Imperial Capital of the Tang Dynasty

Chang'an City

Most of the summer has passed, and the Great Wall is bustling with traffic, with merchants traveling from south to north and local residents walking back and forth on the streets.

The four gates of Chang'an City, except the north gate, are all wide open, and the soldiers on duty carefully check the people coming and going. They were the gate officials of Hou Junji when they were derelict in their duties, and were punished by the current Emperor Ming Zun.

After Her Royal Highness Princess Jinyang was hung up and whipped, military discipline improved to a new level.

You have to be careful even when you are lazy on duty, let alone when someone drank and hired a singing and dancing girl.

jingle bell

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A carriage loaded with goods stopped next to the city gate officer on duty. The city gate officer was wearing Tang Dynasty-style armor, with a horizontal sword on his waist and a red rope hanging on his chest.

Attached to the red rope is the statue of Mingzun Holy Emperor Li Mingda that he received from the army. Now the whole Tang Dynasty knows that praying to His Majesty Mingzun Holy Emperor, as long as you are sincere, your illness will more or less recover.

, luck suddenly gets better, and wait for some good things.

Nowadays, everyone takes out their own idol signs from time to time and chants a few words: Holy Emperor Mingzun, come again, Holy Emperor Mingzun bless you, Holy Emperor Mingzun, eat well and drink well... Wait a minute.

After the Tang Dynasty pacified the Quartet, there were hundreds of thousands of residents in Chang'an City, and they consumed a lot of things every day. In addition, there were merchants traveling from north to south, officials from all over the country who came to report on their work, and students who came here to travel and prepare reliable things.

There are also people who work in the surrounding areas and come to sell goods, as well as believers who make pilgrimages.

The four gates of Chang'an City are getting more and more crowded. In fact, the gates of Chang'an City are not all open on weekdays. Especially the middle gate is closed, which is completely different from what those careless TV series show.

The middle door does not open, but a small door opens at the side door. In the past, there were enough people to check people coming and going. Due to the rapid development of Datang, it is obviously not possible to enter or exit through one door.

Murong Xue, who was running around in Chang'an City, reported the news to the head of the family. After Li Mingda knew it, the imperial approval opened all the city gates except the middle gate, and increased the defense power of the four gates in the Great Wall.

Most of these additional soldiers were transferred from various garrisons in Chang'an City, and a lot of manpower was placed there to control the population flow of Chang'an City and the allocation of officials and family resources within the city.

Fang Xuanling initially refused Li Mingda's move. Chang'an City was the imperial capital after all, and safety was the most important thing.

Later, Li Mingda directly told Fang Xuanling: Chang'an City is the imperial capital, the central area of ​​the Tang Dynasty's current territory, with hundreds of thousands of troops stationed around it. If it is not safe here, what will happen around the Tang Dynasty?

Thinking about it carefully, Fang Xuanling found that he was blinded. When the Tang Dynasty established its capital in Chang'an City, except for the social unrest caused by the war, Chang'an City was the land of heaven. There were natural dangers around it to defend, and it was okay to establish the capital here.

Use all your strength to resist the nomadic army from the north heading south.

The top priority of military and political strategy, both Li Yuan and Li Shimin attached great importance to the city defense construction of Chang'an City and the control of surrounding passes.

Now being flipped over by Li Mingda's car, Chang'an City has become the central area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. Fang Xuanling did not understand such changes for a moment.

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If the doors are opened more, people will not be so crowded. There is always a peak time for entry and exit, and the city gate is quite busy.

Moreover, Li Mingda also canceled the city gate tax and small farmer sales tax. Only those large stores and luxury goods will continue to be levied.

The people were naturally grateful for Li Mingda's actions, while Fang Xuanling and other cabinet members were scratching their heads. Regardless of the small amount of money collected for the personnel and goods at the city gate, the huge population of Chang'an City and the total number of people in the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, the financial loss every year is a huge amount.

Without this money, corrupt officials felt very aggrieved, and local finances also experienced temporary shortages. Jinyiwei and Baiqisi, plus Jia Xu's spies all over the world, these people have long been in trouble, right?

I heard that in a city next door, officials were caught for corruption and met with tragic consequences.

This kind of vigilant story spread from all over the Tang Dynasty and shocked many people. Of course, there were also those who were bold and not afraid of death. Li Mingda was also happy to send them to the mines to contribute to the construction of the Tang Dynasty.

On the pipelines in various parts of Datang, from time to time you will see some government officials or soldiers escorting some prisoners. Their targets are several mines that Datang is currently building with all its strength.

Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde were both fierce generals who acted vigorously and resolutely. The mining areas they were responsible for were a living hell for the corrupt officials sent there.

No matter how much trust you have, it's not easy to find anyone to intercede. Now the only person in the Tang Dynasty who can order them is Mingzun Saint Emperor Li Mingda.

Of course, if Lao Li comes to intercede, it will have some effect, provided that Lao Li is willing to participate in this matter.

Laws and regulations in the Tang Dynasty are now very strict. Not to mention those members of the royal family who have never met, even Li Shimin's remaining princes and princesses who followed his concubines, as long as they committed a crime, Li Mingda would not tolerate it.

The current royal family of the Tang Dynasty uses Li Chengqian, Li Tai, Li Zhi, and Li Ke as warning lights. They know very well that once they commit an offense, they will almost never meet or talk to their half-mother Mingzun Holy Emperor.

Li Mingda will definitely punish them very strictly.

Therefore, these princes, princes, and grandsons are not a bit more honest than those people who don't know how to live or die. They don't wear clothes and go hunting with angry horses, and they don't get together in Chang'an City to cause trouble.

Their mothers always found a teacher from Taixue and kept them at home, where they studied reading and writing honestly.

Occasionally, he went out under the supervision of the royal guards of the Tang Dynasty. Li Mingda knew that the royal guards were there to protect the safety of the royal children, not to bully them. It was a kind of protection.

Li Mingda was also very interested in the ideological education work of the royal guards of the Tang Dynasty. After all, their behavior would have a great impact on his own destiny and the top management of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Mingda was naturally relieved that Qin Qiong was in charge of them, but after all, Qin Qiong was not an ideological instructor, and her usual management training was full of mistakes. Qin Qiong obviously had no experience in really moving forward.

For this reason, Li Mingda had to take pictures of his right-hand man, Murong Xue, an idle man who no one dared to mess with because he had already become famous in Chang'an City.

After a while of Murong Xue's tossing, the Royal Guards Camp of the Tang Dynasty was in a state of chaos. The guards controlled by the Tang Dynasty clan were pulled into his hands by Murong Xue and then thrown to Qin Qiong.

The power of the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty was reduced again, which made Li Mingda's rule of the clan and royal family more secure. Li Mingda did not want to become a Roman emperor who was surrounded by elders and stabbed to death.

The day Zhang Yingying led the troops to the Vulcan Village
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