Chapter 129 Luoyang City is a quick battle

Some people say that Yang Guang built Luoyang, the eastern capital, in order to satisfy his poverty and luxury. even cited an example, in the first year of the Great Cause, there was a sorcerer Zhang Qiu Taiyi Biaoyun: "Your Majesty is a wooden person." Yongzhou is a rush of broken wood, and it cannot be lived for a long time. At the beginning of the emperor's reign, there was a nursery rhyme: "Repair Luoyang and return to the Jin family." His Majesty once crowned the king of Jin, and this is also a test. ”。

Of course, Yang Guang wanted to move the capital to Luoyang, which involved a secret that was not recorded in history, that is, when Yang Guang took office, he was very dissatisfied with the control of the imperial court by the clan lords, especially in the Western Wei Eight Pillars, the Guanlong aristocratic group led by the general of the Twelve Pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was dissatisfied, and in order to weaken the influence of the Guanlong nobles, Yang Guang ordered the capital to be moved. With Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo, as the chief eunuch of Tokyo, and Ande Gongyu Wenkai as the deputy.

The eastern capital planned and designed by Yu Wenkai is in principle the same as that of Daxing City, but it is not completely symmetrical in form. The city is divided into Miyagi, Imperial and Waiguo Castle (also called Ayutthaya or Luocheng). The outer city is 7,300 meters long from north to south, and 7,200 meters wide from east to west, and the scale is slightly smaller than that of Daxing City. There were ten gates in the city, three on the east and three on the south, and two on the west and two on the north. There are one hundred and three squares in the city, which are distributed on the east and south sides of the imperial city.

Luoshui traverses the city, dividing the city into two major districts, north and south. Miyagi and the Imperial City are located in the north and are administrative districts. The southern part is a residential area for the government and the private sector, and the streets are very neat, with squares and cross streets. There are three large international markets in the city, located on the east, south and north sides of the outer city. Beishi (also known as Tongyuan City) is bordered by the Luohe River in the south and is a place where ship commerce is concentrated. The whole city is magnificent, and the palace is more magnificent than Daxing City.

Of course, in later generations, there were also people who blackened Yang Guang and said that the construction of Luoyang City was Yang, and the construction of the canal was also for the purpose of visiting the river capital. There are two sides to human beings, not black and white.

As one of the eight ancient capitals in Chinese history, Luoyang is located in the Central Plains, with flat terrain, convenient transportation and relatively developed agricultural production. At that time, although the land of Daxing (Chang'an) was fertile and abundant, it was located in the west and the transportation was extremely inconvenient. With the political and economic development of the Sui Dynasty, the products of Guanzhong, especially the grain, could no longer meet the needs of the capital, and if there was a disaster year, they had to move east to Luoyang to eat. Emperor Wen of Sui led hundreds of officials to eat in Luoyang twice. Therefore, Luoyang played a pivotal role in the early Sui Dynasty.

Of course, the more important issue is that Luoyang has the advantage of water transportation. Chang'an, on the other hand, does not have this convenience. After the construction of the Eastern Capital, Yang Guang stored a large amount of grain in Luokou Warehouse, which was not eaten until the Zhenguan period (this record Lao Cheng expressed doubts that the limit of grain storage is five years, and no one dares to eat vacuum-packed compressed biscuits after twenty years, from the year of the Great Cause to the early year of Zhenguan, it spanned twenty or thirty years).

However, in Yang Guang's life, he spent very little time in Luoyang, so the majestic and huge Luoyang City was finally cheaper than Wang Shichong. Luoyang City has two famous streets, one Duanmen Street and the other called Tianjin Street. The end gate is the main gate of the south of the palace. It is very close to the Imperial Palace.

It is a Chinese tradition for the rich to live in the city and the poor to live outside the city. Luoyang City is naturally not far away, and the mansion of Shan Xiongxin's champion general is sitting on Luoduanmen Street. This courtyard, which has seven courtyards and covers an area of more than 20 acres, is actually the mansion of Dugu Ji, the Duke of Tengguo in the Sui Dynasty.

Dugu Ji is the grandson of Dugu Xin, the legendary father-in-law in Chinese history, who once assisted Yang Tong with Wang Shichong to ascend the throne, but Dugu Ji conspired to kill Wang Shichong and surrender to Li Yuan, his uncle. However, after the defeat, he was beheaded by Wang Shichong, and the family property was confiscated, and the house was rewarded to Shan Xiongxin.

At this time, a two-wheeled carriage slowly walked along the Tianjin Street in front of the Champion General's Mansion. The curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing Yu Qing's unfazed face.

Yu Qing looked at the hawker with the burden with an expressionless face, and the hawker willingly followed the carriage with the burden, until the carriage turned the corner and turned into an empty alley, the hawker quickly caught up with the carriage and bowed down: "I've seen Manager Yu!" ”

As early as the beginning when Yu Qing did not arrive in Luoyang, Yu Qing's order had already reached Luoyang. The Tiger has already begun to conduct an all-round investigation of the Champion General's Mansion. Yu Qing waved his hand and said: "The old man remembers you, you are Guo Luo, and your mother was on the bank of the Luoshui River when she gave birth to you!" ”

Guo Luo saw Yu Qing reveal his name with one word, and his heart warmed. In fact, Guo Luo had never seen Yu Qing, and the head of the Tiger Yicong was not Yu Qing, but Zhou Chengdong, the son of Hou Mo Chen Rui and Zhou Fengjiu. Youdao is a son of heaven and a courtier, and the truth is not only applicable to the court, but also to the family. Since Hou Mo Chen Rui sent to lead the south, Hou Mo Chen Rui and his wife also died in Lingnan, Hou Mo Chen Ying took over the position of Hou Mo Chen Ying's head of the family, and later passed it to his son Hou Mo Chen Qianhui, and the head of the Tiger Yi Cong was transferred from Zhou Chengdong to Yu Qing.

