After Dai Yan arrived in Linzi, the capital of Qi, the residence arranged for him by the King of Qi was the residence of a Qi official who had been convicted, and he could be regarded as settling down in this Qi country. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And when he met the king of Qi, he also made a special trip to thank the prince Tian Bijiang, and after the life of Qi began to stabilize, he couldn't wait to start wanting to visit this city where he would live in the future - Linzi, the largest city in the world.

Since Jiang Taigong was enthroned, the State of Qi has always been a prosperous country in the east of the world. This land has been developed by the Jiang family for hundreds of years, and then the Tian family replaced the Jiang family, and the development is extremely prosperous.

This can be seen from Linzi, the capital of Qi State.

The city of Linzi is different from the capitals of all the big countries in the world, and the city is now a pattern of "big cities biting small cities". The big city of Linzi was built by Jiang Taigong when he was feudal and is now basically inhabited by civilians; The small city of Linzi was built by the father of the current King of Qi, and was mainly the residence of the monarch and the dignitaries of the Qi State.

The big city of Linzi is roughly a rectangular structure, with a length of about 4.5 kilometers and a width of about 3.5 kilometers. Not counting the small city of Linzi, the big city of Linzi alone is nearly half larger than Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

Suiyang, the capital of the Song Kingdom, was built in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Song State was the highest-ranking principality among the princes, and at the beginning of the feudal state, Suiyang was particularly large in the capital of the vassal states. After hundreds of years of development in the Song Kingdom, Suiyang is also a famous capital in today's world.

However, compared with Linzi, it is still inferior.

This is actually related to the situation when the Qi State was closed.

Jiang Taigong sealed the land of Dongyi, and did not adopt the strategy of changing customs like the Lu State, but followed the customs of all ethnic groups in Dongyi, simplified etiquette, opened up the industrial and commercial industry, and benefited from fish and salt. In terms of statecraft, Taigong did not pay attention to "relatives and respect" like the princes who adopted the surname Ji, and ruled by blood relationship. Instead, it adopts the strategy of respecting the virtuous and meritocracy, and meritocracy. Therefore, the Dongyi tribes soon annexed to the Qi state.

And when the State of Qi was sealed at the beginning of Jiang Taigong, the Duke of Zhou had not yet made ceremonial music. The Son of Heaven also did not have restrictions on the capitals of the vassal states, which gave the Qi people a great advantage when planning and building Linzi City.

The great city of Linzi was built at that time. Because there were no restrictions, and Taigong was very far-sighted, he foresaw that Linzi would definitely become the central city of the East in the future, so he reserved a large enough place for the capital of the Qi State, and the area of the Linzi city was even larger than the eastern capital Luoyi built by the Duke of Zhou for the Zhou Dynasty.

Later, after the Zhou rites were gradually completed, the Son of Heaven had restrictions on the national capitals of the vassal states, and even if the princes had ambitions and wanted to build larger capitals, with the restrictions of the rites and laws, it was impossible for larger cities to appear. Therefore, the kingdoms of the later vassal states cannot be compared with Linzi.

That is, in recent years, after entering the Warring States Period, Zhou Tianzi's authority has been declining day by day, and powerful countries like Wei, Zhao, and Qin have also emerged. The new capitals planned by these powers, such as Daliang, Handan, and Xianyang, can be regarded as exceeding the scale of the original vassal capitals.

However, the history of the rise of these cities is too short, and the scale of the city is still far from being compared with Linzi, the largest city in the world that has developed for hundreds of years.

In addition to the advantages of Qi people in planning, Linzi's ability to develop to its current scale is also related to the superior geographical conditions around it. Linzi is bordered by the Zi River in the east, the water in the west, its east, west and north are vast and fertile plains, and its south is Niushan, Jishan and other mountains.

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this terrain was able to resist the invasion of Dongyi from the southeast. At the same time, because there are enough plains, there can be enough agricultural areas to provide resources for it, which provides the basis for the development of the city of Linzi to the scale it is now.

After so many years of development, now the entire Shandong Peninsula is either directly ruled by the Qi State, or depends on the Qi State like the Zou State and the Lu State to exist. Linzi City has thus become the absolute center of the entire Shandong Peninsula! The resources of the entire peninsula are concentrated here, which is why the city has flourished.

Dai Yan walked on the streets of Linzi and found that the Linzi City written in the history books was "connected into curtains; Raise the curtain into a curtain; The scene of "sweating into rain" is really not the imagination of historians, but a real picture!

In the big city of Linzi, there are seven large main roads. The width of this main road is estimated to be more than 10 meters at the earliest, and the widest can be more than 20 meters!

With such a wide street, most of the streets are pedestrians, but you can often see congestion!

Later generations estimated that there were 70,000 households and more than 500,000 mouths in Linzi City. In the eyes of people like Dai Yan, this situation is basically true.

