Chapter 1090 Backlog of Affairs

Chapter 1090 Backlog of Affairs

Chapter 1090 Backlog of Affairs
In mid-April, bells and chimes rang outside Jianchun Gate in Luoyang, and all officials went out of the city three miles to greet them on the left side of the road.

Shao Xun met with the gentlemen, generals of the guards, military officials of the three academies, and high-ranking officials of the cabinet one by one, accepting their congratulations while chatting about what he had seen and heard in Jingtu.

The soldiers on duty were sweating profusely, trying their best to maintain order. But it was not enough, the first battalion of the Yellow Head Army that accompanied the emperor back was also seconded to set up sentries and arrange defense lines everywhere, and at the same time sent a considerable number of people to enter the crowd and observe carefully.

But the people's spirits were still high, and shouts of "Long live the emperor" rose one after another.

Since the Yongjia period, Luoyang has experienced repeated wars.

There were a few years when there were hardly any decent common people. They were either nobles and their servants living in the city, or craftsmen and merchants who risked their lives to come to Luoyang to make a living, or the families of the imperial guards. Outside the city there were only lonely forts, and their number was decreasing year by year.

As for the people of Luoyang today, not only has the structure of the city's population undergone major changes, but there are also many new imperial guards' families, soldiers' families, and former farmers in the fortresses who have had their lands divided outside the city.

Simply put, most of them were beneficiaries of the new dynasty, and at least before this generation grew old, they were very grateful to the Emperor of Daliang.

This is a concrete example of the change from the old to the new.

Of course, if the throne is usurped directly and the situation remains unchanged, that would be another matter.

The Daliang Dynasty was certainly not the kind of dynasty that was rebuilt after completely destroying the world, but it was not a direct successor to the previous dynasty either. It was somewhere in between the two. After all, the wars in many regions were still very brutal, and the natural disasters were also cruel.

After entering the palace, Shao Xun's first thing was to visit his parents.

After half a year, my father is still the same, but my mother has aged faster. This is because she had an illness in the winter. Although she recovered, it seemed as if she had consumed a lot of energy.

Shao Xun sat with his parents for the entire afternoon, just as his parents had sat with him in the countryside of Donghai thirty years ago.

There are not many people in this world who can make him feel important.

Wang Huifeng once said that he wanted to restrain his tiger heart, but as time goes by, these chains will break down one by one.

He is younger than all these people, and no one can control his old age but himself.

On April 17, Shao Xun held a court meeting in Taiji Hall.

Some people in later generations jokingly said: "Hold big meetings for small matters and small meetings for big matters."

Sincerely!

The court meeting was basically a celebration of the emperor's achievements. Civil officials and military generals used all kinds of flattering words to praise the southern expedition, and imagined that Daliang would unify the world in the near future and all nations would come to pay tribute.

After listening patiently, Shao Xun announced the adjournment of the court, and then invited Prime Minister Wang Yan and other important officials to Jiuhua Terrace, where they climbed up to the view and began to discuss "big things".

"Since the southern expedition, there have been many incidents in the north." Shao Xun got straight to the point and said, "Prime Minister, let's talk about the Yuwen Xianbei first."

In addition to Prime Minister Wang Yan, there were more than ten people present, including Grand Marshal Yang Jiongzhi, Shangshu Ling Chu Huo, Zuo Pushe Liang Fen, Chen Jing, Guanglu Dafu Yang Chen, Shizhong Yang Man, Zhongshu Jian Zhang Bin, Zhongshu Ling Yu Liang, Zhongshu Shilang Shen Ling, Taichang Qing Cui Yu, Secretary Jian Lu Chen, Shaofu Jian Yu Hua, and the three directors of the imperial guards, basically covering all the core departments.

Wang Yan was the prime minister, in charge of military and political affairs. But in the Liang Dynasty, each department still acted on its own and finally reported to Wang Yan for approval.

There are many reasons, the two most important ones are that the prime minister will definitely be dismissed in the future. At the same time, Wang Yan’s ability in governing is very average, and he is not good at governing the country.

