The only catch in Nanxiong is to buy a large bag of local specialty apricots, which are a good snack after salting and drying. Several women were able to gnaw all day long

"I heard that the mountain people in the south are mostly known for their hardships and hard work, and they are good at climbing......"

After passing through Shixing County, I couldn't help but admire the footmen and miscellaneous servants who were carrying bags and carrying baskets in front of me and trekking on the mountain road, with thick black skin and thick bones, looking lean and lean.

"They're actually ...... It's all northerners......"

This is a windswept flag, with a certain sense of pride and strange connotations.

"Northerners? ……”

I was stunned for a moment, and then he explained it to me.

Of course, this northerner is not a northerner in the true sense, but a general exile in the Lingnei or the vast area of Lingbei, and it also accounts for a considerable proportion of the population base in the Southern Dynasties.

It is mainly the peasants who have lost their homes and the bankrupt people, so after arriving in Lingnan, they have nothing to do, so they can only sell their labor at the bottom of the society at a very low price and start struggling again;

Or simply sell themselves to the wealthy as tenants, but they also have to face professional competition in the outer feudal territories, with the feudal slave plantation economy as the main body.

Therefore, it is difficult to improve the salary, and it is impossible to compete with the locals for a limited upward path, except for conscription in the army and overseas development with a high mortality rate, most people can only be at the bottom of the society for a long time.

Over time, a unique social group was formed in addition to the traditional pluralistic social classes of the Southern Dynasties, including the native Chinese, the Tang people, the naturalized people and their descendants, and the old and new feudal slaves.

Although there have been changes and decreases over the years, this group has relied on a steady stream of Nantou people and has been tenaciously surviving.

At the beginning of the Southern Dynasty, these people from Nantou played a huge role in the development of the nine sea and land territories in the Southern Dynasty.

With only simple tools and the most inferior dietary conditions, the uninhabitable mountains and bad lands have been turned into villages and market towns where people are inhabited and chickens and dogs smell each other.

From the traditional Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, to the successive incorporation of Linyi, Shui, Lu Zhenla, the Queen's Kingdom, the Wendan Kingdom, and the Zhulin Kingdom. Their footprints and figures spread almost all over the Indochina Peninsula to the Bay of Bengal, which is adjacent to Nantianzhu, turning the former hegemon of the Southern Wilderness (the predecessor of ancient Burma) into a purely inland vassal state.

But on the other hand,

Because of the continuous influx of a large number of people in the North, while bringing prosperity and humanities to various industries, it also caused various social problems to the hinterland of the Southern Dynasties outside the mountains, and various unemployment and bankruptcy began to appear, so various restrictions and selection measures were taken for the population of Beitou later.

For example, some are accepted according to their wealth, some are accepted according to their knowledge and cultural process, and a certain number of seats are also accepted, mainly for strong laborers and young women, and as for others, they can only be resigned to fate.

Therefore, the remaining Nantou people are more likely to gather in the control area of the Wulu Recruitment Division, so in the soldiers and horses of the Wulu Recruitment Division and the garrison system, these soldiers and civilians with Beitou backgrounds also account for a large proportion.

Well, after listening to this result, I felt a little uncomfortable, not only did I stay in the north for a long time, but I also forgot the identity and habits of the Southern Dynasty. And there are also a lot of noble and glamorous investment immigration policies and green card cannon fodder in later generations, a certain sense of reality.

Feng Shuqi also remembered that I was nominally a northerner from Nantou, but I was appointed as the official of the Southeast Recruitment Department, and I had the most basic rank, but I was no longer within the scope of the four people of the traditional Shinong Industry and Commerce, and my expression was a little slight.

"Do you think you still need to care about the difference between the identities of the North and the South......

But I didn't care about it.

"After Nanxiong Pass, it is the hinterland of my beam......"

After returning to Lingnan, he seemed to have become more energetic and talkative.

"The national name of this dynasty, Da Liang, is based on the surname of the Liang Gong hundreds of years ago, and it is respected as the national name to commemorate it."

"In fact, the Son of Heaven of the current dynasty, as well as the shogunate princes in power, are all descendants of the Liang Dynasty, but the family branches are different."

Listening to him say this, there are some things in my memory that have begun to revive, such as being the eldest son of the Yaba clan, I have also learned some about the beginning and end of the establishment of the Southern Dynasty, and I have been exposed to some anecdotes that are only circulated in a small circle.

The origin of the establishment of the Southern Dynasty can be traced back to the Yiwei Rebellion, and the root of the Yiwei Rebellion is that Liang Gong retreated after his success, and the monarchs and ministers who relieved the world were at peace.

