Chapter 323 Westward Expedition
Gen Yue.
The great painter looked at the unrecognizable garden in front of him with sadness.
His half of his life was ruined.
The original strange stones were almost gone, and there were still many strange flowers and plants. After all, this was planted. Even if a lot of them were taken out, the leftover seeds and rhizomes could grow again, which was because of the lack of management.
But it's more like natural growth.
However, the trees have increased a lot, but they are all ordinary trees, just like a group of original peacocks replaced by pheasants. The mountains are still piled up by him, but there are obviously fewer buildings in the mountains, especially his tall buildings are gone. Of course, this has nothing to do with Wang Yue, it was done by his son. After all, the wood used in these tall buildings is very valuable. Zhao Huan, who was crazy about the past, did not let go of anything that could be sold for money, and sold strange stones to the gentry who built gardens, and the wood of the tall buildings was also sold after demolishing them.
All that is left is worthless.
But then the eunuchs who were managed secretly sold a lot.
They even sold fish online!
Because the emperor became a puppet, the power of the eunuchs was also gone, and they were all short of money. However, the water surface did not decrease, and the garden was still full of lotus flowers.
But in this winter, the garden is full of dead leaves.
At this time, there were still many idle people playing in this mountain forest. Even the great painter could see a group of naughty children fishing in the water that had just begun to thaw. They looked very happy one by one, which made him think of his own beauties. Poor the six thousand beauties back then, and now they can't see any of them here. They used to fly like butterflies, but now there are no butterflies here, and some are...
Well, they are actually some stupid women.
There are not many people who are visiting this season, just migrant workers who cannot find a place to live.
Really a migrant worker.
Due to the explosive development of industry and commerce in Kaifeng City, labor force began to be short, and the idle people in the surrounding villages had nothing to do in winter. Many people went to the city to do odd jobs, not only Kaifeng Prefecture, but also from the surrounding states. Even if they only walked from Chenzhou, the farthest, it only took a few days to get here, these people were reluctant to spend money to rent a house.
The rent in Kaifeng City is not low.
So the open imperial gardens around them became their gathering place, just like the tent party in the American Park.
What lake water does Genyue drink water? You can go to the forest to pick up dead branches and hold dry grass. The family finds a few deserted houses that are uninhabited. They go out to work during the day, come back to stay at night, and leave in the busy farming season when spring is in the busy farming season. It seems like a group of migratory birds. At present, such people are found in various industrial and commercial centers. Migrant workers live in Daming Mansion and the Imperial City. This is also an inevitable economic development. After all, the development of industry and commerce has made the city's infrastructure unable to keep up.
Not only these imperial gardens, but also a large number of shanty towns around the city walls, are built by nearby residents for migrant workers to live in.
This is a low rent.
In short, Gen Yue now makes the great painters feel like they are crying but not crying.
And in the middle of this picture that is obviously not related to elegance, the huge shed is even more ugly, as if it was not enough to paint his beautiful pictures without recognizing it. He also stepped on a footprint covered with mud on it, which was simply unbearable...
"Who is this designed? It's still a yamen at least, it's so hasty!"
The great painter sighed.
"I!"
Wang Yue said frankly.
"Uh, it's quite ancient."
The great painter said.
"It's actually to save money!"
Wang Yue said frankly.
However, the great painters would not be judged immediately because they had to wait for the four people to gather together. These representatives were not always in Kaifeng, and they would also organize around, especially those from Shaanxi and Shanxi who liked to visit various places in Hebei. Some even went to the newly regained prefectures to help officials restore order, especially by-election representatives, so these people had to gather again, and in short, they had to wait for three or five days.
During this period, the great painter was detained in the special detention center of the Great Hall of the Four People.
Yue Fei and others continued to take care of it.
However, allowing others to see him, especially his wives and daughters. In fact, he still has a few young children in the north. He did escape some, but there were still many left. As for whether these people were willing to see him or not, it was another matter.
It depends on Zhao Huan.
After stuffing the great painter into the detention area, even if Wang Yue's mission was completed, he went to the palace to report the office. Zhao Huan did not ask about his father's situation. In fact, his favorite thing was that his father died of illness on the road, but Wang Yue did not let his father die of illness on the road, so he did not dare to complain about anything. In short, he pretended that he knew nothing about this sensation in Kaifeng, and he was not even interested in asking about the situation in the south. Anyway, it was just that. Wang Yue wanted to deal with it and didn't need him to interrupt.
Wang Yue asked him to submit a favor, which was originally polite.
After leaving the palace, Wang Yue went directly to the Privy Council...
"This is Xin Xingzong's report."
Liu Xi took a bunch of official documents and handed him one of them.
"Li Qianshun is very dishonest!"
Wang Yue said.
