"Is that Kaifeng Tower?"

Wei Xian found an inn and looked at the most conspicuous building in Kaifeng City with great enthusiasm, which is called the "Kaifeng Iron Tower" or Iron Tower.

The Kaifeng iron tower is as high as 17 meters high and has 13 floors of octagonal. Because it is covered with brown glazed bricks, mixed like iron castings. Since the Yuan Dynasty, people have called it the "iron tower". From a long distance, you can vaguely see this black-brown glazed tower that spans history.

Wei Xian had a meal, filled his stomach, took a good bath in the room, took a comfortable hot shower, and then went to the Kaifeng Tower at least.

This Kaifeng Iron Tower was built in Kaibao Temple. There are many tourists. You can see nobles and nobles everywhere. You can also see the daughters of wealthy families visiting here.

"This glass tower is really spectacular!" Wei Xian was amazed at the towering Kaifeng Iron Tower.

"This young master doesn't know that this tower was built in the first year of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. It was built with 28 kinds of ochre-colored glazed bricks. The tower was more than ten feet high. It is rumored that this tower enshrines the relics of several Taoist monks after the death of the dead. It is quite spiritual, so it has been kept standing for nearly four hundred years, but it has not been destroyed by the war." A tourist next to him saw that Wei Xian was a foreigner and couldn't help but introduce the Kaifeng Iron Tower.

When Wei Xian saw the iron-colored glass tower, he was probably about 60 meters high, and he was amazed. At this time, it would not be easy to build such a tall building.

Looking at Kaibao Temple again, it is really a place with excellent feng shui. The trees are very good. Although there are many tourists in the temple, there are no one making noise when traveling. Some fortune tellers set up stalls here.

A pillar of the sky hinders the clouds, and the power to break the dark is the same as the sun and the moon.

The fire dragon turns the axis of the earth in the middle of the night, and the stars in all directions are under the ladder.

The light shook and shimmered along the pearl clams, and the shadow fell in the sea to shine on the rhinoceros.

The flames are so high that they are so strong that they are talking about empty questions.

Wei Xian saw the poems and books written by his predecessors in one place. When he saw that it was left by Feng Zizhen of the previous dynasty. Feng Zizhen was a famous sanqu music writer in the previous dynasty. His name was Haisu and named himself Yingzhou Zhouke. He was a strange Taoist. During the Dade period of the Yuan Dynasty, he became the Jinshi and became the governor of Zhangde. His works of history include "Juyong Fu", "Eighteen Public Fu", "Huaqing Ancient Yuefu", "Haisu Poetry Collection", etc., and Sanqu is the most written.

When I visited Kaibao Temple again, I saw some literati and talented people leaving behind treasures here, all of whom were praising poems such as Kaifeng Iron Tower or Kaibao Temple.

One night in Kaifeng, he rode his horse east the next day and walked into Shandong soon. Shandong is the hometown of Qi and Lu. It has been a place of literary prosperity since ancient times. The descendants of Confucius were in Shandong. It has been passed down for nearly two thousand years. All dynasties have received great rewards from the emperor. Other aristocratic families and dynasties have been destroyed, but the Confucius family in Shandong is still there and is flourishing.

Of course, the hometown of Qilu is not only full of literary style, but also a strong force in the martial arts world. The Taishan Sect is a sect established on Mount Tai. It has been dominating the Shandong Wulin for a hundred years and has been resisting the Demon Sect in Shandong. The two sides will fight from time to time.

Although it is not far from Mount Tai, Wei Xian did not have the idea of ​​going to the Mount Tai Sect. As for going to the Confucius Temple, let’s forget it. Wei Xian felt disgusted with the dirty filth of the Kong family. How many sins are behind the thousand-year-old family, it is hard for the world to imagine.

When he arrived in Jining Prefecture, Wei Xian sold his horse and took a boat to the north along the Grand Canal. The two sides of the Grand Canal benefited the convenience of the Grand Canal and were very prosperous. Wei Xian admired that Emperor Yang of Sui's excavation of the Grand Canal was really "the sin is in the present and the future." Without this Grand Canal, the exchange between the north and the south would have to be a big discount. Now Jiangnan will not become a rich and fertile land.

Wei Xian hired a boat to go north to Beijing, and walked and stopped all the way, only treating this trip as a tour.

Whenever he goes to a prosperous port, the boat has to dock, and Wei Xian has to go ashore to visit and appreciate the local customs and customs. Wei Xian has also seen the nature of so-called romantic talents in many places, and is unrestrained on the pleasure boat, so as to make the beauty smile and spend a lot of money.

The journey was smooth sailing. Although there were occasional robbers of water, they were blinded by the appearance of scholar Wei Xian and eventually became the dead soul under Wei Xian's sword.

What Wei Xian saw along the way was full of prosperity and prosperity. There were few towns on both sides of the canal that were not rich, which was only natural.

However, although the towns on both sides of the canal are prosperous, due to the excessive flow of people from south to north and the "turning eyes" of the local government, the security situation is not very good. Along the way, the various chaos in the wharf town made Wei Xian frown slightly, and sometimes he even bumped into two groups of people fighting on the street, but the local government was speechless regardless of whether he was asking.

The order of the towns in the canal wharf is a bit chaotic. It can be seen that there are a large number of poor people. The coolies on the wharf are secretly controlled by some gang forces, and their lives are quite difficult.

In this situation, the more complicated the situation goes north, the more arrogant and wanton the gang forces appear, and even reach the point of blatant oppression of poverty.

Wei Xian finally understood why this canal is known as the "million-dollar trough work and clothing"? It is really that the Grand Canal is too important and is the most important hub for communicating between the north and the south. Whether it goes south or north, it is the most convenient to pass through the Grand Canal. The southern grain, salt, etc. go north through the canal and go directly to the capital. If there is a big problem with the Grand Canal, the entire capital will be in chaos and there is not enough food to eat.

Wei Xian looked at the ships traveling between the north and the south, not only the trough ships, but also the ships built by the people. The cargo loaded by these ships was complex, including food, fruits, cotton, as well as porcelain, silk, cloth, groceries, etc. The civilian ships, merchant ships, cargo ships, and trough ships sailing on the Grand Canal were invincible.

Going north all the way greatly increased Wei Xian's knowledge and gained a clear understanding of the customs and customs on both sides of the canal. Of course, Wei Xian also met scholars who also wanted to go to Beijing to take the exam. Some scholars who even went directly from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, started directly from Hangzhou, and took a boat along the Grand Canal north. This was much easier than going to Beijing to take the exam in other places.

In February, the people who went to Beijing to take the exam were not only new juren, but also those who failed the juren in the past but failed the juren. In one case, there were at least hundreds of people. The number of people who went to Beijing to take the exam nationwide was at least more than 1,000 and nearly 2,000. Among them, there were old juren in their forties. These people were unwilling to give up and wanted to win a Jinshi fame.

Unfortunately, although the elite talents from all provinces are without exception, the candidates who can go to Beijing to take the exam are only 300 people who can get the exam in each exam, and even if there is a celebration, it is nothing more than a 50 or 100 people. This means that only one out of the five or six juren can get the title of Jinshi.
Chapter completed!