Chapter 79 Entering Dadu
Suddenly, Old Liu knelt down: "Thank you, benefactor!"
For Lao Liu, this young man who suddenly appeared was really the benefactor of their grandparents and grandchildren. Needless to say, what happened just now, and this fifty taels of silver was enough for their grandparents and grandchildren to spend more than ten years saving money.
People in this era are still too simple. It seems that when the scale expands, it will be no problem to reuse the two of them. Chen Feng helped the old Liu head up and started a conversation.
At night, the wind became stronger and it blew all night.
But the next day, it cleared up, the sky was blue, with only a breeze. The speed of the group suddenly became much faster.
After traveling for another two days, the magnificent city in the distance gradually appeared in front of me.
Most of them have arrived.
After the Mongols destroyed Jin, they were not satisfied with the capital of Jin. Most of Zhongdu was burned down in the war. So, in the northeast of Zhongdu, the Mongols set up a new city, which Kublai Khan named Dadu.
This is a new city built flat on the wilderness. The designers even included Arabs and had complete drainage facilities. The palace of the palace is directly south of the capital, facing the southern gate of the capital. It has three walls, front dynasty, back dynasty, left dynasty, right dynasty, and standard street network layout of vertical streets and alleys. It is the most prosperous city in the Yuan Dynasty.
After traveling for more than 20 days in total, Chen Feng finally arrived at his destination.
In later generations, Chen Feng has been here several times, and this is the capital of China, Beijing. However, this time, he has fully experienced the style of the capital hundreds of years ago.
"Brother Feng, those people have strange eyes, why are they light blue?" Before entering Dadu, he saw a caravan outside Dadu, which was already amazed Han Xue.
Those blue eyes that looked like the sky made her a little scared and curious.
"Xiaoxue, this world is very big." Chen Feng said: "Those people came from Persia, far away, but their nose bridge is not high enough. It would be interesting if you see foreigners with golden hair and high nose bridge."
Chen Feng was talking, and Han Xue's eyes were straightened. Isn't the man with a very tall head in front of him just blonde hair and a high nose bridge? It seems that he is still a woman?
Zhuo Chi next to him smiled. Although this young master Feng had never been to Dadu before, he seemed to know a lot of things. Those foreigners with strange looks all came to Dadu to do business.
During the Song Dynasty, trade between the Central Plains and Central Asia, South Asia and the West had already begun. In the Yuan Dynasty, business was still very developed, and there were many people coming to most of the capital to do business. In the capital, large sea ships could be directly navigated. Both sea transportation and land transportation were very convenient.
Han Xue felt that her eyes were not enough, and some of the ideas in her mind were constantly being subverted. This Western Ocean Horse was wrapped in a fox fur coat on the upper body and a pair of boots on the lower body. However, the knee part in the middle was exposed outside.
Isn't she cold? Doesn't she know what it means to be careless?
Originally, I came here reluctantly, but since I was here, Chen Feng suddenly thought of something else. There are so many foreigners here, and if I do business with foreigners, I will definitely make more money.
However, he has no product to offer now. Even if the kebabs are spread to the West, it will be profitable for others. Foreigners may not like to watch them.
However, when I turned to look at the city wall of Dadu, it was a little damaged. Although the Mongolians admired Buddhism very much, the temples bloomed everywhere, and the Mongolians spent countless money on Buddhist affairs. However, the Mongolians did not withdraw silver and wrapped a layer of bricks outside the city wall of Dadu. It was just a rammed earth structure. Therefore, as long as it rains and rains, the wall will be damaged.
The method adopted by the Mongolians was to wrap the outside of the city wall with reeds. This way, it was a very distinctive straw raincoat covering the city. It was not until more than ten years ago that this method was cancelled and instead organized civilians to repair it every summer.
When you enter the capital from Heyimen to the west, you can also see that this Mongolian capital does not even have a urn city.
The urn city means asking you to get into the urn. In order to strengthen the defense of the castle or pass, a semicircular or square gate guard city is built outside the city gate, with two sides connected to the city wall, and there are defense facilities such as arrow towers, gate gates, and scepters. In this way, when the opponent attacks the city, he must first spend countless manpower to attack the outer city. After the attack is completed, there is one inside, and the walls on all sides are all enemy bows and urns, which is the nightmare of the attacker.
However, for the Mongols, this is not a problem, because with the combat effectiveness of the Mongols, they had to attack others, and there was no case when others attacked their own capital. The Mongols went south several times and were bleeding from the city of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, after they captured some cities, they even ordered the demolition of the city walls.
