The Fang City of Kaifeng in Beijing follows the old system of the former Tang Dynasty, and is also divided into two squares, the east and the west, and the Xifang City belongs to the consumption place of the mud legs, and the dignitaries and dignitaries disdain to go there for consumption.

Therefore, the place where Wen Qihang went today is Dongfang City, which is not to say that he has any discriminatory mentality in Xifang City, but he wants to take this opportunity to have a more intuitive understanding of the ancient business atmosphere and environment.

After all, the items produced in the Jue Mansion are the most advanced items in this era, and ordinary people can't afford to consume them at all, so it is also a task today to inspect the market, otherwise it is just to buy some daily necessities, then it is better to directly instruct the students to handle it.

Although Dongxifang City is the two largest commodity trading places in Beijing, there are strict regulations on its opening time. It opens in the morning and closes in the afternoon, and only three short hours in the middle are the business hours allowed by the government.

This kind of strict restriction on business actually stems from people's discrimination against business, and it is almost everyone's consensus that there is no business or treachery.

Although people discriminate against business nowadays, people are social animals after all, and no one can rely on themselves to meet their own needs, so exchange has become an inevitable thing, which is the prototype of primitive commerce.

The population of Kaifeng in Beijing is as high as more than 500,000, of which the number of dignitaries and dignitaries, although not even one percent of this population, but the number of people who live on them accounts for almost half of this population.

In the bustling crowd of Dongfang City, there are not many dignitaries and dignitaries who come to buy items in person, they are all stewards in various prefectures who come to purchase, as long as you listen to the title in the merchant account, you can see that it is not this Zhang Steward, or that Li Steward.

I have to say that from ancient times to the present, shopping is a woman's patent, Tan Fengyi didn't want to come to Dongfang City, but for the safety of smelling Qihang, she had to follow. When she went out, she still had all kinds of reluctance on her face, but as soon as she arrived in Dongfang City, her figure was like a butterfly wearing flowers and a butterfly to look east and west, and even the matter of protecting Wen Qihang had been left behind, and even a woman with a temperament like Tan Fengyi could not be exempt from vulgarity, let alone other women.

Looking at Tan Fengyi, who was full of interest, Wen Qihang shook his head and sighed gently, no matter how mature and intelligent Tan Fengyi usually behaves, but after all, she is just a young girl.

"Zheng He, didn't you come from Guanlou Village just to tell me that Old Man Mei was looking for me, right?" While waiting for the market to open, Zheng He hurriedly came over.

"Sir, I'm not satisfied with you, I really can't stay in the mansion anymore, Old Man Mei urges me to find you every day, which makes me really embarrassed!" Zheng He said with a sad face.

"Then let's be honest." Wen Qihang said sympathetically.

"Ah, can I tell Old Man Mei, can you stay in Baihualou?" Zheng He said in surprise.

Hearing Zheng He's answer, Wen Qihang raised his hand and used the folding fan in his hand to hit Zheng He's head hard: "I usually see that you are quite clever, but at a critical moment, you become stupid, you won't tell Old Man Mei that you didn't find me." ”

"But you can't always drag it out like this, can you?" Zheng He said with his hands covering his head.

"Drag on for a day, anyway, you figure it out yourself." Wen Qihang said irresponsibly.

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Hearing Wen Qihang's perfunctory statement, Zheng He felt that his head hurt even more.

"Okay, don't worry, since you're here, let's help Liu Yong and them buy some common items first, he can't take care of it alone now. By the way, you can inquire about the market of bath products, our palace is still pressing a large amount of soap, and you don't know how to worry about it, how do you do things, just like you, you can still expect you to be in charge of the party in the future. Wen Qihang said angrily.

"Yes, sir." Zheng He rubbed his head that was knocked out, responded stupidly, and went to the store to look for Liu Yong in frustration.

Watching Zheng He enter the store to find Liu Yong, he sighed lightly in his heart when he heard Qihang, this old man Mei really didn't understand the power of this matter until now.

In his mind, I'm afraid he thought this was Yanshen County!

Yan Shen is indeed far away from the emperor, and sometimes it is difficult for the imperial power to form an effective restraint on local wealthy families like the Mei family, and even the imperial court has to rely on these wealthy families to maintain local law and order. Even Li Shimin, the invincible emperor of the Tang Dynasty, had to endure the wealthy families in Shandong, and finally relied on the ruthlessness of Wu Zetian and Wu Meiniang to complete the fatal blow to the wealthy families.

These big wealthy families are actually very similar to the royal family, after all, the royal family also came out of these wealthy families, the emperor who was born in the real poor and ascended the throne, in the five thousand years of China, there was only an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, a cattle herding baby.

In fact, there is one of the most important reasons, which caused Old Man Mei to lose his accurate judgment, that is, since the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the throne has changed frequently, and any powerful family may rise up at any time and ascend to the throne, so in the minds of these wealthy families, there is no longer the reverence for the imperial power, maybe in the hearts of ordinary people, they are still afraid of the imperial power, but in the hearts of these wealthy families, the imperial power has become an ornament.

The situation at this time is very similar to the situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes is the yearning of all heroes.

It is almost a miracle that Zhao Lao Er can establish the Song Dynasty in such an environment. But it was this miracle that caused the tragedy of Yashan later.

Although Old Man Mei didn't have much fear of imperial power in his heart, he would not have instigated Mei Yiqi to escape, let alone involved the Mei family in the rebellion of the previous dynasty.

Old man Mei may not know that the next step is the reign of the Great Song Dynasty for more than 300 years, but Wen Qihang knows the direction of history, and the current Zhao Lao Er is the destiny of heaven, and going against him is tantamount to suicide.

If you want to completely solve this matter, the best way is to deal with it coldly, or establish a force that can resist the imperial power, otherwise Mei Yiqi can only be a nun, even Wu Meiniang, a person whose destiny returns, has not escaped the fate of being a nun, let alone a weak woman like Mei Yiqi.

"What are you thinking?" Tan Fengyi, who was full of interest when she saw Qihang standing in place, had been stunned, and did not follow, so she asked with some displeasure.

"You say, in the future, can the Fang Market we build be as lively as here?" Hearing Tan Fengyi's question, Wen Qihang, who came back to his senses, said thoughtfully.

"Didn't you have a lot of confidence when you built the Fang Market? Why, now that I see the prosperity here, I am intimidated? Tan Fengyi pouted.

"It's not that I'm instigated, but I'm too surprised, there are more than 500,000 people in Beijing, there are only two such markets, two! It's still open for a limited time. Smelling Qihang, he was surprised.

"What's wrong with that?" Tan Fengyi wondered.

"What's wrong? If you take a closer look, I've been standing here for a long time, and the shop on the left has made a single sale, or I have fulfilled him, and the shop on the right has a total of three waves of people, so I just glanced at it and left. The one in front of me, so far, there has not been a single customer who has entered, with such a transaction volume, what confidence can I have in our future market. Wen Qihang replied like a mournful exam.

"I don't understand, don't pretend to understand." Tan Fengyi said with disdain.

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