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Unlike in the past, Qingzhou Wharf is busy today because of merchant ships from Chang'an.

This time, there were more than 7,000 people who fled from Chang'an to Qingzhou, so many people needed to be placed in Qingzhou City, when Xiao Ming followed Fiji and Luo Quan to Qingzhou City, Pang Yukun took Qingzhou officials to take charge of the clothing, food, housing and transportation of these officials in Qingzhou.

At this time, on the cement official road leading to Qingzhou City, three carriages were galloping, and the crisp sound of horses' hooves stepping on the cement road made Fiji and Luo Quan poke their heads out to look at the ground at the same time.

"This must be the cement road in Qingzhou, Feng Shilang once said, and it really deserves its name." Fiji said.

Luo Quan also nodded, "It seems that it has just rained in Qingzhou, and this cement road is not muddy at all, it is even cleaner than the gravel road in Chang'an City." ”

Fiji nodded when he heard this, and then he looked at the people who entered the city, they were all dressed in clean and neat clothes, and their faces were ruddy and plump, and it was obvious that life here was good.

After entering the city, Fiji's eyes were even more idle, and he found that there were many merchants in Qingzhou City, and the density of such merchants seemed to have surpassed that of Chang'an City.

In addition to some big businessmen pulling carriages, there are also some traveling merchants carrying burdens shuttling between the folk shops in Qingzhou.

Some trumpets came out of the mouths of the traveling merchants, and the people of the city who were attracted did not seem to be stingy with the copper coins in their hands.

At the same time, there were also people in green robes with waist knives on the streets, these people were not soldiers, because there was a word "police" embroidered on their arms, not "soldiers." ”

These people in police costumes roamed back and forth through the streets, and some of the idlers crouching in the corners were terrified when they saw them, as if they were beasts of the flood.

In addition to this kind of strange costume, he also saw four or five kinds of people in strange costumes, because he and Luo Quan were riding in a carriage, and he could only suppress these questions, waiting to ask Xiao Ming.

The carriage made a detour of the city, and then stopped at a government office in front of the street, and the people dismounted.

"Fei Zhongshu, General Luo, please!" Xiao Ming said to the two.

Luo Quan and Fiji were still shocked by the scene of Qingzhou, turned his head, and looked at the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce opposite, at this time, many businessmen were in and out of the Chamber of Commerce, very noisy.

"Your Highness, Xiaguan used to only learn about Qingzhou in the newspaper, but when I watched it today, I was shocked." Fiji sighed.

Luo Quan also said: "That's right, how do you feel that this is not the Great Chongqing Kingdom when you go to Qingzhou this time?" ”

"Two, you will have a deep understanding of the peculiarities of Qingzhou, after all, you will live here in the future, today the two of you will talk about the Chang'an Rebellion."

Speaking of this, Fiji said: "Your Royal Highness, before leaving, the emperor handed over the edict to Concubine Zhen, and the emperor decided to make His Royal Highness the crown prince. ”

"Edict!" Xiao Ming was surprised, Concubine Zhen did mention something before getting into the carriage, but Xiao Ming said that he would talk about it when he went back, and Concubine Zhen didn't say anything more, but he never thought that at the last moment, Xiao Wenxuan would give the throne to himself.

It's just that what's the use of giving it to him now, now that Chang'an is occupied by King Zhao, it is inevitable that the following thirteen princes will be made emperors, even if he takes out the edict at this time, I am afraid that he will be said to be fake by King Zhao and others.

However, for him, this edict is not completely useless, in this era, everyone who pays attention to the teacher is famous, and now with the edict, he is the prince of the Great Yu Kingdom, and he beats whoever occupies the legal principle, of course, whether others are willing to be beaten is another matter.

Luo Quan added: "Your Highness, the emperor also told the old minister about this edict before he went up, there will be no mistake, I hope His Royal Highness can raise the royal division to conquer the king of Zhao to quell the rebellion of the king of Zhao." ”

Fiji's eyes rolled when he heard this, and he said to Luo Quan: "It is not easy for King Zhao to enter Beijing this time, don't forget the barbarian cavalry in King Zhao's army, in the eyes of the lower officials, King Zhao must have borrowed soldiers and horses from the barbarians and recognized the thief as his father." ”

Xiao Ming's heart sank suddenly, if the barbarians were added, the situation in Dayu would become more and more complicated now, he said: "Although this king also wants to immediately raise troops to fight against King Zhao, but now the situation in Dayu does not seem to be clear, if other vassal kings also have different intentions, how should this king deal with it?" ”

These words made Luo Quan silent, he only cared about the speed of his tongue for a while, but he forgot about the situation that Xiao Ming was facing now, and he said: "Your Highness, it is the old minister who is reckless." ”

Fiji groaned at this time and said, "Is Your Highness worried about King Wei and King Yong?" ”

"Well, that's right, the fiefs of King Wei and King Yong are connected to the fiefdom of this king, if this king raises troops to Chang'an at this time, the rear is empty, and the two of them come to attack, and this king will be defeated." Xiao Ming said.

Now that Xiao Wenxuan is dead, King Wei and King Yong must have their own thoughts, he won't believe these two, after all, he has been cheated by King Wei, and he has also seen how shameless King Yong is.

Fiji nodded, "What Your Highness said is very true, for the sake of today's plan, Your Highness should strengthen the garrison of various states, wait for changes, and at the same time invite King Wei and King Yong to discuss this rebellion in Chang'an." ”

"I'm afraid the two won't come." Xiao Ming's eyes flickered, how could King Wei and King Yong come to his fiefdom in this situation, just like he would not go to the fiefdom of the two, in his opinion, at most send envoys to each other now.

Fiji understood what Xiao Ming meant after a little thought, and he sighed, just as he expected, now all the vassal kings would be suspicious of each other.

Xiao Ming continued: "And this war, this king's trade losses are very large, the most important thing is the loss of the imperial court's grain and grass support, and maybe there will be a large influx of refugees in the future, which will pose a serious threat to Qingzhou's grain, and this king will not easily send troops before obtaining a stable food supply." ”

After getting the news from Chang'an, Xiao Ming, Pang Yukun and others discussed, generally speaking, they would try to avoid joining the war in the early stage, but to take advantage of the war to sell weapons and accumulate materials to support the development of industry and the preparation of the army.

This strategy is similar to the isolationism of the United States during World War II, and he will not be stupid enough to launch the so-called "just war" just because he has an edict, and it is the same for him with or without an edict, because he wants to be the emperor.

And this emperor is not a title in the edict, but the entire Dayu country, so in order to get the world, it is necessary to accumulate grain and delay the king.

He didn't want to be the target of public criticism at this time.