There are 10 gates in the city of Tokyo, plus the two corner gates formed by the Bianhe River crossing the city wall, which is considered 12 gates, and among these 12 gates, the Suzaku Gate is the main gate of Tokyo City, and any major ceremonies are held here, such as the general's expedition, the envoy's visit to the court, and so on.

However, although Suzaku Gate is important, it is not the most lively gate in Tokyo, in fact, because of the political significance of Suzaku Gate, the main gate in the middle is generally not opened, and only the two side gates of Suzaku Gate are opened, one gate in and one gate out. For the capital, the most lively and most crowded city gates are not the ten real city gates, but the corner gates in the southeast corner of the Bianhe River.

The Bianhe River passes through the capital from northwest to southeast, for which two water gates were also built on the city wall, but the water gate is usually closed, and ships are generally not allowed to enter the capital directly, this is mainly because the river channel of the Bianhe River becomes a little narrow after entering the capital, if there are too many ships entering, it will cause the river to be blocked, so the goods transported by water generally need to be unloaded outside the capital, and then transported into the city by land.

At that time, Li Zhang's Bianhe Town was a town formed by a wharf on the Bianhe River, and in order to facilitate the goods unloaded by the wharf to enter and leave the capital, the corner gate was opened next to the water gate, and the most lively was the corner gate in the southeast corner, because it was directly connected to the canal, and many goods were in and out from here.

In the past, when there was a curfew in the city of Tokyo, because of its particularity, the Bianhe Corner Gate sometimes allowed some goods to enter and exit at night, and then the curfew was released, and the city gate was no longer closed, which also made this corner gate completely burst out of its brilliance, from morning to night almost never stopped, there are countless people or goods from here at all times.

Today is no exception, just after breakfast, the corner gate here is also the busiest time of the day, although you can also enter and exit the corner gate at night, but the check of the corner gate will also be very strict, some goods are not convenient to enter and exit, so every morning, the backlog of goods in the evening are in a hurry to enter and exit the city gate, which also makes the corner gate in the morning especially congested.

In fact, for this important Bianhe Corner Gate, the imperial court has been expanded several times, nominally the Corner Gate, but in fact, in the various gates of Tokyo City, except for the main gate in the south, Suzaku Gate, there is really no city gate that is comparable to the scale of this Corner Gate, and some people even think that this Corner Gate is too big, has destroyed the city defense of Tokyo City, if there is an enemy to attack, this Corner Gate will become the weak point of Tokyo City, but now the Great Song Dynasty has no external troubles for the time being, so the security of the Corner Gate is not very important.

In order to solve the congestion phenomenon of the Bianhe Corner Gate, the imperial court also made a strict division of this corner gate, and there are special passages for entering and exiting, and extending to the city to belong to two different areas, so as to avoid the conflict of entering and exiting, but every morning, the passage in and out of the corner gate is still because there are too many cars and horses to cause the long queue, and sometimes there are some conflicts because of collisions, so a large number of forbidden troops are stationed here to maintain order.

Today is a little different, there is a team in the queue waiting to enter the city is particularly eye-catching, because this team is under the banner of Dingbei Hou Mansion, Li Zhang is simply too famous among the merchants, the most important thing is that he made the money bank, now almost monopolizes the paper money of the entire Great Song Dynasty, and the other industries under Li Zhang's name are also making money every day, everyone says that Li Zhang has a finger that turns stones into gold, and he can make money no matter what business he does.

However, this team under the banner of Dingbei Hou Mansion is a little different, because the escort team is all black and red, with open clothes, all of them are a little fierce, if it weren't for the banner of Dingbei Hou Mansion, maybe the defenders of the city gate have come forward to interrogate, after all, these people really don't look like good people.

Soon it was the turn of the team to enter the city, and dozens of carriages finally started slowly, but looking at the struggling appearance of the horses, it seemed that the things pulled on the boat were extremely heavy, and when the ruts walked up the road paved with blue bricks, they also found a dull sound, and experienced people also found the strangeness in the volume of the goods and the sound of the carriages, and ordinary goods would never be so heavy.

The carts are all strong and good horses, defeated the party to recover the northwest, defeated the Liao to recover Yanyun, both of which are horse-producing places, so the Great Song Dynasty is now no shortage of horses, the good horses in the northwest alone are enough to meet the domestic needs of the Great Song Dynasty, for this reason the price of horses has also dropped again and again, and most of the original ox carts in the capital have become carriages, after all, although the strength of cattle is great, they are still not as good as horses in pulling carts.

"It can't be the copper coin of the money store, right?" Someone next to him muttered in a low voice, after all, such a heavy cargo, only copper coins meet the requirements, although the money bank is an issued coin, but usually responsible for exchanging copper coins, so some copper coins often enter and exit between various branches.

"Impossible, the goods of the money bank are pulled by a special carriage, and there are officers and soldiers of the government to protect them, and there is also a seal of the government on the money box, it is definitely not like this!" Someone next to him immediately corrected in a low voice.

The most important thing in the money bank is the circulation of information and copper coins, for which Li Zhang also established a special transportation network, and because of the official background of the money bank, this transportation network was also protected by the imperial court, after all, with the passage of time, the money bank is also slowly transferred to the imperial court.

"Is it gold and silver? I heard that the business of the Hou Mansion is making money day by day, these can't be the gold and silver treasures that the Hou Ye transported from other places, right? At this time, some people began to speculate again, after all, curiosity is the common nature of human beings, especially this matter is also related to Li Zhang, a big man, that is a real person under ten thousand people, and his words may affect the direction of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Impossible, the money store is opened by the Hou Ye's family, if you want to use money, you can just transfer it directly from the money store, and the gold and silver are too cumbersome, who still uses that thing now?" Someone immediately retorted.

"Don't just stare at the carriage, look at the men who escorted the carriage, all of them have black and red faces, rough skin, if I'm not mistaken, these people should be begging for a living at sea." At this time, a well-informed person spoke, after all, the people who entered and exited the city gate came from all over the world, and all kinds of people had seen it.

"From the sea?" Hearing this person's words, the people around him all showed interested expressions, and at the same time, they also had some doubts in their hearts, because they didn't remember that Dingbei Hou Mansion had done business at sea?

However, just when everyone was speculating, the convoy didn't know if it was an accident or someone was careless, a heavy box on the car actually fell, and there was a loud "bang", and the box was smashed all at once, and a bunch of yellow and clear things inside burst out, rolling down everywhere.