Volume 1 Front-End of the Story Chapter 10 The Imperial Capital of the Millennium
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The nine-day world is vast and boundless. In the Nine Realms, there are countless races, immeasurable creatures, and powerful forces. All ethnic groups have holy places, such as the Heavenly Palace of the Immortal Clan, the Spiritual Mountain of Buddhism, the Fengdu of the Ghost Clan, and the Demon Court of the Demon Realm...... There is also the Terran Imperial Capital!
The human world is vast and boundless. In the earthly world of the human world, the human race is located in the southern Zhanbu Continent of the Nine Heavens World.
In the Nanzhan Continent, the human race here is virtuous and rich, known as the spirit of all things, the vast and boundless land has many treasures, outstanding people, prosperous times, large land, rich and beautiful, wind and rain are smooth and fertile for thousands of miles.
There is a city in Nanzhan Buzhou, which is the imperial capital of the human world, named Chang'an City. Chang'an has the meaning of long-term stability. The name Chang'an is to hope for peace and security.
"Nine days to open the palace, all the nations to worship the crown", Chang'an City in its heyday of development, has been acting as the center of the human world, attracting a large number of envoys and worshippers from all over the world, and even members of the nine heavens world from all walks of life also have officials in the imperial court.
Since the development of the human world, Chang'an City has been built here, and it has continued to prosper and expand, which has lasted thousands of years and expanded more than ten times. In the city, there are sect shops, refining gates, medicine gates, cultivator gangs, craft workshops, and trade teams... There are various categories such as that, and it is quite prosperous. The buildings in the city are magnificent, the streets are wide and flat, and there are always people coming and going, and the river is endless, and there is a prosperous image of a busy traffic.
In the human realm of Nanzhan Buzhou, Chang'an City is the most dense and prosperous center of the human race, and it is the active center of the countries in the north and south of the human world. Chang'an City brings together a large number of resources in the human world, and is the most famous city in the people's cognition. In the Nine Heavens World, Chang'an City is famous.
Chang'an City is not only the dream land of the Terran cultivators, but also one of the nine palace cities of all walks of life in the Nine Heavens World. There are many strong people, there are many fights, dogs and horses, there are people from all walks of life, and it is very lively. Its area is active and wide, with millions of hectares, and there is no end in sight, inheriting heaven and earth.
The Great Wall is symmetrically laid out according to the Suzaku Avenue, composed of the outer city, the inner city and the imperial palace, the whole imperial city is built in the form of "eye", the east gate and the west gate of the imperial city are in the east and west direction of the inner city, and the south gate is in the outer Guo City, which is the main gate of the imperial city. There are two major cities within it, the east and west of the inner city and the west of the outer city.
The Imperial Palace, which mainly consists of the Imperial City and the Imperial Palace. The emperor of the human realm lived in the palace city, and the envoys from all walks of life in the nine heavens were also arranged to be stationed in the imperial city.
Miyagi is located in the middle of the north of the outer city, there are walls around the city, the south is in the middle of the Chengtian Gate, the east and west are the Yanxi Gate and the Anfu Gate, and the middle of the north wall is the Xuanwu Gate. The old palace city is divided into three parts, the middle is the Taiji Palace, called "Ouchi", the east side is the East Palace, which is the residence of the prince, and the west side is the Yeting Palace, which is the residence of the harem personnel.
The imperial city is rectangular in shape, located to the north of the inner city, and its east and west are equal to the length of the inner city. The Imperial City is connected by the Chengtianmen Gate of the Imperial City, the Suzaku Gate of the Imperial City, and the Mingdemona Gate of the Outer Guocheng, that is, the Chengtianmen Street and the Suzaku Street as the north-south central axis, and spreads out to the left and right from this center. In order to highlight the status of the central palace city in the north, a group of tall and majestic buildings such as Chengtianmen, Taiji Palace, Liangyi Palace, Ganlu Palace, Yanjia Hall and Xuanwu Gate are pressed at the north end of the central axis, showing the majesty of imperial power with its majestic momentum.
