South of Xiangyang City, Da Hyeon.

Liu Xiao, who has been here for a few months, has no resentment of being abandoned, on the contrary, in this world, he has found a greater meaning of existence.

At the beginning, after he came to Xiangyang, he mainly focused on repairing the Jiedu Embassy.

The imperial court directly allocated money, and Cai Lingxing, the assassin of Xiangyang, did not dare to slack off, but the Jiedu Envoy Mansion here was originally the base camp of Murong Yanzhao, and he went to Xiangyang as the Jiedu Envoy, and the Jiedu Envoy Mansion here was newly repaired.

After Murong Yanzhao died, no new Jiedu envoys were stationed here, and the people of the Murong family were not forcibly moved out.

In other words, when the Murong family received the holy decree to move out of the Jiedu Embassy, it was already a magnificent place created by their family.

In addition to replacing the lintel, which is in line with the identity of the prince, there is no place for this festival embassy to be repaired.

Later, the young people of the Murong family all joined the new army, and the Murong family was even more reluctant to Zhao Dezhao, the direct boss and world friend, and took the initiative to renovate this place.

Even if Liu Xiao is picky, he can't find fault with this mansion.

Therefore, his energy turned to the task assigned to him by Zhao Dezhao: firing cement.

The place was pointed out by Zhao Dezhao, who told him that on the side of Da Xian Mountain in the south of Xiangyang City, there were two low mountains, both of which were limestone.

His task was to oversee the construction of several rotary kilns here, where the stones were fired and then ground into ash.

In addition to burning stones, it is also necessary to look for quartz mines, shale mines nearby.

Liu Xiao didn't know what cement was, but he only knew that it would be good to do exactly what the second brother had ordered.

He assigned several apprentices, one in charge of quartz mines, one in charge of burning stones, one in charge of building residences for craftsmen, one in charge of buying wood, and one in charge of iron and coal trading with Nanyang.

And he himself firmly supervised the saltpeter mines that arrived from Longzhou (Jiangyou).

Seeing that the second brother was about to arrive in February, he personally supervised him in the past few days to prevent the second brother from thinking that he was a waste.

With his urging, tens of thousands of people in Xiangyang who served began to suffer, and they didn't even have time to rest.

However, the prince is coming, and the honor of meeting the prince also makes everyone very excited.

Liu Xiao has traveled all over Xiangyang City these days, and he is also amazed by this feng shui treasure.

Xiangyang is surrounded by mountains on three sides, surrounded by water on three sides, except for the west and south two directions, there are several mountain passes that can be passed, and there is no passage in other directions at all.

In the south of the city where he is located, there is Hanshui on the east side, and Da Xian Mountain on the west side, and there is only a road that is not wide to Yicheng and Jingzhou in the south.

It only takes a short section of the city wall to build a dangerous pass to protect the safety of Xiangyang.

In this area surrounded by mountains and rivers, there are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, enough to feed tens of thousands of people.

It is no wonder that this place can become the first fortified city in the world, and it does have a unique geographical advantage.

To the south, it is the Hanjiang River Plain, the land of fish and rice, which was originally conquered in Nanping, and the Zhou Dynasty was not afraid of lack of food and fought everywhere.

Half of the paddy fields and half of the dry land here supplied half of the rice of the Great Song Dynasty.

On the north side of the Han River, there is the Nanyang Plain surrounded by mountains, and tens of thousands of miles of fertile land supplied half of the wheat of the Great Song Dynasty.

Combined, these two places produced more than half of the grain of the Great Song Dynasty.

What a treasure of feng shui!

The decree of the imperial court had already reached Xiangyang, and the Shannan East Province of Xiangyang was not withdrawn, but the state was changed to Hanjing Mansion, which suddenly became one of the three capitals.

When the news came, everyone was very excited, except for Cai Lingxing, the original Xiangyang assassin, who was a little lost.

