Chapter 3058 The Situation of the World
The fierce fighting in Liaodong is raging, and Chang'an is also in turmoil.
The tribes of Tuyuhun are ready to move. Hundreds of tooth tents are running and roaring at the southern foot of Qilian Mountain. Countless Tuyuhun tribes are gathered together, and it is about to be a big battle.
Although Tuyuhun's territory is in the south of the Qilian Mountains, there are several mountain passes for north-south communication in the Qilian Mountains. Once the Tuyuhun follow these mountain passes and cross the Qilian Mountains, the place where their horses will tread is the Liang, Gan, and Gansu provinces known as the "Hexi Corridor." Su, Gua and other states.
Due to the nourishment of the snow water of the Qilian Mountains, the Hexi Corridor is rich in water and grass, densely populated, and is a passage connecting the Western Regions. Once the Hexi Corridor is lost, it means that Guanzhong and the Western Regions will be blocked, and tens of thousands of Anxi troops will no longer be able to receive supplies from Guanzhong. And Guanzhong will also face the danger of powerful enemies invading, and face the enemy's front!
The capital is uneasy, the government and the public are naturally facing a formidable enemy, and the atmosphere is depressing.
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Songhe Tower.
In an elegant room facing the street on the second floor, Fang Jun, Xiao Yu, Ma Zhou, and Li Daozong sat at the table, waiting for the waiter to take away the leftovers and make a pot of fragrant tea. The four of them sat at the coffee table by the window. While drinking tea, raindrops dripped outside the window and the breeze cooled me.
Ma Zhou took a sip of tea, looked a little sad, looked at the rain outside the window and said: "There has been too much rain this year, and it will probably become more frequent after summer. If it only rains like this, it will be fine. After all, water conservancy projects have been carried out all over Guanzhong in recent years. Repair, but if there are several heavy rains in a row, there will be flooding. ”
He is Jingzhao Yin, and he is naturally concerned about the people's livelihood of the entire Jingzhao Mansion.
Nowadays, Jingzhao Mansion has become the economic and political center of the entire Tang Dynasty. It is more than twice as prosperous as it was in the early years of Zhenguan. However, the principle of "agriculture is the foundation of the world" cannot be replaced by businessmen. Once a flood occurs, it will seriously affect Guanzhong's grain output.
Including Chang'an City, the permanent population of the entire Jingzhao Prefecture has exceeded three million. Once grain production decreases, food must be allocated from all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the resulting huge losses make him, the Jingzhao Yin, as long as Just thinking about it makes me feel sick.
Fang Jun was not as pessimistic about this as he was: "It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married. How can we stop it? The empire is vast, and all kinds of natural disasters are inevitable. Nowadays, canals connect the north and south, and Guanzhong is full of water." The network is dense, and the food from Jiangnan can be reached in only ten months. The loss is just a little more, and it does not affect the overall situation. ”
Xiao Yu on the side smiled bitterly and said: "If this happens, I'm afraid we will have to add more gifts, which will hurt the people of Jiangnan."
Jiangnan is his root, so he naturally feels sorry for the folks in Jiangnan. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Jiangnan has gradually become richer and more populous. It is no less prosperous than Guanzhong. Therefore, almost every disaster in the empire has to plunder food from Jiangnan, which invisibly adds too much burden to Jiangnan.
This is naturally because Jiangnan is too rich, and more than it loses makes up for the deficiencies. Moreover, it is not without the intention of deliberately weakening Jiangnan and making Guanzhong the center of the empire...
But no matter what the reason is, it is difficult for people in Jiangnan to accept it. Who is willing to spend money and food to support others? Therefore, the Jiangnan nobles had to take the initiative to handle these matters. While ensuring the collection of disaster relief money and food, they also had to appease the people of Jiangnan.
If you delay even a little bit, you will be warned by the court.
Most of the time, we get angry from both sides, and we are not human beings inside and outside...
Ma Zhou disagreed and said: "It is the national policy of all dynasties to use the local area to support the capital. Weakening the trunk and strengthening the branches is not a long-term solution. What's more, if there is a disaster in Guanzhong, it should be supported from all directions. There is enough money and food in Jiangnan, so shouldn't it be appropriate to provide it?" A helping hand, a generous rescue? ”
Xiao Yu smiled bitterly, shook his head, and refused to answer.
This is indeed the truth, but the question is, does the money and food of the Jiangnan people come from the tide of the sea? Anyone who fears that the food they have worked so hard to grow will be requisitioned to provide disaster relief elsewhere will inevitably feel dissatisfied.
This is the fundamental reason why Jiangnan has always been outside the center. In the eyes of Jiangnan people, the empire has never regarded them as its own and spared no effort to squeeze them...
However, the richer Jiangnan became, the more worried the central government became and had to suppress him; the more suppressed he became, the more dissatisfied and alienated Jiangnan became.
It almost became a dead end.
Therefore, even though the Tang Dynasty was founded for more than 20 years, Jiangnan has never been able to integrate into the imperial system. Chang'an is wary of General Na, and Jiangnan lacks recognition of Chang'an...
