ask sword 2

Chapter 52 Tour Guide
"Why wait for Luanhe in three mountains, this place is Yingzhou every year.

Chang'an is just ahead. "

The boy in gray, who was in charge of entertaining the students to visit Chang'an, took the lead and walked at the front of the team with a proud face, followed by students from several prefectures such as Kuangzhou, Xuanzhou, and Xiangzhou.

Song Shaoyuan, Zhai Yiming and others raised their heads and looked up at the thick city wall in front of them that seemed to be soaring into the clouds, and expressed their sincere admiration.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please come with me. Our current location is Mingde Gate in the south of Chang'an."

The gray-clothed servant named Wu Shiqi, like a tour guide in Li Angyi's world memory, smiled and led the students from various prefectures to the mainland, standing in the queue leading to the gate of the city tower.

The population of Chang'an can reach 300 million, and a large number of envoys, officials, businessmen, farmers, and laborers need to enter and leave the city every day.
It is just the beginning of the morning (seven in the morning), and there are long queues on the roads of the gates of the gates, and as time goes by, the queues are still getting longer.

"The overall shape of Chang'an City is a square, with three gates on each of the four sides. The north is Guanghua Gate, Jingyao Gate, and Fanglin Gate. The east is Tonghua Gate, Chunming Gate, and Yanxing Gate. The west is Kaiyuan Gate, Jinguangmen, Yanpingmen, Anhuamen, Mingdemen, Qixiamen to the south.

The six avenues connected by a total of twelve city gates are the main traffic lines in Chang'an City.

During the Yongchang years, 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, but this decision was rejected by the three provinces, on the grounds that the Academy had optimized the procedures for entering the city, and there was no need to As before, hundreds of soldiers were required to take turns to guard the gate of the city, and carefully unpack every person who entered the city."

With Wu Shiqi's tour guide's explanation, the speed of the queuing team gradually accelerated.

Soon Li Ang saw the soldiers who were standing behind the guardrail under the gate of Mingde, and the hounds they were leading.

Those who want to enter the city, whether it is a messenger, an official, or a merchant or a peasant, need to go to the soldiers, and the hounds will carefully sniff their clothes and luggage.
If the hound does not bark at all, it can pass quickly,

And if the hound barked, the pawns would stop it and open the package and examine it carefully.

"Those hounds are all raised by Zhenfu Sizhong's family."

Wu Shiqi smiled and said: "Their family had a school mountain chief in the pre-Sui period, and since then they have been raising hounds of various breeds for the royal family and the school.

From the palm-sized, teapot-like puppies,
To the height of a person, a blood-seeking mastiff that can tear apart tigers and leopards,

The small dogs that Lianzhenfusi and the local yamen use to track bandits are also raised by them using special methods.

Every hound bred by the Zhong family has a booklet detailing the dog's pedigree and various training procedures.

Such as stalking beasts, traveling long distances,
Or understand the instructions and guide the blind to go out,

Or sniff the smell, help the Zhenfu Division catch the bad guy, help the hostess catch the husband's mistress. "

Wu Shiqi curled his lips playfully and said with a smile, "I don't know how many officials and businessmen are chased out of Pingkangfang by Fulin dogs every year."

Where is Pingkangfang, the scholars present have heard about it, and they all laughed "I understand I understand",

The female students in the crowd also had bright eyes, and it seemed that they wanted to raise an almighty hunting dog to identify scumbags and beat the mistress.

"However, although there are many dog ​​companies in the world, only the Zhong family is the best. Without the household registration booklet stamped by the Zhong family, the dog is just a dog, not a hunting dog.

And every hound produced by the Zhong family costs more than a thousand dollars.
The ones that can sniff the smell for long-distance tracking are not for sale, and cannot be bought by ordinary channels. "

Wu Shiqi added with a smile: "Of course, you are all elite scholars, and you will definitely be admitted to the school. By then, the children of the Zhong family will be classmates, so there is no problem in asking for a hunting dog."

"Thousands"

Li Ang in the crowd clicked his tongue. All his possessions are only 490 guan, and he can't even afford a half-price Zhong family hound.

