Zhenguan Wenzong System

Chapter 384 Yizhou Prefecture’s Prosperity at First Look

Shu Road is difficult, and it is difficult to ascend to the sky.

Most of the allusions to Shu from ancient times to the present are related to its bad traffic and information blockage.Wuding Kaishan is one, and Yelang is arrogant.Even during the Three Kingdoms period, Yizhou was also a pure land.

Luo Yan set off in early March, and now it is mid-April.According to this time, even if you go to Jiangnan from Chang'an, you can make a round trip.But now that the destination is Bashu, they can only be allowed to enter Yizhou.

As the largest prefecture in Shu, Yizhou now includes the governing seat of Chengdu, with four counties and one prefecture.Mengyang, Deyang, Tang'an, Yang'an.Only Yang'an has three counties under its jurisdiction, with a population of less than [-] households, which are classified as counties.

At this time, Chengdu was even called Nanjing, and it was the six regions with the highest administrative level in the Tang Dynasty.The other five are important political and military places such as Chang'an, Luoyang, and Taiyuan.

Luo Yan took Hanzhong, passing through Guang'an, and the first thing he entered was the area of ​​​​Mengyang County.

This time, Li Shimin sent hundreds of Qianniuwei to follow him.In addition to Luo Yan's own [-] strong guards, the entire group was mighty, which really made the local guards nervous for a long time.Fortunately, Qianniuwei took his own sign and waved it in front of them, and the soldiers of Zhechong Mansion knew that he was from the capital, so naturally they stopped blocking him.

Although Luo Yan also wanted to take a good tour of the scenery of Sichuan.However, he has not yet taken up his post, so the delay caused bothering the local area and delaying the ministry. He could only look at Minshan and Wenshui in disappointment on the road, thinking about when he would be able to take a good look at this beautiful scenery.

After another month and 22 days of rushing through Deyang County, Luo Yan and his party finally arrived at the inn three miles outside Chengdu.

After the postman checked the name post, he was terrified to find that the person who came was actually the incoming governor, which really made the new postman a little at a loss.Although Luo Yan also learned some Yizhou dialect from Zhen Lian on the way, he obviously couldn't handle such a situation.

In the end, Zhen Lian, who was smiling, could only order the postman to boil some water first, so that they could take a good bath after traveling all the way.

As the saying goes, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one. Now that Luo Yan is here, all the postmen in the post station are going crazy.In just half an hour, the hot water used by more than 200 people was actually boiled.

This greatly facilitated Luo Yan and his party.

It only took a long time for them to wash off their grime one by one, get together radiantly, and began to discuss the issue of going to the city to hand over duties tomorrow.

"Zhen Lian, you are a native of Yizhou. You have seen the situation today. We cannot understand the language, so it is very inconvenient. Therefore, I will trouble you to make a trip today and send my name card to the governor's mansion and the governor. government."

At this moment, Luo Yan only thought that no matter how tricked he was by the system for a while, he must first exchange for a Shu dialect.Otherwise, sooner or later you will suffer in the future.

Zhen Lian is one of Luo Yan's aides, and this is the time for him to show his skills, how dare he shirk.Dang even agreed: "Even if the proprietor doesn't say anything, Zhen Lian will invite him to go later. Although the student failed in the scientific examination, the princes of the Governor's Mansion occasionally meet, so it's time for me to go."

The first thing has been arranged, Luo Yan nodded, and continued: "Bring a few more people when you go, and buy some food when you come back. The rush all the way has caused many guards to suffer. Today's rest, just to improve the food, also It’s a reward for everyone.”

Naturally, they don't need to do such trivial matters, Luo Yan's personal guard immediately nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

After Zhen Lian went to the city with his men, Luo Yan smiled and said to Liu Chang'an: "Mr. Liu, you and I have nothing to do, why don't you pretend to be a passing merchant and go to this city to have a good time. It's just right, let's take a look too. Qiu Inspector's achievements in office."

How many years did Liu Chang'an live in Chang'an, so he didn't know what Luo Yan was thinking.He was only a little worried and said: "Proprietor, I can't speak the language, so I can only be a deaf-mute person, but I can't get in touch with that passing merchant at all."

When Liu Changan said this, Luo Yan shook the purse he took out from his arms, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you are that deaf-mute, as long as you have this."

Liu Changan had no choice but to wait for Luo Yan to change into a suit of single silk clothes. A luxurious suit looks like a rich man.Only then did the two of them take three or five guards to the city in a leisurely carriage.

After entering the city gate, I waited for a moment.Although it is necessary to check the identity documents when leaving the city, such a long time is enough to show that there are indeed a lot of people entering and leaving the city.When Luo Yan handed over the identity document, the expression of the soldier guarding the city was exactly the same as that of the postman just now.

Luo Yan entered the city after explaining that he had to keep it secret.Although it was not as crowded as in Chang'an, people were still on the street at this time.Seeing that the carriage was really moving slowly, Luo Yan simply got out of the carriage and asked someone to put it in an inn, and then walked into the city with the flow of people.

