After the weekly routine imperial meeting, Emperor Richard left the Qinzheng Hall with brisk steps and walked all the way back, and the attendants and military attachés around him had to walk quickly to keep up.

He walked through the many palaces and came to the Immortal Residence Hall where he lived every day, and a team of palace maids who had been waiting here greeted him, bowed his head and bowed his knees and bowed his knees to make a thousand blessings; "Slaves and maids greet Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

Emperor Richard let out a majestic "um", cleaned his face under the service of the palace maids, drank warm tea and rinsed his mouth, changed out of the Kowloon court clothes, changed into a light and simple dress, and waved his hand to let the court maids retreat.

Zheng Yuan, the head of the imperial secretariat standing on the side, looked at His Majesty the Emperor with a worried expression, his eyebrows were full of concerns, he hesitated, and still opened his mouth to persuade; "Your Majesty, your golden body ......"

"Zheng Aiqing doesn't need to say much, I have made up my mind." Richard waved his hand undoubtedly, causing Zheng Yuan's words to come to an abrupt end.

More than half an hour later

A black Navajo car pulled out of the west door of the palace and quickly blended into the bustling streets, leaving the royal family and the top nobles of the empire before heading north.

The black car finally stopped in a not too lively civilian neighborhood, and the most conspicuous building nearby is the "Jingzen Temple", where you can faintly hear the Sanskrit bells and drums in the temple, conveying a religious atmosphere beyond the mortal.

The doors open

A man in a navy blue youth suit got out of the car, he was tall, he looked about twenty-six or seventeen years old, a pair of eyes were restrained and deep, he got out of the car and looked left and right, took out a pair of glasses from his pocket and put them on his face, and immediately concealed his deep eyes.

This person was the disguised Emperor Richard, he waved his hand casually, and then strode towards the alley behind the Jingzen Temple, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Let's go, go back and arrange for someone to closely monitor the street of Jingzen Temple, and you can't let go of any dead ends. We're going to be here in a few days to welcome Your Majesty, and only you and I know about it, and that's ...... It's really worrying! Director Zheng Yuan didn't get out of the car, but just looked around carefully and said with a worried expression.

There were two people left in the car, in addition to Zheng Yuan, the head of the Royal Secretariat, the other driver who drove turned out to be General Liu Wu, the commander of the Royal Praetorian Guard.

He was also wearing civilian clothes at the moment, pretending to be an old driver.

Seeing that His Majesty had slipped away in a blink of an eye, Admiral Liu Wu also felt tired and said; "Only extraordinary people can do extraordinary things, but following His Majesty to serve, that is really walking on thin ice at all times! originally thought that it would be stable for two years, but who would have thought ...... Alas! ”

With a long sigh, how much helplessness did he say?

The emperors of all dynasties did not have the Tang Empire, the Holy Emperor, who could toss it, Qianlong only went to the south of the Yangtze River seven times, and the emperor since he ascended the throne, almost every year he toured the east and the south to hunt, and he couldn't stay in the imperial capital Chang'an.

It is as little as 3~4 months, and as much as 6~7 months, and there is almost no time to stop.

By the way, I also went to Europe twice, once bright and once dark.

Let's not talk about the daily micro-service private visits and palace inspections, almost once or twice a month, think about it, how troublesome it is to serve by the side of such a tossing emperor?

Now it's okay, I directly came up with the trick of "disguise experience", and I didn't even bring any of the close ministers around me, so it's really not worrying?

"No one can change what His Majesty has decided." Director Zheng Yuan also sighed helplessly, touched his head and said; "You and I are both mediocre people, and Your Majesty is an eagle that cannot be restrained in a cage, destined to soar freely in the sky, how can it be measured?"

Admiral Liu Wu said with a worried face; "I won't tell you Lao Zheng, I'm worried about Your Majesty's safety. You must know that although Your Majesty is brave, after all, guns and bullets have no eyes! ”

"After all, Your Majesty is the national fortune of the Tang Empire, and you will definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune, let's go back and arrange it first, we can only do our best and obey the destiny of heaven!" Director Zheng Yuan replied.

The black car did not stay long and quickly left......

North District Police Station

The North District Police Station is one of the 19 sub-district police stations in the imperial capital Chang'an, belonging to the suburban police station, with 11 subordinate police stations, patrol military police, mounted police, plainclothes and police station clerks, a total of 1,315 people, belonging to the sub-district police station in the middle and lower reaches of the imperial capital Chang'an.

