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Liu Braided with his left and right protector Shi Jian and Zhou Cang two buddies came to Chang'an City, this is the first time Liu Braided came to this ancient capital regardless of ancient and modern times, you must know that in later generations, Chang'an is still the provincial capital of Xi'an, is a transportation hub, and its status is much higher than that of Luoyang in later generations;

When Liu Braids and others entered Luoyang, they were requisitioned 5,000 yuan of gold by the guards at the city gate, in fact, this was already a very high entry fee in the Han Dynasty at that time, which would definitely push up the price of Chang'an people to buy goods from other places, and push up the price in a different direction, but Dong Zhuo, who felt that he ruled here, didn't care, as long as he could squeeze enough money from these foreign businessmen to feed his Liangzhou army, Liu Braided didn't care, anyway, the current Chang'an is not his own one-third of an acre, It's good that your economy collapses, Liu Braid doesn't have the kind of compassionate poet's heart; For Liu, the opponent's mistake is his own opportunity; Liu Braid did not forget to give 1,000 money to the doorman guarding the city, and the doorman had not seen such a bold businessman for a few months, so he greeted him with a smile, and let him go after a rough look at the goods on the car, and did not open it to take a closer look;

After entering Chang'an, the scene seen by Liu Braid in Luoyang is completely different, when Liu Braid first arrived in Luoyang, there were no people on the road, and there were less than 10,000 people in the city, and there were only three large households, which were broken and damaged everywhere, like hell on earth; But Chang'an is different, the road is full of people coming and going, bustling, even Luoyang after Liu Braid's governance, the population and various facilities are far from being compared with Chang'an, it is said that Luoyang is the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty for so many years, Chang'an is only set up to control Guanzhong, although it is also built in accordance with the capital, but it is said that it should not be compared with Luoyang, at this time Liu Braided thought that it was still this Dong Zhuo Neng Huohuo, and he could make Luoyang look like that in a few months after arriving in Luoyang, it was said that the demon king of the mixed world really underestimated him; However, corresponding to the liveliness, Shi Lian next to him can also see other things in his eyes, that is, Chang'an is full of beggars, poor people and outcasts who sell their children and daughters with grass on their heads, and many places in Chang'an have begun to implement curfews in the evening, there are almost no pedestrians on the street, and there are patrolling soldiers everywhere, which looks very different from the daytime;

Liu Braided did not rush to find out the location of Jiafu, but took a group of dozens of people to live in a very famous Penglai Inn in Chang'an; Liu Braid's first reaction when he first opened to this inn was Penglai Inn.

Although Liu Braid is dangerous until this trip, but as a modern person, Liu Braid still can't find the feeling that the ancients are walking on thin ice all day long, he still likes the feeling of playing life, in fact, I don't know that this proves that there is no ghost in his heart, the more he hides and hides, the easier it is to be taken by Dong Zhuo's spy in Chang'an City, and that night Liu Braid also wants to have a good meal of authentic Chang'an cuisine at the Penglai Inn, and welcomes Zhou Cang to join by the way; But I learned that many tables were booked out, so I changed my attention, and changed the dinner time to about 9 o'clock in the evening, at this time due to the curfew in the city, so there will be no people in the inn to eat, but it doesn't matter to Liu Braid's party, anyway, I also live in the Penglai Inn, as for you said that the cook got off work or something, in the Han Dynasty this did not exist at all, the cook lived in the worker's room of the inn, you said that the people of the big night do not do, I wipe, our boss Liu scattered out thousands of dollars, and I am afraid that people will not do it;

Because Liu Braid's group of people were eating and drinking at night, the shopkeeper of the inn also had to accompany him, but fortunately, the shopkeeper saw that this businessman from other places was quite refreshing, and he directly rewarded himself with 500 yuan, the shopkeeper is not the boss, but also works for the owner, some extra 500 yuan in tips, naturally there is no complaint, Liu Braids ask him everything is knowing;

"I said shopkeeper, your Chang'an City is big enough."

"Yes, guest officer, don't you know, now our Chang'an City is the most crowded and lively place in the whole world."

"Oh? Is it? How many people are there in Chang'an? ”

"Guest officer, our Chang'an was originally a big city, has been built in accordance with the regulations of the capital, there were originally more than 300,000 people, a few years ago, Liangzhou, Hanzhong successively drought, no harvest, and suddenly poured into Chang'an more than 100,000 displaced people, in the past two years the territory of Sili is rampant bandits, many farmers can not farm, because the planting is not robbed by the soldiers, or robbed by bandits, so there are more than 100,000 displaced people poured into Chang'an, and just this year there is Dong Taishi with the Son of Heaven and civil and military officials and the people of Luoyang, I heard that more than 500,000 people have come to Chang'an, and now there are more than 1 million people in Chang'an, where can you say that there are more people in Chang'an, where can you be more lively than Chang'an?

Liu Braid was also shocked when he heard the words of the shopkeeper, you must know that the scale of a city with 1 million people in the Han Dynasty was already very large, and even when so many people were in a city, it was possible to develop a capital market, even in later generations, it was enough for the population of a prefecture-level city

"Oh, so that's the case, no wonder there are so many beggars and children and daughters along the way," Liu Braided sighed! I thought that Chang'an City might be okay to accommodate 1 million mouthfuls, after all, it is not winter, and many people will not freeze to death because they don't have cotton clothes, but it is estimated that the food is really not enough

Who knew that the boss said:

"Haha, guest officer, you don't know, this is really not caused by too many people, there were many beggars and children on the street in Chang'an a few years ago than now, these people who were brought by Dong Taishi this time are terrible, which family is not the master of the world for half the world, they just take out the money and grain in the hands of the big family is enough for Luoyang to eat for a year, and there is no food to buy from other states and counties, and a lot of merchants are also in Chang'an, so Chang'an will not be short of food at all"

"Oh? Is that really the case? Liu Braids were still curious

"Hehe, what's the benefit of me deceiving the guest officer, not only that, but the accumulated grain that Dong Taishi himself brought back from the Luoyang Mansion Treasury for so many years is enough for the Xiliang Army to eat for a few years."

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he felt unfinished, looked left and right, and said softly with his hand next to his mouth, "Guest officer, don't you know, I heard the grapevine that those eighteen-way princes who fought against Dong Taishi last time may have to form an alliance to crusade against Taishi again, so now Taishi not only has no intention of driving out the displaced people, but has also recently recruited troops on a large scale, guest officer, do you think, if he Dong Taishi has no military salary, will he dare to recruit so many soldiers?" ”

This point has aroused Liu Braid's attention, and he said that the old Dong expanded the army, not to mention the eighteenth road princes, according to his later understanding of the Three Kingdoms, after the dissolution of the eighteenth road princes, they all returned to their respective spheres of influence to develop their own bases, and did not form a second time to fight against Dong Coalition Army, then if this is the case, Dong Zhuo will definitely not be able to raise such a huge army all year round, once he finds that the military food may not be enough, with Dong Zhuo's character, he will definitely not think of disarmament, eighty percent of him will think of expansion, to fight to feed the war, then where do you say he will expand? In the west is Ma Teng and Han Sui, they are all horse thieves and poor people, and they are all cavalry, you Lao Dong is really not a big deal to run away with a baggage, plus Liangzhou itself is not rich, Chang'an is a big mountain, so Dong Zhuo will definitely expand to the east, at that time, no matter whether Dong Zhuo's target is you Luoyang and Liu Braid, you will have to destroy you in that eye-catching position... Liu Braid's own reasoning and analysis, thinking about it, the Han Dynasty is still quite difficult to mix...

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