A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 854 Princess Changle’s Disdain

Jiucheng Palace is a great place to escape the summer heat.

This palace was built in the north of Qizhou by an edict issued by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, with Yang Su as the director, Yu Wenkai as the general supervisor for planning and design, and Feng Deyi as the civil engineering supervisor in charge of construction.

The mountains and valleys of Yishan are filled with palaces, and the towers and towers are surrounded by pavilions.

Due to the tight construction schedule, tens of thousands of people died, all of whom were forced to fill the pits.

It was built and named Renshou Palace. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty came to this palace for refuge six times. He was very satisfied with this magnificent and luxurious palace, but he died in Renshou Palace in the end.

During the Zhenguan Dynasty, Li Shimin issued an edict to repair the palace, built a forbidden garden, arsenal, and official offices, and renamed it Jiucheng Palace to a larger scale.

Today's Jiucheng Palace is located on the north bank of Dushui, surrounded by Bicheng Mountain to the north, Shibai Mountain to the south, Tongshan Mountain to the east, and Fenghuang Mountain to the west.

The scope of the palace city is surrounded by 1,800 steps of walls. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east. Tiantai Mountain is surrounded by the palace city.

There are two layers of city walls inside and outside, the inner city is the palace city, which is in the flatter area of ​​the valley, and the outer city wall is wider, including the surrounding mountains.

Inside the palace city are the imperial palace, arsenal, and government offices. The area outside the palace city and within the walls is the forbidden garden.

Next to the wall of the West Palace is the artificial lake Xihai, which is fed by the Mafang River flowing from north to south.

By the lake, there is an exquisite glazed waterside pavilion, also known as the Moon Palace.

Empress Changsun was drinking tea in this transparent room made of glazed glass, but she did not let the concubines accompany her. The empress preferred to be quiet and not to cause trouble.

The palace man makes a pot of tea,

There is also a palace attendant playing a soothing piano music,

High water flow,

The queen held a scroll of Tongjian in her hand and was fascinated by it.

She is a talented woman. Although she is a queen, she does not like power and has never been involved in political affairs. Even after her brother assisted her husband in ascending to the throne and worshiped the prime minister, she instead urged her brother to resign and let her husband not If you favor your eldest son's family too much, you will be afraid that your family will become too prosperous.

There was a sound of footsteps.

The sound came before anyone arrived, and there were bursts of laughter like silver bells. When Queen Changsun heard the sound, she couldn't help but put down the book in her hand, and a smile appeared on her face.

This is the arrival of my daughter, Princess Changle, Lizi.

The eldest daughter is getting married this year. She will marry her brother's eldest son, and her cousin will marry her cousin.

"Mother, have you heard about Wu Huaiyu?"

"You have to address me as Lord Wu, or Mr. Qingyang. How can I call him by his first name?" The queen smiled at her daughter and stretched out her hand to pull her to sit next to her. "What's wrong, Mr. Qingyang?"

"Don't you know, Queen Mother, that my father granted him the title of hereditary governor of Jiangzhou, but Wu Huaiyu kept writing to refuse, and the saint repeatedly refused, and then he actually wrote another letter, saying that he wanted to exchange Yizhou for Jiangzhou."

"I heard that Yizhou is in the vast sea. It is said that the Three Kingdoms Soochow sent a fleet to search for Yizhou. It turned out that they set off from Jianye and sailed on the sea for a year before arriving at Yizhou. The island is full of savages. It is said that tribes They don't belong to each other, they attack each other, and they also like to cut off the enemy's heads and then keep them."

When the thirteen-year-old Princess Changle talked about this, there was a hint of disgust in the novelty.

"Mother, why do you think Mr. Qingyang wanted to exchange Jiangzhou for Yizhou? Is it true that it is just like what others have said, that Wu Qingyang said angry words to oppose His Majesty's enfeoffment?"

Queen Changsun also just learned about this news.

Wu Huaiyu actually wanted to exchange Jiangzhou for Yizhou?

She knew more about Yizhou than her daughter. In the sixth year of Daye, Emperor Sui also sent thousands of troops across the sea to conquer Liuqiu, beheaded its kings and kings, captured its princes and thousands of men and women, and burned two of its cities.

This adds another dimension to Yang Guang’s martial arts.

Empress Changsun even knew that Liuqiu Island was opposite Fuzhou, which belonged to Jian'an County during the Sui Dynasty.

To the east of Wuyi Mountain, adjacent to the East China Sea, Jian'an County is surrounded by mountains and seas. It has a very large area, but it has always been relatively closed and backward. It has eight mountains, one water and one farmland.

