Chapter 24: "Southern Zhili" and "Northern Zhili"

Last time, I talked about urging the eldest sister, second sister, and third sister who urged their younger brother to be sent by their father to the Yamen, the political envoy of Chengxuan, to learn piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and court etiquette.

"Haha, that's right!" Guangnan West Lu Cheng announced that the political envoy thought that he had settled on the other party, after all, the other party was a "carpenter family" of the "Nine Generations of Single Transmission", even if he had the family heirloom "Luban Book", but for the feudal society with strict classes, he was just a grass people.

Since he is a "grass people", once he gets on his own "thief ship", he can only let himself handle it, because in case of an accident, he can find a "scapegoat" to pass on the risk, why not? However, when the envoy was hospitable and solemnly promised, he did not pay attention to urging the carpenter to do it.

I saw that at the next banquet, the carpenter and his daughters deliberately pretended to be unusually restrained, which made the political envoy feel embarrassed.

"Eat, eat, eat. You're all still young, you're growing your body, you should eat more good ones to grow faster, hehe. The envoy smiled.

"Giggles, thank you, godfather, you are so good to our sisters! Better than my dad, giggles. As soon as the words fell, the third girl didn't forget to grimace.

"Uh...... Stinky girl, nonsense! If you can't learn the real skills here, be careful when you go home! The carpenter said.

Such a father and daughter scare each other, but it is also funny, even the maids who are accompanying the political envoy around him can't help but smile coquettishly.

The carpenter deliberately took the opportunity of "toasting the eldest brother", and took advantage of the moment when the four eyes met, two dim purple lights emitted from his eyes, and in a flash, they burrowed into Fang's eyes, and began to rely on his strong spiritual power to quickly look through the other party's memory, wanting to see what the other party's intentions were?

Fortunately, the other party does not have any ill intentions. It is purely to offer a "show girl" to curry favor with the emperor, and by the way, to consolidate his power and status. As for the righteous and awe-inspiring desire to get rid of the "eunuch group" and reorganize the dynasty, it was not in the first place.

However, the carpenter got an important information, that is, when his three daughters learned the true skills, they would be uniformly trained and admitted to the "Guanfu Music Workshop" of "Nanzhili".

Due to the special national conditions of the Ming Dynasty. This has led to the strange phenomenon of "one country, two capitals". This is related to the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, set the capital in Nanjing after the founding of the country, and his fourth son, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, successfully launched the "Battle of Jingyan" and forcibly moved the capital to the north, and it was also to weaken the local bureaucracy.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, and the capital of Nanjing was "Yingtianfu", and Nanzhili was directly under the jurisdiction of the central government of Nanjing. Nanzhili is located in the Jiangnan region, with a prosperous economy, a large population, and the first tax in the country.

Nanzhili has a strong cultural atmosphere, there are many Confucian talents, literati and scholars, and etiquette, and more than half of the officials of the imperial court are all from the Jiangnan Gongyuan. In the novel "The Outer History of Confucianism" by the Qing Dynasty celebrity Wu Jingzi, most of the Confucian scholars were from Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty, based on the city of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty.

There are Yingtianfu, Fengyang, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Luzhou, Anqing, Taiping, Chizhou, Ningguo, Huizhou, Xuzhou, Chuzhou, Hezhou, Guangdezhou and other rich places.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Zhili Prefecture was at the same level as the prefecture, which was different from the scattered prefectures in other places at a lower level, and was administratively similar to the municipalities directly under the central government in later generations.

The territory of Nanzhili is equivalent to that of Jianghuwan in later generations, and it is an important base for Zhu Yuanzhang to develop forces to fight for the world, which is equivalent to that of Beizhili.

"Beizhili" was established after Zhu Di, the king of Yan, launched the "Battle of Jingyan" and moved to the "Yuan capital", that is, "Shuntianfu", and it was also directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. The two "Zhili Provinces" divided into north and south are only to distinguish the geographical location and folk customs of the two capitals.

"North Zhili" is more desolate than "South Zhili", after all, it is too close to the nomads in the north, and the "Shuntianfu" is the "Yuan Capital" before the "Beiping City", which leads to social customs and humanistic customs are much worse than those of "South Zhili", but the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies and the society remains unchanged.

The districts under the jurisdiction of Beizhili are Shuntianfu, Baoding, Hejian, Zhending, Shunde, Daimyo, Guangping, Yongping, Xuanfu, Yanqing Zhili Prefecture, and Baoan Zhili Prefecture.

Of course, the territory of "Beizhili" in a broad sense is equivalent to a small part of the Jingjintang and Central Plains in later generations. Later, taking advantage of the outbreak of class contradictions at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the peasants revolted, which led to the Qing soldiers entering the customs to occupy the world, and renamed the northern Zhili province and the southern Zhili to "Jiangnan Province".

At this time, the political envoy who had been going back and forth with the carpenter suddenly felt a burst of dizziness, thinking that it was due to the recent overwork that had caused him to be overpowered, and he was crumbling.

"Uh...... Let the virtuous brother see it. The political envoy came back to his senses and said with an embarrassed face: "Recently, I have been overworked and often restless, so I will be like this." ”

"The elder brother said that he was laughing, and the grass people dared to laugh at you." The carpenter secretly performed the "Soul Regent" and "Marrying Dreams" in "Seventy-two Techniques of the Left Way of the Side Door", and it was not too easy to search for souls in the air, and to deal with a mortal without the slightest cultivation with his powerful spiritual power?

"Huh! Brother Xian doesn't know that the Japanese have been seriously affected recently, not only the coastal areas of Guangdong Road have been attacked, but even Hainan Island, which is under the jurisdiction of Guangxi Road, has been repeatedly harassed by Japanese invaders. The political envoy sighed while drinking the sullen wine: "First there are Japanese robbers, and then there are foreigners, they are not good things, they have to fight!" ”

"Oh? It seems that the elder brother, as a member of the party, has a lot of burden on his shoulders! The carpenter was surprised: "I wonder if there is a place where the younger brother can help?" ———— "Haha, the virtuous brother laughed." Fighting a war is a matter of being a soldier, how can you let the craftsman of the virtuous brother go to charge into battle? ”

"Eh, my brother is too much to say that, do you have to rebuild after the war?" The carpenter smiled and said: "Whether it is building roads and bridges, or building houses and houses, there is nothing that I can't do well without my 'Luban Gate', and I ask my brother not to shirk, as long as my brother says a word, the younger brother will immediately support the front line." ”

"Since this is the case, then the foolish brother will inherit the love of the virtuous brother first." The political envoy said with a happy face: "From now on, when the daughters of the generals are trained a little enough to be able to enter the hall, they will be personally sent by the foolish brother to the 'Ying Tianfu' of the 'South Zhili' to participate in the training, and then sent to the 'North Zhili' after passing the assessment." ”

"Oh? Hehe, thank you brother for your care. Brother really has a heart! The carpenter looked solemn and stood up and said, "I don't know when the battle to exterminate the Japanese will begin?" "————, hehe, this ...... Sporadic battles were left to my local officials depending on the situation, but ultimately it was up to the imperial court. ”

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