"Back to the Great Khan. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Fan Wencheng played, "The minister compared the handwriting of the letter submitted by Kong Youde with the handwriting of the letter received by the minister, and the two letters were written by one person. Although the minister still can't figure out who the person who wrote the letter is, this person is indeed loyal to my Dajin, and this person has the talent to penetrate the heavens and the earth, and can pinch and calculate. Today, not only have all the things that were said in the letter come true, but we have also made progress in doing what the letter says. Yue Tuobeile and Derge Beile have captured Lushun, Huang Long, the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty, committed suicide, and I Dajin has no worries in Liaodong. ”

"What Fan Aiqing said is extremely true." Huang Taiji asked again, "What does Aiqing think about the matter of Nanpu in North Korea and Yulin Bay, the capital of Qiongzhou in Daming?" ”

"Great Khan." Fan Wencheng replied, "Since the senior man said in the letter that we should not worry about the affairs of North Korea for the time being, and he will have new guidance in a year, the minister thinks that he should act according to the plan." Let's ignore North Korea and Nampo for the time being, just wait and see what happens after a year. ”

Han Wantao, Xu Lang and others returned to Nanpu. This futile return shocked all the travelers in North Korea, what happened to change history so much?

"No matter what happens." Han Wantao said at the meeting of the Mixed Brigade Traversers, "History has changed, and we must be prepared for anything that may happen." ”

"Brigadier, what else could happen?" Wang Qianxiang asked.

"Anything is possible." Xu Lang replied first, "It is possible that the Manchus will attack the Ming Dynasty in advance, or they may attack Korea or Mongolia in advance, and they may even come to attack our Nanpu." ”

"Will the Manchus come to Nanpu?" Everyone expressed their doubts.

"Let's not think about whether the Manchus will come now, let's do what needs to be done first." Han Wantao stopped everyone, "I'll arrange the following work, Lao Wang, you take people to continue to strengthen the Nanpu barracks, our minimum goal is to be able to resist the attack of 5,000 Manchu people; Guangxian, you take someone to Pyongyang, bring An Guoxin, there are 2 tasks, food and people, try to recruit some North Koreans to Nampo; Xu Lang, you write a letter and ask Xie Tian to send it home through their channels, and tell the family in detail about what happened here. ”

"I have written the letter, and I have already asked Xie Tian's people to send it out." Xu Lang said, "I want to go with Zhang Hai, TJ and BJ, why go to TJ and BJ, all the people here were told by Xu Lang's words."

"It's definitely not enough for us to collect food in North Korea." Xu Lang explained, "The food sent by Xie Tian is also very small, which can't last a few days, and their General Affairs Department No. 2 has its own tasks, so it's impossible for people to run errands for you every day." So I want to go to TJ to buy grain in person, and by the way, go to BJ to learn about the changes in the Ming court. Ladies and gentlemen, history has changed greatly, and none of us knows if there will be changes in the Ming Dynasty. However, we can no longer come according to the historical knowledge of the previous life, that will be very passive. ”

"What about Dengzhou?" Zeng Guangxian asked.

"Let's put it on the Dengzhou side first." Han Wantao said, "At least now it is impossible for Chen Yingyuan to let us go to Dengzhou." ”

"Actually, I have an idea." Xu Lang said, "What is most lacking in Dengzhou now is food, and we brought a lot of silver this time." After Zhang Hai and I went to TJ and BJ, if we bought more grain, I wanted to use grain and silver to open Chen Yingyuan's gap. ”

"It's not impossible." Wang Zhaoxing asked, "It's just that what identity do you want to use?" ”

"If we go to Dengzhou, we can no longer use the banner of Zheng Zhilong, just use the identity of a businessman, so that Chen Yingyuan will not have any suspicions."

