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Ye City Site

The Cao-Wei Ye City ruins — the first capital to isolate the ruler's core citadel outside the grid of wards, shattering the Han chaos of mixed officials and commoners, the ancestral template for a thousand years of rigidly compartmentalized imperial city planning.

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The weathered stone foundations and earthen ramparts of ancient Ye City, surrounded by golden wheat fields under autumn sun