After more than a month, Li Yu's boat finally docked at the Weihe River ferry, and after the accompanying Xin'er and four daughters, Yang Huanniang and others went ashore, they were full of joy when they saw the majestic Chang'an City in the south.

No matter how good it is in the field, it will be difficult to resist homesickness after staying for a long time.

When Li Yu and his entourage stepped on the official road in the carriage that came to greet them, they were surprised to find that the official road that had been tamped with rammed earth had become a neat and smooth gray cement road.

The cement official road is divided into four lanes, with two lanes in the same direction separated by white dotted lines marked on the ground with lime mortar, and opposite lanes separated by solid yellow lines. Each lane is 15 feet wide to meet the daily traffic needs of vehicles and horses that frequently travel between the Weihe Ferry and Chang'an City.

There are separate sidewalks on both sides of the official road, which are only one and a half feet wide, and willow trees are planted on the outside of the road that look like guards. It's just that it's a harsh winter, and the leaves have fallen off, leaving only bare branches.

There are many pedestrians walking on the cement official road, because the road surface is strong and straight, the driving lane division is clear and does not interfere with each other, and the speed of both vehicles and pedestrians is much faster than before.

For many people who have just arrived in Chang'an for the first time, they are attracted by this gray pavement, and from time to time stop a local to ask for details of the cement road.

Cement road Li Yu has seen a lot in his previous life, it is not surprising at all, this cement road is at most a widened rural road in later generations. Because the quality of the cement produced by the cement mill of Xuanji Commercial Bank is not up to the standards of later generations, not to mention that the engineering team guiding the construction is still in his own house, and the lane division is still proposed by Li Yu.

When he arrived in front of the Jinguang Gate in the west of Chang'an City, Li Yu's calm heart was shocked by the scene in front of him.

The once majestic Chang'an City was only covered with bricks at the city gate, and the rest of the city sections were all-yellow rammed earth walls.

Now, except for the bricks at the city gate, the rest of the rammed earth city walls are all rammed with a layer of cement on the rammed earth surface.

The dark gray cement city wall gives people a solid and durable feeling, and when matched with the majestic Chang'an City, it plays a shocking role.

"Jun Xun, I haven't returned to Chang'an for two years, how do you feel that Chang'an City is taller and more majestic than before?"

Mei'er tilted her head, looked at Chang'an City and muttered.

The rest of the people who accompanied him also had shocked expressions.

"It's because Chang'an City has become stronger so far."

Li Yu came back to his senses and smiled.

"Let's go, let's go into the city and see how much Chang'an has changed in the past two years."

Li Yu waved his hand, the coachman flicked a loud whip, and the horse consciously moved its four hooves to follow the carriage in front of him into the city gate hole.

Not far from the Jinguang Gate into the city is the bustling West Market, so the flow of people entering and exiting from the Jinguang Gate is very large, causing the streets to be congested and the carriages to move slowly.

When he arrived in Chang'an City, Li Yu was not in a hurry, and leaned in front of the window to watch the flow of cars and horses.

I don't know if I don't see it, but I know how good the business of my own carriage shop is.

There was not a single carriage on the road that was not a four-wheeled carriage, so that it could not be seen that the carriage with its two wheels cocked in front of it was not.

Although these four-wheeled carriages are not necessarily produced by their own carriage mills, the spring steel necessary to ensure the smooth movement of the four-wheeled carriages and their shock-absorbing effect is still only produced by Li Yu's ironworks. The rest of the carriage workshops produced four-wheeled carriages, so they had to buy the spring steel of Yanwangfu at a high price, and the monopoly position formed by no one has been shaken so far.

Even if many skilled craftsmen take the spring steel produced by Yanwangfu bought from the market and keep pondering the process, although there has been progress in the past few years, the cost remains high, and it is impossible to produce it in large quantities and compete with Yanwangfu on the market.

There is no way, to produce spring steel, it is necessary to have good steel, and the best but cheap steel is only produced in Anton Cast Iron City, and every batch of steel produced is controlled and not allowed to flow out.

Of course, it is not interesting to see the carriages of those powerful and wealthy businessmen on Jinguangmen Street, even if there are beautiful rich daughters in the car, it is not easy to see through the small window.

As for those Hu merchants who brought the caravan into the city, Li Yu's attention was quite attractive, there was no way, there would be no shortage of Hu merchants from the Western Regions caravan who were delicate and beautiful.

If you look closely, you may be able to find a stunning beauty from the Hu girl brought by Hu Shang, and it is not pleasant to buy the house early and slowly enjoy her singing and dancing.

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After passing the crowded Jinguang Gate, and seeing through the car window, the streets of Chang'an City were all repaved with cement, and a familiar feeling came to Li Yu's heart.

"The familiar scene, the difference is the pedestrian clothing and the rammed earth on both sides, and now the cement wall encloses the square and its square wall, giving people a sense of neatness and order."

While Li Yu lamented the changes he brought to this medieval era, he also thought about where the era that deviated from the original path of history would eventually go.

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The news of Li Yu's return to Chang'an instantly spread throughout the elite circle of Chang'an, some people hoped to visit the door early, some people disdained, and were preparing to play the book and play the saint again, for the sake of the country's future safety, asked to leave the king of Yan in Beijing from now on, and sent the virtuous ministers and good generals to guard Andong.

Li Yu didn't know anything about their actions, and of course he wouldn't care if he knew.

Because the people who really have a fundamental conflict of interest with him have not yet climbed to a high position, they can't make trouble just by the small shrimps who are dissatisfied with him in the current DPRK.

Less than two hours after Li Yu returned to the mansion, Li Xian, the king of Zhou, who got the news, rushed to the palace with one of his retinues.

"Fourth brother, you make it so hard for your brother to think about it."

Li Xianren arrived before he arrived.

He heard the sound of Li Xian's footsteps and the clucking of the rooster.

Li Yu suddenly smiled bitterly, the third brother misses me because he wants to fight with me?

Xin'er, Yang Huanniang and other women all knew Li Xian's temperament, and they snickered when they knew that as soon as their Xun Jun returned home, they would inevitably have to fight cocks with King Zhou for 300 games.

By the way, every time after the king of Zhou finished fighting chickens, he had to pull away a carriage of good wine in Li Yu's cellar where he had hidden a lot of good wine before he was willing to leave. ”

"The third brother is here."

Li Yu glanced at the three chicken coops carried by Li Xian's entourage and contained three majestic and mighty roosters and said with a smile: "Third brother, you are really good, you know that I am tired from the journey and have lost some vitality, and I don't want to bring three big roosters to make up for my body." ”

Li Xian, who was originally happy, immediately turned dark, these three big roosters were the three new generals he had won in the past year, and they were not used to make up for the fourth brother's stew.

Li Xian's entourage glanced at Li Yu with a happy face rather strangely, and wondered in their hearts, every time His Royal Highness comes with a big rooster, isn't it just to find His Royal Highness King Yan to fight cocks? Could it be that King Yan has been in Anton for a long time and has forgotten about it?