After Yuan Jie came back, when he heard what had happened, he was immediately heartbroken and deeply sorry for Xu You. used to be such an old and cunning Jinling Taishou, but now he is exhausted for the affairs of his children. Xu You didn't say anything, it was difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs, and he took care of too much, which was annoying to others.

The two of them went to the Xihai Pavilion again, looking at the plaque written by Xu You, Yuan Jie sighed: "In order to help Qilang become famous, I made a fool of myself and did not disclose the details to anyone. But then the white thief rebelled, Jin Ling and Qiantang cut off the news, I was afraid that the reputation would be too strong, and it would spread, which would make the white thief unfavorable to Qilang, so I sealed this pavilion and refused anyone to enter, and even the inscription of "The Story of the Sea Pavilion" engraved on the Lanjiang stone was also hidden in the inner library. Finally, when the white thief calmed down, I was anxious about A-Yuan's matter, and gradually forgot about it...... Later, the king of Xiangdong heard about it from somewhere, so he actually came to the Jin Tomb and borrowed the inscription. He loves calligraphy the most, and was amazed by Shichiro's wonderful pen, and repeatedly asked who wrote it, but I avoided talking about it, which made him regret. Qilang went to Jinling, and if he encountered an insoluble difficulty, he could ask the king of Xiangdong for help. He is very upright, never participates in the disputes between the prince and the royal highnesses, makes friends with famous people, leisurely Qinglou, and is quite appreciated by the lord. ”

Yuan Jie's heart was relieved, and he planned for Xu You to go to Jinling, the encounter between people is so wonderful, who would have thought that the two people who were opposite each other back then would meet again after five years, and there was no problem between each other, but a little more inexplicable family affection?

took Yuan Wei's letter of recommendation, and Yuan Jie's was sent to Jinling Water Gate, and then he reluctantly said goodbye. Dong Zhi heard Qingming talk about the conflict in the Yuan Mansion, and said with a smile: "Yuan Zheng and Xiaolang had a big fight, but it was not just because of the frost, I heard that this person who was crazy about Danyang Princess An Yuxiu was crazy in the matter, and he gave love poems to everyone many times, and he also sent all kinds of strange things from Ningyue and other places to the princess's mansion every day, and the money spent was almost to fill up the water of the Qinhuai River." Helplessly, Luohua deliberately flowed ruthlessly, An Yuxiu did not pretend to him, and even publicly reprimanded him, without saving face at all, but Yuan Zheng was rain or shine, and his infatuation did not change, and it was rumored to be a joke in Jinling City, all of them were Yuan Erfu, Yu Wuluo, and Shen Jiumao, these three people are currently in the limelight. ”

Fang Sinianqi said: "Yuan Er is Yuan Zheng, who is Yu Wu?" ”

Dong Solstice said: "Yu Wu is the younger brother of the White Horse Yu Fa Hu in the Empty Valley, the two are almost identical, but Yu Fa Hu is good, and there is always laughter where he is." Yu Wu, oh, his name is Yu Jin, but he has to talk about Xuan, he is addicted to alcohol and pretend, and he is willful and dissolute, which is called crazy. ”

"Then, who is Shen Jiu?"

Without waiting for the winter solstice to answer, Xu You seemed to be touched by a certain memory buried deep in his heart, and a faint sadness floated in his eyes, and said: "Shen Yue, the word is the way, in the Shen family's Xingjiu, so he is called Shen Jiulang." ”

Dong Solstice was surprised: "It's this person!" Does Xiaolang recognize it? Ah, yes, he's a son of the Wuxing Shen clan......"

The time of the young man's wanton riding horses has long disappeared with the sword light and sword shadow, and the laughter in those memories has been contaminated with the lingering smell of blood for some time, and I remember that Xu You once told He Wei: In less than ten years, Shen Yue will definitely be famous all over the world. In the past five years, he has made a name for himself in Jinling City.

Talent is like a sharp edge, and when the time comes, you will stand out. Shen Yue is not a descendant, he does not know martial arts, and the Shen clan in the strong martial arts sect is not conspicuous, nor has he received any attention, but this person has a strategic mind, and he really has extraordinary ability, and he must not be underestimated.

