Spring and Autumn I Am King

PS: Changshan in the previous chapter was changed to Hengshan. After all, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty had no chance to change it to Changshan. I came back late today, and there is only this chapter.

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"This is Hengshan..."

After brushing off the first snow on his shoulders, Zhao Wuxi looked at the tall mountains covered in silver in the distance and took a long breath. This is Zhao's territory and the edge of China in the Spring and Autumn Period.

From Jieshan to Hengshan, five hundred miles from north to south, from Dahe to Taihang, four hundred miles from east to west, this is the northern territory of the Zhao family.

Compared with the densely populated Hanoi and Hedong, the area around Jinyang is sparsely populated, but Jinyang, Wuxian, Qixian, Pingling, Genyang, Tushui, Mashou and Yuxian have been established. , Qianmu County, Guayanzhi County, Huoren, Lou twelve counties. Before the civil war of Liuqing, only half belonged to the Zhao clan, and the rest belonged to Fan, Zhongxing, Wei, Zhi, etc. After the civil war and the exchange of land, the Zhao family obtained the complete Taiyuan Basin.

Together with the 10,000 families who migrated from Xinjiang, the total population of Zhao's Taiyuan area is 340,000.

This was the first time that Zhao Wuxi came to Jinyang in his life. This fortress, which was mainly operated by Zhao Yang, attracted the siege of Zhishi and Daiguo during the war. Just like what the Zhi clan had done in history, Zhishen Jue poured water into Jinyang, and there was no place for feet in the city.

But they also have the highest sense of identity with the Zhao clan. When they entered the city, Zhao Wuxi was given a grand welcome. When the Zhao clan needed them most, the people of Jinyang let their young men leave home for a few years and acted as the main force of the Zhao army. , so that Zhao Wuxi won the war. After the war, there were seven or eight of those who left home and returned, and the rest were damaged. Their names were included in the "Yuntai" and they were worshipped in the temple of the Zhao family.

However, when Zhao Wuxi arrived, he could still see the barriers built outside the city when the enemy army besieged Jinyang. Jinyang doctor Dong Anyu did not remove these fortresses.

Dong Zi certainly had his own reasons: "Thinking of happiness and being kind, thinking of worry and fear is the way of people, keeping these strongholds can not only serve as a barrier on the periphery of Jinyang, but also make people always vigilant and take precautions. What's wrong with that?"

As the eldest official of the Zhao clan, Dong Anyu's status is different. He diligently guards this fortified city for the Zhao clan, ensuring that it is not lost during the war. previous life. Zhao Wuxi also treated him like a teacher. He wanted Dong Anyu to be the slaughter of the Zhao clan, and he would go to Yecheng to retire as the head of the group of ministers, but he also hoped that Dong Anyu could preside over in Jinyang for a few more years.

"Dong Zi, although I have not made Jinyang the new main town, it is still a key business area and the pillar of the Zhao family."

In the Zhao Palace of Jinyang, Zhao Wuxi specially went to the room where Zhao Yang and Ji Ying lived. After feasting on the ministers of Jinyang, he left Dong Anyu to confide in him.

Jinyang controls the mountains and rivers, and sits on the shoulders of Jishou. It is the foundation of the Zhao family. Like Lu, it is Zhao Wuxi's left and right feet who can stand in the world. It is impossible to lose one. Therefore, he does attach great importance to this place. This time he came to Jin. Yang, in addition to asking the wounded and caring for the orphaned, a new policy must be implemented.

"I plan to combine Jinyang and other twelve counties to set up 'Taiyuan County'!"

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History has quietly changed. In the crisis of Fan and Bank of China besieging Jinyang, Dong Anyu chose to commit suicide in order to let the Zhao family get out of the siege, to meet the demands of Zhiwenzi and Liang Yingfu, and let the Zhao family get rid of the first calamity.

