Han Shizu

Chapter 841 Tokyo after a long absence

Leaving the Han Palace, standing in front of the city again, looking back, the Hanhuang City is still so majestic and majestic, except for a huge square that was demolished and leveled in front of the city, there are almost no more changes, but the momentum of suppressing the world It seems to be more substantial.

Zhong Mo couldn't help but think back to six years ago, the poor situation of that year flashed in his memory again. At that time, he was summoned by the emperor. When he left the palace, he also stopped and looked back. bounty.

Reminiscing about the past, infinite emotions arose in my heart, all of which were expressed on my face.

On the southeast side of the imperial city, there is a "parking area", which is arranged according to grades. After all, there are only a few people who can enter the imperial city by car, and most of them are dead.There is also a stable next to it. Not everyone likes to ride a car. The atmosphere of the Han Dynasty is very strong. Many civil and military officials like to ride horses to "work".Although there are not many war horses in the Han Dynasty, there are already a lot of rough horses and Taoist horses. The Khitan in the north does not have such strict trade control on other miscellaneous horses other than military horses.

In the forest of cars, I found my own car. The driver was dozing off, but his sense of smell seemed to be very keen. As soon as Zhong Mo approached, he woke up without waiting to make a sound, and swiftly took out the low stool for Zhong Mo to board the car.

Afterwards, he cleaned up quickly, especially cleaning up the traces of horse manure on the ground, and then drove away.The Han Dynasty has very strict management of urban livestock, sanitation is one of them. According to the regulations, the feces and urine produced by horses, camels and other livestock in the city should be cleared by the owner himself. fault.

It is said that once the emperor visited Kaifeng City and saw that the streets were full of animal manure, filthy and smelly, and immediately pointed out the problem. Later, a Tokyo Sanitation Regulation was issued, and the sanitation management of livestock in the city was born out of it. .

In addition, there are livestock who run out of control and run through the streets. If the livestock is caught and killed, the owner will be fined. If it causes property damage to officials and people, the owner will compensate.

"Where is Zhong Shangshu going?" The curtain of the carriage was lowered, and the coachman's inquiry came from outside.

Wen asked, Zhong Mo thought for a while, and said: "Go back to the hotel first, wait for me to change into my luggage, and then go to the market!"

"Yes!"

This coachman was not Zhong Mo's entourage, but a local hired by the Courtyard after arriving in Tokyo. He had good driving skills, knew the rules of Tokyo, and was familiar with the roads.Tokyo is changing with each passing day, but there are also many rules and stricter controls. It is not just a random outsider who can get through.

Nowadays, any overseas Chinese who come to Beijing and those with a little wealth must hire a guide.If you are a small person, you can't read or know the way, being deceived is a trivial matter, and accidentally breaking the prohibition is a disaster.

Tokyo, although there is no shortage of small people, but it is really not something that ordinary Guizhou leaders can survive, especially outsiders.

In the car, Zhong Mo closed his eyes slightly, and a little sternness appeared on his elegant face, which would only show when he was alone.What kept echoing in his mind was the resignation of the former Han emperor's words about the chaos in Sichuan and Shu. He had been thinking about it since he left Chongzheng Hall.

The word "warning" was directly uttered, so Zhong Mo couldn't help but be careless, calm down, and ponder over and over again in his mind.Zhong Mo is very smart, and he has experienced ups and downs, which made his mood more stable.

Handi's words and some rumors and situations he knew about the Sichuan and Shu Rebellion kept intertwining in his mind.The specific situation behind it is unknown in the end, but when we put aside the superficial news, we can see from the results that no matter who the cause of the Sichuan and Sichuan Rebellion was, it received heavy losses and was severely hit The real ones are the nobles, bureaucrats and powerful men of Mengshu.

Thinking of this, Zhong Mo's expression became more serious, and he couldn't help but worry, and he probably guessed what Emperor Han meant.He, Zhong Mo, belonged to the same class in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although his family was not very rich, he still had good clothing and good food. The family also owned a lot of land and property, and his relatives and friends also had a lot of property.

If it's just his family, that's fine.Even the big clean-ups like those in Sichuan and Shu mainly targeted the nobles and bureaucrats of the middle and upper classes, as well as officials and tyrants who made trouble. Although some old officials in Sichuan and Shu in more than 200 prefectures and counties have been liquidated, as long as they obey the court honestly and accept the rule of the big man, they can live well now. Although the atmosphere of being an official is not like that of Meng Shu Loose, but the family property is preserved.Compared with those nobles in the old dynasty whose family property was confiscated, the fields were divided, and the whole family was moved out of Shu, they were much luckier.

