In short, since the Lanling King and the Sihai Trading Company took charge of the capital, the entire Luoyang area has undergone earth-shaking changes, which is especially prominent in the lifestyle of the local magnates and common people.

The first point is to drink tea and go to the teahouse to listen to books, and now no one in the whole of Togi Province drinks the kind of boiled tea with lard, mutton butter, spices, green onions, ginger and garlic, and all of them drink more high-level tea.

Going to the teahouse to listen to the story has also become a must-have class for many people in their spare time, and when they chat on weekdays, the most talked about is the story told by the storyteller.

To put it bluntly, after the material civilization was slightly enriched, they began to pursue spiritual civilization, which was most prominent in the first batch of workers recruited by the Four Seas Trading Company.

In addition to going to the teahouse to listen to books, the happiest thing they do every day is to buy a newspaper for two pennies, and then let their children in the primary school read to them in the courtyard in front of their homes.

Although they basically can't understand most of the content except for the story of the novel, and their children sometimes don't recognize many words and read intermittently, they still enjoy it every day.

And every time the passers-by who walked by at the door of their house would also cast envious glances at them, and sometimes they would take the initiative to greet: "Wang Laosan, what a blessing, there are also scholars at home." ”

At this time, it is their happiest time, and the hard work of the day will disappear in an instant, and great happiness and satisfaction will come up.

Yes, the life of my ancestors who planted crops for hundreds of years has now become a scholar, what is the value of this hard work? Besides, the salary is high, and I will be paid one and a half times the overtime salary for overtime, so I have something to look forward to.

Wang Laosan sighed and said helplessly: "Alas! What a reader. The doll is not serious in class, and I don't know many words! ”

Then the one who took the initiative to say hello was angry enough, Wang Laosan, you did it on purpose, just because I came to Luoyang ten months later than your family, and my son is one year older than yours. Don't you don't know a word? Your second child can read the newspaper now, and your third child is still deliberately complaining, isn't this deliberately annoying, what are you better than me, don't you just rush to a good time?

Then this person secretly made up his mind in his heart that he must work the construction site, perform well, strive to be evaluated as advanced or promoted to a small steward, and expand the enrollment of the primary school next time. Be sure to send your two dolls to the elementary school!

Such scenes are happening every day in the workshop areas of Togi Province in the twelfth year of Tianbao, which are limited to the majority of the poor, and for the rich people living in Togi Province, especially the powerful families, life is incomparably luxurious and enjoyable, colorful and beautiful!

Luoyang City and the surrounding new urban area, Beiye Manor. It is a paradise for the rich to live!

Here are the best and top in Datang. The most luxurious set of restaurants and hotels for eating and drinking, the latest and most delicious food dishes can be tasted here, in addition, there are the most mellow wines, the most thoughtful and considerate service. The most functional and comfortable luxury Thorn Shi private room and Wang Ye private room.

Luoyang's South City, North City and the new urban area outside Luoyang are the largest shopping malls in Datang, where you can buy the best goods you can think of, exquisite jewelry and gold jewelry; Good-looking. The most exquisite workmanship, novel style of high-end men's and women's clothing, top Jiaolong leather women's bags; All kinds of spices and gourmet confectionery pastries, toffee, fruit candy, lollipops, all kinds of bread, cakes, meat floss, roast beef jerky, roast whale jerky, fresh bottled milk; All kinds of toys and books, building blocks, puppets, tumblers, wooden ~ horses, comic books, novels, all kinds of thread-bound books; As well as a variety of never-before-seen luxuries, top-of-the-line perfumes, music boxes, crystals, jewelry artworks.

In short, as long as you have money, Luoyang will be able to meet all your needs, nowadays, rich people passing by Luoyang, do not buy something as a gift to take back, are embarrassed to go home!

