The continuous prosperity and rapid development of commerce have turned Chang'an City into an international and prosperous metropolis, with a population that continues to surge, and people of foreign races from afar can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, with the rapid development and sustained prosperity of Chang'an City, the gap between the rich and the poor is also getting bigger and bigger, which will naturally make many people feel psychologically uncomfortable, and let many people begin to compare and fight for wealth with others, thus making Chang'an City a materialistic society, which is also a side effect of the development of the times, which is unavoidable in any prosperous era.

Of course, it is also possible to adopt a high-welfare policy, so that all the people can receive a certain amount of money for free, but this kind of high-welfare policy does not conform to the national conditions of Datang. Enjoy the blessings and comfort of your home.

The continuous expansion of the gap between the rich and the poor will inevitably cause many people to have serious psychological imbalances, and even dream of getting rich overnight, but most of the wealth is controlled by talented and powerful people like Ang Lee, and it is very difficult for ordinary people's children to get rich overnight, and the situation is exactly the same as that of later generations.

Of course, if a woman from an ordinary family is more beautiful, she is more likely to get rich, for example, she can marry a rich person as a concubine, or even marry into the palace as a concubine.

And if there is no such a good opportunity, the family burden is heavier, or the desire for wealth, the beautiful lady is also likely to choose to enter the Qinglou to clock in to work, anyway, in the era of Datang, the Qinglou is a legal place, and any woman can choose this job with a lot of income.

Although Li An is from later generations, since he came to the era of Datang, he must adapt to the trend and development of this era, and rashly propose to ban the Qinglou, which will offend the merry men of the whole Tang Dynasty, besides, Li An feels that there is no need to do this, many poor young ladies, especially the little ladies from the Western Regions who have traveled long distances to Datang, can not find a good way to make a living, as long as she is willing, and has a certain appearance and talent, she can go to the Qinglou to make a living, so that she can live more comfortably.

In addition, as an international metropolis, if there is no green building, it will appear very monotonous and lack of vitality, and the green building is the color of Datang and is an indispensable existence.

Chang'an City is becoming more and more prosperous, the land in the city has become expensive, and the housing prices have increased many times, in this case, the entertainment facilities that Li An wants to build will be deployed not far outside the city, anyway, the current traffic conditions are also good, and it is not much time to go out of the city to play.

Ten miles west of Chang'an City, Li An circled a piece of land and built a large-scale comprehensive entertainment city with one-stop service here.

There are all the entertainment methods of this era, and in addition, many later entertainment methods have been added, such as saunas, massages, farm stays, etc.

The development of these projects has made Li Ang gain a lot, and his income has increased a lot at once, and he is rich and rich.

However, just when Datang is moving towards prosperity step by step, there are always some people who can't let go of the problem of autocracy, and they don't think about how to frame people.

On the occasion of the New Year of the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Jian, the elder brother of the crown princess, secretly met with the emperor Fu Weiming in the Jinglong Taoist Temple on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

And this behavior was caught by Li Linfu's minions, so he asked Yang Shenjin to play Emperor Ming, saying that Wei Jian was the emperor's prince and should not be too close to Bian Future, and he himself then played, saying that Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming conspired to rebel and had the intention of supporting the crown prince as emperor.

Li Longji is the emperor after all, and he will not allow anyone to challenge his imperial power, even if it is just a matter of chasing the wind and shadows, he will not let it go.

Long Yan was furious, Li Longji ordered the arrest of Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming, and asked Wang Ji in the Imperial History and Cao Jiwen of Jingzhao Mansion to interrogate the case together.

Wang Ji is Li Linfu's loyal younger brother, and he obeys Li Linfu's orders in everything, and Cao Jiwen, the law of Jingzhao Mansion, is Li Linfu's most loyal lackey.

Of course, this is not to say that he is very capable, but because he is more ruthless and good at torturing people to extract confessions.

It is said that when Giwen interrogated the case, he would find a person who had committed a felony, who was dying and scarred, and placed it in front of the person being tried, so that the person being interrogated could only confess his guilt, and if he refused to admit his guilt, he would be whipped and tortured, in short, as long as it fell into the hands of Giwen, no one could escape.

