After passing through Baodezhou, three or five days later, they arrived in Shuozhou, Zhou Sheng and Zheng Qi led a man to see him, "Subordinate Jin Er to see your lord." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "This person is the second eldest of the Thirteen Taibao, the Jin Taibao of Shanxi.

"Taibao, please, the three of you have worked hard, how are the kings of Shanxi?"

"After the emperor's edict reprimanded, headed by the king of Taiyuan Mansion, the king of Datong Mansion, and the king of Shen of Luzhou Mansion, the ten feudal kings in Shanxi all resigned, and Jinyiwei was cleaning up the industries of each prefecture. ”

Although Chang Wei's face was happy, his heart sank, because Jin Taibao had a grim face when he said this, and then looked at Zhou Sheng and Zheng Taibao with a gloomy face, "This is a good thing, why are the three of you uncertain?

The three of them said hatefully: "When the properties of the King of Jin, the King of Dai, and the King of Shen were checked, the subordinates found that most of the property and food of the three mansions were all gone!"

Chang Wei's eyes froze, and he said in a deep voice: "Gone, where did you go?"

The three subordinates interrogated for days before they learned that the three kings had asked the prince to transfer the property to the grassland outside the Saiwai with the seal letter and his cronies. ”

"Damn!" Chang Wei was furious, "Where are the three kings?"

"All of them, swallowing gold and committing suicide. ”

"Damn, really hateful!" Emperor Feng Changwei became the prince of the country, it looks like the scenery is infinite, but in fact, he is a big move, and now his every move will be watched by the ministers of the court, and the matter of cutting the feudal domain is blocking the life of his family, and it is easy to be grabbed by people and make him ruined.

"Zhou Sheng, pass on my order, scatter all the 12,000 people in Beizhen, and show me the death of the vassal kings in various places, especially the vassal kings in the far border areas, and never allow this kind of thing to happen again. You write down the details of this incident and hand it over to me, and I will submit it to the emperor to ask for guilt!"

The vassal kings of Shaanxi and Shanxi on the northern border have been cut, and now the remaining vassal kings on the border of Guangdong and Guangxi are those vassal kings, although there are no strong countries outside the southern border, but they cannot leave an opportunity for the other party to take advantage of.

When Zhou Sheng and the three of them heard this, they exclaimed: "It's the subordinates and others who are not doing things well, how can they let the adults suffer?"

Chang Wei raised his hand to interrupt them, "The vassal king is already high, you are in a dilemma, and it is very hard to do things below, how can you give me all the credit, and the fault belongs to you? As long as you work hard, the reward will not be less, and I will naturally bear the responsibility if something happens, don't be afraid, don't be afraid to do it boldly!"

The three of them were moved together, knelt on the ground, and said: "My lord is benevolent and righteous, and his subordinates will be repaid by smearing their hearts and brains!"

Ordinary officials take credit for themselves, and their subordinates are blamed for accidents, but this time the matter is not big, because the task of cutting down the feudal domain has been completed, and it is not small because the certificate seal of the feudal king has been taken away. In the hands of ordinary officials, they will definitely be found to blame, but Chang Wei not only does not blame them, but is considerate and rewarding, and what is even more surprising is that he has borne the guilt, this kind of official is really rare.

At the moment, after asking for details, they each wrote a document and sent it away from the post station, Chang Wei's recital not only vigorously praised the vassal kings such as the King of Qin and the King of Shu who advocated giving up the title in the book, but also greatly appreciated Zhu Zaiyu, the son of the Wanli period who wrote to resign the title of King Zheng. Zhu Zaiyu was called the saint of law, and the emperor was asked to promote Zhu Zaiyu's 'twelve equal laws' and music, physics, and mathematics.

