Shuzhong, Yizhou, Chengdu.

On this morning, a Taoist man with a disheveled hair walked barefoot in the streets.

He wore a small square hat, his eyebrows were drawn in the shape of thick bows, his eyes were drawn like olives, he had a tall straight nose cover, and his lips were bearded, and most conspicuously his two ears, each of which made the bamboo strips hold up two long and wide coarse cloths, as if to attract the wind.

Holding a small drum in his hand, this Taoist staggered forward, and while beating the drum, he sang loudly: "The jackal jumped out of Jiangyang County, and the helmet and armor were red." The people in the bamboo branch forest are like the sea, and once the fire rises and returns to the yin. ”

Chengdu is the state of Yizhou, and it is also the capital of the Qin State built by the Li family in Shuzhong.

There were many people living in the city, and there were more nobles and officials, and although it was early in the morning, there were already quite pedestrians on the streets.

Seeing that this person behaved strangely and heard his singing voice frightening, most of the pedestrians thought that he was not in his right mind, and they all avoided him.

I saw that the man finished singing a song, and then sang: "The outer road of the Tsing Yi River is slanted, and Chengdu is in a bright and bright light." The skinny dog rode away and roared, and the carnivorous old owl chirped. ”

This song was sung, and he repeated the first one.

Two tunes, sung back and forth over and over again.

The lyrics of these two tunes have not been heard by passers-by, but they are very familiar with the tune, which is the tune of the Ba people in Bayu.

——Ba Ren tune, is the tune of the popular folk song of Bayu. The Bayu people sacrifice bamboo, regard bamboo as a spiritual object and a god, so in the Bayu tune, there will be a harmony of "bamboo branch" after the fourth word of each sentence, and there is a "daughter" as a harmony at the end of each sentence. This Ba Ren tune is actually the predecessor of the "bamboo branch words" in later generations.

However, because this Taoist is a solo, there is no harmony such as "bamboo branch" and "daughter".

Soon, there were more than 100 people following behind this person.

Onlookers followed the footsteps of the Taoist, passing through the streets until they reached the outside of Miyagi Castle in the north of the city.

At this time, the sun is already high, and the sun shines on the magnificent undulating Miyagi, reflecting the brilliant colors.

The Taoist sat down, ignoring the soldiers of the forbidden army outside the palace gate, ignoring the hundreds of people who had gathered, far behind, and did not dare to continue to follow the people, beating the drum hard, singing louder and louder.

The soldiers of the Forbidden Army looked at him in amazement, and an officer came over with a sword.

"Miyagi Forbidden Land, what are you calling here?"

The man did not answer, but beat the drum and sang to himself.

The officer looked at the clothes of this Taoist person, and saw that he was wearing a Taoist robe, and although the shape drawn on his face was strange, it was very similar to the appearance of those terracotta figurines, gold and silver dolls that he often saw in the palace. ”

The people of Shu have always believed in ghosts and gods, the witch wind is blazing, since the end of the previous Qin Dynasty, Zhang's combination of witchcraft in Shu, created the five buckets of rice road, five buckets of rice road has been prevalent in Shu. One of the important reasons why Li's Chengguo was able to establish itself was that it was supported by Zhang Daosheng, the leader of Wudou Midao at the time. After the establishment of the Chengguo, Zhang Daosheng was worshiped as the prime minister by the Li family, and was named the Taishi of Heaven and Earth and the Marquis of Xishan. After Zhang Dao's death, the two positions of Heaven and Earth Taishi and Xishan Marquis were inherited by his descendants to this day.

Heming Mountain, is the ancestor of the Five Bucket Rice Road, Zhang's family, the place where the Five Bucket Rice Road was established, is the ancestral garden of the Five Bucket Rice Road.

The Taoist replied, "I am not a Taoist from Heming Mountain. I'm not a Taoist. ”

The officer frowned and asked, "Then who are you?" ”

"My surname is Yang, and I am a scholar from this county."

