The light of the lake and the moon are harmonious, and there is no goggle on the lake surface. Looking at the green mountains and rivers of Dongting in the distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
This is a poem describing Junshan in Dongting. The eight-hundred-mile Dongting in the Tang Dynasty had reduced its water area by the Ming Dynasty, but the scenery of Junshan was still beautiful.
Mid-Autumn Festival in August.
Wang Yuan took Huang E and Song Ling'er on a boat ride on the lake. They had arrived in Longyang County half a month ago and had been waiting for the Mid-Autumn Festival before leaving.
By the way, check out the Dongting Lake management situation!
"Dong dong dong dong!"
The sound of pipa could be heard from the boat in the distance. I don’t know where the wanderer came from, taking the girl for a boat trip in Dongting on the Mid-Autumn Festival night.
Junshan seems to be very lively too, a group of literati are singing to the moon.
Song Ling'er was chewing mooncakes in her mouth, her cheeks bulging, like a hamster guarding food. She was holding a wine bottle in one hand and a mooncake in the other, lying on the boat. How could she look like a first-class official?
"Husband, congratulations on the festive season!" Huang E smiled and raised his wine glass.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Drink less, there is already one who is drunk and crazy."
Song Ling'er swallowed the mooncake in her mouth, sat up and said, "Who is drunk? I'm not drunk!"
Wang Yuan pointed to the official ship next to him: "I'm talking about those royal guards."
"Humph!" Song Ling'er expressed dissatisfaction.
The full moon hangs high, reflecting on the lake. A breeze blows, making slight ripples, which also makes people feel refreshed.
Wang Yuan lamented: "Good mountains and good waters, good years and good months, it is a good time to kill people and raid homes."
Huang E spat: "It really disfigures the scenery."
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, homes were really being searched by Dongting Lake. As for the cause, it was just Wang Yuan writing a letter to the Governor of Huguang.
Humans continue to encircle the lake to cultivate farmland, causing Dongting Lake to become increasingly narrow, and the flood storage function cannot hold the Yangtze River floods. Since the early Ming Dynasty, embankments have been built along the river to prevent floods. Once the flood is too large, it pours into Dongting Lake and submerges the lakeside.
Thousands of people.
Historically, because the Jiajing court had no money to control the water, its attitude towards Dongting Lake was simply crazy. The court blocked all the gates in the north of the Yangtze River and artificially let the flood flow into Dongting Lake, completely disregarding the life and death of the people on the south bank. The gentry on the south bank waited until the flood receded.
After that, the lake continued to be reclaimed for farmland, causing the floods to become more severe each time.
The court made trouble, the gentry benefited, and the people died violently.
During the Jiajing Dynasty, there were many disasters. How did they come about?
Half are natural disasters and half are man-made disasters.
Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty did not make more concessions. Under the guise of water control, the imperial court officially encouraged the reclamation of lakes and cultivated fields, and even shouted "If Huguang is ripe, the world is sufficient", just to alleviate the huge food gap. How many people drowned in the floods?
Too lazy to care.
Before Wang Yuan and Dingyou, he had already ordered the management of Dongting Lake.
First, the dams on both sides of the Yangtze River were repaired, and then the Dongting Lake was designated as a no-cultivated area. According to on-site surveys, the area around Dongting Lake ranged from two miles to ten miles. No people were allowed to cultivate the land, and the fertile farmland that had been fenced must also be abandoned!
The ordinary people were little affected, but the gentry and wealthy families suffered heavy losses. Because the fertile fields by the lake in Wei were all owned by big landowners, how could the common people compete with each other?
In addition, Wang Yuan also promulgated supporting policies to exempt the "fishing and salt tax" from the national terminal market.
Fishing salt tax is a type of salt tax. Fishing salt is the salt used to pickle salted fish. Every year, the imperial court sets quotas for each province.
During the fishing season, a large amount of salt is needed, and private salt dealers will naturally not miss a good opportunity. Sometimes a boat of salted fish is actually a ship of private salt. The salt scraped from one salted fish is enough to feed a family of three.
moon.
It is difficult for the court to manage this, so what should we do?
Let’s levy a fishery and salt tax.
When ordinary people carry home-pickled salted fish or even pickles to sell in the city, they have to pay an additional fish and salt tax. In fact, when the fish salt quota was implemented, it was already levied once, and another tax was levied on market sales.
In case of repeated taxation, Wang Yuan exempted only the repeated part.
In addition, in the prefectures and counties along the Dongting Lake, fishing tax bills, fishing boat taxes, reed tax... are all reduced by half.
