Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Guo Ye sat back in the carriage and found Zhenniang next to her poking her head out of the window like a bumpkin, looking curiously at the scene in Chang'an City.

However, he didn't try to dissuade him, instead, he held his breath and closed his eyes slightly, trying to calm down the various emotions he felt when he first arrived in Chang'an, the imperial capital.

Yue Mo waited until the carriage drove past the gate of Chang'an City and entered the street. Outside the carriage, the disturbing sounds from both sides of the street came into the car.

He just opened his eyes, his eyes were full of confidence, he clenched his fists and encouraged himself in his heart:

"Chang'an City, the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, I, Guo Ye, are here!!!"

Chapter 388

Chang'an City, the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, and Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty are two different things. Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty is located in the Guanzhong Plain to the south of the Wei River.

Chang'an City, the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, is located in Longshouyuan, twenty miles southeast of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty.

The scale of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty is not comparable to that of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty. It is more than twice as large as the Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty.

The Ming and Qing Beijing cities of later generations could not compare with Tang Chang'an City.Tang Chang'an City was more than double its size.

Even the ancient Roman city at the same time as the Tang Dynasty was only one-fifth of the Tang Chang'an city.As for Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire at the same time, it was only one-seventh of Tang Chang'an.

Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, at that time, was indeed well-deserved as the number one city in the world.

There are twelve city gates in Chang'an City, Mingde Gate in the middle of the south, Qixia Gate and Anhua Gate in the east and west; Chunming Gate in the middle of the east, Yanxing Gate and Tonghua Gate in the north and south; Jinguang Gate in the center of the west. , the north and south are Yanping Gate and Kaiyuan Gate respectively; the middle and east sections of the north coincide with the north wall of Miyagi and the south wall of Daming Palace respectively, the middle section of the west is Jingyao Gate, and the east and west are respectively Fanglin Gate and Gwanghwa Gate.

The gate that Guo Ye and others entered was Mingde Gate, which was the largest gate connecting Chang'an City to the outside of the city.

The layout of the entire city of Chang'an is like a chessboard with criss-cross patterns.Not only does it have 110 workshops, it is distributed in the east, west, north, south, and various areas of the city.There are eight avenues running from north to south, and 150 avenues running from east to west. The width of each avenue is more than [-] meters, and the widest Suzaku avenue reaches [-] meters.

There are 110 workshops scattered throughout Chang'an City, where the dignitaries of Chang'an City and millions of people in Chang'an City live.Each square has its own name, and the area is different. There are walls around each square, which is somewhat similar to our later generations' communities.

Of course, the area occupied by each square is definitely not comparable to that of later generations of communities.

Therefore, Fang can also be understood as referring to a community or a street in general.

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After Guo Ye entered Mingde Gate by car, he entered the largest street in Chang'an - Zhuque Street.

Zhuque Avenue is not only the largest street in Chang'an, but also the longest street, running from north to south, running through Mingde Gate and Zhuque Gate, the main gate of the imperial city.

After entering the Zhuque Gate, the imperial city is located there, and non-royal family members and members of the royal family are not allowed to enter.

After entering the imperial city, will it be far away from the palace city where His Majesty Li Er, Empress Changsun, and three thousand beauties of the harem live?

Miyagi is the core of the power of the Tang Empire, and the imperial city is the last barrier between Chang'an City and Miyagi.

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After walking for a short distance on Zhuque Street, the groom stopped his horse suddenly and asked Guo Ye through the curtain of the car, "My lord, should we go to the Imperial College to report first? Or go to Xishi first? What if we go first?" West Market, the small one will turn to the left first."

The West Market mentioned by the groom refers to the economic activity center of Chang’an City, the national industrial and commercial trade center at that time, and an important place for economic exchanges between Datang and other foreign countries.Merchants gather here, there are many mansions and shops, there are a variety of items, and the trade is extremely prosperous.

Naturally, corresponding to the West Market, there is also the East Market.

It's just that one is in the West District of Chang'an City and the other is in the East District of Chang'an City.

Guo Ye suddenly heard that the West Market was a bit confused, but fortunately, Zhenniang next to him remembered it clearly, and immediately reminded: "Master, did you forget? Mr. Guan Jiujiuguan's Haitian Feast Restaurant is located in the West Market. "

faint!

Guo Ye also secretly scolded himself for being too forgetful, how could he forget this.It seemed that before he entered Chang'an City, he told the groom that his family's restaurant in Chang'an City opened the West Market, and told him to come to West Market to remind himself.

Then he smiled at Zhenniang, and told the groom: "When you arrive in Chang'an City, you must first choose a place to stay. The Imperial College, anyway, it has been delayed for so long, and it is not a day or two away. Let's go first Let's go to the West Market and find a good place to stay."

Hearing the sound, the groom responded, "Come on, my lord, please sit still!"

pop~~

There was another sound, and the carriage slowly started to turn again, and it was obviously turning a corner because of the sharp bumps.

The four Guanzhong swordsmen who were supposed to be in charge of opening the way changed positions with the carriage at this time, followed the carriage closely, and rode their horses slowly.

da da da~~

The horseshoes slacked, the carriage ran, and soon turned into the street leading to the west market, driving at a leisurely pace.

After traveling for about half an hour, the carriage finally entered the West City area.

As soon as they entered the West Market, not to mention the grooms outside the carriage and the swordsmen riding the horses, even Guo Ye and Zhenniang inside the carriage were overwhelmed by the bustle of the West Market.

West Market really deserves to be the economic and trade center of Chang'an, and it can compete with the commercial downtown area of ​​later generations.

There was a lot of traffic coming and going, and Guo Ye could clearly feel the congestion on the road, which made the speed of the carriage slow down.

Along the street, the sounds of yelling and selling with accents from all over the world are full of ears.

The various shops along the street have completely opened Guo Ye's horizons.

It is not surprising that there are ready-made clothing stores, pastry shops, incense candle shops, oil shops, rice shops, blacksmith shops, inns, restaurants, teahouses, jewelry shops, etc.

What caught Guo Ye's eye was that there was actually a weapon shop that exclusively sold knives, guns, swords and halberds. I went there. Could it be that Datang's control over weapons is so loose?

And this is the imperial capital Chang'an, at the feet of the emperor.It seems that Tang people's ethos of advocating martial arts can be seen from the people of Chang'an, the imperial capital.

Suddenly, a fresh fragrance came into my nostrils, and I looked for a shop emitting the fragrance, but it turned out to be a spice shop, and the person standing on the counter selling spices was actually a foreigner.

A foreigner with a big nose, blue eyes and golden curly hair.

This big nose is actually speaking fluent Chinese, yelling: "Where you are passing by, old and young men, girls and aunts, don't miss it! The new spices from Dashi Kingdom, our Dashi's pimples are the most delicious!" Reputation is the most important thing, quality is the most important thing. If you sell inferior goods, you will kill me!"

Aren't the foreigners in the big food country Arabs?

Milk ball, how can this big cannibal speak Chinese with a Northeast taste?Could it be that this big nose has studied in the lump in the northeast?

The car continued on, and the more we walked, the more shops opened by foreigners, and there were ginseng shops opened by people from Baekje and Silla, small pickle shops opened by Koreans, and pickle shops opened by Little Japan. Fish shop, of course, this salted fish must be the salted fish of sea fish.

Let me go, these shitty little Japanese and Korean sticks really dare to sell anything?

This West Market is really a hodgepodge of overseas Chinese.

The car moves on...

After a while, Guo Ye seemed to see something, and suddenly poked his head further out.

It turned out to be the Orchid Restaurant.