The World of Yellow Sky

Silver candles smoke the sky and purple trees grow, and the Forbidden City is full of spring.

Thousands of weak willows are green and trivial, and hundreds of twittering warblers circle around to build chapters.

The spring breeze is warm and the sun is refreshing.

The summer heat has temporarily dissipated a bit and the weather is starting to turn cloudy.

Xu An still wore the ceremonial armor and did not take it off. This is a special armor for ceremonial guards. This armor is extremely light and does not actually affect his movements. It just takes a lot of time to put on and take off, so Xu An simply wears the armor Entered Yingtian Mansion.

Walking on the promenade from Yingtian Mansion to Taiye Pond, Xu An couldn't help but feel as if he had passed away.

In the past three years, he has traveled to many places, and he hardly stayed in one place for a long time. He has always been running non-stop, going to and from various cities, either on the way of inspection or on the road leading the troops forward.

Today's Chang'an City is changing with each passing day, returning after three years, it's like coming to a new city.

If Chang'an Avenue and Chang'an Square were not the same, as well as the majestic Yingtianfu City, Xu An would have thought that the place he was in was not Chang'an.

In today's Chang'an City, the city walls of the outer city have not been completely repaired, and only half of the city walls have been completed for the time being.

The city walls of the west city and the south city are sections that have already been completed, while the two sections of the city walls of the north city and the east city are still under construction, and only the foundation has been laid.

In the Battle of Huayin, Guanzhong was included in the territory of Taiping Road in the third year of Chuping (192), and it has been a full six years now.

The construction of Chang'an City has also been carried out for six full years. In the first and second years, only the palaces in Chang'an City were rebuilt and turned into offices such as government offices.

The plan to completely rebuild Chang'an City began in the fifth year of Chuping (194). At that time, Xu An led the army to recover Yizhou, returned to Chang'an, and began preparations for the founding of the country.

The old Chang'an City began to feel out of place. After all, the old Chang'an City was only the residence of princes and nobles, and ordinary people were not eligible to enter the city.

Today's Chang'an City was built at that time, and it has been four years since today.

In four years, Chang'an City, which originally only had tens of thousands of people living there, now has a total registered population of [-].

More than [-] of the original [-] folk squares have been built, and the east and west cities are distributed in a rectangular shape, embedded in the east and west cities.

Apart from these two big cities, some places have also been classified as commercial stores, selling daily necessities for the convenience of people's livelihood.

If you are only buying necessities for daily life, you only need to walk through the two lifangs at the farthest to buy them, and you don't need to go to the east and west markets.

The main responsibilities of the two cities in the east and west are the bulk commodity transactions, furs from the north, silk from the Shu, spices from the south, and sea pearls and treasures from the west.

In addition to the market and folk workshops, Chang'an City is different from other cities in that it has workshops and commercial workshops in the city.

There are four commercial workshops in Chang'an City, which are located in the east and west cities. There are inns, restaurants, stables, warehouses, etc. These warehouses and stables are specially used by merchants.

Of course, all of this is not free, everything needs to be paid, renting warehouses to store goods, stocking horses, etc., and also providing supporting services.

In addition to the four commercial workshops, there are also ten workshops in Chang'an City.

These ten workshops have provided Chang'an City with a large number of jobs, which is the main reason why in just a few years, the residents in Chang'an City can expand to more than [-] people.

At that time, all the arms production workshops in Taiping Road were basically located in the mountainous area of ​​Bingzhou, in order to prevent the intrusion of spies and ensure that the technology was not leaked.

However, after defeating Dong Zhuo, the center of Taipingdao also shifted from Taiyuan in Bingzhou to Chang'an in Guanzhong.

Bingzhou's workshops began to become a bit out of date. Since then, Bingzhou's workshops have slowly begun to shift.

After the recovery of Yizhou, the founding of Chang'an, and the establishment of the tripartite confrontation, Chang'an City began a large-scale expansion, and these workshops were gradually transferred to Chang'an City.

Direct production in Chang'an City can save a lot of manpower, and the Guanzhong area also has iron ore sources, so the raw materials are not a big problem.

Among the ten workshops, six are now military workshops, specializing in the production of armaments and ordnance.

