Chapter 175: Changes in Chang'an

Li Er once gave Li Yuan the right to walk freely in Chang'an City, of course, it was carried out under the absolute control of the secret guards and chamberlains, since he really walked out of Changle Palace for the first time, he fell in love with the activities of going out to shop, the current streets of Chang'an are too prosperous, there are almost all the business groups of all countries in the Western Regions gathered here, and all kinds of jugglers belly dancers have made up for the gap in the entertainment industry formed by the brothels of the Qinglou such as the Drunken Immortal Building in Chang'an City, Gu Qingqing is about to come back with the beauties she collected from all over the country, Because the renovation of the heavenly and earthly building will be completed in the fourth year of Zhenguan, and the fifth year of Zhenguan will be delivered, the last year is the time when she is busy arranging and training people.

Li Yuan came to the first floor of the world and looked up at the building for a moment, I don't know why, Yang Lin asked not to set up a yard for this super building, after it was built, regardless of identity, everyone can enter, and hundreds of thousands of square meters of cement squares were opened around the building, these cement squares are currently more lively than the east and west cities, and it is the favorite place for street artists in Chang'an to gather, Li Yuan likes to come here to see the excitement, and then mix a soft and delicious roasted sweet potato to eat.

The girl who sells roasted sweet potatoes is called Wang Erxuan, this girl who has just reached the age of ten has already been a street tyrant in Chang'an City, and the sweet potato cars all over the city are under her control, she can not only get the limited edition tricycle of the car factory, but also the new clothes and hats made by the garment factory, and the dog skin hat and sheepskin jacket are their standard dress.

The beggars and gangsters on the streets of Chang'an have been cleaned up by Wang Erxuan, and now they are all subservient to her obscenity, and they all obey her arrangement every day, the little fairy Yang Lin once told her that if she can make there be no beggar on the streets of Chang'an, it will be a good achievement, and now she has basically done it.

"Grandpa, come to buy sweet potatoes again! This has freshly baked, let's have a big one! "Wang Erxuan's status in Chang'an City is now unknown to everyone. But she still insisted on selling sweet potatoes on the street herself, not for anything else, but to supervise whether there were beggars on the street.

"Let's have one!" Li Yuan took out three pennies from his cuff and handed it to Wang Erxuan, which was almost the only person he could contact on this street, because Wang Erxuan represented the people of Wangjia Village, that is, the people who were given horses by God, and belonged to the super security system.

Small sweet potatoes cost a penny, a medium one penny, and a large one three pennies, this is Wang Erxuan's rule. Sweet potatoes have been spreading in the Tang Dynasty for three years, and they have been everywhere, and now they are the staple food of the poor people, and the snacks of the common people, Wang Erxuan will not adjust the price because of the identity of the person who buys it, and the emperor has to pay the same amount to buy things when he comes.

"This thing, please give it to your little fairy." Li Yuan took the sweet potato and put a small bag in Wang Erxuan's hand, this half-grown girl was actually very vigilant. But how complicated the royal affairs were was not something she could have imagined.

"Why should I help you?" Wang Erxuan pinched the bag in her palm and asked in a low voice.

"Because you're going to help your little fairy." Li Yuan replied lightly, regardless of whether Wang Erxuan was really unwilling or not, he turned around and walked away with vague steps. While walking, I carefully peeled off the sweet potatoes wrapped in straw paper bags, and ate them very seriously.

Li Chengqian's shelf is getting bigger and bigger, and he actually dares to show his irritability with her in front of Empress Changsun, and more and more people have taken refuge in him recently. He even thought that Chang'an City was absolutely under his control, and even the officials of the seven sects and five surnames who his father, Emperor Li Er, were jealous of, patted their chests to him to express their allegiance, what else in the world was he afraid of?

Fang Xuanling followed the plan deployed by Li before World War II. Preparing to transport the second batch of strategic materials to the south, he was actually postponed at the moment of shipment on the grounds that the preparations were still insufficient, perhaps in this world, Li Chengqian already thought that only his son Li Er was an obstacle for him to control the world.

"Queen Mother, isn't it an iron rule that you have always abided by that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics? Why do you repeatedly influence the governance strategy of the sons, the sons are appointed to supervise the country, and all aspects must be taken into account, and now the economic lifeline of the Tang Dynasty is all about Chang'an, and it is the truth to ensure the rapid development of Chang'an, Xiaolinzi once told me that when our royal family became the richest person, we had to learn to spend money, and this is what the sons did when they were in Hangzhou, not only the people will be grateful to my royal family, but a beautiful and beautiful Hangzhou has also been built by the sons, and the people have received rich wages, and they will consume, Buying the goods produced by our top ten factories, the money flowed back into our pockets, we didn't have any losses, not only built the country, but also gained popularity, and the people also got benefits, this is a verified truth, how can the queen mother object? Li Chengqian's head is the Tao, and the eldest grandson, who has lived in the deep palace for a long time and has not seen the scene of Hangzhou, has no way to refute it.

