"Instead of pondering about repairing dams and opening canals for farming, you should repair the dozens of miles of mountain roads in the valley outside the iron gate, so as to facilitate the king of Yanqi to send grain and manpower to the south, and second, to facilitate the passage of chariots, horses, and merchants."
This is the task left by Ren Hong to Sun Wan when he left the canal plow, since he followed Zhao Chongguo to sweep the right land, the boundary between the Han and the Xiongnu in the Western Regions has advanced to the north court, and the Yanqi and other countries in the Yanqi Basin are no longer enemy countries, but have become friends.The status of Tiemen Pass was also correspondingly reduced, and it had to adapt to the change from Xiongguan to Guanshi.Unlike some prefectures and counties in the Central Plains that were self-sufficient and hardly dependent on merchants, the Oasis City of the Western Regions would have become a dead land if there was no trade.The regions of the states are too small, and the resources are unevenly distributed, for example, there is iron but no copper, Loulan produces fish but less iron, if there are many yaks and horses but no grain, and some cities cannot grow land, and the grain is sent to neighboring countries, there must be merchants driving camel teams to communicate with each other.The Sogdians engaged in long-distance trade, and the merchant classes in the states traded short-distance with the city-states, thus connecting the entire Silk Road.As the only hub of north-south transportation in the Western Regions, Tiemen Pass will inevitably attract a large number of businessmen in peacetime, and Sun Wanwan can receive a soft hand in collecting tolls.In the past, the roads in the valley were as bad as possible, but now they have to be repaired, and since it is impossible to develop agriculture, it is also possible to prosper the canals and plows by engaging in commerce.After arriving in the Peacock River Delta, I only felt that I had come to another land, the vast lake was boundless, countless boats were fishing in the lake, wild ducks and geese were everywhere, the forests were luxuriant, the water and grass were abundant, and the ferocious Xinjiang tigers were hidden in the tall reeds, which was full of life.The overflowing rivers brought silt and fertilized a large area of land, and the Loulan people who worship the "virtuous river god" cherish the trees and water sources very much, and there are water priests to supervise the water use of each village, and there is also a local "forest protection law", which is more strict than the four seasons and moon regulations, stipulating: if the tree is cut off by the roots when it is alive, a horse will be fined; If you cut off a branch, you will be fined a cow!
Five years after the advent of peace, Loulan City is more prosperous than in the past, and thousands of families live in Qili City, with camel bells and endless merchants.This is the reason why Ren Hong ordered the canal plough not to build a dam to intercept the Peacock River, Loulan and Lop Nur are too important for the Western Regions, it is the transportation hub of the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions, where the north and south roads meet.Because of this, last autumn, after Ren Hong became the protector of the capital, he immediately sent Chang Shizhong to coax Loulan Houyi to present his subordinates to Han.Since Zhong helped Wu Zongnian in the last war, he has fallen into Ren Hong's eyes, and is one of the three adjutants he named to bring to the Western Regions, the other two are Wu Zongnian, and Suoping, a Dunhuang man who raised filial piety and was a lang in the court many years ago.As far as Ren Hong knew, Zhong persuaded Yi Xianghan like this: "How does the Marquis of Loulan compare with King Shanshan in serving the Han diligently and respectfully?"
In licking the big man, who can compare with King Shanshan?
In the first year of the Great Dynasty, the monarchs of the 36 states of the Western Regions congratulated Chang'an, headed by King Shanshan, and even the seats were closer to the Son of Heaven, and they were the most favored.Yi Xianghan said silently for a long time: "It's better to do it!"
And Zhong said again: "Zhong also thinks that Loulan Hou is not as good." ”Then he knew the benefits and warned Loulan Hou that Loulan belonged to the Shanshan royal family, and Fu Jiezi only separated after assassinating An Gui.If this continues, the imperial court will like King Shanshan more and more, and sooner or later Loulan will be assigned to Shanshan, and how will Yi Xianghan deal with himself at that time?
