Thousands of miles into the capital Chapter 12 The horseback boy Lu Youjing
On the main street of the city.
The two of them walked slowly.
On a thin horse, there was a young man.
He leaned on the horse's back, his arms around his neck, and his eyes were half-open and half-closed, as if he were asleep.
The young man was wearing a set of white robes and moire regular clothes, although except for some scattered white clouds on his back, the rest of the place was dyed yellow-gray.
But it is not difficult to see that this white robe is also made of fine satin.
Walking ahead was an old servant with thinning hair.
He was dressed in an old gray robe like the common people, with a withered hand holding the reins, and carrying a huge box with a black cloth on it, half-concealed.
The old servant walked steadily, his eyes leveled ahead, and walked unhurriedly.
Looking at this match, I don't think it's a grandson, it's more like a pair of master and servant.
The farther you go into the city, the more people there are, and the noisier the voices become.
The young man seemed to be disturbed by the noise around him.
He frowned, carefully sat on the horse's back, held his head high, and looked around, as if he was very uncomfortable! It was like it was painful.
The old servant listened to the sound of Suo Suo coming from behind him, on horseback.
Stopped, turned his head, and looked at the young man.
said with concern: "Childe, the old slave advises you to get off the horse." ”
The young man looked at the old servant's concerned eyes and replied with a smile: "Uncle Liang, I'm fine." ”
He let out a long sigh of relief and said, "Aren't you hungry for a few days?" Now that you have entered the capital, you can't fall into the name of Beixiang Palace! I had to ride into the palace. ”
The young man leaning on horseback was Lu Youjing, the second son of King Beixiang.
Beixiang County, north of the Dunlin Dynasty, borders Zhongzhou and Chiyuan.
The Chiyuan Dynasty wanted to go south, and it couldn't get around the soldiers and horses of Beixiang County.
This was the first time he had brought his old servant into Beijing, and he had suffered a lot along the way.
"Childe, the old slave is not afraid that you can't stand this suffering, this fierce horse, has not eaten food and grass for three days, since following us all the way south, its size has doubled, and now it is an inferior horse, the old slave is afraid that it will not be able to bear it."
The old servant Uncle Liang smiled bitterly, and sighed at the time: "Since I just arrived at the gate of the capital, this leather horse has not left, and at this distance, the old slave is holding the reins and dragging it hard, and it only then did it go." ”
Uncle Liang glanced at the horse's head with his eyes, the corners of the horse's mouth were foaming, and his chest fluctuated greatly, with a layer of water droplets on it.
This is obviously not very good.
I didn't know how to do it on the spot, so I fell to my knees.
The old servant felt that his son-in-law was very sure that he was also hungry and faint, and didn't he find that the old lady behind him was slowly catching up with him?
"Uncle Wei, when you enter Kyoto, why is the weather getting hotter." Lu Youjing wiped the sweat stains on the top of his head with his sleeve and said weakly.
He pretended not to understand, and now he really didn't have the energy to dismount.
Of course, Lu Youjing knew that this horse was so tired that it was difficult for him to fall asleep because of the loud panting.
"Maybe it's the end of Childe's trip, I'm happy, and I'm inevitably excited!" Uncle Wei saw that his son-in-law didn't want to come down and wanted to spend it on horseback, so he said in a salty and indifferent manner.
Lu Youjing met Xiao Xiao along the way, and Uncle Wei's shot will be extraordinary, and his martial arts are unfathomable.
He had long since put away his contempt, and he didn't dare to call around like an ordinary house slave at home when he first left the Northland.
Prince Lu is also accustomed to Uncle Wei's indifference to him, if he is in a bad mood, he has to change his way to coax this uncle, there is no way, his net worth is tied to others, and his temperament is naturally a lot more humble.
"Uncle Wei, what are you doing with a large group of people in front of you?"
"The old slave doesn't know either!"
At this time, Lu Youjing rode into Ping'anfang! It was the Qiu Ji Tea Shop that I met.
"Get in the way, uncle!"
"Childe, take a detour, do you think it's feasible?"
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"I don't think it's feasible, go over and take a look, and ask someone to make way." Lu Youjing straightened his waist, sat up straight, and tidied up his clothes casually, looking a little more energetic.
"Uncle Wei, hold the reins tightly, there are a lot of people, don't startle the horse, if I am thrown off the horse now, I really can't get up."
"Childe, don't worry! We passed. ”
The pace of his steps is not slow at all, but it is much steady.
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"The battle of Qi Ling is really tragic!"
"It's not just miserable, it's hell."
"Alas, who says not to say it!"
"This time, the imperial court, the construction of the city, isn't it because of the battle of Qiling, the people in the western realm have suffered countless casualties, so they can't use the construction of the city to appease the hearts of the western army?"
"It's all earned with your life." An elderly man said with emotion.
"However, it's also worth it, although the West has been said to go to three or four of the ten rooms over the years, but the location of the new city, everyone thinks about it, and this place will be prosperous in the future."
Xincheng Wangjing is located in Zhaoyao County, 500 li north is Beixiang County, 800 li west is the west border, 300 li south is Kyoto Hanzhong, and 200 li east of Shanhai County.
