Chapter 13 The City of Hangzhou
Su Ming and the eight of them came out of Erweibao, and the sky was bright. They all knew how important it was to Wei Zhuang to go out this time, and everyone was silent on the road, riding fast.
Su Ming rode the horses of Erweibao, and the horses of Weizhuang were all military horses eliminated by the army, and they were not at all comparable to his strong horses.
There were originally only 6 military horses in Erweibao, as well as Su Ming's strong horse, an old horse that could only pull a cart, and three horses in the salt factory. The eldest brother brought back two military horses from the salt factory overnight last night, which means that he must not have slept at night.
In this way, there is only one military horse left in the entire Wei Zhuang Institute that can be used, if this matter is known to Jin Shanwei, there must be trouble, and Su Ren will do everything to buy the grain back quickly!
The horses under the crotch were very fast, Su Qingping rode in front, and Su Ming and the others followed him.
From Erweibao to Jinshanwei, there is no village along the way, only one official post they pass by each other or the gate is closed, I don't know if there is no one stationed or the people of the post station have not yet gotten up.
Close to Jinshanwei Town, where the grass and trees have become lush, some farmland began to appear on the roadside, and the people working in the fields saw them from afar, and they were all vigilant and watched from afar.
Although Jin Shanwei is stationed all year round, there are not many big bandits around, but there are still a lot of small groups of water thieves, and the people living here must always be careful of bandits and water bandits, and even the pirates who have landed appeared.
The common people waited until Su Ming and the others approached, and when they saw that they were all wearing military clothes, they lowered their heads a little and began to work again.
Su Ming's riding skills were the worst of the eight, and he felt a sore thigh after riding for less than an hour. Su Zhe's performance was much better than him, and when Su Qingping saw that the eighth brother was slowing down, he slowed down the pace of the horses under his crotch, and their whole team stopped.
"Take a break! Feed the horses some forage, this road is still far away, we have to pass through Jiaxing Mansion to enter Hangzhou Mansion, everyone must maintain physical strength, ready to fight at any time. Su Qingping pulled his horse to graze, and then took out his own dry food and fed some to the horse.
Su Ming let his horse graze on the side of the road, and it was convenient for him to enter the roadside forest, and when he was a little farther away from everyone, he directly entered the sea of consciousness.
When he rode a horse just now, he had already noticed that he quickly felt thigh discomfort when he rode a fast horse, but this feeling has not been aggravated much, in fact, the fifth brother does not ride horses often, and it should not be much better than himself.
What made Su Ming strange was that this burning pain in the inner thighs had not been very serious, and he could still bear it. The reason should be related to the template of your own sea of consciousness, so you can look at it in your mind.
As soon as he saw his sculpture, Su Ming saw 98% of the signs above his head, this number should show his state, could it be said that this sculpture can make him recover, or even that he can recover from injury?
Su Ming withdrew from the sea of consciousness, he broke off a branch from the tree next to him, and scratched it on his arm, and suddenly a blood stain appeared on his arm, he wiped the blood stain to cover the wound, and returned to the team.
After resting for half a moment, the eight men got on their horses and continued to move forward. Su Ming has always insisted that he has not fallen behind, and the more he rides, the more he masters the tricks, and the speed is getting faster and faster.
Before noon, the eight people had already arrived outside Jinshanwei Town.
The Jinshan Guardhouse Wall is much higher than that of Shanghai County, although it is said that Wei is one level lower than the county in Daming, but it is one of the most important guards in Daming, responsible for the protection of Nanjing directly under and the eastern coast of Zhejiang, and its importance is much greater than that of all county seats.
Su Ming saw that the city wall here is as high as 10 meters, all of which are built of stone, and all kinds of corner towers and arrow towers are densely packed on the city wall. In Jinshanwei, there are more than 5,000 elites stationed in the Ming Dynasty all year round.
Didn't enter the city, seeing that the horses were already a little tired, and the eight of them were resting on a small road outside the town, Su Ming took advantage of the rest time to check that his state had dropped to 96%, and the scar on his arm was still only a shallow mark.
This shows that the coast guard ship module in his sea of consciousness does have the ability to restore his physical state, and now he finds that the other people in the group of eight people are actually not as good as himself. This golden finger of his own, the effect is much greater than should be imagined.
Is it possible that as long as you don't die, the coast guard ship module can restore your state? In this way, wouldn't he have a simple headache and brain fever?
Su Ming didn't dare to try the serious injury, just to be able to recover from physical discomfort and maintain physical strength was already very good.
Glancing at Jin Shanwei from a distance, the eight people followed the path around Jin Shanwei Town, and met some small groups of displaced people on the way, and saw that they all fled far away. After a period of time, Jinshanwei Town will carry out a clean-up of water bandits and homeless people outside the town, and if you are caught, if you don't have money, you will inevitably be sent to work as coolies.
The eight rode horses and stopped, which was much faster than walking. In the afternoon, they had already come to the border between Songjiang Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion, and there was a checkpoint in front of them, Su Ming was worried about how to pass, Su Qingping signaled him not to make a sound, just follow him.
"What do you guys do?" Seeing eight people coming on horseback, a soldier came up and asked.
"Jinshan Weiwei Zhuang went to Jiaxing City to do business, please be accommodating brothers!" Su Qingping said and took out a string of money and handed it over.
"What are you being polite to your brother? Brother, what are you doing in Jiaxing City? The soldier took the money and looked at Su Ming's eight people on horseback, not smuggling, so he asked casually.
"We're hundreds of households, let's go and deliver a letter..."Su Qingping said and handed over his identity card!
The soldier looked at Su Qingping's identity card and was still a flag owner, and returned the identity card to them with a smile. is also a military household of Jin Shanwei, and they will not easily offend people, so they let all eight of them enter the customs.
Through the memory of the original owner, Su Ming knew that generally the soldiers of these checkpoints were guarded by the nearby guards in turn, and there were three main roles of the checkpoints here.
The first is to defend against pirate attacks, and if Jinshanwei is breached by pirates, then they are the key to defending against pirates. Twelve years ago, tens of thousands of Japanese invaders broke through Jinshanwei and killed them all the way to Hangzhou, and the entire eastern part of Hangzhou was looted by pirates.
The second role is to put an end to the chaos of black households, if those rangers can move around at will on the official road, the power of the rivers and lakes will inevitably become more and more powerful, and the authority of the court will inevitably be challenged.
The third is to collect tolls, while restricting some people, consolidating local rights, and ensuring that the regional cake distribution changes less frequently, so that the big people have the privilege to dominate the world all the time, and it will be more difficult for the poor to turn over.
The soldiers of the guard house can't leave at will, and if they are caught, they will be questioned, and passing so easily also allows Su Ming to see the human relationship in this world.
The royal family ruled the Ming Dynasty and customized a series of rules for everyone to obey them. And the wealthy family, as the main force in the world, constantly seeks benefits for themselves under the rules. Under the oppression of such a mountain, military households and those serfs and homeless people must also learn to be flexible, and it will be difficult for them to survive in this world if they do not understand.
Therefore, righteousness and human affection are particularly important in this world, and they are also the fundamental key to the maintenance of feudal society. However, Su Ming, who has the ideas of later generations, knows that this is the key to the development of the feudal dynasty, and it is also the fundamental reason that hinders social development.
In such a world, a person's origin is much more important than his ability. It doesn't matter, you have the ability to contribute to the country, that's wishful thinking, maintaining relationships is the first key in this world, unless the world is in chaos and reorganized, ordinary people may have something to do.
But when power is reorganized, ordinary people really have power in their hands, and they first make a glorious ancestral history for themselves, so that they can integrate into the world power class.
There are a few people who can remember that they have begun to make resolutions and oaths, and as soon as they turn around, they continue to exploit the toiling people, sometimes even more than those people, like the great masters they once hated.
Therefore, Su Ming knew that it would be much more difficult for him to change these than if he overthrew the rule of the Zhu family. As a future traverser with a correct outlook, he must have something to do, but where is the road is a question that needs to be pondered.
Entering the level, Su Ming saw that most of the soldiers here were emaciated, walking casually on the street with shabby weapons, and they didn't look like soldiers at all. Some people wearing military uniforms even set up stalls on both sides of the street, so it is strange that the army can have combat effectiveness.
After passing the checkpoint, you will enter Jiaxing Mansion. There are obviously more pedestrians on the official road, some skinny people push heavy cars to transport goods, Jiaxing Mansion is very rich, but the rich are only those wealthy families and merchants, ordinary people are still poor.
There are more checkpoints on the official road in Jiaxing Prefecture, and they encounter three checkpoints on horseback for 60 miles in the afternoon, and each time Su Qingping comes forward, they pass easily, and they don't even pay a toll for a checkpoint.
In the evening, eight people came to the outside of Jiaxing City, because Su Ming did not have an identity card, everyone could only rest in an inn on the side of the official road, the shopkeeper saw that these people were all practitioners, and they did not dare to offend, gave them four guest rooms, and fed the best essence with eight horses, and only charged them 140 yuan.
Su Ming has also seen the rules of this world, no one dares to offend if he is strong, everything is easy to do, and it is difficult to do anything without strength. If you have a powerful family behind you, everyone has to be respectful to you.
Seeing this, Su Ming also slowly became clear.
If you want to change this, you must first learn to fit in. He must make Erweibao strong, and it will be easier for him to rely on Erweibao to do what he wants.
Fortunately, they had salt, and coupled with the memories of the next five hundred years in his mind, it was not too difficult to develop Wei Zhuang.
There were no accidents along the way, and there were very few large bandits on the official road, and the small bandits saw them running faster than rabbits.
The eight people saw that the city and the guard did not enter, and only rested in the inn near the official road, Su Ming's state dropped to about 90% all day at night, and it would recover to 100% the next morning, his state was better than Su Qingping, the strongest of the eight people, which made everyone surprised.
On March 17, after three days of traveling, Su Ming and the eight finally came to the outside of Hangzhou, Su Qingping told Su Ming about Hangzhou City, he didn't know much, these news were all learned by Wei Zhuang from the mouth of the merchant ship.
"Every year in Hangzhou from the middle of March, there are few guards at the gate in the east of the city, and the identity of the merchants is no longer checked, there will be a lot of rangers in the city, and we must not offend the rangers in Hangzhou, because they are sometimes more difficult than the government.
There is a Fengming Lane in the north of Hangzhou, which is the largest trading point in the south of the Yangtze River, and everything can be bought there. Every year at this time, it will be very lively there, and those big merchants in Hangzhou also buy goods from Fengming Lane at this time, and in another month they will go back to take a sea boat and go north to do business with the current.
In addition to Fengming Lane, Ronglin Port in the east of Hangzhou will also be traded every day before dawn. There are often some things that are not clear for sale, often at a fixed price, if we buy grain from Hangzhou City, we also have to take a boat back from Ronglin Port. Seeing outside Hangzhou, Su Qingping looked at Su Ming and said the information he had.