The morning sun rises slowly from the east, and the warm breeze makes people involuntarily give birth to a trace of comfort, even if they are riding on horseback, but the trace of leisurely and comfortable, it still makes people feel quite comfortable.

Ye Qing, who started from Yangzhou, naturally didn't know that after the three brothers of the Liu family knew that he was Ye Qing of the Imperial City Division, they didn't sleep all night, and they came in a tangled appearance, leading the 5,000 kinds of flower army of Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm to start a mighty north.

did not go straight north to Jinan Mansion, after a night of rest in Xuzhou, the whole army was really into the state of marching and fighting, and did not stop too much along the way, Ye Qing, the festival envoy of the four roads in the north, and even the yellow flood disaster that may appear in the early spring, did not pay attention, but went straight to Luoyang.

Tokyo Kaifeng, Xijing Luoyang, now all under the rule of the imperial court, Kaifeng is like a forbidden place, Ye Qing and the officials of the North Fourth Road rarely set foot here, so the place of transit and rest is chosen in Luoyang.

Xin Qiji was originally from Jinan Mansion, and Li Qingzhao was called Jinan Er'an, so Xin Qiji, who began to stay in Jinan Mansion at this time, took advantage of the convenience of checking the water situation, and after Ye Qing hurriedly met with Ye Qing on the way to Luoyang, the two continued to go their separate ways.

Xin Qiji continued his treatment of the floods, and Ye Qing also continued to start a westward direction, heading to Luoyang.

More than 5,000 people are mighty, raising dust all the way, like a yellow dragon following behind, since leaving Yangzhou Mansion, can clearly feel that with the change of regions, in Yangzhou, Lin'an for more than half a year of the army, finally released the rough, bold momentum again.

Five thousand people is no longer a small number, the mighty all the way, although it has tried its best to avoid causing the people to be uneasy, but whenever the army passes, it will still cause the people in the north to panic, and even sometimes see some people, dragging their families to cross the north to the Jinjing.

Ye Qing naturally understood this situation, after all, now that the north land is back in the hands of the Song Dynasty, it has only been a year, and in this era of underdeveloped information, it is obvious that some things are in the hearts of the people, and they are in a state of frightened birds that are aware of the hindsight.

If you want to truly recover a place, the people's aspirations, with the orthodoxy of the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid it will take three or five years to truly do it, so that the people can believe that they are no longer the identity of the Song relics.

Of course, coupled with the gossip of the reformers, with the flow of merchants from the south to the north, so although the people of the north are poor, they are also exceptionally strong in terms of integrity and self-esteem, and while being looked down upon by the people in the south, they also sneer at the people and the court in the south, and the best way to attack and defend is that the court was driven by the Jin people in embarrassment, and fled all the way to the south, which will always be used by the people of the north as a sharp weapon to attack the people of the south.

Merchants play the role of a bridge in it, like a messenger, who will bring to the south those who are dissatisfied with the northland's dissatisfaction with the whispers, and similarly, will bring the bitterness of the south back to the north.

In short, the role of Shang Jia in it can be described as a double-edged sword, there are advantages and disadvantages, but no matter how you look at it, Shang Jia still let the two places gradually understand each other more and more in their words.

The literati are pedantic and stubborn, and have always been arrogant, and have always firmly believed that the so-called only criterion of showing talents and knowing the affairs of the world without going out has become a cohesive force between the two places in this era of underdeveloped information, and regarded the Song Dynasty as a huge hurdle for unification.

Their notions of right and wrong are often not determined by the words that come out of the mouths of the businessmen they despise, they only believe what they can see and what they are willing to believe, and as for the good things that are beyond their imagination, or things that are beyond their expectations, sometimes they prefer to give them the hat of false rumors and nonsense.

Just like the well-known Wumao, with his weak influence, especially his sense of existence, he wants to see the world clearly without leaving home with a book, but he doesn't know that he is just a frog at the bottom of a well.

There are so many such literati, there are not many people who are really willing to calm down and look at the fact that the territory has been recaptured by the Song Dynasty, Ye Qing has traveled all the way, and when he rests in several important cities he has passed, he will always see some poor literati, drinking the worst wine in the humble taverns of the Northland, and then in dressing, he imitates the appearance of the so-called literati in the South.

But in Ye Qing's eyes, their dress is a little different, that is, there is no gentle elegance on the literati of Nandi, nor the free and easy style of those ink celebrities, under the dim oil lamp, simple to the low wall of the green building with loess tamping, the woman has a hoarse voice, under the dry sound of the piano, I want to learn the graceful and soft intestines of the south, but in the end, it is in vain in Ye Qing's eyes.

The Northland under the rule of the Jin people wants to retain the orthodox essence of the Central Plains culture, but also wants to make its vulgar culture deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so in such a contradiction, the Northland culture that has been spawned in the past few decades is more or less deformed, like a mix and match style In the case of complete immaturity, nondescript will only make people sigh helplessly.

