Late Tang

Time passed quickly, and it was almost New Year's Day in a blink of an eye. .

This is one of the most important festivals of the year and has always been valued by people.Because of the Northeast confrontation and the Battle of Daibei, the two years before and the year before were a bit simple, but the year before and last year was when King Qin led his army out of the pass to fight the Hu people, and the land inside the pass was attacked by eighteen towns. Therefore, the New Year's Day has become more and more bleak and desolate, and even panicked.

Although many places were also invaded by the vassals this year, the war outside the pass has come to an end. The king of Qin conquered hundreds of tribes outside the pass in one fell swoop, and completely wiped out the various dissatisfaction of those Hu people.Today, hundreds of thousands of troops have returned to the pass, and this year is another bumper year, with bumper harvests everywhere.Moreover, due to the great victory outside the Qin Dynasty, the allied feudal towns in the southeast of the Qin feudal clan have been continuously transporting food from the sea to the north in the summer, and even the small foreign countries such as Champa on the far side of Annan have also A mission was sent to come with food and tribute.

In this twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere in Yanjing and even in Qin Fan relaxed, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.Not only was the rear of the inland stable, but even on the long border, the soldiers and horses from the towns who took the opportunity to invade also retreated back.Not long ago, the King of Qin had just ordered that, especially on the Qin Fan's long border of tens of thousands of miles, a new military branch, the Qin Fan Border Guard Army, would be specially stationed on the border. Most of these border guard troops came from soldiers. The first thing to do is to attack everywhere, sweep up the bandits and horse bandits who are running around to commit crimes or occupy the mountains to plunder, and stabilize the border.

The uneasy atmosphere on the border was swept away, making the people on the border feel at ease even when they slept.

As for the people in the mainland, they are more and more relaxed, so this time, everyone is desperate to have a lively and lively festival.Especially now it is widely spread that this year's New Year's Day, King Qin will support a new emperor, and from then on, Qin Fan will truly become his own country, although King Qin will support a Li Tang clan as the emperor, it is not As everyone expected, King Qin became the emperor himself, but this result is not bad, at least, in this way, Qin Fan will no longer listen to the orders of the emperors in Chengdu or Chang'an.

As the days get closer and closer, the festive atmosphere in the market is getting stronger and stronger. The Great Front Gate of the Outer City has become the busiest business district in the Outer City in recent years, and a large market has been specially opened up. Now Big merchants in the Daqian store began to set up bamboo buildings in front of their shops, preparing to hang up lanterns, tie up colored strips, and put up colorful flags in the New Year.At the entrance of the street, various markets pooled their money to build archways made of colored paper. There is an archway not far from the wide market. The commercial market in Yanjing City has been extremely developed in recent years, and the division of labor among various industries has become more and more detailed. There are already 720 rows in the entire Yanjing City, and there are 480 rows in the Daqian store, a total of 480 archways, each taller and more beautiful than the last.It seems that the taller and more beautiful the archway of any row, the more prosperous the business will be next year.

According to tradition, although the New Year's Day is lively, the most lively in the first month is the Lantern Festival on the [-]th. However, this year's situation is special. The above also said that they will celebrate with the people and hold a big celebration, so it may be from New Year's Day to Shangyuan Festival. It will be a constant celebration.

Therefore, there is still some time before the New Year, but the entire Yanjing City has already begun to prepare.

Not only the shops in the market are setting up archways, but also the big families in various squares and streets are building wooden archways outside their homes. According to tradition, when the Lantern Festival arrives, all kinds of wooden archways will be hung on this archway. With different kinds of lanterns, whose archway is the most beautiful, the lights are the most gorgeous, and the most tourists are attracted, it means that this family is the most prosperous.This is the case among the people, and so is the government. All the yamen in Yanjing City are already erecting archway lighthouses.Even the various yamen are still competing secretly. Yanjing City directly governs two counties, namely Daxing County in the east of the city and Wanping County in the west of the city.In the whole of Yanjing, it is also divided into five cities in the southeast, northwest, and middle. The five cities are also called Shuntian City, Yingtian City, Fengtian City, Chengtian City, and Jingtian City. In the five cities, there are five city procuratorates. The new yamen is a subsidiary institution under the procuratorate. The procuratorate assigns officials to patrol the city, and all officials who patrol the city have offices.At the same time, there are special soldiers and horses in the five cities. Each city has two soldiers and horses.