In particular, the big families in Xiangyang took out their wealth one by one and prepared to buy houses.

Everyone knows that Xiangyang has become Hanjing, and this house is going to rise......

Even if you don't have the money to buy a new house, the more prosperous it will be, and the price of the house will rise.

However, the official transaction in Xiangyang has been directly stopped, and even Cai Lingxing, the assassin, cannot approve the transaction now.

Now just wait for the second brother to arrive, and he will start working in a hurry, this world, after all, belongs to the second brother in the future.

He Liu Xiao can also be like Meng Kuan, becoming a big man above 10,000 people under one person.

At the kiln site, thousands of soldiers were beating large stones with sledgehammers.

The stones were then burned in caves and then beaten into small stones.

After continuing to burn, it was thrown into a stone mill and ground into powder, and now it has been ground into a pile the size of a hill, and everyone is like an ant on a hill.

The north wind blew, setting off a burst of fly ash, and everyone's body was covered with a thick layer, and they couldn't see their nose and eyes clearly.

Liu Xiao didn't dislike it at all, with so much stone ash, the second brother should be satisfied!

"The head of the palace, Lord Cai has someone to pass it on, Nanyang Prefect Daily, Lord Wang Pu and others have boarded the boat of Baihe, and they will arrive early tomorrow morning."

"Where's the second brother?"

"The two ladies set off first, and the second brother still has to do the paperwork in Kaifeng Mansion, and he will be on the road a few days later."

Liu Xiao speculated, the ladies were walking slowly, and the second brother was riding a horse, so he must have done it fast, even if it was late, it would not be a few days late.

"Tell me to go down, and starting tomorrow, I will start buying vegetables and vegetables, and I will buy more dried vegetables. Didn't the Murong family say that there was a fresh vegetable in Dahongshan Hot Spring, and they would start sending it tomorrow. Is there anything abnormal over there? ”

"No, he was originally an old and serious person, but now that he is old again, he doesn't have many complaints."

Liu Xiao thought for a while and said, "To prepare the car, I still have to talk to him first......"

After getting into the car, Liu Xiaocai remembered and asked, "Then Sister Pei, did you come with the second brother or the two ladies?" ”

"Came with Madame."

Liu Xiao sighed: "I hope there will be no forks on the road......"

Seven miles north from Da Xian Mountain, you will arrive at the south gate of Xiangyang.

Xiangyang City was built in the early Spring and Autumn Period, and after hundreds of years of development, it became the gathering place where the Chu kings and divisions entered and exited during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Later, it gradually developed from a military fortress with considerable infrastructure and food and grain to a city with considerable scale and garrison guards.

The city is adjacent to the Han River in the north, and has the widest moat in the country in the southeast and west, with an average width of nearly 200 meters.

The inner city is three miles wide from east to west, and more than three miles long from north to south, and is centered on the Zhaoming Terrace that commemorates Xiao Tong, the prince of Liang Zhaoming in the Southern Dynasty.

The main road of the four city gates divides the inner city into four parts, with the Thorn Shi Mansion on the east side of Zhaoming Taipei and the Jiedu Embassy Mansion on the north and west side.

The city wall of Xiangyang was originally only six meters, Zhu Xu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty guarded Xiangyang, the former Qin Fujian sent Fu Pi to attack Xiangyang, Zhu Xu's troops were insufficient, and his mother led the female dependents of the city to the northwest of the destroyed city wall, and built a city wall of eight meters and five high.

This section of the city wall is also known as the Lady City, and since then, the Xiangyang city wall has been as high as 8.5 meters.

The total length of the ancient city of Xiangyang is nine miles, more than 4,000 battlements are set on the city wall, three urn cities, rammed earth foundation on the inner side of the city wall, the outer wall is as thick as one meter five, the bottom is ten to fifteen meters wide, and the top of the city wall is also up to five meters wide.

The city walls were accessible for chariots, horses, and the widest moat, making it a veritable first fortified city.

