Wooden heads?

"What does the master want wood?" The servant was stunned.

"Hurry up and find it, don't bother." Wen Tingyun scolded angrily when he saw the stunned appearance of his subordinates.

"No---"

After all, the place where Wen Tingyun lives is a Duling thatched cottage, and the surrounding area is full of trees, so it is very easy to find a piece of wood in the shape of a head.

Soon the subordinates found a piece of wood in the shape of a head, a piece of paulownia pimples about ten centimeters in diameter and about fifteen centimeters in height.

The subordinate handed the wood to Wen Tingyun, "Master, is this okay?" ”

Wen Tingyun took it in his hand and looked at it, weighed it, and nodded slightly, "Yes, this is okay." Then he looked at Zhang Wei with a smile.

What is this guy going to do?

Zhang Wei looked at Wen Tingyun in surprise, "Brother Wen doesn't plan to let me go out with this piece of wood on my head, right?" ”

"Exactly, this piece of wood is just the right size. Please lower your head and tie him up for your brother. Wen Tingyun said to Zhang Wei with a smile.

Yes? Do you really want to do this?

A lump of wood on his head went out, and Zhang Wei felt a little ridiculous.

Although he was unhappy, in the face of this situation and the social status quo at that time, Zhang Wei had no choice but to do this, and lowered his head and asked Wen Tingyun to tie the paulownia head to his head.

In the end, it is the person who often wraps the head, Wen Tingyun divided the head by two in three times and divided it by two, and wrapped the head made of paulownia wood for Zhang Wei. In order not to fall down the road, Wen Tingyun deliberately wrapped Zhang Wei a few more times around his head, and the strap on the head was longer than usual.

Looking at the fruits of his labor, Wen Tingyun smiled, "The method of being a brother is still very good, look at how good this bag is." ”

Then Wen Tingyun took out a gauze hat and brought it to Zhang Wei.

The subordinates looked at Zhang Wei's outfit, well--, like that. couldn't help but praise: "Zhang Gongzi is a talent, and wearing this dress is even more dignified, and walking on Chang'an Street will definitely attract everyone's attention." ”

"Come, come, come with your brother." Wen Tingyun pulled Zhang Wei to the bronze mirror, "Look, how graceful and suave, it's like a jade tree in the wind, Pan An is alive!" Looking at Zhang Wei in the mirror, Wen Tingyun not only praised.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Zhang Wei was secretly happy in his heart, it turned out that he was so slender and spirited in the clothes of the Tang Dynasty in the mirror, the cyan gown, and the black gauze hat made Zhang Wei, who was originally tall, look taller, thinner, and more energetic!

He hadn't seen who Pan An was, but in Zhang Wei's opinion, even if Pan An was alive, he might not be as handsome as he was.

He is really the "first handsome man" in the world!

After eating, dressing up, and wrapping the head.

The car is also ready.

Wen Tingyun took Zhang Wei out of the cottage and drove towards Chang'an City in the north.

This section of the Qinling Mountains in the south of Chang'an has been called "Zhongnan Mountain" since ancient times.

The reason why this section of the mountain range is so famous is because from ancient times to the present, there are many people who want to become famous, but there is no way to find a shortcut for a while. After all, this place is very close to the capital Chang'an, once there is a reputation here, someone will soon spread his good reputation to the capital, in order to attract the attention of the Son of Heaven, and finally achieve the purpose of getting out of the cottage and becoming an official.

Therefore, there is a saying here that there is a "shortcut to the south", and there is also a saying that "the court is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is the Tianzi Hall".

In fact, Wen Tingyun built a thatched cottage here and made friends, and he also had such a purpose, the ultimate purpose was to attract the attention and attention of His Majesty the Emperor, and finally achieve the goal of becoming an official in the court.

Otherwise, why don't you go back to your hometown and state to plant your own one-third of an acre of land, but stay near Chang'an to help others reclaim wasteland? Its purpose and intent are self-evident.

