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Chapter 147 My King

The cart Zhang Bing hired was a two-wheeled carriage, and the cart was drawn by an old horse. Although it was wobbly and a bit slow, it traveled smoothly on the official road.

The place is close to Pinglu, Zhang Bingrang Chunqiu opened the curtain of the car, and squinted his old eyes to look at the scenery outside the window.

The northwest is sparsely populated and the wilderness is vast. Often, a few houses and a few trees cannot be seen for tens of miles. As far as the eye can see, the land is dry and cracked, the weeds are withered and yellow, and the scene is withered... Eh?

Zhang Bingzheng lamented that the people's livelihood was difficult and the weather was unfavorable, but he saw several large carts walking opposite them.

The cart was a large four-wheeled cart, pulled by two strong horses, and a dozen strong men were sitting in the half-open back of the cart, chatting and laughing happily. Everyone had a farm tool at hand, either a hoe, a shovel, a rake, or even a shovel. There are some weird things that can't be said.What is especially shocking is that all these utensils are made of fine iron blades, and the cold light is shining, and it is afraid that even soldiers' weapons can be made.

"North goods!" Chunqiu also saw the people and things on the two carts, and exclaimed.

"Northern goods" are exquisite and precious objects that have quietly become popular in the capital in the past two years, and are especially famous for exquisite objects such as fine ironware, colored glaze, and jade bone china.There is a Nanhuo shop at the end of Long Street in Central Beijing. In the first year of Shengping, a new "Northern shop" was opened next to the decades-old shop. It is said that standing behind this is the Xiao family, Queen Xiao's " Xiao".

Therefore, even if the source of this northern product is very suspicious, and the "north" center is slightly to the west, no one dares to come to the door to make an autumn breeze and ask what happened.In this way, all kinds of expensive northern goods gradually became popular in the capital and in the prosperous city of Dayan.Although the northern goods are a bit more expensive than the general similar items, they are really easy to use, especially those iron utensils, which are often made of fine iron, with steel mouths as blades. , Take it out without any difference, everything is the same.

The military inspector once conscripted this iron tool to change it into a weapon, but he didn't know that the iron blade was extremely difficult to refine. There is that sharp steel mouth.Unless the Dayan soldiers are asked to practice the hoe array and sickle style, there is absolutely no way to change this thing into a standard weapon.

There are also unbelieving soldiers who love this agricultural tool that is comparable to a precious knife, so they simply replaced the harvesting sickle with a short handle, refitted a long wooden handle, and made a hooked sickle gun with no tip but a sickle!It can also be regarded as a great spectacle in the Dayan Army.

It's a pity that even this kind of refined iron farm tools are very rare in the northern goods, and more are jade and white bone china, rainbow-colored glass, which are loved by nobles and lords, as well as "Jinkela" fertilizers and white clay used by gentry for farming. Drapes and more.Although the emperor didn't like the northern goods, he couldn't stop them, so he turned a blind eye and let the northern goods "poison" the capital.When the climate in the Northwest has been established and the emperor wants to ban northern goods, the nobles are used to exquisite and easy-to-use northern goods, so how can they be banned?

Now that I have come to the northwest land, I have seen with my own eyes that even the farmers who plant the land have a piece of northern goods. How can they not know the exact source of this "northern goods"?

"Sure enough, they are all products from the Northwest, produced in the Northwest." Chunqiu lowered his voice and whispered to his master.

"En." Zhang Bing stroked his gray beard and nodded slowly. His old eyes did not linger on those iron farm tools, but paid attention to the expressions of those strong men.

Most of these men are middle-aged men in their 30s and [-]s, with calloused hands and feet and weathered faces. They are obviously farmers or craftsmen who are used to work.But these people are not like those half-starved and haggard farmers in Dayan territory, but all of them have smooth skin, rosy complexions, and loud voices when they speak. It is obvious that they can eat enough, and even eat meat every day. .

These people wore clean blouses with not even a few patches on them, and everyone had shoes. Even in the affluent south of the Yangtze River, the common people might not be so "rich".

