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Chapter 35
Chen Sijiu drew his sword out of its sheath, and was about to continue to enter the sword.

But Long Jiao begged for mercy: "Don't, don't, I can't take it anymore..."

Chen Sijiu reached out and scratched her nose.

Long Jiao pursed her lips, her eyes flickered, and she murmured in her heart: "Unfortunately, I'm going to marry the Emperor of Dayuan..."

But Chen Sijiu looked at her, thinking in his heart how he could snatch Long Jiao, a noble lady in the river, from the hands of Emperor Da Yuan.

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The city of Kaiping in Shangdu is very large.

This place is known as the country of ten thousand tents. A long time ago, the Xiongnu and Turkic people grazed here and gradually gathered. Later, when the Uighurs were here, the Uighurs built a city here. A place of frequent alliances.

When Kublai Khan won the throne of the Great Emperor Khan, he built a city here. The city is very wide, echoing the metropolis of Beipingyao. Huge stones and wood were transported from the Central Plains, the Golden Horde and other places, and the craftsmen of Huacizimo were recruited. The craftsmen of Tianfang Sudan, the Central Plains, and the Southern Song Dynasty gathered the best craftsmen from all over the world to build the palace here. The palace was built with wood, stone, and mud bricks, which is extremely luxurious and majestic.

Outside the royal city, there are many courtyards and tents.

The Khitan of the Liao Kingdom and the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom both started out as fishers and hunters. In order to show that they did not forget that they came from Baishan and Heishui, they both had the habit of living in tents in summer, and the Mongols were the same. They were divided into the summer capital and the winter capital. Shangdu escapes the summer heat in Kaiping, the upper capital, and escapes the cold in Beiping, the capital city, in winter.

The temperature difference between day and night here is huge, and hailstorms and snowstorms are common nowadays, accompanied by floods and plague.

Business travelers, camel caravans, and caravans traveling from south to north are full of people.

The division of this place is similar to that of Beiping, the metropolis. There is an area surrounded by a large fence, which is dedicated to trading. There are spices from Samarkand, gems from the river, gold, silver, leather goods from Liaoyang Province, and Lingbei Province. There are seal skins and fish skins from the north, pearls and silk from the south of the Yangtze River, Shu embroidery from Sichuan and Shu, Buddhist utensils from the Qinghai-Tibet Xuanzhengyuan, gold wares, swords, and amber from the Golden Horde, and there are many kinds of department stores. But most of them are luxury goods and gold and silver utensils, while the things used by the common people are very few.

Most of the medicinal materials, food, and various daily necessities that the people need are sold by the Han people in Shanxi. The tents in the big fence sell goods for Mongolian big roots, and ordinary poor people can’t afford them at all.

Teams of Mongolian warriors were cruising back and forth with Mongolian scimitars and long spears in their clothes, hats, and Mongolian machetes on their waists. Semu Hui merchants led camels and ox carts to sell along the way. Naan Pit sells naan bread and barbecue, and Huihui specializes in beef and sheep offal. In farther places, the Han people directly hang pigs, cut the meat for stewing, and roast pork. , is very common in Dayuan, and the roasted pork belly is especially delicious.

There is a special bull market, a special horse market, a special sheep market, a special department store market, as well as a dining area, a storage area, a sundry area, and a slave trading area.

In the cattle and sheep market, Lichang, Baihu, and Jiachang from Xiaogenjiao in Mongolia came to sell cattle and sheep, and negotiated prices with Han merchants in Shanxi and Semuhui merchants. Although this place is located in the capital of Dayuan , but it is also very uneven. Once the gold and silver are exposed, it is common for the camp to be looted at night. The Mongols themselves regard looting as a common thing on the grassland and are not ashamed.

Moreover, there are many guards stationed here, such as Qinchawei, Asowei, Tangwuwei, etc. Many of the guards are of different races, and they do not understand each other's language and beliefs. As a result, the market here is also mixed with fish and dragons, and contains huge risks.

That is, once there is chaos here, or there are seeds of turmoil, it will quickly evolve into an uncontrollable turmoil.

In addition to the royal city and the market, there are various temples here.

The Slavs in the Golden Horde all believed in Nestorianism, and a long time ago, the Naiman tribe of Mongolia, the Sun Khan, etc. all believed in Nestorianism, so there is a cross temple here, and there are many blond hair and blue eyes back here. There are also big tents of wizards who believe in Changshengtian, and various Mongolian medicines are spread.

Taoist temples are not uncommon here. In the past, the living god Qiu Chuji traveled thousands of miles west and stopped killing with a single word. He was called a living god by Genghis Khan. The Taoist atmosphere here is actually very strong. Most of the northern Han people believed in Buddhism and Taoism.

In addition, there are various Muslims who believe in Tianfang. Kublai Khan not only used the Han officials, but also the heavily Sinicized Liao nobleman Yelu Chucai as his prime minister. He also appointed a large number of Tianfang Huihui, especially the powerful minister Ahema The layout of many places in this city is set by Ahema according to the customs of Tianfang, so the Tianfang Temple here is very large.

Later, when Ahema became bigger, Kublai Khan deeply felt that the Semu people were not reliable, so he supported the Han officials and Buddhism, and then there was the next dharma king, Bhaspa. He is a Buddha-headed eminent monk who can occupy a high position in the Yuan Dynasty. The demon monk Yang Lian Zhenjia is a disciple of Ba Siba.

All the temples run side by side, and different religions live together, which also leads to various conflicts here. However, relying on the strong force of the Mongols, they have not yet broken out conflicts.

Zhu Chongba and Peng Yingyu led a few children rescued from the beggar gang, followed Long Jiao's car tent, and entered Kaiping City.

Here, except for caravans that need to pay daily booth fees, there is no need to pay entry fees when entering the city, because strictly speaking, there is no city wall here. They believed that locking people in the city walls would turn the warriors into sheep and lose the wildness and combat power of the grassland heroes, so they did not build tall city walls here.

There is another reason.

In the battle between the two capitals of the Yuan Dynasty not long ago, this place was looted, and the emperor and Mongolian officials who had been in the capital Beiping for a long time did not want an impenetrable strong city on the grassland.

Peng Yingyu pulled a child, tightened the child's clothes, and said: "You have to follow closely, don't be slapped by the beggars again."

Although the child was young, he was very sensible and well-behaved. Hearing the words, he nodded heavily, and pulled the rest of the children along, hand in hand and followed.

Zhu Chongba asked curiously: "Yingyu, do you really want to accept them as apprentices?"

Peng Yingyu rolled her eyes and asked, "Why not? I'm not stupid. I found out that I'm only a arm's length away from the big guy. Instead of learning other martial arts, I might as well practice them myself. The remaining few A child, I take all of them as disciples, I am from the Ying family, and they are from the general family."

"The older boy just now, I'm going to teach him the double saber, his surname is Zhao, Zhao Gou'er, I named him Zhao Pusheng, what do you think?"

"Double swords? Can you do it?"

Zhu Chongba expressed doubts.

"I don't know how, but I heard it sung in operas, two swords can break spears, this Mongol's northern Han army mostly uses long spears, I taught him two swords, and he will be more agile in killing Mongolian Tartars in the future."

　Little knowledge: The Great Jade Sea in Dushan is a jade sea carved by Kublai Khan, which can store thousands of catties of wine
　　
　
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