However, outside the Xuanwu Gate the next day.
After seeing the empress Cao who suddenly came to greet him, and the honor guard team behind him, Huang Chao felt a little unbelievable for a while; that cheap son-in-law just took care of the most important imperial city in Chang'an. Are both Nei and Bei Nei let out together
You must know that in these extremely tormenting days, he had already prepared to send a letter to Kansai to summon the remaining people to come and meet to fill the situation. Because in the heat troubles that became more and more obvious outside the city, these still healthy children became more and more sluggish.
This sense of unreal dislocation continued until after the swarms of elated men and horses under his command swarmed into the imperial palace, which had become empty and wild, and once again occupied the equally empty Daming Palace. It's really cut up.
Of course, there are also buildings that have also become empty, including Taicang, Zuozang, Greenhouse Palace, and Yeting Palace. As the predecessor's rather short-lived occupier, the Taiping Army not only emptied the debris, trash, and corpses, but also removed anything that could be moved.
Only a place for the latecomers to be called "clean and tidy" palace platform itself; of course, Huang Chao feels a lot more at ease about this, which means that the Taiping Army has already charged the corresponding price, if there is anything else If the good things are left behind, it will make people worry about their intentions and conspiracies.
However, Huang Chao didn't wait to return to the palace he knew and missed like other people, but went straight through the palace gates, and finally came to the tower of Danfeng Gate.
When you overlook the city from here, you can also see the various traces of the Taiping Army who have just retreated not long in the streets. And on the streets between the West and East cities farther away, you can even see many figures who are demolishing barricades and filling trenches one by one.
As they continue to progress with their hands and feet, shrinking forces and moving supplies away, it must not be long before the spacious long street that was filled with various messy obstacles will once again reveal its original appearance.
This also further proves the attitude and position of these Taiping troops who have begun to fully retreat; at least in the eyes of many of his men, these barricades and barriers in the city can at least be time to turn back or just in case. One.
Just as Huang Chao was immersed in this kind of mixed emotions for a while, the exhaustion and sleepiness accumulated by the soldiers and horses and exhaustion for a long time suddenly broke out at this moment. In an instant, his eyes went dark consciously, and he fell softly and faintly behind him with his arm and a cry of exclamation.
"Holy!"
"Holy Lord!"
"Master!"
"emperor!"
Then after a while, Huang Chao, who was surrounded by panicked guards, finally started again in a weak tone:
"I... It's okay, just a bit... I'm tired... I'm going to drive... Go back to the palace..."
In the East City where Huang Chao's vision is located, there are naturally some people discussing related topics.
It's just compared to the calm and calmness in the small circle of high-level knowledge, or the unconditional conviction and compliance attitude of the vast number of soldiers at the lower level. Voices of dissent that do not understand, on the contrary, occurred more among the middle and low-level officers.
Didn't it escape the war in the square city, and amidst the jagged ruins, in a restaurant that ventured to reopen, it was already half full of guests and the noise continued.
In the cubicle upstairs, the gray-haired shopkeeper also personally served a large tray of popular dishes. Among them, except for the fish which is freshly steamed from the rivers outside the city, the others are nothing more than steamed dried ducks, dried dried preserved preserved preserved pork, simmered tofu, sliced and fried blood sausage and other dried meats.
After all, as most people in Chang'an are in short supply and need to exchange their work for food rations, they are able to purchase such a solid meat dish. Thanks to the Taiping Army for opening up a temporary market for bartering.
Then, the shopkeeper personally offered a jar of home-brewed house wine that escaped because of being buried in the ground, and the jar was filled with it. Then, he touched the sleeves of some hard money and poured it happily. Step back.
"It's really a pity that the three good-for-nothing areas in the middle of the city are just let out like this..."
Then he was recently replaced from within Yuzhou, but he only caught up with Zhao Jingfan, the Lieutenant Cavalry at the end of the Second Route Reinforcement Battle, also toasting and sighing.
"But what's a pity, is it because the brothers are not rewarding enough, or are they not gaining enough from here? ... Don't forget, what are the strategies and regulations originally set by the general governor..."
As his old Shangguan, Zhong Yi, the second man of the First Army, retorted without hesitation:
"You, it's only because you were dazzled by the things in Chang'an city, and you didn't have the chance to catch up with most of the wars in the city, that you feel a pity; but you don't know that these things are related to the overall situation of my Metropolitan Government. Isn’t that the burden?”
"How can this be? Isn't it a great situation?"
Zhao Jingfan couldn't help being surprised:
"And do you know that Guanzhong is now dilapidated and hungry everywhere, and there is no production but there is a need for maintenance and relief everywhere?"
Zhong Yi shook his head and said:
"Every day my generation stays in this city, it is tied to the manpower and material resources in the rear that are tossing through the road like flowing water; the soldiers in the front of course need to be well repaired and supplemented, but the local people and the people in the rear The husband also needs to recuperate!"
"I really can't figure it out."
In another temporary stronghold in the East City, at the table where several people gathered in private, there were some people who drank a bit and couldn't help complaining:
"Why did the chief governor want to gradually return to the King Huang the city that the brothers bleed down?"
"That is where the chief governor has his own sage decisions and long-term intentions! Is it possible for you and I to speculate wildly?"
The other general at the same table disapproved:
"Furthermore, does anyone remember the goals and actions set by the government at the beginning? Do not fight for the gains and losses of one city and one place, but to maximize the destruction, weakening and elimination of the vital forces of the old dynasty?"
"Now that we already have what we want and the goal has been achieved, why should we involve incessant vain and time-consuming here? This is the determination and courage that the superiors should have!"
At this time, the noise of gongs and drums and the shouts of passing through the street rang out again, which immediately attracted their attention, and temporarily exposed such an unpleasant topic.
But it was told along the street that the public trial for the many crimes committed by the captured officers, army, generals and academies in the city will also be held by the release pool in the East City, calling on the residents in the room to eagerly report and tell.
And in Fanglin Garden outside Chang’an City, the smiling Zhu Laosan and the beaming subordinates behind him finally ushered in the canonization of him as the “Vice-Tong Commander of Duji Road Xingying, Quanluo stayed behind, special advances, Country, Yangshanhou" appointed edict.
Then, after he was formally accepted and congratulated, he wanted to introduce his own account in the future and wanted to routinely take out some money as a gift and thank you, but he was caught by the other party's sleeves and said seriously:
"It's all going to take a long time, there is still an additional dictum from the emperor..."
Zhu Lao San's expression and movements froze all at once. (End of this chapter)