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Luodu, the imperial city of Ouchi,

Far away from being hidden between the magnificent and glorious palaces, all kinds of ruins and broken tiles emerge one after another, but they still maintain the most basic appearance.

The paint on the towering palace walls and pillars is mottled and mottled, and the incompleteness on the eaves and tiled roofs of the bucket arches, the ubiquitous thick ash and small cracks, constitute a kind of natural wilderness.

It can be said that, in addition to a few large main buildings on the central axis of the Dragon Road, many places in the imperial city inevitably show a certain sparse and mottled decadence because of the lack of popularity and activity.

Some of the ruined parts of the palace walls and temples have even grown weeds on them, or have been reduced to rats and sparrows, and they have become comfortable nests for recuperation.

In fact, in the offensive and defensive battles that broke into the imperial city, the seriously damaged palaces and towers were not repaired, but remained as they were buried in the weeds.

The stone floor tile pillars that laid the foundation were excavated and became ready-made materials for repairing the exterior walls of the imperial city.

And during this period, as the Imperial Household Introspective, who is in charge of the life of the Heavenly Family, the only thing he can do is to piece together the last bit of manpower to pick up the rags;

For example, the old building materials and the more or less intact components that can still be used in the damaged buildings are dismantled and transported to other places, and the east wall is demolished to make up the west wall, so as to maintain the last bit of dignity of the nominal lord of Ouchi.

On the one hand, the palace and the imperial court really lack the financial and human resources to make comprehensive repairs, and on the other hand, the people in power who can really make decisions also lack the motivation and reason to do so.

Anyway, this country, the real center of power and domination of this regime, is no longer in this big and unruly palace, but only has the function of doing basic pomp and ceremony.

Regarding the regent's presence in front of hundreds of courtiers again, the young empress was scared to tears, and she also lingered between the corridors under the eaves of Ouchi.

Regarding the situation when the young son of heaven was frightened, he snorted and cried, desperately pulled the wide sleeves of the chamberlain next to him and didn't let go, and hid behind the throne and hugged his head and cried, which was vividly transmitted by various word of mouth.

Under the city gates on the west side of Waiguo, all kinds of people who helped the old and the young were crying and crying, or sighing for a long time, or with sad faces, or a crowd of people who were constantly mourning, under the escort and surveillance of the soldiers near the left, lined up in several long queues waiting to enter the city.

Although the fighting has temporarily passed, the urban area inhabited by poor people on the south bank of Luoshui has almost been beaten into a deserted land full of bones and ruins.

Therefore, under the post-war situation, the human resources in the city of Los Angeles suddenly became extremely scarce.

However, someone still had to clean up the rubble and ruins all over the ground, and the daily life and enjoyment of the superiors had to continue, so the princes of the dynasty, who did not have enough people in the city to provide labor and various services, decided to select and inspect the household registration from the local area to fill the capital.

Of course, this process will not be so pleasant, and there will always be some people and scoundrels, who cannot be placed in the position of the good intentions and good intentions of those who are in high positions in order to improve their living environment.

Therefore, in order to make them live and work in peace and contentment in Luodu, they had to adopt some heavy-handed measures and expedient measures, such as burning houses, kidnapping wives and children, and killing old people who were burdensome, to help these stubborn people make up their minds.

Therefore, it is reasonable to accidentally kill some infirm people on the road, and then try to escape halfway and be killed to make an example, or not be able to survive the normal "attrition" of punishment.

But in any case, relying on this method of forced resettlement, the city of Luodu, which had lost a large number of people in the war, finally recovered some of its vitality and hustle and bustle on the surface.

It's just that the traces left by the war are not so easy to erase. And it is not so easy to live and work in peace and contentment in the city.

Those outsiders do not have enough houses to settle in, but can only build a place on the ruins of the neighborhood. And then. And because of the chaos of organization and management, there are also many people who have lost their lives because of lack of food and clothing.

It was easy to wait until the weather warmed up, but because of the poor sanitary environment, the epidemic caused by the epidemic, the fire caused by the poor layout, and many other changes, as a result, a large number of people died, and they had to collect people from other places many times to make up for it.

If it goes back and forth, outside the city gate of Luodu, there are already layers of different levels of old and new, which are all the fate and lessons of those who are trying to escape from the city.

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Standing on the top floor of the Ming Hall at the highest point in the city, you can see that among the ruins after the fire, the various shacks and thatched huts built by immigrants are like huge and ugly scars.