The Yang family in Chengdu is a small and small clan, but the officer also knows it, and said: "It turned out to be a member of the Yang family." He asked, "Why don't you stay at home in the morning?" Still yelling and yelling! With a wave of his hand, he magnanimously said, "Let's go!" I am familiar with General Zhenwei, and for the sake of Zhenwei, I will not punish you. ”

General Zhenwei is also a member of the Yang family.

The officer didn't know, in terms of seniority, this General Zhenwei was the father of the scholar surnamed Yang.

The scholar surnamed Yang did not kiss either, but just raised his head and laughed.

The officer asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"I laugh at Zhenwei, Zhenwei will become a ghost in the river!" Yang Hezhi pointed at the officer and said with a smile, "You, you, you will also become the head of the city!" As if thinking of something funny, he leaned back and laughed and laughed off the high nose covers.

The officer was furious and said, "Are you looking for death?" ”

"It's not you who is thinking, it's not me, it's the people of the whole city who are looking for death, it's Your Majesty!"

The officer pressed the soldier surnamed Yang down and motioned for the soldier to come up and tie him up.

The scholar surnamed Yang was weak and weak, and he did not struggle, but said: "After killing me, and hanging my head at the east gate of the city, when the city is broken, when the people of the city are destroyed, so that I can have a spirit after death, and I can watch the Tang soldiers show off their might!" ”

The officer hesitated and said, "What did you say?" ”

The scholar surnamed Yang stepped forward and said, "Can't you see? My Great Qin is dying! I came to Miyagi today to see Your Majesty and save me from the death of Great Qin! ”

The so-called "Great Qin" is the name of the country changed by Li You, the father of Li Dang, the lord of Shu today, after arrogating the title of emperor.

The country built by the Li family, whose name is "Cheng", was once called the emperor, but later went to the emperor and changed its name to the king of Chengdu.

After Li Dang's father, Li You, took the throne from his younger brother, some of his ministers persuaded him to submit to the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and some ministers persuaded him to be emperor, so Li You ordered divination, and the result of divination was "the son of heaven for several years". Among the ministers who urged Li You to be the emperor, there was a man named Sable, who was overjoyed and said: "One day is still enough, let alone several years!" Among the ministers who persuaded Li You to submit to the Eastern Tang Dynasty, there was Yang Hezhi's father, Yang Guang, the general of Zhenwei, Yang Guang said: "The Son of Heaven for a few years, how can he be like the princes of a hundred generations? But Li You was moved by the sable's words, and said: "Chaowen said, you can die at night!" Huang Hou's words are also above the strategy. ”

So Li You became the emperor, changed the country name to Qin, changed the year name Qin Xing, and carried out a pioneering act, that is, on the new money minted that year, Li You printed the name "Qin Xing" on the money. Before the "Qin Xing Qian", there was no such thing in successive dynasties, and the coins were mostly named after their weight, such as five-baht coins. It can be said that the existence of "year money" starts with Li You's "Great Qin".

Xin Er, who was far away in Longzhou, saw "Qin Xingqian" in the businessman.

What he had seen before were all kinds of five-baht coins from the previous dynasty and the present dynasty, or the Eastern Roman gold coins and Sassanid silver coins that flowed in from the Western Regions.

After asking where the money came from, he sighed at the time.

Combined with what he had seen and heard in his previous life, he foresaw that the year name money would inevitably replace the money in the name of weight, and he couldn't help but sigh: a major change in the money system that would affect the next thousand years or so could not be imagined, but it was indiscriminate against the small separatist force of Cheng Qin.

The officer asked, "Are you here to see Your Majesty?" ”

The soldier surnamed Yang looked directly at the officer and said, "My name is Hezhi!" Have you ever heard of my name? ”

"Yang Hezhi? You are the Yang family's Qianli Horse! ”

"Qianli Ju" is Yang Hezhi's evaluation given to him by Chengdu scholars when he was a teenager.

Yang Hezhi said: "I bother you to inform Your Majesty for me, and I will say that I have a strategy to save the country!" ”

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and it is even more difficult to conceal the large-scale mobilization of troops and horses.

