Kaifeng prosperous house, the capital of the Great Zhou Bian. The Great Zhou, which is at the peak of agricultural civilization, has a prosperous economy and a prosperous culture.

Kaifeng, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, has a permanent population of 1.3 million to 1.5 million. If you include the people who provided food and vegetables for Kaifeng in the surrounding prefectures and counties, the boat gangs on the six canals, and the well-equipped 500,000 forbidden soldiers and their families around them, then three million is just a conservative number.

Some people may think that there are more than one million people, which is nothing remarkable, after all, there are more than one million people in some county-level cities in modern times. But in Li Xiang's era, there were only two large cities in the world with a population of more than one million, Kaifeng and Hangzhou.

Among them, Hangzhou has been attacked and captured by Fang La, and it is no longer prosperous. There are thirteen cities with a population of more than 500,000, and the Great Zhou accounts for ten.

After Zhou Taizu Chai Rong unified the south, because Kaifeng was not conducive to fighting against the northern cavalry troops, he proposed to move the capital to Luoyang several times. However, the vast majority of courtiers were resolutely opposed, and there was a reason that impressed Zhou Taizu, so that he could only adjust the national defense arrangements and dispel the idea of moving the capital.

Chai Rong relied on the old minister, the then prime minister said sincerely: "Huang Zhou is based on the forbidden army, and now the forbidden army and its relatives are more than one million, and Cao Yun is related to his life and death." Can Xijing be transported? If not, how will millions of people eat? ”

The forbidden army and Cao Yun became the reason for Kaifeng to overwhelm Luoyang as the capital. But the magnates, the wealthy and the bureaucratic gentry, the elites and scholars of the Great Zhou, all profited enormously from Kaifeng's well-developed trade. Of course, this interest group doesn't want to move the capital, as for national defense, why do you keep a forbidden army?!

Today's Kaifeng has developed commerce and trade and many workshops. Wine shops are all over the market, and Qinglou painting boats are gathered.

To the west, there is a caravan of Persian food, armed with spices, jewels, and orchids, and ventures through the desert to reach the legendary kingdom of heaven.

In the north, there were caravans and scholars from the Great Liao and Western Xia, who came to this cultural holy city with fur Dongzhu and a pilgrimage mood.

In the east, there are envoys from Goryeo and Fuso, carrying national book tributes, playing in the market, and envying the brilliant civilization of the Great Zhou.

In the south, the fleet of Persian eclipse sailed across the sea, sending silk, tea and porcelain from the Great Zhou Dynasty to Arabia and Europa.

Kaifeng City is rich from all over the world, and is attracting pilgrims from all over the world with a confident, broad and proud mind... The Destroyer.

Ma Rulan is a widow, thirty years old, tall and big, slightly beautiful.

Her husband was once a commander of the forbidden army, and he bravely died in the "Battle for Land" a few years ago, leaving Ma Rulan and her widow behind.

Ma Rulan, who learned the bad news, injured her fetus, and in order to treat her son's illness and support her in-laws, Ma Rulan went to Goolan to perform women's sumo.

The in-laws persuaded their daughter-in-law to remarry, but Ma Rulanning would not have complied, if her husband hadn't picked her up, she would have died long ago, and this is her only home.

The Goolan of the Great Zhou Dynasty is a place for performing acrobatic operas, and together with wine shops, green houses and brothels, it contracts the entertainment life of the citizens of the Great Zhou, and the women's sumo wrestling is a sport that is popular and broadcast.

Da Zhou's entertainment industry is very advanced, not only rich in content, but also quite a bit of standardized management concepts. Like women's sumo, industry insiders have set weights and scales.

Ma Rulan belongs to the type of "non-lowly, strong woman, bandeau pants", focusing on skills. Although it is not like a brothel Qinglou, the hook bar is obviously not a tall place, so Ma Rulan is often ridiculed and ridiculed in front of relatives.

