Chapter 343: Looking Northwest
Of course, Yan Yu's footsteps did not stop there.
When he learned that Zhao Kuangyin had already cut himself in Liangzhou, and the only remaining 20,000 horses in the Great Song Dynasty had also been disarmed and returned to the field, he did not seem particularly happy, but blamed himself a little.
Is it right to overthrow a dynasty in this way, is it worth it, the current Tang Dynasty is still the world of the Chinese nation, and the once invincible Great Song Dynasty is also, since it is born from the same root, why be too anxious to fry each other.
Is it worth it to exchange such a massive military operation for a change of power?
But what he can make clear now is that Datang's national strength has also been greatly damaged as a result.
Measured by the comprehensive indicators he specified, GDP now is only 65 percent of what it was a year ago, before the war began. This is an astronomical amount, but he believes that this is only the current temporary status quo, and when all the recovered territory of the Great Song Dynasty is transformed into the unprecedented development momentum of the Tang Dynasty, these are nothing, and this account can still be settled.
Although the economic accounts can be calculated, how can the political accounts be calculated?
He knew that it was time for the annual celebration of the merits of these meritorious soldiers, and to go further in the original official position, needless to mention, but after this year's war consumption, the original 300,000 iron cavalry of the Tang Dynasty poured out, and now there are less than 120,000 horses left.
If the army wins, it will win a complete victory, but if the officers and men are slack, the morale of the army will gradually become unstable, and the unstable spirit of the army will lead to political instability, and the political situation will naturally be unstable.
He understands this truth, and it also makes him a little worried.
But these were routines, and he believed that the victory in the war would not be forgotten by all those who were complacent for a long time. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. When the whole country was immersed in cheers, when the whole country was boiling, he boldly put forward an idea and immediately put this idea into practice.
He wants to move the capital to Chang'an.
What the?
That's right! It is to move the kingdom of the Tang Dynasty from the current Jiangning Mansion to Chang'an City in the northwest hinterland.
The purpose of this is very clear, the place where the king's land rises, is naturally also the place of the dynasty's future expectations and blessings, the empire needs to continue, in the south, this damp land has experienced nearly half a century of cultivation.
Now that we have recovered the old land, we naturally need to return to the old capital and comfort the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this matter still caused an uproar in the political situation of the Tang Dynasty as expected.
This Datang is not the other Datang, how can I move the Tang Dynasty of Jiangning to the former Datang.
There are a lot of theories here.
Li Jing's father was originally a Tang minister, and later inherited the title, so he began the cultivation of political capital and military armament in the land of Jiangnan as a local festival envoy.
Of course, when the Tang Dynasty was torn apart, he also struggled to maintain the unity and glory of the empire, but the chaos of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms for decades began, and no one could do anything about it.
Among the ten countries, the Southern Tang Kingdom, which is now the Tang Dynasty, is the only country that recognizes the Tang Dynasty's political system, their political system, socio-economic system, and even the military system are very similar to the once glorious Tang Dynasty, or even copy, but the key is that you were originally a courtier of the Tang family, but now you have disobeyed the face of the Tang family and established yourself as the emperor, this is the key to the problem. And you have always regarded Datang as the right one.
So, whether you are a chaotic minister and a thief, or a loyal minister and a good general, no one can tell, and when you occupy all the territory of the former Tang Dynasty and recover all the territory in your opinion, I want to ask you, do you want to continue like this, let the children and grandchildren of this courtier be the emperor, or will you return the throne to the descendants of the former Tang Empire after returning to the old capital.
So complicated?
Yan Yu thought simply, especially on this issue.
However, although the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty praised him for his immortal achievements in war. But this one thing alone became the whole factor that antagonized him and the courtiers.
Yan Yu's idea is not so simple, but it is not complicated either, because for a natural traverser, this is indeed just a little selfishness on his part.
He was born in Chang'an, grew up in Chang'an, but traveled through the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Now he hasn't been back to his homeland for seven or eight years, which is a little hard to understand.
This homeland should indeed be called Li Yanyu's homeland.
But maybe this homeland is the ancestor of his true homeland, but what does it matter, this land can raise itself after a thousand years, not to mention a thousand years ago, should it be more respected.
Yan Yu took three entourages, one was the red-sleeved Tian girl, the other was Bai Xiaofei, and the other was Jiang Han, and the three of them came to the southeast of the rammed earth city wall of Chang'an City, about two kilometers, on an open land.
Here they laid out incense sticks and a list of sacrificial objects.
Yan Yu, accompanied by the other three people, bowed respectfully to the land three times, and after that, the three people were separated by Yan Yu and walked into the woods. Yan Yu sat alone on the yellow earth and cried sadly for about an hour.
Although he wanted to endure it, he couldn't hold back in the end.
This is the location of his own home that he has measured, yes, it should be here.
"I love you, my home!"
But the current Chang'an City and a thousand years later, I don't know if there has been any change in the direction, there should be.
The city and the grass and trees here seem so intimate and strange.
He didn't dare to think about it, but he couldn't help but think about it, this was his home, but at this moment, there was nothing here, just gusts of wind-swept loess covered with wind and dust.
They left.
The three of them didn't understand why the commander of the three armies of the Tang Dynasty and His Royal Highness the King of Han wanted to pay tribute to the yellow earth here.
Maybe he has a special fetish.
But judging by his cries and his resentment, it seems that there is no explanation for this.
He didn't want to say, and they didn't have to ask again.
Everyone has such a city government and pretending to be crazy and stupid.
What my brother did just now was to pay tribute to the warriors of the Tang Dynasty who fought bravely in Chang'an.
That's it, this is their explanation, and it is also the joint explanation given by Datang officials when this scene is seen by someone and used by someone to add fuel and vinegar.
But the matter will soon be dominated by more major headlines, and people will not always talk about who is paying tribute to the yellow earth, but only about what the person who pays tribute to the yellow earth will do next.
Moved the capital to Chang'an.
is an important topic.
It is the only important business on the table of Datang today.
Whether to move or not to move is not up to anyone.
One side is Yanyu, and the other side is the old minister of the Tang Dynasty. In the middle is the emperor Li Yu, who is still painting in his industry.
It's as if this huge empire doesn't have his share, as long as you give yourself food and drink, a square table, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, you can toss the rest as much as you like.
The Artist Emperor was not directly involved in the matter in the end.
Is this another proof that his ingenuity is on display, or if he really doesn't care.
It shouldn't be indifferent.
Yanyu has a reason for saying that Chang'an is the heart of the world and the hinterland of the Central Plains. And the territory of the Tang Dynasty is hundreds of millions, how can it be a corner of the south of the Yangtze River.
What the courtiers said was that this Tang Dynasty was not the other Tang Dynasty, and it was not the same lineage.
The Tang Dynasty in Chang'an is the Li Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty in Jiangning is also the Li Tang Dynasty, although it is not in the same vein. But if the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty can continue to use the Tang system, it is enough to see what they think in their hearts.
This is not the crux of the problem, the key is that we are still in the old capital, our old capital is not in Chang'an, we do not have the old capital.
Well?
Not really!