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Chapter 1011 Capture Nian Gengyao Alive

After receiving provincial officials from all over the country in Wuchang, Yuzhu boarded a boat and set off for Jingzhou Prefecture.

Jingzhou, the birthplace of Chu culture, is one of the nine states in the world.

Ying was the capital of Chu State for more than 400 years.After the fall of Chu, Qin belonged to Nanjun and ruled Jiangling, so Nanjun is often referred to as Jingzhou.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Qihe, Emperor Liang Yuan, and Xiao Xian all used Jingzhou as their capital.

When Yuzhu arrived in Jingzhou, he mainly conducted on-the-spot investigations on the specific conditions of the four flood discharge counties.

After the Yangtze River came out of the Three Gorges, it rushed all the way to the east.

However, after passing the boundary of Jingzhou, the Yangtze River becomes meandering and its current slows down.

After the water flow slowed down, the sediment brought down from the upstream slowly accumulated.

Over time, the embankment of the Jingzhou section of the Yangtze River was higher than the city wall of Jingzhou Prefecture.

During the annual flood season, the Kaifeng-Guide section of the Yellow River seldom does not break its embankment.

Jingzhou's Jiangdi was also a small police officer in three years and a major police officer in five years, and it never stopped.

After arriving in Jingzhou, as soon as Yuzhu got off the boat, he went to the Jingjiang embankment.

After boarding the embankment, hey, the Yangtze River, which is in midsummer, has already flooded.

The river was overwhelming, roaring, and rolling eastward.

Yuzhu turned around and saw, good guy, the entire Jingzhou Mansion is under the embankment.

If this breaks the embankment, what's the deal?
Yuzhu walked along the earth embankment of the Jingjiang River for a long time, and the more he walked, the heavier his heart became.

This kind of useless earth embankment, when confronted with a big flood, cannot prevent pipe surges at all.

No wonder, in the past ten years, Jingzhou has been flooded three times.Among them, the most dangerous time, the city wall almost collapsed.

After seeing the levee in person, Yuzhu has made up his mind that even if the capital is not moved to Wuchang, it is imperative to divert the flood from the Jingjiang River.

In this era, limited by the backwardness of flood control concepts and technologies, the setting of flood diversion areas has actually solved the big problem of upstream floods and long-term soaking of dikes.

During the severe flood season of the Yangtze River, the flood from the upper reaches kept coming, but the flood from the lower reaches could not be released. The two confrontations formed a unique spectacle: the two-month flood soaking period.

On the second day after arriving in Jingzhou, Yuzhu led the guards and entered the predetermined flood discharge area.

According to Yuzhu's preliminary plan, the initial flood discharge area is four counties.

However, according to Yuzhu's on-the-spot investigation, the terrain of Zhijiang County is relatively high, which is not suitable as a flood discharge area.

From Songzi County in the west to Jianli County in the east, it took Yuzhu more than two months.

After seeing it on the spot, Yuzhu already has a bottom line in his heart.

Because Huguang filled Sichuan, the three counties of Songzi, Shishou and Jianli together had only [-] households.

Now that there are few people, it is just right to relocate all these ten thousand families to the vicinity of Wuchang Mansion.

After Nian Gengyao retreated from Henan to Huguang, he almost harmed all the big gentry in Huguang along the way.

In the Huguang area, in the land of no man, there are endless points.

After Yuzhu returned to Jingzhou, he issued a king's edict to cancel Anlu Mansion and Jingmen Prefecture and merge them into Jingzhou Mansion.

At the same time, the three counties of Songzi, Shishou and Jianli, which were originally under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou Prefecture, were designated as royal gardens, and no one was allowed to enter without permission.

Anlu Mansion and Jingmen Prefecture are both typical inland areas. There are no big rivers in the territory, so there is no convenience for inland waterway transportation.

As we all know, the necessary condition for all developed cities in modern times is that shipping must be developed.

