The night was already extremely deep. In Luoyang City, the capital of the Qi Dynasty, which was the most beautiful place in the world, the hustle and bustle during the day did not calm down as the night gradually deepened. Only a few years have passed since the turmoil that lasted for many years, and the aftermath is still lingering.
But this capital city, which is home to a large number of princes and dignitaries, has already restored its former prosperity early because of these people with high spending power. In front of various high-end restaurants and brothels, it can be said that business is booming and traffic is busy, and it looks like a peaceful and prosperous era.
Of course, this kind of prosperity and peace was limited to the inner city where princes and dignitaries lived together. The civilians living in the outer city, as well as the refugee settlements surrounding the capital that poured into the capital, still looked depressed. Except for the night watchmen, the prostitutes who were smiling at the door, and some casinos and other places, there were almost no pedestrians on the street.
The poor are not qualified to enjoy pleasures, and those things are limited to princes, nobles and wealthy businessmen. Not to mention anything else, a third-class banquet at Pinyuexuan Restaurant, the most upscale restaurant in Luoyang City, costs three thousand dollars. And this kind of banquet is just two cold dishes, two meat and two vegetarian dishes, not including drinks.
A fine banquet with eighteen dishes is unthinkable without fifteen dollars. As for having a meal at this restaurant, you have to order the famous Yellow River carp a la carte. A piece of Yellow River carp specially prepared by this restaurant costs a lot of money. A pot of low-end old wine brewed in the restaurant costs three hundred coins. If you order a pot of the best Jiannanchun, you will have to pay a lot of money.
Yicui House, the most luxurious place for romance in the inner city, costs two copper coins just to listen to a little tune. If you want to enjoy singing and dancing, it will be doubled. A meal of fancy wine, even if it's just two prostitutes as company, would cost starting from ten dollars. If you want to go further and spend the night, even if you are a third-rate guy, you have to stay away.
If you want to spend the night with a servant, you can't even think about it if you don't have hundreds of dollars, not counting the rewards for the teapots, servants, and maids. If you go into the gold-selling cave once, even if you only sit there for half an hour, and you don't have twenty or thirty guan to make money, you can't even think of getting out. As for wanting to default on your debt after the fun is over? Don't even think about it.
How many people dare to rely on the family of the Deputy Privy Envoy? Although he doesn't admit that this place where he sells money and money is his own shop, how many people in Luoyang City don't know the second housekeeper of his house who is in charge here? If a note is handed into Jingzhao Mansion, you will be stripped of your skin even if you die. Complain? Censor Zuodu of Yushitai is a frequent visitor.
In ordinary people's houses, if you make money three times, you can live through the January season. Most ordinary people do not have the ability or mood to go to Pinyuexuan to eat a Yellow River carp or order a third-rate banquet. It is even less possible to go to Yicui Tower to listen to small songs and drink wine with prices starting from ten yuan. These pleasures are only reserved for princes, nobles and wealthy businessmen.
Among the residents who occupied the most prosperous place under the emperor's feet, most of them retired early in order to save some light. It's just that in this inner city where singing and dancing are everywhere and the glory of the past has been restored, not all officials are indulged in pleasure.
In a mansion that is very close to the palace, so close that you can see the main entrance of the palace when you look up. However, the overall scale is not large but it looks very elegant. A middle-aged man who looks very elegant is standing in the courtyard. Looking at the stars in the sky in a pavilion, he looked worried.
This frowning middle-aged man is none other than Yuan Zhizheng, the current imperial supervisor. As a direct descendant of Yuan Tiangang, a master of astronomy and Feng Shui in the former Tang Dynasty, this Qin Tianjian can be said to have a family background. Not only is he proficient in Feng Shui and metaphysics, he is also unrivaled in astrology.
The reason why this man of the day, who is proficient in metaphysics, is frowning is none other than the astrology. After dinner, he was habitually observing the stars as a pastime, but he accidentally saw three evil stars linking together, a celestial phenomenon that had not been seen in a century. When Pojun Star started to move and slide to the northwest, he didn't pay much attention.
Throughout the dynasties, even in the prosperous times, there were more or less rebellions. Even during the Zhenguan rule of the former Tang Dynasty and the prosperous Kaiyuan period, the invasion of neighboring ethnic minority regimes never ceased. So when the Pojun Star moved and slid to the northwest, he didn't pay too much attention.
The Dangxiang Qiang and Liao people who live there live there in a three-foot-long wave even if there is no wind on weekdays. The world has just experienced a great chaos, and it would be abnormal for those barbarians not to find something to cause trouble. What's more, he knew very well as he was well-read in poetry and books that the hatred he had with the Party members during the founding of this dynasty could not be said to be a hatred of genocide, but it was not that bad either.
However, the current strength of Dang Xiangqiang can no longer be compared with when it dominated several states and divided the northwest. The land where it is located is barren and the people are poor, and it is mainly a nomadic area. In its heyday, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and it was unable to conquer the Central Plains immediately. Compared with Tubo and Shatuo, its strength is still far behind.
Now that their vitality has been severely weakened, the remaining tribes have been consciously divided by the imperial court. Even if there are talented and strategic people, they are limited by their own strength. Coupled with the Hexi Corridor and Longyou Road, Ningxia Prefecture in the north has always been known for its barrenness. Even if some storms arise, they will only affect the northwest corner at most.