"But now is wartime, I don't know how long the war in the southern Xinjiang will last, it is only right for the treasury to reserve more, and even if it wins, the follow-up construction will require a lot of money, your father has already planned this year's budget and the use of money, and your unauthorized adjustment will affect his overall layout." The eldest grandson was very helpless and said, Li Chengqian has the power and reason to supervise the country, and has the support of more than half of the ministers, even if she is Li Chengqian's own mother, it is difficult to resist the pressure of the court, the second phase of strategic materials should have been shipped in November, and now it has reached the first month of the fourth year of Zhenguan and still remains in Chang'an, several bigwigs in the hall have urged the prince many times to no avail, and Comrade Wei Zheng, the mirror of the ancient people, even quarreled with Li Chengqian in the court, and now he is ordered by Li Chengqian to introspect at home.

Li Chengqian's desire to expand his influence is nothing more than the solicitation of high-ranking officials and Houlu, as long as he takes refuge in him, the bounty and silver are trivial matters, and the share of goods in the ten major factories in the east and west has been secretly divided by him, and even the management personnel of an important part of the printing house are mixed in with personnel with the background of the five surnames, if movable type printing technology flows into the hands of the five surnamed door valves, in the civil official faction, the imperial court does not know how many years it will be controlled by the five surname gate valves, but Li Chengqian did just that, what he wants is an empty sentence that people pat their chests and pledge their allegiance.

"The small war in the southern Xinjiang is not enough to shake the foundation of my Tang Dynasty, this matter has been discussed with the ministers of the court, the queen mother does not need to say much, the sons are busy with official business, the queen mother please take care of herself!" Li Chengqian is now at the peak of the rebellious period, how can he listen to the words of the eldest grandson, the Hou family has sent Hou Ying to the palace, and even Li Chengqian has already stayed in the palace where others live, these aspects of the eldest grandson are actually tolerable, she is happy to see the Li family, especially her own son's lineage, but Li Chengqian, who eats the marrow, not only slept with his wife, but also slept with some handsome palace maids around him, in order to hide his evil deeds, He also executed those palace maids and sent them outside the palace, so that Chengqian Palace has recently added a lot of souls.

Chang'an's first and second Li Er knew that the secret guards in the palace were not vegetarians, although the situation would only reach him in the evening, but if he was as smart as he was, how could he not guess the evolution later! Li Er didn't show his nervousness like the eldest grandson, he even thought that Li Chengqian should do this, as the successor of the emperor, he couldn't seize the authority at the right time, and he had no desire for power, he was not a qualified emperor, the only thing that made him a little dissatisfied was that Li Chengqian didn't see the harm of the seven sects and five surnames, and actually reused the people of those family lords, and he didn't realize that the power he held was vain, and he didn't have the power of armed military forces at all. At this point, he is very inferior to Li Tai, Li Tai is now able to help him take care of most of the affairs of the army with Li Er, which gives him a lot of time to talk to Xiliang, soothe the people, share a piano, dance or something, the changes in Chang'an, he just quietly watched with his eyes.

Chachai was also quietly watching the Qiē in front of them, those big ships with strings higher than the city walls were moving, they didn't need sails to run faster than the speed of the galloping horses, even faster than the horses, as if some huge monster was pushing them underwater, and whenever they sailed through the calm sea, a white splash line was pulled out behind their tails, which was turbulent and spectacular. Just now, the kind of fast windward sailing ship sent some news to the big ship he was on, on the first day of the fourth year of Zhenguan, the navy of King Hongdu had really arrived at Yingji Port.

"One hundred and twenty miles in front of the enemy's target on the left, with the Lingnan No. 1 command battleship as the center, the Huainan Navy ships No. 1 to 10 as the left flank, and the Lingnan Navy ships No. 2 to 11 as the right flank, forming a swallow-shaped formation to meet the enemy, the Lingnan No. 12 to 18 ships are circling behind the enemy to outflank, and all the rest are replenished, and the troop carriers are withdrawn from the battlefield and are on standby."

Yanglin issued a long list of orders, the flag officer on the command ship immediately waved the flag to reach the flag, the ship's staff saw the command ship's flag instructions and quickly put out a formation, maintaining an inverted herringbone formation slowly forward, the two fleets walked opposite each other, although there are more than 100 miles away, more than half an hour can also see each other, in fact, Yanglin's fleet can not achieve accurate strikes at all, according to their training subjects, in addition to a few simple formations, is to rely on dense firepower to bombard, Not counting the seven battleships responsible for outflanking, on the twenty-one battleships in the main battle alone, there were more than 400 Shenwei cannons on the upper and lower floors, and even Yang Lin himself had never seen the scene of more than 400 Shenwei cannons firing at the same time.

From the beginning of the battleship's march, Yang Lin walked on the lookout of the command ship, in that oversized telescope, he had already seen the dense battleships of King Hongdu, most of them were sailboats, most of them were three-mast to five-masts, and the speed of moving with the wind was less than half of the Yanglin battleship, and they could only walk against the wind, like a turtle crawling, Yanglin glanced at the fleet of King Hongdu, which seemed to be a little panicked, and they were obviously surprised by the sudden appearance of such a large ship near Yingji Harbor, Even on a seven-masted galleon that was almost the size of Yanglin's warship, Yanglin saw the banner of the king of Hongdu, and a fat man with a scruffy beard and strange costume was talking to a blue-eyed man with curly beard and curly hair beside him with a suspicious expression. (To be continued......)