After sending Wan'er away, Fan Ming cleaned himself up and deliberately put on a new straight shirt, and today he was going to the county seat.

With Xiangxue's letter and Old Master Gong's suggestion, he had to hurry up and visit Xuezheng's mansion before the year.

In fact, he actually understood what the master meant yesterday, a traditional literati like him, who has been upright all his life, is the most unaccustomed to people who go through the back door, so he will definitely not help him openly, and it is already a shame to be able to mention it, so everything depends on him.

And he has always had doubts about his father's previous affairs, so he took this opportunity to go to the county seat to inquire about the situation and see if there were any enemies.

In addition, he also has to step on the spot by the way to see what business can be done in the county, and now that he has integrated into this era, he will definitely not stay in the countryside for a long time.

By the way, seeing what the place where I used to live is also a kind of mourning.

In short, there are quite a lot of things to do in the county seat this time.

After packing up his things, Fan Ming set foot on the road to the county seat, and I don't know if it was lucky, before he left the village, he met the cart team of Caofu, and the second housekeeper Fu Shen was sitting in front of the carriage, and the cart was tightly covered, looking like silk cloth and porcelain.

Fan Ming walked over and beckoned, "Steward Fu, where is this?" ”

Now that Fan Ming's identity is different, Fu Shen's attitude towards him is different, and he took the initiative to jump out of the car and hugged his fists and said: "We are transporting some goods to the shop in the county seat, Mr. Fan, you are dressed so neatly, this is to ......?" ”

Fan Ming said: "I'm also going to the county seat, can I take a ride?" ”

Fu Shen laughed, "This is a coincidence, come up quickly, there is also a talking companion on the road." ”

On the way, Fu Shen took the initiative to talk about Caofu's shop in the county, perhaps because of Fan Ming's identity as Caofu's account office, Fu Shen didn't hide much, "Our Caofu has two shops in Chuqiu County, both of which are on the most prosperous street in Dongcheng, and the business is very good, and the annual foot fee alone costs nearly 1,000 yuan." ”

Hearing this, Fan Ming couldn't help but be a little speechless, the foot fee has to be spent so much, and the turnover is at least not more than 10,000 yuan!

I knew that the commodity economy was developed in this era, but I didn't expect it to reach this level.

This is just Chuqiu County, what kind of point will the Tokyo border beam in the center of the world reach, he is a little afraid to imagine, recalling the famous Qingming Shanghe map in the later generations, Fan Ming can't help but be a little fascinated!

Suddenly remembering something, Fan Ming asked: "I came to Chuqiu County last time, it doesn't seem to be very good, and the business is so good?" ”

Fu Shen sighed slightly and shook his head, "You may not know very well when you are young, Chuqiu County has really made a lot of money in the early years by relying on Cao Yun, and the trade is called a fire, even the Liao merchants in the north have been here, but it has not worked in these years, Cao Yun is blocked, and the merchant gang has been rerouted, so it is a lot colder in an instant." ”

Fan Ming nodded slightly, Caoyun has been the artery of the country since ancient times, and the county or place built along the canal can basically prosper.

He didn't know much about the situation in Chuqiu County before, and this time he took the opportunity to come to the county seat to get to know better.

Qinghe is not too far from Chuqiu County, just one or twenty miles, walking all the way, and in less than two hours, I saw the shadow of the county seat in the distance.

Compared with the embarrassment of coming to the county last time, Fan Ming's mood was much calmer this time.

Carefully looked at this large place within a radius of 100 miles, and carefully looked at the familiar city gate building in front of him and the bustling crowd under the city gate.

In ancient times, county towns were all walled to prevent invasion by foreign peoples, and this time was no exception.

Still follow this structure, the city wall of Canghei ancient Ben is watered with rammed earth structure, the completion of this county also does not know how many generations of painstaking efforts, it is easy to destroy and difficult to build, in this era of relatively low level of science and technology to build a county is a great event.

This represents that mankind has entered the era of civilization, and countless counties have disappeared in the long river of history in the past thousands of years, and how many counties and cities have been abandoned and established.

In the vicissitudes of the world, Fan Ming followed the group into the city.

Chuqiu County is built near the river, the water transport of this era is very developed, although the river is not able to cross any big boats, but the general boat is still unimpeded, which provides a lot of convenience for the general walking between the tooth merchants or scholars of Yingtianfu.

Entering the county seat of Chuqiu County again, without the pressure of survival, Fan Ming began to be in the mood to observe the livelihood of the people in this era.

He suddenly found that Chuqiu County was actually quite prosperous, especially on the way from the wharf to the city gate cave, many porters carried burdens, followed by Yazi or Zhongren, talking to merchants on the side, looking like they were in a hurry.

Maybe it was because of the convoy of the Cao Mansion, the messengers at the city gate did not do much checking, but just greeted them, collected some taxes and let them in.

However, after entering the city, Fu Shen became serious, put away his smile and looked straight ahead.

The structure of the city wall restricts the pattern of the county, usually two streets that run through the east, west, north and south, and the whole county is divided into four pieces by two streets, two of which are mainly for civilian residences, and the other one concentrates the prosperous area of commerce, various shops, and the county government is also in this large block.

The shop of the Cao family is among them, but I don't know where it is.

"You all be eye-catching, don't let people laugh at us that we're from the countryside." Fu Shen said with a straight face, and Fan Ming realized that some of the guys behind him were a little too excited, looking around and looking around, looking extremely excited.

Fan Ming knew in his heart that the traffic in this era was unfavorable, and ordinary people would not be willing to go out to run around if there was nothing to do, and it was an eye-opener to be able to come to the county to study, and these guys were all helpers invited from the countryside, although it was not the first time to enter the city, but they were always very excited, because maybe the next time they entered the city, they would have to wait for a long time.

was yelled at by Fu Shen, and these guys suddenly quieted down, and honestly drove the car forward.

When he arrived at the spacious territory, Fan Ming hugged his fists and thanked him, "Thank you Steward Fu for taking me for a ride, I'm going to look for relatives, let's stop here, we will meet again in Qinghe Township." ”

Fu Shen hugged his fists and saluted back, "You're polite, you are a very important bookkeeper of Mrs., maybe I will have to take care of you in the future." ”

Fan Ming laughed, "Steward Fu, you're boring me, don't talk about it, go back and drink together." ”

Fu Shen smiled and nodded, "Goodbye." ”