Li Linfu's body had collapsed when he was still in Chang'an, and in the original history, he was about to die of illness in the eleventh year of Tianbao, but because of the advance of Zhishi and moving to Liaodong, he was freed from the tedious intrigue of hard work, coupled with the good care arranged by Ye Chang, so he lived three years longer than the original history. Now, after 14 years of Tianbao, his body couldn't stand it anymore and finally died.

His identity is not trivial, not only the former prime minister, who has been in charge of the Tang Dynasty for nearly 20 years, but also because he is Ye Chang's father-in-law and has a transcendent status in Lushun. According to custom, although Ye Chang does not have to resign for Li Linfu, he always wants to go to the funeral.

At this time, it was July of the fourteenth year of Tianbao, and the streets and alleys of Lushun were still busy, and there was nothing unusual because of Li Linfu's death. After all, in the last few years of his reign, although Li Linfu also had the intention to exert a certain influence on the system of Liaodong, he was well separated by Ye Chang's cronies. When he is in good health, he can also go to the surrounding areas of Lushun to see the towns and villages with the help of others, and even express some of his own opinions and comments, but he cannot get involved in any specific affairs of Lushun.

Today, Lushun has a population of more than 100,000, and even if it is placed in the Central Plains, it is also a remarkably rich and prosperous city. The rapid expansion of the population made Lushun a huge construction site in the six years from the sixth year of Tianbao to the twelfth year of Tianbao. The roads are being extended every day, the sewers are being extended every day, and the Lushun urban area has expanded from the original two squares to the current eight squares. Duli Town, which was originally a small half-hour road away from Lushun, has now become one of the eight squares of Lushun.

However, because of the topography, Lushun is not as boxy as other cities, eight squares around a Lushun Bay, forming a crescent-shaped distribution, three main roads connect the eight squares together, now only the middle of the main road is completely hardened, the east and west sides are only in the planning because of the lack of cement and manpower.

This also made Ye Chang make up his mind in the twelfth year of Tianbao to transfer Lushun's steel industry to Jian'an City, and not let Lushun's population continue to swell. In addition to Jian'an City, Qingnipu City and Shicheng also transferred part of the population of Lushun, and some industries were transferred to these places. As a military city, although the status of Beisha City is still important, the population growth is not very fast. Another important military city is Daxingseong, located in Dandong in the next generation, and when Tianbao was ten years old, Nam Jiyun and Na Jiuhe took this city back from the hands of the Silla people, and it became an important transit point for trade with Silla and the Balhae, and it was also a military town to defend against the ambitions of the Silla and Balhae people.

Up to now, the population of Lushun has exceeded 100,000, and the transfer of the steel industry has made the population of Jian'an City quickly close to this number, reaching 80,000, the population of Qingnipu and Shicheng is more than 30,000 each, and the population of Daxingcheng is 50,000 because of the garrison. The population of Anshi City under the general administration of the Liaodong Marching Army was 40,000, and the population of Wugu City was more than 10,000. Between these major cities, there are also towns of different sizes, ranging from more than 1,000 people to nearly 10,000 people, with a total population of about 200,000. In this way, about one-third of the population of Liaodong is in towns, and two-thirds are distributed in various farms, mines, and forest farms.

If these towns are connected together, they form an inverted triangle along the coast and along the river, firmly controlling the entire southern Liaoning region.

This is not the limit of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Marching Governor's Office. In the past few years, Luo Jiuhe has confronted the Khitans in Liaocheng Prefecture, and the Khitans who crossed the Liaohe River were beaten by him and could not raise their heads, if it were not for the secret support of the Bohai State, they would have been driven back to Songdesert long ago.

Yang glanced at the sun in the sky, cursed, and then hurriedly walked towards the small inn on the East Road of North Cross Street in Xinglongfang, Lushun.

He is Tianbao 12 years from the Central Plains wandering to Liaodong, before several times the industry has problems, several times on the verge of bankruptcy, and then to the Anton Bank of the road construction team to repair the rut track, because of the flexible mind, diligent, finally came out, after four years, saved some belongings, think that you can't always work the road construction site all your life, so you came to Liaodong.

With the connections he made during the road construction team, he got a homestead in the newly built Xinglongfang, and then took out a mortgage on the land, gritted his teeth and found a loan from Anton Bank to build this small inn that also sells groceries. After more than a year, business has been tepid, although it has not caught up with the good times of previous years, but it is enough for him to live a good life that he could not have imagined before while paying off the debts of Anton Bank.

