Time pushed back to half a month, when Emperor Lu was inspecting the Huai River in Sizhou, Huainan, in the city of Jingzhou in the land of Yanjing, Guo Yaoshi had an open and honest conversation with Hui Libao, Yelu Dashi, etc.

Helplessly. That Hua Rong's army is ready to go, but Jingzhou City can no longer stay. Although Guo Yaoshi felt that it was a scourge to return to the tens of thousands of Khitan soldiers and Xi soldiers in the Ministry of Protection, the good time to do it had been missed - the news of Emperor Tianzuo had already reached Jingzhou, so there was no need to worry about it anymore.

Emperor Hengzhu Tianzuo is an incompetent fool, even if there are more than 10,000 descendants, he can't turn the sky upside down.

"Ming people don't say dark words, Guo had a little bit of a heart that he shouldn't have earlier. However, Ma Wudu unified and surrendered the Qi army, His Royal Highness the King of Wei and Marshal Dezhongdu surrendered, and the descendants of Taizu were like this, and the two An can condemn me on this? ”

"The pharmacist thinks that he is loyal to Da Liao." What Guo Yaoshi said was not false at all, and he fought bloody battles with the Jurchen soldiers, which everyone in the world knew and saw.

"This time His Majesty's news came to Jingzhou, and the pharmacist reined in from the precipice, and there was no trace of the idea of descending to Qi. Otherwise, why is it that today, there are no soldiers in Jingzhou? "His control over his men and horses is obvious.

"To invite the two generals to meet them today is really to open their hearts and be open and honest. Yanjing is about to move, the Qi army is about to come, our army is fighting or leaving and has no decision, and the inside is wary of each other, and they don't trust each other. Therefore, today I will talk to the two of you, just to release the past suspicions! ”

Pharmacist Guo is really eloquent.

Hui Libao and Yelu Dashi glanced at each other, and naturally they didn't fully believe in Guo Yaoshi in their hearts, but on the surface, they both made a look of wishing to return. And the two of them are conceited, so if Guo Yaoshi has a trace of antirighteousness, the inner end of Jingzhou City will not be like this.

Immediately, the three of them gathered together and talked about Jingzhou.

Then Libao and Yelu Dashi naturally tend to go, they have no foreign aid here, no strong city to rely on, and if they don't go, they will fight to the death? At this point in Jingzhou, the men and horses fought hard with the Qi army, and the eggs just touched the stones.

And although Emperor Tianzuo has regained momentum, his army mostly relies on the assistance of Udiri, Mo Gefu and other departments, and he does not have many henchmen to rely on, and they are needed at this time. Now there are 20,000 cavalry troops in the city, and one of them is dead, which is a pity for the two.

Guo Yaoshi was also inclined to go, and said: "You should all hear about the revival of Your Majesty's army and the haunting of Monan. If our generation fights the King of Yiqin, restores Zhongjing and Shangjing, and welcomes His Majesty to return to the east, in order to revitalize, then according to the north of the Central Plains, the Great Liao State can be Zhongxing. ”

That Ah Gu was defeated in a battle outside Yanjing City, and how big the loss was, everyone here had a rough estimate in their hearts, after all, they were in Yandi.

"Although the Jurchens are strong, they first defeated Yanjing, and then defeated the Sanggan River, and the main force was gone. Now we are waiting for the restoration of the homeland of Daliao, and the call of Beijing and Zhongjing will be echoed, so why should the people of that generation be afraid! ”

At that time, the 20,000 cavalry in Jingzhou City was clean, and by the time the report of the Yanjing Left-behind Division was sent to Emperor Lu of Yangzhou, Yelu Dashi had already led 2,000 cavalry to the north to attack Zezhou successfully.

The virgin Jurchen soldiers only stuck to drink and led a small number of people to camp in Dading Mansion, and the 20,000 Liao troops went north, but the tigers broke into the flock. When Emperor Lu received the report from Yanjing, Yelu Dashi led people to seize Yuzhou.

There are only 100 miles left from the old Liaozhong Jing Dading Mansion.

Hui Libao led his troops to the west to capture Bei'anzhou, and then went north along the Luan River, and then along the dividing line between Xijing Road and Shangjing Road, all the way west to find Emperor Tianzuo.

In the history of this time and space, Emperor Tianzuo, who lost Yanyun, took his exit from the mountain as the dividing line, and the subsequent Great Liao was not recognized by historians as the Great Liao, but as the Northern Liao.

It's like Li Qianshun, the party item after losing Xingqing Mansion, then Xixia is no longer Xixia, but a party item.

