Zhao Ziliang soon followed the three eunuchs to the south gate of the Daming Palace - Danfeng Gate, the palace is not allowed to ride horses, he asked Bai Xiaode to look at the horses, just wait outside the Danfeng Gate, and after passing the inspection, he entered the Daming Palace with the eunuchs.

Seventeen emperors of the Tang Dynasty successively handled the government here, which lasted for more than 200 years. It is located in Longshouyuan, on the north side of Chang'an City, with an area of 4.5 times the size of the Forbidden City in Beijing, equivalent to the size of 500 football fields, three Versailles, twelve Kremlins, thirteen Louvres, and fifteen Buckingham Palaces. Daming Palace is only one of the three palaces in Chang'an City, and the other two palaces are Taiji Palace and Xingqing Palace.

Zhao Ziliang came to Daming Palace once, last time was in the Xuanzheng Palace, this time he followed the three eunuchs all the way through the main hall of the Daming Palace, Hanyuan Hall (Outer Dynasty), Xuanzheng Hall (Middle Dynasty), and finally came to the emperor's daily office, the place of activities - Zichen Hall (Inner Dynasty).

Along the way, although he had been here once, Zhao Ziliang was still shocked by the majestic palace architectural pattern in the Daming Palace, and he couldn't imagine that such a magnificent building complex could be created in this era.

Outside the Zichen Palace, the eunuch who announced the decree stopped and turned to Zhao Ziliang and said: "General Zhao, there are rules in the palace, and please untie the general's weapon, we will keep it on our behalf, and we will return it when the general comes out."

Although Zhao Ziliang had the idea that soldiers could not let the weapon leave their body, but this was where the emperor was, and it was also appropriate to remove the weapon, he took off the weapon on his waist, took the dagger from the inside of his combat boots, and handed it to the eunuch who took it and handed it to the eunuch outside the palace for safekeeping, and then turned around and explained to Zhao Ziliang the rules when meeting the emperor alone, so as not to collide with the holy car.

Zhao Ziliang agreed one by one, and the eunuch asked Zhao Ziliang to wait outside, and he entered the palace to report to the emperor.

Soon, from the palace, the eunuch's duck-like voice came: "Your Majesty has a decree, declare that General Zhao Ziliang will meet you-".

Zhao Ziliang straightened his helmet and armor, and then strode into the temple gate. Saluted under His Majesty: "Minister Zhao Ziliang greets Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Li Longji raised his hand upward: "Zhao Qing's family, let's be even!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhao Ziliang thanked him, got up and stepped aside.

Li Longji asked: "Zhao Qingjia, what is the position of this Jinguangmen guard, how are you doing?" ”

"Very good, very powerful!"

What does it mean? Li Longji was stunned and asked, "What's the explanation?" ”

Zhao Ziliang bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, in addition to the palace gate and the imperial city gate in Chang'an City, there are a total of twelve large and small city gates in Chang'an City. These city gates are an important checkpoint to resist foreign enemies attacking the city and preventing gangsters from entering the city to hurt the people, and it is also a checkpoint to prevent gangsters from escaping the capital, if you count the imperial city gate and the palace gate, these gates are related to the safety of Your Majesty, the princess and the concubines, if the access control is not strict, once something happens, the consequences are unimaginable, so the duties of each city gate guard are actually very important. This position can be done even by a small lieutenant, but it is not easy to do it well. Its authority is actually very large, there is no family name and road guide, as long as the guard is not afraid of the powerful and upholds a loyal heart, even the emperor's relatives are not allowed to enter and exit. Your Majesty, please think that if someone wants to carry out military advice or plot a coup d'état, and want to disadvantage His Majesty, the first thing to do is to deal with the guards of the city gates and the palace gates. Otherwise he would not have been able to come to His Majesty! Today・・・・・・"

"Ahem!" Li Longji coughed twice and interrupted Zhao Ziliang to continue, then waved his hand and said to the others in the store: "Wait for everyone to retreat!" ”

"No!" The palace maids and eunuchs all withdrew, and there was no one else in the store except Zhao Ziliang and Li Longji. Zhao Ziliang thought to himself that the emperor was still very bold, and he didn't leave anyone? Aren't you afraid that I will be against him?

Just as Zhao Ziliang was muttering in his heart, Li Longji spoke again: "What did you want to say just now, keep talking!" ”

"No!" Zhao Ziliang agreed, and continued: "Today, Weichen does not let His Majesty out of the city not only because the tall man did not bring his family registration, but also because once His Majesty goes out of the city, the danger will increase greatly, because no one knows that you are the emperor, and the people who know that you are the emperor and have the intention to be unfavorable to you must always pay attention to your every move, if you go out of the city, they can prepare outside the city in advance, the outside of the city is not as empty as the houses in the city, it is not easy to hide and hide when attacked, and you can't run away, In the city, you can let the limited guards drag the enemy, and then find houses and alleys to hide, you can drag until the patrol soldiers of Jin Wuwei come to the rescue, Your Majesty is wise and martial, when you know this truth, for the safety of the Tang Dynasty, please don't take risks easily in the future. And since Your Majesty wants to go out on patrol in micro-service, why don't you bring your home to the road? Doesn't this make it clear that you want to enter and exit freely with your identity? How does this achieve the purpose of micro-service? I'm afraid that before you leave the imperial city, your every move will be known by many well-intentioned people! ”

Zhao Ziliang's words before and after aroused Li Longji's great attention, he was quite dissatisfied with Gao Lishi at this time, and he didn't bring his family registration when he left the palace, this old thing is only afraid that he is used to showing off his might, otherwise he will not forget to bring his family registration.