Daxing and Wanping county governments not only competed secretly, either the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind overwhelmed the east.And on the other hand, they joined forces again, preparing to fight against the new Yamen that were under pressure, the Wucheng Procuratorate and the Wucheng Bingmasi.The two new yamen in Wucheng are naturally not to be outdone. They are directly under the central government of Qin Fan, so how could they be defeated by two small counties.Of course, in secret, Wucheng Bingma Division and Wucheng Procuratorate are also competing with each other, trying to compare each other.Even the nine admirals' yamen are gearing up, ready to compare with other yamen in the capital.

However, in this kind of joyful busyness and rivalry, all Yanjing people are a little confused and at a loss. Up to now, it seems that New Year's Day is approaching, and they, the officials and people at the foot of the royal city, still don't know who will It is unbelievable to say that he is the new emperor supported by King Qin, but it is the truth.In the teahouses, there were various speculations and rumors. Some kept saying that King Qin would support King Zhao as the new emperor. After all, as early as a few years ago, there was a rumor that Qin Fan planned to set up a prison. It was at that time that King Zhao came to Yanjing from Dengzhou.Although it was nothing in the end, King Zhao's status was very honorable in the clan. He was the son of Xuanzong, brother of Yizong, and uncle of the current Emperor of Chengdu and Emperor of Chang'an. Besides, although everyone didn't say anything, It is tacitly understood that the relationship between King Zhao and King Qin has always been very good. They have been regarded as a family as early as Dengzhou. What's more, Princess Donghai, the daughter of King Zhao, has long been a member of King Qin. Although she has no official status, But even the baby was born.

But there are also people who say with certainty that the new emperor will be the missing Ji Wang Li Bao. .

"King Ji is not missing, he was brought out from Chengdu by someone sent by His Royal Highness King Qin, and he is now in Yanjing City. On New Year's Day, he will definitely wear an imperial robe and become emperor."

Of course, this statement was also denied by many people. Everyone thought that King Ji had been missing for so long, how could he be in Yanjing.What's more, I heard that King Ji is a virtuous king, and it stands to reason that it is most appropriate to make a virtuous king the emperor.But now the intention of the King of Qin to support the establishment of the emperor, no one in the Qin family would know, that is to blackmail the emperor to make the princes, if this is the case, how can he establish a wise emperor, it is not happy for himself.

In short, all kinds of guesses are used, but the official did not have an accurate reply from the beginning to the end.Even the fact that Qin Fan wants to establish the son of Xintian on New Year's Day seems a bit groundless. Although everyone has heard of it, no one can tell where it came from in the first place.

In the afternoon of this day, a carriage stopped in front of the archery tower of Zhengyang Gate, Grand Front Gate of Yanjing.The head of the garrison at the Daqianmen of the Jiumen Admiral's Yamen, who was sweating and directing people to set up the lampstand, immediately recognized that this was the carriage that the Supervisory Office and the Jiumen Admiral's Yamen had specially told him to pay attention to.There are many gates in Yanjing City. There is a saying that there are seven outside, nine inside, and four in the imperial city. In fact, the imperial city has six gates, not counting the eight gates of the palace city.The real Yanjing City is a large city composed of the Acropolis, the Outer City, the Inner City, the Imperial City, and the Miyagi City. There are also twelve city gates built on the water and land key points entering the outer city of Yanjing. The twelve city gates are actually twelve fortresses, consisting of forts, archery towers, and door openings.

In addition to the fact that it can be regarded as the acropolis on the outskirts of Yanjing, in the four cities of the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city, and the palace city, the nine admirals guard the nine gates of the inner nine cities, and they are in charge of guarding the capital. Inspection, access control, night watch, ban, Baojia, arrest, trial of cases, imprisonment of criminals and other important positions.To put it bluntly, they are the Yanjing garrison, comparable to the Jinwu Guard in Chang'an City.

As the leader of Daqianmen of Zhengyangmen in Nancheng, one of the nine gates, Zhao Debiao had already received a secret order from Shangfeng, telling him to always pay attention to the arrival of a carriage.This is an unusual carriage, because the carriage that entered the city today sat one of the top three most powerful eunuchs in the world. Yang Fuguang, who stayed behind in Yin and Dongdu and was in charge of Jingdong camp, was one of the most powerful double Yangs in the new court of Chang'an.

