The Xiongnu envoys did not propose to meet the emperor at the first time, and Cheng Xiang did not take the initiative to make arrangements. The two sides seem to be in a tug-of-war, whoever can't hold their breath first will lose first.

These days, Cheng Xiang took the Hun envoys and his party around to play in the mountains and rivers, eat, drink and have fun, and did nothing to do business, but the Huns and his party gained a lot of weight. And around the Xiongnu envoys, there were also Xuantianwei masters secretly protecting.

The protection is not the safety of the Huns, but in the event of an emergency, to ensure the safety of the people of Dayu. Among the Xiongnu envoys, two people were under the care of Lu Sheng.

Although these two people appeared as ordinary guards in the list of visitors, these two guards had the cultivation of Dao Realm Grandmasters. The grassland worships the strong, Dayu's Dao Realm grandmasters have a transcendent status, and the Prairie Dao Realm grandmasters are even more worshipped, how can they only be low-level guards?

"Master Cheng, I heard that you are a university scholar in Dayu and the third most talented person in the country?" Especially Princess Huizhu, she and Cheng Xiang are more like friends.

"Princess, don't talk nonsense, I dare to be called the third in the world?"

"In this year's imperial examination, you are Tanhua, Tanhua is the third place, this is the national competition, aren't you the third place in the country?"

"That's just this imperial examination, the Dayu imperial examination is held once every three years, but it's not a national full of scholars who get together to take the exam. My knowledge is only in the enlightenment stage, and the profound knowledge should be the most powerful among the scholars of the Hanlin Academy. This bit of knowledge of mine is only worthy of carrying shoes in front of others. ”

"Is this the humility of your Central Plains people?"

"No, I'm telling the truth. Cheng Xiang's tone was neither distant nor pandering, but gave the grassland envoy a real feeling.

"These days, you are taking me to eat big fish and meat, and I go in and out of high-end restaurants, I want to see how the people of Dayu live. Master Cheng doesn't mind, right?" Wu Keqi suddenly said to Cheng Xiang.

"Of course I don't mind!" Cheng Xiang's expression remained unchanged, but he was already vigilant in his heart, and he really came to touch Dayu's bottom.

Cheng Xiang has taken them in and out of high-end places these days, and the people he met were all upper-class people. Create an illusion that Dayu is full of rich people. But this kind of illusion can only deceive the ignorant masses, who think that the city is prosperous when they see a corner. But Wu Keji obviously won't be deceived so easily.

These days, he went to the grain store, intentionally or unintentionally, to ask about the price of grain. The price of grain is the place that can most intuitively reflect the economic situation of Dayu. If the price of food is too high and the people can't afford to eat, it means that Dayu's economy is in a downturn. If the price of food is not high and the people still can't afford to eat, then the problem is serious.

The reality made Wu Kejian a little disappointed, there was no phenomenon of people rushing food, and there was no picture of people carrying bags of food. In front of the grain store, it is neither deserted nor prosperous like a grocery store or a winery.

What does this mean? It shows that the people are not worried about grain, and they do not want to hoard it, nor do they lack it. If you want to buy it, you can buy it, and if you don't want to buy it, you won't buy it.

Doesn't it mean that the Central Plains is going through a thousand-year catastrophe? Don't you say that the Central Plains is going to be in endless war? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it......

"In the capital, in addition to the main urban area, there are seven residential concentration areas, and eighty percent of these residents come to the capital to beg for a living, and they also represent most of the people in Dayu. ”

Cheng Xiang took everyone into the carriage of the car dealership and explained to Princess Huizhu beside him.

"What does Lord Cheng mean, are those places Dayu's slums?"

"Slums?" Cheng Xiang looked at Wu Ke in surprise, "We Dayu have no slums for a long time." This is a product of the urban planning of the capital, which separates the residential and commercial areas, which is conducive to management and makes the capital look cleaner. ”

The carriage passed by the new city business district, and the Hun guards who watched it stared at each other in amazement.

"My God, if I hadn't known that this was outside the capital, I would have almost thought this was the capital. Why is the city outside the city more prosperous than the city inside?"

The planning of a new town is easy to shake up with a whole new twist. It's like the visual impact of seeing a skyscraper for the first time. Even though the capital has everything in business, the architecture is still in the plane. The common ones are one layer, there are few three-story ones, there are only a handful of five-story ones, and the nine-story ones are ...... Come on, pull it out and cut it.

But in the new city outside the capital, Lu Sheng's planning was not on the same level as the old city of the capital. It covers an area of only one-thirtieth of the capital, but the height of the three-dimensional tiling can reach one-fifth of the capital, and there are seven such new urban areas.

At least they are more than seven floors, and the average floor is ten floors, and it is a completely new world from the capital to the new city. Looking at a kind of Hun feeling like coming to heaven.

"Adult, the ...... who live here? They are all dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital, right?" Wu Keqi asked with some unhappiness. In his mind, the one who can live in such a gorgeous place must be the most powerful person. Go to your slum, if this is a slum, all the people in the capital are called flowers.

"Have you ever seen dignitaries and dignitaries living outside the capital? Aren't the powerful all living in the city?" Cheng Xiang's answer made Wu Keji unable to find a reason to refute. But...... You actually save the best for the common people? How did those big men in the capital allow it?

