October 15, 2016, the beginning of winter!

When we met for the first update, the martial law in Chang'an was already quiet on the streets, and the city seemed particularly gloomy and desolate. At the gates of each city and the gates of the Jiekoufang were standing in front of the gates. Every household had the doors of the houses and gates of each street. Under the faint light, you could see large martial law announcements printed in movable type in front of the gates of each street. In the closed streets, the elderly Gonggong held lanterns, beating the chungsten, and shouted weakly, "The sky is dry, be careful of the fire candle!" His shivering body kept shaking under the frost wind, and continued to disappear into the darkness. The slow, listless gongs or chungsten sounds were also gradually moving away in the cold wind.

The city was very quiet, and there was a lantern not far away. Since the front line had already reported that King Qin Li Jing had just won a great victory in the Bohai Kingdom and had led 100,000 Qin troops and 200,000 Marine barbarians to return to Hebei, the atmosphere suddenly became tense in the entire Chang'an City. The defense of the capital also began to strengthen, and the lanterns on the city became denser.

There were many fires outside the city, and the sky was reflected in a black and purple color. From the far east, the rumbling sound of cannons came from time to time, rolling in the sky like the muffled thunder of summer.

The sound of the cannon was conveying the news, using beacons during the day to report safety. At night, the tradition was to use up everything, but in winter, it was often rainy and snowy, so the fire was difficult to transmit. The court allowed the beacons and fire news stations, which were twenty miles apart, to switch to the newly produced gunpowder to deliver the cannon at night. One cannon indicates safety, two cannons, warning messages, three cannons, and the enemy attacked!

Since the extermination of Huang Chao and the recovery of Chang'an, the new emperor Chang'an ascended the throne, the situation of the new court was not good. More than 30 towns jointly established the new dynasty. The new dynasty was established, but Tian Lingzi held the Supreme Emperor hostage and controlled the land of Sanchuan. In the southeast, the original famous generals Gao Pian and Zhou Bao were already old. Gao Pian and others were seeking immortals and asking questions all day long, especially after being assassinated two years ago, he was even more lingering in sickness. The affairs of Huainan Town completely fell into the hands of several martial arts warlocks such as Lu Yongzhi. The former strong town of Huainan Town, Huainan Town, was now extremely weak.

The generals under Gao Pian were killed by Lu Yongzhi and others, either being killed or imprisoned. Zhou Bao, the governor of Zhenhai, was immersed in wine, sex, wealth and energy. Zhenhai Town was almost divided and swept by the governors of various states. Other southeastern towns have almost become Li Jing's allies. The former source of taxes for nearly half of the Tang Dynasty every year has now become Li Jing's place for tribute to Li Jing. The continuous stream of money and grain is transported from the southeast coast to Huaisi, Shandong and Hebei every year, and no taxes are shipped to Chang'an.

The biggest threat to the new imperial court was the Qin vassal in the northeast. Since Li Jing rose in Shandong, in just ten years, Li Jing had established a powerful vassal state, a vassal state that is now completely uncontrolled by the imperial court, and a vassal state that is completely independent and separatist. Within ten years, Li Jing had captured and annexed countless vassal states of all sizes. After careful calculation, Zhendong, Andong, Ziqing, Pinglu, Lulong, Cangjing, Yiwu, Yanmen, Datong, Tianping, Taining, Yicheng, and Revelation. Most of the three towns of Xuanwu, Zhongwu and Huainan were annexed by the Qin army. In addition, many vassal states such as Fujian, Lingnan East, Lingnan West, Annan East, Zhejiang East, Huaini, and Zhejiang West were almost completely dependent on Li Jing. It can be said that in today's world, Li Jing occupied half of the country.

Whether in terms of territory, population or army, Li Jing is more powerful than the newly established Chang'an court.

Li Jing started his career in Liaonan, Shandong. While expanding to the Central Plains over the years, he has also been expanding to the semi-outward direction. Goguryeo, Bohai, Heishui, and Korea have now surrendered to Li Jing's feet. Seeing that the tribes outside the pass can no longer hold back and stop the full rise of the Qin army, the Chang'an court was also worried. Everyone knows that as long as Li Jing defeats the Hu people outside the pass, his next step will inevitably be to go south. At that time, how terrifying and terrifying the Qin army that can go south without any worries will be?

The court's show of kindness to Li Jing has long been rejected by Li Jing. Li Jing refused to accept the title of General Tiance, nor did he accept the honor of making his daughter the queen. Li Jing was not willing to say even the least words. Zhou Xuan was too lazy to accept the remnants of Huang Chao, and started a war in the Central Plains. Li Jing's strong statement, coupled with the constant circulating outside that Li Jing summoned famous people from all over the world and the patriarchs of various clans to Hebei to discuss the establishment of a new king, all of which made the people of the new dynasty feel an imminent crisis. Li Jing, the strongest vassal state in the world, finally tearing off his hypocritical mask, and putting off his identity as a loyal minister of Li Tang, revealing the fact that he was the biggest treacherous minister today.

Li Jing wants to establish a new emperor? Who will be the new emperor?

