It's almost New Year's Day, Guo Li doesn't have the heart to worry about a lot of things in the court, and just wants to celebrate the festival with Baguio in peace and enjoy the happy time of family reunion. Who expected that the New Year was approaching, and Li Longji suddenly issued an edict to tour the north. After receiving the holy decree, Guo Li sent Baguio back to the Liyang Wang's house, wearing a suit of armor, bringing a change of clothes with him, and set off with the army.

At this time, New Year's Day was called the Spring Festival in the previous life. The days of the family keeping the New Year have to be spent in the sound of the chariots.

White clouds fluttering.

The post road from Jingzhaofu to Luoyang, the eastern capital, is as wide as three zhang, and can accommodate six horses at the same time. The fields on both sides of the road are covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost. Along the way, there were few idlers, and they were all scared away by the imposing convoy ahead. At the front is more than 1,000 foot soldiers of the Liangshan regiment, followed by the honor guard, the first few rows are holding axes that symbolize the royal weather, the middle is holding a flag printed with the national body, and the last few rows are the golden yellow nine dragon flags of the Tang Dynasty. Li Longji sat in a chariot two zhang wide and pulled by four horses. It was followed by 3,000 forbidden troops, and the 10,000 Jinwuwei led by Pei Lingxian followed last.

"Shaoqing, do you think this honor guard is majestic enough?" Zhou Peng was beside Guo Li, seeing that the training had yielded results, he went to Guo Li to please.

"Yes, but something is missing."

"What's missing?"

"It's freezing cold, and the soldiers of the honor guard didn't even issue animal skin gauntlets to keep warm?"

"It's all the bad things done by those eight lambs in the Ministry of Rites, and the application was submitted early, and there was no reply for a long time."

"And this?" Guo Li knew that even if he asked the Ministry of Rites about this kind of thing, the other party would have prevarication.

Guo Li found the servant Gu Huai'en and asked, "Mulan knew that you were traveling with the army, so she didn't ask when you would go home?"

"Mulan has returned to Mupanshan, and I heard that this trip will take at least two months."

The army marched all the way to the east, marching ten days before arriving in the eastern capital. Luoyang, the eastern capital, was the capital set by Empress Wu when he was called emperor. Chang'an left Zhang Shuo to guard, because this was a northern tour, the civil and military officials did not follow. According to the previous practice, the emperor went out to tour the eastern capital, and the civil and military officials had to follow him to Luoyang.

Arriving in the eastern capital happened to be New Year's Day, Luoyang ordered Cui Yinfu to lead Luoyang officials to take over. spent New Year's Day in the eastern capital for one day, and on the second day, Li Longji immediately ordered him to go north and merge with the state. At that time, the territory of the Tang Dynasty reached Beihai in the north, and the state and Datong were no longer border passes. The grassland is vast, and the Metropolitan Protectorate is close to the Great Wall, and the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate was established in the middle of the surrendered city. There are many tribes on the grassland, and there are often tribes that do not obey discipline to raise troops to plunder the Central Plains. Although the territory of the Tang Dynasty was large, the annexation of states has always become a barrier to defend the Central Plains.

On this day, when Luzhou was born, there were more and more pedestrians on the post road, and the army marched slowly. Li Longji asked, "What is happening ahead?" ”

"Your Majesty, the road ahead is potholes, and there are many pedestrians, which causes the army to be slow."

"How can there be so many pedestrians at this time of year?"

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When Li Guangbi got the report, he had already mounted his horse to the front of the team, and when he saw a convoy escorted by officers and soldiers in front of him, he asked if these people were the chariots and horses that Luzhou was transporting supplies to Bingzhou. There was snow on the post road, and after the caravan passed by, the whole road was muddy. Seeing the army passing by, the escort officers of these caravans took the initiative to get out of the way. Push the horses off the post road and stand on both sides of the road and watch.

Luzhou originally supplied grain and grass to the state, but it had no choice but to have a snowfall a year ago, and the last batch of grain and grass was delayed. After the snow melted, he summoned the local young and strong, and sent officers and soldiers to escort the grain and grass to the north with a generous salary, not wanting to run into the emperor's northern tour. These young men who worked hard volunteered to work. Last year, the year was not good, and there was not much food left at home. Although the weather is cold, relying on a lot of strength, I can come out to earn some pocket money and save some rations for my family.

When Li Longji's carriage passed by, he saw that the people on both sides of the post road were in rags, and the clothes on the shoulders of a farmer were torn to reveal the white flesh inside, and his hands were red, obviously frostbitten. After figuring out what happened, Li Longji lamented, "The Tang Dynasty is prosperous, what a Tang Dynasty." What kind of life are these people living in front of them? Spread my will to exempt Luzhou from taxes for five years. ”

After making this scene, everyone knows that the emperor is unhappy. The speed of the soldiers' advance was much faster, and they arrived at Taiyuan Mansion in a few days.