"How do you recognize? When I was in Yixing, I spent most of my time with him......"

"That's it!" Dong Zhi saw that Xu You was in a bad mood, and deliberately enlivened the atmosphere, and said with a smile: "Yuan Er is infatuated, but he is not a fool, whenever Xiaolang has a new poem or article coming out, Princess Danyang must buy the mansion early, and the praise is endless, over time, it is rumored that Princess Danyang seems to have feelings for Xiaolang, so this dispute in Yuan's mansion is not a disaster." ”

Xu You said helplessly: "People sit at home, the pot comes from the sky, where can I reason?" ”

Going upstream, the tribute envoys and merchants seen along the way, tens of thousands of boats, big bream and small bream, loaded with money, rice and cloth, no boat is dissatisfied. Xu Youzheng sighed that when commerce was flourishing, the winter solstice stood behind him and introduced: "The Great Chu River is thousands of miles away, involving five states, from the east to the benefit, and the land route between the east and west is cut off, all relying on the Yangtze River, so the "Song of Three Continents" sings 'Send Banqiao Bay, treat each other to the three mountains, see a thousand sails in the distance, and know that it is chasing the wind and flow......'."

"Song of the Three Continents?"

"The song of Sanzhou is a collection of songs and ballads sung by merchants who come and go from Jinling when they leave at the dock."

Xu You smiled: "Who wants that in addition to Wu Ge and Western songs, there are also Sanzhou songs?" It is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles......"

The wind is calm, the waves are not alarmed, these years the cargo ships with the word Xu come and go to various states, encountered interceptions and conflicts are not a few, fortunately these years Zuo Yan carefully trained more and more elite, those thieves who will haunt the Yangtze River from time to time also know that the soft is afraid of the hard, know that Xu's ship is not easy to provoke, rarely come out to find unpleasant.

On the afternoon of July 11, he arrived outside Jinling City, the majestic imperial capital that had stood for a hundred years, broke through the fog of early dawn, and slowly appeared in front of Xu You's eyes in the golden light.

Chengjiang is like practice, and the green peaks are like clusters,

However, Xu You's eyes were first cast on the stone city located in the southwest of Jinling!

Sun Quan to "Zhongshan Longpan, stone tiger, there is the air of the emperor" and build the capital here, and then build a stone city at the west foot of Qingliang Mountain, the circumference is about seven miles and a hundred steps, the north edge of the river, the south to the Qinhuai estuary, by the mountains and rivers, the Huai River, dangerous and majestic, starting from Sun Wu, is the most important naval base of the Southern Dynasties, want to seize Jinling, take the stone first, for the soldiers must fight for the place.

There are two gates in the south of the stone city, one gate in the east, and one gate on the west side, a total of four gates, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. But the funny thing is that at every critical moment when the fate of the dynasty is decided, the high hopes of Stone Town never play the role it should play. is still the same sentence, the solidity of mountains and rivers, in virtue is not in danger, when the people's hearts are lost, how can a stone city change its life against the sky and turn things around?

After Stone City, it entered the junction of the Yangtze River and the Qinhuai River, Xu You asked the winter solstice to follow the boat from the water gate along the Qinhuai River to Changganli, he took Qingming to get off the boat at the Houzhu Wharf, and inspected the place when entering the fence gate, and the guards looked at Xu You for a long time, and let them enter the city.

Although Jinling is the imperial capital, there is no outer Guo and city walls, but 56 fences are set up along the area of 40 miles from the southeast and northwest, and these fences have no defense ability to check the passage of the people in and out.

Yangtze River Natural Insurance, that's how confident!

After the fence, walk slowly along the bank of the Qinhuai River. In July, the grass grows and the warbler flies, it is the most beautiful season, Jinling City is like a fairy with a light veil dancing in Lingbo, there is no place that is not slender, there is no place that is not beautiful. The light boat is rippling with green water, the beautiful men and women who travel endlessly are full of happy smiles, and even the songs shouted by the boatman holding his trouser tube are soft like the willows in the south of the Yangtze River.

