sweeping the world

Chapter 626 Zhuangzi's Theory "The Pillow Box"

Liu Yan only stayed in Jiankang for half a month, and then left for Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is one of the country's future granaries. As a king, if you want to develop it, how can you not see it for yourself?Liu Yan traveled by land, leaving Jiankang and taking the Lujiang County line. It took him [-] days to arrive in Jiangxia, and he chose Lu Yi's house to stay.

Nothing special happened during the inspection, so Liu Yan repeatedly praised Huan Wen for doing a very good job in the south.

The king inspected the area that had just been conquered for a few years. If the assassination happened, it would not be an accident. What Liu Yan knew was that not only did the assassination not happen, but he also did not find out who was arranging the assassination. Praising Huan Wen is an encouragement, and it is more clear that it is because The effect of expressing a position in Jiankang.

A leeway must be left for the southerners. If they are restricted from participating in the governance of the country, some people who feel that they have no future will definitely go crazy. Fighting with Liu Yan will only be one of the means, and the next step will be to completely mess up the south of the Yangtze River.

As far as Han was concerned, there was no chaos in the south of the Yangtze River. That was why the northern groups, which seemed to have strong political power, obviously didn't like it but didn't make trouble when they knew that Liu Yan was going to start selecting talents in the south.

Liu Yan does not want to see regional exclusion. Both the north and the south are part of the country. People in one region cannot be made more powerful, and people in a certain region cannot be despaired. The point is that everyone is equally useful to the country.

Jiangxia is the ancestral land of Lu Yi's family. What happened to Lu Yi's family has become history, because Lu Yi is now one of the nine ministers of the Han Dynasty, and will undoubtedly become Jiang Xia's pride. Counting, the prestige is bound to be great.

Excessive prestige of a certain family in a certain place is not what the ruler wants to see, but no ruler can avoid or eradicate similar phenomena, not only in ancient times, but even as long as society exists. Change.

Since the ruler can't make anyone become a symbol of a certain place, let his own people gain prestige, which is better than some forces that are not his own to fill in the gaps. Lu Yi is like this in Jiangxia County, Sang Yu is like this in Wei County, Cai You are like this in Dongmou County, and so are some people.

Jiangxia County is a place with a long history. The city may have been built and then moved, and there will be countless ups and downs over the long years. The only thing that remains the same is that the mountains are still the same mountains, and the water is still the same water.

There is no Jiangxia City in Jiangxia County now. No one knows when Jiangxia City was destroyed. The current capital of Jiangxia County is Anlu, and Anlu is located on the edge of Jianshui River.

Lu Yi's ancestral home was in Jiangxia County, more specifically in Xiakou.Xiakou is located on the edge of the Yangtze River, across the river is the boundary of Wuchang County, and to the northeast is Runan County.

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If Liu Yan was not blind, Jiangxia County was actually counted as the boundary of Hubei Province. To calculate the boundary of Hunan Province, it should start from the south of Nanping County.

How did the Qing Dynasty build Hunan into a high-yield grain-producing area?Liu Yan has no relevant impression of this. He needs to make Jingzhou a grain-producing area. How to develop it is a matter for the ministers.

"I need to go to Dongting Lake to observe." Cai You's understanding is that the development of grain-producing areas must be inseparable from water sources. Considering how to make Dongting Lake a part of the irrigation system is the key.Pointing to the many water systems in Jingzhou, he said, "The waterways here are equivalent to those in Huainan County."

Huainan County was originally a grain-producing area, including the surrounding Ruyin County, Yingchuan County, and Lujiang County. It has been developed since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, but the long years have changed too much, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. All kinds of man-made construction damage is particularly large.

Liu Yan looked carefully at the map for a long time, and found that he didn't see the place marked as Yunmengze. After asking, he found out that Yunmengze disappeared because the Yangtze River was diverted. Xiakou was originally located on the east side of Yunmengze, and Yunmengze was not Not far before it disappears.

Dongting Lake is in the southeast of Runan County, and the distance from Xiakou is more than [-] miles. There is no mature communication line between the two places, and there is no guarantee that every section of the river can be sailed through the Yangtze River. Liu Yan wants to Arriving in Guanzhong before autumn, naturally there is not so much time.What's more, even if Liu Yan has enough time, he can't make such a toss, otherwise who will be responsible for the accident.