Before Yu Qinglai carried out this task, he had actually made preparations and returned the Tiger Righteous Servant to Chen Ying. The Tiger Yicong is Hou Mo Chen Chong's personal guard and servant, and the same is organized into three Yitong, which means that the honor guard can be the same as the Kaifu, and each Zhuguo general commands a total of 48. These high-ranking officers actually commanded not many soldiers, and each Kaifu commanded a "army" (also called a "regiment"), but in fact there were only about 2,000 people; Each instrument is about 1,000 people.

Now Zhou Chengdong is just one of the three Yitong of the Tiger Yicong. As the place where Zhou Chengdong lives all the year round, when Yu Qing came to Luoyang, he naturally understood Zhou Chengdong's details in detail, this Guo Luo, served as the captain of the left regiment under Zhou Chengdong, of course, this captain was not recognized by Wang Shichong, but he was secretly in the position, and the money he received was paid by Hou Mo Chen.

Yu Qing nodded: "Have you figured out the security situation of the Champion General's Mansion?" ”

Guo Luo said: "In Shan Xiongxin's house, there is a 100-person personal guard brigade stationed all year round, and now the brigade commander is Qiu Fu, Shan Xiongxin's old department. ”

Yu Qing was very serious and asked carefully: "How is the equipment of a hundred people, and how is the combat effectiveness?" ”

Guo Luo thought for a while and said: "The equipment is very average, only about 20 people have iron armor, most of them are leather armor, the equipment is mainly horizontal knives, the second is guns, and there are less than ten bows and crossbows. ”

"Go back first!" Yu Qing nodded and said, "Shan Xiongxin's wife is about to give birth now, and she will definitely not be able to withstand the pain of long-distance bumps, so this time we will adopt a golden cicada shelling strategy." So you go to find the body of a woman who is four to six months pregnant, preferably between twenty and thirty years old, and who will die within one to two months, preferably six feet two inches tall! ”

Guo Luo didn't ask Yu Qing what he wanted a woman's body to do, but he decided to do so, Luoyang City has a population of more than 400,000 people, and there are not a few people who are freezing or sick or freezing to death. As long as you have money, it shouldn't be difficult to buy a corpse.

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Three days later, in the backyard wing of the champion general's mansion, a woman with a big belly and wearing coarse cloth was shaking the spinning wheel, if it weren't for a few maids to help serve on the side, I am afraid that no one would have thought that this woman who was doing rough spinning work was Wang Lanzhu, the princess of the Zheng Dynasty and the champion general Shan Xiongxin.

"Princess, your body is heavy, leave all these rough jobs to the slaves and maids."

Wang Lanzhu shook her head and said: "No one is more noble than the other, in our house, if you don't work, you won't have anything to eat." ”

The little slave asked, "What is he going to do when he hasn't come back for a few days?" ”

Wang Lanzhu belongs to the kind of traditional woman who is a good housekeeper, and her body is inconvenient, so she gives a few good-looking girls around her to Shan Xiongxin as concubines. This maid named Shiyin is Wang Lanzhu Shan Xiongxin's concubine, but although the little maid wants to take this opportunity to conceive a son and a half daughter, and fly to the high branches. It's just a pity that the falling flowers are affectionate, and the flowing water is unintentional.

The more generous Wang Lanzhu was, the more embarrassed Shan Xiongxin became. For most of the year, Shan Xiongxin gritted his teeth and persevered, which can be a model of a good man.

"The horse is a manly husband, they are busy with big things all day long, let's spin more yarn at home, sell the money, and buy more family business!"

At this moment, there was a rush of running footsteps in the front yard. A lieutenant in armor with tears on his face stopped when he ran to the backyard, and this person was none other than Qiu Fu, Shan Xiongxin's personal attendant. Now he has just received the news that Shan Xiongxin fought against the Tang army outside Hangu Pass, but unfortunately he was defeated and captured, and committed suicide because he refused to surrender.

Now that Wang Lanzhu is like this, how can she be shocked to withstand such a huge blow?

"It's Qiu Fu, come in, is there a letter from the colt, when will he come back?" Wang Lanzhu asked through the door.

Qiu Fu had no choice but to bow in, he was not a person who was good at talking panic, he muttered, "No...... General...... No letter sent back! ”

Just a few words, Qiu Fu's face turned into a red cloth.

Wang Lanzhu is not stupid, she immediately realized that something was wrong, and her voice was a little distorted: "Something happened to the general?" ”

"Nope!"

"None? You can't fool me!! Wang Lanzhu said: "Tell me, is it hurt?" ”

"Nope"

Wang Lanzhu's heart sank: "Is it seriously injured?" It's okay, we have a big business now, even if we don't have arms, hands and feet, we don't have to worry about food and clothing! ”

"I didn't ...... Gone! Qiu Fu covered his face and cried: "General...... Gone! ”

Wang Lanzhu's eyes were dark, and she felt that the world was spinning. If it hadn't been for Shiyin to support her in time, I'm afraid there would have been an accident at that time.

The Champion General's Mansion was in a mess, some people ran to pinch people, some ran to find the imperial doctor, but Qiu Fu was at a loss.

At this time, the Champion General's Mansion unknowingly entered dozens of very unconventional men, who did not greet the people in the Champion General's Mansion at all, met a person, and knocked one person unconscious.

It wasn't until dozens of black-clothed people rushed into the backyard that Qiu Fu realized that something was wrong, Qiu Fu protected in front of the door where Wang Lanzhu was staying, pulled out a horizontal knife and aimed it at the black-clothed people, and shouted coldly: "Who are you?" ”

"Hurry up, don't waste time!" An old voice came.