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The fifth year of Qianfu, July.

More than ten four-wheeled carriages were walking on the official road leading to the town of Dengzhou.

A middle-aged man in his fifties was riding a horse at the front of the convoy. He was wearing a white round-necked robe with black veil on his head. On his slightly thin face, he had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a smile on his mouth with five long beards. He was in a slight mood. With the carved silver saddle and white horse under his crotch, he was really a mature man full of elegance.

Also riding a white horse, following closely behind this man were ten strong men in a row. Ten people were in their thirties and forties in their prime. Although ten people were only wearing green robes, they only looked at their stable posture on the horse, as well as their scale and momentum, and knew that these people must be senior military generals.

The middle-aged man looked at both sides of the official road outside the Arc de Triomphe in Xindengzhou, and saw houses on both sides lined up, including tea shops, taverns, foot shops, butchers, bookstores, post offices, newspapers, taverns... The shop gatehouses hung with city flags to attract business, and pedestrians of all kinds were shoulder to shoulder, and the flow was endless. Compared with the prosperity of Chang'an City in Xijing, it was no less than that of the prosperity of Chang'an City in Xijing. He couldn't help but look surprised on his face, and he stopped and sighed: "Wenhe, I have only been away from Dengzhou for three years. The changes here are so earth-shaking, which is really amazing."

The person who spoke was Cui Yunqing, the governor of Dengzhou three years ago. Three years ago, Cui Yunqing and Song Wei joined forces to pass the position of governor of Dengzhou to Song Wen, and went to Qingzhou to be promoted to the marching marching of Ziqing Town. Later, he was promoted to the Jiedushi of Taining Army, and soon he was transferred to the Jiedushi of Lingnan East Road, and casually transferred to the Observation Envoy of Jiangnan West Road. Soon, Jiangnan West Road was promoted to the Jiedushi of Jiangxi and was given the title of Zhennan Army. He was also the Jiedushi of Zhennan Army. However, he did not stay in Jiangxi for long. Not long ago, the imperial court ordered Cui Yunqing to be transferred to the Deputy Protectorate of Andong. After three years, he went around and returned to Dengzhou.

The ten strong men following him were not ordinary people. They were Song Wei and his old subordinates.

Song Jirong, Song Wen, Song Xi, Yang Lin, Chang Bao, Liu Heng, Han Zhong, Liu Jian, Xu Cheng, Cui Decheng.

Song Jirong was the Du Aiya of Song Wei, and Song Wen was once the governor of Dengzhou and the governor of Zibo. Song Xi, Yang Lin, Chang Bao and Liu Heng were both envoys of military commanders.

Han Zhong, Liu Jian, Xu Cheng, and Cui Decheng are also all Cui Yunqing's confidant generals, and have been following him in recent years. Now that he has returned to Dengzhou, Cui Yunqing not only brings back his four generals, but also brings the six generals under Song Wei.

Just a month ago, Song Wei died of illness in Chang'an, and his confidant generals also ordered them to come to Dengzhou and return to Li Jing's command.

Cui Yunqing came from Jiangxi, Song Wen and others came from Chang'an. The two sides met in Songzhou, and then came together.

Song Wen also held his horse's head and sighed: "Mr. Cui said it well, Dengzhou is indeed changing with each passing day." Because Cui Yunqing is Li Jing's teacher, and Song Wei is Li Jing's adoptive father, and he is Song Wei's nephew, so Song Wen is very respectful to Cui Yunqing, the old boss and senior.

Originally, there was a saying in the world that Yangzhou was the most prosperous place in the Tang Dynasty, while the southern capital Chengdu was the second.

According to the original ranking, if we only talk about the prosperity of business, then Yangzhou is the most prosperous, followed by Chengdu, then Guangzhou, then Chang'an, Luoyang, Taiyuan, and Jiangling. However, now, Jiangling Mansion is broken by Wang Xianzhi, Guangzhou City is slaughtered by Huang Chao, and Yangzhou City is also due to Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi's previous attack into Huainan, and then Gao Pian and Li Jing are confronted, resulting in a major change in the situation.

At present, Dengzhou, the largest seaport in the north of the Tang Dynasty, has been in operation for several years. I have become the largest metropolis in the east of the Tang Dynasty. Some people even say that Dengzhou has surpassed Yangzhou.

Many people don’t know that Dengzhou, which is located on the shore of the East China Sea, has surpassed Yangzhou in just four or five years, completely because Dengzhou City has become the center of the town.

To the east, around Dengzhou, the town has quietly built a large piece of land.

Ziqing Town, Zhenguo Town, Andong Protectorate, and Yingzhou, Ping, Ji, and Tanzhou.

Surrounding the Bohai Bay, the towns and cities connect the states, already have sixteen states, with a base of thousands of miles and a population of five million.

The sixteen states are nothing to separate, but they can be combined together. Under the standardized construction of Li Jing, relying on the benefits of trade and the benefits of war in the town, this large area of ​​land is indeed changing with each passing day. As the center of the entire town's forces, Dengzhou has developed at a rapid pace.

Dengzhou not only became the political center of the town, but also a cultural center, military center and economic center.

