Needless to mention Luoyang Prefecture, Zheng, Xu and Cai counties are also in the heartland of the Central Plains, with dense populations and developed economies. Villages are like scattered and markets, and they can be seen everywhere. Although many problems have been breeding in the Han Dynasty, the prosperity of the people at this time is also real.

However, the old emperor was not very interested in the prosperity along the way. Even though the journey was slow, he was unwilling to stop and pay attention except for necessary rest. Even if he stopped, he only met with the military and political chiefs of various states, other subordinates and subordinate officials were not qualified to meet the emperor. The dialogue was just unnutritional boastful talk, and there were few mentions of political affairs and people's livelihood.

Of course, the old emperor also had reasons. When the water damage last year, Zhengzhou was affected by the three states, but it was also extremely limited. Zhengzhou's water conservancy facilities can be said to be the most complete and solid along the Yellow River.

Looking at the growth of the crops in Xu and Caizhou, this year should be a good year, and the summer harvest that is about to begin will be quite considerable. To be honest, this kind of scenery is worth stopping and seeing, at least it is an excellent material for seeking fame and reputation.

However, the old emperor is still lazy in governing the country, so where does he have the mood and energy to do superficial work? Until he arrived in Xinyang, the old emperor finally walked out of the camp and entered the local city for the first time. When Taikang Palace was completed, the power of Shenzhou was occupied by three points. Just to make this point, he had to express his greetings.

The magistrate of Shenzhou is still a clan relative, and his identity is really not low. Liu Jiqian, the third son of King Xu and Liu Chengyun, has been roughly divided into five veins. One is the main vein of the old emperor, followed by King Yong and Liu Chengxun, and Liu Chengxun, King Wei and Liu Chengxun (basically in name only), and then King Xu and Liu Chengyun.

Although the rest of the descendants of Liu Chong, the king of Taiyuan, had long been lifted out of ban by the old emperor, they were always in a state of depression due to historical reasons. Now Liu Chong's descendants are also scattered in various parts of the Han Dynasty. Although they are known as clan relatives, they have actually become ordinary political families.

Compared with the miserable Liu Chong lineage, the treatment of King Xu and Liu Chengyun is very different, just by the title. Although he is only the eldest son of Emperor Gaozu Liu Zhiyuan, although he was born to Liu Chong, he has not achieved much in the past few decades and has not made many well-known contributions to the empire.

However, Liu Chengyun had a very good relationship with the old emperor, and he was very cautious in his loyalty and always gained the trust of the old emperor. This is a great skill. The old emperor even King Yong Liu Chengxun and Crown Prince Liu Yang were suspicious, but he never suspected Liu Chengyun and never thought he could harm him.

This can be imagined that the special status of King Xu and Liu Chengyun in the Han Empire was often the leader of the royal family itself was a manifestation of supreme honor and fame. As the third son of King Xu, Liu Jiqian had another special place, that is, he was not Liu Chengyun's biological child.

This has to go through the old accounts of the history of the Han royal family. In his early years, the emperor's uncle Liu Xin was greedy and violent in Xuzhou. When the old emperor helped Emperor Gaozu into burial, he was ordered to guard the tomb. He was trapped and killed his son and was lifted.

Liu Xin and his son left, but left behind a man, a woman and two grandchildren. They pity their loneliness. King Xu felt unbearable. After asking the old emperor, he took it in the mansion and raised it. Liu Jiqian was the boy.

Now Liu Jiqian is still in trouble. Compared with the many political stars who have emerged in the Han political arena over the years, they seem much lower-key. Everything is done step by step. There are even deliberate suppression from King Xu. The reason is that they are afraid of arousing the suspicion of the old emperor and turning over old accounts.

King Xu also knows too much about the old emperor. It is not a good thing to say that one nerve is wrong one day. It is normal to have any abnormal mentality. If Liu Jiqian promoted too quickly and attracted the attention of the old emperor, it would be absolutely not a good thing. On the contrary, it is like this now. A forty-year-old magistrate of Zhongzhou, who is in a proper manner.

However, for Liu Jiqian, life is a bit difficult. Since he has taken the career of officialdom, he is naturally full of certain ambitions and pursuits in politics. However, there is always a shadow on the future of politics, and it is still a feeling of being idealistic. It is conceivable how big the psychological shadow of Liu Jiqian is.

Liu Jiqian was in his early thirties and became the magistrate of a large county. He served for five years and served in Shenzhou for exactly three years. It was during these three years that Liu Jiqian found a way to break the old emperor and build the Jigong Mountain Palace.

In the past two and a half years, there is no doubt that Liu Jiqian has devoted his entire mind to supporting palace buildings, allowing the people and financial resources to be mobilized, and even the entire Shenzhou scholars and people were "kidnapping" by him, and the palace project was completed at any cost.

In other prefectures and counties, there may be some unclear hands and feet in this matter. While contributing to the palace, they also hug them in their arms. However, Liu Jiqian had no interest in embezzlement and devoted himself to completing his mission.

Regarding which civil servant died and injured the most during the construction of Jigong Mountain Palace, there is no doubt that it was Shenzhou, which is the "landlord".

From the construction of the palace to the southern tour of the imperial carriage, Liu Jiqian has been struggling for two and a half years. Now with the arrival of the imperial carriage, it is time to test the results.

Liu Jiqian's heart was filled with joy and anxiety, but when he was notified that the old emperor would go to Xinyang to stay overnight in the city, he felt very stressed and breathed a sigh of relief. He had already discovered that there was no stop to visit the city where the imperial carriage passed along the way. Now the idea was issued, wouldn't the specialness of Shenzhou be reflected suddenly?

