Chapter 465: The Beginning of Civil and Commercial Rise (3)
The speed of large ships is naturally much faster than that of small ships. Within a few days, Hubu's fleet arrived at Xiangfu Port on the south side of Daliang, the capital of the capital, and parked there to unload the cargo on board.
Therefore, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu also drove their carriages and got off the ship.
At this moment, Xiangfu Port is being expanded with the cooperation of the Metallurgical Bureau and the Ministry of Industry. The scale of the project left Wen Shaobo and Jie Zizi stunned.
They originally thought that the construction of Shangshui County River Port was a big project. After all, there were thousands of people working on the project there. However, after seeing tens of thousands of people participating in the port construction project at Xiangfu Port, they felt proud in their hearts.
The feeling suddenly disappeared.
"It is worthy of being the river port of the royal capital."
Wen Shaobo exclaimed.
Unexpectedly, a dirt-covered craftsman passed by. After hearing Shaobo Wen's emotion, he stopped and asked with a smile: "Are you two little brothers not locals?"
"Who are you?" Wen Shaobo looked at the guy in front of him who was talking casually in confusion.
The man shrugged and said with a smile, "He's just a craftsman from the Smelting Bureau."
Jie Ziyu was stunned, because he found that when this person mentioned the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau, his expression showed unconcealable pride.
He said respectfully: "My two brothers are merchants who responded to King Su's call and went to Sanchuan to do business..."
Although Jie Ziu didn't know that the Smelting Bureau was the imperial department headed by Su Wang Hongrun, he was keen and saw some clues from the other party's proud look: he was just a craftsman, but he could work in the royal capital of Daliang.
In a place like this, when someone mentions the department he belongs to, he shows pride, which explains something.
"Prince Su?" The craftsman was stunned for a moment. After taking a look at the carriage beside the two of them, he said suddenly: "I see." After that, he raised his finger and pointed in one direction and said: "It's easy to go in this direction.
Bolangsha, and then pass through Chenggao Pass to reach Luocheng... By the way, when passing by Bolangsha, you might as well take a look at Bolangsha under construction and see how our Smelting Bureau will
A deserted land was transformed into a river and an alley."
"Is it bigger than Xiangfu Port?" Jie Ziyu asked in surprise.
"Xiangfu Port? Here?" The craftsman pointed at his feet, and then sneered: "Little brother, after the Bolangsha Port is completed, you will find that Xiangfu Port is just a small port."
Cheung Fook Port? It’s just a small port?
Wen Shaobo glanced at Xiangfu Port, which covered an area of more than several miles, and looked at each other in shock with Jie Zizi.
After exchanging a few words with each other, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu said goodbye to each other, drove the carriage, and headed straight towards Bolangsha without passing the main beam of the royal capital.
"Aren't you going to enter the royal capital?" Wen Shaobo asked with some frustration.
Perhaps in Yingshui County, Anling County is a prosperous city, but compared with the royal capital, Daliang, Anling is just a backwater at best. Wen Shaobo, who lives in a small place, naturally wants to witness the prosperity of the royal capital with his own eyes.
"Calculate the days before you consider this matter when you return." Jie Ziyu shook his head and reminded: "Didn't your father require you to return to Anling before the end of the year? Otherwise..."
"Otherwise, break my legs." Shaobo Wen sighed, frustrated.
Driving a carriage, Wen Shaobo and Jie Zigu arrived at Bolangsha in the evening of that day.
But after arriving, Wen Shaobo was very disappointed with the desolation around Bolangsha, because looking around, Bolangsha was completely deserted, with mud and swamps everywhere.
The port is better than the other.
"Isn't that person playing tricks on us?"
Uncle Wen said angrily.
Jie Ziwei shook his head and looked at the group of people in the distance.
In the distance, I saw a group of people driving a copper pillar several feet long into the mud that required two people to hug it.
"pile……"
Jie Ziyu whispered in a low voice.
Chu State has many river ports, and the construction of river ports requires the use of piles. Therefore, Jie Zizi is no stranger to this.
He was just surprised that Wei State actually used such huge copper pillars as stakes.
And this means that the buildings built on these copper pillars in the future will be very heavy and very large building complexes.
"The craftsman did not deceive us. If the port here is completed, it will be compared with Xiangfu Port..." Jie Ziyu said to himself secretly, and then added in his heart: Even, it may even bring the world under the sun.
All ports in various countries are comparable.
"Really? I can't tell anyway." Mr. Wen shrugged, with a bit of disappointment and regret, and drove the carriage forward.
On the other hand, Jie Ziyu visually inspected Bolangsha and speculated in his mind on the future scale of this river port.
The inferred results left him stunned.
Because it may be a river port that is larger than the average county town, several times larger.
Rather than building a river port, this is clearly building a city!
"Da Wei is really prosperous..."
Jie Ziu couldn't help but sigh.
Uncle Wen glanced at his brother inexplicably, and joked with a smile: "Don't make it sound like it has nothing to do with you. Although you were born in Chu, you are now a Wei person, brother."
"Yeah..." Jie Ziyu sighed and nodded slowly.
He looked back at Bolangsha with a bit of inexplicable sadness in his eyes.
He thought of his homeland, Chu.
Compared with the prosperous Wei State, the Chu State seemed lifeless.
