Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Especially in Jingzhou, if Huainan is lost, it can rely on the Yangtze River to barely defend for some time, and it will have the strength to struggle for a short time.

But once Jingzhou was lost, the northern army went directly down the river, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River basically had no resistance.

Now these two keys, Huainan and Jingzhou, are in the hands of Qin State, and Jiangnan has been tightly controlled.

Six years ago, Shi Congyun defeated the Southern Tang Dynasty and seized the fourteen prefectures of Huainan; three years ago, he destroyed Nanping and Wuping, and seized the twelve prefectures of Jingchu; The Three Gorges advances eastward, threatening the enemy in the west on the back of Jingzhou.

At this point, without the Huaihe line of defense, without the Jingchu line of defense, the west and north of the south of the Yangtze River have been completely exposed to the front of Qin's soldiers. The Southern Tang Dynasty is destined to die in the long run.

So now Shi Congyun is not afraid that Jiangnan people will leak military plans when they come to Daliang, and he is far less afraid of Jiangnan than before.

Instead, what he thinks now is to strengthen exchanges with Jiangnan, especially cultural and commercial exchanges. When soldiers join Jiangnan, the resistance will be much smaller.

.........

On the [-]th, when Shi Congyun was having dinner, Li Fang, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, advised him.

Li Fang said that he made good friends with some scholars and bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River. He knew that Li Jing, the ruler of the south of the Yangtze River, began to reject and fear the scholars in the north.

After hearing his words, Shi Congyun immediately understood the meaning of Li Fang's words, hoping that he would accept and protect these people.

But with the previous lessons, he didn't just pat his head to decide things.

So he asked Li Fang to come back the next day, and he asked several prime ministers, Lu Duosun and others to ask about this matter and ask their opinions.

Li Gu and others generally opposed it, and their words were relatively cryptic, but Li Shi Congyun quickly understood what they meant, and he was very savvy.

One of their meanings is that they have just usurped the throne, so loyalty should be advocated at this time, and it is not good to accept people who defected from other countries. They are afraid that the current discussion will not be good for him, and they will have to wait a few years before the limelight passes.

The second is that this move may cause antagonism with the Southern Tang Kingdom. This year and the next few years, we must concentrate our efforts on dealing with the North. It is best not to risk falling out with the Southern Tang.

Third, they didn't say anything, but Shi Congyun also understood that if some officials or talented people from the Southern Tang Kingdom came to Daliang, it would definitely make all the officials unhappy.

It has to be said that most of the prime ministers of the Qin State have gone through several dynasties and have rich experience in such matters.

He thought about it for a long time, but he was still a little unwilling. What if he didn't want to come after a few years?

He himself has no sense of guilt. He is well-informed and has seen thousands of years of history. The three views are also different from those of people today. Not shallow criticism, what he wants is talent.

But Fan Zhi's previous education also made him understand that he can't mess around with his preferences, and has to consider the current reality.

On the other hand, in his mind, Jiangnan people are also Chinese.

The China in his concept is far from the China that people think of today, although the current Qin State and the previous Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Zhou are often called China by other countries.

After thinking about it, he chose not to listen to a few prime ministers on this matter, but he was not prepared to bring all these people to Daliang immediately.

It's not that I'm afraid of being criticized morally, the most important consideration is the interest consideration.

Because of this, Qin State may have turned against Southern Tang. Afterwards, he will attack Li Yun and Northern Han, so it is best not to be distracted in the south.

When he cleaned up the north, the army returned to Beijing, and then brought those people to Daliang with their names, Nan Tang didn't dare to do anything.

So he approached Li Fang and asked him to take his own soldiers and letters to Wuyue as an envoy to Wuyue to take in the Southern Tang talents and officials who had fled or defected from the Southern Tang.

Unlike other separatist regimes, Wu Yue is a very reliable ally.

Before leaving, Shi Congyun personally wrote a letter to King Wuyue to explain the situation, and also asked Li Fang to talk to him, telling him what happened and the purpose of this time.

