After Qi Xuansu left Ye Xiu's mansion, he did not rush to leave this city in the city.

Except for Yujing, every prosperous town has such a place for poor people to live in, and will not change due to changes in the world.

The reason why Yujing is an exception is that Yujing is a pure city of Taoist priests, and there are only three types of people in it: Taoist priests, spiritual officials, Taoist priests and spiritual officials. Taoist priests and spiritual officials are also people with skills, each with their own responsibilities and livelihoods. They dare not say that they are rich and noble, at least they have no worries about food and clothing, and can maintain at least decent.

More importantly, the unified planning of Yujing is the first to be held by all the houses and palaces in Yujing belong to the Daomen Gate, and there is no private house. The Tianji Hall in the Nine Halls is responsible for the maintenance and repair. Including the Dazhen Ren, there is only the right to use and no all the power, so everyone rents it, but the lease period is very long, the longest can reach a hundred years.

Another thing is that Yujing is at the top of Kunlun. Even if some people envy the prosperity of Yujing, they cannot climb up. Taoist sect can easily regulate the population of Yujing.

But other towns do not have the uniqueness of Yujing. They are all located on plains and thoroughfares. If they naturally gather populations, it is easy to appear such cities in the city or shanty towns outside the Bohai Prefecture.

At this point, even the imperial capital cannot be spared.

In the early years, the imperial capital city had a square plane outline, with only nine city gates. The central axis of the city starts from Zhengyang Gate in the south, runs through the palace, and reaches the bell tower in the north.

In the early years of the Great Wei Dynasty, the country was strong. Emperor Taizong took an offensive against the Jinzhang tribe and led his army to fight north five times, but the problem was not yet prominent. Later, the strength of the Great Wei Dynasty declined and was repeatedly attacked by the Jinzhang army. By the Yong period of the Ming Dynasty, officials suggested that a circle of outer cities with a circumference of about 80 miles were built outside the imperial capital to ensure safety.

The project of additional construction of the outer city began in the 32nd year of the Ming Dynasty. Because the southern suburbs were relatively prosperous at that time, there were also the royal altar of Heaven and Earth and Soyuzhan, the outer city was first built from the southern line. However, shortly after the construction started, it was difficult to sustain due to insufficient funds.

As a last resort, the court could only change its plan and build a city wall on the south line. We would talk about the other three sides when we have money in the future. The length of the city wall on the south line has also been reduced from the original twenty miles to thirteen miles. It bends to the north at the east and west ends and meets 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 then formed the shape of the "convex" from the original character "kou". The lower part of the character "convex" is the outer city, and the name "outer city" is not worthy of its name. It is not outside the inner city, but on the south side of the inner city, so the outer city of the Imperial Capital is also called "Nancheng".

In the end, during the Great Wei Dynasty, although the city was not built on the other three sides, a large number of people still lived in it.

When Daxuan entered the imperial capital, he finally completed the remaining East City, West City, and North City, turning the "convex" into the "hui" shape, and also turning it into the pattern where the outer city is dominated by the people, the inner city is dominated by the mansions of noble officials, and the major government offices.

Compared with today's imperial capital, Yujing still maintains the "convex" pattern of the old imperial capital due to its terrain. The upper part of the character "convex" is "Xuandu", with the highest terrain, and the lower part of the character "convex" is "Yuanjing", with the lower terrain.

As for Jinling Prefecture, due to the terrain, it is very irregular. Not only can it be described in a specific character, it has nothing to do with the word Fangzheng, and there is even no clear central axis.

It is said that this is based on the astrological signs of the Three Walls and Twenty-Eight Constellations, combined with the geographical pattern of the tiger lying in the dragon plating in the Jinling Mansion, and the mountains and rivers. It has changed the old system of square or rectangular construction of the capital wall, and has become a model for combining geosciences and natural geography, and is unique.

In general, the old city of Jinling Mansion is located in the southeast corner, with dense people and prosperous businesses, and a large number of workshops are also set up here. The homes of powerful and wealthy businessmen, top restaurants and courtyards are distributed in the southwest of the old city.

The old city is also called the inner city. The outside is the outer city, which is equivalent to the outer city of the imperial capital. The northwest part is the location of the black-clad military camp, which is concentrated in large areas of barracks, granaries, warehouses and military craftsmen's workshops. It cannot be entered easily. This city in the city is located between the military camp and the inner city. Like the entire Jinling Mansion, it has an extremely irregular shape.

what does that mean?