Because he left behind a behemoth called the Longwu family, which continued to maintain and permeate the political life of the Tang monarchs. This is the martial arts that he eventually developed with Emperor Xuanzong Xixing, gathered the rout into a remnant army, and finally developed a martial arts group, and the martial arts group in the sea.

Since the Western Xia, Nanhai and Gyeonggi Liang clans, the only ancestor Rong Ruo opened the mansion and established the curtain, and was the prime minister and privy councilor, in addition to several outstanding figures among the descendants of the Gyeonggi Liang clan,

As the spiritual leader of the overseas feudal clans, and the chief family in the already huge Longwu Army Group, he has suppressed the emperor for several generations, and even intentionally or unintentionally interfered and influenced the replacement of the throne.

Because the resources left by the ancestors are too good, there are always some children and grandchildren who are talented and not enough to settle down, and then they are coerced and bound by various interest groups, and become powerful ministers who encroach on the imperial power.

But there is always a boom and a fall in everything, and the Liang family's mastery in the court is not invulnerable, and the cyclical law of the rise and fall of the dynasty has also accumulated enough enemies and opponents for them. In particular, as the powerful people who are in power in fact, they can easily become the primary target of all kinds of hatred

As a result, in the Yiwei period, because of a certain prime of life Emperor Wenzong, because of the pill alchemy was not very violent, the guide zhì suddenly severed the throne in the game and compromise, he unintentionally gave birth to a middle two or crazy emperor, thinking that by killing the Liang family who controlled the government, he could rely on eating big households and reappear in Zhongxing.

Because he did not trust most of the troops in Gyeonggi, he secretly joined forces with Zhang Xun, one of the privy envoys, to bring in foreign troops and slaughter the powerful ministers, and the result was a complete collapse of the authority and order of the imperial court.

Not only did the Beijing army fall into all kinds of chaos and internal strife, but even among the foreign armies, there were also town troops and rotational garrison troops from Shandong, Shanxi, Longyou, Hexi, Beiyuan, Yunzhong, Jiannan and other foreign provinces.

It was not until the overseas coalition army led by Lingnan Zhudao entered indiscriminately under the banner of Xingshi Qingjun's side that the chaotic situation of foreign troops taking turns to enter Beijing to fight soy sauce ended, and then the emperor went northwest to the north to hunt, and counterattacked back with the help of the border army and the Jiezhen system

One side protects the emperor, the other side wants to eliminate the traitorous party, both sides are under the banner of the orthodox origin of the Longwu Army, so the history is called the Longwu War, or the battle of the Eastern Army and the Western Party,

With the destruction of the Liang clan in Kyoto as the fuse, the princes of the South China Sea, who had intensified the contradictions with the central dynasty, formed a coalition revenge war, and then the princes and jiezhen from the northern grasslands and the northwest region still supported the orthodoxy of the Li Tang Dynasty, and then in the tug-of-war, the rich Guannai was beaten into white ground.

Then, after the coalition of overseas princes conquered Chang'an, they scattered in internal strife after being burned and plundered, and the scattered overseas coalition forces each occupied a piece of territory in the coastal areas and the vast areas south of the Huai River, and played a long proxy war of the nature of horizontal and vertical lines.

Having said that, the establishment of the Southern Dynasty was due to years of business and heritage, and the Gyeonggi Liang clan was not completely severed, and there were still male members who escaped.

So as the most powerful faction, and the nominal head of the overseas vassals, the contemporary head of the Liang family in the South China Sea, made an astonishing decision, he refused the persuasion and dedication of all parties, supported and supported the only surviving survivor of the Liang clan of Jingshi, and ascended the throne as the new emperor in Guangzhou, the country name Daliang, the first year of Yongjia, known as the Zhengding Dynasty, the history of the Southern Dynasty, the Southern Liang, Lingliang.

Then form a coalition to swear to the Northern Expedition,

Emperor Zhengding, the survivor of the Yiwei Change, the only living male of the Jingshi Liang clan, came to the Lingnan Zhudao that had been controlled by the Nanhai Governor's Office.

Naturally, he became the leader of the coalition of the princes of the Northern Expedition, relying on the strength of one person, and was stunned in a coalition army with mixed good and bad and chaotic people's hearts.

In the opinion of the official textbook approved by the Domain, the standard.

This military operation, known as the Yongkang Northern Expedition, dealt a great blow to the rotten Tang regime, almost all the way to the momentum, the coalition army has occupied Xijing Chang'an, along the way the military towns all expressed surrender and offered hostages, seeing that the Yuan was almost about to be successfully changed, as the largest backing of the Northern Expedition Liang in the South China Sea, but there was a discordant voice, all kinds of grain and grass and support began to be poor.

