Chapter 067: The Middle Capital City
In this era, the lack of food and drink can be overcome, as long as you don't die of hunger or freezing, everyone feels nothing, because this is how the ancestors came over and are used to it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but the problem of being injured and having a child cannot be overcome, once anyone is sick, injured, pregnant, the rich can still ask for a doctor, the poor can only be treated with simple herbs, can survive to count luck, death is not a problem. At that time, not to mention serious doctors, who could understand some pharmacological knowledge, that was a demigod, a high-level person respected by everyone wherever he went, who dared to say that he would not get sick in his life.
Now, not only are there people who can cure diseases, but there are also a large number of people who will cure any disease, and they will not charge money, this is not a living bodhisattva. With these military doctors, whether it is the Royal Navy or the officials of the new government of the Great Song Dynasty, they will be accepted by the locals much faster. Coupled with fair trade and complementary materials, Zhigu Village has basically stabilized, and it cannot be said that it can completely control the people within dozens of miles around, and it can be regarded as a powerful force that has been partially recognized. More and more locals are willing to accept the government, which they don't know why, because they can get protection, benefits, and no excessive exploitation.
Of course, the garrison and the government of Zhigu Village are not blindly tolerated and compromised, if you respect me, I will respect you, and if you dare to grin at me, you will definitely slap me. It's not that there are no young people in the area, and it's not even less than in the south. Relatively speaking, the folk customs here are more vigorous, and they still retain the living customs of some northern nomads, who say little and are willing to use force to solve problems when they have nothing to do.
At this point, the Royal Navy is absolutely not intimidated, and they are better at dealing with the enemy with real swords and guns than the Huairou policy. If it weren't for the Imperial Government's repeated insistence that it could not be overly forceful as it had been in the case of other new colonies, they would not have been so eloquent. According to the usual style of the Imperial Army, it is standard operating procedure to use cannons and rifles to open the way, and to capture as many people as possible. Resist and suppress, with a strong empire as the backing, you can resist as much as you like, you can't kill in one year for two years, you can't kill in two years and the third year, you can't kill in this life, but you can also kill the next life.
So far, the empire has expanded so many places, and it is not unheard of that the people are more vigorous, and it seems that they have not been able to resist for more than a year. There are millions of people on Jawa Island, and now there are less than a million left, all of them are very docile, and I haven't heard of anyone daring to mention avenging their fathers for several years, this is a living example.
At this time, according to the local old people, the city of Beijing was built by the Jin people, whether it is really Hong Tao can not judge, the history of Beijing in his memory began from the Yuan Dadu, and there is no concept at all, and he has not been exposed to earlier information. As for whether the Beijing City built by the Jin people is the Beijing City of later generations, Hong Tao thinks it may be reliable, because Beijing at this time is called Zhongdu Daxingfu, which is more than 100 kilometers away from Zhigu Village, and the direction is north-west, and the approximate location and distance are similar to those of later generations. Moreover, the place name of Daxingfu has the same name as a district in Beijing in later generations, so it is not possible to pass it down from this time. Of course, this is Hong Tao's speculation, and he doesn't know whether it is or not.
After destroying the Liao State and the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin people occupied the Central Plains region, and immediately felt that this place was really good, and it was very comfortable to stay. But when I looked at the map, I found a big problem. What's the problem? It's too far from the capital.
The capital of the Jin Kingdom is in the Baichengzi area of Acheng City, Heilongjiang Province, which is not far from the Central Plains. If you catch up with older people, this meeting is estimated to be the last meeting in your life, and you can't come back, which is too detrimental to long-term peace and stability.
Wan Yanliang, the fourth emperor of the Jin State, decided to build another capital after the Song Dynasty and the Liao State. Choosing and choosing, weighing and weighing, I think it is more suitable for Yanjing. It is not too far from the original capital, and it is relatively close to the Central Plains, so it is suitable for both ends. So it was designated as the new capital, mobilized nearly a million migrant workers, and was built in less than three years. Since then, the original capital has been called Shangjing Huining Mansion, and the newly built capital is called Zhongdu Daxing Mansion, which is the Gada of Beijing in the later generations.
Later, the Jin State learned from the Liao State that it killed, and also got five capitals, namely Beijing Dading Mansion (this Beijing is not the Beijing of later generations, but the meaning of Kyoto in the north, which is roughly located in the territory of Inner Mongolia Balin Left Banner); Liaoyang Prefecture, Tokyo; Kaifeng Mansion, Nanjing; Xijing Datong Mansion. The central capital of Daxing is the official capital, and the other four capitals are all accompanying capitals.
The original Dading Mansion in Shangjing was demolished by the emperor, not only the original capital was demolished, but even the ancestral tomb of the emperor's family was relocated and moved to Dafang Mountain in the west of the central capital for reburial. It seems that this emperor is also a ruthless person, in order to let those people in the Jin Kingdom who hold on to their hometown die and go home, and take the Central Plains as their home steadfastly, he really set an example.
