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Chapter 4 Serious Business

Therefore, Zhao Liang felt a lot of closeness to his parents, relatives and friends in this body.

Looking at those familiar faces, he couldn't help but think about his relatives in 9012. Zhao Liang could not treat these people like strangers, and he had no feelings at all.

Even thinking about Zhao Liang of this era, he couldn't help but think of modern times. He came to the current world. Is that saying that Zhao Liang of this world went to 9012?

Zhao Liang didn't know, but he really hoped that was the case.

Because he felt that in 9012, Zhao Liang, the parents and relatives of Zhao Liang, who looked exactly the same as his parents and relatives, would definitely have the same feelings for Zhao Liang, the parents and relatives of Zhao Liang, just like Zhao Liang.

Even this hope became a belief that supported him!

Because only in this way can he feel good.

...

In the present time and space, Zhao Liang came from a small landlord family. Just like before the founding of the Rabbit, Zhao Liang heard his grandfather say that his family was also a landlord like a landlord at that time. He was from Huaining County (under the Chenzhou Prefecture), and his family had two or three hundred acres of land, and his ancestors had many brothers. In addition to his grandfather, he also had two uncles and grandfathers. In the generation of his great master, he also had four brothers, sons and grandsons. These were all blood relatives who had not yet had five qualities. In the countryside, there were many people. His father was a scholar, and the Zhao family's family was a small gentry. Not only in his hometown, Dazhaozhuang, he covered the sky with one hand, but also at the intersection of Longlu (administrative unit, probably the township).

Zhao Liang, who has no worries about snacks and drinking, was instilled with fame and fame since childhood, and was an official to shine on his family. It was really good at this time and space.

Zhao Liang's original mind was very useful. He passed the county examination at the age of twelve. Although he then fell to the palace examination, the entire Zhao family regarded him as the future and hope of the family.

At the age of fifteen, he finally passed the palace examination and got a child. Then he didn't have to take the county examination and the government examination again. As long as he passed the college examination, the scholar's reputation would be obtained.

The college entrance examination was held twice in three years, and the academic administration in a province went to various governments to preside over the exams. The time was in August. Zhao Liang went to Fucheng at the end of July. Because Longlu intersection was only 30 or 40 miles away from Fucheng, the statutes and students had already completed the statutes as insurance (the exam required five children to protect each other, and then they found a statutes as insurance provider. The statutes and students were the first-class scholar in the county school exam). He just went to take the exam.

As a result, he drank a few more drinks at the banquet before leaving, but he was not drunk yet. He could still send his third uncle home. However, on the way back, people were peeing beside the canal, slipping under their feet, and falling into the canal. No one could blame him for his bad luck.

After being caught, Zhao Liang was seriously ill. Before he could change his core, he looked like a chicken with a side disease.

Even after changing the inner core, he opened his portable space and got an adventure, and his physical strength continued to increase, but his appearance always looked like a sick chicken.

It's also strange!

"Dadada..."

The yellow horse was walking between the mountain roads, not fast. Has it just rained?

Zhao Liang did not leave the official road, but he obviously could not show up there. He walked through the mountain road near the official road, throwing the remaining defeated soldiers and defeated soldiers who were fleeing in a hurry behind his butt until he bypassed the security guard post and then got on the official road.

Then before dark, I successfully ran outside Yuzhou City.

"Uncle, are you back?"

Qidian didn't know what his young master was doing, but it was obvious that this was a secret that a young master didn't want him to know, so he naturally wouldn't ask again.

After changing to a horse in an inconspicuous house outside Yuzhou City, Zhao Liang took the extra servant behind him and continued to go southwest along the road until he arrived at Shedian Town, located on the banks of the Zhaohe River.

Shedian, in later generations, this is a very unknown place.

Even if there are few locals in Henan, there have been no one who have heard of this place. At most, they have heard of the name of Shedian Old Liquor.

However, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, this place was a southern Henan town as famous as Hankou.

Jinhankou, Yinshedian, 72 streets, 38 alleys, and 18-mile river embankments. The size is even greater than that of Zhuxian Town in Kaifeng. Merchants and vendors are in poverty, high and low, and in all walks of life, and more than 100,000 people gather here.

This is Shedian Town during the heyday of the Qianlong Dynasty.

It was already dark at night, but Shedian Town, wrapped in Zhao He in the dark, was brightly lit and could be seen from a distance.

"Thousands of sails pass by during the day, thousands of lights at night!" Stalking down his mount, Zhao Liang looked at Shedian Town, which was like a city that never sleeps, and a sincere admiration flashed in his eyes.

Even though he had seen this scene more than once, he still couldn't help but sigh, "My mother, this night scene is more lively than his hometown in 9012."

