Chapter 673: Come to the door

The people of Chang'an City were not wrong. The city was basically restored on the second day after Yan Yun's army attacked Chang'an City. There was no robbery of chaos, and naturally there would be no bloody massacre of the city. The King of Yan did not come to Chang'an to destroy the capital. No matter how many court officials opposed the King of Yan's entry into the city were slaughtered, the people were still safe and sound.

The Tang army battalions were counting the number of people and making a list to submit it to the Prime Minister's military aircraft affairs. Xu Shiji, the military advisor of Yanyun Army. Xu Shiji was not idle since the day he entered the city. The number of Tang soldiers surrendered was still more than 40,000. This was an extremely powerful force. If it weren't for Liu Hongji, who had guarded the North City from the beginning, he had not planned to fight to the death, the fierce battle in Chang'an City would have greatly consumed the main elite of Yanyun Army.

Therefore, no one should look down on these Tang troops from generals to soldiers with a high attitude, or even treat them as meritorious ministers to appease them.

This is a difficult and complicated matter, so people like Li Xian who are afraid of trouble will naturally not do it themselves. Xu Shiji is safe and fair in his work, so he can leave it to him to be Li Xian with peace of mind. In order to ensure that there will be no sudden incident, Yan Yun's army did not all advance, leaving 50,000 troops in the camp outside the north city, with Pei Xingyan as the general in charge.

More than 100,000 troops entering the city were divided into four groups and guarded the four directions of Chang'an City.

A few days later, the King of Yan personally posted a notice on the streets of Chang'an City, so that the people would live in peace and not be afraid. The market would be as usual and all shops would continue to open. In order to make the merchants feel at ease, the King of Yan specially exempted one month of miscellaneous taxes. All the people in the city had to go to the yamen to report again. Everyone who went there could receive two kilograms of fine rice.

Although the people were sure that the King of Yan would not do anything bloody and cruel, they were still worried about returning to the yamen to register for their household registration. Especially when the city was broken, the people who hid the city's official army at home were even more afraid to go to the yamen. They were worried that the King of Yan would use this method to liquidate the crime of resisting Yan Yun's army entering the city that day.

In fact, before this notice of peace and security was posted, the notice of the King of Yan's edict to return to the camp was posted. The King of Yan promised not to blame the past, but the time limit was five days. If any Tang army soldiers refused to return to the camp within five days, they would be punished as treason, and the people hiding deserters would also be locked and imprisoned.

The two notices came out one after another, which would naturally make people think. Those who were more courageous returned to the camp with the mentality of dying and dying, but nothing happened. The Yanyun Army generals who were responsible for sorting out and counting the number of people were not vicious, and even looked so kind that they made people feel particularly comfortable. The first one to go to the yamen to register were the rich households in the city, because they were far more afraid of death than ordinary people and were more reluctant to die.

No matter the rich and poor, those who went to various yamen to register for household registration received two kilograms of rice. Even those rich people were happy with the small rice bag. They were not greedy for this little advantage, but were sure that the King of Yan really had only comforting the people in the city and had no intention of correcting the crime.

Five days later, people who thought that the King of Yan wanted to show kindness to Chang'an suddenly realized that the first notice was not for the King of Yan to scare people. Since the sixth day, a large number of Yan Yun's law enforcement teams have taken the original list of Tang army to search for deserters, and arrested more than 300 people in one day.

All of these people were deprived of military status and served as slaves. Some Tang soldiers who resisted the arrest were killed on the spot, and the law enforcement team was merciless.

The family hiding their relatives was also arrested and imprisoned by the whole family. The most likely thing waiting for them was the punishment of exile. They were either sent to the border town to work as a laborer, or sent to the farmlands in various places as slaves. On the seventh day, people from each government office posted notices on the streets, and the last time was limited to three days. If there were still people hiding and unwilling to return to the camp, the entire clan would be killed.