It means that this place can actually become a distribution area for bulk goods, or even be unique. This is not Qi Xuansu's random guess, but has some truth.

Before Daxuan, sea trade was not prosperous, so the prosperous area of ​​Jinling Prefecture was mainly concentrated on the Qinhuai River, facing inland, and the northwest part close to the river was slightly empty, and even the coastal line could not be said to be prosperous, mostly fishing villages.

Now that sea trade has become a big head, it is more convenient to go directly to the river and go to sea directly. If you go to the Qinhuai line again, it will be a bit time-consuming and laborious. So Daomen sets up many warehouses on the Dinghuai line, with the original intention of being adjacent to the military camp of the man in black, which is safer. But from another perspective, these warehouses are not far away from here.

Thinking of this, Qi Xuansu immediately developed the desire to explore this place.

That's what he thought and did.

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

When he came before, Qi Xuansu heard many wailing sounds here. After he returned here, he came to these shanty towns that acted as prisons.

It is small, slim, dark and wet inside. There are countless small spaces separated by wooden fences on both sides of the aisle. It is pitch black and you can only vaguely see a subtle flash of light in the dark. Only by walking in and looking closely will you find that the light of the stars is actually a pair of eyes, but there is no trace of vitality in these eyes, dead and numb.

Qi Xuansu stopped and looked carefully. There were mostly women inside. She was dressed in good condition and could not be said to be thin, but she still had a vegetable face and was unkempt. In addition to being numb, everyone's face and eyes were also deeply frightened. As early as when the Zulong ruled the world, the slave system had been generally abolished. In the following thousands of years, although there was a saying of selling her body, she should be a slave. Later, in the Great Jin Dynasty, the system of burying living people was abolished.

When we arrived at Daxuan, we went further and completely abolished the low-class system.

The ances are divided into: military, civil and low-ranking. In fact, Daxuan not only abolished the ancestry system, but also abolished the military and high-ranking system when the ward system was abolished.

But it is one thing to abolish the official face, but 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 a fair wife is popular among the people. Therefore, even if the lowly family is abolished, there are still romantic women and slaves.

This is one of the reasons why Xuan Sheng wanted to abolish the "Tianle Taoyuan". It was not that Xuan Sheng could not see such flesh-and-hearted business, but that the existence of the yard and brothel would invisibly encourage the acts of forcing good men to become prostitutes and luring good women. The latter must be eliminated, and the best way is to solve it from the source.

This is what Qi Xuansu saw in front of him. There is a large number of inferior brothels nearby, and there is a reason for this.

Qi Xuansu stretched out his finger and gently stroked the wooden fences covered with insects. As long as he used light force, he could break them. But he knew that his own words were light, and it was not easy to protect himself in the undercurrent of Jinling Mansion, and he really did not have the ability to help others.

Just then, a sound came from outside.

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

A group of Beggars' Gang came in and took some of the women out, and there were several men mixed in. They caught up with several carriages outside. The carriages were hung with thick green curtains, making it difficult to see the scene inside.

Qi Xuansu's heart moved and followed the carriages.

The carriage quickly left the city in the city and entered the bustling inner city. After walking around for about two hours, the sky was already dim. Then he came to an alley in the southwest corner of the old city.

On both sides of the whole alley are two deep blue brick walls that are hundreds of feet tall and two feet tall. At the end of the alley is a black painted door. It is probably because there are few people coming on weekdays, and it is very deserted. As soon as the sky is dark, not only no one leaves, birds do not fly past here.

A man came out of the carriage and stepped forward to grab the beast's face at the door and swallowed and knocked three times. After a moment of pause, he knocked four times.

Not long after, a question came from inside: "Is it Boss Ye's goods arrived?"

It was obviously not the first time the person outside the door came here. He had already known the people inside and didn't have that much concern: "If you know, ask? Open the door quickly."

After a while, the door slowly opened and the carriage was put in.

Qi Xuansu looked from a distance and hesitated a little. After all, this did not seem to be related to Lei Xiaohuan's mission, but he also felt that this matter might be related to the entire case, so he decided to find out.
Chapter completed!