On Wangfu Mountain, this mountain is steep, graceful, exquisite and strange. In addition to the main peak, there are four branch peaks. The Wang peaks stand side by side and the four peaks arch towards each other.
There is a strange cave under the branch peak. Between the caves, the rugged area is connected, and each step provides a view. You can walk through the caves, climb the steps, and spiral up to the top.
There is a pavilion on the top of the mountain. You can lean on the railing and have a bird's-eye view of the city. You can also overlook Jiujia Gushan in the distance. Nanyang's Zishan, Tashan, Dushan and Pushan are all vividly visible.
"This view is very nice, but I heard that there was no such mountain before?"
Zhu Yihai led the princes, ministers and generals to Wangfu Mountain, climbed to the top, looked far ahead, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Yes, Your Majesty." King Nanyang replied.
The former owners of this mountain were the former Tang Dynasty kings Zhu Yujian, Zhu Yuyuan, Yu Gian, and Yu E. They were accompanied by Dazong Ling. Zhu Yujian, the Nanyang king, stood on the mountain and was filled with emotion. He replied to the emperor, "Our ancestors, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty, were granted the title of king of the Tang Dynasty.
As for Fan Nanyang, this mountain is part of the back garden of the Tang Dynasty palace. Some of the stones were transported from Taihu Lake more than 2,000 miles away and were carried by men and oxen for several years."
Zhu Yihai stood leaning on the railing. If we say that Wangfu Mountain is actually just a small rockery, there are only sixty steps from the bottom to the top, and it is only eight feet high.
It's just that there are no tall buildings in Nanyang City, so the eight-foot-tall Wangfu Mountain is the only one in Nanyang.
Zhu Huan, the first king of the Tang Dynasty, was the youngest son of Zhu Yuanzhang and the 23rd among the 26 brothers. In the 19th year of Hongwu, Li Mei gave birth to this son for Zhu Yuanzhang. When he was six years old, he was named the king of Tang Dynasty. His mother also valued her son.
, named Concubine Xian.
Although Zhu Huang was granted the title of Queen, even though he had not yet established a vassal status, construction of the Tang Palace City in Nanyang had already begun. However, when he was thirteen years old, Zhu Yuanzhang died and his mother was forced to be buried. However, his eldest nephew Jianwen cut the vassal status and forced the four rebels.
My brother, King Zhu Di of Yan, raised an army to seize the throne from his nephew.
After the fourth brother seized the throne, the vassals became safer. Not only did they not cut down the vassals, but the young Tang King also received a reward. In the second year of Yongle, he married his concubine Wu, the granddaughter of Wu Fu, Duke of Guizhou. However, after the marriage, Zhu Di did not let the little girl
The brothers went to Nanyang to join the feudal clan and stayed in the capital. However, the Tang Palace City in Nanyang was still under construction. It was not until the Tang Palace Chief Shi violated the night ban that Zhu Di allowed him to go to join the feudal clan after dealing with it.
However, he died of illness only a few years after arriving in Nanyang. He was only thirty years old. His eldest son succeeded him. He died at the age of twenty-one and had no children. His brother from the same mother took over the title.
There were nine generations and eleven kings in the Ming and Tang dynasties, but there was nothing worthy of special praise, and even the people did not have a favorable impression of the Tang kings.
It is said that the Tang kings of all dynasties liked to stand on the main peak of Wangfu Mountain and overlook the whole city. Some Tang kings even found out who was getting married in the city, and sometimes they would directly order the bride to be snatched away, and she would be kept there for three nights before being returned.
, directly thrown into the tiger pen to feed the tigers, so later, for fear of being robbed by the king of Tang Dynasty, the people of Nanyang did not dare to marry during the day, so they secretly welcomed the bride at night.
Don't set off firecrackers or blow the locks, just do it secretly.
To this day, this custom is still followed.
Zhu Yujian's grandfather, the old Tang Dynasty prince, was also a very fatuous and absurd prince. The Tang Duan King, Zhu Shuoji, had an absurd life, and he doted on his concubine. He loved Wujiwu and doted on his concubine's son. He hated the prince, so he allowed his concubine to sleep with him.
They secretly imprisoned Zhu Yujian and his son in the Flattery Department, hoping to starve them to death. Zhu Yujian was only twelve years old at the time, and had been in prison for sixteen years. If a petty official had not been secretly sending some brown rice, he would have starved to death.
