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Early the next morning, after asking the emperor Li Tan to put back the richly decorated and extremely conspicuous horse cart at a glance, Mingyue picked an extremely ordinary two-horse single-wheel car in the garage, the paint on it was already a little old, and the wheels were still strong and intact because they had just been renovated.

But he was satisfied: "That's it." ”

When they were driving out of the car under the protection of the five rangers, Shu Qi, who was dressed in a strong suit, happened to return from outside the city on horseback, and shouted from afar: "Chang'anjun!" I'm coming! ”

Mingyue beckoned him over, "Why are you alone?" What about brackets? ”

Shu Qi smiled bitterly: "Kuozi is reluctant to enter the city, saying that he wants to stay with the soldiers and share weal and woe." ”

This is a bit unexpected by Mingyue, you know, along the way, it was Zhao Kuo who shouted all day long to see the grand scenery of Linzi. This son of Ma Fujun, who has never been out of Handan a hundred miles away since he was a child, is very curious, and he likes flying eagles and dogs by nature, and he has long heard from Pingyuan Jun that there are many interesting things in Linzi City, and he is full of longing for the end of this journey.

But when they arrived in Linzi, because Kuang Liang, the gate official of Qi State, refused to allow the 100 Zhao soldiers to enter the city on the grounds of Qi law, Mingyue had to place them in a temporary barracks in the south of the city. Zhao Kuo was conscious, and he didn't rest in the Proton Mansion, and as soon as he rolled the cover, he went out of the city to eat and live with the soldiers.

Early this morning, when Mingyue asked him and Shu Qi to come into the city and go shopping in Linzi City together, Zhao Kuo still refused.

"It's really impressive to be treated by Shibei for three days."

Mingyue sighed with emotion, on the bank of the Zhangshui River, he took Wu Qi as an example, and after mentioning Zhao Kuo once, this guy was like tofu that was opened by brine, and he began to impress.

Although this is the consciousness that a general should have, it is particularly rare to put it on Zhao Kuo.

In history, on the eve of the Battle of Changping, Zhao Kuo was notoriously arrogant and arrogant, got rewarded, bought fields and houses everywhere, and didn't know how to share hardships with the soldiers, so Lin Xiangru and his mother agreed that Zhao Kuo could not be a general. It wasn't until Changping fell into siege that he suddenly woke up, worked and died with his soldiers, condensed the morale, and kept the Zhao army starving for 46 days without collapse......

This shows that he is indeed a person who knows his mistakes and can change them, but unfortunately it is too late...... This time is different, under the training of Chang Anjun, if you can turn that kind of hindsight into the current prophetic awareness, Zhao Kuo's future may not be destined......

Thinking so, Mingyue didn't force Zhao Kuo to come with her, so she let the guide lead the way. The reason why I want to go to Linzi City today is because of Pingyuanjun's words yesterday.

Pingyuan Jun said that near Nulu in the north of Linzi City, there is a sorcerer's Danfang, which is also steaming flower dew and dansha with similar utensils......

This couldn't help but arouse Mingyue's curiosity, considering that later archaeologists did find a bronze still used for alchemy and mercury steaming in the tomb of the Marquis of Hailu in the Western Han Dynasty, which caused a sensation. Push forward a hundred years, and it is very likely that the warlocks of the Warring States period have mastered this craft. If there is a ready-made style of distilling utensils, he can make the utensils for steaming wine, and he will get twice the result with half the effort.

Coupled with the fact that he had planned to visit the Warlock in Linzi, this was the time to make this trip.

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Linzi City is adjacent to the Zi River in the east, adjacent to the water in the west, the mountains and rivers are adjacent, and the rivers are staggered, which has both the rao of mountains and rocks and forests, and the benefits of fertile soil and Jiahe.

Its urban structure is similar to that of Handan, with the Qi Palace located in the southwest corner of Linzi and Guocheng in the northeast. This Guocheng is rectangular, nine miles long from north to south, eight miles wide from east to west, the middle part is the residence of the princes, the south is mainly the workshop area, and the east and north are the city districts.

Mingyue and his party were about to set off from the Proton Mansion at the foot of the palace and go all the way north, and the soldiers of Qi guarding outside did not stop them, after all, Chang'anjun was a "guest" of Qi State, not a prisoner.

This is also the first time that Mingyue has been able to put aside those annoying Qi nobles in the past few days when she has come to Linzi, and she can observe the city in the open carriage without distraction.

If you say what Linzi's first impression of Mingyue is, one is that it is planned in an orderly manner, and the other is that there are many people......

As far as the eye can see, the black-tiled dwellings form a line that stretches to both sides, crowded under the city walls, and in addition to that, there are bustling crowds walking along every street.

This situation reminded Mingyue of the text "Yan Zi Makes Chu" that she learned in middle school.

"Qi Zhi Linzi 300 Lu, Zhang Yuan into Yin, sweating into rain, shoulder to shoulder in the ......"

