The southeast shape is victorious, Jiangwu will be the capital, and Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times.

The smoke willow paints the bridge, the wind curtain is green, and there are 100,000 people.

The clouds and trees surround the embankment sand, the angry waves roll frost and snow, and the moat is endless.

The city is a jewel, and Luo Qi competes in luxury......

At this time, Lin'an is undoubtedly the most luxurious and prosperous city in the world.

Along the Yanqiao River, which is connected to the Grand Canal, Chen Dexing's official boat drove directly into the downtown of Lin'an and docked at the Yujie Wharf.

The flat blue and black stone slabs paved a wide road, pouring out people's vision like water, until the towering and hazy city towers in the distance - golden eaves, red giant pillars, and red city walls, constitute a magnificent, solemn and solemn picture, where the majestic and proud changes are the north gate and Ning gate of the Lin'an Imperial City.

And this wide street paved in front of the Hening Gate is the Lin'an Royal Street that is nine miles long. Different from the "Royal Street" of the Chinese dynasties, the Royal Street of the Great Song Dynasty in Lin'an is not a completely straight one, and there is no special royal road for the Son of Heaven on the Royal Street, let alone a strict atmosphere, but shops are all over the place. From the north gate and Ning Gate of the imperial city to the Jingling Palace in the north of the city (dedicated to the cheap ancestor of the Zhao family, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor), all kinds of shops are lined up, without exception are multi-storey buildings, and the roads are full of people. The sound of shouting and shouting is endless.

Outside the palace of the Great Song Dynasty, it is actually the most lively business district in the world! With such a layout of the capital, probably only in the Song Dynasty, an era of incomparably prosperous commodity economy, would there exist, right? The Great Song Dynasty's exploitation of merchants and commerce was extremely heavy, but it was precisely because of such heavy taxation that commercial taxes and commercial profits became the basis of the state's finances, which in turn prompted the rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty to attach great importance to commerce. Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty is also a dynasty that attaches the most importance to commerce in Chinese history, and the royal street with crowded people and shops is also the most favorite scene of Zhao Yun, an official of the Great Song Dynasty. More than any of the Northland provinces ruled by the Mongols!

This royal street, such a prosperous street, belongs to the Southern Song Dynasty, belongs to the happy land of the Han people, and at the same time has a fatal attraction to the Mongolian robbers in the north!

The history of the Mongol Empire's conquests is not without its record of defeats, with the Mongols suffering defeats in Damascus, in India, in Cochin, and in Japan. But the defeats they suffered in all these countries together are certainly not more than a tenth of the defeats suffered here in the Southern Song Dynasty!

The Mongols paid a great khan and a crown prince for the conquest of the Southern Song Dynasty! In a way, they paid for the unity of the Mongol Empire - the death of Ogedei's third son, Kuode, in Xiangyang meant that the Ögedai family had lost a true heir who could be subdued, and marked the beginning of the weakening of the central power of the Mongol Empire. Möngke's death meant that the Mongol Empire was officially divided......

But even at such a heavy price, the rulers of the Mongol Empire did not waver in their determination to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, because the country was too rich! The wealth amassed in one street alone is more than the property owned by the Mongol Khan Möngke other than land!

Chen Dexing and his adoptive mother Guo Fuer are standing on the most prosperous Lin'an Royal Street in the world at this moment.

Today is exactly the Chinese New Year's Eve, and this street is full of the festive atmosphere of the New Year, full of lights, weaving pedestrians wearing their best clothes, laughter, and shouting like a tide.

This kind of New Year's flavor cannot be compared at all in the era of Chen Dexing's previous life.

Guo Fu'er was wearing waist-length sleeves, a skirt embroidered with plum blossoms, a suede cloak, and a hat with a gauze curtain called "Light Dew", which only slightly showed a round chin. Although others can't see her face, just the standing posture and demeanor have a kind of grace and elegance.

Chen Dexing was dressed in a military attaché's narrow-sleeved green robe, without a cloak to protect him from the cold, and a short sword hung from his waist, which was the snake sword given by Li Cuixian.

Following Chen Dexing and Guo Fu'er back to Lin'an, there were also Wang Rong'er and a few veterans, as well as some ginseng and deer antler velvet, all of which were valuable northern goods, which Guo Fu'er brought to Lin'an for sale. If it weren't for Chen Dexing, a military leader who supported ten thousand people, I don't know how much tax would be levied along the way.

"Mother, it seems that I can't hire a sedan car today." Chen Dexing looked at the crowded street and frowned slightly. The prosperity of Lin'an City was still a little unexpected for him!

Guo Fu'er smiled slightly and said, "Just walk back, your mother and I are not bound feet that can't walk." ”

The Southern Song Dynasty already had the bad habit of binding feet, but it was not the three-inch golden lotus of later generations, but the pursuit of binding feet and straightening the feet. However, this bad habit is not in Lianghuai, Lianghuai fought at two ends for three days, who knows when the northern captives will fight, not to mention the woman with bound feet, not to mention assisting in the battle, even if she escapes slower than others. And the woman that Lianghuai Jiangmen likes is not the same as the Jiangnan doctor, just look at Guo Fuer's figure!

Chen Dexing looked at the bustling crowd on the street and smiled: "Then let's go, go shopping by the way, if my mother and Rong'er see anything you like, I will buy it for you." ”

Under the shallow dew, Guo Fu'er gently pursed her lips, pulled Wang Rong'er, who was still looking around at the bustling market of Lin'an, and followed Chen Dexing.

The wide royal street is the main road of the whole Lin'an City, there are two north-south streets on both sides that are similar to the royal street, and there are four east-west streets that intersect with the royal street, constituting the most basic road network of Lin'an City, of course, there are many, many of the secondary streets, all of which are attached to the five vertical and four horizontal main roads, which divide the northern part of Lin'an City into a grid of different sizes, and are named after "Fang".

Chen Dexing's father, Chen Huaiqing, lives in Ning'an Fang, which is close to Qiantang Gate in the west of the city, because it is close to the beautiful West Lake and the Guozijian where celebrities and scholars gather (Taixue and Wuxue are in the Guozijian, which was originally Yue Fei's mansion), so it is quite an elegant location in Lin'an - the scenic house plus the school district room! Relying on Chen Huaiqing's meager fortune as a doctor in martial arts, he couldn't afford it, and this house was purchased by Chen Hushan when he was in charge of the capital, and it was used by his eldest son to settle down and study.

When Chen Dexing and Guo Fuer came to Ning'an Fang, Chen Huaiqing and Chen Defang, father and son, were still studying in the study. Chen Huaiqing, who is already a little older, always sits upright when he reads, his waist is straight, holding a scroll in one hand, and the long hair under his chin in the other, which is really similar to Guan Gong reading the Spring and Autumn Period in the painting, plus his torso that is more than six feet tall and sturdy like an iron tower, and he really has a bit of Guan Erye's shelf, no wonder he is called Saiyun Chang.

Chen Defang's appearance is much more delicate than his Lao Tzu and his younger brother - he and Chen Dexing are from the same mother, but one follows his mother and the other follows his father - his face is like a crown of jade, his eyes are like Langxing, his stature is not tall or short, he is not fat or thin, he is a beautiful son!

This good boy reads books, so much like his old man, sitting upright, concentrating on reading, not hearing anything outside the window, and only sage books in his heart.