Specifically, Emperor Tianzuo is still stronger than his son-in-law Li Qianshun. After the latter was lost in Xiliang Mansion, he completely lost contact with the remnants of the Bei Dang led by Brother Richard, and the vast Gobi and the desert cut off the connection between Xuanhua Mansion [Ganzhou] and Helan Mountain.

Its existing power and strength are only left in Xuanhuafu, Suzhou, Guazhou, and Shazhou. It's like a dying little flame, which may be extinguished by the wind blown by the flower monk at any time.

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Emperor Lu rested for two days in Yangzhou City. The emperor was set in Tianning Temple.

This is a temple with some years and origins, which was built in the first year of Wu Zetian's Zhengsheng (695), and was originally called "Zhengsheng Temple" after the name of the year.

Not only in Yangzhou, but also in the entire Central Plains. In the fifth year of the Northern Song Dynasty Zhenzong Dazhong auspicious symbol, Zhengsheng Temple was renamed "Xingjiaoyuan". In the second year of the great artist Zhenghe, that is, two years before Emperor Lu crossed, he was given the name "Tianning Temple". At the same time, 50,000 yuan was allocated for the repair and renovation of the temple.

It's been less than a decade. The Zen room in the courtyard is still new, the courtyard is also deep, Emperor Lu went to Yangzhou, and he went straight to stay here.

Yangzhou City is still the first county in Huainan, although the current Huainan provincial capital was set by Emperor Lu in Huai'an, which was earlier Chuzhou. The place is at the eastern end of Hongze, where the canal, Huaishui and Surabaya meet. But the prosperity of Yangzhou has not been diminished because of this.

Yangzhou is the entrance to the North Canal, and as mentioned above, Zhao and Song Dynasty opened four canals for Tokyo, which is dominated by the Huaibian canal, which is responsible for the grain of the six southeast roads. The millet of Huai Bian flows into Huaishui from the south of the Yangtze River and enters Tokyo through Bianshui, and this canal is still not abandoned today.

At the same time, it runs through Huainan to the north, communicates Qilu, and even Emperor Lu will follow the monuments of the Sui and Tang Canals in the coming year to re-excavate the canal section north of Jishui. In the 21st century, maritime transport is far from replacing rail.

——In the eyes of Emperor Lu, today's inland river transportation is a bit of a railway transportation in later generations compared with land transportation.

Therefore, this Yangzhou city cannot be left horizontally and vertically. Only one communication with the North China Grand Canal determines its lower limit, and no matter how low it is, it can't reach Yangzhou in later generations.

Huainan Governor Zong Ying naturally accompanied the royal car, and also settled in Tianning Temple. When Emperor Lu patrolled the river defense in Huainan, Zong Ying must follow, and his role and cost of river defense and river work in various places also came with his mouth open, and all kinds of numbers were like a few treasures. Emperor Lu was very satisfied.

No one wants their feudal officials to be deceived and deceitful? Since Zong Ying took office in Huainan, she has been very effective in internal affairs.

In a partial courtyard of Tianning Temple, the father and son of the Zong family live here. Zong Ze is not only the important minister of Suihu, not only the second mascot that Emperor Lu wants to bring to Jiangnan, but the first mascot is of course Fang Jinzhi, he is also Zong Ying's father. Zong Ying is still his only remaining young son.

If Emperor Lu waved his hand, after Zong Ying drove with him, he would let him be with Zong Ze, which could be regarded as reuniting his father and son.

"Your Majesty, the Shanghai and Hong Kong departments are all well prepared, and Chen Wenzhao, the governor of Jiangnan, has written to ask for a meeting."

Emperor Lu, who had just had breakfast, was about to call for someone to summon Zong Ze Zong Ying and the important ministers accompanying him to continue to discuss the future of the salt industry. When he went south, there was no word on the articles of association, but when he arrived in Yangzhou, in the face of the rapid decline of Huainan salt merchants, he could not help but face up to the huge impact of the new salt drying method on China's salt industry.

Without the Yellow River seizing the Huai into the sea, the coastline of northern Jiangsu in the next few hundred years will certainly be very different from the coastline of northern Jiangsu in the new century. After all, the sediment content of the Huai River is far from comparable to that of the Yellow River. Before the Yellow River seized the Huai River into the sea, the main stream of the Huai River was wide and deep, and there was no embankment along the Huai River. After the Yellow River seized the Huai River waterway, it was not long before the Huai River estuary in Yuntiguan in Lianshui County was flattened with rolling sediment.

By the time the Yellow River was diverted from Shandong to the sea in the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1855), Yuntiguan was already 1450 miles away from the sea. So what's the concept? Later China shrunk more than 100 miles inward along the coastline of northern Jiangsu!! It's shocking.

