"The sea is on the verge of the waves,

There are piles of snow in front of the building.

From now on, you must go up,

Let’s look at the Twelve chapters of Silver Mountain.”

Su Shi's "Five Skills of Evening Scenery in Wanghai Tower"

——I am the dividing line—

In Qiantang City, Hangzhou, Zhou Huaian finally began to meet representatives of local scholars and citizens, and made public appearances on specific occasions and activities to declare the corresponding ruling power and control power.

How to quickly transform the military victory and results that have been achieved into political, economic gains and resource output bonuses is undoubtedly an important science. For example, the authority and influence of shocking the enemy externally and suppressing contradictions internally;

For example, fully mobilize and utilize the newly occupied land population and quickly transform it into a ready-made resource that supports subsequent military operations and war potential under the new institutional structure. Then, this involves the issues of organizational construction and bureaucratic system cultivation.

At least it is relatively easy to directly plunder wealth and population as a bonus for war and make it fearful for you to gain force. However, any social change that wants to go deeper into some point, just relying on traditional means of military conquest to become famous, the routines and speculative models that can be heard from the world will not fully meet the corresponding needs.

As most regimes and leaders in history have developed to this point, they have to make choices and compromises in reality.

After all, poor people can mobilize and gather into huge forces that shake the foundation of society, but it is relatively difficult to effectively control and transform into constructive forces. Because their general education and knowledge level are too low, it is difficult to become the basic forces supporting the bottom of the regime.

Only the old officials who followed the system of the previous dynasty and the large and small landlord classes represented by the aristocratic families behind them can provide talents with sufficient time to learn and cultivate themselves as candidates and new blood to form the dynasty bureaucratic system.

Since ancient times, the emperors who have changed dynasties have been weighing and choosing between these two groups to maintain corresponding constraints and balances. In addition, the survival pressure caused by the sharp decline in population/land annexation has been greatly alleviated, and finally created the so-called founding era.

Therefore, any peasant uprising army/rebel forces who claim to be punished for slandering the people and punishing the people will eventually develop to organize the regime and complete the transformation of firmly seizing the world. They must abandon most of their original intentions and ideas to absorb the skilled bureaucrats and aristocratic elites from these old systems.

Therefore, taking the Tang Dynasty as an example, for the Shandong gentry headed by the five surnames and seven hopes, they basically had basic national policies to win over and suppress. On the one hand, these large families who had great public opinion and voice power on the ground showed their hopes, which were a natural threat and hidden danger to the imperial power of the whole country.

However, due to the stable structure of the regime, they had to rely on their so-called family-leadership for generations to have the so-called family-leadership, and cultivated a large number of tribesmen, disciples, and more scholars who were able to call on the Li Tang regime and fill in government organizations at all levels.

Therefore, during the ups and downs of the dynasty in the first hundred years of the prosperous Kaiyuan period of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty was working hard to differentiate and disintegrate the influence of these old aristocratic families, while using the imperial examination system to attract more poor and common people in the opposition as a force for restraint and confrontation.

So after the mid-Tang Dynasty, this invisible national policy had been successful in a sense, but it could also be said to be basically failed. Because as the object of suppression and division and disintegration of the dynasties, the influence of the aristocratic families in the local area had declined seriously, and gradually gave way to the local martial arts group in the separatist states.

However, as a means of survival and change, these aristocratic families began to move into the power center represented by the two capitals, and penetrated into the imperial system from all aspects, becoming an important part of the Tang Dynasty regime.

However, because they have mastered central power and have a higher starting point than ordinary people, and have more direct and indirect political resources and personal influence, the children of these aristocratic families can easily obtain noble and noble positions or authority.

Then, after adding these political resources and power advantages in further superimposition and stability to their own children, there were no such things as those from humble origins or poor families. The so-called many brothers and fathers on the same list, and this is how the prime minister lineage of the Three Dynasties was born.

In the end, when the imperial power was used to stir up other theories and introduce the competition and vitality of the imperial examination system, it also became a tool for mutual interest exchange and political compromise between the high-ranking places through "comprehensive list" and "sentences" and other methods, and the Tang Dynasty, which was no longer able to change anything, naturally ushered in its end-of-day period.

Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, poor people who lost their normal way out due to the gradually blocked and blocked passages of upward passages have all devoted themselves to the shogunate of various vassal states, becoming the driving force of local confrontation centers. In the end, when natural disasters and man-made disasters are desperate, they have devoted themselves to the continuous civil uprisings.

In a sense, Huang Chao, a native of Yunzhou who failed many exams, was just one of the most popular figures who gathered the grievances of generations and responded to the times. The collapse and decline of the political remnants of aristocratic families and clans during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms can also be said to be a gradual product of this final backlash.

But what is also ridiculous is that because these aristocratic families have been too bound to the Li Tang Dynasty and have the same interests, at the end of this dynasty, they wanted to save the nation and survive the most backbone, and a large number of loyal ministers and good futures emerged. Although they are still useless.

But Zhou Huaian obviously has to take another path, another way of revolution that makes everything more thorough, and is full of thorns and hardships. Therefore, it is necessary to try to eradicate and eliminate the residual influence and poison of various old forces from the beginning.

