The next day, the county commander personally sent Wang Pan and others out of Gaoyou County, and sent them out of the county seat for ten miles in one go. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info this Xu County Order is also trying his best to please the king, walking all the way on the horse and muttering, "I was a frequent visitor to the Splendid Building, I saw you at that time, and I knew at that time that you would definitely be on the rise in the future." ”

"Oh? We've seen each other at that time? Wang Bi has always felt that Xu Liang is a little familiar.

"Yes! Once I took Lord Gao to your Jinxiu Building to eat the sheep washed. ”

The king knew that he was talking about mutton shabu, so he smiled. Xu Xian Ling gushed endlessly: "Don't say, the dishes in your splendid building are good, I heard that your search for books in the south was not only smooth, but also made meritorious contributions." Where the hell did you find those books? ”

"Oh, at the King's Academy."

Wang Bian said that he remembered that Zhao Ji led his troops to attack Shaozhou, and when he searched the academy, he found the "Kou Zhong Yugong Poetry Collection", which contained the silver ticket that Wang Bian secretly sandwiched inside, which was evidence that Wang Bian had entered the Junwangfu Academy.

"That's it, fortunately, I didn't listen to that Qin Minxue's ......," Chen Kang said unexpectedly.

Qin Minxue? He also knows Qin Minxue? And Wang Bi suddenly thought, how did Xu Liang know that he was going south to find books? Not many people know about this. Wang took the horse with him: "Xu County Order, Qin Minxue you just said, but now the prince and young master?" ”

"Yes, that's him!"

Wang Bei's face sank: "Xu County Order, I went south to find a book, but I was ordered by a secret order, how did you know?" ”

"This, this is what Secretary Qin said, you also know that before the current emperor became the prince, he was the doorman of the Pu Mansion. Maybe it was the Holy One who said it to him. King Zhennan, you see that I will send you here, and then thirty or forty miles away is Yangzhou. Xu Liang also realized that he had spoken out of his mouth, and covered up his laughter in a panic.

Wang Fang thought to himself that there must be something about the kid surnamed Qin here, and when he was in Shaozhou, it was this kid who made trouble. Seeing Xu Liang's words flickering, he knew that even if he asked again, he might not be able to say, thinking that I don't have time to entangle with you now, sooner or later there will be a time for me to let me know! After bidding farewell to the Xu County Order, Wang and his party walked towards Yangzhou.

In the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou built the "Luocheng" of 15 miles from north to south and 7 miles from east to west under Shugang, and a large area of residential areas and industrial and commercial residences in the southeast along the ancient canal under Shugang was enveloped into the city, forming a "ten-mile long street" connected by the market. The mountain is called "Zicheng" or "Yacheng", which is the concentration of the government and the yamen. In Du Mu's poems, "the street hangs a thousand steps of willows, and the xia reflects the two cities", and "the two cities" refers to the Luo City and the sub-city.

In Yangzhou, spring is shorter for two months, when warm, humid southeasterly winds blow from the sea and blow across the city at the southern tip of the Jianghuai Plain. "The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March." Say goodbye to the long and cold winter in the north, every March, Yangzhou City is peachy and willow green, and the warbler sings and dances. In the spring breeze, Yangzhou's peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, pear blossoms, etc. compete to open, Yangzhou City is hidden in the colorful sea of flowers, which has a unique style.

The scenery is intoxicating in the spring breeze, and Wang Bi simply asked Su Xiaomei to ride a horse and enjoy the beautiful scenery while walking. And what makes Wang feel happy is that the prosperity in Yangzhou City, where the rivers and the sea meet, and the city is prosperous with water. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Grand Canal dug during the period of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty has become the main artery of the country's north-south water transportation, and the tributes of the southern counties and the materials of the eight southeastern provinces must be transferred to Chang'an, Kyoto through Yangzhou. Convenient transportation makes Yangzhou an important port on the Maritime Silk Road and one of the four major commercial ports in the East.

As the so-called "between Jianghuai, Guangling Town, rich in the world", "around the waist of 100,000 guan, riding a crane to Yangzhou" is a portrayal of its rich world at that time. Although Yangzhou experienced several wars in the late Tang Dynasty and early Song Dynasty, it still could not hide the prosperity brought to Yangzhou by the Grand Canal. Yangzhou City is full of foreigners who come to Yangzhou to do business, and the shops in the prosperous areas of Yangzhou City are lined up one after another, and the shops dealing in high-end luxury goods such as gold and silver treasures show the extraordinary purchasing power of Yangzhou City.

Seeing that Su Xiaomei was dizzying, Wang said beside her: "Look, I'm not wrong when I say this, right?" ”

Su Xiaomei said with a smile: "You're not wrong, it's so prosperous here, I'm not worried that I won't be able to spend money like Yongzhou, but I'm afraid that you won't have enough money to spend here." ”

Wang Bi also remembered a sentence, which is the most appropriate to use here, and he said to Su Xiaomei, "You don't know this, let me tell you, this is called: I don't know the official if I don't go to the capital; I don't know how much money is less in Yangzhou! ”

"Hehe, what about our Meizhou?" Su Xiaomei asked with a smile.

Wang side scratched his head: "I don't know if my little sister is good when I don't go to Meizhou~" Su Xiaomei was amused by Wang next to the horse and bent over.

