Chapter 30: The New Dynasty and the Politics

The car of the "big man" took half a quarter to cross the bridge, and the officials guarding the bridge let go.

Wu Lun looked back at the long convoy, only to feel that the banner painted with dragons was a little dazzling, and asked Jing Dan: "Brother Sun Qing, do you know who has just passed?" โ€

The new dynasty is fully retro in public opinion, people of different identities have hierarchical differences in what kind of car they drive, and the number of honor guards in their entourage, and the fifth Lun does not know much about this, plus the recent wind of simplicity in the DPRK and China, some iconic honor guards have been deliberately removed, and it is even more difficult to identify.

"The car is a Zhu liner, the beast is a deer, and the flag is a dragon on the nine (yรณu) flag."

Jing Dan guessed: "According to the etiquette system, it should be the car of the crown prince and the princes." โ€

Wang Long on the side answered: "Plus there are green cars on the left and right as deputy two, and the person in the car should be the emperor's grandson." โ€

When Wu Lun crossed the bridge, he took a piece of cloth and asked the officials guarding the bridge, and sure enough, he got the answer: "It is the emperor's grandson and Gong Chonggong." โ€

The Han Dynasty inherited the 20th rank of the Qin Dynasty, and Wang Mang thought that this was the system of the tyrannical Qin, so he abolished all of them and restored the 5th rank of the Zhou Dynasty. Under the Son of Heaven, there are Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Male, plus the attached city equivalent to the Hou of Guannei.

In addition to several founding fathers, such as the national teacher "Liu Xiu" was named the prince, Wang Mang also gave his sons and grandsons the title of duke, after the Zen Dynasty, it is still the world.

And the Gongchong Gong Wang Zong who has just passed, although he is only the fourth grandson of Wang Mang, is the most favored.

Jing Dan knew a lot about this court gossip, and said: "I heard that the original title of Jinshang in the former Han Dynasty was 'Marquis of Xindu', and later he was promoted to Duke of Anhan, and the position of Marquis of Xindu was inherited by Wang Zong. โ€

"In the ninth year of the third year (8 years) of Juse, the mother of today's merit showed that the monarch was a king, and the ministers knelt down and begged not to abandon the world, so Wang Zong served the mourning on his behalf, and lived by the tomb for three years."

What is it? That's political qualification! Although Wang Mang had already appointed his fourth son, Wang Lin, as the crown prince, Gongchong Gonggong Wangzong was still regarded as a strong contender for the position of prince, and he was also a vain talent. Maybe the emperor will change his mind one day and want to pass on the throne to this "good holy grandson"!

Fifth, it seems that there are factional rifts within the royal family.

Everyone crossed the bridge all the way to the southeast, at this time the sky is cool in the twilight and autumn, the trees on the side of the road are rustling, there are residual leaves of the lotus pond behind, the huge city in front is majestic, and the city wall has not yet been touched, and the surrounding has prospered.

Along the way, you can see more than 10 streets, every few neighborhoods, you can come across a bazaar, just as the evening market has just dispersed, the merchant bows his head and counts the money of today's harvest, and the slave drives the goose to carry the meat and returns.

This is still only the periphery of the Jingshi, there are twelve city gates in Chang'an, and the location where they enter the city is the "Kitchen City Gate" located in the north, and now Wang Mang has been changed to "Jianzi Gate" - even a door, and it can't escape the poisonous hand of the mad demon who changed his name.

After the market was dispersed, taxis, people, and cars and horses lined up at the gate again. Jing Dan reminded the fifth Lun and the eighth Jiao: "In addition to the talisman, you must also prepare the rhubarb cloth or cargo cloth and hold it in your left hand, so that you can enter the city." โ€

This is not to pay the city fee, but Wang Mang tossed the currency too many times, causing people in the world to be unhappy to use the new money. The new chamber then issued a decree: "Officials and the common people shall go from one place to another and possess the talismans and the treasures that correspond to them." Otherwise, they will not be allowed to stay overnight at the counter-travel station, and they will be detained at the pass ferry......"

