The Tang Dynasty took Chang'an as its capital and Luoyang as its companion capital.
Chang'an is grand and Luoyang is prosperous.
During the Tianbao period, Luoyang's Bailiao Office was like the capital city. The sage also said, both are my east and west residences.
Luoyang not only has the same central government offices and local administrative agencies as Chang'an, but also has the North City, South City and West City in terms of the number of commercial markets. In total, it has one more city than Chang'an.
There are ten streets running vertically and horizontally in the city, and there is an avenue running through it on the axis. Every 100 steps along the road, there are two rows of cherries and pomegranates planted. The avenue is in the middle, nine miles from north to south, and is lined up in all directions. People can walk down it, and in the middle is the royal road, which leads to
The springs and channels are reflected in them.
Not only that, Luoyang is also the center of the Grand Canal, with developed water transportation. When planning the eastern capital in the Sui Dynasty, they intentionally connected it with the Luo River, so that channels on both sides of the bank could be crisscrossed. In addition, the Huan and Jian rivers merged into the Luo River, making it resemble a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
.As a result, canals were connected everywhere in Luoyang City, and "all the boats in the world gathered, often more than ten thousand, filled the rivers, filled with merchants and traders, and filled with chariots and horses."
Therefore, although the total area of Luoyang is slightly smaller than Chang'an, the population is quite large. In the early years of Tianbao, the population of Chang'an city was about one million, while the population of Luoyang city was more than one hundred.
Five hundred thousand.
In addition to the population, Luoyang's handicrafts, commerce, markets, culture, and religion are not inferior to those of Chang'an, and in some fields, they even surpass it.
Zhou Jun took Hua Yue and followed Chang'an's convoy into Luoyang City.
As soon as he entered the city gate, Zhou Jun, who was riding on his horse, felt a kind of prosperity that he had never experienced before.
I saw that Jianchunmen Street was lined with shops and crowded with people. Looking around, there were prosperous scenes everywhere.
After looking at it, Zhou Jun couldn't help but sigh, compared to Chang'an, everything in Luoyang is more prosperous, more luxurious and more dynamic.
Sitting in the carriage, Hua Yue quietly opened the curtain and looked out the window. She couldn't help but be dazzled by the scene in front of her.
While watching, she whispered to Zhou Jun: "I have been to many cities, but I have never seen such a lively place."
Zhou Jun nodded. During the Wu and Zhou Dynasties, Luoyang was once known as the capital of the gods. All nations came to visit and traveled there, but they all worshiped without thinking. They only thought that this city was a palace in the sky.
The motorcade from Chang'an followed the main street and arrived outside the Xuanren Gate of Luoyang Imperial City. Zhou Jun asked Hua Yue to go to a nearby inn to rest first, while he and the officials from Chang'an entered the imperial city and continued westward.
Luoyang Imperial City is located in the northwest corner of the city, and the imperial city guards the palace city (inner city) from the east, west, and south. The entire layout of the palace city is concave and inverted convex. Together, it is the so-called
"To resemble the Beichen vassal guard".
In the northern part of the palace city, there are Taoguang Garden, Yaoyi City, Yuanbi City, Dongcheng and other small interlocking cities. The city walls are tall and solid, and the terrain is high. Compared with the palace city in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial city has stricter defense facilities.
Shangyang Palace, where the Taishang Xuanyuan Lantern Tower was built, is located in the southwest corner of the entire imperial city, east of Shendu Garden.
Along the Nanxian Street of the Imperial City, Zhou Jun followed many officials and passed by Changle Gate under the guidance of palace officials and military guards.
Looking inward along the door opening of Changle Gate, Zhou Jun could see the outline of Hanyuan Hall, where during the Wu and Zhou Dynasties there were three major architectural miracles in human history - Mingtang, Tiantang and Tianshu.
And a fire destroyed Mingtang and Heaven, and it melted down again, destroying Tianshu.
