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Looking at the tall and almost endless city walls of Luoyang, Liu Bei, Sun Jian and Li Zhuo were so shocked that they were almost speechless.

In fact, don't say it's them, even Li Shushi, who has always boasted that he once lived in the steel forest, has a shocking feeling in the face of the tall Luoyang city wall at this moment. Just as every person who sees the Great Wall will be amazed by its massive masonry walls and vast and complex movements, it is very difficult for humans to complete this project today, let alone in an era when modern machines and transportation conditions are lacking. Not to mention that humans have not yet studied how to construct pyramids.

The city gate in front of you is the Kaiyang Gate in the south of Luoyang, which is about 15 meters wide, and is a special passage for officials at the level of three princes and nine secretaries like Zhu Jun to enter and exit Luoyang. The city gate hole in the middle of the towering blue-gray city wall is like a bloody mouth, constantly devouring the people who come and go in and out of Luoyang City.

Of course, this is not the widest gate in the entire Luoyang City. On the west side of the Kaiyang Gate, the width of the Pingcheng Gate, which was specially used for the emperor's sacrificial travel, reached 20 meters. This distance is almost a two-way six-lane highway even in modern times, and the width of the Kaiyang Gate where Li Shushi will pass through Guò is also a two-way four-lane road.

However, if you want to set foot in this "bloody mouth", you must first pass through a wide moat in front of the Guò gate. The width of the moat is about 50 meters, and the only way to cross this almost heavenly moat is the suspension bridge in front of the city gate.

In times of war, as long as the drawbridge in front of the city gate was collected, I am afraid that it would take more than 1,000 square meters of earth and stones just to fill in a dirt and stone road that would allow siege equipment and enough guards to pass through the moat. Not to mention that when filling in the earth, soldiers are usually unable to make effective evasive actions and use protective equipment to effectively protect themselves, and the moat is definitely an important part of defending the city.

And this qiē in front of you is only the tip of the iceberg of the entire Luoyang City defense system, not to mention other such as the corner tower, the gate tower, the arrow tower, the main building, the female wall, the battlement, the urn city and a series of defense facilities can be said to be everything, just to say that the Luoyang city wall is a breathtaking masterpiece, which makes people sigh the wisdom of the ancient working people.

But it turned out that the city walls of Luoyang City were not quite the same as the city walls of Changshe City and Chen Liucheng that Li Shushi saw. Not only is the height more than one and a half times the height of the walls of those cities that are already quite large, but the construction process of the city walls themselves is quite complicated.

First, workers rammed it with a mixture of loess, lime and glutinous rice juice to form an unusually hard main body of the wall. And this mixture is actually a kind of primitive concrete, glutinous rice juice because of its viscosity effectively fills the void between lime and loess when mixed and effectively bonds the two together, so even the hardness of the city wall that seems to be rammed by loess on the surface is enough to guarantee, and the general siege equipment is absolutely unable to shake this kind of city wall without spending a lot of effort.

It was not enough to have a solid core of the wall, and the craftsmen built the entire inner and outer walls of the wall and the top of the wall. The heavy masonry not only makes the city wall thicker, but also prevents the erosion of the rammed earth wall by certain plants, and more importantly, because the city wall forms a three-layer structure of brick-earth-brick, it plays a significant role in buffering the damage caused by siege equipment during siege.

Therefore, if Dong Zhuo hadn't taken the initiative to give up the control of Luoyang in history, then the coalition forces would have had no other way but to spend time besieging the city. Of course, the fortresses were breached from the inside, and Dong Zhuo's Xiliang soldiers would never be able to suppress the pervasive rebellion of those noble ministers, especially when the outside of the city was an allied army.

"Okay, those soldiers will be taken back to the northern army camp in the northern suburbs by their commander, you can go to my mansion for a few days, but your personal soldiers are going to help the old man for a few days, I heard that although my right car riding general's mansion is there, it is empty inside. So, the old man needs your help. ”

Zhu Jun looked at Li Shushi and Sun Jian's amazement at Luoyang City with satisfaction, and waited until he estimated that they had come back to their senses before he gave such an order. As for those soldiers from the Northern Army, they would have gone to the camp of the Northern Army a long time ago. Anyway, as long as people go back, he Zhu Jun doesn't need to lower his value.

Speaking of which, Zhu Jun himself was actually a native bun from the countryside back then, and when he was recommended by the county to be recruited into the capital, he also stood at the gate of this city for a long time. Looking at "young people" like Li Zhuo and Li Shushi, I can't help but recall the high-spirited spirit when I was young, and then think about the desperate struggle in the various whirlpools of the imperial court in the local area for so many years, and now I can finally be regarded as famous. For a while, Zhu Jun couldn't help but feel a little stupid.

Of course, after all, Zhu Jun has gone through many years of ups and downs, and these memories of the past are just a flash, and it didn't take long for them to recover. In fact, although Zhu Jun always said that he was an old man, and his face looked unusually old, but speaking of which, he is not yet forty years old, and it is only because he has been struggling in the political whirlpool for a long time that he seems to be a little old and decrepit.

So he still has ambitions, he still has ambitions, and he still hopes that he has the opportunity to do the position of the third public. This was also the common goal of most of the officials who served in Luoyang City, a position that symbolized the highest achievement and power of the imperial bureaucracy, the Three Dukes. "Then please take care of Zhu Gong." Li Shushi, Sun Jian, Liu Bei and Li Zhuo bowed to Zhu Jun at the same time.

In fact, although that is the case, it would be good for Sun Jian, Liu Bei and Li Zhuo to stay in Zhu Jun's mansion for one night, because the war in the northwest is tight, and the troops of Tai Lieutenant Zhang Wen may be drawn at any time, so a few people naturally have to go there as soon as possible to report on the combat needs of Zhang Wen and the robes who will fight together, and at the same time show their abilities to get a good position in the battle.

As for Li Shushi, it is impossible to always stay on other people's turf. If it weren't for the agreement with Su Xiaololi, Li Shushi planned to go north directly with the big army. After all, although Luoyang brings together the characteristic products of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the northwest, correspondingly, the prices at the foot of the imperial city are not affordable by ordinary people, especially outsiders with black eyes.

Even now, Li Shushi's main target is not in Luoyang City, but in the suburbs of Luoyang City.

There are three large-scale trading areas in Luoyang, namely Nanshi, Mashi and Jinshi. There is also a millet market that trades grain, but because of the huge difference between the world's unique civilian grain and military grain, it has not formed a large scale, but because Luoyang is located in the land transportation artery from the south to the north and the hub of the Yellow River, it is also very prosperous.

In Li Shushi's original impression, the layout of cities in ancient China was not how to market and other trading places were all in the city, except for the large market in rural areas that would only be held every few days, and even the large market in the countryside would generally be held in the township or city, just like the county seat of Zhuo County, the birthplace of Li Shushi's body, there was a large market once every five days.

But this is not the case in Luoyang City, the capital of a country. I don't know if it's because there are too many royal palaces and official offices in Luoyang City or because the scale of the market is too large, but two of the three major trade areas in the Luoyang area are not in Luoyang City. Among them, Nanshi is in the southern suburbs of Luoyang City as the name suggests, while Mashi is in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang City. Only the gold market demarcated by the government is in the city of Luoyang City, which, according to Zhu Jun, is located on the central axis between the South Palace and the North Palace of Luoyang, near the West Gate.

Originally, there was a trade area called West Park on the outskirts of the western part of the city, and I believe that many people should remember this place if they pay attention to the previous article. There are no other goods for sale here, only one thing, and that is the black yarn hat. However, because of the illegal operation, the Han Emperor Liu Hong gave the end to the bottom, but it is said that when it was prosperous, it was also a busy traffic.

The gold market in the three major trade zones was designated by the Han Dynasty government as a trading area within the city. The gold market is not a market for selling gold, but its super ability to absorb gold is enough to live up to the name of this market. This is the true starting point of the Silk Road, where many merchants who came to the Han with foreign envoys once again peddled their wares, and at the same time obtained Han goods here and sold them all over Eurasia. A variety of precious jewelry, crafts and curiosities can be seen here.

As the name suggests, a horse market is a place where horses and livestock are sold. Some merchants who followed the envoys who came to pay tribute from other races were not eligible to trade in the gold market in the city because they exceeded the quota of merchants allowed by the Han Dynasty, and they also handled their goods here. Of course, because it is not sold in a wealthy area, there will be a certain drop in price.

As for Nanshi, it is completely the world of domestic merchants. Merchants from the southeast and northwest brought special products from all over the world to sell here, which made Nanshi a distribution center for Han goods, and its scale was huge, the variety was varied, and the number of merchants of all colors was not comparable to the two markets. It's just that the security environment here is not as good as the gold market in the city, so every businessman who can take root here can be called a person who sees and hears from all directions.

However, just with the figure of Dian Wei Xu Chu, I am afraid that few people dare to touch Li Shushi's tiger whiskers. Not to mention that the IQ of a certain little Lori is definitely much higher than that of a mortal like Li Shushi, so when shopping, you can treat this as an alternative pastime.

"Alright boys, keep it up for yourself, and one day you'll find your place in this city."

At the same time, he also hopes that these young people with ordinary backgrounds can contribute to the stagnant water of the Han bureaucracy.

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