The next day.

"Your dad is really picky!"

Yang Xin said while holding the boat and looking behind him dissatisfiedly.

He was on the Empress Dowager Xiao River at this time.

This ancient canal is still playing a role in the capital, although the real sense of navigation no longer exists, but just holding the small sampan to the Shili River is no problem, whether you can get to Zuo'anmen depends on luck.

It's summer, though, and it should be about the same.

After all, their small sampan is nothing more than a few hundred catties of goods, and the moat can walk.

"Shut up!"

Huang Ying glared at him and said.

They were sending the groceries to the capital, and it was obvious that the goods were more valuable, but in order to save money, Huang Zhen hired two small boats to transport the goods, and the rest were piled on this small sampan. Since Yang Xin can row from the triangle to Zhangjiawan, then he will continue to be good, saying that this cheap labor is still very satisfactory to Huang Zhen, comparable to a big animal. At this moment, the three boats sailed smoothly in this small river ditch in front and back, with the rise and landing of the penny again and again, constantly moving silently towards the destination ahead. Of course, these two boats are not only on the river, in fact, to describe it in the literati's notes, the boats on the river pass through, and the banks of the river are full of pedestrians, just like the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River.

Apparently this description is still true.

The same boats pass by from time to time, and the occasional pedestrian can be seen on the embankment, walking leisurely in the shade of the trees, and even palanquins can be seen......

"Where is Fangjiazhuang?"

Yang Xin asked.

"It's not enough to touch someone once?"

Huang Ying said in the cold.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm just afraid of being embarrassed again!"

Yang Xinyi said rhetorically.

He is really wronged, people are wearing small clothes, and there is a very short petticoat, saying that the women of this era have been very modern in terms of internal protection, not only the small coat that sticks to the last line of defense, but also the petticoat is similar to the second layer of defense pants.

Even if he really touched it......

What could he touch?

"Fangjiazhuang is in the west, the ancestors of the Fang family moved north with Yongle Ye, Jinyi Wei, and also had a commander, the ancestral tomb is in Fangjiazhuang, and Mr. Fang is in the countryside guarding the ancestral tomb to teach. As for that Miss Fang, it should be his youngest daughter, his two sons and daughters are both adults, but it is said that this Miss Fang is still in the boudoir, but she is quite good at management, and she is presiding over many of the Fang family's businesses. ”

Huang Ying said meaningfully.

Obviously, she also investigated this in Zhangjiawan.

"I don't like this strong woman type, or the lively and cute type suits me!"

Yang Xinyi said rhetorically.

"Like Miss Wang?"

Huang Ying said.

"That's not called lively and cute, that's called brutal and willful, and you have to throw people into the river at every turn!"

……

Ten miles of river arrived while talking.

It looks more like a water town, not only are there rice paddies everywhere on the bank, but there are also people casting nets to catch fish on this river, there are flocks of geese and ducks on the bank, and children with bare butts are happily frolicking in the water, and they don't feel the breath of Kinki at all, and it is more like a quiet small village in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, there is also an official road with few pedestrians.

But if you go any further, you can't really move anymore.

The Empress Dowager Xiao River has long since changed from what it used to be, this river for transporting grain in the Liao State in those years, after the completion of the Tonghui River, which took away most of its water source, and the river is now basically equivalent to the drainage ditch in the outer city of Beijing. However, the south and east sides of Beijing are full of wetlands and swamps, and there are many springs, so when there is a lot of rain in summer, small sampans and the like can still be passed. If they weren't carrying goods, these small sampans would probably be able to hold up into the moat like this, but after carrying hundreds of pounds of goods, they really couldn't walk.

Fortunately, Huang Zhen originally planned to come here.

Immediately after the boat landed, he went to find five carts, quickly loaded the goods into the carts, and then handed over his small sampans to familiar people to take care of, gave the wages of the two sampans, and led the five carts along the official road.

Soon a castle tower appeared in the blue sky and white clouds, and then even the horizontal city wall appeared......

"This is the capital?"

Yang Xin looked at the low city wall and the equally low city tower with a speechless expression.

"This is not as good as the Tianjin Acropolis!"

He went on to say.

"This is the outer city, it was only repaired fifty years ago to prevent the Tartars from disturbing, the imperial court lacked money to repair it more simply, this south wall is particularly simple, the east and west walls are higher and higher to the north, but it is still much shorter than the inner city, after all, the defense of the capital depends on the inner city."

Huang Zhen said.

Well, this outer city is actually not that old.

It was not until the forty-third year of Jiajing, that is, the penultimate year, that the outer city was really built, and this is the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and Longqing was added in the middle, but it was only about fifty years, but the low height of the outer city of Beijing still refreshed Yang Xin's cognition of the imperial capital. Pity this city wall is only six or seven meters, even if it is a slightly larger city in these years, it is embarrassing to see people if you don't build a nine-meter-high city wall, and it is still too embarrassing to repair this height in the dignified capital. And even if the Zuo'anmen City Tower is only one floor, at most it is perfect, such as the urn city, horse face, and moat, but the iconic arrow tower is not yet, and the defense level is not even as good as the Tianjin Acropolis, let alone a top fortress like Shanhaiguan.

Speechless, he walked and followed the convoy across the stone bridge over the moat.

