Luoyang, at this moment, Luoyang is far from being the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and it is not a big city, but a city with a population of about 80,000.

It is a city, not a city, Luoyang originally had a city wall, but with the order of the first emperor, its city wall was collapsed in a bang, and after that, no one thought about re-establishing the city wall, but the turbulence of the times coupled with the lack of materials and manpower, dragged and dragged until it was included in the territory of the empire, and Lu Zhe did not want the city in the world to have a city wall, so Luoyang did not build a city wall again.

Under the rule of Lü Zhe, the empire has been carrying out local infrastructure construction out of national policy. There are only several reasons for the large-scale construction of local infrastructure, which is to concentrate the young and strong and easy to control, and to give people after the war a little economic source to eat.

In fact, the local infrastructure construction in every place starts from the construction of roads, and the starting point is not the concept of "building roads first if you want to get rich", but considering that there is good road traffic, the army can reach the desired place in the fastest time.

Eight or nine years have passed, as Lu Zhe was the first to be included in the scope of the rule of those places, all roads lead to Nanling, the traffic in the south has been repeatedly planned and strengthened, each county will inevitably have a national highway road directly to the imperial capital Nanling, and then there are some county-level roads leading to various large and small counties, and then there are county roads leading to the countryside, the development of transportation leads to not only stability in various places, but also the flow of materials is also very convenient, and the economic development has also been able to develop rapidly.

Carefully calculated, the Central Plains was included in the territory of Lü Zhe's rule for only three years, and the infrastructure construction in various places was almost three years, and the traffic situation on the roads was only expanded on the original basis, although the national highway was urgently built. However, in terms of scale, it is naturally not comparable with the southern counties that have been under construction for eight or nine years.

A huge team of more than 40,000 people walked the national highway, and it took them nearly a month to enter the boundary of Sanchuan County from the imperial capital Nanling.

The reason for this is that there are too many wagons loaded with goods in the 41,000-strong procession, and if you count them carefully, there are more than 33,000 carriages in the procession, and some of them are goods to be brought back from Central Asia. There are also merchants from the Empire who will bring goods to be sold in distant places. Of course, horse-drawn carts loaded with grain and other materials are absolutely indispensable, and some carriages are also loaded with military equipment and other materials.

There were many people and many carriages, and this excessively large team always attracted attention every time it passed, and at first people thought that it was another army that was going to the battlefield, but when they saw the situation in the team, they were confused, and after a little inquiry, they realized that it was a team of envoys.

"That's a lot! The carriages lined up, and the twenty-odd miles of the procession looked spectacular! ”

"yes. Oh, yes! I heard that when I turned into the Mikawa-gun National Highway, there were many people and many carriages, which caused a blockage! ”

"There are so many carriages, each carriage needs at least one horse to pull, and some carriages need two horses to pull, it is estimated that there will be no less than 50,000 horses just pulling the carriage, and the empire is really getting stronger and stronger."

"That's it. The empire is strong and powerful for all to see, didn't there be a team to the imperial capital a few days ago? The horses that the team drove were densely packed. At least 300,000 horses! ”

"Wow! 300,000 horses? ”

"That is the spoils of war with the Huns and other Hu people, in addition to more than 300,000 horses, the number of cattle and sheep is terrifying, there are nearly 2.5 million cattle and sheep!"

"What? More than 2.5 million cattle and sheep? ”

"Hehe, so let's talk about it, it's good to win. But ah. It's not just that team, a few days ago, a team of Wusun also passed near Luoyang. There are also about 50,000 Wusun horses in the ranks who are guarded by the Wehrmacht, and I heard that the king of Wusun wants to present to our majesty, and they look majestic! ”

The procession of the envoys approached Luoyang. There were quite a few onlookers who came to watch, and they chatted with each other about strange things, and the longer the time passed, the more people came around, and even some people went to the countryside to let their fellow villagers come to see the strangeness.

"That's a lot of people!"

"Well, the Eastern Empire is a large country with a population of 50 million, and they have more than 100,000 people in any random city."

