Dawn in the east, five o'clock in the morning, with the first morning drum sounded on the Chengtian Gate of Daxing Palace, the street drums on the opposite street of the city gates of Daxing City of Beijing Division sounded in unison, and the gates of each city gate were opened in turn, and a new day began.

The first to open was the city gate around Daxing City, and in the sound of street drums, the city gate captain who supervised the gate guard sent his subordinates on time to deliver the city gate key to the corresponding city gate guards. After the guards of the gates opened the gates around them, the gates of the various squares in the city were opened. The last to open is the palace gate, first the outside and then the inside, and the palace gate is opened last every day. The opening of the palace gate is more complicated than the opening of the city gate, and the palace gate must be surveyed before it can be opened. A wooden fish carved from sandalwood, and a concave fish shape carved out of the sandalwood board, is called kan. If the fish is properly put into the kanzhong, it is a fit. Yu and Kan keep the zài palace gate and manage the palace gate on the left and right wardens respectively, and the palace gate can only be opened every morning after the two parties verify the agreement.

The morning drum of the Jingshi is prescribed to beat 3,000 times, but when the palace door is opened, it is almost dawn. According to the supplementary rules, the drumming can stop when the human eye can clearly see the distant object. Except for foggy and snowy weather, under normal circumstances, the street drum is not beaten 3,000 times.

As soon as the morning drum sounded, the Daxing Palace also began to wake up. The palace maids who prepared the clothes for the emperor in the palace carried the ironed clothes to the emperor's bedroom, and these clothes were smoked with dragon incense. The palace ladies in charge of this work had to work night shifts, and when the lights in the emperor's bedroom were turned off, they had to start their work. It wasn't until early in the morning when the emperor got up and dressed up and prepared for the court that their work came to an end.

Daxing City is a brand-new capital, and the emperor built a new capital in the third year. It took less than a year to complete the relocation and construction of part of Miyagi, and in the years since, the relocation and construction work has continued. Not far away, the original Han Chang'an City has now become a decadent old city, the original palace temples and the mansions of the princes and nobles have also been demolished and moved into Daxing, and only some dilapidated houses and a group of poor people are left in the old city. The new capital of Daxing City is newly planned. Designed by the craftsman architect Yu Wenkai, it is more majestic and perfect than Chang'an. Brand new buildings are erecting from the ground. Daxing City is becoming more and more prosperous, but the new capital has been built for 15 years, but until now only the Imperial City and the palace city have been really completed, and many neighborhoods in the outer city are still large open spaces. Only half of the many squares in the outer city have been walled with square gates. Although the important gates of the outer city have already been built. But the outer city wall has never been completed. Up to now, except for the city wall at the city gate, the rest of the dozens of miles of the outer city wall are actually only composed of a short earthen wall.

The dwarf earthen wall of the outer Guo, which is incompatible with the huge prosperity of the new capital, has not been completed for fifteen years.

Although the Guo earthen wall dozens of miles away seemed a little out of place, Yang Jian, the son of heaven, didn't care. Yang Jian has always believed that the Great Sui is surrounded by strong enemies, and what needs to be done is not to build a tall Kyoto city wall. What the Great Sui needs to do is to keep the enemy out of the country. If one day, he needs the walls of Kyoshi to defend himself. Then his Great Sui will be finished. Since the founding of the country, Yang Jian has always adhered to this concept. Every time, it is planned and then moved, taking the initiative to attack, and solving the hidden dangers. Pingwei Chi Hui and other commanders were in charge of civil strife, the Northern Expedition to the Turks, the annexation of Later Liang, and the pacification of Southern Chen. Even the recent defeat of the Eastern Expedition to Goryeo was an action under this concept.

The walls of Daxing could not be repaired in a hurry, but the Turks, the most powerful enemies of the Great Sui, must be defeated.

This morning, Yang Jian got up early as usual.

He was a very diligent emperor, who had reigned for eighteen years, and he was industrious every day, and he could even be described as a supper and a little more industrious. It's just that now that he is getting older day by day, Yang Jian often begins to feel powerless. Even his own personality has gradually changed a lot, and he swore with the queen in his early years that he would only love her, but this vow has been broken over the years. From secretly pampering the fortunate palace man Yu Chi at the beginning, to Yu Chi being discovered by Queen Dugu, he instinctively killed him with a staff and ran away angrily. In the end, the queen took a step back and personally selected a few young and beautiful palace people for him, allowing him to have another new love. Cai Guiren and Chen Guiren in the palace were all allowed by the queen to acquiesce. Yang Jian, who is already fifty-eight years old, is about to enter the age of sixties, Yang Jian is familiar with history and knows that the life span of many emperors is not too long, and even the vast majority of emperors do not live to be sixty. Although every day the servants of the palace shouted long live him, he actually knew very well that although he had supreme power, he was just an ordinary man in terms of lifespan, and it was impossible for him to really live forever. This made Yang Jian very frustrated, and when he thought that he had struggled all his life, and finally began to enjoy the fruits of this achievement, he might be about to die, and he became more and more difficult to accept. Therefore, he struggled desperately, his mood became melancholy, and even his personality became suspicious and suspicious, and even the habit of diligence and frugality that he had insisted on with Queen Dugu over the years had unconsciously changed. Inshou Palace, built five years ago, took two years to build, and was originally just a summer palace. But Yang Su, who was responsible for the construction of this palace, was extremely luxurious, and because of the rush to meet the construction period, there were tens of thousands of dead laborers, and after the death of these laborers, Yang Su directly took their corpses to fill the pit. At that time, Yang Jian abandoned Chang'an City and built a new capital due to the long age of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, the sinking terrain, the impassability of waterways and ditches, the undrinkable well water, and the narrow pattern of the city. When building the new capital, almost all of them were demolished and built to build a new capital, and most of the buildings such as the imperial palace and official offices were built with materials removed from the old capital, so the important buildings such as the imperial city and the palace city of the new capital were only issued for nine months, and the money was used less. However, the Renshou Palace built by Yang Su was extremely luxurious, with huge costs, and a large number of craftsmen were used.