It turns out that Yan Ying's words are not an exaggeration, and the crowd that is getting denser and denser can indeed become yin and sweat into rain. Among them, there were nobles with horses and carts, merchants from various countries with elegant clothes, and commoners with vulgar clothes.

Although the flow of people mainly walked on both sides of the road, there were also a lot of cars and horses on the road, and the speed slowed down, and Shu Qi had to move closer to the carriage to avoid the oncoming vehicles, and he couldn't help complaining: "Why are there so many people in this Qi country?" ”

Mingyue said with a smile: "When the Qi State was first sealed, the population was very small, after all, this is the land of salt and brine on the seaside, thanks to the Taigong Wang's rule of customs, and the Dongyi people are kind, and they are persuaded to weave women's skills, extremely technical skills, and the benefits of fish and salt." So all the people from near and far came to him, like strings of money, and they gathered here like the spokes of a chariot. So the Qi country was crowned with clothes and shoes all over the world, and the princes between Haidai had to rely on the Qi country and worshipped one after another. ”

"Childe knows so much!"

Shu Qi had a hint of admiration in his eyes, although he was the same age as himself, Chang Anjun knew everything. He didn't know that these Linzi past events were inquired about by Chang Anjun from Gongsun Long, and after teaching Gongsun Long so many logical symbols, Mingyue was not for nothing.

He continued: "Later, the state of Qi was in decline for a time, but Guan Zhong re-established the cause of Taigongwang, set up nine mansions, and specialized in managing wealth and goods, so that Duke Huan of Qi was able to dominate, the princes of Jiuhe, and the world. Since then, the country of Qi has flourished, and its status as a great power has been laid. ”

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, there were no less than 100,000 people in Linzi in the Yanzi era, and now after two hundred years of operation by the Tian family, the population is even more inflated like a balloon. Thirty years ago, in the heyday, there were 70,000 households and 400,000 people living in Linzi City!

After the chaos of the Yan occupation, the number of Hukou in Linzi has been greatly reduced, but now there are 50,000 households, 300,000 people, twice the Hukou of Handan, more than Xianyang, Luoyang, Daliang, Xinzheng These cities are more, and it is not too much to be called the largest city in the world.

Not to mention, in the Han Dynasty, Linzi once reached 100,000 households, with a population of more than 500,000, known as "the city rents thousands of gold, the people are rich, and it is bigger than Chang'an"!

But to Mingyue's surprise, although Linzi has a large population, the market and streets are much cleaner than Handan.

The streets are also tamped loess roads, but because there are too many cars and people, they have been stiff and hard to step on for hundreds of years, and they will not be muddy on rainy days. What's more, Linzi already has a very complete sewage system, because the terrain is high in the east and low in the west, in order to meet the "sufficient water" and "ditch prevention province", as early as the time of Guan Zhong, the canal was manually excavated to drain and prevent waterlogging.

In the bright moon, they passed through a north-south trunk canal that ran through the whole city, with willows and flowers blooming all over the embankment. In addition, the ditch also extends countless pottery pipes or culverts to communicate with the market to solve the problems of water supply, flood discharge and sewage discharge. Mingyue was even surprised to see that in some places, there were even sewers made of bluestone and bricks......

In this way, the huge amount of sewage produced by the city every day is collected and discharged into the rivers outside the city, and finally into the sea. So in general, Linzi is even cleaner than Handan.

But the population of this city is obviously twice as large as that of Handan!

Thinking like this, Mingyue couldn't help but admire the scholars and craftsmen who presided over the construction of Linzi.

The sewer is the conscience of a city, and all the vile and ugly things in a civilized society will be thrown into the sewer once they are no longer needed. From the details of these ditch plans alone, he can indeed see a kind of civilizational tension in them.

"This time Lin Zi is indeed not in vain, although most of the nobles of the Qi State are drunk and dreaming of death, which is insignificant, but I can also learn a lot from here, especially the Guan Zhong school, which is called the 'Qi Fa family'. According to Gongsun Long, it is this group of people who have planned and managed Linzi in an orderly manner, and it is worth my visit to Jixia. ”

Thinking like this, they have entered the more prosperous areas in the north of the city, "Zhuang Street" and "Yue City".

Mingyue said to Shu Qi: "It's nothing, according to Mr. Gongsun Long, the most prosperous area in Linzi is between Zhuangyue......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a loud drum beat!

"Knock knock!"

The drums beat one after another, continuously, coming from the city of Zhuangyue in front of them. The aristocrats, merchants, laborers, peasants and peasant women who were crowded on the street raised their heads to listen, and couldn't help but speed up their pace and rushed there......

Shu Qi and the five rangers were extremely vigilant, guarding Chang'anjun's car and preventing those swarming passers-by from colliding with Gongzi......

In the face of this sudden crowd, Mingyue was also a little surprised, looking at this posture, if she was not careful, it would cause a trample.

"What's going on?" He asked aloud the Qi people guide sent to him by the Plains King.

The guide was accustomed to it, turned his head in front, and said with a smile: "Chang'anjun, you came out today to coincide with the market day." Every time the market is open between this Zhuang Yue, it will be full of 300 drums! ”