Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, is located on the high ground of Suishui close to the north. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe origin of this city is very early, and the earliest can even be as early as the era of the Five Emperors. Of course, the city gradually developed during the Shang Dynasty. Shang Tang destroyed the summer and moved the national capital to Bo, and the Suiyang area was gradually developed. When King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang and Zhou Ping decided the rebellion of Wu Geng, King Cheng sealed Weizi here, and the country name was Song. Since then, Suiyang has become the capital of the Song Kingdom.

Since its establishment, the city of Suiyang has been infected by the unique unyielding will of the remnants of the Yin Shang Dynasty and has become the spirit of the city. More than a hundred years ago, in the era of King Chu Zhuang, the most powerful state of Chu, because the state of Chu sent an envoy Shen Zhou to the state of Qi without reporting to the state of Song, the tenacious Song people directly intercepted and killed Shen Zhou and executed him. As a result, this move sparked a war between the Song and Chu states, and the king of Chu Zhuang attacked the Song and besieged Suiyang for five months. At that time, Hua Yuan, the powerful minister who was in charge of the Song State, stepped forward, Hua Yuan directly climbed over the wall and went out of the city, infiltrated the Chu army camp, and kidnapped the Chu State Grand Sima Zianti, and said to Zianti: "There is no food in our national capital, and the people can only exchange their children for food in order to survive, and there is a lack of firewood in the city, and we can only split people's bones as firewood." But even so, if the State of Chu wants to destroy our Song State and let our Song State sign an alliance under the city, we will not agree. But if the Chu army is willing to retreat thirty miles, our Song State is willing to obey the orders of the Chu State. Zi had no choice but to accept this condition and told it to the king of Chuzhuang. King Chuzhuang was also impressed by the hardness of the Song people, and swore to each other with Hua Yuan: I won't lie to you, you won't lie to me. Thus he retired from the army. From then on, the great powers of the Central Plains saw clearly the characteristics of the Song people: they did not give in easily. It is precisely because of this national spirit that the Song State and the Zheng State are both the key points in the north and south of the world, and the Zheng State has been invaded by the armies of other countries almost every year, while the Song State has been invaded less. By this time, during the Warring States Period, when the world was fighting, the Zheng State had been destroyed by Korea, but the Song State was still alive.

Even in the era of the unification of the world in later generations, Suiyang, the hometown of Yin Shang, still makes people dare not underestimate it. Geographically speaking, Suiyang can only be used as a defense, and it is not a dangerous place. However, the two battles of Suiyang in the most powerful period of later China made the world look sideways, and people did not dare to despise it.

During the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, during the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, led the Seven Kingdoms to raise troops, and all the places attacked were overcome; However, when they arrived at the capital of Liang, which was not dangerous, the 400,000-strong army could not capture the city. General Zhou Yafu saw that Suiyang was so strong, so he turned to capture Huaisi and cut off the grain route of Wu Chu's army, which caused Wu Chu's army to collapse and quell the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in one fell swoop.

By the time of the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the rebels wanted to go south to the south of the Yangtze River through the Suiyang Canal. The entire Tang Empire was supported by taxes in the Huai River and the Yangtze River basin at this time, and if Suiyang was captured and the Grand Canal was cut off, the entire Tang Dynasty would have no source of wealth and could only perish. Suiyang's guard Zhang Xun had only 300 horses and no more than 3,000 soldiers, relying on such a small number of troops and the unyielding people of Suiyang, Suiyang withstood the siege of more than 100,000 rebels for ten months, and finally killed and wounded 120,000 rebels. Although the price paid by Suiyang is very tragic, without this unyielding will to resist the rebels, I am afraid that the great Tang Dynasty will only perish.

By the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Suiyang was renamed Songzhou. In the later period of the Five Dynasties, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong banned the general Zhao Kuangyin as the envoy of the Songzhou Festival; After the mutiny of Zhao Kuangyin and Chenqiao, the place of origin was Songzhou, so the country was named Song, and Suiyang also became the Nanjing Yingtianfu of the Song Dynasty. By the time of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, King Kang Zhao Gou ascended the throne in Yingtianfu, and the Southern Song Dynasty was established. When the Jin army attacked, the ministers persuaded Zhao Gou to stay in Yingtianfu to resist, but Zhao Gou obviously couldn't trust this city that was not dangerous, and only the Yangtze River could give him a sense of security. So he abandoned Ying Tianfu, first fled to Yangzhou, then to Jinling, and finally even fled to the sea further south, but the Jin army was still invincible, and Ying Tianfu, which was not in danger, was still able to hold out until five years later before it was finally conquered. When Suiyang gave up this time, it seemed that the indomitable spirit of the whole city had dissipated since then, and it became no different from ordinary cities.

