Yanxing Gate

Yanxing Gate is the east gate of Chang'an City, the official road leading to Luoyang is from Yanxing Gate, direct to Luoyang Luoyang 800 miles, is the most popular city gate of Chang'an City, every day from here to start from countless merchants and pedestrians, prosperity to the extreme.

Today's Yanxing Gate has changed greatly, the official road full of loess has disappeared, and the newly paved brick road outside the city gate is clean and tidy.

According to the news from the children of the Mo family, the brick road leading to Chang'an to Luoyang was constructed from Chang'an City and Luoyang respectively, and the speed was greatly accelerated, and now most of it has been completed, and this project will definitely be completed before the end of the year.

Wide and flat beside the road, a carriage leading to Luoyang is ready to go, the New Year is approaching, when the official business is busy, outside the Yanxing Gate, it is very lively,

Next to one of the carriages, the four of Merton are seeing off Zu Mingjun and Kong Huisuo, the two of them will rush to Luoyang together, after Luoyang breakup, Zu Mingjun will return to Fanyang's hometown by boat from the canal, while Kong Huisuo is all the way east, along the official road back to Qufu, Shandong, striving to rush home before the year.

"Take care!" Zu Mingjun's heart was heavy.

In this era, the transportation is extremely inconvenient, the range of people's activities is very small, the men are fine, often go to other places to serve in the conscription, and ordinary women are afraid that they have never been out of the county town in their lives, and there are many people who do not even go out of the countryside.

Many times, a farewell is a long time, or even a goodbye, which can't help but make people sigh.

Everyone naturally knows that the possibility of reunion is very low, unless the two come to Chang'an City again to seek officials, it will be difficult to see each other again, and they can't help but feel very heavy.

Merton suddenly smiled and said: "Don't worry, when the brick road of my Tang Ten Roads is repaired in the future, by that time, it will only take five days from Shandong to Chang'an City at most, and if it is a day and night, it will only be about three days, and it will not be difficult to get together in the future." ”

"That's right!"

Only then did everyone remember that the construction of the brick road has been put on the agenda, once the brick road of Chang'an City and Luoyang is completed, it is bound to be paved from Luoyang to the east again, and then radiate all roads across the country.

With the combination of brick roads and four-wheeled carriages, there will definitely be a huge leap in the traffic of the entire Datang, and the long-distance journey will no longer be bumpy and rain or shine, and there will be no more children leaving home at that time.

"Okay, then I'll just wait for that day!" Suddenly, everyone's sorrow dissipated a lot.

"Everyone, stay here!" Kong Huiso stepped into the carriage and arched.

"I'm not far away, have a nice trip!" The four Merton said goodbye.

It wasn't until the four-wheeled carriage was far away that the four Mertons put away their melancholy and were about to go back.

I only heard a commotion, and at the end of the brick road, a long convoy came on, and its specifications made people smack, and the people on both sides avoided it, looking at the long convoy and pointing at it one by one.

"Who is this? Such a big show? Cheng Chu said dissatisfiedly.

Everyone shook their heads, guessing.

I saw that the people in the convoy were all short in stature, dark-skinned, dressed in kudzu clothes, and extremely strong, and at first glance they were not Han Chinese.

"Southern Barbarians?" A merchant who had traveled from south to north suddenly exclaimed.

"Nanban? Could it be the Feng family with such a big pomp? Qin Huaiyu suddenly said.

"The Feng family? Could it be Feng An, the leader of the Southern Barbarians? Merton's heart moved.

Feng Anshi is a Han Chinese, his ancestors married the local Nanyue woman Mrs. Xian became the leader of Nanyue, and his descendants passed through Lingnan for three generations, although he was a Han Chinese, but with the support of the imperial court of the past dynasties, he sat firmly in the position of Lingnan chieftain, although there was no king, but in fact he was the king of Lingnan.

In order to appease Lingnan, Li Shimin had to make Feng Ang the Shangzhu State, which was a height that no feudal official had reached.

"Who's coming?" The guards of Yanxing Gate had already heard the news and hurriedly stepped forward to interrogate.

"We are the governor of Gaozhou, Geng Guogong's subordinates, this is our token!" The leader of the convoy was a strong man in black, and he hurriedly took out the token and the inspection for the city gate guards to verify.

"Sure enough, it's the Lingnan Feng family!" The four of Morton glanced at each other, Feng Ang guarded Lingnan, and was named the governor of Gaozhou by the imperial court, Geng Guogong, and was extremely honored.

The guards at the gate carefully checked and confirmed that everything was correct, and then they let their guard down.

"What is this?" The gate guards saw long convoys, each full of goods, about to be routinely inspected.

"General Hui, this is Geng Guogong's birthday gift to the Emperor?" The strong man in black hurriedly said.

"The Emperor's birthday gift?"

When the guards at the city gate heard this, they let them go.

"The Emperor's birthday?" Watching the Feng family's convoy enter Chang'an City, Merton asked in surprise.

"You don't know? This matter has already been reported in Chang'an City? Cheng Chumo looked sideways.

Merton shook his head, he had been preparing for the year-end examination of the Guozijian during this period of time, where did he care about other things, and he really didn't pay attention to the birthday of the emperor.

"It is said that the Emperor Taishang is old, and his health is not as good as day by day, and the emperor must take this opportunity to do his filial piety and make a big show! The Feng family must have come for this! Qin Huaiyu said in a low voice.

Yu Chi Baolin nodded and said, "The Emperor Taishang is Feng An's nobleman. ”

I think that at the beginning, when Li Yuan unified the world, Feng Ang occupied Lingnan, and Li Yuan sent Li Jing to go to the expedition to determine Lingnan with a piece of paper, but Li Yuan did not treat Feng Ang badly, and was immediately named a high-ranking official.

"Geng Guogong Feng Ang is indeed a character, and he can gain a firm foothold in a sinister place like Lingnan, but his son may not be necessarily." Qin Huaiyu smiled and said.

"His son?" Merton was surprised.

"At that time, Feng Ang came to Chang'an to pay tribute for many years, and the Manchu Dynasty said that Feng Ang had rebelled, only Wei Zheng spoke, and first sent a messenger to appease Feng An, and Feng Ang immediately sent his eldest son Feng Zhidai to Chang'an to appease the heart of the imperial court." Qin Huaiyu explained.

Cheng Chumo answered: "It's a pity, the tiger father and the dog, Feng Ang has been brave all his life, and Feng Zhidai turned out to be a weak scholar, dancing and writing all day long, chanting poems against each other, and becoming a joke in Chang'an City." ”

Mo Dun suddenly realized in his heart that Feng Zhidai came to Chang'an City as a proton, and dancing and chanting poetry against him was not a means of self-protection.

After all, Lingnan Daoshan is far away, and the imperial court's control over it is extremely weak, and the imperial court had no time to look south before, so it could only reuse Feng An, and beware of it, if Feng Zhidai showed wisdom and martial arts, how could the imperial court rest assured?

For the Feng family, Merton does not dare to underestimate, according to legend, the craziest thing Li Bai has ever done in later generations is the concubine to hold the research, the wrestler to take off his boots, and the wrestler here is Tang Xuanzong's confidant eunuch Gao Lishi, this person is officially Feng An's great-grandson.

However, these have nothing to do with the four of them, and the most important thing at the moment is the birthday of the Emperor.