Shattered Leaf City as a whole is a flat rectangle, her circumference is about twenty-four riels, and the entire city is surrounded by tall blue-black stone walls by the Jiankun people.The stone wall is ten paces wide at the bottom, narrower the higher it goes, and no more than three steps wide at the top.The battlements are also blue-black, oh God, why do these Jiankun people love the color blue-black so much?
The entire design of the city is based on straight lines, so each street follows a straight line to the base of the city wall.If a man goes up to the gate and looks out into the street, he will see the gate of the city wall on the other side.On both sides of the city's avenues there are a variety of shops and shops.The land occupied by the entire city is also square and in a straight line with each other, and each plot has ample space for beautiful homes, courtyards and gardens.Each family is given a piece of such land, and the land is free to be sold.The layout of the city is as described above, like a regular chatrang chessboard.The exquisiteness and beauty of the whole design cannot be described even by my imagination and words.On the walls of Shattered Leaf City, the Jiankun people opened a total of twelve gates, four on the east and four on the west, and two on the south and north.Between the two gates of each gate, a beautiful building was built (Sergio.
Prussiac didn't recognize the Arrow Tower, a unique building in China), I counted twenty of them, and there was a large room in the building where the weapons of the soldiers defending the city could be stored.As for the number of the garrisons, I have heard that there were about a thousand men at each gate.Just because there are so many garrisons, you should not think that they are defending against some kind of enemy invasion, but in fact they are just guards set up to show the glory and majesty of the Great Khan.In the center of the city is a very tall Taoist building, on which a large bell rings every night.After the third bell, no one is allowed to walk on the street.However, in the event of an emergency, such as a pregnant woman giving birth or someone falling ill, an exception can be made, but those who go out must carry a lantern and walk under the watchful eye of the Guards.Outside each of the twelve gates is a suburb of the city, which is vast.The suburbs of each gate were connected to the suburbs of the gates on the left and right, so that the width of the suburbs could reach three or four leagues, and the total number of inhabitants of the suburbs far exceeded the number of inhabitants of the capital.On the outskirts of each city, about a mile from the city walls, there were inns or large inns for camel caravans, which provided dwellings for merchants from all over the country, and people of different nationalities lived in different designated dwellings, which were separated from each other.For example, one dwelling is designated for the Lombards, another for the Goths, and the third for the Avars.In Shattered Leaf City, at night, there are patrols of thirty or forty people on the streets, constantly patrolling the streets and checking to see if anyone is still away from home during the curfew, after the third bell.If they found him out, he was immediately arrested and imprisoned, and after dawn he was tried by a full-time official.If it is proved to be negligent, the penalty is a mild or severe penalty of caning, depending on the severity of the offense, which is generally not fatal.The criminals of these inhabitants are often punished in this way.This was largely due to the fact that the Great Khan heeded the advice of his wise old prime minister and did not want his people to shed blood.Jiankun and the Great Khan of Jiankun had such a majestic and magnificent capital, and their army was naturally extremely powerful, and the Praetorian Guard, which was stationed only in Broken Leaves, oh, they called the Royal Guard, had 12,000 elite cavalry, 12,000 men under the command of four officers, each commanding 3,000 men.Every 3,000 men served in the palace for three days and nights, and at the end of the term they were replaced by another team.Wait until all four teams take turns to serve, and then start from scratch.and at the same time the nine thousand who did not serve, except that they were sent by the khan, or that each of them went away for personal matters; This is not allowed to leave the palace during the day, except with the permission of their governor.In addition to these twelve thousand cavalry, it is said that there are nearly 100,000 cavalry and infantry outside the city.
Prushak, I can't imagine how many troops and how much blood it would have to take to attack such a huge and well-guarded city?
Under the rule of the young Great Khan, the people of Jiankun Kingdom, well, especially the city of Broken Leaves, are still doing well, at least much stronger than Constantinople.The Great Khan often disguised himself and went out among the people to understand their living conditions, and he once told me that these people were his most reliable source of strength, and that his power came from the people, not from the gods!
God testifies that I have never heard of a king of the East dare to say such a thing, and this makes me even more convinced that the teacher of the Great Khan was a sage educated in Greece or Rome, otherwise he would not have thought like this.If any decent family under his rule has fallen from wealth to poverty because of misfortune; Or if someone is weak and old enough to earn a living or get food, he learns of this and gives them the necessary consumer goods every year.There was a group of officials who were in charge of this part of the Great Khan's expenses, and handled the matter in a yamen.All the poor came to these officials within a certain period of time.They would show a description of the amount of relief they had received in the previous year, so that they would receive the same items in the current year.The Great Khan likewise provided clothing for the poor.He took a part of the fiscal revenue and a part of his own internal subsidy as a fund to help the poor who had lost their ability to earn a living.He ordered the materials to be woven into all sorts of cloth in the workshop he had built, and every craftsman in Broken Leaf had to work in the factory one day a week, and oh, the government had to pay for it.The clothes made of this cloth will be given to the poor families mentioned above, providing them with winter and summer use.At the same time, these workshops prepared uniforms for their armies and weaved large quantities of woollen cloth in every city, all of which were paid for by local tithes (Prussiac simply equated the Tenkun system with the tithes levied by the Eastern Roman Church).I once asked a Taoist patriarch why they would help the poor, and the imam named De'an told me, "In Jiankun, helping the poor is a good deed and is praised by God."
From then on, the Great Khan relieved the suffering of the poor under these circumstances.Anyone who asks the government for food and help will not be refused.Every day, officials distributed 10,000 barrels of rice, millet and millet, and even valuables such as jerky and cheese.The people also loved the Great Khan very much because of his respectable and astonishing righteous deeds towards the poor. ”I have to say that this Great Khan, in addition to being a heretic, is simply the most benevolent and kindest monarch among the Eastern monarchs!