Chapter 1,656 Guangzhou

Guangzhou, Xiyuan, Guangnan East Road Manager Jiang Zhiqi, who is also aware of Guangzhou, feels both happy and distressed recently.

Jiang Zhiqi was a Jinshi in the same class as Su Shi and Su Che. He and Su Shi were good friends. They sat at the same table at the Jinmingchi Banquet. Later, Da Su also bought a field in Changzhou with him, and planned to become neighbors together after retirement.

Because of his excellent articles, Ouyang Xiu strongly recommended him to be the censor Li Xing. Later, Jiang Zhiqi impeached Ouyang Xiu for not repairing the curtains, which led to Ouyang Xiu's resignation.

Jiang Zhiqi was demoted to supervise the Daozhou liquor tax because of this incident.

But people are complicated, and Jiang Zhiqi was not delayed too much in his official career because of this incident, because although he impeached Ouyang Xiu, he was still a well-known capable and honest official in the Song Dynasty.

Along the way, he had great political achievements and an excellent official reputation. The people lived and worked in peace and contentment wherever he went. After arriving in Guangzhou, he established a business near the government office. The only trouble was that there were too few scribes of his level here, and it was difficult to sing poems and songs, so he could only sing with him.

Friends exchange letters.

Jiang Zhiqi was overjoyed when he heard that Xiao Su Tanhua was going to be the interrogator. He thought that he and the Su family were really destined, and now he had company.

As a result, after Xiao Su arrived at Tanhua, she handed over a few poems she had written on the road, and handed over letters from Su Shi, Su Che and Su You. She did not even mention her name as Tanhua, but only said: "I will learn from Su after I join the company."

Yoke, see Cao Shuai."

I heard that Ma Juan signed a contract for Qinzhou, and when he joined the post, he called himself "Ma Juan, the second best" to the prefect Lu Jinbo. Lu Jinbo said: "The second best is the ranking in the imperial examination. Since he is an official, he should be called his position."

It is also often said that Juan said: "It is useless to study in the imperial examinations. It is only for self-cultivation that you can learn from them and encourage them."

He also said: "You cannot learn to cultivate yourself, but you cannot know how to cultivate the people for politics."

Ma Juan thought he had learned from him, and later became a political figure, saying, "Lü Gong's teachings are also here."

Judging from Xiao Su Tanhua's self-positioning, she has a humble temperament.

Jiang Zhiqi soon learned that Xiao Su Tanhua was not humble, but that he didn't take his literary name and imperial examination ranking seriously at all.

This child has been hanging out with the Tibetan people in Fanfang recently. In the words of Lu Sheng, a state academic officer, this is called "self-willed depravity".

At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the military commanders in the feudal towns were monopolizing power, the world was in turmoil, and centralization of power could never be consolidated.

After Taizu "released his military power over a glass of wine", he often ordered courtiers to go out to guard the state and county, and the official title was "Quan Zhijun, state affairs".

The word "quan" is deliberately added in front, which has a temporary meaning, meaning that it can be stopped at any time. The name specifically corrects the disadvantages of the father-to-son succession in the feudal town.

In order to check and balance the magistrates, Tongyan was specially established.

Tongfan is the provincial name for "Tongben state affairs" or "Governor Tongfan". The purpose is to strengthen the supervision and control of local officials and prevent the magistrate from having too much power and monopolizing power.

This inspiration comes from the "supervising censors" who were responsible for supervising counties and the "supervising postal officials" who were responsible for supervising counties in the Han Dynasty. After this position, the relationship between the central government and the prefectures and counties was like the heart using the arm, and the arm using the hand.

Feel free to command.

Orders issued by the magistrate to his subordinates must be signed by the magistrate before they can take effect. The name tongpan also comes from the fact that "all official documents from superior to subordinates are jointly signed by the magistrate."

At first, the imperial court selected Beijing officials to serve as Tongpan. Later, it was changed to supervisors such as transfer envoys, institutional envoys, and promotion departments to assist in state affairs. They could be regarded as deputy governors of the state, but they had the power to report directly to the emperor.

After Yuanfeng was restructured, the independence of the general judges was increasingly strengthened, and almost all officials were appointed by the imperial court.

In the Song Dynasty, there was no rebellion in Zhizhou, so the establishment of Tongpan played a huge role.

In addition to being in charge of supervising and prefecture, "all matters concerning soldiers and civilians, money and grain, household registration, taxes and servitude, and the hearing of prison lawsuits can be adjudicated, and they must be signed with the guardians to implement them."

In addition, the general magistrate also has another responsibility: "Whether the officials under the department are good or not and whether their duties are repaired or not, they can be promoted to hear."

Generally, the levels of Tongpan are mostly from the 7th level and the 8th level. However, Guangzhou is governed by Luzhi, that is, Zhili Prefecture, so most of the levels of Tongpan are from the 5th level and the 6th level.

Colander has long been favored, and he carries the false title of the eunuch on his back as Zhao Xu's companion.

However, Colander himself did not regard the title of General Supervisor as an empty title. He often went to the General Supervisor to intern at work, and even improved the workmanship several times for the General Supervisor and made some contributions.

No one dared to take the credit for the second son of the Situ family. When he reported the results as a supervisor, Gao Taotao was very happy after seeing it. The Su family is as sincere as ever.

So he simply gave Colander Interpretation a promotion according to his actual job. By the time Colander got the title of Tanhua, he had been promoted to the sixth grade. This also became Liu Zhengfu's reason for asking to be released.

