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In July, the fire flows, and as soon as the sun comes out, it seems like a fire is on the ground. // Visit to download the txt novel //. Even Chang'an City, the capital of millions, did not see many people at noon. There are only two of the five door holes at the south gate of Chang'an City, and the three door holes in the middle are closed as usual. Mingde Gate has a city gate guarding 100 people. At this time, they may either hide on the city gate tower or hide in the door hole to avoid the scorching sun.

Soldier Zhao Youcai took half a scoop of cold water from his recruit Kong Ergou, poured it into his stomach, and finally got a little cooler. Then he bragged to the brothers next to him about the grand scene of the eight towns entering Beijing for parade not long ago. As he was talking, he suddenly heard a sound of horse hooves.

On the official road with rolling heat waves, a horse rushed towards him.

Kong Ergou quickly stopped him and checked. Zhao Youcai was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He quickly pulled him back and stood a few more steps behind.

They had just taken a few steps back, and the rider had already rushed over. The horse was covered in dust, but a small red flag was inserted on his back, and the letter was written on it.

"Eight hundred miles of speed! Eight hundred miles of speed!"

A roll of yellow dust rolled, and the horse rushed over, but saw a figure swaying and shouted: "Eight hundred miles of speed, those who blocked will die, and those who rebelled will die!" Then, when the smoke and dust rolled, the sign in the knight's hand had not yet seen clearly, the rider had already left.

Seeing the knight leaving, Zhao Youcai breathed a sigh of relief and quickly scolded Kong Ergou, "You kid, have more eyesight in the future. The one that was the 800-mile flying cavalry messenger at the post station just now, this is the highest-level messenger. Did you see the bag and the letter flag he was carrying just now?"

Kong Ergou shook his head, "He ran so fast and didn't see anything clearly!"

Zhao Youcai slapped Kong Ergou on the head, "If you didn't see that you were my nephew, I wouldn't let you stay here for work. You kid lacks eyesight. Don't think that guarding the city gate is simple. This job requires the most eye-catching. There are many people who can't mess with the city gate. Among them, although this postman messenger is humble, he is one of the most unlucky."

As he said that, he introduced the postman messenger to his nephew. The post horse of the Tang Dynasty asked to travel about 180 miles a day, and the fastest asked to ride 600 miles a day. An Lushan raised an army to rebel in Fanyang. At that time, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was in Huaqing Palace, and the two places were three thousand miles apart. Within 6 days, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang knew about the news, and the transmission speed reached 500 miles a day.

There is an inn every twenty miles of the Tang Dynasty. Once the official documents that need to be passed are marked with the words "Flying now" and according to regulations, it is 300 miles a day. In case of an emergency, it can be 400 miles a day, 600 miles a day, and the fastest reaches 800 miles. When passing emergency documents, each inn uses a fast horse, and it is not responsible for hitting and killing people. "Six hundred miles accelerating, eight hundred miles accelerating" is used to indicate the urgency of the situation.

At the peak of the Tang Dynasty, there were 1,639 post stations across the country, with more than 20,000 people specializing in post station affairs, of which 17,000 post station soldiers were divided into three types: land post stations, water post stations, and water route mergers. Each post station has post houses, equipped with post horses, post donkeys, post ships and post fields.

The 800-mile rush in the Tang Dynasty was the highest level of urgent news. The military emergency report of the 800-mile rush in the military must provide the best horse. Each post station must change the horse when the 800-mile rush arrives, and eats and drinks are all on the horse. They run day and night, and often runs for two or three thousand miles in a row, for several days and nights. It is often the case that the horses will die, or even people will die. The court specifically stipulates that the postmen who sent the rush letters will not be responsible for the collision and death of people.

Therefore, no matter whether you are a noble or an ordinary person, you should give way when you see the postman who sends an expedition letter, otherwise you will be killed in vain. If you delay the letter, you will be severely punished.

"Remember in the future, when you see the postman carrying a letter flag and a bag, don't stand stupidly and stop him, otherwise you will be in vain!" Zhao Youcai said to his nephew seriously.

The speeding postman messenger was running on the Zhuque Street in Yujie Street, attracting many people to look around. When they saw that it was a postman who was 800 miles in a hurry, many people were surprised.

"Is it because of the Nanzhao Kingdom's Piaoxin Chief Long, the Tuman, who led his troops to invade the border again?" Someone said, in the more than ten years since the Nanzhao Barbarian King Chief Long ascended the throne, a war between the Nanzhao Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty had been fought six times. It can be said that after the weakening of Tubo and the Uighurs destroyed the country, only the Nanzhao Kingdom was the only barbarian who dared to force the tiger beards of the Tang Dynasty.

