In front of Qianxi Temple in Longmen Mountain, Han Qian stood in plain clothes with his arms folded, looking at the snow-covered Yichuan River.

Guo Rong, Feng Liao, Wen Muqiao, Zhou Pan, Han Donghu, Gu Qian, Zhu Juezhong, Lei Jiuyuan, Chen Youtong, Chen Kun, Shen Peng, Guo Que, Wang Che and Wen Ruilin stood beside him .

Hundreds of cavalry guards wearing blue and black armor guard the inside and outside of Qianxi Temple.

Although it has entered February and it is early spring in the south of the Yangtze River, the weather in Heluo has eased slightly for three or five days. Suddenly, the cold wind blows, the dripping water turns to ice, and the heavy snow is still falling. It seems that the world has changed because of the death of a great hero Zhu Yu.

It had been ten days since Han Qian secretly entered Luoyang City, but Zhu Yu had already fallen into trance and did not wake up until five days ago.

Zhu Yu insisted on performing the abdication ceremony in front of him, so that Lei Jiuyuan, Gu Qian, Zhu Juezhong, Jing Hao and other generals honored Han Qian as the king of the country in Luoyang City, instead of having Han Qian in front of his coffin after his death. After succeeding to the throne, Zhu Yu also specially conferred the title of Duke Wuwei on himself and conferred the title of marquis on Zhu Zhen's sons.

After quickly completing the ceremony of abdication, Zhu Yu and Han Qian took a carriage and horse trip to the Yichuan River, stopped at Qianxi Temple, and passed away suddenly in the early morning of yesterday.

Although in accordance with Zhu Yu's last wish, his coffin was parked at Qianxi Temple and no big funeral was held, Han Qian still used the ceremony of a big funeral for the emperor and posthumously named Zhu Yu Emperor Wu of Daliang. He and all the generals wore plain mourning clothes. .

The first battle at the foot of Xichuan City, the first acquaintance with the banks of Jianghan, and the meeting with the shore of Chaohu Lake were all in a hurry. We walked on the ice of Yichuan River for three days, but still felt sad. At this moment, Han Qian couldn't help but think, what if he had been in Guishan back then? If I agree to Zhu Yu's invitation, what will the mountains and rivers here be like?

"Your Majesty..."

Gu Qian followed Zhu Yu for more than twenty years, from the time of his ambition to the time when his temples were full of hair. Seeing the sudden death of Zhu Yu in his prime, he was in a worse mood than anyone else, but he was surrounded by powerful enemies. With Chu Ting There is also the worry of breakup. This is by no means a time to wallow in sorrow. There are too many things that require the new ruler to make an immediate decision.

The messenger to announce the funeral of Zhu Zhen, the Marquis of Ningbei, had already set off yesterday and rushed to Huayang and Shangluo via the Shuanglonggou plank road. But is Zhu Zhen willing to accept this result? Is she willing to follow Zhu Yu's edict and come to Luoyang to meet the new king? The unknown number.

The human heart is the most difficult to predict.

Although Gu Qian taught Zhu Zhenmeng's classics and classics since he was a child, whether Zhu Zhen had any resentment in his heart towards his father Zhu Yu's arrangement, or whether he could accept this reality even if he had resentment, was a matter of concern to Gu Qian and even his grandfather. Chen Youtong was unpredictable at this time.

Even before Zhu Yu's death, he insisted on keeping Zhu Zhen in Shangluo and did not recall him to Luoyang. He also insisted on sending direct troops to Shangluo before Han Qian went north. This was to prevent his son Zhu Zhen from becoming an obstacle to the abdication.

Gu Qian did not doubt Han Qian's ambition and sincerity in treating the Zhu clan well, but if Zhu Zhen resolutely refused to accept such a result, Han Qian would definitely use force to remove Zhu Zhen's military power and ensure a smooth transition on the Shangluo line in the southern wing of Guanzhong. , no major changes will occur.

