Chapter 706 under the banner of repair, walking the road of demolition
Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang rode north along Yishui from Xincheng, and did not hesitate. Along the way, Zhuge Jin happened to see the new atmosphere of Henan Yin under the control of his second brother along the way.
As for the immigrants and grassroots officials he brought, he had to stay in the new city for one or two more days and wait for the transfer by boat. Because even if the immigrants only brought necessary personal belongings, the transfer was still too heavy, and it was a last resort to do so.
Immigration from Yizhou to Henan Yin, and more than 90% of the roads can be carried by waterways. Only between Nanyang County and Henan Yin, and the section between Luyang and Liang County, requires more than 100 miles of land. This section is a journey to cross Funiu Mountain (Songshan to the east is even harder to climb, so it is better to climb Funiu Mountain).
After going from Liang County to Xincheng, because the new city is near Yichuan, Zhuge Liang raised some civilian ships from the Yiluo River Basin to wait here in advance. After immigrating, he could board the ship directly and then transfer the last two or three hundred miles.
Zhuge Jin walked around the road and saw the farmlands between Xincheng County (now Yichuan County) and Longmen Yique Pass. The farmlands were roughly turned over dozens of miles along the Yishui River, burning the wasteland and revealing the slightly black fertile land.
The people also generally live in tiled houses, and some of them even look relatively new and no one lives there. It should be Zhuge Liang who collected corvee labor and built it for new immigrants to live in.
Zhuge Jin couldn't help but sigh that this place is actually quite rich.
"Luoyang has been ruined for many years. Before, Sikong asked me to organize immigration and bring this year's Yizhou immigrants here. I thought it was a waste of money.
The people can actually afford to live in tiled houses. Although some of them are mixed with grass rollers and thatched cushions and mud, they can see traces of bricks and tiles. My dear achievements in managing Henan are quite good."
Zhuge Liang smiled humbly in his heart: "This is nothing. As long as he is good at coordinating and rebuilding the surrounding areas of Luoyang, it is much easier than those really bitter, cold and remote places. After all, the foundation here is better.
At that time, the war was caused by fire everywhere, but after all, it was impossible to burn all the bricks, tiles, woods and stones. Especially in the south of the city, there were many royal gardens, and some places had broken walls. In fact, if you were willing to manage them, you could still recover a lot of available building materials.
When burning the wasteland, use the dismantled and sorted waste bricks and stone tiles as a piece of paper, pile up the grass and trees that need to be burned, and then fire again. Blow away the ash of the wood and keep it as fertilizer, and the building materials can be reused.
There is no need to be too particular about building a house. Even if the bricks and tiles become brittle, it is better than just using grass rollers and thatchs to trip over yellow mud to build the walls and roofs. Mr. Li is a flexible person, and His Majesty is also open-minded and wise. He is not like when Emperor Huai, he cannot say that his father and brother are in trouble, and he dare not demolish the remains of the royal gardens in the southern suburbs."
Zhuge Liang talked happily and said his experience in restoring Luoyang's surroundings in a very sensible way. His governance was more efficient than the "Ding Wei cultivated Bianliang and helped him in one fell swoop" that he enjoyed in later history books.
The story of Ding Wei's repair of the palaces and streets of Bianliang is recorded in Shen Kuo's "Dream of Dreams and Bitans". It is considered to be a model of efficient government engineering in the commercial society of the Song Dynasty.
But Ding Wei was just digging Bianliang Street to get soil. After digging the street, he drove other external building materials and materials through the Bian River. Finally, he landed the construction waste back to repair the streets of Bianliang.
To compare the construction manpower savings, Zhuge Liang directly replaced the elimination of old building materials that were no longer available after the war and royal gardens to private houses. It is impossible to strengthen waste utilization.
As for the issue of "building quality", to be honest, if Zhuge Liang did not do this, new immigrants and the original people around Luoyang would not have the financial resources to build houses with bricks, tiles and stones.
No matter how poor the quality of waste bricks and tiles is, it is much better than the people who use grass rollers to strengthen the yellow mud directly.
The reason why the rulers of Luoyang area did not do this before was that on the one hand, the Zhu Jun did not dare to demolish the building materials of abandoned royal gardens at will, and Liu Xie was not inconvenient to demolish the relics left by his father when he was alive.
During the two thieves of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao entered Luoyang, they had no energy to manage these territories at all. Yuan Shu had no time, while Yuan Shao felt that this was a frontier war zone, and if it was built, it might not be long-term.
Now that Liu Bei sent Li Sulai, he truly had a sense of ownership around Luoyang, and farmed well, and felt that if he planted well, he would all have his own results.
Only when you plant your own territory can you farm well. You will find ways to use all kinds of pragmatic methods, rather than worrying about being taboo in the officialdom and not daring to do things.
In fact, even Zhuge Liang's "large demolition and construction, abandonment and renovation" this month was not completely unattacked.
