At the end of July of the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan, the Qin-Jin Plateau had sent away the summer heat. Outside Chang'an City, the cool autumn breeze blows through the fields, which makes people very comfortable. As the sun sets to the west, there are working farmers resting in the shade of the trees, telling stories of the past, or anecdotes from the countryside, or telling jokes between husband and wife. Seeing that Chang'an was in sight, there were also caravans that stopped to rest, begged for saliva to drink, and also participated. In March of that year, the newly enthroned emperor deposed Li Shi, the king of Jingzhao Yindao, and confiscated his family property. Li Shi served as Jingzhao Yin for several years, arrogant, greedy and lawless, even in the event of natural disasters, he refused to reduce or reduce taxes, but forcibly levied and extorted violently, making the people's livelihood wither, and deeply hated by the people of Jingzhao. The emperor was aware of it, and after disposing of Li Shi, he sighed and said: "Jingzhao poisoned Li Shi, and the people were not happy. So he was blessed and exempted from paying taxes for two years. This move made Du You, the prime minister of the Guandu branch, worried, but it was happy for the people of Jingzhao.

The emperor also lowered the commercial tax from one of ten to one of twelve when Dezong, which is said to have made Du You even have the heart to resign, but the emperor said: "If you have no money, you can cut some of the expenses, if you lose the hearts of the people, where can you find it?" And I was lucky enough to recover from this serious illness, which is really a grace from God, and I should treat the people well and govern the country with virtue. It is expected that the sky will have mercy and will not thin my emperor. Let's wait and see, the tax will be full in half a year. Du You had to reluctantly make it difficult. Right now, the merchant farmer in the shade of the tree is talking about this matter.

":(Shaanxi dialect) The emperor is very rich, and I heard Wang Er, who is doing business in Chang'an City, say that the emperor eats buns every day, and the kang is full of pots and helmets! No wonder we are exempted from the money and food. ":

A teenager sat cross-legged on the ground, picking his feet and saying with infinite longing. As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit on the head.

": You melon baby, Wang Er's leper is coaxing you." : An older young man said, ": Wang Erlein has only been to Chang'an once, or the Xia Shangguan Mansion did not collect endowments, went to Chang'an to see the world, with two money in his hand, he didn't dare to spend it for a day, he came out to the town to eat a bowl of cold leather noodles, and when he came back, he bragged that he was going to Chang'an to learn to do business, and was chased by his father with a stick, and said, 'It is serious to plant your land well, and now that the emperor is exempt from taxes, don't think about it.' In the future, in the autumn defense army, a knife and a shot in the side court will make a contribution, and being an officer will be better than being a businessman with a broken head.'" ": That person learned vividly, the people of Guanzhong were fierce and simple, and they had always looked down on the merchants, and when they heard this, everyone laughed together.

However, although the people in Guanzhong look down on the merchants, they are also polite to outsiders. Therefore, the foreign business travelers on the side also made a joke: "Then why does this little brother Wang want to learn from us to do business?" Huguang accent.

The young man glanced at the merchant and replied reluctantly: "Wang Er's house, I just saw that there were shops all over the east and west markets, and there were thousands of goods, and I heard people talk about the emperor's business tax, and the goods are easy to earn, so you can not be used as a businessman!" The crowd burst into laughter again. The group of merchants laughed too.

Someone among the merchants asked: "It's almost August now, it's time for the Autumn Army to go to the west of Beijing, right?" ":

Autumn prevention is the first initiative of Daizong, and every autumn the army is mobilized to gather in western Beijing to prevent the plundering of Tibet. At that time, Chang'an was occupied by Tubo, and the people of Jingzhao were poisoned by it, hated Tubo to the core, and also paid special attention to the prevention of autumn. An old man in the middle of the house knew that the merchants were worried about the military disaster, and said: "Guests, just rest assured, the Jingxi Autumn Defense Army has already arrived. The day before yesterday, the garrison was here, and the end was fierce. Xiao Lao'er went to the labor army with the old man of the village, and said that this time even the Shence army moved. The adults in the county also said that a few years ago, Tubo had been afraid of Cui Taiwei (Cui Ning) and Wei Taiwei (Wei Gao), but this year the new emperor succeeded to the throne, and he was seriously ill a while ago, and he was afraid that Tubo would not be able to measure himself and come to die, so he specially mobilized the army, and the scale was better than in previous years. The emperor said that if Tubo dared to come this time, he would definitely be told to go and not return. ": There was another burst of laughter, but the laughter was not as hearty as above. Du Fu's "Soldier Chariot Travel" said: "The Qin soldiers are resistant to hard fighting, and they are driven away like dogs and chickens. The children of Guanzhong are martial, but they are not belligerent. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he was exempted from taxes, and the days were just hopeful, and if there was a war at this time, no one would be happy. At this time, more than a dozen fast horses came running from the direction of Chang'an from a distance, and the people on the horses were military clothes. Everyone stopped talking and looked at it, and recognized the obedient road, this is the soldier of Yulinwei. When the merchant saw that he had rested for a long time, he stirred up the people's excitement, and hurried to hurry, urging them to thank them and then went.

