Zhao City could also be called Duke Zhao's State, since the city itself was the state. Countless fertile fields surrounding Zhao City belonged to Duke Zhao's State. Most importantly, Duke Zhao's State was exempt from taxes; it only needed to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven.
During the Luo State era, Zhao City had not been particularly large, at least compared with Luoyang. Even after Luo Ling rebuilt it, its area was still far smaller than Chang'an's, chiefly because Zhao City had no towering, magnificent palaces with countless grand halls.
Within Zhao City's Palace City, the largest palace housed the ancestral shrines and spirit tablets of the Luo State's ancestors through the ages. The Luo State's Ancestral Temple differed in one major respect from those of the imperial family and the Lords King entitled to establish ancestral temples.
It did not merely enshrine direct ancestors. The spirit tablets in the Luo State's Ancestral Temple included all members of the direct lineage. For example, Luo Yan, who had entered Chu State, received sacrifices not only from the Xiang Clan but also from the Luo Clan.
Another complex that occupied an enormous area within the inner city was the Repository of Classics. Only after that came the residences of the Luo Clan Lineage and the quarters of the Dare-to-Fight Warriors stationed there in rotation.
Zhao City's outer city was vast. Its eastern section was the main residential district, where more than half the Ducal Clan of Duke Zhao's State lived.
The south housed cultural and diplomatic venues such as The Hundred Schools' Sacred Hall. Large-scale sacrifices were generally held in the southern district rather than the inner city. After all, there were too many people for them all to enter the cramped inner city.
There were far fewer residences here. Their