Chapter 445: Luoyang
The capital, as the political, economic, and cultural center of the dynasty, the importance of its status is self-evident, and when Liu Lan saw this magnificent Luoyang City, the whole person was stunned, not only him, but all the military academies under the tent are the same, and Grandma Liu may have shown everyone's eyes like this when she entered the Grand View Garden.
The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty was established in Luoyang, and the first thing is like saying: The saint will be in the place where the country is not invaded. And choose the fertile terrain, the countryside and mountains, through the water Ruoze', and whether it is the Eastern Han Dynasty before the Zhou capital Fenghao or the Qin capital Xianyang, the Western Han Dynasty Chang'an roughly meet the above requirements, and Luoyang, located in the world, in the traffic arteries, and on the other hand, Luoyang is surrounded by mountains and rivers, Jiu'a, the bottom pillar, the revolving door, the Tai Room, the bear's ears, Songshan, these mountains and mountains are steep, there is the danger of the moat, and there are many rivers, such as Luoshui, Yihe, Qianshui Stream, etc.
It can be said that the south is close to the river, the north is leaning on the mountain, the shape is better than the world, of course, this is not the main reason why Emperor Guangwu set the capital of Luoyang, at the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu relied on the pillar of Nanyang, Yingchuan, Hebei as the main group of wealthy landlords in the Kwantung region, 28 of the 32 heroes who made brilliant achievements came from the Kwantung landlord group, and this is why Liu Xiu chose Luoyang.
Of course, in addition to the strong support of the people here, the more important point is that at the beginning of Liu Xiu's reign as emperor, not only did the original regime exist, but also benefited the Gongsun Shu of the state, and Lu Fang, who colluded with the Xiongnu for a generation, Liu Yong who was in Yangzhou, Zhang Bu in Qingzhou, and Li Xian in Lujiang, and at this time, Liu Xiu, who only opened up a piece of Jizhou, was able to focus on the capital of Luoyang, and the capital was built here, so as to better connect with Jizhou, and confront several major forces such as Changshi and Liu Yong, under the historical conditions at that time. Luoyang is naturally the best choice for the capital.
Because the Son of Heaven issued an edict, he ordered Liu Lan and his troops to be stationed outside, and led the generals to enter the city from the east to the gate and Wangjingmen. As a last resort, Liu Lan and his party of more than a dozen people turned to the east.
Wangjing Gate is only 200 meters away from Luohe, and it is galloping. The sharp-eyed Liu Lan vaguely saw a tall woman wearing a purple skirt and a pink silk standing in the wind on the bank of Luoshui, perhaps it was a preconceived feeling, Liu Lan only felt that this woman's charming face was a little pale, not like fair skin, not morbid pale, but the kind of sad and sad face.
Liu Lan's heart immediately came up with the idea of a beautiful woman looking for a short view, and as soon as he turned his horse's head, he headed towards Luoshui.
The sound of horses' hooves began. The woman seemed to notice this, and glanced back.
Amazing.
The woman can't tell her age, but her figure is definitely plumper than that of a girl, her full breasts are completely in line with Zhang Fei's aesthetics, and her upright fat buttocks can make Jian Yong's saliva flow of 3,000 feet, of course, the most seductive thing is the pair of peach blossom eyes, with a smile and a smile, it is fascinating, what is a stunner? is used to seeing Luo Li like Liu Yin and Cai Yan, and the mature woman in front of her is even more exciting.
The man's divine light in front of him made the woman not worry. Screamed, "What are you going to do?" Liu Lan was taken aback by her, and hurriedly reined in the horse, only three or five feet away from her. said: "Girl, there are still many beautiful things in life, how can you go to find a short-term view?" Think of your loved ones ......"
The woman was stunned for a long time before she reacted: "What is looking for short-sightedness, what life still has many beautiful things in the world, why do you want to say such inexplicable words?" The woman said that she found the dragon slaying knife on Liu Lan's waist, and a little fear arose in her heart. Quietly retreat, waiting for an opportunity to escape.
"The girl can't go back." Seeing that the woman was really going to fall into Luoshui if she retreated further, Liu Lan hurriedly reminded: "If you retreat again, you will fall into Luoshui." β
The woman immediately stopped. Seeing that there was no way to retreat, he turned his back and secretly put arrows on the crossbow. When a qiΔ is ready, raise your arms. aimed at Liu Lan and said, "You leave quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being polite." β
If you don't look carefully at the hand crossbow on the woman's arm, you won't find it at all, but how can the woman's move of raising her hand not let Liu Lan take a look at it, only to feel that Sen's cold arrow is aimed at herself, and she gasped, the crossbow machine is one of the standard equipment of the Northern Army and the Southern Army, not to mention ordinary people, even if it is a border army, it is rare to have one, especially her obviously improved small crossbow machine is tied to the arm, a bit like a pistol, pull the trigger to shoot arrows, and the lethality is several times greater than that of the bow at close range.
