Chapter 407: Interesting Facts about Fangcheng
The outer city of Longdu City even has fluffy grass on the city walls, and what is even more interesting is that the outer city has a city wall but no city gates, only the door openings are easy to enter and exit, and it can really only block wild beasts. There are ten official roads from all over the country to Longdu City, and each official road intersection has a team handle, and their main job is to inspect and register the blades and weapons entering the city, and they do not even charge any cents.
And the reason why the weapon blade is checked is because the saint Han is still martial, not to mention that the ranger is a scholar can also carry a sword, but there is only one kind of blade that can be carried into the Dragon Capital City, that is, a sword weighing less than two catties, and other crossbows, hidden weapons, armor, etc. are not allowed to enter.
The three-blade blade of the ghost guard is a standard weapon, and it must be specially registered remarks, and the forbidden soldiers registered for the ghost guard are the sergeants on duty of the Xuanwu Legion, and after seeing the ghost generals, the admiration on his face is overflowing, and he is released after simply registering. Among the four forbidden armies, the Qinglong Army is a legion directly under the royal family, but because Xuanyuan Zi followed the First World War and buried it in Saibei, it has since become a forbidden army that exists in name only; The Suzaku Legion has long suppressed the rebellion in the country, and does not need to be responsible for the defense of the capital; The White Tiger Legion was responsible for the defense and strategic preparation of the inner city and the imperial city, so the Xuanwu Legion was the only one of the four legions to do the dirty work.
For the legend of Zhang Xiaowu, the soldiers of the Xuanwu Legion naturally heard about it, especially this person went from a soldier to a general, killing countless dogs to deter dogs, which is really inspiring and worshipable.
The ghost guard passed unimpeded, and soon entered the seventy-two squares of the outer city of Longdu City.
Seventy-two squares in the outer city, the city wall of the square city is one zhang high, but many of the buildings in the square city are higher than the square wall, looking at it from a distance, the seventy-two squares seem to compete with each other in general. Zhang Xiaowu remembered that in his previous life, he watched a TV series "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", in which the tallest building in Chang'an City was the watchtower of each square, but Longdu City did not have this watchtower system and could not monitor the whole city.
However, Longdu City also has its own management methods, each Fangcheng city wall is spaced two zhang apart to facilitate passage, once an incident occurs in Longdu City, immediately close each Fangcheng, only allow officers and soldiers to pass in the Fang, any private passerby to rebels, kill without forgiveness.
Once the Fang City is closed, the seventy-two Fang Cities will be seventy-two isolated islands, and even if any incident occurs, they can be strangled in the isolated islands. This is the best management method of Longdu Fang City, an isolated management model, which is also convenient for the government to concentrate on solving problems, and criminals cannot escape at the same time.
Ruan Qingwen sat on the horse, while introducing and explaining the various fang cities in Longdu City, the prices of houses in the fang city are not the same, the most expensive is naturally the real estate in the 36 squares of the inner city, and the cheapest is the house price in the fang city near the outer city wall in the 72 squares.
The reason why Wenzhaifang attracts scholars is because Wenzhaifang is a place where rice paper and literary ink are produced, and later many students write and live here, which in turn attracts many poor scholars to write and survive. Later, in order to recruit authors, some booksellers rented houses to scholars at this reserve price, and held various picture book competitions. Although there are many contestants, in fact, the scholars rarely show up, and everyone writes under pseudonyms, so as not to be covered by ginseng when they take the fame exam in the future, but bury the road ahead.
"Then this is the factory." Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile, "Another day, I will have the opportunity to find out in Wenzhai Fang, whether there is any fantasy crossing." ”
Speaking of Fangcheng, Ruan Qingwen said another interesting thing, when the 108 squares of Longdu City were built, the location and layout of Fangcheng were designed by Wentianyuan, which was responsible for the feng shui pattern of Zhensha and Xingguo. And the names of each Fang City were originally named after the one hundred and eight constellations, which were the thirty-six Tiangang and the seventy-two earth-shattering.
Longdu City from the Holy Taizu moved the capital, to the Holy Emperor Jingdi ascended the throne to build, before and after the completion of forty years, but after the construction of many Fang City is reluctant to disclose their official name, especially some Fang City is called Di Damage Fang, Di Chou Fang, Di Yin Fang, its people feel that their name is difficult to speak.
So the people went to the Longdu Mansion to petition the Mansion Yin, and the Longdu Mansion Yin had no choice but to report to the emperor, and the name of the city was changed when Emperor Shengwen arrived. Because Emperor Shengwen was humble and treated the people kindly, he could be said to be the emperor who loved the people the most among the fifteen emperors of the Shenghan Empire, and was quite similar to today's Emperor Dade, and he even allowed the people to change the name of their own city.
The people of the entire Longdu One Hundred and Eight Fangs have taken their own names after learning about this, and they have all abandoned the naming of Tiangang and Disha, it turns out that everyone does not like to name Tiangang Disha, and even the Fang City where the prime minister lives is unwilling to be called Tiankui Fang, Tianji Fang, and even called Tiankui Fang, Tianji Fang, and is called Tianwai Fang, Tiansin Fang.
At that time, there was also the imperial history impeaching Wentian Yuan for naming one hundred and eight squares, but Emperor Shengwen felt that Wentian Yuan was not wrong, and it was not a big mistake to name it inappropriately, so he laughed it off.
At noon, the ghost guard and his party came to the sixth workshop.
Among the six workshops, Shunxingfang is a workshop specializing in making and selling shoes and hats, and it can be said that it is the footwear and hat wholesale city of Longdu City.
St. Han's emphasis on agriculture but not on commerce led to a strong commercial atmosphere, and as you walked along Shunxingfang Street, the streets were lined with shops selling all kinds of shoes. Saibei's shoes are better than exquisite materials, warm and strong, but compared to the dazzling variety of Shunxingfang shoes with different shapes, Saibei's shoes are not so good-looking. What makes everyone feel even more incredible is that there are more women's shoe shops and children's shoe shops than men's shoe shops, but Zhang Xiaowu understands that since ancient times, women's money has been the best, not only modern people understand this truth, but also the ancients understand.
Saibei's eyeliner is located on the three streets east of Shunxingfang, called Chengzheng Shoe Shop, specializing in selling Saibei's leather boots, and the current person in charge is Zhang Xiaowu's former guard captain Zhao Suo.
When they saw Zhao Suo again, Zhang Xiaowu and the others laughed, it turned out that Zhao Suo had only lived in Longdu for more than a year, and he had become a big fat man, and his black face had become white, and the whole person was a big white.
Among the people, in addition to Zhang Xiaowu, only Wang Yijin and Chen Guanxi are the most familiar with him, and the two of them also laughed back and forth, Wang Yijin smashed it with a fist, and said excitedly: "I heard that you were sent to Lingnan before, and I thought that you had suffered a great crime, but I thought that you are now fat into a ball, where did you suffer?" Are you fattened or can you eat just by smelling the air? ”