Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as the sky was dark, the team set off for Hangzhou.

Changshui County officials, merchants, celebrities, and civilians went out of the city to send more than ten miles, and the people along the way have already known that the Qinghe Hou is about to arrive in Hangzhou with his family to inspect the southeast, so there are hundreds of people along the way along the town with their families to carry the pot and the pulp along the way to welcome, so the cheers along the way are continuous, and when encountering the muddy place of the river ditch, hundreds of people are vying to help push the cart, whether it is the local squire or the accompanying domestic servants, they all deeply feel the unique charm of the Qinghe Hou in the folk.

Arrived in Hangzhou, Hangzhou county officials and other officials and businessmen, gentry and celebrities set up a reception banquet, after eating, Chen Xu went to Hangzhou Silk Factory to inspect the first stop.

The situation of Hangzhou silk factory is similar to that of Guangling, the second phase of the project has also been completed, the third phase of the project is in full swing, and the problems encountered are almost exactly the same, several nearby counties have now begun to have dozens of hundreds of looms of the scale of the folk textile factory to prepare, there are silk factories and hemp mills, which is in great demand for skilled weavers, many folk textile factories began to dig people with high salaries, Hangzhou silk factory from March to now, there are also dozens of weavers who quit their jobs for various reasons to go elsewhere to make money.

In the face of this situation, Chen Xu could only repeat the same old tune, repeat all the processes during the inspection of the Guangling Silk Factory, personally cook and guide the canteen to make delicious food, distribute prizes according to performance, and educate the leaders of the silk factory to increase the development of new products, expand agricultural production by self-reliance, and so on.

After the inspection of the silk factory, Chen Xu led his family to visit the West Lake.

Although today's West Lake is still barren, it has the prototype of the West Lake in later generations.

Eight years ago, the first emperor visited the West Lake, changed the Qiantang to Hangzhou, ordered to plant willow trees on the sand embankment, now eight years have passed, the original weeds and thorns covered with the white sand lake embankment is now the weeping willows, although it has entered the autumn but still green like smoke, in the misty smoke and rain it looks particularly verdant, some pavilions and pavilions can be faintly seen between the distant mountains and near the water, those are the temples and ancestral halls that the local gentry have raised money to build in recent years, and most of them are related to the story of the White Snake.

Even at the reception banquet of the gentry of Hangzhou County, some people proposed to build a nine-story stone tower on ** Mountain, so as to perfectly restore the scene of the story of the White Snake, but because the investment in this tower is quite high, it is still in the discussion stage, but it can be seen that all the people in Hangzhou who have some identities are very concerned and interested in this matter.

Today's Hangzhou, is the first emperor personally changed the name, the world is the only one there is no semicolon, and the white snake legend of this beautiful mythical story has long been spread all over the world, perennial from all over the country business travelers and tourists come to pay homage and visit.

The legend of West Lake and the White Snake has almost become a business card of Hangzhou now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are famous all over the world.

Whenever and wherever it is mentioned, there will be people who give it a thumbs up.

Now the Hangzhou silk factory is built, and Hangzhou, as the most important river port and seaport node in Zhejiang, has invested more than 30 million yuan in the imperial court twice, and the private investment driven by this is more than 20 million, that is to say, a small Hangzhou county has smashed in a huge capital of more than 50 million, which is completely like irrigation and completely submerged the small Hangzhou with money.

Therefore, when Chen Xu visited Hangzhou this time, what he saw was that there were shops and pavilions under construction everywhere and bustling businessmen and tourists who spoke the accents of the southeast, south, and northwest of the country, tinkling and coming and going, and the liveliness was even more lively than that of Guangling, which was close to the Central Plains, and it completely had a bit of the general lively atmosphere of Wuzhong County.

When visiting the West Lake, there is naturally one of the most important places that cannot be missed, that is, the West Lake Poetry Monument.

This is a two-foot high basalt boulder cut from, carved with vigorous and powerful neat small seals.

"The beautiful scenery of the West Lake in March, the spring rain is like wine and willows, it is fateful to meet thousands of miles away, it is difficult to hold hands on the other side, a hundred years of repair can be crossed by the same boat, and a thousand years of repair can be slept together!"

The handwriting is vigorous into the stone for three points, and the penmanship is very familiar, which is the handwritten inscription of Li Si, the former prime minister of the Great Qin.

This poem is the end of the original White Snake Biography, Shui was stolen by Xuanwuwei and sent to Xianyang soon after it was written gently, and it was this mythical story full of mystery that hit the most fragile heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys of the first emperor, and made Chen Xu, a historical-stirring stick, enter the eyes of the first emperor through the ages.

Eight years have passed in a blink of an eye, Chen Xu visited Hangzhou for the first time, stopped at the willow embankment of West Lake, stood in front of this stone stele, looked at the poems on it, and instantly had a feeling that things were people and not time and space.

After remembering the willow embankment stele, and then took his family and Yu Wuya, Xia Zijin and others to climb the ** mountain together, and the white lady who was suppressed by Leifeng Pagoda with nothing by hanging his son.

**The mountain is not high, but now because the story of the white snake has also become a scene of the West Lake, all tourists who come to the West Lake to play must climb this mountain to pay tribute to the memory, so now**Mountain, a white snake temple was built, which enshrines a clay statue of a beautiful woman in a white dress, and a maid in green clothes next to it.