The Wei State invested perhaps an astronomical amount of money to build the country, but in the Chu State, the nobles who controlled the country squandered the money, used it for luxury and debauchery, and lived in drunken dreams.
That night, they stayed overnight in the sand dunes west of Bolangsha.
The sand dune area to the west of Bolangsha was really difficult to walk on. Several times the wheels got stuck in the sand, causing Wen Shaobo and Jie Zizi to spend a lot of effort to push the car out of the sand pit.
But what surprised them was that when they were preparing to stay overnight, they met several teams with the same purpose of going to Sanchuan for business.
These people were all from Wei, and they were very surprised by the combination of Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu, who were from Anling Wei and Shangshui Chu people. After all, it was well known throughout the country that Anling Wei people and Shangshui people disliked each other.
Although the two places are adjacent to each other, they have always been in harmony with each other.
There was even a nasty incident this year where people from Anling and people from Shangshui got into a fight, and those people are still imprisoned in the prisons of Anling and Shangshui.
Because of Jie Zizi's status as a Chu people, these Wei people were not very enthusiastic. After all, when King Chu Yangcheng led his army to attack the Wei State, there was an uproar in Wei, which made the Wei people extremely angry towards the Chu people. Therefore, even now it seems that
People from Chu like Jie Ziyu defected to Wei, but some Wei people still regarded him with prejudice.
However, there was a man named Tao Hong who made a place for Wen Shaobo and Jie Zizi.
"Tao Qiu, Tao Hong, Dang County... To be precise, I am from Song Dynasty."
After Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu sat down, the other party briefly introduced themselves.
The so-called people of the Song Dynasty actually refer to the people of the original Song State. Now, the territory of the Song State has been merged into the Wei State, and the Song people have also been merged into the Wei people.
"Wen Shaobo, Anling, Yingshui County."
"Shangshui, Yingshui County, Jie Ziyu... Many thanks to this big brother for making room for us."
Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu also briefly introduced themselves.
"It's just a trivial matter." Tao Hong waved his hand, then nuzzled his lips towards the groups of Wei people who were far away, and said in a low voice: "Compared to me, your status as a Chu country is nothing at all...
To be honest, at first I was really afraid that those people would come up and chop me to death with a knife."
"..." Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu looked at each other.
"Why?" Jie Ziyu asked in surprise.
Tao Hong sighed softly and lowered his voice and said: "The Wei State attacked our Song State. Many Song people could not accept it and were still resisting. Dang County still wanted to do it because the Dangshan Army was in charge, but in other places...
It's very chaotic, really chaotic. The Wei people are killing the Song people, and the Song people are killing the Wei people. That bastard Nangong in Suiyang used to only know how to massacre and suppress the rebellious Song people. Now he regrets it and starts to appease the Song people.
Is it useful? It’s too late!…The Song people’s hatred for Nangong and the Wei people have already reached the point where they are close to exploding.”
"Hey, I'm a Wei man." Wen Shaobo interrupted dissatisfiedly.
Tao Hong glanced at Mr. Wen, shrugged and said, "The Wei people who can become brothers with a Chu person will naturally not be the Wei people I mentioned." After that, he turned to look at Jie Ziu and said with envy:
"I heard about Shangshui. To be honest, I envy you. With King Su in charge, no one dares to cause trouble in the Shangshui area. Song Dynasty will not be the same..."
After hearing this, Jie Ziyu comforted him and said, "Don't worry, brother Tao. After King Su resolves the matter in Sanchuan, he may go to Song Dynasty."
"Going to the Song Dynasty?" Tao Hong shook his head and whispered: "King Su will not go to the Song Dynasty...for no other reason, because there is Nangong in the Song Dynasty. Like Daliang, King Su cannot interfere in the affairs of the Song Dynasty.
Unless Nangong rebels, this is what Nangong and Daliang agreed upon back then."
After saying that, he grinned and said: "In fact, now I can't wait for Nangong to rebel. Once Nangong rebels, King Su might lead an army to conquer Nangong in the Song Dynasty... It's a pity that Nangong is a wimp. Recently, I heard that King Su has been attacking Nangong one after another.
After winning the battle, I no longer dare to mention the restoration of the Song Dynasty royal family."
Looking at the look of regret in Tao Hong's eyes, Wen Shaobo and Jie Zigui looked at each other.
They could only persuade Tao Hong to wait patiently, and King Su would definitely resolve the matter in Song Dynasty in the future.
At dawn the next day, everyone who stayed overnight set off.
But Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu went together because they had a good chat with Tao Hong. After all, their goal was to Chenggao Pass.
The official sand dune road from Bolangsha to Chenggao Pass was really difficult, so it took these people a long time to reach Chenggao Pass.
After arriving at Chenggao Pass, they were shocked to find that Chenggao Pass actually stipulated that caravans going back and forth for business must pay a fee to Chenggao Pass before they could enter or exit the pass.
This incident made the caravans together with Wen Shaobo, Jie Ziu, Tao Hong and others very dissatisfied.
While Wen Shaobo was arguing with Chenggao's soldiers, Jie Ziyu noticed that a large caravan came to Chenggao Pass, but the soldiers stationed at Chenggao Pass did not even have to pay for their exit.
If you ask the other party for help, you will be given a direct reply saying that you are not allowed to leave the country.