But the problem is that a large rhubarb cloth that can be used as a thousand coins has been discarded as a product of the last monetary reform, and will be completely abolished in another year, but it is still required as a proof when entering and leaving the city, isn't it ridiculous?

Finally entered the city, the fifth Lun can finally take a look at this Beijing master scenery, in his imagination, Chang'an, as a two-hundred-year-old capital, should be the people are both rich and rich, all women are women, different from the five directions, and the traveler intends to be a prince. In short, the high-spirited self-confidence of the people in the capital must be there.

But the vision made him disappointed, the pattern is indeed atmospheric and regular, but there is a trace of liveliness, whether it is the street or the alley, it is full of depression.

There are indeed a lot of cars and horses on the road, but one is more broken than the other, and the financial resources are the best in the world.

The ornate decorations on the car were all erased, and the pedestrians no longer wore luxurious silk, all of them were dressed in kudzu and linen, and the short-sleeved clothes were small for fear of wasting fabric. Women do not wear gold and silver hairpins, but use wattle hairpins on their hair, long skirts are deliberately cut off, and the shoes on their feet are not inlaid with pearls and jade, which is worn out as beauty.

It's really like going back to the basics and going back to the three generations of antiquity, but if you look closely, some people have gorgeous silk fabrics exposed inside the rough linen clothes, which turns out to be just surface engineering.

Jing Dan knew Chang'an's recent retro style, and said in a low voice: "The Son of Heaven thinks that the country is weak and the people are poor, and the blame lies in luxury, so he asked the folk utensils not to carve fakes, which is why this situation is there." โ€

Half a month ago, at the meeting of Changping Pavilion, the fifth Lun was crooked, and when he encountered this simple style, he was listed as a typical example by Kui Huan and was allowed to enter the seat.

This wind has already dispersed, and the Liuwei counties around the capital division have also implemented it, and everyone has heard about it, and before coming, they removed the decorations on the carriage and horses, and put on sackcloth. Fifth Lun looked back and couldn't help but wonder: "If you pull up a black coffin again, it will become a funeral." โ€

Arriving here, Wang Long took their farewell to them.

"There is a mansion in Qili in the Marquis of Qiongcheng, I want to settle down there, Brother Sun Qing, Boyu, see you tomorrow."

After everyone said goodbye to him, Jing Dan couldn't help but say to Fifth Lun: "Chang'an's mansion has always been more expensive the further south you go. โ€

"Brother Sun Qing still cares about the housing prices in Chang'an?" The fifth Lun was happy: "Where is the most expensive?" โ€

"The most expensive is, of course, Shoucheng Room (Weiyang Palace)."

Jing Dan made a joke that was not funny, and said: "But that is a priceless place, if you want to talk about a valuable mansion, it should be located outside the Xuanwu Gate of the Shoucheng Room, also known as Qili." Qili left Gui Palace, right North Palace, lived mostly Shiqing's relatives, there were Jin, Zhang, Xu, Shi gathered, Xiao also has a mansion there. โ€

"The second is located in the Shangguanli between the Shoucheng Room and the Changle Room (Changle Palace), adjacent to Jing Zhaoyin in the north, and Zaifu in the south, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty also lived in this place when he was in the middle of the time, and it is said that there are often miracles. The four assistants, the three dukes, the four generals, the nine kings and the six eunuchs, as well as the brothers of Gong Chonggong Wang Lin lived there. โ€

"In these two places, one house can be the price of a thousand gold."

Fifth Lun only thought that if the first ring is the palace, then the north is not within the second ring of the capital?

As for the Xuanming where they are going, they have already reached the third ring road. However, the price of a house in a district is also as high as 100 gold, and it will not be sold easily. I don't know when the fourth clan got it, because the price is too expensive, no wonder he is only willing to lend it to the fifth Lun instead of giving it away.

