Royal Street.

A sea of people.

"Here, look at the Emperor!"

"King Zhongshan has captured the Emperor Taishang!"

……

Amid the noisy shouts, the handcuffed painter walked slowly forward with his head down.

Once he was the master of the city.

And now he is back as a prisoner in handcuffs.

Once he was supreme in the city, but now everyone can humiliate him, once he owned the empire, but now he has to die in the majesty of these people. At this moment, his mood was complicated and his steps were heavy, as if the whole world was oppressing him, the faces on both sides were distorted in his field of vision, and the majestic Suzaku Gate in the distance was like a monster with its mouth open.

He slowly stepped onto the Longjin Bridge......

"The prosperity is still there!"

He said with a smile on his face.

It really looks like a returning wanderer.

But he wasn't lying.

At this time, the prosperity of Kaifeng far exceeded the time of his rule, although after Wang Yue's reform, there have been many cities that have also released construction and commerce, but Kaifeng by virtue of the advantage of the first, as well as the special status of the capital, is still in a leading position economically.

The emergence of competitors did not affect the prosperity of the city in the slightest.

It's actually more bustling.

After all, the soaring consumption capacity of the people has brought about a surge in demand for various commodities, and the current Great Song Dynasty has begun to upgrade consumption.

Especially in the rural areas of Hebei, where the fields have been divided, the wooden farming tools that were originally used in large quantities have basically been made of iron.

This is the advantage of increased internal spending power.

This increase will benefit the entire industrial and commercial system, and the consumption power of the peasants, who used to be able to eat only bran and vegetables, is not the same level as the peasants today.

The city radiates the entire Gyeonggi Road, and Kaifeng Prefecture, together with the nearby five prefectures of Caoxu, Chen, Zhenghua, and Kaifeng, all have Kaifeng Prefecture as its commercial center. That is to say, the counties and these five prefectures of Kaifeng Prefecture still maintain the old commercial system for the time being, but Kaifeng Prefecture is fully liberalized, and the people want to open factories such as printing and brewing, they must go to Kaifeng Prefecture. In this city, the old ban was relaxed, even the tea trade was free, and as long as it was a business registered in the city, it was also legal to purchase and transport those prohibited goods in other places.

This is the industrial and commercial center city designed by Wang Yue.

Relying on policies to support the rapid development of industry and commerce in these large cities under liberal capitalism, such cities will automatically develop under free capitalism, Wang Yue just pushed it.

In fact, it is mainly to facilitate tax collection.

After all, full liberalization would mean that he would have to rebuild a completely new tax system, and the original one would be scrapped.

That's a hassle.

Moreover, the difficulty of controlling tax evasion and smuggling has skyrocketed.

But it is easy to manage all these to such a central city, as long as a tax police team is stationed, and the city gate is not afraid of tax evasion, and the competition is also fierce, and it is also convenient for technological innovation, after all, those consumers are easy to choose, and if you want to attract customers, you have to do better, and reduce the cost to the lowest possible time. And for these places to continue to strictly control, for the violation of the ban to carry out severe punishment, there are such industrial and commercial cities in the vicinity, as long as the punishment is sufficient, people will still honestly pay taxes in these cities.

After all, it's not very far.

Kaifeng, Daimyo, Luoyang, Yingtian, Zhending, etc., at present, there are more than 20 such industrial and commercial centers in the north, each city is entering the vigorous development, and Kaifeng as the earliest establishment is also the original foundation of the best, in the past few years can be said to be changing with each passing day, at this time even air pollution has appeared......

There are chimneys everywhere.

The original beautiful scenery of the Qingming Shanghe map is also completely gone.

There are dozens of steel factories and beautiful scenery, the sky of the whole city is not so blue, and the great painter is afraid that the mountains and forests of Genyue will not be able to stop the smell of soot.

"The Emperor!"

Suddenly, there was a cry of sorrow, and then a figure threw himself at the feet of the great painter, holding his leg and wailing.

"Crying and crying, no avail!"

Wang Yue said disdainfully.

Well, this is Uncle Zhang's night.

And it's not just Uncle Zhang, a large group of old ministers are squeezing out of the crowd, and they are falling at the feet of the great painter with Uncle Zhang one by one, although these people are on Zhao Huan's side, and even helped Zhao Huan during the armed confrontation between father and son last time, but this moment is still very sad.

They are like a group of relics of the old era in this ever-changing city, living in confusion and even anger, recalling the beauty of the past every day, although enjoying everything that the new era has brought them, but seeing everything in the new era as degenerate. Because they have been completely unable to catch up with the pace of the new era, and even refuse to integrate into it, they have lived like a group of angry young people in the past few years, although they are actually about sixty years old. At this moment, the appearance of the great painter seemed to make them travel back to the past all of a sudden, back to the era of the lord and sage, but it was a pity that the handcuffs in the hands of the great painter ruthlessly shattered their illusions, and they couldn't help but feel sad......

