October 15 of the third year of neutralization, the beginning of winter!

About a watch, the city of Chang'an has been under martial law, and the city looks particularly gloomy and desolate. In front of the gates and gates of the streets stood the soldiers of the Jinwuwei. The doors of every house were closed, and in the dim light, you could see large notices of martial law printed on movable type in front of the doors of the neighborhoods. In the closed streets, the old man carried a lantern, banged on the bong, and shouted weakly, "The weather is dry, be careful of the candle!" His shrunken body shook in the frost and wind, and continued to fade into the darkness. The slow, listless sound of gongs or bangs also faded away in the cold wind.

The city is very silent, there is a lantern every short distance, because the front line has reported that the Qin king Li Jing has just won a great victory in the Bohai Kingdom, and has led 100,000 Qin troops and 200,000 barbarians to return to Hebei, so the atmosphere in the entire Chang'an City suddenly seems tense. The defenses of the Kyoshi also began to be strengthened, and the lanterns on the castle were also dense.

There were many fires outside the city, and the sky was black and purple, and from far east, from time to time, there was the rumbling sound of cannons, which rolled in the sky like summer thunder.

The sound of this cannon is transmitting the news, and the beacon fire is used to transmit the message during the day, reporting safety. At night, the tradition is to run out, but in winter there is often rain and snow, so it is difficult to transmit the fire, so the imperial court let the beacon signal tower, which is 20 miles apart, switch to the newly produced gunpowder at night. One cannon means safe and sound, two cannons, three cannons, the enemy is coming!

From the extermination of the Yellow Nest, the recovery of Chang'an. Since the new emperor Chang'an ascended the throne. The situation in the new court was not good. More than 30 towns have supported the current day together. A new dynasty was established, but the southwestern Arita Lingzi held the Emperor Taishang hostage and controlled the land of Sanchuan. In the southeast, the original famous generals Gao Biao Zhou Bao and others are already old, Gao Biao asks immortals all day long, especially after being assassinated two years ago, it is even more lingering, and the affairs of Huainan Town have completely fallen into the hands of several Jianghu warlocks such as Lu Yongzhi. Huainan Town, the strongest town in the world at the beginning, is now extremely weak, and those generals under Gao Yu were killed and maimed by Lu Yongzhi and others, and they were either beheaded or imprisoned. The Zhenhai Festival made Zhou Bao immersed in wine-colored wealth, and Zhenhai Town was almost divided by the soldiers and assassins from various states. Other southeastern towns have almost all become Li Jing's allies, and the original source of nearly half of the Tang Dynasty's annual taxes has now become a place for Li Jing's money and grain, and a steady stream of money and grain is transported from the southeast coast to Huaisi, Shandong and Hebei every year, and there is no tax to be transported to Chang'an.

The biggest threat to the new imperial court came from the Qin domain in the northeast. Since Li Jing's rise in Shandong, in just ten years. Li Jing had already established a powerful feudal town, a feudal town that was now completely outside the control of the imperial court, a feudal town that was completely independent and divided. Within ten years, Li Jing has conquered and annexed countless feudal towns of all sizes, and after careful calculation, Zhendong, Andong, Ziqing, Pinglu, Lulong, Cangjing, Yiwu, Yanmen, Datong, Tianping, Taining, Yicheng, and Ganhua, as well as Xuanwu, Zhongwu, and Huainan The three towns were also mostly annexed by the Qin army, in addition, Fujian, Lingnan East, Lingnan West, Annam, Zhedong, Huaixi, Zhexi and many other feudal towns are almost completely dependent on Li Jing.

Whether it is territory, population or army, Li Jing is more powerful than the newly established Chang'an court.

Li Jing started in southern Liaoning, Shandong, and while expanding to the Central Plains over the years, he has also been expanding to the semi-outside, Goguryeo, Bohai, Heishui, Korea and other Tibetan countries have now surrendered to Li Jing's feet, seeing that the tribes outside the Guanxi will no longer be able to delay and prevent the full rise of the Qin army, the Chang'an court is also worried. Everyone knows how terrifying and terrible it will be for the Qin army, which can go south without any worries, as long as Li Jing defeats the Hu people outside the pass, then his next step will definitely be to go south.

The court's overtures to Li Jing had already been rejected by Li Jing. Li Jing refused to accept the gift of General Tiance, nor did he accept the glory of making his daughter the queen, Li Jing was not even willing to say anything superfluous, and he was too lazy to do so, so he directly incorporated the remnants of Huangchao, and started a war in the Central Plains. Li Jing's strong statement, coupled with the continuous rumors outside that Li Jing summoned the world's famous people and the patriarchs of the major clans to go to Hebei to discuss the establishment of a new monarch, all made the people of the new dynasty feel an imminent crisis, Li Jing, the strongest feudal town in the world, finally tore off the mask of hypocrisy, and removed the identity of Li Tang's loyal minister who had been hanging on his body, revealing the fact that he was the biggest traitor today.

Li Jing wants to establish a new emperor? Who will be the new emperor?

The people of the new dynasty believed that since Li Jing was unusually and so tough, it was very likely that he would establish himself as emperor and build a pole to ascend the throne.

