Chapter Fifty-Seven

"The capital is so big, and there are so many people." Zhu Niang's attention was temporarily diverted from the little lynx, and she exclaimed.

The tiger head has been in a dumbfounded state, looking stupid, but he just doesn't speak.

The surprise of the six veterans is even more difficult to hide, but although Zhang Bin has emotion, but not much surprise, this is related to the original Zhang Bin once came to Kaifeng to participate in the provincial test, but more because although the city of Tokyo in front of him is majestic, but compared with the Great Wall rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, it is still a lot worse.

Just inside the moat, at the base of the city wall, there is a circle of sheep and horses about five feet long.

"Childe, these sheep and horse walls now look like they are placed for livestock to be sold, but if it is time of war, the soldiers in the city can go down behind the sheep and horse walls, and form a double defense with the defenders on the city, and the 100,000 elite soldiers in the city are enough to resist a million enemies." Li Siwa has guarded the city in Dashun City for most of her life, and she has extremely rich experience in this area, so she couldn't help but sigh to Zhang Bin in a low voice at this time.

"That's right." When Zhang Bin said this, he didn't know what he thought, and his expression was full of sarcasm.

More than 40 years later, the walls of this city are even higher and thicker than now, and there are more defenders and civilians in the city than now, but it was easily broken by tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry who were not good at attacking the city, causing the shame of the Central Plains Dynasty of China for eternity.

Therefore, Grandpa Mao's words are the truth - the ultimate meaning that determines everything is people, and if there is a problem with those who control this city, no matter how strong the defense is, the city defense will not be able to hold it.

With a sigh in his heart, Zhang Bin led everyone to the city gate with the flow of people, and naturally someone came to check, but not to check whether he was carrying dangerous goods, but to require business travelers with large bags or vehicles to pay taxes.

Zhang Bin had a property sent by Su Guo, and the soldiers who checked it knew at a glance that it was something valuable, and his eyes lit up, but before they could interrogate, Li Siwa had already taken out Zhang Bin's holy documents to face Beijing and showed his identity, and the soldiers immediately respectfully let him go.

Entering the city, the prosperity in front of you is naturally much better than outside the city, the traffic is busy, the river is endless, bustling, shoulder to shoulder, in short, there are many people and cars.

Zhang Bin and his entourage came to the post house in the north of the city while touring.

There were a few small officials sitting behind the table in front of the post house in the north of the city, just like the front desk of later generations, and after taking the initiative to check their identities, they welcomed Zhang Bin and his party in, and there was no trace of humility when the officials of the post house in other places saw the officials in the whole process.

The size of the post house in the capital once again amazed the group, even Zhang Bin was emotional, because this post house is too big, covering an area of more than 200 acres, for the house of 100 trees, there are more than 23 courtyards alone.

Zhang Bin didn't even have official products, and when he entered the post house, Yicheng didn't even appear, and a small official arranged a place for him to live, and the contempt was very obvious.

Zhang Bin naturally didn't think it was wrong, because he knew that there were too many officials at the feet of the Son of Heaven in the capital, and it was common to meet officials of the fourth or fifth rank on the street, even if he saw the first and second rank rulers, it was not uncommon.

And now he doesn't even have official goods, and he can live in this post house, thanks to Han Jiang's document to go to Beijing to face the saint.

"Face Saint?" When Zhang Bin filled in the official business of going to Beijing in the register of the post house according to the procedure, the little official who had been too lazy to look up was taken aback, took Zhang Bin's documents again and read them again, and finally there was no contempt on his face, and brought Zhang Bin to the post house.

"Since there is the signature and seal of Han Xianggong, and the will of the imperial court, the news of your coming to Beijing will be reported to the government hall in accordance with the rules, and they will present it to the Son of Heaven, but whether or not you can face the saint is two different things." Different from the local prefectures and counties where the post is an official, the Beijing post house is an official from the eighth grade, and he is very powerful, even if he knows that he is here to face the saint, there is still disdain in his words.

"Huh! Your name is Zhang Bin, and you are a senator of Dashun City. Yi Cheng suddenly remembered the great victory that caused a sensation in the government and the opposition a few days ago, and it was rumored that in the great victory, in addition to Han Jiang, Han Xianggong and Chong Ge, there was a staff officer with no grade who had the greatest credit, but he didn't remember the name of this staff officer, could it be this person.

Yi Cheng was slightly taken aback, and carefully looked at the young man who was less than twenty years old in front of him, and found that although Zhang Bin was young, his eyes were deep and his expression was calm.

To be able to be a post in the capital inn, not to mention the ability, this eyesight is top-notch, and then think about coming from Dashun City, except for the one who is respected by Han Xianggong and Chong Ge in the good news, who else can be qualified to face the saint.

This son has made a great contribution that everyone envies, this time he must be directly made an official, and he must be sent by a real job, and with this son's age, even if he does not have a meritorious reputation, his career will not be bad in the future.

"It turned out to be Senator Zhang, who admired it for a long time." His mind was racing, and there was a kind smile in Yicheng's expression, which was an attitude of equal treatment.

Yicheng immediately readjusted the hospitality specifications of Zhang Bin and his entourage, although the place where he lived did not have an independent courtyard, but it was also replaced by a clean upper room, and the food and use were also raised two specifications, and a small official was also arranged to listen to Hou Zhang Bin's call.

After settling down in the post house, Zhang Bin did not eat in the room, and deliberately went to the front building of the post house.

Like some of the guest houses in later generations, the front building of the post house was also open to the public, but it was mainly the officials who lived here who ate here.

Zhang Bin deliberately ate here, naturally wanting to find out some news.

The front building of the post house is actually a three-story restaurant, there are a lot of people, but the field is big enough, the first floor is the dining place of the officials' entourage, Zhang Bin only took the bamboo girl and the snake slave, plus a small gold on the second floor, the two women are maidservants, Li Siwa and Hutou with six veterans dine downstairs.

Zhang Bin's specifications had been set before, and they were according to the standards of low-grade officials, but there were a lot of wine and dishes served.

Zhang Bin tasted it, the food tasted good, and the wine was also of the highest quality.

The two beauties of the bamboo lady and the snake slave plus the cute little gold, this combination of beauty and cute pets, suddenly attracted the attention of many people, but everyone was proud of their identity, they all glanced at it, and then turned their heads, of course, when looking at the beauty, by the way, they will also look at who has this beautiful fortune.

And Zhang Bin may be because of the soul wearing, his eyes are deep and his temperament is very different, which suddenly makes many people secretly speculate.

Zhang Bin turned a blind eye to everyone's eyes, because his attention had been attracted by the conversation between the two people at the next table.