Capital Datang

On the rumbling train, Sizi and Caier were lying on the window, holding snacks made of shredded squid in their hands, and while eating the snacks, they were discussing the scenery along the train.And Li Zhi was sitting behind them, lying on the table and seriously recording what he saw and gained during his visit to Dengzhou.

They arrived in Dengzhou yesterday afternoon, and after resting overnight in Li Yin's Prince Qi's mansion, Li Zhi and Si Zi followed Cai'er, got on the train with great interest, and went down to visit every stop. It was noon, and half of the entire Dengzhou City was turned around by them.Thinking of what he had gained this morning, Li Zhi was also quite excited.

Sizi is visiting Dengzhou City with a playful mentality, so no matter where he goes, he will run around curiously. At the same time, he is also very obsessed with the local snacks in Dengzhou. It never stopped.But Li Zhi is different. He visits Dengzhou City with an investigation mentality, so he doesn't just look at the superficial phenomenon of Dengzhou City, but through this appearance, he sees many deeper things. Things, so he definitely knows more about Dengzhou than Sizi. Of course, he was not as happy and relaxed as Sizi during the morning tour.

The train that Li Zhi and the others took was a special small train, which is usually used for sightseeing. This is because with the prosperity of Dengzhou, many people either took advantage of the opportunity to do business, or came to Dengzhou specially. , in order to take a good look at this fast-growing city, and the train is the focus of these tourists, and because of this, Dengzhou City specially made this kind of small train, which is dedicated to pulling these tourists to visit the whole city. In Dengzhou City, Li Zhi took this kind of train, and it was specially arranged by the local officials of Dengzhou.Except for the three of them, the whole car was full of guards in plain clothes.On the surface, it looks like other tourists.

First stop this morning.Li Zhi and the others arrived at the fishing port in the northwest of Dengzhou City, which is the largest fishing port in the entire Dengzhou City. Next to the pier of the port, there is the largest seafood trading market in the north of Datang. In this market, one boat after another The newly salvaged seafood is sent here, and after sorting and weighing, most of them will be bought by local food processing factories in Dengzhou, and the remaining small part will flow to vegetable markets in Dengzhou and several nearby states.Capital Datang 520

Although the stink in this seafood trade market.However, Li Zhi walked in here with a few guards, carefully observed the living conditions of the fishermen, and also asked about the trading volume here, and then compared it with the data provided by local officials in Dengzhou to draw the conclusion he needed.

Li Zhi also attaches great importance to Dengzhou's fishery, because he knows very well that Dengzhou is mountainous and there is not much land that can really grow food.In the past, all the food was provided by the inland Qingzhou and other food-producing areas.However, when the sixth brother Li Yin came here, he immediately vigorously developed the fishing industry to supplement the shortage of local food production.And this also taught Li Zhi one thing: sometimes food is not only produced on the land, the ocean is also a rich granary.

Also worth mentioning.Just next to this fishing port, there is also a special whaling port, not only the local whaling ships of Dengzhou will berth here.Even whaling ships from other state capitals will come here, because it is only here.There are professional whale buyers, and the prices they offer are higher than those in other places.So most of the whaling ships will come to Dengzhou for trading.

Sizi is very interested in whaling ships, even she is not afraid of the stench, so she came to this small port to watch in person, but to her disappointment, the current whaling ships seldom use the whole head When the whales are brought back, they are usually divided and boiled at sea, and the inedible internal organs and bones are all thrown into the sea, so when Sizi came here, he did not see the hunted whales at all.

After leaving the fishing port, Li Zhi and the others came to a three-story concrete building on the outskirts of the city. This was originally the headquarters of the local slave association in Dengzhou. Yanbei used to deal with slave association affairs here.However, in recent years, with the destruction of ethnic minorities such as Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Wa, and the Khitan in the north of Yingzhou, Dengzhou, the largest slave trading center in the country, has no available source of slaves. Therefore, the slave-catching industry here has plummeted. The former slave-catching merchants either changed their careers, or went to Taiwan, Luzon, or even the grasslands in the north of the Tang Dynasty or the Western Regions to carry out a new round of slave trade.

Because of this, the Dengzhou Slave Association, which was very excited at the beginning, became increasingly depressed. In the end, Li Yin simply moved the Dengzhou Slave Association to Taiwan, leaving only such an empty headquarters here.This is the three-story building in front of Li Zhi and the others. Although it was abandoned, the local officials in Dengzhou put all the materials and items related to slave hunting here, and organized it into a slave hunting museum for visitors. visit.