"For a thousand dollars, you can buy ten ordinary houses in Kuangzhou."

Chai Cuiqiao, who was on the side, was also shocked and said: "How many single cages of golden custards, mandala-like sandwiches, Jushengnu, imperial concubine red, Brahmin light high noodles, Royal Yellow Queen Mother Rice, Longevity Porridge, Shengjin can be bought here. Duck flower soup cake.”

"What about the name of the dish?"

Li Ang rolled his eyes, "I didn't have enough breakfast."

"After breakfast, isn't it time for lunch?"

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 here with a student from the Academy to Chang'an?"

"Yes."

Wu Shiqi smiled cautiously, turned to his side, and asked Song Shaoyuan and other students from various prefectures to step forward, and took out paper documents such as a passport (equivalent to a passport) to verify their identity.

"Ok?"

Li Ang raised his eyebrows in surprise. When Wu Shiqi handed over his hand just now, the skin of his arm under the cuff seemed to have a blue tattoo.

Gang member?

Although the tour guide was sent directly, it was not the Academy, but a department under Taichang Temple that assisted in the recruitment of the Academy, but a gang member was sent here.
Forget it, it's not that important anyway.The snake has its way, and the rat has its way.

Li Ang didn't 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 through the hounds in turn.

When Li Ang arrived, the black and orange hound squatted on the ground, hesitated for a moment, and then barked at the medicine box on Li Ang's waist.

"Ok?"

The soldiers at the city gate looked over, "Little Lang, you are in this box"

"Oh sorry, I almost forgot."

Li Ang opened the medicine box and showed the surgical knives inside, "The next is a doctor, and these are my medical tools in the box."

"Knife, silver needle, and silver thread?"

A soldier curiously picked up a strange-looking silver midwifery forceps from the medicine box, "What is this?"

"Don't move."

The leading sergeant frowned and scolded his subordinates, "If it is not contraband such as steel armor, bow parts, or fireworks and firecracker fuel, it can be released. The team at the back is still waiting."

"Yes, Captain!"

The young soldier was so frightened that he quickly put the midwifery forceps back into the medicine box carefully, and stepped back half a step to let Li Ang and Chai Cuiqiao pass through.

Pretty strict.

Li Ang and Chai Cuiqiao walked through the city gate, and the moment they passed the city gate, there was a faint illusion that rain was drenching their body.

"Ok?"

Li Ang looked up at the top of the city cave, only to see the black and heavy masonry.

It seems that Chang'an's city defense system is not only limited to the defending soldiers and the hunting dogs.
"Thousands of homes are like a Go board, and the [-]th Street is like a vegetable valley"

In the sound of Wu Shiqi's explanation, the students officially stepped into the world's largest city.

Chang'an City is like a huge chessboard, with straight and wide streets from north to south, east to west, dividing the city into hundreds of rectangular areas.
Each area is surrounded by walls, and inside are houses and buildings, thus forming an independent living community, that is, the "square" of "One hundred and eight squares".

Standing at the entrance of Mingde Gate, there are Yongyangfang, Zhaoxingfang and Daanfang on the left, Zhuquemen in the imperial city farthest in front, and Tongjifang and Quchifang on the right.

"On the right side of Quchi Square is Qujiang Pond, one of the two major tourist areas in Chang'an."

Wu Shiqi walked at the front of the team and introduced: "When the spring and autumn are sunny and sunny, the residents of the city compete to visit the Qujiang Pond, the so-called 'colorful and green, winding on the embankment, fresh chariots and horses, shoulder-to-shoulder hitting the hub',
The scholar family travels with their families, and when they are traveling, they will also pay attention to the outstanding young people in the past, and look for objects for their daughters in the waiting room.

The setting sun is so strange that Chang'an moves, and thousands of horses' hooves fly across the street."

Wu Shiqi is articulate and articulates clearly. This sentence has obviously been read many times to students from all walks of life every year.

Under his leadership, students from Wuzhou, Xuanzhou, Xiangzhou and other prefectures first went to Qujiang Pool for a walk, then circled Qinglongfang and headed north.

