Bahan Road, Ba County.

The water of the Western Han Dynasty and the Yangtze River converge here, so it is the source of rock salt, so it has always been rich, and there is convenient river water transportation, so that Bacheng, a small county town, prospered rapidly after the end of the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Ba County (Chongqing), this place was originally the land of Puyi, Puyi has no monarch, each gathers by itself, so it is called Baipu.

Luo Cunxiao stood on the deck of the ship, looking at the Baxian Chengchi that was gradually sailing in.

"Great King, during the Warring States here, the country of Ba moved south from the Hanshui basin to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and successively built its capital in Tong, Jiangzhou, Dianjiang and other places. Bashu competed, but in the end, the winner was Qin.

After Qin conquered Bashu, unified its land, and unified the world, the world was divided into 36 counties, and Bashu was each a county. ”

Standing next to Cunxiao is a boat boss who runs the river, specializing in the upper reaches of the Three Gorges, and is very familiar with the historical allusions here.

"After Qin destroyed the country of Ba, he stationed troops in Ba and built Ba County, and the city site was near the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Western Han River (Jialing River), which was also the beginning of the construction of Ba County."

Ba County was once set up as Jiangzhou, from the Han and Wei dynasties to the Northern and Southern Dynasties after hundreds of years, until the beginning of the Sui Kaihuang, with Chongqing water around the city, changed to Yuzhou, which is also the origin of Chongqing referred to as Chongqing, Chongqing, refers to the lower reaches of the Jialing River.

During Tang's brief control of Bashu, Yuzhou was subordinated to the Kuizhou Governor's Mansion and included in Shannan Province.

Then Great Qin defeated Li Tang and set the Han River and Badi as the Ba Han Road, and drew a single line. Ba County is connected to Jiannan Road in the west and Hubei Road in the east, occupying an important position node in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, so it is valued by the imperial court, and it is specially stationed in Bacheng, and there is even a special inland water division.

At the same time, with the help of the Yangtze River and the Western Han River, especially because Jiangling was still in the hands of Xiao Mo for the time being, the commercial center of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River was changed from Jiangling to Bacheng.

In particular, the opening of another important land trade route has made Bacheng the center of industry and commerce in the southwest. This land trade route goes north to Jincheng County by the Han River, goes west into Hanzhong County, and then goes north through Sanguan into Chang'an. From Jincheng County along the Han River, to the east to Xiangyang, Nanyang, and then to Chang'an, Luoyang, Jiangnan and other places.

From Bacheng to the south, it goes southwest to Ziyang County (Zizhong), Qianwei County (Yibin), and Shu County (Chengdu).

The southeast goes straight to Yelang County (Zunyi), lower Yunnan, and Guangnan.

Cunxiao entered Lijiang in Yunnan from Luoyang this time, that is, he first took the land route from Luoyang to Xiangyang in Nanyang, and then changed to take the boat to take the waterway, went up to Jincheng County along the Han River, and then went south to Tongchuan County by land, and then changed to the waterway to take the West Han River to Bacheng, and then went ashore in Bacheng to change the land route to go south to Yejun County, and then turned west to Lijiang.

Although it is necessary to constantly transfer by land and water, the road is generally smooth and very convenient.

"How do you feel that Bacheng is built on a mountain?" Cun Xiao asked.

Ba County is actually the same as Shu County, both are basins, but the Ba County Basin is not as large as the Shu County Basin, and Ba County is the confluence of two major rivers, so Ba County, which was built in the Qin period, was held at a strategic point and was chosen in this place where the terrain is not particularly good.

"There are many mountains in Bashu, but there are more mountains in Yunnan."

Cunxiao remembered that his fiefdom was under the Shenwai Dragon Snow Mountain, and it was estimated that it was even more mountainous than this.

"Let's go into the city and see if we can recruit a group of people here to go to Lijiang with me." Cunxiao looked at the fleet behind him, all the way from Luoyang, Cunxiao recruited ordinary craftsmen all the way, and also recruited scholars everywhere, which can be said to be all the way.

However, the effect is not very ideal, especially in the south area of Luoyang, the Central Plains is stable, most of the poor people have moved to the four sides, and the rest of the people are in good condition, and not many people are willing to go to Lijiang so far.

However, after entering Bahan, he recruited some more people, and the situation here is even worse, but some people are very moved to hear his conditions.

Cunxiao plans to recruit some more people in Bacheng, and by the way, he will purchase another batch of materials and commodities needed from here. It would be better if we could negotiate some cooperation with local trading houses and pull them to their own fiefdoms to develop.

Ships docked, and the docks were busy.

As soon as Cun Xiao jumped off the boat, someone came over on the dock.

But it was a green-robed official with a team of red-robed soldiers.

"The lower officials pay a visit to the king of Lijiang."

Cunxiao was a little surprised, "Something?" ”

"Xiaguan Li Cheng is the post man of Jiangjin Station, and there is an order from the court to be forwarded to the king."

I have checked my identity and received the official document.

After Cunxiao saw it, his brows furrowed.

The order came from Chang'an, but it was issued by the Political Affairs Hall, asking him to speed up his journey and arrive at the fiefdom of Lijiang as soon as possible, and not to delay on the road.

This tone made him puzzled.

"Has anything happened in the court recently?" Cun Xiao asked.

Li Yicheng shook his head.

"There should be an up-to-date newspaper at the inn, right? Bring me all the newspapers of the last month. "Cun Xiao said politely.

The post station seemed to be a little embarrassed, but he didn't dare to resist, and finally had to respond.

Cunxiao went directly to the post station with the post station, he read all the newspapers issued in the past month, mainly Oriental News, Luoyang Daily, etc., these big newspapers have a wide circulation, although Bacheng is the southwest border, but each issue is also sent along the post station, one issue is a lot.

After reading it carefully, Cunxiao's brows furrowed even tighter.

Liu Xun is a staff member recruited by Cunxiao in Nanyang, he was originally Xiao Miao's servant, and later saw that Xiao Liang was still fighting in a corner of peace, so he simply hung up his crown and returned to his hometown in Nanyang. When Cunxiao passed by, he specially visited him, hoping to be able to serve as his staff. It happened that Liu Xun was also depressed because he was in his hometown, so he agreed to go to Yunnan with him to have a look.

"What is the king's concern?"

"Something happened to the court, to be exact, the emperor had an accident."

Cunxiao looked through the newspapers of the last month, and sensitively noticed many things.

The emperor has not appeared for a long time, and in the past, if the emperor attended any important ceremonies or events, or said any important will, it would be published in the newspapers, and even where the emperor went on a safari and played polo, it would be reported. But during this time, the emperor did not have any news at all.

Combined with the fact that the crown prince recently went to Chang'an from Luoyang and became the regent of the country, it is even more strange.

In this regard, there was only one sentence in the newspaper, the emperor was sick, and he was recuperating in the palace, so that the prince would be the regent of the country, and the prime ministers would assist.

Coupled with the will he received as soon as he arrived in Bacheng, and then there was a series of princely teachings issued by the prince after he arrived in Chang'an as regent and supervised the country.

Amnesty for the world, rewarding hundreds of officials, and dividing all the kings of the clan in one go, and letting them immediately surrender to the domain, all of this reveals many anomalies.

Liu Xun pondered for a long time, and then said in a shocking voice, "Could it be that Your Majesty has died?" You see that the teachings after the crown prince's regency are very similar to the will of the new emperor after he ascended the throne. ”

Cun Xiao was stunned.

"The emperor died? How is it possible, the emperor is still so young, even if the emperor really dies, he will definitely tell the world as soon as possible? ”

"King, there is a word called secret mourning!"

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