In a predominantly agrarian society, a city with a population of 500,000 is definitely a megacity!

And now this population is the source of soldiers, and the source of soldiers means the strength of the Warring States era. Not counting the rest of the Qi country, just from Linzi City, if each household only draws out one ding, it can draw out 70,000 troops!

And the entire Song State mobilized the whole country, and the troops that could be mobilized were only about 80,000!

For the first time, Dai Yan saw how powerful the national strength of Qi was.

And the power of the city of Linzi is not only in such a huge scale.

Many of the details are also very well done, and in some places it is comparable to modern cities, the most notable of which is the sewer system in Linzi.

In modern society, sewers are known as the conscience of the city. The sewer carries the dirt of the whole city, and in normal times people do not notice it, but when it rains, it is time to test the conscience.

When Dai Yan came out to visit Linzi, it happened to rain heavily two days ago. And he walked on the streets of Linzi, the road surface was still a little wet, but there was almost no stagnant water in such a large city.

If such a scene is placed in Fengyi, after heavy rain, the streets on the side of the road will definitely be so slippery that it is impossible to walk. And the stagnant water in some places will never dry up without waiting for seven or eight days.

For example, most of the cities today are in the same condition as Fengyi, and these towns are usually in this situation when it rains. It is no wonder that when countries are attacking cities and plundering land, some people think of flooding cities with water as a weapon.

However, if the water attack is used in Linzi, such a siege method will not work at all, and the powerful sewer system can drain all the water poured in!

Dai Yan walked in the big city of Linzi, and he didn't let go of the big and small places in Linzi, and the more comprehensive he understood Linzi City, the more shocked his heart was.

The city is home to a thriving handicraft industry. Dai Yan walked around the handicraft area of the city at random, and saw that in the city, the large-scale handicraft industries include metallurgy, textile, car making, pottery, lacquerware manufacturing, mirror casting, coinage, etc. And more small handicrafts, such as alchemy, pharmaceuticals, rouge making and other small-scale handicrafts are too many to count.

However, fortunately, although the city's handicraft industry is developed, Tian Qiguo's use of handicrafts is not very high.

For these handicraft industries, except for a few industries such as metallurgy and coinage, most of the other industries implemented a laissez-faire attitude. Although the government is also encouraging the development of other industries, the only reason for the government to encourage them is to be able to collect more taxes.

This is the most prosperous city in the world, the most industrially and commercially developed country, the view of handicrafts is the same, and the use of handicrafts is so inefficient. It is no wonder that Shang Ying's reform of the law in the Qin State only encouraged farming and warfare, and suppressed all other industries. I guess I think that the handicraft industry is not beneficial to the strength of the country.

In addition to the development of handicrafts, Linzi's commerce and "service industry" are also extremely developed.

The development of these two industries today depends mostly on the famous ministers of Jiang Qi's period. During the reign of Duke Huan of Qi, Guan Zhong carried out extensive reforms in the Qi State, among which the greatest impact on commerce was the "official mountains and seas" and the opening of "official prostitutes".

Guanshanhai, that is, the government monopolizes the sale of salt. And the Tian clan was able to replace the Qi State, largely because of the huge wealth accumulated by the Tian clan in a large number of smuggled and smuggled salt. With great wealth, the Tian clan was able to implement the policy of "buying people's hearts" in the Qi state, and eventually replaced the Jiang clan.

As for opening official prostitutes, it is mainly the "investment promotion" policy implemented by Guan Zhong.

In order to make all the merchants from all over the world willing to come to the Qi country, Guan Zhong implemented a policy of preferential treatment for merchants. For businessmen who came to the Qi Kingdom, the government provided accommodation free of charge. For merchants of different specifications, he gave different treatments: the first passenger has food, the third passenger has the slaughter, and the fifth passenger has Wu Yang. The opening of official prostitutes was actually a measure to attract businessmen.

Opening official prostitutes, in Guan Zhong's view, can not only get a huge amount of income, but also make the world's businessmen willing to come to Qi, which can also make Qi's economy more prosperous.

Such a double win, of course, Guan Zhong will not refuse.

What, you said that the reputation of the official prostitute is very bad? For Guan Zhong, the originator of the Legalist family, what is fame, can you eat it? For Guan Zhong, as long as he can improve the strength of the country, he will unswervingly implement it!

In later generations, Dongguan in the south is also famous for this industry. Newspaper news broke the news many times, and in the end, it couldn't eliminate this industry, why not? Local officials have found that there is an industry, and they have an extra level of filial piety, and the local GDP has grown exponentially with the boom of the industry.

Why should they refuse this kind of good deed, which is not only conducive to their own interests, but also conducive to their political performance?

As for reputation, let's throw it into the trash when compared to interests and achievements.