On this day, a messenger who almost died from exhaustion on the road delivered extremely shocking news to Muchuan.
Great changes occurred in Chang'an, and Li Shimin gave way to Li Zhi.
If that was all, forget it, the letter also told a rather outrageous thing.
It is said that the souls of the two brothers Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji have come back to take revenge. They have taken over the bodies of Li Zhi and Li Shimin respectively, and are now thinking of ways to harm the Tang Dynasty.
The letter also mentioned that Li Zhi spent millions of taels of money on the ceremony for his enthronement.
Even, in order to raise a sufficient amount of silver, Li Zhi directly ordered to forcibly collect the deposits of all shops in Chang'an.
When Muchuan saw this, his face almost turned green.
Doesn't this mean that his Mu family's property has also suffered a heavy blow?
At the end of the letter, he implored Muchuan to return to Chang'an, saying that in the whole world, only Muchuan could quell this disaster.
After reading it completely, Muchuan felt horrified and frightened.
Although he had long noticed that something was wrong with Li Zhi.
But I never expected that Li Zhi would dare to do this.
Muchuan didn't believe in the nonsense about ghosts seizing the body. When he thought about it, it was probably Li Zhi who forced Li Shimin to give up his throne.
What Muchuan is most curious about now is what Li Shimin thinks.
Muchuan did not think that Li Shimin would give up the throne so easily.
In any case, the matter was indeed quite urgent, and Muchuan did not dare to delay, planning to rush back to Chang'an overnight.
Knowing that Muchuan was rushing back to Chang'an, Xiaoying naturally wanted to go back with him.
Muchuan did not intend to take Xiaoying with him. First of all, someone had to guard Nanping. Di Renjie alone would not be able to do it.
Secondly, if Xiaoying also got on the bus, Muchuan would not dare to go too fast in order to take care of Xiaoying. He would have to find a place to rest along the way, which would naturally delay things.
Muchuan explained it carefully, and Xiaoying was also quite sensible, so she no longer asked to go with her. She just told Muchuan repeatedly that she must come and pick her up after letting him go.
Otherwise, Xiaoying would have to run to Chang'an to find him.
Muchuan will definitely come back. If nothing unexpected happened, he would have stayed in Qianzhou for a long time.
All in all, Muchuan said goodbye to everyone and rode a Tiger motorcycle as fast as he could to Chang'an.
When they arrived, the three of them spent three or four days in total visiting the mountains and rivers.
This time we went back to Muchuan under the stars and at night, with no rest at all. It only took one day to go back.
When Muchuan arrived in Chang'an, he realized something was wrong.
In the past, although Chang'an's gates were tightly guarded, the number of people coming and going was still very large.
After all, Chang'an is an international metropolis, and businessmen from all over the world come here to do business.
However, nowadays, almost no one walks around the city gate of Chang'an.
Muchuan felt very strange, so he got out of the car in advance and put the Tiger motorcycle away.
Now that the emperor is Li Zhi, Muchuan doesn't want him to know the news of his return, and he doesn't plan to go in directly on a motorcycle.
On the road leading to the city gate, Muchuan found some miserable vendors.
These traders all brought a large amount of goods, but for some reason they did not go to the city and instead set up stalls on the streets in the suburbs.
Out of curiosity, Muchuan asked a middle-aged man who looked bitter and resentful.
After asking, Muchuan knew the reason.
Generally speaking, you need to pay a city fee to enter the city, which is most common in some economically backward states.
As for Chang'an, it is an international metropolis after all, so it won't do all these bells and whistles.
So people are happy to come to Chang'an, and they don't charge money anyway.
However, now Chang'an has begun to collect city fees, and the price is quite exaggerated, one person costs one tael of silver!
One tael of silver is not a small amount. For an ordinary farmer, this is half a year's expenses.
Even for these small traders, one tael of silver could not be used to pay the city fee, so everyone was squatting outside the door.
If that's all, forget it, but you still have to pay a city exit fee when you leave the city, which is only one tael of silver!
Therefore, the toll alone costs two taels of silver to enter and exit.
This naturally made the people miserable, but they had no place to complain.
After all, these are the rules set by the emperor himself!
Muchuan also felt increasingly weird.
It stands to reason that even if Li Zhi forced the palace to sit on the throne, he would not be such an unwise person.
This kind of behavior is even more cruel than a tyrant. Even Emperor Yang Guang of Sui Dynasty and Emperor Xin of Shang Zhou did not do this!
Muchuan found a stall and bought some ordinary clothes, plus some hats.
After dressing up in disguise, Muchuan planned to enter the city.
Although he didn't know what Li Zhi's attitude was towards him now, Muchuan did not dare to take it lightly. It was best not to let Li Zhi know that he was back.
When they reached the city gate, two soldiers stopped Muchuan.
"Pay the money!"
Muchuan didn't say anything, he just took out the ten taels of silver that he had prepared and handed them to the two of them.
The two soldiers looked greedy when they saw Muchuan take out ten taels of silver.
"We don't have any silver scraps here for you to find!"
"No need to look for it, you two can keep the remaining money for drinking."
After hearing this, both of them were overjoyed, and they felt much more pleased with Muchuan.
Muchuan smiled and took the opportunity to ask: "You two officials, do we have to pay for going out of the city?"
"Yes, the rules set by the Holy One himself."
"Then what should happen to those who have been in the city for a long time but have no money to pay for leaving the city?"
"Hey, you asked the right person."
One of the officers and soldiers chuckled and glanced around. Seeing that no one was looking this way, he gave Muchuan a detailed explanation.
After hearing this, Muchuan felt it was ridiculous.
It turned out that those people who had no money to leave the city were forcibly requisitioned.
Men were requisitioned to build the rooftop platform, and women were requisitioned to sew Lingxiao sails.
As for the so-called Climbing Tower and Lingxiao Fan, they are super buildings ordered to be built by Li Zhi for the ceremony of enthroning.
Rumor has it that this rooftop platform will be built up to the clouds, at least one to two hundred meters high.
As for the Lingxiao sail, it also had to be sewn to be nearly a hundred meters long.
During the enthronement ceremony, Li Zhi will stand on the rooftop, with his feet on the sky sail, enjoying the power of the emperor!
Crazy, crazy, this Li Zhi might really be possessed by a ghost.
Even though Muchuan didn't believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, he also had such thoughts this time.
After entering the city, Muchuan found that the city was also a desolate scene.
Almost all of the originally bustling shopping streets were closed this time, with only a few open here and there.
Among them, Longliqi was the one who opened the door.
Muchuan hurried over to see what Longliqi was doing now.
There was no one in the store, not to mention people, even all kinds of goods had disappeared without a trace.
Muchuan felt that something bad was going on, so he hurried to Mu Mansion.
