When Shangde brought Su You a horse and heard that he couldn't ride, he was speechless for a while.

If Shang De knew that Su You's "Six Arts of Gentlemen" would actually only be the most basic "books" and "numbers", I don't know how many times he would roll his eyes and vomit a few liters of blood. Fortunately, Su You has a lot of meat and thick skin, so he consciously continued to nest in the carriage of Qingxing and Shisu, and continued to bump forward on the official road to Chang'an.

This section of the road is obviously a rare highway, and the wide bluestone pavement can arrange five or six horse-drawn carriages at the same time. The earliest highways appeared around the Qin Dynasty, while the national highways appeared even earlier. As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the princely capitals built neat trunk roads to communicate with each other. The section of Luoyang is the most straight, which is described by the "Book of Songs" as "Zhou Dao is like a stone, and its straight is like an arrow", on both sides of the national highway, elk parades, flying all over the field.

Mr. Lu Xun once described Confucius's travels around the world as follows: "At that time, the white flour of Citi had not yet been imported, and the ground wheat flour contained mostly gray sand, so the weight was heavier than today's noodles; The national highway has not yet been built, and the mud road is very uneven, bumpy and bumpy, and the stomach is enlarged by the heavy flour, and the digestion is reduced", so Confucius got "stomach expansion".

There are two points in Lu Xun's argument that are worth discussing: one is that Confucius ate noodles. At that time, the most popular staple food in the north was millet, and the scholars' food and military rations were all millet, and after the Han Dynasty, there were more people who ate noodles. The second is that there were no "national highways" at that time, but in fact there were, and there were many of them. There are direct avenues between the princes and powers, which began to be built from the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty. The road surface has been manually tamped, and the army will often have 3,500 military vehicles walking from here, which shows that the scale and quality of the road will not be bad. The maintenance and repair of national highways is also one of the special functions of the government, and there are also customs gates on the roads to collect customs duties from merchants.

When the army comes, there is a post station every 30 miles on the side of the road at a fixed distance for the soldiers to cling to and rest in the open. There are also special carriages running on the national highways, but they are only prepared for the public family, and they use it when they are on business trips. When Confucius traveled, his identity was a flat-headed commoner, so he could not take a special car. Of course, Confucius had money and his own private car to sit in, so no one could control him. In short, this road and auxiliary facilities are quite complete enough to be called a national highway. Lu Xun didn't have to worry too much about Confucius's stomach being upside down!

The car is craggy, Ma Xiaoxiao, but in half a day, the tall and majestic outline of Chang'an City is already in front of him, and for the first time he saw the original appearance of the ancient imperial capital, Su You couldn't help but be infected by the majestic atmosphere that it condensed. Although I have been to the Forbidden City, how can there be such an atmosphere of deterrence and slaughter in the world within the palace walls?

Chang'an is located on the south bank of the Wei River in the Guanzhong Plain, which is known as the "Eight Hundred Miles of Qinchuan", and was built here by the Zhou, Qin, Han, Western Jin, Qianzhao, Qianqin, Houqin, Western Wei and Northern Zhou. The south of the city is the Zhongnan Mountain in the middle section of the Qinling Mountains, the mountains are stacked on top of each other, steep and steep, become the natural barrier of the south, and there is the majestic momentum of "the heavy mountains and the water are overlooked, and the blue mountains are inserted into the distant sky". In the north, there are Yaoshan Mountain, Huanglong Mountain, Saga Mountain, Liangshan Mountain, etc., which constitute the continuous Beishan mountain system, which is far away from the Qinling Mountains.

On the large fertile plains drawn out of these mountain boundaries, Chang'an City is strong, and the waters of Wei, Jing, Feng, Waterlogging, Ripple, Zhu, Chan, and Ba are like a string of beads that sparkle and flicker, forming a situation of "eight rivers around Chang'an". These rivers are like bloodlines, which not only provide abundant water for Chang'an City, but also make the capital vibrant.

When Yang Er and his entourage came to the Chunming Gate in the east of Chang'an City, passers-by could not tell from the clothes that this group was actually a royal child, and they were also members of the prince's family. Because under Yang Er's deliberateness, both himself and the soldiers changed into the most simple clothes, and even a few patches were put on the new clothes. Well, this is the tradition of the Yang family, although it is not "a pair of socks for three years of new and old three years of sewing and mending for another three years", but Yang Er has an imperial grandfather who loves to wear coarse cloth clothes, and a prince father who is diligent and thrifty in order to please the imperial grandfather, of course, he has to press the silk satin to the bottom of the box according to the tradition; Although this is inevitably a regret of "brocade night walking", Yang Er knows that this is only temporary.