The crowd walked through the bustling street market and came to the entrance of the government office in the center of the state city. There is a short and spacious street in front of the government office, which is called Fucheng, which is the "ceremonial square" at the entrance of the government office to welcome and send off the sedan horses from all over the world; There are two large stone lions at the entrance of the government office, and there is a "Xuan Descendant List" on the left side, which is the place where the government posts official notices. There is a drum on the right side, which is a grievance place for the people to beat the drum and shout grievances. Everyone stopped at the mansion, Zhe Kejun got off the platform immediately, and the official who stood at the entrance of the mansion didn't dare to slack off when he saw the person's official clothes, took the name card and took a look, and hurriedly someone went in to report to Shen Kuo.

After a short time, a guard walked out quickly and said something to Zhi Kejun, who returned to the palace and said to the king: "Lord Wang, Shen Senjun is trying a case, and he asked him to take us to the inner mansion." ”

Wang next to the others got off their horses, and under the guidance of the guards who led the way, when they passed through the corridor on the side of the palace, they vaguely heard the sound of a trial in the middle hall of the palace; The front yard of the government is the office of each department, and there are wings on both sides, one side is the punishment room for criminals, and the other side is the storage of data files. Behind the public hall is the officials' lounge, and further back is the inner house. As soon as I entered the inner house, it was different from the solemnity in front. The inner garden has a lotus pond and a rockery. On the east side of the garden is the official house, and in addition to the bedroom and study room of the prefectural officials, there is also a pavilion where the family lives.

The guards who led the way led Wang Pan and the others to a study, and immediately a butler greeted them, and another family member brought tea to Wang Pan. Wang Bi and Su Xiaomei stayed in the study to wait for Shen Kuo, and Su Xiaomei asked: "Husband, we rarely see you taking the initiative to meet anyone along the way, but the manager of Yangzhou is very close to you?" ”

Wang Bei smiled and said: "Of course, you don't know my big brother Shen, I just arrived in the Song Dynasty, no, I just entered the imperial court, and I know this Shen Cunzhong." He was a man of great erudition, who was proficient in astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, geography, agriculture, medicine, ....... ”

Su Xiaomei smiled: "Okay, you are about to say that this person is omniscient, I see, there are really not many people who can make you praise." I'll see that. ”

Wang Bei nodded and hummed, although he had seen many celebrities in the Song Dynasty who were respected by later generations, there were really not too many admiration that he could say. He looked around the study, Shen Kuo's study was always different from the study of the dignitaries and nobles he had common, in addition to the four treasures of the study, other people's study was placed with cabinets, tables, curtains, drapery, pen holders, and even flower arrangement vases, famous porcelain incense burners, and ornamental ornaments, all showing the owner's taste and identity. Shen Kuo is different, there are not many things in his study that show taste, most of them are strange stones, all kinds of medicine bottles, armillary spheres, leaky pots and other things. Let's put it this way, as soon as he entered this study, Wang Bei knew that he must have gone to the wrong place.

He was looking around, and suddenly heard Su Xiaomei say "Huh", "Husband, look at the furnishings of your brother's study......"

"Hehe, that's how he is, there's everything in the study" At this time, Wang was attracted by the triple ring, the interlaced armillary sphere, and the leaky pot made of several containers of water in the form of a ladder.

This leaky pot is different from what other kings have seen: the leaky pot is an instrument for measuring the time in ancient times, and it is composed of several containers of water arranged in the form of a ladder, and each container has a hole on the bottom side, and the next container is dripping and leaking water in turn. The bottom container has no holes, and there is an arrow engraved with a time scale, and as the surface of the water rises, the "arrow" slowly floats, and the time can be read from the scale that is revealed. Wang was surprised that Shen Kuo also reformed the leaky pot. He changed the copper leaky pipe of the curved cylinder into a straight-necked jade spout, and moved its position to the lower part of the body. This makes the water flow smoother and the spout is much more durable.

"No, look at this furniture ......," Su Xiaomei said.

Alas, what women see is different from men, what furniture is to see, nothing more than what wood carving and what patterns and the like, Wang Bi knows that the furniture of the Song Dynasty is very simple. Even so, he glanced up, and suddenly found that the furniture in Shen Kuo's study was indeed different, the furniture in Shen Kuo's study was based on the oblique shape, there were two long obliques, two on the right half, two on the left, one boudoir, four small three, two large three, and a total of thirteen on six oblique desktops. "Haha, isn't this the most original creative combination of furniture?! ~" The king couldn't help laughing. This Shen Kuo is really interesting, he can see the things he touches, and it really changes in his hands.

"Modular furniture?" Su Xiaomei asked puzzled.

"Yes, you look at these furniture, you can combine them at will, don't look at these thirteen beveled furniture, you can put together the square class, the straight class, the curved class, the flute class, the empty class, the elephant class, the whole house row class, the miscellaneous class of these eight categories, more than 100 kinds of transformation forms. Furnish it however you want! Wang explained patiently.

Su Xiaomei smiled happily: "Just now, Xianggong said that creativity, does it mean that this furniture is novel?" ”

"Add 10 points!" Wang found that Su Xiaomei was really smart.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and Shen Kuo, who was like a dwarf winter melon, shook his head and waved his hand and came in, saying as he walked, "I can't help it, the specifications and sizes of this 'Yanji' are all carefully made, and they can't change an inch by foot, why do you have to add ten points when my brother just arrives?" ”

Note: The earliest modular furniture in ancient China was called Yanji, which was invented in the Song Dynasty.

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