Chapter 299: Holy City

In order to find out what was going on, we walked directly to the gate of the Holy City.

The masonry materials of the Holy City walls are all stones, and the color is exactly the same as the stones on the Dayue Kingdom of Canglu Mountain. It seems that they are made locally.

When I approached the city wall, I found that there was no moat in the Holy City. It would be understandable if there was no water. But just on this side of Canglu Mountain, an underground undercurrent connected the river outside Tonggu City. Although the river was not big, it was not a big problem to use water as a moat. Moreover, the amount of engineering required was not very large. It was so simple that the people who built the Holy City did not know about it. This was too strange.

You must know that such a low city wall and no moat are simply an unguarded city in the eyes of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

And as I slowly approached, the city wall became clearer in my eyes. The stones on the city wall were polished to be extremely smooth, and there were very exquisite patterns engraved on them. There were many, so I guess there must be a lot of kung fu on them!

I was immediately confused. What kind of city was built for war? It was clearly a city built for tourism to attract tourists. Although there is no tourism industry yet, the local leaders probably have no concept of tourism in their minds.

With confusion, doubts, and admiration for the beautiful carvings on the city walls, we slowly walked towards the city gate.

The gate of the Holy City is very wide, and according to the estimate, it is about two feet. Perhaps because of the abnormal height and width ratio, the gate seems a bit low. There were only two guards at the door, so I did not express any surprise at all about our arrival. I just looked at us lightly, and then one of them said: "Dear guests, horse riding is not allowed in the Holy City. Please send your horses outside the door. If you don't know the location, I will take you there."

He is polite and very polite in his words, giving people the feeling that he is not a soldier at all, and he also wants a receptionist.

I couldn't help but turn my head towards Han Qing, waiting for her opinion.

Han Qing nodded and said, "This is the rule of the Holy City, and horses are not allowed to enter the city!"

"If the goods are heavy, then do this?" I couldn't help asking, "Is it going to push forward?"

Han Qing smiled and said, "You don't know anything about this. On the other side of the city, there are large storage stores. If the number is large, the merchant only needs to bring samples into the city. If both parties can make a deal, they can go directly to the store. As for the small amount, they can be pulled. If they really can't be pulled, they can hire porters, and the price is more cost-effective!"

I couldn't help but nodded. This model is very similar to the commercial street of Shangling. There is a rule we set up specifically, that is, horses and other people are strictly prohibited from entering the commercial street. As for those guests who come on horseback, there is a special horse-delivery station outside the commercial street, which is responsible for temporarily managing the passenger's horses. In order to prevent the horses from being ridden by others, each horse has a license plate when sending.

Since others have other people's rules, we have to abide by them. So, under the leadership of one of the soldiers, we came to a horse-sending station that we didn't want to be at the city gate and placed the horse there. At the same time, like Shang Ling, we each took a number plate.

Jing'er took her horse sign, looked up and down, and then said, "It's so strange, why are you the same as Shang Ling?"

Han Qing was interested and asked, "Sister Jing, what did you say?"

Jing'er waved the number sign in her hand and said, "This is the same as our Shangling Commercial Street. It is all about horse mailing, but we started to implement it four years ago!"

"Four years ago?"

Han Qing was slightly stunned and said, "You said you started using this method four years ago?"

Jing'er nodded seriously and said, "Not bad! The commercial street has been implemented after it was completed, and it has been almost four years!" After that, she turned her head and asked, "Is it? Husband."

I smiled slightly, then nodded.

Han Qing, who was on the other hand, was a little depressed at this time. She originally admired this method and planned to praise it for a few words, but she didn't expect that after doing it for a long time, others would first use this method.

In fact, it’s not that Han Qing didn’t know that the place she stayed in before was either a capital or a border, and she had never been to Shangling. Of course, she didn’t know that Shangling had a commercial street, and she didn’t know that the commercial street implemented this way of sending horses.

At the same time, I also discovered something even more incredible. The gate of the Holy City actually had no gate!

I suddenly felt a little disbelief and thought I had read it wrong.

So from entering the city gate to leaving the city gate, I really didn't see anything that could be called a gate.

