At dawn in the east, at 5 o'clock in the morning, with the first morning drum sounding on the Chengtian Gate of Daxing Palace, the street drums on the streets opposite to each city gate in Daxing City in the capital were heard in unison, and the gates of each city gate opened one after another, and a new day began.

The first thing to open is the city gate around Daxing City. With the sound of drums on the pounding streets, the gate captain of the gate guards sent his subordinates to deliver the unified city gate key to the corresponding city gate guards. After each city gate guard opened the surrounding city gates, the gates of each lifang in the city opened. The last thing to open is the palace gate, first outside and then inside. The palace gate is opened last every day. The opening of the palace gate is more complicated than the opening of the city gate. The palace gate of the palace must be surveyed before opening. A wooden fish carved from sandalwood and a concave fish carved on the sandalwood board, called Kan. If the fish are appropriately placed in Kan, it is a coexistence. The fish and Kan are kept in the left and right prison guards of the palace gate and the management palace gate. The palace gate can only be opened every morning after the two parties verify the coexistence.

The morning drum in the capital is to beat three thousand times, but after the palace gate is opened, it will be almost dawn. According to the supplementary rules, the color will stop, and the person's eyes can clearly see objects in the distance, and the drum can stop beating. Except for foggy and snowy weather, in general, the street drums can be beaten less than three thousand times.

As soon as the morning drum sounded, Daxing Palace also began to wake up. The palace maids who prepared clothes for the emperor in the Yeting Palace carried the ironed clothes and sent them to the emperor's bedroom. These clothes were all smoked with dragon scent incense. The palace maids in charge of this work had to work on night shifts. When the lights in the emperor's bedroom went out, they had to start working. It was not until the emperor got up early in the morning to dress neatly to go to court that their work came to an end.

Daxing City is a brand new capital. In the third year of Kaihuang, it took less than a year to completely relocate and build the palace city. In the years since then, the relocation and construction work has been in progress. The original Han Chang'an City, not far away, has now become a decayed old city. The original palace temples and the palaces of the nobles of the princes and nobles have also been demolished and moved into Daxing. Only some dilapidated houses and a group of poor people remain in the old city. The new capital Daxing City was completely planned. It was designed by Yu Wen Kai, a master of craftsmanship, and is more magnificent than Chang'an.

It was perfect. Brand new buildings rose from the ground. Daxing City became increasingly prosperous. However, Xindu has been built for fifteen years, but what has been truly completed so far is the imperial city and palace city. Many neighbors in the outer city are still large open spaces. Only a small half of the many arches in the outer city have been built. Although the important city gates of the outer city have been built, the outer city wall has not been completed. Until now, except for the city walls at the city gate, the remaining tens of miles of outer city walls are actually only composed of a short piece of earth wall.

The small earthen wall incompatible with the huge and prosperous Xindu has been incompatible with the huge and prosperous buildings. It has been fifteen years and has not been completed yet.

Although the walls of the vast lands of dozens of miles away seemed a little out of place, the emperor Yang Jian did not care. Yang Jian always believed that the Great Sui Dynasty had to do not build a tall Kyoto city wall. What the Great Sui Dynasty needed to do was to defend the enemy outside the country. If one day, he needed the city wall of the capital to protect himself, then his Great Sui Dynasty would be over. Since its founding, Yang Jian has always adhered to this concept. Every time he planned and took the initiative to attack, he took the initiative to solve the hidden dangers. He and others were in charge of civil strife, attacked the Turks in the north, annexed Hou Liang, and pacified the Southern Chen. Even the defeated Eastern Expedition to Goryeo not long ago were all under this concept.

The city walls of Daxing are not in a hurry to be repaired, but the most powerful enemy of the Great Sui Dynasty, the Turks, must have been defeated.

This morning, Yang Jian got up very early as usual.

He was a very diligent emperor. He had been in power for eighteen years and was very diligent every day. He could even describe it as a slap in the middle of his life. However, as he got older this year, Yang Jian began to feel overwhelmed. Even his personality has gradually changed a lot. He vowed with the queen to love her only, but this vow had long been broken over the years. From secretly favoring the palace maid Yuchi to the intuition being killed by Queen Dugu, he ran away in anger. In the end, the queen took a step back and personally selected several young and beautiful palace maids for him.

, allow him to have another new love. The Concubine Cai and Concubine Chen in the palace were all allowed to obey by the queen. Yang Jian, who was already fifty-eight years old, was about to enter his sixties. Yang Jian was familiar with history and knew that many emperors would not live too long, and even most emperors would not live to sixty. Although every day, the eunuchs in the palace shouted him long live, he actually knew very clearly that although he had supreme power, he was just an ordinary person in life and could not live long forever. This made Yang Jian very depressed. When he thought of his struggle for a lifetime,

When he finally started to enjoy this result, he might be dying, and he became more and more unacceptable. Therefore, he struggled desperately, his mood became melancholy, and even his personality became suspicious and suspicious. Even the habit of diligence and frugality that he had insisted on with Queen Dugu over the years changed unknowingly. Renshou Palace, built five years ago, took two years and was just a palace for summer escape. However, Yang Su, who was responsible for building this palace, was extremely luxurious. He even urged him to rush the construction period and died in the work service. After these work service, Yang Su directly took the lead.

