Li Zicheng, who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, is a descendant of Li Jiqian, and Li Zicheng respectfully calls Li Jiqian the ancestor; The Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang was beaten to a pulp, but it is a pity that he did not be the emperor's thief and cooked a pot of dumplings for the Manchus.

Liu Mintian pondered the courage and rebellion of the party members, and said on the side: "Our party Xiang family lived in Songpan and Maozhou at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. Among them, the two most powerful branches are the Tuoba clan (that is, the Li clan) and the Zhe clan, the Tuoba clan is the ancestor of Li Jiqian, we are the same race, but in the end we became mortal enemies! ”

Liu Min listened to Zhi Yuzhong's serious speech, "oh" and frowned and said: "The young general is shaking off the family background of the Zhe family!" The little woman wants to listen to it! ”

Zhi Yuzhong excitedly told the story that after the Zhe family settled in Fuzhou, it had always been the border barrier of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The ancestor of Zhe Yuzhong was a dignitary when he was from the Later Zhou Dynasty, because the Zhe family owned Fuzhou and was an armed force that stood on the position of the Later Zhou Dynasty against the Khitan and Northern Han Dynasty.

In 951 AD, Guo Wei established the Later Zhou Dynasty, and Liu Chong established the Northern Han regime in Taiyuan and defected to the Khitan and became enemies of the Later Zhou.

The Zhe clan was attached to the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the Northern Han Dynasty treated the Zhe clan well, why did the Zhe clan not want to be friendly with the Northern Han Dynasty? This is because the Zhe clan and the Khitan are feuding.

The Northern Han Dynasty was subordinate to the Khitan and the Zhe clan had the opposite position, and even concurrently served Ruan as an official in the Later Zhou Dynasty; Such a choice cannot be avoided.

This choice made the Zhe clan immediately face a severe situation, and the borders of Fuzhou with the Khitan and the Northern Han were vulnerable to attack; It is far from the center of the Later Zhou and difficult to get reinforcements, and it must rely on its own strength to survive.

In this severe test, the Zhe clan cultivated two generals, Zhi Deyan and Zhi Yuqing.

Zhede and Yuqing fought hard for the Central Plains Dynasty to resist the Khitan, and their status continued to rise; It aroused the dissatisfaction of Li Yixing, the leader of the more powerful party.

At this time, Li Yixing served as the envoy of the Dingyan Army, and received Xia, Yin, Sui and other states; Controls the road from Fuzhou to the Central Plains.

In the first month of the second year of Guo Wei Xiande, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Li Yixing ordered that the envoys of the Zhe clan were not allowed to go to the Central Plains through the pass.

This is tantamount to forcing the Zhe clan into an isolated and helpless predicament, how to deal with the contradiction between Zhe and Li? Later Prime Minister Zhou thought that Xiazhou was an important border town, and Fuzhou was too small, so he might as well give it up.

Zhou Shizong considered the relationship between the upper and lower levels: the Zhe clan has always been loyal, and from a strategic point of view, the preservation of Fuzhou can be carried out to attack the Northern Han; So he issued an edict to condemn Li Yixing.

Li Yixing's feathers were not plump at that time, and under the pressure of the imperial court, he was forced to apologize.

After Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, the Zhe clan was attached to the Song Dynasty, and the Zhe clan hoped that the Song court would pacify the Northern Han Dynasty as soon as possible; In this way, the road to the Central Plains can be opened and the predicament of isolation and helplessness can be extricated.

