Chapter 418: Chang'an City

After the convenience came out, Ye Feng personally asked Xiao Keer for some steamed buns and pickles, and sent her back to the carriage, while he sat generously with He Side and Kong Xiaolian and gobbled it up.

In any case, Ye Feng's identity is more special to Longhu Village at this time, on the surface, "Yan Xiaoliu" is just a low-level thief, but in fact, he is a secret task of Shangqing Sect Jihua, that is, the envoy to the eldest lady of the Xiao family in Chang'an, and he will have to follow him everywhere in the future, so He and Kong did not dare to show their opinions, and they also poured him full of wine, raised their glasses and drank it.

The taste of the wine in the restaurant in this town is a little astringent, the color is yellow, and the utensils for holding the wine are also big green bowls, a bowl down, although the alcohol is not high, but such a bowl of drinking, if there is no certain amount of alcohol, I am afraid it will not be able to withstand it. Even if Ye Feng doesn't use Zhenyuan to relieve hangover, his own alcohol consumption is not bad, and when he and Kong drink it, he will naturally not fall behind at all.

"You, drink less, so as not to cause trouble on the road." Kong Xiaolian still didn't say much, but the meaning was very clear, he didn't let Ye Feng drink more, because he was afraid that he would pee more times on the road.

Ye Feng ignored him, and when a jar of wine was finished, he asked the boss to bring another jar, tore open the seal, and simply lifted the jar and drank it.

Kong Xiaolian's eyes widened, and he seemed to be angry when he got up, but He Side next to him pressed him down and said with a smile: "Master Kong, this kid is very angry with me in terms of drinking, so I let him go, he is drunk, and we are more worry-free." ”

After eating, we continued to hurry, and there was no need to go into detail all the way, and two more days passed, and it was the afternoon of the third day. Finally arrived at Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

Looking at the majestic city wall on the periphery of Chang'an City, Ye Feng was full of emotion, this is the appearance of the ancient capital in history, it is really bold enough, this situation and this scene are like a dream, and it feels ethereal like the wind, but it is a real existence.

Chang'an City, its status is equivalent to the capital of Huaguo, but obviously this ancient metropolis full of antiquity makes Ye Feng full of novelty and interest. The roads in Chang'an City are criss-crossed. There are many shops on the street, hawkers, fruit merchants, and all kinds of daily commercial and household specialty stores abound, just talking about the main street after Ye Feng and their motorcade entered Chang'an City, at a glance. Blue, gray, brown and purple buildings stretch away in two rows and one line. I can't see the head. From the five- or six-story pavilion-style restaurant to the brick-and-tile wine shop and rice shop on the street, business is booming. A thriving and lively scene.

Twenty-eight girls are not allowed to leave the house without permission in the boudoir, this traditional ancient idea is completely untenable under the reality in front of Ye Fengyang's eyes, look at the streets, alleys, in front of the vendors, there are men, women and children everywhere, buying vegetables, juggling, and driving cars; Shouting, buying and selling, greetings, one after another, it seems to be a realistic version of the Qingming Riverside picture, those young girls, green silk plain clothes, silk brocade hand, clever smiles, laughter, those chic young men, those simple peasant families, or cloth clothes, or son-in-law farmers, or folding fan hoes, or black-faced oil heads, identity or status may be different, but between the integration and heaven and earth, it is tantamount to the most realistic portrayal of life.

This is a strange shijie, but this is also a real shijie, for Ye Feng, this is an ancient shijie that can only appear in imagination, TV, and novels in the past, but for this shijie person, this is reality, this is life.

After a few more conversations with Xiao Ke'er, Ye Feng learned that Chang'an City is not only the capital of the Zhengtang Kingdom, but also a major commercial city, so the customs clearance procedures are not very strict, the merchants of the Great Zhou and the Great Liao can enter and exit freely, and the population of the Han people in the city accounts for eighty or ninety percent, although the proportion of the population is large, most of them are ordinary laborers, and the really powerful and rich people in the city, except for the Li royal family, most of the rest are the outer gate of Tianxuanzong stationed in Chang'an Caicheng.

As soon as he entered the periphery of Chang'an City, through the window of the carriage, he saw the bustling crowd outside, Ye Feng couldn't help but sigh again: This is a big city, and the population size alone is not comparable to those small counties and towns on the road.

