"It's... This... This is Dengzhou...? ”

A few days later, Zhang Yaozu followed Li Zhan and others to the newly built Dengzhou City... Looking at the majestic Dengzhou City in front of him, Zhang Yaozu opened his mouth very wide.

Because the Dengzhou City in front of me is too much like Chang'an City.

You must know that he has been to Dengzhou before, that small town... My sky is dirty and messy, but the newly built Dengshu Castle in front of me is more than ten times better than Kyoto on Wajima.

Li Zhan looked at Zhang Yaozu's surprise, and also showed a slight smug look, because this Dengzhou City is also Li Zhan's proud work, all of which are made of cement.

It is 10 km in total.

The city bricks on the city wall of Dengzhou City are 45 centimeters long, 23 centimeters wide, 10 centimeters thick, and weigh dozens of catties. These bricks, if connected one by one, can be up to 12,000 kilometers long.

The thickness of the ash used for the joint is generally 1-2 cm, and the ratio of thickness, width and length of the brick masonry is roughly 1:2:4.

Such proportions are easy to assemble and combine, and are the most scientific shapes.

The city wall is 12 meters high (according to the general saying), about 5 zhang;

The bottom of the city wall is 16-18 meters wide, close to 7-8 zhang;

The top of the city wall is 12-14 meters wide, about 5-6 zhang;

The horse face protrudes from the city wall by 11.5 meters, which is 5 zhang;

The width of the upper mouth of the city river at the gate of Dengzhou is 45 meters, close to 20 zhang.

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"How is it, Uncle Zhang, my city is good...!" Li Zhan looked at Zhang Yaozu beside him with a smile.

Zhang Yaozu on the side nodded in shock and said: "Not only is it good, in addition to the Chang'an City that His Highness's city is not as good as this Tang Dynasty, there will be no such majestic city as His Highness in this Tang Dynasty and even other places." ”

Zhang Yaozu's words made Li Zhan laugh.

At this very moment... In Dengzhou City, there are clusters of carriages and horses, and Changsun Chong takes Changsun Huan, Du He, Su Liangsi... Li Zhan's Dengzhou officials came, and after seeing Li Zhan, under the leadership of Changsun Chong, all the Dengzhou officials bowed down and shouted: "See Your Highness...!" ”

"Excuse me...!" Li Zhan took the lead in helping Changsun Chong up and said: "Lizhi is also here, just behind, you go and take a look first, and if you say anything else, we'll talk about it later." ”

"Hey... Thank you, Your Highness! When the eldest grandson Chong heard that his wife was coming, he was very happy.

After listening, he rushed to the back to find Li Liqing, followed Li Zhan to look at Du He behind him and smiled: "Du Changshi, how is it... The prince misses you very much, do you want to be transferred back to the capital? ”

"Ahh Du He looked at Li Zhan and laughed: "Your Highness... Xiaguan is very good here, Xiaguan has slowly liked here, and is willing to follow His Highness here for the rest of his life. ”

"Poof...!" Li Zhan laughed: "That Cheng Qian is going to be with Lonely... However, Lone is not afraid of him! ”

followed Li Zhan to Changsun Huan's side and said, "Are you okay?" ”

"Very good, His Highness Xie cares." The eldest grandson bowed.

Li Zhan nodded and said, "Uncle said that he would go home when he had time, and his relatives at home would think about it." ”

"It's... Your Highness! Changsun Huan bowed again.

"Call cousin...!"

Changsun Huan was stunned for a moment, and then said with emotion: "Cousin...!" ”

In the end, Li Zhan came to Su Liangsi's side and said, "King Han is finished... Cui Shouzheng is also coming back, and Lone's identity is also known to everyone, so you don't need to be confused.

Follow Lonely... Loneliness will not treat you badly. ”

After Li Zhan finished speaking, Su Liangsi's face changed and he quickly knelt down and said, "The sinner understands...!" ”

"Get up. . . You are not a sinner. Li Zhan smiled and helped Su Liangsi up and said, "Let's go... Take the lonely but look at the lonely palace...! ”

"Yes...!" Su Liangsi was moved and hurriedly got up.

Li Zhan's palace is also the palace of the king of Qin, composed of two parts, the mansion and the garden, about 330 meters long from north to south, more than 180 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of about 61,120 square meters, of which the mansion covers an area of 32,260 square meters, and the garden covers an area of 28,860 square meters.

It is the largest building in Dengju City.

The mansion building is divided into east, middle and west three roads, each road from south to north is composed of a strict central axis running through the multi-entry courtyard, the design of this courtyard is proposed by Li Zhan.

Because Li Zhan must have this kind of courtyard design, there is a warm feeling.

Outside the courtyard, the powder wall is encircled, the green willow hangs around, there are three hanging flower gatehouses, and the verandah is copied on all sides. The courtyard is connected with each other, the mountains and stones are embellished, the whole courtyard is magnificent, graceful and luxurious, the garden is splendid, clear and exquisite, the backyard is full of roses, treasures, and a pool. Here the stream joins and flows out of the garden, and there is a white stone road that crosses the Qinfang Creek to the opposite bank.