During this period, there was also a very powerful torturer named Luo Xizao, who formed a golden partner with Ji Wen, known as Luo Ji Net, which made everyone in the capital frightened.

Of course, the reason why a little person like Jiwen can be so arrogant is that the emperor is behind him, although he is cruel, but everything he does is in line with the emperor's wishes, if the emperor wants to protect a certain person, he has the courage to do something against this person.

This time, the emperor was full of suspicion and uneasiness about Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming's secret meeting, although there was no evidence that the secret meeting between the two was to support the crown prince as emperor, but after all, the identities of these two people were very special, and they secretly went to the Taoist temple to meet at night, which always gave people a sense of conspiracy.

Li Longji was full of suspicion in his heart, which gave Li Linfu and Ji Wen and others a chance, they understood the emperor's mind, so they dared to boldly collect all kinds of evidence and falsely accuse the two.

However, Huangfu Weiming and Wei Jian are not ordinary people, their bones are very hard, and ordinary threats and intimidation cannot intimidate them, so Ji Wen interrogated for many days without obtaining the slightest evidence.

But the key problem was that the emperor was suspicious of the secret meeting between the two, so even if Ji Wen failed to find evidence, Li Longji still ordered that the two be demoted and let them leave the administrative center of the Tang Dynasty and go to the local area to become a nominal magistrate.

And once they enter the ground as officials, it will be very easy for Li Linfu to kill them, but this is fate, who let them not sleep at night and go to the Taoist temple for private meetings?

Huangfu is clearly the envoy of Hexi Longyou, but now he has been demoted, and the things of Hexi Longyou must be dealt with by someone, so the emperor asked Wang Zhongsi to temporarily serve as the envoy of Hexi and Longyou, in order to solve the urgent need.

However, in this way, Wang Zhongsi controlled the four towns of Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang and Hedong, and the strength of the soldiers and horses under his command exceeded half of the size of the Tang border army, so it was naturally not conducive to central control.

It's just that at this time, the festival envoy only has military power, and has no economic rights, if the capital does not provide supplies, the border army will be in chaos, so it is generally reassuring.

Besides, this is only a temporary appointment, and after finding a suitable candidate, Wang Zhonghei will be immediately relieved of some of his rights.

To say that Wang Zhongsi is also a talent, when Shuofang served as a festival envoy, whenever he traded with the Hu people, he always overestimated the price of horses, and after the Hu people heard about it, they all competed to sell the horses to the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Zhongsi bought all the horses, so the horses of the Hu people gradually became scarce, while the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses became stronger and stronger.

After serving as both Hexi and Longyou, Wang Zhongsi found that the soldiers and horses in Hexi and Longyou were too weak, especially the strength of the cavalry was very insufficient, so he asked for a part of Shuofang's horses to be transferred to Hexi and Longyou.

The imperial court quickly agreed, and as a result, the soldiers and horses of Hexi and Longyou became more and more powerful, at least much stronger than before.

Although, at this time, Li An had already invented the ironclad artillery car, which was far more powerful than the weak cavalry, but the ironclad artillery car was extremely expensive after all, and it needed too much logistical support force, and it was definitely inferior to the cavalry in some aspects in terms of mobility and flexibility, so the construction of the cavalry could not be stopped.

Even in the era when cannons were flying all over the sky in later generations, cavalry was still a very strong force, until the appearance of machine guns, which completely reduced the cavalry to a supporting role, and was finally replaced by mechanical cavalry units step by step.

Now the national strength of the Tang Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, and with the railway looking at Shule Town, the Tubo Empire is a little unable to hold on.

Because once the Tang Dynasty paved the railway to Shule Town, it would form a three-sided encirclement of the Tubo Empire in the overall strategic pattern, which would cause great psychological pressure on Tubo.

Of course, Tubo is still quite afraid of the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, so most of the high-ranking Tubo leaders are in favor of friendship with the Tang Dynasty and oppose confrontation with the Tang Empire.

