The carriage left Zhengpingfang and headed east, arrived at Changxiamen East Street and headed north along the street. After passing Jiashanfang, it was the southern city of Luoyang.

Luoyang Nan City was originally named Fengdu City, occupying the four fangs and is a standard square. In the ninth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, in order to resettle more people, Nan City divided the area of ​​two and a half fangs and built three new fangs.

Although the scale of Nanshi is smaller, the merchants are more concentrated. In addition, the waterways are open, and its prosperity is even better than that of the past.

Gao Mang got off the carriage and walked into Nanshi City, and was immediately attracted by the lively and prosperous scene.

There were merchant ships flying on the clear canal water, the streets were crowded with traffic, shops and shops were densely packed, and various banners were flying, and Gao Mang's eyes were not enough.

The big girl and the little wife dressed in colorful clothes, and the butterflies were dotted among the gray crowd. It was really not very lively. It was like this on weekdays. If it was during festivals, it would not be crowded to death.

No wonder, the strict market system since Kaiyuan has been relaxed a lot, and the curfew is not so strict. In addition to the two cities, other shops can also open some convenient shops, and the imperial court even agreed to the existence of night markets.

The surge in population naturally requires some commercial shopping sites. Besides, people have to spend money even if they have money in their wallets.

On both sides of the main street along the way, some large merchants were built as majestic as palaces, with crowds of people in front of the gates. Gao Mang secretly recorded several landmark buildings, not to record the road, but to prepare to take down one of them.

Walking among the endless crowd, Xiao Yingshi, dressed in a literati, introduced to Gao Mang: "In the pre-Sui Dynasty, there were 120 rows in the southern city, more than 3,000 stores, and there were as many as 100 types of goods. Now there are probably a lot more. There are shops on the walls of the city. In addition, the people of the Yi and Hu lived in many years, and the Hu Zu Temple was built in the city. All the supplies in the world were gathered here, which was no less than that in the West City of Chang'an."

As a native of Luoyang, Xiao Yingshi was temporarily summoned by Princess Yuzhen as Gao Mang's guide.

Xiao Yingshi happily accepted the order and was willing to be the driving force. In fact, even if Princess Yuzhen didn't look for him, he and Du Fu, who was staying in the Imperial College, had agreed to visit the little immortal master in person, but there was a wall anyway.

Gao Mang nodded slightly. As Xiao Yingshi said, he saw many Korean Japanese along the way, but more were Persians and Western Hu people, a considerable proportion of whom were native Hu, that is, the second generation of settled Hu people.

The dress of these foreigners is almost the same as that of the Tang Dynasty people, and can only be distinguished from their body shape and appearance characteristics.

This is actually a result of mutual influence and integration. The Hu people do not rule out the Tang suit, nor do they reject Hu Feng. There are many Tang people wearing leather jackets and horse boots on the road to gnawing squid cakes.

Gao Mang also saw a team of merchant groups from Tubo. Tubo women were wrapped in colorful fur coats, and the two red lumps on their faces were not distinguished from the plateau red or the ochre red faces.

Surrounded by more than a dozen guards, Gao Mang came to a four-story attic, looked up at the plaque for a moment, and strode in.

Guangxing Pavilion, the largest luxury goods store in Nanshi, has no doubt. The loft is decorated like a palace, and the containers are filled with exquisite wood carvings, South China Sea pearls, Panpan ivory, Persian gold and silver utensils, Great Qin Crystal Glass, Japanese jade pens and silver knives, precious spices, jade agate,..., all kinds of rare treasures are available.

Gao Mang was amazed. It is worthy of being a store opened by the prince, and the royal treasure house is nothing more than that.

A short and fat shopkeeper in brocade clothes walked up to him, but regarded Xiao Yingshi as a distinguished guest and greeted him with a smile.

Xiao Yingshi smiled and looked at Gao Mang beside him.

Gao Mang asked the follower's guard to take out a brocade box and hand it to the fat shopkeeper: "I have a treasure that I want to take action, the shopkeeper's palm?"

The fat shopkeeper was surprised, but did not refuse. He smiled and took the brocade box and took out the items inside.

They naturally want to collect good things, and get out of sight if they don’t like them.

In the box is a mountain-shaped pen holder, carved from blood coral, with smooth lines and simple shapes, which is obviously an old object.

The fat shopkeeper's eyes were shiny. Blood corals of such texture were rare on the market. And they were old objects, so they could be regarded as treasures.

When he turned to the bottom of the pen holder and saw a few lines of scratched marks, his heart suddenly jumped.

Any imperial tribute in the Great Inner must have a logo. Did this coral pen holder come from the palace and deliberately scrape off the logo?

If so, it would be even more valuable.

The fat shopkeeper was not sure, so he hurriedly called a servant and whispered a few words.

Soon, the servant ran down from the second floor in a short walk, and followed a young man in gray to the fat shopkeeper and bowed to the fat shopkeeper.

The fat shopkeeper said to the gray-clothed young man with a majestic look on his face: "Peng Liao, come and take a look at this coral pen holder."

Liao Chongfeng is in his thirties, tall and thin, with no flesh on his cheeks, and a prop that looks like a headlamp on his head, which should be a magnifying glass.

He quickly identified the coral pen holder, took off the magnifying glass from his eyes, and said in surprise: "It is indeed the best blood coral, but the logo on the bottom of the pen holder is vaguely visible. This is the royal product of today!"

"You fool, whisper," the fat shopkeeper scolded Liao Gongfeng, then lowered his voice and smiled at Gao Mang, "Little Langjun, I wonder how much you value this coral pen holder?"

Gao Mang ignored the fat shopkeeper, but looked at Liao Gongfeng and smiled and said, "You are Liao Shenzhi. I am from Wangwu Mountain. I am here to recruit you and follow me."

Liao Shenzhi, 38 years old, was the former military ordnance supervisor of Tianyun Department, and was good at identifying the authenticity of various materials. After Sima Chengzhen retired in the 14th year of Kaiyuan, Liao Shenzhi withdrew from Tianyun Department and was later forcibly recruited by the East Palace as a tribute and committed to Guangxing Pavilion.

The first of the six people on the list approved by Princess Yuzhen is Liao Shenzhi.

The reason why Gao Mang prepared a coral pen holder was because he was worried that he would not get anyone directly. Now that people are in his eyes, he doesn’t need to take turns.

Liao Shenzhi looked at Gao Mang in shock, instantly guessed Gao Mang's identity, and couldn't help but look excited.

Liao Shenzhi took a step back and bowed to Gao Mang: "I wish to be driven by the little immortal master!"

What, what little immortal master, and what saint just now?

The fat shopkeeper was a little confused, but as he saw Gong Peng Liao was about to leave, he couldn't help but shout: "No leave!"

After saying that, he was confident and stopped the few people. He first glanced at Xiao Yingshi, then looked down at Gao Mang, and said coldly: "Little Langjun, no matter who you are, do you know where this Guangxing Pavilion is?"

Gao Mang said lightly: "Isn't it the place where King Guang and the prince launder money? Believe me, your temple is too small to accommodate my people."
Chapter completed!