Chapter 1883 I knew brother-in-law, you are the best
Li Xingchen did not intend to criticize Chen Xuanhua because she thought of the problem too simply. After all, her starting point was not bad, but she also came to ask Li Xingchen for her opinion, which did not lead to any fault.
No one is a sage, so who can make mistakes? As long as you exercise well, you can naturally avoid such problems next time.
Chen Xuanhua hugged Li Xingchen's arm: "I knew you were the best, brother-in-law."
Li Xinchen smiled as his arm was squeezed.
Chen Xuanhua asked curiously: "Aren't we planning to go back to Jiangnan this winter?"
It is almost the middle of winter, but Li Xingchen has no intention of driving back to Beijing. It is obvious that he will celebrate the New Year in Luoyang this year. And there may be a war in the spring next year, so it is reasonable for Li Xingchen to stay in Luoyang.
"homesick?"
"Not really," Chen Xuanhua said with a smile, "With His Majesty and the sisters here, this is not home. I am just curious about how long Your Majesty plans to stay in Luoyang. It is colder here than in the south, and I am not used to it."
Li Xuanchen looked at Chen Xuanhua. This girl probably wasn't lying, and she had no need to lie. However, the attitude shown by Chen Xuanhua still made Li Xuanchen wary. This girl has always been an optimist, and even like this, she can't hide her love for her hometown.
thoughts.
It is well known that China has a strong hometown sentiment. There are many southern ministers in Luoyang now, and they must be somewhat homesick. Especially this time, Li Xingchen went north in a simple car, and most of the accompanying officials "abandoned their wives and abandoned their homes."
"Son", seeing that his return date is far away, missing him is inevitable.
Of course, throughout the ages, it has been a very common phenomenon to leave one's hometown and go to another place to serve as an official. But for the current ministers traveling south of the Yangtze River, it is obviously not just as simple as homesickness.
There is no doubt that the capital of the Han Dynasty was Jiankang Prefecture, but this time Li Xingchen stayed in Luoyang for such a long time, which naturally gave rise to some thoughts in the minds of these southern ministers.
Where is Luoyang? Luodu in the sky is the capital of the country that has been inherited from the Eastern Han Dynasty to Cao Wei and then to Sima Jin Dynasty. It is the real center of the world. Compared with Luoyang, Jiankang Prefecture has no competitiveness.
Because the capital of Jiankang Prefecture is none other than Soochow, the Pian'an dynasties of the Southern Dynasties, and even Jiankang Prefecture can be equated with "Pian'an Jiangbiao", so facing the northern imperial capitals like Luoyang and Chang'an, Nanchen
They were not confident enough in the first place, and they hoped that Li Xingchen would just use Luoyang as a palace and accompanying the capital, and put the Han Dynasty's focus on Jiankang Mansion.
Li Xingchen had been to Chang'an before, but his plan for Chang'an was to build a new city and renovate the old palaces. Obviously, the most he could do was to use this place as a companion capital. At that time, Li Xingchen even drove back to Beijing a year ago and did not stay in Chang'an.
Stayed too long.
This time in Luoyang is different. Not only is it clear that the New Year is going to be celebrated, the repairs of Luoyang City are also put on the agenda early. There is even the intention of rebuilding the entire city of Luoyang, if it weren't for the fact that the treasury is in the pocket.
Shy, all the banks are about to be hollowed out by the Ministry of Revenue, and I am afraid that the city walls of Luoyang have already been stripped clean.
Of course, the main reason is that the north is still undecided. Luoyang is still a solid front line. The enemy's cavalry can be seen across the river, so it is not the time to carry out large-scale construction. Otherwise, Li Xingchen still has many ways to squeeze out money.
The main thing is to rebuild Luoyang City. It can almost be said clearly that this is to rebuild a capital city. Northern merchants and aristocratic families will definitely support it. Although these guys are almost paid out by the court now, they should not be completely paid out yet.
Empty place.
Li Xingchen fell into deep thought. It seemed that it was time to appease the civil and military forces in the south, otherwise it might trigger conflicts between regions in the court. Now there are already conflicts between civil and military forces in the court of the Han Dynasty. If there are more unprovoked conflicts between regions
Black, then Li Xingchen would have a headache. The more conflicts between courtiers, the better. Otherwise, at the critical moment, if everyone can't work together, something will happen.
Chen Xuanhua looked at Li Xingchen and couldn't help but ask: "Does my brother-in-law really plan to move the capital?"
Li Xingchen had nothing to hide from her, so he sighed: "It's not just a day or two since I had this plan."
The worries of the Southern ministers are actually not groundless. Heluo has always been the political center of the North. Even after the South has developed for so many years, in terms of population, land reclamation, etc., the North is still better. Otherwise, there are
With the sharpness of the firearm, Li Xingchen had already overthrown Yu Wenxian.
No money, no people, no firearms can change the situation.
Therefore, if the political center of the Han Dynasty is still in Jiankang Prefecture, it will obviously not be conducive to the court's steady control of the north. In this era of underdeveloped transportation, the court's focus on the world is the most correct choice. Any partial peace may lead to distant
The collapse of the frontier.
In Li Xingchen's mind, Chang'an is even a little remote. Luoyang is the place that can best become the heart of the Han Dynasty. From here, go east to Fusang, north to Langjuxu Mountain, south to Nanyang, and west to Congling.
They are almost the same, of course it may be a little further to the west and south, but those are large areas of no man's land, so it's nothing to worry about.
In comparison, the Jiankang Prefecture's control over the north is very weak, let alone the control over the Western Regions and other places? Historically, the political center of the Tang Dynasty in its heyday was actually Luoyang, the sacred capital of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu's generation.
After Xuanzong ascended the throne, the political center returned to Chang'an, and the country once reached its territorial heyday, but its final reluctant expansion laid the foundation for the Anshi Rebellion.
Chang'an is just too far away from Youzhou.
Choosing Luoyang was inevitable, or in other words, Li Xingchen had no choice at all.
He ascended the throne in Jiankang Prefecture, and using Jiankang Prefecture as the capital of the Han Dynasty before the Northern Expedition actually gave the South a lot of face. It had some innate geographical advantages that could not be replaced.
It depends on whether the civil and military officials from the south can accept it.
Of course, they can't do anything even if they don't accept it, because their interests, their honor and disgrace are already tied to the big man, and Li Xinchen. They actually can't stop what Li Xinchen wants to do, and they can only obey, otherwise
If you do, you will be replaced by others who are eager to try.
Just like when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, didn't the nobles of the aristocratic families know that this boy was harboring bad intentions? Not necessarily, but we didn't have a choice.
The same is actually true for the current Han ministers. All they need is time to accept this fact from their hearts.
Therefore, Li Xingchen is still waiting, waiting for them to face it calmly.
"Do you think I did something wrong?" Li Xingchen looked at Chen Xuanhua, who was frowning in thought, and asked.