Li Fang was flattered and excited at the same time, saying that he would do well as instructed and not let him down.

Shi Congyun gave him a few words of encouragement, and rewarded him with an old dress he had worn.

Li Fang was even more excited, and repeatedly patted his chest to reassure.

It is not without reason that he is so excited. Li Fang is now a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, which is the preparation of the prime minister's team, but whether he can be the prime minister and really take power depends on his luck.

If he is assigned by the emperor to do something and he does well, he will have a good chance to join the ranks of ministers in the future. In this case, Li Fang is naturally very excited and looks forward to this opportunity to perform.

.......

At the end of January, the weather gradually warmed up. In the spring of the second year of Tenglong, the wind became stronger and stronger.

In addition to accompanying his wife and children and handling government affairs, Shi Congyun often went to the camp by the Bian River to watch the joint training of the Shenhuo Army and other armies.

At the end of January, Wang Pu completed his mission in Hebei and returned successfully. He purchased a large amount of grain from the people of Hebei and stored it in the national warehouse by the Yellow River. Some of it was escorted back and stored in Yongfeng warehouse in the southeast of Daliang City.

The section from Kaifeng to Luoyang and the nearby Yellow River, because it is close to the river, is a strategic location in itself. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, there were many state warehouses.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the thirteen princes attacked Dong Zhuo, the main armies gathered jujube because there was Aocang, the country's largest granary at that time, by the Yellow River, which could provide food and grass for the army.

As an agricultural country, the granary system in ancient China began to be continuously improved as early as the Zhou Dynasty, and it developed to a new height in the Qin Dynasty.

In the Sui Dynasty, righteous warehouses appeared.

Yicang is known as a means of imperial regulation, that is, the government sets up warehouses, and usually people hand in grain to the Yicang if they can't finish eating in a good harvest year. The government keeps a record of who paid how much grain.

In the year of famine or bad harvest, the government will return food to the people according to the amount handed over.

It sounds wonderful, but the results needless to say can be imagined.A large amount of food from the Yicang was embezzled by the court and officials, and was corrupted; the Yicang became one of the important reasons that triggered a large number of peasant uprisings in the late Sui Dynasty.

The so-called Sui Dynasty's boast of being able to macro-control grain prices does not exist at all, because the Sui Dynasty did not pay for the people's grain, but the people voluntarily handed over the food that they could not finish.

Once the common people hand over their properties without reservation and get no corresponding rewards, there is only a blank check, and the ending is doomed.

Since you can get it for nothing, who is willing to give money?Human nature cannot stand the test.

This is completely different from Qin's use of money to purchase grain in Hebei to control grain prices. The people in Hebei can immediately get the money for selling grain instead of a bad check from the court, so they don't have to worry about tragedies like the Sui Dynasty.

This time, according to Wang Pu's report, a total of 92 shi of grain was purchased from the people of Hebei.

Shi Congyun ordered that 50 shi should be stored in a Zhuanyuan warehouse north of the Yellow River without being moved, and the remaining 42 shi would be transported back to Daliang along the waterway and stored in Yongfeng warehouse.

At the same time, during the war in Shu, a large amount of grain was also seized in the treasury, and it was transported back along the waterway. About 60 shi of rice was transported in half a year. Shi Congyun ordered that the remaining rice not be transported because the cost was too high.

In the past few years, Henan, Hebei, Huainan, Shandong and other places have all begun to recover, just like this year's Hebei, which has had a bumper harvest for three consecutive years.

The vitality of the country is recovering, because the Khitan people have not sent troops to the south on a large scale for a long time, and the large-scale destruction of people's production and life by burning, killing and looting has not happened for almost ten years.

After ten years of recuperation, the country is continuing to recover.

The Zhuanyuan warehouse is not a permanent warehouse, but Shi Congyun put 50 stones in the north of the Yellow River, and it is still in the Zhuanyuan warehouse because he will send troops to the north soon and does not plan to store them for a long time.

