stubborn thief

Only one

In the end, Bai Yiqing did not take away the luck that Liu Chengzong wanted to give him.

He told Liu Chengzong that Ganzhou was not his only foreign country, but he was as frightened as he was standing on the beach of fear, and hoped that Liu Chengzong would allow him to become a Taoist priest in Ganzhou.

Liu Chengzong said in his heart that Master Bai is quite elegant, and this is an example of Wen Tianxiang's story.

When the Southern Song Dynasty fell, Wen Tianxiang was captured by Zhang Hongfan. Zhang Hongfan asked him to persuade Zhang Shijie to surrender. Wen Tianxiang said that I could not protect my parents myself, and I wanted to persuade others to betray their parents. Is this possible?

Zhang Hongfan insisted that he write a letter of persuasion, so Wen Tianxiang wrote to Zhang Hongfan that no one in life has ever died since ancient times, and to keep his loyalty and history to show his will.

Later Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Yanjing and survived eight days of hunger strike. Wang Jiweng told Kublai Khan that all the ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty were inferior to Wen Tianxiang, so Kublai Khan asked him to persuade Wen Tianxiang to surrender.

Wen Tianxiang refused to become an official. He said that my country has perished, and my duty is to die; if the emperor is tolerant and allows me to return to my hometown as a Taoist priest, and then serve as a consultant as a person from outside the country, that is fine; Appointing an official position is not only incompatible with other scholar-officials who have subjugated the country, but also abandons all their life ambitions and careers. If I am such a person, what is the point of reusing me?
It made sense for Kublai Khan to think about it, but Liu Mengyan, the minister who surrendered the Yuan earlier at that time, thought it was wrong. Taoist, go to hell!

Liu Mengyan told Kublai Khan, if you let Wen Tianxiang go, he will call Jiangnan to revolt when he returns home. What will we do then?
Wen Tianxiang was killed in the end.

They are all people who have read books. Liu Chengzong understood Bai Yiqing's meaning when he heard Bai Yiqing's words. There is only one death; if you are allowed to be a Taoist priest, what do you want to know, it is not impossible for me to be a consultant.

Liu Shizi felt that this person was very smart, and in just one sentence, taking Wen Tianxiang as an example, he said both good and bad things.

If I can't tolerate you being a Taoist priest, wouldn't I be a ruler of a foreign race who is not as magnanimous as Kublai Khan?Then you should be a priest.

There are many temples in the city of Ganzhou. The first general to enter the city was Zhang Tianlin. Before Zhang Tianlin joined the army, several of his brothers were tenants in temples. He hated monks the most in his life. So when he saw a Buddhist temple in northern Shaanxi, he sent troops to demolish it and burn it. A Buddhist temple, don't even think about leaving any temples wherever you pass.

The only way is to cross the Qilian Mountains and snatch the armor and horses of Tahe Zhike, the leader of the five tribes of Huang Fan, in the north of the mountain. It was agreed that when the war ended, Tahezhike must be given an explanation.

He wants to repay others, but he never expected that Tahe Zhike would not want to have any more contact with people like him, so he said that I believe in Buddhism, and you have to repay him. temple.

Zhang Tianlin thought that a man should not change his mind. You asked me to build temples, which is absolutely impossible. I will not demolish temples after I die. Every temple I see survives in the world, it is your merit.

Zhang Tianlin was honest and trustworthy, and promised Tahezhike not to demolish the temple, so he really would not demolish it, but every yard counts, and the temple can be kept, and all the real estate and incense sticks of the temple will be confiscated.

The monk said, General, all the real estate and incense will be confiscated, so the monks cannot be supported.

Zhang Tianlin applauds Joy, it's just right if you can't afford it, three ways are in front of you, either go into the army, return to vulgarity, or get out.

Liu Chengzong did not have the habit of worshiping Buddha or worshiping Taoism. After entering the city, he has been wandering between the governor's office, city walls, and streets, and has never been to a temple.

After understanding Bai Yiqing's meaning, he told Zhang Tianlin that Master Bai wanted to become a Taoist priest, so he found a Taoist temple for his family to put in. Zhang Tianlin asked if there was a temple, would the temple work?There are many empty temples in Ganzhou City.

Liu Chengzong was also very happy when he heard that, you are a young expert who demolished temples, but can you still leave temples under the eyes of Tianxing?Taking advantage of the situation, he persuaded that it is better not to demolish the temple. These things are the wisdom of the ancestors in construction technology, and they can be left to future generations. Since you don't demolish it, don't demolish it in the future.

He immediately made a decision and said: "Okay, then find a temple and put Master Bai in there, and then build a statue of Emperor Zhenwu."

The six members of Bai Yiqing's family were put into the Great Buddha Temple. The Great Buddha Temple in Ganzhou was built in the first year of Emperor Chongzong Yong'an in Xixia, and it is very large in scale.

