Luzon Bay.
Li Shimin wanted to occupy it when he saw it, this place was really very good, and he immediately fell in love with this place with his eyes.
Calm bay surrounded by two peninsulas.
The distance from Penghu to Luzon Bay and to Qiongzhou in Hainan is almost the same.
Excellent harbors, fertile plains.
There are many rivers and abundant rainfall.
According to Zhang Chao, it is rich in fishery resources and mineral resources, which is very suitable for farming.
Don't say that Li Zhi doesn't want to leave, he doesn't want to leave.
Now his more than 20,000 people, if they set up camp here, they can plant two more crops of rice this year.
There is almost no winter, not even spring, summer, autumn and winter, only the dry season and the rainy season.
Rice can be harvested three times a year In that huge bay alone, there are countless fish.
That huge inner lake, I heard that it is more than one million acres large, which is equivalent to one-third of the size of Dongting Lake.
"Are you going to build a city here?"
Li Shimin asked Zhang Chao.
"Well, build a city on the banks of the Luzon River between Luzon Bay and Lake Luzon."
The Luzon River that Zhang Chao is talking about is the Bashi River, which connects Manila Bay with the inner lake.
Zhang Chao planned to build his royal city on the edge of the port of Luzon Bay, bordering the most natural and excellent seaport of Luzon Bay to the west and the Bashi River to the south.
The proximity to the sea and the river will undoubtedly be very easy to transport.
When the ancients built cities, they had to live near the water, which was not only conducive to transportation, but also conducive to life.
It was chosen to the north of the river because to the north is the largest plain in Luzon.
To the south is also plain, but it is relatively smaller.
Build a city near the river, and when the population increases, you can even plan the south bank as a new urban area, or even wrap it into the urban area, so that the Bashi River will become an inland river in the city.
It is 100 miles away from the mouth of the bay.
"I can't believe that there is such a fertile borderland overseas."
Zhang Chao reminded Li Shimin, "It's not a borderless land, there are natives here." ” Luzon is a very large island, especially since there are such fertile plains on the island, which is of course prone to produce relatively powerful tribes.
This plain is home to countless tribes, large and small.
Loose and chaotic, primitive and backward, very barbaric.
Some tribes can even have a population of tens of thousands, and there are also large villages with thousands of people.
On the address of the royal city that Zhang Chao selected, there was a tribe of thousands of people.
This time, Zhang Chao came, but he had a sword in one hand and a Confucian scripture in the other.
If they are willing to naturalize, Zhang Chao will treat them well, if they are not sensible, then there is no way.
The excellent deep-water port allows large ships to land directly without the need for small boats.
The first thing to do when you go ashore.
Zhang Chao asked people to build several temples.
Confucian Temple, Wu Temple, Dragon King Temple.
The Temple of Literature, the Temple of Wu, and even the Dragon King in the Dragon King Temple were all sealed by the Tang Emperor.
The temple of literature is dedicated to the king of Wenxuan, Kong Sheng, and the king of Wucheng, Jiang Taigong, is worshiped in the temple.
The dragon king temple is dedicated to the dragon king of the four seas.
Respecting the king and revering martial arts, and at the same time suppressing Buddhism, this is the policy of the imperial court that has not wavered since Zhenguan.
There are three schools of Confucianism, Taoism and Confucianism, and Confucianism is respected.
For the imperial court, the two major systems of the Confucian Temple and the Martial Temple have been formed, which is also a new ideological guidance system.
Confucianism is unification, and martial arts is pioneering.
The Temple of Literature has King Wenxuan and the four sages, ten philosophers, and seventy-two sages.
Wumiao also has four with ten philosophers and seventy-two generals, and later after Chengqian succeeded to the throne, the four matches of Wumiao were also changed to four saints.
Among the four saints of Wumiao, there is Zhang Chao.
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Zhang Chao is a true sanctification of the flesh.
In the ten philosophers of Wumiao, there are Li Jing, Li Ji, Qin Qiong, Wei Chi Gong, and among the seventy-two generals, there are also many famous generals of the Tang Dynasty.
As soon as he landed, Zhang Chao asked people to build these three temples first, which naturally had deep meaning.
This represents the civilization of China, as for the Dragon King Temple, after all, it comes from the sea, and it is the seaside, which is a kind of awe for the sea.
When the city is built, there will be temples such as the City God Temple, the Land Temple, the God of Wealth Temple, and even the Temple of Guanyin.
Now the same is true in the Central Plains, and the imperial court has control over these various temples, but it is not blindly forbidden.
Compared with those big Buddha temples and Taoist temples, these small temples have actually transcended the two major systems of Buddhism and Taoism, and have another status in the hearts of the people.
The people who build a city god temple and a land temple do not spend much, and they will not raise many monks and Taoists, but arrange some disabled people to clean and clean, do not charge money for incense and oil, and do not have temple property wantonly.
These will not be hidden dangers.
In contrast, the imperial court attached the most importance to the two temples of civil and military.
Zhang Chao also attaches great importance to it.
The first thing on the island is to repair the Wenwu Temple.
Chop down trees and set up makeshift camps first.
Soldiers were sent to scout and patrol the vicinity.
The statue of Confucius, King of Wenxuan, was brought up from the ship, and everyone was cautious and full of awe.
A simple log hut was erected first, and a statue of Confucius was placed inside.
