The news that Li Xiangjin was attacked in the imperial capital spread to all parts of the imperial capital as quickly as possible. After Li Xiangjin agreed to marry the eighth princess, he had the mark of the emperor on him. In the eyes of many people, Li Xiangjin was an imperialist.
No one dares to despise Li Xiang's army. They are troops that come from the battlefield and are stronger than the troops in most people's hands. The most important thing is that there is a great master behind Li Xiang.
The Xiliang cavalry led by Li Xiang will become the emperor's sharpest sword on the battlefield, and they are also protected by a grand master. This makes it difficult for many people to sneak attack Li Xiang. Thousands of troops are on the battlefield, even if it is a grand master.
Even the masters would not dare to take action against Li Xiang in this environment.
On weekdays, it would be difficult for Taoist Priest Qingsong to follow him and make a sneak attack.
The only ones who can take action are Li Xiang's relatives. His father is Li Zhen. If that person dares to take action, as for the mother, if he wants to touch her, he is making an enemy of the entire Li family.
It's not because of Zhang Junyue's high status, but because of the honor of the Li family. If someone touches a low-status member of your family today and you don't stop him, tomorrow he will dare to attack someone with a high status in your family.
So as long as you touch someone from the head of the Li family, you are making trouble with the Li family!
Li Ya can't move either. She is a direct descendant of the Li family and is only Li Xiang's wife.
The eighth princess is from the Snow Palace. Only the Wu family and the Qian family can still move. After all, there is no power behind these two people. It would be better if they could get Li Xiang's two children.
However, this is also the idea of these people, and it remains to be seen whether it can be implemented.
After the initial attack, the Xiliang cavalry became more vigilant. With the cavalry in front clearing the way, the army moved very quickly.
From the dock to the main road leading to the imperial capital, this is a huge road with a width of 500 meters. The Xiliang cavalry only occupied a small area, with a long team behind it.
On the roads on both sides of the army, there were teams of some chambers of commerce. Everyone's goal was to get to the inner city of the imperial capital, which could be regarded as the real inner city.
Prime Minister Li looked around from time to time. The imperial capital was still the same. It was like this when he left, and it was still the same when he came back.
Cheng Jushu rode up quickly and came to the side of Prime Minister Li: "My lord, this road in the imperial capital is too wide! There are also these stone roads below. War horses trample on them, but there are no traces at all!"
This was Cheng Jushu's first visit to the imperial capital. His family was in the northwest. They could see such buildings in the northwest. Jiuyuan City was the tallest city they had ever seen.
After fighting to Liangzhou, we saw that the tallest and largest city had become Zhangye County City.
Following Li Xiang from the river to the Imperial Capital, they did not get off the boat, so they did not enter some famous giant cities. Now that they saw such a large city in the Imperial Capital, they were a little shocked.
Li Xiang said with a smile: "This is nothing. When you see the city wall outside the imperial capital, you will know what a tall city wall is!"
"Are the walls of the imperial capital very high?" Cheng Jushu asked curiously.
Li Xiang recalled: "The outermost wall of the imperial capital is not very high, that is, it is more than ten feet. After reaching the inner city wall, the inner city wall is as high as forty feet."
"Forty feet!" Cheng Jushu's eyes widened: "Isn't it true that throwing something up there can kill a person?"
Above ten feet, if someone is thrown something from above, he or she will be injured. At forty feet, Cheng Jushu wonders if anyone can withstand such an impact if something falls from above.
"This is secondary. The key is that you can't break through this forty-foot city wall from the outside!"
Since the establishment of the imperial capital of Daqian, this city has not been attacked from the outside. It has tall city walls, independent water sources, food production areas that can be barely self-sufficient, and a powerful imperial army.
As a result, this city has never been invaded by outsiders. Even when the Daqian Dynasty was at its most dangerous, the people in this city were still in peace.
None of the families who can live in the imperial capital are simple, because even the simple ones can no longer live. The countless people in the imperial capital and the poor have all been expelled. Once a family falls into decline, they will no longer be able to continue living in the imperial capital.
Beggars and others are not allowed to enter the imperial capital.
At the same time, the imperial capital is also the place with the best security in the Central Plains. Forbidden troops can be seen everywhere here, and there are patrol teams everywhere.
