"This is Chang'an, the imperial capital of the Han Empire?"

After a long journey of one and a half months, Julian can be regarded as the distant city of Chang'an.

As the capital, the first capital without a city wall to protect was Xianyang. Shang Yang did not plan to build a city wall during the construction of the city. He felt that Qin should be an offensive country, and then there were no strong enemies to the west and letters to the east. Guguan and Guan acted as barriers.

As the second capital city with no walls, Chang'an now believes that Han should be an offensive country like Liu Yan, but he has not forgotten the heavy reliance on Tongguan and Lantianguan.

With the Qin empire being driven straight into the imperial Qin III and surrendering with a hundred officials, Liu Yan's not building a wall in the capital was met with strong opposition.

The opponents did not dare to directly say that the offspring’s unfilial operation and the inability to manage the problems caused them to encounter challenges. They cited some very positive points to emphasize that the capital must have a wall, or a wall that is majestic and unlimited, but they were smashed by reality. , The power of gunpowder tells that no matter how majestic the wall is, there will be no use for birds.

The reality is that since gunpowder was researched, even the most majestic city wall is a matter of measuring how much gunpowder can blow up. The city wall that cost a lot of manpower and material resources will collapse after a "boom". Why is it built?

Weapons will continue to change day by day. There are already front-mounted bronze cannons, and perhaps a few years or decades later, there will be rear-mounted artillery, and even more powerful weapons. Building a city wall as a barrier will be extremely unreliable. Spectrum thing.

Choose a dangerous place and build some satellite fortresses. A similar approach is a reliable choice.

Those who have seen a fortress group built in a fortress have never seen the walls of a certain city built according to the specifications of a fortress group.

What Julian saw was a city without wall protection, but the area was exaggerated. For the well-planned buildings that can be seen from a distance, and the road plan that can be distinguished from a distance, There is a kind of comprehension in my mind.

"What do the Han people seem to have obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Flavis stared at the distant city intently: "They pay attention to everything neat and tidy, and regard all disorder as a representative of disorder?"

Everyone remembered what they had seen and heard in Han. It is needless to say that soldiers, civilians also have deep military habits. For example, in cities or villages, people often see people walking in groups according to the formation. There is no such thing as a habit.

Their impression of the Han Chinese's pursuit of order is built up bit by bit. Maybe not everyone understands what the order means, but they can know how many trained soldiers can be gathered just by seeing the Han people.

The towering buildings in Chang'an can be seen from very far away. How high is that to distinguish the towering!

It is not too high. The tallest is only thirteen stories. Three-story residential buildings are the mainstream. Only the residences of high-ranking officials rarely have buildings with more than two stories.

Common people like to build houses three stories high, because they can own so much land. If you don't build them higher, they will inevitably not have enough rooms.

The residences of high-ranking officials and nobles occupy a large area, and there is no need to build the houses into multiple floors, and they can even build a garden pond or something.

But it’s not that the residences of high-ranking officials do not have towering buildings. Liu Yan is used to climbing and looking into the distance. They will regard climbing high and looking into the distance as a very high and compelling thing, even if they have a fear of heights, they will always force themselves. Going to a high place to climb a high place and look into the distance, what else can I do if it is not interpreted as a good example not to learn from the emperor.

The envoy team started from Jiankang, and they walked on the national highway that was still under construction.

When passing the Yangtze River Bridge, one of the international friends was stunned by the great handwork of the Han people. They had never seen a cross-river bridge over a kilometer in length. Although there is an island in the middle of the Yangtze River Bridge as a support, the kilometer bridge is still an epic project for them. Anyone who sees it will be stunned and shocked.

The Yangtze River Bridge they saw was built on the bones of slaves’ corpses. The construction of this bridge alone cost more than 30,000 slaves. The Han people also sacrificed hundreds of them, mainly for the construction of bridge piers. Industry.

The construction method of the bridge pier is to fill the soil to increase the height of the river bed, and then erect a huge wood as a support point. There is a bridge pier every fifteen meters.

It does not mean simply filling the riverbed with soil. It is to build iron cages to fill the mud and rock, transport it by ship and unload it, and complete it bit by bit.

Although Liu Yan has some opinions on the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge, it is more often conceived by craftsmen with their own wisdom.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. Many of the things that the ancients could do, even with such high technology in modern times, still cannot do what the ancients could do.

Like the Yanjin Stone Bridge (also called Jijin Bridge) that straddles the banks of the Great River (Yellow River), it was built in the early Western Han Dynasty and perfected in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was used until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms before being destroyed.

