Chapter 120: Press the switch and you are half a prosperous man
If you overlook the entire Luoyang City from the top of Mang Mountain in the distance, you will see an incomparable scene.
To the north of the city is the Luoyang Imperial Palace. The North Palace was burned down due to Dong Zhuo's rebellion and has not been repaired. Therefore, a large number of palaces collapsed and were bulldozed into a huge square.
A few well-preserved palaces remain alone in the North Palace. They are now used as military barracks for the palace guards to live in.
A large number of stadiums have been built on the square, including basketball courts, volleyball courts, football fields, table tennis courts and badminton courts.
Rubber has taken root in Dahan for more than ten years. It was originally only used for steam engines, but now it has found a huge role. Rubber is used as the inner tank in football, basketball and volleyball, which greatly enriches people's life and entertainment.
Outside the Beigong Gate, countless houses have been built in rows, most of which are brick and cement structures. White-walled high courtyards, red doors with gray tiles, waterside courtyards, pavilions and pavilions, stretch for several miles.
Since the emergence of steam mixers, state-owned cement plants have been slowly built. Among them, there are two cement plants in Luoyang, and new roads are slowly being laid.
Since most of the people living outside the Beigong were surrendered princes and families, the houses built were slightly more luxurious. Most of them continued the structure of the previous manor, with a walled courtyard inside, and a large number of fields and villages outside, with small bridges and flowing water.
Some Jiangnan charm.
If the buildings outside Beigong are normal, then the East-West City and the South City that have emerged in recent years are completely different scenery.
The view passes through the countless towering pavilions and palaces of the Nangong, and the eyes are directed towards the now extremely prosperous and bustling East Market. It turns out that the East Market consists of the millet market and the horse market, and the area closer to Luoyang Dongcheng is the commercial market.
But after Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the entire East City was destroyed. The reconstruction work lasted for more than 20 years. When Liu Yu became emperor, preparations for the reconstruction of Luoyang's east and west cities had begun.
After more than 20 years of development, because there was no need for demolition work, according to the Luoyang urban management plan, a commercial market was built again on the outskirts of Dongcheng near Dongcheng, stretching for seven or eight miles and neatly arranged in the city structure.
Streets are separated from each other, forming commercial streets. There are two huge market gates at the front and back of different commercial streets, and there are even city gate structures made of brick walls, slowly allowing the city to extend outwards.
After more than 20 years, 66 markets have been built in the East Market, which are mixed with residential, commercial, handmade manufacturing, workshops and other uses. There are more than 50,000 shops along the street, and fixed mobile stalls have also been set up.
The stalls have hundreds of thousands of visitors every day.
Close to Luoyang's East Gate, the Upper East Gate, the Middle East Gate and the Huamen Gate, more than 40 cities and streets have been planned. The people and businesses outside the Dongcheng Gate are basically concentrated in this area, and the residential population has reached 40
More than ten thousand.
Further away, the original Su Shi is now a residential street, mainly used for people's residence and workshops and manufacturing.
On the contrary, Su Shi disappeared.
Because it turns out that the Han Dynasty regarded grain as a strategic material and concentrated its buying and selling in one place to control the price of grain.
But today's food prices are falling sharply every day, and the country does not need to forcefully control them.
Therefore, the current commercial streets have replaced the function of millet markets. There are a large number of grain, oil and rice shops inside the streets. Each market has a place similar to this kind of small supermarket for daily life, and there is no longer centralized management.
The millet market disappeared, and the horse market moved to the southeast corner of Hongchi in the southeast direction of Luoyang City. This place is at the angle between Luoshui River and Yangqu, and is downstream of Luoyang residents' water supply.
Horse breeding requires a large amount of fodder and water. This area is originally a suburb. Although the wild grass here is not enough to support horses, the water source is not bad.
So today, when horses still need to be the main land transportation and means of transportation, they still have a need to exist.
The original warehouse was still north of Hongchi, where Chen Mu helped Zhang Rang find traces of Hou Xu.
