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Chapter 631: Zhuangzi's Saying


Liu Yan only stayed in Jiankang for half a month, and then went to Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is one of the future granaries of the country, as a king who wants to develop, how can he not see in person Liu Yan is land route, out of Jiankang to go to the first line of Lujiang County, it took 16 days to arrive in Jiangxia, and specially chose Lu Yi's family to stay.

Nothing special happened during the inspection, and Liu Yan praised Huan Wen many times for doing a very good job in the south.

The king inspected the area that had just been conquered for a few years, and it was really not an accident if there was an assassination, what Liu Yan knew was that not only did not the assassination happen, but he also did not find out who was arranging the assassination, and praising Huan Wen was an encouragement, and he knew better that it was because of the effect of his statement in Jiankang.

There must be a glimmer of room for the southerners, if they are restricted from participating in the governance of the country, some people who feel that they have no future will definitely go crazy, and playing with Liu Yan will only be one of the means, and then they should completely mess up the south of the Yangtze River.

For the Han State, there was no chaos south of the Yangtze River, that is, knowing that Liu Yan was going to start selecting talents in the south, and the northern groups that seemed to have strong political forces obviously did not like it, but did not make trouble.

Liu Yan does not want regional exclusion, whether it is the north or the south, they are all part of the country, and they cannot make people in any region more powerful, and they cannot make people in a certain region despair, what he is talking about is that everyone is useful to the country and treats everyone equally.

Jiangxia is the ancestral land of the Lu Yi family, and how the Lu family used to be has become history, because Lu Yi is now one of the nine kings of the Han Kingdom, there is no doubt that it will inevitably become the pride of Jiangxia, and the number of people who want to be attached to it is innumerable, and the prestige must be great.

The prestige of a certain family in a certain place is not what the ruler wants to see, but no ruler can avoid or eradicate a similar phenomenon, not only in ancient times, but even as long as the society exists.

Since the ruler can't make anyone a symbol of a certain place, it is better to let his own people gain prestige than to fill in the void with some forces that are not his own people, such as Lu Yi in Jiangxia County, Sang Yu in Wei County, Cai You in Dongmu County, and so on.

Jiangxia County is a place with a very long history, the city may have been built and moved, and there will be countless ups and downs over the long years, the only thing that remains unchanged is that the mountain is still the mountain, and the water is still the water.

Jiangxia County now does not have Jiangxia City, no one knows when Jiangxia City was destroyed, and now the capital of Jiangxia County is Anlu, and Anlu is located on the edge of the water.

Lu Yi's ancestral home is in Jiangxia County, and in more detail, it is in Xiakou.

Xiakou is located on the edge of the Yangtze River, across the river is the boundary of Wuyi Chang County, and northeast is Runan County.

Jingzhou is very large, with 18 counties, Liu Yan's intuitive impression of looking at the map is that it covers the modern Hu1 North and Hu1 South, and even Jiang1 West and Guang 1 West 1 Zhuang 11 Ethnic Groups 1 Zi 1 Zhi 1 District are partially included.

If Liu Yan was not blind, Jiangxia County would actually be counted as the northern boundary of Lake 1, and if it was to be counted as the southern boundary of Lake 1, it should be counted from the south of Nanping County.

Liu Yan has no relevant impression of how the Manchu Qing Dynasty built Hu1 South into a high-yield grain-producing area, and he needs to make Jingzhou a grain-producing area, and how to develop it is a matter for the ministers.

"I need to go to Dongting Lake to observe."

Cai You's understanding is that the development of grain-producing areas must be inseparable from water sources, and it is key to consider how to make Dongting Lake a part of the irrigation system.

He also pointed to the many water systems in Jingzhou and said: "The waterways here are comparable to those of Huainan County. ” Huainan County was originally also a grain-producing area, including the surrounding Ruyin County, Yingchuan County and Lujiang County have been developed since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the long years have changed too much, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes' wars have caused great damage to various artificial constructions.

Liu Yan looked at the map carefully for a long time, and he found that he didn't see the place marked as Yun Mengze, and when he asked, he knew that because the Yangtze River was diverted to Yun Mengze and disappeared, Xiakou was originally located on the east side of Yun Mengze, and Yun Mengze was not far away before he disappeared.

