"To the east?" Li Zhengchen smacked his lips and glanced at his colleagues, "Isn't what the national teacher said about Gusu?" ”

"Gusu? Oh, you mean Suzhou, no, Gusu is still east."

"This..."The Yangzhou people present were dumbfounded, Gusu will go east to the sea, there is no good place!

Li Zhengchen: "The national teacher is not mistaken, there is no good place to go east of Gusu, it is all some fishing villages and wasteland."

"Yes, it's those wasteland fishing villages, what I fancy this time is that there is nothing in that place"

"Uh....." Rao is these people basically represent the smartest people in Yangzhou, and they are also scorched by the idea of hawkers, although they know that you want to start from scratch, but it is not so white!

"National teacher, should you think about it again, after all, there are many places to choose from in this vicinity, and there is no need for the national teacher to pick a place where birds don't poop."

Well, the hawker also knows that his ideas are too advanced, but in this era, who knows the future achievements of Shanghai, the title of the Oriental Demon Capital is not given in vain, but it is too hard to force now, and I don't know what the specific situation is. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Otherwise, I'd like to ask you to accompany me to that place to have a look, because I don't know the specific situation of that place now, let's go on a field trip and come back to make a decision, okay?"

Li Zhengchen thought about it, anyway, he took the national teacher around, maybe the national teacher saw that the place was really desolate, and came back to change his mind and build a customs office in Yangzhou!

"Okay, national teacher, do you think you should go tomorrow or wait a few more days?"

The peddler stood up and said, "Wait, go find a boat, let's go"

Li Zhengchen was frightened by the hawker's resoluteness, "The national teacher, this is too anxious, why don't you go after eating" He also remembered that the hawker had been looking forward to the meal at Lao Mei's house!

"Let's eat on the road, I heard that some boatmen do a good job of eating, so you can find me a boat that can eat, and we will eat while walking."

Li Zhengchen had no choice but to find a boat owner who could cook for the hawker, and set off downstream with three or five deputies to accompany him.

After Li Zhengchen got Li Zhengchen's instructions, after entering the Yangtze River waterway, he took a few nets and put some fish and shrimp and other things, put them in a pot and cooked them for the hawkers.

Eating the fish and shrimp that were still alive just now, and were already steaming at this time, the vendor felt that his taste buds were a little insufficient, and the pure natural thing was really delicious, do you want to use the privilege to get some as a special offer for our cow master?

Compared with the willingness of the hawkers, Li Zhengchen and the others can almost describe the things made by the boatman as chewing wax, but because of the face of the hawkers, several people have smiles on their faces and pretend to taste the light.

The hawker didn't care about them, he loved to eat, he didn't eat and pulled down, he was hungry, so the hawker wrapped up the things made by the boatman alone, and at the end he gave the boatman some money, and the boatman was happy to row a little faster.

Because it is downstream, so half a day's effort, everyone came to the place where Shanghai is located in the later generations, on the empty river, feeling the oncoming sea breeze, the hawkers are everywhere in the reeds, because the arrival of people from time to time there are birds fluttering and covering the sky and the sun, a good natural scenery.

But looking at this place that will be called the magic capital in the future, the hawker is a little undecided, do you really want to build the customs in this place? It's too desolate, isn't it?

Li Zhengchen and others also came to this place for the first time, I just heard people say that this side is relatively desolate, by the sea, the water network is dense, there are almost no fields that can be cultivated, all are a paradise of wild things, today I saw it really deserved, but seeing this scene, a few people were happy, and now the national teacher will not choose this place as the location of the customs!

The hawker was a little unwilling to direct the boatman to continue to move forward, and finally found a big river that flows into the Yangtze River on the south bank, the hawker has never been to Shanghai and doesn't know where this is, if it is estimated to be correct, it should be the legendary Huangpu River, well, it should be, it is now July, the rainy season, the whole river is yellow!

The boatman turned the boat into the Huangpu River with the pins, looking at the yellowish water, the hawker had a feeling of seeing the Yellow River, but for the sake of customs, Niu Ye resolutely did not give up.

The boat went upstream, and after turning a few corners, the hawker was finally surprised to find that there was a small fishing village at a bend, but it was really small, just three or five fishermen, and the time when the hawker arrived, there were just a few men returning from fishing and sorting out fishing gear on the shore.

The peddler instructed the boatman to turn around, stood on the bow of the boat and waved his hands vigorously, "Fellow, fellow..."

A few fishermen looked at the hawker vigilantly, and they still held their harpoons tightly with one hand.

However, the clothes of Li Zhengchen and others who came out immediately made several people relax their vigilance, after all, the official uniforms of this era are very recognizable, and the most important ones who come out are all white and clean, and at first glance, they often take a bath and do not work, so they should not have any lethality.

The hawker danced for a long time, and a few men didn't know why, Li Zhengchen patted the hawker, "The national teacher is going to shout again, they may not understand what you say"

"Uh, please do Li Tingshi a favor" The peddler forgot that there is no Mandarin or anything at this time, and even if there is Mandarin, do you think a few fishermen will?

Li Zhengchen, as a native of Jiangnan, struggled to communicate with a few men for a while before telling the hawker that the matter was fine, and they promised that a few people could rest here for a night tonight, but they had to give money.

"It's just a few dollars, let's go ashore and ask" The boatman stopped the boat, the hawker jumped to the ground first, moved his body, and after Li Zhengchen and others also came over, everyone walked to the man's house together.

In the courtyard of the Hanzi's house, Li Zhengchen told the hawker that the man's name was Lu Jin, and that a few of their brothers lived in this area, so they didn't know what the name was.

Hearing the name of this place, the peddler was stunned for a long time, and got up to look at the surrounding environment, in addition to these few thatched huts, the distant fields were planted with rice that was worse than the barnyard grown, a few ducks came ashore from the river and shook the water droplets on their bodies, plus some children watching on the side, and there was nothing else, which really connected this Lujiazui with the later Lujiazui.

In return, the vendor took out some candy to the housewife and asked her to take it to the people watching the excitement.

After giving the man a cigarette and choking people first, the hawker officially began to ask his own question: "Fellow, do you know any good places around here to build a city?" ”

The man stood up and pointed to the other side, "It's okay to get there, but I don't know if it suits your meaning."

The peddler also got up and looked at the other side, compared to the long tidal flats on this side of Lujiazui, the opposite bank is indeed a good place, according to the reason for the rotation of the earth, the river edge on the opposite bank is relatively steep, but this is not a problem, can we renovate!

At that moment, the hawker waved his hand, "Okay, I have decided, and the customs yamen will be built on the other side" (to be continued. )