"The waves of the sea are coming,

In front of the building, Gu Xue was piled up.

From now on, the king must be on the tide,

Look at the silver mountain twelve times. ”

Su Shi "Five Uniques of the Evening View of Wanghai Tower"

- I'm the dividing line -

In the city of Qiantang in Hangzhou, Zhou Huai'an finally began to meet with representatives of the local people, and to make public appearances on specific occasions and events to declare the corresponding ruling power and control.

It is undoubtedly an important study how to quickly transform the military victories and achievements that have been achieved into political and economic gains and resource outputs. For example, to deter the enemy externally and suppress the authority and influence of contradictions internally;

Another example is the full mobilization and utilization of the population of the newly occupied land, and its rapid transformation into a ready-made resource under the new institutional framework to support subsequent military operations and war potential. Then, this comes to the question of organizational building and bureaucratic training.

At the very least, it is relatively easy to plunder wealth and population directly as a war dividend, and to make it easier to capture places that fear you by force. However, any attempt to deepen some point of social change, relying solely on the traditional means of military conquest to make a name for itself, will not be able to fully satisfy the corresponding needs of the world's following the usual routines and speculative models.

Historically, most regimes and leaders have been able to reach this point, and this is not a matter of making trade-offs and compromises in reality.

After all, the poor people can be mobilized and gathered into a huge force that shakes the foundation of society, but it is much more difficult to effectively control it and transform it into a constructive force. Because their general level of education and knowledge is too low to be the backbone of the regime.

Only the old subordinate officials inherited from the previous dynasty system, and the large and small landlord classes represented by the family lords behind them, are likely to provide talents who have enough time to study and cultivate as candidates and new blood to form the bureaucratic system of the dynasty.

Since ancient times, the emperors at the time of the change of dynasties have weighed the trade-offs between these two groups to maintain the corresponding constraints and balances, coupled with the survival pressure caused by the sharp decline in population/land annexation has been greatly alleviated, and finally created the so-called founding of the country.

Therefore, any peasant rebel army/rebel force that claims to want to punish the people and fight for it, and finally wants to organize power and complete the transformation of the world, must abandon most of the original intentions and ideas in order to absorb the skilled bureaucrats and clan elites of the old system.

Therefore, taking the Tang generation as an example, for the Shandong scholars led by the five surnames and seven wangs, there is basically a basic national policy of co-opting and suppressing and implementing it throughout; On the one hand, these big clans, who have a lot of public opinion and speech power on the earth, are a natural threat and hidden danger to the imperial power of the world.

However, due to the stable structure of the political power, they had to rely on the so-called academic heirlooms they had cultivated for generations, and the large number of clansmen and protégés they had cultivated, as well as the corresponding influence that could summon more scholars, to fill the government organizations at all levels with the Li Tang regime.

Therefore, in the first hundred years of the ups and downs of the dynastic evolution of the Zhenguan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was trying to divide and disintegrate the influence of these old clan lords, while using the imperial examination system to attract more talents from the Hanmen clan in the opposition as a force for restraint and confrontation.

So after the Middle and Tang Dynasty, this invisible national policy has succeeded in a sense, but it can also be said to be a basic failure. Because of the need for suppression and division of the dynasty, the influence of the clans in the local area has seriously declined, and they have gradually given way to the local warrior groups in the secession of the feudal towns.

However, as a means of survival and change, these family lords began to transfer to the power center represented by the two capitals, and penetrated into the imperial court system from all aspects, and became a closely related and important part of the Tang regime.

However, because they have the central power and have a higher starting point than ordinary people, and have more direct and indirect political resources and influence, the children of these clan lords can easily obtain noble positions or powers.

Then, after snowballing these political resources and power advantages, and further superimposing and stabilizing them to their own people, there will be no such thing as those people from humble backgrounds or people from poor families. The so-called many brothers, fathers and sons are on the same list, and the lineage of the prime minister of the three generations of Zaige was born in this way.

In the end, when the imperial power was used to stir up different opinions, the imperial examination system of competition and vitality was introduced, and it also became a tool for mutual interest exchange and political compromise between high-ranking families and lands through "general lists" and "line scrolls", the Tang Dynasty, which was powerless to change anything, naturally ushered in his last days.

Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, because the rising passage was gradually blocked and blocked, the scholars of the Hanmen who had lost their normal way out threw themselves into the shogunate of various feudal towns, and became the driving force of the local confrontation center. And then in the desperate situation of natural and man-made disasters, he threw himself into the civil uprisings one after another.

In a sense, Huang Chao, a native of Yunzhou who has tried and failed, is just one of the people who have risen from time to time due to the resentment of generations; And the collapse and decline of the political remnants of the clans and gate lords during the entire Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period can also be said to be the gradual product of this final backlash.

But what is also ridiculous is that because these families have been too deeply tied to the Li Tang Dynasty and have the same interests, at the end of this dynasty, they want to save the most backbone of the world, and a large number of loyal ministers and good future have emerged. Although there are still no eggs.

But Zhou Huai'an obviously wants to take another road, another road that turns everything upside down more completely, and is also full of thorns and hardships. Therefore, it is necessary to try to eradicate and eliminate the residual influence and poison of all kinds of old forces as much as possible from the very beginning.

