Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 856
Zhang Zhaojun (Ma Shacai) climbed up from the ditch with muddy feet, and in front of his eyes was an extremely open and sparkling river section.

And as Zhang Zhaojun came ashore, cheers rang out from both sides of the strait.

If a drone can take pictures from the sky at this time, you will find that this section of the river is full of densely packed people.

There are guards from the left, middle and right guards of Guilin, patrolling soldiers from the nine counties of Guilin Prefecture, and some recruited from the nine counties of Guilin Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture of Hunan Province in the north, and Rongzhou in the west. Civil husband.

No matter how they dress up, whether they are officials or civilians, they are all cheering heartily.

What made them so happy was that the most important repair project of the big balance and the small balance in Lingqu was finally completed.

This makes the north and south canals of Lingqu can finally be navigated, marking that Lingqu can play its role again.

The Lingqu Canal was first built in the Qin Dynasty. This is an extremely important canal project in Chinese history. Although the entire length is less than [-] kilometers, it has undertaken the important task of connecting the south of Lingnan with the Central Plains.

Because Lingqu communicates with the Xiangjiang River in the Yangtze River system and the Lijiang River in the Pearl River system.

With its existence, in theory, a ship sailing in the Yangtze River can sail all the way to Guangzhou Bay just by passing through the inland water system.

This cannot be overstated in the ancient times when water transportation was convenient, time-saving, labor-saving, and cost-saving.

It can be said that if there is no Lingqu, it is impossible for the Great Qin to conquer Baiyue so quickly, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty may not attack the Nanyue Kingdom because Lingnan is worthless.

Jiaozhi is because there is no river like Lingqu that can communicate with the Central Plains, so it is very easy to breed separatism.

For any imperial court to stabilize Lingnan, Lingqu is a water conservancy project that must be repaired. Without Lingqu, it is impossible to talk about stabilizing Lingnan.

Amidst the cheers, soldiers, generals, officials and common people surrounded Zhang Zhaojun and walked towards the Temple of Four Sages.

The so-called Temple of Four Sages enshrines four people who have made great contributions to Lingqu.

One is Shi Lu, the censor of the Qin State. This person is said to be from Baiyue, has no surname, and is an official to the censor, so most of the later generations call him Shi Lu.

It was he who designed and constructed the Lingqu Canal, and pioneered the design of the lock-type canal, which made it possible for the Lijiang River and the Xiangjiang River system with a drop of tens of meters to pass freely.

The second is Ma Yuan, the general of Han Fubo, the third is Li Bo, the observer of Tang Guiguan, and the fourth is Yu Mengwei, the governor of Tang Guizhou.

Among the four people, Lu was responsible for the construction of the Lingqu, and the other three made great contributions to the maintenance, expansion, and improvement of the Lingqu.

Originally, the Temple of the Four Sages was only the people around Lingqu who got the benefits of Lingqu, and the spontaneous worship can be seen from the nature of the temple. This is not an official sacrifice, but the people of a county or several counties. establish.

At this time, without official certification, it is called prostitution.

But fortunately, the four people worshiped by the common people are all officials and people who are benevolent to the local people, especially General Fubo Ma Yuan among them, so they can barely get rid of the category of prostitution, but they still can't Put it on the table.

After Zhang Zhaojun took office, he immediately realized that solving the status of the Four Sages Temple was the best way to win the hearts of the people in the nine counties of Guilin Prefecture.

So, as soon as he took office, he rushed to the Sixian Temple, which was almost just a thatched hut, to worship, and promised the surrounding people that if they could help dredge the Lingqu, they would report to the imperial court to "rectify" the Sixian Temple.

Before Zhang Zhaojun arrived, Lingqu had been out of action for almost 30 years.

The most recent repair was in the ninth year of Xiantong in Tang Dynasty, in 868 AD, it was dredged and expanded by Yu Mengwei, the governor of Guizhou.

This person is not only an expert in water conservancy, but he doesn't know how to persuade Tang Ting and the surrounding Jiedu envoys, who are already very financially poor, to raise funds to repair the Lingqu.

The restoration this time was very grand. Yu Mengwei conscripted more than 530 people. It took more than a year and cost more than [-] million astronomical figures of money to carry out the largest restoration and widening of Lingqu after the Qin Dynasty. .

Shi Zaiyu Mengwei repaired and widened the Lingqu, not only can it navigate tens of tons of huge boats, but also the canal is turbulent.

