A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 106 Lord of Peace
Wu Huaiyu, who had only slept for two hours, went to see Chai Shao with red eyes, did not sleep well and was full of resentment, Huaiyu cursed Chai Shao a lot along the way.

After the war, Weizhou City was full of chaos. Thanks to the persistence of Niu Jinda and Wang Tiefo, Xiangwu, the city of Weizhou Prefecture, did not fall, but it was besieged by tens of thousands of people from Yu Sheshe for so long, but it also suffered heavy casualties.

Zhang Qian went out to the Western Regions twice, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty visited Zhangye to the west, both of which went out of Weizhou, and Li Guang of the Han Dynasty even trained troops in Xiangwu.

The Weishui River meanders through the north of the city, and turns a big bend here, from east to west to southeast, irrigating and nourishing the Loess Plateau, and making this famous ancient city.

"Xiangwu City is too small." Huaiyu rode slowly on the horse, looking at the street scene.As the governing seat of Weizhou, Xiangwu's layout is actually similar to that of Chang'an, only smaller.There are [-] workshops in Chang'an, but there is only one workshop in Weizhou, or there are cities but no workshops.

"During the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty, Bingzhou County was abolished, and the county level was abolished. Longxi County and Nan'an County were merged into Weizhou, but Weizhou was a border state after all. After the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Turkic and Tuyuhun invaded, the population dropped sharply." Princess Wanchun's son-in-law, Lu Huairang, accompanied Huaiyu on a Qinghai horse. This guy stayed behind during the battle, but now he reappeared after the battle.

He came to call Huaiyu to meet Chai Shao, and he was very enthusiastic when they met.

"At the beginning of Wude in this dynasty, it was stipulated that [-] households belonged to Shangzhou, more than [-] households belonged to Zhongzhou, less than [-] households belonged to Xiazhou, and border counties had [-] households to be Shangzhou, [-] households to Zhongzhou, and [-] households The following is Xiazhou."

Weizhou has four counties under its jurisdiction, but there are not even [-] households. However, there are quite a few Fan tribes under escort, but those Fan people who belonged to them are not registered.At the beginning of Wude, Weizhou was once separated from Qinzhou Dudu's Mansion, and Weizhou Dudu's Mansion was established to manage the military affairs of Weilin and Fuhe prefectures.

Large-scale state cities in the mainland are generally sixteen squares, with a circumference of about twenty miles.In general prefectures and counties, there are only four squares, and they are of different sizes. The larger ones have a circumference of twelve or three miles, and the smaller ones have a circumference of eight or nine miles.

Smaller prefectures and county towns generally have only one or two squares, with a circumference of about four miles, and most of them have only one square, and the four gates and cross streets are divided into four pieces.

"Look at the level of prefectures and counties, and you can know by looking at the city squares. Those with one square are basically Xiazhou and Zhongxia counties, and those with four squares are at least Zhongzhou. If there are sixteen squares, they must be Shangzhou in the interior."

There is only one square in Weizhou.

The four city gates face Shizi Street, and there are no other square walls and square gates in the city.

"Weizhou leads four counties. When the previous dynasty flourished, there were more than 3 households and a population of more than 980. However, according to statistics in the seventh year of Wude in this dynasty, there were only 28 households in Weizhou, with a population of [-].

In the entire Longyou, there are only 19 households and more than [-] population points, of which [-]% are concentrated in the Lianggan Qin Wei-Min River. "

Huaiyu was astonished. The important frontier prefecture where the governor's mansion was once set up had a population of less than 1. It was not as good as a small county in the interior.

In recent years, there have been constant wars in Longyou, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, and Turks have successively invaded, and the population has continued to drop sharply. Just this time, the siege of Weizhou has lost thousands of young people.

"There are only 19 households in Longyou, with [-] people?" Even if he knew that the households and mouths refer to the registered population, excluding escaped households, slaves, tribes, and barbarians, the number is still too small. How old is Longyou? ?After leaving Longguan, it is called Longyou, including Hexi, Hehuang, Longnan and other places.

