Chapter 897

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

After a month and a half of trek, Julian can be regarded as looking into the distance of Chang'an city.

As the capital, the first capital without walls is Xianyang. Shang Yang did not plan to build walls during the construction of the city. He thought that the state of Qin should be an offensive country. In addition, there are no strong enemies in the West and Hangu pass and Yiguan pass as barriers in the East.

Today, Chang'an, as the second capital without walls, is the same as Liu Yan. He believes that the Han state should be an offensive country, but he has not forgotten his reliance on Tongguan, Yiguan and Lantian customs.

With the Qin Empire being driven into danger, Qin III led hundreds of officials to surrender. Liu Yan was strongly opposed to building a city wall in the capital.

The opponents dare not directly say that the unfilial management of their children and grandchildren leads to challenges. They cite some very positive views to emphasize that the capital must have a wall or a magnificent wall to the limit, but they are flashed by reality. The power of gunpowder tells that no matter how magnificent the wall is, it will not be of any use.

The truth is that since gunpowder was studied, it is also a matter of measuring how much gunpowder can be destroyed in the face of the majestic city wall. The city wall built with huge manpower and material resources will collapse after a "boom". What is the use of building it?

Weapons will change with each passing day. There are already front mounted bronze guns. Maybe there will be rear mounted guns in a few years or decades, and even more powerful weapons. Building a city wall as a barrier will be extremely unreliable.

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

I've seen Fort groups built in the fortress, but I haven't seen the walls of a city built according to the specifications of Fort groups.

Julian saw a city without wall protection, but the floor area was exaggerated. He had a clear understanding of the well planned buildings and the road planning that can be distinguished in the distance.

"Han people seem to have some obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Vlavis stared at the city in the distance: "they pay attention to everything in order, and see all clutter as a representative of disorder?"

People thought of what they had seen and heard in the Han Dynasty. Soldiers don't have to say. Civilians also have deep military habits. For example, people in cities or villages can often see people walking in groups according to the formation. There would be no such thing without forming habits.

Their impression of the Han people's pursuit of order is established bit by bit. Maybe not everyone knows what order represents, but they can guess how many trained soldiers can be gathered only from seeing the Han people.

You can see the towering buildings in Chang'an from a very distant place. How high must it be to distinguish the towering buildings!

It's not very high. The highest is only 13 floors. Three floors of folk houses are the mainstream. Only some dignitaries' residences rarely have buildings with more than two floors.

Civilians like to build houses three floors high. They can own so much land. If they don't build them higher, they will inevitably appear that the rooms are not enough.

The residence of dignitaries covers a large area. There is no need to build multi-storey houses, and even build a garden pond or something.

But it's not that there are no towering buildings in the mansion of dignitaries. Liu Yan is used to climbing and looking far. They will regard climbing and looking far as a very high thing. Even if they have acrophobia, they should often force themselves to climb high and look far, otherwise they will be interpreted as not learning from the good example of the son of heaven.

The mission team started from Jiankang, and they took the national highway still under construction.

When passing the Yangtze River Bridge, one of the international friends was awed by the great pen of the Han people. They had not seen a river crossing bridge with a length of more than kilometers. 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 corpse mountain bones of slaves. More than 30000 slaves were lost to build this bridge alone, and hundreds of Han people died, mainly in the construction of piers.

The construction method of piers is to fill the earth to increase the height of the riverbed, and then erect giant trees as support points. There is a pier every 15 meters.

It is not simply to fill the riverbed, but to build an iron cage to fill mud and stone, ship it and then unload it, bit by bit.

Although there are some opinions of Liu Yan on the project of the Yangtze River Bridge, it is more conceived by craftsmen with their own wisdom.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. Many things the ancients can do, even if modern times have such high technology, but modern people still can't do what the ancients can do.

Like the Yanjin stone bridge (also known as Jijin bridge) across the banks of the river (Yellow River), it was a creation built in the early Western Han Dynasty and perfected in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was not destroyed until five dynasties and ten countries.

