Chapter 302: Get your own pocket and repair another yard

As an important transportation hub, the Chaoge City Wharf District is very narrow and long, about four or five miles wide and stretches for about fifty miles in length. The Jin people built castles of all sizes here, and each castle lived in a family. These castles were used as warehouses to store goods, and outside the castle were shops and goods warehouses built by the family.

Every day when sunrises, the castles spit out a large number of people like monsters. These people will disappear along the hardened stone slab roads and disappear into the shops near the castle. In the evening, except for a few entertainment facilities, the rest of the shops will be closed, and countless people will flow into the castle like countless streams. Then, the heavy castle gates will be closed to protect these people - after all, this place originally belonged to the Wei Kingdom, and the border with Qi Kingdom, Zheng Kingdom, and Song Kingdom. They are alliances today, and they may not always be alliances.

It is noon now, and the snow is getting heavier and heavier. Shusun Bao's carriage drove past a small castle on the side of the road, without any intention of staying. Then, a tall flag appeared in front of him - this is a Zhao-style hotel.

It was Zhao Wu who first introduced the concept of signboard into the business of Jin State. Earlier, the shops in Jin State did not have the concept of flagging, because at that time, flags were mostly used for military purposes and were an ordnance. After Dongguoli built a shop in the eastern suburbs of Xintian City, Jin State, he erected a store flag in front of each store according to Zhao Wu's instructions, and the flag indicated the name of the store and the nature of the shop.

The world lacks original creators and never lacks imitators. The Zhao family's shop in Dongguo is becoming more and more prosperous. Most people think this is the luck brought by the store flag. In ancient times, military east and west were always considered to have the effect of warding off evil spirits. Even modern families also had "Yi Sword" to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, with the rise of the Zhao family, the wind of the store flag quickly spread across the country and then became a common practice in the world.

As the earliest industry to promote signs, the store flags of Zhao's style are very distinctive. For example, the flags that most stores still stick to the awareness of signs. The Zhao's store flags have become advertising awareness. Their store flags are the most fancy and the most Jin state - often have the strict style of Jin state, and the main color of each store's store flag is specified, refined, and classified.

For example, the hotel is a black flag. A large wine character can be embroidered with white silk on the black cloth surface, and then various flower silks are used to remind the hotel of its characteristics and functions. When Shusun Bao saw the wine character floating on the face, his subordinates also spelled out two lines of words with yellow silk: "Exquisite dishes, fine wine, accommodation is provided for convenience."

Shu Sun Bao stopped the carriage, waved his hand, then jumped out of the chariot and walked into the store.

The fire in the store was getting hot. When the door curtain was lifted, a stream of heat rushed towards him. Uncle Sun Bao narrowed his eyes and was enjoying the heat. The people in the store shouted: "Come in quickly, put down the door curtain quickly, the cold wind blows..."

At this time, most of the people who rested in the hotel were businessmen from the south. They stayed in the hotel to wait for news of the river navigation. When Shusun Bao entered the door, he happened to hear someone shouting: "I heard that Pujin Bridge is blocked, and it is said that the snow is too heavy. I am worried that the person who crossed the bridge will fall into the river, so people are forbidden to pass."

The person who said this was immediately refuted: "Dog-I heard that the Pujin Bridge was blocked because the Jin army in Chu wanted to escort the spoils back to China. I was worried that there were too many people on the bridge deck and blocked the transportation of military supplies, so I blocked the Pujin Bridge."

The chatterers were already half drunk and were completely quiet in their own world, so they didn't pay attention to Shu Sun Bao's entry. The others in the store stopped their movements and stared at Shu Sun Bao up and down. Shu Sun Bao put down the curtains and shouted: "Shopkeeper, come with two corners of wine, and if there is a large piece of meat, just come up."

The shop came up and looked at the sword in his uncle Sun Bao's hand. Nowadays, he had a sword in his hand, which means that the other party was a nobleman. When the shop saw the sword decoration was gorgeous, he smiled and replied: "Neople, the shop has roasted chickens and ducks, sprouts (bean sprouts), whale meat produced in the sea, and big carp that had just been caught in the river... The nobleman wants to eat something, even if he says."