Vibrant, everywhere you enter, there is the word prosperity written on it!

"How many households are there in Jinling now?"

"280,000 households!"

Xu You chuckled, "Oh, how do you know? ”

Qingming had a cold face and said, "I've seen the briefing sent by the winter solstice!" ”

The briefing is a system set up by Xu You for the winter solstice, and the details of the extremely cumbersome intelligence do not have to be reported one by one, but only need to extract the most important or simple information from it and summarize it and report it to him.

This is also known as the briefing!

Qingming couldn't help but pay more attention to Jinling's briefing, and since Xu You suddenly decided to jump into the big fire pit of Jinling, the intelligence agency of the winter solstice has been operating day and night. Over the years, almost all the eyeliners that have been planted in the open and secretly have awakened, and all the tasks are carried out around ensuring Xu You's absolute safety, from the palace to the fangli, the relationship network paved with millions or even tens of millions of dollars every year makes the tentacles of the winter solstice easily touch most corners of the city.

There has never been a person who attaches such importance to intelligence as Xu You, and there is no one like him who has smashed the money and energy that many great families cannot invest in with one person.

No way, as a traverser, the most superstitious thing is not science, but big data! Sufficient, massive, and detailed data will construct a clear 0 and 1 world in the sand, where everyone, everything, and each other's connections will be concrete, straightforward, reliable, and can provide decisions, avoid risks, win by surprises, and penetrate thousands of miles.

"280,000 households...... A population of more than a million people, respectable, but also a pity! ”

As the first metropolis in history to reach a population of one million, Jinling of Chu is like the Jiankang of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, with developed economy, prosperous culture, flourishing commerce, and abundant products.

Respectable, respectful for creating such a great city in an era of such low productivity; Unfortunately, the volatile situation ended up destroying all efforts.

Turning north from the Qinhuai River, walking four or five miles along the bank of the Yundu River, the capital of the Chu State is impressively in sight. The capital is about twenty-one miles and nineteen steps, including the palace city and the hundred official mansions. Miyagi is also known as Taicheng, which has been greatly expanded in successive dynasties, and now it is very large-scale, with a total of three city walls inside and outside, which is unique in the history of Miyagi. The walls have also abandoned the earth and stone masonry commonly used in the past, and all of them have been replaced with bricks and stones, which are extremely strong. Through the corner of Taicheng, you can see the small half of the structure of Zhaoming Palace, which is clumsy, dignified and beautiful, and vigorous. In front of Taicheng is the two imperial roads that run through the north and south, all of them are planted with weeping willows and locust trees, and the government office temple is divided along the left and right of the imperial road, densely packed and magnificent. Its Middle East Imperial Road extends from Xuanyang Gate to the southernmost Vermilion Bird Gate, close to the Qinhuai River, dividing Taicheng into two, with a regular layout and grand style.

To the west of the capital, there is Xizhou City, which was newly built after Yangzhou moved to Jinling; There is Dongfu City in the east, which is the residence of the prime minister; Danyang County in the south is the seat of Danyang County, where Jinling is located; In addition, there are Baixia City, Xuanwu City, Yingyang City, etc. in the north, all of which have heavy troops, defend the capital city with a ring arch, such as copper walls and iron walls.

The two of them walked around the west and east, wandering around near the capital, the wine flag was oblique, the colorful boats were faint, the crowds were crowded, and they were shoulder to shoulder, and there was a feeling that the people in the north and Guangzhou were crowded in later generations.

"Let's go, let's go back to Changganli first."

Before I knew it, it was dusk, Qingming rented a boat, and the little lady who rocked the boat was only seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing an azure scarf, and the hem of the skirt was tied into the waist, and the whole person looked refreshing and neat.

At that time, the sun was setting, obliquely shining on Qin Huai, which really responded to those two poems:

The wind is clear, and the sunset water is floating gold.

Jinling, Imperial Prefecture,

I'm finally here!