Walking on Suzaku Street, the streets were full of people and gentry who had fled from the East Market, looking up and probing their brains one by one, talking and crying.

These are all smart people, who did not have the idea of co-living and dying with their family wealth, squatting at home and praying that the rebels would not come to the door.

Those who think they are wise, such as those who pacify the marquis,

Relying on the high walls of his house and thick walls, and there are many guards who keep the house,

I thought that these rebels still had a sense of reverence for their nobles, and would only rob those rich merchants and common people and run away, and would never waste time attacking their own homes.

But I never expected that these rebels had already taken refuge in Huangchao, and they were a loach that had entered Chang'an, with the purpose of confusing the deployment of troops in Chang'an.

At this time, if you don't start grabbing it in advance, wait for those mud-legged peasant troops to rush into the city, but I'm afraid that the rice soup won't be shared.

"People die for money!"

Li Jie sighed, not ashamed at all for pitting down these people's belongings.

At this time, a group of people came from the south, and there was a mess behind them, all of them were people who were panicked all day long, dragging their families and mouths.

Li Jie asked people to stop this team, and when he inquired, he found out that they were all from Lantian County.

The leader was a county lieutenant, accompanied by several bad people.

He walked up to them,

"Lantian is nearly 100 miles away from the capital, and your speed is okay, but what about food? And where is this Lantian County Order? Where are the defenders? ”

This county lieutenant already knew that at this time, Li Jie held the military power of the entire Guannai Dao.

Immediately knelt on the street and replied: "Back to Your Highness, in fact, when I learned that Huang Chao had broken through Tongguan last night, Chen County Commander began to call the people of the whole county to take refuge. Xia Guan met these military masters on the way to the capital with these people. ”

The county lieutenant continued: "The county commander of Chen divided the granary in the city into two, one part was brought to the capital by the lower officials, and the other part was taken to the Meridian Pass by him and the defense envoy. ”

"What?"

Li Jie buttoned his ears, thinking that he had heard it wrong.

The county lieutenant peeked at the prince's face and was so frightened that he immediately put his head on the cold snow.

"Chen County Ling and Zheng Defense Envoy are cousins, and they are uncles and nephews with the Meridian Pass Defense Envoy..."

Li Jie took a deep breath and let himself suppress the anger in his heart,

"How many of you are there, and how much food do you bring?"

"Back to Your Highness, there are about 6,000 men, women, and children, and 30,000 stones of corn, rice, and various grains and beans, and all those that have not had time to be taken away have been burned."

30,000 stones is probably less than 4 million catties.

It seems to be a lot, but although the people of Chang'an as a whole are not as huge as the millions in the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, there are at least six or seven hundred thousand.

These are just a drop in the bucket.

"Well, I finally did the right thing, get up, Jingzhao Mansion is still the household department, you can find whoever you should find to settle down, this king has no time to take care of you."

He knew that it was useless to be anxious, so he could only put his hope in several other states and counties in Chang'an, and the southeast basically couldn't count on much.

Along the way, since the rebels began to loot last night, everyone knew that Tongguan had been broken and was in a panic.

There are constantly people in the vicinity who take refuge in the city, and there are also people in the city who drag their families and run out of the city, turning into a pot of porridge.

Another group of people entering the city shouted in the streets.

It turned out that when they entered the city, they actually clashed with those who were planning to escape from the city, and blocked the city gates, and almost did not enter.

Zhang Bingchen leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, what should I do?" ”

Li Jie was also a little big, and his mind suddenly flashed the opinions that some people had put forward on the forum at the beginning.

"Sun Jiao'er, you quickly go to the left and right prison guards and military mansions, and order the gatehouses of each city gate to guard the city gates, only enter and not leave, all those who plan to go out of the city, regardless of whether the people and officials do not have the warrant of this king, will be expelled home, and those who violate the order will be locked up for me!"

From the Great Mercy Temple to the Suzaku Gate of Miyagi, it was less than six miles, and they actually walked for most of the hour, and the once wide street was full of people who wanted to leave the city and had already entered the city.

They did not go through the three palace gates due south, but went around to the Yanxi Gate on the east side of the palace city, from which they could directly enter the Taiji Palace.

Since the completion of the Daming Palace, the Tang Court gradually transferred the seat of the court from the Taiji Hall to the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace, and few emperors came to work here.

Li Jie didn't understand why Li Yi suddenly moved the place of the political discussion here, but before he could think about it, as soon as he entered the Yanxi Gate, he saw a large number of officials in red and purple court clothes kneeling outside the Chengtian Gate of Taiji Palace.

Successive dynasties have regulations on the color of official court clothes, but they basically continue to be purple, red, crimson, green, and blue.

Those who can mix in crimson court clothes are at least a fifth-grade official, and at least they are a thorn in other state capitals.

He was a little surprised that there were so many kneeling here.

Zhang Bingchen glanced at it and said in a low voice: "They are all nobles with false duties, Your Highness doesn't have to pay attention to them." ”

Li Jie nodded,

"Some leeches that are attached to Datang's body to suck blood are useless except for dragging their feet!"

As soon as he showed his head, these nobles found out.

stopped kneeling, and all of a sudden jumped up, and pounced violently,

"Li Jie, you connived at the looting of the rebellious soldiers, causing hundreds of people to lose their lives, and if you don't hand over the military power quickly, please punish Your Majesty!"

"Pity my daughter, she has only been married to Xinchang Bofu for more than a month, and she died at the hands of thieves, you give my daughter back!"

"Your heart is far better than a poisonous scorpion, woohoo, my virtuous nephew's soul is flying..."

“...”

Li Jie grinned,

What are these?

As soon as Han Meng lifted the reins of the horse, he ran forward, carrying two copper shovels that had been bending and stopped these people.

A pair of dead fish eyes glared, and "whoa" was a throat!

"The rebels were not instructed by us, what relatives did you die, what happened to King Guan Shou?"

"Also, now that the rebels have been killed, you can't wait to take care of their aftermath, and you actually ran to the Taiji Hall to play the death advice, I don't know that the yellow thief has gone west out of Tongguan and is coming to Chang'an?"

These people came over early in the morning to make trouble, only knowing that Huangchao had broken through Tongguan, and they didn't expect to start marching into Chang'an so soon.

"Huh?"

At this time, as soon as they heard the news, everyone's faces were like earth, and then their eyes began to gurgle, and they each played Xiao Jiujiu'er.

"Oh, the old man has to go and see, poor my sister and nephew, I don't know if they are dead or alive."

"We have to go back, it's been delayed, and the porridge I boiled for my lady is almost paste."

"My little brother suddenly has a stomachache..."

"Go together, go together!"

...

In a moment, nearly a hundred noble birds scattered, except for a few guys who were still holding their necks to the end, and the noisy Chengtianmen suddenly quieted down.

Lu Jiping smiled "hehe",

"What do you say these guys are going to do when they go back, it is estimated that except for a few who really went to collect the corpses, Lao Lu bet that more than eighty percent of them are going home to pack up and prepare to escape!"

Several other generals all showed disdain,

"Want to get out of town? They also have to get out. Even if you can mix it out, it doesn't matter if anything else, but don't want to take a grain out of Chang'an! ”

Li Jie turned over and dismounted after saying a word, and then saw his maid named Ah Cai standing outside the Changle Gate, trembling like a little quail.