The Dongshi Warehouse was destroyed after Dong Zhuo's Rebellion. Now it has been rebuilt and is even larger than before. It has become a transit warehouse for all grain, commodities, and freight in Luoyang Dongshi. It is operated by a state-owned enterprise and is no longer managed by the Taicang Order.
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The East Market is even grander than before, and the West Market is not far behind. There are fifty-seven markets, and the business focus is mainly on handicraft manufacturing, including all kinds of silverware, goldware, and silk and cloth weaving.
Moreover, most of the Western Market is where the Hu people live. The Silk Road has been ruined by wars in recent years, but it is precisely because of the wars that many Hu people from the Western Regions have moved east to Chang'an or Luoyang.
After they took a boat south along the Yellow River, they transferred to Luoyang City at Pingjin Ferry. The first stop was basically Xicheng, so they mostly lived in Xicheng.
The Hu people opened Western-style singing and dancing restaurants, restaurants, shops, gold and silver shops and even brothels here.
Dahan's current policy is to ban brothels.
Because the wars in the Eastern Han Dynasty were not like World War I and World War II, where men went out to fight and left women at home, which resulted in a huge imbalance in the ratio of men to women in Europe after World War II.
In the Cold Weapon Age, not many people actually died in wars. There were only two culprits that caused mass deaths in the late Han Dynasty - plague and famine.
These two disasters do not discriminate between men and women, especially the old, weak, women and children, who are more likely to die in such disasters.
Therefore, several censuses have shown that the male-to-female ratio in the Han Dynasty is only slightly more female than male, probably more than one million, and the two will tend to be more balanced.
If it weren't for the fact that years of war, coupled with plague and famine, would also affect men, causing a greater reduction in men than women, there would most likely be a situation in which there would be more men than women.
For example, later on, Cao Cao did not use the normal fertility policy to encourage the population at all, but adopted the policy of giving birth to women. This happened because the proportion of women in the population was not more than men, or even less.
In addition, the textile industry in the north is in full swing. The textile factories in Qingzhou and Youzhou are all female workers. Women need to get married and have children to expand the population, and they also need to enter factories to contribute to industrial development.
Therefore, under such circumstances, the court's policy naturally prohibited the establishment of brothels.
Even the policy of banning concubinage and monogamy in recent years has been very popular, in order to promote the development of rapid population recovery.
But just because brothels are not allowed in China, it doesn't mean foreigners can't.
The court's supervision and laws on foreigners are not yet perfect. In addition to the fact that criminals are guilty of the same crime as their own citizens, some gray industries are not currently included in the scope of the crackdown.
This part of the legal requirements is still in the discussion stage, so people have taken advantage of it. Many Japanese island countries and Hu merchants from the Western Regions have opened brothels.
However, these things will gradually develop and improve in the future, and we will talk about the future in the future.
Nowadays, the two cities in the east and west are far more prosperous than during the period of Emperor Huan and Emperor Kang. There are now more than 30 cities and towns built in Nanshi, and the number of cities in Luoyang as a whole has reached an astonishing more than 150, far exceeding the 110 or so in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty.
Gefang City.
The reason is that the emergence of the Grand Canal led to a rapid increase in Luoyang's floating population. In the 3rd century of the Han Dynasty, the population of this imperial capital had exceeded two million, and it was prospering and developing rapidly.
As the New Year approaches, the whole city is bustling with activity. Every street is decorated with lights and colorful decorations, dance bands parade along the streets, shops offer promotional discounts, and the crowds are extremely crowded.
Guo Jia, who lives in Ronganfang, Beicheng, has been out since early in the morning.
Because they were Cao Cao's old tribe, in order to avoid suspicion, Cao Cao lived in the northwest corner of Beicheng. These old tribes lived in the northeast corner, separated from Cao's mansion by more than ten streets.
Last year, Cao Cao's daughter Cao Jie married Liu Bei's eldest son Liu Feng. As a result, the Cao family got rid of the label of surrendering to the princes. Cao Cao himself was appointed as Henan Yin by Liu Bei and re-entered the official position. Therefore, they, the old members of the Cao family, gradually became able to
Get out and do some activities.
Although they were enemies in the past, Chen Mu still admired Guo Jia Zhicai and the others. When he lived in Luoyang these years, he would often ask these people to come out for gatherings to build momentum and prepare opportunities for them to become officials.
