After disposing of the corpses, the convoy calmly passed through Yan County, and there was no longer a large force of Mingjiao forces on the road ahead, and half a month later, Li Nan finally arrived at Hangzhou, the southern starting point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Hangzhou City has a long history, before the summer belonged to Baiyue, Xia Shang Zhou belonged to the "domain of Yangzhou".

Legend has it that when Xia Yu ruled the water, the country was divided into Kyushu, and the vast area south of the Yangtze River was generally called Yangzhou. In the 21st century B.C., Xia Yu toured south, the princes of the conference were in Huiji, had sailed by boat through here, and gave up its Hangzhou here, so it was called "Yuhang".

There is also a saying, Xia Yu here to build a boat to cross, the Yue people called this place "Yu Hang", and then, word of mouth, false "Yu" for "Yu", is the name "Yu Hang".

After that, Hangzhou went through several dynasties, and when it came to the Northern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou was governed by two Zhejiang roads. It has jurisdiction over nine counties: Qiantang, Renhe, Yuhang, Lin'an, Yuqian, Changhua, Fuyang, Xindeng and Yanguan. It has a population of more than 200,000 households, making it one of the most populous prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. The economy is prosperous, the textile, printing, winemaking, and paper industries are relatively developed, and foreign trade is further developed, and it is one of the four major commercial ports in the country.

But these are all things of the past, since it was captured by Fang La's army, the current Hangzhou has long been without the former prosperous scene.

From the perspective of the history of the whole world, as long as the enemy's city is captured from ancient times to the present, nothing good will happen, and perhaps only the army with strict military discipline in later generations will be an exception.

Fang La's army was numerous, and these mobs were not engaged in production, and at the beginning they could rob some rich merchants to maintain military supplies, but after a long time, they were embarrassed, so they kept an eye on the massive amount of grain in Hangzhou.

Hangzhou originally had a permanent garrison of the Great Song Dynasty, the Ning Navy, which could have been defended for a period of time if it relied on strong city walls and sufficient supplies, but unfortunately, before the Ming army arrived, the county guards and commanders here took the lead in abandoning the city and fleeing.

The Mingjiao army easily occupied the city of Hangzhou, killed Chen Jian, the envoy of the system, and Zhao Yue, the envoy of Lian Visit, and then set fire to it for six days, and countless people died.

Most of the Ming Sect stalwarts who participated in the uprising were burdened by the imperial court's Huashi Gang, so all the officials of the Great Song Dynasty who were caught would definitely be tortured by cutting off their flesh, cutting off their bodies, taking their lungs and intestines, or boiling them into anointing oil, and piercing them with arrows.

Li Nan was not very disgusted by the killing of officials by the Ming Sect, after all, officials are creatures, there are very few good ones, and there are many bad ones, and if they are killed, they will be killed.

Li Nan hated Mingjiao the most for two things: the first was its bad behavior of burning the houses of good people, destroying arable land, and forcing them to rebel.

The second is that their military discipline is chaotic, and after the city is broken, no matter the good or the bad, they are crazy and kill indiscriminately. In particular, after breaking through the city of Hangzhou, it was set on fire for six days, which was a completely brainless act to vent anger, and it was meaningless except to burn a large number of innocent people to death.

Although Li Nan is not a politician, at least he knows the most important point, any regime that does not pay attention to the largest number of people at the bottom will be a dead end sooner or later.

According to historical records, Fang La's period from the beginning of the uprising to the end of the end was only one year. The huge Mingjiao rebel army, apart from destroying a large number of towns and farmlands in the south and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, made no contribution at all, and it was a complete farce.

Li Nan didn't care about the life or death of Fang La and Mingjiao, what he hoped most now was that Ludia and the others would not be in Hangzhou City at that time, otherwise they would definitely not survive in the face of the crazy mob.

Looking at the burned and blackened city of Hangzhou with binoculars, Li Nan decided to let the convoy and most of the people stay in the woods to hide, and took a few people into the city to see the situation.

As the head of a sect, Fang La also has some brains after all, at least he didn't enjoy locking up the city like Yu Dao'an, nor did he take his subordinates around to eat people like an enemy Daoist.

After six crazy days after the Mingjiao army broke the city, now the chaos in Hangzhou City has subsided, Li Nan, Miranda, Zhang Hao and two guards paid the fee to enter the city, and smoothly entered Hangzhou City.

The blackened stone slabs and collapsed ruins in the streets, as well as the smell of smoke and smoke in the nose, all testify to the existence of that fire.

Li Nan and others walked down the street and couldn't help but sigh that the adaptability of human beings is really amazing.

It seems that everyone has forgotten the recent Hangzhou disaster, and many shops on both sides of the street have already opened for business, shouting and selling, and there is an endless stream of people pushing carts to clean up the bricks and tiles in the rubble.

The best place to find out the news is the restaurant and teahouse, there has been no hot food for a long time, Li Nan immediately took everyone into a restaurant called Fuyuan Pavilion.

This quaint-looking restaurant is quite spacious, and the fact that this all-timber two-story building survived the fire really fulfills the word 'Fuyuan' on the sign.

Although it was lunch, there were not many diners in the lobby, and there were only three tables of guests, two of which sat with Mingjiao members with red scarves on their heads, and it is estimated that they would not give money.

Li Nan led people to sit next to another table of guests, and the restaurant owner with a sad face walked over, trying to squeeze out a smile and greeted: "A few guest officers, what do you want to eat?" ”

If you talk about hobbies, Li Nan has two things, one is food, the other is color, it can be seen that Mencius said that there is some truth in eating color.

Hearing the boss's question, Li Nan, who loves food, immediately said: "When I hear people talk about Hangzhou's famous dishes, there must be four dishes: West Lake vinegar fish, Zhaohua Tong chicken, Dongpo meat, and Longjing shrimp. Of course, if there are other specialties, please come up as well. ”

The owner of this restaurant seemed to be scared by the people of Mingjiao during this time, so he hesitated for a moment and asked: "Guest officer, I'm really sorry, I don't know if you can pay for the meal first." ”

In the land of China, it has always been a tradition to eat first and then calculate money, even in later generations.

If the restaurant owner in other places dared to say this, it would be a trivial matter to be scolded, and it was very likely that he would be beaten, but Li Nan naturally would not be angry because of this trivial matter, so he nodded slightly at Zhang Hao.

This time to escort Li Nanbei, everyone carried enough money, not to mention that with Zhang Hao's current status in Lingnan, Yulu's salary is also a lot.

Zhang Hao took out a money bag full of broken silver from the blanket on his shoulder, took out a silver ingot and handed it to the restaurant owner, and said casually: "You take it first, and then calculate it carefully after eating, and refund more and make up for less." ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

These days, the scoundrels who eat and drink for nothing have seen a lot of people in the Ming Sect, and it is rare to meet such a good talker, and the restaurant owner who is holding the silver suddenly smiled and responded.

It was a matter of course to pay for dinner, but Zhang Hao's money bag was really too drummed, which made the eyes of the two groups of Mingjiao disciples who were drinking next to him light up.

"Bang!" Seven Mingjiao disciples with red scarves on their heads walked over and smashed a sheathed steel knife on the table.

The little leader with a pair of triangular eyes, who was about to talk and blackmail some silver, suddenly saw Miranda's pure and lovely, and exotic white face, he was stunned for a moment, and then a wicked smile appeared on his face.

"Yo he, this little lady of this state, she looks really cute!"

When Li Nan saw this Mingjiao guy, he actually dared to tease Miranda, not only was he not angry, but there was a strange feeling of pity for the other party in his heart.