Chapter 386: Zhang Quanyi, an expert in farming
Speaking of Zhang Quanyi, in Li Bao's impression, this Zhang Quanyi, he is definitely a well-known figure in the late Tang Dynasty and the early Five Dynasties!
When it comes to officialdom, the two most familiar sentences are "accompanying the king like a tiger" and "once a son of heaven and a courtier". "Political tumblers" like "old ministers of the three dynasties" will always make people talk about and worship. However, compared to Zhang Quanyi, it is all floating clouds!
What is the "Old Minister of the Three Dynasties"? Zhang Quanyi is an "old minister of the Four Dynasties"! - This "Four Dynasties" is not the "Dynasty" of "the Son of Heaven", but the "Dynasty" of the "Dynasty"!
Huang Chao proclaimed himself emperor, established the Great Qi regime, and Zhang Quanyi served as the secretary of the ministry and the water transport envoy.
After surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Quanyi was appointed to Henan Yin and Dongdu to stay behind.
Zhu Wen established the Great Liang, and Zhang Quanyi served as the envoy of the Heyang Festival and was crowned the king of Wei.
Li Keyong's son Li Cunqiao shoveled the Liang Dynasty and "restored" the Tang Dynasty (known as the "Later Tang Dynasty") in history, Zhang Quanyi served as the queen's godfather, Zhongshu Ling, Henan Yin and led Heyang, and was crowned the king of Qi.
More importantly, Zhang Quanyi has never been subjected to any form of "liquidation", and he died of illness at the age of 75, which was a natural death. This is definitely a natural death in the five dynasties of the late Tang Dynasty, when there were many murders and countless deaths and injuries of high-ranking officials and dignitaries:
It's a miracle!
The officialdom is sinister, and it is not easy to become a "political tumbler". Some have unlimited scenery in life and are ruined after death; There are also those who were repeatedly persecuted during their lifetimes and rehabilitated after their deaths.
Throughout the ages, this kind of thing is not uncommon, and we have become accustomed to it. How did Zhang Quanyi, who was in troubled times, create this miracle?
In Li Bao's opinion, if Zhang Quanyi has any unique secrets, it is nothing more than six words: shameless, hit the luck!
Luck, it's hard to say, it's yours to bump into it, and you deserve to be unlucky if you can't bump into it. As the so-called "do your best, obey the destiny of heaven", Zhang Quanyi's "personnel" can only be "shameless".
"Shameless" is Zhang Quanyi's housekeeping skill, and the two things that impress Li Bao the most can be glimpsed.
The first thing is his name. Zhang Quanyi's original name was Zhang Yan (one said Zhang Juyan), and he was given the name "Quanyi" after defecting to the government army. After Zhu Wen became emperor, he gave him the name "Zongzao". Li Cunqiao shoveled out the Houliang and nominally raised the banner of "Tang Dynasty", Zhang Quanyi "judged the situation and took the initiative to change it back to "Quanyi".
The second thing happened in the post-beam period. In the second year of Qianhua (912), Zhu Wen returned from the expedition, passed through Luoyang, and lived in Zhang Quanyi's mansion for more than ten days. During this period, the old pervert Zhu Wen raped Zhang Quanyi's wife and daughter, so unhappy!
It's such a bully! Zhang Quanyi's son Zhang Jizuo was about to kill Zhu Wen to vent his anger. Unexpectedly, Zhang Quanyi actually tried his best to stop him, and educated his son seriously: "I was surrounded by Li Hanzhi in Heyang back then, and I almost died, thanks to Zhu Wen's rescue." Without him, where would I be today? Don't forget the great kindness! (I surrounded Heyang for Li Han's soldiers, eating sawdust for food, only one horse, wanting to kill the army, died in the morning and night, and the Liang soldiers came out, to this day, this grace can not be forgotten!) )
This situation, this scene, this person's words, is really a loss of dignity and shamelessness!
Although Zhang Quanyi's temperament is not as good as that of a prostitute/woman, it is not useless. Governing Luoyang should be the glorious achievement that he is most proud of in his life.
Luoyang, one of the few prosperous cities of the Tang Dynasty, was burned to the ground by the barbarian army of Qin Zongquan in the second year of Guangqi (886 AD).
The Qin army withdrew, and Li Hanzhi led his troops to receive Luoyang, but he couldn't enter the city at all, so he could only work temporarily in the suburbs. After relying on Li Keyong to drive away Liu Jing, Li Hanzhi proclaimed himself the envoy of the Heyang Festival, stationed in Mengzhou, and Luoyang, which had been turned into ashes, was thrown to Zhang Quanyi to deal with the aftermath.
When Zhang Quanyi took over, what was the specific situation in Luoyang/? - "The bones cover the ground, the thorns are full of hope, and the inhabitants are less than 100 households."