In other words, a large ship with a load of six to seven tons can be easily driven by only one sailor, which shows the abundance of water flow.

After Zhang Zhaojun arrived in Guilin, he only did three things in almost five years.

The first thing is to start the establishment of the three guards of Guilin, and restore the people's livelihood in Guilin Mansion, which has been empty because of the continuous fighting between Ma Chu and the Southern Han Dynasty.

The second thing is to transform the pro-army Zuo Shenweiwei who followed him south to Guilin Mansion into an inland navy that can not only fight on land, but also adapt to the Lingnan River.

The backbone of Zuo Shenweiwei is composed of a small group of Helong armored soldiers and the original post-Jin imperial army.

When going south, Zhang Tie handed over thousands of Ma Chu's troops to Zhang Zhaojun. In addition, Ma Chu Jingjiang Jiedu, who was originally in Guilin Mansion, had thousands of soldiers, with few confidants and many outsiders. The situation was very complicated.

However, Zhang Zhaojun lived up to expectations. Within five years, relying on only more than 2000 confidantes, relying on his personal ability and prestige, he subdued as many as [-] other generals with complex compositions.

Up to now, it has formed a strong military force with the personal guard Zuo Shenwei, the forbidden army Jingjiang Town, and Wulue Town as the main guards, plus the three guards of the Guards, the patrolling soldiers of the Inspection Department, spears and archers.

At present, there is no need to send troops from the imperial court. Zhang Zhaojun (Ma Shacai) is working as a dojo in a snail shell with extremely limited resources. He has developed an army of [-] elite soldiers, [-] local forces, and a total of [-] land and water infantry.

And up to now, Zhang Zhaojun has captured Rongzhou (Rongshui), Pingle and other counties belonging to the Southern Han Dynasty, and divided his troops into two groups to guide the important cities of Liuzhou and Wuzhou in the Han Dynasty.

This has in fact formed a huge threat to the regime of the Southern Han Dynasty, forcing Liu Sheng of the Southern Han Dynasty to garrison large troops in these two places, and the annual consumption of money and food is astronomical.

And the third thing is to repair the Lingqu.

At this time, although it has only been 90-90 years since Yu Mengwei repaired and widened the Lingqu Canal last time, the situation in these [-] years has been extremely chaotic, resulting in the Lingqu Canal not being well maintained.

Especially after Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, the situation became even more serious. Ma Chu and the Southern Han Dynasty fought many times in Guilin Prefecture. This important Lingnan town encountered fierce tug-of-war between the two sides many times.

In the period of Ma Xifan, in order to prevent the Guilin Mansion from being captured by the Southern Han Dynasty, this heavyweight threatened Ma Chu's heart Hunan through the Xiangjiang River. He even ordered the destruction of the Lingqu, which directly caused the Lingqu, which was not well maintained, to lose most of it. Navigability.

After Zhang Zhaojun arrived, he was faced with such a scene. Lingqu was dilapidated and unusable, and Guilin Mansion was also dilapidated. There were only more than [-] people in the land of nine counties.

And one-third of the financial resources of the entire Hunan Province will be used by Guo Wei to restore the people's livelihood in Changsha, Changde and other places and to subdue the Xidong Man in the west of Dongting Lake.

The other third is more than one third, and it will be used to build the Yangtze River Navy. At that time, the Southern Tang Dynasty had not yet been captured, and the formation and training of the Navy was the most important thing, and it had to spend a lot of money to do it.

Less than one-third of the rest have to bear the salaries of civil and military officials in various places.

In this case, even if the money and food allocated by the imperial court from Hubei every year are in the hands of Zhang Zhaojun, there are only three melons and two dates left.

But under such circumstances, Zhang Zhaojun (Ma Shacai) equalized the land in Guilin Prefecture to reduce grain, attracted people who had fled to the mountains to come down the mountain, punished local wealthy families, cracked down on bandits and bandits, and used his connections to ask for cattle, iron farm tools, etc. To resume production.

It took him only five years to establish two towns of the imperial army, three guards of the guard army, perfect the local inspection system, establish dozens of gun stick clubs and bow and arrow clubs, and stabilize social order.

It also resumed the prefectural and county schools that had been closed for decades, provided relief to the local poor Confucian scholars, and rewarded the folks for their pure filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and brotherhood, which made the people of Guilin Prefecture more honest and the education in the territory was greatly restored.