As for the mainland, I'm afraid they won't even be able to cross the western capital Chang'an. As long as Dang Xiang Qiang does not have the strength to invade the mainland, it will be far more than a loss of life. Although the northwest is definitely going to be corrupted, it is a place where Hu and Han people live together, and even in many places the Hu people are the dominant people, so the impact on the mainland is not very big.
If Po Junxing fell to the northwest, it didn't worry him too much. Then, when the Seven Kills Star and Greedy Wolf Star also made strange movements and slid towards Guangnan West Road in the south and Sichuan East Road in the southwest, he could no longer hold his breath. The three evil stars appear together, and there is only one prediction in astrology, that is, the world will change hands and dynasties will change.
There have always been times when dynasties have changed, and the world has always been in chaos. And the world is in chaos, which means that the world will be plunged into chaos and continuous war. For this astrological expert, the imperial court does not matter. There has never been an immortal country since ancient times. But the common people in this world will suffer the disaster of war again.
It's just that Qin Tianjian is a little confused, or can't understand. The emperor currently in power is not an incompetent emperor. He is known as a shrewd and capable person, and he is considered to be diligent in governing. In any case, he cannot be seen as an incompetent person. How come there is such a change in the celestial phenomena?
Thinking of the shortcomings in the government over the years and the greedy princes and nobles, Yuan Zhizheng sighed slightly. Although the current emperor can be considered diligent in his administration, he can generally be considered decisive in killing. But in some aspects, it still seems a bit too hesitant.
Even though he knew exactly where the so-called stubborn diseases of his ancestral family were, he still could not be ruthless enough to cut them off. In terms of rectifying government affairs and consolidating military power, what he did was Lei Li. But on some issues, it is still impossible to make a decision. In some areas, problems even worsened as the emperor returned to power.
Although it is difficult for the chaos in the northwest to affect the mainland, if coupled with Guangnan West Road and Sichuan East Road, there are heroes in the world who take advantage of the chaos, it will be impossible for the world not to be in chaos. If coupled with the current rising national power, Bei Liao, which has been fighting outside the Great Wall since the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the current stability may be broken in an instant.
Do princes and generals like Xiang Ning have the guts? The Emperor Taizu of this dynasty was not the only one who would rebel. At that time, the reckless Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, which even caused the heroes of the world to rise up and led to the death of Qiang Qin III. At the end of the Later Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, which eventually led to the overthrow of the Han Dynasty by all the heroes.
In other dynasties, no matter how chaotic the Guangnan West Road was, it would be difficult for it to spread to the mainland. But this dynasty is very different, because on Guangnan West Road, there is a man who is known as the first hero of the founding of the country. Among the heroes of the founding of the country, he is the only one who was granted the title of county king. He was replaced hereditary by the two emperors Taizu and Taizong.
Although the Yongye land granted was only 3,000 acres, it was less than half of the Yongye land granted by Taizu when he made more than 20 of his disciples princes. However, relying on the two emperors Taizu and Taizong, they were granted the exclusive right to trade by sea after establishing a country based on agriculture.
And it relies on years of hard work and even plunder. It successively annexed or controlled the East and West Road, Fujian Road, Huguang South Road, and Jiangnan West Road in Zhejiang Province, almost all the tea gardens and porcelain kilns, and 30% of the silk and satin workshops on the Jiangnan Road. The county prince's palace was said to have one-third of its natural wealth.
Yuan Zhizheng couldn't think of where the Greedy Wolf star that fell on Guangnan West Road would be, except that it should be in the prince's palace. In Guangnan West Road, a barbaric place where barbarians have always been the majority, I am afraid that only the people in the prince's palace have the ability to stir up the mountains and rivers.
Seeing the linkage of the three evil stars that would almost certainly cause chaos in the world, Yuan Zhizheng shook his head helplessly. As a master of metaphysics and the current imperial eunuch, he could only sigh slightly. Less than two years had passed since the great chaos, and the capital was once again in a state of peace and harmony.
Few of the princes and ministers in the current dynasty could learn from this lesson. How much can the emperor see if he works hard alone? If I report it to the court myself, I am afraid more people will accuse me of being alarmist. What's more, in the eyes of most scholars who don't talk about strange powers and chaos, astrology is still something that exists if they believe it, and nothing if they don't believe it. If not, it might even become a tool used by some people to fight for power and gain.
Just when he was worried, his feet suddenly felt warm. A little girl with bright eyes and white teeth and a braid on her head. Although she was only two or three years old, she looked like a beautiful girl. She hugged his legs and shouted: "Daddy, I haven't told Yaya yet tonight." Inside the story. Does daddy not like Yaya anymore, or else Yaya called you several times and ignored her? "
Looking at his beloved daughter holding his legs, Yuan Zhizheng couldn't help but let go of the worries in his heart. He picked up his beloved daughter, held it gently in his arms, and said softly: "Daddy was just thinking about some things and didn't hear Yaya's cry. In daddy's heart, Yaya will always be there. She is Daddy's dearest treasure, how can Daddy not like Yaya? Daddy will tell stories to Yaya."
Yuan Zhizheng, who just picked up his beloved daughter and turned to leave the pavilion, but was still worried, did not see that in the night sky at this moment, above the interlaced lights of the three evil stars, a new star was rising. Although the light is still very weak, it is getting stronger bit by bit.