If it was a normal year, the city would not be too quiet at night, but now that the marshal's army has just arrived in Ganzhou, the matter has not been cleared up, and the curfew is being enforced, and Zhang Tianlin has driven all the monks away. Shaoshu, the wind in Ganzhou is very strong, and it rustles continuously at night, and there are many ghosts and ghosts.

Bai Yiqing was so frightened that he did not dare to sleep all night. Every night in the temple wing, he lit small candles and oil lamps that were not confiscated by the soldiers. Two or three candles and eight or nine oil lamps illuminated the room brightly. Sit and wait for the dawn.

Bai Yi said with a clear heart, if I knew you were going to be thrown to the Great Buddha Temple without even a hair, I wouldn't brag about Wen Tianxiang, and just ask for a second courtyard to live in the city. Scared me to die young.

In fact, for Bai Yiqing, being a monk or not is just an excuse, it's not important.

Wen Tianxiang went back to his hometown to become a monk, and if he was willing to do something, he could call on Jiangnan to revolt; if he didn't want to make trouble anymore, he could also retire to a Taoist temple and ignore world affairs. Anyway, the Southern Song Dynasty has perished.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is still alive, Bai Yiqing dare not go back to his hometown, let alone return to his hometown, he dare not set foot in the land of Daming again.

After such a long time, he also figured it out. At first, he wanted to escape from Ganzhou because he was afraid of the Marshal's Mansion more than the imperial court. After all, the Marshal's Mansion is a regime composed of rogues, rebels, and the attributes of pirates and captives. Do you know how to treat old Ming officials?
Now that I have met Liu Chengzong, I probably understand his ambitions. It can be said that Liu Chengzong has a very complicated impression on him. On the surface, he is a domineering military leader who believes that a strong soldier and a strong horse are the emperor, but he is not a blind superstitious force. Reckless man alone husband.

In the final analysis, Bai Yiqing believed that Liu Chengzong's external performance was that of a martial artist, but his internal logic was that of a scholar-bureaucrat.

He is not explaining his actions by saying that I am strong and strong and should be the emperor, otherwise he does not need to restrain himself, and in his words, he is full of disdain for the current Ming Dynasty, but when talking about Zhu Yuanzhang, he must call him the emperor Taizu.

Through contact with Liu Chengzong, Bai Yiqing believed that this person's concept is that the world is changing and the nine states are divided, and the artifacts must belong to virtue. I have virtue, so I am strong and strong.

And what does Liu Chengzong think is virtue?
It is not that he shows the power to run rampant in the world, but the ability to rebuild order, protect the environment and the people, and maintain long-term stability.

Such a marshal's mansion is not scary to Bai Yiqing at all, so what is really scary to him now is the furious Emperor Chongzhen after losing Gansu.

The bad thing is that Yang Jiamo died for the country. If Yang Jiamo was still alive, Lord Chongzhen would have punished Yang Jiamo severely, and he would have vented his anger; but Yang Jiamo is gone. If Bai Yiqing is alive, what good will happen when he goes back?It is better to be a Taoist priest in Gansu first.

However, Mr. Bai was too scared to sleep in the Dafo Temple for the past few days, and he didn't just recite scriptures to strengthen his courage. Just like what he and Liu Chengzong expressed, he hoped that he could order an orderly life in Gansu as an adviser to the Marshal's Mansion. Play a little role in rebuilding and do something.

For four days, Liu Chengzong went to camp in Ganzhou to read exercises every day. When he came back, he got into the governor's office to browse the situation in Gansu on paper. He was very happy and couldn't extricate himself.

The population of the guards in Ganzhou is very small, more than 1 households together, and the number of household registrations in the government office is more than 5000... But this data is frightening to Liu Chengzong. Yang Jiamo recruited from Ganzhou on the basis of this household registration. Seven thousand and two hundred troops left, which is why Ganzhou has a strong city in the sky but can't stop the chaos.

The young and strong reserve on this oasis has been emptied following his own battle.

How many people are there in Ganzhou now?Liu Chengzong didn't know that so far his army has only counted more than [-] households in the city, with a total of [-] people, most of whom are old and weak, women and children.

He can't say how many people there are outside the city. This is not a job that can be completed in a short period of time, but he estimates, optimistically, at most 2 people.

But in agriculture, Liu Chengzong is very excited by the official figures alone.

Zhangye Oasis is the largest oasis in Gansu. It has the most complete water conservancy system. There are more than 110 irrigation canals on the entire oasis. The irrigated land is as many as 110 million mu, with a total cultivated land of more than 150 million mu. The normal yield of wheat per mu reaches 120 catties.

Moreover, Ganzhou's handicraft industry has accumulated a lot of technology. There are many craftsmen in Zhuwei for generations, and they have a very strong foundation in textile, shipbuilding, military industry, coal, smelting, and construction industries.