If you want to capture this city, you can only break it from within. During the civil strife in the Daqian Dynasty, one emperor had already captured all the land from the outside world, but the previous emperor did not want to abdicate and still had a large number of troops in his hands.
He relied on the imperial capital to fight for fifteen years. Finally, the old emperor died of old age, and he was able to enter the imperial capital. Most of the granaries in the imperial capital were still unopened and filled with grain.
The lives of civilians in the entire imperial capital were not affected by the war.
As long as the imperial capital is secure, no matter how chaotic it is outside, it will not be able to affect this thousand-year-old imperial capital.
"Lord, can we build such a road in the northwest in the future?" Cheng Jushu did not continue to struggle with the city wall. The forty-foot city wall was simply impossible to attack such a city.
If you want to climb up, it will tire you out to death. If you want to dig a city wall? There are various formations everywhere on the city wall, and will the materials that can build a forty-foot-long city wall be ordinary materials?
What he values now is such a road. If they also have such a wide road, the speed of mobilizing troops will be very fast.
"It will definitely happen!" Li Xiang affirmed: "We have already built the Great Wall, but we still can't build a road?"
Such a road will only cost a lot of stones. At worst, we will dig out all the mountains on the other side of the barren mountain, and then transport some soil to that side, and turn that barren mountain into a dead zone because of the Buddhist formation. The area becomes a land of life again.
If we dig out all those mountains, we might actually be able to turn that area into a plain.
"Yes!" Cheng Jushu smiled naively, and the army slowly advanced.
Rumble!
Suddenly, there was the sound of a large number of horses galloping. When Li Xiang heard the sound, he saw that there were only thirty or forty horses galloping. The Xiliang soldiers did not even turn their heads, but in the middle of the team, there were officials on the carriage behind Zhang Qingyun. They opened the curtains and looked towards where the sound came from.
You can see a group of young men wearing bright clothes and galloping on their horses.
Qian Duoduo went to the middle carriage and sat down with Wu Yating on the way. When they heard the sound of horse hooves outside, the two little devils who had just fallen asleep immediately opened their eyes.
Qian Duoduo coaxed the child helplessly: "How long will it take to arrive!"
It was also Qian Duoduo's first time in the imperial capital, but she had no curiosity. Anyway, she could eat delicacies from all over the world in the northwest.
The imperial capital's attraction to her was very low.
"It will take a while!" Wu Yating lived in the imperial capital for a while. The biggest feature of the imperial capital is its incomparable hugeness: "I don't know, sir, whether he wants to go home or live in the prince consort's mansion given by your majesty!"
Li Xiang married a princess and had a Prince Consort's Mansion in the imperial capital, which was regarded as Li Xiang's home in the imperial capital.
The housing prices in the imperial capital are very high, and many foreign officials cannot afford to buy medium-sized houses in the imperial capital. They can only live in places where the royal family lives for officials.
"It's better to be in the northwest!" Qian Duoduo felt very bad about the princess, mainly because he felt she was too hypocritical!
Now you have to live with the princess, so don’t you have to see her every day?
"It's only a month or two!" Wu Yating hugged her son and said with a smile: "Besides, in the Imperial Capital, you can also ask adults to take you around to buy delicious food. The delicious food here in the Imperial Capital is the best in the whole country. Good food!”
Rumble!
While the two were talking, the sound of horse hooves came from behind, dozens of war horses were running, and the sound of the cavalry stepping on the stone road was very loud.
Seeing the bloody wolf-headed banner, the running speed of these teenagers slowed down. The Xiliang cavalry felt the opponent's speed and put their hands on their weapons. As long as the opponent dared to get close, they would dare to send these teenagers away!
Li Xiang turned around and took a look at the teenagers. When he saw one of them, he felt familiar, so he didn't pay too much attention.
The road they are currently on is an official road. In this area, only the army and the teams authorized by the emperor can walk. Other teams are not allowed to approach. Every other location is guarded by the army.
Once you find non-military and licensed teams walking among them, wait for people from the two factories to pass by!
The Imperial City Division did not have as much power in the imperial capital as the two factories. Even though it was his responsibility, the various powers within the Imperial City Division were intertwined, so the emperor did not trust him very much and was afraid that there would be some cover-up on the part of the Imperial City Division.