In the past two years, with Xiahou marrying Zhang Fei, Cao Jie marrying Liu Feng, Yuan marrying Guan Ping, and Liu Cao and Yuan being married together, the time for their old tribes to serve as officials has naturally become more and more mature.
It turned out that Guo Jia had a serious illness a few years ago and almost died of it.
Fortunately, Hua Tuo was not tortured to death by Cao Cao. He has been studying medicine in Qingzhou for these years. He has countless disciples from the medical school. The Han Dynasty established the Ministry of Health, and his disciple Wu Pu served as the minister. His medical skills saved Guo Tuo's life.
Good luck.
In order to recuperate his health, Guo Jia rarely left the house in the past few years. Today is also the end of the year. At the invitation of the emperor, all the princes, officials and nobles of the court went to the palace for a banquet.
Today's banquet is a bliss banquet, and the people of Luoyang are in a state of excitement. The streets are crowded with people, and the crowds are like a sea. Colorful ribbons are hung above every market, and lanterns are hung above each shop for dozens of miles. There is no curfew. Today
The joy will last all night long.
Guo Jia could not enter the city from the North Palace, so he had to enter the palace from the east gate. He went around to the outside of the east gate, but the carriage almost completely stopped because there were too many people, causing a huge traffic jam.
He had no choice but to dismount and walk, followed by a few followers. When he arrived at Changlefang, the outermost area of the East City, there was already a sea of people.
"Fireworks, firecrackers."
“Wonton Le, Wonton Le, and fresh Crescent Moon Wonton.”
"Spices from the Western Regions, objectively, give me a few."
"Rouge gouache, rouge gouache."
The hawking sounds of various shops and stalls are constantly attracting people to go and buy.
There are people from all over the country passing through the shop.
Their appearance and clothing are easily identifiable. For example, businessmen from other places often pull horses and vehicles and wear stain-resistant cloth.
Local merchants mostly use silk and satin because they do not need to go further to do business.
Most of the migrant workers are young and strong people who are engaged in the canal industry. They are looking for hard work in Luoyang and work on the Henan Cao Canal connecting Luoyang and Yingshui in the north.
Local women often wear popular hairpins, and wear various kinds of headdresses such as red hairpins, jade hairpins, treasure hairpins, silver hairpins, and gold hairpins.
As the textile industry quietly emerged in the north, new clothing designs gradually became popular.
The original pleated trousers gradually became the attire of the lower-class working class, and new styles of robes, long skirts, short coats, buttoned trousers, shawls, waistcoats, cloaks, vests and even shirts, trousers and other clothing gradually appeared.
Not only the clothes of the people in the Central Plains have changed, but also the clothes of foreigners coming to the Han Dynasty are moving closer to the customs of the Han Empire.
On the street, there are tall-nosed, red-haired Hu merchants from the Western Regions, the survivors of the Three Han Dynasties who look like Han Chinese but are shorter, the Japanese Japanese, the barbarians from Jiaozhi, and the Rong and Di from the grassland all pass by.
There was a sound, and the wheels rolled like a tidal wave.
The Han Dynasty is now prosperous and all kinds of things are in this city.
Guo Jia walked into Lifang.
A juggling act on the street spits out flames, attracting cheers from onlookers.
The shop signs along the street are lined up in rows, swaying in the wind. There is a dazzling array of products for people to choose from.
Not far away, there was a lantern boat floating slowly on the Yangququ River that passed through the city. The ladies on the boat were scattering flower petals, and the people along the bank were waving.
Colorful decorations and lanterns are hung above the square, and arched bridges and streets connect the entrances of various squares and markets, and the crowds of people coming and going flow like a tide.
There were all kinds of shouts, cheers, exchanges, price inquiries, even quarrels, and constant abuse.
Guo Jia was walking among the crowd and felt a little confused.
He vaguely remembered that the man once told him that he would build a glorious empire that would last for thousands of years.
Guo Jia doesn't know what a glorious empire that lasts for thousands of years looks like.
