Chapter 11 First Arrival in Lin'an
After Xin Ran and Chen Ming met, the two had the same interests and similar ages, so they fell in love very much, and after playing in Goose Lake for a few days, they couldn't bear to be separated and decided to go to Lin'an together. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The two of them on the way to Lin'an, but also all the way to play, said that although Chen Ming is young, but because he has been walking around outside since he was a child, so the social experience is naturally richer than Xin Ran.
The two traveled all the way, and they were not in a hurry, and it took them several months, and in the evening of this day, they came to Lin'an City.
Chen Ming asked Xin Ran, "Big brother, have you ever been to Lin'an?"
"Brother Fool has been here since he was a child, but my father was busy with official business, and he was young at that time, so he was not very familiar with this Lin'an City," Xin Ran replied
Chen Ming said to Xin Ran: "Big brother, since the death of the younger brother, a friend of the first father, Ye Shi, a servant of the Ministry of Officials, wrote to the court, asking to grant the younger brother's brother Chen Wenduan an official position, the court thanked the father for the country and the people all his life, so he specially granted Ye Shi's request, and awarded the brother as the head of the Ministry of Rites, and was an official in Lin'an, and the brother loved the younger brother very much, so he took me to Lin'an to take office, so he was very familiar with this Lin'an City. ”
After hearing this, Xin Ran smiled and said: "Since Brother Xian is so familiar, then please take Brother Yu around to play around, and introduce this Lin'an City?"
Chen Ming said to Xin Ran: "The little brother should be effective, this Lin'an City in my Great Song Dynasty Emperor Taizu has not yet unified the world for the West Mansion of Wu Yueguo, after the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it belongs to the Liangzhejiang Road, Hangzhou is the road governance, after Su Shi Su was an official here, he built water conservancy, persuaded agriculture to help Sang, this Hangzhou is naturally becoming more and more prosperous, and slowly has the reputation of "the land has lakes and mountains, the first state in the southeast";
Later, in the first year of the Great Song Dynasty Daguan, it was promoted to the Marshal's Mansion, with jurisdiction over Qiantang, Renhe, Yuhang, Lin'an, Yuqian, Changhua, Fuyang, Xindeng, Yanguan nine counties, with a population of more than 20 million households at that time, it was the most populous state and county in the south of the Yangtze River, and overseas trade was prosperous, and it was one of the four major commercial ports of the Great Song Dynasty;
To my Great Song Weizong, Qinzong period, due to the invasion of the Jin Kingdom, my Great Song Dynasty capital Tokyo was broken by the Jin people, the two saints were covered with dust, Emperor Gaozong was ordered to be in danger, called the emperor in Tianfu to ascend the throne, and then moved south to Hangzhou, and promoted it to Lin'an Mansion, since then, this Lin'an City has become the new capital of my Great Song Dynasty and the construction of a large number of buildings, constantly expanding, divided into the inner city and the outer city, the inner city, that is, the imperial city, a radius of nine miles, surrounded by Phoenix Mountain, north from Fengshan Gate, south to Jianggan, west to Wansong Ridge, east to Houchao Gate, in the imperial city, build a hall, hall, building, There are countless pavilions, in addition there are many palaces and imperial gardens; the outer city crosses Wu Mountain in the south, intercepts Wulin Gate in the north, connects the West Lake on the right, leans on the Qiantang River on the left, the scale is very huge;
At the same time, there are also 13 city gates for entry and exit, and a wide moat is dug outside the city to prevent foreign enemies from attacking;
In addition, this Jiangnan Hangzhou, the spirit of the earth is also outstanding, there are many outstanding people are from here, in the Qingli period of the Great Song Dynasty, the invention of clay movable type printing Bi Sheng, the author of "Mengxi Pen Talk" Shen Kuo are all characters here. “
After hearing this, Xin Ran sighed: "Jiangnan is so prosperous and talented, if you can work together, why worry that the Jin Kingdom will not be destroyed and Tokyo will not be restored." “
"The warm breeze of tourists is drunk, and Hangzhou is Bianzhou", I'm afraid that these magnates don't want to make progress", Chen Ming then replied.
The two chatted while walking, and before they knew it, they had recently visited several prosperous places in Lin'an.