Shusun Bao's eyes flashed. Thinking that Mr. Zhao Wu liked to eat some chicken and fragments, he quickly ordered the dishes: "First a plate of chicken wings, a plate of duck feet, and a plate of braised duck intestines - mix with ginger and garlic, and add some vinegar. If there is duck blood, add a little sprout and stew the tofu with soup, it's better."

The store owner gave a thumbs up and praised, "As soon as you hear your order, you will know that you are a noble person. Please sit down and the dishes will come immediately."

When Uncle Sun Bao remembered something, he immediately reminded: "Add some fans in the duck blood tofu soup."

The store owner stopped and asked, "Is the noble man..."

Yu Rong, who happened to get in, heard the store owner's inquiry and immediately explained for his uncle Sun Bao: "My master is the right prime minister of Lu."

The shop immediately bent down and saw the big gift: "It turned out to be the Lord Shusun, who came to rescue my marshal. No wonder... the noble man asked me to come soon. The food you want to ask for is coming soon. Guests, do you want to add some wine?"

The guests who were drinking and chatting just now were dissatisfied and immediately complained loudly: "Shop, what are the fans? Why haven't we heard of this kind of dish? Why didn't you recommend it just now?"

After saying that, the guest bowed to his uncle Sun Bao: "Negotiable, we are not targeting you, but this store underestimates us. If there are good dishes, we will not introduce them to us, which makes us feel uncomfortable."

Shusun Bao smiled warmly: "It's okay, the fan I just mentioned is a new dish from Zhao's family. It is made of something called 'sweet potato' and 'potato'. This dish is produced by Zhao's family and has not been sold to the public yet. I just saw obvious traces of Zhao from the store flag picked out by the store, so I made a test."

After hearing this, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "My Lord Zhuang is right. My father is Yang. He was originally from Cai. His grandfather is the old warrior of his family. My grandfather was awarded a piece of land adjacent to Xu for his merits. Later, he adopted my father..."

Seeing my uncle Sun Bao's surprised gaze, the shopkeeper immediately explained with a smile: "The Sect Master (Zhao Wu) issued a law on inheriting legitimate sons a few years ago, stipulating that the family business is not the eldest son and cannot be inherited. I am the concubine of my family, and I have no share in inheriting the family business, so I was entrusted by my brother to open a small shop here to make a living."

Shusun Bao replied casually: "So, are you from the Zhao family's original sect? Why did you say that when you greeted me just now, your tone was not the Zhao family's original sect?"

The store owner grinned: "Don't blame me, Lord Zheng. The sect leader has advised us that we should not use Zhao's identity to bully outsiders when we go out. The villain opened a local store and never dared to reveal Zhao's identity. Because Lord Zheng ordered the dishes that the sect leader liked, I just said casually."

The customer on the opposite table said a long time: "It turns out that the fans are the dishes that Lord Wuzi likes. Is there any extra? Let's try it too."

Seeing the shopkeeper's embarrassing expression, the customer immediately changed his tone: "If there are any identity restrictions on these dishes, the shopkeeper will just pretend that we didn't say it."

The store owner smiled: "If you don't have any food, how can you have any identity restrictions? Everyone can eat this dish, but the yield is a little less, and the people in my family don't eat enough. They are not people with deep friendship with me, and they don't know the existence of this thing at all. So when the ruling Lord said just now, we immediately learned about the relationship between the ruling and the ruling family.

Originally, we couldn't get this thing in a small shop like us, but my father also grew this kind of dish in the fields, and our family also had a fan workshop, so we stored some such dish. Several noble people wanted to eat it, but I was afraid that the quantity was not enough."

Uncle Sun Bao waved his hand and interrupted the store's longing. He found an empty seat to sit down and asked: "I heard that Qin Houzi is building a bridge for your house. Now the river surface has frozen. Has your bridge been built?"

The shopkeeper bowed: "Qin Houzi's people are now competing with Zhaocheng Academy. Qin Houzi has built three bridges in the northern tributary of the Yellow River. The people of Zhaocheng Academy are not convinced and have built two bridges in the southern tributary of the Yellow River. It is said that there is a bit of a finishing project. When these bridges are built, the road from our Jin State to Hejian will become a thoroughfare."

After a while, the shop pointed to Dongfang and suggested: "If the ruling government is anxious, you can continue to go east. The people from Weiguo have just returned from Hejian. Lord Shusun can lead the army through Weiguo. After Weiguo, it is Qidi, which was enfeoffed by our tomb master Qice. From there, there is a way to cross the river... If it really doesn't work, the ruling government will go directly to the beach. My house has a sea boat to transfer to Hejian, which is enough to transport all the troops."