Because the cost of living in Chang'an is too high, Wu Lun knew that Jing Dan left Dazong to work his own, and his family was not rich, so he took the initiative to invite him to live with him, which was also convenient for each other.

"You are waiting for the wrong way, this is Xuanpingli, not Xuanmingli."

When they stopped to ask, a lieutenant commander holding a wooden slip pointed them in the direction, and heard the foreign accents of several people, so he asked, "Is there a female dependent in the car?" โ€

A few people shook their heads, and soon understood why the lieutenant chief asked such a question.

But at the intersection of streets and alleys, straw mats are often spread, and there are a few people wearing plain white clothes and Confucian crowns sitting on their knees, and there are wooden barrels beside them. Their eyes were fixed on every passerby, especially men and women walking in groups.

If a man or a woman get too close, or if the young man who knows that he is young and forgets the ban on going in and out arm in arm, this group of men in white is like a hunting dog that sees its prey and immediately gets up. They took a few steps forward, pulled out the cloth flags soaked in red clay mud from the wooden barrel, and struck them hard at the "dog man and woman"!

With a burst of exclamations, not to mention that the clothes of couples and couples were dirty, they had to be reprimanded by that group of Confucian students.

This meeting made the fifth Lun look stupid, and when I asked, I realized that it was not a single dog who was taking revenge on society.

Li Chang said: "Those people in white are the doctoral disciples of Taixue, but this behavior is learned from Yu Tang Zun." โ€

Yu Yu Tang Zun is one of the Nine Qings, he took the lead in responding to the emperor's retro and simple government, and he brought up the atmosphere of surface engineering in this city. Emperor Wang Mang also praised it greatly, and issued an edict to Shen Zun to Comrade Tang Zun to "think and think".

If something is good at the top, it will be very good at the bottom, and many people will see the wisdom and think together, and learn from it. Those students who read ancient books and read demons even took to the streets one after another, strictly implementing the Confucian ideal politics of "men and women have no way".

But in these years, sex is not as rigid as Song Ming, eloping and remarrying is not a problem, but now he can't even walk side by side, which is really overkill.

The lieutenant was also young, and he hated this trend, and said: "It's really strange, how can men and women violate the ban?" When we were younger, we did more than we could! If everyone is so reserved and careful, I am afraid that it will be difficult for people over the age of 30 to get married and have children. If you want me to say, it is forbidden to not marry at thirty and not go home to visit the father of the children! โ€

Chang'an should have been a car like flowing water and a horse like a swimming dragon, but it was a lot more deserted. It is no wonder that the retro movement of Wang Mang and Mellow Confucianism is going on in the city, and the pedestrians are in a hurry, not daring to stay for a long time, and there is weirdness everywhere.

Looking at it along the way, Wu Lun was simply powerless to complain, and only said secretly: "It is worthy of the new dynasty, and there are many 'elegant politics'!" โ€

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The atmosphere is so delicate, they are not out for a long time, follow the direction of the long finger, along the east-west Xiyin Street has been walking east, Xuanpingli next door is hung with the word "Xuanmingli" three words.

Fifth Lun didn't look at the layout of his new home "community", but turned his head to look back at the palace to the south.

The twilight of the sunset, like a red glow falling in the city, the palace in front of you is not as majestic as other buildings, and the eaves of those upturned roofs are a little delicate. And it is independent of the north of the Shoucheng room and the Changle room, which is self-contained and seems a little lonely.

Fifth Lun then pointed to it and asked Xuanming's inner prison gate: "Dare to ask which palace is this?" โ€

The janitors in the capital are different from other places, and they have long been accustomed to seeing princes and generals passing by in front of the door, and the fifth Lun and Jing Dan are two little filial piety officials.

