Chapter 614: The Tree Falls and Scatters
When Empress Wei saw Wei Chengqing stop her, she couldn't help but be angry: "Why is this?" ”
Wei Chengqing looked worried, in fact, he had the urge to close the city gate and close the door and beat the dog more than Empress Wei.
But reason told him that now is not the best time, as soon as the city gate is closed, this is to force people to the desperate, and these people who have been entrenched in Chang'an City for so many years, which one has no energy, and when they really want to make them feel that their entire family may die without a place to be buried, how terrible is the power they want to burst out.
Wei Chengqing said: "The most important thing at the moment is to buy people's hearts, once the city gate is sealed, next, I am afraid that there will be changes tonight, and we ...... has not yet pulled the people of our Wei family, once the situation is out of control, there will be no regrets, among these people, I am afraid that there are also some who are sent by Jingzhao and the forbidden army, if they bewitch the people, conspire with some big clans, and rebel with their private soldiers, Chang'an will be turbulent. Rather than this, it is better to leave them a glimmer of life, those who want to escape, it is impossible to sweep away everything and escape, they have to abandon their official positions, lose their own houses, and even abandon their land, and slaves and maids, lose these, they may still have strength, but they are not as good as before, and when our Wei family has gained a foothold, we will make plans to give their things to their own people to stimulate morale, and they can also avoid a disaster of Xiao Wall. ”
Seeing that Wu Zetian was silent, Wei Chengqing said again: "If the news is not leaked out in advance, the Wei family can indeed calmly lay out, and for those who have two hearts, they will all be wiped out, and now, the enemy is dark and I am clear, so we must not take risks, Niangniang." At present, the most important thing is to hold the governors of each town and the civil and military officials who disdain to be with Qin Shaoyou, so as not to cause people's hearts to fluctuate. ”
Empress Wei had no choice but to sigh and sneer: "It's all a good thing done by Wu Zetian's prostitute. ”
Wei Chengqing was silent.
He knew that Empress Wei had hated Wu Zetian to the core, and in fact, he was not like this. The original situation of the Wei family still took the initiative, but now, it is controlled by others everywhere, and even the survival of the Wei family has reached a critical moment, how Wei Chengqing does not hate Wu Zetian.
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As soon as Wei Chi Xunyu ran like this, the entire Chang'an was completely moved.
At this point, things are clear. Everywhere people say that the crown prince is dead, and at this point, the prince has not shown up, so the prince and the four princes were killed by the Wei family, it is almost a certainty, since the Wei family slaughtered the prince and the four princes, don't they understand their thoughts? The country of the Tang Dynasty is afraid that it will change hands again.
Only this time. It's completely different from the last time.
Last time, although Wu Zetian became the emperor. Although there are many resistances, Wu Zetian still gives many people hope, at least everyone thinks that Wu Zetian is just a woman, although she is the son of heaven, but she has two sons who are relatives of the Li family. Sooner or later, Wu Zetian will grow old and die, as long as she dies, this world. After all, it's still the Li family. It is precisely because of this that although Wu Zetian encountered the crusade of Li Jingye and the kings during his reign, the scale of the rebellion was still within a controllable range, and the vast majority of ministers were still willing to acquiesce to this fact, and they spent all their energy on opposing Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi, Wu Zetian's relatives, all for the purpose of winning Li Xian or Li Longjike to succeed to the unification.
But now...... The situation is quite different.
Wei has no heirs, a person without heirs, if you want to emulate Wu Zetian, it is enough to make people desperate, a person without heirs, and now, His Majesty's two princes have been killed by her, to this extent, to say something ugly, if Wei now decrees that the second prince Li Chongfu will come to Chang'an and become the crown prince, do you dare to believe it? I'm afraid that I will worry that Li Chongfu will come to Chang'an, and finally enter the tiger's mouth.
