On November 27, Qian Hongcheng, the military envoy of Fuzhou Zhangwu Army, Liu Congjie, the military envoy of Qingyuan Army in Quanzhou, and the former military envoys of Yong'an Army in Jianzhou and Fuzhou Zhaowu Army in the Southern Tang Dynasty came together.
At this point, all the separatist forces in the entire southeast, except the Southern Han Dynasty, have been wiped out.
The only thing left to unify the world was the Southern Han Dynasty, the Duan clan of Dali, and the Jinghaijun Jiedu envoy who had now made a mess of himself.
On the first day of December, Zhang Yan announced in Jiangning City that the titles of the Southern Tang and Wuyue vassal states were officially abolished.
The new Jiangbei province was formed from the ten prefectures of Xu, Hao, Si, Shou, Su, Ying, Hai, Yang, Tai and Huaiyin.
The title of Jiangdu Prefecture was abolished, the old name of Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty was restored, and Yangzhou Prefecture was designated as the new provincial capital of Jiangbei Province.
This is equivalent to adding northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui to Yangzhou, Taizhou, Nantong and other places in later generations to form a new province.
There are also reasons for doing so.
In later republics, er, we don’t need to refer to the Republic. Starting from the Southern Song Dynasty, Huainan and Huaibei, that is, the regions of northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, southeastern Henan, and southwestern Shandong of the Republic, were famously poor places, which suffered many hardships. Yellow flood area.
Characteristically, the people are tough and prone to thieves. Even ordinary people are famous for their loud voices, their ability to drink, and their love of fighting.
But now, Huainan and Huaibei are great places!
Thousands of miles of fertile wilderness, rich products, water network extending in all directions and convenient transportation.
The people of Lianghuai have both the shrewdness of the southerners who are good at merchants and the generous spirit of the northerners. Therefore, they are very comfortable in both the north and the south, and they have many emperors and generals.
Moreover, the capitals at this time were Kaifeng and Luoyang, so the rich products and taxes in the Jiangnan area were transported to Tokyo and Shendu through the Grand Canal, Huaihe River, Bianshui River, Surabaya, etc., thus creating an extremely prosperous transportation economy.
It can be said that Huainan and Huaibei at this time are definitely a treasure land.
There are two reasons for the decline of Lianghuai in history.
First, it was caused by the Yellow River. This mother river burst its banks several times after the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and even diverted the Huai River into the sea.
The flood of water washed away the precious topsoil suitable for farming in the Huaihe and Huaihe areas, leaving behind the yellow sand from the northwest, creating countless stagnant swamps, devastating the traffic environment in the Huaihei River, and causing serious harm to the local people. brought serious disaster.
Another reason is that the Southern Song Dynasty court deliberately allowed floods to flood the Huaihe River and form an uninhabited swamp zone to prevent the Jin Army's cavalry from going south, just like the Northern Song Dynasty made Hebei a swamp.
Ma De, how many immoral things did these two Song dynasties do!
Therefore, in order to preserve the prosperity of Huainan and Huaibei, we must first control the Yellow River.
For Zhang Zhou, who was still in 949 AD, the time was just right.
Historically, the Yellow River was so heavy that it was difficult to recover during the reigns of Song Yingzong and Song Shenzong. It was still more than a hundred years ago. Now it is barely possible to regulate it.
After Zhang Zhang prepared for the political situation to stabilize, he moved more people from Ningxia, southern Shuofang, and northwestern Hexi to the Central Plains. Only a small amount of nomadic pastoralists were maintained in these places, and afforestation was carried out to control desertification in the Loess Plateau and Mu Us.
In the middle and lower reaches of Henan and Jiaodong, especially Henan, artificial lakes are dug along the Yellow River to store water during floods and release water during droughts.
In the imperial court, the power of the Dushui Supervisor should be expanded, and the highest official should be renamed the Dushui Ambassador from the Dushui Envoy. Senior officials such as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and even the Counselor for Political Affairs and the Deputy Privy Envoy should serve concurrently. The crown prince studied political affairs for the first time. The first step is to go to the Capital Water Prison.
Although it is impossible to adjust water and sand on the scale of Xiaolangdi in this era, if you take one more step now before it is too late, future generations will be a lot easier.
