After passing the Mengjin Pass, Li Ze can be regarded as a real two-foot foot on the land of Luoyang.

Luoyang, in a broad sense, can even be regarded as the birthplace of Chinese civilization, and has played an extremely important role in China's history for a long time. Although Luoyang's status declined day by day due to the southward shift of the economic center of gravity, this did not hinder its importance in history.

Luoyang is located in the Luoyang Basin at the confluence of Luoshui and Yishui, surrounded by mountains, north of the Lishan Mountain, the Yellow River, the west of the Kunshan Mountain, the Xiong'er Mountain, the east of the Song Mountain, the south of the Waifang Mountain, there are many mountains and rivers, from the geographical point of view, Luoyang has a certain degree of protection.

Although there are many mountain ranges, but the use of rivers and plains between mountains and rivers, the location of Luoyang can be regarded as extending in all directions, through the Kunshan Mountains to the west can reach the Guanzhong Plain, to the east can be connected to Kaifeng, across the Yellow River to the north can reach the Loess Plateau, to the northeast can reach the North China Plain, to the south can reach the Nanyang Plain, Jianghan Plain.

The superiority of the geographical location determines that Luoyang has been an important urban node since the Han Dynasty, with a huge population, Li Ze came to this era, although there is no powerful China's first female emperor Wu Zetian, and Luoyang does not have the title of the divine capital, but its importance in the Tang Dynasty has not been reduced in the slightest.

It is still the hub of the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial court has built countless large granaries here, connecting the important grain-producing areas of the Huaihai region to the east and Chang'an to the west.

Extending in all directions reflects the important position of Luoyang, but it also means that once there is a war, this place is also the place of the four wars, and because of the wealth of Luoyang, it also makes any force that wants to make a difference, all of them will take Luoyang as an important task for themselves. In such a situation, even though Luoyang is surrounded by Mengjin Pass in the north, Hangu Pass in the west, Tiger Pass in the east, Guangcheng Pass in the south, Xuanyuan Pass, Dagu Pass and a series of important checkpoints, it still cannot avoid being attacked by hostile forces again and again, and suffering devastation again and again.

Fifteen years ago, Luoyang was broken through the peasant rebellion and suffered unprecedented destruction. And Li Xin, the king of Fu, became the defense envoy of the eastern capital after that catastrophe, and led 50,000 divine troops to garrison the eastern capital.

If you want to take Chang'an, you must first take Luoyang, which is almost the consensus of all those festivals and towns who are interested in the world. Although Luoyang is still firmly controlled by the imperial court, it has also become a center where many forces are intertwined and entangled. Countless forces want to intervene in Luoyang and install some of their own people.

Like this time, the officials who intercepted Li Ze's letter for help belonged to Zhu Wen, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu. The defense of the Eastern Capital made such an important position under his command also rebelled, so that Li Ze had to worry about the safety here.

Once Luoyang is lost, Chang'an will be in danger.

It's a pity that now he can't find any reason to install his own people in Chang'an openly, so even Chang'an only began to arrange it by entering Beijing this time, and from this point of view, he is far behind the other Jiezhen forces.

This time is an opportunity. At the very least, the commercial power of Yixingtang represented by Tu Hu can be embedded. At this time, Luoyang, because of its superior geographical location and extremely developed commerce, Li Ze could not get a piece of the pie in the past, but now, he can make this request to Li Xin in a bright and bright way.

As long as you can gain a foothold here, you can naturally slowly develop your strength in the back, and then echo with the Qianniuwei General's Mansion in Chang'an, and form your own relatively stable stronghold in the two most important places in Datang, so as to plan for the future.

When Li Ze and his entourage entered Luoyang City, night was slowly falling, and in the city, the bells and drums that gradually sounded to close the square echoed throughout the city. In a short time, on the wide main street, except for the patrolling soldiers and errand soldiers, there were no more pedestrians.

There is the Tang Dynasty, in order to facilitate management, such as Chang'an, Luoyang and other large cities have a strict planning, the government to 500 square meters for an area, planning as a square area, three hundred steps from east to west, north and south, there are cross streets, the people's doors can only be opened in the Fang, and only when they have reached a certain level of high-ranking officials and dignitaries are qualified to open their doors on the wall of the square to face the street. When night falls, the doors of the workshops are closed, and each of the alleys becomes a small independent area, and if you want to enter and exit at will, then there will be an errand to invite you to sit in the class room.

Of course, for a person of Li Ze's status, such a rule is useless.

Luoyang has a total of one hundred and three squares, Luobei twenty-nine squares, Luonan seventy-four squares, the most coveted by Li Ze is the south market, this is the largest daily necessities market in Datang, goods from all over the country are concentrated here, and then distributed from here, if you can have such a big market, the day into the gold, it is really not a joke.

After passing through the neat square areas, Li Ze arrived at the residence that Li Xin had prepared for him in Luocheng, which was not the official post in Luobei, but the Guiren Garden in Luonanfang District.

