Chapter 631: Mei's Tomb Ceremony
Zhang Heng received the order and personally went down to the restaurant to convey Yang Guang's order, and half an hour later, he saw him leading Li Hun back to the restaurant.
"Jin Cai, how is it, what are you doing in the West Market?" As soon as Yang Guang saw Li Hun, he opened his mouth and asked him.
"This nun is really a thief, pretending to be a man and wandering around the West Market, and I don't know what to do?" Li Hun and Yang Guang were familiar with informality, sat down under Yang Guang, picked up the tea bowls on the next few cases, raised his neck and drank it all, wiped his mouth, and replied angrily.
"Which shops in the West Market did she visit, did you write them down?"
"The sergeant who has been ordered to follow the last general is doing it, and he wants to draw the walking route in the West City without landing on the ground, and he will take it to the prince later." Li Hun and Yang Guang thought of one thing, and had already ordered his sergeants to draw the walking route of their hearts.
Yang Guang was more satisfied with Li Hun's arrangement, and asked Zhang Heng instead: "Jianping, I haven't visited the two markets in the new capital since last year, why, now the two markets in the east and west have been changed to open before noon?" ”
Zhang Heng explained to Yang Guang with a smile: "Xiaguan also learned from the two cities after taking over the Yongzhou farewell, when he visited the east and west cities on the spot, and listened to the city orders of the two cities, because the Hu businessmen who did business in the west market were dissatisfied with the opening time of the market at noon every day, thinking that the opening time of the day was too short. Soon after the opening of the West Market was extended, the local merchants of the East Market, seeing that they had been robbed of business by the West Market, also submitted a letter to the Jingzhao Yamen, demanding that the East and West Cities open at the same time every day. Su Fu Yin asked the emperor for permission and agreed to the merchants' request. As a result, since two years ago, the eastern and western markets have been open for business every hour. ”
Yang Guang sat left and right and had nothing to do, and when he heard Zhang Heng talk about it, he couldn't help but be interested, and asked again: "The Hu merchants in the West Market have a big face, and they actually agreed to their request when they went back to the emperor. I just don't know how many Hu merchants are opening shops and making a living in this western market, and how many states do they come from? ”
Zhang Heng had just inquired in detail about the relevant situation from the city orders of the eastern and western cities, and secretly said ashamed, and replied: "According to the report to the lower officials in the Xishi city decree two days ago, there are about 3,620 Hu merchants who have opened shops and made a living in the western market, some of them are from Persia and other countries, and the nearest ones are from Gaochang, Qiuci, Khotan and other western Xinjiang countries, and there are no less than seventy or eighty states. ”
"I remember that when this king made a private detour to the eastern capital during the first year of Emperor Kaihuang, I saw a lot of Kunlun slaves with black complexions on the streets of Luoyang, why didn't they see them in Chang'an City?" When Yang Guang heard Zhang Heng introduce to him that there were Hu merchants from seventy or eighty states in the imperial capital, he couldn't help but be very interested, and asked him about the Kunlun slaves he had seen in the eastern capital in the early years.
"Xia Guan doesn't know this exactly, only vaguely heard that most of these Kunlun slaves came from the South China Sea island countries, as early as the Later Han Dynasty, their ancestors visited China for the first time, so they took it for granted that Luoyang, the eastern capital, was the most prosperous city in my Huaxia Dynasty, and most of them refused to go west when they arrived in Luoyang."
"Well, the three mountains and two rivers in the eastern capital are indeed outstanding people, and they are not considered to be the place where the emperor has achieved his grand hegemony, these Kunlun slaves are quite discerning." Yang Guang praised Kunlun Nudao.
Yang Guang, Zhang Heng, Li Hun and the other three sat on the restaurant near the West Market and waited for about an hour, when they saw a sergeant under Li Hun hurriedly running up to the restaurant, holding a freshly sketched road map to report the whereabouts and movements of the mind to Yang Guang and the others.
Yang Guang ordered the sergeant to spread out the road map on several cases, and gathered around several cases with Zhang Heng and Li Hun, and listened to the sergeant's report on the walking route of his heart in Xishi.
At first, Yang Guang was very concerned about the sergeant's intentions since he had entered the West Market, and in which shops he had talked to people in which stores, and from time to time he told Zhang Heng to find out the proprietors of these shops one by one, and after a long time, Yang Guang couldn't help but find out with some frustration that as Li Hun said before, his intention was to go around in the east and west of the West City, as if he knew that someone was watching behind him, and deliberately took them around in circles. Her footprints are all over the shops from sauce shops, vegetable and fruit shops to jewelry shops, spice shops and so on, making people wonder for a while what she wants to do in the West Market after a trip to the temple.
"Is anyone else following her?" Yang Guang was dazed when he heard this, and finally interrupted the sergeant and asked him.
"Lord Wang, General Li has instructed that as long as she does not move to return to the temple, she must draw a map of her walking route and report it to the prince at any time."
"Alright, you put this picture down, and go down and rest." Yang Guang was quite satisfied with Li Hun's hard work, Wen Yan withdrew the sergeant, turned around and sat down, and said to Zhang Heng and Li Hun, "Since this is the case, then we might as well sit here and wait to see how long this spiritual master will be in the West Market." ”
The three of them waited in the restaurant until it was past noon, and successively received three road maps of their intentions in the West Market from Li Hun's sergeants. In the meantime, the shopkeeper of the restaurant came to the private room twice and prompted Yang Guang and others to order food and eat, but Yang Guang refused: the palace still didn't know if Guo Yan had found new traces of the wicked man's fall, but he was dragged near the West Market by his heart, and saw the road maps accompanying her around the West Market and visiting the market, Yang Guang was so anxious, how could he still care about eating?
When the sergeant reported the fourth map, Yang Guangqiang endured the anger in his heart, spread out the four road maps on several cases in turn, leaned over, and looked intently at the four similar road maps, trying to find out the rules from them.
"Lord Wang, please look here, in these four pictures, the walking route of the mind seems to be constantly circling around this area." Zhang Heng's eyes were sharp, and he pointed to the northeast corner of Xishi to remind Yang Guangdao.
Yang Guang was reminded by Zhang Heng, carefully compared the four walking road maps of his mind in turn, and looked up to Li Hun with a happy face and instructed: "Go quickly and find out which shops are opened in this area." ”
"There is no need for General Li to go in person, when the official orders the Xishi City Order to come, the prince will know when he asks him in person." Zhang Heng once again opened his mouth to remind Yang Guangdao.
The east and west cities of Chang'an have a city supervisor, specifically responsible for maintaining market order, mediating merchant disputes and other affairs, the two city supervisors are each in charge of a city order, directly under the original Jing Zhaoyin, now Yongzhou don't drive moderation.
The current Chang'an West City Commander's surname is Tang, and he is nicknamed Thin Soup, which means that this Tang City Commander is very good at mediating disputes between merchants and pretending to be a peacemaker.
The order of the soup city was passed on by the new Yongzhou Don't drive Zhang Heng, and came to the restaurant, but he didn't expect that it was Yang Guang, the king of Jin, who was waiting for him in the restaurant, and couldn't help but be a little flattered.
When the Shiyu City Order began to introduce a shop called "Mei's Tomb Dian Shop", it couldn't help but attract Yang Guang's special attention.