This is not the first time that Li Xiao has entered Chang'an City.

Every time he enters Chang'an City, Li Xiao feels full of emotion. He is not feeling the magnificence of Chang'an City, but is a little disappointed with Chang'an City.

As far as other places of this era are concerned, Chang'an is indeed extremely majestic, with a huge capital with a circumference of dozens of miles, high city walls, majestic city towers, and the wide and straight Suzaku Street...

Anyone of this era, whether he is a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, a surrounding foreigner, or even the Hu Shang who came from the distant Western Regions, would be shocked in front of Chang'an City.

There is no city larger and more majestic than Chang'an in the whole world, even the whole world.

But all this was nothing to shock Li Xiao. Apart from the historical sentiment of Chang'an, the capital of the great Tang Dynasty, he was very disappointed when he really saw Chang'an.

The dusty official road reaches the city of Chang'an. The tall city block is not covered with bricks, but rammed loess.

The city gate tower is very majestic, but in fact it is not as good as the antique buildings in the tourist areas of later generations.

The soldiers guarding the city gates were not as bright as Li Xiao imagined. On the contrary, many soldiers looked very ordinary and even a little thin. Not all of them were tall and mighty, nor were they all dressed in bright armor and were dressed ordinary, and some of them were even very old, even patched.

If he knows more, he will know that most of the soldiers guarding Chang'an are farmers first, followed by the soldiers in the palace. These people are both soldiers and farmers. They serve the people in wartime when they are idle, serve the military service for the court, and have military fields for the military without renting and mediocrity, and have to bring their own weapons, clothing, armor and food.

In other words, these soldiers in the palace were basically the best among the farmers in the Tang Dynasty in this era. They had many brothers and were very healthy. Especially the families were basically self-cultivated farmers, otherwise they would not be the soldiers who did not meet these conditions.

However, the good conditions are only compared to other farmers. However, due to the conditions in the medieval farming era, the soldiers of the palace also worked very hard.

No matter where the soldiers in the world are in the world, they have the tasks of training in the palace and taking turns to go to Beijing. The journey is long, and they come to Chang'an with dry food and clothes, taking turns to guard the glorious imperial capital.

It is very difficult to be in a foreign land. To put it bluntly, this is very similar to the migrant workers who came to the city to work with their luggage from all over the world.

Not many of the soldiers in the palace could read, and many of them even spoke dialects from all over the country, and they couldn't even explain the official language of the Tang Dynasty.

Once we came to Chang'an, we had to go back and brag about them to their fellow villagers and their children and grandchildren for a lifetime.

The more people come to Chang'an, the more Li Xiao's feelings for Chang'an gradually disappear.

Entering Chang'an, you are even more disappointed.

The city walls of Chang'an City are very large, but even now, in Chang'an City, after sixty or seventy years of management by five emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties, this capital that was ordered to be built during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, has not been completely built yet.

Not to mention the more than 100 yards in the city, there are many large areas of the city walls in Chang'an that are vacant, and only a short piece has been built.

The south of Chang'an is even sparsely populated. At night, there are not even a light in the large area of ​​the yard, which is even more suburban than the suburbs.

Li Xiao actually disliked Chang'an's Lifang plan very much.

There are palace cities, imperial cities, and outer cities in Chang'an. The palace cities are the places where the emperor and his concubines live, and the imperial cities are the offices of the prime minister and major yamen.

Only the outer city is the residence of the people and the market.

But more than 100 yards in Chang'an are completely closed.

Each yard is like a modern closed community. There are fang walls and fang gates. When it gets dark, the fang gates must be closed. Usually, there is no entry or exit. It is not until the drum sounds sound in the drum tower in the morning.

And among these square squares, there are streets.

However, the streets in Chang'an City are not prosperous and lively.

The streets in Chang'an City are really just for pedestrians. There are walls on both sides of the street. A wall is erected high, making people unable to see the inside of the building at all.

Not to mention shops on both sides of the street, even a stall is not allowed.

All the shops and even stalls in Chang'an are concentrated in the markets of the east and west markets of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. These two markets are also closed markets surrounded by walls.

Zhuque Street is very long, ten miles long and very wide. Unfortunately, it is not allowed to walk in the middle of such a wide road.

In addition to the six east-west and west roads, other Fangjieshang streets in Chang'an are basically yellow soil roads. The yellow soil road is full of dust when it is sunny, and it is particularly muddy when it rains.

Especially Chang'an has a large population, with more people and cars, and the roads become even muddy.

When the weather is sunny, I go to the city to eat dust, and when it rains, I get covered in mud and water. After a few more times, Li Xiao didn’t have any special miss for Chang'an.

Li Xiao once asked Dabiao and Zhang Cong what his impression of Chang'an City was, but every time these guys mentioned Chang'an, their eyes shone.

What city is tall, what is the majestic and majestic mansion guarding the gate, what is the vast streets of heaven and earth, what is the crowded city of Chang'an, what is the bustling and lively city of east and west...

Li Xiao can only say that they are all rural people who have never seen the world, and Chang'an City is just a big show.

Da Biao even sighed that after entering Chang'an City, his greatest wish in his life was to become a Chang'an City, so that he could buy a house in the South City of Chang'an in the future, and then rent a shop in the West City to sell pork. Well, now it has been changed to opening a restaurant in the West City.

Li Xiao felt that Chang'an was not as lively and prosperous as a fifth-tier city in later generations.

The emperor and the prime minister were still waiting for them under the Secretariat, and Yan Liben did not dare to delay. After seeing the corn, he put Li Xiao's corn and the corn pole into a box like a treasure, then hung a big lock outside and sent a team of soldiers to protect the carriage.

He was also afraid that Li Xiao would run away, and he and Di Renjie clamped his rider among the two.

I originally thought I could take the official car of Changshi Yan, but I thought that Yan Liben was also the mayor of the imperial capital after all, and this car must be very advanced and comfortable to ride. It doesn’t take eighty miles to bump. Who would have thought that Yan Liben is old, but he still wears a sword on his waist and sits on a good horse.

They didn't even prepare a good horse for Li Xiao, and Li Xiao had to sit on his own. Fortunately, his mount was from Cheng Yaojin's family, and the moon-treading black horse presented by Cheng Bo was not bad.
Chapter completed!