Jinyang City is located on the west side of Fenshui, stuck on the main road between Tianlong Mountain and Fen River. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the secretary of the Jin State, Zhao Yan's retainer Dong Anyu in the west bank of the Fen River, which has a very superior military geographical location, built a strong city, and the Zhao family relied on the tall and strong Jinyang lonely city, successively thwarted the Fan, Zhongxing, and Zhi, Han, and Wei two large-scale joint attacks, and finally turned defeat into victory, turning the crisis into peace, and its forces formed the later Zhao State, laying the foundation of the "three-point Jin room" with Han and Wei.

Jinyang City has stood for more than 1,500 years, and since its completion, it has blocked the only way for the northern grassland people to invade and plunder from the southeast of the river. Except for the civil strife in the Central Plains, this fortified city in the north has never been broken by the grassland peoples who went south from Yanmen Pass, so the land east of the river has rarely been affected by war, and the population density has always been in the forefront of the country. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, raised troops from Jinyang and eventually established the Tang Empire, which became the birthplace of the Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, the city of Jinyang was expanded several times, and was named the northern capital, and the capital of Kyoto, Chang'an, the eastern capital of Luoyang, and called the three capitals, in the Tang Dynasty, the population of Jinyang reached 500,000 people, and it belonged to the "first-tier city" second only to Chang'an in China. Affected by the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Jinyang City currently has a population of about 200,000, but it is the highest in China.

Therefore, after losing half of Hedong, Li Keyong, the king of Jin, was still able to maintain a certain number of soldiers and horses by relying on the Taiyuan Basin, Xin Dynasty and Yunzhou, and confronted the powerful Liang State and became the most important force in the anti-Liang forces.

In fact, the current Jinyang City is not the ancient city of Jinyang built by Dong Anyu, the secretary of Zhao State in the Spring and Autumn Period in the past, but mainly built in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, and expanded by the Sui and Tang dynasties.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the powerful minister Gao Huan set up the "Great Prime Minister's Mansion" outside Jinyang City, built a large number of buildings, dug grottoes in Tianlong Mountain in the west of the city, and built a large-scale summer palace. Subsequently, Gao Huan's son Gao Yang replaced the Northern Wei Dynasty to establish the Northern Qi Dynasty, and continued to carry out large-scale expansion on the basis of the Jinyang Palace built by Gao Huan, which lasted 27 years to build the glorious Jinyang Daming Palace.

Subsequently, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty built a large number of buildings here, continued to expand the scale of the Jinyang Imperial Palace, built a "new city" with a circumference of seven miles and a height of more than four zhang outside the Daming Palace of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and then built a warehouse city with a height of four zhang and a circumference of 8 miles in the west of the new city. In addition, Emperor Yang of Sui also issued an edict to rebuild the Daming Palace of Northern Qi after his first northern tour to Jinyang. And set up Jinyang palace supervisor management, there are 1 main supervisor and 1 deputy supervisor.

It is precisely because Jinyang City has such a grand scale, the city wall is tall and strong, in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, the Turkic Jieli Khan once led an army of 200,000 from Yanmen to the south, but besieged Jinyang City for nearly a year, and finally had no choice but to retreat north.

During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, and the governor Shi Li Ji built a new Dongcheng on the east bank of the Fen River, eight and a half miles north and south, about five or six miles from east to west, because the well water in the east city is bitter and brackish and difficult to drink, and built a diversion canal called "Jin Canal" across the Fen River to the East City, and sent the sweet spring water from the Jin Temple. During the reign of Emperor Wu Zetian of Zhou, the governor Shi Cui Shenqing "crossed the water and connected the moat" and built a middle city connecting the east and west cities. In this way, this has formed the scale of Jinyang City.

Today's Jinyang City, across both sides of the Fenshui River, is 17 miles long from east to west, nearly 8 miles wide from north to south, and covers an area of nearly 30 square kilometers in the city. It is connected to Tianlong Mountain in the west, Wulong Mountain in the east, and the city wall is more than four zhang high, like a huge barrier, which completely seals and isolates the entrance to the north of the Taiyuan Basin.

The Jin Palace, which was originally the East Palace complex of the Tang Dynasty's Jinyang Palace, was very large, next to the Jinyang Palace. Jinyang Palace is the largest palace of the Li Tang royal family in the Tang Dynasty, second only to Chang'an Daming Palace and Luoyang Imperial Palace, and because it has not suffered much damage from the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it is relatively well preserved. The Jinyang Palace, which has been a thousand years old, is large-scale, although it is under the jurisdiction of Li Keyong, but Li Keyong, the king of Jin, is unwilling to cross and move into the Jinyang Palace to live, and only occupies this building complex belonging to the prince's mansion of the East Palace of the Tang Dynasty as his own palace.

Li Qi has lived in the Jin Palace, for twelve or three years, and is naturally very familiar with everything in the palace, after entering the palace, the original nervous mood is finally a little relaxed.

After Li Qi changed into a prince's court dress in the palace hall, he returned to the main hall of the palace and met with the main officials and generals in Taiyuan again. Li Qi sat on the main seat, and after everyone sat down, he first opened his mouth and explained in detail to everyone in a calm tone about the situation he got and some things about the change in Xingjiaomen in his memory, and finally read everyone before he slowly spoke: "Now that the change has come suddenly, my father has died, and stabilizing the situation is the first thing. Everyone is an old man in the Jin army, and at this time of chaos, we should work together to help the country and fight the country's difficulties......"

When he said this, he paused, and then inspected everyone present with a sharp gaze: "The Li family started with martial arts, and I am the prince, and the revitalization of the community should be the first priority!" Don't bully me when I'm young, if I really have any bad ideas, don't blame me for being ruthless and not remembering the past feelings! ”

Li Qi's cold eyes made everyone's hearts chill, Zhang Xian had already learned from Li Huan that the prince's behavior was very different from the past, so he stood up and said: "The ministers are sparse and shallow, His Royal Highness will not dislike it, and he should do the work of dogs and horses." ”

Someone took the lead, and the crowd rose up to show their allegiance.

Li Qi also stood up, clapped his palm and said: "Okay, in that case, since everyone is now living up to me, I should take everyone as the pillar stone and share the wealth." It is not difficult for him to rank in Lingyan every day and be crowned a king! "I can't manage so much now, let's talk about promising benefits first.

Li Yanqing said: "Your Highness, is this preparing to raise troops to fight against the ministers?" ”

Li Qi shook his head: "Now stabilize the situation first, and then look at the situation, as long as Li Siyuan doesn't do anything to overstep, there is no need for everyone to tear their faces for the time being." "Now that your side is weak, if you shake the other party, it is very likely that it will fall apart immediately, so you can only stand firm first and forge ahead.

Zhang Xian also nodded in appreciation: "The prince is calm, and it is a blessing for the country to become a country. ”

Li Qi nodded, looked at Li Yanchao and said: "Now that the Jinyang army is empty, I want to recruit An Jinquan, the envoy of the martial arts, and Zhou Guangfu, the defense envoy of Yanmen, to lead the army to help. ”

The Zhenwu army in the Yunshuo area is the border army defending the Khitan, the soldiers are strong and strong, and the veteran An Jinquan is a veteran of the Jin army, and Zhou Guangfu, the assassin of Xinzhou, is the son of the famous general Zhou Dewei, and the two are relatively loyal. Li Qi is still not worried about Li Yanchao's dominance of troops, and the intention of recalling these two people is to contain them, but the Zhaoyi Festival of Luzhou makes Kong Qing a general of Liang State, which makes people a little uneasy......