Standing on the Ba River, you can look at Chang'an from afar.

However, the horses that were running to death on the mountain were thirty miles away, which made Zhang Chao very tired. Especially the willow basket with more than 200 buns on its back, and the weight of nearly 30 kilograms made Zhang Chao rest more and more frequently later. However, his father did not help him carry it. In his father's words, this was also a kind of exercise, and Zhang Chao was just a lack of training.

The most important ability of an excellent and qualified mansion soldier is not how good the gun is, how powerful the knife is, or how accurate the bow is. The most basic ability should be to be able to walk or run. Only by being able to run well can you keep up with the team that is moving, attack or encircle the enemy, or quickly escape from the battlefield when encountering a situation against the wind.

If you can't even run, then no matter how hard you can fight, you will be the first to be eliminated on the battlefield.

Zhang Chao had also traveled back and forth between Bashang several times before, but he either took a car or rode a bicycle. It was very easy for more than 30 miles to travel. But this time, he actually walked thirty miles with his feet and carried thirty kilograms. It was really tiring.

The towering Chang'an City is gradually approaching.

On the official road leading to Chang'an City, there are more and more pedestrians. People of all kinds of clothing, even people of all skin colors.

The Chang'an City, which was built by the Emperors of the Sui Dynasty for a lot of manpower and financial resources, was devoted to the leadership of Yu Wen Kai, the world's number one architectural master. Although the name was changed from Daxing City to Chang'an City, it also experienced several years of war.

However, for several years after Li Tang entered Guanzhong, the city gradually regained its prosperity and grandeur.

The Sui Dynasty was in chaos and Tang Dynasty, and Chang'an City was the first to restore its vitality.

The palace is opened in the Nine Heavens, and the clothes and crowns of all nations are worshipped.

Looking at the tall city wall and the grand city gate tower, Zhang Chao felt an indescribable excitement.

The Tang Dynasty was the most highly praised dynasty in Chinese history. The strong Han and prosperous Tang Dynasty were the most proud eras for the Chinese. The Tang Dynasty may not be the richest, and perhaps it was also the one who won the most times in foreign wars, but when it comes to Tang Dynasty, no one in the country was proud, and even yearned for it.

Why? Because the Tang Dynasty had a spirit, a spirit of indomitable progress, the Tang Dynasty was also the most confident dynasty in ancient China. Even if the Tang Dynasty had only been strong for a hundred years, it still made the Tang Dynasty ranked among the most popular dynasties in ancient China.

Zhang Chao could already see the strong confidence of the Tang people on the faces of those pedestrians entering and leaving Chang'an City. The fourth year of Wude was an important year in the Tang Dynasty. His Highness of Qin won the Central Plains War and defeated Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, while Li Jing defeated Jiangling Xiao Xian in the southern expedition and successfully marched into Lingnan, and the Baiyue Li people subdued it.

After more than ten years of war in the late Sui Dynasty, the people of Guanzhong saw the hope of peace in the world again.

"I wish I could have a shuttle bus." Zhang Chao rubbed his sore legs and said to his father.

“What shuttle?”

"It is the fixed ox, horse and carriage that travels between Chang'an and Bashang to load passengers."

Originally, Zhang Chao thought his idea was very forward-looking, but his father just snorted and said disapprovingly, "You said that the shuttle bus you have to pay to take, right?"

"Of course you have to pay for it, but you can get in the car by paying a little bit of the car. Isn't that a good deal?"

"It's a big deal. It's just twenty or thirty miles away. What can I do if I walk? Where is it so expensive? What is the foot used for if I don't walk? Unless I transport a lot of things, I use a cattle, horse and carriage. Otherwise, who would have to spend money to ride a car? Isn't this a disease?"

Dad is not hedonism, but simpleism. In his opinion, even if he has money, he should not waste it like this. He can't walk but can't die, so why spend more money?

After a few words, Zhang Chao was speechless.

In fact, my father’s idea is a common idea of ​​people in this era, small farmers’ thinking, and self-sufficient. Their greatest wish in life is to have some of their own fields, then work hard, no disasters, save some money, build a new cave, then marry a mother-in-law, have a bunch of children, and then save money. When the children grow up, they will build a cave for their children and marry a wife for their children. At that time, they will grow old and start helping their sons take care of their grandchildren...