Although this is a bit of a loss to the people in his hometown, the truth is it.

"Uncle..." Qidian shouted softly.

Although he didn't know what his uncle was going out before, he knew that Feilu had already taken people to wait on Laohe Street to ensure that their party could return to their original place quietly!

His uncle made such arrangements, obviously he was unwilling to expose his whereabouts.

"Walk--"

Zhao Liang took the reins and rushed towards Laohe Street.

Laohe Street is the first place where Shedian flourishes.

As one of the most important cargo transfer terminals in central China, Shedian Town is one of the necessary places for Shanxi and Shaanxi merchants to travel north and south, it was not built in one day.

From the late Ming Dynasty to today's Dingsheng, Shedian Town has developed for 160 years. Laohe Street is the earliest freight terminal and commercial market in Shedian Town.

This place can go to Zhoujiakou (land) to the north, and can communicate with the Jialu River to Kaifeng (Zhuxian Town). Zhoujiakou can also go southeast through the Shaying River to enter the Huaihe River Basin in Anhui and directly to the south of the Yangtze River; to the south, it can connect to the Han River through the Zhao River, directly to Hankou through the water and land, and enter the Yangtze River.

At first glance, it seems that its importance is very average and cannot be compared with Yangzhou at all. But in fact, this is the lifeblood of tea merchants in Shanxi and Shaanxi.

The tea bricks purchased by Shanxi and Shaanxi tea merchants from the south were passed by Zhoujiakou north of here, then arrived at Zhuxian Town through Jialu River, and then transferred to Shanxi, Shaanxi and northwest provinces. (The tea exports from Shanxi merchants to Russia can account for as much as 40% to 50% of the tea exports from Shanxi merchants to Russia)

What's more, when the north-south trade routes here were flattened, there was more than one tea that maintained the economic prosperity of Shedian Town.

Medicinal materials, white wine, raw lacquer, tung oil, bamboo and wood, cloth, salt, etc. are all bulk.

It is located in the Central Plains, radiating north to the provinces of Shanxi and northern Shaanxi, connecting to Hubei to the south, covering south to the provinces of Huguang and southwest, with a population of over 100 million, making it a vast market.

Compared with the open giants who led the leader here, the newly emerging Chenzhou Zhao family is just an inconspicuous little fish. Moreover, Zhao Liang did not come to beg for food in the bowls of those giants. The Zhao family's main business is hotels, with inns and teahouses now.

There are many wealthy families in Shedian Town. I wonder how many restaurants, inns, opens and closeds, iron-clad Xiedians, and flowing merchants are hidden on the seventy-two streets. Who would be worried about a newly opened restaurant?

In the past two years, the Zhao family’s restaurant has accumulated a lot of fame in the eastern part of Henan, opening branches in many places, and now it is natural to expand its business to Shedian Town.

The Songhe Tower of the Zhao family is located at the north end of Hexin Street.

There is the Zhao River on the north and south sides of Shedian Town. The Pan River flows by. The Pan River has a small flow rate. After being dredged, you can only walk on a small boat. The main thing here in Shedian is to look at the Zhao River.

When the Zhao River flows from north to south, when it flows through Shedian, the mainstream is divided into two parts, forming two tributaries of the north and south, and converges one kilometer away, forming an island-shaped sandbank in the middle, called Hexin Street. It is the most prosperous place in Shedian now.

Because the water is deep, broad and stable, the pier suitable for stopping is called Houhe.

The northernmost pier is called Beiwudu. The Jin and Qin merchants who came from the south ended here and turned into dry roads.

Take Fangcheng Road to Yuzhou, then follow the official road to Zhoujiakou, and then turn to the water route.

Or take the Sanya Road, which is also called the Ancient Crow Road, is the most convenient passage between Wan and Luo, and is also the only way to pass from Sichuan, Huguang to Heluo and Guanzhong in ancient times.

Therefore, not only are ships coming and going on the dock, thousands of sails compete and masts are like forests, but also carry and unloading, and then forwarded by horse gangs and camel caravans to various parts of the north, often in the sky and tumultuous, and bustling.

It is said that there are forty-eight companies with large-scale operations alone, and twenty-five companies with famous chariots and horses.

There is a bluestone-paved cargo platform at Houhe Wharf, and layers of stone steps lead to the shore. The shore is Laohe Street.

In the brightly lit Xiedian, Zhao Liang and his team had disappeared, and there was a servant named Feilu around him.

Qidian, Feilu, these are all names he gave to his servant's entourage, and they are just evil things he doesn't know about others.

The group walked empty-handed on Laohe Street, as if water drips fell into the sea, not attracting attention at all. Soon, they arrived at the stopping place and arrived at Hexin Street in minutes.
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