However, almost every exhibit in this slave-hunting museum is stained with a lot of blood, such as the weapons used by the slave-hunting team, the shackles used to imprison slaves, etc., and even some seemingly clean documents , Between the lines of the record, it is also full of blood and violence.

Cai'er and Sizi didn't have a good impression of this museum. They just came in for a while, and ran outside the door to wait for Li Zhi, because for the girls, everything here It all makes people feel horrible and gloomy.However, Li Zhi read it with great interest, especially for those documents, he even extracted many of the contents, and planned to study them carefully in the future.

After leaving this museum full of bloody slaves, Li Zhi and the others took the train to the northeast corner of Dengzhou City. There is a very famous ship city here. Most of the shipyards in Dengzhou are located in Here, there is even a steam shipyard here. Although Li Min moved a lot of Dengzhou's industries away, he left many, among which the steam shipyard in Chuancheng was one of them.

When she was in Miangang, it was the first time for Sizi to sit on the gigantic King Qi, which made her a lot of interested in sea ships, so when she visited the shipyard, it seemed more lively than the previous two places. Duo, especially when she saw the ships under construction in the dock, she was very excited. If the guards didn't stop Sizi from boarding one of the ships under construction for fear of being too dangerous, she might really Go around the boat.

In fact, what Li Zhi is most concerned about is the shipbuilding industry in Dengzhou, because this is the foundation for the sixth brother Li Yin to go overseas. It was here that Li Yin asked people to build the Fuchuan and Galen Ships, thus laying the foundation for the development of the Tang Dynasty. In the shipbuilding industry, after several years of development, Fuchuan and Galen boats have been re-improved and designed by countless master shipwrights, and have formed two families of ships: hard sailing ships and soft sailing ships. Ships with different functions and purposes are widely used in large Tang's various shipyards built, and although many shipyards here in Dengzhou have been relocated to Taiwan, they are still one of the most developed shipbuilding bases in Datang.

After visiting the Ship City, the rest of the itinerary was much easier. Li Zhi took Cai'er and Sizi to visit some prosperous areas inside and outside Dengzhou city. Compared with Chang'an, which they are most familiar with, Dengzhou here Because it is a big port, a large number of merchants and goods from overseas gather in the city, which also makes the whole city full of strong exotic flavor, which is why both Sizi and Li Zhi feel very fresh.

Although there was a train instead, the three of Li Zhi and the others felt a little tired after running all morning, so they got off the train at the next stop, and the three of them went to a restaurant to eat seafood.Although all kinds of canned seafood are now very popular, fresh seafood is still the best, especially for people like Li Zhi and Sizi who grew up in the inland, although they have already had a seafood feast in Cangzhou, But I still think that the one in Dengzhou is the best.

In the next few days, Li Zhi made a comprehensive survey of Dengzhou, and he was no longer limited to industry and commerce. He paid more attention to some people's livelihood, such as people's usual diet, medical care, travel, etc. Residence and other conditions, and compared the situation here in Dengzhou with the most familiar Chang'an.

As a result, Li Zhi was shocked to find that although the prosperity and population of Dengzhou is not as good as that of Chang'an for the time being, most of the people's livelihood has surpassed that of Chang'an. , Meat accounts for nearly half of the people's diet, most of which are various seafood. Even when eating, just open the kitchen of a family at will, and you can see all kinds of fish prepared in it.As for the diet of the common people in Chang'an, Li Zhi has already done statistics, and the proportion of meat only accounts for less than a quarter.

Food is the most important thing for the people, and the diet structure alone is a good illustration of a problem, that is, the development of Dengzhou in some aspects has surpassed that of Chang'an, and this is what shocked Li Zhi. It is really unimaginable that in just eight years, Li Yin has built a port city that is not too important to be so prosperous?

Li Zhi stayed in Dengzhou for ten full days. During these ten days, he thoroughly studied the inside and outside of Dengzhou City, trying to find out the reason why Dengzhou developed so rapidly, but unfortunately Yes, although Li Zhi felt something vaguely, he couldn't find the core of these things.

This is also the case, Li Zhi can't wait to see Li Yin immediately, and then ask his sixth brother about these things that he can't figure out, but it is a pity that his itinerary Li Yin has already made arrangements, and their next The first stop is not Taiwan in the south, but Samhan in the northeast of Dengzhou! (to be continued...)