It should be said that the existence of the Yangtze River Bridge is enough to blind the eyes of international friends and shock their brains into bean curd dregs. All kinds of things they see along the way are challenging their cognition.

In ancient times, there was no saying that you wanted to build roads before you got rich, but a similar view must exist.

The center conceived and revised the construction of a national highway crossing the East, West, South and north of the mainland. The total length from Jiankang to Tongguan reached 3200 Li, which is equivalent to "setting" an exaggerated channel from the northwest to the southeast of the mainland.

3200 miles? It's about 1100 Rome, almost from the western end of Spain to the eastern border (probably Luxembourg).

Romans have a famous saying that "all roads lead to Rome", but in fact, no road leads to Rome. It is an exaggeration that the broadest road in Rome can be four or five meters. The basic specification of the National Road on the Han side is 18 meters wide.

For international friends, they learned that the Han people were building two roads through the border. At the first time, they had no other ideas except silly eyes or silly eyes.

What they saw along the way, they can understand why there are villages and towns and large cities on both sides of the road with the roads connecting the northwest and southeast of the country, which depends on the convenience of transportation.

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

From a military point of view, there is a road to dispatch troops from the northwest or Southeast. Even if it is not a desperate journey, it can definitely be reached in a month. The road will become an important part of the central control area. There is such a road. As long as the central control is not rotten to the end, any rebellion is on the road to death.

From an economic point of view, such a road is the sparse vein of goods circulation. Mom no longer has to worry about her son getting lost. Dad will be happy that safety is guaranteed along the way and delivery speed will be very fast!

"This is an epic project!" Keshias said not only about the construction of two national highways for the Han people, but also about Chang'an City: "it is said that the Han people only spent three years building this huge city destined to remain famous for thousands of years?"

In fact, the general construction of the city took only one year and three months. The construction of some epic wonders is difficult, increasing the time consumption.

The so-called epic wonders refer to the palace que group and some places that will be used in various ceremonies. The most difficult is the gymnasium that can accommodate 100000 spectators.

The closer you are, the more you can't overview the scenery of Chang'an City, but you will be more shocked by some buildings.

"What is that building that looks like a winged beetle?" Kexiyas didn't know how many times he had been stunned after he came to the state of Han: "it's too... Too big!"

What the hell is a winged beetle? That is, the top of the gymnasium can't close the solid building materials. It can only make the shielding pattern to the greatest extent. When necessary, it can only rely on the giant cloth to form the shielding effect.

After all, the stadium can accommodate 100000 spectators. Its main building must be very huge. In addition, the square and some secondary buildings cover a wider area.

Closer and closer, they were confused about the fences they saw.

"This is the... Wall of the capital of the Han Empire?" Julian said of the fence walls: "the highest height is only two meters. Is it of any military value?"

No one from the same foreign group could give Julian an an answer. They didn't think that those fences were either used to prevent people or animals from running around.

The roads outside the city lead directly into the city, but they are not allowed to go in and out casually. There is still a gate at the entrance to the city.

There is no city tax in the Han Dynasty. It is said that buying and selling goods need to go to special places. The tax is also generated in the market. The role of closing the gate is for the team with a large crowd.

In addition, for the purpose of cultivating students and raising interest for the people, if the villagers sell things in small quantities, they don't have to pay taxes.

In fact, even if the government wants to collect taxes, it can't stare at everyone. It's better to give convenience to civilians directly.

The team of international friends is very large. Naturally, Wang Meng, who leads the way, can't take them through the normal channel, or it should affect the normal entry of ordinary people. The route chosen is the special road for the army to enter the city.

"At least fifteen steps wide!" Flavis said that the step is the Roman step, one step is about one meter and forty-nine centimeters, that is, the width is more than 20 meters: "I suddenly recall that the Han people are paranoid about the road. They must be wide enough and divided into left and right lanes!"

This is a place to be proud of. At present, except the Han people, other countries and races in the world are not divided into left and right lanes. If there are more people, they will definitely mix together. Collision and pushing are inevitable, and blocking is also common.

"I'm not concerned about this..." keshias said strangely, "didn't the Han Empire arrange a welcome ceremony for us?"