Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 336 Reconstruction of Customs

"'Fengling is still alive, and the road to fish and sea is always difficult'. This poem by Du Gongbu expresses the bitterness of the hometown of Helong." Under Fenglin Pass, a group of literati are drinking and partying.

Fenglin Pass, one of the Seven Lower Passes of the Guochao Dynasty, is located in the northwest of Fanghan County, Hezhou, and was originally the former site of Fenglin County.But today's Fenglin County has moved to the southeast of Hezhou and was renamed from Anxiang County.

Guanbei is adjacent to Dahe, with Fenglinjin ferry crossing, Tangshu mountain (now Jishi mountain) in the west, Julikou in the east, and an important pass on the west post road from Chang'an to An'an, and also an important passage from Hezhou to Liangzhou in the north.

Since the stability of Hewei, business travelers have increased and the people have been stable.

Under Fenglin Pass, there were only a few dozen households in Tubo at the beginning, and they used to grow 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.At the same time, a post station was added, with more than ten post generals and post soldiers.A member of Jinling was also set up to manage Fenglinjin Ferry.

In the Tangshu Valley in southwestern Guanxi, 39 households from Lantian County settled down to grow wheat and raise goats.

There is also a temple in the Tangshu Valley, named Tangshu Temple, which also donated money and food to recruit more than [-] households of the newly attached Qiang people to cultivate Buddhist fields for them.

The foundation of Hezhou has been consolidated bit by bit.The dilapidated post stations and ferry system were restored little by little, the roads were gradually repaired, the city walls were gradually repaired, the irrigation canals were slowly cleaned up, and everything was progressing steadily.

The immigrants from Guanzhong may have only a dozen households or dozens of households in each batch. It seems inconspicuous and even ridiculous, but if they persist for a long time, they will see the effect and change their appearance greatly.

Hezhou does not lack water or land. What it lacks is people, and what it lacks is the bureaucratic system that organizes these people to do things.Now everything is on the right track, like a human body recovering slowly after a long illness.

"Wei Dalang came from Liangzhou, do you know that the land of Hehuang has been recovered by the King of Lingwu County?" asked a scholar.

"I heard it when I arrived in Lanzhou. It's magnificent! It's a big white." Wei Zhuang raised the wine bottle, drank the chrysanthemum wine, and sighed: "It's a pity that Wenjiang is not here..."

"Huang Wenjiang is an official in the Shuofang shogunate, and I heard that he is about to release the governor of a state." Someone said.

"It's no wonder that Jinshi doesn't even take the exam. If you don't have a reputation, you can guard the state and county. It doesn't matter if you don't take the Jinshi exam."

"I can't pass the exam. Wei Da was born in Jingzhao Webster, did he pass the exam?"

"It's so difficult to take a test!"

After hearing this, Wei Zhuang remained silent.

The high-spirited work of the year, the sentence "Tianjie trampled on the bones of Gongqing", offended the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.It's not easy for the clan to come forward to turn things around. If there are no nobles to take care of them, there is no hope of being a Jinshi in this life.

Huang Tao, the pusher of the Shuofang shogunate who had once met in Chang'an, also failed many times, invited him to work in Xiazhou.Wei Zhuang was originally working in Zhou Baomu, the governor of the Zhenhai Navy. After Zhou Bao was defeated, he had nowhere to go, so he went to travel in the mountains and rivers.

However, the south of the Yangtze River is chaotic and fighting endlessly.Feeling threatened, Wei Zhuang remembered Huang Tao's invitation, so he decided to come to Xiazhou for a visit.If it really doesn't work, go back to Chang'an and try the scientific examination again.

After arriving in Xiazhou, Wei Zhuang felt a lot of emotion when he saw the brothers and sisters who had failed in many trials.Huang Tao is about to release Qin Zhou as the governor, and he is still a white man.

Huang Tao suggested that Wei Zhuang should take a look at the land of Lingxia first, and then apply for a job after being taught by the king of Lingwu County.

Wei Zhuang planned to visit the newly recovered Liangzhou first, and said that he had agreed to go with a group of scholars from Chang'an.Huang Tao didn't take it seriously, and asked him to go to Hezhou to have a look. Xiao Xiang was looking for talents everywhere, and there were many job vacancies in the ten states of Longyou.

Of course Wei Zhuang didn't want to work in the Longyou shogunate.In the eyes of these scholars who have failed many times, Xiao Yu's image is not very good. Luo Yin's satirical poems were too famous back then.

Traveling westward from Xiazhou, passing through Lingzhou to Liangzhou, the scenery along the way is very different from that in the south of the Yangtze River, which greatly moved Wei Zhuang, his poetic spirit flourished, and he won several excellent works.

After leaving Liangzhou, he followed a team transporting ordnance to Hehuang, arrived in Lanzhou all the way, and then went to Hezhou. He met a group of Guanzhong scholars who came to Hezhou to visit through the Weishui River, and they gathered together. drink it.

"Since the king of Lingwu County took over Hehuang, the land of Longyou is settled. Now only Yutao, Die, Dang and other prefectures have not been restored, so it doesn't matter whether they take it or not. You are Qingjin sons, what are your plans? "Wei Zhuang was tired of traveling for hundreds of miles, and he decided to settle down and do things. At the same time, he was also curious about the future of these tourists, so he asked each other.

"My family has an old relationship with Zhang Shijun in Lanzhou. After a while, I will go to Yuzhong County to be a recorder. It's a pity that I didn't get a Jinshi, otherwise the county magistrate can do it."

"Yuzhong County, but it was newly established a few years ago?"

"However, there are only a thousand households, and half of them belong to the Qiang family."

"Isn't that Hu Fengjilie?"

