Thief Emperor

Chapter 844: The Envoys from Hedong and Shuofang

The palace was not repaired, so Li Yun's family had no way to move in and could only live outside the palace.

However, the house outside the palace was also an old Zhou royal palace. It was renovated by Zhuo Guangrui and his people and was not shabby at all.

It is only slightly inferior to the royal palace in Nanjing.

A few days after Li Yun and his family arrived in Luoyang, it was the end of the year.

At this time, Luoyang had been stable for more than a year.

Stability is the most basic element for a place to prosper. In addition, at this time almost everyone had tacitly agreed that Luoyang was the capital of the new dynasty, and many people with vision and insight began to migrate to Luoyang Prefecture.

In other words, they are investing in Luoyang.

After all, the situation in which it was difficult to live in the capital was only a few decades or a hundred years ago.

Even twenty years ago, the land and housing prices in Guanzhong and Beijing were definitely not low.

At this time, Luoyang was in a state of disrepair. Not to mention the many opportunities, even if you took advantage of this time to buy a shop, it might be the way to make a living for four or five generations of your descendants.

Moreover, "investment" in this era was not as free as in later generations. The government generally did not allow local people to move freely, and the "property-owning class" in this era often owned farmland, real estate, and some real estate.

Not easy to sell, it’s liquid.

However, Luoyang is now in a state of disrepair, and the government does not strictly control the household registration. Even if there are refugees, the government will do its best to settle them here. If you are lucky, you may even get a "Luoyang household registration" right away when the Luoyang Prefecture is sorting out the household registration.

The accumulation of these reasons led to Luoyang's rapid recovery of prosperity in just one year. At this time, the population of Luoyang city was basically more than 80% of the pre-war population.

Although a large number of outsiders poured in, the ownership of many fields and properties was unclear, which brought a huge workload to Luoyang Prefecture, but no matter what, having people is a good thing.

At least at this year's end, Luoyang City is extremely lively.

There are people walking everywhere in and outside the city, and the city looks prosperous.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Li Yun and his family stood on the city wall of the Luoyang Imperial City.

Mr. Li took Queen Xue's hand, then held his daughter Li Shu in his arms, turned to Queen Xue and said with a smile: "When Zhuo Guangrui came to Luoyang last year, I asked him to bring some of the craftsmen from the Jinling workshop to Luoyang."

His words were somewhat incoherent. Xue Yuner looked at him and asked, "What does the king want to say?"

“Among these craftsmen, there are gunpowder craftsmen.”

Li Yun smiled and said, "In addition to making firearms, they can also make other things."

Queen Xue was startled, and suddenly thought of the fireworks that Li Yun had set off for them shortly after they got married and just entered Jinling.

She was a little surprised: "Husband..."

Li Yun put his daughter down from his arms, and then walked to the edge of the tower. Looking at the fireworks that had been prepared long ago, he took out a fire starter, blew it up, and handed it to Xue Yuner beside him, smiling and saying, "Madam, come first?"

Xue Yun'er shook her head: "My husband, please come."

Li Yun looked back at his family members and waved to the little boy Li Yuan: "Come here, son."

"You have some."

Li Yuan was brave and quickly stepped forward to take the fire starter from Li Yun's hand and lit the fuse.

Li Yun was watching nearby. As soon as the fuse was triggered, he immediately grabbed his son by the back, lifted him up, and ran away.

As this brilliant firework rose into the sky and then exploded, at least a hundred places around the city wall lit up with flames.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of fireworks rose into the sky and exploded near the imperial city tower.

The whole city was shocked.

The people of Jinling have seen these fireworks to some extent, but the people of Luoyang have never seen them.

In the streets and alleys, all the people raised their heads and looked towards the direction of the imperial city, and then, as if to live up to the people's expectations, the third round of fireworks was also lit at the same time.

Li Yun had already returned to his family, and handed Li Yun to Xue Yuner, smiling and saying, “Madam, does it look good?”

Xue Yun'er looked at Li Yuan's hand and confirmed that it was fine. She then gently scolded him, "The child is so young, aren't you afraid of scaring him? Besides, gunpowder is so dangerous. If someone with ulterior motives exchanges this thing..."

Li Yun shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "The Nine Departments' people went to do it personally. If this is the case, and it can be replaced by something else, I, the King of Wu, will really die."

After that, Li Yun also looked up at the sky, watching rounds of fireworks explode. He murmured, "This night will probably cost me thousands of coins."

