"'The fight between Fenglin and the sea has not died down, and the road between fish and sea is always difficult.' This poem by Du Gongbu expresses the bitterness of Helong's hometown." At the foot of Fenglin Pass, a group of literati were having a drinking party.
Fenglin Pass, one of the Seven Passes of the Guo Dynasty, is located in the northwest of Fuhan County, Hezhou. It was originally the old place of Fenglin County. But today's Fenglin County has been moved to the southeast of Hezhou and was renamed from Anxiang County.
The pass is adjacent to the river in the north, with Fenglinjin Ferry, Tangshu Mountain (today's Jishi Mountain) in the west, and Likou in the east. It is an important pass on the west post road from Chang'an to An'an, and is also an important passage from Hezhou to Liangzhou in the north.
Since the peace of the Hewei River, there have been more and more business trips and the people have become more stable.
Under the Fenglin Pass, there were only a few dozen Tibetan households at first, cultivating highland barley. In the first year of Wende, under the auspices of Xiao Yu, 86 households in Zhaoying County, Jingzhao Prefecture, settled here to cultivate wasteland and graze cattle.
At the same time, a post station was also set up, equipped with post generals and more than ten post soldiers. A member of the Jin Order was also set up to manage Fenglin Jin Ferry.
In the Tangshu Valley in the southwest of Guanxi, 39 families from Lantian County have settled down, growing wheat and raising goats.
There is also a temple in the Tangshu Valley, named Tangshu Temple. It also spent money and food to recruit more than 20 households of the newly surrendered Qiang people to cultivate Buddhist fields for them.
The foundation of Hezhou was consolidated bit by bit in this way. The dilapidated inns and ferry systems were restored bit by bit, the roads were slowly repaired, the city walls were gradually repaired, and the irrigation canals were slowly cleaned. Everything was progressing steadily.
The immigrants from Guanzhong may only have a dozen households or dozens of households in each batch, which may seem inconspicuous or even ridiculous, but if you persist for a long time, you will see the effect and the appearance will change drastically.
Hezhou does not lack water or land. What it lacks is people and the bureaucracy that organizes these people to do their work. Now everything is on track, just like the human body slowly recovering after a long illness.
"Wei Dalang came from Liangzhou, does he know that the land of Hehuang has been recovered by Lingwu County Prince?" asked a scholar.
"I heard it when I arrived in Lanzhou. It was so magnificent! It was so clear." Wei Zhuang raised the wine bottle, drank the chrysanthemum wine in one gulp, and sighed: "Xi Wenjiang is not here..."
"Huang Wenjiang served as a promotion officer in the Shuofang shogunate and heard that he was going to be released as governor of a state." someone said.
"No wonder they don't even take the Jinshi exam. Without fame, you can shepherd and guard the prefectures and counties. It's okay if you don't take the Jinshi exam."
"You didn't pass the exam. Wei Da was born in Jingzhao Du Family. Did you pass the exam?"
"It's so difficult to take the exam!"
Wei Zhuang remained silent after hearing this.
The most ambitious work of the year was the sentence "The street will trample all the bones of the ministers", which severely offended the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty. It was difficult for the clan to come forward to change things. Without the care of the nobles, there was no hope of being admitted to the Jinshi in this life.
He once had an acquaintance in Chang'an, and Huang Tao, the official of the Shuofang shogunate who also failed many times, invited him to serve in the Shuofang shogunate. Wei Zhuang originally worked in the navy military governor Zhou Baomu. After Zhou Bao's defeat, he had nowhere to go.
If you can go, go and visit the mountains and rivers.
However, chaos broke out in the south of the Yangtze River and wars continued. Wei Zhuang felt threatened and remembered Huang Tao's invitation, so he decided to come to Xiazhou for a visit. If that didn't work, he would return to Chang'an and try the scientific examination again.
After arriving in Xiazhou, Wei Zhuang felt a lot of emotion when he met his fellow sufferers who had failed many times in the past. Huang Tao was about to be sent to Qinzhou as the governor, and he was still a white man.
