Datang New Order

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After the rise of Jinyang, the Li clan, who was born in the Guanlong military aristocratic group, gained power in the world and established the Tang Empire.As the representative of the Guanlong forces, Li himself needs to weaken the constraints of this force on himself. This is a realistic choice that the superior must face.Therefore, in the 80 years of the early Tang Dynasty, the royal family spent 45 years in the eastern capital handling government affairs, which actually exceeded that of Xijing, which is the capital of the country.

Thanks to this, even if the construction of Luoyang is slightly inferior to that of Chang'an, it is not much worse, especially when Emperor Wu was in power, the prosperity of Luoyang even faintly surpassed that of Chang'an, becoming the center of the world.

After the Su Dynasty, Luoyang, which was closer to Hebei, gradually moved away from its position as a national capital due to the separatist regime of the Anshi Clan military group. Although it was still retained in name, its actual function was still the same as that of a state.Therefore, Luoyang gradually became depressed.However, it is precisely because of this that the tragedy of repeated destruction of Chang'an in the past 30 years has not been staged in Luoyang, which has also made Luoyang's preservation much better. Much lower than Chang'an.

In recent years, King Liang has been thinking about changing the dynasty and returning the dynasty. His plan is to establish Luoyang as the capital. Therefore, since the first year of Tianfu, the entire Henan province has concentrated its financial, material and human resources on Luoyang, almost repairing the decaying Luoyang. new.It's a pity that this act eventually became a wedding dress, and the peaches planted by King Liang were not able to pick them himself.

On the first day of June in the third year of Tianyou, Luoyang was heavily guarded, and Meng Xuxing, commander of the Youzhou Army, Wang Yibo, and Sima Xue Jisheng took their positions.The Youzhou army entered the city the day before yesterday. After entering the city, they dispersed the so-called forbidden army recruited by the emperor, and soon took over the entire Luoyang.The three have their own division of labor, Meng Xuxing is in charge of the defense of the outer city, Wang Yibo is in charge of the defense of the imperial city, and Xue Jisheng is in charge of the control of the palace city.

Meng Xuxing stood on the tower of Dingding Gate.Looking at the main points one by one, seeing that the sergeants are all arranged properly, they nodded.The flag-bearer lowered a dusty khaki-colored five-clawed golden dragon Tang flag from the city tower, and raised a similar flag, but it was newer, and the surrounding was sewn with gold thread, especially the "Tang" character in the middle, which was dazzling. The dazzling golden light is reflected in the bright sunlight.

After Jiutong's deafening drums, a group of chariots and horses drove up outside Dingding Gate, with banners waving.Color fluttering.Hundreds of well-dressed warriors each held axes, axes, halberds and hammers as the guide, followed by dozens of civil and military officials, surrounded by six carriages and chariots.A young man sat under the umbrella, looking around curiously, but it was the prince Li Zhen.

Prince Li Zhen's chariot was Zhang Mao'an, the envoy of the new Jin Palace, followed by Han Quanhui, envoy of the Left Privy Council, Zhang Juhan, envoy of the Right Privy Council, and Zhang Chengye, envoy of Xuanhui.On the right side of the crown prince's imperial chariot is Li Chengzhong, King of Yan, who is accompanying him on horseback.

There were more than [-] officials waiting outside the Dingding Gate. The leader was Zhang Jun, who had just returned to his post. The emperor appointed him as Shangshu Zuopushe, the chief minister.It is the first of all officials.Behind Zhang Jun are the right servant She Peishu of the Shangshu, Dugushang, the servant of the door, and Liu Can, the servant of the Zhongshu.Now that the court is in decline, the officials outside the Dingding Gate are already all the officials above the seventh rank in Luoyang City. If it weren't for the emperor temporarily recruiting Zhang Wenwei, Cui Yuan, Yang She and other ten people who had been deposed for a long time.The welcome ceremony will look even more shabby.

Zhang Jun led all the officials to come forward and bowed down to the crown prince Chengyu. The ten-year-old crown prince nervously looked at Han Quanhui beside him. Han Quanhui said in a low voice, "Your Highness, just follow the previous agenda." Don't be nervous." The prince looked at Li Chengzhong who was riding a horse on the right, and Li Chengzhong smiled at him.So the prince plucked up his courage and said, "Your Excellencies, please forgive me!"

Zhang Jun stood up and bowed to Li Chengzhong again. Li Chengzhong got off his horse and stood up one by one with the court officials.

The chariot starts again, passes through Dingding Gate, goes north along Dingding Street, passes through the left and right twelve squares, and arrives at Tianjin Bridge.

Luoyang straddles the Luoshui River, and the Luoshui River flows from east to west, dividing Luoyang City into two districts, north and south.After crossing the Tianjin Bridge, they set foot on the North City. In front of them was a large school field, and a majestic imperial city appeared in front of them.

Wang Yibo led thousands of armored men to stand on both sides of the imperial road and gestured to Li Chengzhong from a distance. Li Chengzhong then asked Zhang Maoan to drive straight into Duanmen.Inside the Duanmen Gate is the imperial city, the Tianjie Royal Road is five hundred steps long, and the government offices are lined up on both sides of the Tianjie Royal Road.The three provinces of Zhongshu, Menxia, ​​and Shangshu are on the left, of which the six volumes of Shangshu occupy most of the place; Prison, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Weiwei Temple, Zongzheng Temple, Taipu Temple, Dali Temple, Honglu Temple, Sinong Temple, Taifu Temple and other nine temples are arranged on the right side of the Royal Road.

