Although more than three years have passed in the Hou Jing Rebellion, Jiankang City is still a dilapidated city. Broken walls and ruins can be seen everywhere, and smoke is rarely seen in the city.
Now the city has been cleaned and repaired intact, but there are only a few locations such as Taicheng and Fucheng. Most other places have neither the energy and material investment for restoration nor the need for restoration.
The traces of war may be erased, but the memories hidden deep in my mind can accompany those who have experienced chaos for the rest of their lives, as if they were nightmares. Although Wang Sengbian also issued many political orders to recruit migrants and scholars from Jiankang, they still had little effect when they were actually implemented. Many people would rather go into exile and beg for food between the Three Wus than return to Jiankang to settle down and make a living.
The large loss of population and the hopeless return of the country are also important reasons why Jiankang City’s vitality has not been restored for a long time. Moreover, although Wang Sengbian now has military and political power, he does not have a strong talent for governing and chaos. Although there are political orders, it is not thoroughly implemented.
Occasionally, some old people in the Jin area return home, or migrate from other prefectures and counties to enrich the Jin area, but because they do not receive timely and effective resettlement, they are often very lost. There are also many soldiers who are atrocizing in the neighborhood, and vicious incidents such as robbery and plunder are emerging one after another.
However, Wang Sengbian is not concerned about many people’s livelihood issues. The most important thing before him now is to re-establish their legal system and the imperial court.
“Are the cultural relics needed for the ceremony ready?”
Due to the fact that many civilians in Jiankang City had lost a lot of people before, many court officials were recruited to Jiangling. Now there are few people who are still in Jiankang and are proficient in etiquette and law. Even if they visit the Three Wus, they have not returned in a short time. Therefore, Wang Sengbian could only do everything himself, and he had to personally inquire about matters of big or small.
“You reported to the Taiwei, the cultural relics and gifts have just been determined, and the materials used by the feathers are still searching for, and there are many missing craftsmen in the Fengyu…”
Although Wang Sengbian was extremely attentive, the objective problems were still unavoidable, and it was simply a problem.
After hearing the relevant personnel’s report, Wang Sengbian couldn’t help but feel a headache, and secretly regretted that when Jiankang was recovered, he did not strictly enforce military discipline. When he recovered Jiankang, due to the chaos in military discipline, a fire broke out in Taicheng, and many cultural relics and ceremonies were burned. Some of the luckiest left were packed and sent to Jiangling one after another.
Compared with the two northern countries, they have always been famous for their rituals, music, and pride. But under repeated riots, even the cultural relics and rituals for the king to ascend the throne cannot be prepared, which is really sad and unwilling to let go.
“In any case, we must try our best to prepare the cultural relics as well as possible, so that our king will not be ashamed of the heaven and earth! You all need to do your best. If you know but fail to do it, you will be sure to do your best.Don’t let it go! “
Although we knew that these difficulties were objective, Wang Sengbian still stared at him and ordered.
This time the new king ascended the throne was the first national ceremony since the national crisis. It was not just to announce that Liang Zuo was not extinguished, but also to create and strengthen his personal authority. Especially the latter point is the biggest reason why Wang Sengbian attached so much to the new king ascend the throne.
After the Hou Jing Rebellion, local powerful forces emerged like mushrooms after a rain. Even Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang was still there, and when Wang Sengbian took charge of military and political power, the arrogance of these local forces became increasingly difficult to control.
Wang Sengbian also needed to use this throne ceremony to announce to those increasingly arrogant military leaders that Wang Sengbian had the ability to establish the new king and succeed in the rise and fall!
But the vision is good, but it is difficult to achieve it. All parties have various tangible and invisible constraints and obstacles, like hooks, firmly holding him, making him unable to move.
“Is the Wuzhong stock and freight shipment here? “
After inspecting the preparation of the cultural relics and ceremonies, Wang Sengbian recruited Wuxing’s envoy to inquire about the preparations for the materials.
On the day of the throne ceremony, not only the generals guarding the various sides should try their best to get out to Jiankang to watch the ceremony and welcome the new emperor, but the troops of all parties should also gather elite troops to Jiankang for the next step of military dispatch. At present, the people’s livelihood of Jiankang has withered and the treasury has been destroyed, so they can only transport materials from the Three Wus to replenish them.