"Are you going to do it?" Han Wantao suddenly remembered, "Chen Yingyuan has seen you under Dengzhou City. ”

"No problem." Xu Lang smiled, "The city wall is so high, he must not have seen it clearly." ”

Xu Lang and Zhang Hai took a squad of marines and a dozen horses from Andreas, changed into the clothes of a Ming merchant, and went to TJ God on the God, put down Xu Lang and the others in a remote harbor and returned to Nanpu.

Xu Lang and Zhang Hai rode horses for most of the day and came to the outside of TJ Wei's city.

"It's finally in the big city." Xu Lang sighed immediately.

"Huh." Zhang Hai said with a smile, "I'm afraid that the current TJ Wei is not as big as a small city in later generations, and this can also be called a big city." ”

"At least it's much more than our Yulin Bay." Xu Lang asked again, "Do you know where the liaison station of the Second General Affairs Office is in TJ?" ”

"I know, the people from the Second General Affairs Department told me, let's just go directly."

"No, let's not just go."

"Why?" Zhang Hai turned his head suspiciously.

"Why?" Xu Lang replied, "It's not easy to come to TJ, let's find a place to live first, and don't be in a hurry to visit TJ to buy food." ”

"No, that's not your style." Zhang Hai said in a low voice, "Do you have any ideas?" ”

"Shh Xu Lang made a gesture to Zhang Hai not to speak, "Let's go, TJ is waiting for us." ”

The group entered the TJ guard.

TJ Wei was founded in 1404, when the first construction of the TJ Acropolis is actually an earthen city, the circumference is more than 9 li, the height of the city is 3 zhang 5 feet, the width of 2 zhang 5 feet, the shape of the city is long from east to west, short from north to south, very much like an abacus, so people at that time also called it "abacus city".

The location of TJ Wei is very good, right on the way to the Grand Canal. Throughout the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, TJ's commerce, transportation, and salt industry have been fully developed, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, TJ's population has reached about 100,000, becoming a prosperous town with the leading function of assisting the Beijing Division.

Because of this, when Xie Tian said that TJ's food was not easy to buy, Xu Lang had a trace of doubt.

Everyone found an inn to stay, Xu Lang sent all 10 of his subordinates out, and told them that it would take two days to turn around the rice shops in TJ City and collect all the rice prices.

The 10 people were ordered to go out, and Xu Lang and Zhang Hai stayed alone in the inn.

"Xu Lang, what are we doing? You can't stay here stupidly. ”

"You don't want to be stupid?" Xu Lang smiled, "Okay, then let's go out for a walk." ”

The two of them left the inn and wandered all the way, TJ City can be much more prosperous in Yazhou and Qiongzhou. It has been more than 3 years since they traveled to the Ming Dynasty, even if Xu Lang and Zhang Hai don't like shopping by nature, they are also interested at this time.

Xu Lang stood down at the door of a rice shop, reached out and scooped up a handful of rice from the rice jar placed at the door, and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes.

The guy in the shop saw that Xu Lang and Zhang Hai were dressed gorgeously, and hurriedly greeted him: "This guest officer, do you want to buy rice?" ”

"What's the price of your rice?" Xu Lang asked.

"A load of silver is four two five."

"How much?" This price startled Zhang Hai.

"This guest officer, this store must not lie, tattoo silver four two five thousand."

Xu Lang asked quietly, "Why is it so expensive?" ”

The shopkeeper explained attentively: "Listen to the accent, the two guest officers are from the south, the two guest officers don't know, the SD side has been fighting for more than a year, and the transportation was cut off a few days ago, and the grain from the south can't be transported." The HN area has failed to harvest this year, so the price of rice is rising every day, and if the guest officer wants to buy it, he will have to buy it as soon as possible, and maybe the price will increase again in a while. ”

"Oh." Xu Lang responded, "Man, isn't the battle over there already over?" ”

"Finished fighting?" The shopkeeper thought for a while, "I haven't heard of this villain, but it doesn't have much to do with the villain whether the fight is over or not." ”

"Thanks buddy." Xu Lang put down the rice in his hand and continued to hang out with Zhang Hai.

