Crown Tang emperor

"Okay, very good! I am still stationed outside the city, and the patient I am suffering from is the hard-to-discern Xijing traitor."

Li Tong bent down, grabbed a booklet from the case, and pointed it at everyone: "It's really shocking to set up chaos in Xijing. Guanzhong is the ancestral property of my Tang family. I haven't returned here for a long time, and I don't know that it has been ruined by local thieves. ! Those who live at home have no virtue to boast of, how dare the emperor order him!"

"If your Highness's call is only for humiliation, please forgive me for not responding! No matter how powerful the army is, it will be difficult to prevent loyalty from speaking out!"

Seeing the unbearable humiliation of the people present, they all showed anger, Li Tong sneered, he took out a copy of the book in his hand, threw it in front of the Duke of Beiping, and said: "If the Duke of Peiping knows about literature and ink, can you Read this scroll for me?"

After the old man heard the words, he was so angry that his chest was churning, he raised his head and said: "The old minister's eyes are dim, and his central energy is weak, I'm afraid I won't recognize him!"

"Duke Pingyang, please come!"

After being blocked, Li Tong felt a little depressed. With the same method, Wu Youyi could cheat out a secret, but this old guy didn't give him face.

After Wu Youyi heard the words, she hurriedly picked up the book and read it aloud. The content was naturally the confession of those involved in Xijing who stole the official treasury.

After hearing what Wu Youyi recited, the expressions of all the people present changed in surprise, especially the few people in front of them heard it more clearly. The Duke of Beiping who refused to recite just now snatched the scroll from Wu Youyi's hand, looked at it carefully, and then raised his head and said: "This, is this true or false?"

"Then I would like to ask Mr. Beiping, is the ax and ax I hold true or false? You tell yourself if you are loyal and treacherous, but you doubt whether it is true or false. Can an old thief know how to be in awe?"

Li Tong pulled his face when he heard the words, pointed at him casually and said: "Peel off this old thief's crown, check if he is involved in any crimes, and we will be convicted and sentenced together!"

"Your Highness..."

Seeing that the soldiers came forward, pushed Duke Beiping to the ground, and stripped off his robes, everyone in the tent stared in amazement.But soon, the soldiers in the camp showed their blades one after another, and surrounded all the people in their tent.

"There are all the characters in this case, and there is no doubt. I convened you today, and there is one thing that I don't understand. You are a lord who is proud of himself and is better than the common people. Can the court treat you poorly? The salary is not enough to support yourself, or is the honor not enough to boast? Enjoying this kindness, in terms of human feelings, shouldn't we think about how to repay it?"

Li Tong stood behind the forest of armored swords, and said in a deep voice: "The small people are making trouble, and it can still be blamed on the lack of cultivation of politics and religion. But the nobles steal the country, do you want to answer my emperor's life harshly?"

"I dare not wait..."

Hearing this, no matter what their moods were, everyone present knelt down on the ground in a hurry, not daring to raise any further objections.

"Young and energetic, I have lost my self-cultivation. Seeing my old court's defeat, I am so sad and indignant. The turmoil in Xijing has shocked both inside and outside. The families of the princes of all countries are ashamed to say this crime! I have summoned you today. Although your words and deeds There is a disrespect, but it is also caused by shock and anger. This kind of ugly behavior, if you have it, you will correct it, and if you don’t, you will encourage it. The next day when the army enters the city, those who hinder our military and political affairs will not be spared!"

Li Tong raised his robe and said in a loud voice: "Those who are willing to accept the duties of the shogunate will present a letter of recommendation. May those who live in peace and quiet stay behind closed doors! Those who come out of these two will be punished by punishment! After all the words are here, they will return to their residences." , do not stop."

In short, from now on, only my voice can exist in Chang'an City and even the entire Guannei Road!

Chapter 0535 you should work hard, big goods into the camp

The people who entered the camp today can be said to include most of the honorable families in Chang'an City.They could more or less guess that King Yong summoned them in the Bashang camp, and his attitude would definitely not be very good.