Huang Tao suggested that Wei Zhuang first take a look at the land of Lingxia, and then seek a job as a secretariat after the King of Lingwu Commandery.
Wei Zhuang planned to visit the newly recovered Liangzhou first, and said that he had made an arrangement with a group of scholars from Chang'an to accompany him. Huang Tao didn't take it seriously and asked him to also visit Hezhou. Prime Minister Xiao was recruiting people from all over.
Talent, there are many job vacancies in the ten states of Longyou.
Of course Wei Zhuang did not want to serve in the Longyou Shogunate. Xiao Yun's image was not very good in the eyes of these scholars who had failed many times. Luo Yin's satirical poems were too famous back then.
Traveling westward from Xiazhou, passing through Lingzhou to Liangzhou, the scenery along the way was very different from that in the south of the Yangtze River. Wei Zhuang was greatly moved by his poetic nature and even won many masterpieces.
After leaving Liangzhou, he followed a team transporting ordnance to Hehuang, all the way to Lanzhou, and then to Hezhou. He met a group of Guanzhong scholars who came to Hezhou via the Wei River to visit, and they gathered together.
Drink it.
"Now that King Lingwu has taken over Hehuang, the land of Longyou is settled. Now there are only Tao, Die, Dang and other prefectures that have not been recovered. It doesn't matter whether they take it or not. You are all Qingjinzi. What are your plans?
?" After visiting Wei Zhuang for hundreds of miles, he got tired of it and decided to do something serious. At the same time, he was also curious about the future of these traveling scholars, so he asked.
"My family has an old relationship with Zhang Shijun of Lanzhou. In a few days, I will go to Yuzhong County to serve as a recorder. It's a pity that I haven't won the Jinshi, otherwise I can also be the county magistrate."
"Yuzhong County is a newly established county a few years ago?"
"However, there are currently only a thousand households, half of whom are Qiang."
"Wouldn't that mean Hu Feng is very fierce?"
"Actually, that's not the case. Under the rule of Prime Minister Xiao, changing customs is the top priority. Qiang and Hu species also have to celebrate the Han Festival. In fact, just look at Wuhan County. In the Tubo households under Fenglin Pass, people have been climbing up to drink wine since yesterday.
, It is still the same today, and I am afraid that tomorrow I will get drunk with the Han people. How could the chrysanthemum deserve such a big disaster?"
What he said made everyone laugh.
Li Taibai once wrote a poem: "I climbed high yesterday, and I will raise my wine glass today. Why are chrysanthemums so miserable, suffering from these two double suns?"
People in the Tang Dynasty love to have fun, but they can't have all the fun on the Double Ninth Festival alone. Therefore, they often start celebrating the festival from the eighth day of September. Bai Juyi once wrote the poem "Reward Huangfu with Ten Gifts on September 8th", and Li Bai also wrote "The Event on September 10th"
.The 10th is also called Little Double Ninth Festival in China. If there is a leap September in a certain year, there will be two Double Ninth Festivals for fun.
The people of the Tang Dynasty had a deep love for leisure. This can be seen from the carnival regardless of superiority and inferiority during the Spring Festival and the three-day celebration during the Double Ninth Festival.
In fact, this is also related to the relative prosperity in the early period of the dynasty. The land is vast and rich in products, but there are only 50 million people. Even though the rich and poor are unevenly distributed, overall life is much better than in other dynasties. This person has a
When you are rich, you will naturally enjoy happiness, no matter in ancient or modern times, at home and abroad.
"During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I was in Didao. There was a wealthy Qin family in the village. He said that the descendants of the Qu family in Tubo in our prefecture were descended to the king of Lingwu County. After the wheat harvest, he placed wine in the village and invited us and other travelers.
, enjoy the Jade Rabbit and Silver Toad together.”
"The Langqu family has vanished into thin air. In order to prevent others from trying to seize the family property, what else can these remnants do other than become Tang people?"
Everyone laughed when they heard this and raised their glasses to drink.
