Chapter 1132 1127 [The Emperor’s literary dream was shattered]
After leaving Tuxiu Academy, Zhu Guoxiang took a boat straight to Kaifeng.
He is quite familiar with this place, so there is no need to stay too long, but there are some people who need to be met, such as members of the royal family (royal family) whose country was destroyed.
Including the sons of Song Huizong, all received interviews and rewards.
The madman Zhao Kai died of illness after all.
Last winter, he was drunk and fell ill on the street. Some good people sent him to a famous prostitute, and successfully received a reward from the famous prostitute. The doctor said that he was terminally ill and there was no way to save him, so the famous prostitute sent someone to send Zhao Kai back.
At home, his wife cursed him and took him in.
On his deathbed, looking back, Zhao Kai actually stopped going crazy and told his wife and children who had not paid for the painting.
This year, the lawsuit started, and his wife and children sued more than ten people at once.
Public opinion is very favorable to his wife and children, but he is at a legal disadvantage.
First, they could not produce any evidence, and Zhao Kai had gone crazy a long time ago, and what he said before his death may not be reliable; second, Zhao Kai and his wife had divorced long ago, and he had severed the father-son relationship with his sons.
This lawsuit caused a sensation, and there has been no final verdict yet, but it is only a matter of time before the plaintiff loses the case.
Now that he was received by the Supreme Emperor, Zhao Kai's ex-wife cried without saying a few words. Zhu Guoxiang was so upset that he simply paid 200 yuan of his own money, but refused to interfere in the normal trial of the government.
After dismissing this family, Zhu Guoxiang talked to other people, and gradually it was Zhao Jiu's family's turn: "What are you doing for a living now?"
Zhao Gou said: "Reporting to the emperor, Xiaomin was hired as a teacher by a wealthy businessman to teach some calligraphy, painting, and music. He occasionally met with scholars and sold some calligraphy and painting paintings. He also edited and edited for a printing house, and also gave people
If you write an epitaph, you can get a few polishing fees."
"It's good if you are willing to be self-reliant," Zhu Guoxiang praised. "Your descendants have already relaxed the restrictions on the imperial examination, but who of them has passed the examination?"
Zhao Gou replied: "Xiaomin's second son and third son have all passed the scholar examination. But their talents and learning are still insufficient, and they have never been able to pass the examination. The fourth son is smart. He is still young now and is good at mathematics and physics. Xiaomin
I plan to let him take the exam to become a magician."
Zhu Guoxiang smiled and nodded: "It's also very good to be a magician."
Zhao Mo, the eleventh son of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, suddenly said: "Your Majesty, Xiaomin's eldest son has been admitted to the imperial examination and is expected to become a scholar and serve as an official for the imperial court!"
Zhu Guoxiang praised him and said: "It's very valuable. Give him a set of pens, inkstones, paperweights, and some good ink."
"Thank you for the reward, Your Majesty!" Zhao Mo was overjoyed.
After some appeasement, everyone left.
When he got to the street, Zhao Mo held his head high and proudly looked at his brothers with his nostrils turned upward.
Zhao Gou curled his lips and was too lazy to talk to his younger brother.
Zhao Gou is not a pragmatic person. The small amount of land allocated by the court and the dilapidated house in the suburbs have been sold by him long ago. Now the family rents in the city and relies on him to work several jobs to survive. In fact, life is not
We are in a tight situation, but there is no hope of buying a house.
Moreover, since his first loss in futures trading, Zhao Gou has been fascinated by this stuff. Whenever he has some spare money, he goes to the exchange to try to make back the money he lost.
There were losses and profits, but generally losses, and Zhao Gou was always happy with it.
Zhao Mo, whose son was admitted to the Juren Examination, was much more honest. His sister Zhao Fujin and his younger sister Zhao Fujin were both concubines of Ju Ming, and they would send him some pocket money every year.
At first, Zhao Mo still had to farm his own land, but gradually he hired tenants to farm it, and changed from growing grain to growing vegetables, specifically to supply vegetables to the citizens of Kaifeng. Zhao Mo also kept the pocket money sent by his sisters and found opportunities.
Just buy land.
Today, Zhao Mo has more than 300 acres of vegetable land on the outskirts of Kaifeng. He also raises two cattle and four mules for his own use and rental. He also raises some chickens and geese, and the old vegetable leaves that cannot be sold are just right.
Poultry can be fed.
As a small landowner in the suburbs of Beijing, Zhao Mo is quite satisfied with the current situation.
In addition to the Zhao and Song royal families, there are several Li families, Duan families, and Wang families in Kaifeng. The Li family is divided into the Xixia Li family and the Annan Li family. Their lives in Kaifeng are either good or bad, depending on their abilities and personalities.