When I arrived at my inn, I saw a few Bohai people who came here to sell leather goods sitting in front of the lobby, and everyone was a cup of tea in front of them.

This roasted leaf tea quickly became popular, and now, at least in Han Chinese settlements, brick tea has been replaced by leaf tea. It's just that when it comes to trading with barbarians, brick tea is still as popular as ever.

"Shopkeeper Yang, what are you going to do in broad daylight, and you don't look at the store?"

The one who was the leader of the Bohai people asked, this guy had a little cunning eyes, and he spoke Chinese fluently, and Yang sometimes figured out the identity of this guy, not like a businessman, but like an official. Judging by the attitude of the rest of the people towards him, he does look like an official.

"No, I'm going to get the Lushun Mansion to report." Yang showed everyone a stack of papers in the cloth jacket.

"Minbao" is mainly the news of Liangjing, after its popularity, Lushun here, there is a lively mind, imitate its style, and begin to publish "Lushun Di Bao". At first, it was published every seven days, but it soon became clear that the seven-day newspaper was too slow for the most important commercial city in eastern Liaoning, so it became a three-day issue.

"What's the news?"

The group of Bohai people was interested and asked shoutingly.

Like the Minbao, Lushun Di Bao also has some anecdotes from various places, but the most important thing is what happened in this part of the territory of Liaodong, such as where new mines were discovered, where trade routes have been opened, or what orders were issued by the Liaodong Marching Governor's Office. Most of them are the wholesale price changes of various goods in Lushun, which is the most popular content among the merchants who come to Lushun to purchase.

Nowadays, Lushun has become a department store wholesale market in the entire Greater China Cultural Circle, not only the surrounding countries of Liaodong, but even merchants from Persia, Dashi and Hezhong countries. For merchants from Datang and neighboring countries, the price changes of commodities such as salt, iron, grain, cotton, silk and linen, timber, medicinal herbs, and tea make them pay attention, while for merchants from afar who come from afar and are destined to return with too many goods, the prices of luxury goods such as pearls, precious stones, glassware, table clocks, gold and silver jewelry, etc., are the focus of their eagerness to understand. There are also some special products that need to be approved if you want to buy them, such as the sea ships of Lushun Shipyard, the military type is not necessary to think about at all, but the civilian type can be bought after being approved.

"I haven't seen any news about leather goods, but ...... Lee Sang-gong is dead. Yang said the first sentence first, and then the second sentence.

Lee Sang-ko...... Who is it...... Ahh The Bohai people led by him reacted very quickly, and his expression couldn't help but change: "Doesn't that mean that the Yejun Guild has returned to Liaodong?" ”

"I think I'll be back." Yang Ze frowned: "At least Duchess Ye wants to go back." ”

"Any other news?" The Bohai people asked again.

"Well, there is a strange story, it is said that five years ago, that is, a ship that Tianbao left Datang in the ninth year, and now it has returned to Datang."

"What kind of anecdote is this, forget it, sell me a newspaper, and I'll come to see it at home," said Bohai Human

Yang sold a newspaper to him, and each newspaper made less than a few dollars, but it could meet the needs of the guests in some aspects, and it was also an important part of their inn to attract repeat customers.

Seeing that the leader of the Bohai Kingdom was holding the newspaper and reading it to himself, Yang Ze smiled and said, "Can the guest officer read Chinese characters? ”

"That's natural, our Bohai Kingdom and your Tang Dynasty, the book is on the same track as the Wenche, what's so strange about knowing Chinese characters."

Yang replied with a grin. Those Bohai people took the newspaper and returned to their own house, and the man went up to deliver tea, and after coming down, he came to Yang Ze's ear: "Two people are guarding the door." ”

"I know the way, these meticulous works that don't know whether to live or die." Yang nodded.

The current situation in Liaodong, how not to make people covet so Lushun this place, from all over the fine work gathered, Silla's Bohai, Khitan, Xi, An Lushan and even sent by the Tang Dynasty himself, it is said that Bian Ping once estimated in Lushun that one-tenth of the foreign businessmen were fine or part-time fine work.

These Bohai people must be meticulous.

The relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Bohai Sea eased after the Great Qinmao came to power, but although Liaodong belonged to the Tang Dynasty, the relationship with the Bohai State was tense. The Bohai State secretly supported the Khitans in Xinchengzhou and southern Suzhou to invade the northeastern part of Liao, while Liaodong almost semi-openly supported Da Qinmao's cousin Shen Xi (Bohai name Da Hongxin) and divided the homeland of the Limo people north of Gobezhou.

