After Zhao Bing learned that the enemy had strengthened the defense of the Three Gorges, he proposed the "water step forward together" strategy at the Military Conference of the Western Expedition. The two sides alternately covered, using the artillery carried by the navy to provide firepower support. The infantry siege to clear the fort protection channels along the way, and escorted the navy fleet to pass through this most dangerous waterway.

After Wen Tianxiang reached the meeting with the Western Expedition Army, he could hold a meeting to convey His Majesty's will and the combat policy he had decided, and listen to the report on the preparations of the Western Expedition Army so that he could march a day. At the meeting, the generals expressed their determination to implement His Majesty's orders, seize Sichuan and Shu, and lift the siege of Lingxiao City. Wen Tianxiang also affirmed the preparations of the Western Expedition Army, and everything seemed to be developing according to Zhao Bing's intentions.

However, at the subsequent military meeting, Qi Bin, the commander of the Western Army, raised objections to the emperor's arrangement of "advance by water and land". He believed that in some dangerous sections, the enemy had a pass, and the navy fleet was easily attacked by the enemy on both sides of the strait when passing by, and it would be very difficult for the infantry to attack again at this time. Moreover, it was very difficult to travel by land, and it was difficult to keep up with the navy. In his opinion, the infantry was the first to clear the passage and road, while attacking the cities and villages, and covering the navy fleet through the Three Gorges dangerous section.

Qi Bin's suggestion was equivalent to overturning the emperor's established strategy. How dare Wen Tianxiang make a decision without authorization? However, he did not arbitrarily deny Qi Bin's suggestion. Instead, he immediately summoned military and civilians who were familiar with Sichuan and Shu geography, and sent entourages to the public to investigate to obtain first-hand information. Through several consecutive days of investigation, he really found that there was still a gap between what His Majesty knew in the field and what His Majesty knew at the beginning.

Zhao Bing sighed secretly after reading the war report, sighing secretly that he had made an empiricist mistake, and cursed that the local chronicles and travel notes that were searched were too unreliable. The spies from the Affairs Bureau had done their best and even collected the relevant legends, but there was still a problem.

There were long time when the roads from Jiangnan to Sichuan were found to be found. They were ancient residents who lived on both sides of the Gorges River for generations. When there were no other means of transportation, they walked many intermittent sidewalks along the river. Thousands of years ago, the story of Dayu controlling the flood was circulated in the Gorges River. "Huainanzi Xiuwu" once said that Dayu, "Break Wushan and let the river flow eastward." Dayu controlled the flood, which was walking along the river. Dayu received the heavenly letter from the Goddess and stood by the river under Feifeng Peak of Wuxia.

"The road to Shu is difficult, but it is harder than climbing to the sky." It has long been familiar to the world. People dig holes and open roads on cliffs, lay wood, and connect the paths along the Gorges River. However, due to earthquakes, mudslides, landslides, collapses and other reasons, the ancient road along the Three Gorges River has been intermittent. At the same time, due to people's production and life needs, the ancient road along the Three Gorges River has been repaired and extended in many historical stages.

The ancient road along the Three Gorges River was mainly developed from sidewalks, fiber paths and post roads. In order to facilitate the passage of both sides of the Gorges River, people have carried out countless rectifications and repairs of the ancient roads. Due to the complexity of the ancient roads in the Xiajiang River, people divided the ancient roads into: fiber paths, post roads, and sidewalks according to the traffic function, and divided into: Bian Road, trough roads, and plank roads according to the structural characteristics of the roads.

The river beaches of the gorges are very fast. In ancient times, wooden boats went up against the current. If large fleets did not have the help of fiber-pulling, it would be difficult to pass through the natural dangers of the Three Gorges. When small ships encountered dangerous shoals, they also needed to spread the beach and crossed safely by boatmen and boaters. The fiber paths came into being. Therefore, wooden boats were used in the Three Gorges, and fiber paths existed by the river.

Sometimes the fiber path is on the stone beams on the beach on the riverside without a road, and sometimes the fiber path uses the sidewalks on the riverside. The terrain of the gorge is dangerous, with large rocks standing along the coast, with dog teeth intertwined, and the water cannot flow directly, so it is extremely difficult to sail. The boatman pulls fibers on the rock cliffs without a road, and must climb forward. In order to ensure life safety and reduce the risk of fiber drawing, the boatman will dig, build stones, pave stones, chisel eyes and other methods to repair the fiber paths he often walks.

Post road is a transportation road that conveyed government orders and maintained rule in ancient feudal dynasties. In ancient times, the main functions of post road were pedestrians, freight, postage, and military passages. The plank road refers to a road built along cliffs, also known as pavilions and duplex roads. Most of them are built on cliffs and turbulent cliffs, with holes and wood, steps and paths dug on stone rocks.

