"Speaking of which, in the end, it became a matter of governance. If the officials here are clean and honest at all times, the rangers will really have no room to survive, and they will slowly disappear if they don't need to be rectified. ”

However, if you want to disappear completely, Li Hao feels that it is also difficult. There will always be some officials in the court who have problems, and these rangers may also switch to gangs and other things. For example, in the current Hongmen, Li Hao feels that he has opened an inexplicable new way for Datang's games.

After walking all the way for several days and landing in several cities, the next city is Yangzhou. Li Hao really has to take a good look at this city, after all, this place is too famous in various poems of history. And Ruyan and they have been here before, and they just want to go and see it this time.

Li Hao is still the same as the previous city, first go to the top to meet the Taoist people, then look at his own industry and then play by the way. To say that this place in Yangzhou in ancient times is a city that Li Hao has longed for a long time, "On the moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges, where can the jade teach".

Yangzhou, as a regional title, is recorded in ancient books such as "Shangshu", and is one of the nine states in China. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called Han near the city of Yangzhou today. In 486 B.C., Wu destroyed Han, built Han City, opened Han ditch, and connected the Yangtze River and Huai River. This is the earliest city on the territory of present-day Yangzhou.

The more Wu is destroyed, the more Yang land belongs: Chu is destroyed, and the Yang land is returned to Chu. In 319 B.C., Chu built a city on the site of Hancheng, named Guangling. After Qin unified China, Guangling County was set up, which belonged to Jiujiang County. In the Han Dynasty, Yangzhou is now called Guangling and Jiangdu, and it has been the fief of the prince for a long time.

Liu Bi, the king of Wu, made money in the mountains, boiled the sea for salt, and opened the salt river, which was very prosperous for a while, promoted the development of the economy, and began the first prosperous period in the history of Yangzhou. In order to improve and consolidate ethnic relations, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the sixth year of Yuanfeng married Liu Xijun, the daughter of Liu Jian, the king of Jiangdu, to Wusun Kingdom, more than 80 years before Wang Zhaojun married to the Xiongnu.

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were constant wars between Wei and Wu, and Guangling was a military center in the Jianghuai area. During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Guangling experienced repeated wars and became Wucheng several times. However, due to the hard work of the working people for hundreds of years, the economic status has been continuously improved in the process of recovery. The Northern Zhou Dynasty changed Guangling to Wuzhou. Immigrants from Qingzhou and Yanzhou in Shandong moved south to Guangling, which promoted Yangzhou's economic development. Emperor Yang of the Sui and Tang dynasties opened the North-South Grand Canal, built a labyrinth here, and died here in 618.

With the Tang Dynasty, China's national strength was at its peak, and Yangzhou also reached its peak. It was once the most important port city in Datang and the gateway to foreign exchanges. In Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, agriculture, commerce and handicrafts were quite developed, and a large number of workshops and handicraft workshops appeared.

It is not only rich in the world between Jianghuai and Huaihuai, but also the largest metropolis in southeast China. Yangzhou is the transportation center of grain, grass, salt, money and iron in the north and south and an important port for domestic and foreign transportation.

Leading the southern and northern states of Huai. In the water and land transportation centered on Chang'an, Yangzhou has always played a key role. As an important port for foreign traffic, Yangzhou has set up a special envoy to manage friendly exchanges with foreign countries.

In the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou and Dashi had frequent exchanges. The number of expatriates living in Yangzhou is thousands. Persians, Dashi, Brahmins, Kunlun, Silla, Japan, Goryeo and other Chinese became merchants living in Yangzhou. Japan's dispatch of Tang envoys to Yangzhou and Jianzhen to Japan promoted political, economic, scientific, and cultural exchanges between China and Japan.

On the basis of attracting the achievements of his predecessors, Li Shan, a native of Yangzhou, re-annotated the "Anthology", which was widely cited and preserved a large number of important documents that have been lost for future generations. His son, Li Yong, is not only very influential in his articles and poems, but also one of the great calligraphers after Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang.

The great poet Zhang Ruoxu is one of the four masters of Wuzhong, and only one poem "Spring River Flower Moonlit Night" has the reputation of overwhelming the whole Tang Dynasty with a single piece. In 684, Xu Jingye and Luo Bin raised troops in Yangzhou against Wu Zetian's rule. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, warlords fought and Yangzhou was seriously damaged. Yang Xingmi established power in Yangzhou, known as Yang Wu in history, and had a short period of economic recovery. Soon, it was again in the devastation of war.

The main importance of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty was its transportation, mainly the transportation of grain. The imperial grain national tax of the grain-producing provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River must go north through this and be transported to Luoyang and Chang'an by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. There is also salt transportation, Huai salt westward transportation, the country's largest two Huai salt places produce official salt here distribution, and then transfer the country's most extensive salt sales area - the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan four provinces for sales.

There are two Huai salt envoys and a large number of salt merchants in the city; Wealthy salt merchants built many exquisite gardens in the area under the Nanhe River in Xincheng and along the Slender West Lake in the northwest suburbs, and it was generally accepted at the time that "Suzhou wins with the city, Yangzhou wins with gardens, and Hangzhou wins with lakes and mountains".