After leaving the Youye Gate of Luoyang Imperial City, Zhou Jun finally came to the door of Shangyang Palace and saw the Taishang Xuanyuan Lantern Tower under construction.
On the construction site with a radius of several miles, countless workers are carrying heavy logs, and craftsmen of different skin colors and races are installing and hammering building materials on the huge and magnificent lotus base.
A rough count showed that there were over a thousand craftsmen and craftsmen on site.
Luo Shaojian, who will be the prisoner, the chief officer of the Shaofu prison, and a chamberlain in official robes, are standing together, talking to some officials in Luoyang.
Zhou Jun stood far away and could not listen carefully. He could only roughly hear words such as "construction period", "manpower", and "Shangyuan".
After the superior officials have finished discussing, the next step is for the subordinate officials to assign tasks.
As the head of the Du Guanshi, Zhou Jun's assigned tasks were not complicated. One was to allocate captives Ding Fu according to the requirements of each link; the other was to coordinate with local officials in Luoyang to arrange for the captives Ding Fu.
Properly distribute food, administer medicine and other matters.
These two things sound complicated, but the Engineering Department has already compiled the manual, and Zhou Jun only needs to follow it according to the manual.
Working on the construction site until about three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Jun finally made arrangements for the prisoner Dingfu, and then planned to leave Shangyang Palace and go to Dongcheng District to meet Hua Yue in the inn.
After cleaning up, Zhou Jun was about to leave, but he saw a familiar figure among the craftsmen who were finishing work.
Walking over and taking a closer look, Zhou Jun found that the other person was actually an acquaintance of Chang'an, the Silla blacksmith Jin Youji.
When Jin Youji saw Zhou Jun, he quickly walked out of the group of craftsmen, came to the latter's presence, and sang "O".
Zhou Jun smiled and said: "It's a coincidence that I met you here."
Jin Youji scratched his head and said: "A certain person is not an official craftsman. Because he heard that this time he could get a rent transfer, discount, or exemption, he and his friends asked for a position."
Zhou Jun nodded after hearing this, then looked at the craftsmen behind Jin Youji and asked, "Are they all from Silla?"
Jin Youji: "There are Silla people, there are Ogus people, and there are also Tang people."
Zhou Jun wanted to say a few more words, but suddenly he saw Master Mao Shun walking towards here.
When Jin Youji and his friends saw Mao Shun, they quickly stepped aside respectfully and bowed.
Mao Shun walked among the craftsmen and snorted: "We have to officially start work tomorrow. Are you still in the mood to chat here? Why don't you go eat some cakes and porridge and take a rest early!"
When the craftsmen heard this, they nodded in agreement and dispersed one after another.
Seeing the crowd disperse, Mao Shun looked Zhou Jun up and down again, then walked away without saying a word.
Looking at Mao Shun's leaving figure, Zhou Jun only thought that he had a weird temper, but didn't take it to heart.
After returning to the inn, Zhou Jun saw Hua Yue, who was bored, leaning on the window and looking at the scenery, so he said, "Let's go, go for a walk."
Huayue cheered, first packed up her clothes, and then took out two short swords about a foot long from the bag and inserted them into her waist.
Zhou Jun looked at it from the side and said with emotion: "These two swords are the beloved things of Gongsun. I didn't expect that they were given to you."
Hua Yue: "Gongsun Auntie said that the sword is a spiritual object. If it is always hidden in a sheath and not seen from the sun, over time, it will lose its spiritual energy and become a mortal thing. That's why she gave the sword to me.
."
Zhou Jun felt that Aunt Gongsun's words were reasonable.
The two of them walked out of the door of the inn. Hua Yue looked at the constant flow of people on the street. She suddenly ran out of ideas and asked Zhou Jun, "Where are we going?"
Zhou Jun looked into the distance, determined the direction, and said to Hua Yue: "Let's go to Luoshui first."