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After leaving Kaifeng, we went to Shangqiu.
This is Nanjing in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although Nanjing has become Jinling now, Shangqiu is still bustling with business and travel because it is located at an important node of the Bian River.
The same situation exists for the daimyo, whose mansion was Beijing in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although they now have no political status, there are no more frequent Yellow River disasters, and they are also connected to the land of Youyan. The daimyo has become more prosperous sitting on the canal.
The population of Youyan has gradually recovered.
Compared with the Central Plains and Jiangnan, Youyan is naturally sparsely populated. However, as the imperial court continued to organize immigrants and allowed natural reproduction, the total population of the counties in Yanshan Prefecture recovered to 380,000, which is already very rare and commendable.
When the Ming Dynasty first recovered, Yanshan Prefecture was sparsely populated, so its jurisdiction was very large - Miyun and Huairou in the north, Juyongguan in the west, Zhuozhou and Gu'an in the south, and Jizhou and Baodi in the east.
In such a large area, there are only 380,000 people in total?
It’s really a lot, it was less than 20,000 when we first recovered...
When the population of Yanshan Prefecture returned to 600,000, Ju Ming planned to turn it into Beijing.
At that time, the administrative divisions will also be changed: Zhuozhou, Gu'an, Anci and other prefectures and counties will be assigned to Hebei Province, and military important areas such as Chifeng, Chengde and Zhangjiakou will be assigned to Beijing Yanshan Prefecture.
The field army and garrison army of Yanshan Prefecture will expand in proportion to the population, and the field army will be classified as a forbidden army and assume the very arduous task of northern defense.
To put it bluntly, Yanshan Prefecture in Beijing and Jinling Prefecture in Nanjing are the central municipalities directly under the Central Government of the Ming Dynasty.
The main army there is the Imperial Army.
The main official there is the Jingguan.
In order to hold Yanshan Prefecture hostage, Zunhua Iron Mine must stay in Hebei Province. The imperial court positioned Zunhua Iron Mine as the main weapons and equipment supply base for Hebei, Northeast China, Monan, and Beijing in the future.
It's not possible now. Zunhua's population is too small and even miners can't be recruited.
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Zhu Guoxiang came to Chuzhou for the first time. As the capital of Huainan Province, it did not disappoint him.
But after all, it is not a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and it cannot satisfy the Emperor's beautiful imagination of ancient misty alleys. He had been here before time travel. It was called Huai'an at that time, and there were not many ancient buildings left.
Continuing south, it is much better to reach Yangzhou, although Yangzhou has a smaller population than Chuzhou.
Moreover, countless literati and poets left many poems in Yangzhou.
Zhu Guoxiang, who has been engaged in agriculture for two lifetimes, is ultimately a literary youth. He likes Yangzhou.
The people of Yangzhou also liked the Supreme Emperor.
This is because today's officials and scholars are full of praise for the Emperor. They control the direction of public opinion in the country. With their continuous praise and praise, the common people also feel that the Emperor is the Yao and Shun of the time.
On the day the fleet arrived, the people of Yangzhou heard the news and rushed out of the city to the dock.
The Yangzhou prefect and commander were afraid that something would go wrong, so they urgently called in more officials and soldiers, and finally blocked the main road near Hangou.
"The Emperor is here, the Emperor is here!"
People were pushing and shoving on the side of the road, and some even climbed into the trees.
Ye Yiwen, the prefect of Yangzhou, was so sweaty that he was afraid of causing a stampede, so he quickly asked the commander to lead troops to continue separating the crowd.
"Long live the Emperor!"
I don't know who shouted out first, more and more people followed, and then there were people kneeling down to worship.
People in Luoyang and Kaifeng would not kneel down when they saw the Supreme Emperor, even when they met Ju Ming. However, the people in Yangzhou were very rare for the Supreme Emperor. While kneeling down, they also looked up to see what Zhu Guoxiang looked like and whether he really had a hood on his head.
Smells purple.
This kind of scene often occurs after Kaifeng, and Zhu Guoxiang's followers are already able to deal with it.
Soon more than ten people came over and asked the common people to stand up. They also asked local civil and military officials to disperse the onlookers even further. Only then did Zhu Guoxiang and his concubines and children really show up.
The people suddenly became excited, waving and shouting wildly, and Zhu Guoxiang also bowed to everyone in return.
After struggling for a long time, the Emperor's team finally approached the Yangzhou city wall. However, they did not choose to enter the city, but instead headed to Shanguang Temple in the northeastern suburbs outside the city, because entering the city would inevitably cause a larger commotion.
Shanguang Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, and Su Dongpo once got drunk and slept in a boat here.
Zhu Guoxiang, his concubines, children, eunuchs, maids, and some guards will stay in the temple for the next few days. Most of the guards will camp at the foot of the mountain and guard the mountain roads.
