Qingzhou City Hall Inn.

"What are you talking about? Did you see Xiao Baoxian?"

The drunk Zhang Shangying had just returned to the inn with the help of Yan Po'er. When he couldn't tell the difference between the east, west, south and north, Wu Haogu suddenly came to report to him about "meeting Xiao Baoxian by chance".

What's going on? Zhang Shangying thought: Could it be that he was drunk? Is Xiao Baoxian not the Liao people's official envoy, or the Liao Kingdom's left-behind Nanjing? I haven't even seen him, so why did Wu Haogu meet him first?

"Miss Yan, please help the Secretariat to the end and get some sobering tea."

"Here."

Wu Haogu instructed Mrs. Yan to help the drunk Zhang Shangying onto a seat, let him lean behind the back, and asked her to get the tea soup again.

Seeing Madam Yan go out, Wu Haogu said again: "Shunshu, I just went to Xiaofanlou to listen to Qiao Jinniang sing songs. Somehow, Xiao Baoxian was there, and then he met."

"If you meet it, just meet it... No, isn't Xiao Baoxian the Liao envoy? We will see him tomorrow, and we will have to get drunk again!"

Zhang Shangying was talking nonsense, and it seemed that she had drunk too much. As an official in the Song Dynasty, she really had to have a good alcohol tolerance. There were too many social engagements, and the Song people's good wine was beyond the imagination of later generations. Otherwise, there would not be 72 main stores in Kaifeng Prefecture that could make wine and sell.

In addition to wine, color is also a huge industry! Brothels and brothels are all over the Song Dynasty's large and small cities, and the women of high-quality fireworks are almost entertainment stars in later generations! In addition, gambling is also a huge industry... Well, the urban industrial structure of the Song Dynasty is not very healthy.

Wu Haogu has now occupied the highest-end and first-class profiteer selling standards in the "color" industry! Now the standard for courtesans is in the hands of Wu Haogu!

In the wine industry, Wu Haogu has "Erguotou". Just wait for Jiehe Market to open, Wu Haogu will build a new "Lighthouse Wine Industry".

As for gambling, Wu Haogu would not let it go. Wanda in Jiehe Market, no, Wanda Wazi will be a place where gambling industry gathers!

Yan Po'er had already rushed in and poured a bowl of tea for Zhang Shangying. Then, he saw Zui Qingtian vomiting Yan Po'er all over, and then he became a little more awake.

"Madam Yan, go." Wu Haogu hurriedly sent his "monique model" to clean it up, and then said to Zhang Shangying: "Shu Zhong, is it better?"

"It's better, it's just a headache..." Zhang Shangying touched her forehead and said with a wry smile, "It's not easy to be an official. Now I think about it, Su Dongpo is still relaxed and happy."

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "It's just Mr. Dongpo is so old that it's a pity to stay in Danzhou."

"What a pity?" Zhang Shangying frowned and looked at Wu Haogu.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "His words are valuable... I wrote a piece of paper a month, and I can sell it at least 15,000 at Christie's, and it will cost 180,000 a year! In my opinion, the court should punish him for selling words."

"Selling words is a crime..." Zhang Shangying smiled and leaned back and forth, "Why did you fall into the eyes of money at a young age? Tell you, now many people want to ban the calligraphy and paintings of traitors from passing on the world, and they all have to be destroyed. If you have it in your hands, you should sell it as soon as possible."

"I'm not afraid," Wu Haogu waved his hand, "The original work of Mr. Dongpo in my house is given by King Duan."

Zhang Shangying was speechless for a moment, looking at Wu Haogu as if thinking: This official and Shang seem to have something to say! Are you telling himself that he is the one of King Duan?

Wu Haogu continued: "And the destruction of Su Dongpo's calligraphy and paintings has no meaning... Literary calligraphy and paintings must not only be good, but also be rare. Mr. Dongpo's calligraphy and paintings have not many characters. If he destroys a part of them, it will be a sky-high price when the limelight is over in the future."

Zhang Shangying nodded when he heard this, "It seems to make sense." He paused, and did not continue to discuss Su Dongpo's topic, but asked, "Does Xiao Bao know your identity first?"

"I know," Wu Hao Ancient Road, "He knows Xiaguan's identity. He also told Xiaguan: Once Jiehe Shang City is opened, Liao and Song dynasties will be brotherly countries. In the future, we should support each other so that the north and south can be at peace with each other."

"Oh? Then the negotiations will go well?"

Wu Haogu said: "It seems that the Secretariat can return to the court to report soon."

Zhang Shangying nodded: "But his brother's country...why does it sound like there is something in the words? Chongdao, do you understand what he means?"

"I understand," Wu Hao Ancient Road, "He means that we place a market that gathers 100,000 merchants and people's wealth on the bank of the Border River. At the mouth of the Liao Kingdom, we regard the Liao Kingdom as a brother."

"This..." Zhang Shangying was stunned by Wu Haogu's words, "Xiao Bao's words are reasonable!"

"It's true," said Wu Haogu, "so the market must not be completely unprepared."

