Kaifeng, as the capital of Southern Chu, is not only the center of politics, economy, culture and transportation in the country, but also one of the most populous and economically developed cities in the world.

At this time, the population of Kaifeng was at its peak at more than 1.5 million, while during the same period, other famous cities in the world, such as Constantinople, had a population of only 300,000, Kyoto 170,000, Cairo 120,000, and Baghdad 120,000......

Kaifeng not only has a large population, but also a prosperous market. At that time, there were more than 6 or 7,000 shops in Kaifeng City.

The central street of the capital is called the Royal Street, which is two hundred steps wide, and the two sides of the road are the Imperial Corridor.

In addition, the government allowed citizens to set up shops in the Imperial Corridor and do business along the streets. In order to invigorate the economy and culture, the curfew was also relaxed, and the city gate was closed very late and opened very early, which Cao Yan liked more, which is also the reason why Jiangning Mansion is not as good as Kaifeng.

Moreover, at that time, thousands of pigs were herded into the city's meat market every day to be slaughtered, and thousands of quintals of fish were consumed every day.

The night market is more prosperous, often scattered, and the market transactions are often tens of millions.

There are also "tile shops" and "hook columns" as a place for storytelling and amusement, and the big ones can accommodate thousands of people. Outside the Donghua Gate in Kaifeng, the market is the most prosperous...... All food, new flowers and fruits, fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs, quails, rabbits, preserved meats, gold and jade treasures, and clothing are nothing more than the wonders of the world.

If its taste is ten, the guest will want one or twenty flavors to drink, and he will have it at will.

At the age of the fruit melon, vegetables and Ru new market, and eggplant gourds and the like, each pair of new can be straight ten thousand, the pavilion disputes to take it at a high price", it can be seen that the supply is abundant, the demand is prosperous.

When everyone arrived in Kaifeng, it was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

It was a city that was entered by Lijing Gate, and it was good to follow this Cai Steward, and the things were not checked, so they were directly let in.

After entering the city, Steward Cai separated from Cao Yan and others, and he needed to send his goods to his warehouse.

Cao Yan followed Luo Ming to the house that his family had purchased in Beijing.

Xia Haibo and the others had already come here to wait, they got the news two days earlier, and it was Luo Ming who asked his family to come over in advance on a fast horse to report.

Everyone saw each other again and hurriedly greeted each other eagerly.

After a while of greeting what I have seen and heard in the recent period.

Xia Haibo opened his mouth and said: "By the way, sir, your house has been bought, and it is near here, are you going over now?" ”

"Hmm!" Cao Yan nodded, after all, he had been tired for more than half a month, and he had long wanted to take a good rest.

"Then Master, I won't go with you."

"I'm quitting too." Feng Qingluan also said goodbye, her family also has a place to live here, after all, her family is considered a general, and there are many family members who serve as errands in the army.

And Zhang Mu'er stayed in Luo Ming's house, a prefect who was released, and her influence in the capital was really inadequate.

……

It wasn't far away, that is, about ten minutes on foot, and it looked like a street corner.

Xia Haibo took Cao Yan to a house.

The sign on the courtyard reads the words "Cao Family".

Looks like that's it.

It's a four-way courtyard.

Menzi saw Xia Haibo bringing people over from a distance, and hurriedly opened the main door and greeted him: "Little Marquis, you are here!" ”

"Go and call everybody, I've seen the sir." Xia Haibo commanded the men who came over.

"Yes, yes." Menzi answered twice, looked at Cao Yan beside Xia Haibo, and then quickly withdrew his gaze, turned around and ran towards the house.

Wait for the door to leave.

Xia Haibo explained embarrassedly: "Sir, time is a little tight, the house near here is a little difficult to find, only found such a four-in, I will help you pay more attention in the future, and I will inform you when I see a big one." ”

"That's big enough." The layout of the houses in this era is almost the same, just listening to the number of advances, Cao Yan can know how big and what it is.

Roughly speaking, the second entry is about 200 to 500 square meters, while the third entry is 500 to 1,000, and the fourth entry should start at least 1,000 to about 2,000.

"By the way, I also helped you invite a few people to take care of here, they are relatives of one of my family's stewards, you wait to see if the people are suitable, whether it is enough! If not, we'll hire someone else. Xia Haibo took Cao Yan in and introduced him to the basic situation of the house.

He was afraid that Cao Yan would bring a lot of people, so he didn't dare to hire more people for him, but just hired a family of five casually, which was used for daily cleaning and maintenance of the yard.

……

Entering the courtyard, Cao Yan looked at the five people standing in front of him, to be precise, two couples in their forties, two couples in their twenties, and a child of three or four years old, a family of five.

However, they all looked at Cao Yan with a little nervousness, it should be Xia Haibo or his relatives who told them that if Cao Yan didn't like them, they would dismiss them, which made them a little nervous, after all, Cao Yan's family was treated very well, and his relatives had also told them this.

"Okay, it's them, what's your last name?" Cao Yan glanced at it and made a decision, after all, this sweeping or something, please be the same for everyone.

"Thank you, young master, thank you, young master, the villain's surname is Tang." Several people hurriedly thanked them, they should have seen Cao Yan's age, so they called Cao Yan the young master.

Xia Haibo frowned: "What are you shouting about?" To be called sir! ”

"Just call the young master!" In fact, Cao Yan likes this title, but no one has ever called it.

The four of them looked at Cao Yan, and after looking at Xia Haibo, they should have a little bit of a clue about who to listen to.

Xia Haibo was furious: "What are you looking at me? In this house, you have to listen to the gentleman, and you will listen to what he commands, understand? ”

"Yes! Be! Several people hurriedly agreed.

"Sir, don't be angry, it's estimated that they just came, and they are a little uncomfortable, just wait a while."

"It's fine!" Cao Yan didn't care about these little things.

……

Cao Yan didn't bring much of what they brought, just some clothes and a few quilts.

Everything else can be bought here.

The only heavy weight was the weapons of a few people.

It only took two trips per person to pack these things up.

Seeing that everything was cleaned up, Xia Haibo asked, "Sir, is there a place you want to go later?" ”

"I want to take a break first!" Cao Yan himself wants to take a nap, and has been on the top of the carriage every day recently, although the carriage has been improved by himself to have a strong shock absorption effect, especially his own carriage, which can be said to be only stronger than later generations, but the road on this road is really a bit unsightly, no matter how good the shock absorption effect is, it is also blind!

Especially on rainy days, it is a big mud puddle at every turn, which makes Cao Yan walk all the way is very sour.

"Okay, when we come to help Mr. wash the dust in the evening, let's go to Luo Fatzi's place first."

"Hmm!" ()