Donghai City is on the west bank of the Beijiang River, and the east gate of the city is on the bank of the Beijiang River.

The city is rectangular, the east city wall is built along the coast, the county town has the north gate, the west gate, the south gate each one, but the east gate has three, in the middle of the east gate there is a very high gatehouse, there are two big characters of the East China Sea in the book.

Donghai City is a city built on the water, gathered because of business, everything in this city revolves around business, and now it is the only big city in the Song Kingdom that is dominated by commerce, and it is also the only foreign sea treaty port in the Song Kingdom.

Donghai City is actually near the confluence of two rivers into the estuary, but the other largest river, the Xijiang River, enters the sea at a place of 200 miles to the south, and is not directly connected to the Beijiang River, but the estuary is very close.

Donghai City is one of the most prosperous places in the Song Kingdom, because there are several seaside cities here, and the Beijiang River goes out to the southeast is the sea, the boundless and endless sea, from which you can sail to hundreds of nearby countries.

Donghai City is very large, definitely a big city, I think it should have a population of hundreds of thousands, on the edge of the Beijiang River, the city wall is 20 miles long from north to south, and there are more than 6 miles in the east-west direction.

When the boat stopped, Ye Xing jumped off the boat, and then followed the crowd into the county town through the third gate of the east gate, and paid 50 yuan to enter Philadelphia.

After entering the city, there are a lot of people, it is really very prosperous, the buildings are neat, and most of them are small buildings of two or three floors, and there are many slightly high-rise buildings.

Because it was still early, Ye Xing's idea was to go shopping first. As soon as he strolled around, he couldn't stop, because Ye Xing found that everything was extremely novel, and it was not at all what he had imagined.

Ye Xing soon discovered that there was something unimaginable that was completely different from the original, there were all kinds of people here, and this was not the place of origin, but the race.

Because, Ye Xing is a Song man with yellow skin and purple hair, while in Donghai City, there are white people with white skin and golden hair, black people with yellow skin and black hair who are also very short, and brown people who are all brown.

There are even some dwarves who are completely dwarfs, extremely tall giants, two heads taller than Ye Xing, and their fists are five times the size of Ye Xing.

Although these people have different skin colors and appearances, they are definitely human beings, not aliens, and the people of Tokai City are not surprised, which shows that there are a lot of opportunities to come into contact with foreign races.

This completely subverted Ye Xing's cognition, it turned out that there were many races with different skin colors and very different body shapes in this world.

Although Ye Xing had already judged from the map of the Song Kingdom and the movement of the sun and moon that this planet was another world far larger than the earth, he was still surprised when he really saw the extremely different races.

Donghai City, this city of commerce and trade, is owned by people from all over the world, and there are a lot of people from neighboring countries who come to do business, basically, Donghai City is a hodgepodge.

The total population of Donghai City is 500,000, and more than half of the population is from outside, which shows how prosperous it is, more than 10% of the population of the county is concentrated here, and the people in the city are all business.

Countless people come and go from this East China Sea city every day, creating countless people who serve commerce and trade, and the land in the city is very expensive.

It can be said that every inch of gold and land is worth every inch of land, and even along the outside of the city wall, many buildings have been built.

Because it has been peaceful for a long time, there is no difference between inside and outside the city, and there is no entrance fee or the like, but the land price is one day and one place.

The people living in the city are all businessmen and dignitaries, nobles or nouveau riche, etc., and the city is also very well-planned.

Outside the city, there are civilians, all in chaos, and the population is ten times that of the city.

The so-called Donghai Castle actually refers to the inner city, which has a city wall, but there is also an outer city that surrounds three-quarters of the city, and only the east side is the Jiangbei Wharf, and it is forbidden to build any dwellings.

Ye Xing bought a map of the city, the streets were straight, and the main points were all clearly marked.

The city lord's mansion occupies a large piece of land near the north gate.

Dozens of neighborhoods, full of shops of all kinds and homes of the wealthy.

The gates were never closed, so the commoners lived in the outer city.

Ye Xing spent another 1 tael of silver to buy a detailed map of the Song Kingdom, which divided the thirty counties of the Song Kingdom very carefully.

It's much better than the map Ye Xing had seen before, the terrain and mountains are all drawn in simple pictures, and there are different shades of marking.