As a senior general of the forbidden army, this officer is far more informed than ordinary people, and he has already heard that Shi Huanmeng, the assassin of Jingzhou in the Eastern Tang Dynasty, has been fighting fiercely in recent months, and it seems that he has the potential to attack Qin.

I think that back then, at the beginning and early stage of the founding of the Cheng Qin Dynasty, because the Eastern Tang Dynasty had only moved to Dingjiangzuo at that time, the internal political situation was unstable, so Cheng Qin was still able to maintain a certain offensive posture, and in some years, Cheng Qin was able to harass the Eastern Tang Dynasty four or five times a year; Since a few years ago, on the one hand, because of two civil strife in Chengqin in succession, on the other hand, because through the efforts of Wang and other famous ministers, the Eastern Tang Dynasty reconciled the contradictions between the soil and the residence, and gained a firm foothold in Jiangzuo.

Just before Huan Meng took over as the Jingzhou Thorn History, the Yu clan of the Jingzhou Thorn Shi also launched an attack on Cheng Qin, defeated Fu County and Ba County bordering Jingzhou, and controlled Jiangyang County to the west of Ba County. Further west of Jiangyang County is Qianwei County, and the northwest of Qianwei County is Chengdu.

It can be said that if Jingzhou launches an offensive again, although Chengqin has a big river to defend, the situation will be very grim.

The officer hesitated for a while, and said in his heart: "Yang Hezhi is famous, the Yang family can be called a big family in Chengdu, and General Zhenwei is quite trustworthy to the first emperor." Since he has a strategy for preserving the country, he will not be lying if he thinks about it. Well, I have the right to inform him. If your majesty will see him, I will bring him into the palace; If he refuses to see him, I will do whatever I have commanded, or I will arrest him and put him in prison or drive him away. ”

asked the soldiers to watch Yang Hezhi, and the officers entered to pay tribute.

Toward noon, the officer came out and said, "Your Majesty has summoned you. ”

Yang Hezhi did not remove his makeup, carried a tambourine, and followed the officer into the palace.

Follow the main road of Miyagi for about two quarters of an hour, turn west, and come to a temple.

The officer went in to report, and immediately called Yang Hezhi inside.

Yang Hezhi entered the temple and fell to the ground.

There is a huge Di man sitting cross-legged on the dragon couch, although because he is sitting, he can't see the specific height, but only from the posture can be judged, this person is tall, almost eight feet, very fat, the flesh on the face is drooping down, and the thick waist is really like a bucket.

This person is Li Dang.

It is rumored by the people of Shu that Li Dang's belt is fourteen circumferences. The circumference is five inches, which is converted into the unit of measurement of later generations, and the fourteenth circumference is almost more than one meter seven. The result is nothing in vain.

Li Dang's father, Li You, was the emperor of Qin for five years, and died four years ago, Li Dang's empress had no children, and Li Dang was Li You's eldest son and was able to inherit the throne.

Li Dang sat cross-legged at this time, not because he despised etiquette, but because he was injured in the calf by a stray arrow in a civil war last year, and he has not recovered until now, so he cannot kneel and sit.

Last year's civil war was the rebellion of Cheng Qin's Taibao and Li Cheng's clan. The Shu people who followed Li Cheng's rebellion amounted to tens of thousands, and the momentum was huge. Li Cheng attacked Chengdu, and Li Dang personally went to the city to resist, but was accidentally shot by an arrow. That Li Cheng was a brave man, because he saw that the siege could not be stopped, so he attacked the city gate alone, and was shot and killed by the defenders. The rebellion was quelled.

Li Dang looked at Yang Hezhi and said, "What are you talking nonsense on the street?" You said that you have a strategy to save the country, I am rich in Great Qin, strong soldiers and horses, I defeated Li Hao the year before last, and defeated Li Cheng last year, subduing both inside and outside, how can I be in danger of losing the country? ”

Li Hao is Li Dang's younger brother. Li is a Di person, there is a legacy of Hu Yi's brother and brother, Li Dang has no son, Li Hao asked Li Dang to make him the emperor's brother the year before last. Li Dang flatly refused, killed a group of important ministers who spoke for Li Hao, and ordered Li Cheng to attack Li Hao. Li Hao committed suicide in defeat.