And why did the salt merchants of the Ming and Qing dynasties concentrate on Lianghuai in history? That is because the sediment brought by the Yellow River accumulates along the coastline little by little, and at the same time, it also forms a vast reed swing in the coastal areas of northern Jiangsu.

In Chinese history, sea salt was cooked by decoction, and the cost of fuel determined that only two Huai could be the best sea salt in the world. The Changlu salt field in northern Hebei is inferior after all. Because there are endless reeds here as fuel, this is like the ground fire frying salt in the Zigong salt field in central Sichuan, which directly involves the cost of salt. But now the art of drying salt has been widely spread in the north and south of the river, which makes the Huainan salt merchants lose their biggest support.

With the skill of drying salt, even the warm, humid and rainy Lingnan land can also produce a large amount of salt. In the past one or two years, in a short period of time, the price of salt in China has been declining step by step, constantly declining. The price of salt in the whole country has generally fallen to around one catty and eight cents, and the price of salt in the state capitals close to the sea has fallen to one catty and five cents.

This was a heavy blow to the salt merchant group in Huainan Province.

And the contribution of this salt merchant group to Huainan Province is not small. As early as the Guo Yong era, when Yang Zhihe was still in Yangzhou, salt merchants and the salt industry were an accelerator for the revival of Huainan's economy, and they made contributions to Huainan. It's just that this contribution period seems to be too short, and in less than two years, the thriving Huainan salt merchants have suffered a cliff-like blow.

"Call Zongze Zongying and his son to come."

Emperor Lu's mood was interrupted, and he himself didn't have so many clever ideas to solve the troubles of the salt merchants in Huainan, and he was thinking more about the entire salt industry. Everything in this world can't escape the words "survival of the fittest", and Huainan salt merchants are among them in his opinion.

Just like after the reform, a large number of iron rice bowls were smashed, and state-owned factories went bankrupt due to profits, which are all irreversible trends brought about by social changes. It's like when there were public-private partnerships, a large number of private companies were merged.

The father and son of the Zong family are all smart people, and as soon as they heard Chen Wenzhao asking to see him, he knew that Emperor Lu was going south. The day of the reunion of the father and son was coming to an end, and Zong Ying couldn't help but have a little red eyes, and Lu Qian's teeth were sour.

Lu Qian himself hadn't noticed the thoughts of the people below, but Zong Ze's father and son were very clear, because Zong Ying knew this best.

Everyone knows that the focus of Emperor Lu's southern tour is obviously in Jiangnan, just look at the two mascots Fang Jinzhi and Zong Ze. But even so, as the governor of the secondary Huainan land, he also led people to wait in Xiapi early, hoping that the landing emperor could come to Huainan as soon as possible.

In the same mentality, the emperor had already inspected the river defense and river workers in Huainan, but the imperial driver stopped in Yangzhou City, which is only one river away from the south of the Yangtze River, and it seemed that he had a few more plans to stay. So how not to make the officials, gentry, and businessmen in Jiangnan anxious?

At the beginning, the officials, gentry and businessmen in Huainan listened to where the emperor Lu was today, and summoned the local officials and village sages, or filial sons and grandchildren, or rural relics, and gave them any praise and appreciation, but they were all envious.

That is a great honor for Qilu's officials, civilians, and soldiers. But for the military and civilian circles in Huainan, they are envious, jealous and hateful.

Now that the highlight of Emperor Lu's southern tour is coming, how can all walks of life in the south of the Yangtze River, who have long been fully prepared, hope for a long drought?

Fang Jinzhi was also greeted by Lu Qian, and he was about to prepare to go south. The latter has gone through the "fighting monsters and upgrading" along the way, practice makes perfect, and he has long been familiar with Emperor Lu's routines.

Whenever Emperor Lu went to a place, he had to summon local civil and military officials, local gentry and celebrities, and even good businessmen, and also give a banquet to the local villagers. There are also retired wounded soldiers, bereaved families of military martyrs, and lonely old people in the favorable places......

As the empress, Fang Jinzhi's role is to meet with his wife, and if there is an official favored by Emperor Lu, Fang Jinzhi will take a high look at his wife. Then he summoned the good wives and mothers who were known in the local area, and they all gave praise and rewards according to their status. After that, he walked around the local charity hall and gave him different rewards.

In this way, the reputation of the emperor and queen duo is like the beginning of the text meeting the big seal push, which is a slump on the rise.

In fact, it's just a routine. Just because of the special status of the emperor and queen, such an ordinary routine can also play an extraordinary role - it is very, very popular.