The atmosphere became more and more tense day by day, and everyone thought that since Li Jing had brought 200,000 people to the south, he would naturally not take them back to Yanjing as guests. The biggest possibility is that Li Jing will use these newly surrendered barbarians to throw them into the Hebei battlefield, or directly into the Central Plains battlefield. The input of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses will inevitably immediately change the situation on the entire battlefield.

Even in Chang'an City, which is far away in the rear, soldiers and horses are now patrolling day and night, and it is forbidden to travel at night.

However, although the warlords of other feudal towns such as the Yang brothers were worried, there were still many people living a life of spending and drinking in the deep mansion compound of Chang'an.

Those mansions in the Fang District that are closer to the imperial city are inhabited by the nobles, princes, court ministers and wealthy merchants who returned to Chang'an from all over the country after the recovery of Chang'an. Every night, there is a feast in each house, and the singers sing in a low voice, constantly circling on the exquisitely painted roof beams.

The host and the guests toasted, holding the beautiful prostitute in their arms, entrenched on the couch, their faces half drunk and slightly smoky, nodding their heads in rhythm, and letting loose their wreckage.

The singing continued, they nodded frequently and praised, happily persuaded the wine to make the dishes, wrote poems, guessed the boxing, they seemed to be the masters who lived in seclusion, and did not pay attention to the sound of cannons and fires outside the city. No one even thought about how to provide strategies for the new dynasty, how to revitalize the Tang Dynasty, and how to revitalize the Li Room. On the contrary, the birds and finches in the gardens of the various prefectures were disturbed by the sound of the cannons, and from time to time they flew up in flocks, hovering over Chang'an City, making a desolate cry.

Chang'an was once an international metropolis with a million homes and a metropolis in the world. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the population of Chang'an became smaller and smaller, and it maintained a population of about six or seven hundred thousand for a long time. After the Huangchao Rebellion, Chang'an once only had tens of thousands of people. The Yang brothers set up Li Jie as emperor in Chang'an, and moved a lot of people from other places in Guanzhong to Chang'an, plus a large number of troops stationed in Chang'an, after all, there was a bit of excitement here.

As the weather became colder and colder, the people who had fled to the mountains when Huangchao occupied Chang'an also began to descend from the mountains and pour into Chang'an. There were many victims and beggars in Chang'an City, and during this time, tens of thousands of people poured in from around Chang'an, and more refugees fled from the Central Plains battlefield in the Shannan area that was once again reduced to the battlefield, where hundreds of thousands of troops confronted each other, and countless people suffered, either robbed by the official army, or robbed by the former official army who surrendered to the Qin army, or was forcibly conscripted as a civil husband, and the people fled one after another, a small number fled to Jingnan, Jiangxi, Hunan, but more fled from Wuguan to Chang'an. As for going to the territory of the Qin Domain, that road had already been intercepted by the officials and troops of the towns.

More than 100,000 refugees who fled from Shannan to Chang'an had nowhere to shelter, and many slept at the foot of the city wall, huddled together for fear of freezing to death. They shivered, groaned, and sighed in the biting cold wind.

The women whispered to their husbands, wailing and weeping. The children shrunk into a ball in their mother's arms, crying and crying out for hunger, and their hearts were torn apart.

But when the patrolling new Divine Sergeant walked by, they all held back for the time being.

After the news came from Hebei last month that Li Jing had returned to the Qin domain with 100,000 Qin troops and 200,000 Jin barbarians and landed in Tianjin, martial law began in the whole of Chang'an, and all the refugees were expelled from the city to prevent Qin spies from getting involved. The refugees had to accumulate at the foot of the walls of the outer city, suffering from the cold and cold, and hundreds of refugees died every day, sometimes thousands. Although the new emperor ordered the opening of a porridge shed outside the city for relief, he could only drink a bowl of gruel that could reflect the figure of a person every day, which was difficult to kill. More and more people are dying, especially the elderly and children, and tonight there is a frost and wind, and the cold is particularly terrible, who knows how many large and small corpses will be dragged away tomorrow morning and thrown into the mass graves.

Some refugees are even complaining that the king of Qin wants to rebel against the imperial court, and the general Tiance is not satisfied, the emperor is going to marry his daughter to be the queen, but why does he refuse to do it, why does he have to fight?

"Who doesn't want to be an emperor, how can Admiral Tiance have an emperor." An old man with gray hair sighed.

"In the past, it was said that the King of Qin was the biggest loyal minister in the world, a famous handsome, and he loved the people like a son in the Qin Domain over the years, and he was very popular with the people, and he also fought outside the customs one by one Barbarian Hu tribes have surrendered, shouldn't such a person cherish the people, why do you want to fight, this war, I don't know how many people have suffered." Some people don't understand.

The white-haired old man looked up at the sky and shook his head with a wry smile: "It is precisely because King Qin is supported by the people that he will not accept the canonization of the new dynasty." In the world, virtuous people live in it, even if King Qin doesn't think so, those civil and military subordinates under him will push him to this point. For us, this is a nightmare, but for the people of the Qin Domain, this is what everyone wants to see. If it is not broken or established, whether it is the court in Chengdu or the current court, it is a change of soup and not a change of medicine, how can they accept it, what they need is to ensure that the rule of King Qin can continue forever. ”

Many refugees don't understand it, but they understand that this war has to be fought, and it will even get worse and worse. What are they going to do? At this moment, all the people bowed their heads and sighed in despair. Who really thinks about their feelings? (To be continued......)