Seeing Shao Xun asking questions, Wang Yan sorted out his thoughts and answered in an increasingly old voice: "In the early winter of last year, the Murong Xianbei gathered all the tribes and sent out tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry to attack the Yuwen Xianbei tribes and defeated (Yuwen) Qidegui."

"The turtle he obtained was pursued very urgently, and he once escaped across the Suotou River and entered the territory of the Tuoba Xianbei. The Duke of Dai ordered tens of thousands of soldiers to be gathered for defense, so the Murong clan retreated, destroyed the Yuwen clan's city, plundered their women, children and craftsmen and returned east, and also obtained 1.5 million cattle, horses, sheep and camels and other livestock."

"After the beginning of spring, Qi Degui returned to his old place and gathered the remaining people. His power was not as strong as before. Many tribes left him. Most of them surrendered to the Murong clan, and a few went west and joined the Dai Kingdom. Among them were Tuoba Hena's people."

After listening to this, Shao Xun asked, "Where is Tuoba He now?"

"He died in February," said Wang Yan.

"How did you die?"

"The Wang family and their followers of tens of thousands were poisoned to death by the Lady Dowager of Dai." Wang Yan glanced at Shao Xun and said.

Shao Xun was slightly stunned, then smiled and said, "Madam Wang is truly a heroine."

Last October, Mrs. Wang gave birth to a son for him and raised him in Changchun Palace.

Just after the first month of this year, the matter could no longer be concealed, and some people took advantage of it to cause trouble.

Wang killed the tribal leader who jumped the most vigorously, and his in-laws took the opportunity to cause chaos, but they were quickly suppressed.

After this happens, although some people may not dare to rebel, they can vote with their feet.

Some people went to vote for Tuoba Yihuai because this was a regime truly ruled by Tuoba descendants, and it had not been usurped by someone else.
Some people refused to join anyone, ran away in anger, and lived and merged with tribes farther away;
Some people even defected to Tuoba Hena, but were dumbfounded this time and returned to the Tuoba Alliance under the threat of Murong Xianbei. However, the threat of Murong Xianbei was not entirely a bad thing for Tuoba Xianbei. At least it made the vested interests of Dai State more united.

After listening to Wang Yan's introduction, Shao Xun said, "The Honglu Temple will select someone to go on a diplomatic mission to the Murong Xianbei to see what they really want. In addition, Li Chong will be appointed as the governor of Youzhou, the general of Zhenbei, and the commander of the military forces of Youzhou and Pingzhou. He will take up the post today. The person to supervise Xu will be appointed separately."

"Yes, sir." Wang Yan replied.

"The second thing—" Shao Xun looked at Chu Huo and said, "Mou Yuan, the land measurement is a bit slow, it must be completed before the end of this year."

"Yes." Shangshu Ling Chu Huo responded.

Since July and August last year, the land survey in more than ten counties has been slow, after all, it has entered a deep water zone. There are a lot of things such as soft and hard grinding, passive sabotage, and bribery of officials. Especially after the southern expedition began, some people became more active, and some people in Hebei even openly rebelled. Although it was suppressed, it delayed a lot of things.

Land measurement cannot be completed with a single order. The speed and thoroughness of the progress depends on your bureaucratic execution team, which will be affected by many factors.

After defeating Tao Kan and taking Xiangyang and Jiangling, the progress suddenly accelerated, which may give us a glimpse of the mystery.

On the other hand, if the Liang army bypassed Xiangyang, Jiangling, Anlu, Yangkou, Jingling and other cities without fighting, and went south to the Yangtze River to drink water, it would seem to be invincible. But in the end, by March, it could no longer hold the territory and was forced to withdraw. The enemy took advantage of the situation to pursue them, and "more than half of the soldiers and horses were killed or wounded." Can you guess what their faces were like?
So, many things are not isolated.

Shao Xun’s request to complete this wave of land reclamation before the end of this year is his final warning.

If that doesn't work, he will not fight anyone else but the northern gentry.

If you want to mess up the world, then mess up the world. If you want to cause casualties, then cause casualties. Let's see who blinks and gives in first.

"The third thing." Shao Xun looked at Yu Hua and said, "You tell me about it."

