Ming Dynasty Strategy Notes [Transmigration Book]

Investigating the matter of Zhang Jing, it is impossible to gain anything for a while.However, Xia Ziling felt that this person's problem was only out of intuition, without any real evidence, so he didn't have any expectations for this matter.

The next day, all the utensils for worshiping Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong were ready, and the King of Shu, accompanied by Zhang Jing and others, arrived at Wangcong Temple early in the morning.Wangcong Temple is located in the southwest of Pi County. Before offering sacrifices, there are still some rituals to be prepared, and the King of Shu must burn incense and bathe.

Xia Ziling took advantage of this time to wander around the Wangcong Temple without incident.Although this is the cemetery where Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong were buried together, these two legendary emperors of the ancient Shu Kingdom have died for more than [-] years, and their bodies are no longer here. Today's Wangcong Temple is just a place for future generations to remember their ancestors That's all.However, when he came to this place today, Xia Ziling felt inexplicably familiar, as if he had been to this place before.

Standing in front of the gilded bronze statues of Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong, Xia Ziling suddenly smiled. These two statues were clearly far from the appearance of Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong.After a while, he was startled by his sudden thought, Wangdi Du Yu and Congdi Bieling had been dead for more than two thousand years, how did he know what these two looked like?

Regardless of the looks of these two people, or even the various legends about the ancient Shu Kingdom, because there are very few records in the literature, and the survivors of ancient Shu can't find it now, it always makes people feel a little mysterious.

"I heard that Brother Xia is also from Shu. Is this the first time you've come here?" Zhang Jing's voice interrupted Xia Ziling's contemplation.

Xia Ziling collected his thoughts, and replied: "My ancestral home is Jiading Mansion, and I haven't been to Pi County yet."

"This Wangcong Temple is a great spiritual place in the middle of Sichuan. Every spring, there must be a cuckoo singing here. The people nearby have rumors that Wangdi turned into a cuckoo, and it still protects Shu."

Xia Ziling smiled lightly, not taking it seriously. "How can Mr. Zhang believe these common people's jokes? The cuckoo's crowing is just a natural phenomenon. Emperor Wang Du Yu has been immortal for more than two thousand years, and Sichuan has always been prosperous. In fact, he should have nothing he can't let go of. "

Zhang Jing also pursed his lips and smiled when he heard the words, "Wangdi's transformation into a cuckoo is just a legend, I don't know if it is true, I just said to chat with Brother Xia."

After Zhang Jing finished speaking, the two stood here, speechless for a long time.After a while, Xia Ziling changed the subject and asked, "Is this Wangcong Temple the only one in Shu?"

"No, although the ancient Shu Kingdom no longer exists, there are still many hopeful temples built in various parts of Shu."

Xia Ziling paused, and said, "Everywhere are the statues of Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong sitting side by side?"

Zhang Jing smiled, "Yes, it is said that Emperor Cong ordered him to be buried with Emperor Wang before his death, and the ancestral hall will be merged into one."

"..."

"Brother Xia also thinks this is interesting? After I read the legends of ancient Shu, I am also very confused about Emperor Cong's last wish."

"It's really strange."

According to the legend of ancient Shu, although Emperor Wang relied heavily on Bieling to control the water, the two later became enemies. It is said that Wangdi Chan's location in Bieling was a last resort, and there is even a saying that Bieling usurped the throne.As for the legend of Wangdi Huajuan, apart from his heart for the people of Shu, there are two other theories——

One said that during the time when Bieling was controlling the water, Emperor Wang had an affair with Bieling's wife.After Bieling ruled the flood and returned to Shu, Emperor Wang felt sorry for Bieling and felt very ashamed. He lived alone in the mountains and forests and died in depression. After his death, his soul turned into a cuckoo.

The second one is that Bieling has made great achievements in water control, and Emperor Wang gave him the throne and lived in seclusion in the Western Mountains.But Bie Ling took the opportunity to have an affair with Emperor Wang's wife.When Emperor Wang heard the news, his heart was very painful, but because of the power of Bie Ling, he couldn't deal with him, so he could only mourn and cry all day long.When Emperor Wang was about to die, he asked the cuckoo in Xishan Mountain to say: "Cuckoo, please call, and tell the people my mood." Since then, the cuckoo has been flying in the territory of Shu, mourning day and night, until the mouth bleeds and dies. .