At the same time, he also rushed to the south of the Southern Han frontier army, and with thousands or tens of thousands of troops, he suppressed the Southern Han Dynasty.

The most frightening thing is that Ma Shacai was born as a bandit in Hexi, and a rough man from Northwest China who didn't know a lot of characters came to Lingnan and quickly became a water conservancy expert. His restoration.

He conscripted 13 people from nearly 500 states and counties to serve in corvée. Not only did he not cause major turmoil, but the number of people lost within five years was controlled to less than [-].

You must know that in this era, the common people serve this kind of corvee, which is almost the same as going to the gate of hell.

Take Yu Mengwei as an example. He is considered to love the people. He conscripted more than [-] people to repair the Lingqu, and the number given by the victims in the end is incalculable.

It is guessed that at least thousands of people died, and the death rate is likely to be close to [-]%, while Zhang Zhaojun's is less than [-]%.

Therefore, although Zhang Zhaojun imposed large-scale corvee, he was not regarded as cruel, but was regarded as a living Bodhisattva by the people.

You can't accept it, but there is often a heavenly group beside the great emperor who can start from the beginning in history.

For example, the Peixian brothers of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, and the old Huaixi brothers of Zhu Hongwu.

There are also around Zhang Tie. From the [-] yuan he brought to the west, more than a dozen general talents such as Yan Jin, Ma Yaozi, Ma Shacai, Pan Quan, and Yin Yaozi came out. As for famous generals and brave generals There are countless more.

Even when Zhang Yu sent Zhang Zhaojun (Ma Shacai) to guard Guilin Mansion, he never expected him to be so good.

Who would have imagined that a bandit in the Northwest who didn't know a single word would go to the south of the Five Ridges to mount a horse to rule the army, not to mention the herdsmen who dismounted from the horse did a very good job, and even became a water conservancy expert in a short time. What's more exaggerated is that he is also good at using small money event.

This is also the reason why Zhang Ting would not accept the offering of soil from the Southern Han Dynasty. Zhang Zhaojun sacrificed so much in Guilin Mansion, and stayed here for five years as a famous founding general and emperor's righteous brother.

Even after Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui of the next generation, and even Zhao Kuangyin of the next generation started to make great achievements in destroying the country, Zhang Zhaojun still had no complaints and completed his task perfectly.

In this way, if one does not give a credit for destroying the country, then it is really unreasonable.

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In front of the Four Sages Temple, as soon as Zhang Zhaojunfu arrived, lions danced in front of the temple, dragon boats galloped on the river, gongs and drums shook the sky, and clear and thick firecrackers slammed in the fire.

Zhang Zhaojun was so excited with the officials, soldiers and civilians that he even took off his robes and played drums for the dragon boat athletes in the river with his bare upper body.

Everyone played until Shenzheng (four o'clock in the afternoon), and the smell of the food prepared by the flowing water mat began to be heard. At this time, Tang Ma from the Zhongwei of Guilin Mansion in the distance arrived on horseback.

Officials from the imperial court Taichang Temple finally arrived.

Along with the Taichang Temple officials came a middle official and an official from the Ministry of Rites.

Taichang Temple officials came to the scene, and what they brought was the decree that Taichang Temple, which manages the world's religions, allowed to set up a temple beside the Lingqu to offer sacrifices and upgrade the Four Sages Temple to the Four Sages Temple.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites came here specifically to pursue the title. Lu, who presided over the construction of the Lingqu in the Qin Dynasty, had great credit. However, because the Qin Dynasty perished too quickly, his credit was not valued by the court at that time and later.

Up to now, most of the titles for Lu are Jianlu or Shilu, and they don't even have a surname.

Therefore, Zhang Wei specially issued an edict to bestow the surname Zhang of the Lu Kingdom, called Zhang Lu, posthumously named Duke Ling, and bestowed the posthumous title Hui, which means Hui and all generations.

What the Zhongguan brought was a gold (bronze) statue of Qingyuan Miaodao Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun. Who does this statue look like and who it refers to, everyone naturally knows.

Zhang Ting did not want the Six Dharma Schools to spread in the Central Plains, and at the same time, he had an agreement with Ma Xizhen, an old iron shoe Taoist, to praise Taoism more in Hunan, Lingnan and other places.

This is of course no problem. Anyway, I, Zhang Shengren, have already got stuck in the position of Erlang God. According to the narrative of Taoism, Zhang Tie is not at a loss.

