stalls, and the stalls are not fixed, and whoever comes early will take the lead.

Li Jing first went to the cloth shop in the West Market to sell the two pieces of cloth for 1,500 yuan. Then he went to the rice shop and exchanged 1,500 coins and a piece of silk, and finally exchanged for 130 catties of sorghum. This one hundred and thirty catties is exchanged for more than one hundred and seventy catties in later generations. At this time, it was also more than one stone, Li Jing packed two large bags of sorghum, I thought I didn't know how to take it back, but I didn't expect him to try to pick it, but it was not very difficult to pick it up, and I couldn't help but feel shocked by the strength of this body.

Originally, Han gave him a silk horse and a string of money to buy some paper and ink books or something, but Li Jing didn't do it. The family can't eat, how can he buy any books, pen and ink, it's the end of the late Tang Dynasty, is it difficult for him to really go to the imperial examination.

Carrying more than one stone of grain, Li Jing no longer stayed and walked back directly along the way he came. Halfway through, I heard a shout from the side of the street: "Brother Xiucai, Brother Xiucai, you are also in town." ”

At first, he didn't pay attention, and he didn't think it was calling himself. But the man shouted a few words and saw that he didn't respond, so he ran directly in front of him to block the way, and he looked up and found that it was an acquaintance.

He was called Xiao Shi, the second son of the king blacksmith who ran a blacksmith shop in the town, and he was about the same age. Last time, Li Jing and his brother Li Yu were helping Xiao Shi and his brother Da Shi to go to the beach to pick up seaweed.

Xiucai is the name of Li Jing by many people in the village, because Li Jing has been studying all the time and is quite famous, so the people in the village are very respectful to him. The people in the village only knew that Lu Dao said that Xiucai was the most difficult to take in the imperial examination, so they thought that Xiucai was the most capable. Therefore, everyone called him Xiucai, but in fact, they didn't know how many years it had been canceled for Xiucai. Nowadays, it is mainly based on Jinshike and Mingjingke, among which Jinshike is the most valuable.

"Little stone, I'm going into the city to get some sorghum, and I'm about to go back to the village." Li Jing stopped.

"Brother Xiucai, then can you help me bring something back to the village for my mother." Xiao Shi was a little restrained in Li Jing's words, firstly, because Li Jing had obtained the status of a township tribute, he was a real poet and calligrapher in the village. Second, the last time Li Jing's brother had an accident, it was all because of the Wang family.

"Yes, if you have anything to piggyback, you can just say it." The blacksmith Wang was striking iron in the city, and he rarely returned home once in ten days and a half months, and now Xiaoshi is also striking iron with his father in the city.

"Brother, you wait for me for a while, I'll go get it." The little stone ran away without a trace, and after a moment it ran back out of breath. He carried a small pocket in his hand, but it also contained some sorghum, about twenty or thirty catties. In addition, there are two large strings of willow branches strung together, each with six or seven, and the two strings have about ten catties.

"Brother Xiucai, this bag of sorghum is the food for the family, and these two strings of fish are given to my family and my brother's family, both of which I beat in the moat, and my brother will take them back to eat." The little stone said solemnly.

Looking at his cautious appearance, Li Jing's heart was complicated, although the last time they had an accident, they could only blame those salters and unfair fate. But obviously, Xiaoshi's family regarded this incident as their fault, kept it in their hearts, and always felt that they owed it to the Li family. A dozen catties of fish may be nothing, but it is a very simple mind. He said no more, smiled at the little stone and picked up the burden.

It is still the same way to go back, through the east gate, to the east urn city gate. Everything went well when you entered the city, but when you got out of the city, you ran into trouble.

"Stop, these two strings of fish are very fat, I bought a string of money." A somewhat brutal voice sounded in the back.

Li Jing turned his head and met the man's eyes.

"It's you!" The man was surprised.

Li Jing also saw the person who was coming, and said coldly: "Don't sell it!" ”

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