Out of the Beizhen Fusi, Chang Yu pondered slowly in the Thousand Steps Corridor, and then called a passing little eunuch and asked him to quickly go to find Tang Potian, the head of the guards of the Prince's Mansion, and he immediately went to Baodafang (now Dengshikou) The avant-garde Yamen of the government army raised 300 people, and the imperial horse supervisor Wei Dahai quickly went to Jintaifang (now Guowang Hutong, Gulou Street) Tengxiang Siwei Yamen to bring 300 people to gather outside Andingmen.

After explaining, Chang Yu turned around and hurriedly walked out of the palace from the Daming Gate in the south, and walked in the direction of the front door, he was going to find Fang Ba.

As early as a few days ago, Chang Yu had entrusted Fang Ba to help him buy rice and grain on a large scale, and he planned to take time to settle the settlement in the next few days, but he didn't want to leave tomorrow, so he wanted to take advantage of this situation to hurry over and have a look.

There is a big alley between the Daming Gate and the front door, it is the longest alley in old Beijing called Jiangmi Lane, as early as the Yuan Dynasty period, because of a river outside the imperial city together with the canal outside the city, the tax office customs of Cao transport grain and rice is set up here, because it is named Jiangmi Lane, the Ming Dynasty built the city to divide the alley into two sections for the east and west river rice lane, because it is close to the imperial city, the yamen gathers here, the Zongren Mansion, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households, etc. are all here, such as the Ministry of Rites in the six departments, the Honglu Temple and the Huitong Hall are set up in the Dongjiang Rice Lane.

But whether it is the Yuan or the Ming Dynasty, here is the famous grain trading market, later called the East Jiaomin Lane, the West Jiaomin Lane, but the river has been diverted, the Yuhe Bridge outside the Daming Gate (now the area of Justice Road) has long been gone.

As the largest grain trading market in the capital, it is natural to come here to purchase grain and rice, which is why Chang Yu came here to find Fang Ba, not to mention that according to Fang Ba, Song Siyang, one of the twelve Taibao, has a rice shop in Jiangmi Lane.

The signboard of the rice shop is simple and clear, it is called Song, so even if there are many grain stores here, Chang Yu did not take much effort to find the place, not to mention that the crowd in front of this rice shop is very eye-catching.

But these many people are not here to buy rice, but to sell rice, so a few days ago, the Songjia rice shop began to buy grain on a large scale, not only all the rice and grains, but also the price is relatively reasonable, and some are even slightly higher than the market price, which immediately attracted the attention of merchants from the north and south.

What Chang Yu explained, Fang Ba naturally experienced it himself, and Song Siyang and the two of them sat in the store to specialize in this matter.

Seeing Chang Yu coming, he immediately led him to the back house to serve tea.

"I'm going to go out of Beijing in a few days, and the grain will continue to be harvested, and if possible, I can go to the countryside to purchase, and if the cash on hand is not enough, I'll send some later." Chang Yu served tea, Fang Song and the two sat respectfully, and nodded again and again after listening, for some reason, the two of them behaved very respectfully today, and even a little afraid, but Chang Yu had something in his heart and didn't look at it.

After explaining a few words, Chang Yu left the rice shop, in response to his needs, Song Siyang found him a carriage and equipped him with a special car driver, Chang Yu wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he still promised, anyway, his identity will be exposed soon, and it is not so important.

The market is prosperous, as the most prosperous grain and rice trading market, there are grain boats in the river, the street is crowded with grain carts, once crowded, the coachman has to turn into the alley, detour.

Chang Yu had something in his heart, lifted the curtain and looked out the window, looked at the pedestrians, swept past the houses on the street, and sighed that everything in the world was in the world, and suddenly a high gate tower flashed in front of him, and it seemed that Wu Mansion was written on it!

Jiangmi Lane Wu Mansion, Chang Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his heart, and hurriedly called the parking man and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Jiangmi Lane Ertiao Hutong" Cheman Road.

"This Wu Mansion?"

"Oh, back to Chang Ye, this is the mansion of Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong," said the coachman.

Yes, yes, Chang Yu patted his head and looked at the high gate of the mansion, no wonder he was so familiar, it turned out that this was Wu Sangui's home.

Viewers may think it's wrong, shouldn't Wu Sangui live in the Xidan National Costume World?

Yes, you're right, the clothing market in Xidan is called Xiaoshihu Hutong, which is indeed Wu Sangui's mansion, but it was the palace that he was given by the Qing court after he became the queen of Pingxi, and to be honest, he really didn't live there for a few days, because most of his life in Pingxi Wangfu in Yunnan (formerly known as the villa of Xiping Hou Muying, it is said that Yunnan University is now today) didn't even stay as long as his son Wu Yingxiong.

In fact, at this time he was only the house of the former first assistant Zhou Yanru, and later Cao Xueqin also lived for a period of time in the Qing Dynasty.

Looking at the gate of the Wu family, Chang Yu's heart fluctuated a little, not only because Wu Sangui, the last general of the late Ming Dynasty, lived here, but also because Chen Yuanyuan, who was known as a red face and a red face, was in the mansion at this moment, and the two most famous beauties in the Ming Dynasty, Tian Xiuying, had no chance to meet, this Chen Yuanyuan and could not be missed.

It's just that there is something wrong right now, and he can't find any good reason to visit, so Chang Yu has to urge the coachman to continue on his way.

All the way north, it will not take long to reach a relatively sparsely populated place. At this time, the city of Beijing was not as good as that of later generations, although it was an inner city, there were also remote wilderness places everywhere.

And although this place is partial, it is famous, it is Shiwangfu Street!

Yes, it is the famous Wangfujing Street in later generations, this small village that was not famous in the Jin Liao era, the T-shaped street after the capital of Beijing, the capital of Yuanding, moved north to Chengzu and built ten palaces here, so it was named.

I don't know what Zhu Di had in mind, so confidently built ten palaces in one go, and really thought that he could give birth to twenty-six like his father, but the fact was only three seedlings.

Zhu Di built the capital of Beijing, and built ten palaces in the remote place of Jingdong for the prince to live, because the prince of the Ming Dynasty did not need to be an adult to be crowned king, and after the king, he had to go to live in his own land, so these palaces were only used for transitional residence, and the scale was not large, and because the Ming Dynasty emperor except for Zhu Yuanzhang, the seeds were not prosperous, resulting in no one living here, almost wasteland.

Fortunately, not far from it is the avant-garde military station of the Baodafang (now Dengshikou) government army, and they are free to walk their dogs and spread wild.

In fact, the guard of Baodafang is not only a yamen of the government army, there are many in this area, such as the front and rear guards of Jinwu, the left and right guards of Yulin and the left and right guards of the government army, plus the front guard of the government army, a total of six guard yamen, and almost all of these guards are responsible for the security of the east of the imperial city.

The carriage stopped in front of the yamen of the avant-garde office of the government army, and Chang Yu obviously felt that the coachman's face was a little strange when he got out of the car, but he pretended not to know and let the coachman return the same way, and then walked straight towards the yamen.

There were already a lot of sergeants gathered at the gate of the guard, and there were a lot of them from the captain's small banner to the general flag, talking about something in a low voice, and when they saw Chang Yu coming, someone immediately opened their mouths to ask.

However, without waiting for Chang Yu to answer, he saw a person hurriedly pushing everyone away to greet him, but it was a guard from the prince's mansion: "Grandpa Chang, Lord Tang is waiting for you inside."