"Why wait for Luanhe in three mountains? This place is Yingzhou every year.
Chang'an is just ahead."
The boy in gray clothes who was responsible for entertaining the students to visit Chang'an took the lead with his chest held high and his face proudly walking at the front of the team, followed by students from several state capitals such as Zhenzhou, Xuanzhou, and Xiangzhou.
Song Shaoyuan, Zhai Yiming and others looked up at the thick city wall in front of them that seemed to tower into the clouds, and sincerely admired it.
"All gentlemen, please follow me. Our current location is Mingde Gate in the south of Chang'an."
The young boy in gray clothes named Wu Qiqi, like the tour guide in Li Ang's memory of another world, led the students from various states to the mainland with a smile and stood in the queue leading to the gate of the city tower.
Chang'an has a population of three million. A large number of envoys, officials, businessmen, farmers, and workers need to enter and leave the city every day.
It's just the beginning of the morning (7 o'clock in the morning), and there are already long queues on the roads at each gate, and as time goes by, the queues are getting longer.
"The overall shape of Chang'an City is a square, with three gates on each side of the southeast, northwest, and north. To the north are Guanghua Gate, Jingyao Gate, and Fanglin Gate. To the east are Tonghua Gate, Chunming Gate, and Yanxing Gate. To the west are Kaiyuan Gate.
Jinguang Gate, Yanping Gate. To the south are Anhua Gate, Mingde Gate, and Qixia Gate.
There are six streets connected by a total of twelve city gates, which are the main traffic arteries of Chang'an City.
During the Yongchang period, the Holy Queen planned to open a few more gates on the city wall to ease the pressure of transportation in and out of Chang'an every day. However, this decision was rejected by the three provinces on the grounds that the Academy had optimized the city entry procedures and there was no need to open the city gates like
Just like before, hundreds of soldiers were required to take turns guarding the city gate, carefully opening the packages of every person entering the city..."
Along with Wu Shiqi’s tour guide’s explanation, the queue gradually accelerated.
Soon Li Ang saw the soldiers wearing armor and swords sitting behind the guardrail under Mingde Gate, as well as the hounds they were leading.
Those who want to enter the city, whether they are envoys, officials, merchants, or farmers, need to walk up to the soldiers and have their clothes and luggage carefully sniffed by hounds.
If the hound does not bark at all, it can pass quickly,
And if the hound barks, the soldiers will stop it, open the package and inspect it carefully.
"Those hounds are all raised by the Zhong family of Zhenfusi."
Wu Shiqi said with a smile: "Their family had a school chief in the pre-Sui Dynasty, and since then they have been raising various breeds of hounds for the royal family and the school.
From the palm-sized pug to the size of a teapot,
As tall as a person, a blood-seeking mastiff capable of tearing apart tigers and leopards.
Even the fine dogs used by the Zhenfusi and local government offices to track bandits were bred by them using special methods.
Every hunting dog bred by the Zhong family has a booklet, which details the dog's pedigree and various training procedures it has received.
Such as tracking wild animals and traveling long distances,
Or understand the instructions and guide the blind person to go out,
Or you can sniff out scents, help the police department catch bad guys, or help the hostess catch her husband's mistress."
Wu Qiqi curled his lips playfully and said with a smile: "I don't know how many officials and wealthy businessmen are chased out of Pingkangfang by Fulin dogs every year."
All the scholars present had heard about what place Pingkangfang was, and they all laughed "I understand, I understand."
The female students in the crowd also had their eyes shining brightly, as if they wanted to raise an all-purpose hunting dog to identify scumbags and beat up mistresses.
"However, although there are many dog-raising companies in the world, only the Zhong family is the best. Without a household registration book stamped by the Zhong family, a dog is just a dog and cannot be counted as a hunting dog.
And every hunting dog produced by the Zhong family costs more than a thousand guan.
Those that can sniff and track odors over long distances are not for sale and cannot be purchased through ordinary channels."
Wu Shiqi added with a smile: "Of course, you are all elite scholars, and you will definitely be able to enter the academy. By then, you will be classmates with the children of the Zhong family, so there is no problem in asking for a hunting dog."
"One thousand strings..."
Li Ang in the crowd clicked his tongue. His current total wealth was only 490 pounds, and he couldn't even afford a half-price Zhong family hound.
"One thousand yuan can buy ten ordinary houses in Zhenzhou."
Chai Cuiqiao on the side was also stunned and said: "How many single-cage golden milk cakes, mando-shaped pancakes, Ju Sheng Nu, imperial concubine red, Brahmin light noodles, Royal Yellow Queen Mother rice, longevity porridge, Sheng Jin can be bought with this."
Duck flower soup cake...”
"How about you tell me the name of the dish?"
Li Ang rolled his eyes, "You didn't have enough breakfast."
"Breakfast is over, don't we have to have lunch now?"
Chai Cuiqiao said seriously: "I haven't eaten for half an hour."
"Wu Shiqi, is it so early today?"
The soldiers guarding Mingde Gate knew Wu Shiqi and asked with a smile: "Are you bringing the Academy candidates to Chang'an?"
"yes."
Wu Qiqi smiled solemnly and held up his hands, turned sideways, and asked Song Shaoyuan and other students from various states to step forward and take out paper documents such as a pass (equivalent to a pass) to verify their identity.
"Um?"
Li Ang raised his eyebrows in slight surprise. When Wu Qiqi handed over his hand just now, the skin of his arm under the cuff seemed to have a green tattoo.
Gang member?
Although the tour guide was sent directly not from the academy, but from a department under Taichang Temple that assists in the academy's admissions, but a gang member was sent here...
Forget it, it's not that important anyway. Snakes have their own paths, and rats have their own paths.
Li Ang did not think about this matter for too long and followed Song Shaoyuan and others forward.
Just like the security check at a traffic station in another world, everyone took off the iron tools they carried with them in advance, especially swords and daggers, and sniffed them through hounds in turn.
When they arrived at Li Ang, the black and orange hound squatted on the ground, hesitated for a moment, and barked at the medicine box at Li Ang's waist.
"Um?"
The city gate soldier looked over and said, "Xiao Langjun, what's in your box..."
"Oh, sorry, I almost forgot."
Li Ang opened the medicine box and showed the surgical tools inside, "I am a doctor here, and these are my medical tools in the box."
"Knife, silver needle, and silver thread?"
A soldier curiously picked up the strange-looking silver midwifery forceps from the medicine box and asked, "What is this?"
"Don't move."
The leading sergeant frowned and scolded his subordinates, "Any contraband such as steel armor, crossbow parts, or fireworks and firecracker fuel can be released. The teams behind are still waiting."
"Yes, Captain!"
The young soldier was so frightened that he quickly put the midwifery forceps carefully back into the medicine box and stepped back half a step to let Li Ang and Chai Cuiqiao pass.
Pretty strict.
Li Ang and Chai Cuiqiao walked through the city gate. The moment they passed the city gate, they felt like they were covered in rain.
"Um?"
Li Ang looked up at the top of the city cave and saw only the thick black masonry.
Chang'an's city defense system seems to consist of more than just city guards and hunting dogs...
This chapter has been completed!