The second is finance, because Yangzhou is the largest distribution center of official salt in the country, a large number of salt merchants gathered here, so it has driven the development of Yangzhou's economy to help the turnover investment of salt merchants, and it is the most concentrated capital in China and even East Asia, the largest financial center, and its prosperity is like Tokyo, London, and Hong Kong in the world in later generations; The so-called "rich in the world." Mo more than Jiangsu and Zhejiang; Jiang Province is prosperous, Mo Sheng Suyang".

The last one is its entertainment industry and service industry, which has been the pillar industry of Yangzhou since the Sui and Tang dynasties, with countless singers and dances, high-end prostitutes, artists, calligraphers and painters. Yangzhou, together with the two capitals in the north and south, and Suzhou and Hangzhou, is listed as one of the "five metropolises that scholars must visit", and is one of the most important cultural centers in the East.

The river between the old and new cities is opened up as a river dedicated to tourism, called "Little Qinhuai", and the famous Yangzhou thin horse is famous in the world. This is probably the first famous red* light district that is allowed to be opened, famous in the world and famous in history.

Li Hao really wanted to see what the Fengyue of this city famous for Fengyue was like, so he was busy with Taoism and his own affairs, and then took the people around him to play in Yangzhou City enough before he hooked up with Zhang San and the two of them in one night to see the Qinglou in Yangzhou, Zhang San is a frequent visitor here, so he is very clear about everything here, and it is just right for him to lead the way.

Li Hao went with a heart to learn and explore, this is true. He just wanted to see what was the difference between the Fengyue in Yangzhou and the ones he had seen in his later life, and he also wanted to see the jade.

Although he went behind his wife's back, he asked for leave because he wanted to go with Zhang San to inspect the salt industry in Yangzhou or something, and meet some salt merchants or something. Several of his women were not fake, and they really thought that he had gone to see the salt merchants, because Li Hao really didn't go to the Qing*lou to find an example of a sister after coming to the Tang Dynasty.

So this honest man does bad things, and anyone will believe it if he finds a reason, if Li Hao hadn't accumulated such a good record before, he would have to go to Yangzhou Thin Horse, and it is estimated that the Wu clan and Gao Yang will join forces to squeeze him out first.

"Won't Lang Jun come with me to take a look? You must know that the Jade Tower is the best place in Yangzhou, and there are many beauties in it. Ruyan had been in the Jade Building before, and she just wanted to come over to see some of her acquaintances this time.

For her, although the memory here is unbearable, Li Hao did not dislike her, and the people on the side of Yulou did not embarrass her at the beginning, otherwise she would not be able to maintain her innocence. So knowing that Li Hao was going to Jiangnan, she followed over to have a look.

"I won't go, those are your acquaintances, they are all women, and I can't go as a big man." Li Hao didn't even think about it, and directly rejected Ruyan's proposal. If you go to a place like this and go with your own woman, you won't see anything.

Liu Renliang didn't follow, he separated from Li Hao here in Yangzhou, and then went to office first. He is now a thorn in a large state, and his identity is different from that of Li Hao's inspector.

The other two people also have a division of labor, Liu Renliang goes to the place, and Li Hao goes to Yuhang Songjiang. The current official on Yuhang's side is Li Hao's student, and he was transferred from other places, as well as Songjiang's side.

However, the difference is that the economic situation on the Songjiang side is far worse than that of later generations. This international metropolis in later generations is now just a large barren land, and it is still waiting for Li Hao to come over this time to vigorously develop this side.

"Lang Jun really can't go over? But we went. "I have been with Li Hao for a few years, and I have long been familiar with Li Hao's personality, so I naturally can't help but want to make a joke about myself at this time.

"I'm not going! Let Xiao Wu and Gao Yang go out with you, and I'll go out with Zhang San later. "Li Hao really has something to do when he comes to Yangzhou, and it's just incidental to see where the jade people teach.

Because of the rapid development of the salt industry in the south, the salt industry in Yangzhou has actually been greatly impacted, which also makes many people in the family here dissatisfied. Originally, these high-profit things were occupied by them, but now they can't make money, can they not be depressed?

And Li Hao went to Jiangnan this time, in addition to dealing with the officials here, he also removed some hidden dangers here. At the same time, he is also responsible for investigating the economic situation here, and then developing the economy and people's livelihood here. Otherwise, Li Ke would not have been reluctant to let Li Hao come here.

It is no small matter to develop the entire eastern part of Gangnam Province into an economic development. However, Li Hao has a lot of cards in his hand, because he is now valued by Li Ke, and the students he can arrange in his hand are also. These people are the people Li Hao really uses with confidence, and with their help, Li Hao will have to deal with things here a lot faster.

"Li Shaojun! Shall we go now? When it was almost dark, Zhang San didn't know where to find a four-wheeled carriage, and then invited Li Hao to experience the people's feelings together, and by the way, he saw the beauties of Yangzhou.