Imperial Capital of the Tang Dynasty
Chang'an City
Most of midsummer has passed, and the Great Wall is bustling with traffic, with merchants traveling from south to north and local residents walking back and forth on the streets.
Except for the north gate, the four gates of Chang'an City are all wide open, and the soldiers on duty carefully check the people coming and going. Their military discipline improved after Hou Junji had neglected their duties as city gate officials and was hanged up and whipped by the current Emperor Mingzun and Princess Jinyang back then.
You have to be careful even when you are lazy on duty, let alone when someone drank and hired a singing and dancing girl.
jingle bell
jingle bell
A carriage loaded with goods stopped next to the city gate officer on duty. The city gate officer was wearing the Tang Dynasty standard armor, with a horizontal sword on his waist and a red rope hanging on his chest.
Attached to the red rope is the statue of Mingzun Holy Emperor Li Mingda that he received from the army. Now the whole Tang Dynasty knows that praying to His Majesty Mingzun Holy Emperor, as long as you are sincere, your illness will more or less recover. , luck suddenly gets better, and other good things.
Nowadays, everyone takes out their own statues and chants from time to time: Holy Emperor Mingzun will come again, Holy Emperor Mingzun will bless you, Holy Emperor Mingzun, eat well, drink well... and so on.
After the Tang Dynasty pacified the four directions, there were hundreds of thousands of residents in Chang'an City, and they consumed a lot of things every day. In addition, there are merchants traveling from north to south, officials from various places who come to report on their duties, students who are well prepared for traveling here, as well as people who work in the surrounding areas and come to sell goods, and believers who make pilgrimages.
The four gates of Chang'an City are becoming more and more crowded. In fact, the gates of Chang'an City are not all open on weekdays. Especially the middle door is closed, which is completely different from what those careless TV series show.
The middle door will not open, and a small door will be opened at the side door. In the past, there were enough people to check people coming and going. Due to the rapid development of Datang, it is obviously not possible to enter or exit through one door.
Murong Xue, who was running around in Chang'an City, reported the news to the head of the family. After Li Mingda found out, the imperial approval opened all the city gates except the middle gate, and increased the defense power of the four gates in the Great Wall.
Most of these additional soldiers were transferred from various garrisons in Chang'an City, and a lot of manpower was placed there to control the population flow of Chang'an City and the allocation of officials and family resources within the city.
Fang Xuanling initially refused Li Mingda's move. Chang'an City was the imperial capital after all, and safety was the most important thing.
Later, Li Mingda directly told Fang Xuanling: Chang'an City is the imperial capital, the central area of the Tang Dynasty's current territory, with hundreds of thousands of troops stationed around it. If it is not safe here, what will happen around the Tang Dynasty?
Thinking about it carefully, Fang Xuanling found that he was blinded. When the Tang Dynasty established its capital in Chang'an City, except for the social unrest caused by the war, Chang'an City was the land of heaven. There were natural dangers around it to defend, and it was okay to establish the capital here. Use all your strength to resist the nomadic army from the north heading south.
The top priority of military and political strategy, the city defense construction of Chang'an City and the control of surrounding passes, both Li Yuan and Li Shimin attached great importance to.
Now being flipped over by Li Mingda's car, Chang'an City has become the central area of the Tang Dynasty. Fang Xuanling did not understand such a change for a while.
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If the doors are opened more, people will not be so crowded. There is always a peak time for entry and exit, and the city gate is quite busy.
Moreover, Li Mingda also canceled the city gate tax and small farmer sales tax. Only those large stores and luxury goods will continue to be levied.
The people were naturally grateful for Li Mingda's actions, while Fang Xuanling and other cabinet members were scratching their heads. Regardless of the small amount of money collected from the people and goods at the city gate, the huge population of Chang'an City and the total number of people in the Tang Dynasty meant that the financial losses were considerable every year.
Without this money, corrupt officials felt very aggrieved, and local finances also experienced temporary shortages. Jinyiwei, Baiqisi, and Jia Xu's spies all over the world. These people have been in trouble for a long time. Did you hear that an official in a city next door was caught for corruption and ended up miserable.
This kind of vigilant story spread from all over the Tang Dynasty and shocked many people. Of course, there were also some who were bold and not afraid of death. Li Mingda was also happy to send them to the mines to contribute to the construction of Datang.
From time to time, you will see some government officials or soldiers escorting some prisoners on the pipelines in various parts of Datang. Their targets are the several mines that Datang is currently building.
Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde were both fierce generals who acted vigorously and resolutely. The mining areas they were responsible for were a living hell for the corrupt officials sent over.
No matter how much trust they have, it's not easy to find anyone to intercede. Now the only person in the Tang Dynasty who can order them is Mingzun Saint Emperor Li Mingda.
Of course, if Lao Li comes to intercede, it will have some effect, provided that Lao Li is willing to participate in this matter.
Laws and regulations in the Tang Dynasty are now strict. Not to mention those members of the royal family who have never met, even Li Shimin's remaining princes and princesses who followed the concubines, as long as they committed a crime, Li Mingda would not tolerate it.
The current royal family of the Tang Dynasty uses Li Chengqian, Li Tai, Li Zhi, and Li Ke as warning lights. They know very well that once they commit an offense, they will hardly meet or talk to their half-mother Mingzun Holy Emperor. Li Mingda will definitely punish them very strictly.
Therefore, these princes, princes, and grandsons are not a bit more honest than those reckless guys. They don't wear clothes and go hunting with angry horses, nor do they get together in Chang'an City to cause trouble.
Their mothers always found a teacher from Taixue and kept them at home to study and write honestly.
Occasionally, he went out under the supervision of the royal guards of the Tang Dynasty. Li Mingda knew that the royal guards were there to protect the safety of the royal children, not to bully them. This was a kind of protection.
Li Mingda was also very interested in the ideological education work of the Royal Guards of the Tang Dynasty. After all, their behavior would have a great impact on his own destiny and the top management of the Tang Dynasty.
Qin Qiong is in charge of them, and Li Mingda is naturally relieved. However, Qin Qiong is not an ideological instructor after all, and her daily management training is full of mistakes. Qin Qiong obviously has no experience in really moving forward.
For this reason, Li Mingda had to take pictures of his right-hand man, Murong Xue, an idle man who no one dared to mess with because he had already become famous in Chang'an City.
After Murong Xue's tossing, the Royal Guard Camp of the Tang Dynasty was in a state of chaos. The guards controlled by the Tang Dynasty clan were pulled into his hands by Murong Xue and then thrown to Qin Qiong.
The power of the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty was reduced by one point again, which made Li Mingda's rule of the clan and royal family more secure. Li Mingda did not want to become a Roman emperor surrounded by elders and stabbed to death.
The day Zhang Yingying led the troops to the Vulcan Village
To be continued
