burning nations

Chapter 3 Dijingzha Ancient City

The imperial capital of the Zaku Empire, whose city name is the same as the name of the country, is the capital of the Zaku Empire, the city of thousands of cities, the head of a thousand cities, and the most glorious, largest, richest, most populous, and largest hoard of wealth in the Eastern World. The "Five Most City"!From the beginning of construction when the ancestor of the Zhagu Empire was a village head 700 years ago, to today’s flattery and Zhangwu 28 years ago, Zhagu City has witnessed Zaku’s growth from a village to a city of marquises, and then to a city of dukes. The history of the period from the city where a prince lived and finally transformed into an imperial capital, where the emperor ruled the world.With the development and growth of the Zhagu Empire, Zhagu City is also constantly expanding, rebuilding, rebuilding and expanding. Since the last rebuilding of the city, it has experienced a total of 23 expansions so far!The wall was only three meters high, ten miles in circumference, with only two broken wooden gates, no moat, and a population of less than a hundred households; now the wall is 30 meters high, 50 meters thick, sixty miles in circumference, and 250 square miles in land and water area. , there are 200 land gates, five water gates, many rivers running through the city, abundant groundwater, travel by boat, and a unparalleled giant city with a permanent population of 200 million!It is the miracle of Zaku, the miracle of human history, and the miracle of the entire Eastern world!There is no longer a city with a population of [-] million in the entire Eastern world!

It has long been turned into a relic. The former world capital of the Calradia Empire can only be compared with the Dadu Persian City with "the city of heaven and the city of gods and kings"!

The Imperial City is divided into the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer city. The inner city is undoubtedly the smallest, and the outer city is undoubtedly the largest. Just like the principle of eggs, one layer wraps the other.

The inner city is the office. Countless red-robed, purple-robed, blue-robed, and green-robed imperial officials run the empire diligently. Although most of them are greedy for money or fame, almost all of them use power for personal gain.

The land gate of the inner city is the Mushou Gate. There is a long Meridian Road leading directly to the gate of the imperial city, the Meridian Gate. Because it was too long, the emperor allowed officials to ride horses, but they stopped outside the Meridian Gate.

The outer city has the largest area. The so-called North Guizhou, South Fu, and West Chongdong City are divided by the Weishui River that crosses the city. , is the residence of the rich and powerful merchants. It is rumored that the emperor was once jealous of the wealth held by the rich and powerful merchants, and wanted to kill them all. As a result, the imperial prime minister told the emperor that if they killed them all, the imperial economy would go back 300 years. ; On the west side of the city, the land where many small water systems flow into can be weighed up, not because it sinks, but because the roots of the Zhagu Empire are here!
To give a few examples: the cradle of the generals and marshals of the Zaku Empire - the "Zaku Empire Army General Academy" is here; the cradle of the Zaku Empire's training for qualified officials - the "Zaku Empire Aristocratic Administrative Academy" is here; The weapons and armor worn by the ancient imperial army, as well as the arsenal for the production of these equipment are also here.Can you understand how heavy it is!

East Market, as the name suggests, is the market on the east side, from daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil and salt to all kinds of luxury goods, in-demand items, foreign goods, as well as the people's market and underground black market. It is the busiest place with the worst law and order.Zhagu City has 1 law and order patrol soldiers who are not on the roster of the Ministry of War. They are commanded by "General Duwei", "Dijing City Order", and "General Dongshi" with 1 each.The 1 generals of the capital guard the whole city in name, but actually only in charge of the west city; the [-] generals of the imperial capital also manage the whole city in name, but actually only focus on the rich and wealthy people in the south of the city; there are only [-] generals in the east city. In name, it only manages the East Market, but in fact it only manages the East Market.

Dongshi has a single general in charge, which shows how chaotic Dongshi is!

If you ask that there are no ordinary people in the imperial capital?The answer is yes, but the identities of the common people are not ordinary.

The first emperor of the Zhagu Empire, Emperor Gaozu Wu, Zhao Chen, led an army of 50 troops to open the Tiandan Tongguan Pass, flattening the land of the Yellow River and Yangtze River with an indomitable momentum... Among the 50 troops, 40 forbidden troops, their relatives are the emperors. The people of the capital.

It's a pity that in the period of Emperor Taizong Wen Zhao Guang, Zhao Guang was really light.A life-and-death battle with the northern barbarians, the victory may be able to glue the broken ancient empire together, but it is indeed a failure, and the three battles have been kneeling again and again!Almost all of the 80 empire's most elite field tiger and wolf Forbidden Army that his father had saved for him were gone. As a result, the Forbidden Army's bones were bent, and with the development of commerce, the Forbidden Army became more and more popular with the passage of time.

They lived in military camps, the "Cleaning" camp in the south of the city, the "Fengrui" camp in the west of the city, and the "Wudang" camp in the east of the city.

In the northern outskirts of the city, there is an endless group of aristocratic manors. The rich people's tone is incomprehensible to ordinary people. In the eyes of the common people, they are willing to sacrifice their lives for a nest that can shelter them from the wind and rain!Houses and residences in the northern part of the outer city of the Imperial Capital are priceless, and you can’t buy them even if you have money. You can only buy them if you have an aristocratic ID card. It takes ten golden pancakes.A gold pancake is worth 100 dinars. Dinars are the world’s common currency that has been handed down from the ancient empire. They are gold coins; Just copper coins.In terms of prices in the imperial capital, the cheapest piece of pure rye bread that is baked without butter and has teeth is only 1000 copper coins each.
The one who can afford to buy a house in the northern city of the imperial capital must be a great nobleman who has been prominent for thousands of years!
In the eyes of the common people, the house price is ridiculously expensive, but in the eyes of the nobles, hehe, in the imperial capital, how can you see that our noble masters live in houses in the north of the city for a long time!
The houses and residences in the north of the city are always so small, they cannot be expanded, and they can’t even stretch their legs!It's not as good as the manor in the northern suburbs of the city. If you have money, you can expand it vigorously. The sky is high and the ground is wide. You can stretch your legs as you want!

And in the manor, there is enough space to hold a banquet for guests.

There are many manors, which are enough to accommodate 30 fully armed troops when viewed from a high altitude.Among the thousands of manors, somewhere close to the river and woods, not extravagant but ordinary, showing the family's infinite heritage, another hero is studying and studying in the manor.

Hedong Road, Daizhou Tan family, after Ziyangzi, a famous general of the ancient empire, sacrificed to Ziyang.Ji Ziyang, a famous general in the middle period of the ancient empire, the marshal of the empire, has fought against the two empires all his life, seventy and seven battles, and he must win every battle!The territory of Obasang in the west is [-] li, and there are [-] or [-] countries; the Shajin territory in the south is [-] li, with [-] or [-] tribes.In his later years, he wrote five books, including the military book "Shuo Bing Wu Pian", which was passed down to the children of the family.

"Shuo Bing Wu Pian" is also known as "Sacrificing Son" and "Zi Yang Bing Lun".

Tan's Manor, a veteran aristocrat inherited from the middle of the ancient empire to the present, covers an area of ​​more than 5000 mu, which is quite small.Of course, not the only one.

After the famous general of the ancient empire sacrificed Ziyang, the veteran nobleman, Daizhou Tan family, the superior nobleman of the empire, only had a small manor of more than 5000 mu in the northern suburbs of the imperial capital.

Going to a higher-level family, a veteran aristocrat, is shameful!
Maybe you can lead your neck calmly in the face of death, but for those who lose their family members in the circle, there is no redemption for a hundred deaths, and ten thousand deaths are unforgivable!

(End of this chapter)