Dawn of the Empire

The first chapter is quite poor and chaotic (1)

Kang Deyi came out of the Xichun Tower, and the scorching sun at noon shone listlessly on him, as if a big stone was pressing on his chest, making him feel uncomfortable.Unknowingly, he came to the bustling Bianliang Market, and was about to rush past this place where fish and dragons were mixed together, but suddenly he saw Zhao Xingde squeezed behind a large group of noisy people in front, stretching his neck and looking in.

Originally, the Kant descendant would never stop to watch the excitement, but at this moment he couldn't help being curious, he walked forward slowly, looked in over the human wall, and suddenly became angry.I saw a young woman tied upside down on a meat table. The woman's chin was slightly pointed, and several bloodstains were criss-crossed on her cheeks. She could vaguely see her originally pretty face, and the clothes on her upper body were taken off. Come on, 'revealing' her delicate dark skin, with a tattered skirt hanging around her waist.What made the Kantites furious was that the woman clearly had a Tiekido card from Xia Guo tied around her waist.

"Come and see, this woman who doesn't obey 'women' morals, chops it up and sells it, and you can ask for any piece of meat." A burly man with a ferocious face and a shirtless body stood behind the meat case, waving a gun The sharp knife on the wrist, while yelling, gestured back and forth on the woman's body with the tip of the knife.

The big man shouted in a rough voice: "Ears, noses, thighs, take your pick, come and buy it, any piece of meat you want, don't be so stingy, it is more expensive than pork, cheaper than mutton, you don't want to buy it." Do you want to buy it and try it?"

There are more and more people around, some of them shrink their heads to look at the stunner who is tied to the meat case, some have regrets in their eyes, and some look at the eye-catching white-fronted tiger tattooed on the back of the big man with fear. , some whispering.

"What crime did this woman do to be dealt with by the Second Lord like this?"

"She eloped with the scholar, and as a result, the scholar's family had a wife and refused to live a good life, and was sold to a brothel, and refused to accept customers honestly."

"Is Second Master Wang really going to chop her up? Zhang Lizheng didn't come to persuade him?"

"Scare her, tell her to be more honest. Mouse skin, do you still want to be a hero to save the beauty?"

"It's all disfigured, but it's so beautiful, my wife asked me to come out to make soy sauce, and I just ran into a good show... Oops, why is the lady here, it hurts... it hurts... it hurts..."

Zhao Xingde saw the woman lying quietly on the meat table, biting her lips tightly, her eyes dimmed and lost her luster, and she seemed to have lost her shame, he couldn't bear it, and at this moment, Second Master Wang shouted again: "This is If no one buys a piece of cheap stuff, then you have to chop off a hand first." After saying that, he raised his knife and dropped it, and chopped it down amidst the exclamation of the crowd, and the crowd and Zhao Xingde exclaimed, almost thinking that the woman's hand was It was about to be cut off, but a hand stretched out from the side, firmly holding the man's hand holding the knife.

"Brother Kang." Zhao Xingde was stunned for a moment, and only then did he see clearly the descendant of Kang De who was glaring at Second Master Wang.

Kang Deyi made a move to save people, but the second master Wang pressed down hard several times, but the right hand held by Kang Deyi remained motionless, and was pinched in pain.Seeing that the Kande descendants were dressed luxuriously, exuded an aura of wealth, and their skills were not weak, Wang Erxian felt that he was a dwarf, but he couldn't collapse under the eyes of everyone, Se sternly shouted: "I will deal with my servants myself. , Brother, what do you mean by this?"

Kang Deyi stared into Wang Erye's eyes, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said word by word: "I bought this woman."

Wang Erye was so stared at by him that his heart went 'hairy', seeing that the Kangde descendant was willing to buy someone, he went down the donkey: "All?"

"I want all of them." Kangde said coldly, and reached out his hand to take out a piece of meat from his bosom. The price of good mutton in Bianliang is 4 Wen a catty. download all.Wang Er took Jiao Zi, and just started to untie the woman from the meat case, the woman sat up, just pulled up the sarong under her waist to cover her upper body, and said to Kang Deyi: "If you buy me If you go back to be a concubine, then you have miscalculated." Her face was haggard, her thin lips were completely drained of blood, but the words she uttered were very firm.