"But how should we be prepared?" Zhang Shangying asked, "It is impossible for the imperial guards to settle in, and it is impossible to build a city to protect them, otherwise it would violate the Chanyuan Alliance."

Wu Haogu thought about it and said, "The market should be protected by dams."

"Dike?"

"Yes," Wuhao Ancient Road, "a semicircular embankment protects the south bank of Shangshi to avoid flooding... Since the Yellow River entered the boundary, the water volume of the border river has increased significantly, and it will flood once every three or five years, and it will flood this summer. Therefore, the border river market must have dam protection. Otherwise, once the flood is gone, the losses will be heavy."

"But the embankment is not a city wall after all, and its shape is different." Zhang Shangying understood that Wu was so old that he wanted to build the embankment into a defensive earth wall under the pretext of flooding the river, but the embankment could not be built like a city wall after all.

Because the dam has to withstand long-term bubbles and water pressure, it is easier to climb with large slope trapezoids, and the height is relatively limited. If it can be built to a height of two meters, it will be very high. It is difficult to say that it is higher than that. Although there can be a trench that can be dug outside the dam of Jiehe Shangshi City, how wide can this trench be? It cannot be compared with the moat.

"You can also build a house on the dam," said Wu Haogu, "the house can have a wall."

In fact, Wu Haogu has planned it a long time ago. The flood control dam in Jiehe Shang City does not need to be built very high. It is enough to have one to one and a half feet. It does not need to cut the outer side into a cliff-shaped shape, but it must have enough thickness to form a large-angle slope on the outside.

At the same time, the top of the embankment must have a considerable width in order to build a Hakka earthen building-style house and a wall of about one meter. The "earth building" should be square, with one corner of the square extending out of the wall, and the height is between two and three meters. The wall connected to the earthen building is not semicircular, but a multi-faceted, generally arc-shaped rammed earth-covered brick wall.

"But even if there is a wall," Zhang Shangying shook his head, "It's not okay without soldiers."

"How come there are no soldiers?" Wu Haogu smiled, "I have the Baojia Law in the Song Dynasty, and the Kufang people also apply the Baojia Law."

Wu Haogu is actually in the "playing method", because Jiehe Market is between the "Liao and Song dynasties" and is a vague area. Whether it applies to the "Baojia Law" of the Song Dynasty is still to be discussed.

Moreover, Jiehe Commercial Market is controlled by the Chamber of Commerce. If there are really tens of thousands of merchants, then twenty of them will be guaranteed... If the Baojia Law is really implemented, tens of thousands of Baoding will be placed under the leadership of the Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, the chamber of commerce controls not only Jie Henan City, but also Bei City north of Jiehe River! People living in Jiehe Market are not only Song people, but also Liao people, Goryeo people, Pubu people, Uighur people, and even Japanese people...

"This is OK," Zhang Shangying didn't think much about it. After all, the Baojia Law was formulated by the Song Dynasty court itself. "As long as the merchants and people in Jiehe strictly abide by the Baojia Law, the court will not have any objections."

"That's natural." Wu Haogu said, "It can be proposed in the negotiations with Liao Kingdom that the Shang City can imitate the Baojia Law of our dynasty and set up a police patrol in the Liao Kingdom."

Wu Haogu put forward these two opinions in the form of a treaty in the Song and Liao dynasties to confirm that the Baoding and Police Inspection Office of Jiehe Shang City are legal.

"That's it." Zhang Shangying thought for a while and said, "The Liao people will not have any objections to the location and size of the market, right?"

"No." Wu Haogu said with certainty, "It's just 30,000 acres of land, and it won't be used to take theirs."

According to the plan formulated by Wu Haogu, Jiehe Shang City has an area of ​​30,000 mu of land in the north and south, which together is equivalent to more than 20 square kilometers of later generations.

However, Jiehebei City will not carry out large-scale development. Most of them will be used as yards for stacking timber. For the time being, a ranch for temporarily raising cattle and sheep (trading goods) will exist. As long as a small part will be developed into a dock, a commercial station and a bridgehead.

In the Henan City, the only one that was truly developed into a commercial city was 15,000 mu (the Song acres were about 10% smaller than the city acres in later generations), which was about 9 square kilometers in later generations.

The "100,000 households" mentioned by Wu Haogu and Xiao Baoxian are impossible. There are so many people in nine square kilometers. However, there should be 10,000 households. The population that lives there for many years will most likely exceed 100,000.

As for the general urban planning of the market, Wu Haogu has also been prepared, and it will be a semicircular layout with the port square as the semicircle.

The remaining about 9 square kilometers is a narrow and long riverside area. According to Wu Haogu's idea, it will be handed over to Lighthouse Academy, Lighthouse University, Lighthouse Sea College and Lighthouse Ranch.

In addition to the lighthouse ranch, academies, universities and sea colleges all have tall buildings, walls and trenches as support, which is similar to the fortresses of the Han people north of the Jiehe River.

Among them, Lighthouse Academy will have the largest number of teachers and students, so it will be the largest among the three major colleges. Once Jiehe Shangshi City must be given up due to the fall of Youyan, Lighthouse Academy will become a bridgehead to fight against ethnic minorities to the south.
Chapter completed!