What is the "12 equal temperament"? It is to divide the octave of do, come, mi, fa, instigation, pull, west, and do, into twelve semitones, and the distance between each scale is exactly equal. Just like the steps of a staircase, from the first step to the twelfth step, each step is exactly the same height. A modern piano usually has twelve keys, seven white keys, five black keys, and twelve keys divide the octaves equally, which is the twelve equal temperament.

As a result, Zhu Zaiyu invented a musical instrument -- the law standard. It was the world's first timpani instrument based on twelve equal temperaments. The instrument has 12 strings and can be used to define 84 standard tones, including today's keyboards, drums, and strings.

However, Zhu Zaiyu completed these calculations through a double-row abacus with 81 gears, and calculated the twelfth root of two. Zhu Zaiyu's writings have solved the problems that have plagued the history of music in the world for thousands of years, and he is a natural genius!

Zhu Zaiyu's 12 equal laws were not very appreciated in the Ming Dynasty, but the missionaries brought them to the West, which sparked a musical revolution that led to the invention of the world's first piano by the Italian Christopelli.

Bach, the father of modern music, wrote his masterpiece "Twelve Equal Temperament Piano Pieces" on the basis of Zhu Zaiyu. The 12 equal temperaments are recognized as the great revolutions of musicology, physics, and mathematics in Europe, and are also great inventions in the history of world science. British scientist Dr. Joseph Needham called Zhu Zaiyu a 'Chinese Renaissance saint'!

Chang Wei's purpose in doing this was to advocate the sages among the vassal kings, to distinguish them from the rebels such as King Qing, and also to show that the vassal kings were not all moths and sages, so as to ease the relationship with the vassal kings, so as not to be regarded as enemies by the descendants of the Zhu family.

Then he sent Chang Ping to go south to Yangcheng to buy pig iron with silver tickets and his own letters; he also asked Wuding to take his army back to Fugu and stationed between the inner and outer Great Wall to wait for the next order; and ordered Zhou Sheng to send Jinyi Wei to sneak out of the Great Wall to find out information.

The seven sons of the Big Dipper, the three people of Wang Ziyong, and the six people of Fenglu Lengxin went out of the customs from the side pass, Sanshandun, and Yulinwei respectively, and Chang Wei himself took Tang Jinyi, Fang Huan'er, Hu Wenqing, Chang Li, and Han Chai out of the customs from the mouth of the tiger.

Since the prince of the three kings is out of the customs, Chang Wei will never let them go, and he must kill the troubles. Although the area outside the Saiwai is wide, it is nothing more than Yunchuan, Yunnei, Yulin, Liancheng, Dongsheng, and Naturalization where you can hide, and Changwei's destination is Naturalization City.

Hu Wenqing is a very strange person, obviously a thin old man, on a hot day, riding a horse and galloping thousands of miles, but he can't breathe, he can't sweat, and he is more energetic than an ordinary master, so Chang Wei has more doubts in his heart.

"Old man, we're going to get out of the fortress, it's the heartland of the Tatars, you should also tell me the truth, who are you?"

Lao Hu replied with a smile: "Didn't Guogong say Hu Butang at the beginning? Xiao Lao'er is the descendant of Hu Butang. ”

Chang Wei shook his head and said, "I'm talking about your hidden martial arts, you are a top master." ”

Lao Hu nodded and said: "It's true that I can't hide it from Grandpa Guo, the old man does know how to do a few three-legged cat kung fu." ”

"The top realm or the three-legged cat?" Chang Wei asked anxiously, Hu Wenqing only said that he would go back and ask Chang Kuan, he refused to say, Chang Wei was not good at asking again, but Chang Kuan did things very safely, and the old man would never harm himself.

Out of the plug, Fang Huan'er was even more strange, he had to ask Chang Wei and Tang Jinyi to shave their hair, saying that it was convenient.

The Tatars shaved off all the hair on the top of the head and the back of the head, leaving only three pairs of hair in the middle of the forehead and on both sides, as in the style of Han children. The hair in the middle is cut short and scattered, and the two pairs on both sides are braided into whips to block the line of sight that squints on both sides, so that people cannot look at wolves, which is called "not wolves".