When Dai Yan came to Suiyang in a carriage, what appeared in front of him was a "big city" that was far different from Fengyi. Dai Yan, who was accustomed to seeing the big cities in later generations, returned to the Warring States Period, and all he saw in the Song Kingdom were small towns and villages, and Suiyang was the place that could give him a "city" feeling for the first time. As far as his own visual observation, the whole Suiyang City is roughly square, the south wall is slightly wider, and the city walls are at least 3 kilometers or more in his visual observation, that is, the area of the city should be about 10 square kilometers, and in this era, it can indeed be called a "big city".

Entering Suiyang City, what Dai Yan saw was a scene of prosperity and prosperity. The city is lined with shops, and merchants from all over the world come and go, and it is very lively. After Song Guoben immigrated to Yin Shang, he was not opposed to business.

When the Shang tribe was originally a tribal alliance, agriculture was not developed, but animal husbandry and handicrafts were more developed. In the process of development, it often encountered the problem of surplus cattle and sheep and insufficient grain, so the leader of Shang, Wang Hai, used all the cattle and sheep in his hands to exchange grain for the surrounding tribes, which was the first trade in Chinese history. In the Shang Tang period, Shang Tang even weakened the power of the Xia Dynasty in disguise by exchanging silk for the grain of the Xia Dynasty, so that Shang Tang was able to successfully destroy the Xia Dynasty. After the establishment of these feudal states, the prevention of the remnants of the Yin Shang was very serious, and the remnants of the Yin Shang were not allowed to occupy the land, so the Yin Shang immigrants had to engage in trade, so the word merchant became the name of the people engaged in the trade industry in China.

In today's era, although it cannot be said that all merchants in the world are descendants of Xuanniao and descendants of Yin Shang, but according to the general view of people in this era, a businessman's ancestors have at least more than eighty percent chance of being the remnants of Yin Shang. As the base camp of the remnants of the Yin merchants, the Song State will certainly not reject the merchants of the same blood as themselves. When the historical trading power Qi reformed, it also needed the government to run brothels to entertain customers to "attract investment"; Zheng Guo, another major trading country, also needed to have an office to form a "Zheng Shang Alliance" with merchants, so that businessmen could serve Zheng Guo. And the Song State doesn't need any of these, the same bloodline, the same belief is the best trust.

Warring States in the world, if you want to say the largest city in the world, it is naturally Linzi, the capital of Qi State. However, if you want to say which city is the richest city in the world, you must talk about Taoqiu, another big city in the Song Kingdom. Taoqiu was originally a city located on the bank of the Jishui River, which was formerly the land of the Cao State and was later captured by the Song State. Since the king of Wei moved the capital to Daliang, a chasm has been dug up, starting from Yingshui, connecting Suishui, Jishui and the Yellow River respectively. The Song State saw the opportunity and also dug Heshui to connect Surabaya with Heze and Jishui. As a result, the waterways in the eastern part of the world were unobstructed, and Taoqiu became the center of it. With such favorable geographical conditions, coupled with the welcoming atmosphere of merchants in the Song Kingdom, Taoqiu quickly rose to become the commercial center of the whole world, which can be called Shanghai in the fourth century BC.

Dai Yan had heard of Taoqiu's wealth when he was in Fengyi, but after all, he had never seen it with his own eyes. But judging from Suiyang's wealth and prosperity, he can also imagine what kind of prosperity it is. He entered Suiyang and went to a special trade market, which he expected to be a mix of shops, because this is the case in Fengyi. However, the market in Suiyang City is subdivided into a grain market specializing in grain trade, a silk market specializing in silk and linen, and these are primary products as a market; Then there is a market that specializes in the sale of woodware, lacquerware, jade, pottery, etc.; There is also a finished market that sells finished shoes, hats, cars, etc. The division of labor was extremely elaborate, and the government assigned Chu Shi to manage the market.

Not far from the trade market, there are hundreds of workshops, backed by such a developed business, Suiyang's handicraft industry is also not lagging behind. Like Dai Yan, you can see from afar that there are cloth weaving workshops, copper workshops specializing in forging bronze utensils, and car workshops for making cars.

Far from the market and workshops, there is a large residential area, and in Suiyang, the residences of the public and the common people are clearly distinguished. The residences of the clans are all deep mansion compounds, and the courtyards are endless. The dwellings of the common people are no different from the slum dwellings that Dai Yan saw in Fengyi, they are all low buildings in the slums. In between, most of them were the residences of merchants and lords of the city, some of which were not even worse in size than those of the princes, but they were less expensive than those of the princes.

Surrounded by the residence of the Suiyang office, it is the palace of the Song Kingdom. For any country, the place where the monarch is located is the center of power, and the Song State is no exception. After Zixi took the Song Dynasty with Dai's family, he was very unaccustomed to the shabby palace before, so he carried out a large-scale renovation, which made today's Song Palace look more and more magnificent.

As the son of the Song Kingdom, Ziyan naturally has his own residence in Suiyang. After Dai Yan saw the situation in Suiyang City with his own eyes, he sent someone to report to Song Junzixi and returned to his residence, an old Dai mansion next to the palace.