Therefore, Anlu Mansion, which had jurisdiction over the three counties of Qianjiang, Jingshan, and Tianmen, and Jingmen Prefecture, which had jurisdiction over the two counties of Yuan'an and Dangyang, were abolished and placed under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou Mansion.

Yuzhu is the master, submerged three counties in Jingnan, and added seven counties to Jingzhou, which can be regarded as worthy of Jingzhou's fathers and folks.

As an old bureaucrat, Yuzhu, he has a clear mind. Just setting up the restricted area of ​​the royal garden is not enough to completely deter the common people from moving into the flood discharge area.

From now on, after the beginning of spring every year, the Jingzhou garrison will march into the flood discharge area to drive away the people who moved in blindly.

Based on Yuzhu's experience in flood control, after the flood in the Yangtze River, there are almost always major droughts.

When there is a severe drought, the flooded flood discharge area can function as a natural reservoir.

When the big flood hit, the embankment was blown to release the flood.In the dry season of the Yangtze River, the water in the flood discharge area can be diverted to irrigate the farmland through channels such as building canals.

This is actually a systematic governance project.

After Yuzhu returned to Jingzhou, Yang Qingshan, the magistrate of Jingzhou, finally seized the opportunity to flatter him.

"Your Majesty, this dish is called Dragon and Phoenix Matching. According to legend, when Liu Xuande married Mrs. Sun and returned to Jingzhou, Zhuge Kongming arranged a reception banquet where eels were used as dragons, chickens as phoenixes, and fish cakes Delicious, slightly sweet and sour, the chicken is tender and meaty, salty and sweet..."

Yuzhu raised his eyes and saw a large eel made into a dragon shape, winding on the plate, with its head held high and its beard and scales, and its feet stepping on auspicious clouds. It is shaped like a phoenix standing beside a dragon, stretching its neck and spreading its wings.

Like a precious work of art.

"The name of this soup is winter melon and turtle skirt soup..."

"This is Shishou's pen holder and fish maw. It was a rare tribute in the Northern Song Dynasty..."

After Yuzhu heard the words, he couldn't help but smile slightly, he had tasted fish maw more than once.

Fish maw is the swim bladder.

Rock-headed catfish has no scales and few thorns, and its meat is delicate. It has the freshness of puffer fish without the poison of puffer fish.The swim bladder of catfish is like white jade, tender as fat, and looks like a peach with a thick tendon in the middle, just like the Shishou Bijia Mountain standing on the bank of the Yangtze River.

"Pen holder fish maw" is also named after this.

This meal, Yuzhu ate extraordinarily sweet.He not only tasted the authentic Jingzhou fish cake, but also ate Jingzhou's famous pearl balls.

According to legend, pearl balls are a dish specially prepared by Chen Youliang's wife in order to reward Chen's subordinates.

Pearl balls are hand-chopped selected lean meat, wrapped with local glutinous rice, and steamed in a basket.

It looks seductive, and it tastes fragrant, tender, delicious.

However, Yuzhu's favorite dish is steamed Changhu Dabai Diao.

Changhu Dabai Diao, with firm meat, large body, less belly, and very good taste.However, Changhu Dabai Diao has extremely high requirements on the water quality of the growing environment.

According to Yang Qingshan, many people tried to bring Changhu Dabaidiao back to their hometown to raise them, but they all died.

The thousand-year-old city, the land of fish and rice, really lives up to its reputation!

On the way back to Wuchang, Yuzhu received the news that Nian Gengyao was defeated and captured, but the fourth child was missing.

At that time, due to the needs of the united front, Yu Zhu, whose foundation was not stable, was still polite to the family members of the fourth, eighth and fourteenth children, but they were confined in the palace.

Nian Gengyao was different. He was only a bannerman of the Han army, and his influence among the rich and powerful in Manchuria was almost zero.

Therefore, after Nian Gengyao sent troops out of Shaanxi and Gansu, Yuzhu took the entire Nian family, men, women and children into prison.