Fang Jun also shook his head and said nothing. There is almost no solution to this matter. It has been a big problem in all dynasties.
Unless the Tang Dynasty deposed the capital Chang'an and moved the capital to Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River...
This is naturally impossible, at least under the current domestic and international situation, it is absolutely unfeasible. Although Jiangnan is rich and has greater potential than Guanzhong at its peak, even if its economy, population and other indicators completely crush Guanzhong, it is basically impossible to replace Guanzhong as the core of the empire.
Without him, the terrain is too bad.
The terrain south of the Yangtze River is flat and there are no tall mountains around it. It is absolutely weak in terms of geographical defense. The cavalry going south from the north only need to cross the Dabie Mountains and reach the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. The natural moat of the Yangtze River can indeed stop the cavalry, but the long Yangtze River cannot be used as a natural barrier to resist the full attack of the northern cavalry because it is too long!
No country can lay out an impregnable line of defense along the Yangtze River. As long as one point is breached, the northern cavalry can reach the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, unstoppable.
Even if you occupy Bashu and have the advantage of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, you can go down the river and sweep across the entire south of the Yangtze River in an instant.
When the Tang army attacked Xiao Mian who was entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Xiaogong's navy came down the river from Kuimen, completely defeated Xiao Mian's navy, and captured Jiangnan in one fell swoop.
Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongols fought hard for decades and were unable to win. They had to first destroy Dali, then attack Sichuan and Shu, and then conquer Xiangyang. They completely controlled the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Han River Basin, and followed the trend down the Yangtze River, and then conquered the entire Southern Song Dynasty. In the final battle at Yashan, the ancestral lineage of the Han people was ruined, China was exterminated, and China was destroyed.
And the shape of Guanzhong is much better than that of Jiangnan.
Since it is impossible for Jiangnan to become the capital of the country, then naturally the richer it becomes, the more it will arouse the fear of the central government and suppress the balance, which is inevitable...
But there is no need to worry about it now. If Jiangnan wants to challenge the status of Guanzhong, it will take at least a hundred years of development. Even during the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan's economy, culture, and population had reached the pinnacle of feudal society, and it took hundreds of years to challenge Beijing's status.
It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that the Donglin Party was able to fight against the Central Committee through the Donglin Party. At that time, every household in the south of the Yangtze River was extremely rich, and the aristocratic families were rich and powerful. However, the inner treasury of the Chongzhen Emperor and the household department of the imperial court were empty. Even though the slaves repeatedly went south to endanger the In Sheji, civil strife spread everywhere like beacon smoke, but there was no money, money or food to quell the rebellion and defend the enemy.
As a result, the big families in the south of the Yangtze River finally proved their status, and the Ming Dynasty was cut off from its foundation and collapsed.
They themselves trembled and trembled under the iron hoof of the Jian Nu. They were killed until rivers of blood flowed and corpses piled up like mountains. They emptied the Ming Dynasty treasury to accumulate mountains of gold and silver, and they were also happily sent to the camp of the Jian Nu. Among them, he then grew his hair and shaved his head, and became an obedient citizen of "my Qing Dynasty"...
History always has inertia, and it is impossible to change the trajectory caused by the inertia accumulated over thousands of years just because one person comes out of the blue.
Can the Tang Dynasty get rid of the disaster of national subjugation caused by the Anshi Rebellion, the collapse of the old empire, and the disintegration of the Central Plains China?
Will the Hu people from outside the region still invade the Central Plains, separatize Yanyun, and break the barrier of the Han Dynasty's northern border as they did in history?
Can the Golden Family still dominate the grasslands, ride on scimitars and shoot armor across the world, punish Europe like a whip in the hand of God, and kill people in the wild?
Can the slaves outside the pass take advantage of the chaos to break in, steal the beautiful rivers and mountains of the Shenzhou, and then start hundreds of years of darkness, making the descendants of the Yan and Huang people lag behind the barbarians of Western Europe. Finally, strong ships and cannons knock on the door of the country and open the door to dolphins. The era of lingering like a dog has completely lost the splendid civilization created by our ancestors?
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History is always too heavy.
Fang Jun felt a little bored, stood up and said: "I went out to relieve myself."
Everyone was speechless. Xiao Yu said irritably: "I'm drinking tea. You just need to say it. Why do you need to be so vulgar? It's really vulgar and unbecoming of a human being!"
They are all elegant people, and they are drinking tea right now. Can you explain something to me, do you have any education?
Li Daozong also frowned and said: "The prime minister is a gentle and gentle man, hasn't he taught his subordinates how to avoid taboos?"
Fang Jun chuckled, stood up and walked out, smiling: "Don't gentlemen just pee?"
Ma Zhou was speechless and waved his hands in disgust: "Go back quickly, it's so vulgar and disgusting!"
Fang Jun turned around and walked out of the room. Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step out, he was almost hit by someone outside the door...
I was suddenly shocked: Could someone be eavesdropping? (End of chapter)