In the next few days, Zhou Bian's life rhythm is compact and fulfilling, learning martial arts in the morning and reading in the afternoon, although tired, but can clearly feel that his body is getting better day by day, it seems that the body is not broken, there is a lot of room for upgrading, which makes Zhou Bian extremely happy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a master, the young master ordered someone to make two wooden swords, and after a few days, he ordered Zhou Bian to take it and Fan Yu to compete, so that it is good, the actual fight can be improved, otherwise it will always be a showcase. However, although Fan Yu always let Zhou Bian lose, he still kept losing, which aroused Zhou Bian's competitive spirit even more, and he secretly made up his mind that he must not be worse than his courtiers. And Zichang also began to teach spear skills, spear is a long-handled combat weapon used for straight stabbing and piercing, it is one of the most equipped weapons in the army at this time, more suitable for military use than a sword that is less than human height, and it is naturally the standard equipment of the Zhou royal army. This spear is waved to pay attention to a momentum, straight out to pay attention to a advance without retreat, sweeping to pay attention to a sweep of thousands of troops, to pick up a sense of unbreakable, when the son of the chief envoy comes, it is only like a thousand troops and horses rushing forward, people have not arrived and the momentum has been rushing to the face. Zhou Bian is naturally still a small spear, and he can only learn moves for the time being. Unlike swords, spears require strength to be powerful, and strength can only be boiled slowly, and momentum can only be cultivated by thoughts, and it is impossible to rush it.

The Shangshu that Taishi talked about in the afternoon, although it is a real treasure of Chinese civilization, the masterpieces handed down since the time of Xia Yu are more authentic than the modern and ancient Shangshu that have been circulated by later generations, but Zhou Bian is still drowsy when he listens, these words are too awkward, but the biggest benefit is that he knows a lot of words at this time. At this time, it was still a seal script, which was more complicated than the traditional Chinese, and under the teaching of the Taishi, Zhou Bian sometimes practiced calligraphy on the sand table.

Just when Zhou Bian seemed to be accustomed to the life of the prince of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, suddenly one day the prison guard came to the door. During the casual chat in the past few days, Zhou Bian also heard that this eunuch is an old eunuch, loyal to the royal family, in charge of the royal treasury for decades, without mistakes, and even trusted by the king and the queen mother, so at this time Zhou Bian also has some good feelings towards him.

It turned out that Jian Jia came to inform him to inspect the mining tomorrow, although Zhou Bian knew that Yuntai Mountain was difficult to go, but he was still very excited, after all, he had been in the palace for a long time, and since he came to this era, he had not left the palace to see the scenery outside. After that, Zhou Bian asked some questions that needed attention, and Jian Jia also carefully answered them one by one. It turned out that Zhou Bian didn't have anything to do, but he was just dragged out to make a appearance, and everything was handled by the attendants led by the prison guard. Zhou Bian asked again if he could bring the maid with him, and the prison guard showed a slight lewd smile, but he said that it was okay or not, but the prince was young, so it didn't hurt to take it. Hehe, Zhou Bian laughed to himself, is he dependent on his maid sister.

The second day is a crisp autumn day, with clear skies and cloudless skies, which is a good day for traveling. After the consent of the Taishi, Zhou Bian suspended classes for a day, got up early to clean up properly, and took Ling'er to follow the eunuch who came to bid farewell to the Queen Mother. Ling'er's body is already well, and today it is Ling'er's turn to serve with her. Unexpectedly, seeing the prison armor walking north with the team, Zhou Bian couldn't help but wonder, isn't the main gate of this palace in the south? After Jian Jia smiled and explained, he still obeyed Zhou Bian and went to the south.

It turns out that this palace is expanded in the north of the original small city by borrowing the power of the Marquis of Jin, out of the north gate is the plain between Heluo, and outside the south gate is the market in the city of Chengzhou, the north gate is much closer and not crowded, so they usually go out of the city to take the north gate. And Zhou Bian was also deeply interested in this bazaar, and after learning that he was not in a hurry, he proposed to walk through the bazaar, and the supervisor naturally agreed.