Eight thousand miles of road, three thousand flowing waters, seeing the mountains and rivers, looking at the villages and seeing the smoke, no matter what, along the way, the curling smoke can still make Ye Qing feel that the entire northern land is now gradually becoming more peaceful and peaceful.

When Ye Qing arrived in the famous Luoyang, the weather in the north gradually began to get warmer a lot, and the clothes on people's bodies became thinner.

The prosperity of Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, can only be seen in the description of later generations, or in books, and what the eyes can see is completely a twilight city full of loess, broken city walls, and the customs of the Jin Kingdom.

Ziwei City, the imperial city in Luoyang in the Sui and Tang dynasties, what can be seen now is only the desolation of the grass and trees under the ruins, some ruins and broken walls that can still be vaguely seen, the foundation of the palace city and other things, so that Luoyang, which is gradually warming up now, is a little more bleak in autumn in Ye Qing's eyes.

Standing in the broken pit of Tianshu, the pivot of the world, which was originally the symbol of the strongest period of the Tang Dynasty, Ye Qing couldn't imagine how the prosperous scene of the four dragon men standing on one side holding fire beads disappeared in the long river of history.

"People often say that this place is unlucky, so whether it is the Fang Reform City, or the city into the Fang, even under the rule of the Jin people, no one is willing to build any buildings here, and now the Luoyang Government Office, which occupies the Yingtian Yuan of my Great Song Dynasty, of course, before this, it was also the government office under the rule of the Jin people." Zhou Zong, the prefect of Luoyang, accompanied Ye Qing across the Luoshui Bridge and continued to travel towards Luoyang City.

Luoyang City has long been divided into markets, so the people live in the streets, and the market along the street has already become a stereotype, so the benefit is that it can add a lot of vitality to a city, but also because Luoyang has been recaptured by the Song Dynasty again, everything seems to be restoring order, and many things have begun to slowly develop towards the Song system, and some customs under the rule of the Jin people, although they are still everywhere, but compared with last year, it is already much less.

Ye Qing doesn't care about these formal things, not to mention that now he is just across the river from the Jin people, and the people care more about whether they can be fed and clothed, they will not be drowned in yellow water in summer, and they will not be frozen to death in winter, as for who the sky above their heads is, sometimes it really doesn't matter.

And even though it is now clearly separated from the other side of the Yellow River, in this place like a frontier, the exchanges between the people of the two places are much more frequent than when they were not recaptured by the Song court.

Zhou Zong of Luoyang Mansion, Zhang Kui of Kaifeng Mansion, both of them were the Northland prefect who was personally appointed and dismissed by Ye Qing, and for the Jin people, Ye Qing also investigated, and now Zhou Zong, who has just turned fifty, has two sons and two daughters at home, and was originally a very happy family, and similarly, he was also an official under the rule of the Jin people.

However, just before the Song army attacked Luoyang, when the Jin people retreated north, one of the daughters was raped by the Jin people, who were colleagues of Zhou Zong, and the daughter finally committed suicide in shame.

In addition to Zhou Zong's grief and indignation, he was a bloody man, leading other Luoyang people and others who were also indignant and hateful to the evacuation of the Jin people, and rushed into the mansion of his colleagues who were protected by the Jin people, and turned the seventeen members of the colleagues' family, together with the mansion, into ashes.

And just when I thought that I would die with the Jin people, Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm, including Li Heng and Wu Juan, who had already begun to take over the territory behind the Jin people's buttocks, just rushed over, and it was considered that the matter was calmed down before the Jin people took revenge on Zhou Zong and others.

Naturally, among them, Wanyan Yongji, the king of Weishao, who was under house arrest in Jinan Mansion by Ye Qing at that time, mediated it, so Zhou Zong was able to become the prefect of Luoyang Mansion from a servant who was not welcomed and did not enter the stream, and the person who should be thanked the most is Ye Qing in front of him.

Luoyang's night market is also brightly lit, but compared with the prosperous night markets in Lin'an, Yangzhou, Jiankang and other places, the night market here is much more plain, different from the flower world in the south, like a kaleidoscope, everywhere are all kinds of different people, Luoyang is still dominated by Song relics after all, there are some of them, the Jin people who stayed behind are still wearing their Jinren style clothes, swaggering between the night markets, or toasting, talking and laughing.

"It's not bad, Luoyang, where the essence of the Chinese nation lies, everything will have to be done by the prefect of Laoyou." Ye Qing picked up the wine glass and said with an easy-going smile.

"Thank you for your cultivation, the lower officials will definitely live up to the high expectations of your lords." Zhou Zong also smiled and picked up the wine glass and said.

I have heard of Ye Qing's name for a long time, but I have never seen it, in his impression, Ye Qing should be a middle-aged man who is full of majesty, has been on the battlefield all year round, is vigorous and resolute, and walks vigorously.

But what he didn't expect was that the man who could defeat the Jin people almost single-handedly and completely recover the territory south of the Yellow River was the young man in his thirties who smiled very easily.