Walking on the streets of Wuyang, Liu Guozhu felt as if he had traveled through time. It was difficult for him to connect the city in front of him with the capital because he had seen Chang'an.
In the city of Chang'an, it goes without saying that there is a lot of traffic and high-rise buildings. People are well-dressed and polite. It is simply another world.
And the Wuyang in front of us...it really doesn't deserve to be called the capital. The streets and alleys were a mess, and there wasn't even any so-called scenery.
The streets were full of broken glass fragments, which could even make a clicking sound when stepped on. The half-clothed children looked timidly at the passing Tang Army soldiers, and no one dared to make any sound.
There is no subway or decent bus station here. Even the street lights seem to be much fewer than those in Chang'an, Linshui, Tongcheng...well, Fengjiang.
The streets in the city are not spacious, and the design is also sloppy in Liu Guozhu's opinion. If this situation occurred in Chang'an, congestion would definitely occur every day, and installing traffic lights would not improve it.
There is not a single super-large shopping mall in the entire city, and there is no large-scale business district that makes people linger. Because of the lack of pedestrians, and the occasional pedestrians are wearing shabby clothes, Liu Guozhu feels that the city lacks the decoration it deserves.
There are no red skirts, no sky blue coats, no purple ones... The whole city looks gray, and it makes people feel monotonous.
It seemed that some filled craters had appeared for some time. They were traces left by the long-range ballistic missiles of the Tang Empire.
Many houses have cut off gas and electricity because there is really no condition to repair the lines and equipment damaged by missiles or bombings.
Frankly speaking, Liu Guozhu regretted a little bit. He regretted using his precious vacation to visit the so-called great city in the northwest. This city left no good impression on him, only its dilapidation and chaos.
Parked on the side of the road was this armored vehicle with a dragon emblem printed on it. It was the equipment of the 33rd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 3rd Armored Corps of the 3rd Group Army of the Tang Empire. Two soldiers stood at the rear of the armored vehicle smoking. When they saw Liu Guozhu, they gave a symbolic military salute: "Long live the emperor!"
"Long live your Majesty!" Liu Guozhu returned a military salute to the other party, and then saw the broken glass window behind them and the clerk inside who was cleaning the clothes and decorations in the display cabinet.
Order is indeed being restored here, just a little slowly. Soldiers from the Tang Empire who came to visit or patrol could be seen everywhere on the streets, and some locals were working hard to repair collapsed or about-to-collapse buildings.
"In front of you is the Silver Fox Tavern. It was closed due to the war. Now it's reopened. I heard that as long as you have a military officer's ID, it's free to drink in." The person who acted as Liu Guozhu's tour guide was a noncommissioned officer from the battalion headquarters. He admired Liu Guozhu's The results were brilliant, so I volunteered to walk around the boring city again.
"Forget it, their beer is still transferred from us, and it doesn't taste good at all." Liu Guozhu shook his head. Of course he knew the inside information.
The wine itself is supplied by the army. The armored troops often drink this kind of wine on weekdays. Frankly speaking, the taste is really not good.
"A little way further ahead is the imperial palace... But I heard that all the Qin kings were very frugal, so the palace is not large in size." The sergeant said as he walked.
"Can I go in?" Liu Guozhu looked at the other party. He was somewhat eager for a palace. He had never seen any royal palaces since he was a child, but later he saw the majestic Forbidden City from a distance, which left a very deep impression on him.
"Can't get in." Shaking his head, the accompanying sergeant changed the subject in a somewhat sarcastic manner, talking about other dilapidated places.
Although the imperial palace of the Qin State is not very wealthy, it is still a place that requires key statistics and inspections. How could it be opened to ordinary soldiers immediately... All the valuable collections there must be registered and sent to the Forbidden City for selection, and then the remaining ones will be sent to the Forbidden City for selection. If you don't want it, send it to the Tang Dynasty Imperial Museum.
In addition, the palace also houses many secret files of the Qin State, precious records, and many intelligence messages... All of these things must be recorded without any mistakes.
Therefore, until these things are dealt with, it is impossible for the Qin State's palace to be opened to the outside world and allow anyone to enter.
Similarly, the annexes, residences of some princes and royal families, and the offices of officials... must also be strictly controlled, investigated and organized, and can only be used for other purposes after the work is completed.
"But we can go to the gate to watch the execution. Those officials who are found to have committed crimes on the pretext of war, as well as their implicated family members, will be tried and executed in the square in front of the palace...some of them will be killed directly..." Then The sergeant's voice became softer and softer as he spoke, and then he simply closed his mouth.
"I won't go watch..." Liu Guozhu had no interest in this kind of thing at all. He had seen too many killings on the battlefield and was completely immune to this so-called excitement.
If a person sees the enemy crawling out of the burning tank through the commander's observation device, with his upper body exposed outside the tank, twisting and struggling, and letting the flames burn his arms, face and body black, it is unlikely. Any interest in excitement like executions.
It is so common for soldiers returning from the front line to have their heads shattered by bullets. Only non-commissioned officers who have just been assigned to the battalion headquarters and have not experienced the cruelty of war are keen to see this kind of thing.
But it was obvious that the people of Qin were very interested in the demise of those corrupt officials and the nobles who oppressed them. There were gradually more people on the street in front, and waves of cheers came from further ahead.
They were applauding the hanging of a nobleman because that nobleman's reputation in Wuyang was really not very good. A row of nooses hung on a simple execution platform, and along with the orders, the high-ranking adults in the past were now turned into hard corpses.
On the distant city wall, soldiers from the Tang Kingdom were busy rolling out a huge dragon flag. This flag was custom-made and shipped from the Tang Kingdom, demonstrating the national power of the Tang Empire.
After all, producing such a huge unjoined flag would require special looms. In the world, currently only the Tang Empire can produce such a large area of national flags!
It is precisely because of this that it was delayed until today before it was launched at the top of the city.