Zhou Bian was wearing a dark robe today, and the leader of the shirt was not crimson, which was the dress of the nobles. Naturally, there is also the beloved short sword pinned to his body, which makes a little prince of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty a little majestic. When she went out with her master, Ling'er was naturally dressed brighter than usual, and she was much more gorgeous than when she was in the palace. After leaving the palace gate, he boarded the carriage, two wheels and four carriages, open-topped, a horseman drove the carriage in front, the supervisor accompanied Zhou Bian to sit, Ling'er followed the car, followed by some guards and entourage.

Outside the palace gate is a straight street, lined with small courtyards, and according to Jian Jia, most of them were inhabited by the declining nobles of the Zhou Dynasty, and ministers like Taishi and Shan lived on another street. Didn't go far is a horizontal road, this is the market of Chengzhou City, and it is also the only prosperous street, Zhou Bian looked around, there are still more people on this street, but most of them are dressed in sackcloth, and it is also, how can the nobles come out to shop in person. There are shops on the street, and from the direction where Zhou Bian came to the left, there are vegetable sellers and meat sellers, but Zhou Bian and they turn right and go to the west gate. The two plates on this side of the West Street are mostly selling cloth, selling clay pots, selling farm tools, and selling knives.

Zhou Bian didn't expect that there was such a market in the small town more than two thousand years ago, and he couldn't help but pay attention to it, but Jian Jia smiled beside him, "The prince will be stunned when he enters Henan after he stays, it is much more developed than here, and in the Henan market, Chu Yueyan and Zhao's goods are bought." "This Henan land is now Luoyang, the former royal city of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the place where the Son of Heaven lives.

Hearing this, Zhou Bian couldn't help but be surprised, the Zhou room had decayed to this point, how could business still develop. I only listened to Jian Jia explain that Luoyang is located in the middle of the world, with developed transportation, and because the royal family is here for hundreds of years, the princes have not dared to kill them all, so the city defense is not strict, and naturally commerce is developed. And my Zhou family is small and the people are poor, and the Zhou people have more industries, and they are strong in industry and commerce, so naturally Luoyang is economically developed. Zhou Bian suddenly realized that everything must have its two sides, and the so-called east is not bright and the west is bright, which is exactly what it means.

The small street is only two or three miles long, and while talking, you will arrive at the west gate of Chengzhou, and there are only four city gates in Chengzhou City. At this time, the city walls are all made of rammed earth, and the city walls of Chengzhou are also not plastered with wall bricks, so Zhou Bian saw that the entire city wall was piled up with mud, and grass grew in some places, and the city tower was also dilapidated and crumbling, and the city gate was a wooden plank, all rotting out of holes. Seeing that Zhou Bian just shook his head, Jian Jia didn't care.

Out of the city, Zhou Bian was suddenly in a good mood, it turned out that as far as the eye could see, there was a flat river on the Heluo Plain, and Luoshui on the left hand side was like a jade belt around the south of Chengzhou City. The road outside the city gate was lined with crops, all golden, waiting to be harvested, and the farmers were busy in the fields, and the children were running along, and from time to time they looked curiously at the group of people. Breathing in this unpolluted air, Zhou Bian only felt that his heart was open-minded.

Jian Jia explained that most of the people next to the city were noble fiefs, and there were many descendants of the Zhou royal family, and after more than ten generations, the side branches had fallen a lot, some were doing business, and some were guarding these few acres of land to live, and the royal family did not collect endowments, and they were self-sufficient. After hearing this, Zhou Bian couldn't help but sigh, how could the former son-in-law think that his descendants would also farm the land, and they looked like the sons of those slaves.

