It has been more than 20 years since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, and after the hard work of Emperor Wen of Sui, the north and the south have been unified, multi-ethnic groups have been integrated, and a series of national policies have been implemented, so that the people have stabilized, there is no separation, there is no displacement, the population has increased sharply, and commerce has also developed rapidly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Sui Dynasty was so wealthy, Emperor Wen's frugality was only one of the factors, and the more important reason was the streamlining of the imperial court organization, and the organs had public office money and vocational fields for the office expenses of the yamen, and the expenses of the local government soldiers were also self-sufficient.

With more than 20 years of reserves, prosperous and prosperous, Emperor Wen of Sui has laid a solid material foundation for Yang Guang, and there are no major disasters or changes, which is enough for the next few decades.

Luo Zhaoyun, Guo Xiaoke, and Ji Pingwu came to Dongshi, because they went out late, it was already past the hour, and the Fang City was already overcrowded.

The three of them came to Chang'an for the first time, and it was also the first time to visit the market, and they were all shocked when they saw the scene in front of them.

The radius of the East City is several miles, several times larger than the ordinary residential square, there are hundreds of various industries, two or three thousand shops, neatly planned, horizontal and vertical as one, elm and willow are shaded, and the canals are noteworthy.

Pawn shops, jewelry shops, jewelry shops, rouge houses, oil shops, salt shops, money villages, cloth villages, etc., heavy buildings and pavilions, reflecting each other, all over the streets, rare mountains.

There are four gates in the east market of Chang'an, and the three of them enter from the north gate, crowding into the crowd, and they don't want to sell things in a hurry, they just want to see the excitement and see the world.

Chang'an has eight rivers interspersed, there are lakes in the east and west cities, the river is connected to the canal, on the lake, there are hundreds of boats moored, the white sails are like clouds, almost fill the river road, it is too spectacular.

Flying canopy boats, lake boats, foothead boats, large beach cargo ships, boat boats and other ships, all kinds, each with its own function, carrying grain, native products, fruits, cloth, silk and satin, pen, ink, paper inkstone, ceramics and jade, etc., unloaded in Chang'an East City, some directly sold off.

At a glance, there are a sea of people, because of the huge Chang'an City, there are only two markets in the east and west to trade, gathering a lot of business travelers from Tiannan and Haibei and Fanbang, and the buyers and sellers are not only Chang'an people, so it has contributed to this hot scene.

In Fang City, Hu merchants gathered, people in exotic clothes can be seen everywhere, back and forth, and the people of Chang'an are accustomed to it.

After all, Emperor Wen of Sui has run the Great Sui like a sky in the past few years, deterring Fanbang, and the entire Eastern world, there is no country that can compete, so Emperor Wen was made a holy khan by the surrounding nomadic tribes, and he was happy for a while, so he relaxed the conditions for Fanbang exotic merchants to come to the Central Plains to do business, tolerating various cultures, and Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism did not conflict, and even Roman missionaries had many people living here for a long time.

At this time, there were many kinds of Hu merchants, including a few tribes in the Mobei grassland, such as Turkic, Hui, Tiele and others, as well as Persian, Dashi and Tianzhu, Roman, Sogdian and other races in the Western Regions, selling spices, curiosities, and purchasing silk, tea and other goods.

Ji Pingwu was stunned and sighed: "Oh my God, the Fang Market in Chang'an City is too lively, there can be tens of thousands of people walking around here every day!" ”

Guo Xiaoke's mind is more mature, and he has heard of these common senses, and explained: "This new Chang'an City, also known as Daxing City, is said to have a population of more than 500,000 people, plus the number of people who are not counted in the flow, it is not uncommon for tens of thousands of people to come to the Fang Market to buy and trade. ”

The long street of shops is full of traffic, and there are all kinds of pedestrians in the past, all kinds of identities, dignitaries, children of wealthy families, ladies and beauties, daughters and ladies, geisha in Qinglou, orchid girls, ordinary Chinese, peddlers and pawns, in the meantime, the Sui Dynasty is not as strict as the Ming and Qing dynasties, so it is more common for women to go shopping.

However, the clothes of these women are not like those on TV, they are all open-necked skirts with open necks; Because although the Sui and Tang dynasties developed some clothing, the open-chested clothing was officially popular in the Tang Dynasty, and there were only two kinds of women, who would wear it in two places, one was a noble woman and a daughter, which could be worn in the mansion and the palace.

The other is kabuki and maiko, which can be worn in the brothel of the green house to welcome customers! Other women rarely wear them, and there is no such opportunity, so the women on the street are all short skirts with high waists, and the chest is also very tight.

Luo Zhaoyun and the three of them wandered around for a few streets, due to the large number of people and the unfamiliar place, they stopped and stopped, the speed was very slow, and it was noon in a blink of an eye, and it was time for lunch.

"It's not too early, let's go, find a restaurant, I'll invite the two brothers to have a drink!"

Guo Xiaoke and Ji Pingwu showed their looks when they heard this, and when they heard that there was wine to eat, they all became excited, they knew that Luo Zhaoyun was born in Jiangmen, had a solid background, and had plenty of money, so they didn't shirk it.

"Boss, don't call us brothers, it's really annoying us."

"Yes, Luo Duwei, you are the sixth grade, we don't have an official rank yet, just call us by name."

Although the two knew that Luo Zhaoyun was sincere to them, after all, this was a hierarchical society, and it was a relationship between superiors and subordinates, and the gap between officials and lords was obvious, and they were not arrogant, and they all had a respect for Luo Zhaoyun in their words.

There is a street in the square market, and there are many restaurants, music halls, and inns on both sides of the road, and the price is of course more expensive than other restaurants and inns in the square.

The three of them chose a restaurant with a carved façade and a painted building, with a bit of exotic scenery, and the passenger flow was also very large.

Luo Zhaoyun received two rewards from the prince last night, although he hadn't allocated it yet, but the coils he carried with him were enough to eat and drink.

When the three of them entered the restaurant, they saw many young, beautiful, and bewitching women of different races, interspersed between the wine tables, pouring wine and serving.

"This is a restaurant opened by Hu Ren, there are a lot of orchids who serve wine!" Ji Pingwu was taken aback.

"Don't you know? I have long heard that the restaurant opened by Hu Ren is a major feature of Chang'an City! Guo Xiaoke said with a smile.

At the time of the opening of the Great Sui Dynasty, the country and the people of the country and the people of Hu had formed a scale and characteristics in business, and the most opened were jewelry stores and restaurants. In terms of jewelry, because of the shape, style, color, carving, etc., it is different from the style of the Great Sui because the market is very large. In addition, there are many Hu restaurants, but it is because there are orchids in the Hu restaurants.

During the Sui Dynasty, although the women of the Han family were more open, there were very few women who showed up to serve in wine shops, and they often worked as maids and maidservants in wealthy nobles, but they did not serve wine in public, which was a psychological difference.

Wine and food, accompanied by exotic red-sleeved beauties, will naturally attract drinkers.

Therefore, Hu Shang's restaurant is getting bigger and bigger, and the grade is getting higher and higher, and it has gradually become one of the places for the dignitaries and dignitaries of the Great Sui Dynasty and the wealthy businessmen to have fun.

Luo Zhaoyun took the two of them to sit in the building under the leadership of a shopkeeper, and at this time a cluster of people walked out of front of them, about six or seven people, who seemed to have just finished drinking, one by one, full of wine, red light, and when some of them saw Luo Zhaoyun's figure, their faces sank, and they stopped with a narrow sneer.

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