Zhucheng is the capital of Mizhou, the place where Yan Tianwu wants to focus on control, and naturally it is also the place where the conflict between old and new ideas is most stimulating. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhucheng must carry out a strict search in and out of the city to see if there are weapons, but they do not pay attention to identity, Shandong has experienced war, and the household registration does not know where it was lost, and it was burned by the rebel army. In addition, Yan Tianwu encourages business, and business travel is endless, so this identity naturally cannot be checked.

Zhao Zheng brought more than 100 people from Liangxiang, but he didn't expect to be stumped at the first step when he arrived at the city gate. There will also be body searches, as for if there are female dependents who are inconvenient, it doesn't matter, because the soldiers at the city gate are not only male soldiers, but also female soldiers.

Zhao Zheng's convoy hid a large number of weapons, not to mention, even glass, soap, and other commodities that did not have a certificate from the city department could not enter the city, especially the notices on the city walls with taxes on various commodities written in them.

Among them, the taxes on luxury goods such as glass, soap, and perfume are surprisingly high, while taxes on rice and wheat are only symbolically collected, and no matter what goods enter or leave the city, they must have a certificate of acceptance and a tax certificate issued by the government, and those who do not have a certificate will be punished as smuggling, and they must pay taxes and a certain amount of fines on the spot. Zhao Zheng is not afraid of paying these taxes, but the amount of these glasses and soaps he brings is huge, and he will definitely alarm the government, and it will be difficult not to alarm Yan Tianwu when the time comes.

And Daoist Song was also in Zhao Zheng's convoy, and until now he still thinks that Zhao Zheng sells silk, porcelain and other things, and takes regular channels. Therefore, he should not stay outside the city gate for too long and plan carefully, so as not to make him suspicious.

There was no way, Zhao Zheng had no choice but to let Lu Youzhi drive lightly into the city, and find a way to bribe the guards of the city gate guarding the gate to let them pass. However, what is devastating is that those soldiers guarding the door are surprisingly competent, and the people sent out by Lu Youzhi to try to bribe were directly arrested and directly beaten with five boards.

Zhao Zheng felt unbelievable when he heard the news, when he came to this era, he heard that there were Qing officials, but he had never encountered such a more serious soldier, such an honest team, how did Yan Tianwu exercise.

"Brother Zhao, what the hell is going on, why don't you leave?" When Daoist Song saw the convoy waiting outside the city gate for nearly an hour, he couldn't help but ask curiously?

"There is an urgent matter in my hometown, and I have to arrange for people to go back, so I have to delay some time, please forgive me."

"Well, you deal with it slowly first, it's abrupt."

After Zhao Zheng sent Daoist Song away, he felt that there would be no result if he waited any longer, but fortunately, in addition to some glass and soap, he also got some porcelain, silk and other ordinary goods in his team. So it was decided to bring a dozen people in first, and the others found a place outside the city to take care of these weapons and goods.

There were more than 500 people accompanying Zhao Zheng this time, except for the dozens of people who stayed on the ship, most of them stayed in Liangxiang, Zhao Zheng brought more than 100 people to Zhucheng this time, but he didn't expect that only a dozen of them entered the city in the end.

Daoist Song looked at the nearly 100 people who stayed in place suspiciously, and noticed that something was wrong, but he had a good conversation with Zhao Zheng along the way, and felt that Zhao Zheng should not be the kind of gangster who was a traitor, so he kindly mentioned a few words: "I don't dare to guarantee the poor roads in other places, but the taxes in this Mizhou area are all taken from the people and used by the people, and it is not a big deal to pay some taxes." ”

Zhao Zheng was surprised by Daoist Song's keenness, those firearms could never be brought into the city, so he had to vaguely agree, and passed with a sloppy eye.

There are only five of the more than twenty carriages left, and when Zhao Zheng entered the city, he deliberately looked at the notices posted on the wall, and finally understood why these soldiers were so incorruptible.

"Those who do not obey the orders of their superiors, behead!

Adulterer, captive and marauder, beheaded!

……

Corruption and dereliction of duty, deduction of business travelers, beheading! ”

One by one, the military regulations are comparable to the three major disciplines and eight points of attention. The words "deducting business travel" were deliberately added after the corruption and dereliction of duty, which is enough to show that Michigan attaches great importance to business. The most important notice is also posted that if a soldier violates the rules on the notice, he is welcome to report it, and the reporting process is very simple, just write a letter and throw it into the report boxes set up everywhere in the city.

What shocked Zhao Zheng was that there were two human heads hanging on the city gate, and it was written next to them: "Deduct the business travel, and make an example of it." ”

Zhao Zheng put away his contempt, and found that the fabrics on the soldiers guarding the gate were all of the highest quality, unlike some guards at the city gates in the south who looked like begging for food, and they still had a smile on their faces all the time. It's really eye-catching.

The porcelain and silk in Zhao Zheng's convoy were quickly collected.

The chief guard came, not as vicious as the police caught the prisoner, and asked, "Where did these goods come from?" If you have paid business taxes in other parts of Michigan, if you have one, you don't need to pay it again, and if not, please go to the Yamen to handle it. ”

Saying that, the guard pointed to Zhao Zheng to build a house next to it, and the plaque said three words, all of which were entered through a single door, with a total of nine windows, just like the place where tickets were sold in later generations.