Their bodies were used to fill the pit. At that time, Yang Jian gave up Chang'an City because of the long-lasting age of Chang'an City, the terrain was sinking, the waterways and ditches were blocked, the wells were not allowed to drink, and the city was narrow. When building the new capital, almost all the capital was demolished and built Xinjing. Most of the buildings such as the imperial palace were demolished from the old capital. Therefore, it took only nine months to build important buildings such as the imperial palace city of the new capital, and the money was even less expensive. However, the Renshou Palace built by Yang Su was extremely luxurious, costing a lot of civilian craftsmen.

Two years later, the Renshou Palace was built, and Yang Jian was shocked when he saw it. At first, he was very unhappy about Yang Su's efforts to build a luxurious palace. He also thought to be diligent. However, the queen later spoke for Yang Su and said that the couple would be thrifty for life and should enjoy it when they were old. It was from that time that Yang Jian also began to enjoy it. Three years ago, the Renshou Palace was built, and he and the queen went to the palace to live. Then they fell in love with this luxurious palace, and since then, they spent most of their time in the Renshou Palace in Qizhou, western Beijing. It was also when they moved into Renshou Palace that he favored Yuchi. Then the queen was beaten by the queen. Because of this, the queen had to make some concessions to him and personally chose several beauties to serve the emperor.

The luxurious palace and beautiful beauty, Yang Jian, who was old, suddenly realized the true taste of the emperor. He suddenly felt that the decades he had passed in vain. Even those more than ten years had been in vain.

With the empress's compromise, Yang Jian began to favor young beauties without any scruples. Empress Dugu was also very beautiful when she was young, and was the most beautiful seventh lady of the Dugu family. However, Empress Dugu is already old now. If it were the Zhou rituals, the emperor's concubines would not even be able to sleep with the emperor again after fifty years of age. Among the palace ladies selected by the empress, Yang Jian's favorite was the Cai family and the Chen family from Jiangnan. Cai family was the daughter of the great clan in the Chen country. Chen family was even the younger sister of the late emperor of the Southern Chen family. Emperor Xuan of Chen, and Princess Ningyuan of the Southern Chen family. After the fall of the Chen country, Chen family sent them to Chang'an and infiltrated the palace.

, at that time, he was still young and only worked in the Yeting Palace. A few years later, the queen selected this woman who had long belonged to the emperor from the Yeting Palace to give to Yang Jian. The emperor never thought that there was such a beautiful woman in her harem. She was beautiful and gentle. The old emperor and the young beauty, the emperor fell into a gentle land. In just two or three years, the emperor's originally rosy face was a little pale, with a few deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his eye sockets were a little dark. Even his steps were a little squinting. The beauty was gentle, but she was a steel knife with a bone scraping. The emperor was old and could not withstand the erosion caused by this joy.

For several days, the emperor was a little overwhelmed. When he was happy with the beauty, he often had to rely on the elixirs tribute to the alchemist to cheer him up. The elixir was very effective and used well. It always made the old emperor feel that the dragon spirit and tiger are fierce, which could make the beauties under him panting and satisfied. However, this also comes at a price. The price is that after the joy, the old emperor always feels very tired, and the elixir is overdrawing his energy. He enjoys his fun at night, but he is always very tired during the day and cannot lift his energy.

Last night, Yang Jian stayed with his favorite Concubine Chen. Among the young women in the harem, Yang Jian loved the most. Chen and Cai. He took a lot of effort to get the queen to agree to enthrone the two as nobles and become official concubines in the palace over the years. Cai and Chen were originally wealthy daughters and golden branches and jade leaves. They both received good education and had great experiences in the palace for many years. Yang Jian not only liked the beauty and gentleness of these two beauties, but also liked their knowledge. He even sometimes

When reviewing memorials, he would let the two beauties act as his assistants. He often had fun with the beauties, which took up a lot of time. Moreover, he was less and less energy, but he was often worried about the ministers outside. Therefore, when handling memorials, he was afraid that they would not be able to read them and miss important things, so he often asked the beauties to read them first. After reading them, he asked the beauties to briefly write out the reasons for the memorials with a piece of yellow paper, paste them in front of the memorials, and then use yellow paper to extract the brief content and post them in the back. In this way, he saw the memorials.

When folding, you can first glance at the yellow paper in front to see what is going on. If it is a small matter that is not important, he doesn't even need to open the memorial. If it is a matter of concern, then look at the yellow paper summary behind it. If there is something to say, then open the detailed reading instructions. If the content in the abstract is useless, he doesn't have to open it. There are too many memorials every day, and these ministers often like to pile up words for memorials. Sometimes, for a simple thing, they may write thousands of words.

After the long and long articles were broken, they were just flattering words, or some uninformed borrowing the words of the sages. If Yang Jian had to read each person's memorials seriously, he had no time to sleep, he had no need to do anything every day, and could not review these memorials. In the past, Yang Jian often asked the queen to help him review memorials, and sometimes even let Gao Jin, Li Delin, Su Wei and other important officials review it with him. However, now, he no longer trusts those ministers he once trusted.

Even the queen was not as trusted and obedient as before. Now, more often, he asked Cai and Chen to assist him in reviewing the memorials.

"Which master's painting is this? Where is it drawn? Which battle is recorded on it?" Yang Jian put down his bowl, stared at the scroll with his eyes tightly, and was full of interest in this painting. What he was interested in was not only the painting skills, but also the scenes and affairs depicted on the picture.
Chapter completed!