These two statements are really contradictory and ridiculous.For a while, Emperor Wang insulted Emperor Cong's wife, and for a while Emperor Cong insulted Emperor Wang's wife.However, in any case, the relationship between Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong would not be very good, and the two were buried together after death, and the statues enshrined everywhere were sitting side by side, which is really ridiculous.

But these are just leisure and entertainment, the matter of Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong, after all, has been buried in the long river of history, so it is unknown.

After a while, Zhu Chun was ready and walked out in the dragon robe of the vassal king.

"The ceremony can begin!" Zhu Chun ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes." Zhang Jing bowed and saluted, and followed the King of Shu towards the long table for offering sacrifices.

After the cumbersome etiquette of offering incense, chanting scriptures, and performing kneeling and worshiping rituals, today's sacrifice is considered ritual.Before leaving Wang Cong Temple, Xia Ziling took another look at the two statues of Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong sitting side by side, and then suppressed the strangeness in his heart and left.

They stayed in Pi County for another day before returning to Chengdu leisurely.

After returning to Chengdu, Xia Ziling started to do two things——

The first thing is to set up a quiet small house in Chengdu.Although the [-] rooms in the Shu Palace are too many for ten Xia Zilings to live in, but living in the Shu Palace and watching the princes and concubines love each other day and night, Xia Ziling always feels as if a thorn has grown in his heart. Moving out to live has become a top priority.

Although Xia Ziling had some savings in the past few years, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were really poor. If they wanted to buy a good house in Chengdu, they would probably spend all their savings in the past few years.Fortunately, after Zhu Chun persuaded Xia Ziling to stay in the mansion to no avail, he offered to help him pay for the purchase of the house.

Xia Ziling pondered for a while, he resigned his official position in order to follow Zhu Chun into Shu. Although the annual salary of a fourth-rank official is only more than two hundred shi, it is more than enough for one person.Now that he has lost his job for Zhu Chun, it seems that it is not too much to blackmail him with a house?He readily agreed.

After the house was set up, not long after moving out, Zhang Jing sent someone to bring strange stones, antiques and other decorations.Zhang Jing can be regarded as a caring person, but he is courteous for nothing, and he is either a rape or a thief. The more he is so active in making friends with him, the more Xia Ziling feels that this person is not righteous.

However, in order to temporarily maintain a harmonious relationship with Zhang Jing, Xia Ziling still kept a pair of Shu embroidery screens that he liked very much, and returned the rest of the items.

The second thing is to put into practice the "Ten Strategies for Governing Shu" that I mentioned before.At that time, after Zhu Chun submitted the ten strategies to the emperor, Emperor Hongwu passed them on to Zhang Jing for research.

As for the two strategies of building roads and dredging the Three Gorges, Zhang Jing immediately raised money to implement them.At present, the initial results have been achieved. If the entire Yangtze River waterway from central Shu to Yingtian is dredged, the time from Chengdu to Nanjing by water can be shortened by at least one month compared with the land route. Communication between China and China is a great help.

The tax reform policy is the core of these ten items, but it is very complicated to operate.The Chengdu Plain is an important place for grain production, and it is not difficult to calculate the method of tax payment by converting grain into taels of silver.However, there are many mountainous areas in northern Sichuan, western Sichuan, and Yunnan and Guizhou. It is not easy to find out how much the residents' annual income should be converted into deed silver.Therefore, the current policy of tax reform is still in the stage of laying the foundation.

After Xia Ziling came, he naturally drew on his previous experience, discussed and consulted with local officials, and formulated a set of detailed operation methods.He thought that when the preparations are almost ready, it may be possible to roll out the pilot project in the Chengdu Plain first.

Among the "Ten Strategies for Governing Shu", the easiest thing to implement is the one of "recruiting wise men".When the king of Shu arrived in Chengdu, he immediately issued a notice to recruit wise men into the mansion.

But the so-called magi should not have a low threshold.Xia Ziling pondered that now that Song Lian had passed away, among the scholars, the most famous scholar was Fang Xiaoru, who was abandoned by Emperor Hongwu and lived idle in Hanzhong.Although Fang Xiaoru is a bit pedantic, his knowledge is excellent.

