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Gu Juan's trip to the north can also be summarized as a trip to the nine sides. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jiubian, also known as Jiuzhen, is the Hongzhi period in the northern border along the Great Wall defense line set up nine important military towns, namely Liaodong Town, Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Taiyuan Town, Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, Gansu Town.

Taiyuan Mansion, where Wang Kai was exiled, was one of them.

The Great Wall under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan starts from the bank of the Yellow River in the west of the meander, passes through the Partial Pass, Laoyingbao, Ningwu Pass, Yanmen Pass, Pingxing Pass, and reaches the Great Wall of Zhenbao Town in the Taihang Mountains in the east, with a total length of 1,600 miles.

Because Taiyuan is in the inner side of the Great Wall of Datong and Xuanfu two towns, it is also called the Inner Great Wall, and the three passes of Yatou, Ningwu and Yanmen are collectively called the "outer three passes" of the Inner Great Wall, and the three passes of Juyong, Bauhinia and Reverse Horse of Jizhou Town and Zhenbao Town in the east are "Inner Three Passes".

The city wall that Gu Juan and Wang Kai went to that day was the Great Wall of Guannei, and the city wall was mostly heavy boulders, which was very spectacular.

Gu Juan's first destination was Yanshou County,

The general army of Yanshou County was initially stationed in Suide Prefecture, and after Chenghua, it was moved to Yulinwei. The jurisdiction of the Great Wall from the east of Huangfu Chuan Fort, west to Huamachi, the total length of more than 1,700 miles, in the south side of the big side of the other "two sides", east from the west bank of the Yellow River, twists and turns, west to the Ningbian camp and the big side wall to connect.

Gu Juan couldn't help but sigh, turning over the history of China, it was this model for the Ming Dynasty to fight, and the battle line was stretched for so long and held for more than 200 years, but in the end it still couldn't be held.

Gu Juan and the others traveled along the official road to the northwest for two months, and finally reached the border of Shanxi.

When they arrived at a small city on the border of Shanxi, Gu Juan and the others really found a place to rest for a while, in fact, they didn't do anything along the way, but during the break, Gu Juan still took Yuqiu all the way to search and recorded a lot of things.

At this time, Shanxi was not like the later generations, although it was winter and everything withered, but it was not the color of the ashes of the later generations.

Gu Juan and Yu Qiu sorted out what they heard and saw along the way.

In fact, along the way, Gu Juan found a very interesting problem, the land annexation in these two places is not as serious as Jiangnan, and there are even a lot of ownerless wasteland. Especially the Yanbian generation, it is even more sparsely populated. There are often merchants selling goods in the village, but there are few real commercial activities on a large scale.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant uprising broke out, and it was on this land, but it was not without reason.

The climate in the northwest is arid, in fact, most of the land is not suitable for growing crops, so the agricultural ecology here is very fragile, the Loess Plateau was a large forest a long time ago, and it was also the center of many dynasties, but the continuous use of resources has made the ecology here more and more fragile, and it has gradually become a fringe of the country.

The fragility of the agroecology destroyed the foundation of the small-scale peasant economy, and during the Xiaoice period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, disasters were frequent and peasant uprisings broke out.

The Ming Dynasty fell.

Without commerce, the peasants had no other way to get rid of poverty, and in addition, there were many troubles on the border, and Gu Wanyanbian could not bear to write about what he saw.

Gu Juan recorded everything he knew, did not make any evaluation, just displayed all the facts, hoping that which emperor would be high up and could really see what the country he needed to protect was like.

During the dinner in the evening, that Yang Baihu said something beyond Gu Juan for the first time, and he asked: "Madame is from Taicang, the world says that Jiangnan is rich, and Taicang is a place where the world's grain and grass gather, it must be different from this place, right?"

"Where are you from?"

Gu Juan asked. This Yang Baihu opened his mouth and said: "It is the person who extends the ribbon." ”

"Taicang and the northwest are very different, the climate is pleasant, the crops are three crops a year, the scenery is beautiful, not the northwest is so desolate and magnificent. But it also has a different flavor. ”

"During the Zhengde period, there was a great drought in Shaanxi, and my mother and sister fled to Xuanfu before I knew that there was such a fertile place in the world. ”

Gu Juan was silent.

"Master Li, how far can we go to reach the Yellow River?"

Li Baihu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "It may be next year." ”

Gu Juan suddenly smiled and said to Yu Qiu beside him: "I have never seen the Yellow River before, and it's not bad, but I guess it's going to be on the road for the New Year, so I'm really helpless." ”

Everyone rested in the small city, and then continued to hurry, but for some reason, the originally good weather suddenly began to snow heavily, and the horses with heavy snow could not walk, so a few people only stopped, but in this wilderness, where can there be a place to live, they don't care about these rough men, the key is that there is a delicate lady in the carriage.

So this brocade guard had to look around for people, and finally found a small village in a mountain col.

The people in the village live in caves, maybe no outsiders have been here for a long time, so when I saw the brocade guards with knives, I thought it was me coming, and the people in the village were nervous for a while, but let these fierce brocade guards explain for a while.

The village is stepping forward and borrowing them the best house in the village for a night.

When it was time to finish eating, Gu Juan suddenly felt sad.

I don't know which family raised the old hen who was in a hurry, the stuffed teeth of the meat firewood, and the multigrain cakes and sauce that were baked, Gu Juan ate it very badly.

Because when she went out, she also saw what people in the village were eating.

Indescribable.

Gu Juan asked the village chief why there were no children in the village.

The village chief said that many families are too poor, and they are naked in summer, but it is cold in winter, so the family simply lies in the bed and does not come out.

Yuqiu ate these things, didn't speak, she also lived a hard life, but she never thought that there would be people who were so poor, no clothes to wear was more desperate than nothing to eat.

There is a particularly lively one in the Jinyi Guard, and he originally talked the most along the way, but when he came here, this guy didn't say a word.

The village chief also said that the harvest was not good a few years ago, and many people in the village starved to death, so there were quite a lot of empty houses.

So they didn't have to worry about having no place to live, Gu Juan couldn't sleep at night, his chest was stuffy, he got dressed and went outside to breathe, and found a child wearing a tattered jacket and nothing underneath, hiding behind a tree and looking at Gu Juan.

The child's big eyes were unusually bright in the night.