Chapter 224: Visiting Xiangyang City

Zhou Xue was dressed in Confucian clothes today, dressed as a man, and suddenly became a young man with red lips and white teeth, and was extremely handsome. Liu Hou is also dressed as a scholar, and Sima Yi is dressed as a middle-aged scribe, and he is like three literati going on an outing together and chanting poems.

It's a pity that this is not the Central Plains where the literary style is at its peak, and at this time it is not a peaceful and prosperous era where everyone can enjoy life freely, hold poetry meetings all day long, and moan without illness.

At this time, in Xiangyang City, not to mention that there are literati and ink writers who come out to chant the wind and sing the moon, even ordinary people, and even those hawkers who rely on selling things on the street to earn a meager income, rarely go out.

The city has changed its banner, the city has just changed hands, and many people do not know whether it is a curse or a blessing waiting for them, so most people are still hiding at home and watching.

These three people dressed as scribes, thinking that they could hide people's eyes and ears, but in fact, they were very conspicuous, and people could see at a glance that these three people were definitely not ordinary people. Which reader will meet to play in this chaotic season?

If a few five big and three rough martial artists are now coming out to the restaurant restaurant, shouting and drinking, it is normal, and now there is no shortage of rude soldiers in the city, but a few weak scholars come out to swagger at this time, isn't that a lack of beating?

It's a pity that Liu Hou and the three of them didn't have such consciousness, they were surrounded by many personal soldiers in civilian clothes, and they were not worried about any danger. It's just that Liu Hou couldn't help frowning when he looked at the countless disguised soldiers scattered on the depressed streets, but few of them were real people.

I only heard him say: "Our army has occupied Xiangyang for a month, and the streets are still so depressed, it seems that Guo Youzhi and their work to pacify the people is not in place." ”

Sima Yi continued: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's no wonder that they are here, since the last time His Majesty led the troops to the Northern Expedition to Xiangyang, the people of Xiangyang City have gone out to avoid the military disaster, but I am afraid that now the people in Xiangyang City are much less than the original."

In addition, Xiangyang is adjacent to Hubei, Henan, Chongqing and Shaanxi, and merchants from all over the world usually gather, and many goods are sold to various places with Xiangyang as a transit center.

Although our army has occupied Xiangyang, but the Wei army is still entrenched in Fancheng, Zhangling and other places, the armies of both sides have blocked the trade channels in various places, and the merchants cannot enter Xiangyang for the time being, and there are no large number of merchants, and there will be no customers for all kinds of food, drink, lodging, prostitution, and gambling transactions, so that the street will naturally appear depressed. ”

Liu Hou listened to Sima Yi's analysis, and secretly agreed, and said: "Well, Zhongda is right, I blame them, but Xiangyang is the gateway to the Central Plains in the south, and it has always been a big city, so it can't always be so depressed, so I should urge them, increase the efforts to appease the people, and at the same time open up trade routes as much as possible, so that Xiangyang can restore the prosperous scene of the past." ”

"Your Majesty is kind-hearted, cares about all the people in the world, and sure enough, the Holy Son of Heaven is admired by Weichen." Sima Yi slapped Liu Hou on the back at the right time.

Liu Hou listened to this kind of sycophant talk a lot, and he didn't care, the three of them continued to point and wander around the city, Sima Yi was stationed in Xiangyang City for a short time, and was very familiar with the environment of Xiangyang City, he took the initiative to take on the responsibility of a tour guide, and introduced the scenic spots and historic sites everywhere to Liu Hou and the two.

Liu Hou and Zhou Xue listened and watched comfortably, and the tour explained by people who are familiar with the customs and customs is the most interesting, after all, no matter how beautiful the scenery in the city is, it can't be there, and Xiangyang is not the capital, and the buildings inside are beautifully built, no matter how magnificent they are, they can't compare to the palace.

Liu Hou, who is accustomed to living in the majestic palace, naturally does not have too many amazing feelings about the buildings in Xiangyang. However, if these buildings are supplemented by some historical stories and cultural customs, it will be different, which is the same as the tourism industry in later generations.

Many of the tourist attractions in later generations are not outstanding or even bad in terms of scenery alone, and some are often just a mediocre old house, a pile of ruins, a broken boat, and so on.

However, the people who manage the tourism resources are very good at digging up the stories behind these things, combining these mundane things with some historical stories and even folklore, and these things are immediately worth a hundred times more and become a must-see for all visitors to the city.

Such examples abound, for example, the old house becomes the former residence of so-and-so, for example, the ruins may be the remains of the great war, for example, the shipwreck may have happened in the earth-shattering historical event of so-and-so, and so on.

These landscapes are not good-looking, and they are also very simple, you can see them at a glance, but with the tour guide explaining the stories that have happened to these landscapes, and the historical and cultural background # behind these landscapes, travelers often feel very interesting and satisfied, and the tour that should be monotonous and simple has become colorful.

These are some of the most common practices in the tourism industry in later generations, although Sima Yi does not understand these, but he unknowingly plays the role of a tour guide in later generations. Xiangyang City was originally a famous historical and cultural city, he is a well-educated person, and his eloquence is also extremely good, this explanation, listening to Liu Hou and Zhou Xue were fascinated, and sighed in their hearts, I didn't expect Xiangyang to be so interesting.

The group chatted while touring, time passed quickly, and soon it was noon, and all three of them were hungry and planned to find a place to have lunch. The ancients generally only ate two meals a day, and the first meal was called morning food, also known as gluttony. When is the morning eclipse? It is usually before the sumi. It is about 8 or 9 o'clock Beijing time, as it is now called.

The second meal is called food, also known as food, and most of them are enjoyed at the time of Shen. The time is equivalent to 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Beijing time. In other words, the ancients generally had dinner around 4 p.m.

But Liu Hou is a traverser, he is used to eating three meals a day according to the later generations, obviously, three meals a day can not meet the dietary needs of a day, and later he will promote the system of three meals a day in the Hong army, so now the whole army is also used to three meals a day.

Because the soldiers of the Hong Army ate an extra meal, absorbed more nutrients, and trained properly, their physique was generally better than that of the soldiers of Wei and Wu, so even if they did not use hot #soldier# weapons, everyone fought hand-to-hand combat, and the average was stronger than that of the soldiers of Wei and Wu.

At noon, it was lunch time for three meals a day, and the three of them walked to a three-storey high, magnificent, carved and painted restaurant, called "Zuixiang Building". According to Sima Yi, this "Zuixiang Building" has a history of 100 years and is the best restaurant in Xiangyang.

Just having lunch, Liu Hou didn't have too many requirements for the quality of the restaurant, since Sima Yi brought him to this restaurant, he also felt that it didn't matter, so he raised his feet and entered this restaurant first, preparing to go back after lunch here.