Chapter 1517 Liangcheng, the capital of Wei
"Hey, you are harvesting rice!"
On the way to the palace with Gongsun Beiyan and others, large areas of neat farmland appeared in the endless lush green fields, Han Xin was surprised.
There are countless local natives in the farmland with dark skin and almost naked body harvesting rice under the surveillance of soldiers. Some use hands, some use bamboo knives, and some use metal sickles. The harvested rice is also transported to the open space and beaten with square wooden warehouses to thresh. You can even see a hand-crank threshing machine in the farmland, but the number is very small.
If we had not clearly known that this place was thousands of miles away from the Qin Dynasty, Han Xin and his accompanying chiefs, staff and soldiers would definitely not believe that this place was still a primitive wilderness not long ago.
"It made General Han and you all laugh. We arrived here in December last year. Because we sailed for too long and were not suitable for the local conditions, we were confused and didn't know where to continue sailing. So we temporarily stationed here, driving the nearby indigenous people to learn to open up land and farm. After a few months, we became what we are now..."
Gongsun Beiyan's heart was gradually no longer filled with panic.
At least from Han Xin's identity and performance, he was not here to cause trouble for himself.
Now for Gongsun Beiyan, there are only two people she can trust in the entire Qin Dynasty, one is Shui Qingrou and the other is Chen Xu.
And these two people are the people she has hurt the most.
If regrets are useful, if they can never do it, Gongsun Beiyan believes that he will not do that.
Although she is living a relatively miserable life now, she can still live well and still be able to bear the title of Princess Wei. It can be said that it is all due to Shui Qingrou and Chen Xu. Otherwise, she would have been humiliated and killed by the Mozang and the alchemists on the way to Yingzhou. Han Zheng was able to protect her and help her because of her relationship with Shui Qingrou. Later, Gai Nie was able to travel across the ocean to Yingzhou to find her, which was also Chen Xu's help.
Everyone knows that Han Xin is Chen Xu's second brother.
Therefore, Han Xin should not pose any threat to her, and the only thing that made her uneasy was whether this country that had been finally managed for half a year should continue to stay here or give up.
If you give up, will the group of followers accompanying you agree, or will quarrel again, causing the group to fall apart.
As Gongsun Beiyan, who has lived in an official family since childhood, has been in contact with all kinds of six kings, nobles, and even merchants and gentry, over the years. She knows clearly what these people want.
Even those who follow him are not all loyal and solid, each with their own plans and a dream of a noble who is prosperous and prosperous.
This even includes Gai Nie.
After so many years of loyal protection, Gongsun Beiyan is actually clear about what he wants most.
But Gongsun Beiyan never abandoned all this and followed him to a deserted place to live in seclusion.
And Gai Nie will never be her favorite person.
She never thought that she would eventually become married to a gangster like an old farmer, and Gai Nie had a hidden disease...
In the hot weather, the humid sea breeze, a group of people walked along a muddy road that could pass through the carriage to the entrance of a simple city wall made of wood and stone.
The city gate is made up of several simple giant trees. There are also soldiers wearing simple burlap armor on both sides. They hold a simple long sword in their hands. Only the sharp steel sword heads flash in the sun, revealing a hint of tension and murderous aura.
"Liangcheng".
A simple wooden plaque hung above the city gate, with two rather domineering seal characters written in ink.
"General Han, please, everything here is built in a hurry, and the climate is hot, humid and rainy, everything can only be simple!" Gongsun Beiyan explained again.
"It's okay, it's okay, this is the best camp we have seen along the way. I'll take a few days off for a while. After I find out the nearby sea map, I'll leave and won't bother for too long!"
Han Xin's words made Gongsun Beiyan feel a little more relaxed, and Chen Yu, Zhang Er and others who were accompanying him also breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.
The city is quite prosperous and a large number of bamboo and wood houses have been built.
It is similar to the railing-style buildings in the south of Daqin, and they are all stilt houses.
The plan is quite reasonable. A main road leads directly to the royal palace one mile away from the city gate. There are well-connected streets and alleys in the city, with dense houses crisscrossing, at least four or five hundred buildings, almost the same size and style. These are ordinary houses.
The closer you are to the palace, the bigger and wider the houses are. A large number of houses are built with the style of Central Plains, built with wood and stone, and many have separate small courtyards. The gate of the courtyard also contains different names such as Zuo Xiangfu, Chen Fu, and Liu Houfu. At first glance, it is the place where officials of all sizes live. You can also see some women wearing skirts hanging to dry harvests or clothes, etc.
There is even a vegetable market in one of the open spaces. Not only are there many vendors selling game fish, vegetables, fruits, and patrol soldiers.
