After the father and the other two entered the city, they did not look like rural people. My father has been to Chang'an many times, especially in the former Sui Dynasty, when Chang'an City was much bustling and lively than now. As for Zhang Chao, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in later generations were many times more lively than Chang'an, and even an ordinary small county town, which was more lively than Chang'an City.

The impression of entering Chang'an City made Zhang Chao feel that he was a little disappointed.

There is no such scene of all nations coming to pay homage, and the streets are swinging shoulder to shoulder like clouds and sweating like rain. On the contrary, it seems like entering a large scenic spot.

The entire Chang'an is full of medieval flavor, and the huge Chang'an city is divided into countless lifangs. The most impressive thing is the high walls rather than the streets, with walls everywhere, city walls and fang walls. The streets divide the lifangs one by one. There are many people on the streets, but they are not lively.

Because the street is like a highway, except for pedestrians passing by, there is not even a single shop on the street, and there are even very few doors on the walls on both sides of the street, and the houses on both sides rarely face the street.

There are no vendors setting up stalls along the street, nor are there any rudes selling wine as trunks.

The father looked at Zhang Chao secretly with his light and found that he had no awe of Chang'an City after entering the city, and was very dull.

With a faint disappointment in Chang'an City, Zhang Chao walked and thought about buying something.

Soon, the two of them came to Xishi, known as Jinshi, which was also a huge and closed market. Xishi, like the east and west, is a little north of the center of Chang'an City, and both cities also occupy the size of two square meters.

Although there are 108 fangs in Chang'an City, the fang areas on both sides of the imperial city on the north are relatively large, and this is the residences of the royal relatives. The second is the fangs on the east and west sides of the south of the imperial city, which are slightly smaller than the fangs on the north. The smallest is the fang areas on the south of the imperial city, which are smaller.

Xishi, which occupied two yards, has thick rammed yard walls, and my father introduced it to Zhang Chao.

The fang wall is 1000 feet thick, with a base of more than 2 miles from north to south, and the entire western city covers an area of ​​more than 1,600 acres. In the late Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty and the early Daye period, it was the most prosperous time in the West City. At that time, there were more than 220 industries in the West City and more than 40,000 fixed shops. This is not only the most prosperous CBD in Chang'an, but also the largest commercial center in the world at that time.

The east and west markets not only have different locations, but also have very different types of goods. Because the surrounding area of ​​Dongcheng is mostly royal nobles and nobles, it is rare and accumulated in the world. Most of the goods in Dongcheng are high-quality luxury goods.

The West Market mainly concentrates various daily necessities, food and clothing department stores, etc.

There are two parallel east-west and north-south streets in the West City. The four main streets cross in the center of the West City into tic-tac-shaped shapes, marking the entire West City into nine major blocks.

"This street is very wide." Zhang Chao was amazed.

"These four streets are six meters wide." Dad nodded. "The four streets in East City are wider, ten meters wide."

However, in addition to the main four streets in the city, Xicheng City also has four streets parallel to the walls of the two cities, and Shunmangmang Street is about five meters wide.

In addition, there are many small alleys along the streets and nine areas in the city. Therefore, although the commercial areas in Chang'an City are concentrated in the two cities, the streets and alleys in the city are connected, and the transportation is still very convenient.

There are two doors on each side of the Xishi wall, and there are eight doors in and out of the Xishi city. Each door corresponds to a main street, and the city gate also has a gatekeeper management. The city gate is like a palace gate, a city gate, and a fang gate. It will be opened and closed regularly with the sound of drums on the street in the morning and evening.

Therefore, the East and West City will close at dusk and will be closed at night.

The layout of the entire western city is the central government, the Peace and Verification Office, which is the market management agency. All shops are open on the street around each district, and there are also shops opened on the road in the alleys in each district.

The city has a shop on the street and a mansion is set up on all sides, which is convenient for transportation and the inlet and exit of goods.

When he arrived here, Zhang Chao felt that Chang'an City had a familiar city flavor. The shops facing the street and the vendors who attracted customers, he even found many shops opened by Hu people, and many Hu merchants who bought here.

My father said that the Hu merchants here are from both Western Regions, from Liaodong and North Korea. However, among them, the Sogdians from the Western Regions, the Persians from the Rivers, and the Dashi merchants from Dashi. Most of them live in shops near the West City, and their main business is to sell spices and medicines, and then buy jewelry, silk and porcelain from the Central Plains. In addition, many Hus in the Western Regions also run restaurants, with many foreign-style Husbands, and even these shops are engaged in the sale of slaves and servants in the Western Regions.

Many shops in West City are front and back shops.

Another feature here is that it has many industries, which includes more than 220 industries. There are gold shops that raise funds for high-ranking officials and nobles, as well as vendors who sell money ropes. Most shops in each industry live on the same street. They sell silk, cloth, grain, etc. Some of them are divided very finely, such as silk shops and silk shops.

Vegetable sellers also have special industries and neighborhoods, while cake sellers also have their own territory.

Here, Zhang Chao truly realized the charm of this world's number one city, which is also the most lively place in Chang'an.

The shops here are connected to shops, which are quite dense. There are many shops, but the shops are not big.

Most street-side shops are about four to ten meters wide, with a depth of only three meters, and are all connected along the street. Such small shops are about the same size as Shaxian snacks in later generations.

Selling beverage shops, pancake shops, fruit shops. Selling medicine shops, selling money to make money to make money to...

There are nine commercial districts in Xishi City, among which the area in the lower left corner is full of silk cloth shops. The area above it mainly sells wine, meat, rice, grain, etc.

The upper part on the left is selling livestock, cattle, horse, mule, donkey, camel, and even pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, wild boars, pheasants and other wild animals. The milling and charcoal shops are also in this piece.

Zhang Chao walked along with his father, which was really eye-opening.

When he first entered the city, he felt that Chang'an City was deserted, like a large prison. Now he realized that all the commercial transactions in Chang'an City were concentrated together. The nine major commercial areas, which had more than 200 stores and more than 40,000 shops in the West City, which had more than 1,600 acres of land.

There are people everywhere on the streets, and it feels like more than half of the people in Chang'an City are here.

The young man from Wuling, Jinshidong, laughed into Hu Ji's wine shop.

It is said that after the wars at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Guanzhong was also greatly affected. But now, Zhang Chao saw the lively Western market and the complete range of products, and couldn't help but sigh that it was worthy of being the largest city in the world. The wars in the world have not yet completely subsided, but Chang'an City is already so lively.
Chapter completed!