Time flies, and it's almost New Year's Day in a blink of an eye.

It is one of the most important festivals of the year and has always been taken seriously. The year before and the year before because of the confrontation in the northeast and the battle of Daibei, the two years were a little simple, and the year before and last year was the King of Qin who led the army out of the pass to fight the decisive battle with the Hu people, and the land in the pass was attacked by the eighteen towns, so the New Year's Day became more and more desolate and bleak, and even the people were panicked.

Although many places have also been invaded by the feudal domains this year, the war outside the gate has come to an end, and the king of Qin conquered hundreds of large and small tribes outside the gate in one fell swoop, completely sweeping away all kinds of disobedience of those Hu people. Now, hundreds of thousands of troops have returned to Guannai, and this year is another bumper year, and there are bumper harvests in various places. And because of the great victory outside the Qin Dynasty, the allied feudal towns in the southeast of the Qin Domain have also been continuously transported from the sea with a full load of grain from the sea since the beginning of the summer, and even the small Tibetan states such as Champa on the far south of Annan have also sent envoys to come with grain ships and tributes.

In this wax month, the atmosphere of the entire Yanjing and even the entire Qin Domain relaxed, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Not only is the rear of the interior stable, but even on the long border, the soldiers and horses of the towns that took the opportunity to invade have also retreated, and some bandits and robbers who have gathered in crowds such as displaced people from various places have also been wiped out by the soldiers and horses who have just been stationed on the border. Not long ago, the king of Qin just ordered that, especially on the long border of tens of thousands of miles of the Qin domain, a new branch of the army, the border guards of the Qin domain, was specially stationed on the border, most of which were border guards from the soldiers, and the first thing they did when they arrived at the border was to attack everywhere and sweep away the bandits and horse bandits who were wandering around the border to commit crimes or occupy the mountains and rob the border to stabilize the border.

The uneasy atmosphere on the border was swept away. It makes the people on the border feel safe and secure even when they sleep.

And for the people of the mainland. They are getting more and more relaxed. So this time, everyone is trying to have a lively festival. Especially now it is rumored everywhere that on New Year's Day this year, King Qin will set up a new Son of Heaven, and from then on, the Qin Domain will truly become a country of its own, although King Qin supported a Li Tang clan as the Son of Heaven, not as everyone expected King Qin himself to be the emperor, but this result is not bad. At the very least, in this way, the Qin clan would no longer listen to the orders of the emperors of Chengdu or Chang'an.

As the days are getting closer and closer, the festive atmosphere in the street market is getting stronger and stronger, the big front gate of the outer city, in recent years, has already become the most lively business area in the outer city, especially opened up a big market, and now the big merchants in the front store began to set up a bamboo building at the door of the store, ready to hang lanterns in the New Year, tie up the color bar. Put up the bunting. At the entrance of the street, the various markets pooled money together to build a colored paper archway, and there is an archway not far from the wide market. In recent years, the commercial market in Yanjing City has been extremely developed, the division of labor in all walks of life is becoming more and more detailed, there are already 720 lines in the whole Yanjing City, and the Daqian Gate Market has concentrated 480 lines, which are full of 480 archways, one is taller and more beautiful than the other. It seems that the higher the archway of the line, the more beautiful it is, the more prosperous the business will be next year.

According to tradition, although the New Year's Day is lively, but the most lively in the first month is the Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth, but this year's situation is special, and it is also said that it is necessary to celebrate with the people and hold a big celebration, so it may be from New Year's Day to Shangyuan Festival, it will be a continuous celebration and lively.

Therefore, there is still some time before the New Year, but the entire Yanjing City has begun to prepare.

Not only the market in the market in the archway, is the big family in the street, but also have to build a wooden archway outside their own homes, according to tradition, when it comes to the Lantern Festival, will hang all kinds of lanterns on this archway, whose archway is the most beautiful, the lights are the most gorgeous, attract the most tourists, then this family is the most prosperous. This is the case for the people, the government is also like this, and the various yamen in Yanjing City are already setting up archway lighthouses. Even the various yamen are still secretly competing, and Yanjing City directly governs two counties, namely Daxing County in the east of the city and Wanping County in the west of the city. And in the whole Yanjing, at the same time is also divided into five cities, southeast and northwest, the five cities are also known as Shuntian City, Yingtian City, Fengtian City, Chengtian City, Jingtian City, in the five cities, there are five city procuratorates, this newly established new yamen, is subordinate to the procuratorate, the procuratorate assigns officials to patrol the city, and the officials who patrol the city have a public office. At the same time, there is also a special division of soldiers and horses in the five cities, and each city is divided into two squares on the left and right, which are responsible for propagating education, hearing lawsuits, arresting thieves, and providing relief for disasters and famines.