It is precisely because of this that Wei became the Son of Heaven, so in the future, this prince will not be Wei's daughter, or Wei's clansman, in essence, Wei will definitely marry his daughter to the Wei family for her benefit, and the next so-called prince and grandson will still be surnamed Wei after all, which ...... It's unacceptable to all.
Many people understand this, and even a muddy person like Yu Chi Xunyu knows the seriousness of the problem, so when he feels wrong, this guy makes a decision immediately, doesn't say a word, and runs away overnight.
There are many people who start running.
Official...... Or don't you do well, stay here, and be loyal to the Wei family? This Wei family usurped the throne, even if he became the Son of Heaven, but it would really be smooth sailing? Even if you don't have feelings for the Li family, and you don't have much thought about the Tang Dynasty, but following the Wei family to the dark may not be a good thing.
Some people don't want to be involved, so they just hang the seal.
There are also people who are still loyal to the Tang Dynasty, such as Wei Chi Xunyu, after the founding hero, all the glory of their family is closely related to this dynasty, although they can get a lot of benefits by staying here, but they always feel sorry for their ancestors, so they simply took their families and left.
The land property can be abandoned for the time being, and the official position is not wanted for the time being, after all, ...... Many people are not cronies of the Wei family, staying here, who knows if they will be recognized as ******, the Wei family dares to kill the crown prince and the four princes, will they still care about you?
And the second prince of Luoyang...... After all, it is the last hope.
People who are not accustomed to Qin Shaoyou can comfort themselves, saying that they are going to defect to the prince, and they are broken, and they even want to go to Chang'an directly, and they can't wait for Qin Shaoyou to immediately raise troops and kill all these people from the Wei family.
Many people are starting to move.
There were big carts everywhere, and even some ordinary people, began to get involved.
A large number of escapes began, on the road to Luoyang. There is a constant flow of people.
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In Luoyang City, everything was as before.
Qin Shaoyou rushed back to Luoyang from Weizhou, and the city of Luoyang had doubled in size compared to before, so much so that the city wall divided the entire Luoyang in two, causing the roads inside and outside the city to begin to be blocked.
Congestion. It seems to have become a headache for the whole Luoyang.
Because there are only a few city gates, there are only so many passages into the city, and the rapid increase in population has led to the daily flow of cars, horses and people entering and leaving the city gates often blocking the water in various city gates.
Don't say that it is the people, even the officers and soldiers who patrol the city are often blocked and cannot advance or retreat, which is very embarrassing.
At the moment, Wang Ju means that the existing Luoyang city wall can be demolished, and then on the periphery of Luoyang. Build bigger walls, but ...... Qin Shaoyou didn't have much interest in this.
The demolition of the city wall means that there are no longer a few gates to enter and exit the inner and outer cities, and the inner and outer neighborhoods can be connected, forming a tic-tac-toe structure, so that there are hundreds of more roads into the inner city and out of the outer city out of thin air. This is a good thing, but what the hell is it to build a new wall? This is tantamount to tearing down a small circle, but building a larger circle on the original basis, and accommodating the expanded city. It's just that this larger city wall not only costs a lot of money, but most importantly, what if Luoyang's population continues to grow in the future?
Will it continue to be dismantled in the future. Continue to repair?
It's obviously a boring thing to do.
A few years ago, the function of the city was just a derivative of the government's office, because the government was here, and people had the need for exchange, so the market appeared, and people exchanged with each other, and then, some people began to settle down because of the need for fixed transactions, and gradually some people began to settle down and became a non-agricultural population, but ...... The size and population of a city also depend on the needs of the city.
Because there are many officials and businessmen living in it, they need slaves, they need inns for merchants to rest, and they need some places for fireworks, but this does not mean that this capacity is unlimited.
It is the work that determines the size of the city.
Nowadays, because of the prosperity of commerce, the prosperity of handicrafts, and the refinement of industries in all walks of life, theoretically speaking, the population in Luoyang can almost reach the point of limitlessness, at least for now...... There is no Mengjin anymore, not because Mengjin was dismissed by Qin Shaoyou, but because Luoyang and Mengjin are not far away, and the two cities have become one.
