Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 425

Putting the name Qinling on a big man is somewhat outrageous.

Fortunately, the origin of this name is very early, and it was called this name before Qin State. However, today's people prefer to use the oldest name, called Nanshan.

Zhang Budo, a former censor, noticed this problem and wrote a letter to Liu Chang, hoping to change the name to Hanling or Tangling.

But the ministers did not agree. The word Qin is just a geographical concept. Why do you have to make it so cumbersome?

In the end it was over.

At the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, there is no lush greenery of Yanzhi Mountain here, because it is winter, and when you look around, it is actually bare. Covered by the remains of unknown plants and animals, no animals could be seen, only the bushes trembled and something flew over.

"Forehead!"

"Ah!"

With a muffled sound, the peasant raised the shovel in his hand, slammed it into the ground in front of him, and laboriously threw the soil aside.Looking from the top of the mountain, for hundreds of miles, you can see the gathered people, some are digging soil, some are hauling soil, some are spitting into their palms, rubbing them, taking Tool up.The fire was in full swing, and at intervals, a bonfire filled with stones was burning weakly.

There are officials wearing thick winter clothes, patrolling back and forth, or scolding, or explaining.

There are also fully armed armored soldiers, who never pass by in twos and threes.

In the direction parallel to them is the rushing Weishui.

They are digging canals to shorten the transportation distance from Tongguan to Chang'an. Of course, the farmland along the road can also be irrigated.This water transport canal is not long, and not many people are used, there are 4 to [-] thousand people.

Liu Jing got out of the car and spit out a thick mist.

Despite the thick clothes, the layer of cold still penetrated through the winter clothes and hit his bones hard.

Liu Jing looked at the distance. There were seven or eight officials around him. These officials were usually big men in charge of those inspectors and officials. It was hard for the people who served here to serve as corvés to see them, but at this moment, these people are long gone. The mighty inside, with a smile on his face, bent down in a low voice, not daring to look directly at Liu Jing's face.

"Magistrate Wang?"

"Uncle Liu!"

Liu Jing felt the astonishing cold and couldn't help but say: "I need a few more bonfires, but be careful, don't let the water go away, and make sure that these people can wear winter clothes. I won't forgive you if you freeze and kill someone. These materials will be distributed by you, and finally submitted to the internal history, which will be reported by us."

"only!"

"Liu Gong, it's cold at the moment, you might as well go to the county"

"I'm here to inspect the canal, not to escape the cold!"

Liu Jing interrupted the officials rudely, and then, under their leadership, walked on foot to the edge of the project. The officials along the road all paid their respects. The people didn't even dare to lift their heads.

Liu Jing nodded, "That's right, the number of people summoned by each county is complete, and it's so fast."

"According to your order, the local Zhongliang family came to build and serve His Majesty."

The magistrates laughed. The tyrants of Qin and Han Dynasties were really better than dead, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. In the future, these squires will even be able to compete with temples in the local area, and sometimes dare to stand up the magistrates, but at this moment Well, these county magistrates have to take up military posts during the war, and they are exchanged seamlessly. The daily work includes carrying out three drills with the common people. There are sufficient weapons in the arsenal. I dare not have this thought.

If you are unlucky, it is common to encounter these cruel officials in the early Western Han Dynasty. It is a common occurrence for a large group of cruel officials in the early Western Han Dynasty to like the tyranny of these places the most. It feels like Zhou Bo saw the enemy, what a big one. Military exploits!

However, in addition to the tyrannical, of course, there are also many people involved in it.

Even if the tyrants are dispatched, it is also the dispatch of their own tenants, retainers and the like.

Therefore, Liu Jing is still more concerned about the safety of these people. Even if they are powerful, they cannot let them freeze to death here. If they freeze to death here, it would be a pity.

Liu Jing inspected the long canal project and found a lot of problems.

Among them, there are two issues that aroused Liu Jing's vigilance. The first one is the enthusiasm of the people. Along the way, Liu Jing found that the enthusiasm of these corvée workers is not very high. Of course, the people who want to make the people enthusiastic It is also unlikely that it will be built spontaneously.Han abolished a lot of Qin's systems, and their slightly negative attitude, if they were placed in Daqin, would "shave, shave, shave, and chop toes" three times in a row.

The officials of the Han Dynasty were more gentle in their approach. After all, the Han always advertised his benevolence and morality everywhere, claiming that he governed the country with filial piety, and the idea of ​​benevolent government basically became the mainstream.Even if it is to pretend, it is good to pretend to be like that. Therefore, in the big Han, officials with fish and flesh are still relatively rare. Even the most cruel and cruel officials will not make it difficult for the people at the bottom, because this matter is on zz. is incorrect.

In fact, it is very easy to solve this problem, let the officials be more brutal, or find a few chickens to slaughter, to shock the other monkeys.

But Liu Jing was reluctant to do so, because he himself was a victim of corvée. He was forcibly taken to the border to serve corvée, and when half of the big Han built it up, he escaped.

The advantage of being from the bottom is that Liu Jing knows what these servicemen are thinking and how to treat them.

Liu Jing immediately issued an order to implement a reward system among the corvée groups according to the army's standards, and set them up with ten people as the standard. Among them, those who performed outstandingly every day would be rewarded, and those who performed poorly would be given a reward. accept punishment.

This reward system has nothing to do with the officials, it is all about those who work.

This is to avoid the situation in the Qin Dynasty where officials frantically oppressed the people for the sake of competition.

Qin country likes to compare, whether it is training, farming, corvée, everything is compared to a rank, the county will compare the harvest, the poor harvest will be punished, the good harvest will be promoted, the army and the army will be compared with the drill. As a result, the corvée should also be faster than the progress, which led to the brutality of the Qin officials. For these rewards, they would often frantically oppress the people and force them to do things.

There are also witches who want to catch ghosts as corvée in order to win the game.

Liu Jing's method, however, only targets the common people and avoids this kind of harm.

Another problem is the consumption of agricultural tools. The number of damaged agricultural tools does not match the number of agricultural tools just delivered, which is obviously a greedy behavior.

After the strict investigation, several small officials who collected damaged farm implements to sell iron soon became members of the army of corvée.

The construction of the canals is very fast, so it seems that the canals here can be connected in a year at most.

This made Liu Jing more firm in his thoughts. Sure enough, such a small-scale construction channel is still much more reliable than building a palace in Luoyang.

Standing at the door of Houde Hall, Liu Chang looked out helplessly.

Although it hasn't snowed yet, the weather is getting colder.

In recent years, the climate in the entire north has been getting colder and colder, and the winters have lasted much longer than before.

Liu Chang is not bad. He has rough skin and thick flesh, and he is not afraid of the cold wind. He just doesn't know if there are people who have been killed by freezing.

Zhang Budo was wearing extremely thick clothes, standing behind Liu Chang, shivering in the cold wind.

His body was not as long as Liu's, and he was extremely afraid of the cold.

"I heard that Tang, Zhao, Liang, and Qi have snowed in many places."

"There are six counties reporting disasters."

Liu Chang stroked his chin lightly, "Unfortunately, if there is a lot of cotton at the moment"

Zhang Buzhen said tremblingly, "Your Majesty, why don't you let the kings of the Western Regions send merchants to go to the body to get a lot of cotton? Seeds and finished products can be bought. We also have things they don't have, which can be exchanged. "

"I ordered it a long time ago, but most of the areas are now occupied by the Huns. The Huns and my big Han are mortal enemies."

"Your Majesty, Ji Conge is also a capable king. He will not refuse to do business with Dahan."

"It is precisely because of his ability that he strictly controls the flow of things that big men really need to big men."

And in Zhang Buxuan's mouth, this capable porridge is now killing his incompetent younger brother in the body poisonous territory.

The poison at the moment is really lively.

It's a multi-party battle.

The first is the destroyer of the Mauryan dynasty in India, Pusamidolu Sunga, who was originally a general of the Mauryan dynasty.

As the saying goes, "good birds choose wood to perch, and worthy ministers choose their masters to kill."

This one killed the King of Carts, ended the Maurya Dynasty by killing the king, established the Sunga Dynasty, and the capital is still Fahrenheit.Because of his improper means of ascending the throne, most of the Maurya Dynasty after the split did not obey him, and the Kalingas even counterattacked several times, causing the new king to have a headache.

The Mauryan Dynasty in the time of King Ashoka repulsed the Greeks and nomads from all sides many times, and when they learned the news of the end of the Mauryan Dynasty, the Bactrian Kingdom established by the invading Greeks was the happiest. The Mauryan Dynasty ended, and Kabul, Gandhara, and Punjab were included in the kingdom's territory.

The king-killer Sunga was furious, and brought his army to reclaim these areas. The king of the peacock was killed by himself. How can this land be returned to outsiders? ?

At this moment, King Dmitri II of the Kingdom of Bactria is resisting the counterattack of the kingslayer. In order to resist the counterattack, he brutally oppressed the people, forcing them to pay more food as his military expenses, and vowed to follow The Sunga Dynasty fought to the end, but such a move caused a rebellion.

The general Euclaides, who was in charge of the area north of the Hindu Kush Mountains, launched a rebellion and became king in Bactria. From then on, the kingdom was divided into two dynasties, the North and the South, who fought against each other with the Hindu Kush Mountains as the boundary.

In the case of so many melee battles, Ji Conge rushed in.

Ji porridge belongs to the kind that is not well-known but has extraordinary abilities. Most descendants like to compare Mao Dun and Ji porridge as Liu Bang and Liu Heng, or even Ying Zheng and Liu Bang.

He has a long-term vision, has courage, does not hesitate to do things, and does not hesitate to employ people. Most of the characteristics possessed by a virtuous gentleman have all of them, but he himself is not good at killing, not lustful, not good at drinking, he is strict with himself, and sets an example. Created a mighty empire.Although he was beaten badly by Han Xin at this moment, his generals had improved a lot after the bloody battle. He was not short of excellent generals and brave soldiers.

After defeating several indigenous peoples, he quickly encountered Northern Bactria, ruled by Euclaides, and the two sides quickly fought.

The Greek-style army officially encountered the iron cavalry of the Huns.

