After staying in Chang'an for half a month, Liu Zhi finally resigned from Li Shimin, Li Shimin symbolically retained, made a gesture, said something like take care all the way, be safe all the way, and then let him go, Li Shimin has a lot of things on his side recently, and the news that Li Xiaogong broke the Western Liang army and captured Xiao Milling in the south reached the capital, which immediately caused an uproar. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The news of this victory came too timely, when they were blocked in Hedong and forced in Tongguan, Li Xiaogong was able to take the lead in breaking the deadlock in the south and taking the rich and well-located Bashu, which was undoubtedly a shot in the arm for Li Tang.

The land of Guanzhong is actually somewhat similar to Sichuan, both are surrounded by mountains, and there is a fertile field in the middle.

Guanzhong is a dangerous place surrounded by Liupan Mountain, Qinling, Helan Mountain, Yinshan Mountain, Yellow River, all dynasties chose to establish the capital of Chang'an, the reason is nothing more than three points, one of them, the location of Chang'an is excellent, there are Hangu Pass, Tiger Prison Pass, Bishui Pass in ancient times, there are Tongguan, Xiaoguan, Wuguan, Sanguan and other dangerous places to protect, and in the face of nomads, there are Yinshan Mountains and Helan Mountains as barriers, the enemy's march route is limited, it is difficult to launch a surprise attack on Chang'an.

The second is that because Guanzhong is fertile for thousands of miles, there is fertile land to gather population, there is land and population, there can be food, there are soldiers, this is the key to the prosperity of the country, Gyeonggi region is very important to the whole country, Gyeonggi region must surpass other regions in terms of manpower and material resources, in order to ensure the stability of centralized power.

The third point is mainly the culture of Guanzhong, from the point of view of feng shui, Chang'an has purple gas from the east, the emperor's breath is the strongest, most of the dynasties in Chang'an, the capital of Chang'an, are prosperous, the Han Dynasty has achieved a strong dynasty for four hundred years, and the two Jin Dynasty have been disturbed for more than 100 years, and the war is endless, so that the northern land is lost, the country is weak, and there is such a thing as five chaos in China, so that the Han nation almost perished.

The terrain of Sichuan is similar to that of Guanzhong, here is a large basin, the same is a developed water system, fertile fields for thousands of miles, and the land is fertile, taking Bashu is equivalent to taking a big granary, an important logistics base, from now on, Li Tang's materials and personnel will be greatly improved, and the strength will be greatly improved, so this news is naturally a very exciting news for Li Tang.

However, when the people all over the city rushed to tell each other and were overjoyed, Li Shimin couldn't laugh.

The members of Moyu he sent were closed, Li Xiaogong was reluctant to see him after hearing that it was his Qin King's person, he also knew why the other party was unwilling to see his people, the other party didn't want to stick to his side, the prince's faction must have taken out some bargaining chips that he couldn't take out, otherwise Li Xiaogong's attitude would not change so quickly, although he used to be the prince Li Jiancheng's person openly and secretly, but at least on the surface he was still willing to deal with his side, but this time, Under the circumstance that he has achieved such great military exploits, he has torn the face that has been maintained between the two in the past.

Thinking about it carefully, Li Xiaogong's attitude is very revealing, and in the past few days, unexpectedly, the prince's side has actually died down, this matter has revealed a smell of conspiracy from the inside out, but when he entered the palace to see the Ninety-Five, he couldn't speak, Li Jiancheng rushed to hear the news, and then, the news of his secret return to Beijing has been exposed in the capital, so his advantage has been completely gone.

Li Shimin was very bored in his heart, so much so that he couldn't remember some of the little things he had explained before.

When he inadvertently turned over the information on the case one day, more than ten days had passed.

Boom!

Li Shimin smashed his fist on the desk, the tea spilled out, and several files were wet, he was so angry that he raised his hand and threw these things out in one go, several handmaidens were so frightened that they trembled and didn't dare to squeak, squatted on the ground and began to clean up.

"Liu Zhi! Hmph, you Liu Zhi, you hide it from me so hard! ”

Li Shimin gritted his teeth, repeatedly chanted the name in his mouth, and wanted to send someone to let Liu Wenjing come over several times, but he still didn't open his mouth after all.

After a long time, he suddenly thought of something, and sent a maidservant to summon a steward in the house, who had followed Liu Zhi and his party to many places in Chang'an.

"I've seen His Royal Highness King Qin!"

