Yang Wulian was originally from Qinzhou and was born in a family of craftsmen.

This person is very talented and ingenious, it is rumored that he made a wooden monk statue when he was a child, the wooden monk holds a wooden bowl, the bowl is full of money, the mechanism is opened, and the silver money in the bowl falls into the box in the belly of the wooden monk to collect. And they will shout "Giving, giving." ”

Such a miraculous thing naturally attracted people to rush to it, and they put the money into the bowl to listen to the wooden monk collect the bowl when the money was full.

For a time, his deeds were spread throughout Qinzhou, and even spread to Chang'an by good deeds.

During the Tang Dynasty, he was appointed as a young eunuch, and later became a master craftsman in Jiuqing, which was the highest reward for craftsmen in ancient times.

During this period, he participated in the construction of Chang'an and various state capitals, city palaces, water conservancy and city defenses, and left many masterpieces.

When the Empress of Heaven enshrined Luoyang as the capital of the gods, she expanded the city and built the palace, and the main designer was Yang Wulian.

It was only later that this man became greedy and cruel, and finally provoked a labor riot during a construction project, and ordered death for the empress.

His descendants also returned to Qinzhou and lived incognito.

Fortunately, the people sent by Guo Ziyi still found them, and found the secret drawings of Luoyang's construction in the codex left by Yang Wulian.

Among them, the overall planning of Luoyang, the design of the imperial city and the palace city, the design of the Lifang, and the construction of important palaces and bridges have been explained in detail. It is even full of several secret passages.

According to the guidance of the map, Fugu Huaien told the two of them in detail about the traffic buildings in Luoyang City, and handed over the main water and land transportation and secret secret passages to the two of them, and took the two of them to ride around Luoyang City to visit and do a survey on the spot.

Among them, outside the Anxi Gate in the north of Luoyang City, there is a temple abandoned due to war, and there is a secret passage in the temple that leads directly to Luoyang City. Perfect for this operation.

Guo Ziyi was sure that the two of them already had a general understanding of Luoyang, so they were relieved.

At the time of the lantern that day, the two changed into night clothes and sneaked into Luoyang City through the secret passage.

The situation of Luoyang and Chang'an being called together already existed as early as the Zhou and Han dynasties.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, because of years of war, the agricultural economy of the Guanzhong Plain with Chang'an as the core was greatly hit and gradually declined. Luoyang is located in the Central Plains Plain, and agriculture is developed.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, but in the year of the poor harvest, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty went to Luoyang with officials from various provinces and ministries to take charge of government affairs. The name is "eating in the Eastern Capital," and the folk jokingly call it "chasing the Son of Heaven." ”

At the same time, the Central Plains region gathered a large number of Sima clan since the Jin Dynasty, in order to strengthen the rule of these gate valves, in the early Tang Dynasty Taizong period, he repaired Luoyang, called Luoyang Palace, has been to live many times, deal with the government, and stabilize the control of the Central Plains in the early Tang Dynasty.

In the first dynasty of the Empress Zetian, in order to weaken the influence of the Li Tang family and weaken the status of Chang'an in people's hearts, Luoyang was enshrined as the capital of the gods, moved to Luoyang, and rebuilt and expanded Luoyang City according to the layout of Chang'an's alleys. It is also divided into the imperial city and the palace city, and there are also prosperous shops, but the market in Luoyang is divided into the north market, the south market and the west market. It is different from the east and west cities of Chang'an.

Empress Zetian ruled the world in Luoyang all her life and did not return to Chang'an.

In addition, the prosperity of Luoyang is also inseparable from its convenient waterway transportation. In ancient times, waterways were an important mode of transportation for transporting large quantities of goods.

The Yellow River and canals connect the rich southern coastal and southwestern state capitals, and rich rice, grain, timber, precious birds and animals, and even silk, cloth, bronze and porcelain from all over the country have been transported here from all over the country. There are also envoys, students, merchants, and singers from overseas countries.

The people living in Luoyang City enjoy all the luxury life they have never had before.

If the mountains and rivers of Chang'an are very magnificent, and the prosperity and magnificence of Luoyang are even more fascinating, lingering.

Of course, this was before the Anshi Rebellion broke out.

Guo Hua and Dugu Huan sneaked in from a temple outside Anxi Gate, sneaked through the secret passage, sneaked for more than an hour, and then came to Luoyang City.

Out of the secret passage, there is also a temple outside. It's in the Repair Workshop.

The two of them inspected and found that this temple was quite grand, there were more than 30 rooms in the temple, but most of the rooms were empty, only a bean light was seen outside a monk's room, and when they looked closely, there were only seven or eight old monks sleeping soundly.

Probably because of the war, it was deserted, but I don't know where those young monks went.

"It's okay, it saves a lot of trouble. ”

Guo Hua whispered to Dugu Huan for a while, and that night he found a hidden place in the temple, lit a fire, and rested.

It was always colder before dawn, and the two of them woke up early, and they were familiar with the road map again by the light of the fire. The location of the agreed secret agent is at the house of Mrs. Begonia's brother Zhang Jiwu.

After being proclaimed emperor in Luoyang, An Lushan found two opposite houses in the southern Shangshanfang of the imperial city and gave them to Zhang Jiwu and Zhang Jilin, the two brothers of Mrs. Haitang.

