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Chapter 110 New Home
In a dilapidated house, there was only a faint light from a candle.

Gao Changshou opened his eyes when he heard the voice.

The moment he saw Li Xia and Gao Mingyue, surprise appeared in his eyes, and he tried to smile.

"I thought... the country was ruined, the only sister was lost... he could die... ahem..."

Li Xia looked at it, knowing that Gao Changshou was wounded in his heart, and he would be a sick tuberculosis for a long time, so he took it as a warning.

"Cheer up, Mu Ru, and heal your injuries."

"it is good."

Li Xia turned his head, looked at Han Chengxu, and continued talking.

"what happened?"

Han Chengxu injured a leg, sat on the edge of the bed with a haggard appearance, and said: "Because Mr. Xiaolang and the princess led away the pursuers one after another, we managed to escape all the way back to the Song Dynasty. When we approached Lin'an, we old people The weak, sick and disabled couldn't move anymore, so Lin Zi went back to the city first, saying that the right minister sent someone to pick him up. But after waiting for two days, he still didn't come back.

Mr. Gao Lang felt something was wrong at that time, so he told us to leave there quickly, sneaked into the city, and asked Liu Jinsuo to investigate, but Liu Jinsuo never came back.I had no choice but to ask Qiao'er to go over and explore from a distance, and only then did I know that the house in Qinghefang was under surveillance. "

Li Xia asked, "Do you know who it is?"

Han Chengxu shook his head, and said, "I don't know, and there are people outside the Right Prime Minister's residence who are watching."

Han Qiaoer added: "I listened to Brother Li, and only told Lin Zi the strategy of the Mongolian army's attack on Shu, but nothing else."

"Qiaoer did a good job, you still remember all the information?"

"Remember." Han Qiaoer was sure.

"it is good."

Han Chengxu sighed, and said: "I thought that Mr. Xiao Lang made such an arrangement because he was afraid that the right minister would not recognize our contribution. I didn't expect that even the prime minister's mansion would not be able to enter."

Li Xia asked, "Elder Han thinks we should go see Cheng Yuanfeng?"

"Yes. I think someone is dealing with the Prime Minister, and he doesn't want us to see him." Han Chengxu said, "But I don't dare to make my own decisions. I just wait for Mr. Xiaolang to come back to make up his mind..."

Li Xia didn't answer right away, and scanned the room, only to see that it was dirty and dilapidated everywhere.

At that time, out of the thirty or so elite Nie Zhongyou brought out, only these few old, weak, sick and disabled remained.

And they can stay until now, perhaps because they are not so loyal to Song Ting, they are desperate, and they are always vigilant and defensive.

Otherwise, the brothers and sisters of the Gao family might have died in Luzhou, and the grandchildren of the Han family would definitely not be able to survive the hunt in Chenzhou.

To this day, the army of sharp warriors loyal to the Song court has been wiped out, and only the adherents of Dali and the Kingdom of Jin have survived.

Looking at this scene, Li Xia said, "I'm not in a hurry to see Cheng Yuanfeng. Take a rest overnight and move to another place tomorrow. The environment here is too bad."

Han Chengxu wanted to shake off the gloomy atmosphere, and joked: "Xiao Langjun still has money?"

"Are you out of money?"

"Nope." Han Chengxu pointed to Gao Changshou who was still seriously injured, then pointed to himself, then pointed to Han Qiaoer, and said: "Finally, when Mr. Xiao Lang comes back, I can live a comfortable life for two days. To be honest, I This stomach has also been hungry for many days."

Li Xia said: "I still have a few things I picked up in the north, and I will pawn them tomorrow."

Han Chengxu looked at it, and said, "The style of the objects on the north side is different from that on the south side, Mr. Xiaolang should be careful."

"Row……"

The five spent another night in the dilapidated house. The next day, Li Xia pawned the things, and the Dental Shop helped, and rented a house from a field worker.

When he was in Zaoyuan, he picked up a lot of valuables from the Zhang family. He didn't want the rent in Lin'an to be ridiculously expensive, and he spent almost everything on renting a yard after hard work and killing people.

In order to hide his identity, he spent an extra sum of money.

The household registration management in the Song Dynasty was very strict, not as free as in the north.

Through the control of household registration, the center can directly control the local population and land, avoid local separatism, and reduce the threat of generals to the court.

The strict household registration system does not allow people to move around. For example, in "Water Margin", it is said that Liu Tang, the red-haired ghost, was arrested by Lei Heng after sleeping in a ruined temple all night... This may have something to do with Liu Tang's appearance like a thief. If it were Li Xia, he would probably call himself Ya Nei, and then scold Lei Heng.

But there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and there are also many things about "spoofing names to blackmail households".

It means that landlords and bureaucrats falsely set up household names, falsely report household registration, and divide the land into many shares to avoid taxation and labor.Of course there are many more complicated ways to play...