To the south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Yan organized Jiangning Prefecture, Hezhou, Xuanzhou, Changzhou, Runzhou, and Wuyue State except Fuzhou to form the Jiangnan Province, and changed Jiangning Prefecture to Jinling Prefecture as the provincial capital.
The general scope is Zhejiang and Shanghai in later generations, plus Jiangsu south of the Yangtze River, as well as Xuancheng, Ma'anshan, Wuhu and other places in Anhui.
Then most of Jiangxi in later generations, plus Luzhou, Shuzhou, Chizhou and other places, formed the Jiangxi Province. Almost most of Jiangxi plus Hefei, Anqing, Tongling and other places in Anhui Province formed the Jiangxi Province.
Fujian Province consists of Jianjian Prefecture, Zhangquan Prefecture, Tingzhou and Fuzhou.
The remaining Ezhou, Guangzhou, and Huangzhou, that is, Wuhan, Huanggang, Macheng, and Huangchuan, were returned to Hubei Province.
In this way, the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wu Yue and part of the imperial court area formed the four provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangxi and Fujian.
The original Jianghuai Province was abolished. After Xuzhou was harmed by Wuning Town, it was temporarily unable to assume the role of a provincial capital.
However, the shortcomings of this classification are also obvious, that is, it is entirely based on customs rather than geographical advantages, which can easily cause a place to cling to cliques, be conservative and xenophobic.
So this is just a stop-gap measure. The reason why Jiangbei is so divided now is because it wants to keep the water transportation from Jiangnan to Tokyo smooth, and use the wealth of the rich Jiangbei land to pay for the cost of the Yellow River management project.
The division of Jiangnan Province was to eliminate the two old territorial concepts of Southern Tang and Wuyue.
The reason for Jiangxi Province was that at this time, southern Jiangxi and even Hongzhou, where Nanchang was located, were still very backward. In order to achieve balanced development, the wealthy Luzhou, Jiangzhou and other places were used to promote the development of the south.
After the national political system is completely stable, it will definitely have to be split. Otherwise, a province with the same customs, similar language, and strong strength would easily lead to local separatism in ancient society.
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Zhang Hao looked at Ma Zhaoyuan with a smile. After staying in Jiangling for a few years, Ma Zhaoyuan's temperament has changed a lot, and his ability to lead the army has also been greatly enhanced.
Just like Guan Erye in history, this Shanxi man had never played with water in his life, but he was able to lead a navy army in Jingzhou.
The same goes for Ma Yaozi. He was originally a powerful warrior on horseback who was good at riding and shooting, but now his proficiency in water warfare is better than that of Du Chixin and others.
From this, Zhang Yan thought of Pei Yuan again. In the more than a year since he left, Pei Yuan had performed the tasks assigned to him by Zhang Yan very well. However, at the same time, he also made a large number of enemies.
Up to now, there is an endless stream of people who have publicly petitioned for impeachment and privately submitted secret reports to Zhang Zhang through various channels.
This is inevitable, because Zhang Yan did not give Pei Yuan the time to govern a large country like cooking a small fish. What he wanted was for him to solve the problem rudely and quickly. At the same time, he had already made it clear to Pei Yuan that he would definitely take the blame this time.
In this case, Pei Yuan was able to guard his inner impulse and did not become a cruel official like Zhidu and Lai Junchen, which is considered very good.
At the same time, these memorials against Pei Yuanzhuang are not all false accusations, but most of them are facts.
Historically, in the officialdom, the higher the position, it is impossible to get things done with less or even less offending people.
You have your ideas, and he has his opinions. Although both of your strategies may be right, the final execution can only follow one method, which requires Gan Gang to be arbitrary.
If Pei Yuan wants to complete Zhang Yan's mission and be able to motivate capable people to do things for him, he must give benefits, otherwise he will not be able to do it alone.
For example, it would be great for an official like Hai Rui to serve as a censor or a minister of Dali Temple, but if he is used as a chief assistant or just a governor of a province, he will not be able to do anything. If the water is clear, there will be no fish. ah!
So Pei Yuan's current situation is that he does things well, but he also makes a lot of mistakes.
Although the root cause lies with Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi is a king and he is a minister, so it is impossible to put the blame on Zhang Xi.
