Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 906 Pedestrians and Palaces

Before dawn, the pedestrians packed their luggage, put it on the donkey cart, and set off as a team.

Pedestrians, recruiting people, and recruiting guests actually all mean the same thing, that is, soldiers who go out to fight.

Liu Renyu ate the last bite of Hubing, wiped his hands, lifted the horizontal knife, and escorted these people on the road.

"Be honest, don't be overwhelmed." Liu Renyu looked at his escort and reminded him.

"You guys, I've never seen such noise before." A sergeant scolded, "It's not like you're going to die, how can we make trouble?"

"Liu Renyu was lucky, he was still hanging out in the state army, and now he is proud."

"His daughter has become a widow, and his family has plummeted. I want to see how he will look like in the future."

"I'm going to be a yamen soldier, why should I get angry with this person?"

The soldiers were chattering in a hurry, with strange yin and yang.

Liu Renyu shook his head and didn't care about them like they did.

Luoyang has a full [-] surrendered troops.Coach Du sent people from the Yamen Shanzhou Academy to carry out rectification. After a few months, they were almost honest.

This time when he received the mission, Liu Renyu took 2000 state soldiers to escort [-] people eastward to make up for the war damage.

In fact, it's not just Lao Liu. In the next period of time, there will be a large number of surrendered troops eastward one after another, and the Shanzhou Academy will also dispatch a group of well-trained recruits to Yunzhen to complete the establishment of various ministries.

After walking east for several miles, Luoyang was already in sight.

The construction site of Qianjinchi was crowded with people.Just after dawn, more than 3000 masters from Yanshi County have gathered here to dig ponds and ditches.

Qianjin Pond is a semi-artificial lake located at the confluence of Gushui and Jianshui. It was originally a low-lying wetland.In the past half a year, the Henan government conscripted Yanshi Fuzi and excavated it into a lake. After the water was stored, it flowed eastward through a channel, flowed into Jiuzhou Pool in the palace city, and then flowed out through a channel.

Jiuzhou Pool is ready-made, no need for much trouble.As early as the winter of last year, Feng Wei, the deputy envoy of Jiru Jiedu in the eastern capital, recruited the Master of Henan County to carry out dredging, basically restoring the old appearance, and even slightly expanding the storage capacity.This year, we plan to plant lotus. In this way, Jiuzhou Pond can be used not only as a source of water for Miyagi, but also as a good viewing place.

There is also a reservoir to the south of Qianjin Pond. Originally, the old pool of Yanggong (Autumn Pond) was formed by diverting Gushui and Luoshui.It has not been taken care of for many years and is dilapidated.When Shao Shude saw it for the first time, he saw that the channel was silted up, the pool was dry, the bottom of the lake was covered with dead branches and leaves, and there were even many skeletons, so he ordered to fix it.

After Feng Wei led the construction of Luoyang, he always kept in mind the highest instruction of King Xia, and took the restoration of Luoyang's urban water system as his top priority.Therefore, the master of Luoyang County was recruited to clean up and dredge it, and it is almost the same now.

In the center of the city, there is actually a Weiwangchi, which is now called Xiawangchi.The lake has not dried up, but it has not been dredged for many years.Together with the surrounding ditches, they were all cleaned up by the master recruited from Gong County.

Luoyang used to be a garden city with a well-developed water system and numerous flowers and trees.

Taking Shangyang Palace as an example, Wang Jian once wrote a poem: "The flowers and trees in Shangyang never fall, and Luoshui flows everywhere through the palace."

There are a large number of evergreen pines and cypresses in the palace, and southern plants such as osmanthus and oranges are also transplanted, so "there is no autumn".

Yuan Zhen has another poem: "On a moonlit night, I listen to the sound of Luoshui, and the autumn pool darkens the wind and lotus energy."

In Shangyang Palace, you can hear the rushing sound of Luoshui, and the Qiuchi Reservoir is full of lotus, and you can smell the fragrance.

This is a famous waterscape palace group, which was built under the order of Emperor Gaozong.Because the scenery was too beautiful and the palace was too gorgeous, Wei Hongji, who presided over the construction, was impeached after the completion of the project and resigned.

Rectification of Qianjin Pond, Jiuzhou Pond, Qiu Pond, Xiawang Pond and many ditches has been the main work in the past year.It is expected to still fight for this this year and restore the vegetation beside the lake and canal.

When Sun Ru harmed Luoyang, the towering trees in the city were seriously damaged, Feng Wei planned to transplant the big trees from the forbidden garden in the west of the city to make a quick success.

The Forbidden Garden is actually the Royal Hunting Ground, which is located in the west of Luoyang City. It consists of vast forests, pastures, rivers, and wetlands, and the scenery is also very beautiful.

Pedestrians travel eastward through the ruins of Luoyang.

Liu Renyu looked around, the dredging of the Caoqu was still going on.There are already ships sailing on the cleared river section, loaded with broken bricks, broken tiles, and decayed wood, and transported to the outside of the city.

Broken bricks and tiles can be used to build roads, and can also be used to reinforce river embankments and ponds.Luoshui, Yishui, and Gushui are not very docile. They often flood and cause disasters in Luoyang City. These water conservancy projects are still very necessary.