The two counties of Daxing and Wanping not only competed in secret, either the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind overwhelmed the east. And on the other hand, they joined forces together, preparing to fight the Wucheng Procuratorate and the Wucheng Terracotta Division, the newly pressed Yamen. The two new yamen in the five cities are naturally not to be outdone, they are directly subordinate to the central ministry of the Qin Domain, how can they be fought by the two small county towns. Of course, secretly, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the Five Cities Procuratorate are also competing, trying to compare each other. Even the Nine Commanders Yamen were gearing up, ready to compare with the other capitals.

However, in this joyful busyness and competition, all the Yanjing people are a little confused and dazed, until now, seeing that it is about to be New Year's Day, they, the officials and people at the foot of the royal city, still do not know who will be the new son of heaven supported by the king of Qin, this thing is a little incredible, but it is the case. In the tea shop, all kinds of speculations and rumors are endless, and some keep saying that the King of Qin wants to support King Zhao as the new son of heaven, after all, as early as a few years ago, the Qin Dynasty had a rumor that he planned to set up a prison state, and King Zhao came to Yanjing from Dengzhou at that time. Although the most unfortunate is gone, the identity of King Zhao is very noble in the clan, he is the son of Xuanzong, the brother of Yizong, and now the uncle of the Son of Heaven in Chengdu and the Son of Heaven in Chang'an, besides, there is one more point Although everyone did not say it, they all tacitly knew that the relationship between King Zhao and King Qin has always been very good, as early as Dengzhou, it was already considered a family, not to mention, King Zhao's daughter, Princess Donghai, has long been a person of King Qin, although she has no official name, but even children have been born.

But some people are very sure that the new son of heaven will be the missing king Li Bao.

"King Ji is not missing, he was brought out of Chengdu by His Royal Highness King Qin, and now he is in Yanjing City. On New Year's Day. Surely you will have to wear the imperial robe. Ascended the throne and became emperor. ”

Of course, this statement has also been denied by many people, and everyone thinks that King Ji has been missing for so long, how can it be in Yanjing. What's more, I heard that King Ji is a virtuous king, and it stands to reason that it is most appropriate to set up a virtuous king as the son of heaven. But now that King Qin's intention to support the Son of Heaven, it is not clear which of the Qin Domains is up. That is to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, since this is the case, how can you set up a virtuous Son of Heaven, that is not to find yourself unhappy.

In short, all kinds of speculations were used, but there was no accurate reply from the beginning to the end. Even the fact that the Qin clan wanted to establish the son of the new heaven on New Year's Day seemed a bit groundless, although everyone had heard of it, but no one could say where it came from in the first place.

In the afternoon of the day. A carriage stopped in front of the arrow tower of Zhengyangmen at the front gate of Yanjing. The commander of the guards of the front gate of the Nine Gate Admiral Yamen, who was sweating and directing people to set up a lamp stand, immediately recognized it, which was specially explained by the Supervision Department and the Nine Gate Admiral Yamen. The carriage that brought his attention. There are many gates in Yanjing City, there are seven outer and nine inner nine imperial city four, in fact, there are six gates in the imperial city, which does not count the eight gates of the palace city. The real whole Yanjing City is a big city composed of the Acropolis, the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city, and the palace city, the range of the Acropolis is very large, surrounding the entire outer city, there is a two-zhang earthen city, and another twelve city gates are built on the water and land to enter the outer city of Yanjing, and the twelve city gates are actually twelve fortresses, which are composed of forts, arrow towers, door holes, etc.

In addition to the acropolis that can actually be regarded as the outskirts of Yanjing City, in the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city, and the palace city, the nine gates of the Admiral Yamen are guarded by the nine gates of the inner nine cities, and are in charge of the guard, inspection, access control, night patrol, ban, armor protection, arrest, trial of cases, imprisonment and other important positions. To put it bluntly, they are the Yanjing garrison, which is comparable to the Jin Wuwei in Chang'an City.