Zhong Mo felt that based on his connection with the emperor and his contributions to the court, the result would definitely not be that way.The emperor's target should be those nobles and officials whom he wins over in Jinling.

Thinking of this, Zhong Mo was startled suddenly, if he guessed correctly, the things in Sichuan and Shu will recur in Jiangnan in the future.Moreover, judging from Emperor Han's attitude, the "Shun Han faction" he united with may become a hidden danger in the future, and may even implicate himself.

If you think about it more, will your actions make Emperor Han feel that he is forming a party for personal gain? You must know that the party struggle in the Southern Tang Dynasty is also well-known, throughout history, it has always been the main theme of his court.
When Zhong Mo returned to the Li Hotel, he had already thought about it, and he decided not to contact him after returning to Jinling.With the current world situation and the strength of the big man, if he goes south, he really doesn't need to work hard, he just needs to make a suitable cooperative decision at the right time.

Furthermore, after all, he still belongs to Tang Chen, so he should pay attention to his face, and if he did it too well, he would have killed himself in the future.You should be low-key, you have to be low-key.

The Li Hotel is not far from the imperial city, surrounded by many official residences, and the decoration is very grand. It was rebuilt during the overhaul of Kaifeng, with the intention of treating state guests from all over the world with courtesy.

The envoys from various forces who came to Kaifeng this time have not left yet, and all kinds of people, in various costumes and appearances, all stay here, wanting to enjoy the scenery of Tokyo more.

Walking in the neat and elegant hotel, listening to the ups and downs of the Hu dialect, Zhong Mo couldn't help but feel emotional. Although today's big Han is far from being the king of all tribes from all over the world, the rise of the empire has an influence on the four realms. But it is improving significantly.

A burst of pleasant conversation came from the corridor, followed by the reputation, it was a young man in silk clothes, speaking with a Fujian accent, the adopted son Liu Shaoji, who was left in the army of Qingyuan, was ordered by his father , latently went north to pay tribute, in order to lose the sincerity of the ministers.

Obviously, even the Qingyuan army located in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, isolated from the Central Plains, could feel the changes in the world situation.Speaking of which, although Liu Congxiao has been separate from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou for more than ten years, he is still a subject of the Southern Tang Dynasty in name.

However, this Southern Tang subject now has no scruples and has directly offered his sincerity to the Central Plains court.Regarding this, Zhong Mo, as Tang Chen, pretended not to see it, and did not go up to say hello to avoid embarrassment.

Returning to the room where the Tang envoy stayed, Zhong Mo changed into his normal clothes, took a short rest, and took two entourages, guided by the coachman, to Tokyo downtown.It has been a long time since I went north to Tokyo, but most of the time I stayed in the hotel, and I spent more energy on communicating with Hanting officials. I have never visited Kaifeng, which has been away for many years.

"Today's Kaifeng is becoming more and more prosperous, and its majesty is far ahead of the past!" Zhong Mo couldn't help sighing as he walked on the streets of Nanshi.

The breaking of the old market structure does not mean that the original market has declined, on the contrary, it is more prosperous, and the daily flow of people is not small at all.Based on the former North, East, and South cities, Murong Yanchao carried out large-scale regular expansion in those years. There were more than 1500 shops and buildings newly built by the government. "Businessmen" and the people who compensated for the occupied land, the rest were sold, which also generated income for the Kaifeng government.

The planning and distribution of the market has become more and more reasonable. Meat shops, fish shops, rice shops, and noodle shops are all divided into areas and managed in a centralized manner, which has changed from the chaos of the early years.All kinds of pavements are also very organized, as far as the eye can see, they are all in good order.

Strolling on the main road that runs through Nanshi, you can see the crowds and noises in front of your eyes. The wide streets can accommodate six cars in parallel.After experiencing the narrow and congested roads in Kaifeng back then, seeing the situation in front of me, the sense of contrast was particularly strong.

It was like the shock that Zhong Mo felt when he first came to Tokyo and walked on the sky street leading directly to the imperial city.The [-]-foot (about [-]-meter) wide Tianjie Street can’t be seen at the end at a glance. Such magnificence and the aura it displays, in Zhong Mo’s understanding, were probably only found in Chang’an and Luoyang in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Jinling is also a city that can accommodate millions of people, compared with Kaifeng, it is obviously much worse, and the gap is spiritual.

(End of this chapter)