The not-so-spacious streets are not too neat but not dirty, with green trees and beautiful scenery. The scenery seems to be pretty good. Various flags flutter in the wind. Looking around, most of them are all kinds of tea shops, and some of them are taverns.

The houses on both sides of the street are extremely dense, tall and short, but not too messy. Looking back at the location where I came out, there are mountains and small buildings lined up in various colors. Obviously, the place where people live are all people with status.

Of course, there are also many road-occupying operators who are selling all kinds of vegetables, fruits, or other things they don’t know about.

At this time, there was no Internet, no TV, no computer, and no Weibo. I think there would be no urban management that would have attracted hundreds of millions of Chinese people to be criticized by the urban management industry in the future.

In the Western sky, a red sun is slowly falling, soaking the entire world with a layer of golden red color.

Lin'an City at dusk is quiet and peaceful, but the pedestrians on the streets of Lin'an City at dusk have not decreased at all, and there is a trend of increasing number. There was no curfew in the Song Dynasty.

This was the first time he had gone out in the Song Dynasty, and he was sitting in a shaking sedan chair.

Through the sedan windows that opened the curtains, you can see that most of the pedestrians passing by on the noisy streets have smiles on their faces. They cannot be said to be satisfied, but there is not much fear or numbness.

If you remember correctly, after the coalition of the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty who were blinded by victory sent large troops to take back the capital, but were defeated by the Mongolian army. After this, Ogedei, who had already ascended to the throne of the Mongolian Han Dynasty, made an excuse for the Song Dynasty to betray the alliance and began to invade the south.

So, if there is no deviation in history, the first battle between Song and Meng should have occurred three years ago.

At this moment, most of the elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty should be in the Jianghuai River and the Sichuan line was fighting to resist the Mongols' southward invasion. However, it seems that the war on the front line did not have any impact on Lin'an City, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

There are no high-rise buildings everywhere, no cars flying all over the streets, and no factories; the sky here is particularly blue; the fresh air in late spring seems to be filled with ancient flavor.

A little smell of water drifted in the air. Before a thought could be gone, as the sedan swayed, the short-lived street had reached its end, and the smell of water suddenly became strong.

A huge lake appeared in front of Jia Sidao, who was sitting in the sedan chair.

Through the small sedan window, you can see countless large and small building boats floating on the golden lake with endless golden light. A long embankment runs across the north and south ends of Jinhu Lake. Countless green weeping willows on both sides of the long embankment dance in the wind. From time to time, a few pink appears. They are the blooming flowers of peach trees dotted among the weeping willows. A long embankment in the golden waves is beautiful.

This should be West Lake.

Later generations were in Shanghai, the Oriental Pearl, not too far from Hangzhou, where West Lake is located. For convenience, he bought a villa by the West Lake. He was very familiar with the world-famous Ten Scenes of West Lake. Could this lie-bo green dike in front of him be the prototype of the most famous Su Di original flavor among the Ten Scenes of West Lake in later generations?

But now I am revisiting the old place, but it is nothing but a person.

The causeway by the lake was also crowded with people, and various stalls lined up one after another, fortune telling, juggling, fruit stalls, snack stalls, etc., and the voices gradually became bustling.

For Jia Sidao, who has seen the prosperous scenery of the metropolis in later generations, Lin'an City is not as prosperous as one thousandth of a modern metropolis. However, these people, streets and cities are all living, simple and real, without a mask, not as heavy as a fireworks, and not filled with material desires.

Being able to have food and clothing and be able to live is enough for most people to smile.

In fact, the Song Dynasty seemed to be good, and this thought came into his mind for no reason.

"Young Master, if you walk on the Imperial Street, there are too many pedestrians, so how about taking the small path?"

Jia Quan's face with a flattering smile flashed across the edge of the sedan window.

Concubine Jia pulled Jia Sidao to advise all kinds of rules that needed to be paid attention to at the Qionglin Banquet for a long time, and then she left with her heart from her instructions from etiquette to clothing.

As the favorite concubine of Lizong Zhao Yun, she naturally wanted to appear at the banquet with Queen Xie.

After Concubine Jia left, with Jia Quan's help, she finally made all the clothes she should wear. The sun was about to set off. Jia Quan said this, obviously because she was worried that there was not enough time and could not catch up with the Qionglin Banquet on time.

The rules of high-level court banquets such as Qionglin Banquet are extremely strict. Once the auspicious time comes, the banquet will begin. Naturally, the civil and military officials in the court, especially Emperor Lizong, could not refuse the time of the Qionglin Banquet to wait for Jia Sidao alone.

At such a banquet, even the emperor will appear on time, although it is definitely the last one to appear. If others are late, it is a crime of disrespect.

"Then let's go." Looking at the bustling crowd, Jia Sidao put down the curtains.

"Okay!"