"To be honest, before I came to the East, I would never have believed that there would be more than two million people living together in the world, but Nanling told me with facts that there are really metropolises with more than two million people in the world. Now that I think about it, there were only about 400,000 people in Antioch, and they dared to claim to be the most populous city in the world, and I feel that the Seleucids were really too good at boasting. ”

"'Antioch'? It is indeed the most populous city on our side, even Athens, which is more than 3,000 years old, cannot be compared, but compared to the Eastern Empire, there are at least tens of thousands of people in any random city here......"

Athens was naturally the Athens of Greece, and Antioch was the capital of the Seleucid Empire.

There are only so many Central Asian powers now, and the regions they know also include the Mediterranean regions, but no matter how you compare, including Central Asia and the Mediterranean region, the population of each city is more like a medium-sized city in the Eastern Empire than it is on the side of the Eastern Empire.

In fact, in Central Asia, every city is at least 20,000 or 30,000 people, but a city with more than 50,000 people is a medium-sized city, and more than 100,000 people are metropolises. What about the Mediterranean? A city with a population of several thousand is considered a medium-sized city, and more than 20,000 or 30,000 people dare to call it a metropolis.

In Central Asia, although there are not many cities with more than 100,000 people, at least twenty or thirty can be counted, but there are only a handful of cities with more than 100,000 people on the Mediterranean side. However, no matter how you count it, these strangers who came to the Eastern Empire, they faced the Eastern Empire full of cities full of more than 50,000 people, and a city with a little more than 100,000 people, in addition to being stunned, they only had a wry smile.

"Perhaps...... If you want to compare the number of people, only the Mauryan Empire can compare with the Eastern Empire, but the Mauryan Empire ......"

"Huh. How to compare? Hua's City, the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty, also chose the river to sit on the bank of the Ganges River, but the population was only more than 300,000, which was inferior to Antioch, and there was no comparison with Nanling. In addition, the Mauryan Dynasty was more spectacular and civilized except for Fahrenheit. The rest of the urban planning can only be described as a mess, and even their people have no habit of living in cities at all, preferring to live in the wilderness rather than build cities. ”

"No kidding, okay? Have you seen a similar civilization anywhere other than this Eastern Empire? This Eastern Empire talks about rules, and their 'rules' are called 'Fang Yuan', that is, everything is used to planning, and if it is planned compared with the Eastern Empire, people all over the world should die of shame. ”

"Haha! Yes, I've been to quite a few places. I have even been to the distant Roman Republic, but I can swear with my eyes that any city in the world is a pearl compared to the planning of the Eastern Empire, and the rest of the cities are only comparable to Athens on the Greek side, and the others are all shit! ”

"There is no comparison, there is no comparison. The streets of Antioch are full of household garbage, and people are also defecating in the open...... People should always be careful when walking on the streets, and someone will spill overnight feces and pee......"

"Athens is the most civilized in the Mediterranean. Although there is no garbage everywhere on the streets, they are not very tidy. Except for the main way, there is no place where and urine are everywhere. ”

"Alas, the people of the Eastern Empire are too particular, to the point of rigidity and paranoia. I'll tell you something, someone on my side found an alley at the corner of the road to defecate according to his previous habit, and he just took off his pants to pull. The moment he squatted down, he was immediately caught......"

"No one can laugh at anyone, our living habits are too inconsistent with them, and people who don't understand the 'rules' have more or less encountered such embarrassing things."

"It's because things like this happen so much that their people call us barbarians. And it seems that we are really too uncivilized compared to the people on the side of the Eastern Empire. ”

A very real history, on the side of Chinese civilization, since the Song and Song dynasties, although the streets are not very clean, there will never be the phenomenon of feces and urine everywhere, but in the cities of countries all over the world during the same period, their cities can be splashed because of open urine, and even overnight feces and urine can be splashed, and the smell of feces and urine is everywhere.

The incident of being splashed with overnight feces and urine on the road was still happening after 1800 A.D., when the world had colonized Britain, and London, the capital of the United Kingdom, which claimed to be the most civilized country in the world. Even around 1900, this was happening in London and in the cities of any of the rest of the self-healing civilizations.

