In front of Qianxi Temple in Longmen Mountain, Han Qian stood in plain clothes and looked at the ice and snow cover of the Yichuan River.

Guo Rong, Feng Yi, Wen Duqiao, Zhou Yi, Han Donghu, Gu Qian, Zhu Juezhong, Lei Jiuyuan, Chen Youtong, Chen Kun, Shen Peng, Guo Qi, Wang Zhe and Wen Ruilin stood beside him.

Hundreds of guards and cavalry wore blue-black armor and guarded the inside and outside of Qianxi Temple.

Although it has entered February, it is early spring in the south of the Yangtze River, but the weather in Heluo has eased slightly for three or five days, and suddenly the cold wind blows, dripping into ice, and the snow is still blowing, as if the world has changed color for the death of Zhu Yu, the hero of a generation.

It had been ten days since Han Qian had secretly entered Luoyang City, but at that time, Zhu Yu had already fallen into a disillusionment, and it was not until five days ago that he returned to his light and came to his senses.

Zhu Yu insisted on performing the ritual of Zen concession in front of him, so that Lei Jiuyuan, Gu Qian, Zhu Juezhong, Jing Hao and other generals respected Han Qian as the lord of the country in Luoyang City, instead of making Han Qian succeed him in front of him after his death; Zhu Yu also specially demoted himself to the title of Duke Wuwei and the sons of Zhu Zhen as marquis.

After quickly completing the ritual of Zen concession, Zhu Yu and Han Qian rode a chariot and horse to the Yichuan River, stopped at Qianxi Temple, and passed away suddenly in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Although according to Zhu Yu's last wish, his coffin was parked in Qianxi Temple and no funeral was held, but Han Qian also used the funeral ceremony of the Son of Heaven and Zhu Yu as Emperor Wu of Liang, and he and all the generals wore mourning clothes.

The first battle under Xichuan City, the first acquaintance with the banks of Jianghan, and the second meeting of Chaohu Lake, were all in a hurry, Yichuan River stepped on the ice, and had to gather for three days, but his heart was still stunned, Han Qian couldn't help but think at this moment, if he had agreed to Zhu Yu's invitation in the Turtle Mountain, what would the mountains and rivers here be?

"Your ......"

Gu Qian has followed Zhu Yu for more than 20 years, from the year of ambition to the full of splendor, watching Zhu Yu in the prime of life pass away suddenly, his mood is worse than anyone else, but strong enemies are around, and Chu Ting is worried about breaking up, this is by no means the time to indulge in sorrow, there are too many things that need to be decided immediately by the new lord of the country.

The messenger who reported the funeral to Zhu Zhen, the Marquis of Ningbei, had set off yesterday, and rushed to Huayang and Shangluo on the Shuanglonggou plank road, but whether Zhu Zhen was willing to accept this result or not, and whether he was willing to follow Zhu Yu's edict to come to Luoyang to meet the new lord is still unknown.

The human heart is the most difficult to guess.

Although Gu Qian has taught Zhu Zhenmeng to learn and Jingyi since he was a child, Zhu Zhen has no resentment towards his father Zhu Yu in his heart, or whether he can accept such a reality even if he has resentment, Gu Qian and even his maternal grandfather Chen Youtong could not predict at this time.

Even Zhu Yu's insistence on keeping Zhu Zhen in Shangluo and not recalling Luoyang, and insisting that before Han Qian went north, he sent his descendants to Shangluo to garrison Shangluo, which was also an obstacle to guard against the possibility of his son Zhu Zhen becoming Chan Rang.

Gu Qian did not doubt Han Qian's mind and sincerity in treating the Zhu clan well, but if Zhu Zhen resolutely did not accept such a result, Han Qian would inevitably use force to relieve Zhu Zhen of his military power and ensure that the Shangluo line on the southern wing of Guanzhong maintained a smooth transition and no major changes occurred.

The Mengwu people and the Eastern Liang army will definitely not give up such an opportunity to raise troops to attack Heluo again, and it is also unknown at this time whether the people of Jinling will accept such a reality and whether they will take advantage of the opportunity of the Mengwu people and the Eastern Liang army to attack Heluo and send troops to recover Hexi.

In addition, whether the envoys sent to Liangzhou and Shuzhong to meet Li Zhihe and Wang Yong can successfully persuade Li Zhihe and Wang Yong is also the main factor that ultimately determines the movement of Jinling, but it is still unknown at this time.