Zhang Bing squinted his eyes and took a closer look. Those peasants' clothes were very strange. They were not the burlap clothes that poor people often wear, but... white folded cloth!

Hiss—

He took a deep breath, knowing that there is also white folded cloth in Beihuo, also known as "cotton cloth". It costs one foot and two taels of silver. It is difficult for an official with a high rank to get involved with his salary alone.

In the Northwest, even farmers have to wear it? !

If you take a closer look, the cotton clothes of these peasants are indeed rougher than the fine cloth in Beihuo. Even so, it is a staggering miracle that everyone can wear cotton clothes.

"parking!"

Zhang Bing got off the carriage and stood on the side of the road. When the carts passed by, he asked loudly, "Excuse me, my brothers, where are you from and where are you going?"

"Old man, you are right. You stand on the side, be careful that the car is too big, and it will take you." The driver said "Woo", pulled the rein, and laughed loudly: "We are from the Pinglu Dali Ditch Team. You came here to dig the canal. You just came to the northwest of me? Maybe you haven’t seen the mud monkey waiting for me to dig the canal? Hahaha!"

"Bah! You Laoshanpao is a mud monkey!" A tall man sitting behind the coachman was very dissatisfied with his words, and suddenly shouted in a long voice: "I'm waiting—"

"Strong ditch! Powerful! Hahaha!"

All the men in the car shouted in unison, as if they were marching in unison, and they all laughed after shouting.

Just talking and laughing, the two big cars stopped by the side of the road, and dozens of men jumped out of the car in an orderly manner, lined up in two columns, stood upright, no one said a word, Jiu Jiu proudly.The steward who took the lead counted, gave an order, and the men roared in unison, carrying the farm tools and walking down the wilderness one after another. Looking from a distance, they seemed to be a team of capable and experienced soldiers.

Looking at them, Zhang Bing felt a chill down his back and a heavy heart. After thinking for a while, he took Chunqiu to the side of the two carts, asked Chunqiu to hand some dried dates to the driver, and asked with a smile, "Is the old man really a newcomer?" Coming to your place, there are many things I don’t understand, if you don’t mind the trouble, can you give me some pointers?”

The coachman thanked him with a smile, took a taste of the dates, and even praised the dried dates as sweet and glutinous, but judging from his expression, he didn't seem to care about the candied dates that ordinary people rarely tasted.

"Did you add honey to my old man's dates? Compared with my Diqiu's white sugar, it really has a different taste."

"Sugar?"

"That's right! I, Diqiu, have produced a lot of white sugar in the past two years. It is made from beets in the field. It is sweet and delicious. Unfortunately, the output is not high. Most of the merchants who come and go want to buy it, but there is not enough to sell. Our county magistrate Lu said Now, the people in Pinglu Diqiu have enough to eat, so they will sell them in large quantities." The driver's smile was full of pride, as if some wealthy merchants couldn't buy something, which made him very proud.

Sugar.

Zhang Bing silently wrote down another new thing in his mind, chatted casually, and asked about the "padded clothes" they were wearing.

"Oh! This is the cloth made by Baidizi blooming and spinning. I heard that it is my king...cough, it is a seed that a businessman surnamed Qi found from some Nanman country. It took root and bred in Diqiu. I planted a large area every year, and the finer ones were sold to the Central Plains, while the coarser ones were sold cheaply to the common people. Lord Li said, I, Diqiu, want everyone to have food to eat and everyone to have clothes to wear."

The coachman was probably the "old man" Diqiu, and when he talked about the affairs of Li Xian who was in charge of the government and the army, he was very clear and insightful.

Zhang Bing nodded repeatedly, admiring his knowledge.

"Tsk! I have some knowledge about football, but I just learned a few words from the gentlemen in the literacy class and night school. I don't know some things, and even if I know some things, I can't just say it casually." ah!"

The coachman smiled, raised his eyebrows and asked firmly: "Is the old gentleman from Zhongyuan, or from the capital? It looks like he's here to be an official, right?"

"Why do you say that, little brother?" Zhang Bing stroked his beard, but did not respond bluntly.

