The group continued to move north with the captured heads and prisoners, and Zeng Hualong also showed his head from the car and smiled at Li Long: "It's finally coming." ”

Li Long was also quite excited in his heart, he was no stranger to modern Beijing, the city of Beijing in later generations was the capital of the republic, and what Beijing was like more than 360 years ago, Li Long was also a little eager to take a look.

The general layout of the inner city of Beijing in later generations actually began to take shape in the Ming Dynasty. During this period, Beijing was divided into three circles: the inner city, the imperial city, and the Forbidden City. The maximum circumference is 45 li, and in the Jiajing period, due to the expansion of population, a circle of outer city was built in the south of Beijing from Dongbianmen to Ximenmen, with a circumference of 28 li. It covers an area of nearly 100 square kilometers. At its peak, the population of the suburbs exceeded one million. In this era, it is not only the largest city in China, but also the largest city in the world at this time.

There were almost 1,000 people in their group plus the captives of the bandits, so naturally they could not all be brought into the city of Beijing, so the men and horses found a vacant land in the eastern and western suburbs of Beijing, set up camp, and left the large group of men and horses and all the captives they brought outside the city. Li Long, Zeng Hualong, General Hu Shen, and Zeng Yingying entered Beijing.

They entered the city from the Guangqu Gate in the southeast of the outer city, passed through the thick blue-gray city wall, entered the outer city of Beijing, and then entered the inner city of Beijing through the Chongwen Gate.

Li Long is even more like in the movie, like a dream. And try his best to overlap the scene in front of him with the memory of the future life, looking for a feeling that is both familiar and unfamiliar.

The street pattern of Beijing's inner and outer cities is the same as that of later generations, which is basically horizontal and vertical, square, well-behaved, and dense with streets and alleys. Moreover, the streets leading to the gates are the main roads of the city. The road is quite wide, and five or six horse-drawn carriages can be carried side by side. And like later generations, these streets leading to the various city gates are also named after the city gates. Such as Chongwenmen Street, Xuanwumen Street, Andingmen Street, Deshengmen Street and so on. The residential area in the city is commensurate with the square, and the square is called the shop, and there are a total of 33 squares and more than 700 shops in the whole city of Beijing.

Even if it is in the outer city, the prosperous scene of Jingshi seems to be in sight, they are all on the avenue, and on both sides are dense shops, restaurants, the sound of buying and selling, and the sound of silk and bamboo wind music are endless. Carriages and horses shuttle back and forth on the avenue, endlessly, countless well-dressed wealthy and powerful merchants, rich nobles, with beauty and beauty, under the support of the family slave guards, in and out of various shops and restaurants, and the things they wear are all luxurious and extravagant. It's bustling and dizzying

However, for Li Long, who has seen the bustling and lively commercial scene of the 21st century, such a scene can only be regarded as very lively, and what he cares about is the other side of the city, which is extremely incommensurate with this prosperous scene, on both sides of the street, under the eaves on both sides, you can see everywhere the homeless and begging beggars who pull their children and drag their daughters to beg for food, holding broken empty bowls, and begging for help. And he was constantly driven away and beaten by the owner of the storefront and the house slave house led by the powerful businessman.

Occasionally, some shops would give away a little leftovers, which also caused them to scramble. Even at the bottom of a restaurant, Li Long saw a person who looked like an official eunuch sitting upstairs by the window, throwing down a few meat and bones, and then watching a few hungry people downstairs and two dogs fighting together, and laughed heartily.

And although the pavement of the main street is still clean and flat, the pavement of the alley street is already collapsed and potholes, and the corners of the wall are full of dust, garbage and feces, as well as the corpses of pets such as cats and dogs, and the ditches on the side of the road are also full of dirt, blocking the ditch tightly, and it is conceivable that once it encounters heavy rain, it will inevitably be cross-flowing, muddy and difficult to walk. As a result, all kinds of plague diseases were infected.

At this time, although Beijing still has a bit of grandeur and grandeur on the surface, but in Li Long's eyes, he has already seen the decadence and weakness of the last days. Therefore, less than two years later, Li Zicheng was able to easily fight in Beijing, ending the Ming Dynasty's rule over China for nearly 300 years, and it was by no means accidental.

It was now more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still shining, and after a while, it was covered by clouds, and it flickered, and the dark clouds in the sky were hanging low and rolling, constantly expanding, and it seemed as if heavy rain was coming.

Zeng Hualong said: "Li Long, it looks like the sky is about to change, let's move faster and settle down at the pavilion first." It's not a day since we were in Beijing, and there will be opportunities to see these scenes in the future. ”

Li Long also nodded, and said to the others: "Don't look at it yet, hurry up, and go to the pavilion first." Otherwise, it will rain. ”

The group quickened their journey, entered the inner city, and came to the post house, when the sun was completely obscured by dark clouds, and the sky was dark, as if it were dusk.

After everyone divided the room, they were all cleaning up their luggage, Zeng Hualong said to Li Long: "I will send someone to the Ministry of Officials to inform us that we have come to Beijing with the scriptures, and today it is not too early to enter the scriptures, I am afraid that we will not officially enter the meeting, we will have a good rest in the post house first, and wait until tomorrow to officially go to the Ministry of Officials to report, and see when the cabinet is free to interrogate." ”

Li Long said: "Everything is under the orders of the adults. ”

Zeng Hualong nodded, and said: "You are all going to Beijing for the first time, if you have nothing to do, you can also go out for a walk, travel and travel, but remember that Beijing is a big place, there are many powerful people, and there are many disputes about right and wrong, which is not as good as Shandong, so bear with everything and don't make trouble." ”

Li Long nodded and said, "My lord, please rest assured, I will definitely restrain my subordinates and not let them get into trouble." ”

Zeng Hualong also nodded and took his family to his residence to rest. Li Long also came to his room, and saw Zeng Yingying supporting the bedding on the bed, and couldn't help but say: "It's still early to go to bed, it's a day's journey, let's rest first." ”

Zeng Yingying smiled and said, "I'm not tired, let's lay it first,

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