If they were to attract the enemy to enter the city, they closed the city gates and caught turtles in a jar, but according to the height of the holy city wall, even if the soldiers enter and are besieged, the soldiers outside can quickly capture the city wall. For me, who is a half-knowing military, you know that such a city has no strategic value in such an open land and such a construction method, not to mention the young king of the Great Yue Kingdom now.

After entering the city gate, a large square appeared in front of us. The ground and the walls of the square were the same color, made of rocks from Canglu Mountain. And the square was made of iron bars at any distance. When I got closer, I found that there was a well below, which was a bit similar to the rainwater well in modern society. If I guess it was good, there should be a drainage pipe under the well. There is only one similar drainage structure now, that is Shangling. In Shangling, the Chamber of Commerce adopted the same structure from the construction of the Wharf New Village to the later urban road renovation, and that was four years ago. According to the information and Han Qing's oral statement, the holy city was only two years old, which shows that the drainage structure here is likely to have borrowed from Shangling's method.

Perhaps because of the market closure, there are very few people in the square now.

Han Qing pointed to the big square and said, "This is the place for the Holy City. It looks deserted now, but when Tonggu Pass is opened every three days, it is very lively. Many merchants will do business here! But the time is too short! Moreover, the court has weight restrictions on goods entering the Great Zhou, so the goods entering the Great Zhou are only half of the goods sold to merchants in the Great Yue Kingdom."

I deeply agree with this. Border trade can basically be regarded as one of the most profitable trades. Especially for some relatively large merchants, after a large-scale transaction goods are shipped to Beijing or Shangling and other big cities for sale, the price can increase by a few days. However, in order to control border trade, the court had a weight of the Dazhou commodity entering the Dayue Kingdom was twice the weight of the Dazhou commodity entering the Dazhou commodity. This led to a very limited number of goods sold to Dazhou every year. The goods sold to Dazhou in terms of weight is twice the weight, but the price is not low, which led to a large trade deficit. This is also one of the reasons why Dayue Kingdom was hostile to Dazhou. In terms of trade, it made them feel unfair, so the merchants of Dazhou became profiteers in their mouths. But the profiteers became profiteers, and this business still had to be done.

While talking, we slowly walked to the middle of the square. After that, Han Qing pointed to the place with a large eaves in front of him and said, "There are high towers where they are temples, and the statues of their gods are worshipped. Next to it is the palace and barracks of the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom."

After saying that, she pointed to another direction and said, "That piece is the block, where merchants and some ordinary people live! There..."

"Wait..." I quickly stopped it, then pointed to the place she pointed at just now and asked, "Do you think it is their emperor's palace?"

"yes!"

Han Qing was puzzled, "Everyone knows about this place, and I have also been in. The emperors of the Dayue Kingdom believe in their gods very much. Every time the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the palace would be opened for half a day, and ordinary people could go in. Of course, there were some important places outside!"

I'm really confused now. It's fine if the city wall is built short, but the city wall can trade the city river outside the city wall. I don't have any objection to the city gate. But the emperor placed his palace at the foot of the Dazhou's eyelids and opened one day a month. If someone in the Dazhou really does not benefit him, wouldn't he easily get into the palace? Didn't he tie his head to the belt and play? Or did he think he can really be inferior to swords and guns?

However, I have seen the palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but I have never seen the palace of the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom. I just don’t know when it is the first day of today and whether I can enter.

So I asked quickly, "By the way, what time is today?"

Han Qing thought for a while and said, "It's so good today, you can go in!"

I pointed at myself and said, "I am not from Dayue, can I go in?"

Han Qing smiled slightly and said, "Others didn't say that this is not a person from the Great Yue Kingdom, so he can't go in!"

"Okay!" I clapped my hands, then pulled Jing'er, who hadn't spoken, and said, "Wife, let's go see the gods of the Great Yue Kingdom, and then go see the palace of the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom. If we are satisfied, we will also repair one by ourselves when we go back!"

However, I was so happy that I didn't see a trace of decline flashing in Han Qing's eyes.

With Jing'er's hand, we slowly walked towards the temple in the city, at least to see what other people's god looks like? Is it that one holding a sword in his hand, who is so handsome and has these wings on his back.

Oh! No! That's an angel!

The Great Yue Kingdom has an angel in the Western legend?
Chapter completed!