Kan Deyi took out a bronze medal from his pocket and flashed it in front of her eyes, then took it back immediately, and said in a deep voice, "Can you follow me now?" There was a flash of astonishment, then he bowed his head and walked out of the crowd with his head down and followed the Kant descendant.

Zhao Xingde was about to speak out to buy the woman, but Kang Deyi took the lead. He also admired him from the bottom of his heart, and followed the two of them out of the crowd, only to hear Kang Deyi say to the woman: "Heal your injury first, half a month There will be a caravan going to Samarkand in the future, so follow them home." The woman said sadly, "My slave, Axiu, violated the orders of her parents and eloped with others. She was ashamed all her life and never returned home with shame. She raised her head, and said to Kant with expectant eyes: "Thank you for your help, if you don't dislike me, I will work for you in this life and have no complaints. In the next life, I will repay you with a straw title." Kant Yi turned his head and glanced at Zhao Xingde who was following up, without saying anything, he turned around and greeted Zhao Xingde first.

Zhao Xingde stepped forward quickly, clasped his hands and praised: "Brother Kang donated money to help each other when the road was rough, he is truly a man of benevolence and righteousness." The descendant of Kang De smiled lightly and said, "I will tell you the truth, Brother Zhao, I am from the country of Xia. When I saw this girl In the Spring and Autumn Period, the law of the Lu State was that the Lu people were servants and concubines to the feudal lords, and those who were able to redeem them would take the money from the mansion. Xia Guo followed this law, and I rescued this Axiu girl. Yes, the so-called unpacking expenses are gone.”

After Zhao Xingde praised Xia Guo's good governance, the two parted and said goodbye. Kang Deyan took that Axiu back to Fuhaihang, and first wrote a note, asking Liu Xunshi, who was patrolling the yamen of the Zuo Army, to clean up the ahxiu. The market ruffian Wang Erye then asked Axiu: "Then where does the scholar who tricked you to Bianliang live? I will send someone to goug out his heart and come out to see his color." Xia Guohe Located in the place of the Fourth World War, surrounded by Diyi tribes, the people are often used to fighting, the people are brave and brave, and the most important thing is to repay their kindness and revenge. Axiu knew that the Kangde descendants were not just joking, so she knelt down on the ground and said she would forgive her sins. Unwilling to reveal the name of the scholar from the Song Dynasty, Kang Deyi sighed and took Axiu to work by his side for the time being. He had a lot of mundane tasks at hand, and gradually let this matter go.

When he found Chen Dong in Taixue, Zhao Xingde showed Chen Dong the dozen or so posts he had written.While watching, Chen Dong praised: "Don't dare to say anything else, if you talk about laughing and cursing, it's all a piece of paper. There are three thousand imperial scholars, and Yuan Zhi is firmly ranked first." Zhao Xingde laughed and said: "It's a pity that I don't take this subject. Uncover the posts." Chen Dong also shook his head with a smile, and the two went to the streets and alleys of Bianliang together, taking advantage of the fact that there were no government servants and Li Zheng on the street, they quickly posted more than 30 sheets, and Chen Dong took Zhao Xingde I went to a bookstore with a small storefront and got ten pennies.Just now the cost of saving Axiu from Kangde was only 4 guan, Zhao Xingde looked at Jiaozi in his hand, secretly feeling that talent and learning are money, suddenly heard Chen Dong mysteriously said: "There is another way to get money, just today, Yuan Are you willing to go with me?"

Zhao Xingde listened to him, and Chen Dong explained in detail.It turns out that at this time it was customary that when rich families practiced rituals, or paid homage to the Buddha, the female relatives would tie the silk threads into various extremely difficult knots and hand them to the eminent monks of the temple in person, and the monks had to hand them over before a limited time. All the silk knots are untied, and the knot is homonymous to robbery, which means to eliminate disasters and transform robbery.Ladies and gentlemen have nothing to do in their boudoirs. I don’t know when they discovered that knotting and untying knots is actually a very interesting confrontation game, so all kinds of silk knots began to be extremely complicated and difficult to untie, so that the eminent monk of Daxiangguo Temple They had to secretly find someone to untie the knots that had caused them to break the precept of anger.For masters who untie knots, not only are they given valuables such as gold melon seeds and small silver ingots sometimes wrapped in silk knots, but also different rewards are paid according to the difficulty and time limit of untying silk knots.

