The Yanyun delicacies from the Liao Dynasty were served on the table, which was a bit similar to the Beijing dishes more than 900 years later. The main dish was a hot hotpot in the middle, with several large buckets of raw mutton placed around it, all of which were cut very thickly. This was different from the Beijing mutton sauté that Wu Haogu often ate in later generations. The oldest and most authentic mutton sauté was originally served one bucket after another!

Next to the barreled mutton, garlic paste, shredded green onion, sauce, salt, vinegar and other seasonings were also placed.

In addition to mutton, Zhong Ge'er also called a dish called "Rushi", which is salted pork soaked in salt water. It is said to be a famous dish in Yanyun. It is also cut into large pieces, full of the style of Liangshan heroes.

In addition to the meat served in large buckets, Wu Haogu also saw a large bucket of rice that was not bacon but mutton, which was a bit like the Xinjiang hand-grabbed mutton rice in later generations. It was made of vegetables that could not tell what it was, rice imported from the Song Dynasty, and dried rice cooked with mutton. It smelled very fragrant and tasted very greasy.

The wine also came up, full of "hunduo". "hunduo" is a wine storage device made of a whole piece of cowhide. After being brought up, Ximen Qing held it and poured wine for Wu Haogu and Zhong Ge'er. It was a cowhide wine! Thanks to Ximen Qing, a woman who practiced martial arts since childhood, could really be a strong worker.

What is poured out of the "cowhide" is not the wine brewed with grain, but the "milk wine", the wine brewed with unknown livestock.

The utensil used to drink is called "gourd", which means the shell of a mature gourd (a variant of gourd) and can hold a lot of wine.

After drinking half of gourd wine and eating half a barrel of meat, Wu Haogu had no appetite and began to discuss with Brother Zhong about the idea of ​​establishing a "free city" near Yanyun.

He studied oil painting in his previous life and knew a little about the history of the Western Renaissance. Naturally, he knew that the role played by free cities in the European Renaissance and the primary stage of capitalism is not an exaggeration to say that they are the cradles of capitalism! Not only did the Renaissance start with the free city-states in Italy, but even the various institutional laws of capitalism later originated in city-states such as Venice and Genoa.

Wu Haogu now wants to slightly replicate the successful experience of European free cities. Of course, this conceived free city was not targeted at the feudalism of the Song Dynasty, but was specially established for the Liao Kingdom.

Generally speaking, the Liao Kingdom is a country with poor political and economic conditions. The aristocratic families monopolize everything, and the political struggles are fierce and there is no bottom line. Although the entire aristocratic family has never happened, family massacres are often killed.

In the upcoming power alternation, if dozens or hundreds of households are destroyed, how can Yelu Yanxi be worthy of his tragic death father and grandmother?

Moreover, if you don’t kill more, you can’t establish your authority! A group of aristocratic families are all awesome. Who is afraid of the emperor if you don’t kill more?

In addition, the internal strife of aristocratic families is constantly creating "sincere son" like Zhong Ge'er. This is very good at fighting, and he is not completely inexperienced. He is also a disciple of Mr. Murong!

Mr. Murong passed the Jinshi and was a great scholar who was a prince's companion. How could the students he handed over were poor?

Wu Haogu guessed that it would be impossible to ask this guy to take the exam for the literary and Jinshi of the Song Dynasty, but if the Wu Jinshi was not good, he would be in high school.

The Liao Kingdom doesn't want such a capable son... and cannot use it (it will break the rules of the world's selection system if used). The Song Dynasty can completely win over it.

The Song Dynasty can become an official based on its ability!

Because they were reincarnated, they got the opportunity to receive the Six Arts Education of the Aristocratic Family, but they had no place to show their talents. They were all talented and were not appreciated. They held their evil spirits and recruited them to the Song Dynasty. In the future, they would be the pioneers of the Northern Expedition!

Brother Zhong must get it back and set a "typical model of the surname Zhao". Not only should he solve the problem of "one word", but he also has to win the top martial arts scholar, such as a sing outside the Donghua Gate, and catch a son-in-law under the golden list... It is also called a man who is not worthy of being a surname in the north. Look at it: The Song Dynasty can be an official based on his ability!

Moreover, if these "Brother Zhong" don't win over the Song Dynasty, they might surrender to the Jurchen barbarians when the troubled times of the Liao Kingdom come in the future. It would be a big problem if they do this.

However, if you want to let the "Brother Zhong" enter the Song Dynasty, you cannot rely on Wu Haogu to enter Liaoning like this, as the efficiency is too low. There must be a "free market" that can attract them to come.

This place must be very close to the Liao Kingdom, and it is easy to enter and exit, and it must also reflect the superiority of the feudalism of the Song Dynasty...

Of course, what Wu Haogu wanted to attract is not only the "Brother Zhong" but also the capital of the Liao Kingdom!

The Liao Kingdom is definitely not a good place to invest and buy property. Not to mention that ordinary merchants are difficult to survive in the Liao Kingdom. Even if they are born in aristocratic families, they can also confiscate their families at any time.

