The speed of the big ship is naturally much faster than that of the small ship, and within a few days, the fleet of the household department arrived at Xiangfu Harbor on the south side of the royal capital Daliang, where it anchored and unloaded the goods on board.

Therefore, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu also drove the carriage and got off the boat.

At this moment, Xiangfu Port is being expanded under the cooperation of the Metallurgical Bureau and the Ministry of Industry, and the scale of the project makes Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu stunned.

They originally thought that the construction of the river port in Shangshui County was a big project, after all, there were thousands of laborers in charge of the project, but after seeing the tens of thousands of people on the side of Xiangfu Port participating in the construction of the port, the pride in their hearts suddenly disappeared.

"It is worthy of being the river port of the royal capital."

Wen Shaobo exclaimed.

No, a craftsman covered in dirt passed by him, and after hearing Wen Shaobo's emotion, he stopped and asked with a smile: "The two little brothers are not locals, right?" ”

"Who are you?" Wen Shaobo looked at the casual guy in front of him suspiciously.

I saw that the man shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "It's just a craftsman from the Smelting Bureau." ”

Jie Ziyu was stunned, because he found that this person's expression showed a pride that could not be concealed when he mentioned "Craftsman of the Smelting Bureau".

He said respectfully: "My two brothers are businessmen who responded to the call of King Su and went to Sanchuan to do business......

Although Jie Ziyu didn't know that the Smelting Bureau was the imperial court department headed by Su Wang Hongrun, he was keen, but he saw some clues from the other party's proud look: he was just a craftsman, but he could show his pride behind mentioning the department he belonged to in a place like Wangdu Daliang, which explained some problems.

"King Su?" The craftsman was stunned, and after glancing at the carriage beside the two of them, he suddenly said, "I see. After saying that, he raised his hand and pointed in one direction and said, "Go in this direction, pass through Bolangsha, and then pass through Chenggao Pass, and you can reach that city." …… By the way, when passing through Bolangsha, you might as well take a look at the Bolangsha under construction, and see how our Smelting Bureau has transformed a barren land into a river alley. ”

"Is it bigger than Xiangfu Port?" Jie Ziyu asked in surprise.

"Xiangfu Harbor? Over here? The craftsman pointed to his feet, and then sneered: "Little brother, when the Bolangsha Port is completed, you will find that Xiangfu Port is just a small port. ”

"Xiangfu Harbor? Is it just a small port?'

Wen Shaobo glanced at Xiangfu Harbor, which covered an area of several miles, and looked at Jie Zi Mian, who was also surprised.

After exchanging a few words with each other, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu said goodbye to each other, drove the carriage, and went straight to Bolangsha without the girder of the royal capital.

"Won't you enter the royal capital?" Wen Shaobo asked with some frustration.

Perhaps in Yingshui County, Anling County is a prosperous city, which can be compared with the royal capital Daliang, Anling is at best just a poor and remote place, and Wen Shaobo, who is in a small place, naturally wants to witness the prosperity of the royal capital.

"Count the days when you return and think about it." Jie Ziyu shook his head and reminded: "Didn't Ling Zun ask you to return to Anling before the end of the year?" Otherwise......"

"Break my leg or break my leg." Wen Shaobo sighed and sighed in frustration.

Driving the carriage, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu came to Bolangsha in the evening of the same day.

But after arriving, the barrenness around Bolangsha made Wen Shaobo very disappointed, because as far as the eye could see, Bolangsha was barren, full of silt and swamps, and it was completely impossible to see that this was a port that would compare Xiangfu Port with Xiangfu Port after completion.

"That guy can't be playing a trick on us, is he?"

Wen Shaobo said angrily.

Jie Zilu shook his head, and looked at the group of people in the distance.

In the distance, a group of people were driving a copper pillar several feet long and requiring two people to hug each other into the mud.

"Stake ......"

Jie Zi Owl muttered in a low voice.

There are many river ports in the Chu country, and piles must be used in the construction of river ports, so Jie Zi Yu is no stranger to this.

He was just surprised that the Wei State actually used such a huge copper pillar as a stake.

And this means that in the future, the buildings built on these copper pillars and piles will be very heavy and very large building complexes.

"That craftsman didn't deceive us, if the port here is completed, it will be compared to Xiangfu Port......" Jie Ziyu secretly muttered to himself, and added in his heart: Even, it may be compared to all the ports of all countries in the world.

"Really? I can't see it anyway. Wen Shaobo shrugged his shoulders, with a little disappointment and regret, and drove the carriage forward.

It was a meson owl, looking at Bolangsha, and speculating in his heart about the future scale of this river port.

And the conjectured results made him dumbfounded.

Because it may be a river port that is larger than the average county seat, several times larger.

Where is the construction of a river port, it is clearly casting a city!

"Da Wei, it's really thriving......"

Jie Zilu couldn't help but sigh.

Wen Shaobo glanced at his brother inexplicably, and teased with a smile: "Don't say it as if it has nothing to do with you, although you are from Chu, you are also a Wei person now, brother." ”

"Yes...... Jie Zi Yu sighed softly and nodded slowly.

He looked back at Bolangsha with a little inexplicable sadness in his eyes.

He thought of his native country, the State of Chu.