He noticed that the Ziyun Mountain Range was in the northeast of Donghai County, stretching to the northwest, separated from Lujiang County in the north, with only a few zigzag mountain roads in the middle, the endless sea in the east, and Mangyun County in the west.

This is what Ye Xing originally understood, but he didn't expect the Song Kingdom to be so big, because the map showed that there were more than 10 counties that were much larger than Donghai County.

Ye Xing also asked for a rough map of the location of neighboring countries, and found that the Song Kingdom was also a small country, although the map was rough, but looking at the Song Kingdom where the map was only a small piece, it was conceivable that the world was infinitely vast.

There are Bauhinia Kingdom, Yunshan Kingdom, Southern Barbarian Kingdom near the Song Kingdom..., and the most exaggerated are the extremely extensive Tang Empire and the Great Yuan Empire.

These great empires were more than ten times the size of the Song Kingdom, and there were more than a dozen kingdoms the same size as the Song Kingdom.

The map shows that the east of the Song Kingdom is close to the sea, and the east is an endless ocean, and Donghai County is actually a county at the southeast end of the Song Kingdom, and there are one hundred and ten island countries across the sea from the Song Kingdom in the ocean.

According to the map sellers, all the maps have been handed down from generation to generation, which must be hundreds of years, and maps are only part of what they know.

Many of the areas on the map are also hearsay, not exact.

Because the area is so far away, I haven't heard about that remote area for many years.

It is not certain that some countries still exist or not, and there are too many wars in small countries, and these changes simply cannot appear on the map.

It is said that small countries often go to war, and big countries rarely fight, but they also fight with each other, and the wars of small countries are often caused by proxy wars engaged in by big countries.

The whole place on the map, plus countless neighboring islands, there are thousands of large and small countries, and Ye Xing can be sure that these are only a part of the world, because no one in this era has ever been out of the ocean.

Like the Song Kingdom, which has remained unchanged for 3,000 years, it is also because it is in a corner, has few resources, does not have too many population, and the sea is not very useful, so the big countries are not very interested in it.

Of course, peace is also temporary, or partial, in fact, it is all being fought for, and behind it is the uneven resources of survival.

Just like the Song Kingdom, it is divided into more than 30 counties, each county also has its own power, and there are more than a dozen completely independent small principalities inside.

A small duchy is a small prince who has been divided into feudal feuds in previous generations or earlier, and they all have their own taxes under their own jurisdiction, but they do not have a large army but have their own city guards.

That is to say, the Song State was only a nominally unified country, but in fact it was also divided internally, and everything was extremely chaotic.

Ye Xing was curious about how the Song State could effectively rule such a huge territory, even if it was nominal, thinking of the country in the previous life, the technology was extremely advanced, and it was still difficult to govern.

Why did the Song State effectively govern this country? The Song State has existed for 3,000 years, it's really strange, isn't there any force to overthrow the rule of the Song family, it's impossible!

In Ye Xing's view, the governance of the Song State was extremely careless.

I can't understand why there is no foreign invasion of such a large piece of land, with a population of hundreds of millions, and the national strength is not strong?

Ye Xing became more and more curious about this world, and now it seems that this world may be similar to the pre-Qin and Warring States era of the Huaxia Kingdom of the previous earth, but it is obviously very different.

The most obvious thing is that these people seem to know the general scope of the world, which is incredible!

It's hard to understand who drew this map alone!

Ye Xing found a small inn near the West Gate to live in, thinking of the sect selection meeting in a month and a half, there must be a lot of people at that time, so Ye Xing booked a room for two months and gave a silver ticket of 300 taels at one time.

The innkeeper was very happy to see a big client, so he was given a nice room, which was very quiet.

Ye Xing was also very satisfied, because there were two meals in the morning and evening, and the main thing was that the environment was okay.

After Ye Xing settled down, he first observed around, then dug a few bricks on the wall against the head of the bed, put his steel crossbow, steel arrows and precious herbs inside, and then returned to his original state.

For other items, Ye Xing carried with him.

The package is placed directly at the head of the bed, and it is just clothes.

After everything was arranged, Ye Xing began to sit upright and meditate, until he was very tired, and then naturally lay down and fell asleep.