Penglai City is not only the seat of Penglai County, but also the seat of the state capital. The city is close to the seashore of the north of the peninsula to the Bohai Sea, and the whole Penglai City is a rough square, with about 1,000 steps on each side. In order to adapt to the topography of the hills and coasts, the outline is irregular.

The whole Penglai city wall is built of bricks, has four gates, each side opens a door and each has an urn city, the gate tower corner tower is 7 altogether, there is a water gate at the entrance and exit of the river. 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.

The 1,000 united soldiers of Wendeng County formed a neat phalanx, and slowly entered the south gate of Penglai with the queue of temporary training in the past few days. Li Jing, Wang Zhong and other eleven people each rode a tall horse in front, and their momentum was high. It's a pity that although most of Xiaoshi and the others have ridden mules and donkeys, and a few have also ridden horses that plough the land in the village, they are riding on real war horses at this time, especially when the streets are full of onlookers, and a group of country boys are timid. Li Jing secretly looked at the small stone and them a few times, and found that several people were all nervous, stiff, and their legs were tightly clamped between the horse's belly, for fear that they would be pulled off the horse by the people on the side if they were not careful.

The layout of the entire Penglai City is actually not unfamiliar to Li Jing and others, because Penglai City is simply a large Chishan Town. There are also four gates, and each has an urn city, and even the number of gatehouses and corner towers is the same. Even in the city, there is a main street between the east and west gates and the north and south gates.

However, they are generally similar, but there are many differences. First of all, Penglai City has three sizes of Chishan Military Town, and compared with Chishan Town, Penglai City is the county seat and the state office, which is quite prosperous here. There is Chishanpu Port in Chishan Town, but Dengzhou Port in Penglai is called the four major ports together with Yangzhou Port, Mingzhou Port and Guangzhou Port.

At this time, Datang had two well-known international routes. One is the Guangzhou Tongyi Sea Road, and the other is the "Dengzhou Sea into the Goryeo Bohai Road".

These are the two major routes between the north and the south. Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road is from Guangzhou, through the South Seas to Central East Asia and North Africa.

And "Dengzhou Sea into the Goryeo Bohai Road", this is the northern route of the Tang Dynasty. The ship departed from Dengju Port and headed northeast, along the Miaodao Islands through Mashishan to Duli Town, crossed Qingnipu, along the Liaodong Peninsula through Taohuapu, Xinghuapu and Shirenwang to reach the Wugu River, and then went south to Silla, from Silla to Japan through the Tsushima Strait. It is also possible to go directly to the Korean Peninsula from Wendeng Seongsan Point.

Especially since the Anshi Rebellion, the three towns of Hebei have been in a state of secession for a long time, and the western and eastern Liaodong of the imperial court have become enclaves, and they are also isolated from the Khitan, Bohai, Silla, Heishui and other countries. The land route is not passable, and the communication between the Central Plains and the Northeast ethnic groups depends on the sea route of 'Dengzhou Sea into the Goryeo Bohai Road'. Because of this, after the land route was cut off, Dengzhou Port became more and more prosperous.

At this time in the late Tang Dynasty, Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu was a relatively wealthy place in the Tang Dynasty, and Dengzhou was a more prosperous place in Ziqing Pinglu. Penglai is like a pearl on the coast of the Bohai Sea.

In the whole Penglai City, there are 1,000 county soldiers, and there is also a Dongmu guard in the west of Penglai, with 1,000 garrisons. There is also a Longshan battalion on Longshan Mountain to the southeast, with a garrison of 1,000 soldiers. And in the north of Penglai City, there is also a water village of water divisions, which also has a thousand water divisions. In addition, on Da Xie Island in the north, there is also a border town soldier Da Xie Yan belonging to Jiedu Mansion, who is also stationed with 1,000 troops. If you add some other forts and garrisons, Penglai City and its surroundings have more than 6,000 soldiers and horses.

A large number of garrisons also brought a large number of military families, in addition to some family members who accompanied the army camps, there were also a large number of family members living in Penglai City.

