Chapter 13 Huanglong Mansion

"They were originally the Han people of Yunzhou of the Jin State established by Shi Jingtang, more than 20 years ago, the Liao State sent troops to destroy the Later Jin, and plundered a large number of Han people back to be slaves for the Khitans. These people mainly grew crops for the Khitan magnates and also raised some domestic animals. ”

"Shi Jingjiao, is it the guy who ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun?"

"That's right, the famous 'Emperor' in history is him."

Wei Hongye calculated for a while: "It has been more than 20 years since the fall of the Later Jin Dynasty, and I estimate that the regime in the Central Plains in the south is either the 'Later Zhou' or the 'Song Dynasty'. I think it's more likely to be the early years of the Song Dynasty. ”

Du Dalei shouted excitedly: "I'm bad, Song Dynasty!" Then can we go to Kaifeng Mansion to play for a while, and meet the 'Bao Qingtian' Shenma, I must sign my name with Lao Bao. ”

Na Zhe looked at him with disdain: "I was defeated by your innocence, Lao Bao was a minister in the era of Song Renzong, and he should not have been born yet." ”

"Go and play, what are you talking about?"

Wei Hongye continued: "According to those people, there is a big city called 'Huanglongfu' a few hundred miles to the south, which is an important town in the north of the Liao State, with many troops and a very prosperous trade. ”

Boris asked, "Is it the Huanglong Mansion that Yue Fei said, 'go straight to the Yellow Dragon and drink with the monarchs'?" ”

"That's right, it's that Huanglong Mansion."

"At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin army occupied Kaifeng Mansion and plundered the Hui and Qin Emperors to the north, which was imprisoned in Huanglong Mansion."

Zhao Zi waved his hand again: "We have come to this era, this kind of thing will not happen, whether the Jin State can be established depends on whether we are in a good mood or not." ”

Du Dalei immediately shouted: "Boss, you are too good, you are really arrogant!" ”

"Okay, don't flatter me, let's go to Huanglong Mansion first, and then find a way to go south."

The crowd was on the road again, and after ten days, they came to the confluence of two great rivers. To the southwest of the riverbank is a high cliff on which stands a towering city. Altan came over, pointed to the city, and gestured for a while, meaning that the destination had arrived, and let everyone follow him into the city. When they came to the river, they saw a wharf there, and there were many people near the wharf, all waiting for the ferry.

After resting for a while and eating something, they found that five boats had docked one after another, and everyone led the horses to the boats and settled down with the flow of people. The ship, which was about thirty meters long and five or six meters wide, was not equipped with sails, and had seven or eight sailors paddling on each side of the ship. About twenty minutes later, the boat arrived at the pier on the other side of the river.

After some haggling, Altan paid for the ship with a few furs, and everyone disembarked and walked towards the city gate. At this time, the traverser took a closer look at the city. The length of the city wall is about a thousand meters, the height is seven or eight meters, the wall is made of rammed earth, and a moat surrounds the outside of the city.

With the bustling flow of people, the horse team entered the city gates. The city is very noisy, most of the streets are lined with all kinds of shops, there are many stalls on the streets, merchants in all kinds of fancy costumes are shouting hard, and different languages meet in the air, some of which are obviously Chinese.

Everyone was very curious, and they tried to observe the market style of this millennium ago. Altan and the others stopped at the door of a shop, unloaded some fur from their horses, and walked into the door. And the people went in with them.

The shelves and counters of the shop are piled with all kinds of furs, and the guys and customers are talking loudly, this is a shop that buys furs. A fellow greeted him, and at a glance he saw that Altan was the leader, and he greeted Altan with courtesy. The accompanying natives put the fur on the counter, and the man's eyes lit up, and he immediately looked through the fur. After a while, he went into the back room, pulled an old man back, and kept explaining to the old man.

The old man carefully examined the fur brought by Altan, and looked very satisfied, so he asked the man to take out a few strings of money and hand them to Altan. Altan took the money, weighed it, smiled at the old man, said a few more words, and led everyone out of the shop.

Du Dalei said to Wei Hongye Nunu, "Old Wei, do you see that the money, just like the one on TV, it is all round copper coins with a square hole in the middle, is it difficult for the Liao State to use ancient Chinese copper coins?" ”

"This is not unusual, the currency used throughout East Asia in ancient times was the coins of the Central Plains Dynasty, just like the dollar in later generations."

Altan led the group to the door of a courtyard and beckoned everyone to enter. In front of the door of the courtyard stood a wooden pole, and on top hung a piece of sackcloth with several Chinese characters written on it. Everyone worked hard to identify it as 'Hengtong Inn'.

