Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 402

"Champa Kingdom"

Shi Congyun picked up a few mouthfuls of white rice and muttered to himself that Zhou Xian and Zhao Shijian were feeding the two little guys with the nanny.

"How can you be a father like you, who eats so deliciously, and the children don't care about it." Zhao Shijian said coquettishly, while talking, he was pointing fingers, whining, chubby little guy wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not full enough to take care of the children. Besides, I don't have any milk to feed them." Zhao Shijian patted him in embarrassment. Shi Congyun laughed and put down the bowl and chopsticks to wipe his mouth. After handing over the handkerchief, he wiped his hands, and then passed the big hand over. The little guy giggled, and his trembling little hands tightly hugged his fingers.

Immediately, a feeling of close blood came to my heart, it was so subtle that Shi Congyun's heart was a little bit crisp, and he hooked his fingers slightly to tease the little guy.

Then he picked up the younger sister Shi Min who was on the other side. Compared with the lively and active brother, the younger sister was much quieter. Shi Congyun pecked her on the face, but she just stared at her with big eyes. Dad, Shi Congyun hugged his daughter happily, and said to his son, "Look at your Shi Jin, why can't you imitate your sister."

Zhou Xian gently wiped the saliva of the two children, and Shi Congyun put the daughter whose mouth had gradually shrunk into her arms: "Don't cry, don't cry, mom is right here."

As soon as he arrived in his mother's arms, the little guy immediately turned from cloudy to sunny.

"Hurry up and eat. Eating is the most important thing in the world. If you don't eat, you will be robbed by your father." Shi Congyun teased her, and by the way made Zhou Xian's face turn red.

"Eating is the most important thing in the world!" Shi Congyun emphasized again, this time not to the two little guys, but to himself.

Looking at the memorials about the Southern Han Dynasty before, he thought of Jiaozhi in the south of the Southern Han Dynasty, which is the later Vietnam.

Vietnam, especially its eastern coastal areas, was conquered by China for the first time when Qin Shihuang sent troops to the south, and established a stable rule after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed Baiyue until the Tang Dynasty.

However, it became independent at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty. Since then, Vietnam has been completely independent and has never been ruled by northern China.

When Shi Congyun thought of Vietnam, he didn't want to take that piece of land back immediately. In his eyes, Vietnam's priority was far lower than Yunnan, Guangxi, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, Liaodong, Hetao, Hexi Corridor, Western Regions and other places. .

After all, the geographical location is there, and what he is interested in is the legendary Champa rice!
Champa rice is so famous, it is rare that its name can be recorded in a concise history book.

Because the agricultural progress of the Song Dynasty is the biggest evidence. Even when the territory was as vast as the Han and Tang Dynasties, China’s population did not exceed [-] million. The first time the population exceeded [-] million was in the Southern Song Dynasty, which had only half of the country. increase in production.

One of the main reasons for the increase in grain production is the introduction and promotion of Champa Rice in the Indochina Peninsula to the Jiangnan region.

Eating is always a first-class event. Cochin is not rare, but Champa rice is rare.

He didn't know why it was called Champa Rice before, but after hearing what Tao Gu said, he realized that there was a small separatist force in Vietnam called Champa.

He has already started to think in his heart, he definitely wants Guangdong and Guangxi, but he is not so enthusiastic about Cochin.

Because that place is really not easy to fight, and it is not easy to rule.

In the Song Dynasty, the Gaoliang River Chariot not only raced in the north, but also crashed at Jiaozhi.

At that time, the mode of fighting Vietnam was that the Song army was in full swing, and the Jiaozhi army broke up into pieces to fight guerrillas. Then the weather became hot, the disease was rampant, they were counterattacked, and the troops were withdrawn.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there were three times of military intercourse, and the scripts were very consistent each time.

For the first time, Hanoi, the capital of Cochin, was captured in a few months. The king of Cochin fled to the sea to fight guerrillas. In summer, the weather was hot and diseases were rampant, and the Yuan army withdrew.

The second time was like breaking through, and he invaded Hanoi in a few months. King Jiaozhi fled to the sea and continued to fight guerrillas. In summer, the weather was hot and disease was rampant, and the Yuan army withdrew.

The third time was like breaking a bamboo, and he invaded Hanoi for several months, and then King Jiaozhi fled to the sea to fight guerrillas. The summer weather was hot and the disease was rampant, and the Yuan army withdrew.
In the Ming Dynasty, they took advantage of the Cochin Civil War to decisively send troops, briefly controlled it for 20 years, and then lost it. The situation is similar to that of the Yuan army.

In the Qing Dynasty, looking back at the lessons of the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties, you simply gave up. As long as you call the north the suzerain state, you don’t bother to pay attention to it.