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Qionglin Garden is a royal garden. Shortly after the Song Dynasty lost the eastern and western capitals and moved the capital to Nanjing, Yingtian Prefecture (later Shangqiu, Henan), it moved the capital again. Qionglin Garden was also born with the construction of the imperial city of Lin'an City.

Before the loss of the east and west capitals, Qionglin Garden was a royal garden west of Bianjing (later Kaifeng City, Henan Province). All the Qionglin Gardens in Lin'an City were built in the form of Qionglin Garden built in Bianjing by Zhao Kuangyin, the Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty.

There is only one purpose of building Qionglin Garden in Lin'an City, that is, to continue the Qionglin Banquet that began in the reign of Emperor Taizu of Song.

Shortly after Emperor Taizu put on his imperial robe, a palace examination system was established. That is, after the Ministry of Personnel examination, the emperor presided over the highest level of examinations on the palace court and decided to win the list and ranking of Jinshi. All those who passed the imperial examination became "sons of the emperor". After the palace examination, the emperor announced his ranking of Jinshi, and was given a banquet for Qionglin Garden, which led to the Qionglin Banquet.

In the hundreds of years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Qionglin Banquet has become the most distinctive statement of the Song Dynasty to treat literati sons.

In all dynasties, only the literati in the Song Dynasty had the most thorough politics. It was only in the later years that literati served as Minister of National Defense (Princestor Envoy of the Privy Council) that happened in the West, but in the Song Dynasty, this was a common example.

Qionglin Garden in Lin'an City is at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, the north gate of the imperial city.

When Jia Sidao arrived, the square outside Qionglin Garden was already full of large and small sedan chairs. At the main entrance, there were rows of soldiers wearing armor.

I think this venue should be the parking lot of Qionglinyuan.

At this moment, the sun had completely set, but the sky was not completely dark. However, the Qionglin Garden, which was filled with buildings, had lit up countless lanterns of large and small, making half of the sky shine brightly.

The boiling voices came from the garden, and many high-ranking officials and nobles had arrived first.

"Oh, Brother Jia?"

Before Jia Sidao had time to look away, he heard a chuckle sounding in his ears. Looking along with the sound, a young man wearing a green silk robe and holding a folding fan was looking at him with a smile a few steps away.

This man obviously knew him, but he obviously didn't know him.

"Young Master, this is Mr. Shi Xiang in the mansion of Shi Song, the deputy general of the government. Mr. Shi and his son parted with him in the 'Hele Tower' because the girl was unhappy."

Jia Quan, who was following Jia Sidao, secretly pulled his sleeve and whispered.

When connected with Lelou and Jiao Niang, Jia Sidao had already outlined the cause and effect of the whole thing in his mind. Are you jealous of the brothel for women?

But Shi Xiang? Is Xiang? This name is quite interesting.

Of course, he had never heard of Shi Xiang and did not know him, but he still knew Shi Songzhi as Jia Quan said.

Shi Miyuan, a treacherous prime minister who forged the emperor to the throne and controlled the power of the Southern Song Dynasty for nearly 20 years and five years ago, was the clan uncle of Shi Songzhi.

Of course, if this Shi Songzhi is the other Shi Songzhi.

Shi Song's identity as an assistant to political affairs made him a little afraid, but he was not yet afraid.

As the chief of political affairs, one step further should be the right prime minister. The right prime minister usually also has the position of Privy Councilor, who is the Minister of National Defense of the Song Dynasty. In terms of authority, Concubine Jia naturally did not have the great power of Shi Song, who had real power, but as the emperor's favorite concubine, how could he just use real power to guess?

The only different historians have been three generations of prominent families, but the Jia family has just entered the core position of the Song Dynasty through Concubine Jia.

A large clan with a deep foundation, such as Shi Xiang, naturally looks down on nouveau riche like Jia Sidao. I think this should be the root of the conflict between the two in addition to that beautiful lady.

What's more, the conflicts caused by the younger generation are caused by jealousy to cause great officials to attack the younger generation. Isn't it too much to lose weight?

"Brother Shi, you're polite."

Jia Sidao knew it in his heart and smiled at Shi Xiang and said. It was obvious that the two of them had a quarrel because of the charming girl, and he didn't think Shi Xiang would forget it. But how could he not do anything about the Kung Fu in front of him?

Shi Xiang looked at Jia Sidao who was smiling and giving him back, and was stunned.

The polite and kind young master in front of me is still the Jia Sidao in my memory? Shouldn’t he be angry and cursed when he saw him? How could he laugh so hard that he was harmless? How could he give him a gift?

Seeing Shi Xiang staring at him stupidly and not talking, looking like he was seeing a ghost, Jia Sidao knew that his changes had been too big and shocked this guy.

However, no matter how Shi Xiang thinks, he is naturally not within his consideration. What's more, he didn't plan to play a very happy scene with Shi Xiang.

"Brother Shi, if it's okay, I'll take the lead."

As he said that, Jia Sidao took Jia Quan over the dazed Shi Xiang and walked towards the main gate of Qionglinyuan.
Chapter completed!