Li Qianshun did not make any abnormal moves in northern Shaanxi, so he still maintained defense, but the main force of the Western Xia army began to patrol the Hexi Corridor under the banner of preventing Mengwu from invading. He did not know how Xuanda's Mongolian army entered the Hexi Corridor. Their purpose was obviously to clean up the Hexi Corridor that had been conquered by the Song Dynasty before, and to solve these guys in advance, and then wait for the result of the Song and Jin war. Once the Song Dynasty failed, he immediately attacked Shaanxi to clean up the previous shame.
but……
This is nothing to do with Wang Yue.
"Gua, are there any Han people in the two states of Shasha?"
He asked.
"There are many. Xixia cannot really control the three prefectures of Gua, Sha and Su. During the Shaosheng period, it was also captured by the Black Khan of Khotan. In that area, especially Shazhou, it was mainly Han people. Moreover, Xixia moved most of our officers and soldiers who were captured on the battlefield before to Suzhou. On the contrary, they killed more Uighurs, so there were more Han people in these three prefectures."
Liu Xi said.
"Are you sure?"
Wang Yue said.
He was very suspicious of the intelligence capabilities of the Song Dynasty in the Western Regions.
As for the Black Khan of Khotan, he knew that the name was obviously Karakhan. Karakhan annexed the Kingdom of Khotan in the early Song Dynasty. This name is really exaggerated. It is a standard Yelang arrogant style. A small king on a desert oasis dared to be called Shengtian. Then he annexed the Karakhan of Khotan to trade with the Song Dynasty in the name of Khotan. This trade line goes south of the Taklamakan Desert.
"Confirm that after the Hehuang period has been opened, although our merchants will not go to Shazhou, there are still many merchants from Shazhou who come to us. Most of them know Chinese characters. No matter what they look like, they claim to be Uighurs or something. Their Chinese characters instead of Xixia means that Xixia has limited control over there, and the Xixia people have implemented their Xixia language."
Liu Xi said.
This is still quite reasonable.
Wang Yue really didn't know much about that. The key is that there was very little history about the Western Xia in later generations. Because of a special reason, the Mongols hated them so much that they did not even write special history. They added a biography of the Western Xia in the history of the Song Dynasty, and recorded very little history.
Even the Western Xia people were pitifully few, let alone the three states of Guashasu.
The only thing that can be determined is the time when the Gua King descends to Xia, but it is impossible to determine whether the Gua King is the Cao family, including the Cao family. There are statements about Sogdians, Uighurs, and Han people, but the most likely one is the Han people. Because in the historical materials discovered in Dunhuang later, until the late Northern Song Dynasty, the main characters in that area were still in Chinese. The Western Xia text did not appear in the caves in Dunhuang for the first time during the Yuanfeng period of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty. And until the eve of the demise of Western Xia, the Western Xia reign titles with Chinese characters were still engraved in the caves in Dunhuang.
And Xixia has its own writing.
They also forced their own words.
In other words, until their demise, they failed to truly make the Xixia script a common word used by the upper classes in Shazhou.
People are still used to using Chinese characters.
Even the forced-implemented texts were not accepted. It is conceivable that the rule of Xixia over this area was that at least the people who used Chinese characters as daily characters in this area always existed until the demise of Xixia. Not to mention, it was only thirty years since the Yuanfeng period. Xixia characters began to appear on that land thirty years ago, and then Xixia characters and Chinese characters always appeared alternately. So now, no matter whether they are Han people or not, at least they are still very strong.
"If this happens, you have to send an army to support them!"
Wang Yue said with a deep face.
Send an army to go over, as long as you get things done, Li Qianshun will be much more honest, especially this will encourage other ethnic groups to get up and cause trouble. Since Li Qianshun is like a wild dog who is just watching, he is hiding beside and looking at this side with drooling, then ignite his tail with fire.
“How to get through?”
Liu Xi said in shock.
"How did those Shazhou businessmen come here?"
Wang Yue said.
"They went west of Qinghai and walked through the snow-capped desert. It is said that they were almost uninhabited for thousands of miles along the way. How could they compare with the army?"
Liu Xi said.
"Since they can walk, the army can walk, it's just to prepare more horses and camels to carry supplies. Three thousand cavalrymen with six thousand horses and three thousand camels is enough. Finding a Shazhou merchant as a guide, but this is a bit difficult to choose from. This is comparable to Ban Dingyuan! But it's not a big deal. It's only a thousand miles from Xining to Dunhuang, but there are not thousands of miles. The cavalry runs faster than ten days. Even the altitude of the plateau is not as high as altitude reaction. It's still very pleasant to walk this road in summer."
Wang Yue muttered to himself.
Liu Xi looked at him blankly...
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Chapter completed!