September 9, Chung Yeung Festival.
Zhang Chao took the queen, the crown prince, and a group of zaifu and vassals to climb the mountain and look into the distance.
Standing on the top of a high mountain, you can see all the small mountains.
At the foot of the mountain, the Danjiangkou Reservoir is like a pearl in the northwest of Beijing.
The Danjiangkou Reservoir, which is formed by the dam of the Danjiang River, is now not only a source of water for millions of people in Gyeonggi, but also for irrigation in the Namyang Basin.
Although the Xiangdeng Nanyang Basin is a plain, it has always lacked serious drought, since the Danjiangkou Reservoir was built, the Danshui was diverted to the Fangshan Pass, and the West Canal was opened, the entire Xiangdeng Plain immediately changed from the past to the flat but the drought harvest was less, and became a rich fertile soil.
"This Danjiangkou Reservoir has benefited countless people."
Zhang Chao sat in the pavilion at the top of the mountain, looking at the water under the mountain and sighed.
Moved the capital to Dengzhou, and then built the Danjiangkou Reservoir, repaired the Hanjiang River Dam, dug through the Fangcheng Pass, repaired the West Canal, and used the Danjiangkou Reservoir to repair, the Danjiang River water level rose, and the Danba Road was built, so that between Hanjing and Chang'an, more than ninety percent of the road sections can be navigated by big ships, and the very few sections of the Qinling Mountain Pass are also connected by land rail.
"The Qinling track of Danba Road is now a two-way eight-track, and between Hanjing and Chang'an, it has become a smooth road."
Fang Xuanling also said with a smile that in the past, Chang'an was the Silk Road, and later extended to Luoyang.
And now, Hanjing is the real Silk Road.
Whether it is the overland Silk Road leading to Guanzhong, Hexi, and the Western Regions to reach the Hezhong region, and finally entering the West Sea, connecting Khazar and Rome, or the Maritime Silk Road from Hanjingwei, passing through the Yuhe, Hanjiang, and Yangtze River, and then going down to the South Sea along the coast and then westward, through the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, into the Mediterranean.
"Extending in all directions, the world is vertical."
Ma Zhou was also amazed by the canals and roads that the imperial court had vigorously built over the years.
In the past, Lingnan was isolated from the Central Plains, and later it was more on the sea.
Now, the imperial court has opened up the Wuling Passage from Jiangxi and Hunan, relying on rivers such as Xiangshui and Ganjiang, and has opened up several national highways that can be paralleled between the mountains and mountains.
These national highways are all based on Hanjing.
Hanguang Road is from Hanjing to Guangzhou, through Hubei and Jiangxi, across the Da Luling Mountains into Guangdong, and finally to Guangzhou.
Hanqin Road is from Hanjing to Qinzhou, through Hubei, Hunan, Yuewuling into Guizhou, and then through the entire Guangxi border to Qinzhou, a port in the southwest.
These are not the only two such national highways.
The Xianxialing road project connecting Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang has made the originally extremely closed Fujian region now unblocked to all provinces.
The opening of several important national highways, such as the Guizhou-Yunnan Highway, Guizhou-Guizhou, Guizhou-Shu, Qingshu, and Qinghai-Tibet, has greatly enhanced the exchange and control of the Central Plains Imperial Court over those places in the border areas in the past.
There are also many roads that are still under construction in the imperial court, such as the roads of the northern provinces.
If you want to get rich, build roads first.
And if you want to strengthen control, you have to build roads first.
Without a road, you can't really control it, and you can't get rich.
It is said that there are few people in poor mountains, and there are also certain objective reasons.
When the days are poor, of course, people have to be fiercer.
"Fang Gong, Ma Xiang, we have achieved very good results in building roads and rivers in recent years.
The Belt and Road Initiative, which we set at the beginning, has now achieved initial results, where the roads are built, where the businessmen go, and where the government has mastered it.
Especially in the southwest region, in the past, it was simply a place that did not obey the king, but now, we are constantly garrisoning troops there, building post stations, post offices, granaries, etc. ” There are roads, and then there are military stations, and there are post stations, and there are granaries.
With these things, the imperial court can station troops there, gain a foothold there, attract merchants to establish markets in the past, etc., and implement land reform and return to the stream, divide land and grant land, and attract immigrants.
More recently, although the southwest region has nominally surrendered to the Central Plains for many years, it has not actually been able to control it.
Not to mention the new way of Yunnan, even the southern part of Jiannan Province and the central Guizhou region are also difficult to control, but relying on the advantages of shipping, the imperial court's rule over Guangxi has increased rapidly over the years.
The Great Southwest must be strengthened to keep this area out of barbaric primitiveness, otherwise this impoverished and uncontrollable part of the region will sooner or later become a source of unrest.
In the distance, as long as the imperial court first controlled this area, it could use it as a springboard to explore and conquer the inland areas of the Indochina Peninsula, and finally fight to the sea.
Maybe this will be a goal that can only be achieved in one or two hundred years, or even longer, but Zhang Chao believes that this is the right strategic direction and must persist in working hard for it.
"King Nanzhao died not long ago, and now several sons are vying for the throne, although the court issued an edict to canonize his eldest son to inherit the throne, but they are not satisfied.
Now Yunnan is in chaos, and tribes of large and small states are all involved.
Cheng Chumo asked the imperial court to send troops to intervene" The privy envoy Qin Qiong talked about a troublesome matter.