Even if Pei Yuan wants to push it, those whose interests have been harmed by him will not accept it.
They are now blaming Pei Yuan for his fault. Maybe Zhang Yan will look at them and comfort them. If they come directly to Zhang Yan, they really think that I will not kill people tomorrow, right?
Therefore, after Zhang Yan returned to Beijing, the best way, and the way to preserve Pei Yuan, was to demote him and vent his anger on some large groups. However, most of the policies implemented by Pei Yuan would not change.
As for Pei Yuan, the best position would be to appoint him as Pingzhang of Jiangnan Province, defense envoy of Jiangxi Province, and supervise Jiangnan and Jiangxi provinces with integrity.
One can keep Pei Yuan away from the center. 2. His high position and authority in Jiangnan will not be taken advantage of by others.
San can also use his notoriety to rectify the local tyrants in Liangjiang. After all, it is not a conquest by force. These people do not know the power of the imperial court, so Pei Yuan can give them a little shock to the Great Zhou Dynasty.
In the fourth year of the Shaoming Dynasty, on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Zhang officially issued an edict to transfer Luo Yu'er, the garrison envoy of Tongguan and Duke of Long State, to Jiangling to serve as Pingzhang of Hubei Province, Chief Envoy of Hubei, and Defense Envoy of Hubei.
He transferred Pingzhang, the former Hubei province, and Chen Guogong Ma Zhaoyuan was appointed as the defense ambassador of Jiangnan and Jiangbei provinces. He also added Ma Yaozi as Zhongshu Youpushe, leaving 15,000 troops in Jiangnan.
In this way, he could not only take charge of the guards in Jiangnan and Jiangbei provinces, but also the imperial guards in these two provinces.
Zhang Gao ordered Ma Zhaoyuan, his son of Ma Yao, to eliminate the troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty and Wuyue in the two provinces, especially Jiangnan Province, and immediately began to establish eleven military stations and seven towns for the forbidden army.
Liu Zaisheng, the Duke of Tian, was ordered to lead 3,000 troops from Zuokong Hewei into Fujian. He served as Ping Zhang of Fujian Province, Chief Envoy of Fujian, Defense Envoy of Fujian, and Commander of Zuokong Hewei. He prepared for the establishment of Zhaowu Town, Fuzhou, the Forbidden Army, and concurrently served as the general commander of Zhaowu Town. soldiers.
Qian Hongcheng, the original military governor of Zhangwu Town in Fuzhou, was transferred to Jiangbei Province to serve as Pingzhang.
Qingyuan Army's Jiedushi envoy Liu Congxiao was granted the title Duke of Zhang, and the two prefectures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou were renamed Quanzhou Prefecture. Liu Congxiao was appointed as the Inspector of Fujian Province, the Yin of Quanzhou Prefecture, and the military supervisor of Quanzhou Prefecture.
Liu Congxiao was a very virtuous and loyal person who knew how much he weighed. At the same time, Li Shengtian's granddaughter, Zhang Zhang's niece Li Wan'er, had also agreed to marry Liu Congxiao's eldest son Liu Shaoji.
Zhang Yan didn't believe that Liu Congxiao would lose his head under such circumstances, and there would be no problem if he continued to guard Zhangquan and Quanzhou.
And even if something goes wrong, the Qingyuan Army can't even defeat the Southern Tang Dynasty, so why are they afraid that it won't be able to pacify it?
As for the administration of Jiangxi Province, Zhang Yan continued to retain Li Jingda, the king of Jiangning County, as the general secretary of Jiangxi Province.
However, Lu Yin, who was Lu Duan's elder brother, was transferred to the post of chief envoy of Jiangxi Province. Li Jingda was basically asked to take over his name, and Lu Yin actually governed Jiangxi Province.
After this set of combined boxing, it will take up to two or three months to basically digest the Southern Tang and Wu Yue countries.
When Pei Yuan, who supervises the two rivers with integrity, arrives, Juntian will punish local tyrants and crack down on illegal Buddhism, which can be put on the agenda.
In the few months before Pei Yuan arrived, Zhang Yan decided to personally control the situation. He would celebrate the New Year in Jinling Mansion and return to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo next spring.
(End of chapter)
