"The grass grows and orioles fly in the February sky, and the willows blow on the embankments and are drunk by the spring smoke." Oh no, it should be "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die." It's not right, because this day of going out during the Cold Food Festival is a perfect day in spring. Sunny day.
The cool but not biting morning breeze blows the swaying grass and trees in the countryside, as well as the fields that have been newly plowed and watered before planting seedlings. The breeze blows one after another, which is different from the fireworks of urban life and belongs exclusively to the countryside. The fresh taste of wild forest.
In fact, Gyeonggi-do and even Kannai-do have been highly developed; today only a large number of wild beasts and prey are left that breed naturally near some mountain tombs built in the past dynasties, and in Beiwai Garden, which is the emperor's forbidden garden. But it also created many settlements where poachers spontaneously formed in order to obtain fur and meat for profit.
The so-called "the grass is shallow and the animals are fat, hunt with courtesy, the bow does not miss the mark, and the arrow does not miss the mark" ("Tang Huiyao" Volume 28 "Sou Shou"). This is because when Duke Liang was still alive, he vigorously promoted the conversion of firewood into coal, and at the same time further banned the development of forest conversion to farmland. This was the reason why a large area of forest and pasture in Gyeonggi Province was preserved from Taebaek Mountain to Nouguan Mountain.
According to the memory of Jiang Tian's predecessor, it serves as the basis for rebuilding the new army system. The so-called eight-hundred-mile Qinchuan plain in the pass has actually been occupied by various small and large military villages. However, the new system actually imitates the methods of later state-owned farms for collective work and organization. business.
This can not only greatly improve labor production efficiency, and internal circulation and complementary effects under macro planning; it can also avoid the unbearable burden of the soldiers (small landowners) who operate land individually and have to prepare their own equipment and rations under the original class-field system. They endured the consequences of fleeing one after another, or being annexed by local tyrants and big families.
After all, according to the relatively successful experience of later generations, collective work and organized production make people more resistant to unexpected risks and more united and cohesive. At the same time, because they maintained the tradition of military training in leisure time and the tacit understanding of collective work, they were also a high-quality reserve force for the imperial court.
Therefore, if someone in the local area dares to violate the rule of law and infringe on the interests of these collectively owned military and military camps, it is because they think the iron fist from the court is not strong enough, or they are afraid of the large number of reservists or active military family members who dare not gather together to give Are your parents good-looking?
However, this created a new problem. Along the Eight Rivers surrounding Chang'an, dams and embankments were built step by step, and many official and private hydraulic plants and workshops were built. They competed with the irrigation water sources needed for the military's farming; It's meat.
Although the New Army Mansion was the cornerstone of the imperial court's central military base, the large number of hydraulic plants located along the water were also a source of additional value and tax revenue for the imperial court in addition to the exemption of land tax. Therefore, after many years of fighting in the court, the final result was a compromise plan of letting the meat rot in the pot.
That is to say, within ten miles along the coast of the eight runoffs, priority is given to the construction and production of water conservancy factories; at the same time, priority is given to irrigation in military farms in other places; thus forming a relatively clustered factory zone in the upper reaches, and a continuous area in the lower reaches. The existing pattern is dotted with Fujun camps.
At the same time, in order to avoid the vicious expansion and bloat of the new military government, since the Liang Gong era, the initial quota of military government has been strictly limited in the form of Hadith/ancestral system; that is, each household government that enjoys tax exemption and exemption In the Bing family, there is an iron rule that only one son/son-in-law can inherit the family.
Only after the family is cut off, or the status is transferred to a general instead of an officer, can the original status and qualifications of a soldier be transferred to the nearest male relative. As for the other adult children, apart from applying to be transferred to border garrison or to go out to develop in the domain, they were given priority to be recruited into the government-run factories.
Because these children from military families are relatively well-nourished and healthy, and are more organized and obedient than ordinary people. At the same time, they are also the beneficiaries of the imperial system and the emperor's grace. Once the country is in trouble, they are even better in terms of loyalty and reliability.
Therefore, Emperor Taixing, who was both a teacher and a friend of Liang Gong, once proudly said during his eastern tour: I don’t pay a single cent to the people, but I support the army with hundreds of thousands of food; but when the country is in trouble, tens of thousands will wear armor. , day and night. Then, he was counterattacked by rebels/old forces in the loyal Eastern Capital.
Although the rebellion was successfully suppressed, the root cause of his untimely death was revealed. It also became the reason why Liang Gong stayed in the court for thirty years to assist the government, and then went to foreign lands to establish the country and establish the Great Xia Dynasty; and in the chaos of the court after Liang Gong left, Empress Dowager Rui Zhenyuan and Ming supported the five generations of emperors and re-established the Li and Tang Dynasty. series of events.
But in any case, some farmland has lost enough water for irrigation and has been moved to abandoned village sites; although it is no longer suitable for farming, it can be used for other purposes. For example, outings, safaris, competitions, and banquets are held every spring and autumn in these large areas of wild grass, teeming with birds and animals.
The scope of this safari is on the Wuling Plain in Xianyang County to the north, separated by a river from Chang'an. There are nine imperial mausoleums from Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Ai, lined up along the Wei River. Although the national law prohibits hunting and disturbing the mausoleums, this does not apply to the tombs of the previous emperors, as long as you do not directly dig up the mounds of people.
