It dawned early in the summer, and the sun had just peeked out a little. Xiao Han had already gotten up, drooling all over the floor. Next to him, a bald man was holding his head. He didn't understand why his head hurt when he woke up...
Almost at the same time, in the Chinese military tent, Li Shimin also woke up leisurely. He felt the burning in his nose. He stretched out his hand and pulled out a piece of green onion in his nostril. Suddenly, a burst of fresh air rushed into his head. Li Shimin breathed greedily. After a few clicks, the groggy feeling like a heavy object pressing down on my chest was gone forever!
The army continued to march, and it had arrived in Chang'an in the afternoon. It was the night of Chang'an in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and all the nations came to the capital! In the last life, Xiao Han had no chance to come here. This time, he finally fulfilled a childhood dream.
As a super-large city that took 72 years to build, Chang'an deserves to be the largest city in the world in this era! The towering city wall, even if it is far away from Xiao Han, Xiao Han can still feel the thickest breath. The huge Chang'an City lies quietly on the Guanzhong Plain, like a giant beast, watching over China. Brilliant civilization!
Xiao Han climbed onto the car and looked greedily at this giant city that gathered the wisdom of all the craftsmen in the world. His heart was filled with pride!
In this era, a few thousand people in foreign countries is considered a city, and tens of thousands of people is considered a big city. At its peak, Chang'an had a population of one million! Speak out and scare those city lords and kings to death!
Isn’t it often said in fairy tale books: The king got angry and ordered the captain of the guard to take twenty knights to destroy the neighboring country!
Good guy, after the destruction, there will still be ten left to come back... If you let China go, the gangsters will fight with hundreds of people...
Many of the troops in the army were from Chang'an. When they saw Chang'an, everyone became excited and hurried away very fast! Before Xiao Han had time to appreciate the wonder of the Eight Rivers surrounding Chang'an, he was caught in the rolling crowd and rushed into Tonghua Gate like a duck.
In fact, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the army was not allowed to enter the city. This is also due to the current tight war situation. They are afraid of being eaten by Xue Ju outside. Otherwise, how can they get into the city?
Almost without touching the ground, Xiao Han followed the surging flow of people into Chang'an. After entering, he realized how big Chang'an is. The paths are dozens of meters wide and there are eight lanes in both directions!
What's even more exaggerated is the Central Avenue that runs from north to south! Xiao Han made a visual inspection and found that it was more than a hundred meters long, just a lot more!
On both sides of the road, buildings stretched out of sight. The army slowly passed by. Because they were not returning from victory, even the soldiers who were talking nonsense did not dare to make a loud noise. The big slap from the leader was painful!
Although the residents in the city are a little curious, they are not at all like those in Gaoza, where people always look anxious. The people here feel safe from the bottom of their hearts.
War is cruel, but Chang'an is lucky! When Li Yuan attacked here last year, Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning had already conquered a huge empire for him! Without a brutal offensive and defensive war, the general surrendered immediately, allowing the ancient city to survive in this chaotic world. Therefore, the people in Chang'an City were lucky. Except for a few high-ranking officials and wealthy people who were purged, most people still lived their lives. Living in peaceful days, as for the emperor above his head, there is a new person, alas, there is almost no food to eat, who cares about this!
Some idle Chang'an people stopped to look at the army for a while, and found that there was nothing interesting to see. There were no bright helmets, no murderous aura, only groups of people walking silently through the streets! Although there are quite a lot of people, you can't see the money just by looking at it. If you have this time, you might as well think about how to make some copper coins to cope with the rising food prices.
Speaking of eating, we have to talk about the eating habits of the Tang Dynasty... In the Tang Dynasty, people generally only had two meals a day, one at around nine in the morning and one at around four in the afternoon. Of course, this was most The way people eat, high officials and dignitaries please do as they please... In the military camp, they also eat like this, and everyone in the military camp is used to it, except Young Master Xiao who is in extreme pain...
There is no way, Xiao Han has been eating more than three times a day since he was born. But here, every time before meal time, he already feels like he is starving to death. He is so hungry that he feels dizzy and his chest is pressed against his chest. Back!
When it was finally time to eat, Xiao Han came back from getting food from the gang leader. Looking at the pig food in the bowl, he immediately felt that he was full, at least his eyes were full...
Therefore, every time the meal was served, Zhang Qiang and Old Man Hua were immersed in eating, while Xiao Han was eating like a torture, counting the grains, putting down the bowl and chopsticks with more than half of the time left in the big bowl, his eyes dull and staring. Staring at the sky in a daze, KFC, Pizza Hut, Chongqing hot pot... I really miss you so much!
"Eat? Xiao Han, why don't you eat again?" When Zhang Qiang raised his head to drink water, he saw Xiao Han sitting in a daze and not eating, so he couldn't help but ask. After spending the past two days with Xiao Han, he finally changed his first impression of Xiao Han and developed a good impression of this strange guy!
Xiao Han is the strangest person he has ever seen. He doesn't know what is in his head. He has strange thoughts at any time. At first glance, he thought it was a fantasy, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that It seems to make a little bit of sense! Moreover, he also discovered that Xiao Han was actually literate!