The other three are textile workshops. Yinglangwei paid a lot of money to bring cotton from southern Xinjiang under the order of Xu An, and promoted the planting. Now a lot of cotton has been planted in Chang'an area.

The last workshop is particularly special. It is adjacent to Taiye Pond and Taiping Temple. It is the only workshop that is not open to ordinary people. People in the city know little about it.

In the Western Regions, cotton farming has also begun to be promoted, and many textile workshops have also been established in the provincial capitals of the Western Regions.

The climate in the Western Regions is quite suitable for the growth of cotton, and there is not too much shortage of manpower there. After all, a large number of Xianbei prisoners of war were sent there before.

Now in the foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty, cotton products have gradually become an important trade commodity.

The promotion and popularization of cotton also enabled ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty to have warmer cotton-padded clothes and quilts during the winter. The winter was originally cold, and it was difficult for ordinary people to have fur coats and furs for the winter. He hugged his body, and willow catkins and other things to keep warm, and forced himself through.

But now with cotton, the cold winter is much easier than before.

It has been five years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, every winter, there were always people who were frozen to death everywhere.

But since cotton was promoted, large-scale planting began, and cotton-padded clothes and quilts were produced, such situations have become much less.

There are two prices for cotton clothes, quilts, and various cotton textiles. One is the price sold to the domestic public. A certain restriction system is adopted. As the identity certificate of each citizen of the Ming Dynasty, they can be purchased at a low price. Two cotton coats, each household can buy two cotton quilts.

The other is foreign trade, and for exporting foreign trade, Xu An naturally would not lower the price, but instead raised it a lot.

The products in this part mainly follow the mid-to-high-end route. Those cotton coats and quilts are not only relatively finely made, but some of them are even embroidered with special labels.

Today, all foreign trade commodities and luxury goods in the Ming Dynasty have a logo on them. That logo was specially designed by Xu An, with the sun and the moon as symbols, representing Ming Dynasty.

People in this era know little about the power of brand effect, but Xu An is well aware of the impact brand effect can have.

The sun and moon logo, only luxury goods, high-end trade items will have it, to distinguish it from cheap items.

The purpose of doing this is to take advantage of the vanity of those feudal nobles and merchants.

Since Western countries now use porcelain and drinking tea as a symbol of dignity, they should add fuel to the fire and teach them the meaning of so-called real luxury.

At that time, even if there are imitations and substitutes.

It is also difficult to shake the value of items printed with special signs, and the current signs basically have anti-counterfeiting measures.

However, it is worth mentioning that those merchants are indeed very capable of learning.

Some merchants also imitated, made a decent logo, began to create their own brand, and registered it as the logo of the caravan.

Although they are still in the process of groping, they don't quite know the meaning inside, and they are just toddlers in Handan, but I have to say that these people's reactions are really quick and their sense of smell is really keen.

Walking down the covered bridge, without the shelter of the roof, the sun directly shone on Xu An's body, interrupting his thoughts.

Xu An raised his hand and rubbed his aching temples.

The habits developed from the Taihang Mountains have always affected him, and he has become a person who can't rest.

Now that the Central Plains is stable, it should be time to relax, but what he thinks about in his mind is all the political affairs in the country and the affairs in Chang'an City.

He was in Yongning Pavilion just now, listening to the officials of the three mansions and six ministries reporting some important events that happened during his absence.

During the period when Liu Bi supervised the country, there were no major incidents in Chang'an City or abroad, and there were not even rebellions in the Western Regions and Northern Xinjiang.

Originally, Xu An was worried that the forces in the Western Regions and Northern Borderlands would take advantage of the period of their Eastern Expeditions to have some ideas that should not have arisen.

But he didn't expect that the people in the two places were honest and honest, and he wanted to find an excuse to clean up one or two, but he couldn't find any.

The Anbei Governor and the nomadic tribes in the three provinces of northern Xinjiang are even more honest.

Those tribes fear Lu Bu like a tiger, and they heard that Lu Bu's name is a forbidden word in the north, and they cannot pronounce it out of their mouths.

The Protectorate of the Western Regions was changed to a province, and those countries in the Western Regions provinces did not say that the name of the country was important, and the orthodoxy was important.