The people in Guilin Mansion were extremely happy when they got the government decree to allow the establishment of the Temple of Four Sages, and saw that the emperor granted the surname and returned the posthumous title.

The four people in the Four Sages Temple, especially Lu, who was most likely from Guilin, received such praise from the emperor, and in an instant, their relationship with the imperial court was drawn into them.

Then the Zhongguan also announced that the emperor knew that the people in the nine counties of Guilin Prefecture, as well as in Rongzhou and Quanzhou Prefecture had worked hard, so he decided to exempt the people in these two prefectures and one prefecture from the beginning of Ma Chu.

They were also exempted from their five years of corvee and hard labor. Today's celebration banquet was also a feast for them from the emperor's internal funds.

As soon as the news came out, long live cheers resounded all over the world, and the common people thought that it was the emperor who invited them to a drink, so they were so excited that they almost made a fuss on the spot.

Well, I, Emperor Zhang, am still the same, and I am best at buying people's hearts with small favors.

During the banquet, Zhang Liecheng took a few glances at the middle official in the distance, he knew him, the head of Shang Baojian, whose surname was Zhou.

Originally, when he was in Tokyo, the chief didn't flatter him, he was respectful, and he called Zhang Gong from a long distance away.

But now, even when he saw it, he didn't even come up to say hello.

"It seems that the lord is still angry with me!" Zhang Liecheng, who had suffered a lot in the past few years and had become dark and thin, sighed, and walked up to Zhang Zhaojun with a wine bowl.

"Fifth Uncle, now that the people's hearts are backing, Murong Erlang's Eastern Expedition is basically over, and there is no shortage of money and food. Are we going to go south to Xingwang's Mansion?"

Zhang Zhaojun glanced at Zhang Liecheng, knowing in his heart that he was anxious to perform meritorious deeds and seek Zhang Chen's forgiveness, but it was obvious that his nephew had not been tempered enough, and his heart was still very impetuous.

Taking a sip of the wine in the bowl, Zhang Zhaojun shook his head, "It's not the time yet. Although the military strength of Han is not strong, it is still stable internally. Did not kill people indiscriminately.

Although our army is strong, but we have just dredged the Lingqu Canal, and we are exhausted. The imperial court sent troops from far away, and they can't adapt to the heat and humidity here, so it is not the time to attack them. "

Zhang Zhaojun is not trying to shirk, but the fact is.

In history, it was very easy for the Northern Song Dynasty to conquer the Southern Han Dynasty. That's because Liu Yu, who succeeded Liu Sheng after his death, was still considered a heavyweight even if he was placed among the stupid kings of thousands of years of history. The shining gorilla.

The most bizarre policy of this gentleman is that he believes that ministers have small families, so they will have selfishness, and they are far less reliable than eunuchs who have no children and no fertility.

So he ordered that as long as he wanted to be an official in the court, he must be a eunuch. The famous eunuch dynasty was formed in his hands.

As for other brutal and indiscriminate killings, such as pretending to be a pirate to go to sea to rob, or leading an army to rob his own subjects if he failed to rob a businessman, these things can only be regarded as pediatrics in the face of his cowhide brains in forming the eunuch dynasty.

It was under the rule of this heavyweight that the Southern Han Dynasty was separated from Germany, and the people in the country were in dire straits.

At this time, there were 20 households and more than 130 million people in the Southern Han Dynasty. By the end of Liu Yu's period, there were only 17 households left, which was not enough for 100 million people.

Under such circumstances, when the Northern Song Dynasty attacked the Southern Han Dynasty, almost all the people in the Southern Han Dynasty rushed to be the leading party. Pan Mei easily defeated the Six Armies and Twelve Guards of the Imperial Army of the Southern Han Dynasty in just one battle.

At this time, although Liu Sheng was cruel, his methods were not bad. Under his governance, the people of the Southern Han Dynasty could live on.

It can even be said that because of the prosperity of the sea trade, at least the people in the Pearl River Delta region are living well.

Such a country, if you want to attack and destroy it with 3 or [-] people, it can only be said to be a dream.
Zhang Liecheng left disappointed, but Zhang Zhaojun looked at his back and sighed.

Zhang Liecheng still didn't understand why he got to this point, it wasn't because of his merits, but because of his heart.

If Zhang Liecheng still couldn't figure it out when it came time to conquer the Han Kingdom, he would never be forgiven by the emperor for the rest of his life.

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