The night in June was extremely hot. The Qisheng Temple of Hebi Palace, located halfway up the mountain, had a cool breeze and was very cool.
The king will not come to court early tomorrow, so Shao Shude left Shangyang Palace and went to Shendu Garden to escape the summer heat.
He now understands Tang Xuanzong's mood very well.
During the Han Dynasty, there was a court system of five days, and the king did not go to court every day.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the former Tang Dynasty, the government suddenly became involved and changed to going to court every day. Later, it could no longer hold up, so it was changed to one court every three days.
After Emperor Gaozong came to the throne, he worked hard and restored the system of attending court every day. However, he did not persist for long and soon changed it to once every five days. During the Xianqing period, he may have felt that going to court once every five days was a bit too much, so he stipulated that he should attend court every other day.
Chao, that is, one day for morning ginseng and one day off for rest.
Everyone knows that the court meetings under Xuanzong were completely irregular. When he wanted to discuss matters, he would call the ministers into the palace. When he did not want to discuss matters, the ministers could not see him for many days in a row, and they did not know who was in the palace.
What to play with.
The early dynasty system after the Anshi Rebellion was not fixed.
Some people go to court every day, some don't go to court often at all, and only hold Yanying consultations every few days, and some go to court every few days. The prince of Le'an County is diligent, going to court every day, and only taking one day off every ten days, which has no influence on the country's situation.
The river is in decline and ultimately irreversible.
After Shao Shude ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he started to attend court every day. But now he felt that getting up at midnight every day was too unfriendly and annoyed the ministers, so he stipulated that except for the New Year's Day meeting, he would attend court once every three days. At other times, he would only
Important officials are convened for small-scale discussions, usually in Honzhi-yuan or Lichun Hall to the west of Guanfeng Hall.
I just finished going to court today. I don’t have to go to court tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I have ten days off the day after tomorrow. I don’t have to get up early for three days in a row. It’s so cool. So, after going to court, he first handled government affairs in the Guanfeng Hall, then mounted his war horse and headed west.
I went to spend the summer in Dongdu Garden.
However, some important news still followed me like a shadow.
"Your Majesty, Shenzhou has raised 72,000 husks of millet and wheat, and more than 36,000 husks of rye, all of which have been sent to Rouzhou in batches... The palace official Xie Shi read out the memorials and military reports one by one.
"Zhang Quanyi is really good. His whole family has contributed a lot to me..." Shao Shude praised from the throne.
"Mrs. Zhang" Mrs. Chu rolled her eyes at him, took a silk scarf, and gently wiped Zhang Hui's face.
Zhang Hui is pregnant, and she was favored by the official just now. It's really abnormal.
Mrs. Chu is also a little scared now. She has been married to Zhang Quanyi for many years, but they only have one daughter. She has only been with the official family for seven or eight years, but she gave birth to four children at once. She is only in her thirties now, and she is a little scared when she thinks about it.
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There were many women in the official family, but few of them could sleep with him every night. Apart from the Queen Zhe, Zhang Hui and Chu were the ones who slept with him most often.
"Mrs. Xiao Zhang" Xie continued to read with a red face, "Liang Hanyong, commander of the Rouzhou camp..."
Another "Mrs. Xiao Zhang" Mrs. Su was serving tea and water.
Except for the new princess who has been renamed Shao Wanlu, Zhang Quanyi's entire family is here.
"Why is Liang Hanyong's vision so narrow?" Shao Shude sighed and said, "Just focus on the one-third of an acre of land. I don't agree with this strategy."
Shao Shude asked people to bring pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and then he picked up the jade seal and used the seal to send it outside. The emperor was not in office all the time. During the night rest, if there was an emergency military situation, he would send a message in the palace.
An edict is usually issued by a female palace official. However, this edict does not have legal effect. It is generally called the "Zhongshu edict" and requires going through the process at Zhongshu's door...
Even if you don't go through this process, by "declaring a national emergency" and convening a Yanying inquiry, bypassing Zhongshu's subordinates, you still have to summon all the important officials.