For the burning of bricks alone, in the second year of Wanli, Gansu Shangzuo strengthened the Ganzhou defense area. From the second day of March to the end of September, 7608 million yuan of medium bricks, 4708 million yuan of large bricks, more than 9000 pieces of stone strips were fired, and lime was fired. Seventy-five thousand stones cover the east and south walls.

At the end of the second year, almost the same amount of bricks and stones were used to complete the construction of the west and north walls.

But these good news on paper also mean a huge problem for Liu Shizi. The situation in Zhangye Oasis at this moment is far from what it seems in these official documents.

This reminded him of what the deputy envoy of the left wing of the Western Army and the leader of Tubo, Zhegui Youlongbo, went to Kaifeng to pay tribute to Song Zhenzong in the Song Dynasty. There are 690 people, and today there are 12 Han households.

People, people are everything, no one talks about development?
Looking at the official documents of the fields, water power, and handicrafts, Liu Chengzong was so happy; but as long as he thought of the population of Ganzhou, Liu Chengzong was so angry that he just wanted to turn the table.

Since he entered Jiayuguan, he took half of Gansu along the way, and the population he gained was added to one piece. There are not as many soldiers as Liu Chengzong now leads!
Although this situation has long been expected by him, this is also the reason why he dared not attack Gansu when he occupied Hehuang in the early years. Gansu is full of soldiers, and it is not difficult to defeat it. The difficulty is that no one is defeated.

With so much good land, I count on the remaining people in Ganzhou to plant it. It’s not a matter of whether Liu Shizi divides the land. With 150 million mu of land, there are at most 2 people, and most of them are old men who can’t hold weapons. Children and children under the age of 14, how to plant ah?

The history of farming in Gansu began in the Han Dynasty. This place has rich farming culture and experience in farming, but even the farming soldiers in the Tang Dynasty were not given a 75-mu land.

During the Tianbao period, the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to farmland at that time, and the strategy was to protect Qin Long, and Hexi must be consolidated.

Zhangye Tuntian is a family of 63 mu of land, the land is state-owned, and the government provides farm tools and cattle. Among them, [-] mu is planted with grain, and the average grain production per household is [-] catties. Each household can raise a super soldier like Liu Chengzong.

It was Liu Chengzong's turn, and the strategy had to be reversed. If he wanted to attack Qinlong, he must consolidate Hexi.

But he has no one, so it's impossible to let the soldiers farm the land; he doesn't dare to do it if he asks the soldiers to farm the land.

No one farms land, so in today's environment where there is drought in places without water, waterlogging in places with water, locust plagues when there is neither drought nor flood, and epidemics after locust plagues, 200 million mu of fertile land is left uncultivated on the oasis in Gansu. Liu Chengzong had to slap himself in the middle of the dream: I really deserve to die!

Liu Chengzong can't help it, what should he do if he can't do it alone?Tell the parents.

Under Liu Chengzong's instruction, a letter of plea for help was quickly sent to Sunan Liyuan Castle, and then forwarded to Liu Xiangyu, the father of Xining Mansion.

The first is to report the battle situation and understand the battle situation in Hehuang.The second is to ask my father to find someone and find a suitable route. If you can walk in the mountains, you can take the mountain road, and if you can’t walk on the mountain road, you can go outside the pass.

Two kinds of people are needed, one is people with experience in the official work teams of Kangning and Hehuang Townships, 900 people are needed, each with two guards, a total of [-] people.

The second type is people who can farm. There are less than [-] households. As long as Hehuang’s farming is not affected, as many as can be found. Hehuang manages immigrant rations and winter rations, and Ganzhou manages resettlement land.

There is only one requirement, and you must arrive before winter.

This letter should be sent to Xining Mansion soon, because after Ganzhou was brought under the rule, Tahe Zhike's five Huang Fans were under the rule of the Marshal's Mansion, and the western and southern parts of the northern foot of Qilian Mountain were connected. The only thing to consider is the environmental issue. Those small road soldiers are difficult to walk, but it is not a problem for the orderly soldiers.

After all, when Chen Qindai suppressed bandits in Haibei County in previous years, he caught deserters from Gansu who went to the marshal's mansion on the mountain road.

While Liu Chengzong was wasting his mind on this matter, Master Bai Yi Qingbai was locked up in the Great Buddha Temple for four days, frightened and uneasy, and handed over his achievements to him.

The long letter of more than 9000 words describes the court abuses that Bai Yiqing, the governor of Gansu, has seen in the past three years, from the fields being invaded by generals and officials, to the waterways being blocked by the government officials; According to the regulation that the land will never be subject to inspection, the government will pursue it all. As a result, the seeds have not been buried in the soil, and the fields have been registered, causing the people to flee the wasteland.

A lot of things were written very seriously, and Liu Chengzong read them very seriously. After reading them, he smiled and raised his head and said, "Master Bai, the problems you mentioned existed in the past, but from now on, they don't exist. The Marshal's Mansion only A landowner . . . is me."

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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