However, under the intervention of Zhao Wuxi, Dong Anyu was still alive and well, but after two years of besieging the city and the attack of the lord leaving before him, he was quite old.

However, when Zhao Wuxi mentioned the plan for the Jinyang area, Dong Anyu's squinted eyes suddenly lit up.

"Taiyuan County?"

Qin, Chu, and Jin established counties very early, and counties were set up later than counties, but they had already been created by the time of Duke Hui of Jin. During this period, there was no direct relationship between counties and counties, but the counties’ The status is indeed lower than that of the county, so when Zhao Yang motivated his soldiers, he said, "The upper doctor will accept the county, and the lower doctor will accept the county".

However, with the annexation of the six lords, the territories were connected together, and the counties under the Zhao clan gradually increased. For example, there were a total of twelve in Taiyuan and Luliang, and because they were located on the border, they sometimes faced the invasion of the Rong and Di, and it was necessary to integrate the power of the counties. , to resist and counterattack.

Therefore, a higher-level management organization needs to be established above the county, so Zhao Wuxi planned to continue the established process in history and implement the local management system of the county and county two-level system: anyway, in a few decades, Wei The Xihe County in the country and the Wan County in the Chu country will be created one after another. This time, let the Zhao clan specialize in beauty!

Zhao Wuxi explained to Dong Anyu how the county operates: "The chief of the county is called the prefect, who has the power to control the people and protect the land. He accepts the orders of Yecheng from the superior, and supervises the county to which he belongs. There is the prefect of the prefecture. , has the right to recruit troops and lead the army, and pay equal attention to the prefect in the county, and can sometimes act on behalf of the prefect.

He spread his hands and said with a smile: "Actually, it is similar to what Dong Zi is doing now, but it is institutionalized and implemented in Jinyang first. If it is effective, it will be extended to Ye, Handan, the eldest son, Hanoi, and even What does Dong Zi think of Lu Guo?"

Dong Anyu felt his white beard and thought about it carefully. After the implementation of the county system, the power of each county will be concentrated in the county, which can prevent the forces from being dispersed and clenched into a fist due to the fact that the county doctors and county magistrates go their separate ways. It is more appropriate to use it to deal with the surrounding states of Rong and Dibang, and the terms such as prefect, commander, Dali, and superintendent are novel, but in fact, it is to disperse the power of his original "Jinyang doctor" to rule the counties in Taiyuan. It is beneficial to Yecheng remote control here.

The implementation of prefectures and counties is both centralized and decentralized, with fewer drawbacks and higher efficiency. Dong Anyu is also nearly seventy years old. He is not obsessed with power. He only hopes that the prosperous Jinyang can be handed over to the new lord, and then he can return to the Hanoi Yangcheng that Zhao Wuxi gave him to retire in peace. , to get the son and grandson, and wait until after his death to have a clear conscience in front of Zhao Wuzi.

So he readily agreed, and took office a few days later as the first "Taiyuan County Governor". Because of Dong Anyu's prestige, no one in the twelve counties of Taiyuan refused to accept it!

However, Zhao Wuxi came to Jinyang specially for more than this.

"Before Wuzi passed away, he left a last word to me."

Dong Anyu's face suddenly became solemn. After all, it was related to the last words of the emperor. It must be a very important matter, so that people who are dying will never forget it.

Zhao Wuxi's eyes were full of memories: "My father said that my treasure talisman is on the Mount Heng in northern Jin. After the state of Jin is settled, you can climb the mountain of Xiawu and look for this treasure talisman!"

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The so-called Taiyuan actually means a vast wilderness. This is the first time the Jin people entered this basin northward, and they took down the name when they were defeated and the Chidi Bie tribe was in a state of guilt.

Now that Zhao Wuxi saw it with his own eyes, he realized that the ancients did not deceive me.

This year's winter came earlier, and despite the fine snow, Dong Anyu personally took Zhao Wuxi northward. After all, it was related to Zhao Yang's last wish.