Yunnan is gradually under the control of the imperial court in recent years, the old king of Nanzhao after getting the support of the imperial court, quickly defeated the other five edicts, in Nanzhao became the leader, under his leadership, the situation in Yunnan in recent years is relatively stable.
It was no longer a closed area, and he also supported the imperial court in building roads, trade, and education there.
But who would have thought that as soon as he died, the good situation would immediately disappear.
"It's an opportunity."
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Zhang Chaodao.
He believes that the imperial court has been operating in Yunnan for some years, and this time it can further strengthen its control over there.
"The cabinet selected some powerful officials to serve as governors, admirals and ambassadors of Yunnan, and the current situation in Yunnan is a crisis, but a crisis is also an opportunity.
This was precisely the opportunity for the imperial court to intervene in Yunnan in an all-round way, and to send a relatively tough team to the past, and also to send a few troops to station. ” "The cabinet feels that Wei Yunqi is the right person for the governor of Yunnan."
Wei Yunqi, a veteran.
During the Sui Dynasty, he once sent an envoy to the Turks, and when the Khitan rebellion invaded, Wei Yunqi borrowed 20,000 troops from the Turks, marched all the way to the Khitan, broke the Khitan rebels, and killed tens of thousands of people.
It can be called a Confucian general.
He also used to be his deputy when Zhang Chao was stationed in Longyou, and the two used to have a relatively tacit understanding.
But now he is old.
"Wei Shuai is only afraid of more than seventy."
"Wei Gong is seventy-two years old this year, but his body is very tough, riding a horse and archery, and he does not lose his majesty at all."
Zhang Chao thought about it, although Wei Yunqi is old, his body is indeed very tough, so it is okay to let him go over and sit in town.
"What about the others?"
"The cabinet recommended Cheng Chumo to be appointed as the governor of Yunnan, and Liu Zheng, the squire of the military department, to be appointed as the Yunnan Xuanfu envoy."
Cheng Chumo is Zhang Chao's protégé, who has served as the Yunnan Metropolitan Protector in Yunnan, and is very familiar and reliable there.
As for Liu Zheng, he is the maternal uncle of Zhang Chao's fifth son Zhang Ke's wife Wang, and he is also a famous family in Hedong. is a relative, and his ability is sufficient, and he is a little aggrieved to serve as a military squire to serve as a Xuanfu envoy in Yunnan.
But this is also an opportunity, if you can do something in Yunnan, then you will definitely be able to reuse it in the future.
What's more, there is an unspoken rule in the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, if an official wants to enter the cabinet to apprentice, he must have the experience of being a local official, and it is necessary for the state to assassinate the history and the Taoist propaganda envoy.
Yunnan belongs to the border state, and the addition of a governor to the Xuanfu envoy is also a special case, but Wei Yunqi is so old, that is, he used to be a town guard, and the government affairs of Yunnan are still mainly in charge of Liu Zheng.
"First transfer the two armies to the past, fight steadily, my request is to control, real control, not to say that the past fell into the internal strife of the Nanzhao royal family.
No matter how they fight, we have to control it step by step.
Every time they are stationed in a place, they must change the land and return it to the stream, organize households and people, divide land and grant land, assign officials, and set up a militia. ” At this time, the Nanzhao royal family was in civil strife, and the old pattern of Yunnan was broken.
Zhang Chao transferred troops to the past at this time, not to help anyone fight for the position of King Nanzhao, what he wanted was to take the opportunity to implement the reform of the land and return to the stream, and take Yunnan back from the hands of King Nanzhao.
"At this time, will you be too eager to change the land and return to the stream?"
Fang Xuanling is still more cautious, Yunnan civil strife, at this time, the imperial court sent troops over, it should be said that Yunnan people are willing to see it, after all, no one wants to see the war go on and on.
But if the court wants to change the land and return to the stream at this time, I am afraid that those natives will be unhappy.
What they hope is to maintain the status quo and welcome the court to reconcile, but they are not willing to lose their interests.
"It's just those chieftains and leaders who don't want to, and the people below are probably still willing for us to help them change the day."
In many places in Yunnan, in fact, the tribal slave system is still practiced, and the people in the tribe are also divided into three, six, nine and so on.
The Central Plains itself also had slaves, and Zhang Chao was not a slave liberator.
But if those tribal leaders in Yunnan want to resolutely oppose the change of land and return to the stream, and refuse to honestly become good citizens under the rule of Dahua, then Zhang Chao does not mind putting a big satellite in Yunnan.
Directly overthrow the local tyrants and divide the land, defeat all the old leaders, and let a larger number of these local people become free and good citizens of Dahua, and give them land and land.
"If you do this, I'm afraid that it will be thousands of miles away, and the head will be rolling."
"The revolution is not a dinner party, we have to firmly grasp Yunnan in our hands, those leaders are definitely unwilling, in this case, we should use strong when we should use strong.
Kill a batch now, you can keep Yunnan from now on to become the territory of the imperial court, this method once and for all, you have to use it. ” Anyway, those leaders are not the cornerstone of the Dahua Empire.
Those leaders are not the nobles of Dahua, they are outsiders to the aristocratic officials of the Tang Dynasty, and even to the common people.
No one really cares about their lives and their interests, everyone only cares about the interests of the empire, their own interests, if they are destroyed, it is good for everyone, then of course everyone will support it. t1706231537: