A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 24 Ninety-five Supreme
(Happy New Year’s Eve everyone, Gong Xi Fa Cai, bring your tickets! (˙︶˙))

"Erlang, where are you going now?"

Chen Xing came to pick him up in a carriage with the emblem of the Yongkang government, and there was also a cart of gifts arranged by Zhang, including silk silk, dried fish and bacon, paper and pens, etc. Chen Xing said that he bought a lot of money for these.

Huaiyu silently remembered another favor of the Li family.

"Go to the Xuancheng Mansion in Jinchengfang, Xicheng."

The leader of the Wu family is Ying Guogong, warrior Xun, who used to be the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and now he is sent to inspect and inspect the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. The warrior Xun has four brothers, and he ranks fourth, and there are three older brothers above him. .

At the beginning, the Wu family raised troops from the dragon, the warrior Xun and the eldest brother and the second brother brought many children from the clan to join the army, and the third brother Shirang stayed in the village to take care of the family. Manage forbidden gardens.The second son, Shiyi, was named the Duke of Anlu County. He was the householder of the Qi Wangfu at first, and he followed Yuanji Town to Bingzhou. Now he is the Zuo Cheng of Yizhou Xingtai.

The rank of a samurai is not low, but the errands are relatively easy, and he has little real power. For a landlord from a poor family, this official title is still very good.

He is also the patriarch of the Wu family, Huaiyu first went to visit the patriarch's uncle.

"Good class," said Chen Xing, who was familiar with Chang'an, and drove a horse-drawn carriage to the west from the east city. "In Chang'an City, there are one hundred singles and eight squares, eleven north-south avenues, and fourteen east-west avenues. I am familiar with them all, and I am even familiar with the sidewalks that cross the slopes."

Chen Xing is a family slave of the Li family, born in Chang'an and long lived in Chang'an.

While driving the carriage on Chang'an Avenue, he still didn't forget to introduce to his brother-in-law, "This Chang'an City was built by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty in the previous dynasty. Originally, Chang'an City was at the foot of Longshou Mountain, and it was used by Han Chang'an City. At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the old city of Chang’an was small, especially for hundreds of years, the residents of Chang’an city used seepage wells to discharge sewage, which caused groundwater pollution and made it difficult to use water. It is said that Yang Jian also had a dream that the sewage became a flood and submerged Chang’an city.

At the same time, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was very happy, so he built a new capital. "

"The general supervisor Yu Wenkai was appointed to design the new capital. Yu Wenkai chose the Longshouyuan in the south of the old Chang'an city. This dragonshou was originally in the Han Dynasty. It is said that it was also called Longshou Mountain. For hundreds of years , gradually became a source.”

"White Deer Plain, do you know that it's not the White Deer Plain in Sanyuan of your home, but the White Deer Plain in the southeast of Chang'an. In the Han Dynasty, the White Deer Plain in the east of Chang'an was huge, and then it was slowly divided by the river. Today, the Shaoling Plain in the west of the White Deer Plain used to be the same A part of Bailuyuan."

Chen Xing is very eloquent.

"In short, Yu Wenkai took a fancy to Longshouyuan, so he built the new capital on Longshouyuan and named it Daxing City. This Dragonshouyuan is more than three feet higher than the original one. The undulating six high hills, from northwest to southeast, these six high hills are regarded by Yu Wenkai as the six lines of the Qian Gua in the Book of Changes, and he plans Daxing City according to the dry lines of the Book of Changes...
Longshou Mountain is sixty miles long, entering the Wei River at the head and reaching Fanchuan at the end.The head is twenty feet high, the tail gradually becomes smaller, and the height is five or six feet. The soil is red and hairless.

On the Guanzhong Plain, Longshouyuan is said to be the trace left by the black dragon, which is the foundation of the real dragon emperor's Dingding, and has an exclusive advantage in geomantic omen.

After Yu Wenkai chose Longshouyuan to build the new capital, he also took great pains to use the original six mounds and plan the layout according to the six lines of Qian Gua in the Book of Changes.

The first high slope, the ninth day of the lunar new year, is the place where dragons and dragons leap into the abyss. This place is planned as a forbidden area, and it is also outside the Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of the imperial palace. The guards have always been stationed, and it is also the royal forbidden garden.

Ninety-two saw the dragon in the field, and it was planned as a palace, the residence of the emperor.Ninety-three, gentlemen work hard, this place is planned as the imperial city hundred divisions.On September [-]th, it may be in the Yuan, where dignitaries, nobles and merchants gathered in the market.

Ninth Five is the supreme land, which belongs to the excellent position of Feilong in the sky, and mortals cannot live there.

So at the time of planning, Yu Wenkai planned Xingshan Temple and Xuandu Temple there, with one Buddha on one side, and Zhuque Avenue in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, each occupying a whole area of ​​land, only for gods and Buddhas. living people.Continuing to the east to Leyouyuan, Qinglong Temple was also built in Xinchangfang.

The three major temples occupy this ninety-five supreme high hill.