In the beginning, from Jinyang to Yuxian, it was the valley area where the Fen River flowed. The terrain was low and the flat fields stretched infinitely until the end of the extreme. The immigrants from Xinjiang lived in the settlements around the fence. Tingyi is easy to find a resting place for the backward: after Yucheng Township was stopped by Xiaoting Changcheng Tuan to verify his identity ten years ago, Dong Anyu moved the system to Jinyang.

However, the good times did not last long. After leaving Yu, the farmland receded, and I saw dense deep forests. The main road gradually turned into a small path.

A group of more than a thousand people passed through the turbulent narrow rapids of the upper Hutuo River, bypassing the increasingly steep Wutai Mountains, the road in the north, winding through the dense forest, full of cedar trees and thorns, monkeys roaring on both sides, and the road can be seen from time to time. See the footprints of snow leopards and tigers. The northern part of Shanxi in the Spring and Autumn Period was a virgin land waiting to be developed. It was a far cry from the province of later generations, which was full of dust from coal mines and factories. Zhao Wuxi had never seen such a vast and barren wasteland in his life.

On the seventh day after leaving Jinyang, they finally arrived at the northernmost county in "Taiyuan County": Huoren County.

"Fifty miles a day is the limit. If the army starts from Jinyang, the military pawns are almost at this speed, and the recruited pawns will be worse, maybe ten days..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Wuxi frowned slightly, but soon he and Dong Anyu met with the local county officials and were busy visiting the people.

Huoren County is not big. It is a small town located in the rugged loess hills. There are only a few hundred households in the city. Compared with Jinyang's revived prosperity, it is quite lonely here. Only the four-way earthen city wall was built so thickly that it looked like a solid earthen enclosure.

But even so, it failed to prevent the savage invasion from the north.

"Three years ago, the Zhi clan attacked Ma Shou from Qiuyou, and sent people north to contact the representative. The representative could not break the sentence, so he went around from the mountain and attacked the Huo people. This place was not recovered until a year ago. There were originally more than a thousand households in the city, and nearly half of them were kidnapped." Dong Anyu has always been brooding about not being able to guard the border and protect the people, so he said so fiercely at this time.

"According to this calculation, the garrison that can supply 2,500 people here is already the limit..." Zhao Wuxi thought about it and said: "In this way, next year, another thousand families will be relocated from Jinyang to settle the fields and harvest the autumn and winter. Tibet, the Huo people must be able to supply five thousand troops!"

Farming is not easy, and the material foundation limits the success or failure of military operations, and Zhao Wuxi is helpless. After staying in Huo Ren for two days, in the name of "hunting", he and Dong Anyu got up again and headed to Mount Heng, dozens of miles north.

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Hengshan, in fact, is not a mountain, but a mountain system. It starts from the Taihang Mountains, spans the north of Shanxi, and stretches for 500 miles from east to west.

Zhao Wuxi's destination was actually the main peak of Mount Heng, called Xiawu Mountain.

A few hours after leaving Huoren County and heading north, they saw a mountain range. Because the snow had just fallen yesterday, it looked like a gray-blue giant shouldering Chen Xue and steep rock peaks. When the north wind blew, a long Ice needles splash down from the towering peaks like flags...

Xiawu Mountain is a dangerous place in the northern part of Shanxi Province. To the east is the Xianyu Zhongshan State, and to the west is the extreme northern pass of the Jin State.

Zhao Wuxi spent one day hunting and camping at the foot of the mountain, and the next day, under the guidance of local hunters, he began to climb north to the summer house.

The process of going up the mountain was much easier than Zhao Wuxi had expected. The first snow of winter had stopped, and there were also paths that had been renovated in advance by the guards, plus there were excellent livestock: mules as riding tools. .

Zhao Wuxi was riding two white mules. This animal was Zhao Yang's favorite animal. There is also a story of killing the white mules and giving them to Xuqu, a small official in Jinyang.

