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.
To be continued...