In the end, the prince was poisoned and killed by his concubine.
In the end, it was Chen Qiyu, a political participant in Henan Province, who warned King Duan of Tang Dynasty who wanted to have a concubine and have a son when he was mourning the crown prince, so that King Tang Duan had to let Zhu Yujian go and make him his grandson.
In the same year, the absurd old Tang King died, and the imperial court was posthumous. Zhu Yujian succeeded to the throne. After ascending to the throne, the young Tang King actively wrote letters to comment on current affairs, and even killed two uncles of the county princes with a stick a few years later, and in the Qing Dynasty.
After the army entered the stronghold, they ignored the ancestral system and recruited soldiers and horses to go north to King Qin. As a result, Chongzhen was furious and sent Jinyi guards to demote him to a commoner and take him to Fengyang High Wall Prison. The guarding eunuchs were not allowed to torture him with the pier lock method when asking for bribes.
He lived there for seven years and almost died in prison.
After Zhu Yujian was deposed as a commoner, his younger brother Zhu Yurong attacked the Tang king. In the 14th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng captured Nanyang. Zhu Yurong was captured and killed in the Tang palace.
The Prince's Palace of the Tang Dynasty and the nine Prince's Palaces in Nanyang were also looted and burned by Li Zicheng. No scraps of burned tiles remained, leaving only the Wangfu Mountain that could not be burned, standing there all alone. Now he is back.
, many of the strange rocks on this mountain have been moved away long ago, leaving only the mounds of rubble, the sixty steps, and the wild grass and trees that have grown uncared for.
After the death of all the Tang kings, they were buried in Zishan, dozens of miles outside the city. The cemetery covers an area of thousands of miles, but it was destroyed and excavated by the peasant army. The bones of princes and the bones of wild dogs were thrown everywhere.
It is said that after the Tatars came, they even sent people to dig it again.
The Tatars later fortified the cities of Nanyang and Xiangyang, and organized strong men from several counties to use ox carts to pull the bricks and stones dug out of the royal palace and royal tombs. It is said that the process took a month.
At one time, half of the city in Nanyang had the surname Zhu.
There were some ridiculous Tang princes who took in numerous wandering children as adopted sons and asked them to change their surnames to Zhu, further ruining the name of the Tang prince's palace.
Zhu Yujian is a rare one among the Tang kings. He was imprisoned by his grandfather for more than ten years when he was a boy. After he attacked the prince, he also used thunderous means to rectify the palace, and even ended up killing two uncles who had poisoned his father and ruined the reputation of the palace.
, he was killed directly by the stick.
In the face of the Tartar invasion, he even dared to recruit troops to go north to Qinwang, but it was a pity that what he got in exchange was another seven years of imprisonment and torture.
The Hongguang Dynasty released him and awarded him the title of King of Nanyang. He went south to Fujian. The Zheng family wanted to support him in supervising the country and proclaiming himself emperor. However, Zhu Yujian did not let him be at the mercy of the Zheng family just because of his position. When he got the news that King Zhu Yihai of Lu had already launched an army to supervise the country,
After hearing the news, he took the initiative to support him and avoid internal strife.
And Zhu Yihai was not Chongzhen. Not only did he have no suspicion or suppression of the imperial uncle, he even asked him to recruit troops and rebuild the security guard, and even asked him to guard Quzhou. After he entered the dynasty, he has always participated in central decision-making.
Thirteen years have passed since he left Nanyang. When he came back again, Nanyang City was even more depressed than when he left. Not even a brick of the former Tang Prince's Mansion and the nine county princes' mansions could be seen, and the Tang Prince's Tomb was also gone.
Only Wangfu Mountain is left, overgrown with weeds.
Without the strange mountains of Taihu Lake, this mountain would just become a pile of dirt.
"Your Majesty, I have a request."
Zhu Yujian asked the emperor.
"Uncle, please tell me."
"I request your Majesty to repair the tombs of the Tang kings at your own expense, and rebury the Tang kings, princes, etc. so that they can rest in peace."
"Secondly, I request that half of the original Tang Dynasty royal mausoleum be used as a free grave. I am willing to donate my private wealth to collect the remains from the wilderness and bury them in the free grave. I will also purchase a few acres of land next to the free grave and recruit some people to guard the tomb.
