Chapter 39: Big Wedding

As the end of the year approaches, the people of Chang'an City have already started to buy New Year's goods.

Although Yongzhou had just experienced a great chaos, Chang'an City was safe and sound. For those big families, the attack of the Hu people only reduced them to a year of harvest. These families have rich backgrounds and will not hurt their harvest after losing one year of harvest. How should they live this year and how to live it.

For ordinary people, being able to survive in this chaotic era is something worth celebrating, especially the Hu people are driven away and will not come again in many years. When they survive, people have begun to prepare to celebrate to survive.

At this time, the first group of Di people had arrived in Yongzhou.

Not many people came, only two thousand people, all of them were strong young men. The main task of these two thousand people coming to Yongzhou was to build new houses and live in the people who moved there.

In Weiyang Palace.

Four young men of fourteen or fifteen years old stood in front of Adou. The four of them dressed the same, all dressed in gray robes. There was a large Tai Chi pattern on the chest of the robe. At the same time, the four of them were carrying swords on their bodies.

These four people are disciples of the Tai Chi Sect under A Dou's command. All of them lost their parents during the war and were later adopted by the Tai Chi Sect. After years of training, the four people have achieved great success in martial arts. More importantly, these four people are absolutely loyal to A Dou.

Next to him, Jian Yong stood respectfully, looking at his eyes, nose and heart, but did not look at the four teenagers.

"Jane Aiqing, these four people will follow you in the future!" A Dou said.

"I obey the order." Jian Yong raised his head, looked at the four teenagers, and retreated.

Jian Yong's face seemed calm, but his heart churned slightly.

Jian Yong was responsible for commanding the spies who sneaked into Wei and Wu, and was also the most confidential department in the entire Shu Kingdom. Such a special department was because Liu Bei trusted Jian Yong.

Jian Yong also knew that now that Liu Bei died of illness and the new emperor ascended the throne, it would be difficult for Liu Bei to trust him as he used to. It is normal to put his own hands in it. However, this time is much earlier than Jian Yong expected.

As soon as Jian Yong retreated, Xiaohuangmen ran over to report: "Your Majesty, Lord Li Hui is asking for a meeting."

"I'm here very quickly! Come on!" A Dou said.

It is now the end of the year. According to convention, local officials should report their duties to the court at the end of the year. As the governor of the Southern Central, Li Hui commanded several counties in southern Yizhou, and the newly encamped barbarians were also managed by Li Hui, so Li Hui had a great responsibility.

It has been more than a year since the Southern Barbarians surrendered, so at the end of that year, Li Hui took time out of his busy schedule and went to Chang'an to report to A Dou about the situation in Nanzhong.

After a while, Li Hui was led in, and there were two people following Li Hui, one wearing a thick animal-feather jacket and a gold belt tied around his waist, which was the Barbarian King Meng Huo; the other was a middle-aged man wearing gorgeous clothes and holding a long large box in his hand. This was Tang San, who was good at making hidden weapons.

Meng Huo has become a little fatter than a year ago and has become much whiter. It can be seen that his life has been very good recently. As for Tang San, he carefully held the long box in his hand. As for Li Hui, he was holding a thick stack of booklets in his hand.

"Your Majesty, this is the household registration list of Nanzhong last year." Li Hui took a yellow booklet, and the eunuch took it and handed it to Adou.

"Your Majesty, I have preliminarily calculated that the South China Communist Party increased by 100,000 households last year!" Li Hui said.

"One hundred thousand households? So many?" A Dou asked in surprise. Generally, there are five people in a large family in the Han Dynasty, and one hundred thousand households means five hundred thousand. In this era, five hundred thousand people is a very terrifying number, not to mention that this is only one year, and 500,000 households have increased.

"Your Majesty, this is the thing. Originally, my great man only counted the population of Jianning. As for Yunnan, Jinghu, Yongchang and other counties, there was no count, and it was not included in the household registration. These 500,000 people were just counted in Yunnan, Jinghu, Yongchang and other places." Li Hui said.

Adou nodded. Before, the Nanzhong area in southern Yizhou was only Zhuti and Jianning, which were within the actual control of Yizhou. Other places were places where barbarians lived. The hands of the Han officials could not reach these places for the time being, so the population of these counties was naturally uncountable.

After pacifying the Southern Barbarians, the five counties of Yongchang, Xinggu, Jinghu, Yueli and Xinggu were included in the actual control of Yizhou. Just counting the original population of these five counties, Yizhou could have an additional one million people. However, many of the barbarians gathered in the mountains and forests, and the number of people could not be calculated. Therefore, after a year, Li Hui only counted 100,000 households.

"Your Majesty, this is the tax revenue from Nanzhong last year..." Li Hui handed over a notebook again.

