In the palace of the king of Chongrenfang, Li Tong sat in the empty court, watching the servants busy sprinkling and tidying up, looking leisurely, and thinking about many thoughts in his heart.

The pattern of Chang'an City is grand, Chongrenfang is also a large square in the city, and it is the imperial city of Taiji Palace next to the west. This royal residence is not small, covering an area of more than half an acre, because most of the family members are still in the manor outside the city, which seems a little empty.

This state of affairs is somewhat similar to the current situation of the entire Chang'an City, where pedestrians are not allowed to walk around at will, and the only lively area in the entire city is the side street between Jinguangmen and Chunmingmen.

At present, the Wu and Zhou dynasties and the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City is still decades away from the peak of its real prosperity, and now it has lost its position as the political center, and it is inevitable that it will be neglected.

To be honest, the current level of development of productive forces does not really require a large settlement of the scale of Chang'an City. Including the Shendu Luoyang, the people living in the city are actually half of the high-ranking officials and dignitaries and people who carry out activities around this group, and there is no relatively considerable group of citizens.

Whether it is the wealthy merchants who are active in the city, or the various households that provide various services to the government and the powerful, they make up a large proportion of the urban population. When the center of power shifts, these people naturally go with it.

As an amateur history buff, Li Tong has a special affection for Chang'an, a city that to a certain extent represents the two highlight moments of the Han and Tang dynasties. Therefore, when I saw the loneliness of Chang'an City now, I felt a little uncomfortable.

Previously, he decided to live in Chang'an City for a short time, except for avoiding the political trend of Shendu and this feeling, he actually didn't have a specific plan in his heart. Today's experience of entering the city has made his thinking gradually settle.

First of all, it is naturally the operation of the Old Clothes Society, putting aside the identity of the Tang Dynasty or the King of the Great Zhou Dynasty that is not very reliable on the table, this is the fundamental place for him to settle down in this world.

Therefore, although the clothing club is still short of people and things, the basic structure has been consolidated, and it only needs to fill in the people and things he can cover one after another.

To enhance the cohesion of an organization, one is money and food, the second is force, and the third is ideological indoctrination. Regarding these points, Li Tong has plans to carry out, and now he has some new ideas.

Then it is necessary to get rid of Wu Youyi, not only to provide a reliable guarantee for the recovery of the four towns of Anxi, but also because in the future, Xijing Chang'an will be a center where he will gather manpower and material resources in his hands. A martial artist is sitting here, which really makes him unsteady.

Now it seems that this goal is not very difficult to achieve by virtue of the ability to use force. However, Li Tong also knows that the final decision on this matter is still made by his grandmother Wu Zetian, and if he wants to influence Wu Zetian's decision, it is not enough to toss and talk about it by himself, including a few henchmen.

At present, his grandmother's mind is crazy, and only by cooling down can she deeply weigh the pros and cons and make a relatively correct decision. At this point, Li Tong also has a belly case in his heart, but he needs a suitable time to trigger it, which requires the cooperation of the Shendu court.

The third nature is the layout of Chang'an in Xijing, Li Tong also hopes to not only strengthen himself, but also stimulate the relatively sluggish atmosphere of Chang'an, and gradually regain his vitality.

At present, Wu Zhou Xinli, the focus of the current situation is in Shendu, all parties are competing for it, and Xijing Chang'an is in a window period. This is also a rare opportunity for Li Tong, if it were not for this, with his shallow foundation, it would not be easy to make waves in Chang'an, the core area of Guanlong for a long time.

In the evening, Liu You begged to enter Beijing quickly, hurriedly entered the palace, and when he saw the queen, he raised his hand and said: "The king wants to conspire with the remaining guards Qujiang Yaji?" Will this affect future plans? ”

"No, it's business as usual."

Li Tong raised his hand and motioned for Liu Youqiu to sit on the side of the porch, and asked the servants to withdraw, before continuing to order: "How many goods is still in the warehouse of Qin Yongxing Society right now?" After deducting the use of the Longpu, the rest will be collected in the suburbs of Beijing first, and I will use it for other purposes. ”

"The king wants to pawn Qujiang Garden?"

Liu Youqiu quickly reacted after hearing this, and said with some hesitation: "This is not a long-term plan, but the land value around Qujiang is inflated, if the world knows that the king is here, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to find an inch of land." Even if it is a pawn buyer, it is a long-term slow harvest, but the Spring and Autumn Period of the Clothing Society is hugely consumed, and I am afraid that it will not be able to wait. ”

"It's not Qujiang, Wu Youyi, this stupid thing, it's really not enough to do anything!"

Li Tong didn't have this idea of speculating on the land, but now he naturally can't do it, Wu Youyi patted his chest and promised, but how he would give himself an explanation, Li Tong didn't know.

At present, there are too few goods at his disposal, and the consumption of all parties is amazing, so naturally he will no longer compete with others for hot land, so after Wu Youyi left, he has been thinking about opening up the situation from elsewhere.

"Qujiang is going to gather characters there, don't pay attention to it for the time being. I'm going to buy and acquire the mansion in a few idle shops in the southwest, and use it as the hub of the old clothes club in Beijing. ”

Relatively speaking, the northeast of Chang'an City is the most prosperous, and the southwest is a bit desolate.