No one dared to take a lucky mentality. Nearly two thousand Tang soldiers who had hidden in the city that day returned to the camp. Except for the more than 300 people who were locked up on the sixth day, the army did not continue to punish them according to the will of the King of Yan, and did not even deduct a copper coin from the silver.

On the tenth day, the order in the city was completely restored.

Most of the dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an City are near the imperial city. The prosperity here is just one of the reasons, mainly to facilitate court attendance. These days, civil and military officials are in a panic. Every day, they go to court for half an hour earlier than usual, waiting outside the palace gate, for fear of angering His Highness the King of Yan, causing disaster. Everyone knows that the King of Yan is different from other powers. He has never been merciful to the rich families and the murderous demon king raised the butcher knife in his hand.

At this time, people suddenly realized that the King of Yan was such a special one. The poor families regarded him as a god and as their own people, and respected him to the extreme. The King of Yan did not lack the support of the aristocratic families, and there were a large number of talents from the generals around him. He held the aristocratic family with his left hand and the poor family with his right hand, but he was not influenced by any party. It has to be said that this is something worth pondering.

Since the second day of Yanyun's army entering the city, court officials have begun to attend court one after another. In order to take care of the face of the important officials, Li Xian personally visited several families, including the Shangshu Zuo Pushe Xiao Yu, who had been hostile to him before.

The King of Yan came to the door in person, so naturally these important officials of the court would not pretend anymore. Headed by Nayan Pei Ji, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, the Secretary of the Three Provinces, and the court officials of the Six Ministry and the Nine Ministers went to court to discuss matters in a regular manner.

The only exception is that Liu Hongji, Duke of Qiao, lives in Dongcheng instead of the imperial city.

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After the King of Yan entered Chang'an City, the injured Liu Hongji returned to his home and stayed in the door. Since then, the Prime Minister of Chang'an City and Xu Shiji, who was highly regarded in Yanyun's army, visited him and stayed in Liu Hongji's mansion for a full hour. Since then, the gate of Liu Hongji's mansion has never been opened.

Unlike him, Duke Zhang Gongjin of Tan was called by King Yan the next day after the city was broken. It was said that he was scolded. The guards on duty outside King Yan's study that day were frightened and changed their faces. Some people even held the hilt of the knife tightly and waited for King Yan to give the order, and rushed in and drag Zhang Gongjin out to kill him.

But this kind of thing would not happen naturally. The King of Yan cursed people and cursed them happily. When the scolded people walked out of the house, they seemed particularly calm, and even a relaxed smile hung on the corner of their mouths. Duke Tan, who walked out of the King of Yan's palace, was light on his steps along the way, and it seemed that his mood was extremely good.

Not long after, the decree of His Highness of the King of Yan came down. Mr. Zhang resisted the army's entry into the city, offended the King of Yan, and was unforgivable. He stripped him of his position as the Duke of the State and was fined three years' salary... However, considering his contribution to the founding of the Tang Dynasty and indeed repent, he was granted the title of Minister of War and was given the title of the Minister of War.

The former Minister of War Gao Shilian was promoted to the Minister of Rites and was appointed as the Minister of Guanglu Dafu.

Most of the old ministers in the city remained unchanged, and some court officials who really didn't understand the rules and did not know the importance of the magnitude of the court naturally would not keep them. After more than a dozen heads were cut at Caishikou, there was no sound in the court again. The original court officials were appeased and rewarded, but the old subordinates of the King of Yan never gave up the reward. This seemed unreasonable, but everyone knew that the rewards of the King of Yan to these heroes would definitely make people jealous.

The generals of the Yanyun Army were not in a hurry because they knew that the King of Yan would never treat them unfairly. The King of Yan once said before siege that he would definitely reward the heroes after entering the city. The reason why the King of Yan had not done it was because the King of Yan did not want to give the credit easily and easily. Many people knew that the King of Yan was preparing for a grand event of great scale.

