Walking between the lanes, Xue Shao wanted to take a good look at the ancient city of Chang'an. An Xiaorou, an archaeological expert who is keen on this period of history, described to him more than once the majesty and majesty of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, which is so fascinating. Now that you can see it in the city, how can you not taste it?

"Childe, please ride a horse!" The moon slave took the reins of the horse.

"No need." Xue Shao said leisurely, "My body is just inactive, so it's okay to walk." ”

Seeing that Xue Shao was in a calm mood, Yue Nu was in a good mood, so he didn't reluctantly insist. He led the horse two steps behind him and quietly followed behind him.

Xue Shao felt a little unaccustomed, and turned his head to look back at her, "Why are you so far away from me?" ”

"How dare the moon slave go hand in hand with the child?" The moon slave whispered.

"Where is all this red tape?" Xue Shao said a little impatiently, "Take two steps forward and talk to me while walking." It's rare to have such a leisurely time to walk around, and there are beautiful people around me but far away from me, isn't it a big scenery? ”

Beauty?

Yue Nufang's heart was suddenly confused, and her face turned red, and she took two steps forward with an extremely embarrassed expression, and her cramped and restless eyes didn't know where to look.

As a female paper, how can you be so shy? Xue Shao was a little crying and laughing, Xue Shao had been snubbing her before, and she hadn't said a few words for two years. It's just that after a long time, she will slowly get used to it.

The master and servant went to the West Market, and took a look along the way, Xue Shao was also full of eyes. This is much more interesting than visiting the "ancient city scenic spots" that were imitated by later generations.

The Chang'an imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to describe it in one word, that is-magnificent!

The whole city, like a square chessboard, is about 20 miles wide from east to west, and 18 miles from north to south, surrounded by a thick wall of six or seven meters high. With such a huge scale of the city, even compared to the current metropolis, it is not much better.

The imperial city and the palace city are based in the north, and are built with the dragon head of the South Mountain. A street with a width of 150 meters, out of the south of the imperial city of the Zhuque Gate directly to the Mingde Gate of Chang'an City, the whole Chang'an City is consistently divided into two, called "Zhuque Gate Street".

With Zhuque Street as the axis, Chang'an City has 14 east and west streets and 11 north and south streets, which divide the whole city into a strict and orderly pattern, just like a Go chessboard. Each "lattice" is surrounded by a wall, called a "fang". Each neighborhood has its own name, and residents of different ranks and occupations live there, just like the "community" today.

The streets between each square are between 40 and 60 meters wide. Just comparing the streets of this community with the current metropolis, they are not lagging behind.

Chang'an deserves the word "magnificent".

The city in front of you is Kyoto, which is the Tang Dynasty, is the political, economic and cultural core of the East Asian continent, gathering celebrities from all over the world and gathering the essence of the world. The two cities in the east and west are well-known in the world, and all the treasures in the world can be found here.

In particular, the West Market is now the first market today. The activity of the commercial port and the abundance of goods are amazing.

Xue Shao and the master and servant of the moon slave walked on foot, and it was noon when they arrived in the West Market, just as they were eating. Ruoda's West Market is divided into "nine grids" by the streets, each of which has a different commercial purpose, there are "gold shops" that sell gold and silver, there are "wine shops" that eat, drink and have fun, and other markets that sell cloth and rice, buy horses and sell knives, snacks and furniture, all of which are readily available. The general trading shops are not too big, quite a bit of the taste of the current wholesale market, except for the stores all the merchants have other businesses and warehouses, if there is a big brown to buy and sell to the business and the warehouse for trading.

Here in the West Market, the most is "Di Dian".

The so-called didian is a place where merchants store goods, conduct transactions, and provide accommodation and food, which has the flavor of an "intermediary exchange". Many intermediaries are active in the middle, looking for buyers or sellers for business travel goods, and extracting the difference in price to make a profit, called "tooth people".

"Moon slave, let's find a residence shop to live in today." Xue Shao said, "When you are young, you go to the activity after dinner, and find a proper tooth man to meet me." ”

"Childe, doesn't he want to do business?" The moon slave couldn't help but be a little stunned.

No matter how enlightened and tolerant Datang is, it is a class society after all, and the hierarchy of "Shinong and Industry and Commerce" is strict. There are clear provisions in the Tang law, "The family of Shilu shall not compete with his subordinates for profit; Industrial and commercial miscellaneous shall not be pre-empted in the army. That is to say, those who are officials with titles are not allowed to do business, and the descendants of merchants cannot participate in the imperial examination and cannot become officials, and they are not even qualified to join the army. Although the social status of the merchants of this dynasty has improved significantly because the Empress Wu was born as a merchant, and the imperial court has been encouraging and promoting the development of commerce, the deep-rooted rules and customs in people's hearts cannot be changed at once.

If the families of nobles and celebrities and eunuchs go to do business, they will be laughed at!

"Nope." Xue Shao smiled slightly, "I want to buy a house!" ”

The famous son of Lantian in the land of wind and moon, but few people know him when he arrives at the shop. This made Xue Shao feel quiet, and it was also an important reason why he went to a "non-flowing" place like Didian to rest. If Lantian Gongzi ran to the wine store and showed up, he would be surrounded by those brothels and hotels. That's a real mess.

The master and servant found a large-scale mansion to live in, and after a simple meal, a tooth man took the initiative to serve. Xue Shao gave the request to buy a house to Yuenu and asked her to go to Zhang Luo.

