In the early morning, when the eastern sky revealed the first hazy white, and the whole city was still immersed in a thin mist, the bell in the Qingliang Temple in the west of the city rang together with the chanting of the monks' morning class. Almost at the same time, the morning bell rang on the bell and drum tower in the east. With the melodious wake-up bell ringing that echoes from east to west from afar, from several small temples scattered in all corners of the city, out of the heads and walkers, into the streets and alleys in all directions. While rhythmically knocking the ironfish slices in their hands, they chanted aloud the familiar Buddha name, and woke the city from its slumber with the sincere prayers of the Buddhists......

When the sun struggled to rise from the ridge at the end of the distant horizon and sprinkled the first golden rays of morning glow on the city wall, the city gates of Yanzhou City on the east, west, north and south sides had been wide open, and in the city gate holes, the merchants and farmers who were in a hurry to buy and sell were coming in and out endlessly. They drove the wagons and donkey carts, the black pigs and white sheep, and the firewood and the burdens, and hurriedly walked into this ancient city that had just woken up from a deep sleep amid the shouts of the owners of the morning shops on both sides of the roads outside the city, the sound of the hooves of mules and horses, and the creaking of wheels running over the stone road......

When the sunlight filled the seven pagodas in the ancient Buddhist temple, which was only two streets away from the Admiral's Mansion, Yanzhou City had completely regained its vitality and vitality. The pancake and hemp dough makers in the bakery bang their rolling pins on the chopping board, reminding people that the time for the morning market has arrived. With a cry of "Fruit! Deep-fried fruits! "Hemp Cake! Each baked hot hemp cake "...... Before they had time to freshen up, the women who were only wrapped in bibs and dressed in robes carried baskets and went to the nearest market to make purchases. Soon, smoke rose from all over the city, and the aroma of fried fruit oil and the white mist emitted by the burning of firewood filled the sky over the city.

Shops in all corners of the city also opened their doors at this time. Gold and silver shops, iron shops, white clothes shops, head and face shops, paper shops, folding fan shops, leather shops, bead shops, tooth comb shops, powder shops, flower shops, belt shops, shoe shops, book shops...... Thousands of industries have ushered in a new day.

If it is said that Yanzhou City after noon belongs to the South City and the Straw Mats City, then before noon, the most lively place is the market by the South River outside the Ancient Buddha Temple. This is a spontaneously formed large market, with a history dating back at least a few decades, long before the establishment of Yanshan. The scale is also large, along the two streets of the river, there are hundreds of dozens of resident butcher shops, grain shops, noodle shops, vegetable shops, oil shops, and sauce shops, and there are countless small merchants and hawkers who carry the burden and set up stalls to set up stoves to sell tea and rice, and at the most lively time every morning, the residents who come here to buy vegetables and grain rub their shoulders to fill the streets and fill the market, singing boasting, shouting and selling, bargaining...... Ten thousand voices are mixed like a flock of birds chirping, and it is very hot.

Right now, Shang Cheng was wearing a sweat coat, a pair of Qingluo pants with a wide cuff of trousers, and a pair of round cloth shoes with bare feet, and he was walking slowly in the early crowd. He looked like a laborer who had gone into the city in search of a way to live, and although people glanced at his black blindfold with a little fear from time to time, no one would associate him with the famous blind merchant.

In the past half a month, he has once again become the focus of people's discussions. This time, it was no longer rumors about him, but a proclamation he issued to the soldiers and civilians of the whole guard. The proclamation was drafted by the chief copywriter of the Admiral's Palace, sprinkled with hundreds of words, and the words were gorgeous and magnificent, but in the final analysis, it was one sentence and two words: Suppress bandits! Moreover, this is by no means the kind of official articles that have always been necessary after the governor takes office, shouting slogans, and the proclamation also lists detailed methods for dealing with bandits:

“…… From the date of the proclamation and until the date of May 1, those who are compelled by the situation to complicit the bandits and the gangsters and are able to petition the government for the crime on their own shall only be fined money and food; Those who are able to surrender to the government before the end of May 1 shall be punished with hard labor ranging from three months to thirty months, depending on the severity of the circumstances. …… Anyone who reports and exposes a hidden case and fails to report the crime shall have his crime commuted; Those who bind up the bandits and the recalcitrant and recalcitrant people to surrender shall have their crimes commuted; …… There are also Qi Bald, Hao Laodao, and Panshan Monkey...... The leader of the bandits is accustomed to thirteen people, who are cruel and brutal, and will never be forgiven; Whoever is able to restrain such thieves and surrender shall be exempted from the crime except those who have committed the two crimes of treason and murder......"

