In ancient times, there is no need to pay any entry tax into the city, of course, in the time of war, the tax and fee for entering the city is another matter, only to go to the designated business area, or the merchant of the carriage and carriage, it is possible to collect the city fee, which is also the basic behavior of the dynasties and generations, ordinary pedestrians and normal access to the city gate, it is impossible to pay any fees.

After Fang Jing's brother and sister entered Guangzhou City, what they saw was not as prosperous as Ezhou City or Danyang City, Guangzhou City is a remote location, and there are many fewer natural personnel, only some merchants, sea trade, and foreign envoys will settle in Guangzhou City.

"Brother, why aren't there many people here? A lot of shops are closed. Fang Yuan raised his head and asked Fang Jing.

"Brother doesn't know, maybe it's because there are few people here." Fang Jing also discovered this kind of thing for the first time, such a big city, but there were very few people, and even some shops were closed.

Then Fang Jing took Fang Yuan to the south of the city, walked along the street, and until he reached the south of the city, he found that compared with the people in the north of the city, it was really a heaven and a hell, at least in the south of the city, the door of the shop was still open, and there were many pedestrians on the road, although it could not be expressed by the crowd of people, but it could also be said that the pedestrians were endless.

The south of the city is close to the Pearl River, and the trade and trade transactions are bound to be here, while the north of the city is basically a residential area, and the number of people is relatively small.

There are indeed a lot of shops in the south of the city, and there are many alleys, interspersed with the streets in the south of the city, making the prosperity of the south area of Guangzhou City can also be compared with Danyang City, although it is not comparable, but it is not much worse.

The Pearl River, also called Yushui, Xijiang, Yuejiang, is the second largest river in China, the third longest river in China, the width of the Pearl River in ancient times reached several kilometers upward, due to the time factor, the Pearl River seen today is much smaller than in ancient times, the Pearl River is formed by the confluence of three different rivers, and Guangzhou City is located on the north bank of the Pearl River.

Guangzhou City, in ancient times, called Wuyang City, also called Suicheng, Yangcheng, Guangzhou City has a history of more than 2,000 years, and it is also a harbor city that has not been stopped or closed in China since ancient times, but in the same way, the Lingnan area is also because of the existence of the port of Guangzhou City, so that all kinds of materials can be transported to various places, and it is also to make the remote places in the Lingnan region to receive some materials or information that are not available locally.

"Brother, look, there's food there." The little girl pointed to a shop selling some food in the distance and shouted to Fang Jing.

"See, don't shout, you're a little girl, you have to be reserved." Fang Jing was a little helpless about the little girl's yelling temperament, she used to tell her often at home, but this is the same outside, and she didn't dare to reprimand loudly, so she had to whisper.

"Brother, look, is this a fish?" Fang Yuan pointed to the food on the stall and asked Fang Jing.

"Well, this is a fish from the sea, called octopus, and it can be eaten when it is grilled." Fang Jing patiently explained to the little girl.

The food sold by the store is mainly engaged in some fresh seafood, which is mainly boiled and grilled, similar to octopus, which is directly grilled and eaten, and the taste is still good, at least for some people, it is completely acceptable, as for Fang Jing, it is best to add some seasoning, otherwise the taste is a little rushed.

Fang Jing took out some copper coins and bought some from the store, although there was no seasoning at the moment, but it did not affect the interest of the little sister, at least Fang Jing had to hold on to her little sister, otherwise the little girl would be unhappy if she was unhappy.

"Brother, this tastes pretty delicious, it squeaks." Fang Yuan took the roasted octopus and ate it, his mouth creaking.

"Little sister, you like to eat, then you can eat it all, my brother doesn't like to eat these things." Fang Jing listened to the creaking sound in her little sister's mouth, and the roots of her gums were sour.

"Brother, why does this octopus have claws? Aren't fish all claws? The little girl was eating the octopus, and she didn't forget to ask Fang Jing about the octopus.

"This octopus, it's not a fish, it can only be said to be a mollusk, they have no bones, they rely on these claws to swim in the water, not like a fish with fins to swim in the water, and these octopuses have suction cups on their paws, which are usually attached to big fish or boats." Fang Jing explained the general situation of the octopus to the little girl, and Fang Jing didn't know too much.

Fang Jing took Fang Yuan to walk around this ancient city with a history of more than 2,000 years, although it is not more than 2,000 years now, but at least there are traces of history of nearly 1,000 years, all kinds of rammed earth city walls, and various types of houses, with a different style from the north and south.

The kind of big opening and closing in the north, this kind of small jasper in the south, and the compact harmony of Lingnan are more reasonable and coordinated in this Guangzhou city.

For the Guangzhou City in the previous life, Fang Jing knew much more than other cities, but he was in the dark of the current Guangzhou City, but the city at this time was not the kind of city in the previous life, it was completely different, if he knew something, it was really not the current Fang Jing.

"Brother, there are a lot of people over there, shall we go and have a look?" Fang Yuan pointed to the crowd not far from the gate of the South City and shouted at Fang Jing.

Fang Jing looked at the south city gate, there were really a lot of people surrounding over there, and they didn't know what they were doing, some of them seemed to be watching something, Fang Jing followed the little girl and walked towards the south city gate.