Na Zhe turned around and said, "This signboard has Chinese characters on it, maybe it was opened by Han people, let's go in quickly." ”

Everyone observed with great interest the inn buildings of this era. The adobe courtyard wall is about one and a half meters high, the gate is wooden, and after entering the gate is a large courtyard, and on the right hand side is a livestock shed, which contains many horses, cows, donkeys, and a few camels. There were more than two dozen carts scattered in the courtyard, and many goods were piled up on the ground. Across the courtyard is a row of adobe houses, made of thick logs as support columns, and the roof is covered with thick thatch. The room in the middle was very large, with seven or eight wooden tables, and a few tables were sitting some people eating. Passing through these tables is a swarthy counter.

Na Zhe grinned: "Wow, it's a bit like the new Dragon Gate Inn." ”

A guy dressed in Han Chinese clothes greeted him and asked happily: "Ladies and gentlemen, but if you want to rest in the shop, I don't know how many people you have and how many rooms you want?" ”

Altan said something like that, leaving the guy at a loss. Wei Hongye heard that his accent was similar to that of the Shandong dialect of later generations, and stepped forward and said: "We are merchants who have returned from the north, these are Murowei people, and we have made friends in the north. ”

The guy introduced: "We have a big room here, which can accommodate about ten people, and it costs 80 yuan a day. The small room can accommodate four people, fifty yuan per day. If you want to eat at the restaurant, you will need to pay for it. The horses you bring with you also have to pay for forage. ”

Wei Hongye nodded: "Can you show us the big room?" ”

"Yes, please come with me."

The guy led everyone out the door, to a house to the left of the lobby, and pushed the door open. The room is very large, about 30 square meters, against the inner wall is a row of wooden Chase bunks, more than 20 centimeters high from the ground, a bit like the tatami mats of Dongying.

Wei Hongye gestured and communicated with Altan for a while, and said to the guy: "Store, we want two rooms like this, please arrange them." ”

So the men took the people and chose two rooms, and crossed one room, and Altan and his people lived in the other. The people of Altan went to settle the horses, and the crowd carried their luggage and goods into the house.

Zhao Zizhong said: "Let's have a good rest today, tomorrow we will go around the city to see if we can find a shop to buy gold, we will exchange a little gold for copper coins, and give Altan a part as store money and food expenses." In addition, I bought some clothes for the Han people, Lao Tzu had worn animal skins for so long, and his body was itchy terribly. ”

Everyone laughed, and Wei Hongye quipped: "It's okay for a few of us to wear Han clothes, what about Boris?" Today I saw a lot of merchants from the Western Regions on the street, did we dress him up as a native of the Western Regions? ”

Rolling around on the bed with a smile, Boris said helplessly: "I also want to wear Han clothes, I often wear Han clothes to participate in performances when I go to college, I don't want to dress up as a person from the Western Regions, it's just a big deal that I wear a hat and cover my face." ”

Everyone went to the lobby of the inn to eat something and rested.

The next morning, everyone who had had a good night's rest got up one after another. After washing, Zhao Zizhong said: "We can't all go out, someone must stay to guard the luggage, I won't go, you have to be careful outside, everyone listens to Lao Wei's command." In addition, you can't take out too much gold, you can exchange a lot of copper coins with a few taels, don't let people target it. ”

Wei Hongye thought for a while: "In this way, I will find a few more gold shops, and one will be fine if I exchange a little bit." ”

"Remember to buy more delicious food when you go shopping, you have eaten dried meat for a while, and birds have faded out of your mouth."

"No problem, boss, wrap it up on me." Du Dalei hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

After Wei Hongye and a few people went out, the room was quiet, and Zhao Zizhong was lying on the bed, thinking wildly, and he had a lot of thoughts for a while. He thought of his wife and five-year-old son, as well as his elderly parents, wondering how they were doing now, and whether he was heartbroken to learn of his disappearance. There are also relatives, friends and comrades-in-arms, can they still remember him. I don't know how long it took, but he slowly fell asleep.

"Boss, wake up, we have a big discovery." Du Dalei shouted as soon as he entered the door, "Don't sleep, this discovery will definitely surprise you." ”

Zhao Zizhong was woken up, and the shopping foursome came back with big bags and small bags. A few people were very excited, and when they put down their things, they began to shout. Zhao Zi rubbed his eyes heavily, "Stop, I'll give you a headache when you argue, sit down and talk slowly." ”

"I'll tell you." Wei Hongye came over and sat on the bed, "Lao Zhao, today we inquired clearly, the Central Plains in the south is now the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiao Mutiny two years ago, and the yellow robe was successfully made the emperor, and the current year name is the third year of Jianlong, I remember that the history books record that the Song Dynasty was established in 960 AD, so this year is 962 AD. ”

Zhao Zizhong sat up and grabbed Wei Hongye's shoulder, "Are you sure, is it really the Song Dynasty?" ”

Na Zhe said: "Yes, sure and sure, we asked many people, and they all said that the south was the Song Dynasty. ”

Zhao Zizhong said excitedly: "It's good to be sure, we finally know the era we are in, so that we can use the familiar historical knowledge to make our plans for the future." ”