After entering the urn city, Huang Zhen took out a stamped road guide, walked to the gate guard and handed it over, and when the latter took it, his hand flicked, and a piece of broken silver fell into his hand, the latter glanced at the road guide casually, and waved his hand directly to pass.

Yang Xin and his entourage hurriedly walked over.

Behind the soldier, an official sat lazily in a chair holding a teacup, and the soldier next to him fanned him to look like he was quiet.

"Don't pay taxes?"

Yang Xin asked suspiciously.

"Merchants who enter the outer city pay taxes at Chongwen Gate, and all city gates have fixed duties, so business travelers like us can only enter the inner city through Chongwen Gate. However, we don't go into the inner city, the shops that collect these goods are in the outer city, and their taxes are also collected by the Chongwenmen tax gate, so those are none of our business. ”

Huang Zhen said.

"Where are these soldiers?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Nancheng Soldiers and Horses, they control the access control of the gates of the outer city, and the security inside the city."

Huang Zhen said.

"They're up to them in the outer city?"

Yang Xin asked.

"They don't count, they are dogs, how can there be dogs, there are patrolling the city, Jinyiwei, Zhongguan, any of them can manage them, patrolling the city and the imperial history are directly in charge of them, among these stewards in the capital, there is also a patrol camp with a lower status than them, and the rest are all their masters, and even Taichang Temple has to sweep the floor."

In this way, they whispered as they passed through Zuo'anmen.

The officials continued to live quietly.

The city made Yang Xin feel even more ruined......

"Is this the capital or the wilderness?"

Yang Xin had a chin on the ground expression, looking at the swampy wetlands in front of him, dense reeds swaying among the large and small ponds, and even patches of farmland as far as the eye could see, with scattered temples and dwellings.

There is even a graveyard!

"This is not a wilderness, it was originally when the outer city wall was built, and a large area of wilderness was enclosed in order to be square, and this is not a place where business and travel are clustered on the main transportation routes. In the middle of the south of the city, Yongding Gate is the main road, You'anmen, Guang'anmen are all going to Lugouqiao Road, Guangqumen is a timber market, the salt transported from Zhangjiawan also goes to Guangqumen, Dongbian Gate needless to say, the goods from the Tonghui River have to enter the city in Dongbianmen. This Zuo'anmen is a decoration, except for the occasional trader passing by, no one will go here at all, as for the south to take the main road, after crossing the horse horse bridge, it is also necessary to enter the city at Yongding Gate. ”

Huang Zhen said.

"This is not the city gate, this is the village gate!"

Yang Xin sighed.

As far as the eye can see, there is at least two kilometers of rich idylls in the city of Beijing, but if you look west, you can still see the Temple of Heaven, but there must also be more than one kilometer of idyll.

In this way, they continued in the countryside protected by the city walls.

Suddenly, there was a dog barking.

Immediately afterwards, a hare rushed out of the reeds on the side of the road, and chased two thin dogs behind him, the hare panicked and hit Huang Ying's feet, and the two thin dogs suddenly pierced down with their fangs. Huang Ying raised his foot and knocked over one, and Yang Xin's right hand grabbed the back of the other's head, grabbed the skin on his neck, picked it up, and threw it to the side. Almost at the same time a horse rushed out, and the man on the horse's back screamed, and the thin dog hit the horse's face, and the horse neighed in fright......

Yang Xin suddenly jumped out.

He instantly came to the horse, grabbed the two horse's legs and pulled them down with a roar, and then the horse's hooves were dragged back to the ground by him.

"It's okay, otherwise I will break my leg again, and those who ride horses are deficient in calcium these years!"

Yang Xin said with relief.

The man on horseback looked at him bewilderedly.

It is estimated that he has not woken up yet, and in this short moment, he has experienced the ups and downs of life, and he was a little dazed for a while, but four house slaves swarmed out behind him, one of them reached out to grab Yang Xin, and Yang Xin took a step back......

"Where did you come from, scare my young master!"

Another house slave shouted.

"It was your dog who almost bit me!"

Huang Ying said angrily.

The man on horseback came to his senses at this time.

"This little lady, where did you bite, quickly open it and let the young master take a look?"

He laughs.

Next to him, Yang Xin sighed.

"Let my young master take a look!"

"Don't bleed, right?"

……

Several house slaves immediately laughed and coaxed.

Huang Ying bit her lip and stomped her foot, turned her head to the side, and her action immediately made the young master's eyes light up.

"This little lady has a bit of game!"

He said.

Then there was a smiling face between him and Huang Ying......

"This son, I'm also very gamed!"

Yang Xin said sincerely.

After saying that, he suddenly reached forward with both hands, grabbed the two horse's ears one by one, and before the young master could wake up, he roared again, and pulled his arms down hard at the same time, and the horse screamed under his violent suppression, and involuntarily bowed his head and fell to his knees. The boy on horseback fell forward with a scream, and fell right in front of Yang Xin, who grabbed the horse's ears with both hands and immediately went to his belt and back, and roared again and dragged him out directly. With the screams of the house slave and the screams of the young master, Yang Xin threw him back with both hands, and then turned around and came seven hundred and twenty degrees, and then put him back on the horse with his head down......

"Wild enough?"

Yang Xin put his face in front of the young master who was almost faint and said gloomily.

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