When those horsemen approached, everyone saw it, and secretly applauded in their hearts: What a majestic general! I saw the first general, about thirty years old, wearing a purple crown, wearing light armor, black and red, a beard on his lips, bright eyes, and an awe-inspiring demeanor. Behind Li Yu was a civil official in his thirties, dressed in a scarlet robe, with a calm face and angular face, and he looked like a resolute character. Behind a long sword wrapped in yellow silk, holding a small flag, the small flag was blown away by the wind, only to see a Li character in the book. More than a dozen riders were all dark-faced, just silently beating their horses, and they all passed in an instant. The peasants secretly guessed which general it was, but they couldn't guess it, and they got up and went to work. Only the young man who said that the emperor was full of kang pot helmets was still staring, and he ate a chestnut on his head.

Who are you generals? The general was a famous figure. The father and son have two generations of good generals, both of whom have made extravagant contributions to the Tang Dynasty. The general's surname is Li, and his single name is a single name. His father is the famous old Taiwei, Zhongshu Ling, and Li Sheng, the king of Xiping County. Li Sheng repeatedly defeated Tubo in the border pass that year, and also made great contributions to quelling the civil strife, when the Jingyuan military rebellion, Li Sheng controlled all kinds of soldiers and horses, led the army to recover Chang'an, the military discipline was strict, and won the love of the residents of Chang'an, and later the graphics Lingyan Pavilion. The new emperor also led his army to fight the rebels. After ascending the throne, one day I missed the first emperor, re-ascended the Lingyan Pavilion, saw the portraits of Li Sheng and others, and said with emotion: "If there were no heroes of King Qin back then, my father and son would be here?" So the edict praised the heroes, and the portraits of the heroes such as Hun Xuan, Ma Sui, Wei Gao, and Lu Zhen entered the Lingyan Pavilion. He also ordered to summon the sons and daughters of the generals to join the forbidden army. Li Yu was originally an idle official, but the emperor specially transferred him to serve in the Shence Army and gave him a generous reward. Later, he was transferred to Zuo Jin Wuwei as a lieutenant general. The emperor had great trust in Li Yu, who had been favored by the Tang dynasty for generations, and became even more grateful and became the emperor's heart. In this autumn, the emperor thought that he had not practiced war for many years and was afraid that the soldiers would be slack, so he transferred the left Shence army to defend Fengtian, and Li Yu immediately asked for orders to go on the expedition. originally planned to march with the army, but before leaving, he was summoned by the emperor and gave a banquet to Chunmingmen. Therefore, he stayed in Beijing. Later, the prime minister summoned him to the government hall to consult the strategy, so he sent his own soldiers to ask General Fan Xichao for leave, and only now did he rush to the army.

In this autumn defense, the emperor ordered the late Fan Xichao, the veteran general of the Ningjie Envoy, to be the general of the loyal army, and the president's army led the left military guard to enter Mukden, and issued an edict to go to the army on the first day of August to review. When Li Yu arrived at his barracks in the evening, the banner of the word "Fan" had already been raised high, the drums were rumbling, and the armies were drilling.

Approaching the barracks, the sergeant on duty was just about to move forward, Li Yu had clamped the horse's belly with his legs, the horse neighed, and the person stood up, and more than a dozen horsemen behind him were also restrained at the same time, and the horseman's riding skills were good. Only the civil official could not hold back his horse, and did not stop until he was in front of the barracks. It seems that Li Yu and the others are his guards.

The officer on duty was about to shout and ask, but the civil officer took out an object from his arms and said sharply: "The holy decree has arrived!"