Someone immediately refuted, "The Luoyu Imperial Attendant Gao Dada was in Xichuan. How could the Nanman attack the border again? Don't forget that the Gaoda General defeated 100,000 Nanmans in Annan, and the Chief Long who fought was defeated, but fled in panic. Last year, the Chief Long invaded Xichuan. The imperial court transferred Gaoda General from Tianping Army to move to Xichuan. The Nanman fled after hearing the news. I guess, it is possible that the Gaoda General went deep into Nanzhao and defeated the barbarians. It is possible that the Chief Long was captured."

"In the place of Nanzhao, there is no way to march into Nanzhao, and the gains are not worth the loss. Nanzhao is not easy to fight, and even if it is fought, it is useless. Gao Shizhong will not fight."

"General Gao Da may not be able to do it alone, but don't forget that some time ago, did Yang Jianjun take the Shatuo people Li Guochang to Xichuan to help? The Shatuo people are still very strong. With them here, it may be possible to capture the chief dragon alive in one battle." Someone immediately joined in and expressed his dissent.

However, this sent back some counterattacks from the Shatu people who didn't like the Shatu people. "The Shatu people are just a group of Hu people, saying that they are strong. Li Zhongshu led his soldiers in the town, but directly wiped out the prisoners. That town, the recruitment and training has been less than a year. Are the Shatu people strong? Why can't even defeat the Han soldiers in the town that have only been trained for one year?"

"That's right, I think this messenger may be reporting the situation of the Kanto war." Another old man covered in silk and elegant aura smiled, "During this period, various good news from Kanto have been frequently reported, so you must have heard of it?"

Someone immediately replied, "I heard that, of course I heard that. Didn't the news come out earlier that the private salt vendor Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao are having fun, and they have joined forces with the rebel general Wang Jingwu of Ziqing Town to destroy the land of Jiuzhou in eastern Henan, causing dire straits and fire, and the people are in poverty. They also try to attack Songzhou and threaten the canal transportation."

Although these wealthy people in Chang'an did not care about the lives and death of the people in Guandong, the entire Chang'an basically survived in the southeast. The court needed taxes from the southeast, and the nobles and civilians in Chang'an also needed food and other supplies sent from the southeast through the canal. Previously, the thieves threatened Bian Song, and the prices of the entire Chang'an immediately began to soar, especially the prices of grain, which not only rose several times, but even a trend of buying rush. Whether it was high officials or ordinary people, they lined up to buy food. Many grain merchants took advantage of the price to hoard, but as a result, there was a shortage of grain in Chang'an, the capital, which reached a high price of 1,000 ounces of rice, and countless people were out of food.

Before, less than half a month later, a good news came from Luoyang. Li Jing led the town [***] to more than 20,000 against the king of thieves in Songzhou, and designed to lure the enemy, and then surrounded the enemy in a roundabout way. He defeated the 100,000 thieves in one battle, beheaded 30,000, and captured 40,000 thieves. Fifty thousand were captured. The news reached Chang'an, and the entire Chang'an was very happy, and prices finally fell. Soon after, another good news came to the capital. Ximen Sigong, the chief of the thief, and Yang Fugong, the commander of the army, led a 100,000 army of six towns, defeated Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao in Caozhou, beheaded 80,000, and captured more than 30,000.

After these two battles, the people of Chang'an thought that the thieves were not afraid of, and it was only a matter of time before annihilation. Sure enough, the news of good news spread frequently. Li Jing led the town [***] to recover Pu, Yan, Yun, Ji, and Qi successively, and wiped out the remaining bandits in the prefectures and counties. Huang Chao, Wang Jingwu and others had already fled.

"It seems that it is probably Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi, and Wang Jingwu and the other thieves have already been awarded the title!"

"I just don't know who this great achievement is."

"That's all right, it must be from Li Zhenguo."

"No, Li Zhenguo was still in Qizhou a few days ago. I guess it might be the contribution of Grand Marshal Song."

......

The summer in Chang'an City is very hot and the hot young emperor cannot stay in Chang'an. In order to cool down and avoid summer, he is staying in Jiucheng Palace on Tiantai Mountain near Linyou County, Qizhou, west of Jingzhao Prefecture, Chang'an these days.

The environment of Jiucheng Palace is located in a green tree, clear springs flow, clear wind and moon shadows, and quiet environment. The mountains resist the palace, the valleys are pools, cross water and set up pillars, divided into rocks and palaces, high pavilions are built around, long corridors are raised, buildings are glued, and terraces are unkempt. The pearls and jades are reflected, and the magnificent, shining on the clouds and clouds, and the moon is covered.

Emperor Li Yan was playing ball, chess and fighting goose here, and he was also very happy. Especially since the recent good news has been heard, the emperor couldn't help but be even happier to hand over all the affairs of the court to Tian Lingzi and the Political Affairs Hall, leaving his hands alone.

In the imperial gardens of Jiucheng Palace, Li Yan was fighting goose with some royal princes who came with him. However, Li Yan was not lucky and lost several consecutive games. Li Yan liked gooses instead of cockfighting. A cockfighting weighed several tens of thousands of coins, but Li Jing's fighting gooses were as high as hundreds or even thousands of coins. Every time Li Yan fought, Li Yan won and lost thousands of coins. The eunuchs and actors around him were very fond of Li Yan. He gave generous rewards and took tens of thousands of coins.