In May of the first year of Song Taizu Jianlong (960 AD), Zhede took the initiative to attack the Northern Han Dynasty and occupied Shagu and beheaded 500 levels; Song Taizu gave a generous reward and promised that "the descendants of the future will be the prefect of the state, and they can use their subordinates and eat their rents"

Zhe Yuzhong will be friends with the Central Plains Dynasty for generations, and he will not hesitate to offend the Li clan of the same clan; Liu Min felt the same way: "The little girl in the Central Plains of the Zhe clan has long known! ”

Zhi Yuzhong glanced at Liu Min and laughed loudly, "Miss Min is a little bragging, isn't it, you were seven years old when you were in Xuanji Cave; Now that five years have passed, at best, he is only twelve years old, how can he know so much about the Zhe family! ”

Liu Min was speechless for a year, and said with a smile: "Little women can't dream!" ”

Liu Min and Zhi Yuzhong talked, followed Zhang Jing and the 40 descendants of the "Wudang Flying Army" in the Qiang Village, staring at the characteristic flying castle-style buildings, and said with emotion: "It's really not simple, I didn't expect the buildings in the Qiang Village to be so meticulous, and the appearance is a European castle!" ”

Zhi Yuzhong and Grandpa Huo watched the buildings in the Qiang Village with great interest, and did not give Liu Min's feelings to heart; Zhang Jing asked a little stunned: "Little sister, you said that the appearance of our Qiang Village is simply a castle in Europe!" What are the castles in Europe? ”

Liu Min was stunned, with an embarrassed look on his face, looked at Zhang Jingwan and smiled: "Little girl talk casually, Brother Zhang don't care!" ”

Liu Min no longer complains that he speaks about the words of the later generations, because he has traveled through time, and it is not enough to interject a few cross-era words from time to time when he speaks.

The problem is that Zhang Jing, Zhe Yuzhong, and Grandpa Huo, three people during the Taiping and Xingguo periods of the Song Dynasty, can't understand; If you don't understand, Liu Min no longer prevaricates and explains, but only thinks about it in her own heart.

However, the European castle-like architecture that Liu Min is talking about is the Kochemreichsburg in the German town; The 100-metre-high late Gothic building stands majestically above the Moselle River on a majestic peak.

The whole mountain is towering into the sky, which seems to highlight the cold and arrogant personality of the castle; The castle also has a falconry arena with flying shows, medieval knights' banquets in vaulted cellars, and a procession around the castle and a robbers' feast for children dressed as elves.

The shell of the newly built Cochem Castle is Gothic, but it is filled with Renaissance furniture; There are also parts of the Baroque style.

The castle not only retains the Romanesque architecture to the greatest extent, but also has a fascinating legend here.

Legend has it that there was once a witch in this castle, and the building where the witch resided was an octagonal tower with a total of four floors, like a hexahedron; Nowadays known as the Witch Tread by many, it is here that the legendary witches study witchcraft day and night.

And the Qiangzhai watchtower buildings in Songpan area, Maozhou and Shiquan County are really similar to the Kochemreichsburg in Europe.

The watchtower of Qiang village is as high as more than ten zhang, and the watchtower and the watchhouse are connected by the wooden structure on the second floor to form the whole of the watchtower; The watchtower is a pyramid shape of the bottom and the bottom, which is very stable.

In the process of building such a bunker, craftsmen do not hang wires, do not draw, and do not use brackets to support them; Completely based on visual experience, the flake stone and yellow mud are built layer by layer.

The most surprising thing is that there is a "beam" made of the natural edges and corners of the stone from the bottom to the top of the watchtower, Zhang Jing said that it is called "fish back".

The back of this fish slowly unfolds to the sides, forming a gentle inward bend and merging with the entire tower, like a human backbone; The entire watchtower is supported to evenly distribute the pressure on the building; Let the artistry and practicality be highly compatible here.

Each floor of the entire watchtower has small windows that are large inside and small outside, which does not destroy the stability of the building; It is also the most practical shooting hole.

The nine-storey watchtower occupies the commanding height in the stockade, and can be held high to observe the enemy situation in wartime; Set off beacon fires to contact the villages and villages, and you can also resist with danger.

The stone castle built by the watchhouse and the watchtower is like a pair of chopsticks that depend on each other; Work together to coexist and walk hand in hand through more than 2,000 years of history.

Liu Min was looking at the castle with relish and listened to Zhang Jing explain the ins and outs of the construction, when a descendant of the "Wudang Flying Army" named Wang Yang came to report that he had found a cave in a place called Skull Valley, and there seemed to be the neighing of horses in it......