Along the way, people saw a large number of Hu people with different skin tones and eye colors, as well as temples with completely different styles.

Buddhist temples, jacket temples, Taoist temples, Persian temples and other temples are harmoniously co-located in a square market, and there are constantly chants, prayers, and a strong scent of incense.

No matter it is Wu Shiqi or students from various prefectures, it is not surprising that Haotian Daomen, located in Taihao Mountain in the northwest of Xijing, is a religion that all countries in the world believe in.
However, under Haotian Daomen, various sects are still allowed to develop - as long as they follow Haotian's teachings, agree that Haotian dominates all things in the world, and recognize that the sages of various sects are just messengers sent by Haotian to the world.

Haotian is not someone or a god with an independent will,

Haotian dominates everything, masters everything, mortals can't understand and will never be able to understand, just have to believe and be grateful for everything Haotian brings.

This is the consensus of almost all Yu people, and even people in the world. It has been the case for thousands of years, and gradually no one asks why.

It is under these constraints that Buddhist temples, Ao Shrines, Persian temples and other temples can coexist harmoniously—at least on the surface.

When those believers go out to fetch water, they will smile and greet each other when they see them.

But as soon as he turned his face, he was expressionless and silently accelerated his pace.

Wu Shiqi led the curious crowd, crossed the Ao Temple in Jinggongfang, and came to Dongshi.

This is the largest centralized market in Chang'an and even in the whole world. There are countless shops, a dazzling array of goods, and people from different accents from all over the world.

"Students, stand a little closer. Although Chang'an is safe and sound, there are so many Hu people in the East City that it is inevitable that things will be mixed up. It will be bad if things are passed along."

Wu Shiqi took the students from the next week and turned around at the edge of the East City, but did not officially enter, which disappointed many students.

They are not disappointed because they did not see a wide variety of luxuries or delicacies,
It was because of missing Orchid who was holding wine at the door of the restaurant.

Those Hu women with blond hair and blue eyes and high nose bridge, dressed in elegant clothes and with authentic Chang'an accent, held wine to attract customers, attracting students' frequent glances.

"It's Orchid wine for the bottom, and white-nosed pans grows, picking lotus and throwing it on the water, Lang Yi is floating flowers."

Wu Shiqi smiled and said, "These wine shops run by the Hu people mainly sell wine, and Li Taibai, the poets and swordsmen of this dynasty, likes to hang out with them the most."

"Where can we say goodbye, Chang'an Qingqimen. Orchid beckons Su's hand, and invites drunk gold bottles."

Song Shaoyuan couldn't think about it, and read out Li Taibai's "Two Songs of Sending Pei's Eighteen Maps to Songshan Mountain".

"Exactly, the scholar is talented."

Wu Shiqi nodded slightly in surprise and introduced: "However, Chang'an has the custom of tipping in and out of restaurants, and when facing Orchid, the tip is often more - it shouldn't be taken lightly.

Therefore, only aristocratic teenagers will continue to patronize the restaurant where Orchid beckons to serve wine. "

"They are also a bunch of poor people."

Different from the fascinated scholars, Ji Linglang, who was standing among the female students, frowned slightly and sighed: "I want to go to a foreign country and have a good laugh in the wine shop."

"Who isn't."

The loneliness in Wu Shiqi's eyes was fleeting, and in the blink of an eye, he regained the attitude of a professional tour guide and said with a smile: "Everyone, please come with me, Pingkangfang is in the west of the East City."

The pupils' eyes lit up, and silently accelerated their pace under the contemptuous eyes of the female classmates. Ji Linglang sighed helplessly, helpless for the honesty of the fellow students.

She turned her eyes, but saw Li Ang and Chai Cuiqiao walking at the back of the crowd, not looking at Pingkangfang, but standing in front of a building.

The people of Kuangzhou finally have a reliable one.

Ji Linglang asked with a smile, "Risheng, what are you looking at?"

"what?"

Li Ang turned his head and replied casually, "I'm looking at the ward here."

The ward, or sad field ward, is the closest thing to the concept of a hospital in this era.

(End of this chapter)