Because of its proximity to the Imperial City, the curfew is very strict. Later, the situation reversed, An Lushan's army was defeated and retreated, and was finally besieged in Luoyang, his suspicion became more and more serious, and at night, the patrol in the private residence of the military general Wenchen also had An Lushan's Yulin guards involved.

It's inconvenient to sneak in at night.

Xiuyi Fang is located in the north of Luoyang City, and Shangshan Fang is located in the west and south of Luoyang City, just along the northeast and southwest of Luoyang.

The imperial city and the palace city are in the northwest of Luoyang City.

When Guo Hua and Dugu Huan walked in the agreed direction, they could see the magnificent imperial city all the way.

During the period of Empress Zetian, according to the position of the stars in the sky, two royal buildings were built, namely Tongtian Palace and Tongtian Futu.

It is said that they could be seen anywhere in Luoyang City back then.

Tongtian Palace, also known as Mingtang and Tiangong, is the place where the royal family worships the ancestors and is related to the fortune of the country.

Then the Empress of Heaven obeyed the legend of Yu casting nine tripods, ordered people to cast the Kyushu Shending, more than 560,000 catties of copper, of which Yuzhou Ding is one zhang eight feet high, which can accommodate 1,800 stones, and the rest of the eight tripods are one zhang four feet high, can accommodate 1,200 stones. Ding imitates the legend of Dayu Jiuding, cast with mountains and rivers from all over the country.

Twelve statues of gods and men were also made, each one zhang high, and placed in Tongtian Palace together with the Kyushu Shending. Very sacred*.

The empress who obtained the royal power and the world seems to have built the Tongtian Futu, or Heaven, not far from the south of the Tongtian Palace, in order to show off her power and wealth to the world.

Tongtian Futu is more than 50 zhang high, almost twice as much as Mingtang, high to Tianyu, overlooking Kyushu, is the place where the Empress of Heaven worships the Buddha.

The two shrines not only shocked Kyushu, but also were sung by many envoys and merchants who came to the Tang Dynasty, and their prestige spread throughout the Eastern Ying, Western Regions and South China Sea countries, leaving many legends.

It's a pity that the Heavenly Palace was burned down by Xue Huaiyi, who fell out of favor, during the period of Empress Zetian.

Now Guo Hua and the others can only see Tongtian Palace. From a distance, the traces of arson when An Lushan captured Luoyang are still there, and Tongtian Palace has also been dilapidated.

It's cold all the way.

There were very few pedestrians in the streets, except for the patrolling soldiers, who were captured by some people, carrying carts and carrying food and wine to the soldiers who were guarding everywhere in the morning.

According to the account of Fugu Huaien, except for those who fled, the men who remained in the city were captured and charged to the army. Except for those who sew and cook for the army, women and children are strictly forbidden to travel.

Guo Hua originally had infinite imagination of Luoyang, Qionglou Yuyu, BMW incense car, orchid wine, all-night drinking, chaotic music and dance.

Now all that remains is fear and coldness.

The two disguised themselves as people delivering food, pushed the cart and walked for more than an hour, and finally came to Shangshanfang.

Duguhuan had lived in Luoyang with the princess and the concubine, and was familiar with the dialect of the local people.

According to the agreement, the other party will leave a secret mark in a hidden place along the street to guide the two to find the agreed place.

There were more thieves patrolling here, and the two had to carefully follow the secret note all the way, but the secret note led them to a deserted mansion and disappeared.

This is not the place to agree on a secret meeting. The hearts of the two couldn't help but rise to their throats.

The original planned location for the secret meeting was at Zhang Jiwu's mansion. The dilapidated mansion in front of him has obviously been abandoned for many years, and it is definitely not Zhang Jiwu's mansion.

The two of them were in the middle of a four-way house, surrounded by collapsed and dilapidated houses, and it was easy to arrange ambushes and design traps.

Shocked that the plan had changed, Guo Hua and Duguhuan raised their vigilance and put on a back-to-back posture to face the battle.

Guo Hua used the power of Yuan Zhi to perceive it, and found that there were no suspicious people around.

"I can sense that there are no ambushes here, but there are no people who come to meet them, what the hell is going on?"

Dugu Huan is an official officially appointed by the imperial court to participate in the secret talks of recruiting and surrendering, and Guo Hua is naturally subject to Dugu Huan's judgment and opinions.

"Based on my feeling along the way, Xiuyi Workshop is not big, and it should not be far from Zhang's Mansion. Since there is no ambush trap at the moment, it means that Mrs. Begonia's plan has not been revealed, and we are still safe. As for her making such an arrangement, it must be that the situation in Luoyang is more tense, and it is inconvenient to arrange it directly in Zhang Jiwu's mansion. When the hour came, the other party did not appear, perhaps observing us from a farther away in the shadows. ”

"Well, then we'll wait and see what happens. Oops, but it's cold to stand in the yard like this. ”

Guo Yu shouted as he spoke, Dugu Huan found a house that was still in good condition, picked up beams and branches, and built a fire. Because they were afraid that the patrolling soldiers would find out, they did not dare to burn the fire too much.

Luckily, the cart was full of steamed buns and shochu. While eating and drinking, the two discussed what might happen next and how to deal with Yunyun.

The two of them talked very speculatively, and they had the meaning of seeing each other late, and gradually forgot that they were in the tiger's den.

It was nearly noon, and a golden sun was shining into the house. In the bright light, a thin silk thread shimmered faintly, hanging from the roof.

A few tiny droplets of water slowly dripped along the silk thread into the wine jar where the two were drinking.