Chapter 37: Luoyang

At the beginning of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, the weather was much warmer than last year.

However, the thigh of time has just entered February, and the entire Chang'an City is agitated, especially the various departments of the DPRK and the Central Committee are busy every day, and the armies are also frequently mobilized, and the air is full of tension.

"There are still six days left until the ninth day of the new year!"

On this day, Li Yuanjia counted his fingers after returning from the court, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Haha, finally he doesn't have to get up at two or three o'clock every day, and then go to the court bitterly!" No matter what, you can have at least six or seven months of easy life, right? ”

Every day before dawn, he has to rush to the gate of the palace, waiting for the day when the drums on the Chengtian Gate are beating, Li Yuanjia is really fed up!

It's obviously a mascot, but it has to go through this form!

But fortunately, on the ninth day of the first month, the Tang Emperor was going to leave Chang'an City and go to Luoyang Palace, seven hundred miles away, and he would stay for at least half a year, which naturally made our Han Wang happy - in addition to Li Shimin, he would also take away most of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces and Chang'an Zhuwei, leaving only the crown prince Li Chengqian in charge of the country, and Li Yuanjiake would be completely liberated.

After washing, he sat on his Taishi chair, Li Yuanjia took a sip of hot tea, and thought with regret: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it would be nice if the second child had sealed me to Luoyang, compared to Chang'an City, that is the real world of flowers in the Tang Dynasty......"

The Xiongcheng city of Chang'an is undoubtedly the political center of the Tang Dynasty, but its economic center is in Luoyang Palace, which is 700 miles away, which is also recognized by everyone.

In fact, since the former Sui Dynasty, this situation of attaching equal importance to both things has been fixed.

There is no way, Guanzhong is narrow and crowded, and it has long been unable to afford the huge bureaucrats, troops and people of the central government of the Tang Dynasty, especially when the population of Chang'an has increased dramatically, the food supply is extremely difficult, otherwise Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty would not have had to dig the Grand Canal at any cost.

However, the grain in the southeast can only be transported to Luoyang, and if you want to send it to Chang'an, you must bypass the Sanmen natural danger by land, which is too expensive and the gains outweigh the losses!

At the beginning of the time of Emperor Wen of Sui, whenever the emperor encountered a famine, he could only "lead the household to eat in Luoyang".

Therefore, after Emperor Yang of Sui came to power, in addition to digging the Grand Canal, he also ordered the construction of the Eastern Capital, and built the most majestic and magnificent palace complex in the world - Ziwei City!

This is the most important imperial palace in Chinese history, and its layout and architectural form have laid the basic pattern of Chinese palace cities, and it is a model for all later palace buildings. Whether it is the imperial palace of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, or Japan, Korea and other vassals, they are basically built with reference to Ziwei City!

This magnificent palace complex was so gorgeous that when Li Shimin defeated Wang Shichong and captured Luoyang, he even ordered a part of it to be burned because he was too concerned about its magnificence......

When Li Yuanjia heard about this paragraph, he felt that his three views were simply ruined.

However, it is precisely after learning about the situation in Luoyang that he will be full of yearning there: Luoyang, which has a circumference of 28 kilometers and a total of 100 square meters, is a little smaller than Chang'an, but as the economic center of the Tang Dynasty, and can stay away from Li Shimin's Tyrannosaurus rex, it is definitely the best place for Li Yuanjia to survive.

It's a pity......

Just when Li Yuanjia secretly regretted that he could only stay in Chang'an, and was afraid that he would not have much chance to live in Luoyang, the housekeeper Han Shan hurriedly walked in: "King, someone from the Duke of Wei is here, asking to see the king." ”

"The Prime Minister sent someone? Well, let him in. ”

Slightly stunned, Li Yuanjia immediately gave an order, and then soon a middle-aged man in his forties followed Han Shan in - this person is quite familiar to him, he is a housekeeper in Fang Xuanling's mansion, and he is basically the one who comes to Han Wang's mansion to do business.

After saluting, Fang Zheng sent a list and said respectfully: "Wang, he liked the pen, ink, paper and inkstone you sent him very much, and ordered me to send you a letter back and forth, as well as some small objects......

"Hehe, thank you so much."

Li Yuanjia, who expected Fang Xuanling to return with a thank you gift, was not surprised, waved his hand to let Fang Zheng stand aside, and opened the letter in his hand for the first time.

These days, it's hard to communicate something.

Li Yuanjia naturally didn't dare to think about it on the phone, but although it was not far from Shengye Fang to Wubenfang, it would take at least half an hour to run by carriage. And whether it is Li Yuanjia or Fang Xuanling, they are not masters who can easily go out of the house to visit each other, and if they want to talk about something, they can only rely on people to go out and run errands.

The key is to communicate only by letter, I go over one by one, you come back one by one, and it takes half a day to wait for a reply, which is called an uncomfortable ......

Watching Li Yuanjia open the letter, the messenger Fang Zheng could only stand quietly and wait.

When he first came, King Han asked people to give him a seat, but Fang Zheng was just the steward of the Wei Mansion, and where to sit in front of Li Yuanjia, he was naturally "willing to die rather than give in". So now that he came, King Han didn't care about him, and let him stand there and wait.

However, the number of times he came, Fang Zheng's courage was also a little bigger, for example, now he dared to secretly raise his head and look at the future son-in-law of Fang Fu.

If you only talk about looks and figure, this is undoubtedly a "handsome young man".

At least in Fang Zheng's eyes, except for the fact that Li Yuanjia's figure is still a little "thin" because of his age, all other aspects are quite in line with the aesthetics of this era. However, compared with other aristocratic teenagers in Chang'an City, this King Han has an extra temperament that makes Fang Zheng puzzled - indifferent, poignant, as if it is a pool of water, which makes people not notice the slightest fluctuation.

To be honest, Fang Zheng couldn't understand the king.

Or even his own Fang Xianggong actually can't understand this King Han. For example, the news that has just come out of the palace that the king actually asked His Majesty for kapok seeds to plant a hundred acres of kapok......

After hearing about this, Xianggong was stunned for a while.

Immediately after that, Han Wangfu sent someone to send a box of paper to Xianggong, which was called a white and a tough, Fang Xuanling liked it very much after using it once, and immediately ordered him to send a return gift to Han Wang - for Wei Guogong, it was a very generous return gift, anyway, Fang Zheng is rarely seen......

"Huh."

Just when Fang Zheng's thoughts were flying, he suddenly heard a chuckle from King Han, and his heart was excited, and he quickly took back his divergent gaze.

"The prime minister has a heart, and this king has been taught."

Folding the letter in his hand and putting it away, Li Yuanjia glanced at Fang Zheng and said with a smile: "I won't write the reply, you go back and tell Fang Xianggong for me, just say that although he can go to Luoyang with the holy car with confidence, I naturally know what to do if I stay in Chang'an City......"