Chapter 159 Difficulties in the world are coming (4)
The issue of the Yan Han was first focused on the Yan Han issue. The issue of the Northern Yi was not very urgent. The Yan Han is now strong in soldiers and horses. The generals are not afraid of death. The soldiers are willing to fight to the death. The benefits of the soldiers are also the best in the world.
Now the Han Dynasty has 300,000 powerful soldiers. If they gather together, it is enough to wipe out the Central Plains. However, now there are enemies in the Western Regions, the Northern Territory, the Southern Barbarians, Jingzhou and Jiangdong. The 300,000 powerful soldiers can be used at most 50,000 or 60,000.
In this way, there will naturally be insufficient attacks, but the defense is sufficient. If you capture Jingzhou, Nanyang County and Hongnong County next year, you can rest for a while. After the newly conquered prefectures and counties gather for several years, you will be enough to wipe out the world.
Therefore, there is not a big problem in military affairs, but there are big problems in internal politics. Previously, the strong enemy was on the side, and the internal problems were barely bridged and ignored for the time being.
Yang Yi also used the strategy of marriage to temporarily unite with the nobles, so that the time for these problems to break out was delayed. However, since he has conquered the old capital Chang'an, this issue will be discussed.
As the country becomes stronger and stronger, it is necessary to cleanse up old humiliation. For example, welcoming the plundered Liu Chan and the princes back, we should have added Qiao Zhou, a famous master from Shu. However, Qiao Zhou was already declared as a clan destruction because of the enemy in the three eastern counties.
However, because Yan Han was good at governing, the Qiao Zhou tribe was sent out of the country by gifts. Of course, the property of the entire tribe was confiscated.
In the end, the collapse of Jingyao in the sixth year, all parties also defaulted to put the blame on Qiao Zhou. After all, the voice of the surrender faction has been completely eliminated. After conquering the old capital, the mistakes of the surrender faction were magnified. As the leader of the surrender faction, he naturally assumed all the blame. At the same time, the Confucian lineage suffered a great blow because of this.
However, Qiao Zhou was nothing. Instead, Liu Chan and several princes were important joints, which was also a taboo for Yan Han now.
As the snow flew, everything stopped. Yang Yi also watched the drama with the queen and the concubines, the nine ministers in the capital, the governor, and the followers and civil and military officials.
The newly built Shanglin Garden was originally built in Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty. By the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu ascended the throne and expanded it and was rebuilt in the third year of Jianyuan.
The expanded Shanglin Garden is amazingly large in scale; it is built on a platform and climbs up to the heights, and the distance is everywhere, with a large scale and a long distance to maintain the original natural landscape.
Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu" describes the beautiful scenery of Shanglin Garden and the grand scene of Emperor Wu of Han hunting.
According to records, Shanglin Garden is more than 100 kilometers in a circumference, with 70 palaces in it, spanning five counties and can accommodate thousands of riders.
The garden includes eight rivers: Wei, Jing, Feng, Lao, Huai, Huai, Huai, Huai and Ba, which are what we call "eight waters surround Chang'an".
The area of Shanglinyuan belongs to Lantian, Yichun, Dinghu, Yusu, Kunwu, and along Zhongnan Mountain in the east, reaching Changyang, Wuzha, and around Huangshan in the north, bordering Weishui and turning east, with a land of more than 300 miles.
The hills in the garden are undulating and cages Cui Wei, the deep forests are varied in rocks, and eight rivers flow into the garden. There are many natural and artificial scrubs such as Lingkun, grass, cattle heads, Jingchi, East and West Pond Ponds. The natural landform is very varied, magnificent and magnificent.
Because the garden is covered with mountains and rivers and lush trees, countless animals, fish and turtles were nurtured, forming an ideal hunting place. At that time, many literati wrote poems to describe the beauty of the garden and the grand scene of hunting.
Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu": "From the beginning and the beginning, the Ba qi, and the Jingwei. Feng and Hao are in the water, and the remaining snakes are in the water, and they are in the operation. They are swaying around the eight rivers, and they are in different shapes. They are east, south and north, and they are rushing back and forth." This is based on the water system, which is defined for Shanglin Garden.
The two rivers of Ba and Wu never leave Shanglin Garden from beginning to end; the two rivers of Jing and Wei flow in from outside the garden and then out from inside the garden; the four rivers of Feng, Hao and Lao are winding and twisting, circling in the garden.
According to the content of Shanglin Garden, according to the "Book of Han·Jiyi", "The emperor raised hundreds of beasts in the garden. In the spring and autumn, the emperor took countless beasts. Among them, there were seventy places in the palace, which accommodated thousands of riders and cyclists." It can be seen that the tradition of hunting and entertainment is still preserved, but the main content is palace buildings and garden pools. According to the records, there are 36 gardens, 12 palaces, and 21 palaces in Shanglin Garden. There are Yichun Garden for recreation, the Yusu Garden for the emperor to stay, and the Sixian Garden for the prince to recruit guests, and the Bowang Garden, etc.