After lobbying, Yi Xianghan began to believe that offering his subordinates and handing over Loulan to the Han in exchange for his own title of Guiyi Liehou and going to Chang'an to enjoy happiness was the best way out.So Loulan is so subordinate, in recent years, there have been a lot of Han soldiers coming and going to Loulan, and there are many people who speak Chinese, and the conditions for setting up county roads are ripe.The only problem is that in the selection of Loulan Dao Chief, Ren Hong originally had a few candidates who wanted to recommend, but the imperial court named Huang Ba, who had moved away, to be the one who was far away.Ren Hong doesn't know much about Huang Ba, only heard that although Huang Cigong was an official in his early years, he was a man who was aware of his inner sensitivity, practiced the law, was gentle and good, and his reputation was good, but it was better to see than to hear, and Ren Hong had to personally come to inspect and inspect whether this person could do it.The loyal companion went back to Loulan and Luntai several times, and reported to Ren Hongyu what he knew about Huang Ba."
Huang Cigong governs the place in just one word."
Zhongdao: "Fine!
”Zhong reported to Ren Hongyu what he saw and heard during his time in Loulan: "When Huang Ba first arrived in Loulan last winter, he first determined the household registration of Loulan City, and then took a translator to turn around all the places where there were people in the city and outside the city, knowing that they were rich and poor. ”"And at the beginning of spring, there are old people in the city who have died and cannot be buried, and the officials report to Huang Ba, Huang Cigong knows better than the people of Loulan about which big trees can be cut down as boat coffins, and which cattle and sheep raised by households can be used to worship the virtuous river gods!
The little official went as he said, and he didn't say a word to Huang Ba. ”Ren Hong's head, he also found outside the city, here a new line of poplar trees, because of the custom of governance, farming, saving, wealth, planting trees, this is Huang Ba's means of governing Loulan, but it is very in line with the requirements of Ren Hong's sustainable development.This made Ren Hong have a good impression of this zodiac chief, at least he was not a dragger, and after arriving in Loulan, Huang Ba greeted him outside the city, Ren Hong deliberately observed the attitude of those officials in Loulan Tungu towards Huang Ba, and they were all respectful.After entering the former Loulan Palace and the current Taoist Mansion, Ren Hong asked Huang Ba: "Most of the people sent to the Western Regions to be officials are light chivalrous and evil boys, unruly, bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, how can the zodiac chief govern them to obey?"
”Huang Ba didn't hide it, so he directly explained his methods to Ren Hong."
When the subordinates first arrived, there were indeed small officials who wanted to deceive me that I didn't understand Loulan dialect and deceive them.So I sent the oldest of the most qualified men to the city of Ishun to do business, and I sent my son to follow him secretly.After the little official arrived, he begged the Loulan people for wine and meat to eat, and he got drunk on the side of the road, and the leftover meat was taken away by the crows.Eating by the side of the road is the meat that Wu steals!
”"The little officer was astonished, thinking that I knew his life, and did not dare to hide anything from him, but when the officials heard of this, they thought that God would no longer dare to try to deceive me.""
Huang Daochang is really a follower with a rich resume."
Ren Hong couldn't help laughing, Huang Ba looked like an honest man with an iron head, he had a hand in repairing those little officials, Ren Hong had also done fighting food, and he knew that the chief officials of the Han Dynasty had the minimum standard of inability, that is, they would not be played around by their subordinates.When asked about the future plan for Loulan, Huang Ba said: "The subordinates think that compared with other places in the Western Regions, Loulan is blessed with a unique location, rich water and soil, and it is not difficult to be rich. ”"Although Loulan is a foreign land, but its people have a lot of contacts with the Han people, and they are weak and fearful, easy to cure the ear, but they are too worshipful of God, and half of the Thai income from hard work every year is dedicated to the temple and water priests, and if they do not get rid of it, Loulan is difficult to be safe!""
