"the wicked?"

Xiao Delidi's face sank, "Since he is a villain, why don't the police patrol in Jiehe Market arrest?"

The fat manager just smiled bitterly and shook his head, "My husband, these evil people may have violated the king's law elsewhere, but they did not violate the law in Jiehe Commercial City. How can the police patrol arrest it? Moreover, the commercial city also needs these evil people."

"What do you need to do with the wicked?"

"The evil people can do a lot." The fat manager said with his stubborn fingers: "First, go out to sea to be a sailor, and there are no good people at sea... There are common things to fight and kill. Now there are many sea boats entering and leaving the market, so naturally there are many thugs.

The second is to serve as a guard for wealthy families in the mall. There are many rich people in the mall, and many of them come to avoid disaster. They are afraid that their enemies will chase them, so they are willing to spend a lot of money to support their families and die.

The third is to serve as mercenaries for the patrol team of the Maritime Bureau. The patrol team is organized by the Song army, but it has a generous salary that is greater than the imperial guards and has a lot of additional benefits. The heroes who are willing to devote themselves are quite a bit.

Fourth, if you are in the Shangshi City, you will be more fond of martial arts. If you have something to do with the superiors, you will be even more fond of martial arts. The upper class of the Shangshi City is fond of martial arts, and often holds bow, arrow, equestrian, and swordsmanship. The winner can also receive a heavy reward. Therefore, the atmosphere of martial arts among the people is extremely prosperous. Many chambers of commerce and guilds will open or praise several martial arts schools, and many schools will also ask martial arts teachers to teach their martial arts."

The atmosphere of martial arts in Jiehe Commercial City has been gradually developed! This is not only the result of Wu Haogu’s intentional promotion, but also the characteristics of Jiehe Commercial City.

This is a free market facing the ocean!

"There is no good person on the sea" is a jargon of the sea business community. Even if this person is a great charity who builds bridges, roads, and courgette to save the poor on the land, as long as it is a business of a sea business, he will definitely do a lot of evil things. Doing good on the land is just to get psychological comfort... Most people these days believe that there are gods who are above their heads, and after doing so many bad things, they will not be able to survive the eighteen levels of hell slowly after dying?

Jiehe Market is between Song and Liao, and has a great degree of freedom, which has attracted many people elsewhere to avoid disaster.

Those who avoid disasters, no matter how troubles they cause, most of them are not good people. If they encounter a big disaster, they will not be able to escape. The evil people who avoid disasters either can fight themselves or have guards who can fight.

In addition, the special geographical location of Jiehe Commercial City also makes it under the threat of the Liao Dynasty's military force at all times.

People who live here, whether they are willing or not, must find a way to use some force. Rich people hire bodyguards, and poor people have to learn some martial arts, so as not to be unable to escape at the end of the day!

Therefore, all kinds of martial people gathered in Jiehe Market. Even if they were not martial, they would have to be changed by the environment when they arrived here.

Even Xiao Delidi wanted to stay here for a few more days because he wanted to fight Jiehe Shangshi, so he specially selected the Khitan warriors who had fought on the Zubu grassland.

He shook his head, and before he could put down the curtains of the car, another man in brocade robe ran over, but he was Zhang Jue, the new deputy envoy of the Nanjing Daliao Police Police.

"The lower official Zhang Jue, who paid homage to the Lord of Privy Council, did not know that the Lord of Privy Council entered the city today and had not arranged for Qingdao and Jingjie Street. He was really guilty."

Xiao Delidi waved his hand and said with a smile: "You don't know what to arrange for me to come? By the way, your office is not in Jiehe Shang City, right?"

"Not here." Zhang Jue said, "The officials entered the Shang market today to welcome the Song State mission."

"Song State Mission?" Xiao Delidai smiled, "Is it because our army has entered Qu Yechuan? Who is coming?"

"The envoy is Su Che, the Minister of Rites of the Song Dynasty, and the deputy envoy is Lin Fu, a Hanlin scholar." Zhang Jue said, "They arrived in the Shang market yesterday and are now living in the museum in Nancheng.

Can the Privy Councillor ask them to meet each other?"

Xiao Delidi shook his head and nodded again: "It's not necessary to meet publicly, but you can just touch it in private.

They should be like me, and they will be in Jiehe Market and wait for companions, right?"

"That's right." Zhang Jue said, "The subordinates will report immediately, but the successor will have to wait a few days before they can arrive."

"Yes." Xiao Delidi looked around and smiled, "Actually, it's good to negotiate in Jiehe Commercial City..."

...

There was no official official office in the Song Dynasty in Jiehe Shangshi. However, after Mi Youren replaced Wu Haogu as the Shibo Department, he used the funds of the Shibo Department to buy a luxury house on site in Nancheng, Shangshi as his own residence in Shangshi, and used the hotel in the name.

So after Su Che and Lin Rong came to the north, they moved into this magnificent inn. The location of the inn is very good, just in the most prosperous central area of ​​the Shang City. The commercial street is just off the door, not far from the Shang City Wharf.

Because Su Che was the leader of the old party, while Lin Qi was the new party, the two had nothing to say. So after they moved into the inn, they separated. Lin Qi went to the Senate in Jiehe Market today, while Su Che and his entourage Wu Haowen were promoted to Simi Youren, and his son Su Shi, who wore casual clothes and went on a stroll around the streets.

