The building boat traces the river along the Xingjiang River for ten days, sees that there is a mountain such as a ring, there is a city under the mountain, far from seeing its shape, but sees the golden light, seems to compete with the sun.

Legend has it that there is a sacred bird in the north of Xingshui, its name is a chick, likes gold, and the country is prosperous.

In ancient times, in the upper reaches of the Xingjiang River and the area of the Ronghuan Mountain, there was an ancient country named Shu, and the ancient Shu country was passed to the last generation, which was the time when the first emperor swept away Liuhe.

At that time, the first emperor was not yet called the first emperor, and people only said that the Shang monarch had no trouble fighting a war and even the sixteen countries, and the army had been pressed to the north bank of the lingering water, but he was encamped, cutting wood and building ships unhurriedly, as if mocking the ancient Shu on the other side.

It is said that in the capital of the ancient Shu kingdom at that time, there was a watchtower ten feet high, the lord of the ancient Shu kingdom stood on it, looked north, and saw only the black-shirted Xuanjia army that was surging like a flood.

The lord of the country panicked, remembering the legendary mythical bird that inhabits the north of the haunting north, hoping for the mercy of the heavens, but emptied the treasury of the ancient Shu State for hundreds of generations, and handed over the gold of the whole country, melted it into gold liquid, and poured it on the roof of the palace temple and every household in the capital.

The golden city of ancient Shu was cast for 100 days, and the black-shirted Xuanjia military shipbuilding on the other side of the lingering water was also built for 100 days. On the day of ten thousand taels of gold into the city, the black-shirted army crossed the river to attack the city, and the lord of the ancient Shu country personally beat the drum on the ten thousand platforms to tell the sky, but still did not get the help of the divine bird, and the day of the city was actually the time when the city was broken.

After the war, the Shang monarch at that time moved the capital here, named Jinding, and personally supervised the war in the south. Thousands of years later, the territory of the empire has long crossed the Yingshui, south to the Aral Sea, and the city of Jinding, as the capital of the country, has never changed.

To this day, when people trek through mountains and rivers and come to this ancient city, they can't help but feel a sense of reverence and silence in their hearts.

The building ship docked on the south bank of the Xingjiang River, and Jindingjing flourished to this day, and the urban construction has long crossed the Xingjiang River, and the land on the north bank is also included.

But no matter how the city wall gets bigger and bigger, the Jinding Jing in people's hearts is only the original one on the south bank that really has a golden roof.

This central area is called the Inner City, and it is separated from the outer city by a wall and a moat handed down from the ancient Shu period - that being said, the city wall has been raised countless times by generations of princes and nobles of the empire, and the moat has been dug countless times, and there is no longer a trace of the original shadow.

The wharf where the ship is going to dock is in the outer city or even outside, and even so, it is far more prosperous than the ordinary Luzhou Governor's Office.

On the highest floor of the first floor, Cai Zhao and Zhang have to stand by the railing. Although the building ship docked, it had no berth, so it had to anchor on the spot and stop for the time being.

Like Cai Zhao, who is a little better, even if the boat does not enter the berth, he can stop by the river at will, and he can go ashore with a jump. Snake and his Secy crew may be okay, but their ship's belongings can't work, Sven's weak Zhang Huaitu can't, and neither can the pampered Zhang Yao.

So the ship had to wait outside the dock for a ship to leave the port and vacate the berth.

Under the slanting sun, the docks were lined with the Empire's characteristic black sailing ships, and there were occasionally one or two brightly colored exotic ships, which looked gaudy and ostentatious.

The surface of the river sparkled, shattering the golden sunset and scattering it in the water.

Merchants and craftsmen gathered in the outer city, separating the golden river from the golden city, and some of them were very bright, and their houses were built in the outer city, and only one less golden roof than the palace in the inner city.

"Cai Zhao, this city is big. ”

The boat in front of the queue was motionless, and Zhang Yao and Cai Zhao stood side by side on the first floor, chatting back and forth.

"Cai Zhao, this city is prosperous. Zhang Yao didn't need Cai Zhao to answer, and then sighed.

After a while, the river breeze was still blowing, the wind chimes were ringing, and the boy was silent.

"Cai Zhao, this city is hard to put down. Zhang Yao really stretched out a hand, opened his palm as if to hold the city, and then slowly withdrew it.

On the side, Cai Zhao twisted his brows irritably, and then turned his back and leaned his back against the railing.

This is the first time he has come to the capital, the crowd is bustling, well-dressed, heavy eaves flying, golden light, this is indeed a big, prosperous, and people can't put down the city.

Dan will say this as if this city were his, a treasure in his hand, and a treasure in his pocket. Cai Zhao doesn't like to listen to people brag, Dongzi loves to brag, Ge Lan loves to brag, and he himself loves to brag; what he doesn't like is Zhang Yao, a young man of his own age, who is not bragging, not imagining, but boasting, just like boasting about his own newly built garden.