This was originally a daily greeting in the house, but at this time, in Li Shimin's ears, this title made him feel humiliated, glared at the principal fiercely, and then asked: "Do you remember the guests in the boarding house a few days ago!" ”

He actually had a little anger when he spoke, and the principal was a little apprehensive in his heart, I don't know why he asked about this matter, could it be that he neglected those distinguished guests and was sued by the other party? But it's not like it, although His Royal Highness King Qin came over a few times when they were there, but it seems that they are not very familiar with each other, so that when His Royal Highness started to get busy, he had gradually forgotten about these people, and he hadn't mentioned them for a long time, why did he suddenly mention it today?

Although he was very apprehensive in his heart, he still reacted at the first time and replied: "Your Highness Qiqi, your lower officials remember!" ”

Li Shimin saw that he still remembered these people, so he asked some questions, roughly where they had been, who they had seen, in fact, it was mentioned in that information, he was just making a confirmation at this time, generally speaking, the people under his hands, especially Mo Yu's people, are still very reliable, he doesn't need to doubt their ability to do things at all, but the people involved this time are very unusual, he is the pavilion master of Langya Pavilion, Li Shimin once went to Langya Mountain, But that time he was received by a child on the mountain, and as for the pavilion master Liu Zhi himself, he did not see it.

The intelligence of the lord of Langya Pavilion has a great reputation in the rivers and lakes, and someone gave him a title, called Qilin Genius (shamelessly plagiarized the title in the Langya list, after all, it is too troublesome to name something, everyone will forgive me, haha!) This person's ability is known to the world, and there are many people who want to get him, when Emperor Yang Guangdong of Sui Province toured, when he passed through Shanyang County, he wanted to envelop this person in, but unexpectedly angered this person, it is said that Yu Wenhua and the killing of the monarch are the decisions made after asking Ji Langya Pavilion.

Recently, there was news from Shandong, saying that the Sui army that was trapped in Shandong had safely evacuated Shandong with the help of Liu Zhi, so that Liu Heimin's hundreds of thousands of troops were empty, and a large number of warships were not grabbed.

Also, when he was fighting in Hedong, he once heard that there was a fierce general in Pei Ju's army, surnamed Li Mingjing, this person was very outstanding in strategy and courage, and when Pei Ju was dying, he was able to help him support a lone army of 100,000 people without breaking up, and finally he could successfully jump out of the encirclement, which is said to be the strategy of this Langya Pavilion.

Thinking about it like this, Li Shimin was angry and annoyed in his heart, angry that this person let go of Pei Ju's 100,000 army, and this time he went west, no need to ask is to go to Pei Ju's army, this is tantamount to doing the right thing with Tang Jun, how can he bear such a thing?

And the annoyance is that he really needs a strategist at present, an excellent strategist, and the current situation is very unfavorable to him, if he can have the pavilion master of Langya Pavilion to give advice for himself, then his current situation is definitely not like this.

Li Shimin thought for a while, and immediately went out and went to Shengye Fang.

Soon, a dozen knights left Chang'an City from Jinguangmen and headed west.

At this time, Liu Zhi and the three of them had already crossed Liupan Mountain, came to Pingliang, after here, in the west is the Tang Army's relatively empty place, but also the more dangerous place on the road, the group in Pingliang for a short rest, replenished food and water grass, these are prepared for livestock, drinking water for people has long been prepared.

At this time, the three of them were actually still within the scope of the Guanlong Counties, and in the Tang Dynasty, each place was a region, and in the Sui Dynasty, it was probably called the Hedong Counties and the Guanlong Counties! Liu Zhi doesn't care much about this, he can understand the map, but the error of this map is actually a bit big, and the mountains on the map are not very accurate, for example, they are already in the west of Liupan Mountain at this time, Pinggao City, the seat of Pingliang County, but the Pinggao City marked on the map is spent on the east side of Liupan Mountain, and I don't know if it was accidentally drawn wrong, or if this city has been relocated before?

Ancient mapping, and then without the help of satellite planes and other tools that can detect a wide range of tools, in fact, it is a very difficult thing, it is not difficult to draw the outline, but subdivided, it is a very difficult thing, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources, to investigate and summarize, people who can see the terrain may not be able to draw, people who can draw may not understand the terrain, and there are not many people in ancient times after all, there is a little error in doing this thing, it is also very normal, As for sending a large number of personnel to various places to explore, no one has the energy to do so in the troubled times at the moment.

