Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 315 "Discussing History"

A man's mouth, a liar.

Zhao Shijian knew him best, so how could he not know that he was running the train with his mouth full, but he still couldn't help showing a happy smile.

Deceitful ghosts, women love them too.

"As expected of my son, he looks handsome, just like your father!"

Shi Congyun has already taken the wrapped son carefully, and said happily, like holding a rare treasure, for fear of accidentally breaking it, the little guy's wrinkled face still doesn't look like him at all, but he said yes up.

Lin Shanggong, the maids and midwives next to him could only agree for a while, saying that they looked like him, here and there.

Zhao Shijian looked at the father and son with a gentle face, and didn't talk back to him. Shi Congyun hugged his son and leaned over, "But your mother is still beautiful!"

"My surname is Shi, and your name is Shi Jin. When you grow up, your father will give you the nickname Jiuwenlong!" Shi Congyun said with a laugh. "How about it?"

Zhao Shijian was puzzled: "Who would give a nickname to his son!"

And said softly: "The official family is the emperor, of course you have the final say."

"I'm not going back tonight. I'll stay here overnight. Go and find me some bedding. I'll sleep next to the bed."

But a few days later, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shi Congyun said all these words again, which was not bad, but this time he said it to Zhou Xian.

Having more wives means rich experience, and they have been refined.

Zhou Xian was so moved by some touching words that he burst into tears, unwilling to come out of his arms, and completely attached to him.

After all, Zhou Xian is still simpler than Zhao Shijian, and he doesn't understand him as well as Zhao Shijian.

Zhou Xian gave birth to a daughter for him, and Shi Congyun happily named her Shi Min.

Because he hoped that his daughter would be a clever little ghost like him, he even gave the girl the nickname Yuanxiao, which happened to be the birth of Yuanxiao.

This time, I hope that my daughter will not be like him, but be as beautiful as her mother. Zhou Xian is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

In terms of beauty alone, no matter Zhao Shijian, Liumei, Fei Shi, or Empress Dowager Fu can't compare.

Seeing his happy and beautiful wife, and his daughter who doesn't know if she is beautiful, but is definitely a little princess, Shi Congyun is very happy and proud.

A lot of things these days have made him feel overwhelmed and dizzy, and he has only realized that it is not easy to be a good emperor since he took the throne.

But when the two children came into the world, he was shocked, with a stronger sense of responsibility and motivation.

In the next few days, the news spread quickly, and all the officials, civil and military officials also congratulated, and there was an endless stream of court congratulatory memorials from the central government and all over the country.

Shi Congyun was very happy, entertained all the officials, and prepared to amnesty the world at the same time.

However, this matter was stopped by Fan Zhi.

Fan Zhi asked to see the Long Live Hall in private, and proposed to him in person that changing the Yuan can amnesty the world, but the birth of the prince and princess is not suitable.

Because changing the yuan is the meaning of the emperor, and it is controlled by the will of the emperor. The amnesty demonstrates the benevolence of the emperor, but more importantly, it is applicable to some critical times.

If the enemy country is destroyed, many people will become war criminals, but if the war is fierce and not killing people is not enough to calm the anger of the army and the people, you can first convict to calm the world, and then amnesty to save talents and stabilize the hearts of the people in the new land.

For example, in a natural disaster, a large number of refugees and hungry people broke the law and broke the human relationship in order to survive. After the incident subsides, many of them are criminals, but they are also forced to do nothing. In order to survive, they can be amnesty and so on.

But the birth of a prince and princess is uncontrollable, so I shouldn't open my mouth about this kind of thing because of my love.

What's more, this time, for the sake of the prince and princess, the world will be amnesty, and then there will be children born in the future?
I don't know how many more children are born according to the habits of officials, right?
After all, Fan Zhi is the prime minister. He has been in the officialdom and has a lot of experience in governing the country and the people. His words made his head hot, and Shi Congyun, who was overjoyed, calmed down when he said it.

Although I always feel that the last sentence of this old guy is trying to satirize him in a different way.

But it is true, if I slap my head now and mess around as I please, maybe something big will happen in the future.

So he agreed with Fan Zhi's statement, canceling the idea of ​​amnesty for the world, and rewarded him with twenty bolts of silk as a reward, and at the same time rewarded him with an old clothes, saying that he had worn it himself.

Afterwards, Shi Congyun gave up the idea of ​​doing things indiscriminately because of his own emotions.

On the [-]th, he said to Zhou Xian in the hall: "It is inevitable that you will be homesick when you are alone in Daliang. Now that you have a child, you can write a letter to go home and let the family come and live with you, talk to you, and take care of you. I will send someone They will be picked up in Huainan."

Zhou Xian was fascinated by him long ago, and he was even more moved when he heard his caring and concern. He also felt that it was not good to have a child without his relatives knowing about it, so he wrote a book and went back to Jiangnan.

Naturally, Shi Congyun was doing it for her own good, and no one could replace her family at a time like this.

Besides, Jiangnan is considered honest now, and he doesn't have much capital to fight against the Central Plains.

There was only one truly successful Northern Expedition in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition.

This also has a lot to do with the opening of the canal from the south of the Yangtze River to Beijing in the Yuan Dynasty, and the canal was not completed in the Yuan Dynasty, but from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The successive dynasties have been building it intermittently, which is the result of nearly 2000 years of accumulation leading to qualitative changes. .

Therefore, since the Yuan Dynasty, Beijing has the conditions to be the capital of the country, because the transportation is convenient, and the north-south transportation artery runs through.

Other times the North annexes the South.

If Jiangnan wants to protect itself for a long time, the north must push the defense line north to the Huaihe River, and the west must control Hunan and Hubei, that is, Jingzhou.

Huainan cannot be lost in the north, and the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River cannot be lost in the west.

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.

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 we say that the corruption in the past dynasties is to satisfy their 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.

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.
Fuck!good guy.
(End of this chapter)