Chapter 274: Chang'an City

Xu Fu knew very well that he did not come to Dongying for peace, but as an advance army, to explore the way to Dongying.

Mapping was only one of his basic tasks, and finding a suitable port for landing, shipping routes, and figuring out the garrison of the Dongying people was the most important thing.

In addition, there are some hidden tasks, such as exploring the distribution of some minerals in Dongying, the most important of which are the distribution of silver and copper ore, both of which are lacking in the Yu Tang Empire.

After coming for more than a year, Xu Fu has figured out the topography of Dongying through various methods, as well as the defensive strength, and the distribution of minerals, in addition, he also brought a few boats of silver back to Chang'an, these money are Xu Fu's labor expenses, within a year's time, Xu Fu helped Dongying to destroy several small feudal states, but these are not free, but Dongying spent a lot of money to get the shelter.

Xu Fu returned from Kagoshima in Dongying Province around September, drifted at sea for about 20 days, landed at Dengzhou Port, and spent another two months escorting the silver and other things brought back from Dongying back to Chang'an City.

Yu Zhiqian saw Xu Fu after Xu Xiake, and when Yu Zhiqian saw Xu Fu come back, his eyes quickly lit up, and he looked at Xu Fu: "Xu Aiqing has worked hard!" ”

"Serve Your Majesty, and the minister will never give up!"

"How's the investigation going?"

"Your Majesty, all the investigations have been completed, and the map of the Dongying Kingdom, the distribution of forces, armaments, etc., are all recorded here!" After finishing speaking, he lifted a box up, and the whole box of information was enough to see how attentive Xu Fu was to this mission.

Yu Zhiqian is very satisfied with Xu Fu's performance, destroying Dongying is one of Yu Zhiqian's basic national policies, although Yu Zhiqian is very confident that history will not follow his previous history, but just in case, or for the dream of his former angry youth, Yu Zhiqian will also destroy Dongying!

"Xu Aiqing worked hard, go down and rest first!"

Xu Fu slowly retreated, Yu Zhiqian did not reward, but Xu Fu did not have any dissatisfaction, he knew very well in his heart that after his mission was over this time, the reward would definitely not be less, and it would be very rich, and now His Majesty needs to check the fruits of his labor!

After Xu Fu left, Yu Zhiqian moved his body, got up from his dragon chair, and then motioned to the guards and Shen Wansan to open the box.

There were pieces of silk cloth in the box, which was worried about the humidity of the sea, and if it was written on the paper, if it was wet, these materials would immediately become waste paper, so when Xu Fu went to Dongying, Yu Zhiqian asked him to bring a lot of silk cloth, and any information was written directly on the silk cloth.

First of all, Yu Zhiqian opened a map of Dongying, which was not detected by later satellites, and there was no way to draw the map of all regions on a piece of silk cloth in detail, but divided it into one piece after another, a map of each region, Xu Fu did it very carefully, and on each small piece of map, it was marked, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., a total of more than 80 maps, large and small.

Yu Zhiqian in later generations is a dead otaku, he has never been to Dongying, most of the place names of Dongying are seen from TV series or in the TV series, oh yes, and I was often sick when I was in junior high school, and I only saw the textbook in the geography class where I almost never saw the teacher.

"Kyoto!" Yu Zhiqian saw the first chapter of the map, the center of the location of the word Kyoto was written, frowned, as if Tokyo has not appeared much now, Kyoto is the capital of Dongying, Yu Zhiqian silently wrote it down, carefully checked the terrain around Kyoto.

The second page is the city defense map of Kyoto, opened and glanced at it, and couldn't help laughing, Kyoto in Dongying is very similar to Chang'an City, but it has shrunk a lot, there are a lot more city defense maps in Dongying, carefully checked, the capital of Dongying Kingdom, the defenders are only 20,000 people.

Yu Zhiqian spent an afternoon looking at the map brought back by Xu Fu, and had a rough idea of the current strength of the Dongying Kingdom, if it weren't for the fact that across the East China Sea, the Yutang Empire would be able to directly push the Dongying people by sending 20,000 troops.

The New Year is approaching, the whole Chang'an City is busy again, Yu Zhiqian rubbed his somewhat sore shoulders, this is the longest day of work since Yu Zhiqian took power, a whole busy day, it is incredible.

