Chapter 87 The world is prosperous Yangzhou City

That night, Cao Ying's arrival arrived.

Zhang Xuan led all the cavalry under his command with more than 10,000 people, and after capturing Tianchang, he got the news of the Yangzhou official army. Hurry up and come to Yangzhou. It's just that he was still a step slower and didn't defeat this official army outside Yangzhou.

However, when Zhang Xuan looked at Yangzhou City, he knew that Yangzhou City would definitely be easy to attack.

Although it was night, Zhang Xuan couldn't see it really, but he could also see that the stars were like stars in the sky, nothing else, it was the lights of thousands of homes in Yangzhou City. Although such lights are far less bright and dazzling than the night scenes of later generations, they still give Zhang Xuan the illusion that he is not facing a city in the 17th century, but a third- and fourth-tier city in later generations. Especially when the night covers too many things, Zhang Xuan has this illusion.

Just looking at the shape of the lights, Zhang Xuan had the illusion that Yangzhou was a city without city walls.

After all, judging from the shape of the lights, Zhang Xuan can see clearly, there are no specific rules at all, and there are no bright lights on the city wall, the bonfire under the city wall, maybe Zhang Xuan is a little far away, a lot of it is not clear, but the reason why Zhang Xuan stopped moving forward here.

It is because in this place that I have already encountered scattered houses.

In other words, this place is already the outskirts of Yangzhou City. Further on, it was a very dangerous thing for the brigade to ride in the darkness and enter the complex realm.

"Stand back two miles and set up camp." Zhang Xuan said.

The topography of Yangzhou City seems to be high in the northwest and southeast of the city, and the place where Zhang Xuan chose to camp is higher than the Yangzhou area, and Zhang Xuan stands on a high place and looks down on the entire Yangzhou City.

All the way from Fengyang to now, it is the third day, in these three days, Zhang Xuan marched day by day, but it was quite difficult, and it was also the biggest obstacle that Zhang Xuan encountered all the way south. But there was no determination to resist resolutely.

That is, the front foot sends a messenger for help, and the back foot opens the city and surrenders.

It can be said that all the way to Yangzhou City, Zhang Xuan really has never fought such a smooth battle.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan's spirit was a little excited, and he couldn't sleep for a while. Moreover, it was midnight when the army arrived outside Yangzhou City, Zhang Xuan simply didn't go to sleep, just sat on a high place, looking at Yangzhou City from a distance.

A few rooster crows, and then the sound of rooster crows sounded, the east was white, and the visibility was a little higher, Zhang Xuan climbed high and looked into the distance, and took out the clairvoyant mirror to see Yangzhou City in front of him.

The first thing you see is not the city walls, but the dense houses, which seem to be clustered together because of a lack of planning, and the road in the middle winds and twists, as if it were a sheep's intestine, and it has become a slope due to the waterway

Finish.

I don't want it to feel like the streets of the north are flat and straight at all.

Moreover, Yangzhou is very large, even if Zhang Xuan has the help of a clairvoyant mirror, he can't see the edge at a glance, and he can't see where the boundary of Yangzhou City is. The only feeling was that the Yangzhou City in front of him was much bigger than the Yangzhou City he saw last night.

Zhang Xuan thought about it carefully and understood.

He was under the city of Yangzhou, and it was impossible to hide such a big thing. In Yangzhou City, most of the people who have a way have left, even if they have no way, they will not light the lights at night. Especially the houses on the periphery, which are probably empty.

As for this moment, Zhang Xuan can only see the panorama.

How many people are there in the city of Yangzhou?

At this moment, Zhang Xuan couldn't give a judgment at all.

Without him, Yangzhou City is too big, so big that Zhang Xuan can't use his previous experience to judge the number of people in Yangzhou, Zhang Xuan judges how many cities there are, and also uses these factors, the first factor is the size of the city wall, and there are more people in the city, which is natural, but Zhang Xuan has not seen the city wall now. I don't know how big Yangzhou City is.

There are dozens of records in the classics, and the information of the founding of the Ming Dynasty is not a secret, as long as there is a heart, it can always be collected, and Zhang Xuan is a person with a heart, he has never stopped collecting books, and with Zhang Xuan's status getting higher and higher, even without Zhang Xuan doing it himself, someone will naturally send it to the door. Zheng Lian was by Zhang Xuan's side to do the errand of taking care of books.

