Good Life in Qin Dynasty

Xianyang City, the capital of the Qin State during the Warring States Period.

Qin Xiaogong began construction in the 12th year (350 BC), and moved the capital here from Liyang in the 13th year (349 BC).

In Xianyang City, the capital of the early days, there are probably only Xianyang Palace and the "Ji Que" building similar to the city gate.

During the reign of King Huiwen, it continued to expand.According to literature records, there are already South Gate, North Gate and West Gate in the city.

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he built the "Six Kingdoms Palace".

In 206 BC, Xiang Yu entered Xianyang, burned the palace (burned down the famous Afang Palace), and Xianyang City became ruins. Today's Xianyang City has not yet experienced the devastation of war. The army made Li Jiyang curious.

They have already parked the car at a distance, which is different from the drama in the TV series. The inspection at the gate of the city was performed, and everyone guessed it. In fact, the place where the pedestrians are inspected is far away from the city gate. what!

What's more, it's not people who are inspected, but things. You can't bring weapons and sharp knives into the city. Fortunately, Li Jiyang has already put everything in the space. They are all ordinary luggage, and they look like they don't cause trouble, soldiers Although his face was serious, he was released after inspection.

When they walked further in, soldiers guarded on both sides. They walked like a passage, and they didn't reach the gate of Xianyang City until they were five miles away.

Li Jiyang looked out from the inside of the bullock cart. The word "Xianyang" in Qin Zhuan was engraved in the middle of the top of the city gate, and a simple and simple atmosphere came over his face.

The closer he got to Xianyang, the more excited Li Jiyang became. This was seeing Xianyang City with his own eyes!

There are people like him, but very few. They usually come to Xianyang City on foot, and they look like civilians in clothes. Li Jiyang looks like a young master, but why is he so excited?

The soldiers on guard muttered to themselves: Could it be that he just got rich?

Li Jiyang didn't plan to take a car since he had never entered the city gate, but got out of the car and walked. Because Xianyang City is the capital of the Qin State, it is very good in terms of scale and sanitation.

At least there was no dust, and Li Jiyang discovered at the city gate that the ground was covered with very hard earth bricks, compared with some stones, they were the kind that had been forged.

The Qin bricks used to build the house at home are much smaller than this one. Li Jiyang thinks it is a bit like the one used by Qin Great Wall, and he is a little uncertain unless he studies it. But now he doesn't have a magnifying glass, let alone a small brush, and lying on the ground seems a bit out of line?

It looks like a shop over there, filled with commodities, but in fact, it’s all kinds of pots and jars, all made of rough pottery, there are a few black pottery, the food tripod is not sold, there is a special distribution place for that , when the government confers a knight, it will make a food tripod for the knight.

How else should I put it: Zhong Ding Heirloom!

This thing, like a chime, is an heirloom!

It is a status symbol, only the nobles can use the food tripod to eat, the common people use bowls, plates and other pottery products, and the slaves basically use broken bowls.

The city gate is made of wood, but there are nails on it, the bronze ones, and they look very big. Li Jiyang really wanted to touch them, but unfortunately, he didn't dare, because there were many people standing there!

They are all soldiers guarding Xianyang City.

All of them had serious expressions. If they were not real people, Li Jiyang would have thought that he had seen the terracotta warriors and horses—it was really similar to the terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang!

Everyone used to say that the terracotta warriors and horses are the same height as a person, and they are cast according to the proportion of real people. Now it seems that they are a circle smaller than real people. Of course, they are ordinary terracotta warriors and horses. There are those tall terracotta warriors and horses. They are really made according to real people. It's done in proportion.

There are all kinds of shops, grocery stores, restaurants and restaurants, as well as jugglers, bearers and hawkers, and even the girls standing at the door of the prostitution, all of which are very beautiful!

The whole street is so lively!

Li Jiyang couldn't take his eyes off it, he couldn't take his eyes off it, and felt that his eyes were not enough!

A little girl passed by him with a big bowl, and he grabbed her: "This bowl...?"

The little girl was terrified and stood still, not daring to move, so Li Jiyang squatted down to look at the bowl in his hand: it was rough pottery with sea wave patterns, but it was not obvious, and there was a circle of dark patterns around the bottom of the bowl.

It seems that the texture is for civilian use, but the pattern has never been seen before, and the mouth of the bowl is thick, filled with steamed beef and mutton-"What are you doing?" A woman jumped out, pulled the little girl behind her, and was vigilant. He looked at Li Jiyang intently.

"Master!" The little Lolita Chunya also jumped up and helped Li Jiyang up. Just now Li Jiyang was squatting and looking at the big bowl in the little girl's hand.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Li Jiyang waved his hand.

Someone has already looked this way, and there are many people coming and going, Li Jiyang hurriedly took the little loli to apologize: "I'm sorry, I just want to see the bowl in this kid's hand."

"Bowl?" The woman looked down at the bowl her daughter was still holding: "What's so good about a broken bowl?"

"The patterns on this bowl...?" Li Jiyang pointed to the Dahai Bowl. Although this shape is ordinary, the pattern is a bit strange...

"My man burned it in the kiln. Pick it up and use it for yourself. You don't break the law!" The woman's face changed, and she took the little girl and left without giving Li Jiyang any face.

Li Jiyang stood on the street in a daze, he didn't expect his guess to be wrong!

It's just a burnt thing, and the kiln workers picked it up and used it for waste!

"Master, what's wrong with you?" Chunya little lolita was also very nervous, because it was not only the young master who entered Xianyang City for the first time, but also her, Ah Da Ah Er, Li Sen Li Lin, Li Ping and Li An .