In later generations, it was not until the uprising in the south that Yuan Huizong ordered people to repair the urn in Dadu, but it did not work. When the Ming Dynasty's troops headed north, Tuhuan Timur's choice was to take his wife and children and run away. Therefore, Yuan Huizong was given the posthumous title of Emperor Shun.
"Chen Feng'an replied, the mansion is ready. Let's go back to the mansion first. After the princess informed the queen, you can enter the palace with the princess." Zhuo Chi said.
When you come here, you have to follow the other party's arrangements. Although Chen Feng wanted to wander around this capital, he didn't complain so much.
The road surface is still a dirt road, but there is a stone-made canal on both sides of the road, which is the drainage system of the capital.
The west is the busiest place in most cities, with merchants gathering.
Under Zhuo Chi's leadership, the group walked towards the east of the city.
Suddenly, Zhuo Chi grabbed the horse's head and then turned over and dismounted.
Several Mongolians also dismounted.
In the distance, several quiet sounds came, and the sound of gongs vaguely heard.
Chen Feng and Han Xue, both of them immediately dismounted, and led the horse's reins and flashed to the side.
From a distance, I heard the sound of horse hooves stepping on the road.
Then, the team of people appeared.
Majestic, majestic, majestic!
The clothes of the Asuwei personal army are a very important army of the Mongolians besides the Qiexue army, and are mainly responsible for protecting the safety of the imperial city.
Could it be that the emperor is on a tour?
However, looking at this scene, it doesn’t look like it. If the emperor comes out, the number of people will be a little small.
After the front teams finished, a large cart pulled by eight horses whizzed past.
This is the benefit of powerful people. Chen Feng couldn't help but envy them. In later generations, those high-ranking officials were so majestic when they went out. The police car drove the road in front and the entire road was still martial law.
As the horse passed by, sand and dust flew. Chen Feng patted the soil on his body, but saw the cuckold, who was almost looking at the back of the group of people who had left with hatred, as if he really wanted to pounce on it and eat the person in the eight-horse carriage.
After a flash of mind, Chen Feng seemed to have thought of something.
There are actually not many such majestic people in the capital, and it makes Zhuochi so hostile. Needless to say, this is definitely Tuotuo's political enemy.
In fact, even if you don’t be afraid and don’t have to be so majestic now, you won’t be making a fuss for long.
In recent years, it is still a period of enlightenment.
"Zhu Chian, who is sitting in the carriage? Even if Lord Tuotuo went on a patrol, he didn't see such disturbing people?" Chen Feng asked.
It seems that it is not the same as the road. Tuotuo is in Yangzhou, but he doesn't have such a big attitude.
Sure enough, Zhuo Chi said angrily: "The Right Prime Minister of the Secretariat, don't be afraid."
Zhuo Chi doesn’t even add the word “Adult”, which shows that he hates him to the core.
The entire Tuotuo mansion hated the Buer'er's timid and unswerable faction. After all, Tuotuo's Abu died because of this incident, which was a mortal hatred.
The Lord was humiliated and died. As long as Lord Tuotuo gave the order, they would pick up their weapons without hesitation and chop the Beichi Buhua and his accomplices into meat paste. At that time, Boyan was not afraid of the sky, but now why would he be afraid of the right prime minister of the Secretariat!
Unfortunately, Lord Tuotuo has become too weak now, and Zhu Chi thought in his heart.
A general will not understand political struggles, and Lord Tuotuo is wise and foolish.
"Zhu Chianda, Lord Tuotuo is the pillar of our Yuan Dynasty. The emperor will definitely wake up. Only Lord Tuotuo is the best candidate for the position of Right Prime Minister of the Secretariat." Chen Feng said.
With just this sentence, the Mongolians such as Zhuochi have increased their favor towards Chen Feng a lot. Now, don’t be afraid to be the master. If these words are passed to Boer’s ears, Chen Feng will be in great danger.
"Let's go, the lady is waiting for us in the mansion." Zhuochi said.
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"Is the lamb fresh enough?" Minmin came to the kitchen in person and asked the manager's trap.
"Report to the lady, this was slaughtered an hour ago. It was just cleaned and the remaining warmth was still there." said Keng Chu.
"Okay, the rest of the ingredients and charcoal are ready for me." Minmin said, just as she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered something: bamboo sticks, why did she forget such an important thing?
"Let me find a bamboo pole immediately and cut it into bamboo sticks." Minmin said.
"Yes, Miss." Although I don't know what the lady had to think, the lady looked very excited today and had to do what she ordered.
Minmin was a little excited. Chen Feng was about to arrive. It was nearly half a year, and the smell of lamb skewers appeared in Minmin's mouth. Since Chen Feng was here, then, I naturally had to eat grilled lamb skewers this night!
Chapter completed!