A Chang'an, in its prime, could have millions of homes.

"That's how it is in the frontier." Lu Huairang explained, pointing to the dilapidated Weizhou City, "Look at this Xiangwu City, it's still the Weizhou Government, how big is it? The city built with loess is only a few hundred acres of land. It's just big."

This is an important place for military strategists. I think that the Shu and Wei Dynasties fought here for many years, and Jiang Wei and Deng Ai competed here.

Not to mention, Longxi is also the place where the Li clan rose.

"In fact, this has always been the case here. The population will increase only when the peace lasts for a long time. After the war of the Three Kingdoms ended, by the time of the Jin Dynasty, the population of Longxi County was only more than 3000 households."

"From the Han and Jin Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, in Longxi, the number of barbarians far exceeded that of Han households." Lu Huairang told him another key word.

Seeing him frowning, Lu Huairang comforted him with a smile, "Actually, you don't have to worry about it. Although you are the deputy director of Weizhou Road and Qinzhou Sicang joined the army, but you have made such great achievements this time, it is impossible to keep you here again." This is the frontier where the birds don't shit."

He envied Huaiyu's achievements, and even more envied his luck, "In the battle at Wucheng Mountain, you led the hospital battalion to behead one special agent, behead a thousand, and take five hundred prisoners. And your subsequent battle at Zhangshui is also remarkable. Point, these two achievements, even if you go straight to the fifth rank, no one can say a word against it."

It has been less than a month since the prince Youwei led the nine ranks of the army to join the army, and then joined the army in Longyou. As a result, he has made such a great contribution, and he may soon be replaced by Feiyin. This makes Lu Huairang, the emperor's son-in-law It's envy or even jealousy.

At the beginning of Wude, it was not conspicuous. How many soldiers started from dragons, from slaves to princes, from Baiding to generals, but now it is not the beginning of the army.

Wu Huaiyu was not the prince's confidant, nor did he take part in the Xuanwu Sect's change, so he was able to make such achievements in Longxi, which is really against the sky.

"My brother-in-law didn't even expect it."

Huaiyu thought to himself, Chai Shao is just fishing with him, and he doesn't care if he dies. Who would have thought that he could make such a contribution with the temporary hospital camp?
When I came to the state government office, it became the temporary residence of the chief executive.

At the door, he saw Cheng Chumo.

This guy was wrapped in gauze all over his body, almost like a mummy, only his right eye, a mouth and two noses were exposed, but when he opened his mouth, Huaiyu still heard it was him.

"Erlang, please be respected by my elder brother."

Cheng Chumo was like this, yet he still wanted to thank Huaiyu for saving his life.

"How did it get like this?"

"It doesn't matter, brother, I have rough skin and thick flesh, and those Lang Riha's knives and arrows are just to tickle my brother, Erlang, brother, I thank you this time, your elixir is really useful, especially you Yesterday he refused to leave brother and Longxi City behind, and he wanted to stay even if he had to fight to the death, brother, I am so moved."

"What are you talking about? On the battlefield, how can our hospital battalion abandon our comrades?"

Cheng Chumo himself was as big and strong as a bear, but now he is wrapped around like a polar bear.On the contrary, it was Wu Huaiyu, who only wore a thin military uniform and no armor today. The contrast between the two stood there.

One tragic, one chic.

"I really admire you. You made such a great achievement by beheading the generals and capturing the flag, but in the end you still didn't hurt a bit of fur. Damn, people are more angry than people. Look at me, brother, there is almost no good meat left in my body."

"Isn't there anything important missing?" Huaiyu joked.

"That must not be less."

When Niu Jinda came over, he crossed his hands politely to Huaiyu and saluted, "I, Lao Niu, also want to thank Wu Erlang well."

"Uncle Niu, why are you being polite to me?"

"I asked Chu Mo to go to Longxi earlier, and I fell into the trick of the Turkic people. I almost broke this baby. If I really fell in Longxi, I would be ashamed to go back to Chang'an to see Lao Cheng. Fortunately, you saved him."

