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Princess Taikang winked curiously at the car window, and said suspiciously: "Isn't it the county seat here?" ”

Zhu Yueluo nodded seriously and said, "This is natural, if it weren't for the city, how could there be so many buildings?" ”

The two of them whispered as they looked out, but as the carriage passed, they found that there was no end, and the workshops were endless, and the further they went, the more vehicles were carrying goods, and there were even a few places where some carriages were crowded together. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Yueluo suddenly realized, where is the county seat, it is clearly the suburbs, the real county seat, they only saw the outline after half an hour, the area is not small, the building is even closer, but the convoy did not enter the city, but went around the path straight to the capital of Lianzhou, that is, the capital of Chu State, to continue to move forward, for Zhu Yueluo and Princess Taikang, everything here is very novel, such as the various carriages, the uses are different, the carriages of large families are magnificent, and the carriages for transporting goods are often unroofed, The goods are piled up like a hill, and the horses pulling the carriage make people look a little unbearable, and there is a novel carriage, which is pulled by two horses, and the carriage is twice as long as the ordinary carriage, but there are many people sitting in this carriage, all of them are carrying low stools and more than a dozen people together, Zhu Yueluo was puzzled at first, and then understood, this is a carriage for people to ride, after all, the city is too big here, and some people even want to go to the suburbs to work, only two legs are afraid to walk for an hour or two, if there is no means of transportation, I'm afraid that every time I go back and forth, it's enough to toss. It's just an ordinary person, where can there be so much spare money to buy a carriage? Thus, this kind of carriage came into being.

This way passed, it was a long afternoon, Lianzhou City finally arrived, the most strange thing is that this Lianzhou City actually has no city wall, Zhu Yueluo couldn't help but say: "It's really strange, it is a palace city, and now it is a royal city, why don't you see the city wall?" ”

She muttered in a low voice, but she was unaware of the humanity outside: "What's so strange about this, there was originally a city wall here, but it was just demolished." ”

Zhu Yueluo looked up in amazement, but found that Liu Chengfeng actually changed to a horse and appeared outside the car window, Liu Chengfeng has now changed into a python suit, majestic, winked at Zhu Yueluo inside, and looked at the lazy Princess Taikang, and said, "What are you talking about?" Oh yes, the walls? Originally, Lianzhou Mansion had a city wall, but the city expanded several times, and the population increased tenfold, so many people, it was very inconvenient to have a city wall, so he ordered people to demolish it, otherwise everyone would enter and exit from the city gate hole, and the city gate hole would be blocked from morning to night. ”

Zhu Yueluo smiled and said, "Then what if there is no city wall and there are foreign bandits?" ”

Liu Chengfeng pulled down his face: "They don't dare." Liu Chengfeng looked up and saw that there were already people waiting in ceremonial dresses outside the city, Liu Chengfeng said: "The person who picked us up is here, I'll go first." ”

Patting the horse, Liu Chengfeng quickly greeted him, in the outer pavilion of the city, the people who came to greet Liu Chengfeng had already surrounded the place, there were officials, there were local chamber of commerce presidents, and several shopkeepers of Jubao Commercial Bank, etc., there were hundreds of people.

Li Dongdong was wearing a ceremonial dress, greeted him with a smile, and waved at Liu Chengfeng for a long time, and said, "The ministers welcome Your Highness." ”

The people behind were also overjoyed, and they said, "Ministers welcome Your Highness......"

The voices of one after another, the voice suppressed their joy, in their hearts, the joy of these people is by no means pretended, the officials of the Chu State are all on the spring breeze of Liu Chengfeng to have today, everyone is somewhat grateful to Liu Chengfeng, and now that he is a courtier, he naturally respects His Royal Highness the King. And the presidents and proprietors of the major chambers of commerce and commercial houses are even more happy when they learn that Lianzhou has become a vassal state and Liu Chengfeng has become a vassal king.

The reason is very simple, happiness comes too fast, businessmen have always been suspicious, no matter where it is, after all, it is still in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Chengfeng is a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, although the court is discriminating against the merchants less and less, but who can know when the court will suddenly change the decree, as long as the court moves a thought, I don't know how many people are going to break the family wealth, but now it is very different, now that he has become a vassal king, at least in this Chu country, one acre and three points of land, Liu Chengfeng has the final say, It doesn't matter how the court deals with this place, and Liu Chengfeng was originally a person who vigorously advocated business, and it was impossible for him to hesitate and waver about this national policy.