As soon as the name Dafangshan was mentioned, Hong Tao was more confident that the location of the central capital at this time was closer to the location of Beijing in later generations. Fangshan is also a district of Beijing in the later generations, and it is indeed in the west of Daxing District, which is only more than ten kilometers away, and it is reasonable to estimate from the distance.
Once the two place names of Daxing and Fangshan are determined, Hong Tao can roughly outline the position of the central capital city in Beijing, which should be in the southwest corner of Beijing in the later generations, slightly staggered by about ten kilometers. Whether this is the case or not, you have to take a look at it on the spot, find the relevant place names and markers nearby, and maybe you can outline the specific direction more accurately. Even if you can't find it, it doesn't matter, it's about the same, Hong Tao didn't come here to dig the ancestral grave, it's a few kilometers away, it's just a thought, and it's solid at a glance.
"This is the Middle Capital!?" After three more days of walking north from the port of Tianjin, led by a few local guides, a tattered city wall finally appeared in Hong Tao's telescope, and then he was deflated. The city is finished, but the big one is quite big, but the whole city is basically in ruins, and there are no relatively complete tall buildings to be seen, just like the demolished construction site.
"The Prime Minister was angry, when the Mongols came, they fought here for many days, and many people died, and after the city was broken, the city was burned down with a fire. The inhabitants of the city have fled from death to death, and over the years, people have slowly returned to live, and by the way, they have planted land on the edge of the city. "The leader of the guide is a middle-aged man with the surname of Ilgen Kyoro. His ancestors are from the Jin Kingdom, but the maternal line is Han, and there is a Han name called Zhao An.
"Alas, my life is not good, I wanted to pick up a bargain, but I didn't expect to have to help others clean up the mess. If this is rebuilt, it is estimated that the construction waste will not be cleaned up in three or five years. Hong Tao didn't even have the interest in going into the city to see at this time, he originally planned to use the foundation of the capital of the Jin Kingdom to make a new city with a little change, but he didn't expect the plan to catch up with the changes, such a large ruin, basically has no use value. Not only is it useless, but if you want to build a new city here, you have to clean up the ruins first, which increases the difficulty.
"Your Excellency wants to build a castle here?" Zhao An somewhat understood the meaning of this old man with short hair but no beard and strange clothes, it is said that this is a big official in the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and the entire Zhigu Village is his subordinate. Along the way, I also pondered, such a big official has nothing to do and enjoys the glory and wealth in the south, why did he have to go to this bitter cold place to wander around, it turned out that he was here to build a city.
"Pretty much. Zhao An, you said that if I build a city here, are you happy or unhappy? Anyway, the opportunity to steal and play tricks was gone, Hong Tao simply didn't rush to hurry, got off the horse and walked forward slowly, chatting with the leader of the guide by the way, and feeling their attitude towards the new policy.
"My lord, what you said is a big deal, how can a small person like us understand so much." Zhao An did not answer Hong Tao's question directly.
"If you don't understand, you have to have an attitude, if no one says anything, then I will feel that you are not opposed, but if the time really starts work, whoever jumps out again will be too late to say irresponsible things, not only can not get my approval, but also have to become my enemy. So, it's better to have something to say in front, don't think about what others think, just talk about your own thoughts. There is no difference between right and wrong, just chat casually. Hong Tao didn't believe that Zhao An had no idea, the more he didn't want to say it, the more he wanted him to say it.
"My lord, you are a good person, and you are fair to people and things, so I will say more. It's not a bad thing that you're building a city here, but in the end, I'm afraid no one will be happy. Zhao An and Hong Tao stayed together for a few days, and felt that Hong Tao, a big official, was very pleasing to the eye, since he had to say it, then talk about it, but this mouth is not a good word.
"Can you tell me why everyone is upset?" Hong Tao didn't want to listen to other people's praise, what he needed to listen to was opinions, whether it was right or not, there was no harm in listening more.
"Servitude! My lord, you must recruit young people in the vicinity to build a city, and building a city is not a small task, and it may not be completed for several years. I have heard from the older generation that when the city was first built, it used almost a million people, half of whom were soldiers and the other half were ordinary people. Just pulling rammed earth from Zhuojun to here took a full 100,000 people to step on a big road. You said that the city was built, but the big guys couldn't live in it, and they delayed their harvest in vain, and they had to die on the construction site, who would be willing to do it. It's not that I'm telling you nonsense, once the news of the city's construction is spread, the people in this vicinity will probably have to flee. Zhao An is not taboo, he can say whatever he thinks, and it is reasonable, and even the examples of the previous dynasty when the city was built have been cited.
(To be continued.) )