Elegy of Tang Dynasty

update later today
Yesterday and today I was studying the topography of Longyou. You can't publish things you don't understand just because you want to update quickly. It is necessary to clarify some words of some irresponsible "historians", otherwise there will be real trouble. Big joke.

Sima Guang once described the grand occasion of the Silk Road and the prosperity of the Longyou area with admiration in his "Zizhi Tongjian". He even once said: "No one in the world is as rich as Longyou."

Uh, but how to put it, this is a bit like me and Mahuatian being in the same village, and then calculating the per capita income of our village is hundreds of millions, so I am a billionaire.

The "Longyou" in Sima Guang's mouth is the "Great Longyou" that is rarely used in historians (both ancient and modern).Including the "Long" in the idiom "Delong Wangshu" is completely different from what Sima Guang said.

Longyou in the Tang Dynasty was not the "Longyou" as Sima Guang said, otherwise there would not have been a "Longyou Jiedushi" and a "Hexi Jiedushi".

Because "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" has such a great influence, and the concept of "Da Long You" quoted in modern materials all comes from here.All the sources are here, no need to look at Baidu Encyclopedia.

During the reign of Emperor Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang court had already divided Longyou and Hexi into two completely independent geographical units because their customs and customs were so different from each other.

Why do I say that Longyou in a broad sense has no significance at all in history and geography? I will talk about this later.

In fact, the traditional Longyou (except for Sima Guang, I have never seen any famous historian after the Tang Dynasty compare Hexi and Longyou) refers to the west of Longshan, the south of Lanzhou, and Qinghai Lake. The area to the east is bounded by the Yellow River.

An important reason why Lanzhou later became the largest town in the northwest is because it is the junction between Hexi and Longyou.

A fact that cannot be ignored is that the roads between Hexi and Longyou are rugged and waterless. The customs and the overall wealth gap are so different that they cannot be discussed together at all.Including the current Gansu Province, many people say that you can see the landforms of all China in Gansu. Why is this? Because it is only an administrative division and not a geographical plate.

A simple understanding is that Gansu Province is artificially "kneaded" together.For example, Hanzhong City has been on the outskirts of Shu since ancient times geographically, and its customs and customs are not much different from Shu. On the contrary, it has nothing to do with "Longyou", but it is divided into Shaanxi Province.

To put it bluntly, it is just an administrative division.Going too far, is Longyou, which has geographical significance, poor or rich?
I think many people understand the answer. Let’s not talk about other periods. As far as the Tang Dynasty is concerned, Longyou was not only very poor, but also ridiculously poor.Not only are there more than [-] troops stationed, but they are also unable to sustain themselves at all. Most of the food and crops must be continuously imported from Guanzhong.The local chief executive worked hard to farm the land, making the already harsh environment here even worse.

Especially during the struggle between Tang Dynasty and Tubo, the land potential and environmental carrying capacity of Longyou continued to decline.There has been no recovery since then, there is no worst, only worse, so that by the time of New China, this place had become the most difficult place to turn around economically in the country, and natural disasters were particularly severe.

If my information is correct, the current grain output in Longyou is less than one-tenth of that of Hubei Province, which is smaller than it!

Many literary works mention the riots caused by Longyou veterans during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. If Longyou was really rich, why did these people make troubles?
The answer is obvious. History books can talk nonsense at a certain point, but what is supported by a large amount of historical data is an iron-clad historical fact.

What do you mean by saying so much? It means just read the plot in my book. I have verified that I will not write randomly.During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Longyou was a land of poverty and poverty. The richest areas were the Hexi Corridor, which was not within the scope of Longyou, and the Silk Road did not go through Longyou.

It will be updated at about two o'clock in the afternoon. The mines laid by Shengtang are almost ready to explode.

(End of this chapter)