Two days have passed, and according to the news summarized by all parties, the situation is similar to what Xie Tian said, and the price of rice in TJ has remained high.

"If you can ship Vietnamese rice to TJ, how much do you think you can make?" After dinner, Zhang Hai asked Xu Lang while lying on the bed in the inn.

"Why don't you go back?" Xu Lang said with a smile, "Let Sun Tianhao get a few boats of rice over and make some extra money for us." ”

"Pull it down." Zhang Hai was laughed at by Xu Lang, "Director Sun still doesn't know how to talk to Yao Chunqing, so he won't care about this little money." ”

"Alright, don't talk nonsense." Xu Lang said, "We all know about the situation in TJ, tomorrow we will go to the contact point of the Second General Affairs Department and ask them to help us buy some rice, and you can leave the silver for them." ”

"So where are we going?" Zhang Hai asked, "Aren't we going to buy rice here?" ”

"Just let them do the thing of buying rice, let's go to BJ, you really want to go to BJ." Xu Lang nodded, "I haven't figured out Kong Youde's matter yet, and I can't let go of it if I don't go to BJ to inquire about the news." ”

"Can I get the news when I go to BJ?"

"I don't know." Xu Lang shook his head, "Let's go, I think there should be a chance." ”

The next day, Xu Lang and Zhang Hai led the people to the contact point of the Second General Affairs Department---- a very inconspicuous grocery store. After Xu Lang arranged to buy rice, he went to BJ alone with Zhang Hai Before leaving, Xu Lang repeatedly told him not to be afraid of the high price and buy as much as possible. And to hire a good ship, there is no need to wait for him and Zhang Hai to return from BJ, as long as the acquisition is completed, they will immediately set off for Nanpu. But he had to leave 20,000 catties of rice and send it to Dengzhou when he returned.

Xu Lang finally stood under the largest city in China in this era.

From the construction of BJ City by Ming Chengzu, until Ming Yingzong and Jiajing Emperor continued to expand BJ. Today's BJ City is divided into two cities, the inner city is rebuilt from the capital city of Yuan, with a circumference of 45 li, 9 gates, and an area of 35.57 square kilometers, and the outer city is 28 li long, with 7 gates, and the total area of the inner and outer cities is 60.06 square kilometers.

"Take a look." Xu Lang pointed to the towering city and said with a smile, "BJ Second Ring, the house price is 100,000 yuan." ”

"How much silver did we bring with us?" Zhang Hai asked suddenly.

"It's not much, a hundred taels of gold, a few dozen taels of silver, why are you asking this?"

"Don't you do it." Zhang Hai said with a smile, "Buy you a few sets of courtyard houses, leave them for you in 400 years, and let you also make a fortune." ”

"Hahahaha." Xu Lang laughed loudly, "You don't have to wait for 400 years, maybe you will pick it up for me when you can." ”

The two of them led the horse into BJ City, and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it was prosperous.

Slowly, the two of them walked to the area of the Imperial City, which is the most densely populated place in the streets and alleys of BJ.

Xu Lang looked up at the sky: "It's noon, Zhang Hai, find a place to eat, I'm hungry." ”

Zhang Hai looked around: "The wine shop in front of it, the door is not big, we can still afford it." ”

The two entered the wine shop, found an empty table and sat down, and casually asked for a few dishes and a pot of wine to eat and drink.

"What's next?" Zhang Hai asked in Yazhou dialect, "The Second General Affairs Department is also a bit here, should we go?" ”

"Don't go yet." Xu Lang took a bite of the food, "Let's go shopping by ourselves first, and then go to them when we really have something." ”

"But we can't just wander around like this, we have to have a direction."

"No direction." Xu Lang suddenly smiled, "If you don't know that BJ is a small official, you can catch someone at random, that is, Shangshu and Shilang, there will always be a chance." ”

Zhang Hai couldn't laugh or cry when Xu Lang said: "Okay, you go and catch one and I'll take a look." ”