In addition, Luoyang is also the most livable city in Datang, where as long as you have money, you can eat fresh vegetables and fruits all year round, all kinds of ice drinks in summer, popsicle ice cream, heating and fireplace in winter; You can enjoy the most thoughtful service without leaving home, what you want, you have your own half-old children to send to the door, and there are extremely convenient four-wheeled public carriages when you go out.

The leisure and entertainment life here is also the top in Datang, and the entire Dugi Province, especially Luoyang City, is full of large and small Liyuan Opera Gardens and Opera Theaters.

In addition, those who like to be quiet can also go to play billiards and golf; If you like excitement, you can play polo, or watch polo matches and horse races, and even more exciting can also participate in betting.

Since it was rumored that a certain gangster Zhang San became rich overnight through gambling ~ horses, and Li Si, a certain running buddy who ran the hall, became a monopoly because he was good at gambling ~ ball, the people of the entire capital province have gone crazy, and there are countless people involved in it, and the four sea trading companies that organized these are naturally rich.

And even women and children, there are rattan balls and playgrounds suitable for them to play, especially the kind of carousel ~ horse that will emit pleasant music when it turns up, and it is the favorite of these rich children.

Whenever they hold a lollipop in their hands, sit on a rotating wooden ~ horse, and listen to beautiful music, that innocent and simple laughter can always infect everyone, and they can't help but admire, heaven on earth!

Of course, in Datang, not all places are like this, and the lives of ordinary people in Hebei are very difficult. Due to the economic suppression and control of the Four Seas Trading Company, the finances of Hebei An Lushan Shi Siming Group were stretched thin.

An Lushan raised so many private soldiers, and the reason why he was able to stabilize the northeast border was first relied on by money. This is good, Hebei's economy was blocked by the Sihai Trading Company, and An Lushan couldn't get the money and materials to the Hu beast soldiers under his command, and then they became addicted to alcohol again, so many Hu soldiers began to make trouble for the place and steal things everywhere.

The entire Hebei region was immediately covered by a high black miasma, so more than 300,000 Han refugees who fled to Henan have been implicated. In fact, many ordinary Hu people also suffered from military disasters, but they did not dare to come to Henan, they listened to An Lushan's words, and they were afraid that Nei Xiao would get sick and die.

However, An Lushan and Shi Siming are not completely incapable wastes, one is in charge of political ideology and economy, and the other is in charge of the military. actually incited all the local Hu people to resentment against Xiao Quai, and with this breath, he really bulldozed the Khitan and Xi, a tribe that had been plagued by the Northeast Frontier for decades.

In April of the thirteenth year of Tianbao, his leaders Li Huaixiu and Li Riyue were captured, and since then the Khitan and Xi have been completely pacified, and most of the elite soldiers of the two times have been surrendered by An Lushan.

Hebei An Lushan Shi Siming Group's strength has increased greatly. The only problem is that there is no money to raise soldiers, although they are temporarily fooled by An Lushan, but everyone knows that it will not be long before these Hu beast soldiers will clamor for rebellion, and they will be defeated sooner or later.

There was also a small episode during this period, that is, in March of the twelfth year of Tianbao, An Lushan asked Li Longji to let Chief Tongluo play. Shuofang Jiedu's deputy envoy Li Xianzhong and Luo soldiers came with tens of thousands of soldiers to help attack the Khitan and Xi. Li Xianzhong was afraid of being murdered by An Lushan, so he resolutely refused to go, so in April, he led his troops to plunder the warehouse and rebelled to Mobei.

However, Mobei has belonged to the Hui Hui, and the Hui have an alliance with An Lushan, and Li Xianzhong's troops and Luo Jingbing fought several battles with the Hui in the Mobei grassland, and fled to the south again. In July, the fence was cleared. Zhang Yuanliang was repelled by the gate and led his troops to flee to Beiting.