"The old man was also present at that time, and at a glance he saw that Xu Qu was lying, so he suggested to the lord to kill him, but the lord thought that the killing was to save the livestock, which was too unrighteous, so he summoned the people of Yong to kill the white mule, and took out the liver to take it. To Xuqu , and get the head of the enemy general!"

Zhao Wuchun smiled and said: "My father knew that Xu Qu was lying, but he killed a mule and gave it to him. This is similar to Jueying, the king of Chu Zhuang. It can be seen that his father's love is better than that of other animals. What's wrong? I haven't seen him in the lower palace or Handan..."

Dong Anyu laughed loudly: "The year before last year, the general who guarded the Gucheng Fortress and had to take a detour before letting his people board the city for a moment, was Xu Canal! Keeper, it's been fifteen years now."

Zhao Wuxi sighed endlessly: "It's amazing, after going down the mountain, I must go to Juzhusai to meet him in person!"

However, in Zhao Wuxi's view, this mule, like a scholar, is a weapon of the military. With the encouragement of his policy, mules are now gradually becoming popular in Yedi and Handan. Zhao encouraged the Yuren and orcs who manage livestock in various places to let donkeys and horses mate. Although the new species they gave birth to were infertile, they were powerful. Large, flat, good camel, and in the mountains like walking on the ground.

The mountain road is winding and rugged, and a group of people walks slowly along the road, crossing the mountain wall, the thick pine needles are spread on the ground like a blanket, and the mules walking on the stone steps only make the slightest sound. A slight shaking made Zhao Wuxi sway on the saddle

Later, the mountain road is more difficult and dangerous, the path is steeper, and people can feel the height. The trees here are thinning, and the wind is getting stronger, pulling his coat and fur. At this time, he can no longer ride a mule.

"How far?"

"It's only halfway through..."

Needless to say, Dong Anyu was so old that he could not walk, and had already rested at the foot of the mountain, but Zhao Wuxi had to continue to go up to complete this ritual moment, although he knew the result many years ago.

This incident is of great significance to him and the dead Zhao Yang. History and reality will meet at this moment, but in this world, there will be no Mrs. Mo Hairpin!

Until he finally climbed the snow-capped main peak of Xiawu Mountain, and looked north, the entire Daiguo was at his feet, carved in the setting sun.

The north side of the mountain is also a basin. The first thing that catches the eye is an endless barren land composed of hills ravaged by cold winds, rugged and dangerous rocks and wild fields studded with remnants of snow. Then ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is the upper reaches of the Sanggan River that runs through the plain. There are some farmlands on both sides of the river, and generations of people gradually began to settle down and establish cities. The population is roughly estimated to be more than 100,000.

As for further north, he couldn't see it, but with the information people collected and his imagination, he could still see more things...

Dicui Liuxia, Chuanyuan is charming, the slopes are lush, and the cattle, sheep and horses are dotted. Unlike the dryness of later generations, the northern part of the land in the Spring and Autumn Period is a good place with abundant vegetation and beautiful scenery, and is directly connected to the grassland. The north of Jizhou is the main producing area of ​​horses at present, and it is also urgently needed by Zhao Wuxi today. Resources.

When night fell and Zhao Wuxi came down the mountain, Dong Anyu asked him how the situation on the mountain was. Can the "Treasure Talisman" left by Zhao Yang be found?

"The scenery on the mountain is very beautiful." Zhao Wuxi smiled mysteriously: "And I have already obtained the treasure talisman left by my father."

He pointed to the mountain behind him, and said to Dong Anyu, Yu Xi, and Xu Qu who had just arrived from the commentary: "With Mount Heng as a generation, it can be replaced!"

PS: Until the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Datong Basin was also semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral: "Dicui Liuxia, Chuanyuan is charming, sloping grass is lush, and sheep are interspersed in it". (.)