Chapter 111: Inspecting the North

Snow falls in Nanjing, but also in Beijing.

It's just that the heavy snow in Beijing is much more spectacular than the heavy snow in Nanjing, and it is so loud that it almost submerges the entire city.

Zhang Xuan also wanted to be as cold as snow in his heart.

Because he received a suicide note from Zhang Qian.

In Zhang's suicide note, there is only one sentence over and over again, rest and recuperate, in order to support the people, if the north does not recover its vitality, it will not be easy to get out of the plug.

It's better not to say anything about the military for twenty years.

It can be said that it is bitter.

But it didn't meet Zhang Xuan's mind.

Now Zhang Xuan is in his thirties, and twenty years later, in his fifties. Naturally, the energy is not as good as it is now. When the time comes, I am afraid that he will really not be able to go to the battlefield, at most he will be in Beijing.

It's just Zhang Qian's last exhortation. Zhang Xuan also had to think.

Because Daxia can have today, Zhang Zhen can be said to have worked hard.

Zhang Xuan vaguely remembered that Zhang Zhen was more than ten years older than him, and now he is only in his fifties.

In his fifties, he was still in the right years in the future, but now he is already dying. Zhang Zhen can be said to have been exhausted to death, since Zhang Xuan asked Zhang Zhen to serve as the first assistant.

From the four years of Wuxing to the four years of Zhaowu, these five years. Zhang Xuan's efforts in internal affairs were all done through the cabinet headed by Zhang Qian.

Zhang Xuan certainly has a lot of knowledge, far away from the contemporary. However, it was Zhang Xuan's credit that he really formed Zhang Xuan's opinions into laws and regulations and implemented them throughout the country.

In the past few years, Zhang Zhen can be said to have been doing things day and night. Even if it is above the green history, it is not an exaggeration to compare it with Xiao He, Liu Muzhi, and Li Shan.

Even Zhang Xuan is ready, this time when he goes back to Dafeng, he will also seal a king for Zhang Zhen, and the king is King Xu.

It's just that I never expected it, but I was hit with bad news.

It's really providential.

"I can't wait in the north." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "I have to go back soon." ”

Perhaps Great Xia has the idea of moving the capital to the north in the future, but now the ruling center of Great Xia is still Nanjing.

In the spring of the fifth year of Zhaowu. Zhang Xuan arranged the affairs of the north and began his journey south.

At the same time, there was also a prince who accompanied him to the south, that is, King Han of Great Xia.

The king of Han in Daxia went south, and he also dragged his family with him.

He understands very well that it is estimated that he will only be able to settle in Nanjing in the future, and North Korea's 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains is a place he can never go back to.

However, His Royal Highness the King of Han is a first-class smart person, and he doesn't seem to have any nostalgia for the poor country of North Korea, but wants to take a look at the world of flowers in the south of the Yangtze River.

The power of North Korea was handed over to Zhou Chang.

And Zhou Chang also became the minister of state of Korea appointed by Great Xia, and his rank was comparable to that of the governor of China.

Zhou Chang went from a small official in a district to a dynasty in a few years

The feudal officials of the court have achieved the myth of officialdom. It also made many Daxia officials envious in their hearts, and they wanted to serve in the frontier.

First, now the whole of Great Xia is very confident in the military power of the imperial court. Second, I also want to be like Zhou Chang and become a member of the imperial court, but there is no such opportunity in this country, only the frontier has this opportunity.

However, Zhang Xuan did not honestly go back to Nanjing directly, but took 3,000 cavalry guards, threw off the team, and went straight south, first to Kaifeng City.

At the beginning, Kaifeng Xiongcheng, which had nearly 100 members of the righteous army, has been covered with countless yellow sands, and only the Kaifeng Iron Tower is still standing above the horizon.

It has long been accustomed to such situations.

Kaifeng has always been like this, a layer of yellow sand and a city.

Zhang Xuan climbed the Kaifeng Tower. said to Zheng Lian beside him: "Do you still remember here?" ”

Zheng Lian said: "Your Majesty was majestic and heroic, how dare the minister forget. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "I know that you are making sycophants, and I won't punish you, but Henan's vitality is greatly damaged." ”

Zheng Lian stopped talking for a while.

Henan is not only a big loss of vitality. It's simply uninhabited for thousands of miles, not as good as it was at the beginning, even if the righteous army surrounded Kaifeng, the first thing to do was to compete with the defenders of Kaifeng City, but now?