Xiao Qubing paid close attention to this matter, took the initiative to ask for battle, and led 3,000 Tiance light cavalry to set off from Luoyang, drove straight into 5,000 miles, and united with the 3,000 Shuo Fang army led by Hun Yang (the one formerly known as Hun Jin). Before the Hui soldiers and horses broke the main force of Tongluo, they broke the division of Absi (Li Xianzhong's original name was Absi, and was given the name Li Xianzhong by Li Longji), captured Absi alive, and captured more than 60,000 people of his tribe.

On the other hand. Li Linfu was implicated by Absi, attacked by Yang Guozhong and An Lushan, in a fit of anger, at the end of April of the twelfth year of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong replaced Li Linfu as the right minister, holding more than 30 envoys, and was powerful for a while.

Li Longji enjoyed luxury all day long, drunk and dreamed of death, Yang Guozhong covered the sky in Chang'an, and directly led to the defeat of the Jiannan soldiers to conquer Nanzhao!

In fact, as early as the eleventh year of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong deeply felt that the 80,000 Jiannan Army was defeated by Nanzhao, which made him lose his face.

However, he first had to recover the lost territory, so he ordered Li Mi to send troops to build Yaozhou City, and appointed the general Jia Qian as the governor of Yaozhou, sitting on the front line, wanting to make Yaozhou a springboard for attacking Nanzhao.

I don't want to Nanzhao Wang Ge Luo Feng to do nothing, two endlessly, send troops to cut off the Yaozhou grain route, on the second day of Xiao Quai's return to Luoyang from the South China Sea, capture Yaozhou again, the Tang army was wiped out again, and Jia Can was captured and righteous.

Immediately afterwards, in the following year, that is, in July of the twelfth year of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong, who was in charge of the court, ordered Li Mi to lead the army, and recruited He Luguang, the envoy of the five prefectures of Lingnan, to lead 20,000 troops to help, a total of 100,000 troops, and then conquered Nanzhao.

Because the previous Tang army was completely annihilated, and there were rumors that Nanzhao "miasma" attacked people, the soldiers were afraid of Nanzhao, this time the conquest of Nanzhao was defeated again, and almost the whole army was annihilated, only He Luguang escaped with 5,000 Lingnan soldiers.

Yang Guozhong was furious, defeated by Nanzhao three times, and almost every time the whole army was annihilated, which made his face very gloomy as the right minister and the leader of the sword Nanjiedu.

In addition, the other two favored ministers of the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Quzhi and An Lushan, both made great contributions, one only brought 22 warships, and the 3,000 Tiance Marine Corps pacified the South China Sea; The other Khitan and Xi, who had pacified the rebellion for a long time, were both praised by the emperor, and their favor was still above them.

This is called how can he endure it, the men of Jiannan Road have been almost recruited by him, so in the thirteenth year of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong ordered compulsory conscription in Guannei Road, Hebei Province, and Henan Province.

The roster of the military department has been distributed to the hands of the commanders, and when Dugi Province is living and working in peace and contentment, and it is a happy scene, Guannei Province, Hebei Province, and Henan Province are gloomy and bleak, and those families who are selected to go to the family to conquer Nanzhao are all crying.

In the thirteenth year of Tianbao, at the end of April, Gyeonggi Province, Gyeongzhao Province, Xinfeng County, a twenty-four-year-old young man named Liang Xiaoshan walked on the way home in despair.

"Oh my God!" With a bang, seeing Liang Xiaoshan's appearance, the newlywed wife who was about to cook suddenly dropped the rice pan on the ground in horror, and cried at a loss: "San Lang, you were hit?" How is this good, how is this good......"

Liang Xiaoshan's tears also flowed out of the ground, and he hugged his wife and cried loudly. Last year, Daddy just died of illness, and he and his second brother had only separated from each other, and he was the only man in the family.

He had heard that there was a lushui in Nanzhao, and when the army crossed the river on foot, the river would be so hot that it would be like boiling soup, and two or three percent of the people would die just by crossing the lushui.