The one guarding the door was actually Yang Er's old acquaintance, and the two of them hugged their fists and shook their chests, and Su You didn't have to think much to know that this was the disciple of the gate valve; Yang Er chatted with the man for a while and knew that martial law had been imposed in Daxing City. Even if Yang Er entered the city gate without inspection, he still lined up in an orderly manner. In the queue, Yang Zhao's carriage and horse also followed, and when the two convoys entered Chang'an City, the edict of dominating the world was transmitted at the same time.

Obviously, this Jiazi year, the last year of Emperor Wen Yang Jian, the fourth day of June, is not a peaceful day. On this day, Su You really came to this new but old world, and he was just a familiar stranger.

The main axis of Chang'an City is a north-south Vermilion Bird Street, the south gate of the imperial city is the Vermilion Bird Gate, and the Vermilion Bird Street is between the Suzaku Gate and the Mingde Gate of the South City of Chang'an City. But Su You's first entry into Chang'an City was like Lin Daiyu's entry into Beijing, from east to west, when he arrived at the center of the city, he then folded along the eastern imperial city roots to the north, and after entering with the Ximen from the east gate of the imperial city, he could reach the East Palace.

Su You came from the east, passed through Daozhengli, and then arrived at Dongshi, but he didn't care about the Daxingshan Temple, which occupies an area of almost one mile. In the Sui Dynasty, there was no "Goolan Washe" in the Song Dynasty, and there was no real citizen class in the city, so both the east and west markets belonged to the urban commercial center supervised by the government and belonged to the CBD of Chang'an City.

The market is fixed and timed, starting after noon and closing before sunset; At the beginning or at the end, someone sounded the whip as a trumpet, just as an official went up and down; There are administrators who come and go in the market, all with whips hanging from their waists, just like the urban management of Su You's original world, such a street market style originated from the Zhou Dynasty, and for more than a thousand years, it has never deviated from its origins.

Confucius once said: "Wealth can be sought, although the whip is a man, I will also do it; Wealth is not to be sought, from what I want. This "whip bearer" was the original chengguan, and at that time Confucius knew the oil and water of the chengguan and was ready to devote himself to it.

Along the way, in the summer heat, the guards in Daxing City were lazy, but the pedestrians on the street were still bustling, for profit and profit; The peddlers, pawns, and businessmen can't get rid of this busyness. In terms of speed, these people in front of them seem to be walking compared to the hurried flow of people on Xidan Road in Beijing or Chunxi Road in Chengdu in later generations, but this kind of leisure under the sun gives Su You, a person from another world, a funny impression.

The color of the streets is naturally mainly earthy yellow, and the soldiers on patrol and the officials who went down to the court are all yellow, while the common people are mainly gray. Su You's eyes were like seeing a black-and-white movie, and it was like returning to the first thirty years after liberation. According to the end of the five elements, the Sui Dynasty conformed to the fire virtue, and in addition to the emperor wearing a yellow robe, the officials at the court meeting were mainly red; But the daily clothes are mainly yellow, and the emperor is different from others, except that he has a thirteen-ring gold buckle. - Of course, this is determined by the etiquette system, in fact, whether it is Yang Jian or Yang Guang, they are tied with iron buckles.

Looking at the carriage and horses in front of him turning north, Su You thought that this Chang'an City was not big, and for a while he thought of the "Yang Gong Treasure House" in "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", so he asked Qingjing next to him, "That bridge just now is the Prancing Horse Bridge?" ”

"No, the bridge is in the west of Chang'an City, not far from the West Market, because both sides of the bridge belong to the rich merchants and nobles to live, also known as the Fugui Bridge. The Yong'an Canal connects to the Wei River in the north of the city, supplying half of the water in Chang'an City, and is the main road for water transportation, and this Prancing Horse Bridge is the most spectacular stone bridge in Chang'an. So if you don't get to the Prancing Horse Bridge, you can't get Chang'an City! ”

"Haha. Looks like you're going to make a special trip here tomorrow? Su You said and jumped out of the carriage, but in this prosperous place, the speed of the car can't be fast, and it can't be slow; Chang'an City is not allowed to run on horseback, except for urgent military affairs. Therefore, although Chang'an is not big, "seeing all the Chang'an flowers in one day" is pure nonsense.

It is said that the Prancing Horse Bridge is a stone arch bridge, but it is a pity that the idea of the official position cannot make people know from the inscription or the official publication that the designer is Li Chun, who left the Zhaozhou Bridge.

Obviously, the Yuema Bridge is larger than the Zhaozhou Bridge in terms of scale and function, and Su You has not yet arrived at the Yuema Bridge, but he first remembered Yang Gong's treasure house and Yang Su.

What kind of person is he?