Early the next morning, just dawned, and the team started to Hangzhou.

Changshui County officials, merchants, famous scholars and civilians went out of the city to send them off for more than ten miles. People along the way had already learned that the Qinghe Hou and his family were about to arrive in Hangzhou in the southeast. Therefore, before dawn, countless people brought their families to carry pots and slurries to welcome the city along the way. Therefore, there were constant cheers along the way. When encountering muddy places in the rivers and ditches, countless people rushed to help push carts. Whether it was the local gentry or the accompanying servants, they all deeply felt the unique charm of Qinghe Hou's unique among the people.

When he arrived in Hangzhou, the Hangzhou County Magistrate and other officials and merchants, gentry and famous scholars set up a welcome banquet. After the meal, Chen Xu went to the Hangzhou Silk Factory for inspection at the first stop.

The situation of Hangzhou Silk Factory is similar to that of Guangling. The second phase project has been completed. The third phase project is in full swing, and the problems encountered are almost the same. In the nearby county towns, there are now dozens or hundreds of looms, and there are silk factories and hemp mills. Therefore, there is a huge demand for skilled weaving girls. Many private textile factories have begun to poach people with high salaries. From March to the present, dozens of weaving girls have also quit their jobs and switched to other places to make money for various reasons.

Faced with this situation, Chen Xu could only repeat the old tune, repeat all the processes during his inspection at Guangling Silk Factory, personally cook and guide the canteen to make delicious food, and distribute prizes according to performance. He educated the leaders of the silk factory to increase the development of new products, and self-reliance to expand agricultural production, etc.

After the inspection of the Silk Factory, Chen Xu led his family to visit West Lake.

Although the West Lake is still deserted, it has already taken the prototype of the West Lake in later generations.

Eight years ago, Emperor Shihuang visited West Lake and changed Qiantang to Hangzhou. He ordered willow trees to be planted on the sand embankment. Now, eight years have passed. The Baisha Lake embankment covered with wild grass and thorns is now full of weeping willows. Although it has fallen into autumn, it is still as green as smoke. It looks particularly lush in the misty mist and rain. There are pavilions and towers that can be seen in the distant mountains and near waters. Those are temples and ancestral halls built by local gentry in recent years, and most of them are related to the story of the Legend of the White Snake.

Even at the reception banquet of Hangzhou County magistrates and gentry, someone suggested building a nine-story stone tower on ** Mountain to perfectly restore the scene of the Legend of the White Snake story. However, because the tower is very invested and is still in the discussion stage, it can be seen that all the people with some identities in Hangzhou care and are very interested in this matter.

Today, Hangzhou was changed by the First Emperor himself, and this family in the world has no semicolon. The beautiful myth of the Legend of White Snake has long been spread all over the world. Businesses and tourists from all over the country have come to visit and visit them all year round.

The Legend of West Lake and the White Snake has now almost become a business card for Hangzhou, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is famous all over the world.

No matter when and where it is mentioned, someone will give a thumbs up and praise it.

Now that Hangzhou Silk Factory is built, Hangzhou is the most important river port and seaport node in Zhejiang. The imperial court alone invested more than 30 million yuan in two consecutive times, which led to more than 20 million yuan in private investment. In other words, a small Hangzhou county has invested more than 50 million yuan in huge funds, which is like flooding the small Hangzhou completely overwhelmed with money.

Therefore, this time Chen Xu visited Hangzhou, he saw shops and halls everywhere and bustling merchants with accents of southeast and northwest across the country. He was ding-in and went back and forth, and the excitement was even more than Guangling, which was close to the Central Plains, and it was completely lively as if it were a bit lively atmosphere in Wuzhong County.

When visiting West Lake, there is naturally one of the most important places that you should not miss, that is the West Lake Poetry Stele.

This is a black trunk stone that is two meters high, with neat small seal script carved with vigorous and powerful strokes.

"The beautiful scenery of West Lake in March, the spring rain is like wine, willows and smoke. If you are destined to meet thousands of miles away, you can't hold your hands without destined to cross the boat. If you have a hundred years of cultivation, you can sleep together with a pillow for a thousand years!"

The handwriting is vigorous and the stone is three-pointed, and the brushwork looks very familiar. It is the inscription written by Li Si, the left prime minister of the former Qin Dynasty.

This poem is the end of the Legend of White Snake. Shui Qingrou was written shortly after it was stolen by Xuanwu Guard and sent to Xianyang. It was this mysterious mythological story that hit the most fragile heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys of Emperor Shi, and brought Chen Xu, the historical shit-making stick into the eyes of the emperor forever.

Eight years passed in a flash, and Chen Xu visited Hangzhou for the first time. At this time, he stopped at the Willow Dike of West Lake, stood in front of this stone tablet, and looked at the poems on it, and instantly felt that things were different from people and time and space were confused.

After commemorating the stone tablet of Liudi, he then took his family and Yu Wuya Xia Zijin and others to climb the ** Mountain, paying tribute to the vain White Snake who was suppressed by Leifeng Pagoda.

** Mountain is not high, but now the story of the Legend of the White Snake has become a scene in West Lake. Any tourists who come to West Lake must climb this mountain to commemorate it. Therefore, a White Snake Temple has been built on ** Mountain, which enshrines a clay statue of a beautiful woman in a white dress, and a maid in blue clothes next to it.

In front of the shrine, in addition to the incense burner and candlestick, there are several bamboo slips placed, tied neatly with twine, each of which is engraved with the three words "The Legend of the White Snake". In addition to these bamboo slips, there are several versions of the paper version of the "The Legend of the White Snake", which are all published by the Xianyang Literature Institute Press. There are the original "The Small Seal" version of "The Small Seal of Hemp Plaster" and the latest "The New Seal of White Snake" version.