Just like the political show in Jiankang, it is enough for Liu Yan to go to Jingzhou to express his attitude in person. There is no need to actually check all the areas in person. Those are the things that the officials in charge of developing Jingzhou should do.

In the end, Liu Yan stayed at Lu Yi's house for five days, and Cai You stayed when he was about to go north to Yuzhou.

The current geographical names are rather confusing. The Shijie Zhao Kingdom and the Eastern Jin Dynasty have many administrative regions with the same name. For example, on the map of the Shijie Zhao Kingdom, Runan County is in the northeast of Jiangxia County, but the map of the Eastern Jin Dynasty shows Runan County. Nanjun is in the southeast of Jiangxia County.

The map used by the Han Dynasty in the early days was the division of the Cao and Wei Dynasties. Later, the territorial map of the Eastern Han Dynasty was captured in Yecheng, but the territorial map of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not used for current use. The map was re-planned after many years of exploration.

According to the orthodox division left over from history, Runan County should be in the northeast of Jiangxia County, so if you want to go from Jiangxia County to Yuzhou, you need to pass through the boundary of Runan County.

The news that Liu Yan wanted to recruit southerners to participate in the country's governance spread quickly. When he entered the border of Runan County, many local families organized to welcome him.

According to geographical location, Runan County actually belongs to the area north of the Yangtze River. Politically, Runan County was originally the territory of Shijie Zhao State, so it cannot be regarded as under the rule of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.But what is more embarrassing for the people in Runan County is that according to the geographical distribution of the Han Kingdom, they are southerners. Anyway, they are at odds with the current northern groups of the Han Kingdom.

Nowadays, even in modern China, officials are divided into regions. Although no one will talk about which place is more likely to produce officials, it really does exist.In modern times, there are still political parties that are downplaying the differences between officials' regions. Without a political party system, what they are talking about now is the region of origin.

There are several groups in the north, such as the Sang family in Wei County, the Cui family in Jizhou, and the Cai family in Qingzhou.

In fact, there are groups in the south, and the Lu family in Jiangxia County is one of them. Their lineage gathers most of the aristocratic families that went north in the early days, and of course they are the largest faction representing the south.

They are surrounded by a group of people from their respective backgrounds. After becoming officials, those people will naturally move closer to the most prestigious people, and interest groups are formed.

Apart from the group of Lu Yi who can represent the south, as the Huan family and the Xie family entered the official system of the Han Dynasty, a group of people gathered around the Huan family and the Xie family, and then there was the Yu family who joined the group in the middle.Waiting for the demise of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, most of the families who are the losers are actually a little confused. Many thousand-year-old families will not easily seek refuge with anyone, whether they are reserved or hypocritical, and some who want to seek refuge are not accepted or not at all know who to look for.

Liu Yan didn't make a conscious effort to find out who came to greet them, and they should know who they are and report to them soon.

"Two became the original local tyrants, and the rest are immigrants from other places." Cui Zong bowed his upper body respectfully, introduced in detail what should be introduced, and then asked for instructions: "How to arrange, please show below. "

Cui Zong is Liu Yan's new personal secretary, born in the direct line of the Cui family in Jizhou, and will be Cui Wan's cousin in the future.He didn't know in advance that he would become the king's personal secretary, and he had only been in office for four days, so he hadn't adapted yet.

Liu Yan frowned slightly. Except for state affairs, other than state affairs, that is, heads of state and famous generals, some tyrants in one county of the country didn't have to personally arrange what to do.

Seeing Liu Yan's obvious frown, Cui Zong immediately stepped back on the spot, and dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

During the feudal dynasty, not to mention the level of kings, even county officials only talked about majesty and did not do things that were close to the people.This is closely related to the social environment at that time. Majesty is more useful than kindness, especially for kings.

In many cases, it is not that the king is unwilling to be close to the people, but that he should maintain his own sense of mystery, and then there are related security considerations.Of course the king will not ignore the people, but he will never go to meet anyone easily. Even if he is to meet the village elders, the chance of meeting them will be higher than that of the powerful.

