Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 885
It took more than a month for the boat to go down the Red River to reach Songping City in Jiaozhou.Although the journey down the river was much faster than the previous journey, Qin Lang stopped the boat and docked from time to time to inspect the construction of the newly established post stations, fortresses, military forts, beacon piers, and villages along the river. A few new immigrants settled in villages.

In this way, when we arrived at Songping City, it was almost the Dragon Boat Festival.

During this more than a month of getting along day and night, Qin Lang and Ah-cha have a very good relationship. The two seem to have become confidantes who talk about everything, but Qin Lang has always kept the boundaries, and Ah-ha has become Qin Lang's new concubine in name Waiter, also live on the same boat, but arranged a cabin in the poop.

The more Qin Lang was like this, the more Ah Cha deliberately teased him, as if it had become an interesting episode in the boring voyage.

"This Jiaozhou City is so big, why can't you see the sea?"

Standing on the deck of the naval flagship, Ah Cha was amazed to see the grand scene of the pier with dense white sails in front of him.

"Jiaozhou Port is actually an inland river port in Honghe. It is 320 miles away from the sea to the east. The real seaport is actually Taiping Port in Wu'an Prefecture. It used to be in the inland river, but it has been moved to the seaside to build a new port city. A real seaport."

"There are still 320 miles, why not build it by the sea?" Ah Cha asked.

"What a storm by the sea."

Jiaozhou City was not built on the seashore, of course there are various historical reasons, not that there are winds and waves on the seashore, that is just one of the reasons, for example, Guangzhou is also by the seaside.

Jiaozhou city was built in the center of the Red River Delta, occupying the core of the entire delta. In fact, the location is not bad. It surrounds Songping, the city of Jiaozhou, and there are other cities such as Longbian, Jiaozhi, Pingdao, Zhuyuan, Nanding, Xinchang and Wuping nearby. , It can be said that Shanghai Jiaozhou is the only big city in the Red River Delta, and the rest, such as Wu'an and Changzhou, were actually peripheral cities in the early days, and their development was mediocre.

When the fleet entered the port, the merchant ships all gave way one after another.

Li Daliang also brought a group of generals, civil and military officers to the pier to welcome them.

"Jiaozhou is bigger than Kunzhou city." Ah Cha sighed.

"Then you have never seen Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, Guangzhou, Yizhou, Jiangling and other places. They are all the centers of the world, where wealth and goods gather. Chang'an and Luoyang are homes of millions, and Yangzhou, Guangzhou and other places have household registrations of one hundred thousand. above households..."

Ah Cha couldn't imagine how prosperous Chang'an, Luoyang, etc. were. Although King Cuangui often talked about Chang'an to her before, that Chang'an seemed to be different from the Chang'an that Qin Lang talked about.

"Is it far from here to Chang'an?"

"Well, it's very far. If you go northward from Jiaozhou, if you follow the river to go to sea, it will be 320 miles. If you go north by land, it will be 550 miles to Zhennanguan in the north of Wu'an Prefecture. It is thousands of miles away from Chang'an. If you go to Youzhou on the North Road of the Tang Dynasty, it will be 160 miles, to Yangzhou, 120 miles, and to Guizhou, it will be [-] miles..."

"Do you think it's far away?"

Truly miles away.

"From Kunzhou to Jiaozhou, the traffic is smooth now, and the whole journey is only 120 miles."

"It took more than a month to come from Tonghai, and the distance is only more than 2000 miles. If it is more than 1000 miles to Youzhou, wouldn't it take half a year?"

"It's normal to walk for half a year."

This has to be mainly by water. It is extremely difficult to go out in this era. It is good to have places where big rivers and rivers are navigable. It is equivalent to taking high speed or even taking a train, which is stable and not bumpy. It can shake the buttocks, not to mention the dusty ones will eat a bellyful of ashes. If it is rainy, or when the roads are muddy in spring and summer, it will be fatal.

The waterway can travel at least sixty or seventy miles a day, but if you take a carriage, it’s not so fast. Thirty or forty miles a day is not bad.

And if the entanglement is not enough, it will be even more difficult to travel on two legs.

In the era of the imperial examination, some poor scholars went to Beijing to rush for the exam, and many of them really set off half a year in advance.

In later generations, it is very troublesome to travel far away, let alone in this era, it is not only difficult to travel on the frontier, but also dangerous.

Accidents are everywhere and crises are everywhere.

It is absolutely not easy for Jiaozhou to be able to persist in the hands of the imperial court from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

On the pier, Li Daliang and others greeted him.

"Saburo, you are finally back."

Last year, Li Daliang was severely reprimanded because of Zhang Bi's aggressive invasion of eight thousand elite troops. He had done a good job in Annan in the past few years. Serving as a general in the first army of Beiya, he will be the Minister of the Ministry of War in the transitional few years.

Unexpectedly, when this happened, he would be recorded as a major misdemeanor. Now that he has committed crimes and meritorious deeds, he does not know when he will have the chance to be promoted again.

Fortunately, the subsequent battle progressed very smoothly. After Qin Lang led his troops to the west, he quickly wiped out Juding and the Eastern Heman, directly Chen Bing went to the north bank of the West Daojiang River, and went all the way north to Qilu Lake. A Tonghai Governor's Mansion was issued and handed over to the Annan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

"An angel just arrived in Chang'an, and the sage issued a decree. The Annan Metropolitan Guard's Mansion was renamed the Zhennan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and Wei Wang Taiyao took the post of Zhennan Metropolitan Governor."

Annan changed its name to Zhennan, and Dadu Hufu was changed to Dadu Dufu. Two words were changed, but it meant a lot.The original intention of the Protectorate's Mansion is actually equivalent to the implementation of prison control over some areas on the frontier that are not easy to control. The Governor supervises the tribes and barbarians.

