The World of Yellow Sky

In the camp, the eyes of all the generals were focused on Xu An's body, following Xu An's figure.

The ochre-yellow cap was swaying in the wind, and the nine sun, moon, and star flags were lined up at the front.

All the way forward, the sky gradually brightened, and everything in front of me gradually became clearer.

Just yesterday evening, they had actually arrived in Chang'an, but Xu An was not in a hurry to enter Chang'an city.

It was getting late, and many things had not been arranged. Entering the city would definitely cause quite a commotion.

If there are no corresponding measures to deal with it, the twists and turns will actually disturb the people.

So Xu An ordered the army to rectify for one day and enter the city on the second day.

And now, it was the early morning of the second day.

In the past, during the Eastern Expedition, we set off against the rising sun, and now when we return to the teacher, we should also return after bathing in the rising sun.

The outline of Chang'an City slowly appeared before Xu An's eyes, and the tall outline of Yongning Gate appeared in front of Xu An's eyes.

At this time, the Yongning Gate has been fully opened, and the two sides of the corridor of the city gate are full of soldiers.

Chang'an Avenue, which goes north from Yongning Gate, is also awe-inspiring. This is the street that the army will walk into the city, and it is temporarily blocked.

Although the world is settled, the four directions are not settled.

Showing off soldiers and performing martial arts can show the majesty and appearance and unite people's hearts.

Trumpets and drums sounded one after another, and the sound of military whistle was loud and cold.

Thousands of soldiers of the Ming army in yellow armor poured out from the camps on both sides of the official road, forming streams of khaki.Under the command of generals and schools at all levels, they walked to the camp gate in an orderly manner and flowed out of the camp gate.

Countless streams flowed out of the camp and slowly rolled towards the official road, and finally all of them converged on the official road.

In the distance, the morning sun was just rising, and the golden light sprinkled from the rising sun to the world, and sprinkled on the soldiers of the Ming army on the official road.

Xu An stretched out his hand and caught a handful of sunshine.

The armor leaves of the arm armor reflect the light of the sun, dazzling.

Xu An turned his head to look at the army formation behind him, and everything he saw was golden, as if he had fallen into a sea of ​​gold.

There is no long live like a mountain roar and a tsunami, no deafening cheers, everything is like the time of the expedition.

There are only banners moving with the wind, and the low but powerful sound of footsteps.

"Enter the city."

Xu An's hand pressed forward lightly, and he turned the reins and walked towards the city of Chang'an.

The low sound of the horn sounded, and it spread throughout the official road in an instant.

Stepping into the corridor of the city gate, the sound in the corridor was a bit dull, the sound of horseshoes stepping on the green bricks, bounced back and forth in the corridor, hit everyone's chest back and forth, and knocked on everyone's eardrums.

There is no sunlight in the corridor, although there are wall lamps, but it is still quite dim, and the vision is blocked, only the situation at the entrance of the cave can be seen.

Xu An saw people in the bright light not far away. There seemed to be many people running in front of him. There were buzzing voices in his ears, but he couldn't hear what they were shouting. Now his ears were filled with , are the sound of horseshoes.

The fire dragon horse carried Xu An forward slowly, the sound in his ears and the scene in front of him became clearer and clearer.

The exit of the corridor was getting closer and closer, and Xu An finally saw everything in front of him clearly.

Just like when the country was founded in the past, the two sides of the street were full of people who greeted them, and the buzz became very clear at this moment.

"Wan Sheng!"

Everyone raised their fists high, raised their arms and shouted, and some even wept with joy among the crowd.

During the 14 years from the first year of Zhongping to the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, the chaos never stopped.

The war lasted for too long and took away the love of too many people...

On both sides of the street, local policemen in blue clothes formed a human wall to maintain the crowd of onlookers.

At this time, Chang'an City was already deserted by thousands of people, and almost all the people came to both sides of the street to welcome the return of the army.

The streets and cities around the streets are all wide open, full of people waiting for the army to enter the city.

A group of policemen and soldiers of the Military Division were extremely nervous, watching their surroundings vigilantly, trying their best to maintain order.

Although there are not a million people in Chang'an City today, there are more than 40 permanent residents, which is already an extremely terrifying number.

Workshops, business workshops, and learning workshops all over the country have been built one after another, and naturally attract more and more workers, businessmen, and capable people from all walks of life.

There is no need to worry about the issue of food at all, not to mention the politics, even the grain transported from Hanzhong and Bingzhou in Guanzhong, which is fertile and thousands of miles away, is enough for the people in Guanzhong to eat.

Luoyang was once burned down by Dong Zhuo. A fire burned down the century-old ancient capital, and also burned up the surrounding fertile fields, thousands of miles of red land, full of devastation.

