Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 453 Time flies
In June, the first newly refitted gunboat was launched on the banks of the Bianshui River.

Compared with the gunboat that showed its power on the Guijiang River last year and made rapid progress, the new model has many improvements.

In particular, the stability of the sail and the hull has been enhanced, and iron plates have been added to protect important parts such as the vicinity of some shooting holes.

This is learned from the battlefield.

Because last year near Wuzhou, there were Nanhan military trebuchets on the shore that just concentrated on the hull near the shooting hole.

There was no problem at that time, but when the gun was fired, the huge recoil directly tore the cracked hull.

Several people in the bed were injured on the spot, and one died.

When the NO.13 ship was launched, Emperor Shi also came to watch it in person, bringing a large number of officials with him.

By the middle of the month, the basic framework of Wu Desi had been established, and Wang Zhong was the first Wu De envoy of the Qin Dynasty.

Later, Shi Congyun ordered to transfer Shao Ji back from Hebei.

In the days that followed, everything went on in an orderly manner. As the public opinion war supported by the Shenhuo Army advanced, more and more people began to support the implementation of the new law.

With the arrival of June, the new law began to be fully implemented, but the previous opposition failed to make any decent moves, and was dragged to June by Emperor Shi. With the arrival of June, after the preliminary preparations, the new "Da Qin Punishment When the system begins to be used nationwide, everything will fall into place.

People are like this, if you compromise once, you will compromise the second time, and gradually you will get used to it.

With the implementation of the new law, the support of the court is getting higher and higher, because let alone the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, compared with the Tang Dynasty, the current laws and regulations are much looser, and there are still many things that are beneficial to the people.

For example, before this, if the common people were enlisted by the state to work for the state as labor slaves, build city walls, canals, palaces, or deliver grain and grass for the army, etc., they all had to bring their own food and shoes to work for the state voluntarily.

The new law clarifies that the common people serve the state as corvée, the state provides food and shoes, and the common people only need to work.

In fact, Emperor Shi ordered the implementation of this regulation before, and it was not original by him, because this is what Zhao Kuangyin did in history, and he learned it.

It's just that at that time, because it was conveyed in the form of the emperor's password, the implementation of it was different in the whole country, and some places didn't even know that there was such an order.

This time it is simply stipulated at the height of national laws and regulations.

In addition, there are many decrees that win the hearts of the people, reducing the entanglement of crimes, abolishing cruel methods of execution such as beheading, and uniformly changing to hanging and beheading.

Change the bad habits of some warlords in power during the Five Dynasties period and harsh punishments and laws.

The simplest example is that in the late Jin Dynasty, a child was beheaded for fighting with a stick for the crime of possession of weapons. One can imagine what kind of punishment would be given to the more serious ones, such as wounding, stealing, and contradicting superiors.

Corporal punishments such as chopping off hands, feet, and noses are even more common.

The old history of the Five Dynasties once said that the people of the Five Dynasties were like being roasted on the fire, and they were anxious all day long, not knowing when they would die.

Coming out of such an era, facing the new laws of the Qin Dynasty, how could people in the world not support them.

In late June, Shao Ji finished handling the handover of the Tianxiong Army and returned to the capital to meet Shi Congyun.

Shi Congyun asked him to take a good rest for a month, and went home to spend time with his wife and children, but did not arrange tasks for him for the time being. After all, it was really hard for Shao Ji to be transferred here and there in the past few years.

After the middle of June, Emperor Shi finally relaxed and was able to take care of the delicate flowers in his harem with all his strength.

Apparently he went to Zhou Xian Palace more frequently, but he never found out where her sister was. Emperor Shi had a feeling that Zhou Xian was so smart that he might have vaguely noticed something.

But he also has his own strengths, that is thick skin, anyway, Zhou Xian doesn't point out, he doesn't say anything, he still looks for it, it's nothing more than a little man's curiosity.

The leisurely days continued until mid-July, and good news came from all over the country. There were no major disasters across the country this year, except for Hebei, which has not yet recovered.

Guanzhong, Sichuan, Huainan and many other places have ushered in a bumper harvest.

Also in July, the situation in the Southern Han Dynasty was completely under control. A large number of officials had been replaced with court officials, and the selection and replacement of officials in the Southern Han Dynasty was basically completed.

