Will Ming

Chapter 670

The people in Chang'an City guessed right, and order was basically restored in the city on the second day after Yan Yun's army invaded Chang'an City.There was no looting by rioting soldiers, and naturally there would be no massacre of blood flowing into rivers.King Yan did not enter Chang'an to destroy the capital. No matter how many courtiers who opposed King Yan's entry were slaughtered, the people were still safe and sound.

The battalions of the Tang army are counting the number of people, making a roster and submitting it to the prime minister for military affairs, Xu Shiji, the military adviser of the Yanyun army.Xu Shiji has not been idle since the day he entered the city, and the number of Tang soldiers who surrendered is still more than [-]. This is an extremely powerful force. I am afraid that the fierce battle will greatly consume the main force of the Yanyun army.

Therefore, for these Tang troops, from the generals down to the soldiers, they should not look down on them with a superior attitude, or even appease them as meritorious ministers.

This is a difficult and troublesome thing, so a person like Li Xian who is afraid of trouble will naturally not do it by himself.Xu Shiji is safe and fair, so let him do it for Li Xian.In order to ensure that there would be no sudden incidents, Yan Yun's army did not advance completely, and left 5 troops in the camp outside the northern city, with Pei Xingyan as the general's supervisor.

The more than [-] troops that entered the city were divided into four groups, guarding the four sides of Chang'an City.

In a few days, the notices printed by King Yan himself were posted all over the notice boards in the streets of Chang'an City, telling the people to live in peace and not to panic. The market will continue as usual, and all the shops will continue to operate.In order to reassure the merchants, King Yan deliberately exempted miscellaneous taxes for one month.And all the people in the city have to go to the Yamen to report again, and everyone who has gone can receive two catties of polished rice.

Although the people were sure that King Yan would not do anything bloody and cruel, they were still a little worried about going to the Yamen to report their household registration again.Especially the civilians who hid the city guards in their homes on the day the city was broken were even more afraid to go to the yamen. They were worried that King Yan would use this method to settle the crime of resisting Yanyun's army entering the city that day.

In fact, before this Anmin notice was posted, the notice of King Yan ordering all the defeated Tang troops to return to the camp had already been posted.The king of Yan promised not to blame the past, but within five days, if there are soldiers of the Tang army who refuse to return to the camp within five days, they will be punished as treason, and the people who hid the deserters will also be locked up and sent to prison.

The two notices came out one after another, which naturally makes people think.The courageous ones returned to the camp with the mentality of dying or dying, but nothing happened. The Yan Yun army general who was in charge of sorting out the number of people was not vicious, and even looked pleasant and made people feel very comfortable.And the first ones to go to the Yamen to report their household registration are those rich households in the city, because they are far more afraid of death than ordinary people, and they are more reluctant to die.

Regardless of rich or poor, everyone who reported their household registration in each government office received two catties of polished rice.Even those extremely rich people were happy with the small rice bag. They were not greedy for this small gain, but to make sure that King Yan really only wanted to appease the people in the city, and had no intention of correcting sins.

Five days later, people who thought that King Yan wanted to show favor to Chang'an suddenly discovered that the first announcement was not made by King Yan to scare people. Tang Jun's original roster searched for deserters, and arrested more than [-] people in one day.

These people were all stripped of their military status and made slaves.Some soldiers of the Tang army who resisted the arrest were killed on the spot, and the law enforcement team showed no mercy.

Families who hid relatives were also arrested and imprisoned by the whole family, and what awaited them was most likely exile.They were either sent to border towns as coolies, or sent to farmland in various places as slaves.On the seventh day, people from each yamen put up notices on the streets again, and there was a deadline of three days, and if there were still people hiding and refusing to return to the camp, the whole clan would be executed.

No one dared to take chances anymore. Nearly [-] soldiers of the Tang army who hid on the day the city was broken returned to the camp. Except for the more than [-] people who were locked up on the sixth day, there was no one in the army according to King Yan's will. If they continue to impose additional punishments on them, they will not even withhold a single copper coin from their salaries.

On the tenth day, order in the city was completely restored.

Most of the high-ranking officials and nobles in Chang'an City have their residences near the imperial city.The prosperity here is only one of the reasons, mainly for the convenience of going to court.These days, civil and military officials were in a state of panic, every day even the court would wait outside the palace gate half an hour earlier than usual, for fear of offending His Royal Highness King Yan and causing disaster.Everyone knows that King Yan is different from other people in power. He has never been merciful to the big family, the murderous demon king who raised the butcher knife in his hand.

At this time, people suddenly discovered that King Yan was actually such a special one.The poor family's children regarded him as a god, and also regarded him as their own, respecting him to the extreme.And Yan Wang did not lack the support of the family, and there were also a large number of talents from the family to assist him among the generals around him.With his left hand he held the aristocratic family, and his right hand held the poor family, but he was not influenced by any of them. It has to be said that this is something worth thinking about.

From the second day Yanyun's army entered the city, the courtiers began to go to court one after another.In order to take care of the face of that group of important officials, Li Xian personally visited several houses, including Shang Shu Zuo Pu She Xiao, who was at odds with him before.

