The Jingguang Mansion Yamen is in the southeast corner of Guangdefang, Xicheng, Chang'an, and is only separated from the three yards of Zhongcheng from Li Chao's family. Jingzhao Yin Li Chao travels to work every day and does not have to live in the Yamen. In fact, there is no place to live in the Yamen.

There are only a few houses in the inner courtyard of the yamen, which are for the officials on duty. Other officials, when they are not on duty, live at home, and when they are on duty, they live in the yamen.

There are 109 squares and two cities in Chang'an City, as well as the imperial city, palace city, north of the imperial city and Beiyuan.

In the outer city, there are eight north-south streets and fourteen east-west streets. There are drainage ditches on both sides of the street, and street trees such as elm and locust trees are planted.

Among them, the six major streets leading to the South Sanmen and the East and West Sixmen are the main roads, called Chang'an Six Street. The width is more than 100 meters, especially Zhuque Street, which is 155 meters wide, and is also the north and south central axis of Chang'an. The east of the city belongs to Wannian County and the west of the city belongs to Chang'an County.

The Xuanwu Gate Incident has been over for several days, but the atmosphere in Chang'an City is still a little nervous.

Li Chao went beyond the North Fang Gate of Wubenfang, which was Chunmingmen Street. This was the Zhongda Street among the East and West Third Streets in Chang'an Sixth Street, which directly led to the Jinguang Gate of the West City. The middle section of this street passed through the south side of the imperial city. Passing through Anyuan, Zhuque, and Hanguang Sanmen on the south side of the imperial city, passing through this huge square-like section, and at the northwest corner of Taipingfang, it turned into Anhuamen Street on the middle and west side of the North and South Third Streets.

After passing Yanshoufang, we arrived at Guangdefang.

Jingzhao Prefecture is also being established here.

The military parade can be held on the Hundred-meter street, but it is empty.

Li Chao rode a horse, not only with Ke Qing, the personal bodyguard, but also brought a few orderly soldiers from Xiao Ba Xiao Shisan Shuanzi, and a total of fifty personal soldiers.

Originally, Li Chao didn't want to show off like this.

But Li Shimin spoke. During this period, civil servants and generals should bring more personal guards when they go out. According to the grade, there are different numbers of guards.

Originally, Li Chao had to bring one hundred guards at his current level and position. After all, Li Chao was a first-class official, a Duke, let alone Jingzhao Yin, Minister of War, and Prince Shao Zhan.

However, Li Chao still felt that it was too ostentatious to bring one hundred people. If someone really wanted to assassinate, there would be no one who could block a fifty guard. If even fifty people could not defend against it, then it would be useless to bring one hundred people.

He brought fifty fewer, and he could still look low-key.

"Sanlang, this Chang'an City is not as lively as our Lijiagou, and it is incomparable to Taozhou. It is deserted!" Ke Ba and the others also rode their horses next to Li Chao. They didn't think it was too great for the towering Chang'an, but they just thought that Chang'an was too deserted.

The streets are too wide, and the markets are separated by walls.

There are no shops, no vendors on the street, and there is no popularity.

In addition, after just experiencing the Xuanwu Gate Incident, many businessmen were a little careful and did not dare to go out for a walk. They tried not to go out as much as possible, which made Chang'an more and more deserted.

This is still in Chang'an, near the northern half of the imperial palace. If you go south, the more you go south, it will become more deserted. There are even many yard areas where there are no one living there, all of them are vegetable fields, and even food is grown.

This is like many developers who have encircled land in the city and did not develop it. After spending many years, some people will grow vegetables in it.

Chang'an, designed by the Sui Dynasty, could accommodate millions of people.

Of course, a million people are a bit exaggerated. There are more than 100 yards in Chang'an, and the larger ones are designed for more than 1,000 households. The smaller ones in the city are also designed for six or seven hundred households. On average, Chang'an City is really full, and it is no problem to live in a population of 700,000 to 800,000 people. If you are considered a person from the palace city and imperial city, plus migrant population, vendors, army, slaves, etc., millions are really not a problem.

But now the population of Chang'an City, Chang'an and Wannian counties is only about 30,000 households, plus tens of thousands of troops and the palace population, the population of the entire Chang'an is actually not more than 300,000.

However, Jingzhao Prefecture has more than two counties under its jurisdiction, but it manages twenty-three counties, two Chi counties and twenty-one Gi-Counties in the entire Gyeonggi-do area.

There are ten thousand people in one county, and twenty-one capital counties also have a population of 210,000.

In fact, the number is larger. After all, even if you experience wars, Guanzhong is less affected. In addition, it is the Gyeonggi region. Although the population of the entire Gyeonggi region is less than one million, it is still 600,000 to 700,000. If you consider some hidden households, even if you say that the Gyeonggi population is one million, Li Chao believes it.

But the Chang'an City model is here again. The lively places are in the yard, in the east and west cities, and the streets will never be lively unless there is a festival event.

"It's already spring, I'm thinking of Taozhou, and I have to plant spring millet in spring." Xiaoba sighed. He divided so many places in Taozhou, and his whole family moved there and settled there. He didn't care about Chang'an at all.