However, after several years of transformation, Luoyang has completely changed its appearance.

The Ming army rebuilt a new city on top of the ruins of Luoyang. Those captives from Xianbei and the four kingdoms of Liaodong became the best laborers to clean up the ruins. At the same time, many people were relocated to Luoyang to reclaim Luoyang's land.

Although today's Luoyang has not recovered to the scale before it was burned, it has basically come out of the state of destruction, and the grain produced in the Luoyang area can also be transported to the Guanzhong area.

Now that the world is stable and the commercial roads are unblocked, the recovery speed of the Luoyang area will only be faster.

Xu An looked around and looked at the crowd of people on both sides of the street.

Today's Chang'an City has a bit of the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

There are all kinds of dresses in the crowd, clothing from the Western Regions, furs from the North, hanging ornaments from the South, and accessories from the Liaodong. People in all kinds of dresses are mixed in the crowd, which is enough to see the openness of the atmosphere.

According to the current situation, it is not far away from the scene of "nine heavens closing the palace, and all nations wearing crowns and crowns".

Xu An did not follow Chang'an Avenue all the way into Chang'an Gate and into Yingtian Mansion, but first went to the Taiping Temple built on the site of the original Jianzhang Palace in the west of Yingtian Mansion.

In Chang'an Taiping Temple, neither God nor Heaven is enshrined, but the heroic spirits who fought to the death for the world of Huangtian are enshrined.

In the Taiping Temple in Chang'an City, there are many stone tablets, and those stone tablets are densely engraved with names.

They are all the names of soldiers who died in battle, and the largest stone tablet is a tablet without words, commemorating those unsung heroes whose names cannot be found.

The reason why Xu An went to the Taiping Temple first was to put all the name tags of the soldiers who died in the Eastern Expedition into the Taiping Temple.

Inside the Taiping Temple, the sound of chanting resounded.

Looking at the names one after another on the stele, although Xu An's expression remained unchanged, his heart was not at peace.

Every name on the stele represents a unique story and represents a family.

Although the world is settled, after that, he will continue to send one person after another to the battlefield.

Today, countries rely on commerce and trade to continuously plunder the wealth of neighboring countries.

Such a stage will definitely not last for too long, and one day there will be a battle.

The changes in the Western Regions will be earlier than in other places, and the Guishuang Empire is already at sunset.

The Parthian Empire had gained an advantage on the battlefield, and Guishuang, who was severely injured in the Battle of Dawan, could not resist the attack of the Parthian Empire's army.

I'm afraid it won't be long before Guishuang will perish, and the Anxi Empire will border on the provinces of the Western Regions.

At that time, what the Ming Dynasty needs to face is Persia, which is at its peak, and not Guishuang, which is sluggish.

If there is no accident, in the near future, there will be a battle between Da Ming and Anxi in the Western Regions, and this battle will determine the pattern of the entire Western Regions.

However, Xu An didn't want to wait any longer. Since there was bound to be a battle, it was better to take advantage of the fact that Anxi and Guishuang were in the melee now, and put a knife in his heart.

Chapter 913 The Forbidden City's Spring Is Bright

Silver candles smoke the sky and purple trees grow, and the Forbidden City is full of spring.

Thousands of weak willows hang down on the green and trivial, and hundreds of turns of warblers circle around to build chapters.

The spring breeze is warm and the sun is refreshing.

The summer heat has temporarily dissipated a bit and the weather is starting to turn cloudy.

Xu An still wore the guard of honor armor and did not take it off. This armor was specially designed for the guard of honor. The armor was very light and did not actually affect his movements, but it took a lot of time to put it on and take it off, so Xu An simply put it on. Wearing a armored stomach, he entered Yingtian's mansion.

Walking on the promenade from Yingtian Mansion to Taiye Pond, Xu An couldn't help but feel as if he had passed away.

In the past three years, he has traveled to many places, and he has hardly stayed in one place for a long time. He has always been running non-stop, going to and from various cities, either on the way of inspection or on the road leading the troops forward.

Today's Chang'an City is changing with each passing day, returning after three years, it's like coming to a new city.

If Chang'an Avenue and Chang'an Square were not the same, as well as the majestic Yingtianfu City, Xu An would have thought that the place he was in was not Chang'an.

In today's Chang'an City, the city walls of the outer city have not been completely repaired, and only half of the city walls have been completed for the time being.

The city walls of the west city and the south city are sections that have already been completed, while the two sections of the city walls of the north city and the east city are still under construction, and only the foundation has been laid.

In the Battle of Huayin, Guanzhong was included in the territory of Taiping Road in the third year of Chuping (192), and it has been a full six years now.

The construction of Chang'an City has also been carried out for six full years. In the first and second years, only the palaces in Chang'an City were rebuilt and turned into offices such as government offices.

