After the two entered the city, there was no appearance of countrymen entering the city at all.
Dad has been to Chang'an many times, especially in the former Sui Dynasty, when Chang'an City was much more prosperous and lively than now.
As for Zhang Chao, the later generations of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are more lively than Chang'an, and even an ordinary small county town is more lively than Chang'an City.
The impression of entering Chang'an City made Zhang Chao feel more disappointed.
There is no such scene of all nations coming to court, and the streets are rubbing shoulders and waving their sleeves like clouds and sweating like rain.
On the contrary, it is like entering a large scenic area.
The whole of Chang'an is full of medieval flavors, and the huge city of Chang'an is divided into countless alleys.
The most impressive thing is the high walls rather than the streets, and there are walls everywhere.
City walls, square walls.
The streets divide these alleys, and there are many people on the streets, but they are not lively.
Because the street is like a highway, except for pedestrians and cars, there is not even a single shop on the side of the street, and even the walls on both sides of the street have very few doors, and the houses on both sides rarely even face the street.
There are no hawkers setting up stalls along the streets, and there are no orchids selling alcohol.
Dad secretly looked at Zhang Chao with his peripheral vision, and found that he did not have the slightest awe of Chang'an City after entering the city, and it was very bland.
With a faint disappointment in Chang'an City, Zhang Chao thought about buying something while walking.
Soon, the two of them came to the West Market, known as the Gold Market, which is also a huge closed market.
The West Market, 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 squares.
Although there are one hundred and eight squares in Chang'an City, the square areas on both sides of the imperial city palace in the north are relatively large, and here are the residences of the imperial relatives and relatives.
The second is the east and west sides of the south of the imperial city, which are slightly smaller than the north ones.
The smallest are the squares directly south of the Imperial City, which are all smaller.
The West Market, which occupies two squares, has a thick rammed wall, and Dad introduced Zhang Chao to Zhang Chao on the side.
The square wall is enough to have a wall base of three zhang and three thicknesses, the north and south are more than two miles each, and the whole West Market covers an area of more than 1,600 acres.
In the Sui Dynasty, the queen period and the early period of the great cause, was the most prosperous time in the West Market, at that time there were more than 220 industries in the West Market, more than 40,000 fixed shops, here is not only the most prosperous CBD in Chang'an, but also the largest commercial center in the world at that time.
The two cities are not only located in different locations, but also have very different types of goods.
Because the East Market is surrounded by royal nobles and dignitaries, it is rare from all over the world, and the goods in the East Market are mostly high-class luxuries.
The West Market mainly concentrates all kinds of life goods, clothing, food and department stores, and so on.
There are two parallel east-west streets and north-south streets in the west market, and the four main streets cross into a tic-tac-toe shape in the center of the west market, dividing the entire west market into nine blocks.
"It's a wide street."
Zhang Chao admired.
"All four streets are six miles wide."
Daddy nodded.
"The fourth street in the east market is even wider, ten zhang wide."
However, in addition to the four main streets in the city, there are four streets parallel to the walls of the two cities, and the width of the street along the wall is about five zhang.
In addition, there are many small lanes along the main streets and nine districts in the city.
Therefore, although the commercial districts in Chang'an City are concentrated in the two cities, the streets and alleys in the city are connected, and the traffic is still extremely convenient.
On the wall of the west market, which is closed by the square wall, two doors are opened on each side, and there are eight doors in and out of the west market.
It happens that each gate corresponds to a main street, and the city gate is also managed by doormen.
The city gate is also like the palace gate, the city gate, and the square gate, which must be opened and closed regularly with the sound of street drums in the morning and evening.
Therefore, the East and West Market closes at dusk and is closed at night.
The layout of the entire West Market, the central government has set up the Municipal Administration and the Ping Zhun Bureau, which is the management agency of the market.
All the shops are located around the streets, and the alleys in each district also have shops on the streets.
There are shops on the street in the city, and there are residences on all sides, which is convenient for both traffic and goods.
When he arrived here, Zhang Chao felt that Chang'an City had a familiar urban taste.
The shops on the street, the vendors who solicited customers, and he even found a number of shops opened by Hu people, and there were also many Hu merchants who bought here.
According to my father, the Hu merchants here are both from the Western Regions and from Liaodong and Korea, but among them, the Sogdians from the Western Regions, the Persians from the river, and the big food merchants from Dashi are the most, and most of them live in the fangs near the West Market, and their main business is to sell spices and medicines, and then buy back jewelry, silk and porcelain from the Central Plains.
In addition, many Hu people in the Western Regions also operate wine shops and restaurants, and there are many orchids with foreign flavors, and even these shops are also engaged in the sale of slaves and maids in the Western Regions.
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Many of the shops in the West Market are front and back shops.
Another major feature here is that there are many industries, including more than 220 lines.
There were gold shops that raised money for dignitaries and nobles, as well as vendors who sold money ropes, and most of the shops in each industry lived on the same street.
Monopoly on silk, monopoly on cloth, monopoly on grain, etc., some of which are very finely divided, such as silk sellers are also subdivided into silk and silk lines.
Vegetable sellers also have specialized industries and neighborhoods, and those who sell cakes also have their own territory.
Here, Zhang Chao really discovered the charm of the world's first city, and it is also the most lively place in Chang'an.
There are many shops in one store, and there are many shops.
There are many shops, but the storefronts are not large.
Most of the storefronts on the street are about four to ten meters wide and more than three meters deep, and they are all adjacent to each other.
Such a small shop is about the same size as the Shaxian snacks of later generations.
Selling drink shops, cake dumpling shops, fruit shops.
Selling medicine, selling money There are nine commercial districts in the West Market, of which the area in the lower left corner is full of silk and cloth shops.
The piece above him is mainly selling wine, meat, rice, grain and other things.
The top piece on the left sells livestock, cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, camels, and even pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, wild boars, pheasants and other wild animals.
The mill row and the charcoal row are also in this piece.
Zhang Chao followed his father all the way down, which was really eye-opening.
When he first entered the city, he still felt that Chang'an City was so deserted, like a big prison.
Now I found out that the original commercial transactions in Chang'an City were all concentrated together, more than 1,600 acres of land in the West Market, nine major business districts, there used to be more than 200 large and small lines, more than 40,000 shops.
The streets are full of people, and it feels like more than half of the people in the entire Chang'an City are here.
Wuling boy Jin Shidong laughed into the orchid wine shop.
It is said that after the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Guanzhong was also greatly affected, but now Zhang Chao looks at the liveliness of the West Market, the complete range of goods, and can't help but sigh that it is worthy of being the largest city in the world.
The pharmacy bought alkali stone and miscanthus nitrate, and Zhang Chao bought all the two taels of silver at one time.
The service attitude of the pharmacy is still very good, although silver is not a circulating currency, but the guy is still very enthusiastic to take Zhang Chao to a jewelry store not far away first, and exchanged the silver for copper coins, because the silver given by Cui Yan is very high, so in the end it was changed to three thousand five hundred yuan, which is three hundred more than the original three thousand two. t1706231537: