Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 589 Is This Still a House? (one more)
Chapter 3 Is this still a house?

Chen Yinggui was eager to catch up. In order to catch up with the speed, he didn't even take the "Wan'an" steamer, but took the small-wing steamer. After a night and a day of full-speed sailing, the steamer finally sailed smoothly with eight waves of crewmen. Drive into the Weihe River.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Chen Ying's imagination was running wild.

He is about to achieve a positive result with Li Xiuning, but Chen Ying's mind is full of Li Daozhen instead.He hasn't seen Li Daozhen for almost a year, and his son, Li Siye, is now a hundred days old.There is no photographic technology in this era, and there is really nothing to be seen by just relying on portraits.

As Chang'an got closer, Chen Ying didn't know how Li Xiuning thought of Li Daozhen.The position of main wife belongs to Li Xiuning, and Li Daozhen has no way to continue to be so confused without a name or a role.

Chen Ying felt a little impetuous, but Fukada Hanon was very panicked.At the intersection of the Weihe River and the Jieyu River, the water surface became wider. At this time, there were more boats on the river.Especially when he came to the ferry of Chenjiabao, Chen Ying felt unbelievable, the pier was crowded with boats and boats, Chen Ying didn't sound his flag, and the small wing wheeler finally found a space to squeeze in and dock.

The wharf yard used to be a row of shops with black bricks and black tiles. The shop street was three to four hundred steps long. Behind the shops were rows of roof ridges. I don’t know how many houses were hidden in the courtyard. At the end of the stone street, a road paved with blue bricks extended. It extends to the direction of Chenjiabao in Qinglinli.

Originally, there was no pier here, and there was no grass market here.But in just over half a year, not only a pier has been built here, but also a grass market has been formed.At this time when the lights are on, the grass market is still bustling. There are wine shops, restaurants, medical centers, cooking cakes, soup cakes, cooked meat shops, herbal medicine shops, gold and silver shops, pawn shops, tea shops, warehouses, inns, and so on. There are more than 300 half-covered doors (that is, private prostitutes in ancient times) in detail.In addition to the shop street in front of you, you can also see an alley extending deep in, and the street is full of various sales stalls.There are bustling people everywhere in the shop street and in front of the pier. There are also porters who are sailing merchants or doing coolies on the pier, there are craftsmen in workshops, and there are villagers from ten miles and eight villages looking for work here.There are also women in red and green, shouting and the calls of pack horses, mules and donkeys one after another, very lively.

Fukada Kanon has never seen such a prosperous place. Looking at the passing crowd, Lin was stunned and said, "Master, is this Chang'an City? It's so prosperous, much more prosperous than our Fukada City. !"

Chen Ying burst out laughing when he heard the words, and all the worries in his heart were wiped away: "This is not Chang'an, it's still far away from Chang'an, if we leave, it will take almost a day."

Not to mention Fukada Kanon was surprised, in fact Chen Ying was also surprised.He fought from Qinglin, from Shanzhou to Henan, from Luoyang to Mingzhou, and almost traveled all over the Central Plains. However, except for those prefectural capitals, he has never seen any county that is so prosperous, even Liyang City. The state government (equivalent to a prefecture-level city in later generations) is not as prosperous as the wharf in Qinglinli.

As soon as he walked to the official road, he saw Hou Mo and Chen Xu looking forward to it.

"Fifth brother!" Hou Mo and Chen Xu cupped their hands towards Chen Yinggong, reaching out as a gesture of invitation.Hou Mo and Chen Xu stepped aside, and a large four-wheeled carriage slowly stepped forward.

At this time, Chen Ying was not in a hurry.He smiled at Hou Mo and Chen Xu: "In the past six months, the changes have been really great. My home is almost unrecognizable!"

Hou Mo and Chen Xu smiled and said: "That's not the fifth brother's discerning eyes. The Ma Zhou under your family is really a rare talent. During the period when you were not in Qinglin, this place was run by him on such a scale. , I am afraid that Qinglin is more prosperous than Wannian County!"

At this moment, an inexplicable group of more than a dozen men holding water and fire sticks, wearing black strong suits and round caps, lined up neatly and patrolled along the street.There are actually tax collectors, carrying big baskets, collecting taxes from house to house.Seeing Chen Ying frowned slightly, Hou Mo and Chen Xu explained with a smile: "According to this dynasty, the city tax for merchants is [-] in [-], and the city tax for officials and cities is [-] in [-]. Let's clear the forest. It is also taxed at the rate of one out of thirty."

