Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 408 New Identity
Ye Chen looked up at the scenery, took a sip of the tea that Yu Qingyan handed over, the two of them were talking in a low voice, and the people next to them heard it, but they had already given the general history of this young couple and their going to Jinling. I guessed a lot about what I did.

It turned out that this young couple had an accident at their home in Suzhou. All the elders in the family died, and the man was seriously ill. They had no means of livelihood. They went to Jinling to seek refuge with their relatives.

As for what happened to the elders in the family, the people on board also vaguely guessed.These days, after the legend of Song Guoxiang Fu Hou, the current King of Xiangfu Ye Chen, died, the Song Dynasty and the newly established government in Wuyue began to retaliate against the Maitreya Sect. The government offered high rewards and mobilized the general public to expose and report Many families who have connections with the Maitreya religion have been found out in various places.If they are only believers, their property will be confiscated.If you have joined the Maitreya religion, your family property will be confiscated first, and then you will either go to prison or be beheaded.Most of the parents of this young couple joined the Maitreya sect, they were arrested and beheaded, and their property was confiscated.So, now I go to Jinling to join my relatives.

The old ship owner commanded two boatmen to lower the sails. On the other side of the field of vision, the strong wind and rain clouds were coming towards us.
The heavy rain was torrential, mixed with the torrential rain, there were flashes of lightning from time to time, and bursts of thunder came, shaking the big city in the darkness.

Although Hangzhou is the largest shopping mall in the world, it is still a bit weaker than Jinling (now Nanjing), the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, in terms of scale, population and prosperity.

Jinling is actually the first city on the Jiangnan River route.It has an important position in the history of the development of ancient Chinese capitals. It was the first to set a precedent for the axisymmetric layout of the capital city. Its plane layout and architectural form have a profound impact on later generations, and have a profound impact on East Asian countries.Taicheng, the imperial palace of the Six Dynasties, was emulated by the capitals of the Northern Wei Dynasty and other countries in East Asia. It inherited the Qin and Han Dynasties and started the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Jinling was deliberately deprecated by the north, but the geographical advantages made the economy and culture of this area continuously develop and strengthen.Poets such as Li Bai, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu and Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty all lived and visited here.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Jinling was established as the capital in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the city was expanded.Wars continued in northern China, but since the beginning of Yang and Wu, there have been no major wars in the Southern Tang Dynasty for more than 70 years.Markets gather on both sides of the Qinhuai River, and the economy is prosperous. Because the emperors of several generations in the Southern Tang Dynasty loved poetry, calligraphy and painting, officials, aristocratic families, and even ordinary people, businessmen and gentry all voted for the emperor. Going deep into poetry and prose has made Jinling culture extremely developed, and poetry, calligraphy and painting have become the style of a generation.To some extent, or under certain circumstances, today's Southern Tang Dynasty has formed an atmosphere where poetry and songs are respected.

The landform of Jinling belongs to the hilly area of ​​Ningzhen and Yang, with low mountains and gentle hills as the main features.The Ningzhen Mountain Range and the Laoshan Mountain in the north of the Yangtze River lie across the central part of the urban area, and in the south there are Hengshan Mountain and Donglu Mountain on the southern boundary of the Qinhuai River Basin hills and hills.The plane position is long from north to south and narrow from east to west, forming a north-south orientation.It has a north subtropical humid climate with four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall.But generally speaking, spring and autumn are short, winter and summer are long, and the temperature difference between winter and summer is significant.

In addition, the proportion of Jinling’s water area is not small. It is located on the bank of the Yangtze River, and there are large and small rivers and lakes such as Qinhuai River, Jinchuan River, Xuanwu Lake, Mochou Lake, Baijia Lake, Shijiu Lake, Gucheng Lake, and Jinniu Lake.
The sudden heavy rain caught everyone on this small passenger ship by surprise, because the cabin space was limited, some of them didn't rush into the cabin at the first time, so they could only soak in the rain outside the cabin, Ye Chen and Yu Qingyan moved slowly She took a step forward and only grabbed one seat. Under Ye Chen's stern gaze, Yu Qingyan entered the cabin. Ye Chen's half body was inside the cabin, and half of her body was outside the cabin drenched in heavy rain.

At this time, there were still figures running around in the heavy rain near the wharf beside the Jinling Canal.In fact, the real chaotic situation ended in the heavy rain in the evening. At that time, many ships docked, rushed to get on and off, loaded and unloaded goods, and fixed the ships. At this time, they were still busy in the heavy rain. Some of the merchants who had accidents and couldn't afford the loss spent a lot of money to hire boatmen who were not afraid of death, and carried the goods here in the rain.In addition, that is to say, where Ye Chen is, he wants a passenger ship.

The wind and rain were howling all over the pier, and when the occasional lightning flashed, there were probably two or three places that still showed activity.One of them is where Ye Chen's passenger ship finally arrived at its destination, and everyone braved the heavy rain to get off the ship and land.

The waves pushed the densely packed boats in the river ups and downs, and this small passenger boat shook especially violently amidst the sound of wind and rain.

Ye Chen never thought that with his perverted physique, he would fall ill after being exposed to the rain.But in fact, he really fell ill, even very sick.When he and Yu Qingyan finally hired a carriage and got into the carriage, he unexpectedly passed out.