In addition, Zhaoyao Prefecture is mostly plains and few mountains, and it has been a blessed place in the world since ancient times.
If you don't want to be prosperous, you can't do it, not to mention that the 100,000 troops in the west have entered Zhaoyao County to supplement the households, which is 100,000 households.
Wangjing City will become the most prosperous city in Zhaoyao Prefecture without thinking about it.
"Hmm, no, brother, you just said that in the last few years of war, starting from Emperor Yang, the people of the Western Territory have fought more than 20 years of hard battles, and the Western Territory used to be known as three million households, with a population of nearly 15 million, and today, there are millions of households."
A middle-aged man dressed as a scholar stood up and said.
"Guys, guys, stop."
Lao Dao felt that the field was hot well, and if he didn't come out to block it, he had to deviate.
When I think about pulling it back, I'm old.
"This time, the poor road is talking about this new city, everyone should also know, the new city from the first year of Xingwu, until now three years, after the beginning of the spring, only the construction of the city wall and city gate, Zhaoyao County is now short of migrant workers, do you have any ideas, for this new city to make a lot of effort."
Lao Dao shouted hard.
Since ancient times, the city wall was built first in the city wall, and the construction of the city was the opposite.
A smile appeared on the shopkeeper's face, and he finally said something important, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The purpose of this trip is half done.
"Real person, there's something I'd like to ask?"
"This guy, you ask, I have to think about it if I don't answer, you think carefully." The old way is also energetic, and there will probably be no time to come out and wander in the future.
Lao Dao's expression was very relaxed and he made a joke.
"Naturally, the little ones can't ask anything profound." The guy who stood up pointed to his shabby clothes.
Caused a laugh from the crowd.
"Hahaha, who isn't? Not many people come to listen to real people talk about the world's major events. ”
"That's it, that's it."
"Young man, be bold!"
"There is no shame in earning money to support your family."
The crowd was kinder and encouraged, and there were many people who had the same heart as the guy.
"The small one just wants to say, originally this city building, a major national event, as long as I am given a bite to eat, it is also a small duty, and I am willing to give myself this hundred pounds, but there is still a family that depends on the small to feed, so I am not afraid of everyone's jokes, I want to ask about this salary."
The guy smiled shyly.
When the old man heard this, he said heartily: "
The matter of the new city, the imperial court dispatched Li Qing, the king of the western realm, to be in charge of this matter, and the king of the western realm will serve as the lord of the new city, and everyone also knows that the king of the western realm is a person from the western realm, and he has always commanded the soldiers and horses of the western realm, and the battle of Qi Ling has 200,000 soldiers and horses in the western realm, with countless casualties.
The king of the western realm has been decisive in his life, and he is the master of the same thing, and you don't have to worry about his subordinates daring to withhold your food, just go. ”
The prestige of the King of the Western Realms is known to everyone.
The matter of the new city and the 100,000 veterans of the western frontier were discharged from the army for the people, and according to the convention, the veterans were all asked to return to their hometowns and return to the western frontier.
Unexpectedly, the imperial court set up a home for them in Zhaoyao Prefecture.
And this old general, who laid down half of the country for Jiang Chu, was not in charge of the army, but let him be the lord of the new city.
At that time, rumors were rife all over the world!
Most of them say that the king of the western realm is highly meritorious, and he is disliked by the saint, so he seized the military power, and the western realm is thousands of miles away from the capital, so he has to stay in Zhaoyao Prefecture and put it under the nose of the saint, which is reassuring.
It is also said that the king of the western realm was seriously injured, there was no medicine to treat, and he felt that his time was short, so he unloaded his armor and returned to the field, and volunteered to be the lord of a city.
No matter what the message is, the king of the western realm has indeed changed from a general with hundreds of thousands of troops to a rich man, just a rich man with a little more money.
Regardless of the current situation of the King of the Western Realm, everyone agrees on one thing, the King of the Western Realm will not pit their hard-earned money.
"Real person, do you know that this salary is settled every few days, a few copper plates a day, and a few meals a day." The young man asked the shopkeeper expectantly.
"Fifty copper coins a day, one knot a day, two meals a day, and meat once a day." The shopkeeper said with a smile that he was not afraid that no one would go, because no one could refuse.
This salary can make people drag their families and invest in them.
The old voice fell to the ground, and there was a large inhalation sound.
Everyone was shocked!
"Fifty copper coins a day, one settlement a day."
"Oh my God!"
"Scattered wealth boy, no, scattered wealth prince."
Most of the work in the capital is only twenty copper plates a day, and it is still finished, even if it is a worker with a little skill, it is impossible to have fifty copper plates, which is half a money.
A family of five, with land and a house, can't spend a few taels of silver a year. "Ten times for one tael of silver"
In fact, Wangjing is really short of people, so many soldiers and horses are not said to be discharged from the army, and now they also have to guard against Chiyuan going south, and they can only draw a small number of soldiers and horses to build the city.
And the city wall needed a little too many people, and Zhaoyao County became a place of a hundred battles at that time, and anyone who went had to grab a wave, causing the original people of Zhaoyao County to wander around.