There are also large palaces in Shanglin Garden, and some palaces with different purposes and buildings.
Such as Xuanqu Palace where music and singing music; the Dogtai Palace where you can watch dog racing, horse racing and ornamental fish and birds, the dog view, the fish and bird view; the fish and bird view that raises and watches elephants, the white deer view, the white deer view; the grape palace where you can plant grapes in the Western Regions and the Fuli Palace that raises strange flowers and trees in the south such as calamus, mountain ginger, cinnamon, longan, lychee, betel nut, olive, citrus, etc.; the horns reach the performance venues are optimistic; the cocoon view that you can raise silkworms; there are also Chengguang Palace, Chuyuan Palace, Yanglu Palace, Yangde Temple, Dingjiao Temple, Sanjue Temple, etc.
There are many ponds and squats in Shanglin Garden, including Kunming Pond, Gao Pond, Sai Pond, Mi Pond, Niu Shou Pond, Kuai Pond, Jicao Pond, Dongpi Pond, Danglu Pond, Taiye Pond, Lang Pond, etc.
Among them, Kunming Pond was carved in the fourth year of Emperor Wu's Yuanshou. It is located in the southwest of Chang'an with a circumference of 40 miles. It is lined up and surrounded by a building. It is also built with a ship of more than ten feet high and a flag is planted on it. It is very spectacular.
Such a huge royal garden was advised by the Changshi Lang Dongfang Shuo at the beginning of its construction, "there is no use of the country above and the lower one can seize the industry of agriculture and sericulture."
After the two emperors Zhao and Xuan, when the Yuan Dynasty, the officials who managed Shanglinyuan were overwhelmed by the court, and at the same time, the pools and fields occupied by Yichunyuan were returned to the poor for use.
During the reign of Emperor Cheng, the gardens of "Sanchuan" (the three sides of the east, south, and west) were allocated to the civilians. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang demolished more than ten palaces in Shanglin Garden in the first year of Dihuang, took their materials and tiles to create nine ancestral temples. What followed was the war between the Wang Mang regime and the Red Eyebrow Rebel Army for the capital, which caused Shanglin Garden to suffer a devastating disaster.
Naturally, Yang Yi built a garden of this size, because the Han River was planned to be used to transfer the Wei River, so all the newly built canals were planned to be included in the newly built Shanglin Garden. However, most of them were rewarded with ministers, that is, nobles who were marquis who settled their homes in Guanzhong, gave them land and built gardens.
Customized by the Shaofu of the Ministry of Works, it cannot be crossed. It also means protecting the water source. Only the important part of it can be planned is the royal garden.
What we are doing now is just a palace that begins. The construction of the past two months is enough to accommodate some strange people from the Hanlin Academy to perform zajus here.
As for zaju, Yang Yi summoned the folk drama Yi Ren a few years ago, and then studied it for several years. Shengdan, Jingmo and Chou had already developed a concept, and the drama form has also made great progress compared to the previous folk drama. Not only did there be a warm-up flame section before the original, but there were also miscellaneous tricks similar to returning to the scene and filling the original.
Even two years ago, under the promotion of Yang Yi, he had his own exclusive drama "The Legend of the Five Tigers". The story of the founding of the Five Tiger Generals of the Liethians from the first lunar month of each year must be performed for fifteen days, and gradually became a tradition. Once the day comes, the Hanlin Academy, local governments, and residents around him will prepare together.
As the story expands, opera has gradually been completed. Of course, the descendants of the Five Tiger Generals will ask for a note to their ancestors, and all Hanlin scholars are racking their brains for this.
General Guan passed five passes and killed six generals, General Zhang's drunkard broke Dangyang Bridge, General Ma's lonely battle with Cao Cao, General Huang's Ding army killed Xiahou, General Zhao's bloody battle with Changbanpo, etc.
Back in front of you, Yang Yi, her close ministers and their family watched operas in the palace, which was even more common... It should be noted that there are very few entertainment methods these days, and drama and even storytelling are refreshing entertainment methods. Once developed, they are even more popular than singing and dancing. There is no saying that ordinary people can hear, but the palace cannot hear.
In fact, as the Han Empire became more and more powerful, it gradually regained its vitality as a former Celestial Kingdom. The popular trends shown by these entertainment methods far exceeded Yang Yi's imagination. Rich people gathered, feasted, and ordinary people formed associations and organized professionals, and they would naturally invite professionals to perform. Naturally, the palace could not be spared.