King Yan came to the door in person, and naturally these important court officials would not pretend anymore.Headed by Nayan Peiji, Zhongshu, Menxia, ​​Shangshu, officials from the three provinces, and courtiers from the six ministries and nine ministers went to the court to discuss matters in an orderly manner.

The only exception is Liu Hongji, Duke of Qiao whose family lives in Dongcheng instead of the edge of the imperial city.

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After King Yan entered Chang'an City, the injured Liu Hongji returned to his home and stayed behind closed doors since then. Xu Shiji, the prime minister of Chang'an City's military affairs and a respected member of Yanyun's army, visited and stayed in Liu Hongji's mansion. After waiting for an hour, he left, and the gate of Liu Hongji's mansion has not been opened since then.

What is different from him is that Zhang Gongjin, the Duke of Tan, was summoned by the King of Yan on the second day after the city was broken. It is said that he was so scolded that the guards on duty outside the study of the King of Yan that day were all frightened.Some people even clenched the hilt of the knife, and just waiting for King Yan's order, they rushed in and dragged Zhang Gongjin out to hack him to death.

But this kind of thing will naturally not happen, King Yan scolded people, scolding heartily.When the scolded person walked out of the house, he looked extraordinarily calm, even with a relaxed smile on his lips.Tan Guogong, who walked out of King Yan's palace quickly, walked lightly along the way, and seemed to be in an extremely good mood.

Not long after, His Royal Highness the King of Yan's order came down. Zhang Gong would like to resist the army from entering the city. The crime of offending the King of Yan is unforgivable. Because of his heart, he was named Minister of the Ministry of War and given the title of Kaifu.

Gao Shilian, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was changed to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and Dr. Guanglu was added.

Most of the old officials in the city will not stay in official positions, and some courtiers who really don't know the rules and the importance will naturally not keep it. After beheading more than a dozen heads at Caishikou, there is no more clamor in the court.The original courtiers appease and confer rewards, but the old subordinates of King Yan have not conferred rewards. This seems unreasonable, but everyone knows that King Yan's rewards for these heroes are absolutely enviable.

The generals of the Yanyun Army are not in a hurry, because they know that King Yan will never treat them badly.King Yan once said before the siege that after entering the city, he must reward the heroes.The reason why King Yan hasn't done it yet is because King Yan doesn't want to award the credit hastily and easily. Many people know that King Yan is preparing a very grand event.

Unsurprisingly, on the tenth day after King Yan entered the city, Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, named Prince Li Jiancheng's son and Hedong King Li Chengde the grandson of the emperor.For another three days, the emperor reported that Li Chengde was located on the grounds that he was unwell and needed to rest and cultivate himself.The era name follows Wude, and this detail is what people pay the most attention to.An emperor who doesn't even have his own year name, can his position last?

The reason why King Yan did this was nothing more than wanting a smooth transition.

Sure enough, the first thing the new emperor did after he ascended the throne was to announce to the world that Yan Wang Li Xian was the son of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and he was the emperor's uncle.According to his grade, King Yan should be the second son of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. There is only one prince above him, Li Jiancheng. Now the prince is gone. According to the rules, it will never be the emperor's grandson to succeed. As soon as the imperial decree was issued, the court officials and the more intelligent people all understood that this was just a foreshadowing for King Yan to regain the throne later.

The second thing the new emperor did when he ascended the throne was to confer the title of King Yan as Taiwei, the prime minister of the country's military and horse affairs, and the king of Yan as the equal king, which is the same as all the ceremonial entourage of the emperor.You can bring a knife to the court, and you can dismiss hundreds of officials.In addition, the Tiance General's Mansion was set up, and King Yan was the first and only first-rank general after the founding of the Tang Dynasty.All affairs in the army are subject to the decision of the king of Yan, and there is no need to ask the emperor.

Even the new emperor sitting on the throne knows that he is just a puppet.

But this puppet is also the emperor after all, at least he can sit in the imperial study room that he has never entered before and sigh with emotion.He knew that his own destiny was no longer in his hands, as for whether he would live or die in the future, it was all up to the King of Yan.

No year number, no choice of queen...

Li Chengde himself thought it was a little funny, my uncle...how many days are you going to let me sit?

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General Tiance's Mansion was set up in the original Yamen of Bingbei Mansion in Chang'an City, and within two days, the most famous calligrapher in Chang'an City wrote a plaque with his own hand, and after it was completed, it was hung on the gate of the original Bingbei Mansion's Yamen.It must be said that the most famous calligrapher in Chang'an City is of course King Yan himself.

General Tiance

When Li Xian thought of this title, he felt a little ridiculous. This title should have belonged to Li Shimin.But this title in history is definitely not as honorable and powerful as it is now.

While Tiance General's Mansion was still being repaired, an ordinary carriage with a sign of flame, sword and sword painted on the carriage stopped at the gate of Duke Qiao's mansion in the east of the city.next to the carriage