A team appeared in front of me. About a hundred people in front led the way, all riding tall horses, wearing blonde robes with red green squids, leather straps, and wool gauze hats. Everyone was wearing silver clothes.
Yidao, this is the costume of the palace guards.
Behind them was a pavilion-style carriage with gold and jade inlaid. Eight strong men raised their shoulders. Eight guards and cavalry guards were guarded on both sides. Sixteen Taoist priests followed behind them, and they were arranged in two teams, with agile steps.
Yang Yuanqing's eyes fell on his shoulders, and he saw an old Taoist priest wearing a jade crown and a crane buckle sitting. His hair was white, his face was rosy, and his eyes were slightly closed, which showed a fairy-like temperament.
When the people on both sides saw the old Taoist priest appear, they saluted one after another. Some older people even knelt down. Yang Yuanqing turned sideways and asked a soldier guarding the city gate, "Who is this?"
"This person is Taoist Pan, the immortal in Songyang Palace. It is said that he has lived to be 300 years old."
Yang Yuanqing nodded. It turned out that this person was the demonic path that Yun Dingxing called. The King of Qi respected him like a god, and thought to himself that this person would be of some use to stay by the King of Qi.
Yang Yuanqing changed his mind and had a solution to deal with it. He immediately shouted: "List the Yanyue Arrow Formation!"
With his order, five hundred cavalry quickly arranged into a half-moon formation, with three rows in front and back, and arrows, aimed at more than a hundred horse-riding soldiers and the old Taoist on the carriage. Just waited for Yang Yuanqing to give the order, the arrows were pierced into the heart.
The sudden incident caused the soldiers who were guarding the Taoist priests to panic and retreat one after another. The people around were even more frightened and ran around the streets to scatter. They were far away, but they refused to leave and surrounded the streets to watch the fun.
“Bold!”
The guard leader shouted, "This is a distinguished guest of the King of Qi. Where did you come from the miscellaneous army? Do you want to cause trouble?"
Yang Yuanqing urged the horse out and said coldly: "I am Yang Yuanqing, have you heard of it?"
Yang Yuanqing's reputation has spread all over the world, and everyone knows it. The guard leader was stunned. He also recognized Yang Yuanqing and secretly complained in his heart. Why did he meet such a killing god? He dare not provoke him, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.
He said, "I don't know if it's General Yang, so I'm offending. We are following the order of King Qi to protect Taoist Pan and return to the other palace."
Although they were wearing the guard uniforms of the King of Qi's mansion, the bronze medals on their waists were military cards, not silver medals. There were only hundreds of guards in the King of Qi's mansion, and there was no army. These soldiers with military cards on their waists were obviously not guards in the King of Qi's mansion.
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Yang Yuanqing asked: "Are you guards of the Prince of Qi's Mansion or the Eastern Palace leading the army?"
The guards bowed, "We are soldiers of the left guard of the East Palace."
Yang Yuanqing snorted heavily, "Do you know any position I have?"
Yang Yuanqing's order to serve as the commander of the left and right guards of the East Palace arrived yesterday, but only the King of Qi and a few senior generals knew about it. The left guard soldiers in front of him did not know it. The guard officer smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know the humble position!"
"I have been ordered by the emperor to serve as the commander of the left and right guards of the Eastern Palace. Do you want to commit crimes?"
The guards looked at each other, not knowing what to do, but the guard leader understood in his heart that no one dared to falsely pass the imperial edict. Yang Yuanqing was also a high-ranking official, and he did not dare to pretend to be the left and right of the Eastern Palace to lead the general. This was a death sentence, and more importantly, they provoked him.
If you can't afford Yang Yuanqing, five hundred bows and arrows around aimed at them, it would be better to take the opportunity to step down.
He quickly turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee to salute, "I am the left-ranking guard Gongcao Zhao Yue to meet the general!"
Other guards dismounted and met. At this time, the old Taoist Pan Dan slowly opened his eyes and looked at Yang Yuanqing with a cold look. It happened that Yang Yuanqing was also looking at him. The two of them looked at each other. Yang Yuanqing sneered and said to the soldiers: "The court."