The Huns occupied the absolute top in terms of the number of troops, the quality of their commanders, and the quality of the troops, and they looted along the way, so they didn't have to worry about the food issue. The citizen army of Euclaides was defeated several times. The land was seized by the Huns, and Euclaides had no choice but to ask Dmitri II in the south for help, and said: put down prejudice first and defeat these barbarians wearing animal skins.

Ji Cong also quickly sent someone to contact the kingslayer Sunga, hoping that the two sides would form an alliance, and expressed his willingness to submit to the Brahmanism that Sunga believed in.

Brahmanism is a sect in ancient India, which can be understood as the ancient form of today's Hinduism, while the Mauryan Dynasty respected Buddhism and advocated the equality of all Buddhists and did not implement a caste system. During the Mauryan Dynasty, Brahmanism declined for a long time. , but today's Sunga Dynasty, it is Brahmanism.

Countries are hostile to each other and have many conflicts.

Ji porridge is handy here. After years of honing, Ji porridge has already taken on the attitude of the old Shang Shanyu in history. He carried out various comforts in the occupied areas, established a new management system, attracted princes and nobles, encouraged The people re-invested in farming, contacted other countries abroad, and provoked wars, but they did not stop expanding for a while.

The power of the Xiongnu is like pouring ink on the map, constantly dyeing each part of the map with its own color.

Ji Conge is not a reckless person who can only kill. He is better at politics. He even gained a large group of Greek scholars through the method of polite corporal, treating them as his own teachers, asking them for truth, and asking them to teach them. own language, as well as the culture from the West, this is to better understand their enemies.

There is a general under the command of Euclaides, in order to obtain this brave general, Ji Cong has used alienation, influence, and even bitter tactics, and successfully subdued.

If the only shortcoming of Ji Conge is that his body is too weak.

Although he can also wear armor and draw a bow, he is not as strong as his brothers.

After being injured by Liu Chang, his body became even weaker.

His face was pale all day, and there were always many witch doctors around.

"Brother, are you going to die of illness?"

Hu Tu looked at his brother worriedly and couldn't help asking.

Ji Conge pursed his lips, and did not answer Hu Tu's question directly, but only asked: "The countries in the Western Regions have sent people to trade, what do you think?"

Hu Tu was about to say that these people would be arrested and killed, but looking at his elder brother's expression, he still replied: "In order to conquer the poison as soon as possible, temporarily put aside prejudice and exchange them for weapons and food."

"fart!"

Ji Conge scolded angrily: "What is the cotton they asked for? It's for keeping out the cold, it's for expedition, it's what they need the most, how can they easily succeed? Ordnance Can the Han Chinese sell weapons to their enemies? What are the things that the body does not have, and should they exchange with the big Han? You should guard the door, prevent everything that is of great use to the big Han from entering the big Han, and also prevent everything that is right. The useful things from the Daxia people come from the big man!"

Hu Tu lowered his head and said, "I see. Brother."

"Then I will kill their merchants and cut off all communication."

"fart!"

"Who told you to cut off all communication and forbid them to send merchants, won't you send them? The silk, porcelain and paper of Dahan are transported to Daxia, and the cotton livestock, grapes, beans and melons from Daxia are transported to Dahan. Both sides cannot trade. You can only control the trade, isn't it better not to cut off the exchanges??"

Hu Tu said aggrieved: "Anyway, you have to scold me for anything I say. It's better not to talk about these falsehoods and just scold me. Anyway, you are also sick. Now it's better to scold me a few more times."

Ji Cong sighed, "My health is getting worse and worse, but there are still many things I want to do. The current enemies are all tough enemies and cannot be taken lightly. I'm worried that you are not their opponent. what."

"Brother, don't worry!"

"I will definitely defeat them, these people are not our opponents at all!"

"It's easy to defeat them, but it's not easy to manage the place well. The Han people are eager to move. They use us as pioneers to explore the way. We are their eagle dogs. They are used to search for prey before hunting. Before the hunters arrive, eat and drink, and then kill the hunters who come later. Otherwise, you will continue to be hounds, all the way west, and you will never have your own hometown."

"The Han people are coming??"

Hu Tu's face was shocked.

Ji Cong frowned and said seriously: "You know what kind of character Tang King is, sooner or later, he will ride that white horse and set foot on such a rich prey in this land, how could he Let go?"

"Then what should I do, I can't beat him!"

"Try to make yourself stronger, I don't ask you to beat him, as long as you can repel him and make him unable to move forward, that's enough."

"Your Majesty, do you want to go on an expedition again?"

Zhang Budo looked at Liu Chang and looked into the distance, out of his understanding of Liu Chang, he could see his thoughts at a glance.

Liu Chang grinned, "There will always be a day when I will bring an elite cavalry from the Western Regions and attack all the way to the West, destroying the countries encountered along the way and making them all surrender to me, I Just kill all the way, never stop, die on the road of the expedition!"

"This is what a man does!!"

Listening to Liu Chang's great ambition, Lu Lu couldn't help but ask, "What about the prince, the queen, and the queen mother? What should we do?"

Liu Chang was silent and did not answer.

(End of this chapter)