Zhao Zheng replied honestly: "I came from Yangzhou, and I haven't paid taxes elsewhere in Mizhou." ”

The guard general was not angry: "We are all the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Mizhou is poor, and there is a lack of materials, I hope that this little brother you often come to Mizhou to do business, and the quality of saltpeter, gypsum, and coal in Mizhou is among the best, and the price is low." ”

Zhao Zheng was a little surprised, this guard general actually began to attract investment from himself, he was a little skeptical that he was in the wrong place, the most important thing is that this guard general called himself the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Mizhou has only been in the Song Dynasty for only a year, so naturally he will not have much sense of belonging to the Song Kingdom, but he still said the words "We are all the people of the Great Song Dynasty" so naturally, which shows how successful Yan Tianwu has been in the ideological transformation of the army.

Seeing that the inspection team in front of him stopped, Daoist Song got out of the carriage, and the guard obviously knew each other, and greeted warmly: "Immortal Song Chang, don't come unharmed." ”

Daoist Song bowed: "I went to Liang Township, I want to ask Ning Zhenren about some things, this little brother Zhao was brought by me from Liang Township." ”

"Disrespectful, disrespectful!" The guard general said to Zhao Zheng.

This is already the last checkpoint of the city gate, and it needs to be closed to pass, although Song Daochang is familiar with them, but he must also pass through it, and Song Daoist is also quite cooperative.

Then when it was Zhao Zheng's turn, the guard turned black on the spot, because he searched out a flintlock pistol from Zhao Zheng's waist. This is something that the government strictly prohibits from carrying privately, but when he saw the word Huangshi engraved on the barrel of the flintlock pistol, his face changed again, Huangshi is a grandmaster of the refining dao of Baiyun Palace, and it is a sect of the six schools that specialize in the development of firearms, and among these six people, Huangshi's skills are the most exquisite, with the decisive role of firearms in the Shandong battlefield, the name of Mr. Huangshi can be described as thunderous in Shandong, and the barrel is engraved with his name, indicating that this thing is made by himself, and it is definitely not those flintlock pistols on the market. Because the barrels of those flintlock pistols will only be engraved with "Baiyun Palace System".

"How did you get this?" The flintlock pistols made by Mr. Huang Shi himself are all Song Guo big figures, so the guards will deal with it carefully.

"Bought from other merchants."

"The merchant?"

"Zaoyang Chamber of Commerce, Wang Huishou. I have some in-laws with him, so I can buy this gun from him."

The name of Wang Dacaishen can be said to be thunderous in Shandong, forty percent of Shandong's grain, three percent of medicinal materials, and all weapons are doing business with Wang Fucai, and everyone knows who is standing behind the Zaoyang Chamber of Commerce.

Zhao Zheng saw that the guard general's expression was moved, thinking that through Wang Fucai's name, the guard would return his flintlock pistol and let himself go, but the guard general took the flintlock pistol away, and then wrote a receipt to Zhao Zheng: "I will do things according to the rules, and I hope that Brother Zhao will not be surprised, this flintlock pistol is temporarily pressed here, when you go out of the city, just take this chapter note and take it back, the firearms will always be placed in the guard court here, and it will not delay you for much time." ”

Zhao Zheng arched his hand: "For self-defense, I hope the general will make it convenient." ”

The guard smiled: "Don't worry, the city is absolutely safe, and there will be no thieves." ”

Seeing this, Zhao Zheng had no choice but to give up, and decided to visit Ning Zhenren with Daoist Song.

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Zhucheng is really not as good as Liang Township, the prosperous scene vaguely has the appearance of the Jiangnan Zhuzhou Prefecture, the difference is that there are busy women working everywhere on the streets, and there are newspapers sold everywhere.

Newspapers first appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, and at that time there were already prototypes of newspapers, but the speed of printing, the way of dissemination, and object-oriented greatly prevented the development of newspapers.

Although the literacy rate of the Song Dynasty was relatively high, the written documents were written in classical Chinese, and there was no punctuation, which was far from being understandable to the general public, so Zhao Zheng would spare no effort to promote vernacular writing and punctuation, otherwise the spread of knowledge was still forbidden by scholars, and it was just a fool's dream if newspapers and scientific and technological books wanted to be popularized.

Zhao Zheng couldn't help but smile bitterly when he got this answer, Shandong is like a dilapidated and crumbling house, even if it is pushed to rebuild, it is a pity, but Song Guo is like a house with a dilapidated appearance but many exquisite decorations inside, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will break the jars and jars inside, so that Zhao Zheng has always had to be careful.

Zhao Zheng bought a newspaper in the newspaper stop, the main title of the first page is the news of Yan Tianwu's victory against the Jin army on the front line in Yingzhou, full of Yan Tianwu's personality cult, and then below the main board, is the column of Baiyun Palace, this issue is dedicated to the introduction of Baiyun Palace's longevity topic, full of falsehoods, not to mention, but also a burst of boasting, and then the second edition is the business information in Zhucheng, the average price of various commodities today, the news of various merchants seeking cooperation, the information of store sublease and so on.

Then Zhao Zheng turned to the gossip about this version, which is basically the gossip news of later generations, and the headline of this page is "Zhao Zhenjun and General Yan's flowers before the moon." (To be continued.) )