Chapter 1360 Dunhuang Testament

After the Xia people overthrew the Zhang regime, the management of Guasha was relatively loose, but it brought prosperity to the two places, and after Su You arrived in Guazhou, there was a feeling of wearing back to the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty.

This feeling is right, "Huarong is handy, and all will be also." "Prosperous is not inferior to the Central Plains".

With Qi Huan's letters, coupled with Su You's army in the autumn, Guazhou's local Haoqiang supplied military supplies and made a small fortune, and many families themselves are descendants of the Confucian sons of Wuliang...... The eyes of the sect masters of the family were moist, this Nima turned out to be the feeling of returning to China and turning over to be the master......

Therefore, the enthusiasm is quite high, and several families have trade contacts with Shazhou, sending troops to lead the way to Shazhou for the army.

In addition to the Thousand Buddha Caves, Ten Thousand Buddha Gorges, and the White Tiger Pass left by Xue Rengui when he conquered the west.

In addition to the White Tiger Pass, the army continued to advance, Tong Guan looked at the huge battlements of continuous buildings on the Gobi, and felt strange: "Those are the ruins of the big city? ”

Su You explained: "It is a kind of landform in the northwest, which is eroded by wind and rain, and it looks like a magnificent city. ”

"The roads inside are complicated, and many caravans have escaped the wind and sand and strayed into them, and then lost their way."

"And because it is located at the mouth of the wind, when the wind howls inside, it will make a sound like a ghost crying wolf, so the local people call it the devil's town."

As a township guide, Liu Yuzhi, the son of the Guazhou Liu family, immediately surrendered: "The university scholar has seen and heard so much, and even knows all this." ”

Su You rode on the camel and shook it: "But I haven't seen the real scene either, it turns out to be so shocking!" ”

After speaking, he patted his mount: "What a livestock! ”

Camels carry more than twice as much weight as horses, and each camel can carry a weight of 400 catties.

If you pull a cart, you can pull 3,000 catties, and Su You directly replaced half of the chariot's traction with camels.

This thing carries such a heavy thing, and it can still walk nearly a hundred miles every day, and the name of "Desert Boat" is really not for nothing.

Now the big mules in Hebei have only been successfully bred, and the most powerful ones are only able to camel 300 catties, which is really bigger than a horse.

It also has a long lifespan, ranging from three to forty years, and is an important asset for herdsmen.

Now is the breeding season of camels, and Su You is also fortunate to witness a fight between male camels.

It is also the reproductive period of female camels, who will leave the herd on their own and go to a leeward bunker dozens of miles away to give birth to their calves, and then bring them back.

Fortunately, castration from heaven has also been widely used on camels, so Su You is now riding safely.

The muslin masks that Su You distributed to the team finally came in handy to protect their breathing.

Guogong's meticulous thinking made a group of generals of the Western Army shake their heads, which is simply breathtaking.

Shazhou, formerly known as Dunhuang, was once prosperous.

It used to be the key point of the Silk Road, the center and transit point of trade between China and the West.

Hu merchants from the Western Regions and Han merchants from the Central Plains gathered here to trade Central Plains silk, porcelain, treasures of the Western Regions, and camels and horses from the north.

At the same time, the Central Plains culture, Buddhist culture, West Asian and Central Asian cultures continued to spread to Dunhuang, where they converged, collided and blended.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up Jiuquan County and Wuwei County in Hexi in the second year of Yuanjia. In the sixth year of the Han Yuan Dynasty, the two counties of Jiuquan and Wuwei were dismantled respectively in Dunhuang and Zhangye.

From Lingju through Dunhuang to Yanze, the Great Wall and Fengsui were built, and Yangguan and Yumen Pass were set up to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, feudal regimes such as Qianliang, Houliang, Southern Liang, Xiliang, and Northern Liang were established in Hexi.

Li Wei claimed the king according to Dunhuang and established the Western Liang Kingdom. Dunhuang became the national capital for the first time in history.

Later, Liangzhou became the cultural center of Northwest China, and Dunhuang became the cultural center of Liangzhou.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Central Plains was violent, and Hexi became a relatively stable region. The Central Plains master's degree and the common people fled to Hexi for refuge, bringing with them advanced culture and production technology. Buddhism, introduced by the Han and Wei dynasties, flourished unprecedentedly in Dunhuang. Dunhuang was the passage and gateway of Buddhism to the east, and it became the center of Buddhism in the Hexi region.

In the second year of Qin Jianyuan, the monk Lezun opened the first grotto for Buddha in the Daquan River Valley under the Sanwei Mountain, and the atmosphere of building caves began to prevail.

The Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed the Northern Liang, according to Hexi. Politically stable, Buddhism prevailed. Later, until the Sui Dynasty, the plan built 90 caves, the scale is large, the murals and colored sculptures, the skills are very exquisite. 000 Literature

In the powerful Tang Dynasty, the economy and culture were highly prosperous. There are more than 1,000 caves in Mogao Grottoes, and the murals and statues have reached the peak artistic level.

The "Anshi Rebellion" made the Tang Dynasty turn from prosperity to decline, and Tubo took advantage of the situation to occupy Hexi.

Later, the Han Zhang Yichao rose up, occupied Hexi and Longyou, and Dunhuang was reattached to the Tang Dynasty.

In the second year of Tianyou, Zhang Chengfeng established himself as the white-clothed son of heaven and established the Western Han Jinshan Kingdom. Later, the Jinshan Kingdom died, the Zhang family was the heir, and the governor of Shazhou, Shi Cao, led the envoy of the festival.

During the reign of the Cao clan, he encircled the local noble clans, developed production, carried out indoctrination, and improved relations with neighboring ethnic groups, so that Hexi maintained a stable and peaceful situation.

Until the rise of the Dangxiang clan and the domination of Hexi, in the past fifty or sixty years, because the Western Xia rulers believed in Buddhism, Dunhuang not only did not regress, but maintained the level of "rich people and things, not different from the Central Plains" since the Han Dynasty.

Up to now, even the Tangut people have opened fifty or sixty caves here.

Today's crescent moon spring, the area is many times larger than a thousand years later, and the caves are still well preserved, the total number is thousands, and it is also far more spectacular than the only remaining more than 200 caves in later generations.

Su You looked at the Buddha caves on the camel and the wonders of the Buddha caves in the valleys on both sides, and took a deep breath: "It's finally ......."

Li Yong and Sun Neng were also shocked by this scene and were speechless.

Tong Guan saw the top of the mountain all the way from the spring: "Heavenly God, how much does this cost......

Su You manipulated the camel to kneel down and slipped down from the hump: "Station, there's a big matter!" ”

Today's court and China are particularly controversial, with conservatives expressing doubts about whether Western Xia could be taken over by the Great Song.

Sima Guang once wrote a letter to Su You, thinking that places like Shazhou and Guazhou, where Emperor Wu reclaimed them, were also enemies in the end, and from a geopolitical point of view, the Great Song Dynasty was now able to control the set and defend Lanzhou, and the situation was already very comfortable.

In fact, it is best not to spend too much energy in Ningxia, after all, there is a behemoth in Hebei - Liao.

If the barbarians want to make a deal, they can come to Lanzhou.

In history, Sima Guang once gave up the number of castles frequently fought for by the Xia people, and was infamous as a traitor in history.

However, it is also an indisputable fact that Shaanxi was seriously armed at that time.

And to study his recitals, in fact, Sima Guang is not a person who does not attach importance to army building, such as the law of generals, before Wang Anshi was introduced, he had already had similar suggestions to the imperial court.

Shaanxi is his hometown, and he must be more sympathetic to Shaanxi's deep suffering than Wang Anshi and Zhang Dun, who came from the south.

Therefore, Sima Guang in real history, because of the lack of strategic vision, after comparing the forces of the two countries, thought that the Great Song Dynasty could not do anything better than the Xia people, so he gave up several lands.

But his administrative ability was also not good, so although he got a short-term peace, he was not able to use this precious time to change the situation in the Great Song Dynasty, at most he saved the family for Zhao Xu later.

Today's situation is far better than the same period in history, and after 19 years of Suyou's continuous promotion of the reform of Shaanxi Road, the situation in Shaanxi has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Although Sima Guang was a little worried about the imperial court's complete capture of Western Xia, he still wrote to Su You first, after all, Su You was the one who presided over the overall situation, and he had always achieved good results.

After Su You received the letter, he knew that Sima Guang was not fighting alone, he represented the thoughts of a group of people.

This group of people has low eyes, but they are knowledgeable, and their cultural level is the peak of the Song Dynasty, and they have always cared for themselves.

These people are their allies, and the fastest way to change their thinking is to make this Shazhou, which is more than 10,000 miles away from the administrative center of the Great Song Dynasty, have a value that is enough to shake their souls!

That is the cultural value, the irreplaceable cultural value!

Dunhuang Testament.

The era starts from the Eastern Han Dynasty and goes down to the present day.

During this period, it experienced more than ten dynasties of the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasty, the Five Liang, the Liang, the Chen, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Later Liang Dynasty, the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Guiyi Army, the Shazhou Huijuan, and the Western Xia.

Whenever war comes, countless cultural classics, archives, official or private, are intentionally or unintentionally sealed in these Buddhist caves.

Among them, the Chinese language, which has a chronological record, and which is lacking in the current circulating documents, is particularly valuable.

According to incomplete statistics, the total number of looted documents before and after exceeded 270,000 pieces!