"Biandao" refers to the road on the hillside in dialect. This kind of Biandao is a convenient road for people to walk on, just as Lu Xun said in "Hometown": "There is no road on the ground, and when more people walk, it becomes a road." The channel is a channel that is dug on the cliffs of the canyon area or the cliffs facing the river, shaped like a trough. The channel generally opens to the river surface. When the opening is closed, it is also called a tunnel.

However, the original form of these roads was just a sporadic, intermittent, incomplete path between cliffs and cliffs, for boaters or travelers to walk. However, Zhao Bing learned from the records in ancient books that the road rulers in the Xiajiang River, whether merchants or travelers, repaired the fiber paths, plank roads and post roads in order to facilitate the cargo, marching, or convey information. As far as he knew, there were many times:

According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Wei Xiang and Gongsun Shu", the commander of Nanjun Cheng Fan, generals of the army went to Jiangguan, defeated the generals of Weiluo Feng Jun and others, and eliminated Wu and Yiling and Yidao. Because of the Yidao, General Cen Peng of the South attacked him. Man and others were defeated. Shu general Wang Zheng beheaded Man and surrendered to Peng. It can be seen that Cen Peng's battle to attack Gongsun Shu was to break through the Yangtze River and break through Jingmen. Since ancient times, the shipping of the Three Gorges was difficult and complicated. If you want to go back to the river and enter Sichuan, you must take the boat to help him. Therefore, this record can also be used as a reference for the renovation of the Three Gorges Fibre Road.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yu was careless and lost Jingzhou, and was captured by Ma Zhong, the general of the Eastern Wu, and then killed. In the first year of Zhangwu, Liu Bei personally led an army of 700,000 from Shuzhong to advance eastward along the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River to avenge Guan Yu. At that time, the Shu army went down the river, opened roads across mountains and built bridges when they encountered water, leaving many river passages along the river. However, Liu Bei was burned by Eastern Wu and defeated Yiling. "The pursuers were very anxious, so Bei burned armor and broke the road", which destroyed the ancient road of the Three Gorges.

In the Tang Dynasty, post offices developed unprecedentedly. There were already 230 miles from Yichang to Badong border in the Three Gorges, and there were records of Qianzhou Post Road from Shangdu to Qianzhong Road reaching Guizhou. In the Song Dynasty, there were also records of Xiling Gorge plank road. Huang Tingjian, a Song Dynasty man, wrote "The Record of the Middle School of Qiannan Road", which recorded him traveling to Sanyou Cave at Xialaoguan. The article said: "...At the three gorges, one path, the pavilion surrounds the abdomen of the mountain, and the view below is deep and terrifying. One path passes through the abdomen of the mountain, dark, and it is clear when it comes out of the cave. The road environment in Huang said is the same as today, which shows that the pavilion-style plank road in this place had been restored in the Song Dynasty, forming the theory that he said of passing through the abdomen of the Sanyou Cave.

During the war against Mongolia in Sichuan and Sichuan, in order to connect Kui Gorge and Yangkou City, the Song Ting also organized the military and civilians in Shu to rebuild the road for the villagers to fetch water on the mountain. They artificially dug square stone holes on the cliff of Qutang Gorge on the south bank of the Yangtze River, one after another, arranged from top to bottom into a "zhi" shape from the mountainside to the riverside, and extended to the plank road on the top of the cliff.

In addition, the mountains, rivers and early waters also record another important ancient Three Gorges plank road - Kuixia Fibre Road. According to the book, there is a small path at the foot of the cliff on the north bank, which can lead to the back of the cabbage on the opposite bank of Daxikou, and above it can reach the mouth of the stream outside the canyon. There is also an ancient Badong Yangtze River Road called "Chuan-E Avenue", which starts from Huangyan in the east and ends at Wushan in the west, with a total length of more than 60 miles. However, there are two sections of this road that are very steep and cannot be used for transportation, and can only be used as fiber routes.

Based on these records, Zhao Bing found that several intermittent roads built in previous dynasties could be connected. Based on this, he designed a combat plan for waterway troops to advance, hoping to carry supplies with naval warships, and the infantry advanced on the shore, cooperated with each other to open up the access road to Sichuan, and headed straight to Chongqing. However, after receiving the reward from Wen Tianxiang, he realized that he did not consider that the roads here have been abandoned, some have been destroyed, and some have collapsed due to earthquakes and other disasters, and have long disappeared into the long river of history.

As a result, the plan to enter Sichuan by Zhao Bing was difficult to achieve. Fortunately, Wen Tianxiang made a quick decision after discovering the problem. Therefore, he secretly called luck. If he changed to a rigid supervisor and still insisted on implementing his combat plan despite the actual situation, it would be likely that the Western Expedition would be dead. Or, others discovered that the plan was offline and the actual situation was not responsible, and turned to the front of the imperial court. If he missed the opportunity between the times, he might have died.

