Chapter 21: The First Entry
Qingyang City, in a private room in Chunjiang Building, Wu Xie is leisurely pouring himself a drink, the window of the private room is facing the inland river that flows through Qingyang City, the inland river is a tributary of Qingshui outside Qingyang City, divides the huge Qingyang City into two, divides the east city and the west city, this river that flows through Qingyang is also the main place for the people of the city to take water.
The river side is full of people, through the merchant ships of Qingyang Water Gate, thousands of sails are exhausted, it is very lively, at this moment there is a sound of footsteps outside the door of the private room, the door is pushed open only to see the face of the person wearing a hat clearly, the figure is not high, but the dress is very ordinary.
In the Dongcheng wine shop, the visitor saw Wu Xie pouring himself a drink, so he stepped forward and consciously sat opposite him.
Without waiting for Wu Xie to speak, the man said, "Old Wu, when will you arrange for me to go to Guo Huan's mansion?" I haven't seen each other in so many years, and I don't know how my eldest brother is doing now. ”
Wu Xie smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to go, someone has already gone." ”
The middle-aged man was surprised, "What? It's not like it's good......"
Wu Xie waved his hand and said, "Originally, when the time was ripe, I wanted to recommend you to Gongzi, but I didn't expect Gongzi to want to go to the rivers and lakes in person and live the addiction of being a ranger." ”
The man's face was different, and he said, "Old Wu, isn't this nonsense?" How can there be a good master who doesn't do it and takes the initiative to run to be a little brother for others? ”
Wu Xie smiled and said, "Right now, the son has just been sealed, and it takes time to cultivate power, if he is willing to play, let him play, see the dangers of the rivers and lakes, and the evil of people's hearts, which will also be good for him in the future." ”
When the middle-aged man heard this, he said helplessly, "Okay, then what should I do next?" ”
Wu Xie smiled slightly and said, "You stay in the city with peace of mind first, I will have other arrangements in the future, by the way, the jade pendant on your body will be used by me." ”
The man didn't know why, but he still took off the jade pendant and handed it to Wu Xie, who made Lao Wu his savior......
At this time, Mu Sheng changed his face to Liu Zhang, and cautiously slipped out of the back door of Changping Jun's mansion.
The bustling main street in Qingyang City is full of people coming and going, the streets are orderly, and restaurants and tea shops live next to each other.
Although the heart of this empire did not reach the degree of prosperity described in the later "Qingming Shanghe Tu", it was not too much, mainly because the commodity economy in this era was not developed enough, and it was dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry.
Mu Sheng sighed in his heart, hey! It's still good in my time, I eat, drink, play, play a lot of tricks, and I can play video games, but it's good to be here, and I don't even have a decent board game.
Wait, board games! He seemed to have thought of some way to get rich......
Mu Sheng came all the way to the vicinity of Qingyang Chengdong City, where there is everything, free market, full of people, and the unification of the world in the past ten years Jin has obviously gradually opened up the private market.
Since the Jin Dynasty Wugong reused the Song people Wei Yang (tai) to change the law, the Jin people only cultivated and war, and the historical records recorded that the Jin State changed the law more vigorously than Mu Sheng's original era of the Qin State.
After the Jin State changed the law, the clan that opposed the change of the law and the great nobles in the United Nations directly rebelled on the spot, and even brought in foreign intervention troops to counterattack together, and threatened to clear the monarch's side and kill the Song people Wei Yang who bewitched the king's heart, but the Jin Wugong was not a coward to be provoked, and the Jin State fought for more than four years before and after the civil war set off by the law change, and the Jin State was bloody and bloody, and the heads were rolling, so that all these reactionary forces at home and abroad were brought down, and finally the reform was carried out with difficulty.
Since ancient times, the people who have led the change of the law have no good end, the Qin State changed the law, Qin Xiaogong was a good death, Shang Ying was torn apart, this era of Jin Wugong offended too many people in order to implement the change, and also killed too many people, and was assassinated a few years after the success of the change.