Jian Jia went on to say that the farmland in the suburbs in the distance is Zhou Tianzi's private land, and there are not many of them, because the place of the Zhou royal family is too small, and it has been given to Zhou Gong and other ministers a lot, but it is barely enough to feed the royal family. Zhou Bian also knew that there was no salary at this time, and the Son of Heaven and even the ministers under the princes were divided into food estates, and the grain grown in the food estates was used by the ministers.

Turning and staggering northward, he staggered a short distance to the first royal eup, which was a small village. After Zhou Bian and the others entered the village, an old man led the people in the village to greet him, and Zhou Bian naturally had an entourage to deal with it, and after asking about the harvest, he arranged for someone to send the grain that should be paid into the palace, which did not need Zhou Bian to worry about. Zhou Bian ordered the groom to drive on, looking curiously at the small village. And the men, women and children in the village also looked at Zhou Bian curiously, some children even ran to him, but were driven away by the guards, Zhou Bian looked at these simple and lovely villagers, and suddenly felt a sense of cordiality in his heart, these are all working people, and couldn't help waving at them, those villagers naturally knew that this was a big man from the royal city, and saw Zhou Bian waving his hand but bowed down excitedly.

The village was full of thatched huts, made of mud, with windows on the walls, no curtains or anything like that, but with wooden planks, which were fought during the day and closed at night. So at this time, you can see some wooden farm tools randomly placed on the walls of the house. The villagers have many faces and yellow muscles, and their eyes are deep-set, and they know that they often work in the fields, but they lack food and clothing, which naturally makes people feel pity. Zhou Bian couldn't help but move in his heart, with a simple world view and the influence of later generations, he couldn't help but think deeply, as their prince and as a future generation, can't I do something for them. In fact, at this time, Zhou Bian was not so reluctant to this environment, and even a little dependent, such as the intimate little maid, such as the yearning for martial arts.

Then Zhou Bian walked a few more villages, and everywhere he passed was the same depression. The group continued to walk forward, but after walking out of a slightly larger village, they suddenly saw dust rising in the distance, and it seemed that a large number of people and horses were coming, everyone was taken aback, and after Jian Jia and Zhou Bian looked at each other, they frowned, and then explained that Zhou Bian stayed where he was, and then Jian Jia thought about it and told everyone not to reveal the identity of Prince Zhou Bian, and after speaking, he brought a few guards forward to meet him.

Zhou Bian, Ling'er and a few guards waited in the same place, Ling'er hurriedly took out the water bladder he brought, and served Zhou Bian to drink water, and Zhou Bian had to laugh a few more words.

Unexpectedly, after a while, he didn't see the prison guard come back, Zhou Bian's heart was inexplicably tight, but he found that the man was getting closer and closer. Vaguely you can see a neat queue, and when you look closely, you get closer again, but it is a group of armor soldiers, dressed in bronze armor, holding halberds, and there are several chariots in the middle, about a few hundred people. A tall soldier in front of him held a large flag with a large Korean character written on it.

This is the first time Zhou Bian has seen the army during the Warring States Period, and when he saw a tall man, he couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and he didn't know whether he was scared or excited. And Ling'er and the guards were also nervous, and seeing that the carriage was difficult to turn around, they hurriedly pulled Zhou Bian off the car to protect him.

Seeing that the army walked straight towards the village behind them, passing by Zhou Bian and them, no one cared about them, and they didn't seem to care. Zhou Bian couldn't help but look at this army up close, only to see the soldiers walking neatly, not squinting, the team could feel the monstrous murderous aura when they walked by, or the ancient army was heavy, and it was different to kill it with a knife and a shot at close range. The army was neatly parked at the gate of the village, and on a chariot in the middle, a general-like man shouted, "Rob! ”

only heard the hundreds of soldiers shouting, so they dispersed in Zhou Bian's stunned, and rushed into the village like a devil entering the village, and the little good feeling that Zhou Bian had established in his heart suddenly disappeared. Yes, how can the princes' soldiers and horses appear on the land of the royal family?