The Mongol and Dongliang Army will definitely not give up this opportunity and attack Heluo again. Will the people of Jinling accept this reality? Will they take advantage of the Mongol and Dongliang Army to attack Heluo on a large scale? It is also unknown at this time whether troops will be dispatched to regain Hexi.

In addition, sending envoys to Liangzhou and Sichuan to meet Li Zhigao and Wang Yong, whether they can successfully persuade Li Zhigao and Wang Yong is also the main factor that ultimately determines Jinling's movement, but it is still unknown at this time.

Gu Qian, Feng Liao and others initially thought of proposing to postpone the abdication or even not to mourn in secret, hoping to delay it for three or four months, but in fact Wusu Dashi and Xiao Yiqing were not that easy to deceive.

Even when Han Qian issued a mobilization order, Kong Xirong expanded his troops in Dengjun and Dengzhou, and when Zhou Pan, Feng Xuan and others led the elite Tangyi army to enter Heluo via the Songnan plank road, the Mongol and Wu soldiers and horses who occupied Yongzhou and

The Dongliang Army that occupied Xingbian mobilized accordingly.

A large amount of grain and fodder was divided into two routes, one from Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Hezhong to assemble in Yongzhou, and the other from Heshuo, Qingzi, Xusi and other places to Bianying and Mengzhou.

In addition, there is clear news that Xiao Yiqing has entered Yongzhou City before, and frequently sent envoys to Qizhou to secretly meet with Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian. It cannot be ruled out that Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian will lead the attack on Shangluo or Huazhou first.

Tongguan.

In addition to the urgent liaison and negotiations between the various forces on the southern front, the urgent need to arrange the war on the Heluo flank, and the panic among the generals of the Liang Kingdom who urgently need to be comforted, there is another matter that needs to be decided immediately.

After hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians withdrew from Bianjing, Daliang has lost its capital, and there is no hope of recapturing Bianjing in a short time. There is an urgent need to determine the location of the new capital.

In the past few days, Han Qian and Zhu Yu talked about the past and present together. Gu Qian, Lei Jiuyuan and others discussed this issue many times with Feng Liao, Guo Rong, Wen Muqiao, Zhou Pan and others who followed Han Qian north to Luoyang.

In addition to Luoyang being surrounded by enemies on three sides, Zhu Yu had no clear intention to designate Luoyang as the capital.

The floods of the Jialu River and the Shaying River are surging, and Xingyang City east of Hulao Pass is still under the control of the Dongliang enemy. The Heluo area and Xuru and other places only rely on the steep and narrow Songnan Plank Road to communicate with each other.

It is extremely inconvenient for large groups of people and large quantities of materials to pass through.

These many restrictions determined that Luoyang was not suitable as the new capital.

And even if we don't take into account the feelings of the people in Jinling, Donghu (Liyang), which was the seat of Tangyi's government at this time, was too far to the south. In fact, after the drastic changes in Heshuo, Tangyi's military center of gravity moved northward.

In the past two years, Han Qian spent less than one-third of his time in Liyang.

Taking into account the integration process of Heluo and Tangyi, taking into account the possible strong reaction of the Chu court, and taking into account the need to resist the Mongols and the Dongliang Army at the same time, Gu Qian, Lei Jiuyuan, Guo Rong, Feng Liao and others

After a long discussion in private, they all felt that Shouchun was the new capital, which would be more suitable for both the north and the south.

Han Qian may still need to stay in Luoyang personally to supervise the army for the time being, but the central organization must be put into operation in the new capital immediately. Another point is that most of the soldiers and civilians who evacuated from Bianjing to the south are from the generals' families and relatives. Even if

To put it bluntly, taking these families and relatives as hostages and moving them to Shouchun, south of the Huaihe River, will at least ensure the stability of the hearts of the 60,000 Liang Army generals guarding Heluo in a short period of time, and prevent large-scale uprisings.

A surrender incident occurred.

"Shouchun is the capital?"

After listening to Gu Qian talk about establishing the capital, Han Qian murmured to himself, standing in front of Qianxi Temple and looking at the ice and snow of the river to the north.