Dongting Lake is in the southeast of Runan County, the distance from Xiakou is more than 400 miles, there is no mature communication line between the two places, and taking the Yangtze River waterway does not guarantee that every section of the river can be sailed, Liu Yan wants to arrive in Guanzhong before the autumn, naturally there is not so much time.

Furthermore, even if Liu Yan has enough time, he can't toss so much, otherwise who will be responsible for the accident.

As with the political show in Jiankang, it is enough for Liu Yan to personally go to Jingzhou to express his attitude, and there is no need to really personally inspect all the areas, which are the things that the ministers responsible for the development of Jingzhou should do.

In the end, Liu Yan stayed in Lu Yi's house for five days, and Cai You stayed when he was about to go north to Yuzhou.

For example, on the map of Shiqi Zhao, Runan County is in the northeast of Jiangxia County, but the map of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Small Court shows that Runan County is in the southeast of Jiangxia County.

The map used in the early Han Dynasty was the division of the Cao Wei period, and the territory map of the Eastern Han Dynasty was seized in Yecheng, but the territory map of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not taken and used now, and the map was replanned after years of exploration.

According to the orthodox division left over from history, Runan County should be in the northeast of Jiangxia County, so if you want to go from Jiangxia County to Yuzhou, you need to pass through the boundary of Runan County.

The news that Liu Yan wanted to recruit southerners to participate in the governance of the country spread very quickly, and when he entered the territory of Runan County, many local families organized to welcome him.

According to the geographical location, Runan County actually belongs to the area north of the Yangtze River, and the political distinction of Runan County was originally the territory of the Shiqi Zhao State, and it cannot be regarded as the rule of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

But what is more embarrassing for the people here in Runan County is that according to the geographical distribution of the Han Kingdom, they are southerners, and they can't get along with the current northern groups of the Han Kingdom.

Now it's not modern, even the modern Celestial Empire also has the geographical division of officials, and although no one will talk about which place is more capable of producing officials, it really exists.

In modern times, there is still a political party that is downplaying the regional difference between officials, and now it is the region of origin that is not in the political party and the party system.

There are several groups in the north, such as the Sang family in Wei County, the Cui family in Jizhou, and the Cai family in Qingzhou.

In fact, there are groups in the south, and the Lu clan in Jiangxia County is one of them, and their family is concentrated in most of the families that went north in the early stage, and it is natural that they are the largest faction representing the south.

They are surrounded by a group of people from their backgrounds, and after those people become officials, it is natural that they will move closer to the most prestigious people, and interest groups will be created.

In addition to the group of Lu Yi who can represent the south, as the Huan family and the Xie family entered the Han official system, the Huan family and the Xie family also gathered a group of people around them, and then the Yu family who joined in the middle.

Waiting for the demise of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, most of the families on the side of the loser are actually a little confused, many thousand-year-old families will not easily find anyone to take refuge in, whether they are reserved or hypocritical, and some who want to find someone to take refuge in are not accepted or don't know who to find at all.

Liu Yan didn't deliberately try to understand who came to greet him, and who should be who would soon understand and report it.

"Two became the original local powers, and the rest were immigrants who migrated from other places."

Cui Zong bowed his upper body very respectfully, and introduced the introduction in detail, and asked for instructions later: "How to arrange, please show down." ” Cui Zong is Liu Yanxin's personal secretary, born in the Cui family of Jizhou, and is Cui Wan's cousin in the future.

He didn't know in advance that he would become the king's personal secretary, and he had only been in office for four days, and he hadn't adapted to it yet.

Liu Yan frowned slightly, what the king could notice was that in addition to the political affairs of the country, that is, the heads of state and famous generals of other countries, some powerful people in the county of their country did not need to personally arrange what to do.

Cui Zong saw Liu Yan's obvious frowning action and immediately stepped back in place, and dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

In the feudal dynasty, not to mention the level of the king, even the officials of the county only talked about majesty and did not do things close to the people.

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This is related to the social environment of the time, and majesty is more useful than graciousness, especially for kings.

In many cases, it is not that the king is unwilling to be close to the people, but that he should maintain his sense of mystery, and then there are related security considerations.

Of course, the king will not ignore the people, but he will definitely not easily meet anyone, even if the probability of meeting the village elders will be higher than Haoqiang.