Anxi Duhu and Annan Duhu both mean this.

The Guangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, Youzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, Bingzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, Liangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, Yizhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, Jingzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, and Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion are all controlled and strategically important in the Central Plains. land.

The Dudu’s Mansion has the Lower Dudu’s Mansion, the Central Dudu’s Mansion, and the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion. In name, the three levels of the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion have no affiliation. During the war, he had some privileges, such as being able to temporarily control other surrounding capitals, prefectures and counties.

The original intention of the Dudu Mansion of the Tang Dynasty was actually to give some governors on the border and some core areas the power to control the military, so as not to let the governors take charge of the military at critical times when the imperial court was beyond their reach and the dispatch was ineffective.

Its power is still very large.

Especially since Zhenguan, the system of the governor's mansion has been further clarified, and each governor's mansion has organized and stationed frontier troops, state and town troops, etc.

As the barbarians surrendered one after another, Li Shimin took advantage of the opportunity to change Annan Duhufu to Zhennan Dadudufu, and Anan was changed to a town. It is estimated that he dared to establish the Nanman Dynasty on the south bank of the Red River and called himself the Nanman Wuhuang. Those savages had some warning.

For Qin Lang, it has no effect.

Wu'an Prefecture belongs to Guangnan Road, and it itself has been promoted to the Lower Capital Governor's Mansion, while Juding and Tonghai are the Zhongdu Governor's Mansions, both of which belong to Guangnan Road, but Wu'an Prefecture is Qin Lang's fiefdom after all. He has great autonomy.

Inside the Governor's Palace.

Qin Lang and Li Daliang had a brief exchange of the recent situation. Everything in the Tonghai Governor's Mansion was going well, which reassured Li Daliang a lot, while the Jiaozhou side was also quite peaceful. The upstream war gradually calmed down. Business, industry and commerce, etc. have not been greatly affected, but have further prospered.

"This year is not very peaceful. At the beginning of the month, there was a solar eclipse in Chang'an, which was an ominous omen. Then, in Longyou, earth dragons appeared frequently, landslides and ground cracked, and big snakes appeared frequently. Then, to the east of Xiaoshan, In the south of the Yellow River, in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, heavy rains caused disasters, floods, floods between Shandong, the Yellow River, Huaihe River, and the sea, and dozens of states were affected..."

And when Qin Lang was celebrating the new year in Tonghai, the Lingnan side was in chaos again.First, there were people from Luodoudong, Guangdong. These barbarians who often rebelled against the registered households of Qimin, rebelled again because the imperial court wanted to organize registered households of Qimin to measure the land and clear the land. There were even Feng Xian and other tyrants and even scumbags behind them. Do things.

Immediately afterwards, the Xidong man in Xunjiang Gongzhou made trouble again.

The rebellion spread rapidly.

The local officials in the Duni River and Tanshui basins in the west of Yizhou, Guangxi rebelled one after another, threatening to start a prairie fire. Although these rebellions were not very successful, local officials in various places acted quickly and organized military crusades.

Soon the rebels were defeated again, and now they are only fleeing back to the mountainous area, the city and so on have not been lost.

But anyway, the mess happened.

Feng An and other handsome chieftains who were detained in Chang'an also took the opportunity to ask to go back to Lingnan to quell the chaos. Li Shimin finally agreed to let them return after the Dragon Boat Festival.

"When I was in Tonghai, I knew some of the chaos here, but in the end it was nothing. The ignorant barbarians were secretly provoked by some caring people. They just wanted to create some momentum and increase It’s just a bargaining chip. But I even beat the Juding man and Dongfang Heman away, and the left and right Xi man have also obeyed, so why do I care about the rest? No one can stop the imperial court’s reform in Lingnan Tuguiliu, the last time I was busy with Dajucho, I first changed the Tuguiliu to Zuoxi River, other places have not been arranged, and now it seems that it is just on the agenda."

"This time, in the south of the Lingnan region, I plan not to keep a single Jimi prefecture, and change them all to Zhengzhou, or downgrade to Zhengxian. Who dares to overestimate their own strength, stop the car with their arms, and run over them all."

Li Daliang is very supportive of Qin Lang's domineering declaration. He is also a hardliner. Now that the court is winning, he should take advantage of the situation and advance. There is no reason to repeat it.

Although Xidong Liaoman's forces are not small, but in general, now that the general trend has risen, it is difficult for those barbarians to be scattered.

"Here comes the angel. There is one more thing. It is estimated that war will start in the north. Xue Yantuo is getting more and more excessive. The court has also talked with Xue Yantuo for a long time, but there is no way to appease Yinan. Now we can only fight."

Qin Lang smiled, "Although Xue Yantuo controls Mobei, he has only controlled Mobei for a few years, and the court has not been useless in the past few years. Although the Huihe Alliance is not as good as Xue Yantuo, it still has some strength. This knife is very useful at critical times."

Li Daliang also nodded, "Xue Yantuo dared to provoke Datang, after all, he was going to hit his head and bleed, but now the Goguryeo people are also ready to move, they communicated with Xue Yantuo in secret, and planned to attack together. Therefore, His Majesty's decree is to start from our Lingnan area." While sending back the two naval divisions of the East China Sea and the North Sea, we will also send some elite troops there, about 2 people."

Qin Lang couldn't help frowning.

Last time Zhang Bi lost 2 soldiers, but they were all the government soldiers stationed in Annan to guard the frontier army. This has not been replenished. Why do we have to draw another [-] people from Lingnan now?

"The imperial court is going to draw troops to Lingnan, it seems that this time there will be a big battle?" Qin Lang squeezed his chin.

(End of this chapter)