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In the fifth year of Qianfu, in July.

There were more than ten four-wheeled carriages and more than 100 people walking on the official road leading to Dengzhou of the Zhenguo Army.

A middle-aged man in his fifties rode a horse at the front of the convoy, he was wearing a white folded cloth round-necked robe, wearing a black black gauze on his head, on his slightly thin face, a pair of thick eyebrows and big eyes were blazing, and the corners of his mouth with five locks of long beard were smiling slightly.

Also riding a white horse, followed closely by this person, were ten strong men lined up. The ten people were all in their thirties and forties, and although the ten were only wearing cyan robes, just looking at the steady posture of these people on the horses, as well as their scale and momentum, they knew that these people must be military generals.

The middle-aged man looked at both sides of the official road outside the Triumphal Arch in Xindenzhou, and saw that there were tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, bookstores, post offices, newspaper houses, and taverns on both sides...... The gatehouse of the shop hangs the banner of the city to solicit business, and all kinds of pedestrians, shoulder to shoulder, the river is endless, and compared with the prosperity of Chang'an City in Xijing, it is not inferior. He couldn't help but show a look of surprise on his face, stopped his horse and sighed: "Wenhe, I can't wait to leave Dengzhou for three years, it's really surprising that the changes here are so earth-shaking." ”

The person who spoke was none other than Cui Yunqing, the assassin of Dengzhou three years ago. Three years ago, Cui Yunqing and Song Wei united. Pass the position of Dengzhou Assassin to Song Wen. He went to Qingzhou and was promoted to the rank of Sima of the Ziqing Town Festival. Later, he was promoted to the envoy of the Taining Military Festival. Soon he was transferred to the Lingnan East Province as the envoy of the Jiedu, and casually transferred to the Jiangnan West Province as the observer envoy, and soon the Jiangnan West Road was promoted to the Jiangxi Jiedu envoy, and he was given the title of Zhennan Army, and he was the envoy of the Zhennan Army. However, he didn't stay long in Jiangxi, and not long ago the imperial court ordered that Cui Yunqing be transferred to the deputy protector of the Andong Dadu Protectorate. Three years, a big turn. It's back in Dengzhou.

And the ten strong men who followed him were not idle. It was Song Wei and his old subordinates.

Song Jirong, Song Wen, Song Xi, Yang Lin, Chang Bao, Liu Heng, Han Zhong, Liu Jian, Xu Cheng, Cui Decheng.

Song Jirong is Song Wei's capital, and Song Wen has served as the assassin of Dengzhou and Zizhou. Song Xi, Yang Lin, Chang Bao and Liu Heng were all envoys.

And Han Zhong, Liu Jian, Xu Cheng, and Cui Decheng are also Cui Yunqing's confidants and generals, and they have been following him in the past few years. Now that he is back in Dengzhou, Cui Yunqing not only brought back his four generals, but also brought the six generals under Song Wei.

Just a month ago, Song Wei died of illness in Chang'an, and his henchmen and generals also ordered them to come to Dengzhou. Attributed to Li Jing.

Cui Yunqing came from Jiangxi, and Song Wen and others came from Chang'an. Along the way, people from both sides met in Songzhou, and then came together all the way.

Song Wen also reined in the horse's head and sighed: "What Gong Cui said is right, Dengzhou is indeed changing with each passing day. Because Cui Yunqing is Li Jing's teacher, and Song Wei is Li Jing's stepfather, and he is Song Wei's nephew, Song Wen is very respectful to Cui Yunqing, the old boss and senior.

Originally, there was a saying in the world that Yangzhou was the most prosperous place in the Tang Dynasty, and Chengdu was the second in the southern capital.

According to the original ranking, if only the commercial prosperity, then Yangzhou is the most prosperous, followed by Chengdu, then Guangzhou, then Chang'an, Luoyang, Taiyuan, and Jiangling and other cities. But now, Jiangling Mansion was broken by Wang Xianzhi, Guangzhou City was slaughtered by Huangchao, and Yangzhou City was also because Huangchao and Wang Xianzhi invaded Huainan before, and then Gao Yu confronted Li Jing, which led to a great change in the situation.

At present, Dengzhou, which was originally the largest seaport in the north of the Tang Dynasty, has now become the largest metropolis in the east of the Tang Dynasty under the operation of the Zhenguo Army for several years, and some people have even said that Dengzhou has surpassed Yangzhou.

Many people don't know that Dengzhou, which lives on the coast of the East China Sea, can have such a prosperous scene, and it has surpassed Yangzhou in just four or five years, completely because Dengzhou City has become the center of the Zhenguo Army.

To the east, around Dengzhou, the Zhenguo Army has quietly laid down a large piece of territory.

Ziqing Town, Zhenguo Town, Andong Dadu Hufu, as well as Yingzhou, Ping, Ji, and Tan Prefectures.

Surrounding the Bohai Bay, the Zhenguo Army connected the prefectures, and already had 16 states, with a base of thousands of miles and 5 million people.

The sixteen states are nothing when separated, but they can be combined, under Li Jing's planning and construction, relying on the benefits of commerce and trade, as well as the war dividends of the Zhenguo army, this large piece of territory is indeed changing with each passing day. As the center of the entire Zhenguo army, Dengzhou has also developed at a rapid pace.

Dengzhou has not only become the political center of the Zhenguo Army, but also the cultural center, military center, and economic center.

A large number of family members of the Zhenguo Army are in Dengzhou, and a large number of workshops opened by the Zhenguo Army are also concentrated here, plus the workshops opened by other businessmen here, there are nearly one million workers working in the workshops in Dengzhou alone. Relying on the port of Dengzhou, all kinds of raw materials produced in the sixteen states of the Zhenguo army were transported to the port of Dengzhou, and then sent to various workshops, processed and produced into various commodities, and then transported from the port to various places.

