Chapter 105: Xiongcheng National Capital (II)
The huge peak is not covered with trees, but is actually a layer of houses, and at the foot of the mountain is surrounded by a cliff of thirty or forty zhang, the top of the cliff is a city wall, the wall is towering, the city tower is numerous, and the flag fluttering can be seen in the distance.
Beneath the cliff was a wide moat, in which ships sailed. When the boat gets closer, you can faintly see a palace with red walls and blue tiles on the top of the mountain.
On the bank of the river near the huge mountain city, there are countless ships of all sizes moored, among which several large dragon ships stand out from the crowd.
The Wang'an finally came to shore. Xiao Ziyang walked off the boat with the crowd, and he was surprised to find that the huge port was all paved with bluestones, and there were countless warehouses on the port, and there were no edges as far as the eye could see.
Xiao Ziyang called a carriage and drove towards the city.
As the carriage drove out of the harbor area, there was a stone lane five feet wide, and on either side of this lane, countless other identical roads stretched from all over the harbor.
The driveway is full of traffic, and the carriages carrying goods and passengers are endless.
The carriage traveled for about half an hour and entered a wide avenue. According to the coachman, there are no less than 30 such avenues around Jin'an City, and there are more than 10 on the port area alone, and each road corresponds to a city gate.
After the carriage drove on the avenue for more than half an hour, it finally approached Jin'an City.
From a distance, I don't feel how much, but when I get closer, I see this cliff that stretches for hundreds of miles, towering more than 30 zhang high, and the city wall on the cliff that is more than 10 zhang high, it is really shocking.
The moat under the cliff is more than 300 zhang wide, bottomless, flowing slowly, and it is actually living water. Ships shuttled back and forth on the moat.
The road into the city is close to the moat in a section, is a gentle slope made of boulders, connected to the moat, a span of more than 300 zhang, has been connected to the huge stone arch bridge under the city wall, the bridge is 100 zhang wide, the end is majestic.
A section of the wall facing the stone bridge, which is recessed inward for more than two miles, forms a square at the head of the bridge, and the walls on three sides of the square are exceptionally tall, twice as high as the others.
At the end of the square is a row of ten city gates, each city gate has a width of five zhang, and between each city gate there is a city wall of five or six zhang wide, stretching out more than 30 zhang, making this section of the city wall form a jagged shape.
The city walls on both sides of the square are recessed into ten zhang every ten zhang, and they also form a series of serrations.
This is a majestic city armed to the teeth.
After checking the road lead, entering the city gate, there is a wide avenue of more than 30 zhang in front of you, slowly towards the upper road, and there are countless shops and houses on both sides of the avenue.
After Xiao Ziyang reported the name of the place, the carriage went up the avenue, and every two miles there was a side street that intersected with the avenue. The side street is not as wide as the avenue, but it is also more than ten zhang wide. According to the coachman, each side street will circle the mountainside.
The carriage had traveled for more than half an hour, about thirty miles, when another wall appeared in front of him.
This wall looks stronger and more majestic than the outer wall, and is divided into two sections, the outer wall is ten zhang high, the inner wall is twenty zhang high, and the two walls are separated by 100 zhang.
Regardless of the inner and outer walls, there will be a section of wall five zhang wide every ten zhang, and the wall will protrude three zhang outward.
In front of the outer wall, there is a section of open space that is more than 300 zhang wide, and there are no buildings, so it is conceivable that in the event of a war, this open space will become a place of death for the enemy.
Entering this city wall is the inner city, and the inner city is different from the outer city, the side streets are wider and cleaner, and the high-rise buildings on both sides of the avenue are gradually increasing.
The people who were able to live in the inner city were people of considerable status, either officials or wealthy merchants.
As the carriage approached the top of the hill, the coachman became more and more cautious, and even deliberately suppressed his throat when he drank and drove the horses.
Gradually, a huge palace complex that enveloped the entire top of the mountain appeared in Xiao Ziyang's sight.
Xiao Ziyang told the coachman that the location is called Yuma Street, which is very famous, not only well-known in the capital, but also known to the mountain villagers in some remote places.
First-time visitors to Imperial Horse Street will find it strange, not because the street is so wide, almost three times as wide as the other side streets, or because of the buildings on one side of the street that are at least ten feet high.
The strangest thing about Yuma Street is that there are shops only on the side of the hill, and on the top side of the hill is a tall fence with the occasional low back door.
The reason is very simple, Yuma Street is the closest street to the Imperial City in Jin'an City, and on the top side of this street, it is full of the residences of the top wealthy nobles of the Xiliang Kingdom. Without exception, these mansions opened their doors on the side facing the imperial city, guarding the palace high above.
Naturally, on this side of Mima Street, there can only be the back door of these mansions.
The Fuguo Mansion is the most extensive of these mansions. It is located outside the main gate of the Imperial Palace, leading directly to the east side of the royal road that is thirty or forty zhang wide at the foot of the mountain.
Xiao Ziyang walked leisurely on this peculiar Yuma Street, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and seemed to look at the tall, gorgeous, brightly lit buildings on the side of the street with great interest. But if anyone could see his eyes, they would see that they were full of gloom, which was the opposite of the expression on his face.
In the carriage just now, Xiao Ziyang used the Qi Hope Technique to watch Jin Ancheng. At first glance, a chill suddenly arose in my heart.
In his spiritual eyes, there were dozens of mana flashes in Jin'an City, which meant that there were immortal cultivators in these dozens of places.
This is just a place within Xiao Ziyang's sight, you must know that Jin'an Ke is a mountain city, at least seventy percent of the places are out of his sight, so there are probably no less than a hundred places in this Jin'an City where there are immortal cultivators!
Three of these spiritual lights are particularly bright, and a large number of monks must have gathered.
Among these three spiritual lights, the brightest one is located in the Xiliang Palace.
In Xiao Ziyangling's eyes, above the palace, the five-colored spiritual light simply reflected half of the sky.
According to Xiao Ziyang's original plan, he naturally infiltrated the Fuguo Mansion with an invisible escape method, and beheaded the old thief unknowingly.
But now it seems that Xiao Ziyang's idea is nothing more than a fool's dream.
Lanyue Tower is one of the few gold caves in Jin'an City. It is located at the corner of the intersection of the main entrance of the palace and the royal horse street, this building is nine floors high, each floor is five zhang. The height of nearly fifteen zhang makes it worthy of its name.
In a window position on the fifth floor of Lanyue Building, a white and chubby businessman sits.
In front of him were several delicate side dishes, an azure porcelain wine jug, and a delicate white jade cup in his hand, in which amber wine was sitting.
This businessman is Xiao Ziyang, who has been disguised and disguised. Realizing that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Jin'an City couldn't help but be careless.