There were a lot of peddlers along the street, and many local products made Liu Changan, a Confucian scholar with a lot of energy cultivation skills, hang around a little bit.Shuoshuo, single silk, Shu brocade, flower yarn, red and blue, these tributes that are rarely seen in Chang'an in the past are simply too common here.

Luo Yan took a fancy to a flower gauze.

Although many tributes are distributed to Changle every year.But from Luo Yan's point of view, the products sold at this stall are actually much better than tribute products.

Standing in front of the stall, Luo Yan couldn't help asking: "Shopkeeper, how do you sell this flower yarn?" Luo Yan regretted it just after he finished speaking. He used Chang'an official dialect, so people here can't understand it.Just when he was about to change his words, he heard an official reply with a slight dialect accent: "Your honorable guest is from Chang'an, please tell me if you are dissatisfied. The flower yarn here can be said to be the best in the whole level. A horse Three iron coins, if you have enough copper coins, five hundred wen will do.”

This is the first time Luo Yan has heard of iron money.Although later generations also heard in history books that the copper production in Shu was insufficient, but I really didn't think of it for a while.

Pulling out the purse from his pocket, Luo Yan smiled: "I see it this way, I'll give you six hundred Wen. You give me a piece of flower yarn, and find me ten Wen iron coins. Iron coins are also a rare thing in Chang'an. Just brought it back to open the eyes of my old friends."

It was profitable, how could the shopkeeper be unhappy, tied up the flower yarn, and handed it respectfully to the guard behind Luo Yan, and then took out ten coins with a little rusty color from his bosom Pass it to Luo Yan: "Don't be surprised, honorable guest, iron coins are easy to rust due to the cold wave in Sichuan. This is the best in the hands of villains."

Luo Yan didn't take it seriously, nodded and left the stall.

Weighing the iron money in his hand, Luo Yan couldn't help but say to Liu Chang'an with the heavy feeling: "If the real estate in Shu is copper, I'm afraid the city will not be as prosperous as the capital."

Liu Chang'an understood Luo Yan's meaning, and nodded: "It's God's will, how can human beings do it?"

Luo Yan smiled, didn't say anything, just kept walking.The regulation of Chengdu Mansion is much more ridiculous than that of Chang'an, but after walking for half an hour, a bustling street is gone.But just now, I just walked on one side, and when I turned around, I just finished walking on the other side.

Full of novelty, Luo Yan continued to inquire about the prices of many Sichuan local product stalls, and then bought one or two if he saw something he liked.Luo Yan was having fun walking around, but the guards behind him were a little sad.

For the things in their hands, they asked each of them to find a pole and put them in the basket to carry them.

When Luo Yan came to a stall, he stopped again.In this way, the faces of the guards became even darker.If Luo Yan could hear their voices, then he would know that what they were thinking at this moment was: "Grandpa, there is no room for anything in the basket."

Squatting in front of the stall, Luo Yan looked at a pretty but timid little girl standing there, and asked with a smile: "Little girl, why are you here alone, where is your family?"

The girl just shook her head, but said nothing.Luo Yan spoke the authentic Shu dialect this time, there was no possibility that the little girl could not understand it.Thinking that the girl might be a little dumb, Luo Yan pointed to the things on the stall and asked: "These things are different from the styles I have seen just now, but they are quite unique. I wonder how much the bamboo carvings cost?"

The little girl stretched out three fingers timidly.

Luo Yan understood this time, took out three copper coins from his purse, handed them to the little girl, and then handed the bamboo carving to the guard behind him.

Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she suddenly saw the little girl standing up, made a sound towards Luo Yan, then took out an iron coin from her bosom, pointed at it, and then gestured to hand the copper coin to Luo Yan.

This time Luo Yan understood instantly.This little girl is indeed a Nanman.And what she meant was that bamboo carvings needed three copper coins, which meant that there were too many copper coins.

In the presence of a large crowd, Luo Yan couldn't exchange Nanman language to communicate with the little girl, so he could only shake his head, push the copper coins into the little girl's hands, and took three slightly larger bamboo carvings from the stall.

Just as Luo Yan was about to get up and leave, a voice suddenly came from a distance: "Quickly dodge, a fast horse is coming."

The guards are still carrying a burden, if they don't evade in time, their own guards will suffer.At this time, Luo Yan immediately shouted: "Come to the side of the street quickly, the burden is unloaded, and things are piled up, don't hinder others to hide."

The guard and Liu Chang'an couldn't understand the Shu dialect, they just saw the commotion ahead, but they didn't know what happened.Hearing Luo Yan's voice, he didn't hesitate, and immediately followed Luo Yan's instructions.

But in the blink of an eye, the crowded street gave way to an avenue.

And the so-called fast horse also arrived tens of meters in front of Luo Yan at this time.

However, on the street, there were quite a few passers-by who couldn't dodge and fell to the ground, lying about [-] meters away from the horse.

If the horse were to charge over, some of these people would be trampled to some extent.Standing behind Luo Yan, Liu Chang'an shouted loudly: "Get up and run." But his eyes had long been closed unbearably.

(End of this chapter)