In the entire Dengzhou, there are more than 200,000 students enrolled in military academies, technical schools, and ordinary schools alone. In addition to the many scouts, there are also a large number of students from all over the Tang Dynasty who come to Dengzhou to study in academies and technical schools. The number of these foreign students is increasing year by year, and now there are more than 10,000 students. And the scholars brought by more than 10,000 people add up to a large population.

Coupled with the teachers, school workers, and their families hired by various schools, the population is increasing.

Dengzhou's garrison town national army, as well as the unity army and township soldiers, has always maintained about 20,000 soldiers.

There are also a large number of warehouses and warehouses in Dengzhou Port, as well as many merchants.

A large number of workers and merchants, as well as students, teachers, and soldiers, made the service industry in Dengzhou more and more prosperous.

Hotels, restaurants, taverns, brothels, teahouses, and so on flourished.

And a city of a million people. There is also a huge need for all kinds of food and daily necessities needed every day. As a result, the fields around Dengzhou have begun to stop growing grain. All of them are grown with vegetables, and even the farming industry is extremely prosperous.

A city of one million people, Sindenju Castle is expanding outward every day at a speed that can be seen.

The original old Dengzhou City has long been surrounded into a city within a city. Even the new Dengzhou City, after expanding three city walls, finally built new walls at a rate that could not keep up with the speed of urban expansion. Now, the old and new Dengzhou cities are combined and have four city walls. But beyond the city walls, there are countless street shops.

The construction of Dengzhou City could not keep up with the speed of expansion, and the Zhenguo Army was busy building roads and cities in eastern and western Liaoning, and there was a shortage of manpower, so Li Jing had to order a temporary suspension of the construction of the new city wall in Dengzhou.

Although there are four city walls in Dengzhou, half of the prosperous commercial and residential areas are still outside the protection of the city walls.

Dengzhou City may be the only semi-open city in the Tang Dynasty that is so prosperous, but it is not protected by the city wall.

On the western periphery of Dengju Castle, although there are no city walls. However, a tall city gate tower was built here, which the people of Dengzhou called the triumphal arch. The triumphal arch is the only way to enter the city in the west of Dengzhou. A thousand steps of city walls were built on the left and right of the city gate, and the Zhenguo army set up a pass card here to collect taxes and inspect them.

Starting from the Arc de Triomphe, the original yellow mud and sand dirt road was changed to a cement road with a width of ten zhang, which was connected to the Yangwei Gate in the east.

This flat avenue, which has amazed countless people after seeing it for the first time, is built with cement produced by the Panshi Cement Factory. Roads are built with this cement, which is faster and flatter at the same time. The four-wheeled carriage of Dengzhou walked on such a road, and it didn't even feel the slightest bump.

On both sides of the wide east-west road, rows of locust street trees are planted, which are still slightly thin. Behind the trees, there are two sidewalks two feet wide, behind which various shops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The difference between these houses and those seen in other places is that they are all red brick and cement structures, tall and neat.

After the Zhenguo army captured Liaoxi in the first half of the year and occupied the two prefectures of Ji and Tan, more merchants came.

Li Rang's Dengzhou expansion plan for Li Jing includes the construction of a total of 3,000 new shops and four large residential areas on the southeast, north, and west sides of Dengzhou, and the entire Dengzhou City will expand again.

In the cries of shops, pedestrians are in a hurry, but they are very orderly.

Even in the streets, there are quite a few people directing cars and pedestrians. After only looking at it for a while, Cui Yunqing saw that the streets here are on the left, so that vehicles will not block the road. What was even more surprising was that the carriages and horses were in the middle of the main road, while the empty-handed pedestrians walked on the sidewalks behind the trees on both sides. In particular, with so many people and horses, the avenue is very clean, and there is no animal manure at all. After looking closely, I found that there was a cloth bag hanging under the tail of the horses and donkeys on the street, and after a little thought, I realized that this should be a dung bag for dung.

Even this is managed so well, Cui Yunqing kept nodding all the way.

Although I don't know how Lu Dao did all this, with Cui Yunqing's cleverness, she quickly understood that all this should be closely related to her protégé Li Jing.

He smiled at Song Wen and said: "The old man and Wen He can be regarded as having done Dengzhou assassination history, but when I see the scene of Dengzhou again today, I really sigh to myself." When Ji Yu was in Shamen Town, he was able to turn a small island of exiled prisoners into a mountain of gold, and he had long known that Dengzhou was governed by him, and it would not be wrong. But I didn't expect that there would be such a big change. ”

Song Wen nodded, "The Andong County King is outstanding in the battle array, and this governance of civil affairs is even more admirable." If you don't see it with your own eyes, you can't believe it, this is Dengzhou that you left three years ago. Oh my God, it's a complete change. ”

"Wenhe, you see it's still early, we might as well rest in the restaurant in front."

Song Wen hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Gong Cui, when you go back to Dengzhou this time, the King of Andong County will definitely come to greet you." ”

Cui Yunqing waved her hand and said with a smile: "Ji Yu is still in Yingzhou, and I didn't tell them the details of the trip." Dengzhou is pragmatic and not pragmatic, and we don't have to engage in these red tapes, and when we settle down in the city, we can go directly to the Shuaifu tomorrow to report to our home. ”

Song Wen estimated that Cui Yunqing wanted to have a more careful understanding of Dengzhou in private, so she smiled and stopped talking. (To be continued......)