As the economy of the Qin Dynasty flourished, the demand for literature among the people became increasingly greater, and the people’s favorites were various myths and stories. From the various ancient myths and legends compiled by the bookstore to the current Legend of the White Snake, the Seven Fairies, the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, the Snail Girl, Lianli Tree, etc., they are all favorite topics among the people, especially the long stories such as the Legend of the White Snake and the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea. The publishing house has printed and printed them again and again. Now there are six or seven versions of the Legend of the White Snake alone on the market. The latest white paper regular script version has three-color overprinted color illustrations, with a set of four volumes sold at a price of up to 200 yuan, but the day of its first release still caused the people of Xianyang to rob, and the first two thousand sets were almost empty.

Looking at Shui Qingrou, Ying Shiman, Meng Wan, Yu Ji, Chun Xia, Autumn and Winter Four Concubines, all of them knelt seriously in front of Bai Niangzi's shrine to worship incense. Even Yu Wuya, the guy, finally went up to lit a stick of incense respectfully.

Chen Xu was laughing and crying and reading the novel and bamboo slips of the Legend of the White Snake.

"Dang ~Dang ~"

In a familiar voice, Chen Xu turned around and saw a group of women who had kowtowed and incense that had started to throw coins into a copper furnace under the shrine to pray for blessings. Chen Xu walked out of the temple with his face twitching.

"Worshiping God will bring good luck. Why don't you worship White Snake!" Yu Wuya came out afterwards.

"There is a Taiyi Temple at the foot of the mountain, with my statue standing. Brother Yu will go and worship it later!"

Chen Xu curled his lips and watched the entire West Lake with his hands behind his back. Although the Hangzhou City, which was several miles away, looked small and broken, there were already some signs of prosperity in the Tang and Song dynasties.

"Hehe, my benefactor's Taiyi Temple is indeed in full bloom now. The Taiyi scholars are also very pious, but I made my statue too ugly. Besides, my benefactor is right in front of me. Why should Wuya ask for a statue far away? Wouldn't it be better to worship you directly?"

Yu Wuya smiled dryly and opened a bamboo tube hanging around his waist, took out a handful of five-spice silverfish from it and started to eat it with relish.

After a trip to West Lake, the Mid-Autumn Festival happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chen Xu took everyone to watch the Qiantang River tide.

The time for this time is just right, the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, and it is also the annual tide viewing season.

Qiantang tide watching has a long history. Although there are constant wars during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the tide is still talked about by the people in the southeast. It was a prosperous scene in Wu and Yue. Therefore, every August of the Mid-Autumn Festival, countless local people, gentry officials and disciples from a hundred families will come to visit and watch the rare river tide in the world, and experience the magnificent scene of the vast river water pouring back into Qiantang Lake.

In later generations, although the Qiantang River Tide became famous all over the country, Chen Xu had never seen it before. This time he was there, he naturally had to enjoy it. Therefore, he personally rode a horse and Yu Wuya to chase the waves, and kept chasing from Hangzhou to the estuary, and truly experienced the spectacular scene of the Qiantang River Tide.

After watching the Qiantang River Tide, Chen Xu spent another day inspecting the Qiantang River Port Wharf near Hangzhou. He had in-depth and detailed discussions with officials from the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Works and the contractors who were in charge of the construction project, and gave further guidance and advice to some places. After staying in Hangzhou for a total of three days, he led his family to Zhejiang to visit the Kuaiji Mountain and worship the Emperor Yu Temple. After the tour, he went directly to the southeastern sea and arrived at Juzhang County, the last stop of this land patrol tour.

Ju Zhang is Ningbo in later generations, but it was not called Ningbo at this time. It has long been a prosperous place for the Wu and Yue homeland. After the Qin Dynasty unified China, there were Yin, Zheng and Ju Zhang here.

Ningbo, in later generations, was the third largest port city in the world. It was adjacent to the Yangtze River Delta in the west, the Zhoushan Islands in the east, the Hangzhou Bay in the north, and the Shaoxing in the south. Its geographical location is very superior in both river and sea transportation. Therefore, Ningbo is the most important seaport node in the southeast coast of Tantu Project, and it is rich in the hub position to carry the connection between the four counties in Lingnan and the prosperous places in the Central Plains.

Ningbo continued to go south and entered Minzhong County. The transportation in Minzhong County was difficult to travel, and there were also ethnic groups living here. In addition to the Yue ethnic group, there were also a large number of nobles from Yue who fled to Minyue, bringing mature agriculture and Central Plains culture, thus opening up the earliest history of transiting south, making Minyue have a high recognition and recognition of the Central Plains countries. Now, after the pacification of Minyue, the county was located in Ye County, which was actually Fuzhou in later generations. Fuzhou was also an important node in the first phase of the Tantu Project, responsible for connecting Ningbo Port and Panyu Port in the Pearl River Basin. Panyu Port is the largest seaport in the south of Chen Xu's first phase of the project, and will become the southernmost place for merchant ships to gather in the Qin Dynasty after the opening of the Great Vessel.

Taking the opportunity of voyage, it was Chen Xu's plan to integrate the four counties of Lingnan into the Chinese territory as soon as possible, but this process may take a long time. After all, although sailing is convenient, the Baiyue caste in Lingnan is complex and the cultural exchange caused by inconvenient transportation is also very troublesome. It is probably not easy to completely integrate the various places in Lingnan and the Central Plains. The people in this place are too barbaric and it is not easy to rule before they have been civilized.
Chapter completed!