It is really not easy to rebuild Luoyang, it might as well be built at a different site.Liu Renyu knew that the city of Luoyang in the Han and Wei Dynasties was to the east, and it was not in the same place as the city of Luoyang in the former Sui and Guo dynasties. After such a toss, the corvee service of the people in Henan Prefecture could not be stopped, and even people from other counties and counties were recruited to serve. .

No wonder after a year of fighting, the masters in Henan Prefecture and Ruzhou did not receive the call-up order, and even some of the masters in Zhengzhou who participated in the reconstruction of Luoyang were not recruited.

New buildings have appeared in the cleared places, but very few. What caught Liu Renyu's attention was a palace with a weird style.

This hall is located on the southern edge of Shangyang Forbidden City.There is a large stone platform and steps at the front entrance. There are walls on both sides of the steps, and there are craftsmen under the walls, who seem to be planning to carve something.

On the top of the steps is a square dome building, which is not big.There are stone pillars in front of the building, and I don't know how much manpower was spent.Liu Renyu had a vague impression that Tang and Deng followed Jiedu envoy Zhe Zongben to force the captured Huai army to descend into the mountains to fetch stones, and ship them to Luoyang.Because of the harsh construction schedule, the Huai people suffered unspeakably, and many fled into the mountains.

Alas, it's all about helping the poor.

There are many stone pillars, and some people are carving patterns.There is a tower at each corner of the main hall, and there is a colonnade between the towers.There are many windows in the main hall, and the upper edges of the windows are also arched.Around the main hall, there seem to be gardens, pavilions and other outbuildings, all of which are very strange in style.

Liu Renyu is not an uninformed person.As the largest metropolis in Kanto, Bianzhou has many Hu people.As far as the Sogdians are concerned, their appearance, clothing, and houses certainly have their own characteristics, and even their tombs are different from those of the Han people.In Liu Renyu's view, this small palace is fortunately located in a corner, otherwise it would affect the overall beauty too much.Could it be that King Xia used it to privately hide beauties from Sogdia, Uighur, and Tatar?

The pedestrians continued to move forward, and in the palace that Liu Renyu complained about just now, Master Mani was "preaching" to a group of disciples.

"I call this the circumcision of a circle." Master Mani pointed to a window and explained patiently.

He was followed by an assistant, holding a roll of paper in his hand. Many patterns were drawn on the paper with a quill pen dipped in ink, and numbers were written all over the side. King Xia said that these are Tianzhu numbers, which are very easy to use. Master Mani Think the same way, and use these numbers when teaching students.

What Master Mani is best at is actually the religious knowledge of gods, gods and ghosts, but King Xia doesn't let him talk about it.

The second major skill is to be proficient in the languages ​​and characters of Dashi, Turkic, Persian and other places. This can be taught, and some people are currently learning it.

But what King Xia valued the most was geometry knowledge.He compiled a textbook, and after King Xia reviewed it, he changed some of the terms and fixed them, such as point, straight line, parallel line, triangle, polygon, etc., and then published it in a book and taught it to the students.

A total of more than ten people participated in the learning of geometry, and most of them were children of the "Xungui Group" in Kansai.Master Mani taught very attentively, and at the same time he was surprised to find that King Xia actually had a better understanding of what he called "plane geometry". What did he do before?It's definitely not as simple as Wufu.

Geometry knowledge can be used in all aspects of life.For example, this building, which borrows the name of the Weiyang Palace in the Han Dynasty ("Hehuan Palace"), uses a lot of knowledge of plane geometry, and it is also a valuable internship opportunity for students who have studied for several years.

Straight lines, circles, arcs, triangles, polygons, etc., how to design, calculate, and combine are all particular.If one is not good, it will lead to quality accidents, so repeated calculations and repeated design revisions until the final perfection.

In order to promote the knowledge of geometry, King Xia really worked hard.Hehuan Temple is definitely not for him to enjoy, Master Mani can testify.

Feng Wei, deputy envoy of Dongdu Jiedu, was standing outside the hall at this moment, frowning tightly.

He didn't like this palace very much, and thought it was too ugly, so he even found reasons for delaying the allocation of manpower and materials.

However, under the interference of King Xia, he finally continued.The entire palace room has entered the final stage, and glazed tiles are already being pasted.On the inner walls, painters moved in and began to make murals. On the outer walls, some people carved reliefs. The surrounding gardens and pavilions are also slowly under construction.

"The forest on the north side of Hehuan Hall has to be enlarged a little bit, and a small river should be dug to separate this ruined hall. It's really ugly." Feng Wei looked up at the four pointed towers, almost covering his face.

"What triangle, cone, nonsense." Feng Wei sighed.

Wufu's aesthetics are really weird.But they still hold the handle of the knife, who dares to laugh?If he wants to be self-willed, others can only accompany him to be self-willed, and they have to say yes with a smile.

"Alas!" Feng Wei stomped his feet, left the Hehuan Palace construction site, and went to inspect the excavation project of the culvert.

(End of this chapter)