It is said that Li Cheng's rebellion last year also had something to do with this, and there was no lack of reasons for coveting the throne because of his merits.

After waiting for Yang Hezhi's answer for a long time, Li Dang heard a burst of sobbing.

Yang Hezhi cried.

Li Dang wondered and asked, "What are you crying about?" ”

Yang Hezhi wept bitterly and said: "Ordinary people, the mediocre people in the market can't see that my Great Qin is about to die, and Your Majesty is a gifted god, can't you actually see it?" ”

"Tell me, why did my Great Qin die?"

Yang Hezhi wiped his tears and said, "Although my Great Qin is rich, this is not the credit of my Great Qin, this is the gift of God to my Great Qin!" Although God has given me great prosperity and made my Great Qin rich, it has also made strong enemies watch. Since the funeral, many of the people in our Shu have lost or died in the chaos, and there are only four or five hundred thousand people who exist today; The people are the source of soldiers, and how many soldiers can be sent out of four or five hundred thousand people who have been tired for a long time? How dare you call a soldier strong?

"And since the first emperor introduced the bureaucrats into Shu, the bureaucrats crossed the mountains and mountains, flocked in from the west, to the dynasty and the bureaucrats were prosperous, in the territory of my Great Qin today, from Brazil to Qianwei and Zitong, the bureaucrats are all over the counties, to Chengdu is also seen, full of valleys, there have been more than 100,000 falls, accounting for more than half of the people of my Great Qin, the bureaucrats are vulgar, difficult to manage, can not be banned, sometimes there are riots, and the people are in trouble.

"Xiaomin heard that Jiangzuo Jingzhou assassinated Shi Huanmeng, transferred troops and sent generals, and had a plan to attack my Great Qin. I, Daqin, this sincerity, is also a time of internal and external difficulties!

"Xiaomin dares to ask Your Majesty, if Huan Meng really comes to invade, through Bajun and Jiangyang, attack my Chengdu; Dingxi has won Wudu and Yinping, if it also comes from the north, it will attack my Hanzhong, Zitong, and Wenshan counties; If the enemy is attacked on both sides, if the wings are chaotic again, can my Daqin support it? ”

Li Danghu asked: "Who did you hear from Huan Meng that wants to offend our country?" ”

Yang Hezhi said: "Your Majesty, the matter of Huanmeng, the head of Qiantou or not, the small people are also scholars, how can they not know about it?" ”

Huan Meng's intention to destroy Shu, Li Dang knew earlier than Yang Hezhi, and this matter has become a major heart disease for him in recent days. Otherwise, according to his arrogant and lascivious temperament and disregard for state affairs, he would never have summoned Yang Hezhi.

Li Dang was silent for a moment and asked, "You said you have a strategy to retreat from the enemy?" ”

Yang Hezhi wiped away his tears and said: "The only plan for today, the small people are foolish, there are only two strategies to save the country!" ”

"Which two strategies?"

"The destiny of the Tang Dynasty has not fallen, the virtuous ministers and famous generals, and there are heroes on behalf of them. Dingxi Xiping Western Regions, East Extinguishing Pseudo-Xing, and Qin Fighting in Longxi, can be described as strong, still known as Tang Chen; Your Majesty should go to the honorific title and call the domain in Tang, this is one of them. Huan Meng Ruogu came to invade me, His Majesty was strong and clear, held the key points, and did not fight, the battle between the gate lords of the Tang court was very fierce, and Huan Meng fought for a long time without success, so he could only retreat, and this was the second. ”

Li Dang looked at Yang Hezhi for a moment, his eyes gradually became ferocious, and he sneered and said, "You want to be a vassal to Jiang Zuo?" Is this your solution? I see that this good policy of yours is not for me, but for Jiang Zuo, right? Immediately ordered to take Yang He to prison, and ordered, "Put Yang Zhouzhi into prison as well!" Torture is strict, and it is necessary to ask whether it is colluded with Jiang Zuo! ”

Yang Zhouzhi is the patriarch of Yang Hezhi's current General Zhenwei of Great Qin.

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