There is no doubt that the decree he is sending out now is correct. But with the prestige of the founding emperor, the prime ministers and privy envoys will definitely not dare to stop it, and will only expedite the process.
He had just written a few German reports, with the general idea of making a fuss about Liaodong.
The first is to requisition private ships on the spot. In mid-to-late June, the southeast wind picked up, and the number of trading ships from the south increased greatly. Especially the fleet of the Qian family in Hangzhou brought a lot of supplies. This time
Requisitioned.
The second item is to recruit more than 10,000 Huaihai Daozhou troops to assemble in Qingzhou and Dengzhou. They will be led by Wang Jiao, the commander of Huaihai Daodu, and are waiting to board the ship.
The third is to collect grain and grass materials from Henan and Huaihai Rivers and transport them to Qingzhou and Dengzhou through the Yellow River, Jishui and Yishui Rivers.
The fourth item is for Anton Mansion.
This direction is more complicated, and the "underdeveloped" Andong Prefecture alone will definitely not work. They now have four counties - okay, actually five. Shao Shude has just received news that Andong Prefecture has requested to establish Shiwang County.
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This county was a stone city in the Goguryeo era, but Andong Prefecture moved it to Shirenwang on the seaside. It was a small port with relatively convenient transportation. Andong Prefecture just sent troops to pacify this place, and acquired 800 households and 3,000 people.
With more than 600 inhabitants, it is the fifth county established by the prefecture and is roughly located near Zhuanghe City in later times.
Andong Prefecture, with a population of more than 40,000, was unable to support a large army expedition, and conditions in all aspects did not allow it. Therefore, starting from April, they actively contacted the Bohai State, planning to send troops together to attack Khitan. Obviously, once troops are sent out,
, I definitely want to take advantage of the Bohai people. This is the only way.
Another thing that the Anton Prefecture needs to do is to send some boatmen and sailors to the estuary area in western Liaoning to spend a few days building temporary small decks and carefully explore the local hydrological conditions.
Generally speaking, there will not be a large number of underwater obstacles such as rocks near the estuary, but to be on the safe side, it is best to check carefully. The maneuverability of ships these days is so poor that if there is a big wave, they may drift off.
Isn't this a joke if I can't enter the port accurately when I'm sailing out? If I hit a rock and sink, isn't this a joke?
For ships in the sailing era, entering and leaving the port has always been a very troublesome matter. It requires much higher operational precision than sailing on the sea, because their power source is the unpredictable wind, which requires the ship to enter and leave the port.
The sails can be adjusted as quickly as possible to catch the wind direction. It is best to adjust the sails on a mast separately, such as half furling, half hanging, etc. This is difficult to do for traditional sailboats at this time.
"Forget it tonight, we will send it to the Imperial City early tomorrow morning to step up supervision." Shao Shude told Xie Shi.
"According to the order." Xie Shi responded.
Shao Shude thought for a while and wrote a few more copies.
The three armies of Tielin, Tianxiong, and Tiande launch offensives from three directions: Hezhong, Heyang, and Xingmingci to put pressure on the Jin people. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, at least the posture must be sufficient, and it may be able to attract some of the attention of the Jin people.
We will use our strength to reduce the pressure on operations in Johor.…
Withdrawing the replenished troops from Wuwei, Jinglue, and the Yi Cong three armies served as reserves - the Long Xiang Army guarded Wei Bo, one of the Tu Generals guarded Dizhou, and the other went south to Sizhou.
All the Forbidden Forces have basically been sent out. Now three battlefields have been opened across the country: Shuzhong, Hedong, and Grassland. We originally wanted to implement the tax-sharing reform starting from Guanbei Road to reduce the burden on the people, but now it seems that we have to push it back.
The summer of the second year of Jianji looked very "hot" in all aspects.
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June 20, the second year of Jianji, Lushun County, sunny.
One ship after another slowly passed through the narrow entrance of the bay and entered the calm anchorage.
Like a wolf seeing a sheep, more than a dozen small boats poured out from the dock. They rowed hard to the big boat and shouted loudly.
"Would you like some new fruits? Five cents a basket."
"Steamed cake! Steamed cake!"
"Captain Zhang, do you want to buy some goose? We also have goose eggs."
