Hearing Chu Qiguang's inquiry, the guy said: "But isn't it, I heard that the demon barbarians in the northwest are coming over again, and all the side towns are going to block the official roads and transportation, and the price of food and medicine has begun to rise." ”

During this time, Chu Qiguang followed Qiao Zhi to learn about the situation in the world, and he also knew that in the past two hundred years, the grassland in the northwest of the Han Dynasty had been rampant with demon clans.

The demon clan is a race bred by the youkai of the Dao level, and the monsters in the group are born with spiritual wisdom and can cultivate.

And on the grassland in the northwest today, the most powerful demon clan is the wolf demon tribe, which is divided into more than a dozen tribes, one of which calls itself the Yongri tribe, believing that it is a god clan who came to the world from the sun.

After the Yongri tribe unified the wolf demon tribe, it swept through the entire northwest grassland, changed the year name to Tiancheng, and the country name Daqian, becoming one of the seven demon clans in the world.

In the past twenty years, this wolf demon tribe has often led troops south to raid the territory of the Han Dynasty. Lingzhou, where Qingyang County is located, as one of the northern states of the Han Dynasty, has always been the target of wolf demons.

"The wolf clan is going south again?" Chu Qiguang said secretly in his heart: "Go back and ask Qiao Zhi to see what he knows." ”

"But it's rare to come here once, so I just went into the county seat to have a look and collect information. ”

The Taoist temple in Qingyang County is not in the county seat, but on the outskirts of the city. So after Chu Qiguang left the Taoist medicine shop, he went to the gate of the county seat.

Most of the soldiers I saw when I entered the city were thin and wearing shabby uniforms, and the original bright colors had faded away, but they were all greasy stains. They stood or squatted, but none of them stood guard properly.

Chu Qiguang shook his head secretly, even if there are martial arts and Taoism in this world, and the role of masters is very important in fighting, but the mental outlook of these soldiers is too poor, which shows the problem of the Great Han Dynasty at this moment.

Crossing the city gate, what he saw was South Street, and the two sides of the bluestone street were full of garbage, feces and other things, and Chu Qiguang was squinted by the smell as soon as he entered.

However, he didn't expect this kind of sanitary situation in the feudal era, so he covered his nose and rushed over.

......

Just as Chu Qiguang was passing through the city gate, two pairs of eyes were staring at him in an alley next to the street, which were two brown and yellow earth dogs, one of which sniffed his nose in the direction of Chu Qiguang, and said with a disgusted face: "What a heavy cat smell." ”

The other dog also sniffed his nose and wondered, "Why didn't I smell it?"

"You're not doing enough. Hmph, this person loves to be with cats so much, he is not a serious person at first glance, and he must not end well. ”

"Look, it's the Taoist priest of Qingyang Temple who has entered the city. ”

"What are you looking at, waiting to be made into a dog meat pot? ”

Two earth dogs disappeared into the depths of the alley with their tails between their legs.

......

Chu Qiguang walked all the way to the most lively West Street in the county, along the way all kinds of vegetable farmers, merchants, lookers, fortune tellers, selling dim sum, both sides of the street are some one- and two-story brick houses, which are grain shops, silver shops, pharmacies, clothing and shoe shops, restaurants, teahouses, tooth shops and other shops.

The streets here are much cleaner and more comfortable without feces and garbage on both sides.

Of course, Chu Qiguang knew that this was not because the people here were hardworking and clean, but because this street was relatively close to the county government, so the people in the city would come to clean the streets and collect feces several times a day.

Collecting manure may sound like a lowly job, but it's actually very lucrative, because you can make a lot of money by collecting manure, and you can get a lot of money by collecting manure and selling it.

Chu Qiguang had already had this business idea in his head, but unfortunately the people in this world already knew the importance of fertilizer, and the feces in the city had already been packed by various dung tyrants, and it was not Chu Qiguang's turn to get involved.

"Freshly baked pancakes! two pennies each!"

"The newly arrived Wuzhou Silk, the red cloth in the clouds, the guest officer, do you want to take a look?"

"Childe, this is the frost paper sent by Qi County, it is as clean as jade, thin and smooth......"

Chu Qiguang walked on the street, listening to the sound of selling and negotiation in his ears, and suddenly had the illusion of returning to modern times and visiting a famous ancient town.

However, many of the people on this bustling street were wearing silk clothes and cotton gowns, and there were even fewer short coats like Chu Qiguang's body, and the guys in the store almost didn't pay much attention to him.

This is also the CBD of Qingyang County. ’

I need to buy a set of clothes to keep ready. ’

The so-called people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, especially in this ancient feudal society, it is still very useful for a person to dress well, at least in terms of receiving people and things, it will provide a lot of convenience.

So Chu Qiguang first went to the silver shop and exchanged one or two pieces of silver for a 600 copper coin, this is because the copper coins in this store are in good condition and have a high copper content, if the copper coins with a lower copper content need 1000 or even 2000 Wen to exchange for one or two silvers.

As for why it is exchanged for silver, it is naturally more convenient to buy some food and drink every day or to use copper coins.

Then he spent four copper coins to buy two pancakes from the hawker to cushion his stomach, and then spent another one or two taels of silver to buy a blue silk round-necked and long-sleeved gown.

This kind of caftan was originally stipulated by the imperial court, and it was only worn by scholars with fame.

After all, at the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, there were detailed requirements for the clothing of people of different professions, such as civil servants, military generals, merchants, farmers, craftsmen, etc., including the color and style of clothes, and even the width and length of sleeves, which were clearly stipulated to divide people into different ranks.

But today, the descendants of the major official families and wealthy businessmen are all wearing whatever they want, and the government can't control it, so they gradually ignore these, and even the clothes of the ordinary people are becoming more and more free.

"These ancient clothes are really expensive. If you buy a few more pieces, they can compare to the land of Ergou's family. ”

A piece of clothing cost one or two dollars, which made Chu Qiguang couldn't help but shake his head.

He changed his clothes and wandered around, but he didn't have much interest in restaurants, teahouses, and Goolan Washes when he went shopping, so he didn't look at them.

On the contrary, they sell grain, medicine, coal, iron, and all kinds of groceries from the north and south, such as coarse salt, fine salt, brown sugar, white sugar, dry goods, and dried fruits.

......

Chu Qiguang walked around from morning to afternoon before leaving the county seat, his mind was full of data on the prices of various commodities, the flow of people on the street, the freight volume at the city gate, the source of goods and so on.

At this time, the Han Dynasty became more vivid, vivid and three-dimensional in his mind than Ergou's memory and Qiao Zhi's narrative.

'There were more handicrafts than I had imagined: grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coal, silk, cotton, paper, oil, wood, bronze, porcelain...... Not only local goods in Lingzhou, but also goods from the south of the Yangtze River such as Donghaizhou, Quanzhou, and Yuezhou. ’

This shows that commercial capital is active, industrial and commercial towns have sprung up, and the gentry of the countryside must have been involved in it. ’

However, the currency of trade was still mainly silver, and the official currency was far from sufficient, indicating that the court still did not really realize the importance of industry, commerce and finance, and may have only used it as a source of wealth. ’

Looking at the city gate where people came and went, Chu Qiguang took a deep breath, quite a bit of spirit.

'The imperial court was unfavorably regulated, land annexation was serious, and commercial capital was on the rise...... The future is promising, the only pity is ...... It may be the end of the country. ’

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