Even apart from other things, in addition to being the general manager of Guannei Road, King Yong also led Yongzhou Mu and Xijing to stay behind.Moreover, Chang'an City is very close at hand, and most of the rioting people in the city have already left the city. If His Royal Highness King Yong intends to seriously discuss with them the restoration of order in Chang'an City, he should also enter the city to summon the families.

But now, King Yong met them directly at the Bashang military camp, making it clear that he wanted to use military power to suppress them.

Even though they knew this very well in their hearts, the lords of various families still came here.

There was a turmoil in Xijing first, and King Yong was ordered to fix the chaos. If they resisted too much, King Yong could immediately sanction them. They didn't have a good way to deal with it.

The second is also confident. In their view, King Yong summoned them on such a large scale because he was eager to establish his prestige.But they are not soft persimmons. If King Ruoyong is really domineering, they will make trouble in the capital of God.

Now that Chang'an is still in chaos, if the nobles boycott King Yong collectively, in order to ensure the stability of the situation in the pass, the court will most likely remove King Yong and replace him with another person to take charge of the situation in Xijing.

But if the situation really develops to this point, it will be very detrimental to them.Previously, the riots were caused by ordinary people, but now the nobles are united to resist the chaos-fixing chief appointed by the imperial court. One can imagine what the imperial court thinks of them in Guanlong.After all, it is no longer the situation in which the Guanlong family dominates in the early days of the country.

In the final analysis, they are in awe of King Yong, but they will not completely bow down and accept orders.It is best to be able to tolerate each other for the stability of the situation in the pass, if not, it will be a big deal.

However, they never expected that King Yong had already grasped such a big handle on their Guanlong family.

Of course they also knew about the robbery of the official treasury, and some families even sent servants to help out, besieging and killing people on Zhuque Street.Perhaps some people also vaguely guessed something, but most of the people present really did not expect that this is actually a self-directed and self-acted trick!

Although it is said that there are grievances and debts, most people can have a clear conscience about this.But they are not the ones in charge right now, and they have no right to control and influence the further development of the situation.

The dozen or so families involved have made them miserable. The Lord Xijing's family actually committed such a heinous crime. What would the court think?

Right now King Yong represents the imperial court, any words or deeds they resist against King Yong can be regarded as a provocation to the imperial court!Even if each of their families in Xijing had their own representatives in the imperial court of the capital, they would not dare to speak lightly at this moment, this fact is too dirty!

What's more terrible is that even if the dozen or so families are greedy for wealth, there is more than one official treasury in Xijing, but they chose the official treasury that is used by the various border military.

The military power deployed by all sides is one of the confidence of their Guanlong family.Most of the Heyuan army in Longshang were related to the children of Longs. The governor of Anxi, Wang Xiaojie, and the deputy governor, Tang Xiujing, were both from Chang'an. Although the situation in Shuofang was a little complicated, the influence of Guanlong people was quite profound.

But now, because of the reckless behavior of those dozens of families, the military towns on all sides are in danger of running out of food, and one can imagine the attitude of the generals of all parties to this.

Although King Yong's attitude was domineering, the people present did not dare to make any more noises, otherwise that unlucky Mr. Bei Ping would be their example.

"May I ask when your highness will enter the city to serve as a council member? With such a shocking change in Xijing, I am in great pain. I would like to use my talent to donate to the shogunate to help my hometown return to safety as soon as possible!"

An old man who was nearly sixty years old came to pay his respects and directly expressed his desire to join the shogunate.

After other people saw this, they also opened their mouths and made the same appeal.Now is not the time to play tantrums, they could not deal with King Yong at all, and now the villagers are being caught by King Yong for their own stupidity, and it has also put other families in Chang'an on the chopping block. The shogunate is the safest.

In addition to expressing their intention to join the shogunate, some people praised King Yong even more: "The magical atmosphere of the gods has been publicized for several years, and His Highness has only been out of the cabinet for a short time. His ambitions are strong, and he can set the world in one fell swoop. Pursuing Emperor Taizong Wen's death! I know that His Royal Highness has been ordered to come to the west, and we know that the chaos in Xijing will not last long, so we close our doors and guard ourselves, and don't care about foreign affairs. Your Highness will leave as soon as he is ordered, and hope that the future will follow!"

