On the tenth day of the first lunar month, there are still five days left before the Lantern Festival.
There has been a lot of excitement inside and outside Chang'an City. People are looking forward to whether this year's Lantern Festival will be more grand than in previous years.
In fact, the war has only been away from people's lives for six years, but to the people of Chang'an City, it seems like a lifetime ago.
The most important reason is actually that Chang'an is the heart of the world. Even in the war season, the war did not cause much substantial harm to the people of Chang'an City.
It was the two offensive and defensive battles of Chang'an that shook Chang'an a few times. Fortunately, both Li Yuan and Li Po who entered Chang'an were serious people and had no intention of turning Chang'an into a den of bandits.
So Chang'an is still the same Chang'an, but due to the war, many people entered Chang'an to escape disaster, which caused the population of Chang'an to increase dramatically.
By the seventh year of Yuanzhen, according to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, Chang'an's population had exceeded the 600,000 mark, and it had firmly established itself as the largest city in the world.
In fact, not only in the Tang Dynasty, but also in other places, there were no cities comparable to Chang'an.
The humanoid creatures in the west always talk about Greece and Rome, but what they say is more like fairy tales, without any detailed records at all.
All roads lead to Rome. Most of them boast about it. Some tribes gathered together to form the so-called Roman Empire. It is similar to the Stone Age in the Central Plains. They are just a group of naked savages playing with stones. They have not even established ethics, let alone much.
Historical evidence.
For such a powerful empire, few bronze and iron artifacts have been unearthed. They are all stone sculptures. Are you kidding me?
As for the earlier Greek civilization, it was all the hybrid descendants of Zeus. If this was done in this way, the history of China could be extended for hundreds of millions of years.
The reason why humanoid creatures in the west are keen on forging history is because they want to find a good ancestor for themselves, so they imitate Eastern civilization and carry out all-round forgery.
But the things they produced are specious and cannot withstand verification. The few so-called history books they have do not even have chronological records. They even used mythological stories such as Homer's epics and used them as official history. You think it is ridiculous or not.
Secondly, they want to create evidence for Eastern civilization to be compared to Western civilization, so as to overwhelm Eastern civilization at the root, and determine the superiority and inferiority based on race. This is actually a by-product of these ideas.
In fact, most forgeries in the West are limited to Central Asia or South Asia. The most important reason is that the Central Plains civilization has detailed historical materials.
Any alien race that appears on this land will leave traces in historical materials, which is irrefutable evidence. Once false history intersects with the civilization of the Central Plains, there will be no escape.
Otherwise, based on their moral integrity, it is estimated that the Greek fleet and the so-called legions of the Romans would appear on the East China Sea without hesitation.
Alexander's spear array, you think it's a joke. Since you have traveled such a long way to conquer India, why can't you go further?
Later, people also carefully searched for traces of the collision between Eastern and Western civilizations, but to be honest, the results were disappointing. Apart from the movie and TV show that used Yanmen Pass as Yumen Pass, there was nothing much to say.
Don't talk about history with Chinese people, because our history is impeccable, with countless unearthed supporting evidence, and the historical materials are even more detailed and complete...
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At this time, people in Chang'an probably never dreamed that there would be a group or groups of people in the far west who would wander around the world in a very distant future, claiming to have a long-lasting civilization.
Imperial City, Tai Chi Hall.
Li Po looked at the memorial helplessly. He originally wanted to rest for a few days during the first month, but some people just wouldn't stop.
There was a county magistrate in the south who, together with the magistrates in the county, secretly hid soldiers and armor, made their own yellow robes, ceremonial guards and other items, claiming that he was the son of Buddha who came to the world to save the world.
It was almost in a state of waiting, but the preparations were relatively complete, and even the official positions were sealed.
So Li Daliang and Huang Junhan found out about it and led their troops to suppress it.
After interrogation, we learned that this county magistrate was from Hedong. When Jiang County Jingpan Tuo and Chai Baochang rebelled, Fan Zigai led his army to annihilate them. This magistrate was a fish that slipped through the net.
He fled to Jiangzuo and soon fell under the command of the ogre king Zhu Can. After Zhu Can's death, he changed his name and joined Xiao Mian, and thus became a county magistrate by accident.
Then... this guy imitated the knowledge he had learned before, found a few crooked monks, and asked them to tell his fortune first. The monks were fed by him, and they knew what he wanted, and they all said he was the right one.
As the emperor's order, he also tricked two wealthy families in the county into entering.
It must have looked ridiculous in the eyes of later generations, but in the contemporary world, such things happened in endlessly, and were considered one of the sequelae of the troubled times in the late Sui Dynasty.
If you have seen others wearing dragon robes and crowns, shouting in front of them, and being so majestic, others will naturally imitate them. Their ignorance and stupidity are shocking.
The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Punishment work together with various departments to clean up the officialdom, and most of the people they target are this kind of people.
So the red blacklist quickly came to the capital and asked the emperor to kill them. This time there were more than 20 people to be executed and hundreds of them to be exiled.
Almost none of the county officials and many villagers ran away.
Li Po felt a toothache just looking at it. Which series is this? Why is it endless? There are always some Taoist monks and other figures involved in it.
It's a bit unlucky to kill people in the first month. Of course, Li Po won't care about it. It's not like he hasn't killed before, and these people are all worthy of death no matter how you look at it, especially the bandit leaders, Zhu Can and Zhang Jin, two great figures in the late Sui Dynasty.
Bandits are famous, especially Zhu Can's cannibal army, everyone deserves to be killed.
It was just that the people killed this time were too stupid, which made Li Po feel that national education really had a long way to go.
Monks and Taoists must be brought under control, otherwise some wild monks and Taoist priests will spread their evil words everywhere and confuse the public. The common people, who have not received education, will be easily deceived by them.
This matter is easy to handle. After all, religious people such as monks and Taoist priests are in the minority. It will not be too difficult to manage them. The land of the Central Plains has already had a system of separation of politics and religion.
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Li Po picked up the blacklist and drew circles on it. Those who deserved to die would be sent to death without hesitation.
Stop writing and give it to someone in the province to send it away.
The following is an urgent message from the East China Sea. Wu King Li Fuwei has requested to return to the court. The memorial has already included the suggestions of Zhongshu and Shangshu. As expected, they all agree.
Li Po looked at it carefully and found nothing special. However, Li Po still smiled with satisfaction. Du Fuwei was still sensible.
The merits have been established and the war is about to end. It would be inappropriate for him to lead the navy and not want to come back. Instead of the court ordering him to return, it is better to take the initiative on his own.
Li Po then approved the request with several large characters on the memorial...
This chapter has been completed!