If a wall is built on this periphery, will it not be enough to be fed and supported?
Therefore, Qin Shaoyou's idea is to demolish it first, and then plan whether to repair the city wall or not.
When I heard that the city wall would not be built, it caused an uproar.
It's not safe.
The defense of the city wall is an iron law in this era, and there is no problem with 10,000 elite soldiers, as long as they are properly assigned and there is enough food in the city, they can completely rely on the city wall to keep out the 100,000 elite soldiers outside the city, and there is no problem at all in holding on for a few years. But if there are no walls......
Qin Shaoyou also has a headache about this, after all, the old-fashioned concept is still quite strong, so he can only rely on the representatives, now everyone's attention is on the city wall, there are many people who come to ask for help, and the council hall is also boiling, but finally there is still one thing, which completely diverts everyone's attention.
Wei Chi Xunyu arrived.
This benevolent brother took hundreds of people in his family, rented more than a dozen boats, and arrived at Luoyang Wharf with all the family property that their Wei Chi family could take away.
He did not ask someone to report to Qin Shaoyou, but after settling down in Luoyang, he walked around outside the Longmen Palace of the second prince Li Chongfu every day, asking the second prince to meet.
Wei Chi Xunyu...... This Duke of Eguo, in fact, has already become a laughing stock in Luoyang City.
At the beginning, the contradiction between him and the Yang family was a well-known thing, and because of this, it also caused the contradiction between Guanzhong and the Kanto people.
Therefore, the favorite thing of Kanto people to do is to eat and drink enough, and then use this poor guy as an after-dinner conversation, and all kinds of ridicule are inevitable. Merely...... This kind of ridicule only lasted for two or three months, and then disappeared, and now, this guy has emerged in Luoyang, and Luoyang is in an uproar.
Eguo Gong is here.
Which one is the Duke of Eguo.
Which one else is in the Duke of Eguo......
Li Chongfu did not hear back there, in fact, when he learned that his two brothers had been murdered, he became more cautious.
The only thing Li Chongfu is glad about now is that he made the right decision at the beginning, if he didn't flee to Luoyang at this juncture, he is afraid that his current self will end up no different from Li Chongjun.
Wei Chi Xunyu's request to see him made him particularly careful, because he knew very well that there was a contradiction between Yu Chi Xunyu and Qin Shaoyou, and a private meeting with this person at this time might cause Qin Shaoyou's dissatisfaction, no matter whether Qin Shaoyou was good or bad for him, after all, he was now under the fence, so it was better to pay attention.
Therefore, Li Chongfu of Longmen blocked Wei Chi Xunyu outside.
But at this time, someone came from the Shence Mansion, but he asked Wei Chi Xunyu to go to Yu Chi Xunyu and see Qin Shaoyou.
When Wei Chi Xunyu heard Qin Shaoyou's name, he was a little annoyed, in fact, he was a very simple person, and it was his idea to come to Luoyang, but when he thought of facing Qin Shaoyou, he was worried, but it didn't matter, people could always comfort themselves that he was a Tang Chen, and he went to seek refuge with His Royal Highness the Second Prince, what does it have to do with Qin Shaoyou.
But the second prince is gone, Qin Shaoyou posted it there, he knows that this is Qin Shaoyou's land, he is now dragging his family and making people angry, there must be no good fruit to eat, and he can see it if he doesn't see it, so he has to comfort himself, it doesn't hurt to see it, what can he do to me?
With a little apprehension, Wei Chi Xunyu obediently arrived at the Shence Mansion.
Then...... He finally met the Qin Shaoyou who he had been thinking about for a long time and wanted to chop him into meat sauce.
Qin Shaoyou looked at him with a smile, which made his scalp a little numb, but he was not confused, and he was busy saluting: "I have seen His Royal Highness King Wei." ”
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The full chapter is delivered.
(To be continued.) )