People in the new dynasty all believed that since Li Jing was abnormal and so tough, he was very likely to become an emperor and ascend the throne.

The atmosphere became more and more tense. Everyone thought that since Li Jing brought 200,000 Marine Mannan to the south, he naturally would not have taken them back to Yanjing as a guest. The biggest possibility was that Li Jing would use these newly acquired Marine Man to invest in the Hebei battlefield, or directly invest in the Central Plains battlefield. The investment of hundreds of thousands of soldiers would inevitably immediately change the situation on the entire battlefield.

Even in Chang'an City far behind, it is now patrolling day and night, and night travel is prohibited.

However, although the warlords from other vassal states such as the Yang brothers were worried, there were still many people living a life of debauchery in Chang'an.

Among the Dazhu Mansions in Fang District, which are close to the imperial city, the nobles, court ministers and wealthy businessmen who lived in Chang'an after the recovery and returned to Chang'an from all over the country were tense outside, but they still lived a life of debauchery. Every night, there were banquets in each house, and the songs and musicals sang softly and sang continuously, circling on the exquisitely painted roof beams.

The host and the guests raised their glasses and handed over their cups, hugged the beautiful prostitute, lying on the couch, with a slightly drunk face, and nodding in the rhythm, unrestrainedly.

There were constant singing, and they nodded frequently to praise, happily urging wine and dishes, writing poems and making essays, and guessing fists. They seemed to be the masters living in seclusion outside the world, not paying attention to the sound of cannons and fires outside the city. No one even thought about how to offer ideas for the new dynasty, how to revive the Tang Dynasty and reviving the Li Shi. However, the birds in the gardens of various prefectures were frightened by the sound of cannons, and flew up from time to time, hovering over Chang'an City, making desolate cry.

Chang'an was once an international metropolis with millions of homes and a world metropolis. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, Chang'an's population became smaller and smaller, and it lasted for a long time. After the Huang Chao Rebellion, Chang'an had only tens of thousands of people at one time. The Yang brothers supported Li Jie in Chang'an and proclaimed themselves emperor, and moved many people from other places in Guanzhong to Chang'an. In addition to the large number of troops stationed in Chang'an, the place finally had a bit of liveliness.

As the weather became colder, the people who had fled to the mountains when Huang Chao occupied Chang'an began to fall from the mountains and pour into Chang'an. There were already many victims and beggars in Chang'an. During this period, tens of thousands of people rushed from around Chang'an. More than 100,000 troops were fighting, and countless people were affected. They were either robbed by the government troops or by the former officials who surrendered to the Qin army. Or they were forced to be conquered as the people. The people fled one after another, and a small number fled to Jingnan, Jiangxi, and Hunan, but more of them fled from Wuguan to Chang'an. As for going to the Qin vassal territory, that road was long intercepted by the government troops of various towns.

More than 100,000 refugees who fled into Chang'an from the south of the mountain had no place to shelter. Many of them slept at the foot of the city wall. In order to fear of freezing to death, the refugees squeezed into a pile. They were trembling, moaning and sighing in the biting cold wind.

The women whispered to their husbands and cried. The children shrank in their mother's arms, crying and shouting coldly and hungry, and heart-wrenchingly.

But when the patrolling new Shence soldiers walked by, they were both patient and dared not speak.

From last month, Hebei came to the news that Li Jing brought 100,000 Qin troops and 200,000 Marines to the Qin vassal state. After the news that he had landed in Tianjin, martial law began in Chang'an. All refugees were expelled from the city to prevent Qin vassal spies from mingling into it. Refugees had to accumulate at the foot of the walls of the outer city and suffered from cold and cold. Hundreds of refugees died every day, and most of them were thousands of people. Although the new emperor ordered the opening of porridge sheds outside the city to provide relief, he could only drink a bowl of porridge that could reflect human figures every day, which was difficult to kill. More and more people died, especially the elderly and children. Frost wind blew again tonight, which was extremely cold. Who knew how many corpses of all sizes would be dragged away tomorrow morning and thrown into the mass graveyard.

Some refugees even complained, why did the King of Qin rebel against the court? Is General Tiance still not satisfied? The emperor wanted to marry his daughter as the queen, but why did he refuse? Why did he have to fight?

"Who doesn't want to be an emperor? General Tiance is not as good as the emperor." An old man with white hair sighed.

"In the past, it was said that the King of Qin was the greatest loyal minister and famous general in the world. He loved the people like his sons in the Qin vassal over the years and was very supportive of the people. Moreover, he fought outside the pass and surrendered one by one. Shouldn't such a person be caring for the people? Why do they still have to fight? I wonder how many people suffer in this war." Some people don't understand.

The old man with white hair looked up at the sky and smiled bitterly, "It is precisely because the Qin King is supported by the people that he will not accept the enthronement of the new dynasty. In the world, those with virtue live in it. Even if the Qin King doesn't think so, his civil and military subordinates will push him to this point. For us, this is a nightmare, but for the Qin people, this is what everyone hopes to see. Whether it is not destroyed or established, whether it is the court in Chengdu or the court today, they are all changing the soup or not. How can they accept it? What they need is to ensure that the rule of the Qin King can last forever."
Chapter completed!