It should be said that Colander's starting point was even better than his father's.

However, his father has been jumping through the ranks since he was in charge of Kui. He has never even worked as a pass judge or a road judge. He is still a full-time job in the outside lane. So the baby still has to chase.

Guangzhou is a state that no one wants to come to. According to the policy established by Suyou before, officials serving in difficult areas were given priority in promotions and salary subsidies and care. The colander was placed outside, and the imperial court gave them the sixth grade.

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Today's Guangzhou city can only be regarded as beginning to take shape.

Although Guangzhou has been the political, economic, and cultural center of Lingnan since Qin Shihuang unified Lingnan and Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo built the Panyu City Wall. During the Five Dynasties, it was the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty, but it is still not developed.

In the third year of Kaibao's reign, the Song Dynasty conquered Lingnan, with Pan Mei as the camp and all the troops deployed. The Langzhou regiment was trained as envoy, and Yin Chongke was his deputy.

Liu Yuan, the leader of the Southern Han Dynasty at that time, could be called the best of the faint-hearted kings. He was drunk on money, cruel and violent, and extravagant.

He was very good at dealing with his own people, and almost all members of the royal family were wiped out by him.

In order to prevent officials from rebelling, this guy came up with a trick - to operate on officials and make them eunuchs.

When Pan Mei called, Liu Yun was confused and asked his subordinates what to do.

His subordinates were also bastards. They told him that the reason why the Song Army wanted to attack us was because they coveted our good things. As long as we burned all the treasures in the palace and treasury, they would have no choice but to go back.

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So Liu Su really set a fire, burned down the palace, and burned half of Guangzhou to the ground.

When Pan Mei arrived in Guangzhou, she couldn't laugh or cry, so she had no choice but to take Liu Yuan to Kaifeng as a trophy, and the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed.

It was not until the Zhenzong and Renzong periods that the city of Guangzhou began to gradually recover.

Afterwards, officials continued to report that there were many large merchants from the Han Dynasty in Guangzhou, but the "walls of the city had collapsed." The city was rich but the defenses were weak, there was no city, and there were many pirates in the surrounding area.

The Pearl River Estuary is a majestic area known as the "Little Sea". It became a paradise for pirates, with a maximum number of three hundred people at one time, while the common people of the Han Dynasty were like rich dishes at an open-air banquet, allowing themselves to be slaughtered by thieves.

A city filled with wealth but without city defenses is like a house with a lot of money but never locking its doors.

In the fifth year of Qingli, Ren Zhongshi returned to the court and once again proposed to the court that Guangzhou should be built.

Wei Guan, the newly appointed magistrate of the state, found an ancient brick in the corner of the old city with the four words "entrusted to ghost work" inscribed on it.

The combination of ghost and commission gave rise to the surname "Wei". Wei Guan thought this was God's will, so he summoned soldiers and civilians to overhaul the city based on the old city of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Ren Zhongshi and Wei Guan were far-sighted. Soon after the reconstruction of Zicheng, the Nong Zhigao Rebellion broke out.

However, the city built by Wei Guan was impregnable, and the newly dug wells in the city had sufficient water. Nong Zhigao besieged the city with more than fifty veterans of the Celestial Masters. Xiao Zhu, the magistrate of Panyu, recruited warriors and took advantage of the strong hurricane at night to set fire to the enemy ships.

Time was covered in smoke and flames, and Nong Zhigao had no choice but to retreat.

Although Zicheng successfully completed the task of fending off enemies, it was still too small to accommodate more people.

In the fourth year of Zhiping, Lu Jujian, the son of Prime Minister Lu Mengzheng, knew Guangzhou and planned to build the West City. However, due to engineering difficulties, he had to turn his attention to the east. As early as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Bu Zhi built Yue City on the site of "Zhao Tuo City".

Lu Jujian was soon transferred to another position, but still submitted a letter requesting that the East City be built on the site of Yue City. After the new magistrate Wang Jing took over, it took more than a hundred days to complete the construction of the East City, with a radius of four miles, fifty-one oars, and the "Gongchen" gate at the north gate.

, the south gate is "Yingxun", and the east gate is "Zhendong".

Only the west side faces Zicheng across the Wen River. The city wall has not been built. There is a "Zhixi Bridge" across Hao and connected to the Yingchun Gate of the east gate of Zicheng.

In the fourth year of Xining, Fuzhou magistrate Cheng Shimeng moved to Guangzhou. In view of the fact that Nong Zhigao robbed tens of thousands of vassal families outside the city during the siege of the city. "A century-old gathering and exotic treasures have been wiped out." It is believed that the local security and people's safety situation is still serious.

, the layout and scale of Guangzhou City is still the first issue that those in power need to consider.

Guangzhou has mountains on its back and sea views, Yuexiu Mountain in the north, Pearl River water in the south, and the scale of Yuecheng remnants in the east is tight. Further to the west, the land is low and humid. Before the Tang Dynasty, it was basically a river swamp.

Sima Guang's evaluation was that "the land is covered with clam shells, so no city can be built."

Therefore, Guangzhou does not have the geographical advantage to build a large city. What can be built has been built by predecessors.

There is only one other possibility left - making bricks and building a brick city.

Engineer Meng was an expert in water control and city construction in Fuzhou. He had rich experience and was determined to resist the criticism and build the West City.

It’s also the right time, right place, right people and people.
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