In the pergola by the city gate, watching Han Yue and his party cheer happily, and then enter the city, King Zhao Yan was so angry that his teeth chattered, today he was planted in Han Yue's hands, and the ruthlessness and hatred in his heart were accumulating. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Chief, those sons have entered the city, do you want to go and ask the guerrilla battalion to come forward now, catch them, and—" A guard reported in a low voice, his knife slashing at his neck.

With a touch ~~, the reported Shouding was suddenly kicked out of the pergola by King Zhao Yan.

"You group of waste, one by one, don't you even have a brain, you want to arrest them, if something really happens, the fool will know that it is my Grandpa Zhao who takes revenge on them" King Zhao scolded the only Shouding, and his heart was full of atmosphere.

"Is it just to let them go?" The other guard asked cautiously and reluctantly.

"Leave them alone? Hmph, send someone to keep an eye on them first... I will let them remember that I Zhao Yan is by no means so easy to bully."

King Zhao Yan looked at the figure of Han Yue and his party who disappeared into the cave of the city gate, his eyes were ruthless, but he didn't notice that there were two pairs of eyes staring at him in the crowd entering the city.

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"Second shopkeeper, that is the king of Zhao Yan" In the crowd of people entering the city, a young man dressed in a green shirt respectfully pointed to the man wearing a hat beside him, who looked at the pergola through the crowd through the black veil.

"Yishan, do you think our goods were detained by King Zhao Yan" It turned out to be a woman's voice, and that glutinous voice indicated that she was still a very young woman, maybe even a young girl.

"Back to the second shopkeeper, Zhao Yan King may just be the person in front of the scene, presumably there must be someone behind the scenes, I have already found out, Nancheng guerrilla general Cui Zuyao has the biggest suspicion, now Mao Wenlong has just been killed, Lushun City is calm on the surface, secretly not peaceful, the second shopkeeper came in person this time, Yishan thinks that the risk is too great, do you want to ask someone from Shandong to bring a sentence..."The man in the green shirt spoke slowly and logically, with the demeanor of a scholar, but his words could not hide his respect and concern for this woman.

"Yishan, what do you think our Xiao family has today's power?"

Regarding the woman's question, the man in the green shirt did not answer immediately, but after thinking for a while, he said, "Yishan thinks that the Xiao family can have today's family business, relying on integrity and vision."

"Integrity and vision? Of course, this cannot be missing, but I think that our Xiao family can occupy a place among the many wealthy families in Jiangnan by relying on courage."

"Courage?" The man in the green shirt repeated, a little puzzled.

"Yes, it is courage, whether it was the ancestors of the Xiao family who went to the West with the Three Treasures or later devoted all their family wealth to Qi Shaobao to clean up the Japanese rebellion in Zhejiang, the Xiao family never lost their courage" The woman's words were full of memories and faint pride.

"The second shopkeeper has been smart since he was a child, and he can see through it better than all of us" The man in the green shirt sincerely admired the woman next to him.

"Just like that young Bai Zong, he is also a courageous person" The woman with the curtain withdrew her gaze towards the pergola and turned to the direction of Arthur City, where Han Yue and his party stayed in front of a restaurant.

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The reason why Han Yue appeared in Lushun just after recovering from his injury, in addition to the official statement of distraction, in fact, the main purpose is to understand the real social situation of this era, for the souls of the later generations who have just crossed over, Han Yue must quickly integrate into this society, although he stayed in Shuangdao for seven or eight days, but Shuangdao is isolated from the mainland after all, only when he really sets foot on land and walks into Lushun City to see the streets, shops, restaurants, and characters of the three religions and nine streams in this era, Han Yue felt that this was really not a dream.

Lushun City used to be very prosperous, it is different from the islands and other coastal strongholds of Dongjiang Town, the special geographical location determines that it has become the key to Dongjiang Town connecting Liaodong, Shandong, Liaohai and other places, especially the most important factor - the transit point of Liaodong smuggling trade.

Liaodong region is abundant, and bordering Mongolia, Jianzhou and other minority tribes, these tribes have low productivity, need to trade with the Han people in order to obtain some necessities through horses, leather goods, ginseng, Dongzhu, etc., such as tea, salt, ironware, etc., the trade between Liaodong and the hinterland of the Central Plains has always been an important trade route of the Ming Dynasty, Yongle period Ming Chengzu set up a horse market in Guangning, Kaiyuan in Liaodong, known as Liaodong horse market, Wanli period to further expand, which is also a reason for the rapid rise of the Jurchen.

According to historical records, in the early Ming Dynasty, Allah wanted to focus on traditional economies such as hunting, animal husbandry, and gathering, and the agricultural economy was always at a low level due to the restrictions of various unfavorable factors of the natural environment and social environment, and there was a serious shortage of food, so it was necessary to exchange local products for other areas. The emergence of the horse market in Liaodong provided a place for the exchange of goods between the Jurchens and the Han people, and effectively promoted the development of agriculture. After the opening of the Liaodong Horse Market in the early years of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens exchanged horses for grain, and the best horse could be exchanged for 15 stone of rice, and the lowest horse could be exchanged for 8 stone of rice. In the second year of Ming Shun (1458), in view of the fact that the Jianzhou Jurchens had to travel long distances to Kaiyuan or Guangning to trade in the horse market, which was very inconvenient, the Ming Dynasty opened the Fushun horse market in the area of Guanling in the east of Fushun City. At the beginning of the opening of the market in Fushun, there were only dozens of people a day, and during the Wanli period, thousands of people entered the market at every turn, basically a city every three days, and every time the market opened, business was prosperous, very lively, and businessmen gathered from all directions. The Jurchens exchanged their own ginseng, mink, pine seeds, fungus, horses and other local specialties for grain, cloth, salt, iron and other means of production and livelihood. According to archival records, in 17 horse market transactions in March of the 12th year of Wanli (1584) alone, the Jurchens bought 4,848 iron ploughshares; In the same month, 430 cattle were purchased in 29 cattle buying transactions. ①

Through economic exchanges, mutual exchange, mutual benefit, especially the large import of ploughing cattle and iron agricultural tools, the Jurchens not only obtained the necessities of life, but also enabled the rapid development of agriculture. Later generations Yan Congjian once said in the "Shuyu Zhou Consultation": "If it is not Fushun Ma City, the state shall not be developed." (2), it can be seen the importance of Liaodong trade, it can be said that the Houjin Dynasty was a 'tiger cub' raised by the Ming Dynasty through trade, but this time the tiger cub 'tiger came out of the mountain' during the Apocalypse, and finally drove the declining Ming Dynasty out of Liaodong.

After Liaodong became a fallen area, the horse market was no longer there, and the imperial court also issued an order to strictly prohibit the trade between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty, but, under the huge interests, this will completely became a piece of waste paper, official trade could not be carried out, and the smuggling of the people became increasingly rampant, and gradually formed a chain of interests, even Mao Wenlong is also part of this chain of interests, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong in the twelve articles of the 'capital enemy' crime, so the prosperity of Lushun City during the Mao Wenlong period is also reasonable.

And now Lushun City is much more sluggish than a year ago because of martial law and food shortages. But Zhumen wine and meat stink, there are frozen bones on the road, since ancient times, the starvation of the poor has nothing to do with the rich, they are not a world, just like the Wanghai Tower in front of Han Yue and his party, the merchants in the building are full of spring light, and the hungry skinny refugees on the street outside the building are numb and dazed.

(1) (2): Citing relevant research reports from China Culture Daily.