When Li Ang returned to the east after drinking in the West Market, he saw that the spacious Royal Street was divided into soldiers with bright armor, five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry, and the flag fluttered.

The snow has cleared the streets, and the people of the city are crowded on both sides of the streets. The east and west sides of Suzaku Street were cut off by soldiers, and they couldn't get through, so Li Ang had to stop and watch.

With such pomp, Li Ang thought that the emperor was going to travel.

I heard that the emperor has to go to the Lishan Palace every winter, because the Huaqing Palace located at the northern foot of Lishan has geothermal heat, out of the hot springs, the winter is also warm like spring, the hot spring water is slippery and washes the rouge, this cold winter wax moon, and the beauty to soak in the hot spring, it is indeed very enjoyable.

But from the chaotic discussion of the people on the street, it seemed that it was not the emperor who was going to travel, and Li Ang took the horse forward and listened to an old man about the situation;

The old man replied enthusiastically: "I heard that it was the envoy of Longyou Jiedu who returned to Beijing to offer prisoners, and look, this year is really amazing, and the ambassador of Wang Zhonghei Wang in the north has only sent back the good news not long after, and the Turks have been destroyed, and the envoy of Longyou Jiedu has returned to offer prisoners, which is very lively......"

The old man was very suggestive, and he was talking endlessly, and his face was full of pride.

When Li Ang heard this, his heart was full of strange feelings, offering prisoners? Hey.......

It is probably true that Huangfu Weiming has had many good news in fighting with the Tubo army in recent years, but the news that Li Ang got when he entered Beijing is obviously that this time he led the Kuozhou army to launch a strong attack on Shibao City, an important town occupied by Tubo, and was led by Tubo Da Mang Buzhi and Tuyuhun Xiaowangli Yingwai, Huangfu Weiming was defeated, and the deputy general Chu Xu was killed.

Could it be that the war has been reversed again, and the emperor has turned defeat into victory?

Of course, it's more likely. Even if it is defeated, as long as it does not collapse on all fronts. It's not difficult to get some "prisoners of war", this is a prisoner. It is also impossible to carry thousands of captives into Beijing and bring back dozens of them.

Whatever the case is, Li Ang is too lazy to care about it anyway, and he can't care about it. The emperor's festival envoy makes some military achievements, and it doesn't hinder us from doing anything.

Li Ang crowded on the side of the road and waited for a cup of tea, but when he saw the festival flag coming, the two rows of armor soldiers in front of him opened the way, neat and orderly, with iron hooves. Majestic-looking.

The people on the side of the road saw it and applauded, and some people shouted, "Look, the envoy of Longyou Jiedu is coming, look at it!" ”

Li Ang also saw a middle-aged man with bright armor and about thirty-six or seventeen years old, riding a tall war horse, walking under the handsome banner. His expression is pale, his eyes are like torches, and he has a bit of literati elegance in his heroism, which is very good.

This should be the emperor's only understanding. Behind him were twenty of his own soldiers, followed by him. It was dozens of prisoners of war in Tibetan costumes, tied up in a string. Under the escort of the soldiers on both sides, he staggered forward.

Met the prisoners of war. The onlookers on the side of the road were even more excited, shouting, "Datang is mighty!" "The Imperial Fu Ambassador is mighty!"

In the face of the enthusiastic people of Chang'an, Huangfu Weiming was calm, and he did not get carried away at all, and the long procession of prisoners walked in the direction of the Suzaku Gate, and it took a long time to finish.

The imperial court must have prepared a welcome ceremony at the Suzaku Gate, and many people did not enjoy it, so they followed the captive procession to the Suzaku Gate.

Li Ang was too lazy to squeeze in to see these, and after the ban on Suzaku Street was lifted, he crossed through and went back to Chongrenfang.

When passing by the HSBC cash cabinet, Li Ang found that there were several customers in the cash cabinet, and the cabinet was full of Kaiyuan Tongbao, and Li Tiezui and four guys were busy counting money.