This is amazing! You must know that in this era of war and chaos, literate people are not only rare, but they are also extremely rare. According to the law of averages, there are only a few literate people in more than a thousand people. Knowledge has never been within the reach of a small family. prayed for. As a soldier who was conscripted into the army, he could actually read, which was as strange as a swan hatching from an egg!
Xiao Han's thoughts that had just risen were interrupted by Zhang Qiang, and the hot pot fried chicken suddenly disappeared. Only the saliva was still there. He wiped his mouth, absentmindedly prevaricated a few words, and ran away in the disdainful eyes of the old man and Zhang Qiang. , it’s good to have food to eat, but you still dare to be picky about food? It’s not man-made!
Lying in the tent, there was nothing spread under him, and small pebbles and sand were grinding under his body. Xiao Han could still be content with it, without him, he was used to it...
Looking at the roof of the cowhide tent, Xiao Han let out a long sigh and touched his dry belly, thinking that the Tang Dynasty, which was praised to the heavens by later generations, was just like this, poor and war-torn... ugh...
Sighing alone is not as good as sighing among others. Soon, there was another sighing person in the tent, but Xiaodong, who had eaten, also came.
He originally thought he could move freely after returning to the city, but he didn't expect that his dream of taking Xiao Han to visit Chang'an was suddenly shattered by the emperor's ban: All sergeants are not allowed to leave without permission, and those who disobey the order will be executed!
Touching the heads on their necks, Xiaodong and Xiao Han felt that being in the army was not bad, at least their heads were still theirs.
The military camp was under martial law, as it should be, and in order to cope with Xue Ju's imminent attack, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan ordered the defense to be reduced. The troops under the command of King Qin Li Shimin were temporarily stationed on Zhuque Street, ready to participate in the defense of the city at any time.
On this road, which can be said to be the widest in history, there are now countless cowhide tents erected densely. At a glance, it looks like a sea of tents.
Xiao Han, Xiaodong and the old man were lucky enough to be assigned to a position near the Suzaku Gate. This area belonged to the rear area and the place was relatively spacious.
Staying in a tent is boring, and there is always a smell in the tent. I don’t know where it comes from!
The two of them climbed out of the tent again, leaned on the roadside, and looked stupidly at the tall and majestic Suzaku Gate in front of them. Xiao Han knew that inside was the world-famous Xuanwu Gate! And in a few years, the Tang Dynasty will take its first firm step there!
Xiaodong always said that he is from Chang'an, but this is somewhat inaccurate, because when he was a child, his family moved to the suburbs, or the outer suburbs, about the location of the Eighth Ring Road in Beijing...
Returning to his hometown this time, Xiaodong, who was obviously overly excited, pulled Xiao Han and started bragging about the Chang'an stories he had heard in his childhood.
Xiaodong was also a poor boy and had never read a book, so most of the stories he told were told to him by old men and old ladies. The stories were all strange and more or less related to gods and ghosts. At this time, human beings could not understand Most of the problems that can't be solved are blamed on ghosts and gods. I don't know if ghosts and gods will be crushed to death after taking so many scapegoats for others...
At this time, Xiaodong was happily explaining to Xiao Han the romantic affairs of Yang Guang's era, and he didn't know why a little kid liked gossip so much.
Xiao Han sat aside blankly, seemingly listening attentively, but in fact he had long been silent in the glory of the Tang Dynasty and could not extricate himself.
So just when Xiaodong touched his mouth and was about to continue talking about the glorious past of the fairies secretly meeting the emperor, he suddenly realized that Xiao Han seemed to be possessed by a demon, staring blankly at the tall city in the distance. The door was not listening to him at all! This is embarrassing. The relationship was just wasted for a long time? !
"Brother Xiao Han? Big brother?"
Xiaodong called Xiao Han twice, but Xiao Han turned a deaf ear. Following Xiao Han's gaze, there was nothing strange on the vermilion city wall, so what was he looking at?
A gust of cool wind blew by, Xiaodong shivered unexpectedly, and felt a cold air rising from the soles of his feet! Suddenly, I remembered the ghost story my mother told me when I was a child. I was shocked and my face changed! He quickly pushed Xiao Han: "What's wrong? Brother Xiao Han, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me..."
Xiao Han, who was indulging in the glory of the Tang Dynasty, was pushed by Xiaodong and immediately came to his senses. Naturally, he couldn't say what was in his heart, so he could only laugh and said: "It's nothing, I just suddenly thought, here is the Suzaku Sect, Xuanwu... Gate, why is there no Qinglong Gate or White Tiger Gate?"
"Ah? That's right! Why is this?"
Seeing that Xiao Han spoke clearly and did not seem to be possessed by evil spirits, Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief. However, when Xiao Han said this, he suddenly felt strange. It seemed like this. No one had mentioned it before, so he didn't feel anything. , now that I mention it, it is indeed a bit strange. For a moment, I stood there and looked at the Suzaku Gate stupidly.