Most of the people here buy and sell goods, but there are fewer people who trade real estate. Chang'an is a place where every inch of land is expensive, how easy is it to buy a house? Just talking about housing prices, there is a sense of catching up with the imperial capital of the Celestial Empire in the 21st century. Even if someone occasionally wants to sell their house, it is not something that ordinary people dare to ask about and can afford.

"Chang'an rice is expensive, it is not easy to live in a big place", a very famous historical allusion related to Bai Juyi, is to say that Chang'an is expensive.

Therefore, there are not many people here who have housing information. Seven or eight people who went back and forth were all in vain.

Xue Shao was not in a hurry, so he simply took a nap in the small room of the Didian store. Not long after falling asleep, I heard the outdoor moon slave tap on the door and called: "Childe, someone with teeth has come to introduce the house!" ”

Xue Shao rolled over and yawned, and straightened his clothes slightly, "Please let him in." ”

The moon slave pushed the door in, "Please! ”

"Thank you!" A crisp female voice sounded outside the door.

"Woman?" Xue Shao looked at the door with a little surprise, and was looking at a woman.

The woman's skin was as white as polished jade. The willow eyebrows are bent and the eyes are good, and the pretty nose and cherry lips give birth to a standard beauty goose egg face. Whether it is in the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty or the eyes of the 21st century, the woman in front of her can be called an outstanding beauty.

The businessman is accustomed to wearing white clothes, and now she is wearing a pure white round-necked, narrow-sleeved, waist-long bearded men's clothes, unknotted hair, and her hair is simply tied up and tied with a hairpin, which is especially capable and chic, quite a bit of white-collar style in the workplace. It's about the same age as the moon slave.

After the woman entered the room, she flashed a pair of bright big eyes, and glanced at Xue Shao as quickly as a scanner, without too much greetings and politeness, nor did she commit nymphomania, but just smiled and said with a smile, "The little woman Yu Hongye is the shopkeeper of this mansion." Lang Jun seems to be a little faceless, I don't know where it came from, how to call it? ”

Lang Jun is the common name for young men in the spoken language of the Tang Dynasty, which is equivalent to the current "handsome guy". The corresponding female title is "Niang" or "Niangzi". Whether raw or cooked, old or young, women can be called this - when the Empress Wu was serving Emperor Taizong in her early years, he took a small character called "Mei", from which the name of Wu Meiniang came.

"Jingzhao Lantian people's clan, honor." Xue Shao reported his own name, which was also the name of his previous life, and returned the salute, "There is a Lao Yu shopkeeper who has personally received it." ”

"It turned out to be Cheng Lang Jun, fortunately. I don't know why Lang Jun is used in the long-term resettlement house? Momiji smiled neatly and straightforwardly, "It's not that Momiji is interested in inquiring about Lang Jun's privacy. Only by asking about the purpose can you choose a house. ”

Xue Shao smiled slightly, "In this way, Shopkeeper Yu has a lot of properties in his hands?" ”

"Not much. But it just meets Lang Jun's needs. Yu Hongye replied without leaking.

"I bought it to live in idleness." Xue Shao replied, "Don't seek luxury and ostentatiousness, but seek quiet and spacious." ”

"The big hidden in the court, the small hidden in the wild and the hidden in the city, in line with the Confucian golden mean. Lang Jun is so good! Yu Hongye smiled, "Hongye Zhilu said, which house should be introduced to Lang Jun. ”

"Oh, tell me about it?" Xue Shao was aroused a little curiosity.

"It's better to see than to hear. I asked Lang Jun to accompany a certain line, watch it on the spot and then make a conclusion. Yu Hongye called himself "so-and-so" with a manly demeanor, and preemptively bowed his hand, "Lang Jun, please!" ”

Xue Shao smiled, "Okay! Lady, please! ”

Yue Nu looked at the woman a few times, and said in her heart that this young woman saw my son-in-law, and she was neither humble nor arrogant, nor did she change her color, which is rare.

Xue Shao felt that the woman was young but definitely shrewd, and she must have been in the business for a long time. She was not in a hurry to negotiate with me and took me to see the property first, obviously, she was not worried that I could not afford it, nor was she afraid that I would look down on it.

In other words, just a few words of conversation, my Xue's confidence and the way to come, she has already guessed in her heart. Such superb vision and bold and neat action are extraordinary. In addition, women in the Tang Dynasty generally do not take big names, only small names or milk names. Now the Wu family, who is now the queen, has only one nickname "Mei Niang" that Li Shimin helped her, and "Wu Cao" was given to herself after she ascended the throne as the emperor. Yu Hongye, this is obviously her own name to facilitate business.

Yu Hongye arranged two carriages, she and Xue Shao each took one, Yuenu rode a horse, and the group looked at the southeast corner of Chang'an. Out of the West Market across Suzaku Street, walked for a long time, and stopped at Qinglongfang.

Qinglongfang is adjacent to Qujiangfang, Qujiangfang is next to the Chang'an city wall, and then you can go out of Chang'an City, which can already be regarded as a suburb in the southeast corner of Chang'an City.

This area is high and surrounded by hills, surrounded by water, and there is also a paddy field. In the early years, when Emperor Wen of Sui built the capital, he disliked that the terrain here was too high and collided with the dragon qi in the north of the city, so he asked people to dig deep into the Qujiang River to build the Furong Garden. Since then, Qujiang Pond and Furong Garden have become gardens for royal play, and monks and people often come here to play.

Qinglongfang is very close to Qujiang Pond, and you can overlook the imperial palace in the Hibiscus Garden. Qinglongfang and Qujiangfang are a "tourist resort" in Chang'an City, just like the current high-end resorts.

Therefore, although the place is remote, the housing price is bound to be not cheap.

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