Chapter 64 Emperor Wen of Sui who unified the north and south (Part 1)

After seeing and hearing about the ethnic integration scene in Luoyang during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Madoudou and Zhiguoguo started their new journey of time and space.

"The sesame door changes!"

This time, the wooden door brought the Sesame brother and sister to the Sui Dynasty, which was a unified dynasty that inherited the Southern and Northern Dynasties and then initiated the Tang Dynasty in Chinese history.

"Brother, where is this?"

When Madoudou and Zhiguo opened their eyes again, they found that they appeared on the street full of shops.

Looking at the bustling crowds and the hawking of hawkers in the city, there was a prosperous scene in front of me.

"Sister, we treat us well with the wooden door. It seems that we have passed the most chaotic era of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and came to the Sui Dynasty."

Because Ma Doudou looked at the city gate tower not far away, there was a flag hanging with the word Sui on it with the Wei stele.

"The Sui Dynasty? Is it the Sui Dynasty in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties that my grandfather talked about?"

Zhiguoguo doesn’t love history on weekdays, but she likes to listen to stories about the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

"Well, you see that the flags hanging on the city tower have the word Sui written on them, so we should have come to the Sui Dynasty."

Ma Doudou held Zhiguoguo's hand, and the brother and sister walked around the market leisurely.

"Uncle, don't know where this is?"

Ma Doudou asked a middle-aged man doing sugar paintings in front of the stall selling sugar paintings.

The middle-aged man looked at the clothes on Madoudou and Zhiguoguo and smiled slightly. He put down his work and started talking to Madoudou and Zhiguoguo.

"We are Daxing City. Now the entire Sui Dynasty is the most prosperous here. This is the new capital that His Majesty ordered Lord Yuwen Kai to be responsible for the design and construction. Lord Yuwen Kai is an amazing person!"

After the middle-aged man introduced this, Ma Doudou realized that he and Zhiguoguo were in Daxing City, the capital of the Sui Dynasty.

When a middle-aged man talked about Yuwen Kai, his words were full of praise.

"Uncle, can you tell us the whole story of Lord Yuwen Kai's construction?"

Madoudou is a veteran history enthusiast, so he does not miss any opportunity to learn. He wants to know more about the construction designers of Daxing City.

"Our Daxing City is a new city. From the construction of the palace city, the imperial city, to the final construction of the Guo city, to the time when we moved in, the construction time took only nine months. Do you think it is powerful or not?"

Zhiguoguo couldn't believe it because it was such a huge capital in ancient times, and it took only nine months to build it, which surprised her.

"Uncle, what did he do? In such a short time, build a new capital in nine months?"

Faced with Zhiguoguo's doubts, the middle-aged man in the sugar painting grinned. He was not angry and patiently explained to Zhiguoguo.

"The reason why we can take such a short time is mainly because our Lord Yuwen arranges the planning, design, manpower, and material resources of the entire project in a very delicate and rigorous manner. He takes advantage of the advantages of the terrain. The whole city consists of three parts: palace city, imperial city and outer city, and adopts a symmetrical layout from the east to the west. In addition to residential areas, opening canals to divert water and digging lakes, enlarging the waters of the city, and at the same time increasing the three-dimensional space, making it more majestic."

The middle-aged man in the sugar painting said it was right. At that time, Daxing City, the capital of the Sui Dynasty, was indeed spectacular, and it was full of prosperity.

Daxing City was also the largest city in the world at that time, and was called Humdan in foreign literature.

It is 2.4 times that of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, 7 times larger than the capital of the Byzantine Kingdom of the same period, and 6.2 times larger than the Baghdad City built in 800 AD. The significant expansion of residential areas is a major feature of the overall design of Daxing City's architecture.
Chapter completed!