Of course, because there are many ethnic groups in Lingnan, and there are many clans with different customs and cultures, Shi Congyun also agreed with Pan Mei's suggestion of cooperating with the elders of the local clans.

Since the government does not directly control them, they can follow the rules of the tribe and decide matters within the tribe themselves, but they must be disarmed and pay taxes on time every year.

This was also the ruling measure adopted by the previous dynasties.

After discussing with the prime ministers, Shi Congyun agreed, because the imperial court could not maintain a large number of troops in Lingnan, which would consume a lot of money, and once they completely turned against the scattered local tribes, although they could defeat those tribes, it would be difficult to completely eliminate them. Once the army retreats, it will fall into endless trouble and consumption.

This is caused by the special geographical environment of Lingnan.

In the end, it meant that the court made a certain compromise and delegated part of the judicial power to these tribes, but required them to release their military capabilities and pay protection fees at the same time.

This is what the simple understanding means, and there is no way around it.

But as long as the imperial court firmly controls the surrounding Dazhou counties and high-quality resources, these tribes will always be controlled by them, and there will be no troubles.

In August, the naval expansion was completed, and two more gunboats were launched that month.

This time Emperor Shi didn't go to see it again, but just rewarded the craftsmen of the confidentiality department.

Fan Ruobing's pontoon bridge has also made some progress. A huge pontoon bridge nearly two miles long has been built in Shanglin Garden, which has completely surpassed the previous record. The first Yangtze River Bridge.

Just as Shi Congyun felt relieved that there would be no natural or man-made disasters this year, and was preparing to spend a happy Mid-Autumn Festival with his wives, on August [-], a few fast horses came from Luoyang, bringing bad news.

Li Gu died of illness at home in Luoyang at the age of 66.

After Emperor Shi heard this, no matter how strong he was, he couldn't help feeling sad.

For him, Li Gu was both a guide and the greatest help. When he asked Li Gu to retreat to Luoyang, he thought that the monarch and his ministers would be safe and sound, so that no tragedy would happen.

Now time is rushing, Li Gu, who once followed him in the north and south, has unknowingly passed away under the ravages of time, and he is not fifteen or sixteen years old, a young hero who is full of vigor and vigor, with one enemy against one hundred, is already 27 Eighth, the father who is about to reach his thirties, the lord of a country.

Li Gu's death made him feel a lot of emotions.

Afterwards, Shi Congyun ordered that the court be poked for three days to express his grief, and at the same time, Li Gu was named the Grand Master and King Zhao.

Li Gu had never been a feudal lord, and he was not a feudal ruler in the Qin Dynasty. Logically speaking, it would be difficult for him to be crowned king, but if Emperor Shi wanted to be crowned, everyone had no objection.

Everyone knew in their hearts Li Gu's merits to the Qin Dynasty, so no one objected.

The mid-autumn festival, which was supposed to be lively and lively, was not interested in Emperor Shi because of Li Gu's death, and the matter was hastily done.

Time has always been merciless.

Fan Zhi comforted him by saying that chasing south and north at a speed of [-] or [-] years, destroying Nanping, Wuping, Shu, Northern Han, Southern Han, capturing Huainan, Guanbei is already very remarkable and very fast.

For those able and virtuous rulers in history, many of them have to persist for decades, or a lifetime, or several generations, to achieve even half of their achievements.

For the first time, Emperor Shi felt that the old man Fan Zhi's speech was not unpleasant.

Indeed, he was lucky to be able to do this, and also because he followed the trend of history.

Li Gu's death made him understand that time is ruthless, and he also has a sense of urgency. No matter what, he must solve the Southern Tang problem as soon as possible, so that he can focus on cleaning up the Liao Kingdom in the north.

So in September of that year, four months after Wu Desi was established, it began to usher in the order of the first emperor, Jinkou Yuyan, to place spies in the caravan and cross the river to spy on Jiangnan's intelligence, especially the arrangement of the Jiangnan defense forces.

At the same time, try to find out about the situation in the court of the Southern Tang Dynasty, because the Southern Tang Dynasty is not without capable people, such as Liu Renshan who beat them very hard back then, and later Guo Tingwei, and Lin Renzhao who is still in the south of the Yangtze River.

These people, Emperor Shi, have all fought against them, and each has their own abilities, but now Liu Renshan and Guo Tingwei are already under his command, but Lin Renzhao is still in the south of the Yangtze River
(End of this chapter)