"Xiao Ming, I'm not curious at all why this calligraphy is in my home. Since my ancestors are the 'Four Davids' of your Yong family, it is normal to have things given by the Yong family. But now I
What I’m curious about is, where exactly does this picture refer to?”
"Brother Xie, can you draw the layout of the streets and lanes around your home?"
"Of course you can. Drawing books are my specialty."
"Look, if you didn't say anything, I would have forgotten to ask, Brother Xie, what do you do?"
"I am an engineer, to be precise, a bridge engineer who does not actually design and build projects."
"Oh? Bridge engineer," Yong Ming murmured to himself, "Then, this drawing and planning is really your strong point."
"Xiao Ming, then I will draw the layout of the streets and lanes near my home now."
"Brother Xie, we must be specific about each building, each house, the direction of the street, and the orientation of the house. There must be no deviation. We are pressed for time, and this picture must give me an immersive feeling so that I can make analysis and judgment.
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"Xiao Ming, don't worry. I will definitely pay attention to this. My expertise is here and there will be no problem."
"That's good, thank you, brother. There is a bamboo ruler and pencil in the pen holder on the desk, and there is letter paper next to it. It is suitable for the purpose. Just use it."
"Okay, please wait a moment, I need a moment to draw."
"Brother Xie, you don't need to worry about me. Just focus on drawing. I'll just wait beside you."
Xie Liuyun put away the nave he had just written, then took a stack of letter paper, picked up a pencil and ruler, and began to draw a layout of the streets and alleys near his home.
Xie Liuyun's professional level is very high. In about half an hour, he drew a layout plan of streets and houses.
He put down the pen in his hand, checked the drawing carefully, and after making sure it was correct, he looked up at Yong Ming and said, "Xiao Ming, the layout drawing has been drawn, please take a look."
Yong Ming also handed a piece of paper in his hand to Xie Liuyun and said: "This is where your father keeps precious things. You can mark it according to the layout plan."
Xie Liuyun was focused on drawing just now and did not notice that Yong Ming had taken advantage of this time to organize the information contained in the "Yongtai Song" he had transcribed onto a piece of paper.
Now he saw the piece of paper that Yong Ming handed to him. The upper part was filled with different strokes, and the lower part was a sentence. The content was: "Go west for 300 meters, turn north, and walk 150 meters toward the north."
South storefront".
Xie Liuyun immediately followed this clue and compared the location on the layout map he drew.
He drew this floor plan at a scale of 1:100, which included four or five nearby streets and lanes centered around his home.
Although he grew up here, there are some streets that he rarely visits and there are many shops on the street. He cannot remember and list them one by one. He can only restore and draw the conditions of several surrounding streets and alleys that he is familiar with.
Even so, it is already remarkable. It shows that he is a careful person and has careful observation and accumulation of the surrounding geographical environment and human settlements.
After getting a clear clue, Xie Liuyun quickly found the location on the map.
He marked it with a pencil, then handed the two pieces of stationery with the layout plan to Yong Ming, while he took the piece of stationery with the clues written on it by Yong Ming and studied it carefully.
Yong Ming took the letter paper handed to him by Xie Liuyun, spread the two pieces of paper flat on the table, and looked down at it.
The whole picture has regular lines, fine drawing, clean and tidy, and the street names, shop signs, residents, and house numbers are clear at a glance.
It didn't take long, and there was a lack of special tools. With just a bamboo ruler, a rough layout diagram could explain the local situation, and it would not affect Yong Ming's subsequent judgment and analysis.
However, what Yong Ming saw now was a rigorous and meticulous floor plan accurate to meters, which really surprised Yong Ming and gave him an understanding of Xie Liuyun's professional level.
Yong Ming thought to himself that this was the talent he was about to rebuild, the "Yongwang Guard" that had once frightened the treacherous and rebellious ministers and was full of mystery from the day it was born.
Yong Ming looked at the layout plan in his hand with admiration. He first found the location of Xie Liuyun's house, and then followed an indicator line to find the five-star location three streets away from his home.
Yong Ming raised his head and looked at Xie Liuyun and asked: "Brother Xie, according to the clues, can you tell that the marked location is a jade?"
Xie Liuyun nodded, "This street is a place where jade shops gather together. There are more than twenty jade shops, large and small. I can't remember the sign of the specific shop, but I am sure it is a jade shop, so there is no mistake.
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Yong Ming looked at the layout plan. Xie Liuyun's house was located in Andu Temple Lane, with Nanmen Street to the east, Wenhua Lane to the west, Puli Street to the south, Guanyi Street to the north, and the street where the jade shop was located was Yuhua Lane.
Judging from the overall layout of streets and lanes, the distribution of buildings, and the division of residential and commercial functions, this is a prosperous place in Tonglu, with a strong commercial atmosphere and frequent business contacts.
The Xie family was ordered to go south and stationed in Zhejiang. They did not choose Hangzhou, where "everyone exchanged twenty-four bridges of moon for ten hectares of autumn in the West Lake". Instead, they chose Tonglu, which is more than a hundred miles away from Hangzhou. It must have been an on-the-spot investigation.
Afterwards, the changes made were made.
Since being sent to Anqiu, the Xie family has gone through vicissitudes and social turmoil for more than a hundred years, but the Xie family has never broken off contact with the Yong family, adhered to their duties, and stood in the southern country to defend the Yong family.
This was a decision made due to the situation at that time. Since the "King" and "Wei" families led their troops to search for the Song Dynasty royal family in the "Yashan Sea Battle", they were involved in a fierce battle and disappeared.
"Yongwangwei" is only supported by the Yong family.
Times were difficult, and in order to preserve their strength and leave behind their bloodline, the "Yongwang Guards" who had protected the Song royal family for nearly three hundred years had to take refuge in the world and disappeared, and their names were never heard of again in the world.
But more than a hundred years ago, in order to rob the huge treasure left by the Song Dynasty royal family, an unknown force intended to break the core of the "Yongwang Guard" and completely defeat the "Yongwang Guard", so as to find the location of the treasure and remove the huge amount of the Song Dynasty royal family.
Keep the wealth for yourself.
If at that time, my ancestors had not sent out the "Four Davids" to guard the Yong clan in all directions, once the Anqiu Yong clan was surrounded, there would have been no chance of escape.
Nowadays, the Yong family has no support from the imperial court of the perished Song Dynasty, and without the cooperation of the "King" and "Wei" families, they can only rely on themselves. After dozens of generations of painstaking efforts, they have established a "Yong Ran" family.
The tea trading system in which "Guan Guan" is the main business entity has achieved self-sufficiency.