Chapter 61: Rain

On the east side of the Forbidden City along the main street of the North River, the north starts from Di'an. Mendong Street, south to Nanheyan Street.

1965 North. When the place name was rectified, it was renamed Dong'an. Gate North Street, but the new name is not called at all, Lao Bei. Beijing is still accustomed to calling it Beiheyan Street according to the old name.

A short walk west from Beihe along the main street is the Jade River, and in the past, freight transportation from north to south mainly relied on waterways, especially salt and grain.

Since the Sui Dynasty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal started from Tongzhou in the north and arrived in Hangzhou in the south, and the grain in the south reached Tongzhou through the Grand Canal, and then went north. Jingsheng can only take the dry road again. In order to facilitate the transportation of Cao, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, ordered the digging of the Cao Canal so that the southern Cao cargo ships could reach the north. Kyo was named after the river at that time

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