I even heard that there are a lot of businessmen who heard that the state of Chu was built, and they have brought their wealth to buy property and do business here, and the capital of Jiangnan has flocked in, making the state of Chu only a few months hard, and it is much more prosperous than before, in the final analysis, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are still with uneasy thoughts, for fear that the national policy will change, so they have to leave a way back for themselves anyway, once the imperial court changes the order, at least they can go to the state of Chu to find a livelihood.

Liu Chengfeng looked at everyone, but there were few people he knew, but he seemed very happy, nodded at everyone, and said, "Don't be polite, get up and talk, you've worked hard." ”

Li Dongdong said with a smile: "It's not hard, everyone is willing to wait for the prince here, please enter the city." ”

Although he arrived here, Liu Chengfeng had a lot of things to ask Li Dongdong, after all, although Liu Chengfeng paid attention to Lianzhou all the time, but after all, he hadn't been here for a long time, in this case, Liu Chengfeng was almost black-eyed about the state affairs of the Chu State, and naturally he inevitably asked Li Dongdong. But this is not the place to speak after all, Liu Chengfeng nodded his head and said: "This king has sent a letter before, this king should not disturb the people, there are so many people here, everyone will disperse for the time being, if there is a chance, you can visit the place where this king stays at any time." ”

Everyone responded, and did not dare to stay longer, so they had to disperse, Li Dongdong was accompanied, with a few officials on Liu Chengfeng's side, and Liu Chengfeng as the first city, and then some were a team of attendants, followed by the convoy of the palace, Liu Chengfeng looked at the hungry street scene along the way with great interest, if the business here is indeed much stronger than the Beijing Division, plus the planning is good, so it does not seem chaotic, it is now the afternoon, many people have gone to work, so there are not many people wandering the streets, Li Dongdong introduced Liu Chengfeng with a smile, and said: "In this Lianzhou City, the population is more than 300,000, if you add the past business travel, I am afraid that there are only 500,000 people, so Your Highness looks, the inns in this Lianzhou City are not small in scale, and the business is extremely prosperous, there are not only merchants from Jiangnan, Jingshi, Liaodong, and Shudi, but also many merchants from Zhenla, Annan, and even Dashi, Francoji and Kunlun, these people are also willing to spend money here. But most of them come here to buy some of our Ming Dynasty goods, and some will bring some local specialties to sell, but ......"

Li Dongdong paused here, just a white-skinned Francophone man came out of a certain inn, Li Dongdong said surprisingly gossip today: "Those people in the Chamber of Commerce hate the most is the Francophone man, we sell firearms, they see that it is profitable, and they actually set up a firearms workshop in the territory of Nanyang, and the firearms that produce Franco machines are sold out, their firearms were not bad before, but now they are not as fine as my Daming, but they are cheaper, there are many Nanyang feudal countries, and now they are secretly communicating with them. There are also cloth and the like, which are also the same, robbing us of a lot of business, so the major chambers of commerce are quite dissatisfied with them. ”

Liu Chengfeng pursed his lips and smiled: "Robbing business is robbing people's money, robbing people's money is like killing their parents, these Francois people are really hateful." ”

Li Dongdong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then said: "In addition to the Franco, it is the big cannibal, they claim to be Ottoman, and these people are also robbing our business, but it is said that the big food country is particularly strong, and the Franco people hide when they see them." Nuo, that's the Kunlun people, many of the Kunlun people are sold by the big food and the Franco, our Chu country is prosperous, although the manpower is sufficient, but there are not many people who do some foot power now, after all, the physical strength consumed is too much, and the wages are low, the biggest business of the Francose and the big cannibal is to sell Kunlun slaves, sell them to various workshops and wharves as laborers, these Kunlun slaves are the most gentle, and the strength is great, as long as he is given three meals, he is willing to do any coolie. ”

Liu Chengfeng frowned and said, "This is not good, it is not possible to bully people." ”

Li Dongdong said: "This kind of thing can't be stopped at all, Your Highness, the businessmen are short of labor, if they refuse to let the Francophiles and the big cannibals sell, even if they want to ban it, they can't help it." ”

Liu Chengfeng was silent, and seemed to be thinking about what method to take.

Along the way, Li Dongdong continued to introduce the difference between Lianzhou and other places, which is no wonder, after all, he was also amazed to see so many new things when he first came, and now that the prince has arrived, he naturally hopes that the prince will also sigh.

Liu Chengfeng listened carefully, hearing so many stories, seeing the style on the street, his mood couldn't help but stir, his new starting point, I'm afraid to start here!

(To be continued)