Chapter 960 Loyalty
Time flies, and New Year's Day is coming soon.
This is one of the most important festivals of the year and has always been valued by people. The two years ago and the two years ago were a bit simple because of the confrontation between the Northeast and the Battle of Daibei. The two years ago and the last year were the King of Qin who led his army out of the pass to the pass to fight the Hu people. The land within the pass was attacked by the Eighteen Towns, so New Year's Day became more desolate and bleak, and even panic.
Although many places were also attacked by the vassals this year, the war outside the pass had come to an end. The King of Qin conquered hundreds of tribes of all sizes outside the pass in one fell swoop, completely eliminating the various dissatisfactions of the Hu people. Now, hundreds of thousands of troops have returned to the pass, and this year is another good year, with a bumper harvest in various places. Moreover, due to the great victory outside the Qin pass, the alliance vassal states in the southeast of the Qin vassal have also been transported from the sea to the north in the summer. Even small ban countries such as Chameng on the far south side of Annan have sent missions to come with grain ships and tributes.
In this twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere of the entire Yanjing and even the entire Qin vassal became relaxed, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Not only was the rear of the mainland safe, but the soldiers and horses of the towns that took the opportunity to invade on the long border also retreated. Some refugees from all over the country gathered to gather were also wiped out by the soldiers who had just been stationed on the border. Not long ago, the King of Qin had just ordered that a new military branch was built, especially on the long border of the Qin vassal of the Qin vassal, the Qin vassal border guards were specially stationed on the border. Most of these border guards, who came from war soldiers, the first thing they did when they arrived at the border was to attack everywhere, sweep away the bandits and horse bandits who were wandering on the border, or occupying mountains and robbing the border, and stabilize the border.
The uneasy atmosphere on the border was swept away, making the people on the border feel at ease and stable even when they sleep.
For the people in the mainland, they became more and more relaxed. Therefore, this time, everyone was struggling to have a lively festival. Especially now that this year's New Year's Day is everywhere, the King of Qin will establish a new emperor. From then on, the Qin vassal will truly become a country. Although the King of Qin has established a Li Tang royal family as the emperor, it is not as everyone expected that the King of Qin will become the emperor himself, but the result is still pretty good. At least, in this way, the Qin vassal will no longer listen to the orders of the emperors in Chengdu or Chang'an.
As the days get closer, the festive atmosphere in the street market is getting stronger and stronger. In recent years, Daqianmen of the outer city has become the most lively commercial area in the outer city, and a large market has been opened. Now, the big merchants in the Daqianmen market have begun to build bamboo buildings at the door of their shops, preparing to hang colorful lanterns, tie up colorful banners and erect colorful flags. At the intersection of the street, each market has raised money to build colorful paper arches. There is a archway not far from the wide street market. In recent years, the market in Yanjing City has been extremely developed, and the division of labor in various industries has become more and more detailed. There are already 720 archways in the entire Yanjing City, and the Daqianmen market has concentrated 480 archways, with a total of 480 archways, one taller and more beautiful than the other. It seems that the taller the archway, the more prosperous the business will be next year.
According to tradition, although New Year's Day is lively, the most lively in the first lunar month is the 15th Chinese New Year Festival. However, this year's situation is special. The above also said that we should celebrate with the people and hold a large celebration. Therefore, from New Year's Day to the Chinese New Year, there will be a continuous celebration.
Therefore, there is still some time before the New Year, but the entire Yanjing City has begun to prepare.
Not only are the markets in Zhapailou, but also the wealthy families in each street have built wooden archways outside their homes. According to tradition, when it comes to Lantern Festival, all kinds of lanterns will be hung on this archway. Whose archway has the most beautiful, the lights are the most gorgeous, and the tourists attract the most, it is obvious that this family is the most popular. This is the case among the people and the government is the same. The various yamen in Yanjing City are already building archway lighthouses. Even the various yamen are still secretly competing between the two counties directly under the jurisdiction of Yanjing City.
It is Daxing County in the east of the city and Wanping County in the west of the city. In the entire Yanjing, it is also divided into five cities in the southeast, west and northeast. The five cities are also known as Shuntian City, Yingtian City, Fengtian City, Chengtian City, and Jingtian City. In the five cities, there is a five-city procuratorate. This newly established new yamen is a subordinate agency affiliated to the procuratorate. The procuratorate dispatches officials to patrol the city, and all the officials in the city have offices. At the same time, there are special military personnel in the five cities. Each city's military personnel are divided into two yards, and the duties include promoting education, trialing litigation, arresting thieves, and famine relief.