In front of the shrine, in addition to the incense burner candlestick, there are several rolls of bamboo slips, tied neatly with twine, each volume is engraved with three words of the white snake, and in addition to these bamboo slips, there are several versions of the paper version of the white snake, these are the stories of the white snake published by the Xianyang Academy of Literature Publishing House, there are the original hemp paper small seal version, and there is now the latest white paper italic version.

With the booming economy of Daqin, the people's demand for literature is increasing, and the people's favorite is all kinds of myths and stories, from the various ancient myths and legends sorted out by the bookstore to today's White Snake Biography, Seven Fairies, Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Tianluo Girl, Lian Li Tree, etc., all are the people's favorite topics, especially the White Snake Legend and the Eight Immortals across the sea and other long stories, the publishing house is printed again and again, and now there are six or seven versions of the White Snake Biography on the market alone, and the latest white paper italic version is also a three-color overprinted color illustration, a set of four volumes sold for as much as 200 yuan, but on the day of the first release, it still caused the people of Xianyang to rush up, and the first printing of 2,000 sets was almost sold out.

Seeing that Shui Qingrou, Ying Shiyan, Meng Wan, Yu Ji, and the four concubines of spring, summer, autumn and winter all knelt in front of the shrine of the White Lady one by one solemnly and worshiped incense, and even Yu Wuya, who finally went up and respectfully put on a stick of incense.

Chen Xu couldn't help but laugh and looked at the bamboo slips passed down by the White Snake.

"When 啷~当啷~"

In a familiar voice, Chen Xu turned around and saw a group of women who had finished kowtowing and entering the incense began to throw coins into a copper furnace under the shrine to pray for blessings, and Chen Xu walked out of the temple with a twitch.

"If you meet the gods and worship, you will have good luck, why don't you worship the White Lady!" Yu Wuya came out after him.

"There is also a Taiyi Temple under the mountain, where my statue is standing, Brother Yu will go and worship it in a while!"

Chen Xu pouted, looking at the entire West Lake with his hands in the wind, although the city of Hangzhou a few miles away looked small and broken, but the cars were full of people, and there were already some signs of prosperity in the Tang and Song dynasties.

"Hehe, Engong's Taiyi Temple is indeed prosperous now, and those Taiyi disciples are also very religious, but they made my statue too ugly, not to mention that Engong is right in front of him, why bother to go near and far to worship a statue, wouldn't it be better to worship you directly!"

Yu Wuya smiled dryly, opened a bamboo tube hanging from his waist, took out a handful of spiced whitebait from it, and ate it with relish.

After swimming in the West Lake, it happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival for a day of rest, and Chen Xu took everyone to watch the tide of the Qiantang River.

The timing of this visit is just the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which also happens to be the annual tide watching season.

The history of Qiantang tide observation has a long history, although the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were constantly warn, but the tide is still talked about by the people in the southeast, that is the prosperous scene of Wuyue, so every mid-autumn and August, there will be countless local people, scholars and gentry, hundreds of disciples come to visit and watch the rare river tide in this world, and experience the magnificent scene of the mighty river pouring into Qiantang Lake.

In later generations, although the tide of the Qiantang River is famous at home and abroad, but Chen Xu has never seen it, this time immersive, naturally to appreciate it, so he personally rode a horse and Yu Wuya chased the tide, has been from Hangzhou to the sea, really experienced the spectacular scene of the tide of the Qiantang River.

After watching the tide of the Qiantang River, Chen Xu spent another day inspecting the Qiantang River Port Wharf near Hangzhou, and had in-depth and detailed discussions with the officials of the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry and the contractor who presided over the construction project, and made further guidance and advice to some places.

Juzhang, is the Ningbo of later generations, but at this time it is not called Ningbo, it has long been the prosperous place of Wu Yue's homeland, after the Great Qin unified China, there are Yin, Cheng, Juzhang three counties here.

Ningbo is the third largest port city in the world, with the Yangtze River Delta in the west, the Zhoushan Islands in the east, Hangzhou Bay in the north, and Shaoxing in the south.

Ningbo continues to the south into Minzhong County, and Minzhong County traffic is difficult, and here the race is mixed, in addition to the Yue people, there are a large number of nobles of the Yue country fled to Minyue, bringing mature agriculture and Central Plains culture, thus opening the earliest history of the southern crossing of the crown, so that Minyue for the Central Plains of the recognition and recognition are relatively high, now after the pacification of Minyue, the county is located in Ye County, in fact, it is the Fuzhou of later generations, and Fuzhou is also an important node of the first phase of the project of the Tantu Plan, Panyu Port, which is responsible for connecting Ningbo Port and the Pearl River Basin, is the largest seaport in the south of the first phase of Chen Xu's project, and will become the southernmost place where merchant ships gather in Daqin after the opening of the Great Voyage.

Taking the Great Voyage as an opportunity, it is Chen Xu's plan to integrate the four counties of Lingnan into the Chinese territory as soon as possible, but this process may take a long time, after all, although it is convenient to sail to and fro, but the Baiyue caste in Lingnan is complex and the terrain is complex, and the cultural exchanges brought about by inconvenient transportation are also very troublesome.

Juzhang County, where the newly developed harbor is located, faces Hangzhou Bay in the northwest, and can see the lush and green islands in the vast sea in the southeast, which is the Zhoushan Islands.