"How might it be!" Li Luo exclaimed, "I should do this in the capital of the Tang Dynasty!"

Even though Li Luo and Cui Xiuning participated in the design of Chang'an City, they had seen the pictures, but at this time they still felt extremely visual shock when they stood under Chang'an City.

Chang'an City was built on the ruins of the Chang'an City of the previous Tang Dynasty. It is located on the highest earth plateau on the Guanzhong Plain, and it has the potential to be high-rise. In addition, the palaces are majestic and the city walls are tall, making it look down at Guanzhong.

People are outside Chang'an City and need to look up at the majestic city.

Li Luo knew that the area of ​​Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty reached 81 square kilometers and a circumference of 72 miles, which was already extremely large. However, the Chang'an City he rebuilt had an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers and a circumference of 80 miles! The area alone was larger than that of Chang'an City back then.

There are nine gates in Chang'an City, with the city walls as high as five Tang zhang and three Tang zhang thick, all of which are made of bricks and stones. And every ten meters there is a fortress and fortress, which is as solid as gold. Over the years, it has taken 200,000 laborers to build this eighty-mile-long city wall alone.

In order to burn the city bricks, a trench ten feet wide and two feet deep was dug outside the city wall to draw enough water into it and become a moat.

Such a huge city with high walls and deep moats, even if 100,000 enemy troops are at the city, they can only sigh at the city and sigh without any help.

Although it is considered to be a restoration in a sense by referring to the layout and structure of Chang'an City in the early Tang Dynasty. Li Luo did not use the name of the Nine Gate of the Tang Dynasty. He felt that names such as Chunming Gate, Mingde Gate, and Jinguang Gate were not tall enough.

So he gave the name of the New Chang'an Nine Gate, named after the ancient Jiuzhou, namely Tianyong Gate, Tianji Gate, Tianyu Gate, Tianqing Gate, Tianyang Gate, etc. The city gate in front of Li Luo was the Zhongmen Tianyu Gate in the East City of Chang'an.

Above the towering city tower, a large Tang-like banner, waving in the spring breeze, and a national flag representing the royal family of the Tang Dynasty: the dragon and phoenix present auspicious flag.

Behind the moat that is more than ten feet long and three feet wide is a huge city gate. At the top of the city gate are two large characters "Chang'an" and three small large characters "Tianyu Gate" below.

Beside the moat, there were kneeling full of officials from the internal government and the Ministry of Rites who came to greet him. They arrived in Chang'an some time in advance and were ready.

"The emperor has arrived! The court has arrived! The music has come." Wu Zhenlou sang loudly.

"Woo woo woo woo-"

"Boom boom boom boom"

One hundred horns were clamoring to the sky, and one hundred eight cannons were roaring and resounding throughout the sky.

As the sound of cannons and horns stopped, bells and drums were heard, and a hundred music was played together, and the grand and elegant music slowly rose. The guard of honor was filled with picturesque flags, accompanied by elephants, pandas, rhinos, lions and tigers, white cranes, big turtles, green cows, white horses, sika deer, pythons and other auspicious beasts.

"Cry! Cry!" Under the command of the Mongolian eagle raising men, the nine seas flew high with colorful banners congratulating the emperor, spread their wings and flew straight into the sky, soaring and hovering on the city tower, like a phoenix.

On the city tower, the dancer danced gracefully. Above the tall building, a singer who looked like a goddess, hugged the pipa and sang in the dancer's dance posture:

"The Holy King opened up the country and the magnificent Tang Dynasty. The Han family was restored, and the border was 30,000 miles away. The sun and the moon shone on the mountains and rivers, and the dragon and phoenix flew into the imperial capital. The sun of Chang'an was the prosperous world... "

The song is loud and lofty, and the sound moves thousands of people, just like the sound of nature.

As the monarchs and ministers of the Tang court listened to the singing, many people's thoughts flew back to the glorious past of sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, determined to expel the Tartars and restore the Central Plains. Many Yuan Cong generals were all crying with tears in their eyes and cried with joy.

Only when they are about to arrive in Chang'an will they fully realize that the great cause of the Tang Dynasty will be finally accomplished!

