When Li Meng was in modern times, he had been to Jiaozhou City many times, whether at work or in private. After all, it was a suburb of Qingdao an hour's drive away.

In this era, it turned out that the prosperous city of Qingdao was located, with only a lonely Fushan Thousand Household House. However, Jiaozhou is the richest place in Laizhou, which is well-known far and wide. Jiaozhou is the intersection of Qingzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture on land, with a large population coming and going.

The above impressions are all the impressions of Li Meng in his memory. The Li Meng had never traveled far away in the past, so for Li Meng now, it was his first time to visit Jiaozhou City.

Not far from the city gate, I saw the Jiaozhou city wall and city gate. Li Meng observed that it must be about seven meters. According to the measurements of this era, it is only two meters tall. Perhaps for others, this is a common sight. When you go to those big cities and important places, there are even more majestic buildings.

But for Li Meng from the modern era, this is really spectacular, especially under the sunshine, the city wall seems even more unattainable. As expected, he is right to come during the day. If he comes here at night, the high wall will not be able to climb at all.

The gate of Li Meng entering the city was the west gate. The road at the door was much flattering and wider than the official road that came from here. There were several military soldiers standing lazily at the door. It was ridiculous. Li Meng was still a military household in Lingshan Guard. But it was nearly a month since he arrived in the Ming Dynasty. This was the first time he saw military soldiers.

Rather than standing, those soldiers were basking in the sun by the city walls. The clothes they wore were like torn cotton jackets worn by modern poor people. This was actually the standard battle robe of Ming soldiers - the Mandarin Duck Battle Jacket. They usually held a spear, but the spear was either leaning against the wall or placed horizontally on the ground.

The weather was hot, and the Ming soldiers guarding the city gate were not good enough to just drag off their battle jackets. They just unbuttoned their buttons and opened their arms. They were wearing fat pants and straw sandals underneath, and they were fanning the air with a felt hat in one hand. Don't talk about this look, military posture, which is worse than the salt cubes that Li Meng met yesterday.

When Li Meng was in modern times, the army had very strict requirements on military appearance and posture. Li Meng's comrades once unbuttoned their two shirts while riding a bus outside. They were seen by the inspectors. After returning to the company, they were criticized by the company commander. Looking at the soldiers at the door, Li Meng also understood why the Ming Dynasty was so easy to perish.

While thinking about it, Li Meng also looked at the city walls around the city gate with curiosity. It was different from what he saw in film and television dramas. Looking at the city gate outside the city, there were basically no wooden buildings such as city towers. I think this should be the case. Wooden buildings are prone to burning and collapse.

If there are siege equipment, bows, arrows, etc., and fire, it will be effective when shooting it. Li Meng was still looking at it curiously, and he heard a soldier beside the city gate shouting:

"That poor man, what are you looking at? Come here!!"

Seeing Li Meng's tall figure, the soldier swallowed the dirty words in his mouth. Li Meng was stunned and immediately walked over with a smile on his face. The soldier who was shouting leaned on the city wall and didn't stand up, and said lazily:

"What did you do when you go to the city?"

"My father is sick, so he goes to the city to buy medicine."

Li Meng accompanied him carefully and smiled, bent down and replied, "The soldier was very satisfied with Li Meng's humble attitude, and said again:

"What about the money for buying medicine~~"

He asked in a long voice. Li Meng was stunned. He nodded and groped in his arms. He took out a small pocket. The metal collides inside, and they were all copper coins. The soldier still lazily reached in, took out ten copper coins, put them in his hand and weighed them, and said:

"Okay, this is the entry-level lijin, you don't have to pay it if you come out. Then you will say that Wang Laosan has already collected your money."

Seeing Li Meng wanting to say something, the soldier glared and scolded:

"What are you looking at? You still want to pay more money, get into the city quickly."

Li Meng lowered his head and hurriedly ran to the city gate. He left the city gate far away. This was how he touched his waist. No one should have noticed the hard things there.

Now is not a good year. Although Li Meng has not traveled far away, he has heard that the nearby Dengzhou Prefecture is causing a war disaster, and there are more and more provinces in the world with famine, and life is getting worse day by day. However, when Li Meng walked past the city gate and stood in Jiaozhou City, he still felt a kind of prosperity and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

In the past, although Li Meng, who had reversed the time for hundreds of years, was very awkward to use the word "the past", in modern times, the trends of that era advocated returning to nature and rural life. They paid attention to staying away from the hustle and bustle of the city. After more than a month after Li Meng came to the Ming Dynasty, he truly felt the authentic rural life.

Every night, except for the waves and some natural sounds, it is quiet, and the night is dark. Sometimes a person comes face to face and only when he gets to the front is discerning because of the sound. Most of the necessities are seriously lacking. Because there is no shop, you can do it yourself and can't do it yourself. You don't even know where to buy it.

So after selling the salt, my companions happily purchased it, and they purchased nothing more than meat, cloth, oil, and some condiments.

The extreme lack of material and spiritual life, and the feeling of loneliness as if in the desert, made Li Meng sneer at the rural life advocated by modern times. Any bourgeoisie who is so clamoring should come to the Xue family's Qianhu to live for a few days, and then see if they still love pastoral villages.

Jiaozhou City may be just such a bustling street, with shops on both sides of the road. In addition to cloth and hemp, people who come and go can also see silk and satin. Moreover, some of the road is covered with bluestone slabs, and the faces of these civilians in Jiaozhou City are also slightly better than those outside the city.

An impatient shout came from behind, and Li Meng quickly flashed aside, and a carriage swayed over. If it were Hyundai, it should be a car, Li Meng was thinking in his heart.

Among the pedestrians on the street, there were also some people wearing green robes, white coats and black scarves. Based on the memories in their minds, Li Meng knew that this should be a scholar of the Ming Dynasty and was considered a cultural person with a high status in this era. Speaking of which, Li Meng's current image is not satisfactory.

He was wearing a ragged short short trousers, tied with cloth straps, cloth shoes with toes exposed, and a small bag on his back. Although Li Meng insisted on washing every day, his beard had no tools to repair it, and he did not dare to use a knife to shave like others. It was already very long now.

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