Chang'an City is still prosperous, and has not been affected by the northward movement of the Southern Tang Army in a few months, tens of thousands of troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty were wiped out at a distance of about 100 miles from Chang'an, and even the vast majority of Chang'an people did not know about it.

Indeed, five years have passed, and the Tang Dynasty is somewhat vague in the memory of the people, but the unpopular taxes implemented by the Tang Dynasty in Bashu have made the people of Chang'an disgusted under Zhu Zhu's deliberate rendering.

For example, the tax between the shelves, the tax on tea and wine, etc., are related to the food and housing in the four categories of people's lives, clothing, food, housing and transportation, how can people not hate it. 、

Each family has an ordinary few rooms, and they have to pay taxes of three to four times a year, which is equivalent to a month's income of ordinary people in Chang'an, and the tea and wine tax is also a new tax introduced the year before last, which is not directly charged to the people, but added to the tea wine, resulting in the general price increase of tea and wine in Shu, the so-called wool out of the sheep, which is also a very criticized tax.

Coupled with the mediocrity and incompetence of the Son of Heaven and the reuse of eunuchs, the Southern Tang Army was defeated repeatedly, and it had long lost its appeal in Chang'an and Guanzhong.

There is a more important reason for this, that is, dozens of imperial estates and more than 100 powerful estates in Guanzhong have long been divided by Zhu Zhu to the people of Guanzhong, basically every family has a share, used to buy people's hearts, involving nearly a million households, if the imperial court returns to Chang'an, will their land be forcibly recovered?

It is this land issue that involves the vital interests of millions of households, so the people of Guanzhong basically do not want the imperial court to come back, and the same is true for the people of Chang'an.

Zhu Zhu has officially moved the capital to Luoyang, Chang'an's grain, grass, gold, silver and copper coins have been transported away, and even Guangtongcang has basically bottomed out, but Chang'an is still controlled by Zhu Zhu, and his adopted son, Zhu Jinqing, the king of Qi, served as the guard of Xijing, leading 30,000 troops to be stationed in Chang'an.

The specific government affairs are in charge of Jingzhao Yin Du Wenxing, and there are army patrols every morning and evening to maintain law and order in the city, and Chang'an has not changed much in general.

On this morning, a caravan composed of hundreds of mules slowly walked into the Chunming Gate, the mules carried heavy cloth, the caravan had a total of fifty men, this number is slightly too much, but it is still within the normal range, in fact, these are not important, the important thing is that the money you pay to buy the road is not at the psychological price of the soldiers defending the city.

The caravan leader was a man in his early thirties, tall and burly, and good-looking, and this person was Zhang Yun, the commander of the scout, who had been silent for several months.

After Zhang Yun and Li Ruyi got married, they were mainly engaged in scout training, and they never had the opportunity to go out, and under Zhang Yun's repeated pleas, Guo Song finally gave him a very important task to go undercover in Chang'an.

Walking to the front of the Spring Gate, the soldiers raised their hands to stop them, and a brigade commander who guarded the city ran up, looked at it and asked, "Where did you come from?" What cargo? ”

"Coming from Bianzhou, all the cloth was transported."

The brigade commander glanced at the caravan obliquely, hooked his hand and said, "Three times money!" ”

This is an open bribe, if you don't agree, it is still a trivial matter if you can't enter the city, and if you annoy the generals on duty, you will immediately find a spear and a knife in your goods and arrest it on the spot, then it is not a matter of a few dollars, if you don't go bankrupt, you don't want to get out.

Zhang Yun took out two pieces of broken silver from his arms, feeling a little too much, he just wanted to change to a smaller one, but was taken away by the brigade commander, the brigade commander checked it, at least four taels more, he waved his hand, "Let go!" ”

The caravan was finally able to enter the city, and the caravan came directly to the Gaosheng Inn outside the gate of the East City, which is one of the largest inns in Chang'an, covering an area of five acres, and a guy greeted him, "Does the guest officer stay in the hotel?" ”

Zhang Yun rolled up his sleeves, intentionally or unintentionally, let the guy see an eagle drawn on his arm, and asked, "We have so many livestock, can we live there?" ”

When the guy saw the eagle on the other party's arm, he immediately realized, the flying eagle, the flying bear, the flying tiger, the flying leopard, these four animals have special significance, the other party is the flying eagle, and the big man is coming.

He hurriedly said: "Of course it can be settled, everyone please come in with me!" ”

The people led the mules and entered the inn in a mighty way.