"It's just a knot, is it so difficult?" Zhao Xingde had a suspicious look on his face.

"The mouth of a green bamboo snake and the needle on the tail of a wasp are neither poisonous, but the most poisonous to a woman's heart." Chen Dong shook his head with emotion, "Yuan Zhi, you don't know our lady in Bianliang very well. Brocade knots are difficult to untie. Soak the silk thread with well water before tying the knot, and then dry it in the sun to shrink and tighten the dead knot. Some even repeatedly soak in water and dry it for more than three times, so the silk knot must shrink and become one piece. Similar to stones, this is the most common trick." He had an expression on his face, obviously he had suffered a lot.

"Is it so exaggerated?" Zhao Xingde thought to himself, followed Chen Dong to Daxiangguo Temple suspiciously.

This Daxiangguo Temple is the first-class prosperous place in Bianliang City. Not only pilgrims gather, but also many vendors buy and sell goods in the Daxiangguo Temple, not only opening shops along the Bianhe Street in front of Daxiangguo Temple.This day coincides with the Buddha's birthday on April [-]th. The ten major Buddhist monasteries in Bianliang all have a Buddha bathing ceremony, and they prepare fried fragrant 'medicine' syrup, called "Buddha water", and give it to pilgrims who come to pay respects to the Buddha.Therefore, I have not yet arrived at the Daxiangguo Temple, and there are many pilgrims who come to worship the Buddha from far away.All kinds of shops took the opportunity to do a lot of business. In addition to the shops, there are densely packed street stalls inside and outside Daxiangguo Temple.But there are everything that is used in daily life, such as mats, screens, washing things, saddles and bridles, bows, swords, dried bacon, and the like.

Close to the Buddhist hall, there are exquisite and elegant things such as candied fruit, Zhao Wenxiu brushes, and Pan Gemo. The veranda in front of the Buddhist hall is a self-produced and sold stall in the temple, which specializes in buying and selling collars made by nuns and servants of the temple. Wipes, flowers, pearls and emeralds, Futou hats, special bun crowns, silk threads and other clothing accessories, books, toys, pictures, and local specialties and fragrant medicines are displayed on the stalls in the back of the hall. Things.The most exaggerated thing is that next to Xiangguo Temple, there is actually a restaurant called Roast Pig Yard, which is known as the best in Bianliang for its roast pork.Zhao Xingde was amazed, this is almost the whole people doing business, not only the imperial army, even the monks are not exempt.

While dealing with the vendors who kept selling various products to him, Chen Dong said to Zhao Xingde: "Earlier, the shops in this city could only be bought and sold in the square, and were not allowed to face the street. money, the walls of the square were demolished, and shops and markets were everywhere, even Buddhist temples were not exempt.”

However, Zhao Xingde could hear a sour resentment in his tone. Before the demolition of the square wall, the shops and housing prices in Bianliang City were not expensive, and those who could demolish the wall and open a shop without being questioned by the Kaifeng government were all well-connected Senior officials, this group of people made a lot of money in the demolition of the wall in Bianliang City. When the business of Bianliang's shops was completely liberalized, the prices of Bianliang's shops after the demolition of the wall have been fired to more than ten times. Gao, like Chen Dong's father, a businessman with no deep roots in Bianliang, can only grit his teeth and spend a lot of money to take over the store.

In recent days, in the name of high housing prices, the imperial court has begun to impose various restrictions on buying houses in Bianliang. The so-called scarcity is more expensive.So much so that the monks of Daxiangguo Temple couldn't bear the temptation of Aduwu, and promised some businessmen who had a good relationship with the Buddhist temple to open shops in the temple. As a result, the money and goods drawn from these shops every year reached an astonishing The number, and by virtue of the special status of the Buddhist temple, it is also exempt from paying taxes.The presiding abbot, Shisui Zhiwei, bit by bit, actually used all the places that could open shops and stalls inside and outside the Xiangguo Temple. The large Xiangguo Temple, which occupies a large area, has almost opened up the largest small commodity market in Bianliang.