Throughout the history of Jiaozhi gradually breaking away from Chinese control, it can only be said that it is difficult for people to fight against nature.

Even in later generations, because of the sharp sword of science, many people are blindly arrogant, but they still cannot change the shape of nature, just like the prosperity of the eastern coast of China, it can be attributed to the struggle of human beings to inspire people from a young age.

But like Shi Congyun, who is familiar with geography, he doesn't think that the [-]th parallel of the earth's north latitude is a desert that is short of supplies and unsuitable for survival due to the influence of the planetary monsoon. The only exception is the eastern coast of China, which suddenly becomes abundant with rain. , a warm place suitable for survival.

Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Hefei, Changsha, Nanjing, Nanchang, Hangzhou, Shanghai and other important cities since ancient times are located nearby. Is this a subjective choice of human beings?
No, because of plate collisions, the uplifted Himalayas in the west and their veins blocked the planetary monsoon and protected the area in the east, making China an exception in the global desert belt at [-] degrees north latitude, and developed a distinctive civilization.

In the final analysis, it is shaped by nature and geography. No matter how powerful human technology is, if there is no protection from the Himalayas and Hengduan Mountains, human beings cannot do much in the face of planetary monsoons.

Because of his scientific and transcendent cognition, Emperor Shi has a clearer understanding of the overall control, knowing what can be done and what can't be done.

Confronting the laws of nature is no good.

However, in the territory controlled by the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were two places where the risk of confrontation with nature must be avoided if troops were to be sent.

One is Vietnam and the other is the Korean peninsula.

The fight against Vietnam cannot be delayed until summer, and the fight against North Korea cannot be delayed until winter. This is determined by the local climate.

In turn, the locals in Vietnam and North Korea must understand.

The Vietnamese will delay if they can't beat it, and the situation will improve in the summer.The North Koreans would also think that if they can't beat it, they will delay it, and the situation will improve in winter.

Places like these are risky, and the risks cannot be controlled, and he can't change the laws of nature, so Emperor Shi has never been the first goal in his heart.

But he is very eager for Zhancheng rice. As a professional soldier, what he desires most is food and grass. If there is enough food and grass, he will dare to go deep into the northern grassland like Wei Huo did back then.

So in his mind, Emperor Shi had already begun to think about and expand his plans for the issue of "eating".

Sending envoys will not work, Guangdong and Guangxi are hostile, Jiaozhi war is in turmoil, roads are impassable, and the little rice seeds are useless. The south of the Yangtze River is vast, and China has a lot of arable land. At least tens of thousands of dendrobiums can be used as rice seeds at a time. I don't know how many years it will take to breed slowly, and the day lily is cold.

The night was slightly cool, and the full moon cast a cool light. Emperor Shi looked at the vibrant spring scenery in the courtyard, and finally made a circle at the bottom of the map of the Southern Han Dynasty.

He drew a small circle in the south of the Southern Han Dynasty, but this action decided the fate of many people.

After hesitating and hesitating for a long time, Emperor Shi finally made up his mind to go to the capital. His master will not stop in Guangdong and Guangxi. He will not be afraid of the scorching heat, and he will at least go to Champa. More sacrifices and sacrifices will be made. .

"Everything is for food." Shi Congyun wrote a concluding sentence next to the map, which is something that only he understands when others don't understand it.

But as the dimension decreases and the climate changes, it is certain that the soldiers will not be acclimatized for a long time, and he can predict it without sending troops.

Not to mention going to central and southern Vietnam, the heat and humidity in Guangxi is not something many people can bear, and it will be even more difficult to adapt to the climate further south.

So Emperor Shi went on to write a few words "fast in and fast out".

That's right, he was going to define the dispatch of troops across Guangdong and Guangxi as a quick fight and retreat, the purpose of which was to plunder and demonstrate, to obtain rice seeds, not to control.

Shi Congyun thought that when he won the Southern Han Dynasty and gained the springboard of Guangdong and Guangxi, he would launch an attack in autumn and winter and withdraw his troops before summer.

The reason why the Han and Tang were able to rule Jiaozhi was because those places were extremely backward during that historical period. According to the records of the Han Dynasty, many places in Jiaozhi almost drank blood. However, with the spread of technology and culture in the north, it must have been developed after thousands of years Previously.

When they grow and develop, they also have geographical advantages. They are located in a remote area and the Central Empire is too late to get out of control.

Therefore, Emperor Shi didn't have much expectations for completely controlling Jiaozhi again, but he could use other methods to control it.

Time flies, the sun and the moon are flying fast, and it has already entered the summer without knowing it. Everything in the Qin Dynasty is in order, and many things are in order.

The Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council, the Third Division, the Confidential Division, the Eight Divisions, etc. are all in full swing, and the number of new warships in the Bianshui camp returning from trial voyages increases every day.Cannons are continuously produced in the confidential department's workshop, and cargo ships from north and south transport all kinds of ores, and all kinds of commodities are almost full of Bianshui.

For this reason, Shi Congyun specially asked Shen Yilun to manage the navigation of Bianshui and coordinate the dispatch of ships.

Emperor Shi, who was free, began to vigorously rectify another matter, that is, "corruption", one of the remnants of the Five Dynasties.

In the second year of Tenglong, Shaoqing Guanglu and Guo Qi, the magistrate of Weizhou, were corrupted. The local people went to the capital to file a complaint.

Yuan Renfeng was an old official, and he believed that Guo Qi's crime was not worthy of death.

Shi Congyun was dissatisfied with this treatment, because the turmoil since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor took turns to do it, so many people became officials with the mentality of taking a hand and leaving, and they acted quickly and ruthlessly, which everyone took for granted .

But times have changed!Emperor Shi also understood that he had to correct this unhealthy atmosphere immediately, otherwise it would cause great damage to the Qin Dynasty he had just established, especially in terms of the country's reputation. If the people generally did not believe in the country, then his Qin Dynasty would not survive the five generations The historical cycle of the Ten Kingdoms.

So Yuan Renfeng, who was still old-fashioned, was directly dismissed, and Qing Dou Yi was sent to the trial.

Dou Yi did not disappoint him, she was upright, jealous of evil, and directly sentenced Guo Qi to death and abandoned the market.

Afterwards, Shi Congyun promoted Dou Yi as Yushi doctor and ordered the handling of officials' corruption, which basically followed this principle. Taking this judgment as an example, the sentence is extremely severe.

In June, another incident happened. Li Shouxin, the enshrined official of the inner government, secretly cut down the thousand-year-old wood in the Qinling Mountains for profit. He was later reported by the local officials and committed suicide in Luoyang when he was escorted to Beijing.

Shi Congyun was very angry, but he confiscated the family property because everyone was dead. Unexpectedly, Dou Yi and Su Xiao, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, asked for orders to continue the investigation.

Especially Su Xiao, people in the court said he was a cruel official, he said bluntly in court that the case cannot be closed without knowing the truth because of the death, otherwise the law cannot be strictly enforced.

Shi Congyun was also very happy, so he sent Dou Yi and Su Xiao to investigate the case in early May.

Dou Yi and Su Xiao lived up to expectations, quickly found out the ins and outs of the matter, and even pulled out the radish to bring out the mud. In more than half a month, the whole case was written into a file, and various testimonies were submitted to the emperor's case.

It turned out that Li Shouxin was not alone, he had an accomplice who was his son-in-law, and Ma Shi was sentenced by Qinzhou.

Li Shouxin took advantage of his position in the upper reaches to cut down the country's timber and made them float down the river. Ma Shi took advantage of his position to salvage and sell them downstream, earning a lot of money.

Because there are many thousand-year-old trees in the Qinling Mountains, which are high-quality wood and can be used to build palaces and large-scale equipment. The state prohibits cutting them down.

Li Shouxin committed suicide immediately after the incident was revealed because he didn't want to implicate his son-in-law.

In this matter, Shi Congyun was also moved with compassion, because the child of Ma Shi and Li Shouxin's daughter was only three years old. Since Li Shouxin had committed suicide, he did not want to kill Ma Shi again, and planned to depose him and ransack his home.

However, Su Xiaoshangshu, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, strongly opposed it. He believed that if Ma Shi was not killed, the law would not be strict.

The law is merciless, and love cannot abolish the law!
After Shi Congyun saw it, he also understood that what Su Xiao said made sense, and it was not surprising that officials in the court and central government avoided him, thinking that he was a cruel official.

It's just that the psychological pressure is extremely high. He has killed too many people. There is no pressure to kill a corrupt official, but killing Ma Kuo is equivalent to killing his three-year-old child.

But the next day, Emperor Shi agreed to Su Xiao's memorandum, sentenced Qinzhou to Ma Kuo and abandoned the city, and confiscated his family property.
After this incident, the atmosphere in the court was tightened immediately, and everyone could see the emperor's determination and ruthlessness in dealing with corruption.

At the same time of blocking, it should also be sparse. Shi Congyun also issued a new edict, and anyone who exposes corruption will be rewarded.

And reward Dou Yi and Su Xiao as role models for all officials.

At the same time, he promoted Su Xiaoyou to admonish the doctor, judged Dali Temple, and bestowed gold and purple clothes to show his favor and set an example for officials.

All kinds of methods were used, and the atmosphere in the officialdom of the Qin Dynasty was also changed.
(End of this chapter)