He looked down at the talismans of several people, and said: "In the past, it was called Mingguang Palace, but now it has been renamed Ding'an Pavilion." โ€

The inner prison door raised his head, and he didn't have a good face: "The person who lives inside is the head of the Yellow Imperial Family!" โ€

The fifth Lun and Jing Dan suddenly talked about Wang Mang's daughter, the empress of Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty in the previous dynasty.

It is said that she married into the palace at the age of eight in the praise of the whole world, was widowed at the age of eleven, and died in a few years. So she was renamed the "Yellow Imperial Master" by Wang Mang from the Empress Dowager of the Han Family, and became the eldest princess of the new dynasty, living in a simple house in the Ding'an Pavilion.

She was only twenty-one years old.

This identity is really complicated and subtle, Wu Lun looked back a few times, and before the sun completely set, he walked into Xuanming with Jing Dan.

Compared with the fifth mile in the countryside of Changling, although this Xuanming Li is outside the second ring road, it is worthy of the feet of the Son of Heaven, connected by households, living in alleys, not only the road is regular and straight, but also very clean and tidy. Water is sprinkled in front of every house to sweep away the manure left behind by livestock and dead leaves falling from the treetops.

The people are also in vain, polite to people, when encountering a cart and horse, just a casual glance away from the eyes, will not be like the people of the fifth mile, the donkey cart will squat on the side of the road and watch for a long time.

Thinking of this, Wu Lun shook his head and said secretly: "It's only been a long time since I left, and I'm a little homesick." โ€

The ditch on both sides was gurgling, and there were deep rut marks on the bluestone slabs, and I followed it all the way in, and soon came to a small house. Compared with the neighbors' pink walls and green tiles, it is a little dilapidated, and an old tall elm tree pokes its head out of the wall.

According to the address given by the fourth salt, this should be it.

Fifth Lun went to the main gate and knocked on the door, Fifth Blessing got out of the car to carry the clothes, but he tripped over something, and fell to the ground with a bang.

When I turned around, I saw a person lying on the side of the ditch on the outer wall of this house!

"Dead ...... Dead person? โ€

When Fifth Lun and Jing Dan heard the news, they took a closer look at the moonlight, but they were an old man with white hair and the smell of wine. Looking at the ups and downs of his stomach and the snoring sound from time to time, he was obviously drunk, and he was still muttering in his mouth, saying mysterious words that everyone couldn't understand.

"Serving a hundred servants, calloused hands and feet. Or yun or timid, staining the body and exposing the muscles. The friend said no, and entered the palace late. Where is the blame? Do it! โ€

As he spoke, he actually cried, like a child, snot and tears stuck to his white beard, looking very pitiful.

At this time, the door also opened, and sure enough, it was the mansion of the Fourth Xian family, and there was a couple of slaves and husbands who were here to watch the house, and they had long known that the Fifth Lun would come, and immediately raised the threshold to let the carriage into the courtyard.

Fifth Fortune broke his jaw and continued to work with a curse, but Fifth Lun asked them to carry the drunken old man in.

"What if you die inside?" The fifth blessing was not happy, touching the bleeding chin, and felt that he should not be nosy.

"It's late autumn now, and the weather is cold, if you don't care about him, I'm afraid I won't survive tonight if I freeze for a night at such an age."

Fifth Lun is very good at hypocrisy, but he still has a little kindness in his heart, and Jing Dan also thinks that it should be so: "Since you can walk around in Xuanming, it means that you are a neighbor, or an old father who is drunk and lost, and you can't leave it alone." โ€

The eighth and fifth burinations raised their heads and feet, moved the old man into the courtyard, found a straw mat for him to lean on, covered him with a blanket, and asked people to cook some hot ginger soup.

The servant in the house lit the torch, took a picture in front of the old man, and said with a smile: "Isn't this the drunken widow (guฤn) in Ben Yangxiong?" Which one did you go to tonight to cheat on wine and eat? โ€

Jing Dan was stunned when he heard this: "You say, this person is the old Zhongsan doctor Yangxiong?" โ€

"Xishu Yangziyun?"

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