People quickly smelled an unusual smell from this detailed punishment rule: This time the suppression of bandits is no longer the previous method of both appeasement and suppression, but only suppression and punishment, regardless of whether they voluntarily surrender to the government or not, they must be punished.

Only suppress but not cares, this is a new and strange thing that our Great Zhao Dynasty has never had before the founding of the country!

In addition to being amazed at this groundbreaking proclamation, people also agreed with the Admiral's decree: it should have been this way; If being a bandit is not punished, then who wants to be good? At the same time, everyone also has some new opinions on Shang Cheng: it seems that this seems to be a person who really thinks about Yan Shanwei! However, there are also many people who scoff at this: everyone can say beautiful things, the key is to see what the blind man does!

On the fourth day after the proclamation was issued, news came that a group of bandits who dared to commit crimes against the wind at this time were arrested on the north bank of Yanshui, and 78 bandits from the head of the bandits to the head of the mountain were all beheaded on the spot; On the eighth day, Yanbian County reported that the guards and the border army joined forces to kick down the three villages where the bandits were entrenched by small fleas, beheaded 131 people, and served 63 people in hard labor; On the twelfth day, Fangzhou reported urgently that the bandits in Huangkouzhai were infighting, the giant black eagle was killed, and 269 bandits were disarmed; On the same day, Zhu County reported urgently, and the bandit leader Xie Si surrendered to the police......

A series of exciting news immediately made people rejoice and rush to tell each other. Now, even the most stubborn people have to admit that the thunderous methods of the blind man may really be able to cure the bandits in Yanshan.

Sometimes, there will always be a series of chain reactions between seemingly unrelated things, just like this crackdown on bandits, and the succession of good news has gradually reversed the views of civil officials, and some officials who are not optimistic about Shangcheng do not say anything, but their actions are obviously different from the past, and they have begun to look at their fake commanders with a more positive attitude. Even Lu Ji and Di Xu, who had been biting to death and couldn't make water conservancy, began to loosen their mouths.

Last night, Shang Cheng and Lu Ji talked for a long time late at night, and finally persuaded Lu Bofu to give up the original idea of making a small fuss and support himself instead. Tired all night, he originally wanted to take advantage of today's rest day to sleep lazily, but he was woken up by the morning bell shortly after he fell asleep. He was bored in the Admiral's Palace, and remembered the soy berries in the market, so he simply called Suza and the two guards to come over to the morning market as well.

As he walked, he kept stopping and looking around, looking for the last time he had visited.

He had been here once a dozen days ago. It was when the state government had just begun to clean up the urban environment, because it was too dirty and difficult to manage, so Tao Qi wanted to ban this "farmers' market", but before the idea was implemented, it attracted a lot of scolding. The old prefect couldn't make up his mind, so he came to him for advice; It was because of this that he came here to "investigate". He finally vetoed Tao Qi's decision. This bazaar cannot be removed! Not only does it support half the city's daily food, drink, and clothing, but there are also thousands of people who are counting on earning a share of food and food here. However, the dirtiness of Guta City is also a problem, not to mention anything else, that is, a large number of dirty and rotten vegetables are swept directly into the Nanhe River after the daily gathering, which really makes people scratch their heads and accumulate day by day, and the garbage is piled higher than the river embankment in several places, and when the weather is hot, the green-headed flies fly in a large area, and the buzzing sound when the wings vibrate can sometimes hide the noise of the market...... In the end, he and Tao Qi discussed the solution of charging a "cleaning fee" according to the number of traders, regardless of the size of the shop, paying a penny for each sale, and the state government would use the money to hire someone to clean it. Although the small traders will suffer a loss, they can't think of a better way in a hurry, so they can only take care of one end first, and wait for the environment to be cleaned up and then slowly think of a way.