Adou slowly opened it, just glanced at the numbers above and put down the book. Compared with the increased population, we can't bear to bet on taxes in the Nanzhong region. After all, the people living in Nanzhong were all barbarians before, and their productivity was low, so the tax revenue was naturally pitiful. Now, the main source of financial resources in Nanzhong still relies on various mineral resources.

"Li Aiqing, thank you for your hard work."

"I am afraid." Li Hui quickly lowered his head and replied.

"By the way, Tang Aiqing, what is the box you are holding in? "Adou asked.

There are many rare ores in Nanzhong, but because Nanzhong has always been the territory of barbarians and the forbidden area of ​​the Han people, the mineral resources in Nanzhong have not been developed.

After the Southern Barbarians surrendered, the minerals in Nanzhong would naturally be developed. Tang San had long been eyeing the rare minerals in Nanzhong. It was just a special sale of salt and iron in the Han Dynasty. Tang San could only look at it. At this time, Adou conscripted Tang San as an official, and Tang San followed the trend and ran to Nanzhong to conduct full-time research and development of new weapons.

Tang San has not produced any new works after more than a year of office. Now, when A Dou saw this long box, he has guessed that this should be a weapon developed by Tang Sanxin.

Sure enough, when he heard A Dou Culture, Tang San stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this is my newly created weapon. It is made of iron ore newly mined from Nanzhong, tempered into steel."

Tang San said, and opened the box and saw a knife inside. The knife had double edges and the handle was four feet long. It looked very similar to the horse-slaying sword used by the Yulin Army during the reign of Emperor Wu of Wu.

Adou walked up, took the sword, and looked at it carefully. Tang San explained from the side: "Your Majesty, when Emperor Wu fought against the Huns, the Yulin Army used a horse-slashing sword to fight against the Huns' cavalry. I imitated the horse-slashing sword to create this sword. This sword has double-edged sword, which is not only conducive to horse-striking battles, but also infantry battles!"

Tang San said, pointing at the blade, and then said, "Your Majesty, look at this blade..."

When A Dou looked carefully, he saw that there were serrated particles on the blade, which were very small and could not be seen without careful observation.

"Your Majesty, this blade is specially designed to be jagged. Generally, the blades are flat, so after using it for a long time, it will gradually become dull and not sharp enough. However, even if it has been used for decades, it will still be extremely sharp." Tang San continued.

Adou waved his sword violently, and a gust of wind flew over. Adou couldn't help but praise: "Good knife!"

A Dou gently slid the back of the knife with a crisp sound, and then A Dou asked, "This serrated blade is very good, but it should be very complicated to create!"

"What Your Majesty said is that it takes a blacksmith with a deep foundation to build this serrated blade. However, if you don't add this serrated blade, it will be much simpler to build." Tang San said this, slowly thought about it, and then said, "Your Majesty gives me a hundred blacksmiths, and you can create thirty in one day."

Thirty knives a day, three hundred knives a day, and three thousand knives in a hundred days. Although it is much slower than ordinary weapons, it is quite good. What's more, this kind of knife cannot be used by just finding a scattered warrior. This kind of knife is made of fine steel and must be handed over to elite troops for use. The output of more than 10,000 knives a year is also acceptable.

During the New Year, Adou reunites the ministers, and at the same time, he announced two things.

The first thing is to move the capital to Chang'an.

Liu Bei ascended the throne in Chengdu, so Chengdu has always been the capital of Shu Han. After Liu Bei conquered Chang'an, he had already planned to use Chang'an as the capital of the Han Dynasty. Compared with Chengdu, Chang'an was much better. Although Chang'an changed hands several times after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and was repeatedly affected by wars, it was the capital of the Han Dynasty and his foundation was still there.

Another point is that the Shu army has occupied the entire Guanzhong area now, and the strategic focus of the future will definitely be on Guanzhong in the north, so it is necessary to move the capital to Chang'an.

No one was surprised about moving the capital to Chang'an. Before, both Liu Bei and Adou had already worked in the Weiyang Palace, and most of the ministers had arrived in Chang'an. All they had to do was to establish the capital to Chang'an. As long as the emperor issued an edict, the move to the capital would be successful.

Now, with Adou's trick, the name of Chang'an has been decided.

The second thing is that Zhuge Liang has already chosen a day to let Adou marry two queens.

This was a happy event when the emperor was appointed. Moreover, this marriage was decided by Liu Bei at that time, so naturally no one raised any objections. After the matter was announced, the court was full of praises.

Of course, there were special people to organize the emperor's wedding. The Han Dynasty had more than 400 years of history, and there were many records about the emperor's wedding. After all the news came out, the officials of the Sili quickly delivered a detailed plan to Zhuge Liang's table. From the beginning of fasting, bathing and worshiping ancestors, to the wedding, all the matters were listed in detail.

