Chang'an City, the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, and Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty are two different things, and Chang'an in the Han Dynasty is located in the Guanzhong Plain south of the Wei River.

Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, is located in Longshouyuan, twenty miles southeast of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty.

The scale of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty is not comparable to that of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, and it is more than twice the size of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty.

The Beijing city of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations could not be compared with the Tang Chang'an City. Tang Chang'an City is more than twice as large.

Even the ancient Roman city of the same period as the Tang Dynasty was only one-fifth of the Tang Chang'an City. As for Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire at the same time, it was only one-seventh of Tang Chang'an.

Tang Chang'an City, at that time, did deserve to be the first city in the world.

There are a total of 12 city gates in Chang'an City, the south is the Mingde Gate in the middle, and the east and west are the Qixia Gate and the Anhua Gate respectively; In the middle of the east is the Chunming Gate, and the north and south are the Yanxing Gate and the Tonghua Gate respectively; In the middle of the west is the Jinguang Gate, and the north and south are the Yanping Gate and the Kaiyuan Gate respectively; The middle and eastern sections of the north side coincide with the north wall of Miyagi and the south wall of Daming Palace respectively, the middle section of the west section is Jingyao Gate, and the east and west are Fanglim Gate and Guanghua Gate respectively.

The city gate that Guo Ye and others entered was Mingde Gate, which was the largest city gate connecting Chang'an City to the outside of the city.

The layout of the entire Chang'an City, like a chessboard with stars falling, criss-crossed. It not only has 110 squares, but also distributes them in the east, west, north and south areas of the city. It also has eight streets that run through the north and south, and fourteen streets that span east and west, each of which is more than 100 meters wide, and the widest Suzaku Street is 155 meters.

There are 110 squares scattered all over Chang'an City, where the dignitaries of Chang'an City and millions of people in Chang'an City live. Each square has its own name, and the area is different, and each square is surrounded by a wall, which is somewhat similar to the community of our later generations.

Of course, the area of each square is definitely not comparable to that of later communities.

Therefore, fang can also be understood as a general reference to a community or street

After Guo Ye entered the Mingde Gate by car, he entered the largest street in Chang'an-Zhuque Street.

Suzaku Street is not only the largest street in Chang'an, but also the longest street, running from north to south, running through Mingde Gate and the main gate of the imperial city, Suzaku Gate.

After entering the Suzaku Gate, there is the imperial city, and non-royal relatives and people from the royal family are not allowed to settle in.

After entering the imperial city, will it be far from His Majesty Li Er, Empress Changsun, and the palace where three thousand beauties of the harem live?

The palace city is the core of the power of the Tang Empire, and the imperial city is the last barrier between Chang'an City and the palace city

After walking for a short distance on Suzaku Street, the groom suddenly stopped the horse and stopped the car, and asked Guo Yedao through the curtain: "My lord, should we go to Guozijian to report first?" Or do you want to go to the West Market first? If you go to the West Market first, the small one will turn left first. ”

The West Market in Mafu's mouth refers to the economic activity center of Chang'an City, which was also the national industrial and commercial trade center at that time, and an important place for economic exchanges between Datang and other foreign countries. Merchants gather here, there are many shops, there are a variety of goods, and the trade is extremely prosperous.

Naturally, the counterpart to the West Market, there is also the East Market.

It's just that one is in the west of Chang'an City, and the other is in the east of Chang'an City.

Guo Ye suddenly heard that Xishi was a little confused, but fortunately, Zhenniang next to him remembered it clearly, and immediately reminded: "Big official, have you forgotten?" Mr. Guan Jiu Guan Haitian Feast Restaurant is located in Xishimi. ”

Dizzy!

Guo Ye also secretly scolded himself for being too forgetful, how could he forget this stubble. It seems that he told the groom before he entered Chang'an City, and his restaurant in Chang'an City opened the West Market, so he asked him to come to the West Market to remind him that he was coming.

Then he smiled at Zhenniang, and then instructed the horseman: "When you arrive in Chang'an City, you will naturally choose a place to settle first." Guozijian, it's been delayed for so long anyway, and it's not a day or two away. Let's go to the West Market first and find a good place to stay. ”

When the groom heard this, he replied, "Well, sit's up, sir!" ”

Syllable~~

There was another bang, and the carriage slowly began to turn again, and it was clearly turning a corner.

The four Guanzhong swordsmen, who were supposed to be in charge of opening the way, switched positions with the carriage at this time, followed the carriage closely, and rode their horses slowly.

