"This hellish place, modern traffic jams, ancient ship jams!" Zhao Hao sat in the boat and sighed as he looked at the congested river. The east, west and south sides of Guangzhou are surrounded by Dahao, which is connected with the lake in the city. The 20 zhang wide city is like a trunk road, and the ditches in the city are the streets and alleys on the water, and the 20 zhang is converted into more than 70 meters in modern times, which is equivalent to a ten-lane road with non-motorized lanes and sidewalks, but their small boats can only pass slowly in the boat flow.

However, Zhao Hao can not deny that the convenient transportation has brought prosperity to the city, and the reasonable layout of the outer and inner canals is connected into a system that runs through the city and the ring city, such as streets and alleys like ditches form a transportation network extending in all directions, forming a spectacular water city scenery at the same time also driving the development of commerce, and has developed into a commercial street parallel to the side of the city in the Xicheng area. Europeans with "suits and leather shoes"; There are Southeast Asians who are "spitting like blood"; Persian women with earrings jingling "pierced around the ears" wander among them.

"Hello!" Zhao Yu couldn't help but say hello in English, I don't know if those foreigners understood it, but a few people on the ship were startled, and hurriedly coaxed and dragged them into the cabin.

"What are you nervous about? Who in this Guangzhou city will know me except for the people in the house, even if they know me in this dress, they will be the wrong person, but you two are too conspicuous! Zhao Yu said angrily to Wang De and Ni Liang.

"Your Highness, we sneaked out, if you let those adults know, it's us who are unlucky!" Wang De said with a sad face.

The prince couldn't hold back after two days after the last incident, saying that he was going to go out of the house for a 'micro-service private visit' to observe the people's feelings. But now, in the name of strengthening the security of the government, the security outside the government has been taken over by the Chinese army. The meaning of this is clear to everyone, where is this anti-thief, it is in the defense of His Highness, although the soldiers of the Chinese army dare not stop them. But it will be reported to the top in time, and someone will come to stop it.

Wang De used this as an excuse to dissuade him, but he didn't expect His Highness to step on the road a long time ago. Due to the large number of people in Fuzhong now, the daily consumption is increasing day by day, and it is necessary to purchase every day, and the pond in the garden of Yazhong is connected with the waterway in the city for water diversion. The Inner Government prepared a small boat for the purchase of daily necessities. And the guards were used to the fact that the ship came and went every day, and no one would have thought that His Highness would succumb to the cramped, dirty boat. His Royal Highness took advantage of this gap, so today he took a few guards to 'hijack' the boat and successfully climbed over the wall again.

"What's the name of the ghost, lest others not know that this king is here?" Zhao Yu glared at Wang De and said, "Put your heart in your stomach, they all know that it is my attention, at most teach a few lessons." How can it take you? ”

"And what do we call you?" Wang De said helplessly.

"Little boy, young owner, little fat man...... Call it whatever you want, just don't let anyone hear it! "Zhao Hao doesn't care about authenticity.

"Then let's call it the young master!" Wang De thought for a while and said, His Highness said casually, they didn't dare to be casual, and asked His Highness to call the little fat man to let a few adults in the mansion hear, and he must not be killed on the spot!

"That's fine!" Zhao Yu nodded and said, "Zheng Yi, where are you in front?" ”

"Temple...... Young master. After passing the brown rice pen and the pig pen in front, we reached the water pass. It's the busiest place to be! Zheng Yi often travels between the two places, and he is very familiar with Guangzhou City, so he looked at it and said.

"Let's go over there!" Zhao Yu said......

The boat went to Xihao and docked, and Zhao Yu and his party went ashore. He looked at the foreigners in fancy clothes all over the streets, the shops and stalls full of all kinds of goods, and listened to their half-baked Chinese bargaining. Suddenly a little dizzy, as if returning to the 'zoo' of the imperial capital in the previous life. He remembered that Qu Dajun of the Ming Dynasty compared Guangzhou with the Qinhuai River in his book, saying that "the daily cost is tens of thousands of gold, the food is prosperous, and there are many songs and dances." It's several times more than Qin Huai'!

Zhao Yu had never seen what Qin Huai was like in the Ming Dynasty, so he could only make up for his brain. Qinhuai is located in Jinling, which was once the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and must be prosperous and abnormal. But he knew that the Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of sealing the sea and banning commerce, and Guangzhou at that time was definitely inferior to the Song Dynasty, but he issued such a feeling, it can be imagined that the declining Guangzhou was still the largest commercial city in the Ming Dynasty. And although he was mentally prepared, what he saw in front of him was still beyond his imagination.

Of course, Guangzhou at this time was not as successful as the Canton Fair in later generations, but the goods were much more high-end than those in later generations, mainly concentrated in all kinds of treasures, cloths, spices, medicinal materials and leather goods. Among the rarest are ivory, rhino horn, pearls, coral, flower fancloth, agarwood, rose water, frankincense, myrrh, pepper, cloves, fennel, cardamom, ebony, shark skin, rattan mats, peacock feats and parrots. Oriental countries, Korea, and Japan also exported fresh goods: sulfur, gold, mercury, folding fans, and raden.

The export commodities include textiles, porcelain, ironware, tea, umbrellas, straw mats, wooden combs, glass products, silk fans, medicinal materials, books, paper, etc. As for whether it is a trade surplus or a deficit, it is not known. However, it can be seen that most of the imported goods are raw materials and local specialties, while the exported goods are refined or high-tech products belonging to this era, and they sell high value-added, which is the opposite of the previous life. I can't help but sigh that the world is impermanent and changeable.

"Zheng Yi, how is Qiongzhou City compared to here?" Zhao Hao asked as he walked.

"Young master, how can Qiongzhou be more than 10 million miles worse than here." Zheng Yi said with a wry smile.

"Qiongzhou is surrounded by the sea, and merchant ships are constantly coming and going, why is this?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"Young master, Qiongzhou is narrow and sparsely populated, not rich in products, and there are only a few ports where ships can dock, and there are ...... There are also subordinates who can't say clearly! Zheng Yi scratched his scalp and said.

"You see that there are a few things sold on the market that are local, all of them are imported things, Guangzhou and Quanzhou are just relying on convenient transportation to accumulate, develop, form such a situation. What Qiongzhou lacks is not commodities and geographical advantages, but the trade environment, how can we move Guangzhou to Qiongzhou? Zhao Hao blinked and raised his head and asked.

"Young master, how is this possible? If there is Guangzhou in Qiongzhou, it is enough! Zheng Yi said with a smile, and said in his heart that His Highness must have not slept well last night, and he was still dreaming during the day!

"I just want to build another Guangzhou city in Qiongzhou, so that we can eat and drink without worry......" Zhao Yu still said like a dream.

"Young master, the people from the Transshipment Division are here, let's hurry up and hide!" Just when Zhao Yu was still immersed in his fantasies, Wang De, who was always vigilant, suddenly pointed not far away and whispered.

"Quick, the leader is Deputy Envoy Pan!" Zhao Yu also panicked when he saw it, turned around and got into a shop...... (To be continued.) )