To say that the existence of the Yangtze River Bridge is enough to blind the eyes of international friends, shocking their brains into tofu dregs, and all the things they see along the way are challenging their cognition.

In ancient times, there was no such thing as wanting to build roads first, but similar views certainly exist.

The central hub conceived and revised the construction of a national highway that crosses the east, west, south, and north of the mainland. The total length from Jiankang to Tongguan reached 3,200 miles, which is equivalent to "laying" a road from northwest to southeast on the mainland. Exaggerated passage.

Three thousand two hundred miles? It is about a thousand and a hundred in Rome, almost from the western end of Spain to the eastern border (probably Luxembourg).

The Romans have a famous saying that "all roads lead to Rome", but in fact, there is not a single road that leads directly to Rome. The widest road in Rome can be an exaggeration of four or five meters. The basic standard of the national road on the Han side is 18 meters in width.

For international friends, they learned that the Han people were building two avenues across the border. The first time they heard it, they had no other thoughts except dumbfounded or dumbfounded.

What they saw along the way could understand why the roads running through the northwest and southeast of the country were so full of villages and large cities on both sides that it depends on the convenience of transportation.

Only by personally walking from Jiankang in the southeast to Tongguan, the end of the northwest, will have the most intuitive impression of this huge project.

From a military point of view, there is a road to deploy troops from the northwest or southeast. Even if it is not a desperate drive, one month is definitely able to reach with troops. The road will become an important part of the central control place. There is such a road. As long as the center is not rotten to the end, any rebellion is seeking a dead end.

From an economic point of view, then a road is the flow of goods, mothers no longer have to worry about their son getting lost, fathers will be happy that they are safe and secure along the way, and the speed of delivery will be extremely fast!

"This is an epic project!" Xias is not only talking about the construction of the two national highways of the Han people, but also talking about the city of Chang'an: "I heard that it took the Han people only three years to build this one destined to last forever. Huge city?"

In fact, the general construction of the city only took one year and three months, and the construction of some epic wonders was difficult and time-consuming.

The so-called epic wonders refer to the palaces, and there are some places that will be used in various ceremonies. The most difficult is the stadium that can accommodate 100,000 spectators.

The closer you get, the less you can get an overview of the scenery of Chang'an City, but you will be more shocked by some buildings.

"What is the building that looks like a beetle with wings spread?" Ksiaas didn't know how many times he was dumbfounded after he came to Han, "It's...too...too big!"

What the **** is the Spread Wing Beetle? That is, the top side of the gymnasium cannot be closed with solid building materials. It can only create a shelter pattern to the greatest extent. When needed, it can only rely on a huge cloth to form a shelter effect.

After all, the gymnasium is capable of accommodating 100,000 spectators. Its main building must be very large, and with the addition of the square and some secondary buildings, it occupies a wider area.

It was getting closer and closer, but they were confused about the fence walls they saw.

"This is the... wall of the Han Empire capital?" Julian was talking about the fence walls: "The highest height is only two meters. Is there any military value?"

No one from the same foreign group can give Julian the answer. They never thought that the fences were either to guard against people or to prevent animals from running around.

The roads outside the city lead directly into the city, but people are not allowed to enter and exit casually. There are still gates at the entrance to the city.

There is no entrance tax in Han, and it is necessary to go to a special place to buy and sell goods~lightnovelpub.net~ The tax is also generated in the market, and the gate is aimed at large groups of people.

In addition, for the purpose of cultivating health for the people, if the villagers sell things, the small quantity actually does not have to pay taxes.

In fact, even if the government wants to collect taxes, it is impossible to stare at everyone, it is better to directly provide convenience to the civilians.

The team of international friends is very large, and Wang Meng, who leads the way, naturally cannot take them through the normal passage, or it should affect the normal entry of ordinary people. The route chosen is a special road for the army to enter the city.

"The width is at least fifteen steps!" Flavis said that the step is a Roman step, one step is about one meter and forty-nine centimeters, that is, the width is more than 20 meters: "I suddenly recalled that the Han people have a kind of paranoia about the road. , It must be wide enough and divided into left and right lanes!"

This is something to be proud of. In the current world, except for the Han, the rest of the world has no right and left. If there are more people, they will definitely be mixed together. Collision and pushing are inevitable, and blockages are also common. .

"I am not concerned about this..." Xias said in a puzzled way: "Did the Han Empire arrange a welcome ceremony for us?" u