Walk into the main hall, in the middle is a square platform of about two meters high vermilion lacquer, on which is placed the throne of the carved dragon with gold lacquer, behind is the carved dragon screen, there are six tall golden pillars of the dragon on both sides of the square platform, and a vigorous golden dragon is coiled on each pillar; Looking up at the top of the palace, there is a huge carved dragon and dragon in the central caisson well, a silver-white big bead hangs down from the dragon's mouth, surrounded by six small beads, the dragon head, the jewel is facing the golden luan throne below, the color painting between the beams is gorgeous, bright and pleasing to the eye, the red and yellow gold dragon pattern pattern, there are double dragons playing with pearls, the single dragon flies; There are walking dragons, sitting dragons, flying dragons, descending dragons, colorful, and the dragon's surroundings are also lined with flowing clouds and flames.

If you dare to use dragons like this in the Tang Dynasty, it should be Li Zhan, the king of Qin, after that.

"Your Highness... Are you still satisfied here? Su Liangsi asked confidently as he bowed.

"Satisfied...!" Li Zhan smiled and nodded, but even if he was satisfied, Li Zhan had only rested in Dengzhou City for one night, and he didn't have time to see the prosperous scene in Dengzhou City at this time.

Now there are more than 100,000 people in Dengzhou City, among which the merchants are the most, because Dengzhou City is the largest trading city, Li Zhan gave the greatest respect to commerce, in Dengzhou City, if you do business, it is absolutely protected.

Like Chang'an City, it is absolutely impossible to bully the family gatekeeper, doing business in Dengzhou City, as long as you are well-behaved, no family will dare to touch you, and because of this, the business of Dengzhou City is very prosperous.

And the place that best reflects the prosperity of Dengzhou's business is that a very popular profession has appeared in Dengzhou, that is, the takeaway brother.

Of course, the ancient takeaway brother is not as professional as today's takeaway brother, in the hot summer, going out makes people evaporate, and the takeaway that can be delivered to the door will naturally become popular, Ge You slumped on the sofa and waited for the takeaway brother to knock on the door is an indispensable part of the summer salted fish life.

Thanks to the convenience of transportation and the development of the Internet, the takeaway industry is very prosperous at other times except for the critical attack of garbage classification.

In our minds, when we were children, it was common to go out to eat something without turning on the fire at home, but now the first choice has become to open the food delivery platform to pick and choose, and this change has actually happened in the past few years since the popularity of smartphones.

However, the ancient people who lived a delicate life are not as lacking in imagination as we were more than ten years ago, takeaway is not a modern product, lazy people have existed since ancient times, so takeaway has also existed since ancient times. After all, the principle of takeout is very simple, just make it in the store and let people deliver it to the designated place. The only differences are the delivery range, time, and payment method.

What does Dengzhou's takeaway look like, in fact, the outside of Dengzhou is basically the place where the store is ready to use the food box to send to the customer's requirements, there is generally no full-time takeaway brother, Xiao Er or other employees can do a part-time job, after all, the ancient takeaway was not so popular, and the people who can afford to eat takeaway are still large households, and they usually cook meals in their own kitchens, and they need to feast customers or want to change their tastes before they choose to order some meals from the restaurant.

It's too busy to do business, spend a little money, save time for cooking, if you make a deal of time, what food money will come back, Dengzhou City, everywhere there are tea shops, wine shops, noodle shops, fruits.... Oil sauce, rice, rice, fish, curd and other shops.

There are more home-cooked food and portable fast food outlets than hotels. With such a developed catering industry, how can you be worthy of yourself if you don't call a takeaway.

What's more, there are too many delicious foods in Dengzhou City, such as pork soup, hoof soup, fish spicy soup, chicken soup, fish spicy soup, pig big bone soup, heterozygous soup, butterfly noodles, fried meat, boiled shrimp and other butterfly noodles, and fried meat, fried liver, frozen fish, frozen fish, frozen meat, fried duck, fried mackerel, vinegar fish and other rice. There are also blood and dirty noodles, pork and vegetable noodles, bamboo shoots and noodles, vegetarian bone noodles, and bran bamboo shoots and vegetarian soup. There is also a restaurant that sells vegetable soup, and also sells fried tofu, fried fish, fried fish, fried fish, roasted vegetables, fried eggplant...!

Li Zhan really didn't expect that Dengzhou City sold more food than Chang'an, and later learned that because Dengzhou City was from all parts of the Tang Dynasty, they all brought delicious food from their hometowns, and the demand was large, so they did more and more.

Eat more, the more takeaways, the more takeaways, there is a small problem here, takeaways need to be transported, it must be kept warm, otherwise it will be delivered to the guests are leftovers, and the cold burn must be a one-star bad review. Therefore, insulated containers are indispensable, and if you eat for a long time in winter, you also need a container with better insulated temperatures, otherwise the more you eat, the cooler you will experience. We have modern induction cookers, microwave ovens, and insulated lunch boxes, what did the ancients use?