Ye Chen woke up from a daze and saw a white mosquito net. His head felt a little heavy, he was slightly dizzy, and his voice was hoarse. Soon he knew that he had a fever.

Ye Chen tried his best, lifted the quilt, got up and got out of bed, and pushed open the door. The bright sunlight came in, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand to cover it. This is on the second floor of a wooden building. It can be seen that there are only row upon row of courtyards and gardens below and far away, various buildings distributed, Jiangnan-style garden buildings, ponds and rocks, beautifully extending in front of our eyes.

This is a large-scale house, but the courtyard lacks the smell of books and has a strong businessman atmosphere.Obviously, this is the house of a business family.

Ye Chen remembered the identities that he and Yu Qingyan were going to play——Ye Chen was the only son of three generations of the Mu family who ran the silk business in Suzhou for generations. His surname was Chen Mingqing, and his style name was Zhongshu.Yu Qingyan was his wife Qin Sujuan who had just married.

As guessed by the guests accompanying the passenger ship, Chen Qing's parents and elder brother both joined the Maitreya Sect, and they have given a lot of financial support to the Maitreya Sect over the years.Half a month ago, he was denounced by a servant in his own mansion, his house was ransacked by the government, his parents and elder brother were arrested and beheaded, and all the servants were dismissed.Chen Qing escaped bad luck because he had conclusive evidence to prove that he did not join the Maitreya Sect, and that he himself was a well-known scholar.But in fact, because Chen Qing has always been weak and sick, after several days of interrogation, after being released from the prison, he became ill a few days ago and died of illness.His wife, Qin Sujuan, was a deeply affectionate person, and committed suicide in love.

Because, after Chen Qing and his wife were released from prison that day, they left Suzhou, and both died in a ruined temple in the mountains outside Suzhou city.At that time, there was no one around, and apart from being discovered by a spy from the Huaxia Weifu, no one knew that they were dead.That's why they were used by Hu Sanguang who was looking for identities for Ye Chen and Yu Qingyan everywhere at that time, and even peeled off their faces and carefully crafted them into exquisite disguise masks.

Later, the intelligence department went all out to investigate the information of Chen Qing and Qin Sujuan. After some arrangements, Ye Chen and Yu Qingyan became Chen Qing and Qin Sujuan, and they defected to Chen Qing to do cloth business in Jinling His grandfather Chen Laotaigong and uncle Chen Guangyuan.

Now it seems that Chen Qing's uncle is not bad to this nephew who suffered from misfortune in his family, at least judging from his residence, he has not been left out in the cold.Of course, Ye Chen knew that the main reason was that Chen Qing's grandfather, Mrs. Chen, was still alive and living in this courtyard.

"Sanggong! You're awake." Yu Qingyan, who was holding a medicine bowl in the kitchen downstairs, walked out of the kitchen, looked up at Ye Chen, and shouted in surprise.

Half a month later, at night, Ye Chen was sitting in the corridor looking at the stars and the moon in the sky outside. With the goddess doctor Yu Qingyan by his side, his illness had already been cured, but what made him worry about it was that his dantian When she was in a coma, her inner zhenqi had been forcibly dissipated by Yu Qingyan with acupuncture.Although he was annoyed about this matter, he also knew that Yu Qingyan did the right thing. It was extremely dangerous for him to be unconscious and unconscious to suppress and guide the true energy in his body.Yu Qingyan didn't even treat him immediately, but first helped him to forcibly perform the exercises.

So, now Ye Chen has become a person who has not cultivated internal skills.Of course, with his perverted physical body, first-class swordsmanship, and marvelous archery skills, he still has the strength of a first-class expert.But he no longer has the strength to compete head-on with a half-step innate master like Lou Yanming.

In the past few days, Ye Chen took Yu Qingyan, pretended to be Chen Qing and his wife, and met many Chen family members headed by Uncle Chen Qing, and the old lady Chen also met once.At that time, Ye Chen's eyes were red, and he cried out what had happened to Chen Qing's family while squeezing his tears, which made Chen Qing's relatives feel more sympathetic.

In a family of merchants, the relationship between personnel is a bit complicated, all of which is information that Ye Chen knew in advance.Getting along with the Chen family is naturally not the point, but it is an essential part.

Chen Qing's uncle, Chen Guangyuan, has several sons who are good and bad, and their business talents are average. The most important thing is that the Chen family, like most of the merchant families in the Southern Tang Dynasty, has always wanted to get some scholarly atmosphere and vigorously train their children to study, but there is no result.

Therefore, Ye Chen pretended to be Chen Qing, a well-known scholar, who became the most literate person in the yard.Because Mrs. Chen and Chen Guangyuan praised Chen Qing a lot on some occasions, Chen Qing's cousins ​​were a little unhappy with him. How jealous.As a result, they often ridiculed Chen Qing's scholar who was a scholar of Wuyue who had already subjugated the country, calling him a scholar of the subjugated country.

Ye Chen naturally didn't care about these small fights. After half a month to adapt to the transition period, he began to prepare for business.He never thought of lurking as Chen Qing for a few years to break into the senior management of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce and Jiangnan Bank.In his plan, one or two months at the earliest, half a year at the slowest, he will realize the purpose of his trip.

(End of this chapter)