There are many dandy boys in the imperial capital. They have rich backgrounds and come from all major families. Will those in the Imperial City Department take action against them?
Won't!
The people in the two factories were different. They were only loyal to the emperor. Their relationship with the ministers in the court was like a cat and a mouse. As long as the emperor wanted to touch them, he would let the cat out, so that no one would dare to follow him. Is the emperor facing him?
But because of their identities, the power of the two factories can only be in the Imperial Capital. They cannot be as powerful outside the Imperial Capital. The Imperial City Division does not want the power of the two factories to leave the Imperial Capital.
Their presence in the Imperial Capital is enough to give the Imperial City Division a headache. If these soldiers are allowed to leave the Imperial Capital, is it still necessary for the Imperial City Division to exist?
"Zhengting, that seems to be your eighth uncle's team!" A young man said to Li Xiang, who looked familiar to him: "The bloody wolf-headed flag, and these elite cavalry, I heard my father say that this morning!"
"Eighth uncle!" Li Zhengting had a very weak impression of Li Xiang, his eighth uncle, because Li Xiang was not his grandfather's wife, Li Xiang was not very talented, and his status in the Li family was just that, not even as high as some high-status housekeepers.
It’s strange that he can have an impression of such an uncle!
At this moment, a somewhat obscene voice came: "I heard that the wives your eighth uncle married are all pretty..."
"Poof!" The young man who was talking on horseback flew out and blood spurted out. No one else knew what had happened. The Xiliang army continued to move forward as if they had not seen this scene.
A figure rushed over from a distance, tapped the boy's body with his hands several times, looked at the Xiliang army, his face was a little ugly, and just when he was about to say something, a huge pressure made him kneel on the ground.
The teenagers on the war horses were dumbfounded when they saw this scene. They knew this middle-aged man and he was a first-class master.
A voice that only they could hear came: "Young men, remember that trouble comes from your mouth!"
The middle-aged man vomited a mouthful of blood, his eyes full of fear, and kowtowed several times until blood stains appeared on his forehead. Only then did the pressure leave them.
Only then did the teenagers come to their senses and looked at the young man who was lying on the ground not knowing whether he was alive or dead. This guy was speaking freely, otherwise they wouldn't be so embarrassed.
But thinking about the pressure just now, they knew very well that it should be the Taoist master Taoist Master Qingsong who was guarding Xiang Li.
"Let's go!" Li Zhengting glanced at the Xiliang cavalry at the front and said to the teenagers beside him.
He desperately wanted to know something.
It will be dark soon, and the army is not moving very fast. They can only stop at a post station, stay here for one night and continue moving forward tomorrow. In this way, they should be able to reach the inner city of the imperial capital tomorrow afternoon.
The Xiliang army took over the guarding work in the post, and the Xiliang headquarters itself provided food.
"Lord, what happened during the day..."
Li Xiang threw the letter in his hand on the table: "This is just a person who deliberately asked people to borrow a knife to kill people. They just want to know our Xiliang's strength and reaction. To deal with such people, we must use thunderous means to completely scare them!"
Zhang Qingyun nodded. Revenge is not within his capabilities, but politics is what he is good at: "Then do you want to talk to the other side and put some pressure on those people?"
"No need!" Li Xiang said with a smile: "They are just some clowns. What you need to do now is to promote our northwest products. I know you have many ideas in your mind, but you cannot implement them because of the money.
As for the money, if it's less, I can still get it, but if it's more, you know that the headquarters needs to support the headquarters' army, so we can't allocate too much!
This time is an opportunity, just do your own thing with peace of mind, and leave the rest to me!"
Li Xiang said confidently: "They are a group of old foxes, proficient in all kinds of calculations. Compared with them, I am an idiot, but they give me the best thing I want. If they don't give it to me, I will take it myself."
I'm not a person who follows rules. Just do it and it's over. It's best to ask the emperor to drive me out of the city!"
Li Xiangke has no restrictions. The emperor wants to kill him. Four great masters are here. It is easy to escort them back. By driving him out, he can leave this place with his mother and sister openly and return to the northwest that belongs to him.
Dadi, take any part of Liangzhou.
He is now a person with no restrictions and can do whatever he wants (to a certain extent). People like him are what those old foxes hate to see the most because they are difficult to control.