Shusun Bao grinned and said, "He led the army to come in a mighty way, and he really wanted to rescue Zhao Wu. Everyone in the world knew the combat power of the Lu army. It would be useless for the Lu army to pull it up."

Therefore, the current situation is what he is most looking forward to. The army is waiting in Chaoge City for spring and flowers bloom, and then contact Zhao Wu to let the other party know his rescue posture. Then the Lu army has face and can't do it well. If they do it, they can just take advantage of the land like Weiguo.

So, Uncle Sun Bao did not answer the shop's words. He looked at the snowy river surface and said casually: "When it's snowing, no one will come. I don't know how long it will take to open the river surface... Huh!"

The store faced Shusun Bao and his back to the dock, and replied casually: "The ruler does not need to worry. This is Chaoge. The Yellow River forked here and became a north-south tributary. Chaoge went east. Because the Yellow River split the fork, the water volume of the north-south tributaries decreased, which led to the icy situation. Chaoge has not yet been forked yet, and the water volume is large, and there is very little frozen on the river surface."

Uncle Sun Bao stood up and stared at the river and asked, "Although this is the case, it is probably very dangerous to sail at this time. Look at the river and there are almost no ships."

The store replied: "Where is there 'almost' no ship, there is no ship at all."

Speaking of this, the hotel's customers stood up and looked at the river. The store turned around and looked at everyone's eyes and found a warship on the river.

This warship is in the style of Zhao.

In this era, due to underdeveloped keel technology, the ships built often look like bathtubs, round and cute. This is not surprising. The length and width ratio of the Ming Dynasty blessed ships salvaged by modern people is also between 1:2 and 1:3. A ship with this ratio is an enlarged version of a large bathtub, which is even worse than the length and width ratio of modern bathtubs.

Only Zhao's ship is very narrow and long, integrating the production technology of Yuhuang's boat from Wu State. With Zhao Wu's inherent concept, the length and width ratio of the warships made by Zhao's family is very large, usually close to 1:5, and many ships have a length and width ratio of nearly 1:7. Nowadays, when a boatman traveling on the river surface sees such a slender figure, he must be produced by Zhao's shipyard.

The shop looked at Jiangxin and murmured to explain: "At this time, there were very few boats on the river. It was because the snow was so heavy that it was confusing its sight. It was afraid that the boat would hit the reef or float somewhere to get stuck. The snow was too heavy and wet the sails, and the sails couldn't bear it. In addition, the weather was cold and they couldn't row the oars and could not control the direction of the boat..."

Someone in the store insisted on quarreling with the store: "But isn't there still a boat going on?"

Shu Sun Bao waved his hand and interrupted: "It's a pedestrian (diplomat) who is sitting in a boat. The boat is hitting his flag. It's strange, what urgent matter is worth it to make him suffer such a heavy wind and snow."

On the dock, the guards had already blew the horns and guided the warships traveling in the snow to the docks. Several warriors lit the huge torch beside the docks in the wind and snow. When the warships in the river saw the flames, heard the horns, they tried their best to adjust their direction and headed towards the docks.

After a rush, the warship landed. The young master walked off the warship along the springboard. Behind him was a frown nobleman. At this time, Shu Sun Bao had already revealed his identity to the dock soldiers. He stood on the dock to welcome the young master: "Such a heavy wind and snow, why don't you rest in Xintian City?"

When the female Qi saw her uncle Sun Bao, she showed a relieved expression. He smiled bitterly: "The city wall of Qi has collapsed for several years. Qi is crying day and night with the widow. The widow has no choice but to rely on the help of Lu. I braved the wind and snow and crossed the river, and originally planned to go to Lu."

When Shusun Bao heard this, he ruthlessly said, "I led the Central Army of Lu and the Shang Army. I originally planned to go to the country to rescue the marshal. Unfortunately, the wind and snow blocked the road and were forced to stay here."

After saying that, Uncle Sun Bao turned to the frown man behind Nu Qi and bowed to salute: "Jun Ju is not waiting for the verdict in Xintian City, so he is rushing to the road in the wind and snow. Is Ju also going to Lu State?"