Living in such a city, after Liu Xiao came, he felt a sense of stability in his heart.

Kaifeng Mansion was built on the plain, in just a few decades, four dynasties have changed, and it has been broken many times, and there, there is no sense of security at all.

The carriage came to the front of the tall Zhaoming Terrace, the base of this Zhaoming Terrace is forty-five feet high, and there is a three-story pavilion in the Wei and Jin styles on it, and the whole building is as high as eleven zhang high, that is, thirty-four meters high.

The carriage passed through the doorway under the Zhaoming platform, and a straight street led straight to the north gate, and on the right side of the street, it was the Thorn Mansion.

Liu Xiao is an internal servant, although he does not belong to the ministers of the imperial court, but he is the prince's close attendant, and now the prince is appointed to stay in Hanjing, Shannan Dongdao Jiedu envoy, came to the Thorn Shi Mansion, and he was welcomed in by the gatehouse without passing it on at all.

Cai Lingxing received the notice from the official and hurriedly greeted him, and he greeted him all the way to the bottom of the steps.

"It's a coincidence that the head of the palace is in a hurry, today there are people who caught four wild pheasants and sold them in the market, and the old man bought them to satisfy his appetite and let his daughter-in-law burn them, so it is better to eat them in the Thorn History Mansion at noon......

This daughter-in-law is not Cai Ling's daughter-in-law, in this era, calling one's daughter-in-law is a cheap one, and a daughter-in-law refers to a daughter-in-law.

It's like a daughter-in-law who calls her mother-in-law not a mother-in-law, but a big sister, and a grandmother at that level is a mother-in-law.

Liu Xiaoben came to comfort Cai Lingxing, and said with a smile: "It's good, and it also saves our family from going back to toss." ”

Cai Lingxing is almost sixty years old this year, and when he is old, he focuses on seeking stability.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin didn't take a fancy to him at the beginning, thinking that he would only drag Zhao Dezhao back, and now that Xiangyang has become Hanjing, the level is higher, so he sent Wang Pu to assist Zhao Dezhao.

Cai Lingxing not only did not get a share of the benefits in this feast, but wanted to make room for others, which naturally did not feel good.

However, Zhao Kuangyin did not treat him badly, transferred him back to the court, raised his rank, and just wanted to enjoy Qingfu.

Liu Xiao arrived ahead of schedule, in addition to completing Zhao Dezhao's entrustment, he also had to guard against all risks.

He has to watch Cai Lingxing closely, and he can't let him deliberately dig a pit while his second brother didn't come.

However, he thought a little too much, the realm of the ministers and the ministers of the foreign dynasty are different, and they are not all people who compete for power and profit.

Cai Lingxing just wants a smooth transition now, and doesn't have many other ideas.

At the same time, on the Baihe River from Nanyang to Xiangyang, Wang was explaining to Wang Pu, who was very dissatisfied: "Don't worry, Daddy, it's not that the officials value Pei more than the officials, it's really the scroll she carries, and it's very important." ”

Starting from Kaifeng Mansion, Yuan Bulet and his entourage paid special attention to Pei Ge'an, but when he walked on the road, he was driving in a car, and he couldn't show it.

However, from Nanyang to Xiangyang, there were only two large boats, one of which was given to Pei Ge'an, which made Wang Pu and other ministers dissatisfied.

But Yuan Burang's attitude was resolute, insisting on letting Pei Shi and those boxes get on the big boat, and it was not easy for others to fight over a boat.

On the boat, Wang Pu questioned Wang.

Wang was originally dissatisfied with Pei Ge'an, but after copying those books with her, he knew that some of them were still written by her, so he was a little afraid of Pei.

In addition, Pei Ge'an made soap, shampoo, toilet paper, and underwear, which also bought Wang and Chen.

Now in the backyard of the East Palace, they are all jealous and close to Pei Ge'an.