Two years later, Renshou Palace was completed, Yang Jian was shocked when he saw it, at first he was very unhappy with Yang Su's efforts to build a luxurious palace, and he still wanted to be diligent. But later, the queen spoke for Yang Su, and said that their husband and wife were diligent and thrifty all their lives, and they should enjoy it when they are old. It was from that time that Yang Jian also began to enjoy it. Three years ago, the Inshou Palace was built, and he and the queen went to live in the palace. Then I fell in love with this luxurious palace out of control, and since then I have spent most of my time in Renshou Palace in Qizhou, western Beijing. It was also when he stayed in Renshou Palace that he pampered the Yu Chi family. Then he was destroyed by the queen's hot hand, and because of this incident, the queen had to make some concessions to him, and personally selected a few beauties for him to serve the Son of Heaven.

The luxurious palace, the beautiful beauty, and the old Yang Jian suddenly paid off the true taste of the emperor. He suddenly felt that his previous decades had been in vain. Even the emperor for more than ten years was in vain.

With the queen's compromise, Yang Jian began to pamper the young beauty without any scruples. Queen Dugu was also very beautiful when she was young, and she was the most beautiful seventh lady of the Dugu family. But now Queen Dugu is already old. If it is according to the weekly ceremony, the emperor's concubines can no longer even sleep with the emperor when they are over fifty years old. Among the palace people selected by several empresses, Yang Jian's favorites were the Cai family and the Chen family from Jiangnan. The Cai family is the daughter of the great family in Chen Guoguo. And the Chen family is the younger sister of the queen of Nan Chen. The daughter of Emperor Chen Xuan, the eldest princess of Ning Yuan of Southern Chen. After the death of the Chen State, the Chen family was sent to Chang'an and did not enter the palace, when he was still young and only worked in the palace. A few years later, after the empress selected this woman who had long belonged to the emperor from the Yeting Palace and gave it to Yang Jian, the emperor never thought that there would be such a beautiful woman in his harem. Beautiful and gentle. The old emperor and the young beauty, the Son of Heaven fell into the gentle country. In just two or three years. The emperor's originally ruddy face was now a little pale, there were several deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his eye sockets were a little dark. Even the steps are a little vain, the beauty is gentle, but the color is a bone-scraping steel knife, the emperor is old, and he can't bear the erosion brought by this pleasure.

For a few days, the emperor was a little powerless, and when he was happy with the beauties, he often had to rely on the elixirs paid by the priests to help the fun. The effect of that elixir is very good, and it can always make the old emperor feel fierce, and it can make the beauties under him linger and be extremely satisfied. But this also has a price, the price is that after the joy, the old emperor will always feel very tired, and the pill is overdrawing his energy. I had fun at night, but I was always tired during the day, and I couldn't lift my spirits.

Last night, Yang Jian stayed overnight at Chen Guiren, his favorite in Zhongtong. Among several young harem women, Yang Jian's favorites were the Chen family and the Cai family, and it took him a lot of effort to get the queen to agree to canonize the two as nobles and become the official concubines in the palace over the years. The Cai family and the Chen family turned out to be the daughters of wealthy families and the golden branches and jade leaves, both of whom were well educated, and they had seen it even more in the palace for many years. Yang Jian not only likes the beauty and gentleness of these two beauties, but also likes their insight. He even sometimes asked two beauties to act as his assistants when reviewing the recitals. Often happy with beauties, which takes up a lot of Yang Jian's time, and his energy is getting less and less now, but he often can't rest assured that the courtiers outside, so when dealing with the twists, he is afraid that he will not be able to read it and miss important things, so he often asks the beauties to help him read it first. After reading it, ask the beauty to use a piece of yellow paper to briefly write out the reason for the fold and paste it in front of the fold, and then use yellow paper to extract the brief content and paste it behind. In this way, when he sees the fold, he can first glance at the yellow paper in front of him to see what it is, and if it is a trivial matter, he doesn't even need to open it. If it is a matter of concern, take another look at the yellow paper summary at the back, and if there is something to say, then open it and read the instructions in detail. If the summary shows that what's inside isn't useful, he doesn't have to open it. There are too many recitals every day, and these ministers often like to pile up words, and sometimes they may write thousands of words on a simple matter, and often after a long sentence that is sprinkled with joy, it is just some flattery, or some incomprehensible borrowing from the words of the sages. If Yang Jian had to read everyone's recitals carefully, he wouldn't have time to sleep at all, he wouldn't have to do anything every day, and he wouldn't be able to review them. In the past, Yang Jian often asked the queen to help him review the folds together, and sometimes even asked Gao Gong, Li Delin, Su Wei and other important ministers to review with him. But now, he has long since lost his trust in the ministers he once trusted.

Even the queen, he is not as trustworthy and obedient as before. Now, more often than not, he asked Chua and Chan to assist him in reviewing the recitals.

"Which master's painting is this, where is the painting, and which battle is recorded on it?" Yang Jian put down the bowl and stared at the scroll with his eyes firmly on the painting, full of interest in the painting. He was interested not only in the technique of painting, but also in the scenes and events depicted on the paintings.

"Your Majesty, didn't you see the title on the scroll, this is the masterpiece of the Duke of Changning." Chen said with a smile. This painting is her new possession, and she already loves it at first sight, and treats it as her treasure. Today, I can't wait to take it out to offer treasures to the emperor. (To be continued......)