Chang Wei flatly refused: "I'd rather shave my head with such ugly hair." ”

"Then shave your head and pretend to be a monk, Chang Li and the three young people pretend to be Han monks, adults can speak all kinds of Mongolian and Tibetan languages, and it is best to pretend to be a monk. Saying that he shaved Chang Wei's bald head with a knife in his hand, Fang Huan'er smiled when he ate it, "What a handsome little monk." ”

When she shaved Tang Jinyi's hair, her eyes were straight, and then she understood what it meant to be handsome, Chang Wei touched her bright head and said: "It's cool to shave your head in summer, but if you return to the imperial court, you will definitely be impeached by the imperial historians." ”

Fang Huan'er covered her mouth and smiled: "Isn't Chang Li's hair growing, and it will be able to tie up in a few months." ”

Chang Wei grabbed Han and said, "Everyone has to shave, you can't cheap him." ”

Fang Huan'er said: "If you are a real person and Hu Lao pretend to be a Taoist, you don't need to shave, I will pretend to be a Taoist aunt." ”

Chang Wei shook his head again and again, "Fan monks, Han monks, Taoist priests, Taoist aunts, what kind of combination is this? ”

Han Chai shook his head and explained: "Monks, Taoists, gods and the like are popular everywhere, these are more popular on the grassland, and they don't have as many rules as our Han people, monks, Taoists, and shamans often mix together, it doesn't matter." ”

With a suspicious mood and a big bald head, Chang Wei galloped towards the largest city outside the Saiwai in the northwest - Guihua City.

The Naturalization City is only one hundred and sixty miles away from the important node on the Great Wall, and the horse runs faster on the prairie. After only jogging for an hour, I arrived at the grassland of Eilechuan under the Daqing Mountain.

Chang Wei sang leisurely: "Eilechuan, under the Yin Mountain, the sky is like a dome and the ground is like a cover, the sky is vast and the cliffs are vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep. ”

The grassland is the so-called front set of the Yellow River, which is about 600 miles long from east to west, only 40 miles in the west at the tail of Yinshan Mountain, and more than 400 miles wide in the eastern part of the Ulanqab, Chahar and other tribal territories, which is a grassland with a radius of up to 100 miles.

This grassland is formed by the alluvium of the Yellow River and its tributary, the Dahei River. The terrain is inclined to the south in the west, north and east, and the lowest is along the Yellow River. The whole plain is flat, the climatic conditions are suitable, the soil is fertile, the water and grass are abundant, and it is known as the natural pasture and rice grain river.

In the north of the Eilechuan is the overall intermittent Yinshan Mountain Range, even if it is the main vein north of the Yellow River, it can also be clearly divided into: Wolf Mountain-Yinshan-Daqingshan, three parts.

The division between Wolf Mountain and Yin Mountain is the most obvious, with the southwest corner of the latter even stretching to the north bank of the Yellow River. The geopolitical consequence of this trend of Yinshan is that the Hetao Plain south of Yinshan is divided into two parts: the front and the back. The Tumut tribe (Baotou City) has naturally become a hub connecting the front and back plains and even the Mongolian Plateau.

Chang Wei said gloomily: "A few miles out of the Great Wall to the grassland, from the mouth of the tiger to the Naturalization City is only one hundred and sixty miles, this kind of natural pasture feng shui treasure land, just like this, it's a pity!"

Hu Wenqing stroked his sparse beard and said slowly: In the Yongle era when the Ming Dynasty's martial arts were in full swing, the Ming army set out from the Datong Basin, crossed the mouth of the tiger and entered the Hetao Plain, occupied the Qiantao area centered on the line of Guancen Mountain-Daqingshan-Yellow River, and set up Yunchuan City in Yunzhong County in the pre-Qin Dynasty, which echoed the mouth of the tiger.