Even because the palace is isolated from inside and outside, the nobles in the harem cannot go out to play. These storytelling and dramas have become their main entertainment methods. For example, a certain imperial concubine likes to hear stories the most and listens to them almost every day. After saying all the stories that have recently appeared in Journey to the West, the Romance of Chu and Han, and these popular stories in the folk, they have no choice but to collect folk legends and temporarily compile current affairs for daily updates.
However, the reason why storytelling and zaju are unobstructed in the palace is that they have low cost and another very royal role.
For example, most of the Shuji scholars in the Hanlin Academy were from Confucianism. As the main force in compiling these zany dramas, many of them began to have some of their own ideas. Now, the drama they performed is like this. It is about a general of the Han Dynasty who was successful and famous in the frontier for more than ten years, but he was unable to perform filial piety in front of his parents.
When this play was performed, the audience was already silent, and at the end, it was even more silent. But at this moment, Yang Yi sat there and ignored it, and there was no sound at all.
The queen and the concubine kept silent. Governor Jiang, who returned to Beijing to worship, just looked at the sky without saying a word. Several close ministers of civil and military looked at each other and then made their own preparations... It was not about dealing with these brave actors who mocked His Majesty for being unfilial and unkind, but about to speak out at any time.
The reason is very simple. These folk operas come from those humble people. When they go out to beg for food, they say more interesting and nice things, and then they can eat more. After they appear, they have already formed a unique cultural atmosphere. These actors have a nickname in the palace, called "No Overwhelming" because they mean that they have a low status and no matter how they are sarcastic, they mean innocent.
What's more, they are somewhat out of their true intentions, and not the people who wrote the articles for them behind their backs. Yang Yi naturally knew this, and she didn't want to be cruel.
Sure enough, Yang Yi thought for a long time, but waved directly to the actors to step down and see him. His tone was not very heavy. Seeing this, all the left and right sides were relieved.
The actors came over, bowed and stood there... Although they were brave on the stage, they were still trembling when they really arrived in front of the emperor.
Of course, Yang Yi had to scold him severely: "Your performance is not good. It sounds a bit reasonable, but it is just a trivial story and is not enough to be circulated into a famous work. It is not a good idea to find me to get my name. I have concluded the affairs of the state since Jingyao six years ago. This is not what you should say!"
The actors were suddenly frightened and prepared to apologize.
However, before they could speak, Yang Yi continued to chatter: "According to my words, whether it is a zaju or a storyteller, it is essentially to tell stories. If the story is good, the characters are good and the characters have a good connotation, it can be truly spread. Although you read "The Legend of the Five Tigers", although it is somewhat confusing, the story is natural, so it lasts forever. Although you have to find inspiration from history and life to do these things, the key is to make it artistic, perfect, and complete it."
After a while, the neighbors, the queens and the actors were already stunned, but they still understood the general meaning.
No matter what you say, you won’t change it anymore. You will not change it even if you take out the songs that are sang to the world.
Therefore, after a while, an actor said carefully: "So that Your Majesty knows that although we academicians are all very knowledgeable about words, they do not have the skills of those real academicians and cannot write any good stories. If the famous works such as "The Biography of the Five Tiger Generals" were still written by noble people, and the subsequent scholars have added more, but we do not have the ability."
"What are you going to play next?" Yang Yi frowned and met.
"It's "The Legend of the Five Tiger Generals".
Yang Yi lost interest when she heard this: "If this is the case, I will not read it anymore. However, the queen has always been a talented person. I told her to write a storybook tonight and send it to the yard tomorrow. When the arrangement is made, I will come to see it again."
As soon as this statement was made, these actors were immediately overjoyed and knew that this festival would not be taken care of. However, the Hanlins beside Yang Yi were all bitterly faced, and many close ministers who were with civil and military eunuchs today were also a little powerless.
By the way, the emperor wrote a lot of messy stories in the name of the empress and concubines, such as the legend of the Five Tiger Generals, and Journey to the West and the Romance of Chu and Han, who doesn’t know?
Moreover, everyone knows that those things are inappropriate for a emperor.
But if the words are inappropriate, the emperor also gave a cover to give his subordinates a face. Why should he have more quarrels with the emperor for these things?
This is not an emperor who dares not kill people. There is no emperor who dares to kill people. Which emperor of Han has either killed people with a lot of people, or Liu Chan, commonly known as the good man, has also killed a lot of people...
Nowadays, it is even more because of the affairs of the former emperor. It is understandable that it is still exiled to the border deserter. If it is for the sake of profit, it will be sent to the mine as a slave, which is even more uncomfortable than death!
Welcoming Liu Chan back is also a knot in many people's hearts, especially those Chinese officials who were staying at home now were all unemployed, so they naturally bear the responsibility of their failures. The generals still have the opportunity to make meritorious service and atone for their sins, but they cut off any opportunity from the new emperor. The past few years were nothing, but with the revival of the Han Dynasty, how could they always be unemployed?
Chapter completed!