According to the government's regulations, 1,000 copper coins are strung together, which is consistent. But in fact, because of economic development, a large amount of currency is needed, and Datang's copper production is very limited, so the money shortage is very serious. The phenomenon of "short Mo" is also very common when trading, often only 708 pieces of money, but everyone still admits that he has the purchasing power of consistent money when trading.

But that's used to buy things, to save money in the cash cabinet, that can't be like this, in the cash cabinet are all papers, how many articles you save is how many articles, so Li Tiezui and they have to count carefully every time.

Cheng Guan came out of it and saw Li Ang riding a horse, with a purple hat and a sable fur, and a horizontal knife at his waist, stationed outside the horse gate;

He hurriedly greeted him, and Shi Li said: "Lang Jun, you came just in time, the day before yesterday, a housekeeper from a Qiongzhou official came to remit money, talking about his family member Wai Lang told the old man to return to his hometown, and the house in Beijing wanted to be sold. The house of the wailang is on the opposite street, a certain person went in to see it, the house is very good, the price is 500 yuan, do you want to go and see it. ”

Li Ang thought about it, the west of this Chongrenfang is Taiji Palace, the north is only two or three miles away from Daming Palace, the southeast corner is Dongshi, and the south is Pingkangfang.

Although I am not in a hurry to buy a house in the capital, if it is worth the money, it is not bad to buy, and it may be able to appreciate in two years.

Thinking of this, Li Ang said, "Brother Cheng, is the house far away from here?" Take me to see it. ”

Cheng Guan smiled: "It's not far, it's not far, it's just a street behind our cash cabinet, Lang Jun, please come with me." ”

The streets in the square cannot be compared with the 38 main roads outside the square that are more than 100 meters wide, but the cross streets in the square are also 40 or 50 meters wide, and the smallest ones range from 10 meters to 20 meters, and there are also some small alleys.

Cheng Guan took Li Ang to the east through an alley two or three meters wide, and from time to time you could see a small door in the alley, which was roughly the side door of each house.

Walking dozens of steps, he came to a street more than 30 meters wide, and Cheng Guan pointed to a house facing the street and said, "Lang Jun, look, this is that house." ”

Li Ang looked, the courtyard wall of the house was painted white, giving people a bright feeling, a "" shaped aconitum door opened in the southeast corner of the courtyard, the so-called aconite door its form is like this: in the two columns, the end of the column is anwa, the head of the column is dyed black, there are decorative carvings. The title of the book. The door leaf is installed between the columns, and the double door is provided, and the upper part of the door leaf is equipped with a mullioned window, which can see through the inside and outside of the door. The gates of various houses in Chang'an City are generally this kind of aconitum gates.

Leon said, "It looks good, can you go in and have a look?" ”

"Yes, Liu Yuanwai's family has returned to their hometown, only his son and a housekeeper are left behind, let's go over and knock on the door." Cheng Guan said and went over and knocked on the door first.

Li Ang also got off the horse, the streets here are clean and tidy and open, the façade is a row of elm trees and willow trees, only a few dozen steps away from the center of Chongrenfang cross street, twenty steps on the left, there is a small market, all kinds of meat and vegetables, as well as daily necessities, are sold, but it is also convenient.

This kind of small market is basically available in all squares, and there is often more than one, and it is not only in the east and west markets that there are business activities;

Chang'an City covers an area of nearly 100 square kilometers, and if there are no buses and subways, can you imagine that the fang that is far away from the east and west cities can run ten or twenty miles every day to buy catties of vegetables and buy breakfast?

It's impossible. Therefore, there are actually some small markets in each square. The need is difficult to compare with the eastern and western cities, but the basic daily necessities are available.

When Li Ang was observing the surrounding environment, he turned around by chance and saw a woman in men's clothes riding by with a few attendants on horseback, and that familiar face made Li Ang exclaim in surprise: "Xiao Luan! ”.

(To be continued.) )