Everyone is a scholar, so they naturally know history. After the Anshi Rebellion, more than 20 prefectures in Helong were lost. The king of Lingwu County raised a large army to destroy Tubo and restore the old land, which was very appetizing for these scholars.
Zhao Guangfeng once said that Shao Shude regained the lost territory in Helong, but the princes of Guandong were still attacking each other. The heroes of the world heard about it and decided to serve him with shame. Now it seems that these words are a bit too much. They were his words to encourage Shao Shude to go to the west.
It's a technique, but it can't be said that it's completely wrong.
It didn't attract many warriors, but it attracted a lot of literati.
Starting from the time when the five states of Hewei and Wei were recovered and merged into towns, there were waves of scholars traveling to the west. Some came and left, and some stayed to serve as officials and give lectures. In short, they were still effective.
There are so many mountains in Hezhou, and if you go and take a look at the stone walls, there are quite a few people who have written poems and left names on them.
There are also some "cruel people" who pay people to carve stones and leave poems, many of which are "flattering poems" praising Shao Shude. Marshal Shao would be very happy if he went to see them.
In this era of national weakness and darkness, people always need some heroes. Shao Shude just scratched the itch of the literati, so he had more "fans" who volunteered to praise and publicize him, which greatly offset the damage caused by the two knocks.
adverse effects.
"Shuofang and Hewei towns are recruiting doctors and teaching assistants at the prefecture and county levels. The number of positions is far more than that of ordinary prefectures and counties, and the monthly salary is one thousand yuan and five hundred yuan each. Xiao Xiang said that if the teaching instructions are good,
, if you educate many students, you can select people for important positions in the states, counties, and shogunate. Isn't this a golden avenue?"
"Without fame, it is extremely difficult to be an official in Guanzhong, Guandong, and Jiangnan. In the 23 prefectures of the three towns of Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou, the most talented person can be a prefecture Ph.D. in Confucianism, the next highest can be a teaching assistant or county doctor, and the rest
Those who are below can also serve as assistant teachers in the county, giving lectures. As long as they teach more students, they can accumulate merit and advance, which is indeed good."
In fact, the Tibetan people who can go to schools at the state and county levels are either rich or noble. They are usually relatives of tribal chiefs, or sons and nephews of local Hu merchants. Educate these people first, and let them learn from the inside out.
They are all pure Tang people. After inheriting the tribe in the future, their tribesmen will naturally follow suit.
As the saying goes, what goes up works and what goes down works, the change of customs will naturally be easier if the chief takes the lead.
Cultural changes often bring about changes in lifestyles. For example, those who were purely nomadic became half-pastoral and half-cultivated. This provided them with fixed residences, and it was much more convenient to organize households to integrate the people.
Shuofang Town has always been very welcoming to tribes that have transformed from nomadic herding to half-grazing and half-farming, and has issued many rewards.
After settling down to plant high-yield pasture, the harvest from one acre of land often requires five or six acres of pure natural grassland. This gives some tribal people who do not have many cattle and sheep a choice. The three-crop rotation agricultural production system,
In fact, it is a perfect fit for these settled shepherds.
There is no shortage of land at all. As long as you are sure to settle down and learn from the Han people how to grow millet, beans, and pasture, your life will not be bad.
There are descendants of tribal leaders who go to school to become Chinese, and there are ready-made agricultural management methods to solve their worries. The difficulty of assimilation has been reduced a lot.
After three generations of this process, the Tibetan people in Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou towns were assimilated even more thoroughly than during the Tianbao period.
Wei Zhuang listened silently to the scholars' talk.
One or two of them, in his opinion, were simply "exquisite works" sent by Xiao Yu or Shao Shude among the scholars. They constantly touted the benefits of Shuofang and Longyou Second Town from all aspects, and tried every means to encourage more scholars to stay.
The smelly smell of Hu Feng washed over this place.
However, it is better to "have thousands of Qiang people practice Han songs" than "every family in Luoyang learn Hu music".