Relations were also strained with Silla, and the Silla people made no secret of their coveting of Liaodong, and the two sides fought several battles for Daehang Fortress.

Yang Ze expected it to be right, these Bohai people are exactly the best work. After they closed the door, Xu Zhengjin, who was the leader, clenched his fist and slapped his palms suddenly: "The time has come."

"Timing?" The subordinates were a little puzzled.

"The time to clear Ye Chang, the thief, when he comes to Liaodong this time, don't think about going back to Chang'an." After Xu Zhengjin finished speaking, he instructed someone to take out a pen and paper and start writing a secret letter by himself.

Not long after, after he finished writing, he blew on ink, sealed it with a fire seal, and handed it to one of his subordinates: "You will go north today and send this news back to Shangjing, the king intends to move the capital to Shangjing, and this should be in Longquan Mansion." ”

"You go and inform our manpower, try to find out the news of Ye Chang's whereabouts as much as possible, I want to go to Silla, this time I will definitely say that the king of Silla will be moved, and the two families will join forces to punish the thieves and divide Liaodong equally"

Liaodong's population and wealth, if the Bohai State can obtain it, then it will have the capital to divide the northeast and fight against the Tang Dynasty. Xu Zhengjin is well aware of this, since he arrived in Lushun, he has been shocked by the "wealth" here, especially when he saw the iron rutted track from Lushun to Qingnipu, he was even more shocked and almost wanted to vomit blood.

Like him, there were many changes after getting the news, and the news of Li Linfu's death also spread. In the afternoon of the next day, Dongmu County also got the news.

Since the Yuan Highway, Dongmu County has changed three county guards, as long as it can cooperate well with Liaodong, the county guards here will be easy to promote and make a fortune, on the contrary, if the relationship with Liaodong is not harmonious, it will be difficult to move forward in this move. In particular, the port, the port of Dongmu County, in order to facilitate the transportation of goods in Liaodong, the scale has expanded several times, and the huge steel gantry crane is like a tower.

Wang Yuanbao, who had lost half of his body, sat on the dock, looking at his boat, his face was cloudy

"Lushun Di Daily" was placed in his hand, and the front page had a black-framed headline of "Old Prime Minister Li Gongzhi Lin Fu Drove the Crane Immortal", which was very eye-catching. Wang Yuanbao carefully folded the newspaper, sat on the cement steps that were heated by the sun, and let out a long sigh.

He is now very embarrassed, in order to find the so-called Aolai country, he can be said to have spent all his family wealth, and even sold his shop in Chang'an. However, after so many years, Aolai Country has not seen a shadow, and the wealth that was originally rich enough to reach the country has been almost defeated.

The reason for this is that it is to buy a ship, recruit a sailor, go to sea, and then the ship is wrecked, compensated, and the aftermath is dealt with, and this cycle is repeated several times. He had very bad luck and organized seven trips to sea, but failed on seven occasions. Of course, he didn't know what to do, the first time his ship was the same as that of the Tang Navy, and it was blown up and sunk by the Lushun Navy. But six times after that, each time there were heavy losses, only two times the ship returned to Dongmu, and the other four times, it was a loss of people and ships.

But this time is different

If it weren't for reading the newspaper from Lushun, Wang Yuanbao would not have thought that the voyage he organized five years ago, that is, after Tianbao bought a civilian sea ship from Lushun Dock for the first time, would have gained something

Although the newspaper said that only one ship came back on this trip, it was enough to bring hope to Wang Yuanbao

By now, he had guessed that Ao Laiguo was just something that Ye Chang made up to fool people, but maybe he could find something else in the sea like Wang Qinian's faction.

To the north, a ship that looked very unbearable finally appeared on the horizon, and although Wang Yuanbao was old and dizzy, at this time, he also stood up.

"Yes...... It's my ship, my ship, it's back," he muttered hoarsely.

Around him, the slaves who were surrounded at the beginning had long since dispersed, and there were only a few children and grandchildren who were like him and dressed simply. Everyone looked north and looked at the ship.

Unlike Wang Yuanbao, who still had hope, they had long lost hope, and only hoped that the sea ship was not particularly badly damaged, and it was worth a few dollars. According to the standard of Lushun Shipyard, the sea ship was originally worth 50,000 yuan, but now as long as the damage is not too serious, it can still be sold for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

The Wang Yuanbao family, which was once rich and rivaled the country, now has one or two thousand guan is enough to ⊥ them satisfied.