Xue Yuner covered her mouth and smiled: "You are the King of Wu, can't you afford to spend this little money?"

Li Yun did not respond, but just laughed and said: "But it's worth it, at least most of the people in Luoyang saw it, and seeing this kind of thing..."

Li Yun hugged Queen Xue and said with a smile, "It can be considered as a five-colored auspicious cloud covering us, right?"

This fireworks display will inevitably be tinged with mystery, and will also lay a certain mass foundation for him to establish a country and ascend the throne in the future.

Although this method cannot be considered the right way, he, Li, has this condition, so he should use it. After a long time, the fireworks finally finished. Li Yun held his son Li Yuan, looked at the Luoyang City which was already vaguely decorated with lights, and said with a smile: "Son, this night."

"This city may be named after us, Li."

Li Yuan didn't understand why, but he seemed to understand something. He hugged his father's neck and looked down at Luoyang City. He said, "Father, it's really beautiful."

"It's beautiful. I'll release it once a year from now on."

Li Yuan nodded solemnly.

"it is good."

Following the conversation between the father and son, the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Luoyang officially became a tradition.

Hundreds of years have passed.

…………

The next day, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Li Yun was really busy that day.

All the civil and military officials who had arrived in Luoyang came to pay their respects to Li Yun and wish Li Yun and his family a happy New Year.

From the time he got up in the morning until the afternoon, Li finally met most of these people. By the afternoon, he didn't want to see them anymore, so he gave orders not to see any more guests.

After settling down at noon, Li Yun and Yang Xi went to the backyard of the palace together. There were several wooden men placed in the backyard. Li Yun, who had taken off his purple robe and was now wearing a short suit, held a big spear in his hand. After firing the spear, he nailed the wooden man's forehead and almost cracked it.

Yang Xi, who was standing by, cheered repeatedly. He stepped forward to hand Li Yun his coat and said with a smile, "Your spear skills are truly amazing. If you were to use them on the battlefield, I wonder how many enemies would be terrified."

He exclaimed: "In the future, this spear technique will be called Taizu Spear Technique."

Li Yun glanced at the guy and cursed with a smile: "Taizu is a temple name. I'm not even dead yet, and you gave me a temple name."

Yang Xi was startled and waved his hands quickly: "Superior, I'm not, I don't mean that..."

Li Yun glanced at him and did not answer. Instead, he said, "This gun was passed down to me by an old friend in Jinling. In the blink of an eye, nearly ten years have passed."

"I almost forgot about him, Yang Xi."

Li Yun called out, Yang Xi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said quickly, "I'm here!"

"Go and pass on my order. Have someone invite the coach Pei Zhuang from Jinling to Luoyang."

Mr. Li smiled and said, "When he comes, I will ask him to teach you. He is a man of many skills, and it would be great if you can learn 20% or 30% of him."

Yang Xi responded immediately and said with a smile, "Okay, when Coach Pei comes, I will definitely learn from him."

Hearing this, Li Yun looked at him again and continued, "The residence for fifty heroes that I asked Zhuo Guangrui to build seems to have been decided on a location. Go to Luoyang Prefecture in a few days and look for Zhuo Guangrui."

"Choose a house that is close to the imperial city."

At this point, Mr. Li glanced at him, smiled and said, "In the future, we have to move around more often."

Hearing this, Yang Xi took a deep breath and was quite excited: "Is there a chance for me to get promoted too..."

"What did you say?"

Li Yun glanced at him and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten? You saved my life on the battlefield. We have been together for so many years. Of these fifty houses, one of them must belong to you."

Yang Xi was overjoyed and bowed to Li Yun. Just as he was about to speak, Xue Gui ran over, clasped his fists and bowed to Li Yun and said, "Your Majesty, someone wants to see you and says he wants to congratulate you on the New Year."

Li Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead and waved his hand, saying, "I haven't had a rest all day. I finally got a break and changed my clothes. Please don't bother me anymore."

"Tell them I'll see them another day."

"Let them do what they want to do."

Xue Gui stood there, thought for a moment, then bowed his head and said, "Sir, these two groups of people are from other places. The person who reported them said that they came from Guanzhong and Taiyuan respectively."

"They are the envoys of the Shuofang Army and the Hedong Army, and they are here to pay their respects to the king."

Hearing this, Li Yun froze in his tracks. He stood there, squinted his eyes, stretched his body, and smiled: "These two families are still willing to come and wish me a happy new year."

"It's really not easy."

"Tell them."

Mr. Li laughed.

"I'll meet them later."

(End of this chapter)