The two counties of Daxing and Wanping not only competed secretly, either the east wind overwhelmed the west wind or the west wind overwhelmed the east. On the other hand, they joined forces to fight the new yamen of the Wucheng Procuratorate and the Wucheng Military and Mass. The two new yamen of the Wucheng were naturally not to be outdone. They are directly affiliated to the Qinfan Central Department, so how could they be fought by the two small counties? Of course, secretly, the Wucheng Military and Mass and Mass Procuratorate and Mass are also competing, wanting to compare the other party. Even the Jiumen Admiral's Office was ready to compete with each other, preparing to compare the other governments in the capital.
However, in this joyful busyness and competition, all the people of Yanjing were confused and confused. Until now, New Year's Day was about to be, and the officials and people at the foot of the royal city still didn't know who would be the new emperor supported by the King of Qin. This matter is a bit incredible, but the fact is that. In the tea shops, there were all kinds of speculations and rumors. Some people kept saying that the King of Qin wanted to support King Zhao as the new emperor. After all, a few years ago, there was a rumor that the Qin Fan planned to establish a country supervisor.
, and King Zhao came to Yanjing from Dengzhou at that time. Although it was finally lost, King Zhao's identity was very noble among the royal family. He was the son of Emperor Xuanzong, the brother of Emperor Yizong, and the uncle of Emperor Chengdu and Emperor Chang'an. Besides, there is another thing that everyone didn't say, but they all knew it. King Zhao and King Qin have always had a very good relationship. They were already a family as early as Dengzhou. What's more, King Zhao's legitimate daughter Princess Donghai was a member of the King of Qin. Although he had no official title, he even gave birth to a child.
But some people say with certainty that the new emperor would be the missing Ji King Li Bao.
"King Ji was not missing, but was taken out of Chengdu by His Highness the King of Qin. Now he is in Yanjing City. On New Year's Day, he must have to put on the imperial robe and ascend the throne to the throne."
Of course, this statement has been denied by many people. Everyone thinks that King Ji has been missing for so long, so how could he be in Yanjing? What's more, I heard that King Ji is a wise king, and it is logically the most appropriate to establish a wise king as the emperor. But now the Qin Dynasty's intention of supporting the emperor is unclear. That is to threaten the emperor to command the princes. Since this is the case, how can he establish a wise emperor? That's not to make it a wise emperor?
In short, all kinds of speculations were used, but the official did not reply accurately from the beginning. Even the matter of Qin Fan's appointment to establish the son of Xintian on New Year's Day was a bit groundless. Although everyone had heard of it, no one could tell where it first came from.
On the afternoon of that day, a carriage was parked in front of the arrow tower of Zhengyangmen, the Daqianmen of Yanjing. The commander of the Daqianmen of the Nine Gate, who was commanding people with a lamp rack, immediately recognized it. This was the carriage that the Supervision Office and the Jiumen of the Nine Gate Admiral Office specially explained to him. There were many gates in Yanjing City, including the seven outer and nine imperial cities and four inner and nine imperial cities. In fact, there were six gates in the imperial city, which did not include the eight gates of the palace city. The real Yanjing City was a big city composed of five cities, outer cities, inner cities, imperial cities, and palace city. The acropolis had a large area, surrounding the entire outer city, with a two-meter-long dirt city, and there were twelve city gates built on the water and land rush into the outer city of Yanjing. The twelve city gates were actually twelve forts, composed of forts, arrow towers, door holes, etc.
In addition to being actually considered a cliff in the suburbs of Yanjing, among the four cities of the outer city, inner city, imperial city, palace city, the nine gates guard the nine gates of the inner city, which are in charge of the capital city guarding, inspection, access control, night patrol, ban, baojia, arrest, trial of cases, imprisonment and other important positions. To put it bluntly, they are the Yanjing garrison troops, which are comparable to the Jinwu Guards in Chang'an City.