"I didn't expect the girl to have a crossbow on her body." Liu Lan didn't even dare to move, who knows which subconscious move will arouse the vigilance of this woman Once the trigger is pulled, it is so close that it is difficult to live. Hehe smiled: "This girl, I know that you treat me as a wicked person, but I am a good person who is serious, and I have no ill will towards you at all, I mistakenly thought that the girl was looking for a short time before I hurried here, put down the crossbow machine, I am not a bad person, if I accidentally pull the trigger, it will kill someone." β
If you can recognize my crossbow as an improvement of the crossbow machine, it seems that you are not an ordinary person. The woman can be sure that this person will not be a villain, not to mention that he can tell the origin of the crossbow with his well-cut training robe, which can never be worn by a wealthy and noble family, but this is not enough to make the woman relax her vigilance, although he is sure that he is not a villain, but he must be the son of the dog fighting Pegasus in Luoyang City, otherwise he would not approach himself with such a ridiculous reason.
The woman said: "Although the son is not a villain, he must also be a child of the squirting in Luoyang City, if she doesn't leave, the little woman will not show mercy in order to protect her innocence!" β
The woman's words were sonorous and powerful, and it didn't seem to be a lie at all, but that sentence made Liu Lan laugh out loud, Lao Tzu actually became the leader of Luoyang City? Do you really lift yourself up, if you do, you think that crossbow will keep you safe? I can't say that I can't rush back to the house, so I will enter the cave house first.
"Whoosh~~~"
The sound of the crossbow leaving the string sounded instantly, Liu Lan instantly ducked, the crossbow arrow flew over his scalp, and after landing, it was even more straight to the ground, Liu Lan was frightened, day, what I said so quietly can be heard?
Liu Lan's face was cold, he turned his head through gritted teeth, and almost roared: "Good men don't fight with women, if you are a man, I will not be ...... today
Whoosh~~~Whoosh~~~~~~
Fortunately, it's not a crossbow, it takes time to get in, otherwise Liu Lan will definitely die today, and he fled on horseback, and he didn't forget to turn around and roar: "I really hope that I am the Yang Xuan of Na Laoshizi now, and I can't say that I will snatch you back to the house and enter the cave room today, so that you know how good I am!" β
"Rude! Bummer! Shameless! β
"Dare to scold me, I have to snatch you back today."
When the girl heard this, she panicked, and she didn't want Liu Lan to disappear in a flash.
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The stunned woman looked at the young man who was clamoring to snatch her back to the house and fled in an instant, only then did she know that she had been fooled, she laughed and snorted coldly Don't let me see you again and put away her crossbow, she was no longer interested in appreciating Luoshui after being disturbed by him, turned around and left, and at this time Liu Lan met with everyone again.
Luoyang City covers an area of about 133,000 acres, built an outer city, the city is six miles east and west eleven steps, north and south nine miles one hundred steps, the inner city north and south nine miles seventy steps, east and west six miles ten steps, there is a moat outside the city, and because its city wall is not in a straight line, Luoyang City looks more like an irregular rectangle north-south city.
There are 12 gates in the outer city of Luoyang, except for the north summer gate is a door and three door holes, the rest are a gate and a hole, each city gate is built with a gate pavilion, and the city gate is set up to make the history and the city gate pavilion chief and other officials manage.
Different from the East Gate and the Upper East Gate in the east, there was no long queue at Wangjing Gate, and there was no situation where business travelers blocked the door opening, the reason was naturally to welcome Liu Lan and Mengyi and his party, and Wangjing Gate was closed to traffic early in the morning.
When everyone came to Wangjing Gate, several officials and the city gate Ling Shi and the city gate pavilion chief had been waiting for a long time, Xu was waiting for a long time, and his face was unhappy, Liu Lan pretended not to see it, and Meng Yi stepped forward to say hello.
In addition to the history of the city gate order and the chief of the city gate pavilion, the most heavyweight officials who came to greet the two were two, one was the long history of the Taiwei Mansion and the other was the temple of Guanglu Temple, which was already a very grand treatment, you must know that in previous years, not to mention the small county order of Meng Yi and Liu Lan, even if some generals returned triumphantly, the Taiwei Mansion would not send people to greet them, at most, Guanglu Temple sent a councillor, which is like today's Taiwei Mansion and Guanglu Temple's second-in-command one after another, which shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to the two Cheng dΓΉ.
received the order in Wangjing Tower, Meng Yi wanted to go back to the Taiwei Mansion to report on his work, and Liu Lan had to go to the post house to wait for the summons, as for when to sacrifice the prisoners, how to sacrifice the prisoners was not mentioned, Liu Lan was not easy to ask, and then said goodbye to Meng Yi, and followed the temple into the city from the Wangjing Gate.
Entering the city of Luoyang, the city gates are connected with the road, and because of the asymmetry between the road and the city gate, it is often in the shape of a T-shaped or cross-shaped, a total of 24 sections that are 24 streets, and each road is divided into parallel three strands, and the middle is the emperor's special imperial road. When the emperor went out on patrol, the accompanying ministers, Shangshu and other ministers could also walk in the meantime, and ordinary pedestrians at such times Liu Lan and Guanglu Temple could only walk on the left and right sides of the road.
The streets are full of deep-eyed and broad-nosed Hu people, of course, there is also the faint sound of the gonghou pipa of the Qinglou Music Workshop, the sound of the piano is melodious, exciting, and more intoxicating, like a dream, this is the capital of the Han Dynasty, the largest and most prosperous city in the world, and there is almost no one of the Luoyang City.
Luoyang, I'm Liu Lan here, from this moment on, will Liu Lan, who has been nesting in Lu Longsai, Beiping, be trapped in the dragon and ascend to heaven and write a new chapter?
Let's wait and see. (To be continued)