When the Tang Emperor Li Yi returned to Chang'an, he saw that the Beijing division was "full of thorns and thorns, and foxes and rabbits were crisscrossed", and he was cold from head to toe. At that time, the scene of Luoyang City was several times worse than that of Chang'an, and it would have been picked up if it was an ordinary person. Luoyang has become like this bird, how can you do this work?
Zhang Quanyi is not an ordinary person, he is determined to restore the former prosperity of Luoyang in the shortest possible time!
In order to resume production as soon as possible, Zhang Quanyi decided to "start with people". The war in Luoyang continued, and Qin Zongquan was a man who ate people and did not spit out bones, and the common people fled to the mountains to hide. Zhang Quanyi first selected 18 people from his command, called "Tun General", and gave them flags and lists, and asked them to go to the 18 counties around Luoyang to "set up stalls" and set up flags and lists, so as to appease the exiled people to go home and farm.
If it weren't for the flames of war, who would want to leave their homeland and be displaced? So as soon as the official list was posted, some bold people came back.
In order to further appease and recruit the people, Zhang Quanyi adopted a policy of "no severe punishment and no taxes," and except for those who kill people who must pay for their lives, ordinary criminal and civil cases are all given light punishments. Those who take the initiative to open up the wasteland will be exempted from taxes, so that the people can recuperate.
Zhang Quanyi appointed 18 "tun deputies" and 18 "tun judges", who were dispersed to 18 settlements to supervise the implementation of the policy.
The first batch of people who returned to their hometowns received substantial benefits, and became a "living advertisement" that continued to appease the exiled people, and for a time "those who returned to the city were like cities", with thousands of households per tun, and agricultural production around Luoyang was quickly restored.
Due to the constant wars in the Central Plains, there are bandits of all sizes, and the regular army stationed there cannot be all-encompassing. To prevent bandits from sabotaging production and disrupting public order, we must rely to a great extent on the strength of the masses. Therefore, Zhang Quanyi recruited strong men from among the people, gave them simple military training, and formed a "self-defense militia" that spread throughout every village.
After formulating the corresponding policies, Zhang Quanyi often went to the rural areas to "investigate" and adopt the method of "on-site office" to solve the practical difficulties and problems encountered by the peasants in production and life.
Zhang Quanyi brought the order of production and life around the city into a normal track, and the restoration of Luoyang became a matter of course.
In just a few years, Luoyang gradually regained its former vitality and vitality, "mulberry and hemp are clear, there is no wilderness land", "the fierce year is not hungry, and then it becomes rich".
Yang Ningshi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty and a former young master of the crown prince, wrote a poem to Zhang Quanyi in recognition of his achievements:
The scenery of Luoyang is really sad, and it used to be a pile of tiles.
It's not my father-in-law's reasoning, and it's still a pile of ashes.
Li Bao has no ill feelings towards Zhang Quanyi, it is human instinct to seek good fortune and avoid evil, since this Zhang Quanyi is a person who understands current affairs, then such a person is more likely to be at peace with what he encounters.
Being at peace with the situation is precisely the best character to save his life in troubled times, but it is not easy for Zhang Quanyi to die well, but what his character is, Li Bao doesn't care, he values Zhang Quanyi's farming ability more.
Nowadays, most of the Tang Dynasty is war-torn and poor, sparsely populated, and the warlords are murderous, so Li Bao urgently needs talents like Zhang Quanyi to help him stabilize the local area and develop agriculture. In addition, we should actively carry out the policy of providing for the rest of the people.
It is because Li Bao must find a way to win over this Zhang Quanyi, otherwise once Zhang Quanyi takes refuge in Zhu Wen and others, this will increase Zhu Wen's strength, which will increase Li Bao's conquest of the world in the future.
As for how to win over Zhang Quanyi, Li Bao wanted to think about it, in fact, what he wanted to do most was to instruct Jin Luanwei's people to secretly tie this guy to Xiangyang.
However, Li Bao secretly kidnapped the officials of the feudal town, and once the news spread, it was bound to have a bad impact.
If Zhang Quanyi is transferred to Xiangyang in the name of Chang'an, it should be realized, but at this time, Li Hanzhi and Zhang Quanyi are in the "honeymoon period", and he is afraid that Zhang Quanyi will not want to come. At that time, he issued an order, and Zhang Quanyi did not come, which would make him lose face.
Today's Li Bao has been in the Tang Dynasty for so many years, and he has gradually accepted the thinking of the Tang people, and he has already looked at the problem from the perspective of the Tang people.
He is very cautious about losing face, and Biji's good reputation is not easy to accumulate, if he is rejected by a small Henan Yin, it will not sound good.
How to get Zhang Quanyi over, Li Bao was a little embarrassed, but he finally thought of a way, as for whether it will succeed, it depends on what Zhang Quanyi thinks.