C3841 (1/2)

At that time, the size of the capital's capital was actually not that big. Even the area surrounded by the city walls still had a large amount of farmland!

South City's Heaven Altar and the surroundings of the First Farmer Altar were all fields and ponds. Further south of the Nanheng Street that Ceng Guofan rented was a large garden filled with vegetables.

If it was like this in the city, there was no need to talk about outside the city. Outside the tall city gate of the Yongding City was the vast North China Plains. There were ditches everywhere and roads everywhere, and villages everywhere!

There were bazaars of varying sizes outside of the capital city gates. This was an important transportation road, with many merchants travelling from north to south and many commoners entering and exiting the city.

As a result, the surrounding villagers spontaneously gathered in the Grass City, opening restaurants, inns and selling fresh fruits and vegetables, including large goods such as wood, stones, etc.

At night, no one could even think of entering the city. Many merchants who came late could only stay in Grass City for the night.

As for the South City of Yongding, it was Beijing's busiest and busiest place. Because it was the official road to the south, the people coming from the south would all come here, with a greater number of people entering and exiting the city everyday than the north.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Grass City had long been on a scale, and there were thousands of people gathering every day!

If not for the security considerations of the imperial government, which prevented the citizens from repairing permanent houses outside the city, a small town would have long since formed on its own!

But today, the citizens of the Grass City outside the Yongding Gate had opened their eyes. They saw a large group of people flying over from the official road in the south … It was not an army. It could be seen that this was just an ordinary caravan.

There were at least a hundred people, and this was a huge deal. With a hu sound, countless porters, peddlers, beggars, thieves, and others rushed up.

Some wanted to snatch some business, some wanted to fish in troubled waters, and even the half-hidden Liu Ying revealed her head and wanted to take some business!

But before they could shout out in response, there was a loud explosion and the crowd immediately scattered in all directions!

”Foreign Ghosts...” Aiyo, it's a foreign devil … ”A foreign devil holding a coffin!”

That's right, a group of foreign devils had arrived on horseback. With the protection of dozens of bodyguards, they had arrived from the south with a coffin and six carts' worth of goods in tow!

The leader of the foreign devils wore a black satin robe common in the Qing Dynasty, with a small cap of white jade embedded on the top of his head.

Other than the fact that he did not have a ponytail, the other parts of him looked exactly like the people of Great Qing.

”Look, it really is a foreign devil …” They still have guns! Aiyo, there are all kinds of these guys … ”Good boy, quickly get out of the way!”

In the shadow of the tall city gate tower, a plain-clothed eunuch sat on a deck chair comfortably drinking tea. When he saw this group of people, he was so shocked that his purple clay pot fell to the ground.

”Greetings to the Lord!” The eunuch threw himself in front of the horse and kowtowed, ”My respects to Your Lordship!” The His Majesty has been waiting here for half a month! ”

”My lord's good fortune! ”Lord, please enter the city!”

Ouch … The crowd immediately burst into an uproar, ”The foreign devil lord?” How did foreign devils become lords? ”

The eunuch glared at the crowd and cursed, ”You blind bitch, why aren't you kneeling down!? ”This is the Emperor General of the Imperial Court, and he is the Lord of England!”

”Lord Great Qing, Lord British Empire! Hurry and kowtow! ”