The location where they stood was only twelve miles away from the south gate of Luoyang City. They could even see the ice-covered river that went from the west side of Luoyang City to the northwest, and finally passed through Yanshi and merged into the Yu River in Gong County.

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Han Qian said slowly after a long while,

"Luoyang is the most beautiful place in the world, with the Yellow River in the north, Mount Song in the south, Laoshan in the west, Hulao in the east, Qingbo in Yiluo, and the vastness of Mang Mountain. If I have it but don't live there, it will not only be a waste of natural resources, but also a loss."

Brother Zhu Yu's high hopes for me - don't insist on this issue. Brother Zhu Yu and I have also discussed it in the past few days. Although there will be great difficulties to overcome for the time being in Luoyang, the capital will be established here.

, In addition to showing the world my determination to resist the barbarians, restore the homeland of Daliang, and Hanfu in Heshuo, there are also many advantages that we cannot ignore, which can also weaken the hostility of Jinling to the greatest extent..."

Over the years, Han Qian had also studied topography and history diligently, and was familiar with the shape, location, and strategy of the most important places in the world. At this time, he also explained it to everyone.

Two thousand years ago, the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to control Dongyi, built the Royal City and Chengzhou City on the banks of the Luoshui River in the north of Songyue Mountain, which was the beginning of the establishment of Luoyang as the capital; in the first year of King Ping of Zhou Dynasty, he moved east to Luoyi, starting the Eastern Zhou Dynasty; in the first year of King Qin Zhuangxiang's reign,

Sanchuan County was established in Luoyang; in the first year of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu granted Shenyang the title of King of Henan and lived in Luoyang; in the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, the capital was initially in Luoyang, but later moved to Chang'an and changed Sanchuan County to Henan County; in the first year of Jianwu Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Luoyang was established as the capital.

Luoyang was renamed Luoyang, and Henan County was renamed Henan Yin. In the fifth year of Yonghe period in the Han Dynasty, Henan Yin counted 208,486 households and 1,010,827 people.

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In the first year of Huangchu, Emperor Wen of the Wei Dynasty Cao Pi established his capital in Luoyang, changing Luoyang to Luoyang; in the first year of Taishi, when the Western Jin Dynasty replaced Wei, Luoyang was still the capital; in the 18th year of Taihe, Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang.

In the first year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty, the Tokyo Shangshu Province was established in Luoyang; in the first year of his reign in Daye, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang.

Since Emperor Gaozong, the previous dynasty still had Luoyang as its capital and was called the Eastern Capital; during the Tianbao period, the Eastern Capital was renamed Tokyo; in the first year of Wu Zetian's Guangzhai reign, the Eastern Capital was renamed the Divine Capital.

At the end of the previous dynasty, Luoyang was destroyed by war, and not even a tenth of the people survived. When Zhu Yuchu sealed Luoyang and ran it for ten years, Liang re-established Henan Prefecture, which governed Henan, Luoyang, Yanshi, Lushi, Taolin, Xiong'er, Mianchi, and Xin'an.

When the population of thirteen counties including Gong, Yichuan, Songnan and Yangcheng was prosperous, they once again had nearly one million residents.

After being devastated by the war in the past few years, it has been merged with Huazhou, Tongguan and other places. In addition to the garrison, there are still 700,000 people in Heluo.

In addition to its prosperous population, the Heluo Basin, located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and between the Zuo, Song, Mang, Xiong'er and Funiu mountains, has a cultivated and residential area of ​​more than 4,000 square miles.

The basin is high in the north and south, low in the middle, and has a slightly trough shape. The north is the Mangshan loess hills, the middle is the Yi and Luohe alluvial plains, and the south is the Wan'an Mountain low hills and piedmont alluvial slopes. The land is fertile and the climate is warm.

, the products are abundant and abundant, which can ensure sufficient food output and breed such a dense population.

The relatively closed terrain around it is not only conducive to military defense, but also the surrounding terrain is distributed in a three-level gradient from high ridges to low mountains to plains, with crisscrossing streams and rivers, abundant water and even drops.