Da Da Da ~~

The horse's hooves slackened, the carriage ran, and soon turned into the street in the direction of the West Market, and drove unhurriedly.

After traveling for about half an hour, the carriage finally entered the West Market area.

As soon as he entered the West Market, he said that the horseman outside the car, the knife hand riding the horse, and even Guo Ye and Zhenniang in the car were also stopped by the bustle of the West Market.

Xishi, as the economic and trade center of Chang'an, is really worthy of being the economic and trade center of Chang'an, and has a fight with the commercial downtown area of later generations.

Coming and going, the traffic was busy, and Guo Ye could clearly feel the congestion on the road, causing the carriage to travel slowly.

Everywhere along the street, the sound of shouting and selling with accents from all over the world filled the ears.

The various shops along the street completely opened Guo Ye's eyes.

It is not surprising what garment shops, cake shops, incense and candle shops, oil shops, rice shops, blacksmith shops, inns, restaurants, taverns, tea houses, jewelry shops, etc.

What made Guo Ye look at it was that there was still an arms shop specializing in swords, guns, swords, and halberds.

And this is still the imperial capital of Chang'an, at the feet of the Son of Heaven. It seems that the martial atmosphere of the Tang people can be seen from the folk of Chang'an, the imperial capital.

Suddenly, a fresh fragrance entered the nose, looking for a shop that emitted the fragrance, it was actually a spice shop, and the person standing on the counter shouting and selling spices was actually a foreigner.

A foreigner with a big nose, blue eyes, and curly golden-haired hair.

This big nose actually speaks fluent Chinese, shouting: "Passing by, old and young masters, big girls and aunts, don't miss it!" The new spices of the big food country, we eat the pimple the most credibility and the most important quality. Sell inferior goods, you cut me to death! ”

Aren't the foreigners of the big food country Arabs?

Milk ball, how can this big cannibal speak Chinese and still have a Northeast flavor? Could it be that this big nose is still studying in the pimple in the Northeast?

The car continued to move forward, and the further it went, the more shops opened by foreigners increased, and there were actually ginseng shops opened by Baekje and Silla people, small pickle shops opened by Koreans, and salted fish shops opened by small Japan, of course, this salted fish must be the salted fish of sea fish.

I'm going to go, these dog-day little Japanese and Korean sticks really dare to sell anything?

This West Market is really a hodgepodge of expatriate residences.

The car moved on......

After a while, Guo Ye seemed to see something, and suddenly poked his head outward.

It's actually -- Orchid Restaurant.

The orchid wine shop is not an ordinary wine shop, but a place opened by people from the Western Regions, and brought Western beauties from the Western Regions to dance and serve wine for drinkers.

This is the place that men are most willing to go to except for the brothel of the Qinglou.

Didn't the great poet Li Bai also have a good time here, and while watching the beauties of the Western Regions dancing the navel dance, he drank a little wine, and the wine was full of poetry, and he wrote the "Youth Xing" that has been passed down through the ages.

Guo Ye still remembers it vividly:

"Wuling is young in the east of the golden city, and the silver saddle and white horse spend the spring breeze."

"Falling flowers wander wherever they go, and laugh into the orchid restaurant."

Looking at this poem and thinking about Li Bai's situation at that time, you can understand how comfortable and high-spirited Lao Li was when he drank high.

There were a few graceful orchids from the Western Regions standing outside the wine shop, and when they saw Guo Ye poking out his head and looking at them, he kept waving his arms, and the warbler Yanyan said Meng Lang's words in his mouth, beckoning Guo Ye to come in.

Hiss......

Guo Ye felt a pain in his waist, as if he had been twisted hard, retracted his head, and found that Zhen Niang was extremely charming and gave him a white look.

It's clear in an instant, Zhen Niang is quite protective of food!

The carriage continued to move forward, and the sound of the horse's hooves was still crunching......

After about half a cup of tea, I suddenly heard a carriage drink:

"Yu ......"

The carriage finally stopped, and the groom said outside: "My lord, the Haitian Feast Restaurant can be regarded as found!" Oh, the adult's restaurant is really magnificent, three stories high! ”

"Hmm!"

Guo Ye responded, and just wanted to get out of the carriage, when he suddenly heard the groom's surprise again, and muttered: "Hey, something is wrong, what's going on?" ”

How? Could it be that you are in the wrong place?

Guo Ye got up slowly, lifted the curtain and poked his head out just to take a look.

A knifeman suddenly dismounted and came to his carriage and reported:

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