The abbot led the monks to greet him at Shanguang Bridge, and took the Emperor to visit the mountains and temples.
Local civil and military officials wanted to follow, but Zhu Guoxiang sent them back to work, leaving only the chief civil and military officials to accompany him throughout the process.
The next day, partial martial law was implemented in advance, and Yangzhou civil and military officials led the emperor to wander around.
Ye Yiwen, the prefect of Yangzhou, had good political achievements, otherwise he would not have been transferred here to serve as an official.
But it certainly won't work in the military.
Historically, he successfully predicted that the Jin army would march south, and suggested that the Southern Song Dynasty court prepare early. But when Wanyan Liang did come, the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs thought he was knowledgeable about military affairs, so they asked him to supervise the army to fight against the Jin Dynasty.
He spoke clearly and eloquently, but when he was actually in charge of the army, he acted in various ways and was soon dismissed from office and thrown into a Taoist temple.
After boarding the Yangzhou North City Tower, Ye Yiwen pointed to the outside of the city and said: "Yangzhou has become more prosperous in recent years, but the population is too large to manage. I plan to build more northern city walls and organize the streets in the new city. As long as I succeed in retaining my position, I can start the construction."
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"Why do we need to stay in office before construction can start?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.
Ye Yiwen said: "It took two years to discuss relocation and resettlement with those people. My three-year term is about to expire and I must stay in office before it can be implemented. Otherwise, when the next prefect comes, we will have to talk again."
Zhu Guoxiang understood clearly: "Are there many disobedient wealthy households outside the city?"
Ye Yiwen nodded: "In addition to wealthy families, there are also official families. Li Yi, the first scholar in the Ming Dynasty, has his home and property over there. The Li family has already negotiated a deal to replace them with a piece of land in the southern suburbs. Those who were moved
Among the people in the southern suburbs, some moved to further villages for resettlement, and some were given houses if they were willing to go to the city."
The situation in Yangzhou is quite special.
Yangzhou City in the Northern Song Dynasty was smaller in area than Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty.
During the Five Dynasties, the city was massacred and looted several times, and even a large part of the city wall was torn down. It was destroyed again in the later Zhou Dynasty, and the area was not large when it was rebuilt and added.
As the population increased, the houses outside the city were scattered and unplanned. In the early years, there were even large areas of cultivated land.
Moreover, there are so many families of officials and wealthy businessmen that the demolition work is extremely difficult.
Not only that, there is also a military garrison outside Yangzhou City. If you want to demolish it, you must obtain approval from the Ministry of War.
Ye Yiwen said: "When I was building the city of Yangzhou, I planned to restore the area of Luocheng in the Tang Dynasty and directly double the area of Yangzhou city. Yangzhou has money and people, so we can definitely build the city like that."
Zhu Guoxiang smiled and nodded without saying anything more.
According to Ye Yiwen's method of additional construction, the urban area of Yangzhou will exceed the provincial capital Chuzhou City.
Yangzhou at that time was a complete Yangzhou, not the crowded city it is now, with all kinds of filth and chaos inside and outside the city.
After walking around for a while, Zhu Guoxiang wanted to visit Slender West Lake.
As a result, there is no Slender West Lake in Yangzhou. There are only a few puddles in the northwest of the main city, and the puddles are not completely connected. As the number of residents in Fuguo increases, a large amount of domestic sewage is discharged into it, and the deterioration of the water quality can be smelled from a distance.
Stink.
Zhu Guoxiang stood next to the Slender West Lake that he had longed for, covering his nose and looking at the turbid puddles. His beautiful fantasy shattered to pieces like glass.
My Slender West Lake!
Zhu Guoxiang said to Ye Yiwen sadly: "It is indeed necessary to improve the city by building more cities. How can Yangzhou look like this? These puddles can also be connected into one, and some lotus roots can be planted to entertain the people.
.Hangzhou has the West Lake, and Yangzhou can also have the Slender West Lake.”
Ye Yiwen was so happy that he immediately asked the Emperor to write the three characters "Slender West Lake" with pen and paper.
With the Emperor's calligraphy, it would be safe for him to remain as the governor of Yangzhou, and all demolition work would go more smoothly, including convincing the Ministry of War to demolish the Yangzhou military camp!
Zhu Guoxiang asked again: "Where is the Twenty-Four Bridge?"
"Over there." Ye Yiwen pointed to the west.
The Twenty-Four Bridges of the Tang Dynasty were just outside the west city wall of Yangzhou, and are now almost transformed into suburbs.
Near the Twenty-Four Bridge, there are randomly built houses everywhere.
Is there any sense of poetry or painting in it?
The Emperor suddenly no longer wanted to visit Yangzhou.