Before there is a more advanced power source, the development of a primary industrial system cannot be separated from large-scale available water resources.

In his early years, Han Qian built East Lake as the center of Tangyi. Even after recovering Huaixi, he still did not move the Zhizhifu to Chaozhou City, which has flatter terrain and more agricultural and grain fields around it.

In addition to the fact that East Lake can reclaim a large amount of grain fields and urban development land by building embankments around the lake, the more important thing is that East Lake borders Xuru Mountain in the south and Qingcang Mountain in the north. Weirs and dams can be built along the slopes, which can develop a large amount of water resources for production.

Used by primary industry.

This is an advantage that pure plain areas did not have before the large-scale promotion of new power sources.

This is also an advantage that cannot be ignored when choosing Luoyang as the capital rather than Shouchun.

The mountains of Miao, Song, Mang, Xiong'er and Funiu are also rich in coal and iron reserves.

Although several years of war have caused great damage to Heluo's farming and craftsman production, and even a large number of craftsmen were captured by Liang Shixiong, the foundations of many workshops are still there. Han Qian only needs to transfer them from Huaixi, Xuzhou and other places

Thousands of mature craftsmen and craftsmen can quickly restore the Heluo area's industrial manufacturing system that took shape in Zhu Yu's hands in the early years.

In fact, among the first batch of people who followed Han Qian to the north, there was a craftsman camp of 2,000 people, including craftsmen and craftsmen from all craftsmanship categories in Tangyi, as well as some students who had graduated from Liyang Academy in advance.

, can be arranged at any time...

The new capital was set in Luoyang, which was also Zhu Yu's last wish. Unfortunately, the Liang army was in ruins and the cities of Heluo were newly occupied, so he was seriously ill and had no chance to make many arrangements.

As for how to calm the hearts and minds of the military even if the war breaks out, Han Qian also discussed with Zhu Yu in the last few days before his death.

He did not think that moving the tens of thousands of people evacuated south from Bianjing further south to Shouchun as hostages would really calm people's hearts.

Heluo and Tangyi must be fully integrated. The new system that Han Qian has comprehensively and deeply implemented in Tangyi over the years is completely different from the old system in Liang. This is a fact that no one can ignore.

In front of Zhu Yu, everyone welcomed Han Qian as the new leader, and matters of law and order became less important.

Zhu Wen, the emperor of Liang Dynasty, was a general of the refugee army in his early years. He and his generals were extremely hostile to the Qingliu gentry in the early days. At Baimayi, except for the children of the previous clan, the gentry of the previous dynasty were also killed, so Xiao Yiqing and others

The well-dressed nobles fled north to join Hu.

Gu Qian, Chen Youtong, Jing Hao, Jing Zhen, Chen Kun and Han Yuanqi were not from high backgrounds and did not form extremely stubborn old concepts of law. This has a great influence on the local forces in Jianghuai, especially Jiangdong.

the difference.

Abolition of the status of slaves and maidservants, but allowing the hiring of maidservants, and abolishing the system of concubines, will not directly impact the existing interests of Liang's generals at present.

At present, Heluo is in a precarious situation, and local forces do not even want their children to join the officialdom. Therefore, they do not care much about the abolition of the system of favor and the new system of selecting officials and promoting officials.

However, when it comes to land, it is an unavoidable issue.

This is not only the foundation of local power in Heluo, but also the fundamental difference between Tangyi's new system and Liang's old system.

Gu Qian, Chen Youtong, Jing Hao, Jing Zhen, Chen Kun and a large number of people, including Shen Peng, Wen Ruilin, Zhao Ci and other powerful officials of Chengtian Division, as well as military attachés and generals who were incorporated into Xuanjiadu in the early years and later spread throughout the Daliang Forbidden Army.

, as direct descendants, most people mainly followed Zhu Yu when he was running Heluo.

Even though quite a few of them moved their families to Bianjing in the later period, their families are still rooted in Heluo, and they can be said to be representatives of local forces in Heluo.
To be continued...