The officials of the rituals only manage the wedding, and the parts after the wedding ceremony are managed by eunuchs in the palace.

After the wedding, we naturally have to enter the bridal chamber. The emperor favored the concubines and was always managed by eunuchs. For example, when the emperor greeted the concubines, he had to carefully record which concubine.

The concubines with status in the palace all have their own exclusive palaces, and the emperor himself has a residence. The emperor can choose to live in a certain concubine, or choose to visit a certain concubine in his own bedroom.

But now, these eunuchs in Weiyang Palace are in big trouble.

Everything can be done according to the ancient system. Even if everyone has not experienced it, the books left by their predecessors are still well documented. But the key is that Adou is now going to marry two imperial palaces at one time.

In history, the emperor married the queen and married one. Now that Adou married two at once, the wedding ceremony could barely be arranged, but the wedding chamber after the wedding could not be arranged.

Both are queens. It is logical that they are arranged to arrange for the emperor to have a wedding chamber with, which is a big problem. The parents of the two queens are Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, both of whom can't afford to offend. It is not appropriate to arrange for the two queens who are first and who are later.

If two queens are arranged to have a wedding chamber together, one dragon plays with two phoenixes, it can be solved. However, if it is spread, it will have a great impact on Adou's reputation. This dragon plays with two phoenixes can easily be associated with the debauchery. Therefore, the eunuchs dare not arrange the matter of dragon plays with two phoenixes.

This made Zhonghuangmenyong follow Pushe. Now the biggest eunuch in the palace is Zhonghuangmenyong follow Pushe. He arranged the matters of the emperor's bridal chamber. Although Zhonghuangmenyong follow Pushe in a dilemma, he did not dare to discuss with other ministers. For example, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others are all foreign ministers, and foreign ministers are involved in the affairs of the inner palace, and Yu Li is not in line.

Zhonghuangmen was unable to follow the servants, so he had to issue a reward order. The eunuchs, palace maids, and nannies in the palace, as long as anyone can solve this problem, the bounty will be given fifty.

It was getting dark outside, and Zhonghuangmenyong walked into the room from Pushe and sighed slightly. There were still three days before the emperor's wedding, but I had not arranged the wedding chamber yet.

Zhonghuangmenyong touched his neck from Pushe. If he couldn't do the emperor's marriage to the queen, he would definitely lose his head. If there was an omission and caused the emperor to be unhappy, his official position would not be saved.

"Come on, pour me a cup of tea!" The old eunuch shouted, and no one answered.

"Come, come! Where have people died?" The old eunuch looked outside the house and found that there was no one outside.

These officials and palace maids are clever and know that the old eunuchs are worried about the emperor's wedding and are upset, so they all hide far away, fearing that they will be troubled. The old eunuchs have experienced so many intrigues in the palace for many years, and after thinking about it carefully, they understand this truth.

"A bunch of useless things, the adults who are following me on weekdays, will be gone when you use them!" The old eunuch angrily slapped the table.

"Sir, the young one is here!" A voice came from outside. The old eunuch looked up and found a handsome little eunuch standing outside.

"Well, you guys are a little familiar. What's your name?"

"Sir, little Huang Hao." Huang Hao smiled and came to the old eunuch, and said, "Sir, are you still worried about Your Majesty's wedding?"

"kindness……"

"Sir, the younger one has an idea."

"Yeah? You have an idea, tell me quickly! As long as it can solve the problem in front of you, our family will reward you with fifty gold!" said the old eunuch anxiously.

"Haha, it's a matter of small responsibility to share the worries and solve problems for adults!" Huang Hao said, and came to the old eunuch near and started to mutter in a low voice.

"Yeah...Yeah...Yeah, a good idea!" After hearing Huang Hao's words, the old eunuch stood up suddenly: "Haha, you kid are smart, come up with this good idea. By the way, what's your name?"

"Little Huang Hao."

"Yeah, not bad, Huang Hao, from tomorrow, you will be by our side!"

Weiyang Palace, today is a good day, and a grand wedding is being held for Adou in Weiyang Palace. All officials and Chang'an celebrities were present.

"The emperor ordered the emperor to say..." The eunuch's sharp voice resounded in the lobby, and the officials in the hall listened carefully.

"Look, Your Majesty must be pardoned again."

"That's right, such a great joy will naturally be forgiven for the whole world."

Sure enough, not long after, the eunuch read the part of the general amnesty.

After the eunuch finished reading, he retreated, and Adou said, "My dear friends, today is my happy day. I also want to take advantage of this day to announce some things and read the edict!"

The eunuch picked up another edict and began to read it. The content of the official position was changed to a level 9 and 18.

After reading the edict, all the ministers in the hall began to discuss it.
To be continued...