"Yes." Yu Hua bowed, then took out more than ten books and handed them to Shao Xun and others, saying, "This is the first volume of Dongguan Hanji, carved into positive text and printed with new ink."

Shao Xun flipped through it quickly.

He doesn't look at the content, he mainly looks at the handwriting.

In fact, there are still some flaws. Some characters are clear, while others are very shallow. But it is much better than the previous phenomenon of frequent appearance of large amounts of flying white.

After putting down the book, he said, "I understand."

He wasn't going to wait any longer, so he'd just make do with it.

The cost of woodblock printing is much lower than that of movable type printing.

From the moment movable type printing was invented, it was in a state of complete defeat in market competition. Until the Ming and Qing dynasties, the market was almost entirely dominated by woodblock printing.

To put it bluntly, movable type printing technology, at the level of productivity in ancient times, was more suitable for Western alphabetic writing than for hieroglyphics.

This technology was able to outperform woodblock printing in market competition until the advent of newspapers, because the content of newspapers changed every day and woodblock printing was no longer suitable.

The promotion of woodblock printing at this stage is only to popularize knowledge and cultivate more literate people. Shao Xun does not intend to take the opportunity to add his own goods or do anything else.

However, once literacy rates improve, he will try to promote a policy of unifying the interpretations of various classic books.

At this time, a family would edit a certain book and pass it down from generation to generation, and basically become famous.

For example, if you want to study "The Book of Documents", it is best to go to Runan. I'm not kidding, they have the highest authority for interpretation.

If you want to overthrow a certain family's dominance over a certain book, it is not impossible. You can have a public debate during conversation, refute them, and demonstrate your deeper understanding of the classics. After your fame spreads, the right to interpretation will gradually fall into your hands.

Today's gentry own manors, military units and wealth, and look like wealthy local tycoons, but many people seem to have forgotten that they were originally academic tycoons, not chaebols or warlords.

However, starting from the Later Han Dynasty, after two hundred years of development, the academic, military and financial tycoons gradually merged into one.

The degree of class solidification is deepening step by step, and the definition of the gentry is also changing step by step. Now there are probably not many gentry who have become famous purely through culture.

To unify the interpretation standards is a nuclear-level reform that will inevitably seriously infringe upon the interests of the samurai classes and is not much different from land measurement.

So Shao Xun planned to pretend that he didn't know that he could do this, take it slow, solve other things first, and popularize knowledge at the same time, boiling the frog in warm water step by step, and finally everything would come naturally.

So when the court officials were looking at the Dongguan Hanji in amazement, Shao Xun stood up, called out the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Shen Ling, and whispered: "I heard that Mr. Shen has a granddaughter who is extremely beautiful..."

After Shen Ling heard this, his face became extremely interesting.

Shao Xun observed him carefully and found that he was a little hesitant. It seemed that he didn't want to curry favor with the royal family at all, but wanted to protect himself.

But Shen Ling finally said: "Your Majesty has ordered, I dare not disobey."

"Why are you worried?" Shao Xun pretended to be unhappy, then took his hand and said with a smile: "In the past, I was a general of the Yue Mansion, and you were my assistant. Now we are relatives. Isn't this God's will? The Shao and Shen families will surely enjoy wealth and honor together."

Fortunately, Shao Ze didn't say that we were colleagues back then, and now we are the emperor and his subjects. Do you feel uncomfortable? If Shen Ling replied that even God is not ashamed to have Your Majesty as his son, it would be even more amazing.

"After a while, you can let your granddaughter enter the palace and let Concubine Pei see her." Shao Xun let go of Shen Ling's hand and said.

"I obey your command." Shen Ling sighed.

While sighing, I also feel a little bit of anticipation.

He had not seen the scenery of Jiangnan for many years.

I really want to go back to the house where I grew up when I was young.

Are your childhood playmates still around?
Is the girl you admired in childhood still here?

When you retire in old age, can you spend the rest of your life in peace in your hometown?
He wanted to go back to Wuxing, live in his old house, listen to the local accent, and meet old friends, if the emperor was willing to send him south as an official.

(End of this chapter)