Gu Qian, Feng Yi and the others initially thought of suggesting that Zen Rang be suspended or even kept in secret, thinking that they could delay it for three or four months, but in fact, Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing were not so easy to deceive.

Even when Han Qian issued a mobilization order, Kong Xirong expanded in Deng Jun and Liangzhou, and Zhou Yi, Feng Xuan and others led the elite of the Tangyi army to enter Heluo on the Songnan Plank Road, the Mengwu soldiers and horses occupying Yongzhou and the Eastern Liang army occupying Xingbian were mobilized.

A large amount of grain and grain were divided into two routes, one way from Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Hezhong to Yongzhou, and all the way from Heshuo, Qingzi, Xusi and other places to Bianxing and Mengzhou.

In addition, there is also clear information confirming that Xiao Yiqing had entered Yongzhou City before, and frequently sent envoys to Qizhou to secretly meet with Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian, and it was not ruled out that Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian would lead their troops to attack Shangluo or Huazhou and Tongguan first.

In addition to the urgent liaison and negotiation of the various forces on the southern front, in addition to the urgent need to arrange the war on the two flanks of Heluo, and in addition to the panic and urgency of appeasement among the generals of the Liang State, there is another thing that needs to be decided immediately.

After the withdrawal of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians from Bianjing, Daliang has lost the national capital, and there is no hope of retaking Bianjing in a short time, and it is urgent to determine the location of the new national capital.

In the past few days, Han Qian and Zhu Yu talked about the past and the present, Gu Qian, Lei Jiuyuan, and Feng Yi, Guo Rong, Wen Duqiao, Zhou Yi and others who followed Han Qian to Luoyang in the north have discussed this issue many times.

In addition to Luoyang being surrounded by enemies on three sides, Zhu Yu did not have a clear intention of making Luoyang the national capital.

However, the Jialu River and the Shaying River were flooded, and the Xingyang City east of the Tiger Pass was still under the control of the enemy army in Dongliang, and the Heluo area and Xu Ru and other places only relied on the steep and narrow Songnan plank road to communicate, and the passage of a large number of people and horses and bulk materials was extremely inconvenient.

These many restrictions determine that Luoyang is not suitable as a new national capital.

And even if you don't consider the feelings of the people in Jinling, at this time, Donghu (Liyang), which is the residence of Tangyi, is too southerly - in fact, after the drastic changes in Heshuo, Tangyi's military center of gravity has moved northward, and Han Qian's stay in Liyang has accounted for less than one-third of the time in the past two years.

Considering the integration process of Heluo and Tangyi, considering the strong reaction that Chu Ting might have, and considering the need to resist the Mengwu and the Eastern Liang army at the same time, Gu Qian, Lei Jiuyuan, Guo Rong, Feng Yi and others discussed privately for a long time, and they all felt that the new capital was set in Shouchun, which was more suitable for both the north and the south.

Han Qian may still need to stay in Luoyang to supervise the army for the time being, but the central organization must immediately operate in the new capital - another point is that most of the soldiers and civilians who withdrew from Bianjing to the south are small families and relatives, even if it is ugly, taking these small families and relatives as hostages and moving them to Shouchun south of the Huai River to resettle them, at least for a short time, it can ensure the stability of the hearts of the 60,000 Liang generals guarding Heluo, and there will be no large-scale surrender to the enemy.

"Dingdu Shouchun?"

Listening to Gu Qian's talk about the Dingdu, Han Qian muttered to himself, standing in front of Qianxi Temple and looking at the ice and snow of the River in the north.

The position where they stood was only twelve miles away from the south gate of Luoyang City, and they could even see the river that went northwest from the west side of Luoyang City, and finally merged into the Yu River through Yanshi and Gongxian County, which was covered with ice and snow at this time.

After Han Qian was for a long time, he said slowly,

"Luoyang is victorious, in the middle of the world, the Yellow River in the north, Songyue in the south, out of the Kunshan Mountain in the west, the Tiger Prison in the east, Yiluo Qingbo, the vast mountains, I get it but not live in it, not only is it a violent thing, but also a negative Brother Zhu Yu's high hopes for me - this problem, you don't have to insist on it, I have discussed it with Brother Zhu Yu in the past few days. Although there will be great difficulties to overcome for the time being, in addition to showing the world my will to resist Hulu and restore the homeland of Daliang and Heshuo Hanfu, there are many advantages that we cannot ignore, and it can also weaken the hostility of Jinling to the greatest extent......"