Simply Hanzhong is not too far from Chengdu.Xia Ziling drew up a letter for Zhu Chun and asked someone to send it to Hanzhong, sincerely inviting Fang Xiaoru to come to Shu and set up a forum to give lectures to scholars in Shu.

When Xia Ziling made this suggestion, Zhu Chun still had doubts and asked, "I heard that Fang Xiaoru is a noble person. These people have always been unwilling to make friends with feudal lords. Will he be willing to enter Shu?"

Xia Ziling swiped a pen to write the last word on the paper, handed the wet letter to Zhu Chun, and said confidently: "I am not inviting him to be your lord's aide, but to teach Hua Shu Sergeant, why would he not want to do such a good thing of spreading knowledge? Besides... Please read the last sentence in the letter, my lord, after reading this sentence, I promise that he will definitely come."

The last sentence of this letter reads—"There is a shortage of talents in Sichuan. If Mr. Qianxi does not come, I would like to invite Mr. Qianxi to give lectures in Shu next week."

After reading it, Zhu Chun frowned, a little puzzled, and said, "Why does this matter involve Zhou Ting?"

Xia Ziling smiled and said: "Don't you know, my lord? Zhou Ting willingly fell into the music world in order to save his life. When Fang Xiaoru first heard about this, the two of them worshiped under Song Lian's door together. Fang Xiaoru almost vomited blood in anger. For this reason, he wrote a call to crusade against Zhou Ting, and this matter was widely circulated among scholars."

"With Mr. Xizhi (Fang Xiaoru's character) being so upright and taking it as his own responsibility to educate the world's scholars, if the prince invites Zhou Ting into Shu, he will definitely teach all the scholars in Shu to death, and become like him. A person who stole life. Just because of this, I predict that Fang Xiaoru will pack his bags and come from Hanzhong in a hurry when he reads the letter."

Zhu Chun looked at Xia Ziling's sly smile like a fox, and suddenly couldn't help but laugh.Ziling, oh Ziling, you are really a person full of ghostly ideas, but...it is precisely this that makes me fascinated.

In terms of "Cultural governance of Shu", Xia Ziling also made a unique move-that is, to carry forward several famous products of Shu.It was stipulated that "every year on the third day of March, 24 copies of Xue Tao's paper will be taken from the well, and 24 pieces will be paid to the court", "every year on the sixth day of June, 24 Shu fans will be cut from Hsinchu, and 24 pieces will be paid to the court", " Every year on the ninth day of September, [-] altars of fine wine are selected for brewing, and [-] altars are tributed to the imperial court.

The four seasons of the year are presided over by the palace, and after refining the four famous products in central Shu, they are presented to the court.It not only spread the culture of central Shu, but also made Emperor Hongwu, who was thousands of miles away, see things and think about people, so that he would not forget his son who stayed in Bashu. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

These few things were carried out in full swing, and more than half a year passed in a flash.After autumn, various preparations for the tax reform have matured. Xia Ziling planned to roll out the trial in the Chengdu Plain in the near future, but an emergency happened——

A few days ago, the Sichuan Metropolitan Commander received the battle report that the Western Sichuan Fans were entangled with thousands of people coming to attack, Commander Zhao Xin immediately mobilized [-] troops to resist.The [-] Ming army fighting these thousands of Fans is like cutting melons and vegetables, and they can be repelled even with eyes closed.Unexpectedly, the news came that the Ming army was defeated, Xin Zhao was killed, and the Fanren had entered the Black Cliff Pass.

This black cliff pass, located in the west of Chengdu, was established in the 16th year of Hongwu, and it is the western barrier of the Chengdu Plain.Once Fanren entered Heiya Pass, they could drive straight to Chengdu. It is amazing that more than a thousand Fanren can make such a big wave.

The matter was so serious that Zhu Chun, as the vassal king of the defending side, could not sit idly by.While gathering [-] royal guards, Zhu Chun asked Zhang Jing to mobilize troops in Sichuan to prepare to take command to meet the enemy himself; at the same time, he wrote to Nanjing to ask Emperor Hongwu for help.