It is particularly eye-catching scattered in the streets and alleys that were originally straight and neat like a chess game, and the large and small city squares that are as neat as vegetables, like a silent mockery of the "Zhongxing situation" of the Northern Dynasties.

However, compared to these small people who are suffering in helplessness and waiting, there are always a few special existences that are superior to others.

They did not need to wait in line, nor did they need to be summoned and questioned, and they were able to enter the city from a specific gate near the imperial city to the north.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the regular debriefing in the spring, Zhang Dekun also returned to Luodu City again.

Standing in front of his mansion, he felt that he was already a thing, and he felt a little embarrassed and nostalgic.

Then he did not go in, but turned around in front of his house and went to another garden.

Soon after,

In the villa called Natural Garden, Zhang Dekun saw a small group of people gathered, looking at these old and new faces full of expectations and respect, he couldn't help but feel a little excited and emotional.

These people are in a sense, the eyes, ears and eyeliner that he left in the city, and some of them are hidden shadows that he has been in the position he has stayed in for a long time.

But most of them were him, and during the short term of office of the inspection and guard envoys and the deployment of the East Road, he took advantage of the large number of vacancies in various positions in the middle and lower classes in the city, and used his position as a cover to give 66 the cronies who had been inserted into it, which could be regarded as some kind of way out and aftermath placement.

Among them, there are not only inconspicuous and important positions such as the construction of military quarters in the army, but also street law enforcement departments such as patrol inspection and urban management under the Dujian government;

There are also inner city supervisors, miscellaneous secretaries, etc., so that they are usually inconsequential but have a wide range of contacts and well-informed positions; There is even a corridor hall dedicated to providing services for the government hall and the officials behind the hall, and he has placed people in it.

As for the most important thing in the world, the Generalissimo's Mansion, although he is incompetent and powerless to intervene in it, he can still get something indirectly through the chief officials of the Weiwei Temple who deliver official documents in and out of the palace and the Marquis Yu who runs errands in the military department.

This is also the afterglow and influence left by him when he served as Wei Weiqing and mastered the governance and monitoring responsibilities of Luodu.

In this way, he can still get limited sources and general impressions after being robbed of his subordinates and power by that cousin, and by the way, he has cleaned up the influence in Los Angeles City.

After being sent out, it is true that he is far away from the center of power and has become somewhat obtuse, but he has also been able to privately display his team and power in office with relatively less control and surveillance.

For example, the name justifiably uses power to win over the outstanding athletes in the Heen Jie army, and they are cited as cronies; Recruit all kinds of reckless heroes and green forest experts, and treat yin for their own use; Under the banner of preparing for the enemy, he sent his cronies to loot the place to accumulate wealth; And so on, things that can't be fully used in Luodu......

Of course, he didn't dare to hope at this moment that he could challenge or shake the status and power of that cousin, but he was just seeking more means and opportunities for himself to protect himself in the current situation.

After all, since this cousin took over the regent's position, the Zhang family, which was originally united in the hands of the big photographer, has also faintly appeared some kind of rift and division.

On the one hand, the younger generation is increasingly drunk and dreaming of the absurd prowess, trying to escape from reality and responsibility; On the other hand, the incumbent clansmen are more cautious, with the mentality of not seeking merit but seeking no fault, gathering around the contemporary regent, and doing the good things all day long.

And after going out of Hebei to recruit ambassador Zhang Bangchang and openly separating himself from the country, this trend of differentiation between the two ends became more and more obvious, and even those Zhang clan relatives who were originally released from the place were gradually transferred and reappointed, or the newly promoted young handsome people of the contemporary regent were placed around him for disguised monitoring and restraint.

If it weren't for the fact that there was really no suitable person to appoint for a while, how could the regent easily release him, a relatively good and capable high-level of the Zhang family, from the center of power.

But for Zhang Dekun, he is relatively experienced in the army in Beijing, and he is not the cousin, who has to be entrusted with important tasks, but also needs to be the object of attention and prevention.

In a sense, Zhang Bangchang, the clansman who seized Hebei, is a lesson for him. Therefore, it is a matter of outweighing the losses to solve each other with all the strength and energy.

He needs to spare strength, and accumulate time to slowly build up his strength and team under the condition of coping with and covering up the spying and accountability in Beijing.

In contrast, the back house of his mansion has become the regent of that cousin, and it is really nothing to call him to come and go as soon as he is called.

He even sent someone to give his former personal pet Tangtang a large amount of money, so that she could maintain this line of living next to her cousin