Over the years, Han Qian has also studied geographies and historiography, and he is also familiar with the shape and beauty of the land of Xiongzhen in the world.

Two thousand years ago, the Western Zhou Dynasty Shang, in order to control Dongyi, built the royal city and the Chengzhou city in the north of Songyue and the Luoshui River, which was the beginning of Luoyang's establishment of the city and the capital; King Ping of Zhou moved east to Luoyi in the first year, opening the Eastern Zhou Dynasty; In the first year of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, he placed Sanchuan County in Luoyang; In the first year of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu named Shenyang as the king of Henan and lived in Luoyang; In the fifth year of Han Gaozu, the initial capital was Luoyang, and later moved to Chang'an, and Sanchuan County was changed to Henan County; Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty set the capital of Luoyang in the first year of Jianwu, changed Luoyang to Luoyang, and changed Henan County to Henan Yin, and in the fifth year of Yonghe of the Han Dynasty, Henan Yin counted 28,486 households and 101,0827 mouths.

In the first year of the early Huang Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi made Luoyang the capital and changed Luoyang to Luoyang; In the first year of Taishi, the Western Jin Dynasty Wei still took Luoyang as the capital; In the eighteenth year of Taihe, Emperor Xiaowen moved his capital to Luoyang.

In the first year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui, he placed Tokyo Shangshu Province in Luoyang; In the first year of the Great Cause, Emperor Yang of Sui moved the capital to Luoyang.

Since the beginning of Gaozong, the previous dynasty still took Luoyang as the capital, called the eastern capital; During the Tianbao period, the eastern capital was changed to Tokyo; In the first year of Wu Zetianguang's house, the eastern capital was changed to the divine capital.

At the end of the previous dynasty, Luoyang was destroyed in the war, and the people did not exist in one, and when Zhu Yu first sealed Luoyang, ten years of operation, Liang re-set Henan Mansion, governed Henan, Luoyang, Yanshi, Lushi, Taolin, Xiong'er, Mianchi, Xin'an, Gong, Yichuan, Songnan, Yangcheng and other thirteen counties.

After several years of war, but merged into Huazhou, Tongguan and other places, in addition to the garrison, there are still 700,000 people in Heluo.

In addition to the prosperity of the population, it is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the Heluo Basin between the mountains of Mu, Song, Pi, Xiong'er and Funiu, with an arable living area of more than 4,000 square miles.

The basin is high in the north and south, low in the middle, and slightly trough-shaped. The north is the Loess Hills of the Pishan Mountains, the central part is the alluvial plains of the Yi and Luohe Rivers, and the south is the low hills of the Wan'an Mountains and the alluvial slopes in front of the mountains.

The relatively closed terrain around is not only conducive to military defense, but also the surrounding terrain is distributed slowly from high mountains to low mountains to plains, during which the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and the water is abundant and the drop is uniform.

Until there are more alternative power sources, the development of a primary industrial system will require the large-scale availability of hydropower resources.

In his early years, Han Qian built East Lake as the center of gravity of Tangyi, and even after recovering Huaixi, he still did not move the government to Chaozhou City, which was flatter and surrounded by more agricultural and grain fields.

In addition to the fact that the East Lake can reclaim a large amount of grain fields and urban development land by building embankments around the lake, the main thing is that the East Lake is adjacent to the Xuwei Mountain in the south and the Qingcang Mountain in the north, and weirs and dams are built along the slopes, which can develop a large number of hydraulic resources for the primary industry.

This is an advantage that the pure plain region does not have until the new power source is spread on a large scale.

This is also an advantageous condition that cannot be ignored in Luoyang, which is the capital of Dingdu Shouchun.

Confused, Song, Pi, Bear's Ear, Barberry Zhuyue, coal and iron reserves are also extremely abundant.

Although several years of war have caused great damage to Heluo's farming and craftsman production, and even a large number of craftsmen have been captured by Liang Shixiong, the foundation of many workshops is still there, and Han Qian only needs to transfer thousands of mature craftsmen and craftsmen from Huaixi, Xuzhou and other places to quickly restore the industrial system that began to form in the hands of Zhu Yu in the early years of Heluo.