A large number of families in the town are in Dengzhou, and a large number of workshops opened by the town are also concentrated here. In addition, the workshops opened by other merchants here, there are nearly one million workers working in the workshops in Dengzhou alone. Relying on Dengzhou Port, various raw materials and materials produced in the sixteen states under the town are transported to Dengzhou Port, and then sent to various workshops, and processed into various commodities, and then transported from the port to various places.

In Dengzhou, there are more than 200,000 students in various military schools, technical schools, and ordinary schools. In addition to the many scouts, a large number of students have come to Dengzhou's academies and technical schools from all over the Tang Dynasty to study. The number of these foreign students has increased year by year, and now there are more than 10,000 students. The scholars brought by more than 10,000 people together have a large population.

In addition, the number of teachers, school workers, and their families hired by various schools has increased.

The garrisoned towns in Dengzhou also have the Unity Army and the township soldiers, and they have always maintained about 20,000 soldiers.

There are also a large number of warehouses, warehouses, etc. in Dengzhou Port, and there are also many merchants.

The large number of workers, businessmen, students, teachers and soldiers made Dengzhou's service industry more and more prosperous.

Hotels, restaurants, taverns, ** halls, teahouses, etc. are extremely prosperous.

A city with millions of people also requires a huge demand for various food and daily necessities, which has led to the fields around Dengzhou no longer growing grain, but all growing vegetables, and even the breeding industry is extremely prosperous.

A city with a population of one million, Xin Dengzhou City is expanding outward at a speed of sight every day.

The original old Dengzhou City had long been surrounded into a city. Even the new Dengzhou City had expanded three walls, and finally the speed of building new walls could not keep up with the speed of urban expansion. Now, the old and new Dengzhou City were combined, with four walls, but outside the city wall, there were countless street shops.

The construction of Dengzhou City could not keep up with the expansion speed. The town was busy building roads and cities in Liaodong and western Liaoning. The manpower was short of labor, so Li Jing had to order the temporary suspension of the construction of Dengzhou's new city wall.

Although there are four city walls in Dengzhou now, half of the bustling commercial and residential areas are still outside the protection of the city walls.

Dengzhou City may be the only semi-open city in the Tang Dynasty that was so prosperous but without the protection of the city walls.

On the western periphery of Dengzhou City, although there is no city wall, an extraordinary tall city gate tower was built here, which the people of Dengzhou called it the Arc de Triomphe. The Arc de Triomphe is the only way to enter the city on the west side of Dengzhou. A city wall of 1,000 steps is built on the left and right of the city gate. The town has set up a pass here to collect taxes and check.

Starting from the Arc de Triomphe, the original yellow mud and sand road was changed to a cement road that was ten feet wide, connecting to the Yangweimen on the east side.

This flat avenue that made countless people amazed after seeing it for the first time was built using cement produced by Panshi Cement Factory. Using this cement to build roads is faster and flatter. The four-wheeled carriage in Dengzhou can not even feel any bumps when walking on such a road.

On both sides of the wide east-west trunk road, rows of locust trees that look slightly thin are planted. Behind the trees are two 2 meters wide pedestrian roads. After the pedestrian road, various shops stand on both sides like mushrooms after the rain.

What is different from what you see in other places is that all the colors are red brick cement structures, tall and neat.

After Zhen** captured western Liaoning in the first half of the year and occupied Ji and Tanzhou, more merchants came.

The Dengzhou expansion plan that Li Ran made for Li Jing includes the construction of a total of 3,000 shops and four large residential residential areas in the southeast, west and north of Dengzhou. The entire Dengzhou City will expand again.

Amid the hawking of shops, pedestrians were in a hurry, but very orderly.

There were even many people in the streets commanding chariots and horses. After just looking for a while, Cui Yunqing could see that the streets were on the left, so that vehicles would not be blocked. What was even more surprising was that the chariots and horses were on the main road in the middle, while empty-handed pedestrians walked on the pedestrian behind the trees on both sides. In particular, there were so many people, but the avenue was very clean and there was no animal power at all. After careful look, I found that there were cloth bags hanging under the tails of the horses and donkeys on the streets. After a moment of thinking, I realized that this should be the special manure bag.

Even this is managed so well, Cui Yunqing nodded all the way.

Although I don’t know how all this was done, Cui Yunqing’s intelligence quickly understood that all this should be closely related to his disciple Li Jing.

He smiled at Song Wen and said, "I and Wenhe have been the governor of Dengzhou one after another, but today I see Dengzhou again. I really feel inferior to me. When Ji Yu was in Shamen Town, he could turn a small island where prisoners were exiled into a mountain of gold. I had known for a long time that he would be able to manage Dengzhou, so it would be fine. But I didn't expect that there would be such a big change."

Song Wen nodded, "The Prince Andong was outstanding in the battle formation, and this governance of civil affairs made me even more admired. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it. This was Dengzhou that someone left three years ago. Oh my God, it's completely different."

"Wenhe, you see, it's still early now, so we might as well have a rest in the restaurant in front."

Song Wen hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Mr. Cui, this time you go back to Dengzhou, Prince Andong will definitely come to greet you."

Cui Yunqing waved his hand and said with a smile: "Ji Yu is still in Yingzhou, and I didn't tell them the details of the itinerary. Dengzhou is pragmatic and not simplified, so we don't have to do these red tape. After entering the city and settle down, we can just go to the coach's mansion to report our own house tomorrow."
Chapter completed!