There is another historical reason for this, that is, during the Zhenguan period, in order to control the prefectures outside the capital, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, ordered people to build state residences in several squares north and south of Yanpingmen on the west side of Chang'an City, and let the states send envoys to Chang'an to undertake the edict.

As the country prospered, this form of control became irrelevant. After the arrival of the empress, Chang'an City lost even its basic political center functions, and these state residences were completely idle.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the feudal towns in various regions were divided, and the phenomenon of permanent residence in Gyeonggi flourished again. However, at that time, it was not the central government that controlled the imperial court, but the feudal towns used it to spy on the details of the Gyeonggi center.

Those feudal towns are strong and strong, and naturally they will not honestly squat in the mansion assigned to them by the imperial court, but freely choose a residence in Chang'an, which is mainly concentrated in the three major areas, that is, Taiji Palace, Daming Palace, Xingqing Palace, such as Chongrenfang, Pingkangfang, etc., called the concert courtyard or the backyard and the like.

These envoys in Beijing spied on the secrets of the imperial court and copied them to the feudal domain, from which newspapers such as Dibao were derived. Sometimes, the Imperial Court was worried that the feudal town would resist the decree, so it had to consult and communicate in advance through the Shinsoin.

In more serious cases, the envoys stationed in Beijing even attacked and killed the minister in the street. For example, in the Middle Tang Dynasty, Li Shidao, a fierce vassal of the Tang Dynasty, assassinated Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng and stabbed Pei Du, hiding assassins through the Jinjuan Academy.

Of course, these are all things that are not visible at the moment, and after Li Tong gave up the Qujiang enclosure, he quickly focused his attention on these idle state mansions. Now Chang'an City is empty, and it is advisable to stay behind and even gather wandering people, so they simply cultivate in the middle of the place, and a few idle shops in the southwest corner will naturally not attract much attention.

The fertile land on the outskirts of Chang'an was mostly encroached upon, and it was difficult to find a lot of money, while the city was not reliable because of the strict rules and the unreliable left-behind minister Wu Youyi, but the land price was low and there was no one to live in.

Just now, Li Tong also inquired about Xu Jian, the captain of Wannian, and found that to purchase property in the city, not only is the procedure convenient and fast, but the price is more than several times cheaper than outside the city, so he is ready to start the countryside to surround the city, so that the power of the old clothes society can penetrate into Chang'an City, and use a few idle squares in the southwest corner as a base.

He is not worried that this phenomenon will recur in the short term, because historical records record that even in the most prosperous Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods of Chang'an City, these idle shops were uninhabited and were cultivated by people.

"You instructed the direct affairs of the Chang'an Society to go to the West Market to find a person named Feng Yansi, he is a broker in the West City, and he must win the largest mansion with the least amount of money."

Therefore, for the development of the Clothing Society, Li Tong still did not want the government staff to come forward directly, so he thought of the Feng Wu he met on the way.

Thinking of this name, I can't help but sigh, the way people name nowadays is also quite characteristic of the times, Changhei, heirs and the like, most of them are related to the succession of ancestors, this is probably the name of Zixuan and Haoyu in the world.

Although that Feng Wu seems to be quite famous, what Li Tong did is not an ordinary thing, just take this one thing to observe his character and ability, and then consider whether to introduce him into the mansion to teach things.

Liu Youqiu nodded after hearing this, but he was still a little reluctant to say: "Then the Qujiang River will no longer ask?" The king is the trend of the scenery, once the plot is set here, you can know that this realm will be noisy, or the humble post will visit the Guanzhong noble family again, see if you can ......"

He has full confidence in the king, and he was worried that the money and goods would be thrown here and the return would be too slow, but now when he heard that the king didn't think about it at all, he felt a little pity in his heart.

"You don't have to join in this kind of excitement, the idle land in the wild is not worth remembering, and the Furong Garden I am seeking is also!"

Li Tong only smiled faintly after hearing this, but he still couldn't help but scold Wu Youyi again, and at the same time hated and hated in his heart: What if you are happy now, when I succeed in cutting the line, Quan Te is Lao Tzu!

Hearing the king say this, Liu Youqiu was also excited, but he was a little ashamed of his little family. The largest garden industry around Qujiang Pond is naturally the Furong Garden, which belongs to the royal forbidden garden of the East Palace.

Of course, he didn't know that the king had already planned in his heart that in the coming year, he would wipe out all those guys who were foolish and reluctant to sell and coax.

"There is one more thing, in addition to the soldiers who entered Longda, the other disciples of Qinling also withdrew one after another, and scattered between Lishan first, waiting for my order to enter Beijing to do something. Choose a day to let Yang Xianzong enter the house to see him, and let him lead the pawn first. ”

When Liu Youqiu heard this, his face suddenly changed, and then he said with a faint excitement: "The king is going to ...... this."

"I may not be able to do big things for the time being, but I can't be bullied, when Chen Ge is on the street, I will give him a backyard drill!"

Li Tong sneered and said in a low voice.