And this Qiantang City is no exception, but the situation is slightly different. Because there is not only a well-developed network of water towns and rivers and irrigated agriculture in the inland, but also a prosperous commodity economy and river and sea trade activities such as Guangzhou and Jiaozhou.

As the state of Hangzhou and the leading city and famous city in the territory, Qiantang City takes Liupu and Wushan as the core of the old and new cities respectively, and builds several sections of the old and new city walls with a circumference length of about 36 miles and 90 steps.

There are 47,000 households and more than 210,000 mouths in the old and new 73 squares in the city, and almost one-third of the families are engaged in shipping, merchants, silk weaving, papermaking, gold and silver smithing, and other industrial and commercial related trades.

The resulting rich giant rooms abound. Therefore, standing on a high place and looking at it, it can be seen that in addition to the black shed gray tiles between the walls of the city square, there are also some pavilions and pavilions and garden outlines scattered and scattered in the low Wu Mountain and near the small inner city where the old and new cities meet.

The owner is also a special group that needs to be screened and distinguished in Qiantang City at present. Among them, it can be said that the four surnames of Wuzhong can be traced back to the era of Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, Zhu, Zhang and Gu Lu; There is also Wang Xie Yuan Xiao, who is the Yuanshu who crossed the south during the Yongjia period at the turn of the two Jin Dynasty.

Of course, after years of torture, since the "old king Xie Tang Qianyan" is competing to "fly into the homes of ordinary people", the only ones who can stay in Hangzhou are the families of many side branches. For modern people, there is only a little bit of dispensable feelings and curiosity.

Then there were Xu Shen Zhou Fang and others, the Tuhu clan that only arose from the surrounding areas in the hundreds of years of the previous dynasty. Chen Lin and Wu Huang, who crossed the sea from Liangling and Fujian, took root; Because of its long-term operation of sea trade and river transportation, it is known as the regional merchant group of the sixteen families in Qiantang.

Of course, because of the tradition of the ancients of "business and wealth, more fields and education, and learning and excellence", most of them have not been able to clean the shit on their buttocks. In the end, they were able to pass the preliminary selection and investigation, and then they were elected as one of the representatives of the people, and there were only a few who came to Zhou Huai'an to present their feelings.

And their performance and attitude will also determine the fate of many of the same families in the city. Whether it is to be tried first and then raided in the form of liquidation, or to be ordered to relocate the whole family, or to accept local rectification and self-examination, or to become a new object of cooperation of the Taiping Army in the local area, to join the economic system under its rule.

This meeting was also arranged in the most famous banquet and viewing place in the city, the Wanghai Tower where the embankment outside the south wall was used to watch the tide in Qiantang. The earliest can even be traced back to the record of "Historical Records - Qin Shi Huang Benji" "In the 37th year of the first emperor, the Eastern Tour Huiji, through Danyang, to Qiantang, and Linzhejiang".

Then it was repeatedly destroyed and built on the old site of Qinguan Chaotai, and it has been built for the fifth time so far. The most recent one was the rebellion of Yang Baoying in Hangzhou, which was burned in the first ten years of the Sui Dynasty, and then rebuilt by Chu Suiliang, a native of Qiantang, one of the four great masters of the early Tang Dynasty.

It is also one of the oldest buildings of the same name in the world. Standing on a grand platform on the edge of the causeway, the eight-edged five-fold gray tile lacquered tower pavilion-style building.

Starting from the hall and pavilion at the bottom, many pillars are also inscribed with the poems of famous masters of the past dynasties, from the earliest early Tang Dynasty master Chu Suiliang's "Spring Banquet Wanghai Ying Edict", to the contemporary "Tide Head Poem" made by Zheng Gu, who is known as the partridge bachelor:

"Zhejiang's light waves go leisurely, and Wanghailou blows the sea sorrow.

Don't blame the hometown for being reckless, and he has been a guest in other states for ten years. ”

And today, there is no doubt that Zhou Huai'an's "new" will be added to make a pair of semi-couplets: "Looking at the sea tower, looking at the sea flow, looking at the sea flow on the sea tower, flowing through the ages." When he arrived here with his guards, the singers in the building were singing the popular local "Golden Silk Clothes" to the accompaniment of pipa, gonghou, and reed sheng recorders. Joint Election》

"Persuade the monarch not to cherish the golden clothes, and persuade the monarch to cherish the youth.

There are flowers that can be folded straight and must be folded, and there are no flowers and empty branches.

The blue sky is cloudless, the moon is like a candle, and the pear blossoms are as white as jade.

Zigui cried all night until dawn, and the beauty stayed alone in the empty room.

Empty Luo Yi does not give grace, and a fragrance is followed by a soul.

Although the dancing sleeves have danced, they often have tears on the spring breeze.

Do not wash the residual makeup with the embroidery bed, but also embroider mandarin ducks with female companions.

Back to the needle to the double fly, remembering the husband and tears a few lines. ”

And the representatives of the fathers and elders and the people in the city who were gathered together also got up and bowed to Zhou Huai'an, who was climbing the stairs, and fell down.

"Greetings to the Governor."