In fact, the first batch of people who went north with Han Qian had a craftsman battalion of 2,000 people, including all the craftsmen and craftsmen of all the current engineering categories in Tangyi, as well as some students who graduated from Liyang Academy in advance, which can be arranged at any time......

The new capital is set in Luoyang, which is also Zhu Yu's last wish, but it is a pity that the Liang army was broken before, and the cities of Heluo fell newly, so he was terminally ill and had no chance to arrange many things.

As for how to calm the hearts of the people and the army even after the outbreak of war, Han Qian also discussed with Zhu Yu in the last few days.

He did not think that the further relocation of the 100,000 or so people who had evacuated from Bianjing to Shouchun would really be able to calm the people's hearts.

Heluo and Tangyi should be fully integrated, and the new system that Han Qian has comprehensively and deeply implemented in Tangyi over the years is completely different from the old system of Liang State, which is a fact that no one can ignore.

In front of Zhu Yu, everyone could welcome Han Qian as the new master, and the matter of the law became less important.

And Liang Gaozu Zhu Wen was born as a general of the exile army in his early years, and he and his generals were extremely hostile to the Qingliu clan in the early days.

Gu Qian, Chen Youtong, Jing Hao, Jing Zhen, Chen Kun, Han Yuanqi and others were not of high background, and they did not form an extremely stubborn old concept of reason and law, which is very different from Jianghuai, especially the local forces in Jiangdong.

The abolition of slaves and maids, but the permission to mercenary servants and maids, as well as the abolition of the system of concubines, will not directly impact the existing interests of the Liang generals.

At present, Heluo is in turmoil, and the local forces do not even want their children to join the government, so they do not care much about the abolition of the system of grace and shade and the new system of taking officials and promoting generals.

However, when it comes to land, it is an unavoidable issue.

This is not only the foundation of the local power in Heluo, but also the fundamental difference between the new system of Tangyi and the old system of Liang.

Gu Qian, Chen Youtong, Jing Hao, Jing Zhen, Chen Kun and a large number of people, including Shen Peng, Wen Ruilin, Zhao Ci and other Chengtiansi officials, as well as military attachés and generals who were incorporated into the Xuanjia Capital in the early years and later spread throughout the Great Liang Forbidden Army, as descendants, most of them were mainly Zhu Yu who followed him during the period of running Heluo.

Even if a considerable number of them moved their families to Bianjing in the later period, their families are still rooted in Heluo, and they can be said to be representatives of the local forces in Heluo.

As the upstart of the Liang Kingdom, they are not from a high background, but they are influenced by the ideas that have been rooted in the depths of people's hearts for thousands of years. And Liang Gaozu Zhu Wen was alive, and more often than not, he also rewarded meritorious generals with his field house.

After Zhu Yu ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne, even though he realized the advantages of Tangyi's new system, he was busy fighting in the south and the north, and he was unable to fundamentally change this for a while.

In addition to Gu Qian, Chen Youtong, Jing Hao, Chen Kun and other families who all occupy a large number of farms and houses in the Heluo area, and are the land nouveau riche in Heluo, the generals of the Caizhou army led by Han Yuanqi are deeply entangled with the local upstart forces in Cai Ru and Yingchen and other prefectures.

It is easy to implement things such as clearing the acres of fields and paving them into acres.

In the past two years, in order to raise military funds and provide grain for the relief of the victims, Zhu Yu had to levy extremely high taxes on Heluo, Yingcai and other places, and the liquidation of acres of land was extremely strict.

The biggest problem is Tangyi's land restriction order and the distribution of land by soldiers.

At present, in Tangyi Zhuzhou County, the old local forces have almost been destroyed - Xi Xiangyang and other Xuzhou surnames were completely dismantled by Han Qian after a complete military defeat in the early days, and Xi Xunqiao, Feng Zhang and others naturally accepted the new policy; In the Tangyi army, whether it is a grassroots military attache Xu Shi or a middle and senior general, the standard of land restriction is the same as that of ordinary soldiers, and the land occupied by households shall not exceed 30 mu.

According to this standard, the first-level grassroots military attachés led by the Liang Army Squadron may be surpassed by most people.

In the early years, Liang Jun was awarded land according to the first-class meritorious service, which decided to promote the grassroots military attachés with military merits, and only the military merit was given to the field directly became small and medium-sized landlords, not to mention the annexation of several abilities in the later period, not to mention the middle and senior generals in the Liang army.

