Marco Polo who was allowed travel through the
Mongol Empire into Asia and Cathay China
The first areas visited of Ancient Interior Cathay as described by the Western travelogues of Marco Polo, starts at leaving the City of Cambaluc and heading ten miles to the River of Pulisanghin. There seen were merchants of import-export enterprise using the river to trade with the open-seas trade.
The river had an unknown name to Marco Polo but atop of the river was a finely built stone bridge. The Bridge described to have parapet marble slabs and columns, with great marbled guardian statues (The ancient guardians were not Lions of Africa, but of a guardian Chinese dogs).
The bridge was named in western journals as "The Marco Polo Bridge" for the reason that the true name was unknown. And Marco was a liason only for the Catholics and given passage only by Mongol administration. Today the bridge still stands from antiquity found later by western studies to be called "The Lugou Bridge" in the Beijing district of China. The actual bridge has hundreds of uncountable guardian statues lining the river cross into ancient Interior Asia (China-Cathay).
The Kingdom of Taianfu in Cathay
In accounts from the travelogues of Marco Polo after traveling ten days from Juju, he found himself escorted to the Kingdom of Taianfu (further into Interior Cathay-China).
"Taianfu is a place of great trade and great Industry, for here they manufacture a large quantity of the most necessary military equipments for the army of the Emperor [Great Khan]. There grow here many excellent vines, supplying plenty of wine, and in all Cathay, this is the only place where wine is produced. It is carried hence, all over the country. There is also a great deal of silk here, for the people have great quantities of mulberry-trees and silk-worms."
Marco Polo was then escorted westward again for seven days through the districts and towns of the today Beijing regions. He then arrived in the City of Pianfu, gazed amazed at the Castle of Caichu, then on to the City of Cachanfu (true spelling and names of cities vary greatly in new western studies).