Does that feel like jealousy? Zhang Yao is just the son of a down-and-out relative, unless the prince of Changyang is really powerful, he can't even catch up with Cai Zhao who is the left envoy of the Taiwei State Sect in his life.

This feeling is not about the present, nor about the future, but about the past, when men are young, they always want everything and want to compare with others, in the final analysis, just because Zhang Yao is a peer, there are many things that Cai Zhao does not have and no longer has the opportunity to have, such as the nobility in his bones.

Cai Zhao is not a delicate person, he never thought of it so deep and thorough, but just felt uncomfortable and disgusted, which made him add a bit of a cold look, quite similar to his sister Cai Huan.

"You don't like to be lively?" Zhang Yao asked when he saw Cai Zhao turning his back and no longer looking at the prosperity of Jindingjing.

Cai Zhao just shook his head, not knowing what it meant.

Downstairs, there was a sudden quarrel.

......

"One hundred taels of gold, thirty acres of fertile land, that's what I agreed with your brother!" At the bow of the boat, Zhang Huaitu changed his usual weight, and said with a blow of his beard and glaring.

The snake worm standing opposite him shook his head with a smile, and said slowly: "One list, one son, this is the price offered by the snake worm, and it has nothing to do with my brother." ”

The dozens of tall Saisi crew members of the whole ship surrounded the two of them, and now they were on the water again, and Zhang Huaitu probably couldn't run away if he wanted to.

"What I promised to your eldest brother, I'll add another copy to you, how about it?" he said tentatively.

The snake still shook his head: "Your Excellency just promised 10,000 taels of gold and 10,000 acres of fertile land, how much can you take out now?"

Zhang Huai stopped talking again.

The snake worm circled around him, and then said: "My brother doesn't understand the power struggle of your empire, he only knows how to get money for doing things, and take money to eat meat......"

“...... He's smarter than many of the leaders of Fandong, you've seen his main ship, a few pirates who can only cut trees and make fires can't build a ship like that, and those few bed crossbows......"

“...... But even he can't stand the flickering of your old fox who is used to crawling on the top of the gold, and the gold is just goodland...... You know how much my brother wants his brothers to settle down, but the sun doesn't shine in the fog of Fandong, and the earth on the island is stone......"

“...... We hunted the scale fish in the Aral Sea and the 'cloth fish' in the foggy sea, and the leaders of the other tribes said that it was the duty of the man, but my brother knew that if he could live without plundering, it would not be his vocation to plunder. ”

The snake worm circled around Zhang Huaitu and stopped where it was facing him.

"Zhang Mouxin just wants to exchange his life and his son, return to Beijing as a dog and horse for the prince, sincerely trade with Brother Ling, and he doesn't play any tricks, and he doesn't know that Brother Ling still has the ideal of leading the clan to settle down......"

“...... Now I know, and I admire Brother Ling more for being able to understand the way of education in the realm of ignorance, and his practice of loving the people for the people and thinking about the ancestors also coincides with His Royal Highness the Prince, presumably in the future, the country will be returned, thinking of Brother Ling's merits and painstaking efforts, the empire can also sympathize with the feelings of the people of Fandong, and take care of ...... more."

Zhang Huaitu thought that he had finally seen through the motives and purposes of the elder brothers, so he began to talk about the future. Who knew that the snake frog ignored him, and turned around again, taking care of himself.

"You ......" Zhang Huaitu saw that the other party ignored his high theory, a little stunned, and even a little angry.

The snake worm turned behind him and said, "Do you know that there is a group of merchants in the city who do not sell goods, but they make more money than anyone else?"

Zhang Huaitu was stunned by the question and shook his head.

The snake turned to his side and revealed: "There are many buyers like Your Excellency who have received the goods but cannot pay the cash, so there are rich people who have no spare money in the treasury and cannot use up the money to lend them money to pay first, and when the buyer has money, then add interest to the capital and return it to the rich man......

"Do you mean to tell me to go to the city to find such a rich man and borrow gold and fertile land from you?" Zhang Huaitu said jokingly.

"It's not impossible," the snake pouted, "but I have something to say, you can hear me ......."

“...... These riches are either overlords of one side, armed with force, and not afraid of people not paying back, or they have seized something in their hands. This is the empire, your lordship, your territory, get off this ship, the force of these dozens of snakes and worms will not be able to suppress you, so ......"

"Isn't it just a pawn to say so much!" At this time, Zhang Yao came down from the first floor and interrupted.

"No," said the snake flatly, "but Childe is willing to think so, so let's think so." ”

"I want to ......" Zhang Huaitu noticed that his son was coming, and his face showed some worry.

Zhang was busy asking his father for peace, and he didn't know that he was one of the mortgages that the snake was asking for.

"I mean," said the snake suddenly, in the midst of the father-son relationship, "the promise is worthless, unless I can guarantee that you will have to keep it." ”