Everything here doesn't look much different from some dilapidated counties in the south of Daqin.
Accompanied and explained by Gongsun Beiyan and others, a group of people soon came to the front of the tallest and most luxurious building complex in the center of the city.
The square is opposite the gate of the palace, the Chaogong Hall on the left, and the office offices of the three provinces and six ministries on the right.
Han Xin glanced at these buildings with different names such as the Palace of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Hall of the Controversy, the Secretariat, the Secretariat and the Supervision Province, and his face twitched slightly.
The group of people accompanied him were a little embarrassed and careful, for fear that Han Xin would roar and kill the rebels, and then the three hundred generals and soldiers following him instantly fired muskets, so a group of people who planned to restore the country instantly blew up their lives and threw their lives in this wilderness land thousands of miles away from the Great Qin.
"Folk legends are indeed good, and my brother is not wrong. You are not a little bit too small, and you really want to restore the glory of the former Wei Dynasty!" Han Xin's face quickly calmed down.
Gongsun Beiyan dared not respond, and looked down and didn't even dare to look at Han Xin.
Even though Gai Nie frowned, an inexplicable aura soon disappeared.
"Haha, there is no need to be nervous. This is overseas, not the Qin Dynasty. Whether you regain Wei or become king, you have nothing to do with me. This time I led the fleet not for you, but to go to the West to have important military affairs under His Majesty's order. What's more, your brother has told Your Majesty that the court should decide what your future fate will be. Today I will treat you as Beiyan Trading Company. I will leave after disturbing you for a few days. You don't need to think too much!"
"Thank you, General Han, for your understanding!" Gongsun Beiyan bowed with a blessing.
In the following time, Gongsun Beiyan summoned all the civil and military ministers to grandly receive Han Xin and Asia, as well as some generals of the sea division and the supervisors of several commercial banks that accompanied him, and arranged officials to entertain the soldiers and crew of the entire fleet.
Although the conditions were simple, Gongsun Beiyan did not dare to be stingy. He stored a lot of dried grain, meat and seafood, and even took out some wine and mulberry wine brought from the Qin Dynasty. The palace maids and maids shuttled back and forth, and a dazzling array of wine and food filled a wide cold house in the palace.
The structure of this cold house is similar to the structure of the Wuyue land in the southern part of the Qin Dynasty, but the scale is incomparable. It covers an area of dozens of feet. It has a stilt house style, with thick wood as support, bamboo as bones, and thatch as roofs, and huge windows and railings on all sides. The ground laid by bamboo is also covered with local mats woven by weeds. The table table made of bamboo is placed on the mat. The whole room is bright and transparent, which is very suitable for this hot and humid environment.
At the banquet, Gongsun Beiyan, Chen Yu and Zhang Er and others kept asking about some of the things that happened in the Qin Dynasty after they left. While Han Xin and others were telling each other, they kept asking about the situation in the nearby waters. The two sides had eliminated the hostility and soon they almost found out the news they needed.
After the narrow sea route near Dezhi was the road to the west, Han Xin also felt relieved and asked someone to take the navigation map to compare it with the map that Gongsun Beiyan and others were inquiring, confirming that this was the Malacca Strait that Chen Xu asked him to look for.
Moreover, after learning that Gongsun Beiyan had turned the large areas on both sides of the strait into the territory of the Wei Kingdom and divided the counties and counties. After Han Xin marked the three cities of Donglai County, Xinyang County, and the two counties and Liangcheng on his navigation map, he held a pencil and did not write down the two words "Wei Kingdom" for a long time.
"The Strait of Malacca is the rush of the East-West routes. In the future, it must be controlled by the Qin Dynasty. Once you find it this time, it is best to leave some people to open up strongholds and recruit local indigenous people for development!"
This is what Chen Xu Dundun told him before leaving.
But now this important place was occupied by Gongsun Beiyan in advance, and it has been built in a very good manner in just a few months.
If Gongsun Beiyan is forcibly expelled, it will definitely be possible, but it will inevitably cause Gongsun Beiyan's dissatisfaction and may cause endless trouble to the resident in the future.
This vast sea is wilderness, and it is harder to find a group of pirates in this completely unfamiliar sea than to climb to the sky.
Besides, Gongsun Beiyan has many capable people. The man next to him, like an old farmer, is Gai Nie, the first swordsman in the Central Plains. Chen Xu once warned him that if he meets him, he must not show off his power. If this guy takes action, his pistol may not be able to resist.
What's more, my mission this time is to escort Asia back to restore the country. I must not be able to make trouble here with Gongsun Beiyan in a confused battle. Han Xin will not think too much about the victory or defeat, and the chance of winning is 100%.
Chapter completed!