Chapter 6 The New Look of Chang'an

"If that's the case, that's weird. ”

Wang Jian couldn't help his inner impulse, but he fell into delusion.

The eunuch Xu was a little anxious, but he asked Yu Jue: "Since this is the case, then I wonder if the envoy of Yu Zhi can enter Beijing with me?"

"Enter Beijing?" Yu Jue nodded and said, "Since the senior official has this request, then let's go?"

In the distance, Zhang Yu saw that Yu Jue was about to leave, and suddenly felt as if he had lost his backbone, and couldn't help but step forward and shout: "My lord! Now that Sichuan and Shu have just been recovered, the people urgently need to be appeased. Including Ran Pu and Ran Jin, other soldiers also stepped forward one after another, begging: "Please don't leave, wait until Sichuan and Shu are stable, and then do other things." ”

In the eyes of everyone, Mo didn't look at Yu Jue with expectations, and only hoped that he would leave so soon.

You must know that the territory of Sichuan has just experienced the Mongol invasion, and now there are bandits and bandits in Sichuan and Shu, and the rebels have always occupied the city and have never taken refuge, and even those scattered Tartars are far from stopping to make trouble.

If you want to restore the scene of Sichuan and Shu to the past, it will take three or five years of hard work, but at this critical time, Lin'an called Yu Jue back?

This, it really makes people wonder what they think.

Yu Jue immediately stopped, but looked at the eunuch and asked, "Great official." As you can see, I can't leave this place for a while, so can you let me stay here for a few days until things are taken care of before leaving?"

"If you have this request, how dare you disobey?" the eunuch replied, his expression unusually calm.

Remembering the promise, Yu Jue also breathed a sigh of relief, and returned to the Daofu Ya again, ready to accept the information left by the Red Feng Army, and whether it was to appease the people or exterminate the bandits, he needed to be here to take charge, otherwise it would not be possible to proceed smoothly.

As for the eunuch?

Seeing that he had nothing to do with himself at the moment, he left here and returned to the inn to rest.

It's just that in the middle of the night, the eunuch took out a carrier pigeon, and there was a note tied to the pigeon's leg, on which it was written: "Yu Jue is secretly dissatisfied and intends to resign." ". With this note, the carrier pigeon flapped its wings and flew to Lin'an, and when it arrived, it was afraid that it would cause a new storm.

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Changan.

After leaving Chengdu Mansion, the Chifeng army marched for more than ten days and finally returned to his residence.

And this ancient city has also changed a lot in the days since Xiao Feng left. On both sides of the road, there are many newly-built houses, and there are many more people coming and going on the road.

Standing here, Su Yun suddenly felt a different style in her heart, and asked: "This is Chang'an? I didn't expect that there would be such a prosperous place in this world except for Lin'an?"

The Chifeng Army withdrew, and as one of them, Zeng Cheng naturally did not want to continue to stay in Chengdu Mansion, so he followed the army to Chang'an, and Su Yun naturally followed and ran here.

"It should be. Zeng replied, "After all, I have never been here before." ”

Su Yun looked at everything on the street with a curious expression, and replied: "But speaking of which, this Chang'an is much cleaner than Lin'an, and there are many new things. ”

"Oh, what's the difference?" asked Zeng.

When he was born, Chengdu Mansion had long been in the midst of war, and he had never left Sichuan, so he naturally didn't know how prosperous Lin'an was.

"This is it. Pointing to the track laid on the ground, Su Yun looked at the carriage running in the track with great curiosity, and complained: "This thing called a railroad carriage is not available in Lin'an." ”

The carriage he was talking about was different from the ordinary carriage, about seven feet wide and one foot three feet long, divided into two layers at the top and bottom, and capable of carrying up to a dozen people. The four wheels underneath are closely aligned with the rails placed on the ground to ensure smooth operation on them.

While he was talking, the carriage stopped on the side of the road, and the pedestrians waiting next to him walked up in an orderly manner, and each chose his own seat.

When everyone was seated, the groom waved his whip lightly, and the two horses also took a step forward, pulling the carriage and continuing to run.

Seeing this scene, Su Yun was even more shocked and complained: "And this carriage actually allows ordinary people to ride?"

To be honest, he had never seen such a scene in his years in Lin'an. In fact, because of the lack of horses in the Song Dynasty, carriages have always been a rare thing, and even ministers who want to travel mostly take ox carts, and the royal family even made a fuss about not being able to have five-colored horses.

It can be said that Ma Zheng in the Song Dynasty has always been a mess, and it is difficult to meet domestic needs at all.

A person next to him seemed to see the two talking, and walked forward and smiled: "You two just came here?"

"That's right. With embarrassed faces, Su Yun and Zeng were indeed embarrassed.

"Under Yang Chenglong. Yang Chenglong bowed down and said, "Why don't you let me take you to see the beautiful scenery here!"

Su Yun and Zeng did know that they were not very familiar with this city, so they begged: "Then please." ”

"Pingshui meets, and the guests from other places are polite. Yang Chenglong laughed, but pointed to the carriage and said, "It's just that relying on our two legs, I'm afraid it will be difficult to visit this city in a short time, why don't you just take this carriage?"

Before he walked up, Yang Chenglong took out three silver and bright iron coins from his purse and threw them into the cash box hanging on the side of the door before he stepped forward.

Su Yun and Zeng did secretly write it down, and couldn't help but have some doubts, and only after they sat down did they ask: "Looking at your previous appearance, if you want to ride this carriage, it seems that you have to give money?"

"Of course. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world! Otherwise, wouldn't the iron-smelting station that built this rail-drawn carriage lose money? Otherwise, the fodder for the horses alone would be enough to kill them completely. Yang Chenglong said with a smile.

Su Yun was full of academic edification, but he frowned: "Isn't this an official-run iron smelting institute? Isn't this equivalent to competing with the people for profit?"

"Compete with the people? Let me ask you, this carriage is more than a step faster than in the past, and it can carry more than a dozen people at one time, whether it is walking or carrying things, it is much easier. But I don't know where you can see that this thing is competing with the people?" Yang Chenglong sneered.

Su Yun was embarrassed for a moment and retorted: "But he collected the money." ”

"It's just to meet the daily turnover, what is the point of collecting money?" Yang Chenglong shook his head and said with a smile: "It's just that I see that your rhetoric is quite the demeanor of those students of science." It's a pity that most of those guys went to Lin'an, and most of those who stayed here were Qi students. After all, those old antiques from the Middle Ages have long been outdated, and if you don't know how to count things now, you can't survive here. ”

However, he saw that both of them were scholars, not the pawns of such peddlers, so he said this.

Otherwise, how would Yang Chenglong take care of the two?