Considering the night ban, Fang City and other town management systems, Liu Chenxing and his entourage counted the journey and arrived in Qinghe County at noon on this day.

In fact, a more accurate official name should be Beizhou City.

Of course, the name of Qinghe County is also correct.

Because this city is the same city of Naizhou County, like in the previous dynasty, there was no Beizhou, but called Qinghe County, and the original name of the city was named after a Qinghe River in the city, so the common people in the territory are more often called Qinghe County or Qinghe City. After all, the Beizhou Governance Office is in Qinghe County, and the imperial court cannot fault the name of the common people.

In this way, only official documents will use the term Beizhou City.

The administrative region of this dynasty adopted the three-level system of "Daozhou County", which is equivalent to the current province, but there is no provincial capital, so the "state" is equivalent to the first-level administrative region, which is similar to the modern provincial capital city level.

However, there are 358 prefectures in the country, which is similar to the number of prefecture-level cities in the Celestial Empire, so the size of the prefecture city is about the same as that of modern prefecture-level cities, and it can be said that the prefecture is the predecessor of modern prefecture-level cities.

As a first-class administrative area that existed in the previous dynasties, Qinghe City (Beizhou City) has an extraordinary population and prosperous commerce.

It was noon, and there were still people waiting in line outside the earthy yellow city gate to enter the city, which made Liu Chenxing and his party wait for a moment or so before entering the state city.

At this time, the layout of the town is almost the same, the foot is a loess compacted pavement, there are rows of shady elm trees on both sides of the road, there are deep drainage ditches next to the road, and outside the ditch are the walls of various squares.

In the end, it is a state town, which is not comparable to the general small county towns under its jurisdiction.

As soon as I stepped into the city, I felt a sudden opening in front of me.

The road in the city is nearly twice as wide as the county road, the roadside square wall is lined up, and you can not see the end at a glance along the main road, not to mention the cross road, criss-crossed, and there are workshops on other roads, and a rough calculation is only afraid of no less than dozens of squares, and this small county town where ten squares are not even compared?

At that time, the doors of the major squares were open, and the pedestrians in and out were endless, and the prosperity of its population was also the only one that most people saw in their lives.

Liu Chenxing is okay, after all, he has experience in modern society.

Xue Yuan and Liu Qingshan, who had never been out of the county, were simply straight-eyed.

Liu Qingshan is a man and a brother, so he has to take care of the man's face, but he can't bear it and doesn't sigh.

Xue Yuan is an outgoing character, so he couldn't help it at the moment, and said "wow".

"I thought that our Yongji County was already rich, but I was afraid that it was less than one-tenth of the state city, how big is it and how many people live here!" After sighing, he thought that his brother had traveled to the state city, so he turned his head and asked, "Brother, haven't you been here?" Qinghe has always been so big? Are there so many people? ”

I haven't been to the state city for more than two years, and I set foot in it again, and the prosperity seems to be more than in the past, Xue Cheng is emotional, and when he heard his sister ask, he said:

"The king of the former dynasty who died in the country, greedy for pleasure, in order to go down to Yangzhou by boat, let people open the Grand Canal, the canal just flows through the Qing River, so Jianghuai rents a large amount of cloth and stores it here, for the use of the northern border army, so there is also the name of 'the north library of the world', plus the territory is also rich in silk, its own economic ability is not bad, and it is comparable to the small county town of our hometown? It is rare for the county to have nearly 1,000 households, but there are tens of millions in the state town. ”

Speaking of this, although the Liu brothers and sisters also looked around with curiosity, they were not very interested in what he said, obviously knowing these allusions.

Xue Cheng sighed in his heart, no wonder the Liu brothers and sisters were able to learn the county examination with their own talents, and couldn't help but reprimand Xue Yuan: "Ah Yuan, as a lifter, you are still a person from Beizhou, you don't even know these things, how can you pass the imperial examination?" ”

Looking at the appearance of his brother's face, Xue Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to it, who didn't know who they were, and now they taught themselves a lesson as a brother, and the people who were beaten and scolded every day in the past two years didn't know who it was.

I didn't want to talk to my brother, so I turned my head and saw that Liu Chenxing was thinking, so I asked, "Ah Xing, what are you thinking?" I didn't know what to think, but my eyes suddenly lit up, and I hurriedly asked, "But what my brother said is wrong?" That excited look, just said that Xue Cheng was at that level, and he wanted to teach her a lesson.

Xue Cheng saw it clearly: ......

However, seeing Liu Chenxing contemplating and pondering, he couldn't help but suspect that what he said was wrong, and said embarrassedly: "Mrs. Liu, but if I say something wrong, just correct it, and don't need to take care of it." ”

Liu Chenxing just sighed that the historical trend of this world was extremely similar to the historical trend of the Celestial Empire, and he had a sense of parallel space, and he didn't want to cause misunderstanding among the Xue brothers and sisters, so he thought about it for a while, and said: "It's not that what Xue Langjun said is wrong, but that Xue Langjun thinks what Xue Langjun said is reasonable." ”

Hearing this, Xue Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I don't know how to say this?" ”

Liu Chenxing said: "First, this city is a city of luck and a prosperous economy. Second, as the main transportation artery for the imperial court to transport military rations, it has a prominent position. If you have not taken the test in recent years, or there are few questions related to the city, there are five policy questions in the state examination this year, and one may be used as the test question. ”

Originally, it was just prevarication, but the more I talked about it at this time, the more I felt that it was very likely, and I couldn't help but take it seriously.

Liu Chenxing thought about one or two points, for example: "If the city relies on the transit station of the Grand Canal to prosper, it needs to spend a huge amount of money every year to clean up the river, which is really not a small expense. And as a person, you have to leave a way out for yourself, how can it be the development of a state city? The city of Caoyun is prosperous because of the prosperity of Caoyun, and it is decayed because of the decline of Caoyun, so the city needs to find an economic lifeline other than Caoyun. ”

In general, Liu Chenxing felt that there were many test points in the test questions in Yizhou City, which were too numerous to mention, and he had to think carefully.

Speaking of this, Liu Chenxing also stopped and said: "There are a lot of test questions that can be used. Therefore, I feel that what Xue Langjun said is reasonable. ”

The Xue brothers and sisters are worthy of being the descendants of shrewd salt merchants, Liu Chenxing just added a little, and the two brothers and sisters have heard their eyes bright.

Xue Cheng said: "Liu Niangzi, there are a lot of friends I made when I was a ranger here, and when I settle down later, I will immediately collect the current affairs test questions of the past ten years, as well as the relevant information on river transportation management and the city's economy in recent years." ”

Xue Yuan said: "Ah Xing, if you can guess the test questions this time, I will pay you a lot of money!" My mother has prepared a lot of dowry money for me, and I am worth more than my brother! ”

As he spoke, Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the mount led by the maid Ah Zhen behind the side, and thought of Liu Chenxing's envy for her sassy and heroic posture on horseback, and hurriedly said: "I'll write a letter to the house when I turn around, let me Aya send a good horse over, and then play a good saddle, and after the exam, I will teach you to ride a horse!" ”

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