Chapter 206: Zhu Zhang, King of Qin
Beibi Mountain outside Luoyang City, Beibi Mountain is actually a mountain range that is not tall, and even the altitude is only 300 meters, but here it is famous for many emperors and celebrities buried here, and there is even a saying that "born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, died in Beipi".
Li Jie accompanied Zhu Biao to Beibi Mountain to hang the present from the past, in this small mountain range, there are too many emperors and generals, there are dozens of imperial tombs alone, in addition to the mausoleums of Su Qin, Zhang Yi, LΓΌ Buwei, Ban Chao, Di Renjie and others, and even the famous poet Du Fu and the poet Bai Juyi are also buried here.
There are so many mausoleums of emperors and celebrities, if you want to go through them one by one, I'm afraid it will take months, and Zhu Biao doesn't have so much time to stay in Luoyang, so he only picked some mausoleums that he was more interested in, such as Di Renjie and Du Fu and others.
But even so, Zhu Biao also stayed in Beibi Mountain for three days, and on the afternoon of the last day, Li Jie was going back to Luoyang City for Zhu Biao, but he didn't expect Zhu Biao to take Li Jie to the foot of Bishan again, where there is a large tomb covering an area of eight or nine acres, and it looks very new, it seems to be a modern tomb.
"Your Highness, whose tomb is this?" Li Jie looked at this well-preserved, even very new tomb, and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Go any further and you'll know!" Zhu Biao did not answer, but smiled slightly, and after speaking, he stepped into the cemetery, and Li Jie hurriedly followed.
When the two came to the tall main tomb, Li Jie saw the words on the tombstone at a glance, and saw that the tablet read "The Tomb of Chahan Timur, King of Yingchuan", these ten big characters are vigorous and powerful, obviously from the hands of famous artists.
"Chakhan Timur? Why does this name sound so familiar? Li Jie looked at the name on the tomb and couldn't help but say to himself in surprise, this is obviously a Mongolian name, but what kind of Mongolian can let Zhu Biao go on a trip in person?
"You may not have heard of this Chakhan Timur, but he has a famous adopted son named Kuangkuo Timur, and his Han name is Wang Baobao!" Zhu Biao saw that Li Jie didn't know about it, so he also explained with a smile.
"It turned out to be him!" Li Jie finally remembered when he heard this, this Chakhan Timur started with the pacification of the Red Turban Army, and once did all the way to the Pingzhang political affairs of Henan Province, and became the pillar general of the Mengyuan Army, but he eventually died at the hands of the Red Turban Army, and he was most famous for adopting a son, that is, Wang Baobao, who had always been remembered by Lao Zhu.
"When my father inspected Henan, Wang Baobao was still alive, in order to recruit Wang Baobao, my father also came to worship Chakhan Timur in person, but unfortunately Wang Baobao died in Mobei, and my father was quite sad when he heard the news." Zhu Biao explained again, and at the end he also sighed.
In the past few days, Zhu Biao has seen too many tombs of emperors and generals, which makes him a little depressed, no matter how noble these people were in life, but once they died, the scenery before their lives could only become a few words in the history books at most.
"Wang Baobao is indeed a genius, but unfortunately he is not the same, and he has repeatedly been defeated by the hands of the great general Xu Da, which shows that his talent is worse than that of General Xu, and His Majesty actually does not need to be too attached to him." Li Jie opened his mouth to comment when he heard this.
"You're right, I also think that my father is too obsessed with Wang Baobao, but it is precisely because I can't get it, so my father has never forgotten it, if Wang Baobao surrendered back then, it is estimated that my father would not pay so much attention to him." When Zhu Biao heard Li Jie's words, he laughed and said, he had the same opinion as Li Jie.
When Zhu Biao said this, he suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to the tombstone of Chakhan Timur and said again: "Li Jie, do you know who erected this tombstone?" β
"This ...... It should have been Wang Baobao's back then, right? Li Jie was also stunned when he heard this, he remembered that Chakhan Timur died in the army, and Wang Baobao, who was less than twenty at the time, took his place, and also buried his adoptive father Chakhan Timur, so the tombstone should be erected by Wang Baobao.
"Take a closer look!" Zhu Biao pointed to the tombstone and smiled again.
Li Jie also looked at this tombstone curiously when he heard this, and he really found a little problem, because if it is a tombstone erected by children, a line of words will generally be written in the lower corner, such as "When was erected by son and so", but there is no such line of words on this tombstone, with the identity of Wang Baobao at that time, it should be impossible for such negligence to occur.
"Found it, this tombstone is actually not the one that Wang Baobao set up back then, in fact, Chakhan Timur's reputation in Henan is not very good, when he suppressed the Red Turban Army, the entire Henan, Shandong were disabled, many people hated him to the bone, so later after the Mongols retreated, his tomb was immediately destroyed, and even the corpse was pulled out and exposed."
"I understand, it should be His Majesty who came to Henan to inspect and re-bury him, and the tombstone was also erected at that time, right?" Li Jie also immediately reacted when he heard this and asked.
