Donghai City is on the west bank of Beijiang, and the east gate of the city is on the bank of Beijiang. The long embankment is the dock, and now it is filled with countless boats.
The city is rectangular in shape, and the east wall is built along the coast. The county city has one north gate, one west gate, and one south gate, but there are three east gates. There is a very tall gate tower on the middle east gate. The two big characters are East China Sea.
Donghai City is a city built on the water and gathered for business. Everything in this city revolves around business. It is now the only large city in the Song Dynasty that is mainly based on commerce, and it is also the Song Dynasty's only external maritime trade port.
Donghai City is actually near the intersection of two rivers. The other largest river, the Xijiang River, enters the sea two hundred miles south. It is not directly connected to the Beijiang River, but its mouth is very close to the sea.
Donghai City is one of the most prosperous places in the Song Dynasty, because it is one of the largest seaside cities. Beyond the Beijiang River, to the southeast is the sea. It is an endless sea, and you can sail to hundreds of nearby countries from the sea.
Donghai City is very big. It is definitely a big city. It must have a population of hundreds of thousands. It is on the edge of Beijiang. The city wall is twenty miles long from north to south and more than six miles from east to west.
When the boat docked, Ye Xing jumped off the boat and followed the crowd into the county town through the third gate of the east gate. He also paid 50 yuan to enter Philadelphia. He had no credentials at all and was probably stolen by the gatekeeper.
After entering the city, there were a lot of people. It was really prosperous, the buildings were neat, and most of them were small buildings of two or three floors, and there were also many slightly higher-rise buildings.
Because it was still early, Ye Xing's idea was to go shopping first. As soon as he walked around, he couldn't stop, because Ye Xing found that everything was extremely novel and not at all what he originally imagined.
Ye Xing soon discovered that there was something completely different from the original unimaginable. There were all kinds of people here. This did not refer to their place of origin, but their race.
Because Ye Xing is a Song Dynasty with yellow-white skin and purple hair. In Donghai City, there are white people with white skin and blond hair, short black people with yellow skin and black hair, and brown people who are all brown. .
There are even some dwarves who are completely dwarfs, extremely tall giants, two heads taller than Ye Xing, and their fists are five times the size of Ye Xing.
Although these people have different skin colors and appearances, they are definitely human beings and are not aliens. The people in Donghai City are not surprised. It can be seen that they have a lot of opportunities to come into contact with foreign races.
This completely subverted Ye Xing's cognition. It turns out that there are many races in this world with different skin colors and huge differences in body shapes.
Although Ye Xing had already judged from the map of Song Dynasty and the movement of the sun and the moon that this planet was another world far larger than the earth, he was still surprised when he saw the extremely different human races.
Donghai City, this city of commerce, is found by people from all over the country. There are many people from neighboring countries doing business. Basically, Donghai City is a hodgepodge.
The total population of Donghai City is about 500,000, and less than half of the population are outsiders. This shows how prosperous this place is. More than 10% of the county's population is concentrated here, and everyone in the city is engaged in business.
Countless people come in and out of this Donghai City every day, creating countless people who serve business, and the land in the city is very expensive.
It can be said that every inch of land is precious. Even along the outside of the city wall, many buildings have been built.
Because it has been peaceful for a long time, there is no difference between the inside and outside of the city, and there are no fees to enter the city, but the land price has skyrocketed.
The people living in the city are businessmen and dignitaries, nobles or nouveau riche, and the city is also well planned and neat.
The people living outside the city are all civilians, it's all in a mess, and the population is ten times that of the city.
The so-called Donghai City actually refers to the inner city, which has city walls, but there is also an outer city that surrounds three-quarters of the city. Only the east side is Jiangbei Wharf, and it is prohibited to build any residential buildings.
Ye Xing bought a map of the city. The streets were straight and all major points were clearly marked.
The City Lord's Mansion occupies a large area of land near the north gate.
Dozens of blocks are filled with various shops and residences of wealthy people.
The city gate is never closed, so the common people live in the outer city.
Ye Xing spent another 1 tael of silver to buy a detailed map of the Song Dynasty, which carefully divided the thirty counties of the Song Dynasty.
It was much better than the map Ye Xing had seen before. The terrain, mountains and rivers were all sketched out and marked in different shades.