"I don't know where I got such a big fish, it's so big, how long will it take to eat it." A middle-aged man was talking around the crowd.

"Yes, it's so big, I really want to eat it for my family, I guess it will be able to eat for a year." An old man standing not far from the middle-aged man responded.

"Brother, they're talking about fish, saying there's a big fish, I want to see it, I want to see it." The little girl and Fang Jing stood outside the crowd, unable to see what was going on inside, Fang Yuan shouted loudly at Fang Jing, causing the crowd next to her to look back at Fang Jing's brother and sister.

"Okay, come on, sit on my brother's shoulder." Fang Jing put the little girl on her shoulder, and let the curious little girl look inside.

"Brother, there really is a big fish, so long." The little girl sat on Fang Jing's shoulder and shouted to Fang Jing under her ass with a loud scream.

"Oh? How big is it? After Fang Jing listened to the little girl's words, she also began to be a little curious, thinking about whether there were also large fish in this water?

"It's so big, it's so big." The little girl sat on Fang Jing's shoulder, gesturing with her hands extended.

Fang Jing was speechless, how big can the little girl's outstretched little hand be, it is estimated that it is indescribable, thinking that the little girl has also seen the giant beast in the sea, I think that this fish that is being watched by people must not be small, and I am also very curious in my heart.

After Fang Jing put the little girl off her shoulders, she took the little girl and squeezed inside, the onlookers were unwilling, and they all shouted at Fang Jing's brothers and sisters.

"You're a little offspring, why don't you buy it, why are you still squeezing in?" A man was uncomfortable being squeezed by Fang Jing, and said loudly to Fang Jing.

"This big brother, I haven't seen it before, I want to see how big this fish is, I heard you say that the fish is big, don't you worry." Fang Jing had no choice but to be a tourist with strange things and explain to everyone.

"This little brother, if you want to see it, you can wait for a while, there are so many people right now, it's not good to crowd anyone." Another man also chimed in.

"That's, that's it, you're a little baby, is this what you can see? Don't squeeze. An old man shouted at Fang Jing.

"The little baby is one, the hair has not grown, step back, what to see." A strong man shouted at Fang Jing with his throat raised.

Fang Jing was also helpless, and took the little girl back to the outside of the crowd of onlookers, so she had to wait for this group of people to disperse, and then see what kind of strange fish it was, which could make people all surround and unwilling to leave, it seemed that it must be a fish that Fang Jing had never seen when she was studying in her previous life, or that the fish she had seen was too big.

When Fang Jing was studying in his previous life, he knew that the largest freshwater fish in China should be regarded as the eel, and no matter how big it is, there will be no more, after all, the eel is a species left over from ancient times, and it can be compared with this kind of fish, but there is no more, of course, it is not excluded that there are still large fish in the Tang Dynasty at this time, after all, in the development process of thousands of years, too many species have disappeared or become extinct in the land of China.

Fang Jing's brother and sister were also interested, so they stood next to them and waited, the little girl kept pouting, like a very wronged little daughter-in-law, and from time to time she held an octopus to bite and eat, and her two eyes stared at the onlookers hatefully, Fang Jing looked at the little girl's appearance, and really wanted to laugh a few times in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it, for fear that the little girl would spill her anger on her head, so she could only hold back her laughter.

A quarter of an hour or two later, the onlookers dispersed a little, and Fang Jing led the little girl into it a little, and then saw the big fish on the ground.

Fang Jing stared at this big fish curiously, the body length was definitely more than three and a half meters, and the weight was estimated to be three or five hundred catties, Fang Jing had really never seen such a big freshwater fish, and it was not a fish fish, which made Fang Jing very curious in his heart, standing and staring at the big fish all the time, only then did he see the full appearance of the big fish.

Eel, a kind of giant fish in freshwater rivers and lakes, commonly known as yellow catfish, also called rod fish, or water tiger, its body is slender, the head is pointed, the snout is large, the eyes are small, the tail fin is very large, the swimming speed is extremely fast, carnivorous and ferocious fish, mainly to eat its smaller fish or insects and animals in the water, such as mixing a fish in the pond, basically to the harvest, there can be no other fish in the pond, wild eel can weigh up to one or two hundred catties, there are records of more than two hundred catties of eels in the book, Fish is an upper-middle fish in the fish food chain, and its delicious meat has always been classified as a superior food fish.

Fang Jing carefully looked at the fish in front of him, he really had nothing to say, this fish Fang Jing had seen the specimen in the school in his previous life, it was almost half the size of this fish, it was not a rare fish, but it was known for its large size.

"Little sister, let's go, go out of the city to have a look, it is right on the edge of Yushui, we can also go and see how this Yushui and the dock are." After Fang Jing stood up from the side of the big fish, he took the little sister's hand and walked towards the south city gate.

After the Fang Jing brothers and sisters walked outside the city, they walked to the riverside, looking at the Yushui in front of them, as well as the boats and boats on the river, more of them are cargo ships, and there are some small fish boats, but they are generally few, of course, it is impossible to compare with the cities along the Yangtze River, after all, it is far away from the Tang Dynasty's Kyoto, and it is far away from the economic and commercial circle of the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible to have too many goods transported or transferred here, however, with the historical process of the following dynasties, it will become a world-class port city. It also plays an indispensable role in the process of Chinese history.

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