Chapter 026: Drama Essence Yang Tieniu
It wasn't until after entering the city that Bai Yuqi sighed, it turned out that the Tang Dynasty in history had such a difficult entrepreneurial stage?
Although the early Tang Dynasty was difficult, Chang'an City was indeed prosperous.
It is 9,721 meters long from east to west, 8,651 meters wide from north to south, and 36.7 kilometers in circumference, covering an area of 84 square kilometers and with a population of more than one million!
There are three gates on each of the four walls, 11 streets in the north and south, and 14 streets in the east and west, dividing the city into 110 neat and neat residential areas called "fangs" like a chessboard.
This made Bai Yuqi wonder if the designer who built the city had obsessive-compulsive disorder, thinking that the people of a city had to be neat and tidy, and the roads in the city were so wide that even he, a person from later generations, almost doubted life!
Suzaku Street, the main north-south thoroughfare, is more than 150 meters wide, and the Chengtianmen Hengjie between Miyagi and the Imperial City is even wider at 441 meters...... This is probably the Tang Dynasty's version of Tiananmen Square, right?
Marveling at the splendid ancient civilization of China all the way, Bai Yuqi came back to his senses for a while, saw Yang Tieniu and the others going straight to a certain place, and after asking, he learned that he was heading to Xishi.
There are two cities in Chang'an, East and West, which are also the source of the word "East and West".
However, because of its proximity to the Imperial Palace, the East Market is surrounded by high-ranking officials and nobles, so it mainly sells luxury goods, and the prices are also high.
The West Market is the main consumption place of the common people in Chang'an City, and there are a large number of Hu merchants from the Western Regions, Fusang, Silla and other places to haunt the city, known as "the city of goods and wealth 220 lines, four sides of the mansion, the four sides of the treasures, all accumulated".
So naturally there was no need to go to the East Market, and the group went straight to the West Market, and was shocked by the prosperous scene again.
Thousands of shops gathered together, and tens of thousands of people were crowded, so Bai Yuqi thought it was the train station during the Spring Festival in later generations.
The clamor was even more noisy, and the people who made it couldn't hear what was being said at all.
Sellers and sellers had to raise their volumes and yell at each other to bargain, but you yelled and I yelled, which became more and more a vicious circle, and it was even more difficult to hear.
Bai Yuqi was lying on the back of the dog, and yelled at Yang Tieniu, who was beside him, asking him to find a ready-to-wear store that sold clothes first.
Yang Tieniu, who thought that the "big man" was going to buy some clothes to replace first, didn't ask, and went straight to a clothing store in the West Market with everyone.
In ancient times, most people ripped cloth to make their own clothes, and few bought them directly, but there were also clothing shops similar to tailors' shops.
It is convenient for people who are not good at craftsmanship, or bachelors who have no one to help make clothes, but the number is relatively small.
Finding a clothing store, Bai Yuqi asked the villagers to stay outside and wait, while Yang Tieniu took Yang Xiaoshan, who was carrying a box of salt coins, and his dog to go in.
Without waiting for the shopkeeper to come up and ask, Yang Tieniu subconsciously turned his head to look at Bai Yuqi.
But Bai Yuqi's image is not good to speak in front of strangers, ordinary one-year-old children can't even speak clearly, if he opens his mouth and bargains with the shopkeeper, it is estimated that he will have to be regarded as a goblin.
Fortunately, the rain system is ...... No, fortunately, the Eternal Endless System projected in time: [Recommended Activation Spell: [Communication]]
Bai Yuqi tried it and found that it was similar to the transmission of sound into the secret.
He hid on the dog's back and whispered to Yang Tieniu: "Now I am the only one who hears what I say, don't show your voice, I will say a word, you will say a word!"
Yang Tieniu is also a soldier who can come back from the battlefield alive, and he was very alert and did not look back at Bai Yuqi, but nodded to the shopkeeper.
Bai Yuqi lay on the dog's back and looked around in the clothing store.
I found that there were clothes in the store that were hung with bamboo poles through their sleeves, but there were not many of them.
After all, in ancient times, even if you bought clothes outside, most of them were tailor-made on the spot, rather than buying them on the spot and leaving, so although there were ready-to-wear clothes in the store, most of them were used to show the "clothes" to the guests.
Bai Yuqi squirmed his lips with [Communication Technique] and whispered, "The gray one on the far left!"
"This ......"
Yang Tieniu stretched out his hand and was about to let the shopkeeper take it down and take a look.
But I heard a sentence in my ear: "Except for this one, everything else is required!"
Yang Tieniu, who almost didn't bite his tongue off, choked on saliva, coughed twice, and then said to the shopkeeper: "Except for this one, you want all the others!"
The shopkeeper listened: "What did you say, guest officer?"
"Eh, except for the gray one, they all want it!"
Yang Tieniu also entered the state, posing as if he was not bad for money, and repeated it with a lot of money.
"These are all old clothes for viewing. ”
"If you want to make clothes, the old man will let you measure your body, and you have to make it to fit!"
Hearing that there was a big business, the shopkeeper smiled with a wrinkled face, but after looking at Yang Tieniu's dress, he couldn't help but ask a little suspiciously: "I don't know what the use of buying such a little ready-to-wear at once, guest officer?"
The shopkeeper was obviously a little suspicious, Yang Tieniu, who was dressed like the eight bags of elders of the beggar gang, and they couldn't afford to pay.
Bai Yuqi hurriedly helped: "Let's just say that he is a businessman from other places, worried that the road is not smooth, and he disguised himself as a homeless person to do business!"
"The people who came to Longyou are actually from Lantian County. ”
"Because I often go back and forth between Longyou and Jingshi, I brought some goods back to sell by the way. ”
"The recent situation in Longyou is expected to be known to the shopkeeper, groups of Turkic barbarians, mountain bandits and road thieves running all over the ground, so change your clothes so as not to be remembered. ”
Yang Tieniu is also sophisticated, knowing that his accent can't coax people, so he put on a big grin and said: "But when I enter the city, I don't change my clothes, but I can't do business. ”
The shopkeeper looked at Yang Tieniu's vicious-looking scarred face, and then at the group of villagers waiting outside the store.
I didn't know what I had made up in my brain, so I showed a sudden look, and I didn't ask, and quickly began to greet the villagers to come into the store to try on clothes.
"Ask him if he can pay the bill with salt!"
Bai Yuqi added uneasily, if you have tried clothes, people will not charge salt to offset the account, it will be embarrassing.
Although he knew that the shopkeeper would definitely not accept salt, Yang Tieniu felt that it was better to ask first.
Then he took out a coin barrel from his bosom and said: "Shopkeeper, you are in a hurry this time, but you don't have any money and cloth, do you think this thing may be offset?"
"Where's the money?"
Looking at the various salt coins that Yang Tieniu pulled out of the coin barrel and revealed, the shopkeeper was stunned.
He took out a brown salt coin and spread it out in his palm and looked at it over and over again, his face full of indescribable surprise.