If it were another fugitive who didn't know how to cooperate with a big family, there would be a high probability that he would be finished.But if you want to cooperate with a rich family, you have to look like a rich family yourself.

In short, Li Xia spent money and pretended to be an empty household in the Chengtian Yuanwai family, and found a foothold.

This foothold is no longer the core area like Qinghefang, but in the second right wing in the north of the city.

The meaning of "Xiang" probably resembles the "district" of later generations. Today, Lin'an City has twelve rooms and 89 squares.

Li Xia and the others lived in Dengxin Lane, Tongdefang, on the second right wing, on the west side of Xiangfu Temple, in a small courtyard with two entrances.

"That's great." Han Chengxu sat in the main room, watched Gao Mingyue and Han Qiaoer busily tidy up, and sighed to Li Xia: "Do you want to hide here and live a peaceful life?"

"There is no such thing as a peaceful life." Li Xia shook his head and said, "Just talking about the rent, even I think it's outrageous."

He rented this courtyard for six guan a day, and the monthly income of ordinary people was only three to five guan.

"After all, we have no identity, and we rented a good yard." Han Chengxu smiled and said, "It's an interesting story. During the Jianyan period, the Kingdom of Jin sent a large number of secret workers to the south of the Yangtze River. Among them, he specifically accused the Song Dynasty of high house prices and the lack of land for the common people. Therefore, the imperial court also set up shops and rented some cheap houses."

"We can't rent that kind of money." Li Xia changed into a brocade outfit, handed the remaining two strings of money to Han Chengxu, and said, "You rest at ease, I'll go out for a while."

"Xiao Lang-jun must be careful."

"Well, Qiaoer, write down the information when you have time, don't worry, take your time."

"Okay."

Li Xia nodded to Gao Mingyue again, signaling her to keep an eye on the door and stay vigilant.

He went out, but didn't go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion right away.

Because he doesn't trust Cheng Yuanfeng, otherwise he wouldn't have to bother to rent a house...

Sharpening the knife without chopping firewood by mistake, Li Xia first became familiar with the terrain of Lin'an City.

Because the Song Dynasty never built Lin'an Mansion as the nominal capital, the city retained the outline of the old city of Hangzhou during the "Great Song Chengping".But it is also a de facto capital city. People from all over the world gathered at the time of the south crossing, and the population has continued to increase for more than a hundred years. Now there are only 39 registered households with 130 million people, and the actual number may be 200 million.

Thus, a very complex and contradictory metropolis was formed.

On the one hand, its inner city and outer city are contiguous and continuously expanding, with a large number of registered permanent residences and a vast state capital; And the official office is extremely crowded.

At first glance, it is messy, noisy, crowded, the so-called "hive anthills, covered with corridors", and the houses and alleys are intricate; however, on closer inspection, it is so orderly, with meticulous planning of alleys and alleys according to local conditions.

Song Ting's governance was extremely...delicate and complicated.

It and Mongolia's stocking policy almost formed two extremes. It is so interlocking, detailed and huge, ingenious and complicated, and finally reached a delicate balance.

Li Xia knew that if he were to be the magistrate of Lin'an, he would not be able to govern Lin'an City well.

Among other things, the responsibilities of various parties are intertwined and complicated, and it took him 20 years to figure it out.

If he governs Lin'an Mansion, he must at least become a prime minister, and start with drastic reforms in the official system and taxation system... But it seems that many prime ministers in the Song Dynasty have done it but failed.

It took two full days for Li Xia to get familiar with Lin'an City, and he circled many times around the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, planning an escape route.

Only then did he make a decision.

"I'm going to see Cheng Yuanfeng."

"Xiao Lang-jun still decides to see the right minister?"

"Yes, I don't think it is necessary for Cheng Yuanfeng to capture Lin Zi and Liu Jinsuo, they are his people." Li Xia said: "Their disappearance just shows that someone is going to use this to deal with Cheng Yuanfeng."

Gao Mingyue stood aside, lighting a candle, and looked at Li Xia worriedly upon hearing this.

"But there are many people watching outside the prime minister's mansion, just in case Mr. Xiaolang is recognized."

"It's okay. I have a plan, and I will meet Cheng Yuanfeng on his way to court."

After making arrangements, Li Xia slept early and woke up in the middle of the night.

It was an inexplicable dream... Zhang Wenjing ran to say something like "You are spending my money to live with other women", Li Xia shook her head after waking up, and put these strange things behind her .

Not lingering in the bosom, not lingering in the bosom.

It was still dark, so he went to the courtyard to wash.

It seemed that Gao Mingyue was disturbed by the sound of shaking the well wheel, she pushed open the door and walked out, silently went to the kitchen to get a few eggs and handed them to him.

"You have to be careful."

"it is good."

The two didn't say anything, but walking together seemed to make them a little different.

Li Xia picked up the egg, and it was still warm.

He thought about it, but he didn't finish eating all of them, so he kept one in his bosom, and went out...

(End of this chapter)