Chapter 19: The Funeral Ride
Luoyang official road.
The convoy of more than a hundred soldiers moved forward slowly.
"Brother Ai, how long will it take to enter the city? It's been a long time since I saw Brother Emperor. I miss him so much!"
Li Mingda stretched out her cute and beautiful head out of the carriage, her eyes full of anticipation.
In the years in Jiangnan, Little Shizi has left the category of loli and is nourished by the Jiangnan water town. She is elegant and elegant, bright and charming. She is also plagued by stubborn diseases and has a strange fair skin color, which makes her look like a sick Xi Shi, which is pitying.
Li Yuanai was riding a horse on the side, and deliberately controlled the horse to get closer, saying, "About half an hour, we will see the East City Gate of Luoyang. At the latest, we will meet Your Majesty tonight."
After leaving Chang'an sad place, Li Mingda had a happy life in Jiangnan and visited almost all the beautiful scenery in Jiangnan.
However, Qi disease is a difficult and complicated disease even in later generations, and is difficult to cure, let alone an ancient era where medical technology is backward?
Whether Li Mingda's disease occurs depends on the sky, and whether she has five points to her own mood.
As long as you are in a happy mood and without great joy and sorrow, you can reduce the possibility of attack.
"Have you been to Luoyang?"
Li Yuanai has been here a few times before and knows that there are still many places worth visiting in Luoyang.
As a man, he puts national affairs first. As long as he enters the temple, it is difficult to take time to play with Li Mingda. He has just had the opportunity to enter Luoyang.
Li Mingda was quick-witted and guessed the intention, and immediately smiled like a flower, saying, "I have never been here, I just heard that Luoyang Palace is the center of the Grand Canal, and is called the world, so I don't know much about the others."
The Luoyang Palace mentioned by Li Mingda is Luoyang, and the two capital system has not been adopted at this time. The Luoyang Palace was in the sixth year of Zhenguan. Li Shimin personally ordered the name of the Eastern Capital to be changed to Luoyang Palace to increase the status of Chang'an in Guanzhong.
But today is different from the past. After the development of the Zhenguan Dynasty, the disadvantages of the narrow and complex people in Guanzhong have appeared again.
Although the Guanzhong Plain is called Tianfu, the grain produced is far from meeting the needs of the huge central government's increasing officials, garrisons and increased population, and the supply is extremely difficult. In Huainan and Jiangnan grains can be transferred to Luoyang through the Grand Canal. However, when transferred from Luoyang to Chang'an, it has to be replaced by land to bypass the Sanmen natural danger. It is not only limited in grain transport, but also time-consuming, and the gain is not worth the loss. When taking the water route, it is also upstream, and the Yellow River is surging, with heavy grains, and extremely risky.
Therefore, when Li Zhi learned that the flood was coming, he decisively moved the imperial court to Luoyang, which was the most clever move.
Li Yuanai said: "There are two most famous attractions in Luoyang, one is the cave of Longmen Mountain, and the other is the White Horse Temple. From my perspective, White Horse Temple is meaningless. Longmen Grottoes are a must-visit place. There are two mountains confronting each other, flowing in the Yi River, and the scenery of Foguang Mountain. The four suburbs of Luoyang are the most beautiful in the mountains and rivers. Longmen is the leader. It can be said to be a must-visit place. Let's take a day off tomorrow, and we will visit Longmen Grottoes together the next day."
With the full support of the court, Suzhou, the most critically affected area of the Jianghuai flood, was also treated.
In response to the key to the severe disaster in Suzhou this time, Li Yuanai redesigned the canal's water inlet and reduce the water gate, and arranged for craftsmen to start building it.
He is now free to use the reconstruction plan for Suzhou.
After years of training in Jiangnan, especially the reconstruction of Quanzhou City, Li Yuanai has made him understand the structural layout of this era and the plan is completed in one go.
Today, the one that Jianghuai lacks the most is labor.
Li Yuanai was a little uncomfortable and frigid at first, but with the maturity of the volunteer system, many leaders and scholars showed their talents, and the progress of reconstruction was very fast.
The foundation has been laid out, and the rest is some finalization and future construction and maintenance work.
These are all things that the governor of the prefecture has to worry about, and Li Yuanai does not plan to do their work together.
Disaster relief is the main task.
Therefore, when he saw the situation stable, he wrote a book on Jiangnan and asked his wife and Li Mingda to go north to join him in Beijing. His journey was clean and neat, without any delay. It directly made hundreds of thousands of people in Jianghuai who wanted to thank him for their gratitude, so he could only set up the archway of immortality to pray for it.
Due to the rain before, the river was crowded and unstable, they gave up the convenient waterway and went north from the official road.
I walk and stop along the way and act like a traveler, so I feel uncomfortable.
Until today, I arrived at the outskirts of Luoyang.
The closer it is to Luoyang City, the more pedestrians there are on the official road. As the second economic center of the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang's prosperity is no less than Chang'an, and its development potential is still above Chang'an.
Seeing this, Li Yuanai was also very missed. He had been in Jiangnan for many years and almost forgot about the crowded and prosperous scene.
Although he had to do his best to reform and the economy of Jiangnan increased significantly, the population disadvantage was difficult to make up for in the short term.
At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves behind them.
When Li Yuanai looked back, he saw a team of quick riders wearing mourning clothes and mourning to repay the death, and his brows frowned slightly.
Reporting a death is the first ritual after a person's death, and it was formed as early as the Zhou Dynasty. It uses signaling to tell relatives and friends and villagers about someone's death. Even relatives and friends who already know the news must go over to report the death as usual.
But generally speaking, the funeral is only reported to the surrounding areas. Only people above the level of a rank of a chief official will report the funeral to the court in such a fast way.
Because officials of this level need to be appeased by the court before they can be buried.
After all, some officials are qualified to be buried with edicts and bury them with grand burials. If they are buried in advance, the day the imperial edict is conveyed, they cannot be dug out and buried again, right?
Li Yuanai signaled the convoy to get off the side and gave way to them.
Looking at the fast riding cavalry getting closer and closer, a name "Su Lin" suddenly appeared in Li Yuanai's mind, and he couldn't help but shout, "But Su Lin, Guard Su?"
Many years ago, after Li Chengqian rebelled, when Li Shimin decided to make Li Zhi the crown prince, he appointed him to go to the Wei Palace to invite Li Tai to the palace to put Li Tai under house arrest.
At that time, he had a small friction with Su Lin from the Prince of Wei's Mansion. Under that critical situation, he even had the intention to kill, so he was quite impressed.
When Su Lin heard the call, he stopped the fast horse and looked at Li Yuanai in confusion.
Li Yuanai was still a teenager back then, and he naturally couldn't recognize him after six or seven years.
However, all of them were protected by soldiers, and the soldiers were well-dressed, and some were even equipped with crossbows. They were qualified only by the Duke-level guards. They did not dare to be careless and said with a fist: "Who is the best person? Please forgive me for your uncle's eyes."
Li Yuanai said calmly: "The lonely king Li Yuanai, I met in the Wei Palace back then, I wonder if you are?"
Su Lin was a little scared. Li Yuanai's current reputation was so fierce that he could not know it?
"Have you seen the King of Wu!" He saluted again, with a hint of unconcealed grief in his eyes, and said, "King Pu died of illness!"
Li Yuanai was slightly shocked.
Chapter completed!