Thirty to one, or [-]%, this tax law looks at the whole world, and it definitely belongs to the tax law of conscience.Of course, this is only in name, and in addition to the exploitation of tax collectors and the government’s additional distribution of purchases to merchants, the actual tax borne by merchants in the government market is far higher than the ratio of [-] in [-].

The grass market in Qinglinli is not recognized by the government and belongs to the private market.The business tax in Qinglinli can naturally fall into Chen Ying's pocket. However, long before Chen Ying's arrival, the planning of Qinglinli not only has the function of a market for later generations, but also has sanitation workers responsible for cleaning the market. .

Although the streets in Qinglinli cannot be said to be spotless, at least they look free of stains and rubbish. The reason why the grass market in Qinglinli can rise is that it is located in a place with convenient transportation, which is convenient for collecting and circulating products from all over the world. On the one hand, the tax payable by Chen who controls the grass market is mainly used to clear the income of the grass market in Linli.

In Qinglin, there are not only sanitation workers cleaning the road, pruning the branches and flowers on both sides of the official road, but also responsible for the expenditure of all street lights along the street.

There are two lanterns hanging every [-] steps on a street. There are hundreds of these outdoor lanterns. It is unknown how much money will be burned in one night.

It is precisely because of the facility of street lights that even when it is time to turn on the lights, the streets are still full of people coming and going.

If it was said that Qing Linli was only shocked by Chen Ying, but he was already intimidated when he saw Chen Jiabao.

The tall and majestic city gate tower is as high as the three-story building of the later generations, and it looks very magnificent in the Qinglin. It is said that the courtyard wall with a height of one foot and eight feet is not too high, but the key is that the wall of Chenjiabao is about One foot and six feet, nominally, the courtyard wall of this outer courtyard is actually a row of houses, but Chen Ying knows that this is no house at all. There are only doors and windows, and the inside is all compacted cooked soil. The cooked soil is still made of glutinous rice juice. After watering, it is steamed and hard as iron.

The width of three feet and three feet can be increased with the courtyard wall as long as Chen Ying needs it, and there is no need to consider whether the foundation can bear the load.

On the gate tower, it looked ordinary, but after Chen Ying saw it, he realized that there were actually six bed crossbows installed on it. The most amazing thing was that the six bed crossbows did not require tens or hundreds of people to string them. You only need to move the machine lightly, and the heavy objects hanging on the pulleys will fall down, and the bed crossbow will be wound up in an instant.

In other words, the stringing efficiency of the six bed crossbows in front of the Chenjiabao gate was more than ten times higher than that of ordinary bed crossbows, and they could be used as powerful crossbows.

Hou Mo Chen Xu said: "Our Hou Mo Chen family has suffered a lot, so your elder brother invited Yu Wenshu, the son of Yu Wenkai, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry of the Sui Dynasty, to do it himself. The diagram of the mechanism has been sent to the mansion. Using the water of the Jieyu River as the kinetic energy, once the mechanism is activated, the whole house will be full of murderous intentions!"

Chen Ying covered his head, he felt that it was really incredible.The most important thing about this dock is that it has only been six months, and it has been basically completed. Entering the gate is Zhaobi.

On the entire screen wall, densely packed holes the size of copper arrows were exposed. Chen Ying knew without looking at the drawings that this extremely ordinary screen wall was actually equipped with a large number of crossbows. Within the range of thirty steps before Zhaobi is the place of death blocked by the crossbow.

Chen Ying went to the gate tower, stood on the gate tower, and looked back.Only then did I realize that the dock was much larger than I originally planned, and it was roughly estimated that it would occupy an area of ​​at least five hundred acres.Five hundred acres of land is actually not that big at first glance. The key is that cities in this era are actually not that big.

If Chen Ying’s Wubao is converted into square meters, it is about 33 square meters. Then there is a problem. The ancient city of Loulan is only 12 square meters. Chen Ying’s house is [-] times the size of the ancient city of Loulan, nearly three times.

Is this still a house?

This damn good city!

(End of this chapter)