It was during that "expedition" that he ate a very appetizing fried fruit at a stall somewhere here.

But now he couldn't find the deal anymore.

He stood down on the side of the street and scratched his chin in annoyance. Didn't the fruit seller come today? That's not right! He remembers the last time he sat in the store for breakfast.

"Ahh A loud welcoming song next to him startled Shang Cheng. "Coming old guests! Inside, sit one by one, fried fruits, hot sesame cakes, sweet soybean milk sauce, donkey meat, clear lung soup, beans, fish porridge, mutton filling, white flour buns, one by one," the female shopkeeper shouted as if singing, while pulling the sweat towel on her shoulder, brushing and brushing a few times, sweeping the dust on Shang Cheng's body for them, tearing off the rag on her waist, wiping the square table and stool neatly, and asked with a smile on her face, "How many do you have?" ”

Shang Cheng smiled and sat down first, and then asked Su Zha and them to sit too, and then said to the female shopkeeper, "Have a share." Then he said to them, "The food here is good." Last time, I ate soy berries here. Then he said to the shopkeeper who was holding a large wooden plate of cloth dishes, "The proprietress is very skilled." ”

The proprietress squinted and smiled: "The craftsmanship of our old Wang family's fruit is also well-known in Yanzhou City. To tell the guests, even the current Admiral General often comes to our store to eat and drink. As he spoke, he put a bowl of mixed sauce on the table, "The old customer is a frequent buyer, and this bowl of sauce will not be charged, and it should be a thank you gift for taking care of my family's business." ”

As if she hadn't heard, Suza twisted her face and looked around at the tables of guests; The pro-soldier who came with him was only seventeen years old, although he was old, but in the end he was a teenager, listening to the proprietress talking nonsense, and buried his head with a strange smile. Shang Cheng smiled at the corner of his mouth and asked, "Then I want to thank the boss and the boss." One by one, you just said that the Admiral General has also come...... Did he really come? ”

"Old customers still don't believe me? The table and stool you are sitting on now is where the Admiral General has sit! I saw that the old customer was a familiar buyer who took care of my family's business, so I took the risk to let you sit down, if the general knew about it...... Scared, but it's a terrible thing! ”

The little soldier finally couldn't help it, and snorted and sprayed himself with a smile. The proprietress didn't know that the nonsense had been seen through, and she said to herself: "This little brother doesn't believe me? Wang Xiucai, who lived in the old shop on the back street last time, came over, and wanted to sit in this position to get some blessings from the general, but we didn't dare to let him sit. ”

Shang Chengqiang couldn't help but smile, and then asked: "Boss lady, have you seen the blind man of the Great General Yiyi, what does he look like?" ”

The proprietress was a little unhappy and said, "Don't listen to other people's rumors!" One by one, what is blind and not blind, it is all spread by others! The general is the reincarnation of the god of Gukou Erlang, not to kill the demons, the magic eye on the forehead will not open, ordinary people have no knowledge, and only when our general is blind......"

The reincarnation of Jiro God? Shang Cheng almost squirted out a mouthful of lung soup.

The proprietress was still about to speak, and the boss of the pancakes on the stove had already scolded: "Dead mother-in-law, what are you doing all about making noise?" Be silent! One by one, Hu Daxian said on the front street, let's just know about this, and we can't spread it around! Otherwise, the heavenly immortals knew that the general was here, and they would definitely ask him to go back to guard the heavenly court! ”

Shang Cheng swallowed the soup and bun in his mouth, and wanted to ask a few words about what Hu Daxian said about himself, when he saw a young man in a long shirt come to the front of the store and said, "Brother Wang, here are two donkey meat sandwich cakes." ”

One by one? Why did he come here too?