Yecheng is located on the vast Hebei Plain, with Zhangshui passing through the city, and other waters flowing through the periphery of the realm, jointly building a complete and prosperous transportation system, so that the personnel and materials from all sides of the river and north can flow in smoothly, which together constitute the cornerstone of Yecheng's prosperity.

Yecheng has a long history of founding the city, and its real regional center is from the Later Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the Yecheng Santai created during the Cao Cao period still stands in the northeast corner of the city, and the ancient city of Cao Wei is now Yebei City.

In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan moved the capital from Luoyang to Yecheng in order to strengthen his control over the imperial court, and more than 400,000 people from Luoyang migrated with him. Later, the Eastern Wei Dynasty rebuilt a new city in the south of the original Yecheng, which was Yenan City.

The two cities together constituted a new Yecheng, which was later completely inherited by the Northern Qi Dynasty and became the capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty today.

As a model of city planning in the Middle Ages, Yecheng may be slightly inferior to Chang'an and Luoyang in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but in terms of current time and space, both the scale of the city and the degree of prosperity are second to none, and the tolerance of personnel is far from being comparable to Jinyang, which has a strong military color.

The roads around the city are full of cars and horses, and everyone is sweating profusely in the scorching summer. There was a long queue in front of the city gate, and the people and goods queuing into the city could hardly be seen at a glance.

After the team separated, Li Licheng and his entourage joined the queue outside Yecheng earlier because the procedures were completed faster. However, they were still moving slowly step by step, and on the other side, Li Tang and his party had already gone straight to the city gate through a special passage.

The prosperity of Yecheng, or the prosperity of any place, will not be open to everyone fairly, so that everyone can enjoy the changes that this prosperity brings to their lives. People have different identities and statuses, and the prosperity and convenience they can enjoy are also different.

In Yecheng, in addition to the high-ranking officials and magnates who are naturally superior, it is easier to get preferential treatment for Xianbei people. Especially the Xianbei warrior generals, the privileges they enjoy are reflected in all aspects, and entering the city first is only one of the insignificant ones.

The inspection of goods exclusively for commercial goods entering the city is relatively slow, and it is even necessary to queue up outside the city for several days during the busy commercial season. Fortunately, it is the turn of July, summer and autumn at the moment, even if you sleep in the wild after nightfall, there is no cold wind to urge people, except for the long wait is a bit torturous, everything else is fine.

Of course, it would be better if the Forbidden Army could be strictly managed, and in the process of Li Licheng and his entourage queuing, there were already several groups of forbidden army soldiers wandering around, asking them for money and goods.

In line with the idea that more is better than less, when encountering this kind of rogue blackmail, Li Licheng also ordered them to give them some property to send away. A similar situation also existed in Chang'an in the Western Wei Dynasty, and Li Licheng knew that it would not be a good thing to entangle with these soldiers, unless the background was tough enough to make them afraid, otherwise they would suffer endless entanglement and retaliation.

In addition, coming to Yecheng this time still made Li Licheng quite an eye-opener. When he was a child, he followed his relatives to the west, and his impression of Luoyang had already been blurred, and Luoyang at that time had experienced several turbulences, and it had long since ceased to be prosperous in the heyday of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Chang'an in Guanzhong and Tongzhou City, where the Bafu is located, are far less prosperous than Yecheng. The cities under the rule of Shannan Province may be outstanding, but when it comes to scale and prosperity, they are far inferior to Yecheng, the capital of Northern Qi.

Because there were so many amazing things, the wait became less difficult, and finally in the afternoon of the next day, the group was finally able to enter the city.

The commercial goods arranged by the Bohai Feng clan for them is a temple, and the Buddhist faith is also very marketable in Yecheng, and the officials responsible for inspecting the commercial goods at the city gate did not continue to strictly check whether the goods were prohibited when they saw Li Licheng take out the temple documents, not only let them pass quickly, but even made a solemn Buddhist ceremony to Li Licheng.

After experiencing this treatment, Li Licheng couldn't help but sigh, except for being a little unlucky under their Daxingtai rule, these Shamen monks seemed to be very marketable in other places.

Naturally, he didn't know that Shamen not only had a market in Hebei, but also had a kind of domineering desire to unify the religious circles. In the vicinity of Yecheng alone, there are thousands of temples of all sizes, and the monks and monks controlled by the temple, as well as the lay donors, etc., add up to a very terrifying number.

After entering the city, these merchants were not allowed to enter the market and roam freely, and they had their own special roads to reach the area where the market was located, and after staying in those mansions, they could sell the goods they had brought.