It was close to noon

Suddenly, a convoy of more than 10 black cars quickly drove into the compound of the North District Police Station, and the leading car hung the logo of the General Police Department.

This movement was too big, and the officers in the North District Police Station greeted them one after another, looking at the convoy in surprise.

The car door opened, and a large number of police officers carrying senior police commissioners, police superintendents, and senior superintendents with flowers on their shoulders got out of the car, some from the Imperial Police Administration, some from the Chang'an City Police Station, and three middle-aged men in civilian clothes strode over.

This formation can scare the officers of the North District Police Station enough, and after hurriedly lining up, they raised their hands and saluted; "Salute, North District Police Station welcomes all officers to come and inspect!"

At the forefront was Pan Yingsong, the police minister of the General Police Administration, who raised his hand with a serious look and returned the salute and asked; "Where's your director?"

Before the officers below could answer, Hou Fugui, the director of the North District Police Station, rushed down from the upper floor and replied in a loud voice from a distance; "Report to the sir, the ...... is low"

Police Minister Pan Yingsong turned his face, saw the middle-aged man in civilian clothes shook his head slightly, then turned his head and ordered with a stern expression; "Everyone at the North District Police Station gathers, officers above the superintendent level go upstairs for a meeting, and others are on standby at any time."

"Yes, sir!" Hou Fugui "snapped" a standing salute, the posture is quite standard, but the belly that has been blessed is a little big.

The sharp eyes of the middle-aged man in plainclothes stared at him, Hou Fugui felt as if he had been pricked by a needle, and involuntarily sucked his stomach back, and his body stood straight.

The senior police officers from the higher authorities passed by him one after another, and only a few senior superintendents who walked at the back glanced at Hou Fugui and asked him to follow.

Among this group of senior police officers, the one with the most flowers on his shoulders is also the senior superintendent, and Hou Fugui is at the same level, not to mention those police supervisors and senior police superintendents, at least at the level of the director of the municipal bureau and the minister of the General Administration, it is not easy to meet one in ordinary times.

Now there are a lot of "hulala", and if you think about it with your toes, you know that something big has happened.

It didn't take long

A large number of plainclothes people with fierce expressions came to the North District Police Station, and after receiving the task, they went out in twos and threes, and dozens of streets in the entire North District were soon brought under close surveillance......

And at this time

Richard was sitting leisurely on the "jingle bell" tram, watching the street scenery on both sides of the road reced, looking very comfortable.

The streetscape is changing, and the tram has arrived in the North Port area.

After more than 20 years of rapid economic development, the scale of the imperial capital Chang'an is very large, the North Port District is adjacent to the Shibei District, there are several large commercial wharves in the North Port area, the order is from No. 6 to No. 11 piers, and No. 1 to No. 5 piers are within the Nangang District.

There are also 10 large and medium-sized machinery factories in the North Port District, and the famous Royal Chang'an Mint is also located in the area, with hundreds of trading firms, making it a lively port trade and industrial area.

It was noon

The streets are bustling with pedestrians, the enticing aroma of the roadside shops selling food, and the presence of nearby residents with their children in front of the shops, filled with the smell of fireworks.

Judging by the clothing, many men wear sturdy jeans with fur collar jeans. This kind of clothing is strong and warm, wear-resistant and dirt-resistant, and is widely loved by the ordinary working class.

There were also many staff and students dressed in youth uniforms, which resembled the tunics of later generations, but only had a single-layer stand collar. There is less old-fashionedness and more vitality belonging to young people.

The color is also light and dark, and many young government workers like to wear leather shoes on young people, which looks very capable and energetic.

The occasional young girl passing by on the street tends to attract the attention of many people.

In the Tang Empire

Young girls like to wear two types of clothing, one is the dress, this kind of multi-pleated dress with lace is more expensive and generally needs to be tailor-made, the eldest lady of the aristocratic family especially likes the dress, but not many appear on the street.

The other is a more slim student skirt, which is a skirt evolved from a cheongsam, with wide sleeves, a round neck, and a right side, which can well outline the lines of the upper body of young girls, and the lower body is equipped with a dark long skirt and small leather shoes with round toes.

Richard's eyes were accompanied by the figures of two girls who were talking happily all the way, it was estimated that it was noon after school, and the two female students were holding books in their hands, talking and laughing along the way.

In the distance, uniformed patrolmen can be seen patrolling the streets.

The law and order of the Tang Empire is quite good, although it cannot be said that the road is not left untouched and the door is not closed at night, but it is very rare for vicious cases to break out, and there are even fewer street robberies.

