The earliest city wall in Guizhou City was built in the Yuan Dynasty and was called "Shunyuan City" at that time.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Ma Ye, the commander of the capital of Guizhou and a fan of whip play, expanded the city on the basis of the Shunyuan Tucheng, and the later Guizhou stone city wall was built.
By the Zhengde period, Guizhou City still had only six gates, and the "Second South Gate" only allowed sergeants to pass.
Wang Yuan and others entered the city through the Rouyuan Gate. Everything outside this gate was under the jurisdiction of the chieftain, which means "Huairouyuanren".
Relying on the base of the city wall, there is a shantytown outside the city, mostly built by the Han people who moved there. This situation was very common in ancient times. When the shantytown expanded to a certain scale, the government should consider building an outer city frame, and it was also very large.
Political achievements.
If the Ming Dynasty wanted to change its territory, it would at least have to wait until Guizhou City built its outer city - which meant that the degree of Sinicization around the provincial capital had reached a subtle state.
Before that, if anyone dared to mention the words "reform native land and return to local life", he could just slap a sign in the court. Either he was mentally ill or his lies were misleading, and whoever believed him was mentally retarded.
The degree of Chineseization is so low and the number of Han people is so small. Who are you going to show us when we change the land? Not only is it difficult to collect taxes, but we also have to lead troops to suppress rebellions every day. In a few years, the big bosses in the Ministry of Household Affairs will be destroyed.
"Bookstores, paper shops, etc., anyway, shops related to reading are all opened in Beicheng."
Yuan Gang led the donkey into the city and said to Shen Fucong: "Let's go to Dongcheng and Nancheng first to sell mountain products and return in exchange for some coarse salt, and then go to Beicheng to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones."
Master Shen was a little confused and asked, "What is the layout of this Guizhou city?"
Yuan Gang pointed to the front and said: "Guizhou Dusi, Guizhou Wei, Guizhou Qianwei, and their headquarters are all located in Nancheng. That is the territory of the military men. The steel knife in my hand was bought in Nancheng. The villagers usually collect crow feathers.
, peacock feathers can also be sold in Nancheng, and the Wei Suo is willing to purchase these things to make arrow feathers." He pointed to the left and right sides and said, "The west city is the territory of the Shuixi'an family, and the east city is the territory of the Shuidong Song family. There are two buildings respectively.
This is the administrative seat of Guizhou Xuanwei Division."
Master Shen nodded and said: "So, the seat of the Chief Secretary of Guizhou is in Beicheng."
Yuan Gang smiled and said: "The chief envoy is indeed in Beicheng, but the seat of Guizhu Chief Sui is also in Beicheng. Our Guizhou chief envoy, not to mention that the decree cannot leave Guizhou City, he can't even leave Beicheng.
It works on several streets near the government office."
Master Shen couldn't help complaining: "It would be better to be a county magistrate in the south of the Yangtze River than to be a provincial governor like this."
The chief envoy of Guizhou is indeed very aggrieved. In name, he is the chief official of a province, but he is surrounded by ruthless men with swords. The soldiers in the south city are disobedient, the chieftains in the east and west are also disobedient, and barbarians have entered the reserved area in the north city.
, and because of institutional problems that could not go deep into the prefectures and counties, they were directly transformed from high-ranking officials into directors of sub-district offices.
The same is true for the Inspector General of Guizhou. The dignified head of the Procuratorate, Procuratorate, and Judiciary of the province, his main job now is actually to inspect the education situation - pure inspection, and can do nothing else except inspection.
Because no one could leave him behind in the field of public security, procuratorate, and law, he happened to be working part-time as a deputy academic officer in Guizhou. It happened that the deputy academic officer was represented by a Yunnan official, and he had not been to Guizhou for decades. As a result, Guizhou's deputy inspector-general changed his position.
It's about education, but it's a pity that there are only a few schools in the province. If he spent three months inspecting all the schools in the province, he would probably be busy for two and a half months.
As the saying goes: "Three lives of misfortune, the county magistrate will be attached to Guo; three lives of evil deeds, he will be attached to the neighboring provincial capital."
According to this view, the chief envoy of Guizhou and the inspector-general of Guizhou must have been evil for eight generations.
It was also Wang Yuan's first time to come to Guizhou City. He was a little excited, but more disappointed.
This provincial capital is really uninteresting. There are not many two-story buildings, and there are only low tile-roofed houses everywhere.
Your tile-roofed house should be a tile-roofed house, with some carved beams and paintings. Surprisingly, most of them use stone as the foundation, and then use bamboo slices to weave the walls, and just put mud and grass on top and that's it.
Yuan Zhi was extremely excited, without his usual rudeness at all. He pointed forward and made a fuss: "Wang Er, look, that building is so tall, it actually has three floors!"
"Well, it's very high." Wang Yuan said casually.
The three-story building is considered a landmark building in Guizhou City. No wonder Yuan Zhineng saw it at a glance.
The eldest brother Wang Meng was not much better. He looked around all the way and found everything strange. He said: "There are so many people in Guizhou City, many more than Zazuosi."
As everyone gradually arrived at Dongcheng District, Wang Meng suddenly couldn't move his legs.
Wang Yuan turned around and shouted: "Brother, why are you so stunned?"
Wang Meng actually became nervous, pointed to a shop on the street, and said shyly: "I... I want to go in and have a look."
That's a jewelry store.
Yuan Gang suddenly understood who hasn't been young yet, and said with a smile: "Go, go and come back quickly."
Wang Meng walked into the shop with great anxiety. He immediately took a fancy to a silver hairpin and asked, "How much does this cost?"