In addition, Nanzhao is full of miasma, and the Nanzhao soldiers are extremely fierce, and there are nearly 200,000 people who have conquered Nanzhao before and after, all of whom have been wiped out by the whole army, and he doesn't think that this time the Tang army will be able to win.

Besides, he is not the material for war at all, Guanzhong has been peaceful for decades, since he was born, he only knows the bamboo pipes and operas in the pear orchard, when have you ever seen a knife and a gun? I can't pull the softest eight-step bow by myself, what is it like to go to Nanzhao to die?

"Lian'er, don't cry, quickly prepare a plate of dry food for me, I want to escape!" After crying, Liang Xiaoshan made up his mind that he must not be sent to death.

"Escape...... All right! Lian'er subconsciously agreed, and then began to draw and pair up to prepare dry food and coils for Liang Xiaoshan.

When the first cake was baked, I heard a county official walking by the door, striking the gong and shouting loudly: "All families have listened, but whoever is conscripted, don't try to escape, if you dare to escape, your property will be confiscated, your parents, wives and children will sit together, and those who are caught will be punished as deserters......"

Liang Xiaoshan was like ashes, and glanced at Lian'er, Lian'er hugged Liang Xiaoshan again and cried bitterly, and said with grief and indignation: "God, this is forcing people to death!" ”

After a long time, when Lian'er cried so much that her voice was hoarse, she raised her head, bit her lip and said to Liang Xiaoshan: "San Lang, we don't want this family property, let's run away together, flee to Luoyang, where we take in the homeless, there are many things, we can always find something to do...... I'll start packing up now and I'll leave tonight......"

Lian'er kept chattering while starting to clean up the house, but Liang Xiaoshan's eyes lit up, he stopped his wife's behavior, and said happily: "Let's go to Lantian County and beg Wang Liulang of the Wang family!" ”

"Wang Liulang?"

"Yes, he is the sixth uncle of the king of Lanling, let's go to beg Wang Liulang and ask him to beg the king of Lanling to send troops to recruit Nanzhao for us, we don't have to go!" Liang Xiaoshan's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he became more and more excited, and he was about to jump.

"That's right, King Lanling is the god of war of the Tang Dynasty, he and the Tiance army are so powerful, why didn't the imperial court let him take the Tiance army to pacify Nanzhao!" Lian'er was also very happy, but she thought it was strange.

"What do you know, the king of Lanling is the commander of the Tiance Mansion, and with 3,000 Tiance troops he pacified dozens of countries in the South China Sea, and 40,000 Tongluo soldiers rebelled, and the king of Lanling only took 3,000 Tiance troops to wipe out and capture all the Tongluo soldiers and capture Absi alive.

That Yang Guozhong is the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, but he has conquered Nanzhao several times and wiped out the whole army, of course he knows that as long as the king of Lanling goes, the Nanzhao will definitely be pacified quickly, but doesn't this make the king of Lanling and the Tiance army make meritorious contributions? With an idea, Liang Xiaoshan pretended to know a lot and said to his wife.

"Then he will let the people of Gyeonggi Province and Guannai Province go to death, and Yang Guozhong, who should be cut with a thousand knives!" Lian'er gritted her teeth and scolded.

"Shh Liang Xiaoshan hurriedly closed the door and whispered: "Now that Yang Guozhong is in charge of the government and covers the sky with one hand, you dare to scold him, if he is heard, then is it okay for us to do so?" ”

Lian'er scolded in a low voice: "This big traitor has killed so many people, and he has been cheapened by a thousand cuts!" ”

Liang Xiaoshan waved his hand and said seriously: "Okay, hurry up and make me two more cakes, I will go to the lieutenant chief, unite the conscripted people in the village to Lantian together, and leave tomorrow morning." ”

"Do you think King Lanling will agree to send troops?" Lian'er was busy working, but she still had doubts.

"King Lanling cares about the people, he will!" Liang Xiaoshan said firmly. (To be continued.) )