"Sanlang, when will we let us go back to Taozhou?"

Li Chao was speechless to these guys. He was in Cao's camp and was in the heart of the Han. He took them back to Chang'an, caught up with Xuanwu Gate, and showed his face with him. Although they were not at all dangerous, it was an absolute experience to participate in Xuanwu Gate. This was something that would make them brag for the rest of their lives in the future.

The reward has not yet been released, but as their personal soldiers, these guys already have the best martial arts official positions, this time they will definitely be promoted to two or three levels. It is no problem to be promoted to the commander of the mansion and brigade, and they even have the opportunity to be a captain.

But these guys are thinking about the hundreds of acres of wasteland in Longyou all day long and the little dividends they pay in Longyou.

It's really unpromising.

Enter the Jingzhao Prefecture Office.

Li Chao's two young men, Yu Zhining and Yu Shinan, both looked worried, as if Li Chao owed them millions and had not paid them back.

"What happened?"

The two young Yins are both one of the eighteen bachelors of the former Qin Wangfu and a Hanlin bachelor. They have compiled books with Li Chao, and are not unfamiliar with them. They dare not complain about this boss who is not very serious, because they are the Minister of War and the Prince's Young Secretary.

"Chang'an is going to have no food!"

"Free food?" Li Chao frowned.

"Yes, food is out of stock."

"How is this possible? How can Chang'an lose food? The official warehouses of the imperial court often close the warehouses? The grain shops of major grain merchants have no food?"

Li Chao relieved the scrutiny and sat in his position as the governor. Although he didn't know the specific situation, he knew in his heart that there must be something wrong with it.

"There is not much grain stored in the Chang'an granary, so I dare not use it lightly. Changping Warehouse had already released the grain in the warehouse in order to calm the price of grain. Later, the Jianghuai rebelled, and the imperial court used troops to defend against the Turks. In addition, when Longyou fought, the grain was released but not the grain was introduced."

The court still had grain in its hands, but the quantity was limited. The grain in the official warehouse had to be supplied to the palace, the military soldiers, and even the officials had to be distributed rice.

Now in March, there is no response.

Chang'an City has a population of 300,000, and cannot be without food.

"What do the grain merchants in Chang'an say that they don't have any food? I don't need to check it, and I know that these grain merchants must still hold a lot of food in their hands."

"Da Yin, these people said they had no food." Yu Shinan spread his hands and said.

Yu Shinan was one of the four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty and from Jiangnan. His elder brother Yu Shiky was once one of the five nobles around Yang Guang and a famous treacherous minister. However, Yu Shinan and Yu Shiky lived in the same courtyard, but would rather live a poor life than accept gifts from his brother. He was a very kind person.

However, Li Chao felt that this person was too literary.

"Do they say there is no food?"

Li Chao snorted coldly.

"It's an extraordinary time and it's an extraordinary thing to do. The biggest task of our Jingzhao Mansion is to maintain stability. In a few days, it will be the throne ceremony of Your Highness. Some people may still want to make jokes. Humph, I'll send businessmen to borrow grain from these big households from door to door, telling them not to make mistakes!"

"Da Yin, this is not good. Now is an extraordinary period, so don't cause any trouble."

"Don't worry, this mansion has its own measure."

The sent out quickly returned one after another. The grain shops basically claimed that they had no food, and only a few gave some food, but they only gave dozens of stones of grain.

What is the purpose of a drop in the bucket? How many dozens of stones of grain is used to?

"These people are really ignorant of life and death. They always regard politeness as being bullied, and they really don't know whether they should be ignorant or stupid."

Yu Shinan said with some concern, "What does Mr. Zhao want to do, don't do it randomly?"

"Don't worry, I won't do anything random. How can I do anything random when dealing with these guys whose brains are blocked by copper rust?"

Isn’t it just a group of unscrupulous grain merchants who hoard goods? Maybe there are some people who want to stumbling over Li Er, or some aristocratic clans or old subordinates.

But Li Chao was too lazy to care about these things.

He doesn't want to go into this now. Now he is only focusing on one thing, which is food. The others will be discussed later.

"The person who came here received a report from our government that a rebel party tried to plot against the chaos, hiding in the east and west cities. The yamen runners were sent to search from house to house."

"Who dares to stop the searcher and argue with the party, and there is no mercy to kill him!"

Li Chao smiled and said, "If you find food that is not found on the grain merchants' accounts during the search, it must have been hidden by the rebels and confiscated!"

Yu Zhining and Yu Shinan, two young Yins, looked at Li Chao foolishly.

This is OK?

"Isn't this good?" Yu Shinan was quite straightforward. Isn't this just robbing it?

"What's wrong with it? Didn't they say there was no food? Then when we find it, we will naturally hide it by the thieves. If they can provide evidence that the food belongs to them, then after we check it, we can give them money at the market price, or we can return them after the summer harvest. However, they will have to explain to us why they keep saying that there is no food, but they end up with it." (To be continued.)
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