Nian's family has been imprisoned for more than a year, and Yuzhu has never killed anyone.

To put it bluntly, what was waiting was Nian Gengyao's defeat.

Now, Nian Gengyao has finished his calf, and Nian's family has completed their historical mission and officially become lambs to be slaughtered.

Not long after Yuzhu returned to Wuchang, he received a good news from Sichuan.

After the first town entered Sichuan by water, in just over two months, it was connected to the two major cities of Keyouyang Prefecture and Chongqing Prefecture.

After the new army in the first town took Luzhou Mansion, the rebel army in Sichuan was gone.

Why?

Luzhou is the confluence of the Zhongjiang River (Neijiang) and the Yangtze River. As long as you go north against the Zhongjiang River, the fleet of the first town can go straight to Jianzhou (Jianyang) in the southeast of Chengdu.

It is two hundred miles from Jianzhou to Chengdu.

Therefore, after the loss of Luzhou, the rebels in Chengdu couldn't sit still, and simply killed the governor of Sichuan, and handed Lu Wu a surrender form.

Before the soldiers approached the city, the rebels surrendered, but they were quite self-aware.

Hey, Nian Gengyao was captured alive, Sichuan was pacified, and the country and society of the Qing Dynasty fell into the hands of the Tong family. There is no suspense anymore.

All the provincial officials in the north and south of the river have all cut their braids.

Even for these people, it is impossible for them to be loyal to Yuzhu, but one thing is certain, they have no possibility of being loyal to Qing Dynasty.

Even the braids are cut, how can the Manchus trust them?
You must strike while the iron is hot!

With the help of the two great victories, Yuzhu officially issued the Wang Yu, and Wuchang Mansion was designated as the southern capital.

Since ancient times, the matter of moving the capital, as long as there is a leak in advance, it will be noisy, without exception.

Back then, Zhao Kuangyin really wanted to move the capital to Luoyang.However, after the news got out, most of the ministers headed by Zhao Guangyi held opposing opinions.

To be honest, Bianhe is simply unable to bear the excessive water transport pressure.Luoyang is on the edge of the Yellow River, not only has no worries about water transportation, but also has dangers to defend.

However, things like moving the capital often harm the fundamental interests of vested interest groups.

Why?

After Zhao Kuangyin released his military power with a cup of wine, the military generals who lost their real power, as well as the newly promoted civil servants, built a lot of fertile land and repaired mansions near Kaifeng Mansion.

Moving the capital at such a time is tantamount to letting the powerful group cut their flesh collectively!

Yuzhu is different. He deliberately chose to set up the southern capital before the founding of the country. The root problem is only one: he must take advantage of the new army, large and small army leaders, when the interests of the capital are not large, and take advantage of it first. The capital was moved.

When the officers of the new army have formed a tight network of relationships and interests in the capital, it will be almost impossible to move the capital.

Moreover, the matter of moving the capital must be completed in the hands of Yuzhu.

Even Yuzhu couldn't move the capital smoothly, let alone his descendants.

Think about it, with the founding ancestor, the founder of the new army, and the prestige of Wutang Shanzhang, if the capital cannot be moved, the successor of Yuzhu may not even dare to mention it.

The terrain of the Jianghan Plain extends in all directions and is not dangerous to defend, so it is not suitable for the ancient capital.

However, after entering modern times, with the rapid development of firearm technology, the convenience of water transportation and the development of land transportation have become huge advantages.

For example, Berlin in Germany and Paris in France are roughly similar to the situation in Wuchang Prefecture.

In particular, the Seine River in Paris often suffers from flooding.

In 1910, the Seine River in Paris suffered a flood of the century, and the statue of the Light Infantry under the Pont de l'Alma was flooded to the neck, which became a unique sight that Parisians rushed to visit at that time.

Giving up the benefits of river transportation when there is no possibility of floods is a foolish act!
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