Well, they're just a bunch of old immortals.

"It's very gratifying to see you again today!"

The great painter helped Uncle Zhang and said with emotion.

After all, there are still people in this city to welcome him, and those loyal and righteous men are not dead after all.

"Wang Yue, how dare you treat the Emperor like this?"

Uncle Zhang looked at the handcuffs and said angrily.

"Gong Ji Zhong, this is not what I put on for Your Majesty."

Wang Yue said.

He and Uncle Zhang can't be considered relatives yet.

Although Duoduo has already been harmed by him, in theory, Duoduo is still just Princess Maode's dowry lady, not his concubine, after all, the Zhang family can't accept the identity of a concubine. Among his women, Princess Maode is the princess of the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Ta Buyan is the princess of the Ming Dynasty, and Huahua is his wife of the Liao Kingdom......

The Great Song Dynasty was indeed monogamous, but His Majesty the Emperor of Liao also gave him the title of Duke of Korea.

Although he is Song Chen.

But Brother Song Liao, so it's not a big deal for Emperor Da Liao to give him a title.

In this case, he manipulated Huahua into a Liao national, and then became a Korean duchess of Da Liao, which did not violate the laws of the Great Song Dynasty.

The laws of the Great Song Dynasty could not control the affairs of the Liao State.

But Duoduo, as a famous family in the Great Song Dynasty, can neither be a concubine nor operate a Liao countryman, but can only be the dowry female official of Princess Maode, which belongs to the palace, but was specially sent by the queen to take care of Princess Maode, she still has a grade......

Zheng Liupin Tong History, a female official in charge of clerical work in the palace, is mainly responsible for taking care of the two princesses of Maode and Xunde and supervising Zhao Kai.

Uncle Zhang looked at Wang Yue angrily, and then looked behind the great painter.

And Yue Fei and those representatives of the four peoples looked at them with calm expressions, these representatives of the four people have experienced the trip to Jiangnan, especially the arrest of the Emperor Taishang, they have long had no respect for them, the princes of Gungun, and they can compare to the Emperor Taishang no matter how noble they are? The Emperor Taishang was escorted back in handcuffs, so these old men are a fart, aren't those who are tried in Jiangnan at the same level as them? Haven't you been put on the stage to shake out all kinds of crimes?

"Everyone, please get out of the way, we also have to escort the suspect to the Great Hall of the Four Peoples."

Yue Fei said.

"You wait for Diao Min, it's crazy!"

Xu Churen pounced on him with grief and indignation.

But then Wang Yue picked him up, and he struggled there on all fours, and turned his head to look at the traitor with the same grief and indignation.

"Gong Xu, Wang is ordered to protect the representatives of the four peoples, please don't be impulsive!"

Wang Yue said sincerely.

Then he put Xu Churen on the side of the road.

The latter then cried, and then threw himself at the feet of the great painter, but at the same time the soldiers who followed Wang Yue stepped forward and quickly dragged the old fellows aside, while the great painter looked at these old ministers who had finally given him a little comfort. Later, Yue Fei immediately urged, and the two representatives of the four people pushed him on both shoulders again, and then he wore those eye-catching handcuffs, and continued to walk forward with the cries of those old ministers amid the chaotic shouts on both sides.

Just like in the original history, he walked pitifully to the distant Five Kingdoms City.

And so he entered the Suzaku Gate.

The royal street leading directly to Xuande Gate is still crowded with people, and the Xuande Gate Tower, which was not completely repaired when he was there, has been completely renovated and is standing at the end of his sight, behind this city tower, is the palace that originally belonged to him and now belongs to his son.

The palace is still the same.

It's a pity that he has no chance to meet there again.

His son will not come out to see him, and even the officials of the court and the central government will not see him, because he is the emperor's father after all, so whether it is Zhao Huan or Zhao Huan's courtiers, they need to avoid the trial, Zhang Shuye and others are no longer officials. As for Wang Yue's protection of Yue Fei and others, he did not arrest and escort the great painter, he only protected these representatives of the Four Peoples, and he had no right to interfere with what these people were doing, so the next great painter would be directly escorted to the Great Hall of the Four Peoples to wait for interrogation.

Or go back to Gen Yue, who was once the brainchild of his heart......

Although there has been unrecognizable.

The great painter walked slowly on the royal street like this, and soon crossed the state bridge and turned into Hengjie, avoiding the embarrassment of passing in front of the palace, and then turned into Zhao Shiwan Street, which leads directly to Genyue......

"Even the walls have been torn down!"

The great painter sighed.

There was no longer a wall in front of Gen Yue, only a circle of water that was not wide, and the mountains and forests in it that were dedicated to his own pleasure had been unreservedly displayed in front of the civilians, and there were even many young men and women who were going in and out together.

Obviously, this forbidden garden has been banned.

"Is it better to be alone than to be happy with all?"

Wang Yue said with a smile.

The great painter laughed dryly......