Between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Song Wen got a lot of information about Jingdong East Road from this Li Guanying's mouth......

Some situations are better than expected, but there are also many unsatisfactory places.

Song Wen has been thinking about this place for a long time, and there are deep-rooted Shilin and businessmen entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, and the interests are intertwined. In addition, it is estimated that Fang Lana will have to take advantage of the angry Huashi Gang and Ying Feng Bureau to start an incident in Jiangnan, and finally a big mess will break out.

History has come to this point, the land of Bashu in Sichuan has already become a Jedi, thousands of years of tireless ancestors to the closed and easy to defend and difficult to attack Bashu to explore a lot of paths, plus after the war, the Central Plains regime will always intentionally or unintentionally weaken the strength of the land of Bashu, there is not suitable to be a place to protect oneself and accumulate strength.

With the current shipping capacity, the ships of the Great Song Dynasty almost did not dare to leave the coastline too far, and it was very difficult to go to the Ryukyu Island, which is the treasure island of the later generations.

I don't know how many nights, Song Wen held a candle and looked at a map of the Great Song Dynasty and its surrounding terrain drawn by himself, so worried that he almost pulled out his hair...... In the end, can there be a place of their own to develop their strength?

There are more robbers in the northwest than crops, after the weakening of the Great Song Dynasty, all kinds of tribes and Hu people are wandering around, the Western army has almost entered a semi-independent state, and the Western Xia is even poorer, and in the north is the grassland Kereh Department and the Mongolian Si Department, which are more fierce than the special bandits!

To the northeast is the territory of the Khitans of the Liao State, and to the north is the dense forest of the more fierce Jurchens...... Song Wen didn't bother to think about it on the Goryeo side, and it was even more unrealistic no matter how far away.

Leaving this prison camp, Song Wen and his men galloped to the east...... On the way, another group of stabbed prisoners walked to the guard house in despair and ragged clothes under the guards of several escorts.

There are also some prisoners working in the surrounding fields, planting in the spring and harvesting in the autumn, collecting firewood, repairing roads, and sprinkling rice...... Some female prisoners will also be put into camp brothels, and their fate is extremely tragic.

An Chun glanced at the prisoners and said to Song Wen, who was speechless, "Brother, can't these people stay up here forever?"

Song Wen shook his head: "Where will it be...... If you can't say that you can't be sentenced to exile for a lifetime, you can't wait a few years! ”

Ma Zhi...... When the man named Ma Zhi returned to the Great Song Dynasty with enthusiasm to contact the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers and proposed to join forces with the Jurchen people who were killed in the white mountains and black waters of the Northeast to destroy Liao, it was the time when the Great Song Dynasty officially entered the countdown to destruction!

When Song Huizong and Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Wang Huang, Cai Jing and others completely fell into the carnival of recovering Yanyun Gongyao through the ages, the nightmare of the Central Plains would officially begin......

Along the way, Song Wen recorded the geographical location of the general market town and county seat, the special products of the fields, and the composition of the people...... The closer you get to the sea, the poorer you are!

Some of the inferior counties don't even have a master book! Those literati would rather squat in Bianliang or wait for the fat shortage of a high-class county to do nothing, rather than come to this remote and poor place to do some practical things......

The tattered city walls and the impoverished Xiang army, the county lieutenant actually rode an old horse with lost teeth, and even a commander of the Xiang army who came out with more than 200 Xiang troops to suppress bandits, and when he learned that Song Wen was Gao Yu Gao Dianshuai's confidant, he desperately stammered...... The words are full of eagerness to change to a rich place as an official.

Song Wen rejected the two camp prostitutes sent by the commander, what's the matter...... Came out to crack down on the bandits and actually hid two prostitutes in the car? This Great Song ...... Is there any salvation?

Three days later, the distant world seemed more and more vast...... Song Wen knew that his group was already close to the seaside.

Ocean...... I haven't seen it for several years, and I don't know what the Great Song Navy looks like now?