Follow the Holy Lord to make achievements, become a hero for a lifetime, leave a name for history, and gain wealth and honor to win the title of a wife and a son, so as not to waste the life of a good man.

What a blessing to be able to be used by the lord, restore the Central Plains and create the prosperous Tang Dynasty!

Coincidentally, for some reason, just as the song was about to stop, one of the white elephants in the South China Sea used as a guard of ceremonies raised its huge nose and roared to the sky.

“Moo—moo moo!”

As soon as the elephant roared to the sky, the other eight elephants also roared to the sky. Nine elephant trunks were erected together, like nine huge trumpets, playing against the sky.

Immediately afterwards, in the surprise of everyone, the lions and tigers in the guard of honor all roared to the sky.

"Aowu-Aowu!"

The majestic roar of lions and tigers combined with the roar of elephants, which moved the world and was extremely shocking. Then, the white horses in the ceremonial guards also neighed, and the green cows and rhinos also mooed.

For some reason, suddenly nine pairs of cranes spread their wings and flew up, dancing in the air, making "crying" sounds, which complemented the Qingqing in the East.

The roars of more than a hundred auspicious beasts came one after another, like playing, accompanied by the flying of the cranes and the green sea in the east, it was really spectacular and inexplicably indescribable.

Tens of thousands of people were stunned.

This is a great auspicious sign.

What's this?

Isn’t this the birds and beasts dance mentioned in the ancient book?

Especially the civil officials, they were even more excited when they saw this. "Book of Books: Yiji" says, "The Phoenix Emperor comes to the ceremony, and all beasts lead the dance."

When Your Majesty arrives in Chang'an, this scene appears. Isn't it just that the Phoenix Emperor comes to the ceremony and the beasts lead the dance?

Such auspicious omen, it really appeared in front of you today.

Li Luo was also very happy. These birds and beasts really give face.

In fact, he and Choi Soo-ning both knew what was going on.

To put it bluntly, it was nothing more than the timid elephant being stimulated by the sound and roaring to the sky. Then the elephant's screams stimulated other auspicious beasts, and everyone shouted together.

But these wild beasts have been specially tamed and still maintained some order, which has shown such an effect.

However, the officials of Silu Temple immediately solemnly recorded: "On March 21, 2018, Hongwu, I went to Chang'an Tianyu Gate, and the cranes showed good luck, and hundreds of beasts danced... Ten thousand people witnessed it. This was a great affair with the ancient sage king."

Immediately, the internal government ordered the Central Officer Kang Xi to come forward and report: "I report to Your Majesty, the arrangements in the palace are all done, everything is ready, just wait for Your Majesty and the Holy Lord!"

Wu Zhenlou, the Minister of Rites, also came forward to report to the report: "I am telling you that the palace city, imperial city, and outer city have been ordered to clean up and clean up. The inner palace and the imperial court offices are all properly prepared. I respectfully ask Your Majesty to enter the city and place hundreds of officials!"

Wen Tianxiang and other civil and military ministers knelt down together, shouting long live the mountain, "I respectfully invite Your Majesty to enter the city to the right position!"

Li Luo took Cui Xiuning's hand and stood on the high chariot, saying aloud: "Enter the city!"

"Abide by the order!"

In an emergency, the Yunyan Palace Carriage, driven by two green oxen, was pulled in front of the Sima Royal Chariot. The emperor and the queen walked off the Sima Royal Chariot and boarded the Double Niu Yunchariot.

Because the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty was Laozi, and the green ox was Laozi's mount, which was of great significance. In addition, China is a farming civilization, so the green ox is a national beast, and the ox cart is more respected than the horse cart.

According to the "Dramatic Rules of the Tang Dynasty: Veteran Costume", only emperors and empresses are qualified to ride in a pair of blue cows.

The ox cart is slow and steady, suitable for short distance use and is also suitable for use in urban areas with a large number of people, because the ox's pulling force is far better than the horsepower, and it is often enough for one head and occupying a small road width.

The driver of the Blue Niu Cloud Chariot is the Taoist official of the newly built Taishang Taoist Palace in Chang'an. The two Taoist officials wore purple robes, lotus crowns, and Yin-Yang Bagua jade plaques, which meant that purple qi came from the east.