Bingzhou is a male city, the city wall is only one zhang lower than Chang'an City, a Fen River divides Taiyuan City into two, the moat and the Fen River are connected together, and the whole Bingzhou is like two islands on the water. Bingzhou is also the land of the Tang Dynasty's Longxing, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, before raising troops, once served as the governor of Bingzhou. As a barrier in the north of the Central Plains, successive Li and Tang kings attached great importance to the construction of the city of Bingzhou.

The Taiyuan officials of the state thorn Shi Wei led the Taiyuan officials to greet them outside the city gate, and a ban was set up at the city gate, and the people were not allowed to enter or leave. When the people heard that the emperor was coming, they flocked to the city gate to watch the excitement. 3,000 forbidden troops accompanied Li Longji into the city, and the Liangshan regiment and 10,000 Jin Wuwei were stationed outside the city.

Guo Li accompanied Li Longji to pay tribute to the holy relics of the first emperor in Bingzhou, inspected the Jinyang Palace, and Xuanzong personally wrote the "Ode to the Uprising Hall" that praised the first emperor Taiyuan for raising troops and establishing the brilliant cause.

"How does Guo Shaoqing read this "Ode to the Uprising"?" After Li Longji finished writing, he asked Guo Li's opinion. Guo Li was a little confused. The whole poem is sprinkled, the beginning directly describes that Li Tang raised troops to comply with the will of heaven, the rebellion was reasonable, the middle rhetoric is gorgeous, the narrative is meritorious in governing and the state, and the end will be changed to Taiyuan Mansion and promoted to the northern capital. Now that the emperor asked, Guo Li had no choice but to answer honestly: "The emperor's splendid article is the well-being of the people of Bingzhou. ”

In fact, Guo Li said a nonsense. Li Longji was promoted to Taiyuan Prefecture and designated as the northern capital, and the people could certainly benefit from it. With policy tilt and financial support, Taiyuan has developed faster.

"According to Guo Qing's talent, I am a little wronged to be the Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple."

Listen to the emperor's intention to promote Guo Li?

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

It seems that it makes sense that the ancients liked to pat on the back, Guo Li casually said a perfunctory word, but he didn't expect Longyan Dayue.

Poor Bingzhou Thorn Shi Wei Cao, a sixty-five-year-old man, accompanied Li Longji to visit the Jin Temple all day long, and condolences to the meritorious old officials. On the one hand, he accompanied the emperor on a tour in fear, and on the other hand, he had to think about the emperor's safety, and ten days after Li Longji arrived, he couldn't afford to fall ill, and he died before Li Longji left Taiyuan.

After Wei Miao's death, Li Longji was not interested, and ordered Wang Hui to be appointed as the secretary of the Taiyuan Mansion Yin and the Ministry of Officials, and posthumously named Wei Miao's governor of Youzhou, nickname: Wen.

According to the etiquette, after the death of the minister, the Ministry of Rites verifies the merits of his life, and the name is decided by the emperor. Yin Weicoo, the assassin of Bingzhou, died of illness due to overwork during his official duties while accompanying the emperor, and under Li Longji's edict, he actually got the title that civil officials coveted all their lives.

After Wei Miao's death, Li Longji has been staying in the former Jinyang Palace. In mid-February, until the stone tablet engraved with "Ode to the Hall of Uprising" was completed, Li Longji, accompanied by Taiyuan officials, watched the ceremony of erecting the monument.

The stele stands high on the south street of Taiyuan Fucheng, and many people watch in front of the stele.

"The worries of appreciating the scenery and things, and the difficulty of finding the royal industry. But if the ancestors open up heaven and earth, they will be transformed into ten thousand kinds; However, if Taizong shines on the sun and the moon yesterday, the light is on the four tables. ”

These sentences on the stele show Li Longji's mental journey of coming to Bingzhou to explore the eventful history and cherish the memory of his ancestors.

Li Longji left Taiyuan Mansion to end this northern tour. The army marched south along the Hetao Plain and returned to Chang'an in the middle of the day. Before leaving, Li Longji was full of poetry and chanted a five-character poem of 22 sentences "Passing Jinyang Palace".

Remembering the Tang Dynasty is only at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Looking down on Yi Jinye, looking up is a void.

Jingyi Long Siyue, Chengchi Fengxiang Yu.

Lin Tang Yu Peize, the former residence of Taixiewan.