The plan has been made, and he must solve the Li Yun problem and the Northern Han problem no matter what.

Shi Congyun praised Wang Pu, rewarded him with [-] yuan, and at the same time rewarded Wang Pu with an old dress he had worn.

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Half a year after Shi Congyun ascended the throne, the ministers gradually discovered that several high-ranking ministers liked to wear old clothes more and more.

All the officials were puzzled and speculated about the mystery.

Some people think that officials like frugality and people who wear old clothes;

This matter is naturally Shi Congyun's overt conspiracy.

Corruption was another huge problem faced by the Qin Dynasty after its establishment.

If it is said that the corruption of the past dynasties is to satisfy one's own selfish desires, then the corruption since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms has become a common practice...  

Because the change of dynasty was too fast, all the officials who took up their posts thought of taking advantage of the fact that they were still in office, and quickly made a fortune and left. Who knows how many years there are in this country?

This trend has caused great difficulties for the people and the country.

After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, he killed many ministers, but what he killed were not old ministers or meritorious officials, but corrupt officials.

Shi Congyun also learned this trick from Old Zhao.

Lao Zhao also thought of a trick. He took the lead in frugality and used the old sedan chair left by Zhou Shizong. There were only more than 200 court ladies in the palace. They often wore old clothes and even saved food, but the ministers were unwilling.

The so-called effective from top to bottom, although it can't make the water clear, but if most ministers set an example, after a long time, it will definitely improve the official atmosphere of corruption and wealth accumulation since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to a certain extent.

In addition to killing, Lao Zhao thought of another evil and clever conspiracy.

Even if I often reward the ministers with my old clothes, I have to confess seriously that these are worn by me.

The ministers felt flattered one after another. In addition, it was a reward from the emperor, so how could they not wear it? They will often wear old clothes in the future.

Slowly, it was found that many high-ranking officials began to be "frugal". The officials below either followed suit, or imitated in order to please their superiors. The officials of the imperial court were like this.

Many years later, the officialdom began to take pride in going to office on foot, and it was proud to take only a parcel to show that one's property was small when going to a local official, and the atmosphere changed.

This is indeed a good conspiracy, in terms of improving the atmosphere and curbing corruption.

However, Shi Congyun is not as frugal as Lao Zhao, he has always been rich, and when he was not an emperor, his childhood was very comfortable.

There are beautiful wives in the family, and there are many silks and satins. The days are moist, but there are not so many old clothes.

They all wanted to come with Dad, Shao Ji, and Wang Zhong, but if he said he passed through, he passed through.

Sure enough, within a few days, apart from formally going to court, several prime ministers put on the "old clothes worn by the emperor" rewarded by him, and officials began to follow suit.

Shi Congyun looked very satisfied in the main hall. If this kind of atmosphere continues for a few years, it will definitely change a lot.

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At the beginning of February, Shi Congyun was looking after his children in the backyard, when Lin Shanggong hurried in, saying that the privy envoy Luqiu Zhongqing and the privy envoy Feng Jisheng were outside asking for an audience, looking very anxious.

Shi Congyun went out to meet them in ordinary clothes.

In the Chuigong Hall, the two looked nervous, and finally handed him a piece of information sent by the officials of the Privy Council ahead.

Shi Congyun glanced at the two of them, wondering why they didn't report directly.

But soon he understood why the two of them couldn't open their mouths, because it was written by "Xiping King" Li Yun, and announced to the world.

grass!good guy...

Chapter 316, Situation

"...The son of the historian, the ear of the great thief who steals the country, he calls it a lotus flower, but his heart is a tiger and a wolf. There are more than millions of living beings; it is more than ten or eight years to ravage China..."

"...The temples are filthy and messy, they are desolate in the palace, they work day and night, they call good family members, and they do ridiculous things..."

"Foreign bandits come to invade, hide in the sidelines, one point of effort, seven points to make it bigger..."

"Practice the law and the system like a child's play, treat the ministers as domestic slaves.... Violent people, cruel nature, killing innocent people..."