"Actually, it is not. Under the rule of Prime Minister Xiao, changing customs and customs is the top priority. Qiang and Hu species also have to celebrate the Han Festival. In fact, you can see it from the Tubo households under Fenglin Pass. Since yesterday, some people have climbed up to drink , Today is still the same, and tomorrow I am afraid that I will be drunk with the Han people. He Gu, the chrysanthemum, suffered such a catastrophe."

What he said made everyone laugh.

Li Taibai once wrote a poem: "Climb to the top yesterday, and raise your glass today; why is the chrysanthemum so bitter that it suffers from this double sun."

People in the Tang Dynasty like to play, but they can't have fun on the day of Double Ninth Festival.Therefore, the festival often begins on the eighth day of September. Bai Juyi once wrote a poem "Rewarding Huangfu Ten Sees on September [-]th", and Li Bai also wrote "September [-]th Immediately".On the tenth, it was also called Xiao Chongyang in the country.If there is a leap September in a certain year, there will be two Double Ninth Festivals to have fun.

People in the Tang Dynasty have a deep love for leisure. It can be seen from the carnival regardless of superiority and inferiority during the Spring Festival, and the three-day festive celebration during the Double Ninth Festival.

In fact, this is also related to the relative prosperity of the early period of the dynasty.The country is vast and rich in products, but there are only 5000 million people. Even though the distribution of rich and poor is uneven, overall life is much better than other dynasties.Once this person is rich, he will naturally enjoy himself. There is no exception in ancient and modern China and abroad.

"During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I was in Di Dao. There is a rich family named Qin in the village. He said that the family of Qu in Tubo, Huizhou, had surrendered to the king of Lingwu County. After the wheat harvest, he bought wine in the village and invited us travelers. , to reward the Jade Rabbit and Silver Toad together."

"The Qu family has vanished in smoke. What are the descendants of these descendants doing, if they don't belong to the Tang Dynasty, in order to prevent others from stealing their wealth?"

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and raised their glasses to drink.

We are all scholars, natural history.After the Anshi Rebellion, more than [-] prefectures in Helong were lost for the second time.The king of Lingwu County raised his troops to destroy Tubo and restore the old land, which was very appetizing to these scholars.

Zhao Guangfeng once said that Shao Shude regained the lost land in Helong, while the princes of the Guandong were still attacking and killing each other.Now it seems that these words are a bit too much. It is his words to encourage Shao Shude to go west, but it cannot be said that they are completely wrong.

Warriors did not attract many, but the attraction to literati was not small.

Starting from the recovery of the five prefectures of Hewei and the juxtaposition of towns, there have been waves of scholars traveling westward.Some people came and went, and some stayed to serve as officials and give lectures, but in short, it was still effective.

There are so many mountains in Hezhou, let's go to those stone walls to have a look, there are not a few people who wrote poems and left their names.

There are also some "ruthless people" who pay people to carve poems on stones, and many of them praise Shao Shude's "flattery poems".If Marshal Shao goes around, he should be very happy.

In this era of weak and gloomy nation, people always need some heroes. Shao Shude just scratched the itch of literati, so there were more "fans" who voluntarily praised and publicized for him, which greatly offset the damage caused by the two knocks on the que. adverse effects.

"Both Shuofang and Hewei Townships are recruited by two levels of doctors and teaching assistants in the prefecture and county of Dazhou. If there are many educated students, they can be selected for important positions in the prefecture, county and shogunate, isn't this a golden road?"

"Without fame, it is difficult and difficult to be an official in Guanzhong, Guandong, and Jiangnan. The three towns of Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou have 23 prefectures. Those with the highest academic ability can become doctors of state economics, and those with the second highest can become teaching assistants or county doctors. The rest You can also be a county teaching assistant or teaching instructor, as long as you teach more students, you can accumulate merits, which is really good."

In fact, the Tibetans who were able to attend schools at the prefecture and county levels were either rich or noble, and they were usually relatives of tribal chiefs, or sons and nephews of local Hu merchants.First teach these people well, so that they are pure Tang people from the inside to the outside. After inheriting the tribe in the future, other tribesmen will naturally follow suit.

As the saying goes, the change of customs and customs will naturally be easier with Chief Hao taking the lead.

A change in culture often brings about a change in lifestyle.For example, if a pure nomad becomes half-herding and half-cultivating, he will have a fixed residence, and it will be much more convenient to register as a household.

Shuofang Town has always welcomed the tribes that have changed from nomads to half-pastoralists, and has given rewards many times.

Settling down to plant high-yielding grass, the harvest of one mu of land often requires five or six mu of pure natural grassland to catch up.This gives some tribal people with few cattle, sheep and livestock a choice. The three-crop rotation agricultural production system is actually a perfect fit for these settled herdsmen.

There is absolutely no shortage of land, as long as you settle down and learn how to grow millet, beans, and grass from the Han people, your life will not be bad.

On the upper side, the children of the tribal chieftains enter the school to Sinicize, and on the lower side there are ready-made agricultural management methods to solve their worries, and the difficulty of assimilation has been greatly reduced.

Make up gangsters and make customs.This continued for three generations, and the aboriginal people in the three towns of Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou probably assimilated more thoroughly than during the Tianbao period.

Wei Zhuang silently listened to the scholars' talk.

One or two of them, in his opinion, were simply "elaborate works" sent by Xiao Yu or Shao Shude among the scholars.Constantly touting the benefits of Shuofang and Longyou Towns from various aspects, and trying every means to encourage more scholars to stay, so as to counteract the smelly Hu Feng here.

However, "Wanli Qiang people do Han songs" is better than "every family in Luoyang learns Hu music".

The King of Lingwu County is indeed a hero!
(End of this chapter)