After meeting up with Ke Keya and his party, they rode across the river at Xiwei Bridge. As soon as they arrived near the camping intersection as the gathering point, they heard the barking of dogs mixed with something else among the curtains and tents. Strange sounds. Then Jiang Tian saw the source of these sounds clearly and couldn't help but blurted out "Good guy".
Because he saw at least a dozen cats of different colors among the people waiting on horseback; among them were short-tailed lynx, caracal, and giant lynx placed on the saddle, and some hung on the side of the horse's back. Rabbits, ocelots and other things in baskets; not to mention large species such as cheetahs and leopards in cages on the carriage.
There is even a snow leopard that is obviously found in high-altitude mountainous areas and is famous for its fluffy fur and long tail. Therefore, for a time, a chorus of meows and meows with ups and downs, high and low thickness, appeared one after another in the team of tall horses. The many thin dogs, mastiffs and Di dogs that can only run in small groups on the ground are envious, jealous and hateful and can only bark more and more, thinking they are competing.
In the murals of the Tang Dynasty, the upper-class nobles used cats to hunt as a fashionable sight. Jiang Tian saw it with his own eyes. In addition, there are specialized attendants holding several golden eagles, peregrine falcons, falcons and other raptors squatting on the wooden frames. Although they all have their heads and cages covered, when they gently turn their heads and faces, they can see the food chain in the sky. Top notch style.
It can be said to be a realistic portrayal of "holding the yellow on the left, holding the blue on the right, and a big cat on the back saddle." Of course, this is also a very important social occasion and public event in contemporary times; so even though Kodakya was reluctant, he was pulled by the sister who came with the carriage to participate in the groups of various people who came one after another. It is a social activity among children at home to talk about relatives and old stories.
Of course, according to Jiang Tian's faint hearing of complaints and scoldings coming from the wind, it seemed that Sister A could still take this opportunity to find him a disguised blind date who could close his eyes for the time being and be equal to the family. Then Koda Ya hurriedly got out, and introduced some children of the same year who he usually had good friends with or were related to from the same family, and introduced them to Jiang Tian.
Among them, those who impressed Jiang Tian the most were Bai Duolu, who is Kodakya's best friend/husband and dog friend; Bai Duolu, who is slightly fat and has a baby face and a shy smile, but has been married for several years. He is also the 91-year-old longevity man, former prime minister Bai Xingjian, and the great-grandson of the younger brother of the famous Lotte layman Bai Juyi;
According to the common sense of history that Jiang Tian knew, although Xing Jian Gong was not as famous as his elder brother Bai Juyi in the poetry world, his popularity in later generations was no less than that of his brother, Bai Juyi. Bad, because he is the author of the so-called classical guidebook "The Ode to the Joy of Heaven and Earth Yin and Yang".
There is another pair of Shen brothers and sisters; the elder brother Shen Yizhi is currently an assistant teacher at the Fourth Gate of the Imperial College, and is described as gentle and decent, with a gentle and jade-like gentlemanly demeanor, while the younger sister Shen Xin is a female student and is elegant and elegant by nature. , has a sweet smile, but rarely speaks. They are all the contemporary clansmen of the Empress Dowager Ruizhen Yuanming known as Yao and Shun among women.
Because Empress Dowager Shen swore that as long as she was alive, the relevant relatives would not be allowed to serve in the court or govern the local area. Therefore, as she was born in the Shen family of Wuxing, she could only serve as an academic official for generations. Therefore, over the years, she became quite influential whether in the traditional Imperial College, Imperial College, or in the two schools and three affiliated schools all over the world. .
However, since the death of the Queen Mother Ruizhen, in order to thank her for protecting the fifth generation of emperors. From the emperor down to the princes of the political affairs hall, the Manchu Dynasty almost unanimously passed a resolution to carve off a corner of Yizhou Island to establish a special domain of Shijue Ruifan as the nurturing town of the Queen Mother's family. Therefore, these two siblings are also the children of the current feudal lord.
There was also a tall, handsome scholar with a loud voice. It is Yang Guoguan, the contemporary internal envoy to the Privy Council, who is known as Xiao Guojiu's cousin Yang Su, who leads the three provinces in the province. It was just that while he was chatting and laughing in front of everyone and describing himself well, Jiang Tian vaguely felt that there still seemed to be a trace of vigilance and an indescribable hostility.
The last one is Geng Shu, the nephew of Geng Jingzhuo, the Minister of Punishment, and he is also a rare handicraft expert. He keeps talking about the terminology and theories of his equipment, so in this small circle where he has been playing since he was a child, he seems to be a bit self-entertaining. However, as Jiang Tian, who is very knowledgeable at station B, he and he have some common topics that they can talk about.
For example, thanks to the legacy of previous generations of time travellers, this era actually has similar figures, including exquisite humanoid dolls made of various materials, from gold, silver, copper, iron, jade, to ceramics, bone and wood. Even in terms of exquisiteness and beauty, it is no less than the high imitations of later generations. However, in terms of imagination and scale, it still needs further exploration.
Therefore, Jiang Tian just gave him a few suggestions, just like meeting an old friend in a foreign country. He wished he could take him back on the spot to appreciate the results of his production and collection over the years.
