Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

As Zhengdan approaches, the whole of Chang'an is full of festive atmosphere.

This time, at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting, the imperial court specially allocated red silk and satin from the inner mansion to decorate Suzaku Street, and the common people also tied up lanterns to wait for today's New Year.

Compared with last year, the people of Chang'an are much more at ease this year.

Datang regained the two capitals, and it was heard that the rebels in Hedong were about to surrender, and the world was about to be calmed down.

When the world is at peace, the people of Chang'an will be able to live a good life.

So although there was a snowstorm this year, Chang'an's Dongxi Market is still very lively, and everyone wants to have a lively New Year.

Xingqing Palace is near the east gate of Chang'an. An old man in a yellow robe stands on the Huae Building and waves to the people below.

"Saint, saint, it's windy outside." An eunuch who was about the same age as the old man helped the old man back to the building.

The old man looked at the enthusiastic smiling face below, but he couldn't bear to look away, he just said: "I'm fine, I'm fine, I just want to see the people in Chang'an."

This old man was Li Longji who had returned to Chang'an, and it was his personal eunuch Gao Lishi who advised him to return to the house.

Since returning to Chang'an, Emperor Li Longji lived in Xingqing Palace, and Emperor Li Heng lived in Daming Palace and Taiji Palace.

The Xingqing Palace was originally built near the private houses, and the emperor who returned to Chang'an had an extra hobby, that is to stand on the Huae Building and watch the people of Chang'an.

When encountering poor people, Li Longji would let the eunuchs take some money to help the people.

Li Longji has been the emperor for more than 40 years, and the people in Chang'an almost all grew up listening to the name of this emperor.

Every time Li Longji appeared on the Huae Tower, the people would watch and cheer.

And sometimes Li Longji would wander around the neighborhood with Gao Lishi in casual clothes, and the common people would surround him from a distance after they found out, to show their respect to the Supreme.

For the common people, Li Longji was the representative of the prosperous Chang'an city back then.

When Li Longji was in power, it was the most prosperous time in Chang'an City. At that time, every year on Zhengdan and Lantern Festival, gorgeous lanterns would be decorated.

Although the imperial court decorated Suzaku Avenue this year, they really didn't have the extra financial resources to decorate the palace.

Compared with the prosperity of the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years, the enthronement of the new emperor is still a little deserted.

Therefore, the common people around the emperor miss the glorious and prosperous age of Kaiyuan Tianbao.

When Li Longji was discovered by the people and surrounded by cheers, the emperor also felt that the authority was in his hands that day, and he was called a saint by the whole world.

It's not the old man living in Xingqing Palace now.

Li Longji and the people provided emotional value to each other, making Xingqing Palace more lively.

The wind outside was really strong. After all, Li Longji was getting old, so he waved his hand and returned to Huae Building after a while.

Sitting on the soft bed, Li Longji looked at the Huae Tower, which was only half lit with candles, and asked Gao Lishi beside him:
"General, why did you only light half of the candles?"

The Huae Building is also called the Huae Xianghui Building, which was built by skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry in five years.

There are more than 1000 candlesticks in the entire calyx building. After the candlesticks are lit, they are covered with glass covers. After all the candlesticks are lit, the night will be the same as the day.

Gao Lishi bowed and said: "The palace is going to hold the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting, and the candlemakers in Chang'an are rushing to make candles for the palace. The Ministry of Internal Affairs doesn't have enough candles for Xingqing Palace, so the old minister asked people to evacuate the building. Half of the candle."

Hearing this, Li Longji's expression changed.

He wanted to get angry, but he just opened his mouth and closed it.

I am already the emperor, and I am no longer the supreme emperor who bleeds thousands of miles when the monarch is angry.

Those rootless eunuchs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the best at watching people order food. Now that their masters have changed, it is reasonable to give less candles to Xingqing Palace.

Gao Lishi saw Li Longji clenched his fist and then let go, fearing that he would hold his breath, he quickly patted Li Longji's back and said;

"Saint! This minister is incompetent, why are you angry at the old minister, don't hold your breath!"

Li Longji shook his head and said, "Don't light so many candles during the day, put out those candles too, I'm going downstairs."

With the support of Gao Lishi, Li Longji walked down the Huae Tower, and then the people watching on the edge of the Xingqing Palace gradually dispersed.

But in the restaurant opposite Xingqing Palace, two serious-looking people recorded everything and sent it to Daming Palace.

In Shangshu Province, Li Fuguo listened to the report of the two spies monitoring the Xingqing Palace, and asked in detail the time and frequency of the emperor's appearance in the past few days, and then let the two continue to stare at the Xingqing Palace.

Yu Chaoen walked in holding a pile of books, Li Fuguo called him over and said:

"Go and report to His Majesty that the Emperor has recently met the people of Chang'an in Hua'e Building again."

Yu Chaoen thumped in his heart, Li Fuguo, an old and cunning old man, let himself do such unflattering things again.

After the emperor moved into Xingqing Palace, the emperor was naturally worried.

Li Fuguo offered to have people monitor Xingqing Palace day and night.

But Li Fuguo was the head eunuch of Shangshu Province, so Yu Chaoen could only lead the order and report the movement of Xingqing Palace to the emperor in Qinzheng Hall.

The emperor frowned again when he heard that the emperor went up to the Huae Tower and had fun with the common people.