After the death of Duke Wu, the crown prince succeeded to the throne, for Jin Jinggong, and still by the leader of the law change faction, Xiling Jun Wei Yang served as Xiangguo, Wei Yang was autocratic, and was ordered to be beheaded by Jin Jinggong in a few years, and finally did not have a good death, fortunately, Jing Gongnian was in the community in his change of law, pardoned his family, not as miserable as Shang Ying, and was exterminated after the car split......
Although these pioneers of the reform of the law have no good end, fortunately, the Jin State still insisted on the implementation of the reform, after the reform of the Jin State, suppressed the business and cracked down on the merchants, the benefits of the world are all from a hole, the Jin civil business has been very sluggish for more than a hundred years, basically mainly based on the official business, the whole country has only the goal of unifying the world, almost all social resources are used to run the war machine of the Jin State, which makes the Jin State finally able to sweep away the countries and unify the world, almost exactly the same as the Qin State back then.
However, this kind of wartime militaristic system cannot survive for a long time, and now that the whole world is unified, there is no war to fight, there is no goal, there is no reward and no punishment, and the war machine cannot function normally, and in the long run, there will be big problems.
Now the government and the opposition are still aware of this problem, and gradually began to loosen the restrictions on the society, especially since the prince supervised the country, the policy relaxation has been in place in one step, and the impermeable laws of the Jin Kingdom in the past have also been relaxed a lot, and the people are also praising the prince, and the people even talk about the prince If he ascends the throne, he must be a generation of benevolent monarchs.
Since Mu Sheng came to the Jin Dynasty in this different world, the development trajectory of the whole country is very similar to that of the Qin Dynasty in later generations, and it seems that sometimes the trajectory of historical development has great convergence.
He speculated that with the current situation, there should not be a situation of chaos in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, and the crown prince of the country has been set for more than ten years, and it should be unlikely that there will be a situation where traitors like Zhao Gao, the second emperor of Qin, usurped the throne.
The current emperor is also wise and martial, although he hides in the Taiji Palace and wants to cultivate immortals and immortals, but the power of the country is still firmly controlled in his hands, and the emperor of this world is also called Zheng, this can't be a coincidence, right?
The actions of these two emperors are highly similar in their lives, the only difference is that in the era of King Zhuang Xiang of the Jin Kingdom, the Jin State destroyed the Song State, one of the nine heroes of the Warring States Period, and the Nine Heroes went to one of them, and the rest of the Seven Kingdoms of Kanto saw that the situation was not good, and sent the public to push King Zhuang Xiang to be the emperor, so he became the co-lord of the world.
King Xiang of Jin Zhuang called the emperor, is the first emperor, the second emperor died on the way to the east to conquer the seven kingdoms of Kanto, the third emperor ascended the throne and finally made the Jin country complete the great cause of unification, the third emperor is today's son, the crown prince Bai is in the succession that should be the fourth emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Great Jin should have broken the historical inertia of the death of the Great Unification Dynasty II, at least for now.
Mu Sheng was thinking about things in a daze, and unconsciously walked to Qingyang Chengdong City.
I only heard a commotion in the distance, Mu Sheng took two steps and went up to see what was going on, only to see a strong man in gray sitting between the crowd, holding a long sword between his knees, with a straw mark on his head, indicating that he wanted to voluntarily sell himself, and he saw that the hairstyle was a Jin person.
A fat wealthy merchant in ordinary clothes walked through the crowd with two bodyguards, and when he saw the big man arching his hand, he said, "This strong man is going to sell himself?" But what's so hard to say? ”
Although the Great Jin Dynasty liberalized private commerce, but the hierarchy of Shinong industry and commerce is still very important, you have money and you can't wear luxury silk to swagger through the market, this can only belong to people with status and title can wear silk and satin clothes, just like the samurai of the Edo period who lived a good life, only they have the power to call the surname Sabre, and ordinary people must dare to pull out their swords and cut them without any legal responsibility.