It is bounded by Xianxia Ridge in Zhejiang to the north, Jiulian Mountain in Guangdong to the south, Wuyi Mountain in Jiangxi to the east, and the sea to the west.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Wang Lang was defeated by Sun Ce, he fled to Fuhai and went to the eastern marquis, which is now Fuzhou.

Sun Quan once set up a shipbuilding institution in Fuzhou, where he banished his disciples to build ships. Later, the state of Wu sent an army to attack Jiaozhi from Nantai. Nantai was the naval base and shipbuilding center of the state of Wu in Fuzhou.

During the Western Jin Dynasty, Yi Guan traveled south and eight surnames entered Fujian, which also brought advanced technology from the north. During the Sui Dynasty, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, etc. were established, and they also crossed the sea to attack Liuqiu.

But even now in the seventh year of Zhenguan, the entire original Jian'an County, which is now the five prefectures of Fujian, Jian, Quan, Zhang and Ting,

It belongs to Jiangnan East Road, but the gap between Fujian and Wuyue is too big.

Mountains and seas block each other, making it very closed.

Transportation is inconvenient, production technology is backward, especially there is too little land, and there are eight mountains, one water, and one field. The fields are mainly concentrated along the coast and rivers, but the coastal areas are plagued by typhoons, floods, waterlogging, and salinity.

There is little arable land, a small population, and poor transportation, so there is little economic development.

The people who captured the city and Liuqiu during the Sui Dynasty's expedition to Linyi and Liuqiu were later settled in the Zhangquan area, which was really sparsely populated.

at dinner time,

The queen accompanied the emperor to dinner and took the initiative to bring up the matter.

"Why does Qingyang want to change his title?"

"Have you heard about this too?"

Queen Changsun said that it was Li Zhi who told her, "The child is going to get married soon, and he is still in a state of affairs."

Li Shimin held the queen's hand and said, "Let's go, I'll take a walk with you."

The two walked hand in hand on the west coast.

"In a blink of an eye, Li Zheng is already thirteen years old and is about to get married. To be honest, I really can't bear to part with her."

"I'm also a little reluctant to let go. I feel like she hasn't grown up yet." The queen held her husband's hand tightly.

Thirteen years old is indeed a bit young.

However, the imperial court has been issuing edicts to encourage early marriage, early childbearing and more children among the people, and the royal family must always take the lead.

"You were only thirteen when you married me."

"Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. Time flies so fast." Empress Changsun couldn't help but think of the time when she first got married. It was the ninth year of Daye's reign. She was only thirteen and her husband was only sixteen.

"Speaking of which, I still remember an incident from the past. After you got married, you returned to Ningyongxingli. Your uncle Gao Shilian's concubine Zhang saw a big horse outside the house where you lived. The horse was two feet tall and had a saddle. Everyone was here. Zhang was frightened and told your uncle about the matter.

Gao Shilian asked someone to divine, and it showed that the harmony between Kun and Kun, internal yang and external yin, internal health and external compliance, were the intersection between heaven and earth. The divination person said that the dragon is the hexagram of Qian, the horse is the hexagram of Kun, and the woman is in an honorable position. The hexagrams in the Zhongzheng position show that this woman is extremely valuable. "

He smiled and said, "That man's divination was very accurate back then. You are indeed the most beautiful person in the world."

The two held hands and walked while talking,

"Li Zhi came to me several times recently to tell me about being granted the title of governor after his death. She said that my title of governor was not a reward but a relocation,"

"I know what Wuji meant by these words. Our daughter is not even married yet, and her elbows are turned outward."

The queen shook her husband's hand and said, "I heard that not only Wuji opposed Shi Feng as governor, but many ministers also opposed it, and there were only a few supporters except Prime Minister Xiao?

Now Huaiyu suddenly submitted a letter to exchange Yizhou for Jiangzhou. Is he also opposing Prime Minister Xiao's policy of world feudalism? "

The queen didn't say it was the emperor's world sealing method, but Xiao Yu's world sealing policy.

Li Shimin was not in a hurry to answer.

He held his wife's hand and walked for a while, "Actually, Wu Huaiyu has always supported enfeoffment, but his enfeoffment method is more radical than Xiao Yu's. He has always advocated enfeoffing the kings to the border barbarian lands. Give too much power,

It advocated giving one-third of the tax revenue to the fiefdom, giving the power to appoint and remove officials below the seventh rank, and giving thousands of military guards, but administration, justice, and supervision should be appointed by the court. "

"To be honest, I find it hard to agree with Huaiyu's enfeoffment policy after reading it. I can't bear to treat the kings so harshly,"

(End of this chapter)