But at least what he sees now is a prosperity that was not even seen during the heyday of the Han Empire!
Guo Jia walked for two and a half hours from Changlefang to the Middle East Gate of Luoyang. He even took time to have lunch. Then he found a rickshaw that had appeared in recent years and entered the Luoyang Palace before the afternoon banquet.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, Liu Bei is at the Zhuque Gate outside Luoyang Nangong. The roof of the Zhuque Gate is now crowded with dozens of senior Han officials and their family records.
The original female wall of Zhuque Gate was completely demolished, and the height and thickness of the wall were reduced so that they could stand at the upper gate and look down.
A huge square has been built outside Zhuque Gate.
Twenty-eight years ago, Chen Mu used to live in the inner square outside Zhuquemen. By then, he had long since disappeared and now it has become a place similar to Tiananmen Square.
Above the tower is the white marble staircase, below is the entrance to the Zhuque Gate, then the moat and the white marble arch bridge.
There are a large number of seats densely arranged in the square, arranged high and low like a stadium. The best place to watch at the top is naturally the tower of Zhuque Gate.
There are only a few people who can sit here, such as Liu Bei and his family records, Chen Mu and his family records, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's family records, as well as the Sangong Jiuqing, Jiuhu General and a few who have been with Liu Bei's group for many years.
Old subordinates.
Even people like Cao Cao and Yuan Tan are not qualified to come up.
A bustling crowd of more than a hundred people occupied the high platform above the Zhuque Gate and leaned over to look at the square below.
Today's dinner was held at Quefei Hall, but before the dinner, from noon to afternoon, there were tributes and large-scale singing and dancing performances by delegations from various states and counties across the country.
Before the ceremony began, groups of dance teams were performing dances, and the orchestra in the square was playing hard with chimes, huqin, gongs, drums, pipa and other musical instruments.
Luoyang was densely packed on stage and off. Thousands of officials, princes, and nobles were sitting around the Zhuque Gate. There were tens of thousands of people crowding around the outside. They stretched their necks according to the designated area, and even climbed up trees and rooftops.
Watch a cabaret show.
The singing and dancing reached a climax, and the applause was thunderous.
A banquet like this will inevitably cause riots and public security problems. Fortunately, in order for the banquet to be held smoothly, Sili Xiaowei, Henan Yin, Luoyang Ling and others have organized a team to prepare for this situation.
For example, in order to prevent stampedes caused by the crowds of people outside, areas were specially designated, high platforms were built with wood, and steps were made like those in a gymnasium.
In order to prevent public security incidents, a large number of soldiers are deployed to patrol the area to strictly guard against petty theft and open robberies in busy areas.
Even the roofs of each house and high towers are equipped with railings to prevent accidents during viewing.
It can be said that the court was fully prepared for this feast.
After another song and dance ended, Liu Bei, who was sitting in the best seat on the Suzaku Gate, applauded and sighed to the Queen Li next to him: "It's a pity that the second and third brothers are not here."
Li Shi, who has always been virtuous, comforted him and said: "Your Majesty, it was because of the second and third brothers who were fighting abroad that the Han Dynasty was prosperous like this. Please relax and hold another banquet when they come back to let them see this prosperous Han Dynasty."
"Hahahahaha."
Liu Bei laughed and said: "The queen is right, but it is not easy to hold this grand event more often. Once or twice is enough. When they come back, the Yongji Canal should be repaired. I want to go and see it with my three brothers."
Peach Garden in Zhuo County.”
Li was a little confused and said: "Isn't there already a Taoyuan in the Taoyuan Hall of the West Palace? Why is Your Majesty still insisting on returning to Zhuoxian County, Youzhou?"
"You."
Liu Bei shook his head with a smile and looked north leisurely: "I don't understand."
The peach orchard blown by the spring breeze.
That was the best memory in Liu Bei's heart.
Not just for the four brothers.
And his lost youth.
I met three brothers at my best age.
They started a business together, supported each other, and went through hardships along the way.
That Taoyuan.
This is the proof of the initial difficulties.
In the distance, Chen Mu, who was watching the performance under the stage with Luo Fu, suddenly felt something in his heart and looked at the stage.