In addition to pedestrians, there are many sedan chairs and carriages on the street outside, with two sedan chair drivers and four sedan chairs, and the size and appearance of the sedan chairs are also different. The size and size of the carriage also varied, and looking at the situation, it seems that the carriage is like a modern car, reserved for those who have a little money and status.

Ye Feng made some summaries based on his limited historical knowledge, in ancient times, the general rich people, even the county officials, could not afford to take the carriage, sometimes the county officials went out to do errands, and also needed to go to a special car and horse rental place to take a taxi, a lot of silver spent, if the horse was sick and had a convulsion or something, that is, there was a one-way car that had no return, and if you wanted to come back, unless you could take a car and a horse again, you could only walk, so most of the officials in ancient times liked to take a sedan chair and temporarily rent a few sedan chair drivers, that is, insurance, and save money, and over timeOn the contrary, the sedan chair became more popular than the horse-drawn carriage.

Of course, the above is only some historical knowledge that Ye Feng occasionally obtained in his familiar time and space, and it was the situation in the early Sui and Tang dynasties, and by the end of the middle and Tang dynasties, it was much more convenient for chariots and horses to use, and there were a large number of official roads in the world that were convenient for chariots and horses to travel. But after all, this is a country of different dimensional spaces, not only are large families equipped with a number of horse-drawn carriages with luxurious facilities, but even ordinary small families can raise their own horses and cars.

That's why as soon as Ye Feng enters Chang'an, he will see this lively and varied scene of riding in a car.

Everything in front of him is enough to prove that maybe there have been wars and chaos in this land before, or maybe there will still be a day when there will be wars as long as there are human beings and interests, but at least for now, whether this era is the era that he is familiar with, Chang'an City, which is displayed in front of Ye Qingyu, is a peaceful and prosperous scene, and the people here are essentially the same as the modern people in China he is familiar with.

"Xiao family shop, it's here, get off." When Ye Feng was still sighing, Kong Xiaolian's voice came from outside the carriage.

Kong Xiaolian seems to be a person who doesn't talk much, but he is actually very shrewd, all the itinerary arrangements on the road are made by him, and he rushed to Chang'an City in the shortest time by walking the nearest road, and he can find the location of the Xiao family's shop without Xiao Ke'er guiding the way, and he is really shrewd enough.

After getting out of the carriage, seeing Xiao Ke'er's body trembling a little, Ye Feng also understood her feelings. The so-called Xiao family's house is not a simple shop, it looks more like a mansion of a big family in Zhumen, the house of the Xiao family is indeed quite imposing, covering a huge area, a high cyan wall stretches and stretches, enclosing the entire Xiao house, and the location of the house is also quite good, that is, it is not in the downtown area, but next to the downtown area, from the four directions of the Xiao family, you can go to a complicated place, and the end is the best geographical location.

As a merchant of the Great Liao Kingdom, being able to own such a large mansion in the Zhengtang Kingdom shows how big the relationship network and financial resources of the Yelang Xiao family are.

But what Ye Feng didn't know was that the Xiao family's mansion was actually not the city center he imagined, but the suburbs, the status of merchants was low in these years, although the Yelang Xiao family had a high status in the business world, and the Zhengtang Kingdom and the Great Liao Kingdom now attached great importance to commercial development, but the status of traditional businessmen was still not as good as that of the official family, not to mention that this was a Shijie dominated by the Xiuzhen sect and the cultivators, whether it was an official business or the army, its social status was not comparable to the various Xiuzhen factions.

Ye Feng also doesn't know how to appreciate ancient buildings, the four corners of the wall of the commercial house are actually round, and there are no edges and corners, this is the biggest difference with the official house, no matter how big the door is, there can be no more porch, at most one step can enter the courtyard, even the height of the door steps of ordinary people's homes can not be compared, let alone compared with the official residence, this is the characteristics of the commercial house.

Ye Feng didn't understand this, he just felt that this Xiao family was really magnificent, the most distinctive thing is that the Xiao family built the mansion next to an inland river in Chang'an City, leading the river into the house, watering flowers and grass, the water is murmuring, there is a home in the river, there is a river in the home, it is indeed a wonderful match. (To be continued......)