This time, the imperial court ordered all states and counties to unite soldiers now, and the number of united soldiers gathered in the entire Dengzhou exceeded 3,000. With so many people and horses, it is naturally impossible to be stationed in the state city. According to the above regulations, the united soldiers of the four counties of Dengzhou first assembled in Penglai, then underwent reorganization training for one month, and then returned to each county for garrison training.

The united army camp of Li Jing and others is twenty miles outside the southern city, and today's entry into the city is just a ceremony. When Li Jing and the others took the lead, acting as the vanguard, leading a thousand Wendeng united soldiers through the South Urn City and entering the South Gate. There were more people waiting for them here than outside the city, and there were even many people standing on the rooftops.

A cheer came, and many shops even began to light a stove in front of the door, throwing the firecracker poles that were ready for the New Year into the fire one by one, and the sound of the popping bamboo poles attracted more people to cheer.

Li Jing even saw that in front of their team, there were actually a large number of jugglers, who breathed fire in front of them, stepped on high and other performances to open the way. The performances of those jugglers attracted cheers from the people on the street, and even Li Jing and other soldiers who paraded on the street kept turning their heads to watch. After all, Li Jing is called well-informed, although he appreciates these performances in the Tang Dynasty very much, but he is not out of shape. And Xiaoshi's unity soldiers are different, most of these unity soldiers are rural people, who have never seen such a prosperous city as Penglai City, let alone the various performances of these skilled artists. One by one, they couldn't take their eyes off it, and even the initial nervousness was gone, and the rest was all that kind of expression like entering the fairy palace.

At this time, a man in a green shirt rode to Li Jing's side, and smiled at Li Jing very familiarly: "Brother Ji Yu, I'm afraid I don't know the way, a few days ago, there were rumors and legends everywhere, saying that Pang Xun's remnants are now making trouble everywhere, looting states and counties, and there are bandits in Qingyan and Xuhai and other states, and the news has spread to Penglai, which makes people panic." Especially the Xihuo Village, which is an old thief who has been on the ground in Dengzhou for more than ten years, has recently done several big votes one after another, killing and kidnapping ** all kinds of evil. Half a month ago, Zhang Shilang's son of Zhishi in Magou Township got married, but he met a thief in Xihuo Village on the way that day, Zhang Shilang's son was killed, and the bride was raped and killed on the spot, and more than 30 people in the marriage team did not survive. ”

Li Jing couldn't help but be indignant when he heard this, no wonder he saw that the monkey cheek face was actually wearing a set of women's wedding clothes that day, it turned out that this was how he came.

The man in the green shirt continued: "Don't hide it from Brother Ji Yu, brother, I was originally at home in a poetry book, preparing to concentrate on the imperial examination, after hearing about this, I was angry, and I took the initiative to sign up for the unity army, in order to kill the thief." The elder brother had already made an appointment with a group of brothers, and was going to go to the thief these days, but unexpectedly, the elder brother had already killed the thief, which was really happy. ”

Li Jing saw that the man in the green shirt was very handsome, and when he heard his words, he couldn't help but look at him with admiration and a good impression. immediately hugged his fists and said: "Where does my brother say, everyone will punish such thieves." What the younger brother did was just doing his part. Even if someone else encounters it, even if it is not a soldier, it will still be uneven and draw a sword to help. It's my brother's chivalrous courage, which is really admirable. ”

The man in the green shirt received a few words of praise from Li Jing, and was very proud, and said slightly flutteringly: "Awards, awards, they should be, they should be." At the end, Li Jing listened to him again and seemed to mutter: "It's a pity that the bride, I heard that she looks as beautiful as a flower, and she looks like a fairy, hey!" ”

He said this in a very small voice, as if he was talking to himself, but Li Jing had a keen sense of hearing, but he listened to it all. Li Jing's face couldn't help but change slightly, and he couldn't help but be cautious when he raised his eyes to look at the man in green shirt, this guy seemed to be a little weird.