This Qiantang City is no exception, but the situation is slightly different. Because there are both water towns, river networks and irrigation agriculture that are as well as famous inland cities and towns, as well as prosperous commodity economy and river and sea trade activities such as Guangzhou and Jiaozhou.

As the prefecture of Hangzhou and the leading big city and famous city in the territory, Qiantang City has Liupu and Wushan as the core of the new and old cities, building several new and old city walls with a circumference of about 36 miles and 90 steps.

There are a total of 47,000 households in the city, with a total of more than 210,000 households, and almost one-third of the families are engaged in shipping, business, silk weaving, papermaking, gold and silver smithing and other industrial and commercial related businesses.

There are many wealthy families that have emerged. Therefore, when standing at a high place, you can see that in addition to the continuous black sheds and gray tiles between the walls of the city, there are also some pavilions, towers and gardens scattered, scattered, and near the small inner city at the heart of the low Wushan Mountain and the old and new city.

The master of this is also a special group that needs to be identified and distinguished in Qiantang City. Among them are the four surnames of Wu, which can be said to be back to the Sun Quan era of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, Zhu, Zhang and Gulu; and Wang Xie and Yuan Xiao, who were Yuanshu who crossed south during the Yongjia period at the reciprocity of the Jin Dynasty.

Of course, after years of destruction, since the "Old King and Xie Hall" are competing to "fly into the homes of ordinary people", the only ones who can stay in Hangzhou are the families of many other schools of the remote clans. For modern people, there are only a little dispensable feelings and curiosity left.

Then there were Xu, Shen, Zhoufang and others, the Tuhu clan that only emerged from the surrounding areas for hundreds of years in the previous dynasty. Chen Lin, Wu Huang, who came across the sea from Liangling and Fujian to take root; here, because of its long-term management of sea trade and river transportation, it was known as the Sixteen Qiantang families.

Of course, because of the ancient tradition of "business and wealth to buy fields, many fields to manage academics, and good studies to become officials", most of them were unable to clear away the shit on their butts. Finally, they were able to pass preliminary selection and survey, and then be elected as one of the representatives of scholars and people. There were only a few companies who came to Zhou Huaian to express their feelings.

Their performance and attitude will also determine the fate of many equal families in the city to stay or stay. Should they be judged first and then house-style liquidation, ordered to move their families, or accept local rectification and self-reflection, or become the new target of cooperation between the Taiping Army in the local area and join the economic system under their rule.

This meeting was also arranged in the most famous banquet and viewing place in the city. The outer embankment next to the south wall was used as the Wanghai Tower in Qiantang to watch the tide. This place can even be traced back to the record of "Records of the Grand Historian - The Records of Qin Shihuang" "In the 37th year of the First Emperor, he visited Kuaiji in the eastern year, passed Danyang, arrived in Qiantang, and came to Zhejiang."

It was the fifth time it was repeatedly destroyed and built on the former site of Qin Guanchaotai. The most recent time was the Yang Baoying Rebellion in Hangzhou during the tenth year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty. It was then called for reconstruction by Chu Suiliang, a native of Qiantang, one of the four great masters of the early Tang Dynasty.

It is also one of the ancient buildings of the same name of the Wanghai Tower in the world. It stands on a magnificent platform with spiral steps on the edge of the long dike, and is a pavilion-style building with eight-edged five-layer gray tiles and lacquered pavilion.

Starting from the bottom hall and pavilion, many pillars are also engraved with poems and essays by famous masters of all dynasties, from the earliest Tang Dynasty master Chu Suiliang's "Spring Banquet Looking at the Sea to Respond to the Imperial Examination" to the "Tide Poem" written by Zheng Gu, who is known as the quail scholar in the contemporary era:

"The light waves in Zhejiang go away, looking at the sea tower and looking at the sea sorrow.

Don’t blame the hometown for being a sacred person and being a guest in another state for ten years.”

Today, Zhou Huaian's "new" is undoubtedly added to make a half-pair of couplets: "Looking at the sea tower, looking at the sea current, looking at the sea tower, looking at the sea current, and looking at the sea tower, the fragrance will be passed down through the ages." When he arrived here with his guard, the singer in the building sang the widely circulated "Golden Lu Clothes. Coupon Selection" under the accompaniment of the pipa, guzheng, and reed flutes, singing the widely circulated local area "Golden Lu Clothes. Coupon Selection" under the accompaniment of the pipa, guzheng, and reed flutes.

"I advise you not to cherish your golden clothes, and I advise you to cherish your youth.

If you have flowers that you can break, you must break them. Don’t wait until there are no flowers to break branches.

The blue sky is cloudless and the moon is like a candle, and the dew is crying as white as jade.

Zigui cried all night until dawn, and the beauty stayed alone in the empty room.

Giving silk clothes in the empty space is not favor, and one is incense and one is ecstatic.

Although the dancing sleeves have never danced, I often see tears in the spring breeze.

Without washing the remaining makeup, I also embroidered the mandarin ducks with my daughter.

I went back to the point where I flew back, and recalled the tears of the warriors several times."

The crowds of elders and representatives of the scholars and the people in the city also stood up and bowed to Zhou Huaian who was climbing the steps.
Chapter completed!