Let them cultivate the cemetery fields and guard the tombs in exchange for rent exemption.
He also built a temple at the tomb for salvation, a Confucius temple and a social school to recruit children from nearby villagers to teach culture.
Build another almshouse, where disabled, orphaned, and homeless people can be adopted."
What Zhu Yujian proposed was to build a public cemetery to collect the bones that had been abandoned in the wilderness due to war. He even not only set aside land to build a cemetery, but also set up a cemetery field and recruited tenant farmers to collect the corpses, guard the tombs, and repair the tombs.
, exempting them from part of the land rent.
The remaining land rent is used to maintain graves, even adopt orphans, widows and disabled people, etc.
This is a charity.
In fact, there were government-run public cemeteries in ancient times, called Luzeyuan. During wars, corpses that were not claimed for burial, or those whose families were too poor to be buried, were restrained by the government and buried in a centralized manner.
However, the funds for this kind of government-run Leze Garden are limited, especially now that we have just experienced such a great turmoil, and the imperial court has always encouraged the private gentry and wealthy households to build free graves.
Leaze Gardens and free graves can also prevent plague.
Zhu Yihai strongly supported this good deed.
He also publicly stated that he asked the Henan provincial government to allocate special funds to allocate land to build Luze Gardens in various places to collect and bury the remains of the wilderness that had been left uncollected due to war, famine, etc.
"The royal treasury will also allocate a special amount of money to various places to fund the Luze Garden."
"Your Majesty is merciful, but I have another unkind request."
"I would like to hold a large-scale collective wedding in Nanyang City to celebrate the newly married soldiers of the imperial camp."
The custom of not getting married during the day in Nanyang City has been around for a long time, and it has always been said that it was caused by the Tang king's robbery. Zhu Yujian served as Tang king in Nanyang for five years, although he had never done such a ridiculous thing, and now Nanyang is no longer
his fiefdom,
But after all, he was once the king of Tang Dynasty, and his current title is also Nanyang, so he still wants to make some changes.
He proposed to take advantage of the opportunity for soldiers in the royal camp to get married to hold a mass wedding during the day, or even hold it for several consecutive days, to break this old custom and repair the mistakes made by the previous Tang kings.
The Zhu Yujian brothers were also willing to donate a sum of money to the disabled, orphans and widows in Nanyang who suffered from war and famine, so that they could rebuild their homes and restore peace.
Zhu Yujian and his brothers were willing to sell off the ruined Tang Palace and nine county palaces, including the real estate and houses of other Tang Palaces in the city. Half of the proceeds from the sale would be donated to the court to support the people, and the other half would be used by them.
Relieve the orphans, widows and disabled people, and collect the bones.
"Your Majesty, I request that this Wangfu Mountain be destroyed."
Zhu Yihai smiled and said, "Although the Tang Prince's Palace is gone, there is no need to destroy Wangfu Mountain. It can be repaired a little and it is also a scene in Nanyang. The Tang Prince used to overlook the whole city here and do ridiculous things like robbing people of their relatives.
Erect a monument and inscribe it as a warning to future generations.
Now the charitable deeds of King Nanyang can also be recorded later."
Things like the king of the Tang Dynasty snatching brides and people marrying at night were just folklore in the past. No official history would dare to record it.
But now the emperor actually said that he wanted to erect a monument to commemorate this. Zhu Yujian felt his face was burning when he heard it at first, but he quickly accepted it.
Since you've done it, why bother covering it up?
The right way is to face it head on and make serious corrections.
"Nanyang is a good place, with a mild climate and fertile soil. It is also the granary of the Central Plains, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and convenient transportation. This basin surrounded by several mountain ranges is a cornucopia. Now it has finally been recovered. We must make every effort to restore people's livelihood and vigorously develop the economy.
We, the people of Nanyang, cannot be allowed to run out to beg for food while holding a cornucopia in our hands, it doesn’t make sense.”
The Governor of Huanghuai and the Governor of Henan, Chen Qianfu, also immediately stood up and promised that they would work hard and never let down the emperor or the people of Nanyang.
Henan Fourth Road and Henan South Road patrols are stationed in Nanyang, Nanyang Fucheng is also stationed in Nanyang, and Daofu County is a three-level Tongzhi city.
Chen Qianfu made a suggestion to the emperor.