On the ship's deck, dark-skinned and rough-looking merchants were shouting and selling in a noisy manner.
The sailors on the deck had expressionless faces, scolded them casually, told them to retreat far away, and then carefully lowered the boat.
The boat landed on the water and made a big splash.
The sailor then checked the hanging net on the outside of the ship. The net was woven with hemp rope, fixed at both ends, and could be climbed up and down. This was a new piece of equipment produced under the guidance of the sage himself. It made it easier for sailors to get up and down in the absence of a trestle.
vessel.
Some sailors climbed down the hanging net, landed on the boat, and then paddled hard to the shore.
When a ship enters the port, a pile of paperwork needs to be delivered, and there are many things to do.
In front of them, several ships were already berthed on both sides of the wooden trestle.
The trestle was almost flush with the ship's deck. After the pedals were lowered, a group of pale-faced people began to go ashore.
It looked like they had suffered a lot.
From Dengzhou to the dock of Duli Town, Lushun County, it takes three days to arrive under the southeast wind. However, even these three days of voyage still made the landlubbers very uncomfortable. They were so seasick that they could not eat anything.
The sailors of the Ping Navy are strict and they are not allowed to vomit in the cabin, but must vomit on the deck. But some people fell into the sea after vomiting, which was very miserable - of course, the ship would not stop on purpose.
Go rescue people who are drowning. If you fall, you will fall.
It was only a three-day voyage and the people were so dizzy.
If it is a thirty-day or one-hundred-day voyage, you can imagine how painful the torture is. The body and mind are destroyed beyond measure, and there is no resistance to the diseases that can be resisted at ordinary times, so the disease is prevalent in the cabin.
There is only one fate for those who are sick: being thrown into the sea.
"When I was crossing the ocean, I stopped at Salmon Island on the way. I couldn't bear it. These people sailed directly to Duli Town, so you can imagine..." Shao Siwu stood on a high mountain, overlooking the entire port, and said with emotion
said.
I don't know why, but now he especially likes to climb mountains and overlook the sparkling harbor.
Duli Town is a magical port. The inner sea of the harbor is wide and deep, and a large number of ships can be berthed. There are stretches of land on both sides of the harbor, forming a natural breakwater, which blocks strong winds and huge waves, leaving only a small opening for ships.
In and out.…
I heard from my father that such an excellent port is extremely rare in the entire Northland. Shao Siwu didn't believe it before, but now he was amazed. The two natural breakwaters that block wind and waves are not found in all ports.
"Your Highness, these Beizhou residents have arrived at a bad time." Du Guangyi, the Yin of the Andong Prefecture, said with a sad look on his face.
If in normal times, the people of Weibo came as soon as they came, what would happen? With 20,000 troops suppressing them, they could not stir up any trouble. But what is the situation now? The army is likely to go out, and there will be few troops left behind. Du Guangyi
Very worried.
Some people in the court know that they are too rigid and don't know how to adapt. One moment and another moment, why are you trying to push people here and there?
Shao Siwu said: "Didn't more than a thousand Hengshan clansmen just come? The envoy will catch them. If something happens, they will recruit young people to suppress the Wei people. I don't think there will be any harm."
Du Guangyi felt a little relieved, but his worries were not completely relieved.
It is true that more than 1,600 Hengshan Dangxiang households came in two batches before, and they were basically the families of soldiers who returned to the German army. It is true that they would not join the Wei people, but Du Guangyi was very doubtful about their combat effectiveness.
But the matter has come to this, and there is no other way. It is proper to train those young men who are party members.
"Your Highness, if we go north this time, Chief Fudu can lead the troops. Why do you have to..." Du Guangyi stopped worrying about immigration and asked about another matter.
"My father started from a young age and fought for twenty years before the great summer came." Shao Siwu shook his head and said: "I have to be named King of Zhao. I am extremely rich and noble. But every time I think about it at midnight, I always feel ashamed. I have not achieved anything.
Is it okay to enjoy a mansion, fine food, and beauties before you are established?"
Du Guangyi was speechless, and after a long time he sighed, not knowing what he was sighing for.