Surrounded by the guards, the green niu Yunyan slowly climbed up the hill through the moat bridge. There were steps on both sides of the lane. After crossing the river, they climbed more than ten feet high before they arrived at the city gate and entered the Hongda Chang'an City.

Once you pass through the three-meter-deep city gate, there is an arched bunker and a large gate. The bunker has dense shooting holes, different sizes, and can fire muskets, crossbows, and small cannons.

This arched bunker that guards the city gate is an insurance mechanism that is useless in normal times. It can only be used in an emergency and can station hundreds of troops. Once the enemy attacks the city, even if it enters the city gate, it will face this bunker, which is equivalent to the second city gate.

After passing the arched bunker, the front suddenly became clear, and a straight and wide avenue seemed to be invisible at first sight, extending to the majestic palace city in the distance.

This is one of the imperial roads in the city, also known as Tianjie, which is more than ten Tang zhang wide, which is Dongtianjie. Li Luo divided Chang'an City into four counties: Chang'an, Wannian, Taiping and Shengshi. The location of Dongtianjie is under the jurisdiction of Shengshi County.

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning sat on the stable green ox cloud chariot. When they saw the scene in the city, they were immediately full of energy and proud. When the ministers saw it, they were all amazed.

Tianjie Imperial Road is made of blue bricks, with locust trees and willows planted on both sides, green trees are shaded and flowers are clustered. There are also special sidewalks on both sides of the carriage and horse road.

And every ten feet away, there is a pair of stone lamp stands, with exquisite Panchi lamps (moving lanterns).

It is conceivable that if the street lights of Chang'an City were bright, as bright as stars and as bright as daylight, it would be.

It is said that not only Tianjie Avenue in the southeast, northwest and northeast, but also in the second-class streets, lampstands have been built. The street lights in the entire Chang'an outer city alone are as high as 4,000,000 silver dollars, and the lighting fee for the outer city alone can be spent 100,000 silver dollars every year.

But the emperor said that doing so would make Chang'an Night Market more prosperous and business more prosperous. The extra commercial taxes collected every year would be more than 100,000 lighting fees.

Just such a big deal in Tianjie made the ministers admire him, not to mention the markets on both sides of Tianjie.

But there are shops of all sizes and rows, all of which are simple and stylish, but not the same, but have their own styles. There are streets between the shops, and then the streets are Minfang District. Each shop is scattered with scattered streets, and the roads are well connected. There are walls between each shop, but they are connected to each other.

The ministers also saw a relatively obvious name for the archway: Zihuaifang, Shengshi County.

Why did it be called Zihuaifang? Everyone quickly understood. It turned out that the nearby streets of this yard were planted with purple locust trees.

Soon, I saw a lot of pear trees, which was indeed called "Pear Blossom House".

To be honest, this is the first time they have seen such a neat and beautiful market, and they can't help but have a great eye-opener.

There is no one in the shop and no one is living in the market. It is not difficult to imagine how lively the scene will be soon.

I heard that in Chang'an City, whether it is Danei, Huangcheng, or the streets of Waicheng Fangshi, there are underground drainage burrows, which discharge sewage to the large water storage pond outside the city, and then send it to farmlands in the suburbs through the large pond ditch.

The monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty walked west along the East Tian Street, passing the polo court, Cuju Field, Book Pavilion, East Garden (East Park), County School, Ci'en Court, Theater, Bathroom Hall, etc.

The yards we pass by are mostly "Shugefang", "Dongyuanfang", Xuetangfang, etc.

There are other fire stations, Qingcheng stations, police stations, horse and chariot stations, copper guitai, etc.

After walking for more than two miles, a huge two-story house suddenly appeared at the intersection, but it did not look like the house of ordinary people. The plaque on it was written as: Dongshi Mall.

Dongshi Department Store!

This is what Your Majesty and Empress call a department store. It is said that this department store is different from ordinary shopping streets. Instead, it concentrates department stores in one place, with everything, and can enter hundreds of merchants and include hundreds of goods, so it is called a mall.

For such a shopping mall, there is one in the outer city, southeast, west and northeast, and a total of four shopping malls.