Du Ling was originally in front of Chang'an, and it didn't take long to drive to the south gate of Chang'an.

Let's talk about Chang'an briefly! Tang Chang'an City is also known as Daxing City, built in the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty changed its name to Chang'an City, composed of Waiguo City, the Imperial City and the Palace City, the Forbidden Garden, and the Fang City, covering an area of nearly 100 square kilometers (of course, this also includes the new Daming Palace, the West Inner Garden, and the East Inner Garden in the Tang Dynasty), which was the largest capital in the world at that time. The biggest, you see, that is, there was no bigger city than Chang'an in the world at that time, not a single one. Such a large city was thriving with different palaces, and at its peak the population exceeded 1 million.

The population of 1 million may not be a large number today, but at the time it was a large and terrifying number, considering that the world famous city of Constantinople at the same time had about 300,000 people, Rome only 50,000, and Paris only 25,000 people.

It's not like I don't know, I'm scared, I see, this is the gap, the huge gap.

Chang'an City (Waiguo City) opens 12 city gates, the south is the Mingde Gate in the middle, and the east and west are Qixia Gate and Anhua Gate respectively; In the middle of the east is the Chunming Gate, and the north and south are the Yanxing Gate and the Tonghua Gate respectively; In the middle of the west is the Jinguang Gate, and the north and south are the Yanping Gate and the Kaiyuan Gate respectively; The middle and eastern sections of the north side coincide with the north wall of Miyagi and the south wall of Daming Palace respectively, the middle section of the west section is Jingyao Gate, and the east and west are Fanglim Gate and Guanghua Gate respectively.

Except for the main gate, there are five doorways, and the rest of the doors are three doorways.

Good guys, Chang'an City at that time not only had a population, but also many people's gates! Twelve gates! Other world-famous cities don't have so many gates.

After coming to the city gate, Zhang Wei looked at the tall city wall of Chang'an City with emotion, and when he just crossed over, he was looking at this city from afar. Unexpectedly, only a few days later, he came to the gate of this majestic city again.

"Which gate is Brother Wen going to enter the city through?" Coming to the city gate, Zhang Wei asked.

"Let's go to the Summer Gate." Wen Tingyun said unequivocally.

Although there are many gates in Chang'an City, there are also many people who pay attention to them, and some doors ordinary people can walk, and some doors ordinary people can't go.

Qixia Gate is the east gate of the three southern gates of Chang'an City. If you don't leave the Mingde Gate in the middle, why does Wen Tingyun want to go to the Qixia Gate in the east?

Zhang Wei was a little puzzled.

Doubts are doubts, but Zhang Wei never said anything, thinking that Wen Tingyun must have a reason for doing this.

Qixia Gate, like all the city gates in TV and movies, is guarded by officers and soldiers, but at this time, it was just opened in the morning, and there were no major incidents at this time, so the officers and soldiers guarding the gate did not search or check the people entering and leaving the city gate. Wen Tingyun took Zhang Wei into the city very smoothly.

After entering Chang'an City, Wen Tingyun's car drove all the way north through one workshop after another, at this time Wen Tingyun's interest slowly rose, and said to Zhang Wei: "Brother Xian, are you familiar with this Chang'an City?" ”

Familiar?

Of course, Zhang Wei is familiar with it, but what he is familiar with is today's Xi'an City, and he is not familiar with Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty. Although he had often seen descriptions of Chang'an City in history textbooks before, it was only a description, and when he really felt Chang'an, he had a different feeling.

The "Fangli" in Chang'an City is divided by the east-west 14 avenues and 11 north-south avenues in the outer Guo City, when Emperor Wen of Sui first built Daxing City, this chessboard grid area was named "Fang", and Emperor Yang changed its name to "Li", and it was also called "Fang" in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, in Tang poetry, it is common to see the use of "li" and "fang" together.