The plan to completely rebuild Chang'an City began in the fifth year of Chuping (194). At that time, Xu An led the army to recover Yizhou, returned to Chang'an, and began preparations for the founding of the country.

The old Chang'an City began to feel out of place. After all, the old Chang'an City was only the residence of princes and nobles, and ordinary people were not eligible to enter the city.

Today's Chang'an City was built at that time, and it has been four years since today.

In four years, Chang'an City, where only tens of thousands of people lived, now has a total registered population of 41.

More than [-] of the original [-] folk squares have been built, and the east and west cities are distributed in a rectangular shape, embedded in the east and west cities.

Apart from these two big cities, some places have also been classified as commercial stores, selling daily necessities for the convenience of people's livelihood.

If you are only buying necessities for daily life, you only need to walk through the two lifangs at the farthest to buy them, and you don't need to go to the east and west markets.

The main responsibilities of the two cities in the east and west are the bulk commodity transactions, furs from the north, silk from the Shu, spices from the south, and sea pearls and treasures from the west.

In addition to the market and folk workshops, Chang'an City is different from other cities in that it has workshops and commercial workshops in the city.

There are four commercial workshops in Chang'an City, which are located in the east and west cities. There are inns, restaurants, stables, warehouses, etc. These warehouses and stables are specially used by merchants.

Of course, all of this is not free, everything needs to be paid, renting warehouses to store goods, stocking horses, etc., and also providing supporting services.

In addition to the four commercial workshops, there are eight workshops in Chang'an City.

These ten workshops have provided Chang'an City with a large number of jobs, which is the main reason why in just a few years, the residents in Chang'an City can expand to more than [-] people.

At that time, all the arms production workshops in Taiping Road were basically located in the mountainous area of ​​Bingzhou, in order to prevent the intrusion of spies and ensure that the technology was not leaked.

However, after defeating Dong Zhuo, the center of Taipingdao also shifted from Taiyuan in Bingzhou to Chang'an in Guanzhong.

Bingzhou's workshops began to become a bit out of date. Since then, Bingzhou's workshops have slowly begun to shift.

After the recovery of Yizhou, the founding of Chang'an, and the establishment of the tripartite confrontation, Chang'an City began a large-scale expansion, and these workshops were gradually transferred to Chang'an City.

Direct production in Chang'an City can save a lot of manpower, and the Guanzhong area also has iron ore sources, so the raw materials are not a big problem.

Among the ten workshops, six are now military workshops, specializing in the production of armaments and ordnance.

The other three are textile workshops. Yinglangwei paid a lot of money to bring cotton from southern Xinjiang under the order of Xu An, and promoted the planting. Now a lot of cotton has been planted in Chang'an area.

In the Western Regions, cotton farming has also begun to be promoted, and many textile workshops have also been established in the provincial capitals of the Western Regions.

The climate in the Western Regions is quite suitable for the growth of cotton, and there is not too much shortage of manpower there. After all, a large number of Xianbei prisoners of war were sent there before.

Now in the foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty, cotton products have gradually become an important trade commodity.

The promotion and popularization of cotton also enabled ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty to have warmer cotton-padded clothes and quilts during the winter. The winter was originally cold, and it was difficult for ordinary people to have fur coats and furs for the winter. He hugged his body, and willow catkins and other things to keep warm, and forced himself through.

But now with cotton, the cold winter is much easier than before.

It has been five years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, every winter, there were always people who were frozen to death everywhere.

But since cotton was promoted, large-scale planting began, and cotton-padded clothes and quilts were produced, such situations have become much less.

There are two prices for cotton clothes, quilts, and various cotton textiles. One is the price sold to the domestic public. A certain restriction system is adopted. As the identity certificate of each citizen of the Ming Dynasty, they can be purchased at a low price. Two cotton coats, each household can buy two cotton quilts.

The other is foreign trade, and for exporting foreign trade, Xu An naturally would not lower the price, but instead raised it a lot.

The products in this part mainly follow the mid-to-high-end route. Those cotton coats and quilts are not only relatively finely made, but some of them are even embroidered with special labels.

Today, all foreign trade commodities and luxury goods in the Ming Dynasty have a logo on them. That logo was specially designed by Xu An, with the sun and the moon as symbols, representing Ming Dynasty.

People in this era know little about the power of brand effect, but Xu An is well aware of the impact brand effect can have.

The sun and moon logo, only luxury goods, high-end trade items will have it, to distinguish it from cheap items.

The purpose of doing this is to take advantage of the vanity of those feudal nobles and merchants.

Since Western countries now use porcelain and drinking tea as a symbol of dignity, they should add fuel to the fire and teach them the meaning of so-called real luxury.

At that time, even if there are imitations and substitutes.