The sixth line left Chang'an City in the area of ​​Shaolingyuan. This place is Kanglong Yougui, which belongs to the end of the six lines. Things must reverse from prosperity to decline. Therefore, after the death of emperors and high-ranking officials, the change from yang to yin, and the large tombs of Gaoling are also buried here. . "

"Brother knows a lot!" Huaiyu said.

"At the foot of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an City, no matter the princes or common people or the traffickers and pawns, they all care about Fengshui. Why do you say that the east is rich and the west is rich? It is because the six high hills are low in the southwest and high in the northeast. This is Fengshui. They all live in the east of the imperial city.

If you live in the west of the imperial city, it will be worse. "

"The Duke of Xuancheng's mansion in Jinchengfang is also pretty good. Jinchengfang and Xuanzhengfang in the west of the city are also on the Jiuer Gaogang, but these two squares belong to the end of Jiuer, the head is in the east, and the earth beam is not high. "

According to Chen Xing, the famous families of princes, dukes, nobles and nobles in Chang'an basically occupy the squares where the two high-grade earth beams of [-] are located, especially concentrated in the east, and the east is higher.

Jinchengfang belongs to the end of [-]. It is not high, but it is much higher than the Lianhuachi depression next to it.

Before entering Chang'an, Huaiyu thought that the city of Sui and Tang Dynasties, which covers an area of ​​more than 80 square kilometers, should be very flat, with two Han Chang'an cities and a semi-Ming Beijing city. The one with the pond is on the plain as a whole and is about ten meters higher than the surrounding area, but there are also six loess beams protruding from the plain.

When the city was built, it was only laid out according to the terrain, and it was not flattened.

Chang'an City is a three-dimensional city, and the carriage is driving all the way, and it is constantly going uphill and across mountains.

"The highest place in Chang'an is the Longtouyuan on the ninth day of the ninth day, which is in the palace garden. There is also the Leyouyuan on the fifth ninth day. The highest point is seven feet higher than the lower part of Chang'an. Leyouyuan There is Qinglong Temple on the top, and on the top of the high tower of Qinglong Temple, you can overlook most of Chang'an City."

"Every time it comes to the Double Ninth Festival, Chang'an's common people like to go to Leyouyuan to climb. But usually it is very desolate, except for a stretch of farmland and vegetable gardens, there are few houses, except for temples and Taoist temples."

Chen Xing's words once again surprised Huaiyu. According to him, although Chang'an City has been built for decades, it has not been completed. It has just been built.

And until the ninth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, the dozens of squares in the south of the city south of the Jiuwu Gaogang are still all farmland.

Basically, it is bounded by the line of Xingshan Temple, Xuandu Temple, and Qinglong Temple, and the land of nearly 39 squares to the south is surrounded by a rammed earth wall of [-] feet, but there are actually [-] squares. , until now it is still completely a piece of farmland, even the farmers don't live there.

There are still ten fangs, and there are only some temples and few people.

Why is the ghost market in Chang'an viewed in Xuandu?Apart from the fact that Xuandu Temple has a natural cave, it is also because this is actually the southernmost boundary of Chang'an City.

Those workshops to the south are actually ghost workshops. Except for the low loess workshop walls, there are actually no houses at all inside, just farmland and vegetable gardens, or even wasteland.Even the other courtyards of nobles and relatives will not be built south of Xuandu Temple.

The reason for this situation is also very simple. Firstly, when Yang Jian was planning and designing, he was so overjoyed that he was greedy for perfection, and directly surrounded too many lands, which were more than twice the size of the old Chang'an City. Such a large place was not enough to live in.

And Yang Guang built the Eastern Capital, moved the capital to Luoyang, and took many people away from Chang'an.

What's more, this city has only been around forty years now, and it has also experienced turmoil of dynasty changes in the middle, so the current Chang'an is actually not as crowded as it was at the beginning of the Sui Kaihuang period.

So two-thirds of Chang'an City is actually in use, many of which have not yet been completed and are fully occupied, and the busiest places are still concentrated in the northern half. The east and west cities surrounding the imperial city are full of nobles. The homes of officials, and the workshops at the gates of the cities are mostly Chang'an farmers, farming in the south city or outside the city.

From the south of the imperial city to the Xuandu Temple of Xingshan Temple, the upper southern area is mainly populated by artisans, merchants, merchants, and handicrafts who serve the royal and aristocratic government in Chang'an, as well as floating population who come to Beijing to wait for elections and exams.

Sitting on the carriage, Huaiyu watched the dust raised by the carriage wheels and the rammed earth walls on both sides of the broad street, and couldn't help thinking.

This Chang'an City is indeed rather special. The closed squares, wide streets, and dirt streets full of dirt, with very few pedestrians, all show that this Chang'an City is not prosperous and lively, but rather restrained everywhere.

The tall locust poplar and elm willow on the road are both mighty and indifferent.

There are more than 100 Taoist temples and nuns in Chang'an City, which occupy an area of ​​one square and half a square. There are even large vegetable gardens and orchards in many squares in the upper urban area, which shows that Chang'an City is underpopulated. It is very advanced, with a large area of ​​idle land.

In particular, the markets are all concentrated in the east and west two squares, which shows that the economy is backward and not prosperous enough, and the situation of street shops and shops has not formed.