The city walls of Shenzhou were repaired and neatly did not see any moss; the water of the moat was clear and it was replaced soon after; the roads were neat and almost spotless; the alleys and buildings were also carefully decorated, with embroidered belts flying and colorful

Everything seems so beautiful, harmonious and prosperous, but the scholars and citizens of Shenzhou who should have been the most vivid and lively seem so uninspiring.

Liu Jiqian personally led the officials and citizens of Shenzhou to welcome the emperor's deity, and the atmosphere was naturally warm. I learned about Liu Jiqian in advance, and the old emperor really remembered the "old story of the emperor's uncle".

However, perhaps it was because the matter had passed too long, or maybe it was to give King Xu face, or maybe it was because his contributions during the construction of the palace that really touched the old emperor.

The old emperor was very kind to Liu Jiqian and the officials of Shenzhou, and allowed Liu Jiqian to ride a horse and follow the attendant to show his favor.

The camp brigade was naturally stationed outside the city. Of course, some ordinary ministers who followed the army began to check in under the guidance of Shenzhou officials. The Shenzhou government built a lakeside garden and buildings along the lakeside, southwest of Xinyang, on the banks of Nanwan Lake, with rows of buildings and houses, integrating with the surrounding lakes and mountains, with excellent environment.

The houses there were naturally prepared for the accompanying ministers. The Jigong Mountain Palace was the royal palace, which was not something that ordinary ministers could live in. In the location of the summer resort, Nanwan Lake, the "Pearl of Southern Henan", was also an important factor in weighing.

The completion of a palace is not just the palace buildings in the mountains. In addition to the garden area of ​​Nanwan Lake, it also provides a series of supporting facilities including military camps, horse farms, and hunting grounds. To complete these, it is obviously far from enough to rely solely on the power of the three counties of Shenzhou.

Similarly, even if Shenzhou only bears part of the construction project of such a scale, it is a heavy burden for Shenzhou.

In the past, Shenzhou's financial and taxation inputs were not only agriculture, sericulture, fishery and animal husbandry, but also "passing tax". As an important hub connecting the two lakes of Zhongyuan Daozhou, the number of caravans traveling from south to north every year was extremely considerable. Just doing a good job in the service industry for ushering in and sending, it has gained considerable benefits. Since ancient times, those who have gained convenient transportation often make great profits.

With the industrial advantages of the local specialty of Shenzhou green tea (Maojian), in the past few decades, in addition to paying the finance and taxation of the court and the Daosi, as well as the "profits" of the bureaucrats, the officials and citizens of Shenzhou have accumulated objective wealth.

However, these accumulations were consumed in the Taikang Palace project. In this era of limited productivity, all the results were achieved by the working people at the bottom with blood, sweat and hands.

Those bright and beautiful wonders devour the flesh and blood of the people. The location of Taikang Palace in Shenzhou is certainly an honor, but more of a kind of suffering. As the old emperor expected, driving economic development through major work and bringing welfare to the people of Shenzhou is just a self-righteous and unacceptable hypothesis.

There were not many people entering the city. The most eye-catching one was obviously the luxurious and majestic imperial carriage. The officials and citizens of Xinyang stood on both sides of the road in turn, with the meat eaters raising their chests and heads raised, and the Guizhou head lies on the ground and bowed their heads, expressing their welcome to the saints.

The old emperor was huddled inside the imperial carriage and refused to show up easily, which was not entirely a safety consideration. Instead, the description he felt was really hard to show up in front of Guizhou. For the foolish people, the emperor would better ensure a certain mystery. Of course, the fundamental reason was that the old emperor was not satisfied with his current bad image.

However, although the man was in the car, the old emperor had some strangeness in his heart. This strangeness made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Something is wrong!

The small window opened, and the bright yellow curtain was lifted up, revealing a gap. The old emperor's turbid and godless eyes passed through the gap, silently staring at the scene on the street, observing everything he could see.

There were not many people waiting along the street, most of whom were kneeling in the narrow space on the side of the road, and they did not dare to step beyond the line. The officials and citizens of Shenzhou were humble and respectful, and their obedient attitude even seemed a little weak.

Most people lower their heads, and occasionally some people raise their faces carefully, but it is difficult to see a smile on their faces, or even just sadness and numbness. As for respect, they all kneel down, but they are not respectful enough?

Unlike ordinary people, the bureaucrats, officials, and servants are all full of energy. Even if they know that His Majesty the Emperor is unlikely to care about them, they will still show their best appearance.

As the chief official of Shenzhou, Liu Jiqian rode a tall horse, dressed well, with a proud and even arrogant angle.

Seeing this scene, the old emperor suddenly felt a feeling of not being able to vomit, and he lifted it in his chest in one breath, neither up nor down.

This feeling came too violently, and even became a little overwhelmed. For a moment, his eyes seemed a little hazy, and the scene in front of him seemed to be twisted. The old emperor seemed to be in a magical scene, and the strong sense of unreality even made the old emperor panic.

Vaguely, the old emperor began to recall the past. At that time, every time the old emperor left Beijing, whether on a tour or a war, he faced flowers and cheers from the people of the capital. Many of the cheers were filled with sincere emotions.

Why are the people of Shenzhou so unenthusiastic? Is it because the emperor is too majestic and terrifying? No matter how confident the old emperor is, he dare not think so. The strange feeling is even stronger.

What the old emperor didn't know was that the roads passed by the Luang Kai-shek were temporarily "cleaned up". Xinyang's urban structure was small, and all buildings, houses, shops and even guises that might hinder the access of the Luang Kai-shek were completely cleared by the government just to allow the Luang Kai-shek to reach the prefecture without any obstacles.

At this time, Liu Jiqian, who was riding a horse, felt a little excited. Perhaps it was triggered by his five senses. He did not dare to look around and subconsciously glanced at the Luang Kai-shek, facing the old emperor's exposed eyes.

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Chapter completed!