In the northeast corner of the Hetao Plain, the nomads built Liancheng (Ulanqab) along the southern foot of Daqing Mountain to the west of the Qiantao Plain.

The Ming army, which continued to advance westward, built Yunnei City (Baotou) at the important node between the front and rear sets, rebuilt Wuyuan City, and controlled the four plains of the Yellow River, but in less than a hundred years, it was unable to steadily digest this salient in the Jiajing period, and now only the Ningxia Plain of the West Set remains.

Moreover, the sad thing is that the Qin, Han, Tang, and later Chinese regimes could only digest the northern Shaanxi Plateau in the east of the Hetao and west of the Yellow River, but they were helpless against the Ordos Plateau, which occupied most of the land on the inner side of the Yellow River, and allowed this land larger than the Xitao (Ningxia Plain) to wander outside the core area of China.

Hu Wenqing told Chang Wei with the wisdom that saw through everything, "The root cause of all this is caused by the river!"

The Ordos Plateau and the Taiyuan Basin-Datong Basin of the Shanxi Plateau belong to the same latitude. On the west and north sides of the plateau, there are four plain belts with abundant water resources and flat terrain, namely the West Loop, the East Loop, the Hou Loop and the Front Loop.

The Longdong Plateau and the Northern Shaanxi Plateau in the southern part of the Yellow River have relatively dense and evenly distributed rivers. Among them, the rivers of the Longdong Plateau basically belong to the Jing River water system, and the situation of the Northern Shaanxi Plateau is slightly more complicated, with the western part of the river belonging to the Luoshui water system, while the eastern part of the land is triangular and inserted between the Dongtao and the Yellow River -- Fugu and Shenmu -- have several rivers that flow into the Yellow River alone, including the Yan River, the Yanchang River, the Qingjian River, the Wuding River, and so on.

Compared with the Northern Shaanxi Plateau, which is crisscrossed by ravines within the Great Wall, the eastern set of the Ordos Plateau is much more gentle. Because there are no rivers in its hinterland, and those rivers that have water all year round are also located in the marginal areas, these rivers provide water for the Longdong, northern Shaanxi Plateau and the Hetao Plain, but these Hetao marginal areas do not nourish the hinterland of the Ordos Plateau.

Therefore, most of its area belongs to the "primary soil", that is, the soil in the "stone-soil" transition stage. In such a place where surface water resources are scarce, it would have cost the Han Chinese agricultural civilization to take root on it, but the nomadic people who lived by water and grass were able to thrive here.

"I can't believe you've seen it so thoroughly. Chang Wei praised him heartily, and asked: "With your old age, how can the imperial court completely turn this treasure land into a Han county?"

Hu Wenqing squinted his eyes and said, "Doesn't Guogong have a way? ”

Chang Wei shouted dissatisfiedly: "Hey, this is the territory of the Tatar Chahar! Do you want me to be thrown into the Yellow River by the Tatars to feed the fish?"

Hu Wenqing smiled and said, "Yes, Master Zongkang, the machine you built and the factory you opened is the best way to gain a foothold." ”

From the beginning of chasing the thieves to Fugu, Chang Wei set his sights on the Saiwai River Loop, this kind of abundant water and grass, how can he let go of the place where war horses are produced?

If you occupy all the Hetao, build a few big cities, and train a cavalry of more than 10,000 people, you can attack the flank and hinterland of Houjin from the prairie at any time, and then the Ming Dynasty can surround Houjin from the three fronts of Ningjin, Phi Dao, and the prairie, and no longer have to spend energy to buy the Tatars who fall with the wind, and then the battle against Houjin will change from passive defense to active attack!

To achieve this grand strategy, it is first necessary to eliminate the main forces of the Tatars, and Chang Wei's strategy is to sow discord!

Therefore, Chang Wei's current identity is Zong Kang - the Tantric black-clothed monk who was controlled by himself with a life and death talisman and finally killed in the edict! )