"This is the new city business district, not a residential area, residents will come to the new city for shopping, entertainment. Of course, many aristocrats will also come to the new town. You see, the dense neighborhoods around the business district are where most of the people in our capital live. ”

Community...... Sure enough, the community. The townhouses are 12 stories high, one row after the other. From a distance, it looks like mountains and mountains are intertwined.

Entering the community area, Wu Keji finally saw the lives of the people at the bottom. But very disappointed, really very disappointed.

There were no ragged clothes, no withered faces, no black, dirty children, no beggars roaming around. The people walking in the community are not gorgeously dressed, most of the men are short, and most of the women are coarse linen. But the smile on their face was happy and their expression was vivid.

Sadness is rarely seen on their faces, numbness is seen. They are living in hope, on the road to happiness.

Even if the language barrier is different, even if the living habits are different, Wu Keji can feel that their happiness comes from the heart.

Such a nation is very strong and terrifying.

Because they will work hard to protect their happiness, they will coalesce for a goal. The people of Shenzhou, if they are scattered, they are vulnerable, but once they are condensed, they are invincible in the world.

Shenzhou understood the character of the Xiongnu people, and the Xiongnu also understood the character of the Shenzhou people, and the Xiongnu knew better than all countries when Shenzhou was the most powerful and when Shenzhou was the easiest to plunder. This is tens of thousands of years of experience, very familiar.

"Although the income of the people here is not high, the snacks here are very famous, and many dignitaries and dignitaries have come here to find snacks, I will take you to try them?" Cheng Xiang enthusiastically introduced.

"Okay, okay, isn't the snack the kind of cheap and delicious pastry or something?" Princess Huizhu's eyes lit up.

"Pretty much...... You'll know when you arrive. ”

The snack street is very long, it is now morning, and most of the snack shops are not open. But there are also many that open early, and there are long queues in front of almost every storefront.

"Why are they lining up? Can't they squeeze over to the side?"

"Princess, our Dayu is a state of etiquette. Cheng Xiang smiled faintly, "Be civilized." ”

After getting out of the carriage, the group walked along the snack street, smelling the fragrance, obviously having eaten and going out, but now they were hungry again. The Huns eat an amazing amount of food, and their digestive system is also quite powerful. For the amount of food a meal for any person, Cheng Xiang has to eat for a day, and he works very hard.

Cheng Xiang is a person who practices martial arts, and if he wants to change women, he can't eat so much in seven days.

"Guojun Pancake ......" Huizhu thought that he had seen it wrong, and looked at Cheng Xiang in surprise, "How dare you Dayu people be so bold and give your shop such an arrogant name?"

The king, the king of a country, came to sell pancakes?

But looking at the long queue at the door of the store, the corners of Cheng Xiang's mouth hooked up a smile, "This is also the most famous snack bar on this street, do you want to line up?"

I didn't want to, but because of the name of the store, Wu Keji felt that he should try it. What kind of backstage is it for him to take this store name before it has been pulled out and cut.

It was almost half an hour just to line up, and Cheng Xiang was at the front, "Old Guojun, bring me thirty pancakes and fruits, put more green onions instead of coriander, and put more minced meat, I will buy thirty, don't be stingy." ”

"Okay, wait!" Jinpu was a little stiff, but with a strong curry flavor. Very strange accent.

But the old man's technique is very skillful, beach cakes, knocking eggs, sprinkling green onions, all in one go.

Soon, a fragrant pancake fruit came out. After Cheng Xiang took it, he was the first to arrive in front of Princess Huizhu.

"Princess, you taste. ”

Wu Keji wanted to speak many times and stopped, but he held back again. Cheng Xiang watched him hold back so hard, for fear of being hurt. Quietly came to Wu Ke's side.

"Master Wu, is there anything unspeakable?"

"Lord Cheng, did you just call him the old monarch?"

"Yes, he used to be the king of a hundred nations, and then he came to live in the capital after being captured by our army. ”

"The king of a country is actually buying bread here?" Wu Keji asked in a low and excited voice, which simply refreshed his understanding.

"Yes, what's the matter? Isn't he captured? A hundred nations are destroyed, and he is no longer a king. ”

"But...... After all, he used to be the monarch, so Dayu didn't give him a knighthood?"

"There is a knighthood, but this thing cannot be eaten. Dayu does not raise idlers, and he has to be self-reliant if he wants to eat. But you've also seen that this old monarch can't extricate himself from it, and how skillful is his way of spreading cakes?"

Fun in one of them! The corners of Wu Keji's mouth twitched slightly.

The dignified king of a country, if he is captured, he lives by spreading cakes? How is this Dayu different from other dynasties? If one day our Huns are also defeated and captured, maybe the end will not be so good...... Wu Ke came to Dayu this time, but he saw Dayu's internal changes.

No longer loves vanity, no longer rejoices in great achievements, shouts justice in his mouth, but he is not soft at all. Dayu's justice lies only in the front of the soldiers. Such a nation is terrible.

"Lord Cheng, we Huns are a people on horseback, but we haven't ridden horses for several days, where in the capital can we indulge in horseback riding?"

Originally, Wu Keji thought that Cheng Xiang would talk about the military camp, but he didn't expect Cheng Xiang to say without thinking about it.

"Yes, Hunting Garden. ”