Little Detective of the Tang Dynasty: What to do if you are beheaded at the beginning?

Hongzhou, because it is close to the Ganjiang River, has seven counties under its jurisdiction, including Nanchang, Fengcheng, Gao'an, Jianchang, Xinwu, Wuning, and Fenning.

In ancient times, cities near rivers usually had a prosperous population. Therefore, Hongzhou should belong to the upper states.

Li Yuanying's position is the governor of Hongzhou. So which one is more important, the governor or the governor?

The answer is the governor.

The chief executive of a state is the governor, which is equivalent to the mayor of a prefecture-level city in later generations.

Because there were more than 300 states in the Tang Dynasty, and there happened to be more than 300 prefecture-level cities in later generations.

To be honest, the governor is not as great as everyone imagines.

What about the governor?

"When the Tang Dynasty was established, Emperor Gaozu changed the county into a state, the prefect became the governor, and the governor's office was set up to govern it."

Compared with the chief executive such as the governor, the governor is more like a military district commander.

However, the Tang Dynasty was different from the Qin and Han Dynasties.

During the Tang Dynasty, a small number of governors were nominal positions held by clan members, with basically no real power, such as Teng Wang Li Yuanying. They were just more prestigious than the governor.

After Song Zhen and Di Renjie got off the carriage, a breeze blew.

All they saw was a prosperous scene.

Compared with Lingling County in Yongzhou, Yuzhang County in Hongzhou looked more modern.

Modernization here does not refer to high-rise buildings, but to more complete urban infrastructure and richer functions and types of city blocks.

Seeing this, Di Renjie sighed: "I didn't expect Hongzhou to be so prosperous."

Indeed, Yuzhang County in front of us, except that the area is not as large as Luoyang and the population is not as exaggerated as Luoyang's two million, the rest is really no different.

Along the way, pedestrians stopped to smile and chat.

In the city, small vendors were shouting hard, and people were surging in the shops next to them.

In the block, singing came from Pingkang Block, and from time to time people clapped and cheered.

In the past, scholars would be looked down upon if they had not been to the places of fireworks.

In today's places of fireworks, if you have not been to watch a play, you must be a poor ghost who can't even eat enough.

The Tang Dynasty had relatively light taxes in all dynasties and encouraged industry and commerce, so the people were relatively wealthy.

The most important thing was that the prices were outrageously low. In the early Tang Dynasty, a dou of rice cost four or five coins, which was simply unimaginable in later generations, so in that era, basically most of the common people could eat enough.

According to the Tang Dynasty, a male over 18 years old had 100 mu of land. Assuming good weather and good harvests, the yield of millet per mu was one stone. According to the Tang Dynasty's measurement, one stone is 106 catties today, so a total of 10,600 catties of millet.

If calculated based on the current price of 6 yuan per catty of millet, the annual income of a male is 63,600 yuan, and the average monthly income of the people is 6,300 yuan.

This income far exceeds the per capita income of 2,000 in the Han Dynasty.

So calculated...

Ahem.

The most enviable thing is that the people of the Tang Dynasty did not have to worry about housing, and the court allocated homesteads for free.

Putting aside the feudal oppression of politics and thought, if you travel back to ancient times, the happiest life should be the Song Dynasty. The peak tax of the Northern Song Dynasty reached 160 million guan, accounting for 80% of the world's total GDP. You should know that the population of the two Song dynasties was only 100 million. What is this concept?

The second is the Zhenguan Yonghui and Kaiyuan prosperous times.

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Song Zhen naturally knew the purpose of Teng Wang inviting them to Hongzhou. It is impossible for them to just come and play.

He must have liked his music. With the first one, there will be a second one.

He searched in the ocean of memory in his mind.

Which song should I use?

Song Zhen remembered that there were only two things that Teng Wang talked about in later generations.

The first one is Teng Wang Pavilion, but "Fisherman's Song at Dusk" used the idioms in "Teng Wang Pavilion Preface" written by Wang Bo in the future, so it was regarded as a proposition for composition.

The second is his Teng-style butterfly painting, which was very accomplished in ancient times. Song Dynasty poet Chen Shidao once commented on it.

"Teng Wang's butterfly and Jiangdu horse, a piece of paper is worth a thousand gold."

Teng-style butterfly painting belongs to the category of fine brushwork and heavy color painting. The unique pigments and special techniques have enabled butterfly painting to remain for a hundred years, still as elegant as when it was first created. It is regarded as a treasure by the upper class of each dynasty and is regarded as a private honor.

Mr. Lu Xun praised Teng-style butterfly painting as "lacking, unique, unpopular, and a treasure of the motherland."

"What are the pure music about butterflies?" Song Zhen touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Liang Zhu's "Transformation into Butterfly" cannot be used. After all, it already exists. If Teng Wang is named after it, it may cause public disgust.

Songs that he had heard before flashed quickly in Song Zhen's sea of ​​consciousness, and he frowned and stood there.

Seeing this, Di Renjie stood beside him silently, silent and not disturbing him.

Butterfly is a synonym for romance, and later music generally refers to the praise of love.

When people hear butterfly, they will immediately thinkIt was related to the rustic love song "Two Butterflies".

Song Zhen couldn't help but hum: "You and I are entangled and flying, flying across this world forever."

Di Renjie looked at him with a strange expression.

Song Zhen felt goosebumps all over his body, and he shook his head hurriedly.

No, no, this style of music has a big span of time.

In addition to "Two Butterflies", there is also the "Drunken Butterfly" that the Hua Kai Fugui people love the most.

"I can't fly out of this colorful world. It turns out that I am a drunk butterfly."

Damn it, is it really necessary to introduce square dance culture in advance in the Tang Dynasty?

This is too...

Ahem, you don't say, it's really a bit too much.

If Teng Wang knew that I made a square dance magic song for him, I'm afraid he would chop me with a knife.

At this time, a young man next to him was shouting, interrupting Song Zhen's thoughts.

"Come and have a look, freshly baked Ou."

Song Zhen's thoughts returned to reality, he walked over curiously and took a look.

"Young man, do you want to buy a few?"

Song Zhen picked up a bowl casually, he held it in his hand curiously and asked, "What is this?"

"Young man, this is celadon produced by our local earthen kiln in Hongzhou."

Celadon? Why not blue and white porcelain?

Song Zhen played with it carefully, it was interesting, it felt as warm as jade and smooth.

It's really amazing to be able to make porcelain feel like jade.

Hongzhou Kiln is one of the six famous celadon kilns in the Tang Dynasty, and the kiln sites are distributed in Fengcheng City.

The difference between celadon and blue and white porcelain is that there is no decorative pattern painted on the surface with blue and white coloring material.

An idea suddenly appeared in Song Zhen's mind.

"Maybe, I can play with Ou?"

As we all know, Ou is the abbreviation of ancient ceramics, a container for drinking tea and wine.

However, due to its clear and melodious sound, it can actually be used as a musical instrument.

Various melodies can be produced according to the size or material of the ceramic.

Of course, there is also a simple way, which is to add different doses of water to the ceramic bowl, which can also produce various tones.

Song Zhen quickly selected a very suitable song in his mind.

This song is very popular on Douyin.

It was originally a very nice and healing pure music, but it was ruined by the AI ​​dubbing of "Pay attention, this man is called Xiaoshuai".

Song Zhen thinks that the prelude of this song, played with an Ou instead of the piano sound, is a perfect match.

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