"Actually, Chief Chai is here all the time, holding five thousand elite horsemen right next to him, it's impossible for the Turkic people to succeed." Huaiyu's words were a bit deliberate to start a fight.

Lao Niu could only chuckle, even if he knew that Chai Shao deliberately used them to lure the Turks, they had nothing to say, they were just the chiefs of a camp, and Chai Shao was the chief general of the entire Longyou Road.

"Let's go, let's go in and discuss matters." Lao Niu held Huaiyu in one arm and Cheng Chumo in the other, and they were very close. After this incident, he really regarded Wu Erlang as his nephew.

As soon as he entered, Wang Tiefo, the governor of Weizhou, brought Wang Da, the county magistrate of Longxi, who was also wrapped in gauze, to thank Huaiyu. magistrate.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Shihua separatized the six prefectures of Xuanhang. He supported [-] soldiers and was called the king of Wu for ten years. He protected the country and the people for ten years. Ding sent grain, and the people in the six states under his rule lived relatively peacefully.

So in history, after he belonged to Li Tang, he has always been more credible, unlike Du Fuwei and Luo Yi, who died tragically even though he was granted the surname of the country, especially for his contribution to the peace of the people. Wang Hua was continuously sealed, and he became a god after death like Guan Yu and Yue Fei. In later generations, Wang Gong from Anhui was enshrined in Guizhou, Guangdong, Yunnan and other places.

Worshiped as Emperor Wang Gong and the Lord of Taiping, countless shrines and temples have been built all over the country, offering sacrifices at four seasons for thousands of years.

Wang Tiefo is Wang Shihua's right-hand man. During the Turkic invasion, both his uncle and nephew almost confessed to being in Longyou, especially Wang Da almost died with the city in Longxi City. Wang Da survived with injuries all over his body. Also survived.

"Wu Erlang's achievement, our Wang family will never forget it, and will always remember it in our hearts." Wang Tiefo even took the initiative to mention the warrior Xun, saying that when the warrior Xun inspected the history of the governor of Yangzhou, Wang Hua and Wu got along happily. Elder Brother had previously proposed to Duke Ying about the marriage, and Duke Ying also expressed his willingness to marry Qin and Jin, and wanted to pick a good son of the Wu family to marry, "

He looked at Wu Huaiyu, "Boss Wu is young, brave and talented, it's just right."

Huaiyu was caught off guard by being so proactive and direct, and hurriedly said, "I'm only a rank [-], and I'm only a nephew of Duke Ying, and my father and brother are just small schools of the Forbidden Army, so I don't dare to climb up to the Duke's mansion."

As soon as these words came out, the scene was a bit cold for a while.

Wang Tiefo hurriedly proposed in public such a marriage between the Wang and Wu families, and wanted to match Huaiyu with Wang Hua's daughter, the Duke of Yue. Who knew that Wu Huaiyu directly rejected it in public.

When the old cow saw this, he hurriedly smoothed things over, "Mr. Xuancheng, there is a first-come-first-served approach to everything. You don't know. Wu Erlang is so talented, there are many people who have his eyes on him, and Su Guogong has already fallen in love with him." Erlang is gone, you can't get in the way."

Wang Tiefo laughed, "So that's it, I was being abrupt, hahaha."

A few people laughed, and this matter was just passed away for the time being. Wang Tiefo was also an old fox. After all, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was no easy job to assist his elder brother in Jiangnan to rule the country for ten years.
He also took Huaiyu's other arm, "Let's get closer in the future, I won't hide it from everyone, my old Wang has a lot of daughters, and Erlang won't dislike them, he can choose one or two to be young."

"Hahaha, Lord Xuancheng really knows how to joke, how can the daughter of a majestic county be treated as a child." Lao Niu smiled while holding Huaiyu's other arm. "Erlang really wants to accept a child. I have a daughter in my family. Lao Niu, I am only a male from Weicheng County, so it is suitable."

Huaiyu was held up by these two people, one on the left and the other on the right, a bit dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)