He noticed that the Ziyun Mountain Range was located across the northeastern part of Donghai County and continued to the northwest. It was separated from Lujiang County in the north. There were only a few twists and turns of the mountain road gaps in the middle. To the east was the endless sea, and to the west was the endless sea. It is connected to Mangyun County.
This is something Ye Xing knew a little bit about, but he didn't expect the Song Kingdom to be so big, because the map shows that there are more than 10 counties that are much larger than Donghai County.
Ye Xing also asked for a rough azimuth map of neighboring countries, and found that Song State was also a small country. Although the map was crude, looking at Song State, which was only a small piece of land on the map, one could imagine that the world was infinitely vast.
Near the Song Kingdom were the Bauhinia Kingdom, the Yunshan Kingdom, the Nanman Kingdom..., and the most exaggerated were the extremely vast Tang Empire and the Yuan Empire.
These large empires are more than ten times the size of the Song Dynasty, and there are more than a dozen kingdoms the same size as the Song Dynasty.
The map shows that Song State is adjacent to the sea to the east, and to the east is the endless ocean. Donghai County is actually a county at the southeastern end of Song State. There are hundreds of island countries across the ocean from Song State.
According to those who sell maps, all the map patterns have been handed down from generation to generation, probably hundreds of years ago, and the maps are only part of what they understand.
Many areas on the map are based on hearsay by the artist and are not accurate.
Because the areas are so far apart, I haven't heard any information about those remote areas for many years.
It is not certain whether some countries still exist or not. There are too many wars in small countries, and it is impossible for these changes to appear on the map.
It is said that small countries often fight wars, while big countries rarely fight, but they are always at war with each other. Moreover, the wars of small countries are often proxy wars waged by big countries.
The entire area on the map, plus countless neighboring islands, contains thousands of countries, large and small. Ye Xing is certain that these are only part of the world, because no one in this era has ever been to the ocean.
Like the Song Dynasty, it remained unchanged for three thousand years because it was located in a corner, had few resources, a small population, and the ocean was of no use, so big powers had little interest in it.
Of course, peace is also temporary or partial. In fact, we are fighting for it. Behind it is the inequality of survival resources.
Just like the Song Dynasty, it was divided into more than thirty counties, each with its own power, and there were more than a dozen completely independent small principalities within it.
A small principality is a small prince who was entrusted by the previous generation or earlier. They all have their own tax revenue, but they do not have a large-scale army but they have their own city guards.
In other words, the Song Dynasty was only a unified country in name, but in fact it was divided internally and everything was extremely chaotic.
Ye Xing was curious about how the Song State could effectively rule such a huge territory, even in name only. Thinking of the country in its previous life, it was still difficult to govern despite its extremely advanced technology.
Why did the Song Dynasty manage this country effectively? The Song Kingdom has existed for 3,000 years. It is really strange that there is no force to overthrow the rule of the Song family. It is impossible!
In Ye Xing's opinion, the governance of the Song Dynasty was extremely rough.
I can’t understand why there is no invasion from foreign enemies in such a large land with a population of hundreds of millions and a weak national power?
Ye Xing is becoming more and more curious about this world. Now it seems that this world may be similar to the pre-Qin Warring States period of the previous life on Earth, China, but it is obviously very different.
The most obvious thing is that these people seem to know the general scope of the world, which is incredible!
Just who drew this map is puzzling!
Ye Xing found a small inn near the west gate to stay. He thought that there would be a lot of people at the sect selection meeting in one and a half months, so Ye Xing booked a room for two months and gave him 300 taels of silver at once. ticket.
The innkeeper was very happy to see that he was a big customer, so he gave me a nice room, which was very quiet.
Ye Xing is also very satisfied, because it also includes breakfast and dinner. The main thing is that the environment is not bad.
After Ye Xing settled in, he first looked around, then dug a few bricks on the wall near the head of the bed, placed his steel crossbow, steel arrows and precious herbs inside, and then restored them to their original state.
Ye Xing carries other items with him.
The packages were placed directly on the bedside. They were just clothes.
After everything was arranged, Ye Xing began to sit upright and meditate until he was very tired, then he naturally lay down and fell asleep.