Even if it is not the turn to raid the house and destroy the family, after waiting for the Battle of Budagang in 1115, the officials of the Liao Dynasty really don’t need a place to retreat? Of course, the free market on the border river is not a real way to retreat, but an entrance to the way to retreat, through which funds can flow to a safer place.

But the Song Dynasty is much better than the Liao Kingdom, but it is not particularly ruled. The magistrate who destroyed the family is said to be difficult to handle, but there are quite a few county magistrates who can make people bankrupt.

Therefore, the place used to attract capital and talents of the Liao Kingdom must be a free city with a relatively complete judicial system... and this special city can only convince Song Huizong to support it in the name of "unified front" against Liao.

In addition to attracting talents and capital, Wu Haogu also wants to turn this free city close to Yanyun into the starting point of the onshore Silk Road.

In fact, Xijin Prefecture is not an ideal place for a commercial center.

First of all, Xijin Prefecture is not based on the sea. If commodities from Tokyo Road and Nakakyo Road do not want to travel thousands of miles, they must be delivered to Xijin Prefecture City by sea and inland river transportation.

However, the ships transported inland rivers are not exactly the same as those transported inland rivers. It is inconvenient to use sea boats to walk inland rivers, especially in the Sanggan River, which have poor navigation capabilities. It can only be made smaller, and the ability to resist wind and waves is insufficient.

Secondly, the industrial and commercial environment of Xijin Prefecture is extremely bad, and the city itself is not built as a commercial center. It is just a military fortress. Twenty-six yards are divided into the city, which makes the transportation very inconvenient.

In Wu Haogu's view, if a commercial city could appear on the edge of the Jiehe River, it would be probably a place near Tianjin in later generations, and he would definitely be able to steal the business of Xijin Mansion...

At the same time, this free city can also serve as a large base for the Xuanhe Northern Expedition in the future!

The failure of the Xuanhe Northern Expedition in history was largely due to poor logistics support. If there could be a "Tianjin Free City" and a large number of maritime merchants and sea ships rely on "Tianjin City" to carry out trade, the transportation of military rations of hundreds of thousands of stones should not be a problem.

Once the Jin soldiers head south, relying on the border river and backing the sea, the "Tianjin City" can also be used as a stronghold to resist the Jin soldiers!

Although "Tianjin City" could not be built as a city at the beginning, the Liao Dynasty did not actually collapse overnight. In history, the Battle of Bubu Dagang took place in 1115 AD, while the Jin soldiers headed south in 1126. There could be 11 years in the middle to build Tianjin City! As long as you are willing to spend money, what city can't be built in 11 years?

And you can go directly to the city of Yanjing along the Bian River - Sanggan River! If you do not pull out this stronghold, will the Jurchen cavalry really dare to rush to the south?

It should... I dare not? I just dare, "Tianjin City" still has value in existence.

...

"You really came up with this idea?"

It was two days later that we returned to Xiangshan. Wu Haogu returned from Xijinfucheng to Xiangshan, which belongs to Yuhe County, accompanied by Ma Zhi, who had finished the handover procedures. He did not go to Huayan Temple in Xiangshan immediately, but went to Mr. Murong's Xiangshan Academy, Ximen Qinghui, to live in the academy. Huayan Temple in Liao Kingdom is not like those in Japan. You can take women to live in it, and of course you don't have any meat to eat.

So when Wu Haogu created the large mural of "The Last Supper", he could only place Ximen Qing in Xiangshan Academy and took the time to hold hands with her...

At Xiangshan Academy, Wu Haogu gave his "free market idea" to Murong Wangyou... It was indeed to give, not to tell.

Because Wu Haogu was not going to offer suggestions by himself, he wanted Mr. Murong to offer suggestions. Murong Wangyou was a great scholar in Yanyun, and his proposal for "a strategy for weak Liao" was more like that. Wu Haogu was speechless and would not listen to others even if he said it.

After hearing Wu Haogu's idea, Murong Wangyou looked at Wu Haogu even more differently. He was a little suspicious that there was an expert behind Wu Haogu.

"Mr. Murong, this is my idea." Wu Haogu gave a positive answer.

Murong Wang thought to himself: The Song Dynasty is full of talents. Such a rich man actually has such a strategy!

"The method is good, it should be effective." Murong Wangyou nodded and thought seriously, "There is no problem here in Liao Kingdom... I can get the permission to build the site by spending 10,000 or 20,000 yuan."

This free city must not be built in the name of a city, because according to the "Zhenyuan Alliance", the Song Dynasty did not allow additional cities to be built in border areas.

However, the case can be created, but both parties need to agree. There are no clear regulations on how big the case is, so there are loopholes that can be exploited.

"In the Song Dynasty," Wu Haogu thought for a while, "As long as there is a teacher's advice, a certain family will always have a way to make it implement it."

He didn't know what Zhao Xu and Zhang Dun would think? It would be good to use the "free market" to attract talents and capital from the Liao Kingdom, but this thing was also subversive to the Song Dynasty itself, and the steadfast monarch and prime minister would not allow it easily.
Chapter completed!