After the decree was issued, it was unclear elsewhere, but a city as big as Tokyo suddenly fell into a strange state... No one knew what to do.

Winter is undoubtedly the slack season for farming, and there is nothing to do. In order to prevent spies, both military and civilian supplies are generally distributed outside the city. The city is divided into districts, and although ordinary people stay at home, it is difficult for them to easily enter and leave the districts... Families with able-bodied men and soldiers can directly receive a ration and a portion of coal (basically everything), but they have to pay for sauces, linen and the like from the government.

In other words, business activities have basically stagnated... As a result, people naturally feel panicked.

In this regard, Emperor Zhao could only follow the routines in some high-end online articles and let these people organize Cuju teams and wrestling teams according to the military quarters. Fortunately, Cuju does not take up much space these days, and Cuju fields can be set up in sections on the Imperial Road and East-West Street, allowing each quarter and army to open on odd and even days in turn to participate in Cuju and sumo.

However, this situation continued for another month, including dealing with all kinds of imaginable and unimaginable things such as reselling sauces at high prices, official laziness, Cuju fights, etc.

By November, the Jin army was still silent.

At this time, Emperor Zhao had already further opened up the outside of Tokyo City... generally, he would open the gates of several military districts together, dividing the entire city into seven or eight independent large areas and small cities for activities... and he could no longer hold back.

In fact, at this time, various rumors had already spread. Most of the people said that the Jin people dared not go south after the battle of Yanling-Changshe last year; while the officials and many students who had newly joined the Imperial College were talking about it, saying that the crown prince of the Jin people had died, and the sons of the former Taizu Aguda and the sons of the current Wolf Lord Wanyan Wuqimai were fighting for the throne.

The latter has definite evidence. As early as the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the Central Government accidentally learned this information from a Goryeo merchant, saying that the crown prince of the Jin Dynasty, Anban Bojilie Wanyan Xieye, had been seriously ill before, and then he died without resting in the autumn. Then, the Central Government immediately sent Wang Lun, the Junior Secretary of the Honglu Temple, to quickly detour to Goryeo from the east to find out the information.

Now, after three months, Wang Lun successfully returned and fulfilled his mission. He confirmed the death of Wanyan Xieye and the fact that the Jin people seemed to be having an internal struggle for the throne.

But to be honest, Wanyan Xie was so important that Emperor Zhao and several ministers were skeptical. Moreover, the Jin army had never given up marching south in the autumn and winter because of the death of important figures or internal disputes, so the central government still had no intention of changing its course.

In contrast, Liu Ziwu, who was the chief of the Privy Council and concurrently the military advisor of the Ministry of Personnel, put forward a view. He believed that it might not be just the result of the battle of Changsha last year, but it was very likely that the strict military control and arrangements of the Song Dynasty after the Mid-Autumn Festival had the effect of defeating the enemy without fighting.

This does make sense, but no matter what, everyone thinks that the Jin army probably won't come this year.

Zhao Jiu and the ministers would certainly not relax on this, but they could not suppress the increasingly active morale and loose atmosphere among the people.

Many people began to suggest opening the city on a small scale and restoring a certain amount of commercial circulation... Their reasons were very sufficient. During the previous period of large-scale and strict martial law, there were solid examples of many city defense soldiers and handover officials enriching themselves and neglecting people's livelihood, and the people had a hard time.

At first, Emperor Zhao and the ministers did not agree. But as more and more people wrote petitions to the emperor, and as cases of laziness and corruption due to the city closure increased, and some people had begun to suggest lifting the patrols of able-bodied men and completely relaxing the isolation of military quarters, the central government, under pressure, temporarily agreed to a plan to open the city on a small scale and allow reliable caravans to enter.

Facts have proved that commercial activities are the key to urban residents. As the city gates were opened on a small scale and commercial activities resumed, the city of Tokyo almost quickly regained its vitality, and things like able-bodied men and military workshops seemed insignificant.

But as the city regained its vitality, some messy things began to emerge again... In late November, an official formally submitted a petition, requesting the establishment of a queen on the grounds that the time was special and the royal family needed to appease the people's hearts.

Once this was said, it immediately triggered a chain reaction. Many bored officials followed suit, and the imperial desk was instantly filled with petitions for the establishment of a queen. Later, even the common people and students in the capital sent petitions to the military square gate to request the establishment of a queen, asking for them to be forwarded. That was not all. Since the entire Henan Province was under military control, most of the information was forwarded from the military, so soon military officers inside and outside the city directly submitted secret petitions to the emperor, requesting the establishment of a queen.

Before I knew it, this incident had developed into a winter trend in Henan.

To be honest, Emperor Zhao and several ministers were a little confused.