They generally don’t leave their hometown, let alone the county. Even if they are only thirty miles away from Chang'an, if they are not working, they may not go once every few years. Even if they go to a township and go to the county, they will carry dry food on their own. If they want to buy some salt, needles, and thread, they must carry some eggs, local chickens or grains from home to the market to exchange.

Old mansion soldiers like my father have fought in the south, north, east and west, and are considered to be relatively few people who have seen the world.

"Chang'an is still not as lively as before." My father said the late period of the Sui Dynasty and the early period of Daye. That was the time when Chang'an City was truly the most prosperous and lively. Many civilian merchants from all over the world, as well as Hu merchants from all over the Western Regions, gathered in Chang'an.

"Chang'an will definitely become more and more lively in the future." Zhang Chao looked at the towering Chang'an.

The Sui and Tang Dynasties were also very prosperous and huge, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties Bianjing, which later generations. But there were great differences. For example, in Tokyo in the Qingming Festival, there were merchants everywhere, and there were many pavilions along the streets, rivers and even on the bridges.

However, this situation is relatively rare in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, because the planning of Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties has military concepts. The entire Chang'an City has palace city imperial city and outer city.

The outer city is composed of 108 yards. The outer city not only has tall walls, but also the various yard areas in the urban area, which are relatively independent, with walls and gates separated by them.

In addition, shops in the Sui and Tang dynasties were not set up along the streets. On the contrary, shops were strictly prohibited on both sides of the street. This is especially true for the Yujie Street, Chang'an. Not to mention that shops cannot be opened, even the houses on both sides of the street opened doors and windows in front of Yujie. Only those important officials and nobles with extremely high rank are qualified to open windows.

The shops in Chang'an City are concentrated in special markets.

There are two commercial market areas: East City and West City, so Chang'an people are also called buying East City and buying things, which is abbreviated as buying things. Later generations came from this.

In addition to the two special commercial districts, these two special commercial districts, at most, there are only some small lifestyle shops in other districts. Only after the middle and late Tang Dynasty did the Tang Chang'an City slowly change. At that time, a large number of shops began to exist in each district, and even various very distinctive shops were gradually formed. For example, Pingkang Fang, adjacent to the east city, is the famous Honglan District entertainment concentration in the Tang Dynasty.

Other workshops have also formed special commercial areas such as blacksmith processing and other specialty commercial areas.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City almost followed the planning of Daxing City in Sui. The various yards were like watertight cabins on a large ship, and were strictly independent and separate. The advantage of this was that it was easy to manage. Before the construction of Daxing City, China had never had such a huge capital.

At the beginning of the construction and design of Daxing City, it was to prepare to pacify the world and move all the nobles and nobles from all over the world from all over the world to Daxing to enrich the capital. At the same time, it cut off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and weaken the local forces in various places to strengthen the rule of the new dynasty.

Therefore, at the beginning of the design of Daxing City, it was aimed at a capacity of one million people and in the event of a war, even if the city gate was broken, each of the 108 yards could become an isolation cabin, greatly enhancing its defense and allowing Chang'an City to have stronger combat effectiveness.

At night, not only will Chang'an City have a curfew, but the city gates are closed, but all the gates of the town must be closed. Therefore, at night, all the residents of Chang'an City are actually locked up in pigeon cages. They dare to stroll on the street in the middle of the night for no reason, but they have to eat boards. If they are not cut off by the soldiers patrolling the street, they have no worries to call them.

The current Chang'an City has not yet been built in the Daming Palace in the north of the city, so the entire Chang'an City is still a huge square.

The most lively city in Chang'an City is the East and West. Among them, the east city is surrounded by the Fang District where the relatives of the nobles and nobles live, but the east city is not as lively as those of the west city. Because of the rules of the Tang Dynasty, the court regarded merchants as "low-minded" and took industry and commerce as unfavorable, and it was strictly prohibited from entering the market.

Xishi is far away from Da Nei, and there are many residential houses for ordinary people around. The market-operated goods are mostly daily necessities such as clothing, candles, cakes, medicines, etc. Because Xishi is prosperous, it is also called Jinshi.

The West City has 220 goods and wealth, and a mansion is set up on all sides.
Chapter completed!