Compared with Chang'an, Luoyang's government offices are obviously smaller, but there are not many officials in the court, and many of these government offices now have empty names and appearances, and there are not even any officials in office.

Yudao continued to move forward, and soon arrived at Miyagi.The three palace gates of Changle Gate, Yingtian Gate and Mingde Gate are lined up side by side from west to east, and they are all wide open now.

The prince's chariot stopped at this point, Li Chengzhong dismounted, walked to the chariot, and extended his hand to Prince Li Zhen.When Prince Li Zhen was in Youzhou, Li Chengzhong often came to visit him, and invited many teachers for Li Zhen, including Li Chengzhong himself, who also taught a course called "Ideology and Morality".

Li Chengzhong's teaching method is very unique. He usually gives lectures to Li Zhen in the form of telling stories. Many stories are taken from "Journey to the West", and there are many "Kitten Fishing", "Three Little Pigs", "Three Monks" ", "The Crow Drinks Water" and other sketches are very much to Li Zhen's appetite.Many times, Li Chengzhong took Li Zhen out for outings and hunting, and had a self-service barbecue from time to time.This teaching method obviously made Li Zhen more happy than the teaching by Feng Dao and others, so Li Zhen looked forward to seeing Li Chengzhong every time.When Li Chengzhong went out to fight, Li Zhen often held a pen, wrote letters to Li Chengzhong, and completed the homework assigned by Li Chengzhong.

Seeing Li Chengzhong stretching out his hand, Li Zhen naturally pulled him up, and Li Chengzhong led him off the imperial chariot.An adult and a child walked into Yingtian Gate holding hands, Han Quanhui and other middle officials followed more than ten steps behind.The officials behind him also entered through the Changle Gate and the Mingde Gate according to their civil and martial arts.

There is an open square in front of you. Of course, it is obviously much narrower and cramped than the grand square that Li Chengzhong saw later, but even so, it is enough to reflect the majesty of the royal family.

Standing on the 27-step high platform, Qianyuan Hall is magnificent and daunting.Li Chengzhong pulled Li Zhen who had just passed his waist, pointed to the Qianyuan Hall and said, "You will sit in the main hall tomorrow to receive congratulations from all the officials. Do you remember what I taught you a few days ago? Don't forget it." Oh, I remembered wrongly, I won’t tell you stories in the future.”

Li Zhen just held Li Chengzhong's hand, looked timidly at the tall Qianyuan Hall, hesitated and whispered: "I remember...Yafu, can I not be the emperor?"

"Oh? Why don't you want to be emperor?" Li Chengzhong was a little curious. This was the first time Li Zhen mentioned this to him.

"I don't understand the ways of governing the country that Master Feng said, and I don't know how to be an emperor... Besides, being an emperor has a lot of rules, and the rules taught by Master Feng make me uncomfortable and uncomfortable..." He said , Li Zhen lowered his head, and said softly as if he had made a mistake: "Yafu, don't blame me, okay? I heard from Master Pei that it is not a blessing for the country to reach the emperor at a young age. For example, Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Cao Huan of the Wei Dynasty, Song Dynasty Emperor Liu Zhun and Qi Emperor Xiao Baorong, each ascended the throne at a young age, all of them died and the country was destroyed..."

When he came to this world, Li Cheng, who had already been influenced by historical knowledge, was moved in his heart.These young emperors in history mentioned by Li Zhen also have a common feature, they are all coerced by powerful officials.If you have to compare it with the present, what Li Chengzhong did is equivalent to what Dong Zhuo did to Liu Xie, Sima Zhao did to Cao Huan, Xiao Daocheng did to Liu Zhun, and Xiao Yan did to Xiao Baorong.

Looking at the begging child Li Zhen, Li Cheng felt soft in his heart.Li Chengzhong came from a later life, and he couldn't bear to push such a small child to the cusp of the storm. He still hasn't figured out how to deal with this ignorant child who once snuggled up to him and listened to his storytelling.Whether he is benevolent as a woman or not a hero, in short, he will not be ruthless to destroy this little life. Therefore, he is still uncertain about how to deal with Li Zhen's problems in the future.

"Tell Yafu, if you don't want to be an emperor, what do you want to do?"

"I want to travel far away! The Journey to the West that Yafu said is very good, I also want to travel to the West. It is so interesting to see those strange people and things, and see those customs..." When it comes to "Journey to the West", Li Zhen's eyes lit up immediately: "Didn't Yafu say that there are many countries overseas? The world is so big that it is far from being comparable to a corner of the Central Plains. I don't want to be a frog at the bottom of the well. I must see where the sky is!"

"Well..." Li Chengzhong looked at Li Zhen who was getting more and more excited, rubbed his head, and said with a smile: "Okay, then see if this works, when you grow up, I will give you a fleet , let you travel around the world?"

"Great! Is this real, Yafu? Is the hook good?"

"Of course it's true, Lagou... But you have to promise me one condition, first be the emperor for a year."

"Okay, but only for one year, okay? I'm going to be 11 soon, and I need to spend more time preparing. When I'm 15, I can go to sea! Four years of preparation, I don't know if it's enough... ..."

Li Zhen's cheerful laughter echoed in the palace city, attracting many curious eyes, but Li Zhen didn't notice it at all, and was still immersed in excitement and unable to control himself.

Even Li Chengzhong's mood suddenly became much lighter amidst the innocent laughter. (To be continued..)