Li Heng is very clear about this father's method. When he was the crown prince, he was suppressed by his father to death. No matter what, Li Heng didn't want to experience that feeling again.

Why did the emperor do this?
Li Heng, who has long been used to guessing his father's every move, fell into the past behavior pattern again.

He always felt that his father had some deep meaning in doing this, or was plotting something.

Li Heng put down the ink pen in his hand and said: "Continue to strengthen the monitoring of Xingqing Palace, the court officials who enter and leave Xingqing Palace must be strictly monitored, and everyone who enters and exits must register for me to see!"

Yu Chaoen quickly took orders and retreated.

After dealing with the affairs of the Xingqing Palace, the emperor's original good mood disappeared.

Why can't father and emperor quietly retire in Xingqing Palace?

Li Heng didn't understand, he had obviously made a lot of concessions for the sake of father-son relationship, and even handed over the Xingqing Palace to his father to live in, isn't he satisfied?
Li Heng felt a little irritable.

Open the memorial again, this is the letter from Li Guangbi stationed in Anyang.

Li Heng opened it and looked at it, then threw the memorial aside heavily.

Li Guangbi wrote that the puppet Emperor An Qingxu hid in Xiangzhou, and with the help of the people of Xiangzhou, he escaped the encirclement and suppression of the government army many times.

The Tang army in Anyang has encountered a lot of setbacks recently, and now it is coming to the new year, so I ask the emperor to let the Tang army in Xiangzhou take a break for a while, and wait for the spring of the next year to slowly erode Xiangzhou and besiege An Qingxu.

Originally, there was no problem with this strategy on weekdays, but it happened that Li Heng was in a depressed mood, so his mood was not very good.

Li Heng continued to read the memorial, which was written by Mei Jiu, the imperial servant in the palace. This Mei Jiu impeached Li Guangbi who happened to be stationed in Anyang, and Guo Ziyi who fought in Qingzhou for a generation.

The censor's words were fierce. He believed that An Qingxu's hundreds of thousands of troops in Luoyang, Chang'an, were easily defeated by Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi. Now that An Qingxu has less than [-] troops, the court has been unable to calm down.

Now that Hedong is attached, there are only a few states such as Xiangzhou and Qingzhou that cannot be pacified, and the leader of the bandits, An Qingxu, is still fleeing in Xiangzhou.

Therefore, Mei Jiu thinks that Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi are raising their own self-respect, deliberately not calming Xiangzhou Qingzhou.

Looking at this memorial, the emperor fell into thinking.

He clasped his knuckles on the imperial case, and took out Li Guangbi's memorial again, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

Guo Ziyi swallowed troops in Henan, and Li Guangbi guarded Anyang City in the north to cut off the retreat of the rebels. Now that Hedong has surrendered to Datang, Xiangzhou's An Qingxu has been unable to defeat it for a long time.

Could it be that Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi really raised the bandits' self-respect?
As soon as this idea came up, the emperor couldn't restrain his doubts. Even Guo Ziyi wrote a letter a few days ago to ask the emperor to give the soldiers charcoal fire for the winter, but Li Heng thought it was buying the morale of the army.

At this moment, Li Fuguo came in with new charcoal in his hand. He turned on the stove and replaced it with new charcoal. Li Heng suddenly asked, "Li Fuguo, how many soldiers and horses can I give you to pacify Xiangzhou?"

Li Fuguo said with a smile: "The leader of the thieves, An Qingxu, is already a frightened bird. The elite from Anlu Mountain are buried in Liangjing and Suiyang. Give me 5 horses, and it can be settled in a month!"

Hearing what Li Fuguo said, Li Heng was not happy at all, but even worse.

Li Fuguo said that it could be decided in a month, but now Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi are attacking Xiangzhou, and a month has passed without any results.

Li Heng handed Mei Jiu's impeachment memorial to Li Fuguo, then looked at the map behind the throne and said: "Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's 20 troops are consuming food and grass in Xiangzhou, and it has been too long to put down the little thief An Qingxu. I have already rewarded Guo Ziyi as the Duke , isn't he satisfied?"

Li Fuguo's face remained unchanged, although Mei Jiu's memorial was not ordered by him, it hit Li Fuguo's heart.

The biggest difficulty for the king of Qi to seize the heir is that generals like Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi support the prince.

And Li Fuguo, who knew the emperor's mind, knew even more that the reason why Li Heng moved to change Yi Chujun's idea was also because the prince had too much meddling in military power.

Guo Ziyi has more than 20 elites under his command, and they are stationed on Henan Road, not far from Chang'an.

If the military really supported the prince's ascension to the throne, it would be easy to enter Chang'an from Henan, so the emperor rewarded King Qi, hoping to use King Qi to suppress the East Palace.

The military is the amulet of the prince, and it is also the original sin that the prince bears.

Li Fuguo's heart beat fast. Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, heroes of counter-insurgency, had held military power for too long, and the emperor had already felt threatened.

But now is not the time, Li Fuguo, an old poisonous snake, naturally understands that he must be fully prepared to deal with these outstanding heroes.

He persuaded: "Your Majesty, why don't you issue an order to order Li Guangbi to clear the fields in Xiangzhou, order him to destroy An Qingxu before the spring?"

Li Heng nodded and said: "It should be true. This battle has been fought for too long, and the imperial court has long been overwhelmed. They summoned the Hanlin scholars and issued a harsh edict to Li Guangbi, ordering him to calm down by March next year." Xiangzhou!"