Bai Ling quietly walked over to the map, which was poured directly over the tiles, very inconspicuous.

Still, she could tell that the people of Yuzhang had taken great care of it, as it looked spotless, apparently because it was wiped every day.

That's what she wants to see today.

On the map, the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty is divided into north and south sides, with the upper half outlined with a blue line and the lower half depicted with a red line.

"At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Great Zhou encouraged commerce for a period of time, not only exempting the merchants' families from all kinds of servitude, but also leaning towards the national policy." Shopkeeper Zhao said softly, "The part of the blue line above is all our owner's own family, the business road opened by the Daiyue ticket number back then, and it has been used until now. ”

One of the brocade guards frowned, "Encourage business ......?" ”

Shopkeeper Zhao smiled and said thoughtfully, "Of course, it is unthinkable for the official to look at this matter now. But in those years, years of conquest destroyed bridges and roads in various places, and also emptied the treasury, and the people needed to recuperate, and it was impossible to build roads in a short period of time, plus the country almost quadrupled...... So Sheng Yuanye made an earth-shattering decision back then: to encourage business, especially cross-regional and long-distance business activities. ”

Sheng Yuan is the name of the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Bai Ling has heard a little about this matter from Bai Yi before.

The implications of this decision were far-reaching, because the merchant families were often more familiar with how to open up trade routes than the officials in the government, and the financial and human resources required to do so were enormous, and only the merchants were most willing to invest in them and compete for places, because once the trade routes were built, the profits of long-distance trafficking were unimaginable.

At this time, the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty had cultivated for three generations, and the government gradually began to set up conscription, and continued to repair and expand roads, official posts, and bridges on the basis of their predecessors, and sent troops to exterminate hundreds of dens of bandits occupying the mountains.

As he spoke, Shopkeeper Zhao led everyone to see the plaque hanging on the top of the wall on this side, which read "Pillars of the Country", and the inscription was actually Emperor Sheng Yuan's deity.

"All the ticket numbers in our Great Zhou, whether it is the Daiyue ticket number or the Yuzhang ticket number, all have this plaque, which is a memory of Sheng Yuanye's ardent expectations for us back then, and he dare not violate it at all."

The Jinyi guard still frowned, "I don't understand, so what is the relationship between this Daiyue ticket number and your Yuzhang ticket number?" What is the owner's own family? ”

"That's the case, the Daiyue ticket number has been active north of the Anjiang River, and our owner's generation is still sticking to the old territory, so after our owner divided, he took his belongings to the south and single-handedly founded our 'Yuzhang ticket number'." Shopkeeper Zhao said softly, "But the two are of the same origin. ”

Looking at this trade route extending in all directions, Bai Ling was surprised.

She thought that Wang Yuzhang should probably be a rich man, but she didn't expect him to be so rich.

Bai Ling frowned slightly, "...... Don't you go out much on weekdays? ”

"That's ...... I don't know. Shopkeeper Zhao smiled, "But he doesn't often come to the shop, and we don't know what he does on weekdays." ”

Although he didn't get a positive answer, Bai Ling still had an answer in his heart.

If he really went out a lot, then a pivotal character like him would not be troubled by the city gate guards - how could those guys who saw the money not recognize such a big financier, and refused to even let him go home to get the money, so they had to lock him and a group of poor scholars in the corner of the city gate.

No, that's not right......

Bai Ling suddenly felt that things had become intriguing—what was even more strange in the last chance encounter at the city gate was that a person like him who had done business would run out of the door alone, without even a retinue by his side.

Shopkeeper Zhao was still answering Bai Ling's previous questions, Bai Ling pretended to be listening, but his mind had already flown away.

The map of the intersection of trade routes in front of her was deeply ingrained in her mind.

The war in the north is about to break out again, all the way to the north, and once the war rises again, the entire southeast of the empire will inevitably have to be transfused to the front...... Even if you escape from Pingjing, where is there still a place for the small people to stand in Shengdou.

Suddenly, Bai Ling's eyes lit up slightly.

"You even have a semicolon in Chansang?" Bai Ling asked, pointing to the westernmost side of the map.

"Yes." Shopkeeper Zhao sighed, "Our master likes Qian Sang, and said that he wants to go there to retire in the future, so he ...... Why did Si Yao suddenly pay attention to this? ”

Bai Ling retracted his gaze and said softly, "Oh, because my father is a person from Qiansang in Shuzhou Prefecture. ”

……

When he left the Yuzhang ticket number, Bai Ling's burden was empty, but the four brocade guards who accompanied him were each holding heavy objects in their hands.

For the account holders of the Tianzi number, the ticket number seems to have been a heavy gift. Seeing that Bai Ling was thin, they originally wanted the guys in the store to take it to Bai Ling's house, but they were sternly rejected by a few brocade guards - it was already a compromise to let Bai Ling come out today, how could they let three or five more guys follow Bai Ling close to her residence? When it was sent back to the palace, I was afraid that it would inevitably be asked.

So Bai Ling carefully picked out four things from the gifts of the ticket number, and the brocade guards carried them home. She didn't say much along the way, just walked silently in front of the stack of duplicate documents issued by Yuzhang's ticket number, as if she was thinking about something.

This scene was so strange that many passers-by avoided their gaze in front of them, but when the brocade guards walked over, they all poked their necks out to look - who would have thought that one day they would see the brocade guards holding the gift box and following behind a little girl? This scene is like the arrogant and domineering bloodthirsty wolf in the past being chained.

The young brocade guard who walked behind was a little annoyed, and couldn't help but cover his flushed face with the gift box in his hand.

There were whispers of inquiry from the crowd, arguing about the identity of the girl who had walked in front, until someone who recognized them threw out the answer—and the crowd suddenly realized that this was the Bai Si Yao.

There was a flurry of exclamations from the crowd.

After all, this kind of fairy picture is really too rare.

……

In the afternoon of this day, Bai Yi waited for a long time at the west gate, but still did not see Bai Shijun come out - this is certainly a bad sign, but it is also a message that his father is still safe.

He waited quietly until the end of the day, and finally decided not to wait any longer at the gate of this palace.

Bai Yi turned around and walked in the direction of the Tai Hospital—he really couldn't wait to try the skills he learned from the masters of the Internal Affairs Department today.

It's just that before he entered the gate of the hospital, he saw several carriages parked not far from the gate of the hospital, several of which were gorgeously decorated, and Bai Yi recognized one of them as Zeng Jiuyan's at a glance.

And at the very edge, there is also a carriage with a different style, even with a saddle, and the whole body exudes an extremely rich and quaint atmosphere.

Bai Yi frowned, feeling that things were not simple.