Even if Han Qian wanted to rely on Gu Qian, Jing Hao and their children, clansmen, and military attachés and generals at all levels to defend Yuheluo and resist Hulu, rely on them to promote the integration of the two armies, and even let the new system take root in the Heluo area, he could not directly and rudely deprive them of the existing farms and houses that had been in operation for one or two generations.

However, when Han Qian organized the Chishan Army in his early years, he once declared that he wanted to make the people of the world have their land and their houses, which was also the foundation of Han Qian's promotion of the new system in Xuzhou and Huaixi in recent years, and it was also the guarantee of the combat effectiveness of the Tangyi Army.

The Liang army has 80,000 weak soldiers, some of whom are slaves and landless poor people, and some of them are township soldiers who were pushed out by local forces to serve in the military and conscription, and some are the generals of the former Liang forbidden army who fled south from Bianjing and have lost their foothold.

It can be said that the Liang army has 80,000 weak generals, and most of his small families have no place in Heluo and other places.

And the years of hard fighting, as well as the current terrible situation, have demoralized these weak soldiers.

Han Qian can ignore the middle and lower-class poor in Heluo for the time being, and even make some compromises for the time being, but in order to boost the combat effectiveness and morale of the Liang army's existing generals in such a complicated and dangerous situation, it is inevitable to allocate a large amount of land to the Liang army's generals in Heluo and Cai Ru and other places for small cultivation.

In the face of such a contradiction, Han Qian thought about it again and again, and only the redemption strategy could be done, and it was to redeem it from the senior generals of the Liang army first.

Of course, Han Qian can't take out millions or even tens of millions of dollars to redeem these farms and mansions now, and all he can take out is a part of his private shares in the Industrial Construction Bureau, the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau, and the Chishan Club.

In addition, the sale of Shanze Zhili and salt, iron, tea, and wine was traditionally a private property belonging to the inner court, which made the mines and workshops that Zhu Yu had earlier mined in Heluo and other places also belong to the government.

Han Qian also planned to convert these and the mines and workshops planned to be built in the past two years into shares, which were used to redeem the cultivated land in the hands of the senior generals and families of the Liang army, and distribute them to the landless soldiers at the bottom of the Liang army.

The capital of the country was set in Luoyang, and the cultivated land was redeemed from the hands of the senior generals and Jia Xuan, and distributed to the low-level generals of the Liang army, and the low-level generals of the Liang army were rooted in Heluo, which was not only conducive to stabilizing the hearts of the generals, but also to avoid the instability of local forces in Heluo and even Cai Xu and other states, and also solved the suspicion of the Liang generals about the integration of the old and new systems.

Hearing Han Qian talk about this, Gu Qian, Zhu Juezhong, Chen Youtong, Jing Hao, Chen Kun and others all deeply agreed, and had to admit that Han Qian's considerations were deeper than theirs.

Tangyi has taken advantage of industry and mining, seized nearly half of Jianghuai's surplus, and Qiao Chen and other Xuanshu clans who have an in-law relationship with the Han family in recent years have also mainly integrated into Tangyi in the form of shareholding in the official money bureau, and they are all clear in their hearts.

Gu Qian and the others know very well how critical the current situation is, and they also know that once the land is lost and people die, everything will come to naught and come to naught, how can characters like them naturally not be entangled too much in these things?

They even knew that when Zhu Yu was alive, he had considered directly expropriating one or two million acres of land to settle the generals' families, and Zhu Yu would not consider redemption, nor did he have the conditions to engage in any redemption, but would only use his prestige in the army to directly suppress opposition voices to implement this policy; They are even supportive of this.

Surviving the difficulties in front of you is the most important thing.

Of course, the fact that several of them have such an understanding does not mean that all the upstart forces of the Liang State and the entire group of middle- and lower-level generals between Heluo have such an awareness, let alone that the other local forces in Heluo are willing to make such a sacrifice.

Han Qian is among the generals of the Liang army and the local forces in Heluo, and for the time being, he obviously does not have Zhu Yu's prestige and prestige, and they believe that now Han Qian's proposal of redemption, capital, and land allocation can better solve many problems.

They believe that this will better convince their families and clansmen, and better appease the worries and restlessness of their subordinates and local forces, so as to avoid greater chaos.

Of course, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, including the small relatives of Gu Qian and others, successfully withdrew from Bianjing, which happened three months ago.