The king of Ju State smiled sadly: "We were going to follow the river to Jicheng, but the northern tributary was frozen, so we had no choice but to land in Chaoge. I planned to go to the East Sea to find Hou Jin and borrow his warship to Hejian-I want to complain to Wuzi in person."

The people of Lu were very alert to any military actions of the people of Qi. The king of Ju wanted to complain to Qi, which was something that the people of Lu were happy to see. Shusun Bao quickly replied: "If you walk along the riverside, you may have to pass through Qi's land. Why not I set a brigade and escort the king of Ju to the East China Sea along the way."

The female Qi looked at the two of them greeting coldly and reminded softly: "In fact, a few years ago, Qi Ce built a bridge leading to the north bank of the Hejian in the territory. However, when they were building the bridge, they did not know that there were two tributaries of the Yellow River. The north bank was a deserted river, but the bridge was not useful later. But because of this bridge, the lord on the south bank of the Yellow River went to rescue Wuzi, and the speed was so fast. Now, the river land adjacent to the bridge has been developed. As long as the king of Ju arrived at Qi Ce's territory and went north along the bridge, he could reach Jicheng."

There was no radio station in the Spring and Autumn Period. Others did not know about Qi Ce's construction of the bridge. When the bridge was built, Zhao Wu and Qi Ce both misunderstood the geographical environment on the other side and thought that this river was the only river at the end of the Yellow River. Once the bridge was built, they could lead to Jin. So the two of them were busy. However, after the bridge was built, the two of them found that the other side of the bridge was an isolated island in the river.

Since then, the bridge has gradually been forgotten and faded out of everyone's sight.

Now that Zhao Wu has started to develop Hejian, the bridge has finally come in handy. Others may have forgotten the bridge, but Nu Qi once personally visited the bridge construction site, so he still remembers the existence of the bridge.

After he said this, Shu Sun Bao also vaguely remembered this matter, and he quickly replied: "In this way, our army can successfully join the ruling army."

Shusun Bao was so anxious that he did not want to build a city wall for the king of Qi. However, Nu Qi had never expressed his opinion because he did not agree with the king's actions.

When the man lifted several large wooden boxes from the boat, the girl impatiently kicked open the lid of the box, revealing the faint green copper coins, white silver coins, and yellow gold coins in the box. He kicked the box and said, "This is a batch of coins newly minted by our country. The widow is willing to spend this money to hire the army of Lu to help Qi repair the city wall. Lord Shusun happened to lead the central army of Lu, and a part of the Shangjun was here. There was no need to dispatch troops. Take the central army of Lu and help build the city wall of Qi. The Shangjun of Lu and I will send the king of Ju to the ruling."

After a moment of stopping, the female clan snatched in front of her uncle Sun Bao and added: "Our marshal has escaped from danger. The news he sent back said that once the earth freezes, he will immediately set off for the East China Sea. I guess he has set off now. So the Lu army doesn't have to go there."

Shu Sun Bao thought for a while: "Since that's the case, I will hand over the central army to the other people's commanders, and I will personally take the army to follow the two of you."

The girl Qi could not refuse Shu Sun Bao's accompanying him. He thought for a while and replied: "Since that's the case, we will buy some cold-proof clothes in Chaoge City and set off immediately."

At this time, in Hejian, Zhao Wu was patrolling the city wall. After a while of crazy transportation, the Hejian area had already reserved enough wintering supplies. With the help of sufficient personnel, a small city was also built. Jicheng had a three-meter-high city. This city wall was built with rectangular square bricks. Zhao Wu walked on the city wall and was curiously knocking on the rectangular bricks.

"The quality of these bricks is really good, it's hard to imagine. These bricks were fired in a hurry." Zhao Wu raised his head and still hit the bricks with the hilt of the sword in his hand. The bricks made a crisp sound similar to metal under his knock.

Hou Jin, who was beside him, wrapped his fur and replied: "Master, I have also discovered this phenomenon in the East China Sea. It seems that the soil here is particularly suitable for firing into ceramics. The large bricks we use to build houses are fired in this way. The fired bricks are as hard as stones, and when they hit, they make a brittle sound of metal."

Zhao Wu's eyes flashed: "So, we can build several kiln factories here in the future and fire a large number of ceramic items. Perhaps the ceramic industry can become a major industrial pillar in the local area."
Chapter completed!