The current Li Tong, of course, can't be coaxed with a few words of flattery. After hearing the words, he just said seriously: "There is no need to tell the story. Since I have this task, I should focus on my eyes. I also believe that Xijing's poor and evil must be just A small number of you are summoned today to tell the story. I hope you will be alert and watchful. The shogunate has its own special seat for virtue and talent. Since you have the heart to help things, you can learn from them after showing your performance. The rest No need to ask."

Right now, the initiative is completely on his side, and he doesn't think much about the support and support of people like Xijing.Although these people cannot be completely bypassed if they want to go deep into Guanzhong, they need to recruit some talents in Chang'an, but the proportion must be strictly controlled.

To be honest, right now he values ​​personal talent more. As for family history and honors, at least there is no market for him here.

As for these self-confident guys, they may not know as much about Chang'an's hometown as they do, and they can't say that they can play any irreplaceable role.If they still have this ability, Xijing will not be in chaos.

After some beatings, Li Tong ordered the group of people to be led out of the camp and returned to their respective homes.At the same time, he ordered Guo Da and others to lead [-] soldiers of the Chinese army to enter and clear the imperial city of Daxing Palace as his residence in Chang'an City.

Daxing Palace is the later Taiji Palace, and the imperial city to the south of Chengtian Gate is the original residence of Baisi in Beijing.Right now it is not convenient for Li Tong to settle in Daxing Palace or Daming Palace grandly, but it is only natural to work in the Imperial City.

Although there are official offices in the state capital and Xijing left-behind, Li Tong is not willing to go. One is that the official offices are located in different directions, and it is impossible to go back and forth to work every day, and the other is that they are not prestigious enough.

On the surface, he was driven to Xijing by the imperial court, so of course he had to argue for himself.His fourth uncle is already in charge of the country in the south of Luoyang, so of course he also wants to show up in Chang'an.

Speaking of which, the imperial city of Daxing Palace is much larger than the imperial city of Shendu, where even the sixth department of Shangshu Province is arranged in the east city.He sits in the imperial city of Daxing Palace, so it can be regarded as a loser but not a loser.

Those families in Xijing came and went quickly.After sending these people away, Li Tong summoned Wu Youyi again and ordered him to start working.

He summoned these families to meet him, in addition to playing a show of prestige, he also wanted to isolate the dozen or so families involved so that they could be uprooted.There is no blood without revolution. Since these people are going to die, Li Tong has no reason to hold back.

After entering the workshop yesterday to receive the forbidden items, the clansmen who were left in the city by the people involved in the incident were almost wiped out, but they still have large-scale pastoral industries in the suburbs of Chang'an and even in prefectures and counties outside Beijing, so naturally they all have to be wiped out some.

It is very appropriate to leave this kind of matter to Wu Youyi.This guy's hands may be a little dirty, but he definitely doesn't dare to stretch them too far.

Moreover, Li Tong's realm is also different now, as long as his subordinates are truly capable and can help in major matters, they don't have to be too strict in terms of personal morality.The big deal is to wait until Wu Youyi's family has accumulated a little more money, and then do some more sweeps.

Wu Youyi was already gearing up and ready to go. As soon as he got his life, he immediately led the army, escorted some criminals from various families, and rushed straight to the countryside.

Soon, they copied the first garden on the Shaoling Plain in the south of the city. This garden is next to the Yellow Canal. Although the scale is small, the collection of goods is really amazing.

After controlling more than a hundred arrested young men, Wu Youyi rushed into the warehouse in the garden first. Seeing the shelf full of brocade and stacks of grain, she couldn't help but praise her, and put her palm on the silk rack subconsciously. But Zhong subconsciously flashed His Royal Highness Yong's cold and stern eyes, and hastily withdrew his hand as if he had been scalded.

He exited the warehouse, commanded the sergeants to enter the warehouse to carry the goods, and said sharply: "His Royal Highness King Yong has clear punishments and rewards, but if you have meritorious deeds, you will not be stingy with rewards! But if someone steals unjustly and ruins the merits of colleagues, I will Such thieves must be severely punished!"