Fortunately, Wen Tianxiang was brave and responsible, so he took action first and then changed the plan according to the actual situation. He sent a mountain regiment and a logistics brigade engineering battalion to go first. While repairing the old roads, he opened up new roads and cleared the enemy forts along the way to ensure the safety of the waterway. On the other hand, he also sent a team of small warships as the vanguard to survey the waterways, reconnaissance the enemy situation, and provided firepower support and material supplies to the mountain regiment. The main force then followed up as a support...

Knowing that he had made a mistake, Zhao Bing also knew that Wen Tianxiang was under greater pressure than his regret. Now everyone knows that he claims to be "undefeated" and his majesty is growing. Most of the generals in the army were promoted and trained by him, and he has a blind superstition about him. Although he has the right to be good, he dared to change the battle plan of the imperial decree without asking for instructions. He is really bold and inevitably arouses doubts and opposition, and even disobeys the order.

Therefore, after reading the memorial sent by Wen Tianxiang, Zhao Bing not only promptly issued instructions and agreed to his decision, but also praised him for his decisive and responsible behavior, and ordered the generals to obey Wen's orders and not to speculate on their own. Violators will be severely punished. After the instructions were completed, they did not delay for a moment and immediately ordered to send them to Yiling for 800 miles in a hurry.

"Puff..."

"What are Concubine Chen laughing?" In order to prevent him from leaving the palace without authorization, the supervision of Zhao Bing was strengthened again. In addition to the three pregnant people, the other three, plus the newly promoted Su Lan, took turns to live in Zhiyuan Hall to "guard". Today, Concubine Chen Wang Yu was serving next to him and suddenly laughed. He frowned and asked.

"The memorials of these ministers are all nonsense. Even trivial matters such as rain and rising food prices have to be reported. However, the officials have to stay up late every day to review and write the sentence "I know," "I am very angry," "I am very pleased" and then send it back. I think it is really ridiculous." Wang Yu said with a smile.

"Then what do you think should be written on the memorial form?" Zhao Bing put down his pen and asked again with his face turned around.

"Of course it is a major military and national event, at least it should be local political situations, not these 'children have already entered school', 'requesting to congratulate each other' or 'Your Majesty'... these common words." Wang Yu said seriously.

"Do you think these officials are just entertainment?" Zhao Bing said in a funny way when he saw it.

"I think they dare not to pass on the official family, but the official who writes these nonsense is not mediocre, but he also lacks ability. Isn't it annoying that the official family is facing nonsense memorials every day?" Wang Yu thought for a while and replied.

"My dear concubine was wrong. The official who wrote in the memorial that 'It's raining' was a prefect of Guangxi. He had a very capable official who had been repealing the bad rules of the local people, running schools and educating the people, building bridges and paving roads, and teaching the people to farm and weaving. " Zhao Bing said, "The land where he was governed is dry all year round. I had expressed concern before taking office. He always made a rain to show that he remembered my instructions, and I could also learn from it whether the local rainwater was sufficient."

"This person who always greets me is the clerk in the mansion when I opened the mansion and is always with me. Now he is also the leader of the transferee of the country. He always greets me, sends some local specialties, tells me some trivial matters at home, which also means that he has not forgotten the feelings that day and reports on the local social situation."

"So that's the case. I'm stupid, but I don't know that these seemingly nonsense words have knowledge." Wang Yu was not a stupid person either. After a brief explanation, the emperor understood the purpose and nodded.

She understood that although these words looked like nonsense, the memorials were important media to communicate between the emperor and ministers. The emperor wanted to see through the memorials not only the matter itself, but also the person who reported these matters. The memorial interactions are the words on the memorials, and the memorials themselves. The words on the memorials and the memorials themselves are messages that the minister wants to convey to the emperor.

When the relationship between the monarch and the ministers is good, the memorials and instructions will blow like a spring breeze, and you can't help but express your satisfaction in your heart; and if there is a problem with the relationship between the monarch and the ministers, the red comments on the memorials will be storms, and the words on the memorials are full of gunpowder. It can be seen that the memorials come and gossip, even if they are just a few words, there is a hidden clue.

In addition, memorials can also be used as a means for the emperor to understand the people's sentiments. Some nonsense may indeed appear. In addition to communicating and contacting the feelings between the monarch and the ministers, it is also a manifestation of the close relationship between the monarch and the ministers. On the other hand, it can also help the emperor understand the local situation in detail and help govern. After all, it is not a simple matter for the emperor to go out to Beijing, and it is still difficult to visit the scene in person. As for those that look interesting, it is just interesting to watch...
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