I have my own rules. Since you are the soldiers of the left commander's guards, you should not wear the guard's robes and clothes at all, so you should not take them off quickly!"
The soldiers had no choice but to take off the guard's brocade robe and reveal the tight military uniforms inside. Yang Yuanqing ordered again: "Go back to the camp immediately, and I will soon be the one who leaves the camp without authorization, and there will be a hundred sticks!"
He said to Gongcao Zhao Yue again: "You go and notify the rest of the left and right guards. In one hour, I will go to the military camp to dig Mao. If anyone who is not in the camp will be severely punished."
Zhao Yue didn't dare to refuse to obey. He bowed to Yang Yuanqing, waved his hand, "Go!"
More than a hundred soldiers from the left guard of the East Palace turned their horses and ran away quickly. The old Taoist Pan Dan suddenly became empty, leaving only eight carriage-carrying men and sixteen Taoist priests. Their majesty disappeared and they looked quite embarrassed.
Yang Yuanqing showed a sarcastic smile on his face. When he saw that the soldiers were running away, he immediately turned around and smiled: "Brothers, come on me and beat these stinky Taoist priests hard!"
The cavalry dismounted, rolled up their sleeves and rushed forward. Hundreds of burly soldiers surrounded more than a dozen Taoist priests and punched. The poor old Taoist Pan Dan was overturned to the ground, and was beaten to the ground with a bruised nose and a black and purple body.
Yang Yuanqing smiled and watched the battle. Seeing that the fight was almost done, he ordered his subordinates: "It's OK, get on the horse!"
The soldiers boarded the horse and followed Yang Yuanqing away, leaving only a group of Taoist priests who were moaning in pain on the ground. All the people around were shocked and actually beat Pan Shangxian. Many people were also puzzled, why didn't Pan Shangxian cast spells to protect themselves?
A middle-aged Taoist priest helped Pan Dan up. Seeing that his master's teeth were knocked off, his life was lost seven points. He felt very heartbroken. Seeing that the carriage he was riding on had been smashed, he asked with a bitter face:
"Master, where are we going?"
Pan Dan gave Yang Yuanqing's back an extremely hatred look. He sighed and said tremblingly: "Go back to the Qi Palace!"
The Taoist priests supported each other. A young Taoist priest was carrying Pan Dan on his back, and a group of people limped towards the Qi Palace.
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Yang Yuanqing knew very well about his mission. On the one hand, he wanted to control the chaotic situation in the capital, and on the other hand, he wanted to seize the military power of the 20,000 troops in the East Palace to prevent the King of Qi from using these 20,000 troops to cause trouble in the capital.
The Eastern Palace army is called Liusufu, which is actually the ten guards, including the left and right guards, the left and right sect guards, the left and right internal commands, the left and right sect guards, etc. Among them, the left and right guards are the most important, and there are six guards in total.
Thousands of soldiers.
The 20,000 troops in the Eastern Palace were originally stationed in Chang'an. Due to Yang Zhao's death, Yang Guang issued an order to transfer 20,000 troops to Luoyang. The troops were stationed in the military camp outside the city, but the government office was in the imperial city.
Five hundred soldiers were waiting outside the imperial city. Yang Yuanqing led ten soldiers to the front of the military yamen. The left and right guards of the East Palace were in the same huge building. A central axis was divided into two halves, one on the left and right guards, and one on the left and right guards, and one on the left and right guards.
There were dozens of officials including deputy commanders, chief officials, Sima, record officers and military officials.
Yang Yuanqing turned over and dismounted. He looked up at the plaque above the gate, "The East Palace and the Left and Right Mansion", here is where he is about to take office, and the imperial edict should arrive first.
Now for him, controlling the army is the most important thing. Only by firmly grasping the army first can we talk about controlling the situation in the capital.
As soon as he walked up the steps, a group of officials came out to greet him. Everyone had a smile on their faces. The head was two middle-aged officials. They stepped forward and bowed and smiled: "Welcome General Yang to the post, and Wei Huan, the chief of the Left Guard!
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Another official bowed and smiled, "I am here to see Zhang Wensi, the chief of the Right Guard, please see the general!"