After setting it up, Zhang Chao asked everyone to stop what they were doing and focus on the front of the hut in the middle of the clearing.
"Today is the second year of the Tang Dynasty.
One thousand one hundred and eighty-nine years ago, the sage Confucius was born. ” Zhang Chao stood in front of this humble temple of literature and said loudly to everyone, more than 30,000 people gathered around.
They all sat on their knees reverently.
They have abdicated emperors, a generation of emperor Li Shimin.
There is also the deposed prince, the current Australian Duke Li Zhi.
Many of these people were convicted in the Central Plains, and they were pardoned for their crimes because they vowed to go to the Americas and Australia, and they were not allowed to return to the Central Plains for the rest of their lives, and they would spend their lives overseas.
There were also many slaves of different races.
There are Turks, Tiele, Khitan, Xi, Murowei, Jinta, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Dongying in the north, Linyi, Chenla, Funan, Piguo, Nanzhao, Tubo, Tuyuhun in the south, Gaochang people, Persians, Romans, Arabs and so on in the south.
Wherever they come from, they will be free to become freedmen when they go overseas.
Many have officially converted to Confucianism.
Every weekend, they would go to school or the Temple of Literature to hear the sermons.
"Today, more than a thousand years after the birth of Confucius, we have come here from the Central Plains, Luzon.
Based on this, we will spread the Confucian classics of Confucius and the benevolence and love of Confucianism. ” "Today, I, Zhang Chao, the king of Luzon conferred the title by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, here, at this moment, officially announce that the Kingdom of Luzon has been established, and the construction of Luzon City has officially begun."
This is Zhang Chao's declaration of the founding of the country, and it is also the slogan for the construction of Luzon and Luzon City, and it is also the beginning of the landing of Chinese civilization in Luzon and the spread here.
After the announcement.
Zhang Chao stood there and personally preached to tens of thousands of people.
Explain a Confucian classic.
The Confucian classics include the thirteen classics and the sixteen histories, the original Confucian classics to the early Tang Dynasty only nine classics, and later added four classics one after another, forming the thirteen classics of Confucianism.
The officially designated history books, from the historical records to the Zizhi Tongjian, a total of 16 histories.
Later, it was also added to the list of Confucian preaching and preaching scriptures.
The Thirteen Classics and the Sixteen Histories are what Confucian scholars preach to the people every weekend today.
Talking about history is actually preaching Chinese civilization, and what is also preaching a set of universal values that has always been formed by Chinese civilization.
Why do you want to suppress Buddhism and Taoism, why do you want to promote Confucianism so vigorously, and even let the people listen to the scriptures and Taoism in schools and temples every weekend.
For the sake of unifying thoughts, for the common people of the Han family, it is to unify thoughts, and for foreign races, it is to assimilate ideas.
A hundred schools of thought contend, of course, are good academically, but if a hundred schools of thought are also contending ideologically, it will inevitably be chaotic.
If the mind is confused, the society will be in turmoil.
Universal values, that is, social moral standards, are also the foundation of a society governed by the rule of law.
The law is based on morality.
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In fact, this is also the reason why monotheistic religions are stronger and more stable than polytheistic religions in history, and polytheistic religions themselves are in chaos.
Confucianism is the foundation of thought, as for the city god, the land father, the son Guanyin, the dragon king, the wind god, the rain god, the mountain god, the river god, etc., these will not cause any problems in thought, so the court will allow it.
The Buddha and the Tao have a great influence on the mind, the Taoist seeks immortality, and the Buddhists seek the afterlife, and their thoughts have a relatively greater influence.
In Zhang Chao's Luzon Kingdom, he would not allow the existence of those gods, Buddhas, temples, and scriptures in the future.
It is not beneficial to the country, but it makes people confused.
Although doing so will definitely be attacked in future generations, but in this era, Zhang Chao thinks it is right.
If we want to open up Luzon, we must think in one place and work hard in one place.
At the end of the half-hour sermon, everyone applauded.
Every Confucian sect member can preach the scriptures and preach the thoughts of the saints and the history of the Han family to the public.
Carry forward the traditional Chinese virtues and promote the core values of Datang.
At the end of the sermon, everyone began to kill pigs and sheep, and make fires for cooking.
When you come to the island, you have to eat a good meal for the first time.
"O king, the native chief has received our gifts, but is not willing to cooperate.
He asked us to leave immediately, otherwise you are welcome.
"The Scout Captain is here.
Zhang Chao, who was eating fresh seafood that had just been harvested in Luzon Bay, listened to it and just smiled slightly.
"It seems that their attitude is very clear, we have already saluted first, so let's move the troops next.
Tonight, give them a reply. ” "Obedience" "Kill less if you don't have to."
Zhang Chao confessed, "We will need a lot of labor in the future, and these people will be the first batch of indigenous slaves in Luzon City." ” Night.
Zhang Chao sent 1,500 warriors to raid the nearest village of an indigenous tribe of 1,000 people after traveling 30 miles at night.
In the firelight, the natives were defenseless.
They screamed and tried to resist, but were beaten down.
The soldiers faithfully carried out Zhang Chao's orders, and if they didn't have to, they wouldn't kill if they could.
They knocked down the black, short natives and tied them up with cowhides.
It was a busy night.
The natives had no power to resist, and the soldiers worked hard all night, constantly arresting and tying up people, until dawn, when they were able to subdue the more than a thousand natives who were scurrying around like pigs. t1706231537: