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Chapter 38 Everyone chooses their own way (1)

"...Public products and public services are the foundation of the country. From the large scale, from the state that is not invaded by foreign enemies, to the small scale, from whether the people can travel with confidence, public services meet a certain direct need for citizens' lives, survival and development, and can benefit or enjoy citizens. The basic driving force for the formation of the country is because people need a wider coverage of protection and services. Only social organizations at this level can provide such services..."

Hao Ren stroked his stomach. Although waves of nausea surged from his stomach, his attention could not be moved away from the newspaper in his hand. However, the nausea became more and more intense. Hao Renwanhu finally poked his head out of the boat window on the canal and vomited into the canal.

There are two waterways from the Great Song Dynasty to the Great Yuan Dynasty. One starts from Hangzhou along the Zhejiang East Canal to Qingyuan Prefecture (Ningbo), change the sea boat in Ningbo, and guides the lighthouse to the north to enter the Bohai Sea. Land in Zhigu Village, and then from Zhigu Village to Dadu (Beijing).

Another road has now been opened, starting from Hangzhou along the Grand Canal, passing through Zhenjiang and crossing the Yangtze River, and entering the canal in the north from Yangzhou. Now the Song Dynasty has completed the section from the "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal" to the Yellow River. Boats can directly reach the Yellow River. Crossing the Yellow River is Dezhou, and there is a post road directly to Dadu.

Borjijin Hao Renwanhu chose the Grand Canal as the way to return, so that he could see more of the true face of the Song Dynasty. However, Hao Renwanhu, who had no big reaction to sea boats, was actually seasick on the canal. "Let's stop the boat in Yangzhou first." Hao Renwanhu, who was sitting back in the boat, gave the order weakly. Seasickness on the Yangtze River made Hao Renwanhu feel a little ashamed. He was originally a navy army, and before he was also downstream on the Yangtze River, swallowing thousands of miles of awe.

After getting off the boat, he stood on the shore with his hands behind his back for a while. Hao Renwanhu felt disgusted and recovered. Since he had already gotten off the boat, he was unwilling to get on the boat again. Moreover, Yangzhou is a big city, and now this famous city has become a large construction site like Hangzhou. Hao Ren feels that it is a loss not to take a good look here.

With the guards and the pass certificate, Hao Renwan’s houses wandered on the streets of Yangzhou. Although Yangzhou was built lively, it seemed to be innovating. The same red bricks and the same apartment type can be seen from the tall troughs under construction that Yangzhou has also begun to build a tap water system.

Even though there was no new idea, Hao Ren Wanhu was still wandering around Yangzhou. Unlike Hangzhou, because Zhao Taiwei sent troops to defend Yangzhou, the Mongolian army was unable to occupy the city, so Hao Ren Wanhu had a strong sense of curiosity about the city. After walking for a while, Hao Ren heard the guards say, "Wan Hu, this city seems to be demolishing the city wall."

"Yeah." Hao Ren responded. He also saw workers demolishing the earthen walls of Yangzhou City. However, in such a magical place as the Song Dynasty, Hao Ren would not be surprised by seeing anything. He kept following the location of the hypothetical tap water, and could see that the earthen walls had an impact on this kind of frame. It also had an impact on the passage of Yangzhou.

The guard did not notice Hao Ren's attitude that he didn't care. He continued to express his attitude excitedly, "Wanhu, if we attack Yangzhou again next time, there is no city wall, we should be able to go all out."

"...Hmm." Hao Ren responded again. He actually didn't agree with the words of the guard at all, but he was no longer the age to express his feelings immediately after a slight opposition.

At that time, Mongolia slaughtered countless cities, and whether there were any city walls had limited significance to Mongolia. The Yellow River Battle between the Yuan Dynasty and the Song Dynasty fought for several months. During this period, many battles broke out between the two sides, and even a huge change occurred that caused the Yellow River to divert the route. Bianliang and Luoyang were both big cities with high and deep cities, and it is said that they all went down one day. The barracks built by the Song army were built in straw bags of soil in one day, and the Mongolian army besieged several times its strength, but there was still no way.

At the end of the Yellow River Battle, the Song army was able to conquer the county town of Huaxian under the siege of Mongolia. At this time, the Mongolian army even sent heavy cavalry to charge. As a result, the Song army destroyed the heavy cavalry of Mongolia while breaking through Huaxian.

After these major changes, Hao Ren's dependence on the city walls has been greatly reduced. These city walls may be useful, but they are no longer the kind of decisive factors.

Continue to move along the water pipe construction site. As Hao Ren expected, this passage came from the reservoir outside the city. Many small saplings have been planted next to the reservoir. When the saplings grow, the huge water surface will be surrounded by wide forests like the huge reservoir outside the city of Hangzhou.

