The closer the Shandong Province is to the Shandong Peninsula, the denser the population. Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty delegation went north from Haizhou and entered Laizhou. The original wilderness scene changed a thousand miles away. There were harvested wheat fields everywhere, and some villages were dotted among the blocky wheat fields, which was quite peaceful in the prosperous times.

However, the terrain of the Shandong Peninsula is different from the plains and vast areas in Huaibei, but is dominated by mountains, rivers and hills. Therefore, the hills become natural dividing lines for fields, and most of the villages are built against mountains, making the fields, hills and villages form an extremely harmonious picture.

The pedestrians on the official road also became more and more congested. Even if the escort of the mission was the government, they could only wait patiently in the face of congestion. There was no case in which the whip drove away the roadblockers ahead with a horse whip.

This surprised Zhendexiu, who was traveling with her colleagues!

In the State of Song, no one has ever stopped the people in the government. Even if there is, they will drive them away. Those who retreat slowly can still be sent to prison for punishment. And those who are of grade like them have to ring the gong and clear the road ahead early.

But the officers who escorted them obviously did not have this idea.

With questions, he finally couldn't help asking.

But the official explained that in the Ming Dynasty, if it were not for the expedition messenger of the post station, no one in the government could seize the road with ordinary people. Moreover, the good habit of queuing had long been promoted from Manzhouli on the Eastern Mongolian grassland to the Shandong Peninsula. No matter how common people were, they had to queue up in a regular manner.

Once reported, there is a risk of losing the official position.

Therefore, in case of not being in a hurry, there is no need to take risks.

After hearing this explanation, Zhen Dexiu felt more disgusted with Ming Dynasty. Because the Ming Dynasty's regulations were obviously different from the high and the low. This made them, the scholars and officials who were used to being arrogant, completely unable to understand or even feel humiliated.

Therefore, he subconsciously asked: "When doing this, will the imperial court orders be equivalent to Mud Legs? Is there no well-educated scholars' advice?"

"How is the difference between the imperial court's official official and ordinary people? How can one get the same level as a human being?" Zhou Bing asked back: "Many of the high-ranking officials in our Ming Dynasty were from herd slaves. They have a lower status than mud legs facing the loess and facing the sky.

Our king often says that a noble person is never a status, but a good moral character and cultivation. If he is a dirty person, no matter how high his status or how gorgeous his clothes are, he is just a low-key person.

And such people are not even as good as dogs in our Ming Dynasty.”

Zhen Dexiu's expression was a little sad, and Zhao Rong, who was sitting beside her, also felt a little uncomfortable. She felt that Zhou Bing scolded them to think that people should be of different ranks and some special and elegant dignitaries.

So the journey will be much quieter next!

Zhou Bing looked at it, and while she was disdainful, she felt a little complacent between her eyebrows. Since the envoys of the Song Kingdom came to the territory of Ming Kingdom, they were calling out to the Northern Barbarians, Hu Hu and barbarians in private. When they spoke, they always showed a bit of high-ranking attitude, and they didn't know who gave them confidence.

If he hadn't been afraid of destroying the king's plan, he would have wanted to beat these Song Envoys who had inexplicably shown his superiority.

So that they knew that no matter how many poems and songs were in front of their fists, they would be beaten up.

When we arrived at Penglai County, the prefecture of Dengzhou, the atmosphere of the city similar to Lin'an City was already coming. However, with the chaotic order of Lin'an, everything in Penglai County seemed to be orderly. All pedestrians walked on the right, while the carriages walked on the official road in unison.

Occasionally, pedestrians who enter the official road or carriages walk on the pedestrian road will be driven away or fined by the security soldiers riding horses in the shortest time.

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Some street trees are evenly distributed on both sides of the street at ten steps, greatly reducing the dust caused by carriages when walking. At the same time, it also gives people a more comfortable feeling. In this summer when the temperature is quite high, the branches and leaves of the big tree will form a "sunshade", which just blocks the high temperature of summer for passing pedestrians.

Some people play chess games on the hem of the tree, which often attracts many pedestrians to watch.

At this time, three or five newspaper boys suddenly ran past the street.

I just heard "The newspaper is sold! The newspaper is sold! Xiao Zhala, the commander of Dongping Prefecture, surrenders in the city, and the south of the Qinghe River is coming to the Ming Dynasty!" They ran and waved the newspaper in their hands, and were on their waists, carrying a large bag cross-body.

When they heard that the army had won the battle again, especially the bandits on the east and west roads of Shandong, they were finally flattened by the army. Some people with a little extra money were not stingy with taking out a copper plate and buying a newspaper. Some people who were reluctant to leave money went under a big tree to listen to others reading newspapers.

It was the first time Zhendexiu heard about a newspaper!

It was also because of the Ming Dynasty that Song State had not paid much attention to it. It was not until the Shandong Province was included in the rule of the Ming Dynasty that the whole country became interested and vigilant about this sudden emergence of northern neighbor.

Many times, the trends about the Ming Dynasty were also transmitted to Lin'an through the Imperial City Division. However, only the Emperor of Song and officials with higher ranks could know this. Xiang Zhendexiu, who was often excluded from the core circle of the court, was temporarily promoted from the Tanzhou office, and could not access this information at all.

Then he sent a guard from the delegation to get out of the car and bought a copy. Soon, the newspaper with Mo Xiang was sent to him by the guards.

I saw that the words "Shandong Province has added half of the wall, Yidu, Zibo, Jinan, Dongping and other prefectures are all returned to the Ming Dynasty."

Although there are some differences in fonts from the common Chinese characters in Zhendexiu, especially in the strokes, the meaning of this article is generally understood from the perspective of shape and context.

There is nothing, and there is no such thing as showing off the literary style that is often loved in the official newspapers of the State of Song. This article, which was published in the newspaper and was sold everywhere by newspaper boys, is a very plain and straightforward vernacular. For the sake of understanding, the punctuation marks commonly used in the State of Ming Dynasty were also used.

I have to admit that this is indeed convenient for understanding, but isn’t it embarrassing to publish such articles in such newspapers?

Zhendexiu can't understand it anymore!

If it was in the State of Song, some people would publicly publicize such articles, which would only become a laughing stock among the scholars and officials of the State of Song.

But looking at the people of Ming Dynasty, no one seemed to think this article was inappropriate or insulting.

Zhao Rong's focus is different from Zhen Dexiu. He just said strangely: "This is a military secret. If you are so widely publicized, will the Ming government not be afraid of leaking the secret?"

Generally, the government will not tell ordinary people about such major events. As long as the officials of the court know about it, ordinary people just need to pay taxes honestly and turn a blind eye to the matter outside the window, they will be a great good citizen.

Although this policy of fooling the people is conducive to the rule of the government, it also weakens the people's sense of identity with the country. It can be seen only when the Mongols go south in the future, most people in the Song Dynasty choose to surrender.

Anyway, they pay taxes, and it’s the same to anyone. The Song State is still the Yuan State, the Mongols are still the Han people, and these ordinary people really don’t care so much.
Chapter completed!