Li Longji nodded, very humbly accepted Zhao Ziliang's suggestions and criticisms, and said: "Today, I have walked through the twelve gates of the capital, as well as the imperial city and the palace city, but only your Jinguang Gate did not let me pass, and the other gates either knew Gao Lishi and let me pass, or let me pass after Gao Lishi stuffed money, until today, I found that Chang'an City has been leaking everywhere, the guards of each gate are lazy, and there is almost no military discipline, in this case, There is a great hidden danger to my safety and the safety of all the people in Chang'an City! I plan to rectify the guards and city defenses of the gates, and the Jinguang Gate guarded by Aiqing is doing a good job, where do you think we should start? ”

Zhao Ziliang arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that only by strengthening the implementation of the door registration system can these problems be solved, and the situation at the palace gate and the imperial city gate may be better, because almost all the people who enter and exit the palace gate and the imperial city gate are royal relatives and princes and ministers, so the guards and soldiers generally dare not reach out to them to ask for money, as long as there is a door registration in hand, they will generally not be troubled and blocked, and those who do not have a door registration in hand can pass freely, It must be that the guards and soldiers are afraid that the strict implementation of the door registration system will be retaliated against by those officials who did not bring the door registration, and the guards and soldiers of the outer city gate of course did not dare to ask the princes and ministers for money, the poor implementation of the door registration system is because they lack money to spend, they dare to reach out and ask for money, why lack of money? Because the military salary is not enough to spend, why? Often go to the street to drink, go to restaurants, go to Qinglou, kiln, how to spend military salary?

Therefore, in order to strengthen the implementation of the family registration system, it is first necessary to rectify military discipline, so that the guards and sergeants cannot leave their posts without authorization, and cannot casually stretch out their hands to collect money from the people, so that they do not have much time to visit the kilns and drink flowers and wine.

Second, the implementation of the reporting system, as long as someone reports, through the investigation to learn that it is the truth, immediately punish the guards and soldiers on duty, to set up a special sanction for the left prison guards and the right prison guards respectively to sanction the dereliction of duty of the generals and soldiers, as well as the officials who do not have a family name, the road in hand, as long as they dare to stuff money to the guards and soldiers, as long as they dare to intimidate the guards and soldiers by virtue of their status, they must be punished, this yamen does not need to be too large, but the officials and soldiers must be treated well, they can not be bought, If they can be easily bought, then they may collude with the guards and soldiers of the gates.

The last is to strengthen the training of the defenders of each gate, in the past few months in the capital, Wechen has been roughly observed, except for the soldiers of Wechen's Jinguangmen after rectification, whether it is military discipline or combat power are considered to be passed, the military discipline and combat power of the other defenders are not good! ”

Li Longji had been listening to Zhao Ziliang quietly, and after he finished speaking, he pondered for a moment and said, "Zhao Qing's family stepped forward to listen to the seal!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was stunned for a moment, and immediately walked to the middle to salute, and listened to Li Longji say: "Feng Jinguangmen guard Zhao Ziliang is the general of the left prison guard, and a special division is set up in the left prison guard to supervise the implementation of the access control system of the palace gates, the imperial city gates, and the outer city gates, and one hundred and twenty soldiers are removed from the left and right Ling Zhonglang generals' mansions!" ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "The ministers are grateful!" ”

The left and right guards are two of the sixteen guards, each with one general, one general, and two generals, who are in charge of the guards and the door register. Generally speaking, the general is just a fictitious position, and does not actually deal with official business, the general is just a name, and does not ask about specific affairs, the real power is the general, there are two generals in the left prison guard, one of them is Chen Xuanli, responsible for the defense of the outer city gate and the affairs of the door, the other position was vacant before, and now Zhao Ziliang has taken this position, in charge of the left and right Ling Zhonglang General's Mansion, these two yamen are in charge of the palace, the imperial city gate guards and the door register, but the emperor gave him another errand, that is, the formation of the Supervision Division, Supervise the implementation of the door registration system, military discipline, and soldier training at the gates under the jurisdiction of all the guards of the left prison.

When Chen Qingying saw Zhao Ziliang coming back, a smile appeared on her face, and she was relieved, so she hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and took the waist knife, cloak and armor he took off, and hung them up one by one, and brought him a clean regular dress to put on, and everyone sat down to eat together.

During the meal, Chen Qingying asked, "Is it okay?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "How can it be okay?" It's okay, what did the emperor call me for? The emperor promoted me just now, and I can finally stop being this city-breaking official. Well, by the way, since you've been promoted, why don't you drink some wine to celebrate, girl, go get wine."

"Oh!" Wang Zhiyun happily agreed and happily took the wine.

"That's good, that's good!" Chen Qingying patted her chest again and again, and asked, "What kind of official will you be promoted this time?" Shouldn't you be asked to guard the palace gate instead of letting you guard the city gate? ”

Zhao Ziliang took a bite of the dish and said: "The general of the left prison guard, in charge of the palace gates, the imperial city gate guards and the door registration affairs in Chang'an City."

"Wow! Uncle, aren't you very imposing? Zhao Hu shouted loudly, his eyes brightened.

Zhao Ziliang patted Zhao Hu's shoulder with a smile and said: "Study hard, learn martial arts, and when you grow up, you will also make a name for yourself, and be a general to give our old Zhao family face!" ”

Zhao Hu nodded solemnly: "Hmm! (To be continued.) )