In Chang'an, some censor-type officials with poor vision, including censors, and some impeached Zhuge Liang to "demolite the Lingdi Garden". However, Liu Bei laughed and threw it to the side and ignored it.
An emperor like Liu Bei, whose family fell back to grassroots when he was young, understood the sufferings of the people than other princes, and he didn't care about these things at all.
Even if Luoyang becomes a new capital in the future and needs to "build another wonder", he will be assured to entrust Li Su with the decision. Anyway, those things left by the "Last Emperor" are completely without psychological burden when demolished, and everything is mainly based on efficiency.
Moreover, this is how Li Su is so steady.
In the process of acquiescing Zhuge Liang to try his best to use waste and dismantle waste garden building materials, Li Su had already "made a name" to express his intention to "remove the dross and take the essence" of some things left by Emperor Ling, and "inherit and develop".
After all, Li Su himself also has a character in the field of "water conservancy expert". His problem with Emperor Ling was basically characterized as seven points of failure and three points of contribution, which is also the consistent attitude of Liu Bei's regime towards the Huan Ling issue.
Even when Liu Bei ascended the throne, he learned from Emperor Guangwu. Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiumai "Cheng Ai Ping Ruziying" for four generations, chasing Emperor Yuan of Han as the imperial examination, Liu Beimai "chongzhi Huan Ling" and recognized Emperor Shun of Han as the imperial ancestor (the grandfather generation, because he died at the age of eight, he could not recognize orthodox nature as his father, and had no suspense, so he had to add another generation to recognize Emperor Shun as his grandfather)
But Liu Xiu only said back then, "Even if Emperor Cheng is reborn, the world cannot be obtained", but he did not say that Emperor Cheng of Han was a complete foolish monarch and had nothing to be taken advantage of.
In addition, Emperor Ling promoted Liu Bei after all, and was kind, so even a foolish monarch would be better than Liu Xiu's characterization of Emperor Cheng.
No seven points is not enough to lose the world, and no three points is not enough to prove that the Han Dynasty is still inappropriate.
Therefore, under the guiding ideology of Liu Bei, Li Su presided over the post-war reconstruction work in the Yin area of Henan Province. When it came to the specific implementation stage, he had to define the "three-point contribution" to Emperor Ling and emphasize the "Spiritual's contribution to the construction of water conservancy and technological progress of the Han Dynasty."
It is impossible to describe the matters such as the Nangong, Xiyuan, and Biguiyuan as disasters.
After all, the Spirit Emperor can only make such achievements in history and be able to brag about it with great success.
Even when Master Ruyi, a historian of the later Black Han Dynasty, mentioned Emperor Ling when talking about the political ecology of the court when Cao Cao was young, he had to admit that "the Emperor Ling's poems were well written, and his personal interests and contributions were mainly in the field of water supply and drainage engineering."
When Li Su presided over the post-war reconstruction work after the recovery of Guanzhong five years ago, in order to fight the severe drought in Guanzhong in 194, he also organized a large number of people to make overturns and draw water for irrigation.
At that time, Qingliu, a related medieval family, attacked him. "This crash was one of the ten eunuchs of that year. Bi Lan, the eunuch who served as the Yeting Order, invented it to please Emperor Ling to build water towers and fountains to enjoy it. You, Li Su, actually created such a luxurious thing in the year of great disaster."
Of course, that attack was easily resolved by Li Su. Liu Bei also ignored those who criticized Li Su five years ago, just like the memorials that attacked Zhuge Liang and Dajian today.
But since this reason is available, Li Su can also follow this idea to explore: Emperor Ling has made 70% of his contributions and has a positive understanding of his development of water conservancy technology in the official ideology.
Similarly, the eunuchs of the Ten Constellations are bad, but Yeting ordered Bi Lan to have a purely engineered and technical bureaucrat and inventoral bureaucrats, who have no other bad records, to treat them differently from other constellations who plunder the people's wealth and ointment. (Of course, Bi Lan has also had mistakes. Although he did not interfere in the government affairs, he kept catering to the emperor to invent new water methods and tricks, which led to the emperor having more places to spend money)
This way of handling it also makes the current court fair in dealing with things and making decisions. This is also the attitude of Liu Bei and Li Su to show the world's eunuchs' issue.
As early as ten years ago, during the Ten Generals' Rebellion, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers advocated that "all eunuchs must be killed", while Liu Bei, Li Su and Cao Cao both felt that they were punished and that they would not be guilty of innocent people (Cao Cao said, "But just paying a prison officer is enough")
After admitting that the benefits of Emperor Ling were mainly in water conservancy, Li Su became more convenient to pull the tiger's skin and pull the flag.
When he asked Zhuge Liang to demolish the ruins of Xiyuan and Biguiyuan to find usable materials and waste, he used the banner of "renovation and renovation, keeping pace with the times", rather than demolishing them directly.