A team of people had already entered Pinggao City at this time, and after seeing the prosperous cities of Chang'an and Luoyang, Liu Zhi had little interest in these remote towns.

Although Pinggao City is the county of Pingliang County, but this city can only be regarded as a small city, the city wall is not very tall, some places are still very old, it is said that the Turks have been here a few years ago, but they have not crossed Liupan Mountain, and they have retreated when they hit Pinggao City, and the city has not been beaten down, but affected by this, many people have moved their families to Guanzhong for refuge, most of them are in this area of their own land, go to Guanzhong, it is unlikely that they will be reassigned to the land, so they either go to their relatives, or go to the landlord's house to rent land and plant, Or just do a little business in the capital to support yourself.

Most of those who have the ability to go are those with better family conditions, and those who can't go, those who stay are the most pitiful.

Pinggaocheng population is not much, the old people seem to be more, young adults and children have not seen much, of course, this era is not the aging of the population, cruel natural conditions plus various diseases and the impact of war, the average life expectancy of the population is actually very low, the Sui and Tang dynasties before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the number of people is not much, the average life expectancy is also low, only less than 20 years old, which died young, starved, died of disease, died of natural disasters and man-made disasters, or the war affected the death of the population is very large, This is how the average life expectancy was pulled down, and in order to maintain the transmission of the population, the age of marriage for men and women in ancient times was very early, women had to marry at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and men could marry at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

Many people may not believe it, but in ancient China, the average life expectancy of the population was very low, and in the Xia and Shang periods, the average life expectancy of the population did not exceed 18 years; The Western Zhou and Qin and Han dynasties made slight progress, but they were only 20 years old; In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was further improved, reaching the age of 22; The powerful Tang Dynasty, due to the social and economic development, and the relatively small number of wars in the first 100 years, the life expectancy of the population increased a lot, reaching 27 years old; In the Song Dynasty, the level of medicine improved, the economy developed a lot, and the development of the south increased the grain production a lot, so the average life expectancy increased by three years, reaching 30 years; From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the average life expectancy of the population did not increase during this period, but decreased a lot, especially in the Yuan and Mongolian periods, due to iron control and forced conversion of cultivated land into grassland, a large number of people were starved to death.

In the Qing Dynasty, the average life expectancy of the population actually increased a lot, especially during the Kangxi to Qianlong periods, the phenomenon of land annexation was slightly alleviated, and the average life expectancy of the population once exceeded 40 years old, but because of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, coupled with the later Opium War and other factors, the life expectancy of the later population increased to no more than 33 years; Before liberation, it was 35 years old. After the liberation, according to the survey in 1957, the average life expectancy of the people finally increased to 57 years old, which was caused by many factors, one is because of the end of the war, and the agrarian revolution made most of the people have been allocated land, not easy to starve to death, there is no war in the country, even millions of bandits have been wiped out, so the number of accidental deaths has declined sharply, and due to the progress of medical technology, the infant mortality rate, the premature mortality rate, and the maternal mortality rate have decreased a lot. Measures such as mosquito and fly prevention and control have improved the public environment, and the emergence of primary medical stations has enabled any disease, especially infectious diseases, to be found when they appear, so the plague that killed and injured hundreds or even tens of thousands of people at every turn in ancient times has basically not appeared, and even if it appears, it can be quickly controlled, so the average life expectancy of the population has increased very quickly, in fact, the average life expectancy of the population of all countries in the world has increased significantly during this period, which is actually the dividend of war.

After the two world wars, especially in the Second World War, a large number of advanced drugs were born, such as bactericidal drugs antibiotics, sulfonamides, so that infections that could not be treated before can be effectively controlled, sulfonamides are relatively cheap, and it is not troublesome to make, which makes the grassroots medical care can be rapidly improved, of course, there are many other health drugs and a large number of medical workers' efforts.

When many people mention socialism and capitalism, they will yearn for capitalism, but in fact, many advantages of socialism have been selectively ignored, and there are many shortcomings, but it cannot be a reason to ignore the advantages. And because the people are standing from a relatively low angle, they can't see the whole picture of things clearly, and they are easily confused by this kind of public opinion orientation, they are easily emotional, and they are easy to be restrained by the public opinion orientation of capital, which is a very dangerous thing, and the populism on the other side of the strait and the collapse of the Western democratic system may not be without these reasons.

Far away...... (To be continued.) )