After Qi Xuansu left Ye Xiu's mansion, he was not in a hurry to leave this city within a city.

With the exception of Yujing, every prosperous town has such a settlement of poor people, which does not change due to changes in the world.

The reason why Yujing is an exception is because Yujing is a pure Taoist city, and there are only three kinds of people in it: Taoist priests, spiritual officials, and Taoist people, not to mention Taoist priests and spiritual officials, Taoist people are also people with a skill, each with an errand and a livelihood, and dare not say that he is rich and noble, at least he has no worries about food and clothing, and can maintain a minimum of decency.

What's more important is the unified planning of Yujing, in name, all the houses in Yujing are owned by the Daomen, there is no private house, and the Tianji Hall in the nine halls is responsible for maintenance and repair, including the great real people, only the right to use, not all the power, so everyone is leased, but the lease period is very long, the longest can be as long as a hundred years.

Moreover, Yujing stands on the top of Kunlun, even if some people envy the prosperity of Yujing, they can't climb up, and the Daomen can easily regulate the population of Yujing.

However, other towns are not as blessed as Yujing, they are all located in plains and thoroughfares, and naturally gather population, so it is easy to appear this kind of city within a city or a shantytown outside the city of Bohai Prefecture.

At this point, even the imperial capital is not exempt from vulgarity.

In the early years of the imperial capital, the plane outline was square, and there were only nine city gates. The central axis of the city starts from Zhengyangmen in the south, runs through the imperial palace, and reaches the bell tower in the north.

In the early years of the Great Wei Dynasty, the country was strong, and Emperor Taizong took an offensive against the Golden Horde tribe, and led the army to the north five times, but the problem was not prominent. Later, the strength of the Great Wei declined, and the Golden Horde army was under the city many times, and during the Ming Dynasty, some officials suggested that an outer city with a circumference of about 80 miles should be built on the periphery of the imperial capital city to ensure safety.

The construction of the outer city began in the 32nd year of Ming Yong, because the southern suburbs were more prosperous at that time, and there were the royal altar heaven and earth altar and the shrine of Sheji, so the outer city was built from the south line first. However, soon after the start of construction, it was difficult to continue due to lack of funds.

As a last resort, the imperial court could only change its plan and only build the southern line of the city wall, and wait for the other three sides to talk about when there is money in the future. The length of the southern wall was also reduced from the original plan of 20 li to 13 li, and its east and west ends bent to the north to meet the two corner towers in the southeast and southwest of the inner city.

Since only the southern part of the outer city was built, the plane outline of the imperial capital city after that formed a "convex" shape from the original "mouth" character. The lower part of the word "convex" is the outer city, and the name of "outer city" is not worthy of the name, it is not outside the inner city, but in the south of the inner city, so the outer city of the imperial capital is also called "the southern city".

In the end of the Wei Dynasty, although the other three sides had not been built, there were still a large number of people living there.

When Daxuan entered the imperial capital, he finally completed the remaining east city, west city, and north city, and changed the "convex" glyph into the "hui" glyph, and also became the pattern that today's outer city is dominated by the common people and the inner city is dominated by the mansions of noble officials and major official offices.

Compared with today's imperial capital, Yujing still maintains the "convex" character pattern of the old imperial capital because of the terrain. The upper part of the word "convex" is "Xuandu", which is the highest, and the lower part of the word "convex" is "Yujing", which is low.

As for Jinling Mansion, because of the topography, it is very irregular, not only can not be described by a specific word, it is not very close to the word Fangzheng, and there is not even a clear central axis.

It is said that this is according to the three walls, the twenty-eight constellations of the stars, combined with the Jinling Mansion tiger standing on the dragon plate, by the mountains and rivers of the geographical pattern, a change from the old system of the city wall to take the square or rectangular shape of the city wall in the past, become a model of the combination of the heavenly phenomena and natural geography, unique.

In general, the old city of Jinlingfu is located in the southeast corner, where the people are dense, the business is prosperous, and a large number of workshops are also set up here. The first residences of the powerful and wealthy merchants, the top restaurants and the courtyards are located in the southwest of the old city.

The old city is also called the inner city, and outside it is the outer Guo city, which is equivalent to the outer city of the imperial capital. The northwest part of it is where the military camp of the black-clothed man is located, where a large number of barracks, granaries, warehouses and military craftsmen's workshops are concentrated, and the city within the city is located between the military camp and the inner city, and the entire Jinling Mansion presents an extremely irregular shape.