This wording and attitude is similar to the later Qianlong's deeds of "renovating the Ming Dynasty's Tombs" (of course, the Tartars must have to condemn the demolition of the Ming Dynasty tombs. Li Su is just a luxury item in the demolition of the royal gardens, and its nature is completely different)
The incident of Qianlong even the TV series "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" was filmed in an outline:
Qianlong had to rebuild because of a fire in the Qianqing Palace, so he could not find enough good-quality golden nanmu wood. Because during the Qing Dynasty, the golden nanmu wood was cut too much due to excessive ecological deterioration and excessive cutting of golden nanmu wood.
When Qianlong visited the Ming Dynasty's Thirteen Tombs, he found that the Ming Dynasty had many good old materials for gold-silk nanmu, so he asked him to "renovate" the Thirteen Tombs. He took off the golden-silk nanmu and used it himself to replace the Thirteen Tombs with new bad wood.
Li Su used the same trick to solve the historical problems left over from Emperor Ling Shaodi Huai, and was completely unrestrained by various ruins in Luoyang, so he was familiar with it.
The thoughts here are a bit inconvenient to talk about, so Zhuge Liang did not say them all during the chat with his brother and the explanation of the visit.
He just chose what he could get on the table:
"Brother, don't think that Master Li is going to demolish the spirit and keep the remains. He is helping the late emperor to renovate the atmosphere, and also enjoy the people and accumulate legacy for the late emperor.
Confucius said: King Wen's yard is seventy miles away, and those who are fleece and those who are fleeing are going there, and those who are pheasant and rabbit are going there, and they are going there. Isn't it appropriate for the people to think it is small? Therefore, to repair the mistakes of the previous emperor and accumulate legacy, the key is to "same as the people."
The former site of Biguiyuan, as a royal garden, does not allow the people to enjoy the people and share their benefits, which is what abuses the people and the only husbands do. If it is transformed into a royal garden, who will criticize them?"
Zhuge Jin was also very interested when he heard his younger brother's curve in saving the country and engaged in infrastructure. He wanted to know how Li Su planned to cheat: "Oh? I'd like to hear it clearly? I wonder how Sikong planned to let the ruins of the late emperor enjoy the people?"
Zhuge Liang: "Mr. Li was recruiting talented people and recruiting famous craftsmen in the world. He planned to completely remove the extremely ingenious and extravagant parts of Bi Guiyuan. The palace walls outside were already broken and all of them were demolished, and bricks and stone materials were used for the people to repair houses.
However, the core water table pavilion part can be retained and renovated. After all, the ditches, water towers, and upper and lower tamping platforms in those places can still be used. In order to divert water, the project volume was so large, which would be a pity.
Therefore, Master Li planned to transform this part into the future Beichang Gongyuan - His Majesty will move the capital from Chang'an to Luoyang sooner or later. The imperial examination Gongyuan will also be moved here.
Now the imperial court is divided into the North and South Court Gongyuan, and the South Court Gongyuan is in Xiangyang. It was built by Li Shi when he was the governor of Jingzhou. He has accumulated some experience.
The tribute school also needs a bathhouse with thousands of people to prevent cheating in exams, which can save you from being insulted and insulting, and ensure that the rich and poor students dress decently after entering the venue.
The old water method site in Biguiyuan, the south of the city, and the old platform of the water storage tower can be used directly as the water tower of the Xingongyuan. If it is built at that time, it will definitely be more grand than that of Xiangyang, and it will also appear that after the Third Resurgence of the Han Dynasty, it will be generous and talented, and the king will value talent and accept advice."
The ruins of the royal garden were converted into a place where the world's students took the exam. As long as the scholars in the world had the ability, they could enjoy the luxury of this former royal garden. This was also the highest level of joy with the people, and their benevolence was comparable to that of King Wen.
With such a big sign of accumulation of virtue, Li Su thought of how to dismantle all the other relics left by Emperor Ling of Han and use them, no one would talk much.
"Then Sikong is really... strange." After hearing his younger brother's explanation, Zhuge Jin had to be stunned and admired Li Su's imagination. The Bi Guiyuan of the Ling Emperor changed to the world's tribute court, and the show was held.
Zhuge Jin was sighing that the journey along Yishui was almost over. They rode slowly for a long time, walked twenty miles into Yique Pass, and had arrived at the Biguiyuan site. Li Su was holding a banquet here to entertain him.
When Zhuge Jin saw the palace and garden looking at it, he quickly dismounted and stepped forward to salute Li Su.
"I have met Sikong and have not had the opportunity to listen to Sikong Qinghui again for many years. I feel so sad. Now I have finally gotten my long-cherished wish, and I feel that Dai Sikong is unsuccessful!"
Li Su waved his hand: "Hey, Ziyu is polite. Yizhou governor, his power is not under the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Ziyu doesn't blame me for transferring you for my own sake, it's good."
Zhuge Jin: "Why did Sikong guess so much? How could he be more important than Meng Sikong's daily life and his progress in the morning and evening."
Chapter completed!