Hao Ren stood on the edge of the woods and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Most people seemed to have no such conditions. Lakes can be seen everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, but not north of the Yellow River, and the rivers in Hebei are not as clear as those in the south of the Yangtze River.

After walking for so long, Hao Ren felt hungry, so he took the guards back.

"Wanhu, did I say something wrong?" the guard asked.

"No."

"Then why don't you even scold me?"

"I..." Hao Ren wanted to say something but stopped. It was already amazing that the guards could know that they were wrong. If they fooled him like this, it would be very wrong.

"Wanhu, just say whatever you have." The guard quickly added.

"I just think that the Song State has changed a lot. Our previous views on Song State, and even our own, have to change. You have also seen the tap water in Song State. Do you think that thing is convenient?"

"It's convenient..." The guard was a little hesitant.

"Then what?"

"Tap water is something from the Song Kingdom. I always feel something is wrong with praising them." The guard said his heart.

"Haha. It's something from the Song Dynasty. Once we learn it, it will become our own thing. Three people must have a teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones." Hao Ren really couldn't say it in Mongolian, so he used Chinese.

The cultural cultivation of the guard Hao Ren is not as high as that of the guard Wang Donglu, Kublai Khan. As Hao Ren's senior brother, although Wang Donglu's Confucianism is not Xun's academic, it is also Neo-Confucianism. Listening to Hao Ren's schoolbag, the guard just smiled awkwardly, but couldn't continue.

Hao Ren also felt much more relaxed when the guard could shut up. He couldn't help but think about the tap water technology he brought back from the Song Dynasty this time. Although Hao Ren was able to confirm that the Song State provided not all tap water technology, at least it was already a tap water technology that could be used.

Why did the State of Song give Hao Ren this kind of thing? Hao Ren thinks that it is the State of Song who is particularly over-looking at Hao Ren. If he really looks up to him, Taiwei Zhao should meet Hao Ren in person, rather than simply meeting Hao Ren in a regular seat. If it is more intimate, at least the last time, Taiwei Zhao told Hao Ren about simple materialism.

Although he felt regretful, Hao Ren still felt grateful to Zhao Taiwei... Oh, it was Zhao Guanjia. When Zhao Guanjia learned of Hao Ren's request, he ordered some tap water materials to Hao Ren, including the construction of reservoirs, canals, and fountains. Hao Ren really wanted to build a water supply system in Dadu according to the Song Dynasty after returning to Dadu.

Hao Ren didn't want to learn only one tap water. There are many and many particularly wonderful things in Song State. For example, the senior officials of Song State divided into official residences, which also made Hao Ren feel very eye-opening. It is such a large community, although the houses are the same, but they have different locations. If you follow the methods of the Yuan Dynasty, it would be that the emperor gave the house. The Song State is different.

That was an algorithm based on the level and the years of being an official. The algorithm was public. Hao Ren felt that the longer the working years, the easier it was to rank high. The impact of the level was to be a little smaller than the years of working.

Originally, Hao Ren thought that everyone had a number, but the Song State was not like this. This was calculated according to the batch. Each batch of people had to draw lots, and the numbers drawn out were in the order of house selection. This practice made Hao Ren and thousands of households confused. Isn’t the Song State clear hierarchy system like Mongolia?

Although the officials of the Song State were also complaining about their luck, there was no obvious anger overall. A very small number of dissatisfied people just gave up this time the distribution of houses in exchange for the right to choose from the next batch of distribution of houses.

Hao Ren recalled this experience several times over the years, and of course he could understand the intention. Everyone wanted to get a house that satisfies him. Such a division could reduce the complaints to a very low level. However, Hao Ren also felt strange, why did the Zhao Guan family not use his strong position to divide the house? If it were Mongolia, he would not do this at all. The origin of blood naturally determines everything. Hao Ren's ten thousand households could naturally choose among the top houses, and anyone felt that this was successful.

As he walked, Hao Ren suddenly stopped. It was very close to the construction site, and there were a lot of building materials, but there were no one. The people behind him followed them for a long time, so long that they wanted to pretend that they didn't see Hao Ren and Wanhu could not bear it. Even if they saw Hao Ren, the Mongolian envoy, why not come forward openly? It would be a stump for Hao Ren, the ten thousand households of the Borjijin family to be like a thief.

The guard also saw this person, but before, Hao Ren signaled not to pay attention to this person, so the guard also endured it. Now that he could not bear it even when he saw Hao Ren and Wanhu, he turned around to block Hao Ren and Wanhu, but did not block Wanhu's view.

The man opposite saw Hao Ren so openly confronting each other, he did not dodge, but went straight forward. He saluted first, and the man asked, "Is he a Mongolian envoy?"

"What's wrong with you?" Hao Ren asked directly.

"I am Yang Dacheng, the nephew of Queen Mother Yang of the Song Dynasty. I want to join Dayuan." The man answered straightforwardly.
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