He lost 100,000 yuan in a row, and the eunuch who followed Li Yan helplessly said that he had no money. This made Li Yan very dissatisfied, "The whole world belongs to me, how could I have no money?"

The eunuch said in panic: "Duke Tian said he only gave his servant 100,000 guan of money, and now his Majesty has used up all of them."

Li Yan wrinkled: "After using it, I will find Duke Jin to get some more."

The eunuch quickly bent down and trotted away while wiping his sweat. After a while, he came back behind Tian Lingzi. Tian Lingzi greeted the emperor and handed over 50,000 guan of flying money. Li Yan took it and looked at it, and said dissatisfiedly: "It's only 50,000 guan. How long can I play? Let's get some more."

Tian Lingzi smiled bitterly in his heart. This emperor really knows how to spend money. He spends 100,000 yuan a day, and 50,000 yuan a day. However, he has no intention of advising the emperor. He respects the words of Qiu Shiliang, the eunuch who has been in office for more than 20 years in the three dynasties of Xianzong, Wenzong, and Wuzong. Qiu Shiliang has been in charge of the government for many years. When he was in power, he killed two princes, one concubine, and four prime ministers. This eunuch once said, that is, don’t let the emperor be idle, you should often use extravagance to cover his eyes and ears, make him indulge in banquets and have no time to care about other things, and then we can succeed. Never let him study and not let him get close to scholars, otherwise, he will know the rise and fall of the previous dynasty, and he will be worried and dismissed us.

For Tian Lingzi, it was because Li Yan was young and ignorant that he could take charge of the government. If the emperor no longer had fun, his power would no longer be available. Therefore, even if the emperor spent money indiscriminately, he would be happy.

"Go back to Your Majesty, Li Jing was originally the salt and iron transfer envoy of Ziqing, Liaodong, and the coin minting envoy. He said he would pay 2 million jin a year. But now, he only paid half of the money. Now the court has been using troops and spending a lot of money and grain. Li Jing is now selling salt everywhere. He sold all the salt from Dengzhou to Chang'an, and made a lot of money, but he refused to hand over the salt tax to the national treasury for use by His Majesty. It seems that he doesn't think of His Majesty." Tian Lingzi held the whisk in his hand and said bad words from Li Jing as he saw him.

Li Jing has been selling salt in a big way recently, and the price is much cheaper than official salt. I heard that the sales volume is huge, and it is said that it is a big deal. Although he doesn't know why Li Jing sold it so low, he knows that Li Jing must have made a big profit. He now regrets that he handed over all the salt and iron coins to Li Jing, and only charged two million coins instead of taxing them according to the output of the salt and iron.

Li Yan was impatient with him saying this, and waved his hand and said, "Li Zhenguo is loyal to the country and is my minister. Like my father, you are my right-hand man. Don't mention some misunderstandings in the past. Just work together and work together." After a pause, the emperor said, "In fact, it was a bit embarrassing for Li Jing to pay a salt tax of 2 million a year. The two pools in Hedong are only one million a year. Li Xiao Dengzhou still has to cook salt, but he has to pay two million a year, which is a bit too much. Besides, Li Jing first entered Youzhou, then Daibei, and then moved to Henan, and his family has never returned. Li Jing has more than 20,000 towns [***], but he has never asked the court for a single cent of food and grass. This salt tax can be paid by one million, which is not much. What's more, Ji Yu's contribution has not stopped, and the total is no less than one million."

After talking about this, he suddenly asked Tian Lingzi: "Yesterday, I received a memorial from Song Wei, the governor of Ziqing Town. In the memorial, he said that he was seriously ill and wanted to ask Li Jing to serve as the queen of Ziqing Town. What do you think about this?"

Tian Lingzi was shocked and stunned for a moment. He naturally saw this memorial, but he did not hand it over to the emperor, but directly deducted it. The emperor almost ignored political affairs, and even the memorials handed over to him were not read. Why did he see this memorial that was not given to him? He suddenly understood that it must be Zhang Tai. After Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong were driven out of the capital, Zhang Tai was the only thing that Zhang Tai said next to the emperor. Song Weiding wrote two memorials, one of which was directly given to Zhang Tai and asked him to hand it over to the emperor on his behalf.

Speaking of which, Song Wei was originally a member of the prime minister Lu Xie, and Lu Xie was his person. It was precisely because of this relationship that when Song Wei submitted a memorial to serve as a recruitment envoy, he agreed. But now, Song Wei and Li Jing suddenly had such a close adoptive father and son, and even asked Li Jing to take over as the queen of Ziqing Town. This was to hand over the seal of Ziqing Town to Li Jing. Is he going to change the ship?
Chapter completed!