Although some people kept saying that they would travel light into Nanyang, in fact, when Emperor Zhao led the crowd into Nanyang City in the late spring when the flowers were falling, he still had countless regrets.

For example, he did not get to meet Niu Gao, whom he particularly wanted to meet this time. This local armed leader who was originally an archer from Ruzhou was easily recruited by the Zhai brothers from Xijing with the offer of a "recommendation for an official position". At this time, he was on his way to support Xijing as a small envoy of Baoyilang, and had no idea that if he had gone north a few days later, he could at least have become the commander of the imperial camp.

For another example, Zhao Jiu knew very well that the reforms that were hastily carried out to unify power and responsibilities and establish a wartime headquarters had too many confusing aspects and must have contained many private interests of the prime ministers. As an official, he was constrained by his own shortcomings and could not figure out the twists and turns in a short period of time, so he had no choice but to choose to bear the new institutional loopholes that might arise in the future.

For example, perhaps because this reform required the cooperation of the ministers' power, Zhao Jiu was ultimately unable to kill Fan Zhixu, whom he particularly wanted to kill, but instead demoted him to Zunyi Village... Yes, after subsequent investigations, the ministers confirmed one thing, that is, this Zunyi Army had long been downgraded to Zunyi Village... But it didn't matter, Emperor Zhao would watch from the sidelines to see if this man could live to soak his feet in Zunyi.

But these regrets are just regrets after all. Nanyang City is right in front of us, so there is no need to think about it anymore.

And on that day, when Emperor Zhao had marked out the camp site outside the city, assigned the soldiers of the imperial camp, and then led the civil and military officials into Nanyang City, the entire imperial court was still immersed in an almost shocking sense of happiness, satisfaction, and security... Many people covered their faces and cried on the way, and then, without even waiting to enter the palace, the ministers jointly petitioned the emperor to follow Zhang Que's example and give Liu Ji, the Jingxi Transport Envoy, a position of deputy prime minister of the capital province (the name of the Eastern Palace after the four provinces were merged), otherwise they would be ashamed and fidget.

In response to this, Zhao Jiu naturally responded readily. He opened his mouth and changed the transport envoy to the governor and pacifier of the Southwest Road of the Capital.

Now, Liu Ji is the deputy prime minister and the general manager and pacification envoy, which makes him look like an envoy like Li Gang and Zong Ze... Of course, the meaning is still the same. He is still the military and political chief of the southwest road of Beijing, and he still has to be in charge of the coordination of material transportation from the Yangtze River Basin to the secondary capital of Nanyang in Xiangyang. The key is that his position is much higher, and Liu Ji and everyone in the court are also much happier. Why not do it?

But to be fair, Zhao Jiu's promotion was not to fool people according to his own political logic, because Liu Ji had done a lot of work that was visible to the naked eye...

You must know that according to the arrangement made in June last year, the strategy of making Nanyang the secondary capital was decided, and all the normal material surrenders from the Sichuan and Shu areas were intercepted here in Nanyang. Sichuan and Shu were almost unscathed throughout the turmoil, so there is no need to say more about the financial and material resources.

So Liu Ji made use of the material resources of Sichuan and Shu, the local manpower, and gathered a large number of craftsmen to expand the city wall in Nanyang, build a temporary palace, and then set up exclusive warehouses for gold, silver, money, cloth, grain, and specialties to store supplies. At this moment, in the warehouse, at least grain and cloth were piled up like mountains!

Not only that, as the emperor was late in arriving, he even built the Imperial College and the government offices of key departments on both sides of the palace, and even built a residential area along the river in the south of the city for officials and their families to live in!

With such regulations, how could the industry not be filled with gratitude?

You must know that if you count from the beginning of last year, the main officials in the Xingzai have been wandering for more than a year! And half of the time they were in a predicament of material shortages... Is it fake that the gold powder that Zhao Guanjia scrapes off the Taoist and Buddha's bodies every day?

In fact, just a few days ago, when the emperor left Fangcheng Mountain, he did not forget to have his people loot the temples and Taoist temples on Fangcheng Mountain and steal the monks' and Taoists' wealth and printing tools, and none of the emperor's entourage stopped them... At that time, the local officials in Nanyang thought that the emperor and the emperor had reached a consensus on learning the lessons of the two saints and were going to destroy Buddhism and Taoism. In fact, it was just a habit of some people who had become accustomed to being poor.

If the important officials knew that Nanyang had so many supplies, I'm afraid some of them would have stopped Emperor Zhao and advised him not to do such robbery.

Of course, after settling down in Nanyang that day, many officials couldn't help but sigh when they thought about it the other way around... If Emperor Zhao hadn't fought the battle on the Huai River, if Li Yanxian of Shanzhou hadn't just created a military miracle, what would have happened to this reassuring city before Wanyan Yinshuke's death?

It will end up like Tokyo!

"Is the emperor not in the palace?"

A day later, after the officials' salaries were reissued and last night's grand dinner in the name of summoning local elders, many important officials in the capital who had resumed their normal work on March 22 could not help but feel a little slack. However, when they arrived at the palace on time that day, they were awakened by the emperor again.

"Let all the gentlemen know." Lan Gui, the chief guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who stayed here, looked helpless, but could only face the situation helplessly. "The emperor left for the barracks outside the city early in the morning under the escort of Xiaolin Xueshi and Yang, who were on duty at night. He also summoned Wang Yuan, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Camp, and Yan Shaoyin, who was the acting governor of Nanyang Prefecture, saying that he would personally go to the Imperial Camp to pay the soldiers' salaries."

"Yang Yizhong should be beheaded!"

In the deserted hall, with the occasional cooing of turtle doves coming from the woods outside the hall, Xu Jingheng was the first to get angry, but he couldn't scold the emperor or the important officials, so he could only scold Yang Yizhong, who could be scolded by everyone. "As a guard, how can I not report to the prime minister when the emperor leaves the city without permission?"

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