Du Fuwei was uneducated, well, no, he had little knowledge, but he was definitely not stupid.
When the three generals gathered in Luoyang, they were definitely not waiting for him or Du. Only the Governor Li Jing could help them make a special trip to welcome them here.
However, he is the King of Wu, and he is the only one who has been crowned king in the Tang Dynasty, but he is qualified enough for the three generals to pay tribute to him first.
This is what Du Fuwei wants to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. No matter where you come from or your family background, it doesn't matter if you look down on me in your heart, but on the surface you must respect me.
Du Fuwei, who had been a thief, now values these things. It may not seem like many requirements, but in fact it is an essential leap in class.
Only people of his generation could do it. Generally speaking, they have to wait for two or three generations to succeed. As people later said, nobles are born in three generations.
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The arrival of the Xianjie team made Luoyang City lively.
Xu Shiji was right. Luoyang looks the same every year now. Last year, the emperor visited the east and was not very satisfied with the Luoyang Palace. He felt that there were city walls everywhere and even the sun couldn't get in. It was too depressing to live here.
At the beginning, Pei Ju gave a few words of advice, saying that these were built according to certain rules and had their own rules. If they were easily demolished, it would easily break the good fortune.
Li Po smiled and replied, "Yang Guang built the city of Luoyang. How lucky is he?"
Pei Ju stopped talking at that time. These words were too harsh and he really couldn't stand it, especially when it was not only Yang Guang who was so embarrassed, but also old people like them from the previous dynasty.
Recalling that he tried his best to come over to preside over the construction of Luoyang City, Pei Ju sighed silently even though he was old and mature. Fortunately, he didn't succeed. Otherwise, he would be more able to say it now, wouldn't he?
So last autumn, Pei Ju, Dou Jing, and Dou Yan's uncle and nephew demolished all the twisted walls in the palace. The bricks and tiles were all good things. Now Luoyang is short of building materials, and they are all useful.
After doing this business, Pei Ju just kept going, thinking about demolishing some abandoned houses in Luoyang this year to re-plan the architectural layout of Luoyang.
In fact, many houses were demolished before. During the war, many houses were burned down in the civil strife, leaving debris all over the place, which has been cleared out in the past two years.
Also, there were so many people who died in Luoyang City that there was no time to transport them out of the city, and there was not enough firewood to burn, so they were all piled up in some charity halls or in uninhabited places.
Nowadays, the new generation of people living in Luoyang have no idea of the tragic situation at that time. The stench of corpses filled the city of Luoyang. Later, they had no choice but to throw them out of the city to let Thief Li know everyone's determination to die.
Wang Shichong didn't dare to do that. You must know that the people who died in the battle also had young families. At this critical moment when everyone was defending the city, you threw the bodies of the people who died in the battle outside the city? We are not blind. I guess we can do it at that time.
Internal strife broke out.
So many corpses were buried in Luoyang City, which meant finding an open space or something, digging a hole and burying the person.
Nowadays, if you dig around the city of Luoyang, you will definitely find several large grave pits. Sometimes people want to save trouble by piling the corpses into a room and setting the house on fire. There are countless incidents.
It became even worse later. In the two winters after Wang Shichong's defeat, people in Luoyang were so hungry that they couldn't bear it. Groups of people died in their own homes, and no one asked about them. They waited until the spring to gather their strength.
House by house... I can't even tell you. Vicious incidents of cannibalism often break out in the city, and there is no way to investigate and deal with them.
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Therefore, in the past few years when Pei Ju was in charge of Henan, many people performed rituals, just to let the hundreds of thousands of innocent souls who died in Luoyang rest in peace as soon as possible.
This year, he plans to follow the instructions of the lucky survivors in the city and demolish some of the houses where corpses were stored to flat ground and plant trees, flowers and plants, which means to use life to cover up the dead atmosphere.
In the past, Luoyang City vigorously promoted planting flowers, plants and trees. In fact, this was the reason. After all, Pei Ju did not have the concept of building a garden city.
When Li Po was touring the east, he even praised a few words. Luoyang's urban environment is really good, much better than Chang'an. When he heard the people accompanying him talking about the reason, they couldn't say anything.
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What I was thinking about was that the three bastards Yang Guang, Li Mi and Wang Shichong were really nothing. If there really were eighteen levels of hell in the world, these three bastards must have stayed at the bottom level. They would not be able to reincarnate into the animal realm after a thousand years.
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Now is the period of post-war reconstruction. It can be described as changing with each passing day. The big city of Luoyang has gone from being a ghost to now with people coming and going on the streets. It seems like how many years have passed and the world has changed.
But in reality it was only a little more than three years, and the number of residents in the city... was only about 20% civilian households. Except for the military generals stationed in Luoyang and their families, most of the other people were descendants from Hebei.
There is nothing to say. This population ratio will continue for a few more years, but it will recover much faster than other places. After all, this is the hinterland of the Central Plains, the most densely populated place in the past.
The soil is fertile and the rivers are crisscrossed. People traveling from south to north have to pass through here. It has extremely convenient transportation and water conservancy systems. As far as recuperation is concerned, it has more convenient conditions than Kansai.
Therefore, it is only a matter of time before things can be restored to their former glory.
For example, Du Fuwei had to pass through Luoyang whether he was going east or returning to the court now. Luoyang officials would greet and send him off and get to know many powerful people. This kind of advantage is not comparable to that of other famous cities.
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Du Fuwei and his party rested in Luoyang for three days and then left in a hurry.
In his eyes, Luoyang was still not decent and could not be compared with Chang'an, but the officials and generals in Luoyang were not idle and deserved to be treated well by him.
Especially with the three generals, he had drinks with them alone and established friendships with them.
The generals were very considerate, came to appointments one after another, and spoke with great respect. In Du Fuwei's opinion, they were much better than those bastards in Chang'an.
Especially Xu Shiji, who was the emperor's brother-in-law. If Du Fuwei had not been in a hurry to return to Chang'an and had no money around him, he would have shipped several carts of goods to him. His Highness, King Wu, never played tricks on who he made friends with.
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While Du Fuwei and Xu Shiji were drinking, they also asked a few questions similar to Liu Jingsheng's, hoping to get a feel for the consort's mouth.
What Xu Shiji said was different. He said that His Highness should see you as soon as possible when he returns to Beijing. His Majesty is very concerned about His Highness. As for the rewards from the court, what is there in comparison?
What you said is cunning or not, but it suits Du Fuwei's taste, and I think what the consort said is right. As long as the emperor treats him as a brother with a different surname, the rest really doesn't matter.