What does this mean?

It means that it can actually become a distribution area for bulk goods, and it is even unique. This is not Qi Xuansu's random speculation, but there is a certain amount of truth.

Before Daxuan, the sea trade was not prosperous, so the prosperous area of Jinling Mansion was mainly concentrated in the Qinhuai River, facing the inland, the northwest part near the river was slightly empty, and even the coastal line was not prosperous, mostly fishing villages.

Now the sea trade has become a big head, it is more convenient to go directly to the sea along the river, if you go to the Qinhuai line again, it is a little time-consuming and laborious, so Daomen will set up many warehouses in the Dinghuai Gate line, which is intended to be adjacent to the military camp of the black-clothed man, which is safer, and from another point of view, these warehouses are not far from here.

Thinking of this, Qi Xuansu suddenly had the desire to explore this place.

That's what he thinks, and that's what he does.

Qi Xuansu first pretended to leave this place, and then quietly returned.

When he came before, Qi Xuansu heard many wailing and crying voices here, and after he returned here, he came to these shanties that served as prisons.

It was cramped, cramped, dark, and damp, with countless small spaces separated by wooden fences on both sides of the walkway, and it was pitch black, with only faint flickering lights faintly visible in the dark. Only when you go in and look closely, you will find that this sparkling light is actually a pair of eyes, but there is no half of life in these eyes, lifeless, and insensitive.

Qi Xuansu stopped and took a closer look, there were mostly women inside, their clothes were still intact, and they were not skinny, but they were still vegetable, unkempt, and there was deep horror in everyone's faces and eyes, in addition to numbness. As early as when Zulong set the world, the slave system has been largely abolished, and in the following thousands of years, although there is a deed of sale, it should be strictly speaking a slave, and later in the Great Jin Dynasty, the living burial system was also abolished.

In Daxuan, he went one step further and completely abolished the lowly status system.

Nationality is divided into: military status, civilian registration and untouchable status, in fact, Daxuan not only abolished the lowly status, but also abolished the military status when the health post system was abolished.

But it is one thing for the official to abolish it, and it is another thing to actually implement it. For example, the government only recognizes one wife, and the rest are concubines, but the saying of equal wives is prevalent among the people. So even if the lowly status is abolished, there are still Fengyue women and slaves.

This is one of the reasons why Xuansheng wants to abolish the "Heavenly Paradise", not that Xuansheng can't see this kind of skin and meat business, but that the existence of courtyards and brothels will invisibly promote the behavior of forcing good people to become prostitutes and seducing good women, the latter must be eliminated, and the best way is to solve it from the source.

What Qi Xuansu saw in front of him was like this. There are large swaths of inferior brothels in the vicinity, and not for nothing.

Qi Xuansu stretched out his fingers and gently stroked these wooden fences overgrown with insects, as long as he used a light force, he could break them, but he knew that he was soft-spoken, and in the undercurrent of Jinling Mansion, it was not easy to protect himself, and he really had no ability to help others.

Just then, there was a noise outside.

Qi Xuansu immediately jumped onto the beam of the room and hid his figure.

A gang of beggars came in and brought some of the women out, including a few men, and together they caught up with several carriages outside, which were surrounded by thick green curtains, making it impossible to see the scene inside.

Qi Xuansu's heart moved, and he followed behind these carriages.

The carriage soon left the city within a city, and entered the bustling inner city, and walked around for about two hours, and it was already dark, and then it came to an alley in the southwest corner of the old city.

The whole alley is flanked by two deep blue brick walls that are 100 zhang long and 2 zhang high, and at the end of the alley is a black lacquered gate. It was very deserted because of the fact that few people came on weekdays, and as soon as it was dark, not only did no one leave, but no birds flew by.

A man got down from the carriage, stepped forward and grabbed the door and struck it three times, and after a slight pause, he struck it four more times.

After a while, a voice of inquiry came from inside: "Is Boss Ye's goods here?" ”

The people outside the door obviously didn't come here for the first time, and they were already familiar with the people inside, and they didn't have so many scruples when they spoke: "Do you know and ask?" Hurry up and open the door. ”

After a few moments, the gate slowly opened, and the carriage was put inside.

Qi Xuansu looked at it from afar, hesitating slightly, after all, this seemed to have nothing to do with Lei Xiaohuan's task, but he felt that this matter might be related to the entire big case, so he decided to find out.

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