"Your Majesty, it's time to rest!" Shen Wansan reminded in a low voice beside him.

"Well, I know, I plan to make Xu Fu the prince Shaobao, and the reward is ...... 10,000 taels."

After reading the information of the Dongying Kingdom brought back by Xu Fu, Yu Zhiqian pondered for a while and gave Xu Fu a decent reward, Prince Shaobao, this position is a second-grade official, and Xu Fu can be said to be a one-step climb to the sky in the position, you must know that the six Shangshu are only third-grade masters!

Yu Zhiqian hopes that his son will broaden his horizons in the future, Xu Fu, this guy is similar to Xu Xiake, he has traveled a lot of places, his vision is very broad, and he is also very careful, if he educates the prince, Yu Zhiqian is more at ease.

Originally, Yu Zhiqian wanted Di Renjie to be his child's teacher, but Di Renjie was old, and he didn't do it, and he was going to resign and go home after the New Year.

"Chang'an City has now begun to lift the curfew for seven consecutive days, right?" Getting up and walking outside the council hall, Yu Zhiqian looked at the lights of Chang'an City, and turned his head to look at Shen Wansan.

"Your Majesty is merciful, three days ago, Your Majesty decreed, starting from yesterday, Chang'an City will lift the curfew for seven consecutive days!"

After Yu Zhiqian heard it, he nodded, remembering that he had made this will, is it the New Year, there is no Spring Festival Gala to watch now, everyone has nothing to do after eating at night, Yu Zhiqian directly canceled the curfew, let the people have a good year, this year is the second year, compared to last year, this year's Chang'an City looks more lively.

"Your Majesty, it's time for dinner!"

"No, go out of the palace to eat outside, I haven't been out of the palace for a long time, go and see how the people are doing!"

After Yu Zhiqian finished speaking, he immediately turned around and went to the side hall, changed his clothes, and prepared to go out of the palace to wander around, and pay a private visit to see if there was anything to do again.

"Whoa!"

Shen Wansan immediately followed Yu Zhiqian behind him and prepared to serve Yu Zhiqian to change clothes, while Chen Qingzhi, as the commander of the guards, began to prepare manpower, the emperor traveled, safety is the top priority, and the guards must not be able to protect them with great fanfare, so they need enough good hands to scatter around.

About half an hour later, Yu Zhiqian rode a bicycle, followed by Shen Wansan, Chen Qingzhi and Zhang Xiaojing, and rushed towards Chang'an City.

"Where is Your Majesty going?"

After Yu Zhiqian left the palace, he was a little confused, and the square in front of the palace was full of bicycles, no illegal parking, all of them were headed inward, and the tail of the car was outward, neatly arranged.

It is conservatively estimated that there are about a thousand bicycles, perhaps because of Yu Zhiqian's doubts, Chen Qingzhi walked to Yu Zhiqian's side: "Your Majesty, these are the bicycles of the guards, and now bicycles have become the standard configuration of Chang'an City!" ”

After Yu Zhiqian heard it, he nodded, looked at the bicycle in front of him, and shook his head helplessly, he didn't expect that the bicycle had become popular in the Yutang Empire in such a short period of time.

"Your Majesty, the invention of the bicycle can be said to be the greatest invention, not only the people in Chang'an City, but now the people of the whole country, every household more or less has a car, with a bicycle, the efficiency of going out to do things has become much higher!"

"Yes, Your Majesty doesn't know, the old slave's family sent a letter, saying that when I went to the county before, I needed to go out before it was dark, and I went to the city around noon, and I hurried back after I was busy, otherwise I might be able to get home in the middle of the night, but now it's different, and I can get to the city by bicycle for more than an hour!" Shen Wansan also said with a smile next to him.

After Yu Zhiqian heard it, he smiled, he didn't expect that what he made casually would be so popular.

"Let's go, let's go to the East Market!"

Yu Zhiqian pushed the bicycle to increase the speed, then turned over and jumped, directly got on the bicycle, and began to steam in the direction of Dongshi.

About a few hundred meters away from the palace gate, when entering Zhuque Street, Yu Zhiqian found that it seemed that it was really as Chen Qingzhi and others said, and now everyone in Chang'an City seemed to have a bicycle.