The work of mopping up the nearby gardens went very smoothly. Although these gardens were guarded by farmers, which could deter ordinary people from invading them, how could they be the opponents of Wang Shi's sergeants.

Wu Youyi broke through more than [-] gardens in a row, and saw the car driving back full of loads, like an old farmer who had worked hard and harvested, with a gratified smile on his face.

Especially when the team passed through several camps for the rioters, Wu Youyi nodded and sighed with a dazed expression: "His Royal Highness King Yong built a large camp to house the rioters, and those who didn't know laughed at his benevolence and cowardice. These idiots, How can I guess His Highness' deep meaning!

Now these disorderly people are all detained in the camp, and cannot roam the countryside and attack various homes.They can't consume more than a bucket of food in a day, but they can preserve the thousands of goods that His Highness sent to each family!Which is wise and which is stupid, there are things to prove! "

Wu Youyi followed the map to find out what to do, and his efficiency was astonishing, coupled with the cooperation of Wang Shi's soldiers and hard labor.In one day, all the properties of the involved families within [-] miles around Chang'an City have been uprooted, and the harvest can be described as astonishing.

When the armies returned to the camp to rest, they also saw many carts loaded with goods entering the camp, half with envy and half with anticipation.The army is in chaos, and all the gains can be recorded as merit, and part of the harvested materials will also be used to reward the soldiers.As for the ratio, in addition to court regulations, it also depends on whether the general is generous or not.

"Your Highness, great harvest, great harvest!"

After sweeping a garden in the suburbs, Wu Youyi couldn't wait to follow the army who were transporting goods, so he returned to the Bashang camp first, and expressed his merits to His Royal Highness King Yong with great interest.

In the big tent, Li Tong saw that Wu Youyi was still sweating in the cold weather, and couldn't help feeling that this guy was also a role model.

When Wu Youyi put the preliminary roster on his desk, after flipping through it briefly, his brows twitched frequently, and he couldn't help muttering: "Do you want to get a few more?"

Chapter 0536 from now on, live up to the common people

Today's Li Tong's status is different from that of the old days, and his vision has naturally increased accordingly.Although it can't be said that the power is in the hands of the people, at least in the west of Tongguan, there is no more prominent figure than him.Even he felt that the harvest was good, that is, it was really good.

However, judging from this list alone, there is a sense of rustic simplicity, which makes people feel like they have copied several illegally operated farmhouses, not like Lord Shuoshu's family property name.

There are dozens of types of materials on the list, covering everything from basic necessities of life to food, housing and transportation.Needless to say, basic silk cotton, corn, wheat, etc., the rest are more precious all kinds of fur woven brown, fine silk, Luowan, feather yarn, camel felt, stone honey, honey, thorn honey, Sichuan pepper, thorn Fabrics and condiments like wasabi are pretty normal.

But further down, all kinds of Tibetan goods become a little weird, such as spinach, cabbage, lotus root starch, fermented sauce, straw mat, bath beans, oxtail, jujube wood, sandalwood, paulownia and other rare goods are also listed in the list. This makes people feel a little inexplicable.

However, if the respective numbers are added, the funny meaning will be much weaker.For straw mats alone, more than [-] collars were copied, thousands of buckets of bath beans, and tens of thousands of jars of various pickles!

Regardless of the value and function of these things, just hoarding such an astonishing amount made Li Tong, a person who has experienced the material conditions of later generations, stunned. What is the motivation for these people to collect so many strange things?

People in the Tang Dynasty put more emphasis on storage than money, which is fully reflected in these people.The value of everyday items like straw mats is not reflected in their use and price, but in the fact that these noble families have stolen and manipulated labor to an outrageous level!

In addition to various materials and handmade products, the seized list also includes metal materials such as gold, silver, copper and pewter, and the quantities are also not cheap.

After going through the list carefully, Li Tong couldn't hold back anymore, and went into the camp to check the various goods that had been shipped.A lot of goods even piled up several thousand people's camps, and cattle, sheep, pack horses and the like had to be set up in another camp.