Yang Fuguang had entered the territory of Caozhou in Shandong province as early as a month ago, and then the governor of Shandong and the defense envoy of Songzhou sent an elite cavalry to escort him all the way north, and finally arrived in Tianjin three days ago.During this trip, Yang Fuguang was very low-key and secretive. Qin Jun also kept his visit a secret, and the outside world didn't know anything about it.After arriving in Tianjin, the task of escorting was entrusted to the Supervision Office. At this time, Yang Fuguang came alone in a carriage with only a few confidantes, and no escort around could be seen, but in fact, the Supervision Office They sent a lot of people pretending to be ordinary pedestrians to follow him around and closely escort him into Beijing.All this is just to keep it secret.

Zhao Debiao saw the conspicuous mark on Yang Fuguang's carriage from a long distance away, quickly dropped what he was doing, trotted over, and personally let this important person into the city and into the capital.As the leader of the Great Front Gate, he has the right to know who is sitting in this carriage, but it is limited to this.However, Zhao Debiao secretly guessed that at this time, Yang Fuguang suddenly came to Yanjing secretly, most likely for the purpose of negotiating with King Qin.The purpose, you can know without thinking, it must be for the fact that Qin Fan is about to set up a new emperor.The Qin Fan canonize the new emperor, and the last thing he wants to see is the newly established Chang'an court.But he didn't think about too many things. No matter what, with King Qin around, he didn't have to think about things so far away.

Yang Fuguang lifted the corner of the curtain, and said in a gentle tone: "Thank you, General, send our family to see the King of Qin!"

"Please come with me!" Zhao Debiao didn't say much else. Although Yang Fuguang's appearance was not as he imagined, he was just a dry old man with loose skin and wrinkled face, but the other party's identity was there. Tian Lingzi was even more powerful eunuch, and his eight handsome sons alone were enough to make people fearful.

Seeing the officer's indifferent but neither humble nor overbearing attitude, Yang Fuguang couldn't help but secretly sighed.

He came to Li Jing, and it was indeed because of Li Jing's plan to establish a new emperor.In any case, he had to ask Li Jing to cancel the appointment of the new emperor, but he also knew that under the circumstances that the eighteen towns had basically failed to attack the Qin Fan, especially when Li Jing had finally won the decisive battle outside the pass It will be very difficult to persuade Li Jing to cancel the decision to establish a new emperor.However, based on his understanding of Li Jing, this matter is not completely without room for reversal, but also based on his understanding of Li Jing, even if there is still a chance, the price to be paid is definitely huge.

However, does he have other options?

Once Li Jing establishes a new dynasty, the impact on the Chang'an court will be unparalleled.No matter what, he had to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and finally wiped out Huang Chao. Seeing that if Li Jing could be loyal to the Chang'an court, they would be able to eradicate Tian Lingzi again, and even restore Datang little by little. But what Li Jing did now has become the biggest obstacle to this goal.

For the continuation of Datang, for the rejuvenation of Datang, he had to take this risk to come here and make the last effort.

If Li Jing chooses to establish a new emperor, the world really does not know what will become of it.

Although Tian Lingzi still holds an emperor hostage in Xichuan, Tian Lingzi, an old dog, can only play tricks and trick the emperor, and has no other skills.Even if he is allowed to occupy Sanchuan, Yang Fuguang is not worried. He believes that as long as there are [-] soldiers and horses, within two or three years, this old dog can be completely wiped out.But Li Jing is different. With Li Jing's prestige today, as well as his territory and troops, if he really wants to establish an emperor, Li Tang will be completely split into two.

If Li Jing is sincerely loyal to Li Tang, he wants to establish the emperor, and Yang Fuguang may even cede the dominance of the court to him.But he knew very well in his heart that although Li Jing has never made any anti-Tang remarks, his strength is absolutely impossible to be just a courtier. Once all the power is given to him, sooner or later he will usurp Don Zili.

As Li's servant and servant, no matter how difficult the situation is, for Datang and for Li, he is willing to do his best and die! (To be continued.)