The proprietor of this Gaosheng Inn is Li An, it has been temporarily requisitioned by the Jinwei Mansion, and has become the reception window of Hedong scouts, in recent months, there have been scouts from Hedong who have entered Chang'an in various capacities, first of all, to report to Gaosheng Inn.

After entering the inn, the mules and goods will not be taken care of, and the Jin Wei Mansion will take care of it.

Everyone went into the house to rest, just at lunchtime, the guy brought them lunch, at this time, Song Tian, the head of the Jin Wei Mansion in Chang'an, also came to see Zhang Yun, Zhang Yun's official position is the commander, the Jin army of 200,000 troops, Zhonglang generals, generals have a large handful, but the commander is currently only ten.

The command enables tens of thousands of troops to be alone on one side, such as Ma Daxiao, the governor of Broken Leaves, Liang Wu, the governor of Lingwu, and so on.

So Zhang Yun came to Chang'an, and he was basically the main general of this operation.

The Jin Wei Mansion is another independent system and does not belong to the military, so although Zhang Yun's official position is high, he is also quite polite to Song Tian.

Zhang Yun took out a booklet from his arms, looked at it and said with a smile: "Today, together with us, there should be seven hundred and fifty scouts entering Chang'an!" ”

"That's right, including the commander, there are seven hundred and fifty people."

Song Tian hesitated for a moment and asked, "I wonder how many people will come in this winter hunting operation?" ”

Zhang Yun smiled slightly: "The initial number is set at 1,500 people, and the upper limit is 2,000 people, it depends on whether you can accept so many people?" ”

Song Tian laughed, "Does the commander know how many houses we have to house the brothers?" Fifty empty houses, you live in them silently, as long as you don't go out, even if you live in 3,000 people, there is no problem. ”

"Empty house occupants won't be discovered?"

"It used to be possible, but not anymore."

"Why?"

"The reason is very simple, it may have been discovered before, because there were Shunfeng Ear and Meihua Internal Guard, and they accepted informants, but now Zhu Zhu has moved the capital, Shunfeng Er and Meihua Internal Guard have also moved to Luoyang, and Chang'an is safer."

Zhang Yun nodded, pondered for a moment and asked, "What kind of person is Zhu Jinqing?" ”

Song Tian smiled and said: "Zhu Jinqing is a rough man, short-tempered, loves wine and hunting, but he has an advantage of listening to Zhu Zhu's words, Zhu Zhu did not allow him to enter the palace, he never dared to enter the palace, Zhu Zhu asked him not to have conflicts with Jingzhao Yin Du Wenxing, he simply set rules with Du Wenxing, what things can not be done, such as arson and disturbance of the people, extortion of shops and other things, basically not much." ”

"But I was extorted four taels of silver when I entered the city."

Song Tian laughed, "So I said basically not much, not that there is none, you are from other places, of course you will be blackmailed, if it is a local shop, they will not dare." Du Wenxing is not allowed. ”

Zhang Yun said with a smile: "It seems that this Jingzhao Yin Duwenxing's official reputation is not bad. ”

Song Tian said lightly: "The people of the Jingzhao Du family, the Du family can't hinder Zhu Jun from coming to the door again and again, so he reluctantly arranged for the not very important Du Wenxing to come forward, this Du Wenxing was originally just a seven-rank Gaoling County order, but when he came to Zhu Jun, he became a Jingzhao Yin from the third grade, and this official is dizzy." ”

"How can this happen?"

"There are many reasons, mainly because the civil officials who are a little famous are unwilling to work for Zhu Zhu, and the hundred officials of Zhu Zhu's court are basically former county officials, state officials, etc., stinky fish and rotten shrimp have turned into Langzhong waiters, Du Wenxing's foundation in the Qipin County Order is not low, plus it is on behalf of the Du family, this is Zhu Jun's deliberate enveloping of the Guanzhong family, like his right servant in the Luoyang Imperial Court, the official department of Shangshu, is the person of the Zheng family in Xingyang."

"Alright! When are we going to enter the house? ”

"Tonight, we are leading everyone to Xinchangfang in batches, and the house where you live is there."

Zhang Yun pondered for a while and said: "In addition, I have a small request, I hope to get an official identity, a special identity that can be checked around the street, such as the county government warden, etc., I may have to contact the subordinates of various houses." ”

Song Tian thought for a while and said: "Actually, you don't need to enter the county office, the tax office is very easy to arrange, just spend money to buy an inspection tax officer, the key is whether Commander Zhang will speak Chang'an official language." ”

Zhang Yun laughed, "I'm a native of Chang'an, do you think I can speak Chang'an official dialect?" ”