"Yes, the tomb of Chakhan Timur was indeed rebuilt by his father, and he also ordered the surrounding people to take care of it, so that his tomb was preserved, but now that Kaifeng and Luoyang are ruined, Chakhan Timur also has to bear a lot of responsibility!" Zhu Biao also sighed at the end.
Kaifeng they have been there, and now they have come to Luoyang, to be honest, compared to Kaifeng, Luoyang may suffer a little less damage, but it is also very limited, in fact, Luoyang is more famous than Kaifeng, so there are more disasters in history than Kaifeng, such as when the Mongols destroyed Jin, the entire Luoyang city was destroyed, and even after the war, there were only 1,000 people left in Luoyang.
And when Mengyuan perished, Luoyang suffered another war, until now Luoyang City has not been able to recover, but Luoyang is stronger than Kaifeng, that is, the flood is not so serious, the previous monuments did not sink into the ground, plus there are many mountains near Luoyang, and the people also have a place to hide when they suffer from war, so the situation in Luoyang is a little stronger than Kaifeng.
However, Kaifeng's recovery speed is faster than Luoyang, after all, Kaifeng is surrounded by large plains, and the population has recovered faster, so now Kaifeng's population is more than Luoyang, of course, Luoyang's heritage is deeper.
"Luoyang is a good place, although the damage caused by the war is more serious, but the heritage is still there, and there is no problem in establishing it as the capital of a country, what do you think?" At this time, Zhu Biao turned his head and asked Li Jie.
"Four cities, we are only halfway through, and Your Highness doesn't have to make a conclusion too early!" Li Jie smiled slightly, Luoyang is indeed good, although there are fewer people, and the city wall is broken, but as long as it is established as the national capital, it is estimated that it will not take ten years to restore the prosperity of the year, but Li Jie is still more optimistic about Beiping Mansion.
Zhu Biao also knew what Li Jie was thinking, so he immediately smiled and didn't say anything, and then the two of them took a turn in the cemetery of Chakhan Timur, and then finally set off back to Luoyang.
Luoyang was destroyed by the war several times, but after entering the city, you can still see a little bit of the "divine capital" style of the year, coupled with Luoyang's moderate geographical location, there are dangers around it, and it is close to the Great Plains, so you don't have to worry about food problems, plus Luoyang is not far from the northern border, it is easier to grasp the movement of the border, so Zhu Biao will like Luoyang so much.
Zhu Biao had stayed in Luoyang long enough, and stayed in Beibi Mountain for three days, so when they came back to Luoyang, they only rested for a day, and then set off for Chang'an again, of course, it has now been renamed Xi'an, but Xi'an is mainly used in official documents, and many people still call it Chang'an.
Chang'an and Luoyang originally built a wide official road, it is said that these official roads were built during the Tang Dynasty, after all, in the Tang Dynasty Chang'an and Luoyang came and went frequently, the traffic is naturally very convenient, although the two ancient capitals have experienced war, but the official road is well preserved.
The flat official road also made the team move quickly, and only five days later, Zhu Biao and Li Jie came to the outside of Chang'an City, but as soon as the team approached Chang'an City, they saw a cavalry galloping in the distance, which made Lan Yu immediately command the army to prepare for defense.
However, when the cavalry approached the team, they saw that the leader was a burly middle-aged man, and as soon as he came closer, he shouted at the team: "Where is the eldest brother?" β
Zhu Biao also walked the carriage at this time, and said loudly to the middle-aged man who was galloping on horseback: "Second brother, my brother is here!" β
Seeing Zhu Biao, the middle-aged man on the horse immediately threw off the saddle and dismounted, walked a few steps quickly to Zhu Biao's carriage, and saluted Zhu Biao with excitement on his face: "Meet the eldest brother!" β
"Haha~, what kind of courtesy do you and my brother do, come up quickly!" Zhu Biao also laughed, stretched out his hand to pull the middle-aged man into his carriage, no need to ask, this middle-aged man is naturally Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, and Xi'an is his fief.
The two brothers are naturally very excited when they meet, Zhu Biao is actually only one year older than Zhu Zhang, the two grew up almost at the same time, it can be said that they are inseparable, and the feelings between the brothers are also extremely deep, but Zhu Fan came to Xi'an when he was in his twenties.
Zhu Biao took Zhu Zhang's hand and chatted affectionately, and then introduced Li Jie next to him, and Li Jie hurriedly saluted Zhu Zhang: "Minister Li Jie meets His Royal Highness King Qin!" β
"Don't be polite, you are the son-in-law of the eldest brother, I heard that even my father often praises you, and when I see it today, I am indeed a talent!" I saw Zhu Fan look at Li Jie a few times before he spoke.
"His Royal Highness King Qin has praised it!" Li Jie was also very modest. At the same time, he was also quietly looking at His Royal Highness the King of Qin, and saw that Zhu Fan was the same as Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao, but he was not like Lao Zhu, but quite delicate.
"Big brother, I have prepared a banquet in the city, and we will not get drunk today!" Zhu Fan said to Zhu Biao again at this time.
Of course, Zhu Biao also laughed and agreed, and then the brothers and descendants went into the car hand in hand and returned to the city together, Li Jie was not good to go into the car to disturb, so he rode a horse and walked beside the car, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed that a somewhat strange person also appeared next to the carriage.