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning were very satisfied when they saw the ministers' amazement.

After walking another mile, I arrived near a city wall that was more than three meters high, but I arrived at the imperial city.

The imperial city is not a palace city, ten miles long and wide, but is the imperial office, the main halls of various road palaces, the residences of noble officials above the fifth rank, the Taimiao, the bell and drum tower, the imperial barracks, the Datang Bank, the capital city Taicang, the university palaces, the national treasury, the Tianzhuo, the Temple of Heaven, etc.

The guards in the imperial city are already relatively strict. However, according to the system, people in the outer city can still come in, but they only need stricter searches and interrogations.

All the officials followed the imperial carriage into the imperial city, but the atmosphere was particularly different. The buildings in the imperial city were even taller and more majestic, and they already had a majestic posture.

On the huge square that covers an area of ​​more than one mile, there is a tall bell tower and drum tower. Surrounding the square are the solemn Temple of Heaven, Zhongwu Dao Palace, Taishang Dao Palace, Yanhuang Di Palace, Zhisheng Wen Palace, Lumo Shen Palace, and Taimiao.

The main halls and Taimiao are magnificent, majestic and solemn, and have different shapes. In front of each temple, tall statues stand tall.

The statue of the god before the Taimiao was an old man wearing a celestial crown on his head, and it was Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan.

Before the Taishang Taoist Palace, there was a Taoist Lord riding a green cow and holding the Taoist scriptures.

In front of the Yanhuang Emperor Palace is the ancestor Huangdi holding a plow and a Yandi holding a ear of grain.

Before the Zhongwu Temple, there were the majestic Guan Yu and Yue Fei, one holding a knife and the other holding a gun.

Before the Lu Mo Divine Palace, there were Lu Ban holding a mo pot and Mo Zi holding a compass.

Before the Supreme Saint Wen Palace, of course, Confucius was holding bamboo slips.

Before the Temple of Heaven, which has the highest status, there is an old man with a magical appearance. The old man's left eye is the sun, the right eye is the moon, the forehead is the stars, the chest is cloud, the back is Tai Chi, the hip is riding a green dragon, the hand is the vermilion bird, the foot is the black trunk, and the body is with the white tiger.

Who is this person?

Of course it is Haotian, which is the supreme God of the universe: the Emperor of Heaven.

According to the "Theory of the Great Dao" and the "History of the Chinese Gods" that has been written for several years, Emperor Haotian is the foundation of the great way of the universe. Pangu, Nuwa, Fuxi, etc. are all great gods born under the disagreement of Emperor Haotian's mind. The Taoist Lord Laozi is the incarnation of Haotian in the human world.

The statues on these squares are all hollow gilt bronze statues more than two feet tall, and the statues of the Emperor Haotian are as high as three feet tall. All bronze statues are exquisite and thick, with ingenious craftsmanship, and a total of 200,000 kilograms of copper, plus gold paint, worth more than 200,000 silver dollars.

Although the temples in the Zhongwu Emperor Palace are extremely high in specifications, they use solemn white walls and black tiles. Even the steps and bases are black and white. Even the big pillars and giant gates are used in black, making them look grand and solemn, with a heavy mystery.

Under the tall eaves of the temples everywhere are thirty-six copper wind chimes. At this time, a gust of spring breeze blows, and more than a hundred copper wind chimes ring together, like the sound of nature, setting off the towering palace, making people feel quiet and quiet.

Around the square, the government offices are in a strict atmosphere and grand manner, full of the majesty and momentum of the Supreme Court of the imperial court.

Further away, there are the mansions of noble officials in the red and green willows, with pavilions and towers, and tall buildings.

All the officials were shocked when they saw this scene.

Only then did you arrive at the Imperial City Square, before you even entered the palace city, you could appreciate the momentum of the Chang'an imperial capital!

Li Luo came here, ordered the parking, and then led all officials to enter the major Taoist temples to worship.

The first thing to worship is the Temple of Heaven, followed by the Taishang Dao Palace, the Yanhuang Emperor Palace, the Zhongwu Divine Palace, the Shisheng Wen Palace, the Lumo Divine Palace, and finally the Taimiao of the Li Tang royal family.
Chapter completed!