The only one who can be regarded as familiar with the road is Li Fu. Of course, he has never really visited Xianyang City, but he knows the road from the city gate to the tax payment!

But they didn't come in to pay taxes and food!

Li Jiyang pointed at a random path: "Go and see first!"

This is the first time for him to come to Xianyang City. Don't think that Xianyang City is small at this time. If Li Jiyang hadn't seen more of the prosperity of the metropolis, he might be as intimidated as the people around him!

Don't you see that even the most lively Li An dare not speak up!

Chunya has been following Li Jiyang with her neck shrunken from just now. Although she stood up to defend Li Jiyang just now, she became timid again when she saw that the young master was fine!

Seeing the prosperity of Xianyang City, Li Jiyang felt that it was almost the same as the urban area where they used to be.

Of course, he is optimistic about the cultural value of this place. Li Jiyang has only seen many things in books, and there are some real objects, but they are all cultural relics, or relics, or ruins.

Now this is alive!

Li Jiyang looked around excitedly, and behind him was a group of people who were similar to him.

Li Fu was the only one who could hold the place: "Young master, we can't go anymore, let's find a place to live first!"

Looking at it this way, people are fine, but cattle are not!

"Yes, find a place to live!" Xianyang City is so big that it takes a few days to walk around.

He didn't worry anymore, he looked left and right, there was no inn yet, he walked forward for a long time, turned around one street, and found the shadow of the inn on another street.

Li Jiyang found a relatively high-end inn.

The name of the inn is simple, it is called Li's Inn, which happens to have the same surname as himself. In fact, Li Jiyang chose this inn because of the name of this inn.

"Guest, are you eating or staying at the restaurant?" The shop waiter was also very enthusiastic, as soon as Li Jiyang entered the door, he jumped in front of Li Jiyang.

"Stay in the hotel, eat here at night, probably stay here for a few days." Li Jiyang asked him: "How much is left for the room? How much is a day?"

"There are still 48 rooms in the upper room. What do you use for settlement? Knife coins, cloth coins, or gold?" The waiter's eyes are also sharp. From this point of view, Li Jiyang is not sure who he is even though he is dressed well. , can only ask what kind of settlement to use.

"Use gold." What Li Jiyang lacks most now is gold.

Moreover, in order to make the gold the same color as the gold of this era, Zero Zero One also exchanged a lot of copper coins into it. Li Jiyang has always had a question. Does the term "gold" in this era refer to "copper" or "gold"?

This has been debated until he came here and saw that what everyone gave him was gold, but the quality was not pure, so he knew that people had already used gold as a precious coin at this time.

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, gold was used as a currency.

"One gold for five days, how many rooms do you want?" The waiter in the shop quoted the price, which is not cheap in Xianyang City, because this is already an inner city.

"Is there any one with a yard?" Li Jiyang felt that the inn was too big and there were many people coming and going. It would be better to have a separate yard if staying in a guest room.

"Yes, there are three upper rooms in the yard, six private rooms, and one shop, and one gold per day." The waiter in the shop immediately introduced: "Include daily food and morning food, and the animal feed is calculated separately."

"Can I order hot water? Is there a small kitchen?" Li Jiyang asked immediately. He still remembered that Chunya went to the kitchen of the inn to cook by himself. It would be great if there was a small kitchen.

"Yes, it's just that if you want to start the fire yourself, you have to prepare the food yourself." It's better not to use the ones in the store, because there is no money to be made, and saving one is one.

"Okay." Li Jiyang thought for a while: "It's better to eat from the shop, I'll do what I eat alone."

Li Jiyang thought that everyone likes to eat, but he doesn't like to eat, so let's cook it by himself!

"No!" The shop waiter has served many customers, and knows that some people dislike the food in the shop, so if you don't eat it, don't eat it, and bring someone to toss it!

The shop waiter led Li Jiyang to look at the yard, it was a relatively quiet place, probably because of the single-door courtyard, there was a corridor connected to the inn, which meant a quiet place amidst the noise.

There are three main rooms and three east and west wing rooms. Mulberry trees are planted in the front and back, and there is a separate shed for cattle and a well. The inside and outside of the house are clean and tidy.

The window screens are also used, the windows and doors are pasted, and there is also a fire wall for heating, but there is no fire kang, it is a bed, and there is a main seat in the school bureau, with a mat on it and a table.

The floor of the house is paved with burnt Qin bricks, with a layer of wooden planks on top, and the wooden planks are the straw mats.

"Live for ten days first!" Li Jiyang gave the shopkeeper twenty gold as the room fee and twenty cloth coins as a tip: "Let my people come in!"

"No!" The clerk in the shop walked away cheerfully with the money in his arms. Compared with the people outside, the people in the city had more people. The clerk in the shop got the money, so he really spared no effort in taking care of Li Jiyang and the others.

I took Li Fu to buy the firewood and ingredients, because he was an acquaintance, and the price was very reasonable.

Li Fu came back with two carts of firewood and one cart of ingredients. For ingredients, he bought half a sheep, a basket of dried vegetables, twenty catties of yellow noodles, ten catties of white noodles, and half a bag of chestnut rice.

This is for the young master, and theirs was sent by the store.

But the money given by the young master and the amount they bought are enough for them to eat together for ten or eight days.

The young master was afraid that they would not be used to the food in the store, so he ordered so many things on purpose!

In addition to shopping, Li Jiyang's room had to be settled. Although Chunya thought the room was clean, she wiped it with the rag she brought, including the mat, and ordered Li Ping and Li An to carry the luggage. By the time it was time to eat, Li Jiyang's room had already been finished.

Compared with the inns outside the city, the inns here are closer to the inns in the Qin and Han Dynasties that Li Jiyang imagined.