Paris, the most touristy city in modern times, knows what it used to be called? It's called "the city of and urine". It should be said that any city in Europe, which claims to be the birthplace of world civilization, is like this, and on the contrary, even in the most absurd China under the rule of "my Qing Dynasty", the dirtiest and most chaotic city will not appear to be full of excrement and filth.

Any idea why there is such a difference? It's all because there is a profession in the Chinese civilization, that is, the "incense collector", that is, the so-called "night incense", when this began to appear is difficult to study, some people say that it is from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and some people say that it is from the Tang Dynasty, but there is no actual evidence, but whatever, thanks to the profession of "incense collector", at least the title of "ancient civilization" has something that can be taken out to prove, so that since ancient times, the Chinese city will not be filled with the smell of feces and urine.

"Actually, what I want to do most is to learn from the Eastern Empire as soon as I go home, build a great place like a toilet at home, and then install the thing I bought called a toilet!"

"The same! The Eastern Empire was so amazing that it was able to invent such a thing. ”

"Not only do I have to install it myself, but I also have to suggest to the Governor that I learn the water facilities of the Eastern Empire, and then let the whole city have running water, and I will contract this business, and then I will be flooded with gold."

"You bought their patents?"

"Why buy it? We are at least tens of thousands of miles away from the Eastern Empire, what have I done, will they know? Even if they knew, as long as I didn't come to the Eastern Empire again, how could they pursue it? Send their public security to go tens of thousands of miles away to arrest me to the Eastern Empire? ”

"That's a good idea, but do you know how water delivery works? Do you know the whole supporting technology? ”

"It's not difficult, is it? It's about making clay pots and ......"

"Haha! Idiot, you're a big idiot! ”

"Bastard! You're an idiot! ”

"There's a reason to call you an idiot. Listen to me slowly. Do you know that clay pots are a necessary tool for transporting water, and we can also make clay pots, but do you know how to link clay pots, and then make sure that the water does not leak, and that the water can be transported according to the clay pots you linked? ”

"I already know the principle, it is a thing called water pressure, if it doesn't work once, you will experiment ten times, and if it doesn't work ten times, you will experiment a hundred times, a thousand times, and the experiment will always be successful. Once successful, I will be a rich man! ”

At this time, someone came over, and the merchant who didn't know the news was reminded that the empire allowed them to temporarily set up stalls and sell goods to people around Luoyang, but they were trading under the supervision of the Luoyang tax officer, and they had to pay the corresponding taxes for each completed transaction.

"How long can you set up a stall?"

"Three days, that person named Liu Bang, he only allowed us to stay in Luoyang for three days."

"So, every time you pass through a city in the future, will you have the opportunity to sell or buy goods?"

"They only allow us to sell, not buy. The acquisition will be carried out by their own merchants. ”

"Oh my God, that's not fair! They should allow us to buy at will! ”

"Perhaps...... Should we protest en masse? ”

"That's right! That's it! ”

On the other side, Liu Bang, Chen Yu, and Han Xin, they were meeting with the county guard of Sanchuan County, and they were also discussing the acquisition.

In fact, the center of the empire did not prohibit foreign merchants who came from afar and would return to purchase goods along the way, it was the idea of the Sanchuan county guard. The reason why he forbade it was because he was worried that the people under his rule would suffer.

"There is no good thing in the alien race, I heard that they do not pay attention to honesty in business, bully people do not understand the actual value of things, and they are going to die to lower the price. Then, instead of selling items to foreign merchants, it is better to let our people purchase them at a reasonable price. ”

"This ......"

"Hehe, if a foreign merchant wants to make a purchase, will the baron send someone to assess the value of the goods? Foreign-based merchants sell goods, and if they think it's not suitable, our people don't buy it, and if they buy it, they will only be fooled as a lesson, but how ......can they be sold?"

Liu Bang wondered in his heart, how could he send someone to supervise every transaction? Simply, just follow the meaning of the county guard, anyway, he doesn't want to care about this kind of that he doesn't know whether to manage or not. (To be continued......)