After having dinner with Li Zhongyi, they drank tea and chatted for a while, and then Liu Wenshan said goodbye and left.

Li Zhongyi stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, looking at Liu Wenshan's back as he gradually moved away, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

Wenchen Group, clinging to the belief of exclusive respect for Confucianism, refused to cooperate with him for a long time.

I'm sorry, Li Zhongyi's ability to mix sand and dig the foot of the wall is no worse than any Wenchen.

In the Wenchen group, it is not monolithic, each with its own interests and factions. What Li Zhongyi has to do is to pull one faction to fight one faction and play another, and instigate them to infighting.

Only when the Wenchen Group has internal strife is the best time for differentiation and collapse!

Li Zhongyi has time to play with the Wenchen Group, and as long as he continues to pay attention to the reform of taking miscellaneous examinations. In the end, the Wenchen group either chose to tame or could only be eliminated by the officialdom.

The imperial examination has always been the baton of scholars!

Attaching importance to miscellaneous subjects will inevitably weaken the foundation of Confucianism, and eventually achieve a new situation in which a hundred flowers bloom.

From Huazhou to Kaifeng, it has to pass through two large states, one is Weizhou and the other is Zhengzhou. From Zhengzhou to Kaifeng, there are only more than 100 miles, connected by the Bianhe River, and the water transportation conditions are very convenient.

The "four major canals" centered on the capital city of Kaifeng, namely the Bianhe River, the Yellow River, the Huimin River (also known as the Cai River) and the Wuzhang River (also known as the Guangji River), have three rivers flowing through Zhengzhou, among which the Bianhe River is the Tongji Canal that flows through the Zhengzhou section of the Grand Canal.

Water transportation is the cheapest and largest mode of transportation. Therefore, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty opened the Grand Canal for the smooth flow of transportation.

After Li Zhongyi took the entire Jiangnan, a very difficult problem was obviously placed in front of him, how to transport the grain and materials in Jiangnan to Kaifeng or Luoyang?

The existing Grand Canal needs to be dredged every three years and five years, and the evil result is that the frequent use of people's power has led to boiling public resentment.

Standing on Li Zhongyi's position, Kaifeng is definitely not a suitable location for the capital. The shortcomings of Kaifeng are unusually obvious, one is inconvenient for water transportation, and the Bianhe River will be frozen and forbidden to navigation in winter; Second, the terrain is flat, which is conducive to being attacked, but not conducive to defense.

The idea of moving the capital and its various plans have always been on Li Zhongyi's desk, but he has not yet made up his mind.

If the capital is moved to Youzhou, it is obviously not a reasonable arrangement, and it has a great geographical disadvantage for the empire to control the situation in the south.

If the capital is moved to Luoyang, the Yellow River will still be unresolved when it reaches the freezing period in winter.

Of course, the old western capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Jiangning Mansion, and even the imperial palace are ready-made, so Li Zhongyi was sent to live in them.

It's just that Li Zhongyi looked at the history books all over the world, and after the logic of the so-called southern ship and northern horse was extended, it was easy to come to a conclusion: Beiwu Nanwen.

Since the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the world has been divided for a long time, except for Zhu Chongba's Northern Expedition to successfully unify the whole country, basically the north unified the south.

Of course, the nominal unification of the country by the Nationalist Government was unusually short-lived, and it was soon lost to the People's Liberation Army moving south.

Therefore, as far as Li Zhongyi's heart is concerned, he is not happy to move the capital to the south. Especially Jinling, this place, as if it is cursed, is simply a typical representative of poor military luck.

However, the Li family's army contains an extremely powerful fleet of sailors. Now that there is a strong fleet of sailors, in fact, moving the capital to a good port by the sea is already the trend of the times.

Of course, the disadvantage of moving the capital to the sea is that the political and economic center is too far from the inland areas, and the imperial court's control over the local area has been weakened.

In these years, everything has advantages and disadvantages, and it depends on how to choose the pros and cons.

"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, beware of catching a cold." Han Xianglan quietly walked to Li Zhongyi's side and lightly put on a big coat for him.

Li Zhongyi felt something, so he asked Han Xianglan: "What if the capital is moved to Ezhou?" ”

Han Xianglan has been assisting Li Zhongyi in handling government affairs documents for a long time, and she naturally knows that the so-called Ezhou is Jiangxia County in the Western Han Dynasty and Jiangxia County in the Sui Dynasty, which was changed to Ezhou in the Tang Dynasty.

Ezhou and Chuzhou face each other across the Yangtze River. In the early years of Xiande in the previous dynasty, Chuzhou was changed to Hanyang Army, and Ezhou was still Ezhou.

"Ezhou is in the middle and governs the whole country, with both smooth water and land transportation, the north can control the Central Plains, the south can absorb the grain resources of the south of the Yangtze River, and the waterway is not frozen in winter, it is indeed a good place." After all, Han Xianglan is from a large family, and she has assisted in writing excerpts for several years, so she is naturally extraordinary.

Li Zhongyi heard Han Xianglan say all the good things, and couldn't help but smile slightly, this sycophant was filmed quietly, and it was so good!

However, Han Xianglan is indeed not wrong, Ezhou has the reputation of being the thoroughfare of nine provinces in later generations, and the convenience of transportation is naturally not a problem.

Of course, the matter of moving the capital is a big matter and must be done carefully. Moreover, the country has not yet been completely reunified, and it is impossible to act rashly on the matter of moving the capital.

After the fleet arrived in Weizhou, Li Zhongyi was not interested in going ashore to hang out, but only met with Zhao Yanbang, the governor of Weizhou, in the handsome cabin.

Zhao Yanbang is also Kong Kun's protégé and belongs to a typical Confucian disciple, and Li Zhongyi also accepted his big gift and worshipped.

"Knowing the affairs of Wei Prefecture, the minister Zhao Yanbang knocked to see the emperor." Zhao Yanbang bowed respectfully.

Li Zhongyi waved his hand and said, "That's it, let's get even, give me a seat." ”

The palace maid brought the brocade stool and placed it behind Zhao Yanbang, and after Zhao Yanbang threw his hand to the ground again, he sat down on the brocade stool.

"Zhao Zhizhou, Weizhou's total tax income last year, geometry?" Li Zhongyi likes to ask tax questions very much, he didn't stump Liu Wenshan last time, but this time he has to test Zhao Yanbang.

Zhao Yanbang thought for a while, and stumbled: "Maybe, it seems, it seems to be more than 300,000 guan, right?" ”

Li Zhongyi had read the statistical materials in advance, and Weizhou's total tax revenue last year was actually more than 400,000 yuan, which was twice as fast as that of Huazhou.

Weizhou is closer to Jingshi and has a larger population, with only more land than Huazhou, but twice as much tax revenue. It is conceivable that Zhao Yanbang did not implement the policy of mercantilism.

Li Zhongyi suddenly lost the patience to continue chatting with Zhao Yanbang, and he asked Zhao Yanbang again: "How many high-quality fertile fields are there in Weizhou?" ”

Traditional officials, who value agriculture over business, should at least grasp the basic situation of agricultural production, right?

However, Zhao Yanbang still couldn't answer, and his stuttering was extremely bad.

Li Zhongyi understood at a glance that people like Zhao Yanbang only know how to study and be a peace official, and they don't understand agricultural production or business rules, and they belong to a typical mediocre official who lives in a mess.

Officials like Zhao Yanbang actually account for more than half of the Wenchen group, they occupy high positions, but they don't do practical things, they just like to sit and talk.

This so-called empty talk misleads the country!