"Hahaha, your official appearance is very different from my Diqiu." The coachman laughed loudly, and then said, "The ground of my Diqiu is also very different from the Central Plains. You have been here for a long time. , you will know, anyway, you also..."

He laughed a few times, and finally swallowed the words "I can't go back", and didn't say it in front of the old man.Fearing that his words might be wrong, the coachman said goodbye and went to work, leaving Zhang Bing and Chunqiu looking at each other.

"My lord, let's go?" Chunqiu murmured.

"Let's go to Shangjun." Zhang Bing nodded, if he didn't enter the tiger's den, how could he get a tiger's cub?

The old horse was whipped, and he was able to walk a few steps quickly. After walking for half a day, the carriage stopped at an inn beside the official road for tipping.

The shop is right next to the official road, although the shop is inconspicuous, there is a huge flat ground in front of the shop, it looks like a stone but not a stone, it is extremely hard to step on, comparable to bricks and stones, it is really luxurious.One must know that in the capital city, even the homes of high-ranking officials and wealthy families may not have such a large piece of stone land. It is extremely labor-intensive and even more expensive to chisel and smooth the stone.

Chunqiu clicked his tongue in admiration, and seeing the store owner enthusiastically coming to lead the horse-drawn cart to greet the guests, he couldn't help asking about the Shiping.

The shopkeeper laughed and said, "You two must be newcomers to Pinglu. Guest officer, please take a look!"

He pointed at the official road in front of him, Zhang Bing and Chunqiu looked along his hand, only to realize that after turning around the shop, the official road turned into a wide stone road, enough for two carriages to face each other But walking, there is a yellow dirt road between the two roads. From a distance, it looks like a gray and yellow ribbon embedded in the field, which looks very strange and shocking.

"Two-way two-lane lanes, all cement roads, and the horse-riding road in the middle is for war horses. Running hard will easily hurt horseshoes. Oh! The stone floor in front of my shop is the same as that road, paved with cement, a little It's expensive, but it's okay." The shopkeeper said very proudly.

"Cement? Two-way, two-lane lanes?" Zhang Bing looked at the road, his eyes almost straightened, and he muttered, chanting countless strange new words he heard during the day.

"My lord, my lord! Look there, there are so many flowers, as many as clouds in the sky!"

Chunqiu exclaimed, pointing to a piece of land at the foot of the mountain in the distance, where there are densely planted strange crops, each plant is full of blooming white flowers, layer upon layer, endless, at a glance, it seems like It was the sea of ​​clouds from the sky that fell to the world.

"... Cotton." Zhang Bing stared blankly at the sea of ​​clouds, and suddenly he was so blessed that he guessed the name of this novel crop.

"Hiss—" There was a sudden pain in his jaw, but his hands trembled, and he pulled off a few beards of his own.

Although the wild shop is small, the meals are quite clean. Not only are there steamed stuffed buns with vegetables and meat, but also soup cakes, pancakes, pork and mutton, and even beef.According to the shop owner, except for less fishy smell, the food here is no worse than that in Pinglu County.

"Our boss is my king, er, he is the grandson of Mr. He, a chef with a first-class technician, and now he has passed the exam for a third-class technician. The skill is naturally difficult for ordinary chefs. Let's say this bun, if it is not learned in Li's house Come out, where is it so loud?"

Zhang Bing nodded, picked up his beard with one hand, and twirled the white and fat buns with the other to eat.

It sounds like a cook can be a technician, and he still has a lot of status. There are too many strange things in this place, and he is no longer surprised by them.

My king... the locals who talked with him, both of them were full of pride, claiming "my king", although it was a little concealed, but they didn't seem to care about letting him, a foreigner who had just arrived, know.

Is Li Jiazi really usurping himself as king?

On the Gehele Grassland, in the majestic and solid Chihe Fortress of the Mudus God Envoy, Li Jiazi was furious, one head swelled into two big ones, and he looked up to the sky and shouted: "Aheng! You motherfucker, come back quickly, I am alone!" People can't bear-"

What answered him was the sobbing voice of a child: "Uncle, uncle! Guoguo, play, play, go out and play!"