On the street, Su Che also found Paulding, who was training in a row with a large shield and a short spear.

"How come there are military soldiers?" Su Zhe frowned, "Why are the military soldiers still raising?"

"Sir, this is Baoding." Su Shi explained with a smile, "According to the Baojia Law, the two Dings family will draw one Ding. Jiehe Shang City now has a population of nearly 200,000, of which the Dings are not less than 70,000 to 80,000... It's not surprising that there are thousands of Bings."

The Baojia Law formulated by Wang Anshi is now in a semi-abolition state. Wherever the government system is implemented, the Baojia Law will be stopped. The ground of Cangzhou where Jiehe Shang City is located is being prepared to implement the government system recently. However, Jiehe Shang City is not under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou Prefecture Office and will not implement the government system. Therefore, there is a basis for retaining the Baojia Law.

However, Su Che shook his head: "If this continues, something will happen sooner or later... Look at the strictness of those Baoding, their big shields, and that hat, they are almost catching up with the imperial guards!"

Mi Youren said: "If you don't have this strength, what should you do if the Khitan fights?"

"When the Khitan is here, there will be the imperial guards from the court to deal with it."

Su Shi shook his head and said, "Sir, if there were no such Baoding, wouldn't the Liao people take over the market at once? How can we wait until the Hebei imperial guards come to rescue him?"

“That’s right…”

Su Che nodded seriously. However, he also knew that if Jiehe Shangshi had no defense ability, the Hebei imperial guards would not be able to rely on them at all.

He was the strategic and pacifier of Hebei East Road not long ago. He was under his jurisdiction over the imperial guards on Hebei East Road. I wonder if those guys are useless?

But the useless use of the Hebei imperial guards does not mean that Wu Haogu will have no problem developing Baojia armed forces in Jiehe Shang City...

He thought about it and shook his head again: "Actually, this Jiehe Market should not be run at all!"

Su Shi asked: "Why shouldn't it? You can earn a lot of money a year, and it also stuck the Yanjing Grain Road of the Liao Kingdom.

Now that the Liao Kingdom dares to attack Hebei, the market will immediately cut off the boundary river water transportation. At that time, the 200,000 to 300,000 people in Yanjing City will have to be out of food.

Moreover, the maritime commerce guilds in the market can mobilize dozens of large sea ships at any time and transport troops to land in Liaodong!"

Jiehe Market was originally established to defeat Liaoning, and now it can be said that it has achieved very satisfactory results.

Because the Liao people could not obtain control of the Jiehe River, and they could not obtain the power to control the sea. Therefore, Jiehe Shangshi could not be occupied by the Liao army before the Jiehe River was frozen. At the same time, the Shangshi fleet could cut off the grain route in Yanjing and directly transport troops to the Liaodong Peninsula to land on fire, kill and loot.

In fact, there is no need to dispatch the imperial court's navy and imperial guards. The market can gather an army that harasses the coast of Liao by hiring pirates (marine merchants) and wandering villains!

This kind of pirate tactic is definitely difficult to defend against enemies without sea control, just like the farming countries invaded by nomadic peoples.

Su Che glanced at his son and sighed, "Jiehe Commercial City is definitely good for the country... When there is no Commercial City, Hebei is under the iron hoof of the Khitan, and he is always worried. With the Commercial City, Hebei will be as safe as Mount Tai. But this Commercial City is also the source of suspicion!

You see, when Lin Yanzhen returns to Kaifeng Prefecture, he will definitely apply to one of the books!"

Speaking of this, Su Che had no intention of continuing to visit the market and returned to the inn early. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lin Liu stepping out of the lobby, "Su Xianggong, Liao envoy is here to Jiehe Market!"

"The Liao envoy?" Su Zhe said, "Is the Liao envoy who went to Kaifeng Prefecture?"

"That's right," Lin Rong said, "The deputy envoy of the Nanjing Road Police Police of the Liao Kingdom just now came again, saying that it was Lin Ya, the north of the Liao Kingdom, and the head of the north of the Privy Council, Xiao Delidi, and Niu Shuwen, the commander of the Privy Council of the Southern Court, came together."

"Two Privy Council?" Su Shi was shocked.

The Liao envoys were very high in specifications! This was not a good thing... To make the specifications so high, it means that the Emperor of Liao was not trying to solve the problem of demarcation of the Hetao grassland, but to let the Song Dynasty go to the Western Xia.

But this is impossible! When Su Che left Kaifeng Prefecture, Zhao Ji had already given the opportunity in person. On the issue of destroying Western Xia, the Song Dynasty had no room for concessions!

"Su Xianggong," Lin Rong said at this time, "Zhang Jue said that Xiao Delidi and Niu Shuwen wanted to meet us, and it was a private meeting."

"Where did you see me?" Su Che asked.

It is very necessary to meet. Let’s exchange opinions from both parties first, so that we can be mentally prepared.

"Let's make arrangements," said Lin Rong, "We are landlords after all."

Su Che looked back at Mi Youren.

Mi Youren smiled and said, "Let's arrange it... Please go to the office of Jiehe Maritime Bureau to see you. The Maritime Bureau has 1,000 elite iron armored soldiers, so why not take them out and show them. You can also ask the Khitans not to underestimate our market."
Chapter completed!