Although the waist of the marshal of the palace marshal Yu Hou is genuine, after all, he has nothing to do with the official certificate and the official document, and the official document of Taoshan County is not as good as the butt paper in this place...... So Song Wen didn't plan to go to the naval barracks to swagger and cheat, who knows if the generals in charge had anything to do with the court magnates? If it is seen through, it will be a big problem.

A great city appeared, with black walls that had been repaired with rammed earth in some places, and surrounded by several forts, empty cattle pens, and scrawny old horses and mules.

Daruchi behind An Chun glanced at it: "There is actually a horse army here, but it seems that this horse can't even run the donkey on the grassland......"

Song Wen sighed: "This place has been ignored by the imperial court...... Since it was unable to play any role in the northern defense line, it was often harassed by bandits and bandits...... It's like chicken ribs, and it tastes like no meat and discarded it. ”

An Chun looked at a few skinny skeleton-like tenants on the side of the road, hanging their heads and pulling plough sticks to plow the land...... "Brother, what are we here to see?" It's just too poor here. Even these lands ......"

Song Wen sneered: "Even so, almost all of these lands are occupied by local wealthy clans and officials in Dengzhou City, Qingzhou...... I noticed that the tax here is more than double that of Momoyama County! The more impoverished the place, the more these officials loot like wolves......"

There are four chamber troops guarding the gate of Dengzhou, and there is also a chief who is sitting at a table to collect the city gate tax. Each person entered the city for three cents, and the horses and livestock were also three cents. The goods are a lot more arbitrary, and most of them pay some bribes to these soldiers and get mixed up.

"Stop, where did it come from? What to do in Dengzhou? ”

Song Wen took out the official certificate of Taoshan County, and arched his hand: "I came to Jingbei Road to do business, and I want to come here to see what business can be done after I arrive in Qingzhou......."

An Chun next to him took out a copper coin of about forty or fifty wen and gently put it in the hand of the city gate official, the man weighed it and smiled...... "Since you have an official certificate, it's fine, but ...... Business in Dengzhou is not so easy to do, since you are a businessman, it is estimated that you will understand it after two days of going in and watching. But what forbidden weapons are there? ”

Song Wen frowned, then took out the bronze medal on the head of the township soldier and showed it to this guy...... "Walking outside, I brought some short weapons and two short bows to guard against thieves, and there is nothing else." ”

"Hey, you're still from a rural background...... No wonder these two people are so bold and come all the way here, don't make trouble...... Come early and leave early, there is really no business for you outsiders to do here. ”

Song Wen had a good impression of this somewhat enthusiastic city gate official, thanked him, and led a few people into Dengzhou City.

Two soldiers in leather armor walked next to the city gate, one of them was leading a war horse, and a middle-aged man with a short beard sat immediately.

The middle-aged man, dressed in civilian clothes and wearing a waist knife, suddenly stared carefully at Daruchi behind Song Wen for a long time, and then came to several city gate van troops.

The city gate official immediately jumped up and knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Little one to meet Deputy Envoy Zhang!"

The middle-aged man waved his hand: "Get up, who are those people?" What are you doing in Dengzhou?"

"Lord Hui Deputy Envoy, he is a businessman from the west of Beijing, and the young man who leads the way and the head of the township soldiers are from a clean background...... said that he was going to Qingzhou to do business, and by the way, let's come to Dengzhou to see if there is any business to do! ”

The middle-aged man snorted: "How can you judge whether your net worth is clean or not?" Didn't you give you a few more copper coins, and you let them into the city at will? ”

The city gate officer was so frightened that he swore again and again that he would not dare.

The middle-aged man didn't dig deeper, and went directly into the city with two relatives. The city gate official wiped a cold sweat and watched the middle-aged man's back disappear before muttering in a low voice: "Half my life has been nesting in this broken place where birds don't, and a deputy commander has been doing it for almost ten years...... If you go crazy, you will go crazy, what do you do to make things difficult for Lao Tzu? Phew......"

Song Wen took a few people to find a clean inn to live in, and then asked An Chun to accompany him to a teahouse.

The teahouse is not too far from the Dengzhou state capital, and Song Wen wants to listen to some news here and touch the reality here.