These are only materials that are easy to transport in some gardens around Chang'an. Strategic materials such as grain are too eye-catching, and it is necessary to gather elite troops for transportation and storage.

"It's really light to cut these guys with one knife!"

After a tour, Li Tong felt resentful besides feeling that he had gained a lot.

He even wanted to invent several more torture methods, such as filling the big vat with water, and letting the perpetrators jump in to take a bath, and use the bath beans they stored, and don't let them out of the vat if they don't run out!According to this reserve, Li Tong estimated that these people's flesh and blood might not be completely consumed.

Li Tong had already expected the wealth of these families, otherwise he would not have chosen them to blackmail.Not to mention the style of storage in the Tang Dynasty. In the middle Tang and Yuan Dynasties, the pepper can store as many as [-] stones.

However, these people's collections are so diverse and the quantity is so amazing, it still greatly exceeded his expectations, and it also made him even more angry.

You store grain, cloth, gold, silver, copper coins and jewellery, tens of thousands of cans of pickles, and more than 8 straw mats. Isn’t this purely sick?Not to mention that you need all kinds of costs for storage, it is not easy for me to confiscate the house and discount it!

Moreover, no matter how many various luxury goods are collected, the impact on people's livelihood is actually limited.After all, ordinary people do not have access to these things in their daily lives, let alone consume them.

However, the value of various daily necessities is not high, and the consumption is large. With so many collections, the impact on people's livelihood will be much greater.These local tyrants in Datang really taught Li Tong a lesson. You think things are too common and ordinary to bully the market and monopolize it. That's because your warehouse is not big enough!

After copying these more than a dozen companies, the goods are quite rich, and the value is hard to say. There is really no standard for price comparison, and transportation, storage and handling are also a great trouble, which is a bad aspect.

But there are also many benefits. These goods themselves are all valuable and useful. Chang'an wants to restore order, and the demand for various materials is already huge.Moreover, there will be chaos and new regulations, and the market will inevitably be stingy with sales and keen on storage. There will inevitably be a shortage of materials to a certain extent, and prices will be easily controlled by others.

The ancient commodity economy may be underdeveloped, but it does not include such a large-scale city as Chang'an.If the market is depressed, people's livelihood will be greatly affected.Even if Li Tong has great power at the moment, it is not good to directly interfere with market behavior. I have the goods, but I just don't sell them. What can you do?

If some government orders are forcibly promulgated, or even ransacked homes and goods, it will only make the market more depressed, and even cause a large number of people to flee.Even if the size of Li Tong's army is doubled, it will be difficult to completely control the entire Chang'an City.If you don't follow the rules, it will be separated.

Now that you have such a batch of goods in your hands, you have the capital to influence the market and stabilize prices, and you can re-establish market order.As long as there are goods in the market and it can be operated again, he is not afraid of someone holding up the market and reluctant to sell it, and he can't wait for such people to emerge again.

The existence of these collectors in Guanzhong is both good and bad.The bad side is the addiction to hoarding, hiding everything without considering the burden and adverse impact on people's livelihood and the market.The good thing is that there are a wide variety of collections and a large amount, which can be digested beautifully in one bite.

Moreover, in addition to these goods reserves, these gardens and fields in the outskirts of the raided city are also a fortune, covering more than [-] hectares, and they are all high-quality fertile fields close to water sources and waterways.

This is just a number on the books. If we measure it on the ground, according to the consistent behavior of these people, the area of ​​cultivated land will increase by several tens or even double.

In short, cleaning up these dozen or so distinguished families this time really made Li Tong's lips smack, so it's no wonder that he would continue to set up a few more.It must be done, otherwise he would be so uncomfortable that he would not be able to sleep, but the scale and quantity must be controlled a little bit, eating too much and without restraint is always bad.

Therefore, after returning to the main tent of the Chinese army, Li Tong immediately drew up two orders, one was the "Order for Prohibiting the Export of Materials from Xijing", and the other was the "Dealing Order for Resolving Chaos and Returning to Normal Market".The former controls the materials of Chang'an City, and none of them are allowed to be exported.The latter rectified the market order in Chang'an, and included part of the material transactions as official monitoring, and even bought and sold by officials.

