Kaifeng is one of the eight ancient capitals of China, since the Wei State of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period built the beam to think that the capital, more than 2,000 years, Kaifeng has always been an important town in the Central Plains, and I don't know how many soldiers and glory it has experienced!

The most glorious nature of Kaifeng City is the period from the five dynasties of the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, in addition to Luoyang, the capital of the Later Tang Dynasty, the rest of the Liang, Jin, Han and Zhou dynasties were built here, and after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng became the center of the entire Chinese civilization in the name of Tokyo Bianliang!

At that time, Kaifeng's economy was prosperous, the world was rich, the city was magnificent, the market was shoulder to shoulder, "the eight wildernesses contended, all the countries were salty", it was the most prosperous metropolis in the world at that time, with a mature market culture and a fairly high standard of living.

The most worth mentioning is that the city of Kaifeng is neat and orderly, and the "Song Criminal System" stipulates: "Those who invade the streets and alleys will be given 70 rods", that is to say, those who occupy the road and operate will be beaten with 70 sticks, which is a very severe punishment. There are also regulations on littering and affecting environmental hygiene: "Those who pierce holes and walls to get filth out of the streets and alleys, and have 60 rods, and those who go straight out of the water are not guilty." In the eyes of foreigners in the late Qing Dynasty, Beijing, the capital of China, had degenerated into a place of sewage, muddy, messy streets and slums.

Kaifeng is still a resilient city, even if it has been ravaged and destroyed more than once by the Hu cavalry from the north with the wind and snow from the south, she is still reborn in the ruins again and again with tenacious vitality. Now appear in Kaifeng in front of Wu Wei's eyes, the wall is high and the pool is deep, the city tower stands majestically, and it is still the first metropolis in the Central Plains. Daming Henan Cheng announced the governance of the political envoy department, the world is second only to the north and south of the two capitals of the Xiongcheng!

In real history, with the end of the Ming Dynasty peasant rebel army into Henan, Kaifeng struggled to support under the impact again and again, and finally fell in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen by Li Zicheng after digging the Yellow River to irrigate the city, this disaster took the lives of more than 300,000 people, and finally hurt the vitality of Kaifeng, two years after the fall of Kaifeng, the Beijing division was also in the angry tide of the peasant army, and the Ming Dynasty then sunset

The fate of Kaifeng is closely linked to the fortune of Chinese civilization in this way. And in this time and space that has become different because of Wu Wei. Kaifeng will not be destined to suffer such a catastrophe in history, and what changes will occur to Chinese civilization?

It's really exciting! ――

Kaifeng is prosperous, and there are many scenic spots. Like the Great Xiangguo Temple. The Kaibao Temple Iron Tower and other scenery are famous. Outsiders travel here, how can there be no reason not to know it. Speaking of which, Wu Wei and Li Ruolin are both young and playful, and they will not miss the opportunity.

Moreover, this is the midst of the world. In the place where merchants and merchants converge, there are countless ships on the docks, and the fleet of Ansai's idea is not so conspicuous, so Shangwu decided to ask Li Chonghou to rest the fleet for two days before leaving, and after strictly enforcing discipline to everyone, he also gave him permission to go ashore for sightseeing, and he was even more joyful for a while.

Zhao Wenzhuo, who was responsible for internal affairs, sent people to arrange for the reception here early, and even chartered a whole wharf for the Ansai fleet to berth, so as not to mix with other ships to avoid noise.

Kaifeng City is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, there is another strange place here, the river embankment is more than two zhang higher than the flat land on both sides! Wu Wei and Li Chong walked across the wharf trestle bridge, standing on the river embankment, the river breeze blew by, and the entire Kaifeng City not far away seemed to have a panoramic view!

It turned out that the Yellow River was silted up due to sediment, and the riverbed was getting higher and higher, and the successive governments had to build the embankment higher and higher, and this section of the river flowing through Kaifeng turned out to be a hanging river on the ground!

Speaking of which, Wu Wei's rainbow water attraction method in Ansai has long been widely used here in Kaifeng, and the large and small pottery pipes on the river embankment can be seen all over the time, which has attracted everyone in Ansai to point at them excitedly.

Of course, the two are still quite different, the process of Ansai is more advanced, the sealing performance is better, so the diameter of the pottery pipe used is thicker, the amount of irrigation water is larger, the siphon pottery pipe body here is smaller, and the irrigation water flow is much smaller. However, because of the hanging river, the water diversion conditions are more than a little better than Ansai, and it is like an artesian irrigation canal, which can be regarded as a victory.

Everyone traveled all the way, through Shanxi, western Henan, most of the natural disasters and man-made disasters are frequent, people are displaced, and Kaifeng is located in the center of the eastern Henan Plain, which is the place of Henan ointment, and this year the disaster is lighter, which is a little angry.

Since he came to Kaifeng, of course, he can't avoid a person, this person is very famous in history, speaking of which, Wu Wei and Li Chong are now the same faction as him, and they are in the same vein. He is the eldest son of Yang He, who is about to enter the dynasty, and later in history, he was both a scholar of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites, and the official worshiped Yang Sichang, a scholar of Dongge University!

In history, Yang He failed to raise the Kou, was deprived of his official position, and died depressed, Yang Sichang inherited his father's will, dedicated to suppressing Kou, and set up the battle plan of "four positives, six corners and ten nets", forced to land Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, and defeated Li Zicheng, who only left the "Shangluo Seventeen Horsemen" to escape into the mountains.

If it weren't for the fourth time Jianyu broke through the pass and went south, Emperor Chongzhen urgently transferred Hong Chengchou to the north to King Qin, and guided the great cause of Kou to fall short, it is impossible to say that the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty were really reversed by this person's life!

However, there are also a lot of negative comments about him, squeezing out Sun Chengzong, framing Lu Xiangsheng, and reusing Zuo Liangyu He Renlong, the most criticized by later generations is that the millions of taels of training fees collected by Kou accelerated the collapse of the Ming Dynasty's finances, hurt the vitality of the country, and directly led the peasant rebel army after zhì can no longer be replicated!

To be fair, Yang Sichang's ability is still above the level, in this era, he is definitely one of the few smart people, roughly similar to Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Chonghuan, and may be slightly inferior to Hong Chengchou and Sun Chengzong, but it is not too much worse.

At this moment, Yang Sichang is the new Henan right to participate in politics and is in the provincial capital Kaifeng. Yang He is extremely important to Wu Wei, as the pillar of the second generation of the Yang family, he has long been familiar with Wu Wei and Li Chong, and under Yang He's intentional explanation, he and Wu and Li have already exchanged letters.

In fact, based on Wu Wei's various deeds in Ansai and his exploits in the victory of northern Shaanxi mentioned in Yang He's letter, how can a great expert like Yang Sichang not see that Wu Wei is the greatest hero of his father's blessing in disguise and entering the cabinet to worship the prime minister! In the future, if Yang He wants to sit firmly in his position, or even go further, and take charge of the center with the respect of the first assistant, I am afraid that it will fall on Wu and Li!

Therefore, as soon as Chen Qiaoyi Cheng in the north of Shangcheng received the roll order from General Li Chong to Kaifeng, he reported to him according to Yang Sichang's pre-instructions, and Yang Shenzheng also sent people to patrol the wharf early to watch over the movement of Wu Wei's fleet.

When Wu Wei and Li Chong and his entourage settled down in the post station, there were guests visiting outside the door, and a name inlaid with gold wire of Nanzhu was polished to a slippery and hands-free manner, and it was Yang Sichang, the right political participant in Daming Henan! (To be continued......)