Chapter 193 The Ancient City of Lin'an, Shen Tang Arrives
Chapter 193: Lin'an Ancient City, Shen Tang arrives
The green mountain tower outside the mountain! When does the West Lake singing and dancing stop! The warm breeze makes the tourists drunk! Let’s call Hangzhou Bianzhou!
"Lin'an!"
It’s hard to describe what Lin’an is like in one sentence! It’s even harder to describe Lin’an’s status in the Song Dynasty and in everyone’s heart!
However, just these two words are enough to explain a lot of things.
Lin'an!
As the name suggests, it is just a temporary settlement! In the more than a hundred years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an has never been the capital of the Song Dynasty. Because there was only one capital of the Song Dynasty before, now and in the future, and it... was called Bianjing!
Lin'an is just walking from beginning to end!
Time can erase many things, such as hatred! Of course, this may be just a subconscious and deliberate forgetting!
Lin'an's drunkenness made the top group of people in the Song Dynasty forget the embarrassment and humiliation decades ago! They forgot that their ancestors were led to the north by the Jin people like pigs and dogs, and suffered all the hardships Death by insult!
They forgot that the capital of the Song Dynasty was called Kaifeng and Bianjing! It was a glorious place that had been passed down for several generations and belonged only to the Central Plains Dynasty!
They have forgotten that the prosperity of Lin'an should never be a glory, but a shame!
They have also forgotten that they...can only be called a group of rats who are unable to look north and live an ignoble existence, exchanging gold, silver, people, and land for a temporary peace of mind!
Perhaps, they have never dreamed of going further to the north! As for the people there... what do they have to do with them?
No wonder Lin Sheng would curse later: When will the singing and dancing in West Lake stop? No wonder he would humiliate them and call Hangzhou Bianzhou!
Have you really forgotten? Can you forget the shame, anger and hatred that have been engraved in your bones for decades?
The capital of Lin'an is a rare layout with south facing north! Relying on the extremely beautiful Phoenix Mountain, I wonder if these big shots who stood at the top of power in the Song Dynasty would see the crying souls of their ancestors in the north when they dreamed back at midnight. ?
The entire Lin'an is in a long strip shape from north to south, with West Lake on the west side, the Grand Canal and Shangtang River on the south side, Caishi River and Tiesha River on the east side, and Fenghuang Mountain and Qiantang River on the north side.
Lin'an, surrounded by four rivers, gave the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty a rare sense of security, but it also restricted all their courage and bloodshed! I think, in the eyes of Gaozong and Zhao Gou, a mere Yue Fei There is absolutely no way they can reach this waterway. Therefore, he can execute Yue Fei without hesitation! I think they have forgotten to take back the land, capital and people occupied by the Jin people. They just want to live in peace here for the rest of their lives.
Sad? Sad? Lamentable!
Countless dignitaries from the Northern Song Dynasty crossed south with their gold and silver, and squandered half of the Song Dynasty's wealth in this tiny place of Lin'an! As a result, Lin'an's abnormal prosperity was born.
Lin'an has a population of over 1.2 million. Such a huge population is crowded into Lin'an, which is only 60 square miles. You can imagine how crowded it is! Such a huge population density will definitely make the so-called magical capital of the future generations, the capital city. Shameful. Zhang Gu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once said that living in Chang'an is not easy! But it is even more difficult in Lin'an now!
Only one number is needed to make people understand how difficult it is to live in Lin'an! Among them, the price of remote houses in the city ranges from 300 to 500 taels! The price of a slightly higher-end house is at least several thousand taels! The luxury houses in the city even range from tens of thousands of taels. Ranging from one million to one million!
If Shen Tang bought the house in Shanyin for less than a hundred taels, if it were placed in Lin'an, it could be sold for at least several thousand taels.
Therefore, renting an apartment in Lin'an is a very normal thing.
There are thirteen gates on all sides of Lin'an, among which the seven east gates are Genshan, Dongqing, Chongxin, Xinkai, Baoan, Houchao and Bianmen. The four west gates are Qianhu, Qingbo, Fengyu and Qiantang. The others are Jiahui Gate in the south and Yuhang Gate in the north.
There are also five water gates, namely North and South Water Gate, Baoan Water Gate, Tianzong Water Gate and Yuhang Water Gate.
The entire Lin'an is divided into two halves from south to north by Yujie. In addition to Yujie, there are four main roads in the east, west, and south, as well as several secondary roads! There are also four water systems running through the city. On the side of the water system, most of them are busy places. .
Generally speaking, the entire Lin'an City is roughly divided into three areas. From south to north, they are the government office area, the commercial area, and the industrial area with many workshops in the north. Most of the residents in the city live in the central part, but there are also a few who accidentally live together.
Shen Tang and Liu Xiangling took Lian'er, Zhu'er, a dozen military guards and some Shao family servants into Lin'an, the most prosperous place in the Song Dynasty, from Chongxin Gate.
When arriving at Lin'an, it was naturally inconvenient for Deng Jie and his soldiers to follow him. Therefore, Deng Jie only left more than ten soldiers to guard Shen Tang and others before leading the rest of the troops back to the north.
Liu Xiangling revisited her old place, while Shen Tang was shocked by the prosperity of this thousand years ago.
"Madam, where do you want our home to be?" Shen Tang asked.
Liu Xiangling didn't have much preference for houses, but the word "family" in Shen Tang's mouth was unusually alluring.
"It's all up to the husband to make the decision. However, Xiangling and her husband are no longer the only two people in the family, so I'm afraid a big house is enough!" Liu Xiangling said.
Shen Tang nodded, there were nearly thirty people in his line, and the house was too small to afford it.
As for the matter of money, the couple did not consider it. When they were in the Shao family, Liu Xiangling secretly showed Shen Tang the business interests of Xianlu in the past few months. In the past few months, the profit of Xianlu was more than 100 yuan. Ten thousand taels of silver, even half of it, is still hundreds of thousands of taels. Therefore, although the couple is not as rich as the Shao family, they can still be regarded as wealthy people with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
"Okay, then after we enter the city, we will go to the dental store to take a look and choose the right one." Shen Tang responded.
However, they hadn't gone very far when they saw Mingyang approaching from a distance.
"I have met you, sir!" Mingyang bowed and saluted.
Shen Tang smiled and said, "It seems that your results have been good in the past few months!"
Not long after he entered Lin'an, Mingyang arrived. Obviously, it was Mingyang's informant who discovered Shen Tang and informed Mingyang in time.
"What are your plans next?" Mingyang asked respectfully.
"Find a dental shop first, and then find a house to buy." Shen Tang responded.
Mingyang was startled, but then he said: "Sir, we have two dental shops in Lin'an now. If you want to buy a house, just come with me!"
Shen Tang was also stunned, but this was a coincidence. Then, under the guidance of Mingyang, the group walked towards the city.
After walking forward for about a stick of incense, Mingyang stopped and said to Shen Tang: "Sir, there is a backyard in Yaxing, and there are people we trust to look after it. You can let Madam go and rest for a while."
There were a lot of people in the tooth shop, so Shen Tang turned around and let Liu Xiangling lead everyone to the backyard to rest, and he followed Ming Yang into the tooth shop.