I saw the big man stand up and hand the long sword to the rich merchant and said, "A certain family is not selling itself, but selling this sword, please take a look, a certain family has been hunting in the mountains since childhood, only because the old mother of the family is seriously ill, and has to sell this ancestral sword in the East Market, this sword sharpens iron like clay, blows hair and breaks hair, if you don't believe in a certain family, you can demonstrate it on the spot." ”
The rich merchant took the sword and turned it over and over again and didn't see a reason, that is, this workmanship is indeed very unusual, it can be regarded as a top grade, only to see the rich merchant raise his knife and cut down a piece of iron prepared by the big man, it was broken in response, but the sword was not damaged, and the onlookers also applauded.
The rich merchant said, "Yes, it is indeed a good sword, how much is it?" ”
I saw that the big man didn't speak, the two cuffs were put together and gestured with their fingers inside, and others couldn't see how much it was worth, so it was much safer, even if the transaction was successful in the end, how much money the two sides paid was not known, and how much cash was traded in the end would not be noticed by anyone who cares.
After the quotation was completed, the rich businessman thought for a long time, arched his hand and said, "Strong man, this price is too high, I can't get it, I'm sorry." ”
The rich merchant turned around and left with his entourage, and the strong man had no intention of staying, it seemed that he had been here for a while.
Mu Sheng stared at the sword in the strong man's hand, his eyes flashed, he stepped forward and bowed, "Your Excellency's sword, can you let you look at it next?" ”
The man looked Mu Sheng up and down a few times, and didn't look like a person who couldn't afford the money, so he solemnly handed the sword to him.
Mu Sheng saw that he was sturdy, his hands were rough, his temples were high, he should be a master, interesting.
Mu Sheng took the sword and saw that its style didn't look very eye-catching, and it wasn't heavy, half lighter than an ordinary sword, and he felt a little strange in his heart, the sword was so sharp and so light? What kind of material is used for this? No way? A trace of doubt flashed in Mu Sheng's heart, how could such a thing appear in this kind of private market?
Immediately, Mu Sheng shook his head and said secretly, it's impossible, forget it, ask the price first, Mu Sheng is the same as the rich businessman before, and he made a few gestures in the sleeve of the big man.
As a result, his bid directly shocked Mu Sheng, what? A sword costs 800 gold? He might as well rob the bank, if there is a bank in this era, a famous sword cast by a famous master will be at most six or seven hundred gold, and its actual value mainly depends on who casts it, there is a brand premium, and the sword of eight hundred gold can not see what the origin is, so dare to open his mouth?
Mu Sheng thought about it, no! He had to take a closer look to prove his conjecture in his heart, Mu Sheng secretly poured Qi into the sword body, and actually poured it into the sword body unimpeded, only to see that the sword body was flushed with a cyan halo that was undetectable to the naked eye.
Mu Sheng's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly collected his body and lay down! It's actually a sword cultivator? How can such a treasure be encountered in such a place? This is also incredible, and only a cultivator like him can see this kind of magic weapon, how can ordinary people have seen this? can also be used as a sharp woodcutter.
Mu Sheng quietly stretched out his hand to talk to Dahan, Dahan immediately understood what he meant, Mu Sheng returned the sword to Dahan, and then Dahan followed Mu Sheng to a restaurant in Dongshi, and the onlookers dispersed by themselves when they saw that the goods had been sold......
In fact, Mu Sheng felt that it was okay to kill people and rob more goods with his strength, but he still had to have a bottom line to be a man, how could he be a disciple of the famous and decent Jade Zhenzong, so he couldn't embarrass the master.
The two walked to a restaurant called Yiranju, which is the largest restaurant in the local area, and it is said to be the property of a nobleman in the court.
Now in the name of Gongzi Sheng's title, if you want to reveal a little bit of style, naturally there are a lot of people on the pole to ask for protection, Mu Sheng just sits and eats dry stocks, and sends gold and silver mountains to his home, why do you run a fart industry by yourself? Also invented chess and cards to make money? Some are people who take the initiative to send money.