I don't know that there is a large area of yellow sand south of the Yellow River, and I thought that this was the Saibei Desert, although now the Yellow River embankment has been sealed.

But the damage caused by the breach of the Yellow River to this area is far from over.

Not to mention anything else, countless fertile fields have been pressed under the yellow sand, and large areas of fields have become saline-alkali land, which cannot be cultivated at all. 、

The reason why Zhang Xuan attaches special importance to Henan is that he is a native of Henan, and has fought in Henan, so he has feelings for the land of Henan.

More importantly, because since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land of Henan has been the place that has suffered the most from military disasters. And Henan itself is also a rare large grain-producing province in the north.

Even in the Hereafter, it will be the same.

When Henan recovers, Henan's grain will be able to support the front line. Save a lot of money. It's just that looking at the appearance near Kaifeng now, Zhang Xuan's heart sank.

Not to mention, whether there is enough manpower, just to say that this piece of saline-alkali land, if you want to turn it into fertile land, you have to make a lot of effort.

Zhang Xuan walked around the dilapidated Kaifeng City, the more he looked at it, the more he was congested, the first Xiongcheng in the world, but now there is only a homeless person who seems to be a beggar, and he asked carefully, he actually escaped from Hebei.

Even so, there are only a thousand of them.

You must know that when the righteous army besieged Kaifeng City, the people in Kaifeng City were more than one million.

Zhang Xuan sighed in his heart and couldn't bear to look at it again.

Then look north at the embankment of the Yellow River.

It's just that as soon as he got on the embankment, Zhang Xuan was a little frightened, but he saw that the cracks in the embankment of the Yellow River were the size of a palm, and they were everywhere, because it was the dry season, and it was not real. But a flood season, the

What does it look like? Zhang Xuan couldn't help but think.

Especially in the gap where the river was first breached. You can't even watch it at all.

This gap was plugged in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.

At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty was already in turmoil. Where is the ability to build a large project, the quality of this project is needless to say. Zhang Xuan asked for a spear from the people around him and stabbed it on the embankment.

After a handful of them, I don't know how much broken soil was brought out.

Zhang Xuan said: "If it is an official of this dynasty, I will kill it." ”

Zheng Lian was also shocked and said, "Your Majesty, you can't ignore this." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "That's natural, after I return to Beijing, I will send a battalion and an army to guard the Yellow River embankment. ”

The north side of the Yellow River is fine, and there is still a little population, and people can be recruited if there are people. After all, to protect the levees is to protect their homes.

But south of the Yellow River, there is indeed no population at all.

Even so, the Yellow River could not be ignored.

If the embankment of the Yellow River is not done well, if you want Henan to recover, don't even think about it.

Zheng Lian said: "Your Majesty, the minister knows that there is a battalion of sappers nearby. Your Majesty wants to recruit them first? ”

Zhang Xuan said: "There is a garrison here? ”

Nowadays, there are many garrisons in Henan, such as Nanyang, Luoyang, northern Henan and other places, but there are no garrisons in Kaifeng Mansion as the center.

Because there is no one, not even local officials, there is no need to garrison troops at all.

Zheng Lian said: "In the north of Zhengzhou, the queen specially ordered a battalion to build the Imperial Examination Mausoleum. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, he was moved in his heart, but he also couldn't cry or laugh.

Of course, he remembered what he told Luo Yujiao about his parents, but this one thing, he knew the details, and he had forgotten it a long time ago, and he didn't want Luo Yujiao to remember.

Since Luo Yujiao had already ordered the reconstruction, Zhang Xuan naturally couldn't help but say that this was his parents after all. Then nominal.

Zhang Xuan then transferred to Zhengzhou to worship the emperor's tomb.

This place is very different from the beginning, although the imperial court is financially tight, but Luo Yujiao almost bothered the family of Neiku and built this imperial tomb.

Although everything is simple, there is still the posture of an emperor's mausoleum, sealing the soil, Shinto, and so on.

If it weren't for someone to guide the way, Zhang Xuan probably wouldn't have recognized the way.

Zhang Xuan put a pillar of incense on his parents, and the sense of absurdity in his heart was indescribable. When he came before, he still felt that his parents were not dead.

But now, it's different.

Time and space are not the same, is the flow of time the same on both sides?

There are too many questions, entangled in Zhang Xuan's heart, he sighed lightly, and said secretly: "Yujiao has made this place a fake, and I will also take this place as a real thing, Mom and Dad, your son has made a big deal, but you can't see it." ”