As to what to do next, there are also deepening differences within the coalition forces, with those advocating continued westward expansion, those advocating local operations, those advocating going north to consolidate the borders, and those advocating the eastward expedition to recover the Central Plains, and hundreds of thousands of allied troops of the princes of the South China Sea, because of their respective interests and propositions, showing a trend of splitting.

Things got out of control even further, because they were dissatisfied with the expected benefits and the division of territory, and indulged their subordinates to burn, kill, and plunder, which greatly discouraged the people, and the military and civilian people who originally had expectations for the reform of the Yuan Dynasty and Dingxin turned away from morality, but Emperor Zhengding could only symbolically punish the relevant military commanders from a formal symbolic perspective.

Emperor Zhengding, who was running to maintain the unity of the coalition army, suddenly died violently in the army, and the coalition forces were in chaos, competing with suspicion, and accusing each other of being murderers and killing endlessly.

After wasting a month, when the vanguard of the army of King Qin in the northwest entered the pass, he was faced with a group of coalition troops who were greatly injured, and the camp was full of injuries and diseases, everyone wanted to return, and many princes' troops also gave up on themselves and wantonly burned and plundered.

The dragons have no leader, each disobeys the people, and has no intention of continuing to consolidate the existing territory and power, so they have to act separately and fight for return, and finally even the military towns and cities along the way have turned their faces repeatedly.

In the case of a chasing army in front and a volley in the back, the great retreat, known as the difficulty of Wuji, became a terrible road of death, and in the thousand-mile journey from Guannai to Jinghu, only a few were able to return to Lingnan in the end.

The coalition army, known as the 200,000 Northern Expedition, is less than 23 out of 10 in the mountains and outside the mountains.

Another consequence of this fiasco was that almost every household lost a generation of children of the South China Sea princes, who were secretive about it, and although there were calls for the Northern Expedition, there were few responders.

On the other hand, out of the bitter lesson of fighting deep inland, they prefer to fight in areas they are familiar with, close to the coast and rivers and water transport, and then use guò control zhì and support, agents of local regional forces, to achieve their own goals and interests.

Although he was nominally severely punished, dozens of commanders of the Liang clan in the South China Sea who were the first to abandon the retreat of the coalition army, the damage to the appeal and prestige of the Liang clan in the South China Sea was incalculable.

When the army was raised again to resist the enemy who invaded outside the mountains, only some small and medium-sized lords and princes who were deeply bound to the Liang clan, or who were politically subordinate and dependent, had to make corresponding gestures.

Liang Yuanping, the head of the family who supported the Northern Expedition and was known as the Duke of the Kingdom, died of depression, and a fierce power struggle broke out within the Liang family. It is also rumored that this is the price of betraying and betraying Emperor Zhengding.

The new capital of Guangzhou is full of rumors, and the wealthy and powerful compete to seize ships to go to sea, rushing to the other side and even the distant domain of Annan, and there is also the hinterland of the Liang family's nest in the South China Sea on the other side of the construction and relocation of the capital - Qiongzhou.

However, after all, the Liang family is the largest domain in the South China Sea, and it has produced many talents for many years, and the civil strife did not last long before it was eliminated by the division from Annam.

The successor head of the family, Liang Chengye, the general of the first shogunate, entrusted a generation of outstanding people, not only stabilized the basic plate of the Lingnan provinces where the hearts of the people were scattered, but also personally led the division of Xinmu, and once pushed the battle line back to the front line of Fujian-Liangze, Jiangxi-Jinghu, and Badong-Shuzhong.

Although it was quickly lost, but also preserved the land of Lingnan, Lingwai has never heard of the fire since then, and the descendants relied on the important place he held in Lingbei to go out and slowly map north, and under the long-term infiltration and invasion, there is now a pattern of five ways to recruit the division

Of course, there are also conspiracy theories circulating in later generations that the final success of the so-called Yongjia Great March was the establishment of the first shogunate Liang clan as the master, and the authoritarian means of killing people with swords not only reduced the radical faction in the family, but also greatly consumed the power and resources accumulated by the princes of the sea domain for several generations, so that they had to bow their heads and hand over the relatively independent three powers of military levy, wealth, and punishment, and became part of the relatively stable shogunate system.

This kind of conspiracy theory was once very marketable, and became the origin of many opposition forces in the history of the so-called centralized monarchy, the Guanghua Party, or the retro-feudal Restorationists, and even the Unification faction and the Zhengding Society.

The reconstruction of the Lingnan court dominated by the Liang clan in the South China Sea, in order to commemorate the Zhengding Emperor who led the Northern Expedition, and elected his widow to succeed as the new monarch, and established a set of virtual monarch shogunate regency system, which has continued to this day for 11 generations and more than 100 years of history.