Chapter 956: Passing through Wagang
The wheels of the mountain roller skates are large and are equipped with ball bearings, so you don't have to worry about tripping over things between the land and the relatively flat slope of the mountain.
Sliding down a gentle slope with the propulsion of the slide on the pipe is not slower than that of a horse-drawn carriage, but it needs to be supported by personal physical strength.
Of course, you also need to slide your legs, but it's not as easy as regular roller skates.
Craftsmen follow the data and study improvements and other applications that require less effort.
When playing, everyone relaxes and relaxes, but they don't forget that work is a combination of work and rest.
"Childe is about to arrive in Wagang City in front of him, so let's not go into the city for safety." The captain of the Tiger Ben guard said.
"If you don't enter the city, so many people outside the city will attract attention, don't worry, Wagang City is not Longtan Tiger Blood."
"But ......"
"Let's be a caravan now, don't make a fuss, just business as usual."
Li De had only seen the appearance of Wagang City on the drawings, and now that he can see the real thing, he really wants to see it.
The city wall looks very spectacular, the actual height is at least ten meters or more, according to the city wall data on the drawings, the basis is only eight meters, Li Mi just wanted to save money.
Now it seems that he was deceived by Li Mi's caution, and his guess is that the height of the city wall must be at least about twelve meters, and it will definitely not be shorter than Chang'an City.
The data given in the data of the red peony is ten meters, and now it seems that the city wall has been heightened later, no wonder Shan Xiongxin is so confident, but it is a pity that the art of war has clouds, and the siege of the city is the bottom, and the heart is the top.
Li Shimin relied on 130,000 prisoners of war to open such a strong Wagang City, in fact, being smart was mistaken by cleverness, which was the reason for the failure of Shan Xiongxin and Li Mi.
With such a magnificent Wagang City, if most of the 300,000 soldiers and horses were placed in the city, leaving only a small number of soldiers and horses outside, the way to respond could at least delay until the ammunition and food were exhausted, even if the consumption of the people in the city was counted, it would be no problem to hold on for eight months.
On the other hand, Li Shimin's 500,000 soldiers and horses may not be able to last so long if they really have to be consumed, mainly because there are many soldiers and horses in the city, and it is really impossible to break the city.
But these are all speculations that the battle is over, and it is completely meaningless to correct something, and Li De is envious of how good the city is.
The scale of Youzhou City is not worse than Wagang City, but it is relatively small, and it is starting to be too small as a granary, even so, he does not intend to end in the era when the city has been protected by walls.
Entering Wagang City is really the same as seeing historical sites, the atmosphere in the city is not bad, but it is not so lively, which is good for them.
It has long been a common thing for caravans to enter the city, and there are many people in the caravan, and they have directly chartered the largest inn in the city.
The shopkeeper is very enthusiastic, and the people in the caravan have the money to live for two days, which can increase the income of the inn a lot.
Someone has to deal with all the trivial matters, and Li De takes his ladies to choose a room and prepare to go to the city for a walk.
You can have a good rest at the inn at night, and I haven't lived in the inn a few times in half a month, although the carriages are all modified, and they can be used as beds, but after all, it feels different.
Resting in the wild can affect the quality of sleep to some extent, and even if it doesn't, it feels different psychologically.
The commercial street of Wagang City is the place where businessmen talk about it the most, and the life of the people in the city is good or not, as long as you look at the underdeveloped commercial development, you can have an intuitive impression.
Why do you say that if there is no money, naturally there are not many people to the commercial street to consume, when Li De takes people to eat, most of the dishes provided are in the form of regional Youzhou.
Even the style of stir-fry is almost the same, and it is the first time that Li De has been so intuitively managed by Wagang City, which has been affected by Youzhou.
Except for some changes in taste, there is no difference, and there are not many people who come out to eat, and some customers are mainly businessmen.
After eating, I want to find a shopping mall, but there are no shops of this type, only gold shops, goods stores and other original style shops.
It's just that what makes Li De's eyes light up is that in addition to the Youzhou forces, the courtyard of Yingying Yanyan that is operated in other places has a lot of business, but it looks much more prosperous.
"Husband, do you want to go in and have a look?" Zhang Chuchen asked.
"Uh, no, I definitely didn't think about it." Li Dedao.
"Hmph, duplicity." Li De's words were directly ignored by Zhang Chuchen.
Li De must not be careful, if he refutes it, then this matter will definitely be endless today, and he has already done it until the evening to clean up this vinegar jar.
"It's so good, it's because of these livelihoods."
Li Xiuning's face was not very good for the warblers and Yanyan who stood in front of the door to welcome them, because the merchants said that the development of Wagang Commercial Street was driven by these livelihoods, and they immediately had no interest in going on.
Go back, these men who are careful of you have been abducted.
The women were embarrassed for a while, and Li De was even more embarrassed that he was such a person who was easily seduced by beauty, although he was also curious about the girls with blue eyes and high noses just now.
The dancing girls in the Western Regions are all very popular, mainly because of novel dance performances or something, and he has no chance.
"Ahem, it's boring, it's better to go back and have a good rest, we're a little tired from rushing these days, let's go back."
Li De took people back to the inn, the shopkeeper has already boiled hot water under the arrangement of the shopkeeper, compared to the inn in Youzhou, there is no special bath in the inn here, but it feels good to enjoy the private bath.
Walking through a few cities, I saw with my own eyes that in addition to Youzhou, other places are still out of the original state, no wonder the caravan has developed so rapidly, not that the merchants have used a new business model, but that the caravan has brought Youzhou's goods to various places and occupied the supply market.
Controlling most of the suppliers, the demand for goods naturally seems to have increased, but fundamentally speaking, it is to make the people rich and have the ability to spend, which is not good in other places.
Not all managers want to improve the quality of life of the people, and not all places can provide jobs for the people.
Li De suddenly felt that it was far from enough to rely on Youzhou's development to the present level.
The caravan's entry into Wagang was noticed by the people who were spying on it, because Li De's behavior was different from that of other caravans, mainly because the caravan did not trade with any shops after entering the city.
In order not to startle the snake, the people who were secretly observing planned to continue to monitor and find out the purpose of this caravan.
Li Shimin arranged for these people to monitor the situation in the city, mainly to prevent people from going to the city to sabotage, after all, he had just occupied Wagang and did not dare to say that there was really no force to dare to touch him.
Some people lead troops to attack the city to defend it, but if someone sneaks into the city and destroys it, it is impossible to prevent it.
In this way, Li De and his party were noticed, but the target of the surveillance was wrong, because someone really infiltrated the city and wanted to do something.