There is a pond around the palace castle, connected by a stone bridge, and straight to the street. If you look at the north between a high pavilion in the south of the city, it is Khotan City, overflowing Guo Bianliu, Baidian Hongtu, Huawu is like a thousand kinds of staggering, like the four red dust, there are thousands of palaces, Guidian, Lan Palace, carved pavilions, Zhu Lou, jade masonry, carving, one after another, the palace roof is connected to each other, the tube tile moon beam wears the bucket ridge truss painting, the building is flying and stacked pavilions, the heavy eaves are connected to the sky, the sun is reflected in the smoke and clouds, the world is connected and floats in the extreme eye, all like a sea of palaces.
Between the south of the imperial city and the inner city wall, there is a 49 zhang wide avenue street, the street road is separated by a ditch as three roads, the middle is the imperial road, the width is 18 zhang, it is exclusively for the emperor to pass; the two sides are the side roads, each is eight or nine zhang wide, for the officials and commoners to walk, and various trees such as acacia, elm, pine, cypress and so on are planted beside the road.
Outside the palace gates, there is the inner city.
The inner city was the place where nobles and dignitaries lived and lived. It is bordered by Chengtianmen, the gate of the imperial palace, and is located in the south of the imperial palace, and its east and west are close to the imperial city.
There is also a tower in the city, called "Big Wild Goose Pagoda", the tower is seven stories high, the tower is more than 60 zhang high, suppresses the evil people of the nine days who do evil, I heard that it is a good place to practice. There is also the famous Huasheng Temple, which is said to be a good place to worship the Buddha and solve his doubts.
Suzaku Avenue runs through the entire inner city from the gate of the Imperial Palace Chengtian, and between the roads there are the central government offices, Taimiao, Sheji and other sacrificial buildings. Suzaku Avenue in the inner city is divided into two parts, east and west, and the inner river in the city is divided into two parts, north and south.
The north is connected with the Chengtian Gate of the Imperial Palace, and there are many royal nobles and dignitaries who are the first residences, and the Yanfu is located in the north. South is the place where life is needed. The goods sold in the surrounding markets are of the highest quality luxury goods to meet the needs of the royal family and nobles and dignitaries. Therefore, the East City has the name of "the treasures of the four directions, all of which are accumulated".
Out of the inner city, it is the outer city.
Outside the city, there is only one south gate, from the palace Chengtian Gate from the Zhuque Avenue straight to the south gate, that is, the main gate of the entire Chang'an, the whole outer Guo Cheng is established in half a "Hui" character around the pattern.
The northern part of the outer city is separated from the south gate of the inner city by a large avenue, and most of the merchants in the city and the common people of the southern Zhanbuzhou live in the eastern part of the city.
The outer city is a large rectangle with an area that completely adopts a checkerboard symmetrical layout. There are 100 main streets in the city, east, west, north and south, dividing the whole city into large and small shops. There is a poem that once described, "Ten thousand homes are like a chess game, and a hundred streets are like a chess road."
The outer city was extremely prosperous in commerce, with restaurants, musical instrument shops, money shops, pharmacies, blacksmiths, clothing shops, jewelry shops, and other shops that were needed.
The West Market is more prosperous than the East City, and it is the main industrial and commercial area and trading center of Chang'an City, so it is also called the "Gold Market".
As a result, there are many shops opened by merchants of the Nine Heavens World in the West Market, such as the Treasure Pavilion, jewelry shops, storehouses, liquor stores, etc. Many of them are outside the realm of the Western Regions girls singing and dancing for the orchid wine shop, and the young people from time to time patronize. There have been poets who wrote the poem "Wuling Youth Jin Shidong".
On the avenue of the official residence in the inner city, there was a young man wearing a black-edged white robe, a white coat inside, and black trousers, his hair was wrapped in a square scarf with a silver hoop inlaid with jade in the middle, his eyebrows were delicate, his eyes were bright, the bridge of his nose was straight, his ruddy mouth was ruddy, and a white jade the size of a thumb hung on his waist, and his complexion was white, looking like a young man.
And this young man who looks like a white-clothed showman is Bai Yujing.