After inspecting Fengyi, his original territory, Dai Yan began to take Zhao Xue to Taoqiu again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although on the way to greet their relatives, both of them also passed by this city. However, this time, when they came to Taoqiu, they did not pass by, but to settle here!

Taoqiu was originally the capital of the Cao Kingdom, and there was originally a palace built by Cao Bo. After the Cao State was destroyed by the Song State, Cao Gong has always been the administrative place of the Taoqiu doctor.

However, as Taoqiu has gradually gotten out of control over the past few years, the taxes that the officials of the Song State in Taoqiu can collect have gradually decreased, and Cao Gong has fallen into disrepair for many years, and it is not suitable for Dai Yan and his wife to become the masters.

Therefore, Dai Yan chose to contract the largest restaurant in Taoqiu, Piaoxiangju, as a temporary place to live. He then selected the best masons from the city to renovate the palace to make it suitable for future habitation.

After Dai Yan entered this city, he began to find the former Taoqiu doctor to understand everything in this city in detail.

Although Taoqiu is a prosperous and glamorous city today, when Dai Yan got the detailed information from Dr. Taoqiu, he couldn't help but sigh secretly. It's no wonder that his cheap brother eldest son Xi will give himself the name of "the first city in the world", which is easy, and it is really not so easy to do.

This city can be roughly divided into five areas, except for the Cao Palace where Dai Yan himself will live.

The area located in the eastern part of the city is the most extensive in the city, occupying about one-third of the entire area of Taoqiu City. Most of the places here were strongholds for merchants. These included thirteen great merchants who were well-known throughout the entire Taoqiu, as well as dozens of merchants who were slightly inferior. These merchants have powerful power in their hands, and their sources are extremely complex, and most of them are backed by monarchs or important ministers of various countries; A small number of more "independent" businessmen are also well-connected people in various countries, and it can be said that it is these people who really support the prosperity of the entire Taoqiu!

Located in the West Side, it occupies a relatively small area. Most of the area is home to workshops of all sizes, making pottery, lacquerware, silk and other handicrafts. Most of the people here are artisans, and with the location of Taoqiu as a commercial center, they can also live relatively well.

The north of Taoqiu, part of the area that connects with Jishui, is the commercial area of Taoqiu. Because of its proximity to the merchants' wharves on the banks of the Jishui River, most of the merchants' goods were traded here. Not only is there a commodity trading market here, but also the skin and meat industry in Taoqiu! It can also be said to be the most prosperous place in the whole Taoqiu, and the popularity of coming and going every day cannot be compared with any business in the world!

In the north of Taoqiu City, a large area adjacent to Jishui is the spontaneous expansion of Taoqiu City. On the river more than ten miles long, all the large and small wharves of merchants, and there is an endless stream of ships sailing from Jishui and Heshui. Here the merchants unloaded their goods and then went to the northern city to trade with others; After the goods are emptied, they will purchase a large number of goods by themselves, load the goods and go away!

The remaining Nancheng area in Taoqiu City, plus some scattered buildings built around Taoqiu, can also be called an area. This area occupies the largest population of Taoqiu. Most of the people here are low-level civilians in the city, poor people from outside, and so on. And among these people, the dominant position is the rangers from all over the world!

In today's Warring States Period, the rise of the gentry class as a whole is already unstoppable. These former nobles who have lost their territory must work hard to find a way out for themselves, and they can be said to be the most active class in the whole world. Most of the "scholars" in various countries will look for a lord to be loyal to, such as Tang Ying and Tian Buli under Dai Yan, and Le Yi under Zhao Xue, in fact, they are all such "scholars".

And many more soldiers could not find a target of allegiance at all. If they want to survive, in addition to their own knowledge beyond ordinary people, they can only rely on the martial arts in their hands (most of them are swords)! Therefore, the cities of various countries gave them the best stage, and they relied on their martial arts to make the low-level common people in the city bow down and successfully found a shortcut to life.

In the southern city of Fengyi, it is these rangers who occupy the dominant position. Although these rangers boast of fighting violence and peace, and upholding justice for the common people. However, in reality, the behavior of these people is no different from the underworld of later generations!

In the past, when there was no Taoqiu Treaty, these people did not dare to be too presumptuous, and just played by themselves in the southern city. After the signing of the Treaty of Taoqiu two years ago, these people no longer had any scruples in their hearts, not only blatantly taking Nancheng as their own, but also extending their own power. Up to now, in addition to those strongholds of merchants with deep backgrounds in the East City, the rest of Taoqiu has already been found!

Especially outside Taoqiu City, the ten-mile-long wharf on the shore of Jishui, and the Beicheng Trade Zone next to Jishui, these two places are the core part of Taoqiu trade, and no one is unimpressed by the great benefits in them! In order to compete for these two territories, the rangers are fighting desperately!

This also led to the rapid deterioration of public security in Taoqiu in the past two years, and most of the Taoqiu turmoil mentioned by Zixi and Dr. Taoqiu was caused by these people.

Listening to Dr. Taoqiu's explanation to him, he can be regarded as having a basic understanding of Taoqiu's situation today.

In order to get a better understanding, he asked a wanderer who was familiar with the things of Taoqiu to take him around the entire city of Taoqiu. Under this kind of on-the-spot inspection, Dai Yan really recognized the face of the city.

Although Taoqiu is the world's first commercial city, it is really a little unbearable under this glamorous appearance. The whole city is full of sewage and the streets are extremely dirty, including a few main roads, and all the streets are littered with garbage!

According to You, Taoqiu can have the "clean" scene it has now. This is also thanks to Dai Yan's wedding, the result of Taoqiu's merchants cleaning up the city in order to curry favor with Dai Yan!

Such a scene is not compared with the city that Dai Yan saw in later generations, even with Linzi, the capital of Qi in this era!

In addition to the squalor of the city, the haphazard construction of the buildings inside the city is almost as good as the construction in the slums of later generations! In this era, the building materials in China were mainly wood, and these random constructions directly connected most of the separated buildings in the entire city, and it was not impossible for half of the pottery mound to be burned down in the event of a fire!

There is a precedent for this kind of thing in the history of the Song Kingdom. In the ninth year of Lu Xianggong, a fire broke out in Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and the fire was so big that the ruling Lexi at that time treated the fire extinguishing operation as a war to deal with! Le Xi personally went out and sent the three divisions of the most elite army of the Song State to extinguish the fire, and even then Suiyang was burned down half of the city in the end. Moreover, after the fire, all countries in the world thought that the Song State was "immoral", and the overlord Jin State at that time coveted the Song State because of this!

After the fire, in order to cope with the world and the country, the Song Kingdom had to hold a large-scale sacrifice to calm the psychological wounds left by the fire!

Although the probability of such a thing happening is very small, if there is a large-scale fire in Taoqiu, in such a dangerous situation facing the Song State now, maybe the surrounding powers will think that the Song State is "unethical", and then take advantage of the situation to attack Taoqiu!

Dai Yan toured all over the city, and the scenes he saw gave him a deep headache. Such a chaotic city is his territory, his future home, and I don't know how much effort it will take to make it satisfactory to him!

When Dai Yan continued to patrol and was about to enter Taoqiu South City, You Yan stopped him: "Gong Cao, this is the most chaotic place in Taoqiu, you better not go in, it's too dangerous here!" ”

Hearing You's words, Dai Yan was a little unimpressed, this is in his territory, how dangerous can he be when he patrols his territory as a sovereign? How dangerous is this place compared to the danger of going on the battlefield? Can it compare to the danger of him going to Qi as a hostage?

He ignored Youyou's advice and resolutely entered the "slum" in the true sense of the word!