As the commander of the Daqianmen of Zhengyang Gate, one of the nine gates, Zhao Debiao had already received a secret order from Shangfeng, asking him to pay attention to the arrival of a carriage at all times. This was an unusual carriage, because in this carriage that entered the city today was Yang Fuguang, the top three most powerful eunuchs in the world, the military commander of the Eastern Capital, the defense envoy of the Eastern Capital, the prefectural prefecture of Henan, the commander of the Eastern Capital and the commander of the Jingdong Camp, and one of the most powerful double Yangs in the new court of Chang'an.
Yang Fuguang had already entered Caozhou, Shandong Province a month ago, and then the Shandong Governor and Songzhou Defense Envoy sent an elite cavalry to escort the north all the way, and finally arrived in Tianjin three days ago. During this trip, Yang Fuguang was very low-key and secret. The Qin army also kept his arrival confidential, and the outside world did not know at all. After arriving in Tianjin, the escort task was handed over to the Supervision Department. At this time, Yang Fuguang came alone in a carriage, with only a few confidants around him, and could not see a escort entourage around him. But in fact, the Supervision Department sent many people to disguise themselves as ordinary pedestrians and follow him on the front, back and forth, and strictly escorting him into Beijing. All this was just to keep it secret.
Zhao Debiao saw the conspicuous mark on Yang Fuguang's carriage from a distance, quickly threw down what he had, jogged over, and personally sent this important person into the city and into the capital. As the commander of Daqianmen, he had the right to know who was sitting in the carriage, but it was limited to this. However, Zhao Debiao secretly guessed in his heart that at this opportunity, Yang Fuguang suddenly came to Yanjing secretly, which was very likely to be for negotiating with the King of Qin. The purpose, without thinking, must be for the Qin vassal to establish a new emperor. The Qin vassal to enthrone a new emperor, and the last thing he didn't want to see was the newly established Chang'an court. However, he didn't consider too many things. No matter what, with the King of Qin there, he didn't have to think about things that were so far away.
Yang Fuguang lifted a corner of the curtain and said in a gentle tone: "I'm going to send our family to see the King of Qin!"
"Please come with me!" Zhao Debiao didn't say anything else. Although Yang Fuguang's appearance was not as he had imagined, he was just a fucked old man with loose skin and wrinkles on his face, the other party's identity was there. This was a big eunuch who was even more powerful than Tian Lingzi. Just his eight-legged godson under his command was enough to make people fear.
Seeing the officer's cold but neither humble nor arrogant attitude, Yang Fuguang couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
He came to Li Jing to find Li Jing because he wanted to establish a new emperor. In any case, he had to let Li Jing dismiss the matter of establishing a new emperor. However, he also knew that when the attack on the Qin vassal in the Eighteen Towns had basically failed, especially when Li Jing had finally won the victory of the decisive battle outside the pass, it would be difficult to persuade Li Jing to cancel the decision to establish a new emperor. However, with his understanding of Li Jing, this matter was not completely unreversible, but with his understanding of Li Jing, even if there was a front-line opportunity, the price to be paid was definitely huge.
But does he have any other choice?
Once Li Jing established the new dynasty, the impact on the Chang'an court would be unparalleled. No matter what, he had to prevent such a thing from happening. He finally wiped out Huang Chao. He saw that if Li Jing could be loyal to the Chang'an court, they could eradicate Tian Lingzi again, and even restore the Tang Dynasty little by little and revive the Tang Dynasty. But now Li Jing's actions have become the biggest obstacle to this goal.
For the continuation of the Tang Dynasty and the revival of the Tang Dynasty, he had to take this risk and make his last efforts.
If Li Jing established a new emperor, he really doesn't know what the world will become.
Although Tian Lingzi also held an emperor hostage in Xichuan, Tian Lingzi, the old dog, only played some power tricks and deceived the emperor, and his other abilities were nothing. Even if he was allowed to occupy Sanchuan, Yang Fuguang was not worried or afraid. He believed that as long as he had 100,000 troops, he could completely destroy this old dog in two or three years. But Li Jing was different. With Li Jing's prestige today, as well as territory and troops, if he really wanted to establish an emperor, Li Tang would completely split into two.
If Li Jing was truly loyal to Li Tang, he wanted to establish the emperor, and Yang Fuguang might even give him the dominance of the court. But he knew very well that although Li Jing had never had any anti-Tang remarks, his strength would never be really just a minister. Once all the power was handed over to him, sooner or later he would usurp the Tang Dynasty and become independent.
Chapter completed!