I saw people riding bicycles everywhere on Suzaku Street, and I don't know which genius actually knew that a small bamboo basket was added to the bicycle, and items were placed in front of it, and they were riding along both sides of the street.

The palace is in the middle, not very far from the East Market, it may take about half an hour to walk, and it is much faster to ride a bicycle, and you can come to the East Market in ten minutes.

Before getting close to the East Market, Yu Zhiqian had to park the car, slowly pushing the bicycle forward, no way, there were too many people, after all, it was the New Year, plus the curfew was canceled, the people of Chang'an City either went to Pingkangfang to have fun, or went to the East Market and West Market to buy some food for the New Year, after a hard year, everyone wanted to have a good year.

"Sugar gourd, sugar gourd!"

"Sugar man, sugar man, you can draw whatever kind of sugar man you want!"

"Authentic Henan rice, this year's new rice is discounted!"

"Pork, fresh pork!"

“……”

As soon as you enter the East Market, you can hear the shouting on both sides of the street, the guys in the store stand in front of the door, looking at the bustling crowd, constantly shouting loudly, trying to attract some customers, the more you sell during the New Year, the more rewards the shopkeeper gives.

Holding a string of sugar gourds in his hand, Yu Zhiqian continued to walk forward while biting it, and saw the buffet he founded without walking a few steps.

"Wanke is still open?"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Shen Wansan, and then glanced at Chen Qingzhi, Chen Qingzhi was stared at by Yu Zhiqian a little uncomfortable, twisted his body, there was no way, when Wanke came to open before, Chen Qingzhi, Dian Wei, Xu Zhu and others went around the East Market every day, collected a "protection fee", and then took the protection fee to the winery to buy wine.

"Childe, Wanke is not losing money now!"

Yu Zhiqian was stunned for a moment after hearing this, looked at Shen Wansan, and felt a little magical, since Wankelai began to lose money, Yu Zhiqian knew how stupid he was at that time, and opened a buffet in ancient times.

However, when he heard that the buffet was not at a loss, Yu Zhiqian felt very magical: "How did you do it?" ”

"Your Majesty, because the price of food has come down now, so I can barely keep it at a loss!"

"Let's go, go in and have a look!"

After Yu Zhiqian finished speaking, he took the lead and walked into the buffet shop, compared to the crowded scene when it opened, the business of the store is much worse now, and when he saw someone coming in, Xiao Er immediately greeted him: "Objective, the buffet ......

At this time, the shopkeeper recognized Shen Wansan and immediately squeezed Xiao Er aside: "The big shopkeeper, you are here!" ”

"Bring the owner over and have a look!"

After the shopkeeper heard this, the whole person's body trembled a little, what is Shen Wansan's identity, he knows very well, who the owner is, he can also guess it, and almost knelt down, but Chen Qingzhi moved quickly and grabbed him: "The owner came out to see the situation, no need to be polite!" ”

"Yes, yes!" The shopkeeper kept wiping the sweat on his forehead, it was terrible, it was really terrible, the big boss came to the store in person, and the identity of the big boss was bigger than the sky......

"You go get busy, this son can go around casually!"

Yu Zhiqian waved his hand, signaled the shopkeeper to leave, and entered the store to check, more than 20 dishes, of which six or seven are meat dishes, but they are very shrewd, there are no enlarged slices of meat, they are all some shredded meat or minced meat, in addition to egg fried rice and other things, there are also some fruits and water and some noodles on the side.

Glancing at the diners in the store, Yu Zhiqian nodded with satisfaction, no matter who wanted to come in and take advantage of the previous buffet, it was not for the poor people to eat at all, and now the people in the house don't look too rich, this is the true meaning of Yu Zhiqian's buffet, well, it was realized after being reminded by the old emperor.

After inspecting the buffet and going out to continue shopping, Yu Zhiqian wanted to see the changes in the Yu Tang Empire over the years, and before he took two steps, he saw a store specializing in selling glass products, and looked up at the business name, which seemed to be his mother's shop, and couldn't help but walk in.

There are a lot of people in the store, all asking about some prices, most of them are outsiders who listen to the accent, the locals of Chang'an City are already immune to glass, and even the Hu people in Xishi know that this thing is worthless, and they will no longer take it back to China.