Li Dongyang was pretending to be sick, just to not go to Qinglong with the army. Who knew that he was a strange move and was brought by Ye Chunqiu.

But since he was pretending to be sick, he had to continue pretending. Who knew that Ye Chunqiu was trying to make trouble?

Fortunately, Li Dongyang is not the kind of person who can hold on to the end. Since he was not as good as Ye Chunqiu at this time, he had to grit his teeth and snort coldly.

I think he has been smart all his life, but I only regretted that he had met the monster Ye Chunqiu when he was old!

Ye Chunqiu seemed to be unable to see Li Dongyang's anger at all, and said with a smile: "I will leave Shanhaiguan tomorrow. Mr. Li should have a good rest."

Ye Chunqiu obviously did not really want to make Li Dongyang die. He has severely punished Li Dongyang in the past two days, just to teach Li Dongyang a little lesson so that Li Dongyang can be more at ease and understand his current situation and that he can do less bad things in the future.

The team of the "Holy Driving" finally arrived at Shanhaiguan. The Shanhaiguan Guard and the eunuch Cao came to greet each other in person. It was a pity that he did not see His Majesty, saying that His Majesty was uncomfortable and was in a hurry to leave the customs, so he did not stop.

This made Eunuch Cao regretful. Eunuch Cao and Ye Chunqiu had some connections and could not help but come to meet Ye Chunqiu.

When Ye Chunqiu saw that he was getting richer and old friends met, he also said a few politely, but he knew very well that Your Majesty should not stay here for too long, otherwise it would inevitably be exposed. Then he brought a huge crowd out of the gate.

This is not what the outside world did before, and there is no one in a thousand miles away.

Not only that, especially outside Shanhaiguan, many markets have appeared. Countless merchants led the cattle and sheep they bought from Qinglong into the pass, and countless caravans brought trucks of fruits and grain out of the pass.

You can hardly walk far away and you can see the pasture and smoke.

Most of the pastures are kept with cattle and horses, and some shepherds ride horses, holding horse poles, and wander around. Within a radius of about a hundred miles, there will always be a market. This market is formed by itself, mainly selling some iron tools, such as horseshoes, wool scissors, and rifles to nearby shepherds. Of course, they also act as a certain responsibility for breeding cattle, stallion and cattle and horse trading. Many merchants in the jurisdiction will come to select good animals. Generally speaking, there will be cowhide and sheepskin processing workshops in this market, and there are special car shops to deliver letters at the post station. Even many of the Qinglong's products will be placed on the shelves. So although such markets are simple, sparrows are small and have all the internal organs, the shepherds need them.

Of course, there are also taverns and Qinglong, and there are even special newsstands that will sell newspapers from Beijing.

There are often small schools in markets. This is not surprising. Most herders can save some money. As long as they don’t get into bad habits, they are still quite rich. Now that the rise of industry and commerce has led to many more decent jobs. In this case, who doesn’t want their children to be more decent?

Nearby merchants often pass here, so there must be a place to stay. Therefore, the inns in this kind of market are generally excellent, and they are built with bricks and stones, and are decorated with great care.

Because of the different accents, almost everyone here speaks official language. Oh, by the way, occasionally, there will be some parade troupes. When that time comes, the leisurely shepherds nearby are willing to ride horses for dozens of miles to watch the show.

But... there is not much elegance here. The elegant plays like the capital are hard to eat here. This is easy to understand. They are not rough people, and they are unwilling to leave the seclusion to make a living. Therefore, most of the opera troupes are rougher, mostly meat-based.

Brothels are often near inns and are provided to herders and merchants. Most of the signs are from Jiangnan women. Occasionally, there are some Korean women and Japanese women. To put it bluntly, people outside the pass are very vulgar, so don’t expect them to distinguish between vulgarity and elegance. To some extent, when vulgar people begin to have the ability to consume and thus create vulgarity, it is beneficial.

After all, the reason why these romances and romances and talented men and beautiful women emerge one after another is that they cannot have poetry and songs at any step? After all, they serve the kings, princes, generals and ministers of the past. The birth of vulgarization shows that a group of people who should not have the ability to consume have the ability to consume. These people should be tenants, they should be mud legs, and they don’t have the time to continue their meals. How can they have the intention to entertain? Because these people gradually eat and drink enough and begin to pursue their "pleasant eyes", which is the beginning of a social change.

Of course, if these things were heard by Li Dongyang and others, they were in a very bad mood. He was extremely despised by everything here. Looking at these rude people, even those merchants wearing brocade clothes but with a vulgar look on their faces, Li Dongyang suddenly felt that he had come to another world, and this world made him dislike it no matter how he looked at it.

Of course, Ye Chunqiu would not care about his feelings. Instead, he liked this place, unrestrained and free here, and there was no hypocrisy or hypocritical attitude. Everyone did not hide their desires at all.

After passing one small market after another, a huge city began to appear in everyone's eyes.

Qinglong…

This city, which has a population of more than 300,000 and is still increasing, has gradually risen from a barren land and has become a shining pearl outside the pass.

This place is no longer a barren land, but now there are endless street markets, hundreds or thousands of workshops, and the chimneys are lined with smoke and dust, so that even the sky is covered by dark clouds, but this smoke has become lifelike in the eyes of many people.

There are still people here. This is the largest cattle, horse and leather trading market in the world. The steel produced every day is the best in the world. Tens of thousands of tons of steel a year will then enter various workshops and continue to process them in depth, becoming weapons, agricultural tools and machinery. Outside this barrier, there are already huge coal resources, and the coal mined nearby is continuously transported here, increasing power for countless workshops.

This is the gathering place for merchants and the headquarters of Zhenguo Mansion Money House. Countless wealth gathers here, and finally disperses, gathers again, and disperses again, like snowballs, and grows bigger and bigger.

Outside the city, the laying of railway tracks is still underway, and the craftsmen have set up many tents along the line, and the construction is still being started.
Chapter completed!