It would be naïve for the powerful people of Runan County to think that they would be received by the king when they came to greet them, and they were only qualified to let officials of the rank of squire come forward.

Some people want to give gifts to the king, or the kind of gifts that have no special meaning, and they get nothing but reprimand.

Liu Yan didn't even summon the county guard in Runan County, but just invited some old enough people according to tradition.

The oldest life expectancy of the old man who was arranged was seventy-two years old, he was born at the end of the Three Kingdoms, and returned to Jin after the Three Kingdoms, and the Yongjia Rebellion and the well-dressed Nandu were of course also seen with his own eyes.

"Xiao Lao'er was originally a person from Bingzhou, and moved south when the puppet dynasty moved Hulu wantonly, and lived in Hanoi County of the Western Jin Dynasty of Yewang for three years, and moved south again during the Yongjia Rebellion, and fled to Chenliu" The old man obviously has a good background, and he thinks clearly when he is old, but he is a little unfavorable to speak, and tells about his past experience: "When the northerners fled south, they crossed the south in clothes, and the little old man followed a piece to the south, but there was no place for him to enter Yangzhou, so he came to Runan. ” More than one million people fled to the south from all over the Central Plains, and the vast majority of them followed the high-ranking officials and nobles to Yangzhou at that time.

The migration of more than a million northerners to the south is not a simple matter, especially for ordinary people, countless people died of illness and starvation on the way to escape, even if a large number of people in the land had to sell themselves into slavery in order to survive, which made the slave accumulation of various families even more serious.

There is no detailed record in the history books of the process of "crossing to the south in clothes", only a few "Spring and Autumn brushwork", let alone how the families who moved south made the local families in the south succumb.

There are some sayings in the history of the wild that the families who fled south were precisely because they incorporated the people who went south together to wage war against the local families in the south, and hundreds of thousands of people died on both sides, and many local families in the south were also wiped out.

In that war for living space, the northern family not only grabbed territory, but also grabbed almost everything they could, so there was the fact that the family that fled from the north and south later became the controller of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

After listening to the story, Liu Yan had too much embarrassment, and it was completely the social elite at that time who died by themselves, and it was sad and lamentable, those who died in the south, and of course, the people who stayed in the north and were abused by Hu Lu, which is enough to show what impact the people in power will have if their brains are broken.

"Little Lao'er doesn't know what to say," the old man's words made everyone present nervous except for Liu Yan.

When he saw Liu Yan nodding with a smile, he said: "Zhuangzi has said that saints are immortal, and thieves are not stopped. ” "The saint does not die, and the thief is not stopped" is from the tenth chapter of Zhuangzi, which basically talks about the formulation of rules, and how the formulator reaps benefits from the rules he formulates, and points out the phenomenon of "the thief of the country" more deeply.

The old man's words made Liu Yan lose his smile, and the rest of the people present also turned pale, and several people involved in the invitation fainted directly to the ground.

He may have been blinded by his deterioration, or even more likely to ignore the change of face of everyone, and paused before saying: "To the world, the family is a thief." ” The smile returned to Liu Yan's face, if the old man didn't have the last sentence, but even he scolded him.

The Han State he established was recovered from Hu Lu, and no one can compare with the dynasty before the country, and there is no moral deficiency in destroying the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty of the same Miao descent, especially in the process of destroying the small court, there are not many innocent people who have died.

Liu Yan doesn't like the family, but he doesn't like the family, there is no family, destroy a family and countless families, destroy the contemporary family, as long as there are still people in office, as long as people still need families, there will be families.

Liu Yan, who traveled from later generations, knows very well that even if society evolves to an era where the universe can be explored, the family still exists, and it is nothing more than a change of name.

Seeing that the activity of seeing the old man ended here, Liu Yan kept watching the old man being helped away before he withdrew his gaze.

He knew that he was an old man who had been victimized by the family, and when he could see the king, he relied on his advanced age to talk about it.

"That old man has no relatives, right?"

Liu Yan got the answer, he was really alone, and he was supported by the local government.

He didn't go into the topic, waved his hand to let the people except Cui Zong retreat, and then said, "The widow hopes that the old man will live well." ” What else can Cui Zong do, he can only respectfully respond: "Promise":