Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

Seeing Zhao Mingcheng embarrassed, Li Jiong and Lu Defu looked at each other tacitly and never mentioned Li Qingzhao.

It seems that the rumors are true.

The young couple who once envied others have reached the edge of divorce.

It can even be said that there is only one procedure left.

"To be honest, my wife and father-in-law were deceived by the Liangshan bandits and said many treasonous words. I have written several letters to reprimand them, hoping that my wife can turn back from the wrong path, but..."

Zhao Mingcheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, meaning that the effect was not good.

That's all I can say!

After all, if you talk about your future and party struggles with your friends, it will only make people look down on you.

But it is also obvious that Zhao Mingcheng is indeed reluctant to let Li Qingzhao go, but he is more concerned about his own future.

When the party struggles were in place, Li Gefei and Li Qingzhao returned to their hometown and lived in seclusion for several years.

During this period, Zhao Mingcheng allowed Li Qingzhao to live in Zhangqiu and did not take his wife back to Kaifeng.

According to the ancient Chinese etiquette, a married woman should follow her husband. This word "follow" is not simple.

It does not refer to the trivial details of life, but to major issues, including political decisions, which should be followed by the husband's family, not the father's family.

If the father's family committed a crime, the whole family would be executed during the Qin and Han dynasties, but a married woman was not included.

Because she was already a member of the husband's family.

So Zhao Mingcheng left his wife in his hometown, which was really irresponsible, and it can only be said that the deep love was just an appearance.

Li Jiong and Lu Defu were silent, but they thought of Li Qingzhao's image in their hearts.

In terms of facial features, she was beautiful and lovely.

But in terms of connotation, conversation, and temperament, she was the most beautiful in the world.

Talking and interacting with her often makes men feel ashamed of themselves.

Li Qingzhao's knowledge, talent, experience, and personality are all excellent choices. Fortunately, Zhao Mingcheng is also good-looking, knowledgeable, and his family background is also excellent compared to the Li family. The couple is quite a match.

It's just that it has come to this point, which can only make people sigh.

It's inconvenient to talk about family background, so everyone talked about the scenery for a while.

In fact, there is nothing to talk about.

The natural scenery around Kaifeng is also average, not as good as Luoyang.

But Luoyang suffered from wars and chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, just like Chang'an, it could not be used as a capital.

Zhao Da wanted to move the capital, but he was killed by Zhao Er with an axe before he succeeded.

When Zhao Er considered moving the capital, the housing prices in Kaifeng had soared. Once the capital was moved, the finances of the Northern Song Dynasty would immediately go bankrupt.

The real estate in Kaifeng alone was enough to make the Northern Song Dynasty court rich... A three-story courtyard house would cost at most 300 guan in remote counties, but at least several thousand guan, or even more than 10,000 guan in Kaifeng.

Even if the Northern Song Dynasty officials wore red robes, they could not afford to buy a decent mansion in Kaifeng with a salary and welfare subsidy of several thousand guan a year.

Middle and lower-level officials could only rent houses.

Only noble families, who had accumulated wealth for generations, or wealthy merchants could spend a lot of money to buy houses in Kaifeng..

Kaifeng was operated and accumulated by five dynasties. It became the capital of eight hundred military states when two emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty unified the world. Even though Zhao Da and Zhao Er were unwilling to give up and named it Tokyo, Beijing Damingfu, Xijing Luoyang, and Nanjing Guidefu to weaken the status of Tokyo Kaifeng, this city still expanded and developed rapidly.

The main reason is that although this city is a place of war, its water transportation is unprecedentedly developed.

Xianyang of Qin and Chang'an of Han and Tang had water transportation, otherwise they would not be the capital. However, these capitals did not have a well-connected water system like Kaifeng, and it was even more impossible for them to become the economic center of northern China.

Chang'an of Tang also had a population of over one million, hundreds of thousands of officials, eunuchs, troops, and royal families, which made the Tang court overwhelmed. The divine capital Luoyang became a secondary capital. Every few years, the Tang emperor would bring a large number of followers from Chang'an to Luoyang to reduce the burden on Guanzhong.

By the end of the Tang Dynasty, warlords were fighting, the area was in ruins, water conservancy was damaged, and the city was burned.

It is impossible to restore Chang'an in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

Unless the new dynasty mobilized millions of people to build it over a period of ten or twenty years.

But in this case, it would only restore the city. Water conservancy projects would require millions of people and decades to dredge again.

In addition, a large amount of vegetation was destroyed, and the green mountains turned into loess slopes. It is not human power that can be restored in a short time.

It is a consensus among the people of the world that Guanzhong and Chang'an are no longer suitable to be the capital.

Luoyang can still be the capital.

The water conservancy of rivers such as Luoshui and Yishui is still there.

Luoyang is also a strategically advantageous place, and it is easier to defend than Kaifeng strategically.

But compared to Guanzhong, Luoyang has eight passes to defend, and the Luoyang Basin is narrow, the water system is not as developed as Kaifeng, and the water transport is not as convenient as Kaifeng, let alone the responsibility of an economic center. (To read the novels of Baoshuang, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

If Kaifeng's transportation, economy, and industry and commerce can be scored 100 points, defense is 60 points.

Luoyang's defense is 80 points, and the rest can only be scored 70 points.

Added together, Kaifeng is still slightly better.

So after Zhao Er figured it out, he no longer thought of moving the capital.

In a hundred years, Kaifeng has been developed to the point where it can no longer be developed.

The water system around the city is developed, and there are ships everywhere.

When you cruise on the river, most of the scenery you see is the river, dams, sparse trees and houses hidden in them.

In terms of scenery, it is far inferior to the surrounding areas of Luoyang.

The main reason is that the population is too dense, and there is no way to build a scenic spot.

This was a few decades ago when Tokyo began to develop coal.

Coal, also known as coal blocks, was used to replace firewood in Hedong Road and northern Shaanxi. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, it had been used on a large scale.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population surged, and cities had hundreds of thousands of people. Kaifeng had a maximum of nearly two million people.

So many people need to eat, build houses, and repair, and the amount of wood used is astronomical.

Including heating in the palace, food, palace construction, and government offices, the grantsThe large mansions of officials also require an astronomical amount of wood.

Millions of people rely solely on cutting wood to build houses and make fires for cooking and heating. The amount of wood consumed is beyond the natural environment's ability to bear. []

Where did those barren mountains in northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong come from?

From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin, Han, and Tang Dynasties, successive dynasties built palaces and capitals.

The capital with a population of over one million and the cities surrounding it had a population of over 10,000.

How many tens of millions of pounds of wood are consumed in a year?

How many large trees are cut down?

Even if nature (promises) can continue to grow, such human consumption is naturally irreparable. Even if humans plant some trees themselves, it will not help.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, northern Shaanxi and northern Shanxi, including Guanzhong, were "ruined". The foundation of the thousand-year-old kingdom and the important cradle of Chinese civilization have never been revived since then. This is because of excessive consumption of nature.

Kaifeng, Nanjing, and Beijing were all damaged, but not as severely as Guanzhong and northern Shaanxi. The main reason was the use of coal.

The use of coal for fire and heating delayed the logging process.

Even so, in many old photos from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, many mountains were bare, with no big trees and only a few shrubs.

This was especially true in the north.

Just like the outside of Kaifeng in the eyes of Zhao Mingcheng and others.

The forest was sparse and filled with smoke.

That is, the river was vast, the breeze was gentle, and the smoke was vast. Boating on the river was just a little enjoyment. .