He vaguely remembered that in the information at the beginning of the country, the number of households in Yangzhou City was one hundred and eighty miles. Based on the data of 110 households in one mile, there are about 20,000 households in Yangzhou City.

"20,000 households." Zhang Xuan said secretly: "When I am blind, there are only 20,000 households in such a large city. It is estimated that 100,000 households have it. ”

After Zhang Xuan saw the panorama, he used a clairvoyant mirror to take a closer look.

However, the clairvoyant mirror in Zhang Xuan's hand is far less than the telescope that peeked into the girl's bedroom in later generations, and it doesn't look clear, but there are some things that Zhang Xuan can see. That is, Yangzhou City does not have a city wall, but the city wall is submerged in the buildings.

Zhang Xuan took a closer look, and along several large streets, he saw buildings that were suspected to be city towers. After careful subdivision, it was determined that where was the suspected city tower, it was clearly the city tower, and then along both sides of the city tower, among the countless buildings, I saw the city wall that seemed to be a line.

It seems that the walls of Yangzhou City are particularly low, and they are hidden by the housing belts on both sides.

Zhang Xuan worked hard to count, only to find that it was not that the city wall of Yangzhou City was low, but that there were more buildings in Yangzhou City, although they were all wooden, but the two-story buildings were quite common, and the higher ones were not nothing, plus these wooden buildings had a tall cornice, according to the height, it was not much worse than the city wall.

Not even more

Some of the buildings are taller than the city walls.

Just looking at the buildings, there is almost no difference between the inside and outside of Yangzhou.

Some of the buildings outside the city are larger, it seems to be several courtyards, most of them are the courtyards of some rich and noble families, some are smaller, but they are also quite exquisite, but they look like the houses of some small families. The only thing that bothered him was urban planning.

Zhang Xuan couldn't see clearly inside Yangzhou City, but outside Yangzhou City, it seemed to spread to where and where it was, and there was no planning at all.

Zhang Xuan counted silently, not to mention other directions, just from Yangzhou City to his direction, there are at least five roads outside the city that can be called streets, and as for the sheep intestine paths, there are countless ones. Although it is much more deserted at the moment, it still lets people know that this is Yangzhou.

Yangzhou, Yangyi, the world is divided into three bright moonlight, two scoundrels are in Yangzhou, the moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges, where is the jade teaching the in Yangzhou, the waist is wrapped around 100,000 yuan, and the Yangzhou of Yangzhou is ridden by a crane.

I don't know when, several generals were already standing behind Zhang Xuan, Yang Shenzu swallowed and said, "My lord, is this Jiangnan?" ”

Yang Shenzu turned to the world, it's not that he hasn't seen a big city, but he has never seen a prosperous place like Yangzhou, and for a while Yang Shenzu felt as if he was from the countryside.

"No, it's not Gangnam." Zhang Xuan said: "This is still Jiangbei. ”

Yang Shenzu said: "I really don't know, what does the government think, so rich and don't build the city wall." It's cheap for us now, so we must grab it. ”

Yang Shenzu has wronged the Ming court.

As Zhu Yuanzhang's apprentice grandson, he is very keen on repairing the city wall, Yangzhou City is not without the city wall, but once repaired, if he looks carefully, the Yangzhou City they see, in fact, two cities are connected together, one is the old city, the other is the new city, even in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, just a few years ago, someone proposed to repair the city wall again. Protect the outside of the city.

However, in the end, it was stranded, for no other reason, if this was done, the city would have to be built very large, and the city wall was estimated to be dozens of miles long, such a big project, the government had no money to promote.

"This time into Yangzhou City, no one is allowed to loot, and those who dare to loot will be killed." Zhang Xuan said: "After entering the city, I will give everyone a reward, I will give it to the people below, but if someone doesn't listen to the greeting, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

Zhang Xuan's tone was stern, and all the generals agreed: "Yes." ”

When he entered Beijing back then, Taizu of this dynasty said that he was going to Beijing to take the exam, but at this moment Zhang Xuan also felt the same way, although Jiangnan is good, whether he can gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan is another matter.

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