On the one hand, this is related to the strict criminal law of the Tang Empire, and on the other hand, the mainstream social groups are mainly Chinese and white Germans, who are family-oriented, faithful, and orderly, and few people are willing to risk their lives.

There are hardly any beggars and homeless people in the bustling streets, and these police officers will notify the city council to take them in and assign them to work within their means.

For example, cleaning streets, cleaning public toilets, maintaining municipal trees and facilities, participating in the construction of municipal roads and bridges, etc., to earn a low salary.

This kind of work is tiring, tedious, and low-paying, and you have to get up before dawn to sweep the streets, which is a job that many city dwellers look down on, and it is just right for these vagrants and beggars.

Since these people do not have a place to live, the Municipal Affairs Bureau provides a unified workshop to live in, and the food provided is deducted from the salary.

The so-called workshop is a room where twenty or thirty people live, each of whom has only a bed board made of a few stones, and everything can only be placed in a wooden box under the bed board, and the conditions are very simple.

But compared to the British contemporaries, it was much happier.

The British Shelter Street Drunks was a Salvation Army organization founded in London in 1865, at the initiative of Bo Weilian and Catherine Bu, who spent two pennies to sleep on a rope and four pennies to sleep in a coffin, at least to ensure that they would not freeze to death on the street.

This kind of municipal work in the Tang Empire was charitable in nature, and the homeless were concentrated to do some work within their capacity in exchange for food and lodging and some meager income.

They are usually beaten at four or five o'clock in the morning by the captain with a leather whip, and then they quickly get up to wash their faces and tidy up their housekeeping, and then they go out into the street with brooms and shovels in hand, and they work until 8:30 before returning to the workshop to eat.

After eating, I went to work, and after sweeping the street, I went to clean the toilets, city parks, or whatever, and I didn't have time to be idle anyway.

The thief will be whipped all over the ground by the captain, punished for not eating or doubling his labor, and so on and so forth, and will not dare to play these careful thoughts again.

It is easy for these municipal workers to get in, but it is difficult to get out, and if they want to give up their municipal jobs and find a decent job outside, they must have the captain's sign before they can be released.

That's why

It's the fear that these idle people will not change their bad habits and return to the streets.

Generally, homeless people or beggars who enter the municipal bureau twice or three times will have to work for at least two years before they can be released and return to society to find a job to earn a living.

As for the record of entering the Municipal Affairs Bureau more than three times, the Municipal Affairs Bureau changed hands and threw them into the hard labor camp, because such a person no longer has the value of reform, and there is no need to bother to spend social resources on reform, and the whip of the captain is not something that everyone can enjoy.

The Empire's credo of social management was; Do not raise idlers.

After the renovation of the Municipal Affairs Bureau, most of the homeless people who went out will soon find suitable jobs, and since then they have stabilized, at least to ensure that they will not be able to live on the streets.

In the Tang Empire, it was a crime for anyone other than monks to beg for food.

Because the Tang Empire provides enough choices and sufficient materials so that everyone can have enough food and clothing, as long as there are hands and feet willing to work, no one will go hungry.

Richard just wandered around the streets, walking and watching all the way, enjoying the rare life of ordinary people, and seemed to enjoy it.

Unconsciously

Smelling the smell of food at the end of his nose, he was about to give orders to pass the meal, when he suddenly slapped his head and laughed;

On this street, the door of the house?

Yes, I have to find my own food.

It seemed to evoke deep memories, and he walked along the streets with great interest, Northwest ramen restaurants, French bakeries, Mexican barbecue restaurants, Jiangsu and Zhejiang restaurants......

Yes...... Just this Jiangsu-Zhejiang restaurant.

Richard raised his feet and walked into the store, and the shopkeeper greeted him warmly; "How many of you are this guest officer?"

"Just one person, order a few delicious dishes, and find me a quiet seat in the middle of the noise."

"You...... Okay, can you look at the window? ”

At this time, there were already seven or eight tables of people sitting in the store, and the shopkeeper pointed to the unmanned position by the window, and there were several layers of cabbage and some other miscellaneous items stacked on the square table, leaving only half of the tabletop.

But there is enough place to eat alone, Richard looked around the store, and most of the tables were already guests, so he nodded reluctantly, and said; "Okay, let's have a fragrant tea first."

"There is no fragrant tea, can Gao Mo'er bring you a bowl?" The shopkeeper said in his heart that this is where this boy brother came from, where did we get the fragrant tea from a small civilian shop?

"Okay."

Richard could also put his mind in check, and nodded in agreement.

(End of chapter)