Liu Bei also looked over at this time. The two brothers looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.
soon.
The singing and dancing performances are completed.
Delegations from various states and counties in Han Dynasty entered the venue one by one.
Walking in the first row was the Sizhou delegation, which presented gifts to Liu Beijin.
Then there are the second column, the third column, the fourth column, and the fifth column.
The states and counties went to great lengths to make gifts.
But the most common choice is the specialties of each state and county.
For example, Yizhou donated Sichuan brocade, Guangzhou donated coral, and Jiaozhou donated wood carvings.
It was not until dark that the Qingzhou delegation finally appeared.
"I heard that the Academy is going to give me a big surprise?"
Liu Bei asked Wang Zhi.
Wang Zhi, the permanent attendant on the side, bowed to Liu Bei and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it is said that the gift presented by the Qingzhou delegation to Your Majesty is a lamp, so the last appearance is waiting for the evening."
"lamp?"
Liu Bei was confused: "What's the point of offering lanterns? There are lanterns hanging all over the city."
Luoyang City stayed up all night today, and the whole city was lit up with lanterns that never sleep.
Wang Zhi laughed and said: "They said this lamp is different."
"Then I want to take a closer look."
Liu Bei immediately looked over.
The Qingzhou delegation was the last to appear. They were pushing a huge wooden box driven by rollers. It was unknown what was inside.
The wooden box was pushed to the center of the square, and under the gaze of tens of thousands of people and Manchu officials and noble princes, they opened the wooden box.
Inside was a strange object, which seemed to be a huge glass ball, packed with cotton to prevent it from breaking.
They carefully took the glass ball out of the wooden box, put it aside, and then spread out the wooden box. Inside, there were a large number of wires made of rubber.
After connecting the giant battery on the lower floor of the wooden box, the Qingzhou delegation reorganized the wooden box and made a tall wooden tower.
The whole process lasted for more than half an hour, but everyone knew that this was Qingzhou's amplified move, so everyone watched in silence.
In the end, they pushed many towers on wheels, used the tower stairs to slowly lift the huge glass ball to the wooden tower, and then assembled it.
There is a strange glass ball placed on top of a wooden tower about two feet high?
The glass ball is about the height of a person, so it is not easy to install it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, with the help of various tower tools, they still completed this difficult task.
Eventually, they removed all the surrounding towers.
At this time, Guo Jia had already entered the venue and was watching from his seat.
Someone came over and patted him on the shoulder, indicating that someone was calling him over.
Guo Jia followed the visitor to the tower of Zhuque Gate.
The person who called him over was Chen Mu.
"Prime Minister."
The forty-two-year-old Guo Jia, with fluttering robes, bowed his hand to Chen Mu.
Chen Mu waved and said with a smile: "Fengxiao, come here to see."
"yes."
Guo Jia then walked over and sat next to Chen Mu.
Chen Mu smiled and said: "Fengxiao, remember when I said that I wanted to build a prosperous world. What do you think when you look at it today?"
Guo Jia sighed: "Jia is convinced."
"But this is not enough."
"Isn't it enough?"
"It's far from enough, but at least the future is bright."
Chen Mu pointed at the giant glass ball and said, "Look."
Guo Jia looked over.
I saw that the staff had finished assembling it.
Following an order, the leader of the Qingzhou delegation to Beijing, Qingzhou Mu Cheng, pressed the switch.
stop!
Between heaven and earth, it seems as if night has turned into day, and the sun is shining!
The huge glass ball suddenly emitted a terrifying and dazzling light, illuminating half of Luoyang City.
Everyone in the city saw this light and looked towards the direction of Zhuque Gate.
The tens of thousands of people at the scene were initially blinded by the sudden dazzling light, and they instinctively closed their eyes for the first time.
When he finally came to his senses, he was still for a few seconds.
Then........
"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!"
"Big man, big man, big man, big man, big man!"
"The great Han will live forever! The great Han will live forever!"
The crowd burst into loud cheers, which echoed throughout Luoyang City.
Guo Jia watched all this blankly.
Press the switch.
That’s half the prosperous age of the Han Dynasty!