Li Tang and his entourage had already entered the city yesterday, so they also found a place to settle in advance. The Didian in these markets not only provides accommodation services, but also buys and consignments, and acts like brokers to help them find and contact buyers, and the services are very comprehensive.

Even if it is the first time to come to Yedu, if you can find a reliable shop to help, you can complete the transaction very smoothly and get a relatively considerable return.

After Li Licheng learned about this, he couldn't help but sigh that the social development of the Northern Qi Dynasty did far exceed that of the Western Wei Dynasty, and even under the rule of the Taiwan government, there was a lot of room to catch up.

However, they came to Yecheng to get in touch with more times and spread some information, of course, they didn't need all kinds of agency services from these mansions. After wandering around the market and observing, I chose a shop with a relatively strong flow of people to rent it, and then officially started my career of setting up a stall and selling goods.

But on the first day of their official business, they encountered a lot of trouble.

On this day, a group of heavily armed soldiers entered the market, searched the shops along the street, and from time to time the servants of the shops were taken out, and although the mouths of those people shouted that they were wronged, the soldiers ignored them all, but tied them up with knots and continued to search the streets.

"What happened?"

Li Licheng watched these armored soldiers gradually approach, so he inquired about the shops on the left.

"This is the forbidden army capturing fugitive slaves!"

Because Li Li became a polite and bold person, the merchants in the left and near had a good impression of him, and when they heard his questioning, they explained, and then leaned up and whispered: "It is said that it is to capture fugitive slaves, but in fact, it is to forcibly pull Nudin." This summer, the imperial court wants to build a great wall on the border to prevent foreign thieves from attacking, and I heard that millions of people will need to be used for service. Is there too many people in the state and county in the world today?

But the people of Yedu Ding Na are also masters, and they can be exempted from servitude by joining the family of the powerful and powerful. These slaves have shelter, but His Majesty's edict must be followed, so they can only arrest these rootless foreigners......"

Li Licheng couldn't help but sweat on his forehead after hearing this, he thought that he could hide in the city if he had infiltrated the enemy, but he didn't expect that the danger in the territory of Northern Qi would come in waves, it was simply endless, could it be that these people of Northern Qi were so excited every day?

Seeing that the soldiers who were searching for them along the street were getting closer and closer, Li Licheng couldn't care about the excitement anymore, and hurriedly returned to the store to discuss countermeasures with Li Tang. They don't know where this so-called root standard is, but if they finally infiltrate Yedu, only to be sent to the northern border to build the Great Wall for a few years, they will really want to cry without tears!

They hadn't yet come up with a plan here, but unexpectedly, more than a dozen of the armored soldiers who were still in the distance had already split up and came straight to their shop, shouting loudly as they walked: "Why are there so many men here? The shopkeeper came out quickly, who is making a living! ”

Li Tang walked out hard, took out the goods that had been handled at a high price before, handed them over, and said again and again: "The general is angry, the general is angry, my lord is the governor of Chenggao, because he is the town of Heyang, there are more Han'er under the account......"

When those soldiers heard that the owner of this shop was a Xianbei general, their expressions eased, and after the verification procedures were verified, they dropped another sentence and said: "You wait for Han'er to make a living in the market after the master's appreciation, and Hugh has to steal and deceive and ruin the master's reputation, otherwise there will be severe punishment!" ”

Finally, the roots provided by Princess Dongping's family were quite reliable, and this group of armored soldiers did not continue to search strictly after shouting and intimidating, and continued to search the city around this shop.

After this harassment, things finally went smoothly. After the goods brought by their group were stripped by various people, they were finally put on the shelves of Yecheng shops for the people of Yecheng to choose and buy.

Aside from those commodities that are used to hide people's ears, the most important thing on this trip is naturally the thousands of books, all of which have been carefully selected in Xiangyang and are representative books of scripture and history. While other goods were inevitably exploited along the way, these books were preserved to the greatest extent possible.

But books are still a relatively small category after all, and there are many other bookstores in Yecheng City, and those customers who have such needs rarely wander around the market to search for goods.

Therefore, this store has been open for ten days, and some of the in-demand goods are almost sold out, but these books are still in a state of no one's attention, and the anxious Li Licheng and others scratch their ears and cheeks, but they dare not be too ostentatious to sell on the street, and can only hope that there will be fish on the bait soon.

On this day, a young customer bought some insect repellent and anti-mosquito powder in the store, and then casually looked around the temple, and was soon attracted by the scroll on the desk inside.

While the house slave was paying for the goods, the young man walked to the bookcase, and after slightly lowering his head and seeing the text of the scroll, his face suddenly changed: ""Three Rites and Righteousness Sect, your grocery store actually has "Three Rites and Righteousness Sect"! Where is the owner? Do you have any rolls left in the store? ”