This is not the first time Li Xiao has entered Chang'an City.

Every time he entered Chang'an City, Li Xiao was full of emotion in his heart, not because he was lamented by the majesty and glory of Chang'an City, but because he was a little disappointed in Chang'an City.

As far as other places in this era are concerned, Chang'an is indeed very majestic, with a huge capital city with a circumference of dozens of miles, high castles, majestic city towers, and the wide and straight Suzaku Street······

Any person of this era, whether he is a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, or the surrounding Tibetan people, or even Hu Shang who came from the distant Western Regions, will be shocked in front of Chang'an City.

In the whole world, even in the whole world, there is no bigger and more majestic city than Chang'an.

But all this is nothing to shock Li Xiao. In addition to the sense of historical feelings for Chang'an, the capital of the great Tang Dynasty, he was very disappointed when he really saw Chang'an.

The dusty official road goes straight to the city of Chang'an, and the tall city outline is not covered with bricks, but rammed with loess.

The city gate tower is very majestic, but in fact, it is not as good as the antique buildings in the tourist area in later generations.

The soldiers guarding the city gate were not dressed as bright as Li Xiao imagined, on the contrary, many soldiers looked very ordinary, and even a little thin, not all of them were very tall and mighty, and not all of them were wearing bright light armor, ordinary clothes, and even some of the armor was very old, and even had patches.

If he knows more, he will know that in fact, most of these soldiers guarding Chang'an are farmers in their first occupation, and they are government soldiers second. These people were also soldiers and farmers, serving the people in wartime and serving the people in their spare time, serving in the military service for the imperial court, getting rent-free military land, and having to bring their own weapons, clothing, and food.

Speaking of which, these government soldiers are basically the best group of people in this era, the farmers in the Tang Dynasty, there are many brothers in the family, and then they are all very healthy, especially the family is basically a homesteader with some money, otherwise they will not be able to become government soldiers if they do not meet these conditions.

However, the good conditions are only relative to other farmers, and no matter how good the conditions are, limited by the conditions of this medieval farming era, the government soldiers are also very hard.

No matter where in the world, the government soldiers have the task of going to the government to train and take turns to go to Beijing. The road is far away, so he came to Chang'an with dry food and clothes, and took turns guarding this Huanghuang imperial capital.

It is not easy to be in a foreign land. To put it bluntly, this is very similar to the migrant workers who came to the city to work with their luggage in later generations.

Not many of the soldiers are literate, and many of them even speak dialects in various places, and they can't even speak a word of Tang Dynasty official dialect.

Once they came to Chang'an, they went back enough to blow a lifetime to their fellow villagers and children and grandchildren.

The more times he came to Chang'an, the more Li Xiao's feelings for Chang'an gradually disappeared.

Entering Chang'an, it was even more disappointing.

The city of Chang'an City is very large, but in Chang'an City, even now, after the operation of five emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties, sixty or seventy years, but this capital city ordered to be built during the time of Emperor Wen of Sui has not yet been fully built.

Not to mention that there are more than 100 squares in the city and many large squares are empty, that is, there are still many vacant areas in the city outline of Chang'an, and some city outlines are only built with a short section.

The south of Chang'an is even more sparsely populated, and at night, a large area of the square area does not even have a lamp, which is more suburban than the suburbs.

Li Xiao actually doesn't like Chang'an's Lifang planning very much.

Chang'an has a palace city, an imperial city, and an outer city, the palace city is where the emperor and his concubines live, and the imperial city is the office of the prime minister and the major yamen.

Only the outer city was the dwelling place of the people and the market.

But there are more than 100 squares in Chang'an, which are completely closed.

Each square is like a modern closed community. There is a square wall, the square door, as soon as it gets dark, the square door must be closed, usually not allowed to enter and exit, to the drum tower in the morning to sound the drum before opening the square door.

And in this square of streets, there are streets.

However, the streets in Chang'an City are not bustling and lively.

The streets in Chang'an City are really only used for pedestrians, and on both sides of the street, there are square walls. A wall of the workshop is erected high, so that people cannot peek into the workshop at all.

Not to mention that there are shops on both sides of the street, not even a stall is allowed.

All the shops in Chang'an, even the stalls, are concentrated in the markets of the eastern and western cities of Chang'an City. These two markets are also closed markets surrounded by walls.

Suzaku Street is very long and wide, ten miles long, and it is also very wide, but it is a pity that such a wide road is usually not allowed to walk in the middle.

In addition to the six east-west trunk roads in Chang'an, the other streets are basically loess roads. This loess road is dusty when the weather is clear, and it is especially muddy when it rains.

In particular, the population of Chang'an is quite large, there are many people and cars, and the roads are even more muddy.

When the weather is fine, go into the city to eat ashes, and when it rains, you will get muddy water when you enter the city, and after coming a few more times, Li Xiao has nothing special to miss Chang'an.

Li Xiao once asked Da Biao and Zhang Cong what their impression of Chang'an City was, and as a result, these guys lit up every time they mentioned Chang'an.

What city is tall, what is the majesty of the soldiers guarding the gate, what is the majestic street, what Chang'an City is full of people, what is the prosperity and bustle of the two cities······

In this regard, Li Xiao can only say that they are all countrymen who have never seen the world, and Chang'an City is just a big set.

Da Biao even sighed that after entering Chang'an City, his biggest wish in this life is to become a native of Chang'an City, and in the future, he can buy a house in the south of Chang'an, and then rent a shop in the West Market to sell pork.

Li Xiao feels that Chang'an is not as lively as a fifth-tier city in later generations.

The emperor and the prime ministers were still waiting for them under the Zhongshu Gate, Yan Liben did not dare to delay, after seeing the corn, he put Li Xiao's corn and the corn stalk into a box like treasures, and then hung a big lock on the outside, and sent a team of soldiers to protect the carriage.

He was also afraid that Li Xiao would run, and Di Renjie sandwiched his ride between the two of them.

Originally, I thought that I could sit in Yan Changshi's official car, thinking that Yan Liben was also the mayor of the imperial capital, this car must be very advanced, and it would be very comfortable to sit on, without the bumps of eighty miles of road.

They didn't even prepare a good horse for Li Xiao, and Li Xiao had to sit on his own horse. Fortunately, his mount belonged to Cheng Biting Jin's family, and a moon-stepping black horse given by Cheng Bo was not bad.

But riding a horse to Chang'an for eighty miles, Li Xiao was still not very happy. This dirt road is bumpy.