Those tyrants in Runan County would be too naive if they thought that they would be received by the king if they came to meet them.Some people wanted to present gifts to the king, or gifts with no special meaning, and all they got was scolding.

Liu Yan didn't even summon the county governor in Runan County, he just invited some old enough people according to tradition.

The oldest old man who was arranged to come here was 72 years old. He was born at the end of the Three Kingdoms.

"The little old man was originally from Bingzhou. When the Puppet Dynasty moved the Hulu in a big way, he moved south. King Yuye (Hanoi County in the Western Jin Dynasty) lived in peace for three years. During the Yongjia Rebellion, he moved south again and fled to Chenliu..." The old man obviously He is from a good family background, his thinking is clear when he is old, but his speech is a little awkward. He tells his past experience: "When the northerners fled southward in a big way (dressed southward), the little old man followed him southward, but there was no place for him to enter Yangzhou. I just came to Runan."

More than 100 million people fled to the south from various parts of the Central Plains during the Yiguan Nandu period, and most of them followed the high-ranking officials and nobles to Yangzhou.It is not an easy matter for more than one million northerners to move south, especially for ordinary people. Countless people died of illness and starvation while fleeing, even if they arrived in the land, many people struggled to survive. If you continue to have to sell yourself as a slave, it will make the slavery of the various families even more serious.

There is no detailed record in the history books of the process of "dressing southward", only a few "Spring and Autumn Writings", and there is no record of how the various aristocratic families that moved south made the local southern aristocratic families surrender.There are some theories in the unofficial history that the families who fled south launched a war against the native families in the south because they recruited the people who went south together. Hundreds of thousands of people on both sides died, and many native families in the south were also wiped out.In that war to compete for living space, the northern aristocratic families not only grabbed territory, but almost everything they could grab. Only then did the aristocratic families who fled from the north to the south become the controllers of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

After listening to the story, Liu Yan felt too much embarrassment. What happened like this was completely caused by the social elites at that time. It is sad and deplorable that those people who died in the south fled, and of course there were all kinds of people who stayed in the north and were captured by the Hu captives. The abuse of the people is enough to illustrate the impact of a bad mind on the people in power.

"Little old man, I don't know if I should say something or not?" The old man's words made everyone present except Liu Yan nervous.Seeing Liu Yan nodding his head with a smile, he said, "Zhuangzi once said that 'the saint never dies, but the thieves never stop'."

"The sage never dies, the thieves never stop" is from "Zhuangzi. Outer Chapter. Xunkui Tenth", which roughly talks about the formulation of rules, and how the makers gain benefits from the rules they make, points out more deeply that " The phenomenon of "thieves of the country".

The old man's words made Liu Yan lose his smile on his face, and the faces of the rest of the people present also became livid, and several people involved in the invitation even passed out directly on the ground.Maybe it was because of his deteriorating eyesight, or more likely because he ignored everyone's changing faces, he paused before continuing: "To the world, a family is a big thief."

The smile came back to Liu Yan's face, if the old man didn't have the last sentence, even he would have scolded him.The Han Dynasty he established was recovered from the Huru people. In terms of the dynasty before the country was upright, no one can compare with it. The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that destroyed the same Miao people did not have any moral defects, especially in the process of destroying the small court. There was no indiscriminate killing of innocent people, and not many people died.

Liu Yan doesn't like aristocratic families, but it doesn't mean that aristocratic families don't exist just because he doesn't like them. If one aristocratic family is destroyed, there will be countless aristocratic families, and if the contemporary aristocratic family is destroyed, as long as there are still people who are officials, as long as people still need families, they will Aristocratic family appeared.

Liu Yan, who traveled from later generations, is very clear that even in the era when society has evolved to explore the universe, the family still exists, it is nothing more than a different name.

The activity of seeing the old man ended here, and Liu Yan looked back after watching the old man being helped away.He knew that it was an old man who had been harmed by his family, and when he could see the king, he would rely on his advanced age to have a good time.

"That old man has no relatives, right?" Liu Yan got the answer. He was really a widow and was supported by the local government.He didn't go deep into this topic, he waved his hand to make everyone except Cui Zong retreat, and then said: "I hope that old man lives well."

What else could Cui Zong do? He could only respond respectfully: "No!"

(End of this chapter)