But now that Loulan has just set up a road, the water priests are still obeying the orders of the government, so they can only endure their obscenity for the time being.The subordinates thought that a group of young people who could speak Chinese should be selected from among the nobles of Loulan, so that the virtuous and virtuous could learn and teach the scriptures of filial piety, while the subordinates would personally teach the law and cultivate a group of officials who could respect the Han law and etiquette. ”Cultivate a new pro-Han bureaucracy, so that the group of water priests who have controlled Loulan for hundreds of years can be slowly replaced.It seems that after the Shanshan model, Huang Ba's "Loulan model" can also be promoted to several places such as canal plow, luntai, and other places where Ren Hong is ready to invite the imperial court and directly set up county roads.Ren Hong bowed his head, and completely relieved Huang Ba of being the chief of the Lan Dao of this building, and praised: "Ran Qiu Zeng said, Fang sixty or seventy, such as fifty or sixty, ask for it, compared to three years, can make the people."
Such as its courtesy, in order to be a gentleman.Loulan will be ruled in three years, and the zodiac is really the Western Regions!
”Liu Yi has seen that people are indeed accurate, although this Huang Ba is opposed to building a temple for filial piety, and he is not very politically sensitive, but he is rich in experience at the grassroots level.If the imperial court sends a cool official to reinforce the law in Loulan and intensify the contradictions, it will cause trouble.And Huang Ba is gentle and delicate, and he slowly governs Loulan silently, which is really an excellent candidate.Ren Hong said deliberately: "With the talent of the zodiac chief, the county guard also has spare strength, not to mention just Loulan, it's a pity that the Holy Son of Heaven has a good sense of everything, knows people well, and sends me a good helper." ”These words hit Huang Ba's heart, "A husband should be two thousand stones", which was a long-cherished wish he made during his trip to Yangxia.Once I traveled by car with Xiangshi, I saw a witch girl in the folk, and the Xiangshi said that the husband of this woman would be very expensive, so Huang Baxin believed it and married her.Now that Dagui has all become a bubble, he has been released to a foreign land, and he has been pardoned by luck to become a small Taoist, and only by doing things can he not feel miserable in his heart.But Huang Ba does not regret it, let alone thinks that he is wrong, he sometimes misses the time when Emperor Xiaozhao was there, whether it is to praise Xiaowu or criticize Xiaowu, the government and the opposition can say anything, and the virtuous scholars and doctors express their opinions in the discussion of salt and iron, and no one is executed with words.However, Huang Ba did not blame the emperor, but blamed the problem on the rulers.The general originally admired recuperation and recuperation, but after killing the dictatorship of Shangguan, he revealed his true face, and the usage was profound, and the vulgar officials thought they could.The Son of Heaven was also blinded, and even had to cater to the general's desires, Tai'a held it upside down, and there was no room for the second voice in the court.That group of virtuous scholars also thinks the same as Huang Ba, the system of the Han Dynasty has one advantage, that is, the problem will be blamed on the rulers, even if there is no general, there are prime ministers and imperial historians to take the blame.Except for the emperor of Xiaowu, who likes to personally pull the bias and tear apart the dissidents, as long as the Son of Heaven is smarter, he can completely stay out and be holy forever.This is also the reason why Ren Hong proposed to let Liu Yi build a temple for Xiaowu, which achieved the emperor's filial piety and the status of the great-grandson of the great grandson, but the disadvantage was criticized by General Huo.After inspecting Loulan, I should have gone to the mud city to see how the "Little Chang'an" of my old friend Shanshan Wang was being built.As an elite element, King Shanshan made a bloody effort to imitate the Han family system, not only took the lead in wearing Han-style clothes, but also most of the virtuous scholars who were far away in the Western Regions were hired by him to be officials and regarded as the division commander, Ren Hong was very curious, how Huan Kuan and others would toss in Shanshan.But Zhong immediately sent an urgent report from the south, interrupting Ren Hong's trip.Ren Duhu was also calm, looked at his guard chief Gan Yanshou, and Liangzhou who only brought more than 100 horsemen, and said to Huang Ba: "I also ask the chief of the zodiac to summon the Loulan nobles and the water priests, and recruit a thousand Ding Zhuang to go south with me." ”Huang Ba somehow: "Dare to ask Du Hu, what are the soldiers of Zhengloulan?"
”"Something happened to Ruoqiang."
Ren Hong made an analogy and said with a smile: "My own children and grandchildren were beaten by wild children from the mountains, how can I care as an adult?"
”PS: Chapter 2 in the evening.