Chapter 187: Cross Slope
"During the reign of the First Emperor of the Ages, the laws were strict, and even the direction of travel of the gallop road was stipulated: when passing in both directions, it was always on the right. Brother Pole briefly introduced: "No matter the carriages, horses, people, etc., pass on the gallop road, and keep to the right." The two wooden rails in the middle were not actually used as dividing lines, but were designed to facilitate the rapid passage of baggage wagons from above. Unless the legion marches in wartime, it can occupy the gallop road on both sides of the wooden track, and what you can see on the gallop road in peacetime are the travelers, chariots and horses traveling on the right side of the gallop road, which are in good order. β
Only then did the people notice that the distance between the two tracks was indeed about the width of a carriage.
"There is also the distance between the sleepers, I also happened to hear a beast owner talk about it......." Brother Pole exclaimed: "This distance for the stride and cadence of the vast majority of horses and pack horses at present, can easily make the horses pull the special carriage 'involuntarily' run fast! Those large equipment and materials such as slug shields, bed crossbows, war drums, etc., can quickly reach the camp in front through this track, and they are not even much slower than the cavalry! Connected, the military resources and baggage from all over the Starfall Continent can quickly reach the battlefield. It can be seen that the spacing of these sleepers was carefully designed. β
Whew! so amazing?!
Everyone was amazed.
"It's a pity that the empire collapsed and disintegrated, the Seven Kingdoms were divided, and those galloping roads were almost abandoned because of the difficulty of obtaining materials, the cost of money, improper maintenance, and so on. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the Seven Royal Families did it deliberately. Anyway, the territory of the Seven Kingdoms is currently so large, and it is a pity that there is no need for wooden rails to realize the rapid deployment and transfer of the legions, and it is still quite easy for the legions to get heavy supplies and civilian husbands if they fight within the territory. β
"In fact, there have always been many discussions about the rule of the First Emperor of the Ages to drive on the right side of the road, and the historians of the Seven Kingdoms have always had a lot of discussions. Since the beginning of the Ancestral Saint Period, it has been generally believed that the Heavenly Dao is respected by the right, and the Underground Dao is respected by the left. At the time of the court meeting, in the palace, the minister stood solemnly with a wat board in his hand, and the opposite side of the minister was naturally the first emperor of the ages who was sitting in danger; therefore, when the first emperor of the ages recruited talents, he said that "the left is empty", and the ministers' "unsurpassed", in the ranking of the court meeting, in fact, the position of the top right of the same extremely human minister. This is the point of the historian's discussion: whether the 'empty left and wait' of the first emperor through the ages only means that the minister who stands in that position is his 'left arm and right arm', and the most respected position is still the 'right', so it will not 'wait for the right and the void'. It can be seen that at that time, from the emperor to the minister, it was obvious that they began to implement the 'right as the respect'. In connection with the saying that 'the right is respected by the heavenly way, and the left is respected by the earth', it seems that it can also be found that the first emperor of the ages has a certain mentality of 'wanting to be higher than the sky' after completing the great cause of unification and completely defeating the Jin Khan Tent State. β
At the gate of the city of the Seven Kingdoms of the Starfall Continent, at present, the left and right sides of the road are usually the teams entering the city, and on both sides of the city gate, there are city gate officials, city guard soldiers, and officers to jointly supervise and inspect the travel and travel, and the passage in the middle is specially used for the passage out of the city, which is relatively not so carefully inspected, because it has been carefully inspected once when entering the city.
Although this flexibility has greatly facilitated the people, it has also lost the original intention of the first emperor to teach the people to abide by the law.
As he spoke, the people had already entered the Cross Slope Market. The main road of the cross slope is two wide stone roads in the east-west and north-south directions, which can accommodate four horse-drawn carriages in parallel, and the whole presents a gentle slope surface with high north and low south. It is said that this is also the origin of the name Cross Slope. As for the paths in the streets, they are basically just solid rammed earth pavement.
As far as the eye can see, the pavilions of two or three floors occupy the majority, the streets are lined with shops, and all kinds of banners and cloth signs are hung in front of the door, and the exhibitions are swinging, as if they are beckoning to the pedestrians eagerly. From the patterns on the banners and signs, you can easily see the purpose of the street shop.
The simple iron fist is naturally a semicolon for the line here, and Xingjun and headhunters can enter.
There is a gourd hanging directly at the door is the rejuvenation hall under the Baicao Gate, which comes from the "medicine gourd". Legend has it that during the period of the first saints, there was a god as a mortal, carrying a gourd containing a "panacea", traveling all over the world, curing diseases and saving people, in fact, it was the ancestor of Baicaomen.
On top of the disguise is a wooden hammer, which is another branch of the rumored Baicao Gate: the auction house called "One Hammer". The original meaning of the final hammer refers to the final hammer to determine the timbre of the gong when making the gong, but under the careful dissemination of the people in the rivers and lakes, the "final word" has evolved into the last confirmation step in the auction process, and the hammer on the cloth in the guise has changed from a hammer to a mallet. The difference is that "hammer" is often used to smash things, while "mallet" is only used to beat, which may represent the meaning of "deal".
There is a pattern of a grocery container on the cloth sign under the guise, which is naturally a business alliance.
When it comes to high-end organizations such as "far-fetched" and "unruly", people will not receive passers-by, they don't need to be pretended, but they need to make reservations, they need someone to lead the way, and then they may not be willing to take your order.
As for the disguise cloth tricks, such as wine jugs, bath barrels, baths, sheep's heads, scissors, tape measures, and some strange patterns, they may need to be explored and discovered by each person on their own.
Except for Brother Pole and Poisonous Weed, the rest of the people in Shunfeng came to the cross slope for the first time, and they were accustomed to it on the surface, but in fact they were dizzying.
"This one is the semicolon of Buqifang here. That one is a far-fetched semicolon. Bao Da casually pointed to two very small shops that looked quite ordinary, and introduced a sentence, which everyone did not believe, and he added quite proudly: "The shop is the same as far-fetched, and the key is not in the faΓ§ade." Real gold is not afraid of red furnace fire, and the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. β
On this point, everyone still thinks deeply. The far-fetched and the unconventional have their own strengths, and they have achieved the ultimate in their respective fields, and they are recognized as representing the peak level of the pattern and the instrument array respectively. Relatively speaking, the far-fetched and unfortunate fangs are considered to be born, only providing services and products for the Xingjun clan, while Baicaomen is considered to have entered the WTO, among the customers, in addition to Xingjun and headhunters, there are also mortals, and even the beast owner will go to the Rejuvenation Hall to ask for medicine or buy materials and then use medicine on demon beasts.
Although there was a lot of traffic and bustling within the cross slope, those star kings, headhunters, and hunting groups were generally quite peaceful, and the overall appearance was like entering an ordinary prosperous town. It seems that the Cross Slope forces have a fairly good grasp of a stable transit supply depot.
The people had been on the road for almost half a day, but now they walked around the cross slope at random, the sky had gradually darkened, and some of the street shops had already rolled up the guise of cloth and were ready to close the market, and some of them had hung up bright gas lamps or lit burning charcoal fire plates, apparently continuing to operate.