The people of Kaifeng are especially interested in women's sumo wrestling, and have raised a large number of "regular customers". People who just watched sumo wrestling mainly go to places like brothels in Qinglou, rushing for restricted content and pursuing fragrant scenes, which is no different from modern people.

In the traditional society full of Confucianism, the arms, back, navel, lower abdomen, and thighs are exposed together, which is very exciting.

There are even some brothels that require women to cover their chests with a palm-sized cloth and cover their lower bodies with strips of cloth, which is shocking to the world. The so-called women's "hand-to-hand fight" is a pair of women rolling around, sweating and panting slightly.

The citizens who really saw the way, that is, the "regular customers", disdained these exciting contents, turned to the pursuit of skills, and began to demand standards.

Ma Rulan has made a great name in Kaifeng because of her good physical condition and outstanding skills. No, there are people saying hello on the way home from grocery shopping.

A city patrol sign saw Ma Rulan and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, "Coincidentally, sister-in-law Ma, go home so early today?" ”

Ma Rulan, who was bowing her head and worried, paused slightly, and found that the eldest brother of the Lin family was the right person, and returned the salute, "Brother Lin family, seeing your jubilant appearance, have you been promoted again?" ”

"Don't mention it, Shangguan requires that the retail investors who invaded the road must be driven out within thirty years, otherwise they will be removed from their posts and investigated..."

In recent years, the number of bankrupt peasants has increased, the market has prospered, and the problem of "occupying the road and operating" has begun to appear. This patrol brand leader is equivalent to the "captain of the city management" in modern society, leading people to sweep away those vendors who sell cooking cakes and pears.

Lin Dayou also belongs to the forbidden army, but the forbidden army has long been full of homeless people, and the training is wasted. Doing business, working part-time as a janitor, going out as a porter, everything.

Lin Dayou is down-to-earth and hardworking, relying on the relationship of his ancestors to go through the door, only to earn such an errand, and it can be regarded as worry-free.

Seeing that it was getting late, Ma Rulan was widowed, so it was not easy to chat with him for a long time, "That's really hard, another day, the slave family will say hello to the few people who the deceased husband knew and give you a hand." However, it is not easy to do small business, and it can't hurt people. ”

"It's a little late, Daddy's medicine should be boiled earlier, and the slave family will retreat first." Ma Rulan said a good job and left in Lin Dayou's farewell.

Lin Da was overjoyed. Kaifeng forbidden army is a horse, no one knows!

Although Ma Dutong is deceased, many officers and soldiers of the forbidden army took good care of his orphans and widows, including many high-ranking officers above the capital level. There are those people in a word, these small traders and hawkers related to the families of the forbidden army......

"Thank you, eldest sister, please greet my uncle on my behalf." Seeing Sister Ma leave, Lin Dayou took advantage of the free time now and then kicked the stall.

A new "chengguan" next to him came up, "Team leader, are you ...... this girl?"

"Smack!" Before he finished speaking, Lin Dayou slapped him. "Talking nonsense, don't you know who Sister Ma is?! When I saw Sister Ma in the future, I gave Lao Tzu a bright spot. Remember, you have to be polite when you see Sister Ma's family, understand? Several of his subordinates reluctantly agreed, but muttered in their hearts, can they be so serious?

Lin Dayou has been a little annoyed lately, not only on an errand. His restless younger brother offended people in the craftsman's workshop, and Lin Dayou is trying to make up for it, at least to ensure his brother's safety.

With the door in sight, Ma Rulan, who had been tired for a day, relaxed physically and mentally. But as soon as she came out of the alley, she suddenly stepped back, turned around and saluted, and let go of an old man in Confucian clothes and a pretty girl.

The literati of the Great Zhou, especially the Juren and Jinshi, had a very high social status, and the Great Zhou and the scholars shared the world. Although this old man did not wear official clothes, his status can be seen from the silk Confucian clothes, demeanor, and waist decoration, which is definitely not ordinary.

Ma Rulan lowered her head and waited for a while, confirming that the two were far away before walking to the opposite side. As soon as I entered the house, I shouted: "Dad, mother, Xiaobei, I'm back......"