"General, today is a hard day of trekking, so I ask the general to rest early, and tomorrow, this king will set up a banquet to wash the dust of the general." Compared with Li Ze, the fat Fu King Li Xin is even more tired. On weekdays, he is more likely to sit in a carriage, but on this day, because Li Ze resolutely refused to take the carriage, he could only ride a horse to accompany him. He said that he was afraid of Li Ze's hard work, but in fact, he really couldn't stand it.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Li Ze looked at the garden-style building behind him and was very satisfied with the other party's arrangement.

Unlike Li Xin, who hurried back to his Fuwang Mansion in a hurry, and let a few maids relay massage himself in order to relax his muscles and invigorate his blood, Li Ze lay comfortably on the big bed and fell asleep after settling down. Who do you see? ”

Wang Shu, who was recruited into the palace overnight, Zhongshu Lingzi, the provincial servant Zhongtian Lingzi, Shangshu Ling Chen Bi, the left servant shot Wang Duo and others looked at each other one by one, I don't know what happened, for a long time, seeing that the emperor's anger gradually subsided, Wang Shu leaned over and picked up the secret fold of the Fu King on the ground, this look, his mouth was also wide and could not be closed anymore.

The envoy of Henghai Jiedu, who was ordered to enter Beijing, the general of Qianniuwei, actually encountered a large-scale attack in Mengjindu, and more than half of the guards under his command were killed and wounded. And King Fu's secret compromise was played, involving not only Lu Long and Zhang Zhongwu in this attack, but also Wei Bojiedu envoy Tian Chenghei and Xuanwu Jiedu envoy Zhu Wen.

"Blatantly attacking the imperial court officials who were ordered to enter Beijing, these festival towns are really lawless." Wang Shu took a deep breath, King Fu's secret fold is not long, but there are too many meanings in it.

Why attack Li Ze? Naturally, it was because they didn't want the situation in the north to return to the control of the imperial court, and only when the north was in turmoil would they have more opportunities to seek their own interests.

In other words, all of these people have a disobedient heart.

"Fortunately, General Li is unharmed." Wang Duo, who had read the secret fold, also said with palpitations: "A thousand people attacked, and they were defeated by more than 100 guards under the general, killing and wounding hundreds of people, and the soldiers under the command of General Li are so good at fighting, Your Majesty, this should be the blessing of the court!" ”

Tian Lingzi also nodded and said: "Your Majesty, General Li is fine, this matter should not be publicized, King Fu secretly folded the monograph, and this is exactly what it means." And General Li also understood the righteousness and did not pursue this matter exhaustively, and this matter can only end here. ”

"Are these thieves allowed to behave like this?" Li Yan's anger did not subside.

"Your Majesty, at this time, the imperial court really has no spare strength to pursue this matter, if it is pursued exhaustively, not only will it be impossible to seek justice for General Li, but it will completely force these festival towns to rebel, whether it is Wei Bo or Xuanwu, it is only appropriate to appease it now! Your Majesty, the north is not peaceful, and in other places, it is really not appropriate to have more incidents, Wei Bo and Xuanwu are all located in key places, and once they fight, there will be endless disasters. ”

"One day, I will definitely cut these rebels and thieves with a thousand knives!" The muscles on Li Yan's face twitched a little, and he gritted his teeth.

Shang Shu Ling Chen Bi pondered for a long time and said: "Your Majesty, General Li was edicted to enter Beijing, suffered from this catastrophe, must be unhappy in his heart, even if His Royal Highness King Fu has the heart to appease, I am afraid that it will be difficult to calm the hatred in his heart, this person is young, and his heart is only afraid that he is not yet mature, I am afraid that he will ignore the overall situation, so I also ask Your Majesty to appease more, so that he does not have grievances against the court." ”

Wang Duo nodded again and again: "What Shang Shuling said is extremely true, although this person is loyal, but after all, he is still young, if His Majesty is good at appeasement and gives more kindness, this person will definitely be grateful, Li Anguo's life is not long, if this person can become the Optimus Prime of the North like Gao Yu in the future, why worry about Zhang Thief?" Why worry about the injustice of the world? Our Datang, we can't have only one Gao Yu to support the crisis! ”

Li Yan nodded slightly.

"What you have said is very true, I can naturally endure what I should endure now, and I will never be stingy with the grace that should be given, as long as this Li Ze can think about the court wholeheartedly, what do I want I can't give?"

"Your Majesty."

"Let Li Ze raise it in Luoyang for a few days! He is a military general, and these things are commonplace, but his mother, wife, etc. are all weak people, and they are quite frightened this time. In the service, the palace of King Yuan Duan has been vacant, so he will rectify his good life and give it to General Li as the general's mansion. Otherwise, let's discuss it when Li Ze arrives in Chang'an. ”

"Yes!"