This is not even a very normal city, everyone is serving around the royal court, court officials, and noble officials.

This Chang'an city is huge, majestic, majestic, but also cold and even depressing.

But think about it, it's only been forty years, and the dynasties have changed in the middle. It's normal to be dissatisfied with the city of Chang'an. After all, Yang Jian built Chang'an City, and after Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he spent the whole country building the eastern capital Luoyang and moved the capital. Chang'an has a large population.

Now not long after the war, Chang'an City is not bad.

It was a long distance from Pingkangfang in the east city to Jinchengfang in the west city, and it would be very inconvenient if there were no vehicles and horses. It was nearly twenty miles from the east city wall to the west city wall.

In the Tang Dynasty with inconvenient transportation, the radius of most people's daily life did not exceed five miles.It takes two to three 10 minutes to walk five miles.

It takes half an hour to travel from east to west by horse-drawn carriage.

Therefore, although Chang'an is large, there are not many livable places, especially those princes and officials who are more concentrated in the upper east and west districts around the imperial city.

As for Nancheng, it is a civilian area, while Xianancheng is a place where ghosts do not go, a remote suburb.

As the saying goes, the provincial officials think the square is far away, and the wealthy family laughs to the side.

Even the upper east and upper west districts still need to be subdivided. The high area occupying [-] earth beams is the area that noble officials and powerful families are fighting for, and the rest of the flat land and depressions are next.

"You can know the status of your family by looking at the east or west of the city, which neighborhood he lives in, and whether he lives in a high-rise. Those who live in high status are all high-status."

There are four or five squares in the west city that occupy [-] soil beams. Jincheng Square is only worse than the Xuanzheng Square to the east of it, because the Xuanzheng Square is next to the imperial city.

With Jinguangmen Street as the boundary, Yanshou, Guangde, Huaiyuan, and Huaide on the west side of the street are relatively lower-grade than Jincheng, Xuanzheng, Liquan, and Buzheng in the north.

The fact that the samurai lives in Jinchengfang also shows that although his status is not as good as those of the old Guanlong nobles and the four surnames in Kansai, he is not bad among the upstarts of this dynasty.

After all, his brother, the samurai Xun, was one of the 17 heroes of Yuanmou in Taiyuan. This is Li Yuan's version of the hero of Lingyan Pavilion. Brother almost.

"Does Erlang know the origin of the name Jinchengfang?"

The road is far away, and the wide Chang'an Avenue is very deserted. Two high walls separate those squares from the street, and there is no scenery to see, so he chatted with Chen Xing about Chang'an City.

"What's the story?" Huaiyu asked.

"The Jinchengfang was originally the land of Bowangyuan in the Han Dynasty. When the new capital was built in the early Sui Dynasty, the people divided the land and dug gold. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty thought it was a sign of the golden city, so he named it Jinchengfang.

In the southwest corner of this square, Empress Wei, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was buried. At the north gate, there is Hanli Garden, that is, the tomb of Prince Li Shi Tangdi.

There is Xu Shixu Xu Luoren’s brother’s house in this square. The Xu brothers are also old with your Wu family. It is said that Ying Guogong’s last career was the team leader of Yingyang Mansion in Taiyuan. This Xu Shixu is his boss Sima of Yingyang Mansion. He was also one of the meritorious officials of Yuanmou in Taiyuan.

His younger brother Xu Luoren Xiang was the leader of the Qin King's inner battalion, he and Duan Zhixuanhou Junji Qiaogui were also known as the four elders of the prince's shogunate, a companion who grew up with martial arts when he was a child, on the fourth day of June, he is said to be one of the nine generals of the Xuanwu sect, it is said He is about to be reused, probably to be the general of Tunwei Zhonglang to guard the Xuanwu Gate, and he may also be granted the title of Duke.

Your Wu family has a good relationship with the Xu family. After Erlang pays his respects to the Duke of Xuancheng County, he can also drop by the Xu family. "

Chen Xing suggested.

Huaiyu kept it in his heart.

"Back then in Taiyuan, your Wu family got rich selling wood, while the Xu family got rich selling horses outside the Great Wall. Both of you are local tycoons in Taiyuan. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, you became rich in business, and then entered the Yingyang Mansion, and raised troops from the dragon. Both belong to this dynasty. Honorable."

Chen Xing reminded him that Xu's family and Wu's family are both from Bingzhou, and they both started from a powerful family in Bingzhou. They should have a good relationship in the past. They have the same background and experience, and even their status in the court is similar now.

The Xu family came from the famous Xu family in Yingchuan. They have been princes and generals of Guanlong for several generations.

With such a background, it is undoubtedly worth walking around more.

After all, people are divided into groups and birds of a feather flock together. It is easier for the same people to keep warm when they are in groups.

To the south of Jinchengfang is Liquanfang, which is the West Market.

Jincheng is named after the gold of the Han Dynasty was dug out of the ground, and Liquanfang is said to be named after seven underground spring wells were dug out when the workshop was built, and the drinkers recovered from illness.Even in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the emperor specially sent court officials in the workshop to fetch water for drinking in the palace every day.

(End of this chapter)