After these people were stripped of their absolute dominion over domestic affairs, they were still honest.

Back then when Guo Tai conquered Dawan, many of them watched with their own eyes that the Ming army smashed away the coalition forces of Dawan and Guishuang, and they were completely powerless to resist.

Compared with Dawan, they are all very inadequate, how dare they disobey the more powerful Ming Court.

Even though there were thousands of reluctances in their hearts, they still chose to surrender.

Walking all the way to the Taiye Pond, Xu An walked towards the Shenming Terrace along the bluestone road under his feet.

"The gods are so unique that they rise up, so they rise up."

There are fourteen quaint tripods under the altar of the gods.

Every big tripod placed under the altar of the gods is not simple, it has a special meaning, each tripod represents a province.

Today, there are eight provinces and twelve prefectures in the Ming Dynasty, so there should be twenty tripods.

However, the six states of Jing, Yang, Yan, Xu, Jiao, and Henan were recovered later, so the tripods of these six states are still being cast, and there are only fourteen tripods under the gods' platform, and the missing six It is the tripod of these six states.

Under the altar of the gods, a group of yellow angels stood in awe-inspiring robes and belts, holding halberds.

Touching the lines on Bingzhou Dingding's body, Xu An was filled with emotion.

When he first cast the Bingzhou Ding, he also imagined the situation after the unification of the world. At that time, his goal was to unify the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty.

But now, not only the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty, he has laid down a huge territory, a territory that is almost twice as vast.

Both the east-west and the north-south spans have reached a level that he could never have imagined.

However, all of this did not make Xu An feel flustered and confused. He is no longer what he was before. Back then, he just managed Bingzhou and he already felt a little powerless.

Today is different from the past, now he is in charge of a territory that is more than ten times larger than that of Bingzhou, but he is able to handle it with ease.

Xu An looked up at the towering God's Terrace in front of him, then settled down and walked down the steps step by step towards the God's Terrace.

On the gods platform, there are four gods.

They are Zhang Jiao, General of Tiangong, Zhang Bao, General of Digong, and Zhang Liang, General of Rengong.

And in the center of the three gods, there is also a wordless god, that power is for all the people who have fought and died for Huang Tian so far.
Looking at the god in front of him and listening to the gust of wind in his ears, Xu An's thoughts also drifted into the distance.

When he came to be in charge of Chang'an, he swore on the altar of the gods that if he came to the altar of the gods again, Huang Tian's virtue must have been famous in this world.

Now, he has done it.

Although Zhang Liang accepted him as an apprentice, Xu An actually only learned a little about the formation of troops and some superficial knowledge in the "Taiping Jing" from Zhang Liang.

Although Zhang Liang was willing to teach, but the time was too hasty, and the Han army was eager to pursue, and did not leave him much time.

The real legacy that Xu An inherited from Zhang Liang is actually the title of disciple and the book "Taiping Jing".

Zhang Liang taught him the scriptures in front of everyone, which actually established his status. Both Liu Pi and Gong Du were higher than him in terms of status and fame at that time.

If there is no "Taiping Jing" given to him by Zhang Liang, many variables will be added to it.

Leaning against the desk, overlooking the scenery under the platform of the gods, Xu An's heart sank slowly, and his face became painful.

He remembered the last night in Quyang City, where Zhang Liang taught him the scriptures and all kinds of knowledge for a whole night.

Thinking back now, at that time, Zhang Liang probably understood the possibility of victory that they no longer had, that's why he was so urgent.

In the mountains and forests, what Zhang Liang said at the end is the proof.

"I really want to teach you all I have learned in my life, but it's a pity that the world is impermanent, fate tricks people, and now I'm in a desperate situation."

Zhang Liang took his own head and came to exchange for a way out for them.

"Xu An will never forget the grace of preaching and teaching."

Xu An will always remember the way Zhang Liang looked at him at the last time.

Zhang Liang's eyes were full of hope, sadness, and pain.

"Both inside and outside, the eight states are concurrent, as real as fantasy, confusing, bustling, but a dream Huaxu."

Turning his head to look at the god table with beams on the altar.

"Master, please watch carefully on this god platform..."

Xu An stood up slowly, his eyes became firm again.

"The world is no longer the same..."