Unsurprisingly, on the tenth day after the King of Yan entered the city, Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, appointed Li Jiancheng's son, and Li Chengde, the King of Hedong, as the crown prince. Three more days later, the emperor was circulated in Li Chengde on the grounds that he had to rest and cultivate himself. The reign title was still in Wude, and this detail was what people paid the most attention to. Can an emperor who did not even have his own reign title be able to last?

The reason why King Yan did this was simply to have a smooth over-examination.

As expected, the first thing that happened after the new emperor ascended the throne was to announce the world. King Yan Li Xian was the legitimate son of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty and was the emperor's uncle. King Yan should be the second son of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He only had one crown prince Li Jiancheng, and now the crown prince has long disappeared. According to the rules, it is never the turn of the emperor grandson to succeed the throne. Once the imperial edict was issued to the world, the officials and smart people in the court understood that this was just a preparation for the King of Yan to take back the throne later.

The second thing that the new emperor ascended the throne was to grant the title of King Yan as the Grand Marshal, the Prime Minister of the whole country's military and horse affairs, and the King of Yan as the King of Pentagon, which was the same as all the etiquette followers of the emperor. You can bring a knife to court, and you can dismiss all officials. You can also set up a general's mansion, with King Yan as the first and only first-rank general after the founding of the Tang Dynasty. All military affairs are subject to the decision of the King of Yan, and there is no need to ask the emperor to report.

Even the new emperor who was sitting on the throne knew that he was just a puppet.

But this puppet is also an emperor after all, and at least he can sit in the imperial study room he has never entered before and sigh. He knew that his destiny was no longer in his hand, and whether he would die or live in the future was all in the thought of the King of Yan.

No year name, no queen choice...

Li Chengde himself found it a little funny. My uncle...how many days do you plan to let me sit?

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The General Tiance's Mansion was set up in the original Chang'an City Bingbei Office. In just two days, the plaque written by the most famous calligraphy master in Chang'an City was hanged on the gate of the original Jian'an City. It must be said that the most famous calligraphy master in Chang'an City is of course the King of Yan himself.

General Tiance

When Li Xian thought of this title, he felt a little ridiculous. This was the title that should have belonged to Li Shimin. However, this title in history is not as honorable and powerful as it is now.

Just when General Tiance's Mansion was still under renovation, a carriage with an ordinary style with a ball of flame, sword and sword on the carriage was parked at the gate of the Duke of Qiao Guo's Mansion in the east of the city. There were dozens of followers next to the carriage, with a knife in blue shirt and a knife on his back, with a respectful and awe-inspiring expression, and following the sides of the carriage.

After the carriage was at the door, the groom got out and knocked on the door. After a while, a man opened a gap in the side door. He said in anger that the Duke was unwell and did not see the guests. The groom who drove the carriage was too lazy to say anything, so he pulled the servant who was guarding the door out of the crack and threw it onto a big tree. Finally one day he flew to the branch, but he couldn't fly high no matter what...

The burly groom entered the gate and easily knocked down the guards. Then he opened the main door and stood at the door and waited respectfully for the people in the carriage to come down. The old housekeeper of the Liu Mansion who was rushing out from inside did not dare to be negligent. He stood at the door to greet the strong groom and asked the strong groom: "Who is the adult visiting?"

The groom looked at the old housekeeper contemptuously, pointed to the tip of his nose and said, "There is one here, and he is the one who will be a Duke in a few days... But I am just a groom, so who do you think is in the carriage?"

The old housekeeper was so scared that he shook his body and then knelt down with a plop.

King Yan Li Xian, dressed in black clothes, got off the carriage, walked slowly to the door, looked at the old housekeeper who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "Is Liu Hongji there?"

“It’s here.”

The old butler was so scared that he dared not look up and replied incoherently.

"He didn't dare to see Gu, so Gu had to come to see him in person."

Li Xian walked slowly into the yard gate, with a smile hanging on the corner of his mouth, as if in a good mood.

The flowers and willows in the courtyard are the most beautiful time in the four seasons.

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