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"Stop, stop!" Shi Congyun waved his hands repeatedly, calling to stop Lin Shanggong who was carefully reciting the proclamation: "Forget it, forget it, don't read it."

Lin Shanggong stopped quickly, but Luqiu Zhongqing and Feng Jisheng didn't speak.

Shi Congyun was very angry, not because of the call for thieves, but because Li Yun had arrested his envoy, and the poor envoy would most likely be dead...

As for the proclamation, it is completely in line with Li Yun's style. All the messy things are blamed on him, as if he is Dong Zhuo. His history of the emperor is not violent, he is not acting absurdly, and he is not resisting foreign invaders. How can there be trampling on the legal system, oppressing subjects, and messing up the court......

Wait, the court is dirty... It seems that there is no way to refute this one.

But there is no other way. It is a pity that a beautiful and delicate woman like the Empress Dowager Fu is a widow at a young age. As the Son of Heaven, he also thinks of others and saves all sentient beings.

In short, he didn't pay attention to the call to action at all. The important thing is how to deal with it.

Because he said a thousand words and ten thousand things would eventually be implemented in the military, he began to feel nervous, so he immediately sent someone to call the senior officials of the two divisions and two governments to come over to discuss the matter.

But after calling them here, they just explained the matter hastily, let everyone think about it, discussed it in the hall, and did not come up with a plan in a hurry.

The Second Mansion is under the Privy Council and Zhongshu. The name of the Second Mansion is what everyone usually says, and there is no such official name.

Since the Privy Council is in charge of the country's highest military decision-making power, Zhongshumen's subordinates are in charge of the country's highest political decision-making power, so it is called the second government.

In the Song Dynasty, it was the Second Mansion and the Third Division. The Second Mansion has not changed. It is still the Privy Council. The three divisions, the Household Department and the Ministry of Finance, control the country's finances, which are very different from what they are now.

The current two divisions are naturally the Guards Division and the Dianqian Division. Such a deconstruction of power can also be seen that the military has a great say today.

Now, after six or seven years of management by the first emperor Guo Rong, coupled with his numerous adaptations, the Department of Guards and the Department of Dianqian are quite different, and the Shenhuo Army is also on the rise.

Most of the bodyguards are representatives of the elite combat power of the older generation. There are a large number of Shatuo elite cavalry. They were once Guo Wei's pro-army and are the inheritance of the Five Dynasties. Therefore, the elite cavalry of the bodyguards are the most powerful in the imperial army, especially the representative of Long Jiejun. .

The Dianqian Division is the new backbone force. Both the late Emperor Guo Rong and he have put in a lot of effort. When Guo Rong rectified the Dianqian Division, it was intended to check and balance the Guard Division.

After seven or eight years of development, the Dianqian Division has become the main force of the Forbidden Army, and the overall strength of the Guard Division is no longer comparable to the newly-emerged Dianqian Division.In particular, the Crane Control Army who followed him in the South and North Wars is the backbone of the Dianqian Division.

In addition, the Shenhuo Army has also begun to rise. Although the Shenhuo Army is nominally subordinate to the Dianqian Division, everyone knows that the Shenhuo Army is directly under the command and dispatch of the officials, and cannot be adjusted by others.

Power is such a state of mutual restraint and dynamic balance.

And Shi Congyun used another trick. In the past, the head of the bodyguard department was Li Chongjin, and later he became his father Shi Yanchao. Now his father has become the Supreme Emperor, but the commander of the guards Ma Bujun is still his father.

Dad is now the Supreme Emperor, so naturally he won't take care of it anymore, but no one dares to covet the position of commander of the guard Ma Bujun on Dad's head, which is tantamount to slowly leaving the head of the guard department idle.

And he was inspected in front of the palace before, and he did not step down after taking the throne, nor did he check in the next term, which means that there will be no more inspections in front of the palace by default, and no one will object.

This is an overt conspiracy, which is tantamount to slowly weakening the power of the army.