First of all, if you want to deliver takeaway, you need to be more portable, so the food box is the best choice. This food box appears very frequently in many costume dramas, and everyone should be familiar with it.

The food box is divided into several layers, which can be classified and put a lot of food, and if there are conditions to make it, it is also very delicate, which plays a basic role in heat preservation.

The ancients have long discovered the heat insulation effect of air down, and putting down in the food box can effectively keep the heat warm.

If you want to go further, there is also a warm plate to choose from, and the principle of this warm plate is similar to the principle of keeping warm meals in many university cafeterias, that is, put hot water below to ensure the temperature of the dishes above.

The warm plate is double-layered, and the thermal insulation effect with hot water in the middle is very good, and you can happily take out with a food box. There are also bowls and cups with a mezzanine, which are very easy to use.

If you eat it at home, there are more insulated containers, less portable and no ignition requirements, and more options can be made. The more common ones are Wending and dyeing furnaces. These are large items, and the method of keeping them warm is very violent: continuous heating.

It's just that Li Zhan didn't care about these at this time, and the next morning, Li Zhan went to Dengzhou Shipyard, where Li Zhan was going to go to sea.

There are a total of twelve, lined up, it is really spectacular, a Changle ship can carry 700 people... In addition to the 6,000 Tiger Ben Army, there are also some ordnance weapons, all of which can be carried.

Plus six hundred sailors.

You must know that Zhang Yaozu's boat, 33.6 meters long, 9.2 meters wide, head and tail high, divided into three layers, the whole body is red and white as the main color, all are wooden structures, not only sails, oars, anchors, rudders, etc., but also on the top floor and the Buddha shrine used to pray There is also a row of harpoons and bronze bells to ward off evil spirits.

And Li Zhan's Changle ship is more than twice the size of Zhang Yaozu's boat, to be honest, such a big ship really shocked Zhang Yaozu.

However, what shocked Zhang Yaozu even more was that Li Zhan even knew the nearest route to Wadao, and the route Zhang Yaozu took in the past was Nandao Road... That is, Kyushu went south, along Tanegashima in the south, Yakushima Island, and Amami Islands in the south, crossed the East China Sea to the northwest, landed at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then went north by the Grand Canal. This route is mainly sailed in the boundless East China Sea, which is difficult to dock and more dangerous.

Both the North Road and the South Island Road take about 30 days or more to sail.

But after asking Zhang Yaozu to contribute his route, Li Zhan shook his head and said that this sea route was not good, and followed Li Zhan to modify a route, starting from Dengzhou, crossing the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then crossing the East China Sea... Radially northeast to the Goto Islands in the west of Kyushu!

In this way, this route is generally about ten days, or even three days, but the risk of wind and waves is basically the same as that of Nandao Road.

Li Zhan's re-planned route really shocked Zhang Yaozu, he looked at Li Zhan and asked: "You haven't been to the sea, and no one from your shipyard has ever been to Wajima, how can you know the easy route to Wadao better than me." ”

It's just that Li Zhan didn't answer Zhang Yaozu's question, but asked, "Uncle Zhang, if you go to the Wudao Islands, can you get horses?"

My tiger army needs horses. ”

"Horses can be obtained, but this horse is not suitable for us?"

After Zhang Yaozu's words were finished, Li Zhan was surprised, Li Zhan didn't know what it meant that it was not suitable for us, and later, Zhang Yaozu also explained: "There are horses on Wajima, but the horses on Wadao are all dwarfs. It is called a pony because of its very short size. How short is it, exactly? Some adult ponies can only grow up to 85 cm tall, which is still the height of the head. It can only reach knee height (about the size of a husky) of a person who is 1.6m tall.

The best kind of horse is called the Kiso horse... However, most of them are only 110cm tall, which is about the height of the waist of the average modern adult. In fact, in the strict sense, this kind of war horse cannot be used as a war horse at all! ”

The so-called war horse is called a war horse, and it must first meet a certain height. The tallest horse in the world is the British Shire Horse, which is more than 2m tall at the shoulder, which is simply a giant beast. The Mongolian horses used by Genghis Khan to sweep across Eurasia were much shorter, with a shoulder height of only 135 cm. However, although the Mongolian horse is not large, it is very tenacious and adaptable to various harsh climates, so it is very suitable for war horses. But in any case, the size of the Mongolian horse is acceptable.

On the other hand, the Kiso horses in Wajima are really too short, only 110cm in total, basically a large husky, and it is almost the same for children to ride, how can they fight? If you really have to fight, let alone a long-distance attack, the impact power is not up to standard. It is no wonder that during the Meiji Restoration, Japan introduced a large number of European horses to improve horse breeds.

"Your Highness, I can only provide you with a thousand tall horses, this is my limit...!"

"Clams...!" Li Zhan frowned slightly.

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