As the commander of the front gate of Zhengyang Gate in Nancheng, one of the nine gates, Zhao Debiao had already received a secret order from Shangfeng, asking him to keep an eye on the arrival of a carriage. This is an unusual carriage, because in this carriage entering the city today sat Yang Fuguang, one of the most powerful eunuchs in the world, one of the top three eunuchs in the world, and the defense envoy of the eastern capital of Qidu, the Yin of Henan Prefecture, the commander of the eastern capital and the commander of the camp of Jingdong, one of the most powerful Shuangyang in the new court of Chang'an.

Yang Fuguang had already entered the territory of Caozhou in Shandong Province a month earlier, and then sent an elite cavalry by the governor of Shandong and the defense envoy of Song Prefecture to escort him all the way north, and finally arrived in Tianjin three days earlier. On this trip, Yang Fuguang was very low-key and secretive, and the Qin army also kept his visit secret, and the outside world did not know the slightest hint of it. After arriving in Tianjin, the task of escorting was entrusted to the Supervision Department, at this time Yang Fuguang came alone in a carriage, with only a few henchmen around him, and an escort entourage around him could not be seen, but in fact, the Supervision Department sent many people disguised as ordinary pedestrians to follow him back and forth, and strictly escorted him into Beijing. All this just to keep it private.

Zhao Debiao saw the conspicuous mark on Yang Fuguang's carriage from afar, hurriedly dropped the matter in his hand, trotted over, and personally let this important person enter the city and enter Beijing. As the commander of the Great Front Gate, he has the authority to know who is sitting in this carriage, but it is limited to that. However, Zhao Debiao secretly guessed in his heart that at this time, Yang Fuguang suddenly came to Yanjing secretly, most likely to negotiate with King Qin. The purpose, you don't need to think about it to know the Dao, it must be for the fact that Qin Fan is about to set up a new son of heaven. The Qin Domain canonized the new Son of Heaven, and the last thing he wanted to see was the newly established Chang'an Imperial Court. However, there were too many things he didn't think about, no matter what, anyway, with King Qin here, he didn't have to think about things so far at all.

Yang Fuguang lifted the corner of the curtain and said softly: "General Lao, send our family to see King Qin!" ”

"Please come with so-and-so!" Zhao Debiao didn't say much else, although Yang Fuguang's appearance was not as he imagined, just a dry old man with loose skin and wrinkled face, but the identity of the other party was there, this is a big eunuch who is even more powerful than Tian Lingzi now, and just the eight godsons of the handsome under his command are enough to make people afraid of three points.

Seeing this officer's cold but neither humble nor arrogant attitude, Yang Fuguang couldn't help but sigh secretly.

He came to Li Jing for the purpose of Li Jing's plan to establish a new emperor. In any case, he had to ask Li Jing to dispel the matter of establishing a new emperor, but he also knew that it would be difficult to persuade Li Jing to cancel the decision to establish a new emperor when the eighteen towns had basically failed to attack the Qin domain, especially when Li Jing had finally won the decisive battle outside the Guan. However, with his understanding of Li Jing, this matter is not completely without room for maneuver, but with his understanding of Li Jing, even if there is still a chance, the price to be paid is definitely huge.

But does he have any other options?

Once Li Jing established a new dynasty, the impact on the Chang'an court would be incomparable. No matter what, he had to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and finally exterminated the Yellow Nest, seeing that if Li Jing could be loyal to the Chang'an Imperial Court, they would be able to eradicate Tian Lingzi again, and even restore the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty little by little, but now Li Jing's actions have become the biggest obstacle to this goal.

For the continuation of Datang and the revival of Datang, he has to take this risk to come and make the most difficult efforts.

If Li Jing is a new emperor, I really don't know what the Dao will become in this world.

Although Tian Lingzi also holds a Son of Heaven hostage in Xichuan, Tian Lingzi, an old dog, can only play some tricks and coax the Son of Heaven, and has no other skills. Even if he is allowed to occupy Sanchuan, Yang Fuguang is not worried or afraid, he believes that as long as there are 100,000 soldiers and horses, in two or three years, this old dog can be completely destroyed. But Li Jing is different, with Li Jing's prestige today, as well as his territory and soldiers, if he really wants to establish a son of heaven, Li Tang will be completely split into two.

If Li Jing is truly loyal to Li Tang, he wants to establish the Son of Heaven, and Yang Fuguang may even cede the dominance of the imperial court to him. But he knew very well in his heart that although Li Jing had never made any anti-Tang remarks, his strength would never be really just a courtier, once all the power was handed over to him, sooner or later he would usurp Tang and become independent.

As a servant of the Li family, no matter how difficult the situation is, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty and the Li family, he is willing to do his best and die! (To be continued......)