However, there are also a few Tubo eagle figures, who believe that if the Tang Dynasty is allowed to develop like this, the Tubo Empire will be annexed sooner or later, especially after the construction of the Great Railway, the connection between the Tang Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions will become closer, commerce will become more prosperous, and the military will become more and more powerful, thus posing great pressure on Tubo.

The Tibetan doves could not convince some of the eagles, so some of the eagles led the cavalry to disguise themselves as bandits, raided the road construction army of the Tang Empire, robbed a large number of materials from the Tang Dynasty, and killed some of the craftsmen and technicians who laid the railway, and the soldiers responsible for defending also lost a lot.

The paper can't keep the fire, and the Tubo cavalry, dressed as bandits, of course, can't hide it from the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and immediately reported the news.

Such a blatant provocation by Tubo greatly annoyed Wang Zhonghe, who had just taken office, and immediately went to the imperial court, asking for a lead and crusade against Tubo.

The story of the Tubo sneak attack on the road construction army and the killing of the people of the Tang Dynasty soon spread to the capital Chang'an, and became a hot topic of discussion among the people in the streets and alleys.

In today's era when the Tang Dynasty is so strong, almost all the people are in favor of using force against Tubo, and how can the Tang Empire be strong and inviolable without using force.

Li Longji became more and more angry as he got older, and when he heard that the Tubo cavalry disguised themselves as bandits and attacked the road construction army of the Tang Dynasty, he was furious and threw out the emergency documents on the spot.

Wang Zhongsi and Fu Meng Lingcha's petition for war was soon sent to the Daming Palace, Li Longji didn't think about it, he directly stamped and agreed, and immediately mobilized a large number of strategic materials to support the soldiers and horses to which the two belonged, so that they could make comprehensive preparations to teach the Tubo Empire a lesson.

In the era of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo has always been a relatively powerful force, and it has even been able to defeat the Tang army many times, causing heavy losses to the Tang army.

However, this is not because of how brave the Tibetan soldiers were, but because the geographical location of the Tibetan soldiers is a plateau, and the oxygen content is relatively thin.

People who are accustomed to living in that environment will not feel how thin the oxygen in the air is, but as long as the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty go to the plateau, they will feel that they are breathless, their physical strength and energy will be greatly reduced, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

However, the Tang army also has its own advantages, that is, the advanced equipment and technology, as well as the maturity of the combat strategy, which is incomparable to the Tibetans, after all, the Tang Dynasty has thousands of years, while the Tibetans are very short.

For the sake of the dignity of the Tang Empire, in order to teach the bold Tubo a lesson, this battle is fat.

In addition to Wang Zhongsi and Fumeng Lingcha, who attacked Tibet in two ways, Li Longji even gathered troops and horses in Chang'an City, ready to reinforce the front at any time, and completely defeated the Tibetan soldiers and horses with the superiority of troops and equipment.

After receiving the holy decree, the soldiers and horses of Hexi and Longyou had set out, preparing to attack Tubo, and the soldiers and horses of the capital had also gathered tens of thousands of elites, waiting for Li Longji's order.

This time, the Tang Empire wanted to use force against Tubo, not only with the full support of all the Tang people, but also with the support of merchants and royal families from the Western Regions.

"Li Shilang, you've heard about it! Datang is going to use force against Tubo. ”

Li Yu ran to the R&D center and found Li An, who was resting.

"Huh! How could I not have known such a big movement. ”

Li An closed his eyes and said with a smile, Li Yu asked such a question, it was all nonsense.

"Then what does Li Shilang think?"

Li Yu asked tentatively.

"Datang will win, what is there to doubt about this, Tubo is not the opponent of Datang."

Ang Lee said softly.

"Li Shilang, Your Majesty is really angry this time, as if he intends to send out the ironclad artillery brigade and artillery brigade to deal a fatal blow to Tubo."

Li Yu continued.

"Your Majesty is so angry, you actually want to use the heavy weapons to guard the capital, no, I want to enter the palace to meet Your Majesty and have a good talk with Your Majesty."

Li An did not object to the use of these advanced weapons, but these two advanced weapons were all formed by Li An, so he had to go over and discuss with the emperor.