With all these factors, the people around Dongting Lake can barely make a living by fishing and selling fish.
But there are always people who are disobedient. On his way back to Beijing, Wang Yuan discovered that a large amount of farmland had once again appeared in the forbidden farming area of Dongting Lake. Moreover, he continued to cultivate land around the lake, and one area was several miles long. The common people definitely did not have the ability.
It was created by the combined efforts of the gentry nearby.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Yuan came to Yuezhou Mansion.
I happened to see a group of prisoners being escorted by officers to the government prison. The prisoners, both male and female, were crying all the way, shouting that they were wronged.
They are all wealthy families along the coast, and their main clan has been uprooted. What awaits them is exile to Laos.
Who told them not to obey Wang Yuan's decree?
As for Laos, this was the main place of exile for the past two years.
Because Zhu Zaiyi was eager to establish his prestige through war, he rushed into Laos without sufficient preparations. At the beginning, he fought and won consecutively, but in the middle of the battle, he lost troops in various non-combat ways. That poor place was more primitive and backward than Jiaozhi.
The miasma was everywhere and snakes and insects were so dense that not even the Yunnan soldiers could withstand it.
When the entire army suffered from diarrhea, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were ambushed by the enemy.
Mu Shaoxun, the Duke of Guizhou, fought back and commanded the fire cannon troops to form a formation and fire a volley. Although the enemy was successfully repulsed, the formation of the friendly troops was overwhelmed, and many of them fell into the water and died when they fled.
Mu Shaoxun himself also fell ill during the journey and died of illness after the battle.
Although many chieftains of the Xuanwei Division in Laos were forced to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and agreed to the establishment of a garrison in Laos, the Ming Dynasty lost one official and more than 8,000 soldiers, including more than 2,000 elite fire rifle troops.
Although the court claimed that it was a great victory, civil and military officials believed that it was a great defeat that resulted in the loss of troops and generals.
If another emperor had been in power, this would indeed have been a great victory.
After all, dozens of Mongolian herdsmen were hacked to death, dozens of Japanese pirates were killed, and military commanders were promoted to high positions.
But there is no way. Wang Yuan has already maxed out everyone's threshold. If it does not achieve a glorious victory, it will not be considered a victory at all. How many people died when we recaptured the Hetao? It was just a battle in Laos, and the casualties must be controlled below 3,000, let alone still die.
Got a prince!
If Wang Yuan were in power, Laos should indeed be attacked, but it would definitely not be done now, but would be done after Jiaozhi has been digested.
Laos, only when facing the Ming Dynasty, was called the "Xuanweisi of Ming Dynasty Laos".
In fact, they privately called themselves the "Nanzhang Kingdom" and "Lancang Kingdom". These guys had already quietly established their country behind the backs of the Ming Dynasty. During this period, they were invaded by Annan and were forced to become Annan's vassal state, which was equivalent to the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
, and at the same time it was the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, within the territory of Xuanweisi, Laos, there was also the Lanna Kingdom, which later became the northeastern part of Thailand. The current king of Lanna Kingdom is the prince of Lan Xang Kingdom.
Zhu Zaiyi chose the worst time to start the war. Lancang (Laos) was in its golden age for hundreds of years.
If nothing is done and the troops are sent out a few years later, things will be over by then.
At that time, the old king of Lancang died of illness, and King Lanna, as the prince of Lancang, came back with his army to compete with his brothers for the throne, and the civil war instantly turned into a mess.
Unfortunately, it was not until the end of the war that the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty knew that the Xuanwei Division of Laos had already secretly established the country.
The emperor was furious and all the officials were angry.
What does this mean?
Equivalent to the early Ming Dynasty, Guizhou Xuanwei envoys secretly established a "Guizhou State".
In order to save face, the young emperor ordered all the exiled prisoners south of the Yangtze River to be sent to Laos to increase the number of Han people. He planned to spend twenty years "immigrating" 500,000 people to Laos, and by then the Lancang Kingdom would be destroyed.
It is necessary to establish a province in Laos.
Today, the Ming Dynasty has stationed 35,000 troops in Laos, cultivating and developing the country in the form of guard posts, which disgusted King Lancang.
However, King Lancang was old and sick, and could not spare much energy to resist, so he could only pinch his nose and allow the Ming Dynasty to garrison troops. After his death, his son would definitely borrow troops from the Ming Dynasty, and the civil war would be more exciting by then.
Maybe Lancang can be wiped out early.
The exiled gentry in front of us are the seeds of Confucian culture. They will spread the language and writing in Laos, and it may take a hundred years for them to bear fruit.