With the thriving Wei State, the Chu State must have looked lifeless.

The Wei State invested perhaps astronomical sums of money to build the country, while in the Chu State, the nobles who controlled the country used the money to squander it, used it for extravagance and lasciviousness, and died of drunken dreams.

That night, they spent the night in the sand dunes west of Bolangsha.

The sand dunes to the west of Bolangsha were too difficult to walk, and the wheels sank into the sand several times, causing Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu to push the car out of the sand pit with great effort.

However, to their surprise, when they were preparing to stay overnight, they met several teams with the same purpose of going to Sanchuan for business.

These people are all Wei people, and they are very surprised by the combination of Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu, the Anling Wei people and the Shangshui Chu people, after all, the whole country knows that the Anling Wei people and the Shangshui people look down on each other, so that although the two places are adjacent to each other, they have always been well water and not river water.

Even this year, there was a bad incident of Anling people and Shangshui people fighting about a fight, and now those people are still locked up in the prison of Anling and Shangshui.

Because of the identity of the Chu people, these Wei people are not very enthusiastic, after all, when Chu Xuanchengjun led the army to attack the Wei State, there was a stir in the Wei country, which made the Wei people extremely indignant against the Chu people, so even if the Chu people like Jie Ziyu defected to the Wei State now, there are still some Wei people who have prejudices against them.

However, there was a man named Tao Hong who made room for Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu.

"Dangjun Taoqiu, Taohong. …… To be precise, I am from Songdi. ”

After Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu sat down, the other party briefly introduced himself.

The so-called Song people actually refer to the people of the original Song State, and now, the land of the Song State has been incorporated into the Wei State, and the Song people have also been incorporated into the Wei people.

"Anling, Yingshui County, Uncle Wen."

"Yingshui County Shangshui, Jie Zi Ou. …… Thank you big brother for making room for the two of us. ”

Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu also briefly introduced themselves respectively.

"It's just a little thing." Tao Hong waved his hand, then nodded at the several groups of Wei people who were quite far away, and said in a low voice: "Compared to me, your identity from the Chu State is nothing at all. …… To be honest, I was scared at first that people would come up and hack me to death. ”

"......" Wen Shaobo and Jie Zi looked at each other.

"Why?" Jie Ziyu asked in surprise.

Tao Hong sighed lightly, lowered his voice and said: "The Wei State attacked and destroyed our Song State, and there are many Song people who can't accept it and are still resisting, and Dangjun still wants it, because there is the Dangshan Army in charge, but it is somewhere else...... It's messy, it's really messy. The Wei people killed the Song people, the Song people killed the Wei people, Nangong in Suiyang, that bastard thing, who only knew how to slaughter and suppress the rebellious Song people in the past, now he regretted it and began to appease the Song people, is it useful? Too late! …… Song Min's hatred for Nangong and the Wei people had already reached the point where it was close to exploding. ”

"Hey, I'm a Wei person." Wen Shaobo interjected dissatisfiedly.

Tao Hong glanced at Wen Shaobo, shrugged his shoulders and said, "The Wei people who can swear brothers with a Chu person will naturally not be the 'those Wei people' in my mouth. After that, he turned his head to look at Jie Ziyu, and said enviously: "I heard about Shangshui, to be honest, I envy you, with King Su in charge, no one dares to make trouble in the Shangshui area." Song Di will not become a ......"

Hearing this, Jie Ziyu comforted: "Brother Tao, don't worry, when King Su solves the matter of Sanchuan, he may go to Songdi." ”

"To Songdi?" Tao Hong shook his head and said in a low voice, "King Su will not go to Song Land. …… Not for anything else, because there is a South Palace in the Song Land. Like Da Liang, King Su cannot meddle in the affairs of Song Land, unless Nangong rebels, which is what Nangong and Da Liang agreed to back then. ”

After that, he grinned and said, "Actually, I can't wait for Nangong to rebel now." Once Nangong rebelled, it might be Nangong who led the army to conquer the Song Dynasty...... It's a pity that Nangong's wreckage recently heard that King Su had won battles one after another, and he didn't dare to mention the restoration of the Song royal family. ”

Looking at the look of regret in Tao Hong's eyes, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu looked at each other.

They could only persuade Tao Hong to wait patiently, and King Su would definitely solve the matter of Song Land in the future.

The next morning, the people who had stayed overnight set out.

And Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu went together because they chatted with Tao Hong speculatively, after all, their purpose was Chenggao Pass.

The official road of the sand dunes from Bolangsha to Chenggao Pass is really difficult, and it took these people a long time to reach Chenggao Pass.

After arriving at Chenggao Pass, they were stunned to find that Chenggao Pass actually stipulated that caravans going back and forth for business must pay a fee to Chenggao Pass before they can enter and exit this pass.

This incident made the caravans with Wen Shaobo, Jie Ziyu, and Tao Hong very dissatisfied.

And just when Wen Shaobo was arguing with the soldiers of Chenggao with his mouth, Jie Ziyu noticed that a large caravan came to Chenggao Pass, but the soldiers stationed at Chenggao Pass did not even ask the other party for the "customs exit fee", and directly gave a reply of "not allowed to leave the customs". (To be continued.) )