Chapter 118 Daqian Shengdu (Subscription Request)

Daqian Dynasty.

Qianzhou.

capital.

Ten-meter-high city walls and man-made moats surrounded everything in the imperial city and extended to the endless horizon.

In the capital city.

Red bricks, green tiles, attics and high towers.

Rows of mansions.

Once you enter the city gate, even if you stand on a high place and look out, you can only see the pure golden royal palace on the horizon.

There are rivers, lakes and rockery in the city.

Young children playing in silk clothes, a wealthy man standing in the attic in fancy clothes, a waiter guarding the door of the store, and a peddler wandering around the city gates selling goods.

Everyone's face was flushed.

There was smile in his eyes and on his face.

The two children threw the steamed buns in their hands at each other.

It fell to the ground, covered with dust, and no one picked it up.

The sight wanders further into the city.

An artificial canal with clear water flowing slowly.

You can even see the green grass under the river and the bright little fish swimming among it.

Beautiful lanterns are floating on the river, and on the lanterns are blessings or words of love written on pieces of cloth, which are flowing along the river to other places.

There are various stalls on both sides of the river.

Next to the stalls displaying various masks and decorative gadgets, there stood many elegant young men holding folding fans.

After buying it from the stall, I gave it to the girl who was standing aside waiting with her face covered by a round fan.

The girls didn't take it, but instead trotted to the side holding the hand.

The young masters followed behind with smiles on their faces, holding things in their hands.

"Phew~!"

"Crack~!"

"Phew~!"

"Crack~!"

During the day, fireworks rose up and spread in the air all over the city.

The fireworks illuminate the bustling city.

It really looks like a prosperous scene!
With the sound of fireworks.

The capital city became even more noisy.

Many people looked up and pointed at the fireworks, commenting on who set them off, how much money they cost, and why they lasted from daytime to early morning.

On the wide streets of the city.

Xia Yuan, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, and Xia Qingyu, who was following behind him, covering her face with a fan, revealing a pair of starry eyes, both looked towards the colorful fireworks in the sky that looked like blooming flowers.

The light reflected in the starry eyes, as if lighting up all the stars in Xia Qingyu's eyes.

This attracted many young people to stop and stare.

It was not until Xia Qingyu raised the round fan in her hand higher, even covering her eyes, that the boys came to their senses and left reluctantly at the urging of their female companions.

"Brother, is this really our Daqian Dynasty? Why is it so different from Youzhou?" Xia Qingyu covered her face, her voice like a clear spring, and her starry eyes behind the round fan seemed to be fluctuating.

In the Lianhua County, even if one often went to distribute porridge, one could still see starving people outside the county and beggars inside the county every day.

Why are these so different from Qianzhou?

She may have understood it in her heart, but she still couldn't help wondering. "All the people's money and blood is poured into this place, how can it not be prosperous?
The land of Qianzhou has absorbed the blood and tears of dozens of states! It has gathered the flesh scraped from the bones of the people!

How can it be the same as other states! ! "

Xia Yuan stopped looking at the shining fireworks in the sky and said with gritted teeth.

Since the founding of the Daqian Dynasty, millions of people have been mobilized to build this magnificent city and the imperial city covered with gold foil.

Over the past three hundred years, the people were constantly conscripted to repair the city, and today, just like the dynasty, not a single brick or tile is left behind.

If it is a prosperous time, conscripting the common people will not cause too many problems.

But now, hundreds of years have passed, and the collection of taxes in various places has become a heavy burden for the people.

They had to work day and night in the fields to deliver grain to the court and the landlords, and barely fill their stomachs.

If they were requisitioned to go to the capital to repair the city walls and houses, many would starve to death simply because there would be no food on the journey.

The able-bodied laborers were conscripted, and the fields were left to be cultivated by women and children. Even if they worked themselves to death, they could not complete the work on the large amount of farmland assigned to them by the landlords.

Not a single grain of grain would be left less, not even a single grain of rice would be left for others.

If those poor women were to starve to death, they could simply recruit capable laborers from among the countless refugees.

Moreover, not only the capital city needed to recruit manpower to maintain the prosperous city walls, but even the wealthy prefectures and counties were constantly recruiting manpower to work for free for the enjoyment of corrupt officials and unscrupulous wealthy businessmen.

When Xia Yuan said this, he clenched his fists.

He and his sister returned to the capital safely.

Prepare to convene the upright officials in the court to discuss major policies for governing the country.

Although there were many people with the same lofty ideals as him, who stayed up late to discuss national policies.

But no matter how many copies of the petitions with their handprints were submitted, none of them came back.

Upon inquiry, it turned out that those memorials had never even entered the imperial city!

Even if someone went to the gates of those huge mansions to make trouble, it would be useless.

Xia Yuan was in no mood today as he encountered obstacles everywhere.

Thinking that his sister hadn't come out to play for a long time, and she came out to play again today, there was so much that he didn't even know what festival it was.

So, I took my sister out for a walk to relax.

At this moment, seeing the prosperity of the city and hearing his sister's doubts, anger began to rise in his heart again.

He secretly made up his mind to go back and continue to use his connections with his friends to find people who have a better say in the court and are closer to the emperor, and to present their strategies for governing the country!
Just as he clenched his fists.

Suddenly I felt the ground shaking.

Subsequently.

"Da da da da~!"

"Ding ding ding ding~"

It was like the sound of countless horse hooves stepping on the ground, mixed with the sound of metal, coming from the far distance, at the edge of the golden imperial city, one louder than the other.

Xia Yuan turned his head and saw a broad road more than twenty feet wide that led directly to the golden sky. Dense black appeared from the direction of the imperial city.

The sound of hooves became louder and louder, and the vibrations underfoot became more and more intense.

Xia Yuan's face suddenly changed. He pulled his sister and hurried to the side of the road. He stopped only when he got close to the river bank.

Not just him.

After feeling the earth shaking, the men, women, young and old walking on the busy street, as well as the stalls operating the stalls, all leaned to the sides or quickly pushed their stalls aside.

In just a moment, the entire avenue, which was nearly twenty meters wide, was empty, without a single person or stall.

The waiters, shopkeepers, and customers in the roadside buildings and shops all walked out quickly and looked in the direction of the sound of iron hooves with excitement.

Even in the private rooms of the high-rise buildings, the elegant gentlemen who were sitting and enjoying the scenery put down their folding fans, stood up from their seats, held the handrails of the private rooms, and looked into the distance.

The people in the city were crowded on both sides of the road, even crowded together.

Regardless of whether they were wearing silk or cloth, no matter how urgent the matter at hand was, they all stood on the street, looking at the bright black color that was getting closer and closer in the distance, occupying the entire avenue with excitement and even reverence on their faces!
(End of this chapter)