The Chief Secretary is the highest civilian officer in the army, including the resignation and succession of the new and old leaders. They are all presided over by the Chief Secretary. After the imperial edict arrived yesterday, both of the two attendants had stepped down and went to him. Now we are waiting for the new attendants to take office.
Yang Yuanqing returned the favor to everyone and said, "Has the emperor's will arrived?"
"It was arrived yesterday, and the appointment of the Ministry of War also arrived yesterday. We are waiting for General Yang to arrive, and we are eagerly looking forward to it!"
"Since that's the case, I will take office first, and then talk to you about my colleagues."
"General Yang, please go to our right guard first."
"How can I go to the right guard first? Let's go left and right first!"
Amid the enthusiastic laughter of everyone, Yang Yuanqing was rushed into the gates of the left and right guards by officials like stars arched by the moon.
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Ten days have passed since the Fengdu incident. Not only dozens of grain shops in Fengdu have closed, but even private grain shops in the entire capital have closed. In this way, the rice price has not increased and stopped at 600 rice.
At the level of writing.
Three days ago, Yang Guang's imperial edict arrived, ordering Changping Treasury to place 300,000 shi of grain and 400 shi of rice to the market to stabilize the price of grain in the capital. It was the 300,000 shi of grain that was put into the market, which made the surging people's sentiment certain.
Relieve the degree.
But the 400-liter rice dumplings only make most local families in the capital able to afford food, but for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who flocked to the capital, this is still an unbearable price for them, and the government's pacification of refugees is obviously weaker than that of Beijing.
Locals only have a small amount of relief porridge every day. In addition to the government, there are only temples to provide relief to the victims. Pei Ju proposed that wealthy households provide relief to the victims. Due to the lack of specific methods, it has almost become a piece of paper. No wealthy households go outside the city to provide relief to the victims.
Coupled with the suppression of the army and the hatred and discrimination of refugees by locals in the capital, the dissatisfaction of hundreds of thousands of refugees accumulated day by day, and finally broke out in the middle of the night when Yang Yuanqing returned.
Changpingcang is located in Taipei City, which is half smaller than Fengdu City. Since most of the poor families in Beijing live north of Luoshui, the stores in Taipei City are mainly selling daily necessities, without tea, pomelo wine, and jewelry.
This luxury is mainly salt, rice and cloth.
At this time, the city was also in a state of depression, and almost all the shops were closed. The Fengdu Rice Traffic tragedy caused the merchants in Taipei to panic, transferring money and materials, dismissing their workers, and closing their doors.
Only the Changpingcang rice shop next to the gate of Taipei City is open as usual. Changpingcang is a huge warehouse covering an area of nearly 20 acres. It can store 200,000 stones of grain. It is sold by six stores affiliated to Changpingcang. It is sold every day.
People who came to buy rice lined up in a long queue, each person was limited to one bucket. As a result, the whole family and the young often lined up to buy rice together, making the queue last several miles long.
After dark, Changping Treasure closed the door, hundreds of soldiers patrolled around, and thousands of people were queuing up and staying outside Changping Treasure overnight.
Around the first update, the soldiers guarding Changping Treasury began to change guards, and several soldiers felt strange and gathered together to discuss.
"No! Tonight, there should be two thousand guards of the Right Yu Guards to Changping the position, why are there only more than three hundred people now?"
"Who knows! I heard that the Right Yu Hou Guard was transferred to Shoufeng City today."
"It's a bit funny! The food in Fengdu City has been stolen, and the door is closed. Who would go to snatch Fengdu City? Now only Changpingzhan has food, but only 300 people are sent. Which idiot is there?
The decision made.”
"Shh! I heard it was the order of King Qi."
It was heard that it was the King of Qi that no one dared to say anything anymore, but soon, the soldiers guarding Changping Treasury heard the abnormal report and rushed towards the gate of Beishi.
Outside the gate of Taipei City, tens of thousands of refugees gathered from all directions. The square outside the city was filled with dark crowds, no one spoke, and everyone's eyes were filled with hunger.
Someone shouted, and anger and hunger suddenly erupted. Tens of thousands of refugees rushed open the gate of the Taipei City like a river breaking the dam and rushed towards Changpingcang.
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