In the Song Dynasty, there was a plan to build the Xianghan Canal, build a weir in Xindian Town in the north of Nanyang City, divert the Baihe River water into Shitang, and the Shahe River into Cai River, leading to Bianliang, and then to the Xiangtan Water Canal. After the approval of the Northern Song Dynasty court, it was planned to
More than 100,000 Dingfu and state soldiers were recruited, and the Baihe River was excavated twice to the Shahe River and the Fangcheng Pass.
Due to the increasing terrain, although the water arrived, it was difficult to transport it by water. Later, the stone weir was washed away by the river water, and the project was stranded.
But the ruins of the canal that was dug back then are still there.
If this Xianghan canal can be built, it will not only connect Xianghan to the Xiangtan canal, but also cross the Fangcheng Mountain watershed and directly connect to Sha and Bian in the Central Plains, and even lead the Han Dynasty to the Yellow River.
Water transportation and irrigation are all things that will benefit the future.
Fangcheng Pass is a natural gap in the north of Nanyang Basin. Fangcheng people call it Fengkou.
Chen Qianfu told the emperor that, in fact, Henan Province had already studied and demonstrated that as long as six feet of digging was needed at the pass, the Han River could be diverted out of the Nanyang Basin and flow northward to the Huanghuai Plain.
The failure of the Northern Song Dynasty had certain technical reasons, but it was mostly due to political disputes.
Nanyang is a huge basin with fertile soil, but precipitation is mostly concentrated in July, August, September, and September, so Nanyang has always had a water shortage problem. If this white sand canal can be built, it will not only make transportation here more convenient, but also the Han River water irrigation
Not only the Nanyang Basin can also help Nanyang's agriculture, making this granary truly rich and stable.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The construction of canals has been developing very well since the pre-Qin period. The Ling Canal of the Qin Dynasty was even more famous, and then the Sui and Tang Grand Canals and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal were even more famous.
Needless to say.
Lifting water step by step by building weirs and other means is not a problem at all.
The only things to consider are excavation costs and maintenance costs.
If we just intercept the Baihe River and cross the Fangcheng Pass, we will inevitably have the same problem as in the Song Dynasty, that is, for a long time every year, the canal will not have enough water to allow navigation, and its use value will be greatly reduced.
In order for this canal to truly play its role, the Han River must be introduced, not only to connect the Han River, but also to lift the Han River to the Baihe River and the Tang River. It is necessary to add weirs, dams, water gates, etc., and the soil quality of Nanyang is
Some are expansive soils.
Expansive soil swells when exposed to water and shrinks when it loses water. Building a channel on expansive soil can easily cause the channel to collapse. It's a knife on a sunny day, but a mess on a rainy day.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Fangcheng Pass was excavated and weirs and embankments were built, but they were later abandoned. Firstly, there was insufficient water and navigation was often unavailable. Secondly, due to swelling soil, the repaired weirs and embankments often collapsed during the rainy season floods, and were finally abandoned.
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But this is not impossible to solve. The simplest way is to replace the expansive soil with non-expansive soil, dig out and replace the expansive soil along both sides of the canal channel, and transport the non-expandive soil to repair the weir and embankment. It is simple and crude, that is, the amount of work will be reduced.
As the size increases, the cost increases.
There is another method, which is to steam and crush the expanded soil, then use bags to seal it and flatten it, compact it layer by layer, and then lay the second layer. The third method is to mix in other materials, such as glutinous rice slurry, lime, etc.
Become Sanhetu, etc.
In short, just solve the problems that arise.
Chen Qianfu, the governor, intends to promote the establishment and construction of the Xianghan Canal. After it is completed, the Nanyang Basin will not only be more closely connected with Henan, but also drive the development of southern Henan and western Henan. It will also be more conveniently connected through the Xianghan Canal.
The Yangtze River, Han River, and even Xiangtan can also be connected directly to Lingnan via the Lingqu Canal.
The emperor had previously publicly mentioned the need to dig the Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal in southern Jiangxi and Jiangxi. Today, Chen Qianfu also seized the opportunity to mention the Xianghan Canal.
"You can first establish a project initially, do some preliminary work, do some exploration and research, and determine the feasibility and preliminary budget for excavation, maintenance and other costs."
Zhu Yihai didn't veto it, nor did he directly agree, but he left an opening. Now that he didn't have the conditions to do it directly, he could do some preliminary research first.