The boss looked at Wang Meng's clothes and didn't even ask for a price. He just said, "You can't afford it."
"Oh." Wang Meng scratched his head.
The boss pointed to the side again: "Those are made of copper and are cheaper."
Wang Meng still felt guilty. Although he liked everything he saw, he only picked a pair of earrings and asked, "How can I sell these?"
The boss said coldly: "One hundred dollars."
"I, I...I don't have that much." Wang Meng hesitated. He was usually a rough guy, but his face turned red at this moment.
Wang Yuan didn't know when he entered the store and asked with a smile: "Do you think how much money poor mountain people like us can get for our money? How about five cents for a sincere price?"
The boss rolled his eyes and said, "Five cents is not enough copper."
"Then how much do you think it should be?" Wang Yuan asked.
The boss thought for a while: "You take the fifty dollars."
Wang Yuan said to his eldest brother: "How much do you have?"
Wang Meng took out the copper coins and counted them one by one. It was the money he had saved for several years. He usually bartered for things without using copper coins. He counted it several times and confirmed that there were no omissions before he said: "I only have thirty-eight coins."
money."
The boss was a little impatient and said with a look of disdain: "Thirty-eight is just thirty-eight. I'm doing a loss-making business and I'm too lazy to mess around with you."
"ah?"
Wang Meng was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed, paid the bill and said: "Thank you, thank you, you are such a good person!"
The two brothers walked out of the store.
Wang Yuan teased: "Brother, who are you buying jewelry for?"
"Don't ask, you are too young to understand this." Wang Meng had a happy smile on his face, took out a piece of rag, carefully wrapped the earrings, and put them on his chest for safekeeping.
I don't understand?
You're just lusting after someone else's body!
Be careful when the leader of the village finds out and breaks all three of your legs!
For an entire hour after that, Wang Meng was in an erratic state and almost collided with passers-by several times.
His mind was full of fantasies, imagining how ecstatic Fang Amei was when she received the earrings; imagining them walking hand in hand in the forest, singing folk songs together in the morning sun; imagining Fang Amei wearing earrings, wearing
Beautiful new clothes to marry him...
By the way, when Fang Amei and I have a baby, I will also ask Mr. Shen to help me name it!
It took about half a day to finally replace all the mountain goods carried by two donkeys with coarse salt.
It was getting dark, Yuan Gang led everyone to find an inn, and he only planned to get a room. Master Shen could just stay in the inn, and the others could just squat on the street, wrapped in linen, and they could make do with one night. There was no need to spend more money That's a waste of money.
At this moment, there was another sound of horse hooves, and passers-by gave way.
I saw the little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, leading the way, with a disgraced face.
The guards behind her were equally miserable. One even lost half of his face, and his teeth and cheekbones could be clearly seen. Another had a broken thigh, lying on the back of his companion's horse, and could only walk back to the city like this.
Wang Yuan laughed secretly when he saw this. It seemed that the national treasure was very powerful in combat.
If these people hunted and killed pandas, they could always find various ways to do so. They probably wanted to capture pandas alive as pets, but they suffered heavy losses from my giant iron-eating beast.
Deserve it!
The little girl ran wildly along the street for a while, and when she was approaching the mansion of Xuanweisi in Guizhou, she suddenly saw a familiar figure in front of her. She was so frightened that she quickly reined in her horse and tried to run away.
This man was about thirty years old, wearing a square scarf and a Confucian shirt, and he was holding a folding fan in his hand. When he saw the little girl reining in her horse and turning around, he immediately yelled: "Stop!"
With a bitter look on her face, the little girl had to dismount and said, "Brother, are you looking for my father?"
The man looked unhappy and said, "What trouble did you get into again?"
The little girl threw the riding whip to the guard: "I didn't cause any trouble, I just wanted to catch a bamboo bear. That bamboo bear was so disrespectful. It refused to listen to any advice, and even started fighting with us, killing several of my followers. Injured."
Hearing this, the man breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this reason was acceptable, and he only warned: "When my grandfather was alive, he practiced benevolent government and passed down poems and etiquette to the family. You and I are both descendants of the Song family, and we must not harm the people." Do not abuse your servants or slaves. Do you remember?"
"I see," the little girl said impatiently, "You should tell my father these words, he is the ambassador of comfort in Guizhou."
The man was immediately discouraged and said sadly: "Uncle, you can't listen to my advice. The people under my Song family are becoming more miserable every day. If this continues, I'm afraid there will be another tribe rebellion."
The little girl said disdainfully: "Rebellion means rebellion. I just happen to lead the troops to suppress the rebellion and let them know how powerful I, Song Ling'er, am!"
"absurd!"
"Confused!"
"Ridiculous!"
The man scolded him repeatedly, then gritted his teeth and said, "Your father is extremely cruel, and he will definitely lead the Song family into a place of no return!"
The little girl stopped talking. Her clan brother was a nerd. He said some unclear words all day long, and the clan members' ears had long been aware of the cocoon.
The man then said sadly: "My Shui Dongsong family is actually Han, and their genealogy can be traced back to the early Tang Dynasty. For hundreds of years, they have been with barbarians all day long, and they have fallen into depravity and considered themselves barbarians. What will happen to me when I get under Jiuquan one day?" To meet the ancestors with dignity?"
The little girl still didn't speak. She had already experienced it. The more others argued, the more energetic the clan brother became. It would be easier to dismiss him if no one paid attention to him.
The man kept chattering and said some random things. But he finally stopped and angrily walked away, reciting Han poetry he had learned from somewhere.
(PS: For those who question Song Ling'er's gentleness, virtuousness, and thoughtfulness, you can check the character column to see the personality positioning of the protagonist and Master Shen.)