Controlling supplies is a natural method in wartime. Among other things, if it hadn't been for the blockade of the Chang'an City passage by Wang Shi's army, the dozen or so families who stole the official treasury might not be able to suppress themselves on the spot.To restore order in Chang'an City, a large amount of materials still needs to be invested, and of course a large amount of materials cannot be allowed to flow out.

As for the latter, Li Tong intends to introduce merchants from Xijing into the reconstruction of order in Chang'an City.Although merchants are not regarded as a progressive group in any period or age, the cooperation of merchants is indispensable for the circulation of goods and the active market.

Don't say that the turmoil in Chang'an City is certain right now, even in the era when the entire Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous, the imperial court still needed to activate private capital through decrees such as market purchases, so as to promote the normal operation of the war machine.

Li Tong stayed in the Bashang camp for another two days, and 5000 more troops arrived outside Chang'an City, accompanied by Yao Yuanchong and other important shogunate officials. He officially entered Chang'an in the second ten days of the twelfth lunar month. city.

On this day, at the beginning of the morning, hundreds of people from the Juemen and Yamen officials of Xijing arrived at the Bashang camp early in the morning to welcome His Royal Highness King Yong into the town of Chang'an.

The sound of drums and trumpets sounded in the camp, and the five thousand soldiers of the Chinese army marched out of the camp one by one according to the orders of the flags.Li Tong also rode out of the camp, but he didn't wear the flamboyant golden armor that he wore in Shendu, but only wore a relatively simple bright light armor, but with the front and back of the camp flag advocating, he was equally majestic. Minus, heartbreaking.

"The ministers respectfully invite His Royal Highness King Yong to come to the city to teach!"

Hundreds of people worshiped respectfully in front of the gate of the camp. Yao Yuanchong, the servant of the military department who had just arrived in Bashang, read the book on the stage. After the reading, everyone danced happily again.Of course, you may not be happy, but if you don't dance, you're in trouble.

After the crowd invites again, the procession continues, going straight from Bashang to Chunming Gate in the east of the city.Soldiers are constantly running on the side street, going to and from Jing Street.Although there were people gathered on both sides of the side street to watch, they did not dare to rush up the side street casually.

As for Li Tong's first visit to Xijing, the situation where the Pingkangfang actors performed on the street was even more unlikely.At that time, Li Tong was still an idle king, but now he is in power, in charge of Xijing and even the entire Guannei Dao situation.

But even if King Yong didn't have the power to intimidate others, the people of Xijing probably wouldn't be in the mood to make a fuss right now.As soon as the team entered Chunming Gate, Li Tong clearly felt that Chang'an City was different from before.

The pagoda tree and willows planted on both sides of the street are gone, and the open channel beside the street is flooded with sewage. The people standing on both sides of the street seem a little numb and silent, far less lively and confident than before.The whole city looked solemn, depressing, and even deserted. Although the turmoil on the surface was gone, the bad effects of the turmoil could still be seen everywhere.

Feeling these sad changes in Chang'an, Li Tong was also in a complicated mood for a while. The blow that Chang'an suffered this time has a deep relationship with him.

Now that he is finally able to enter the city, there is no need to say anything about regret and guilt. The country has been covered in dust for a short time, and it will be his lifelong responsibility to wash away the haze that covers the entire city and make this city regain its original glory. with cause!

In front of the Suzaku Gate, all the entourages dismounted to pay homage to Lenin again. In front of the majestic gate of the palace, flags fluttered, soldiers lined up everywhere, and the bluestone royal road was spotless. Li Tong rode his horse slowly, stopped in front of the palace gate, and then took a deep breath He said loudly in one breath: "From now on, I will live up to my ancestors and live up to the common people!"

Chapter 0537 full of evil, with Guo Jingcheng

The Chang'an imperial city is huge in scale, with hundreds of bureaucrats scattered in it. Although it looks a little dilapidated due to the long-term lack of popularity, the layout still appears to be much more grand than the imperial city of Shendu.