Chapter 11: Aftermath
"Wait!"
The old doctor gasped, ran to Zhao Gongzi quickly, and said shortly: "This ...... Childe, put this ...... Livestock....... Is it okay to leave the animals at my disposal? ”
"Sir, are you?" Bei Que Yun asked.
"Lao Yu is a doctor in Wei County, name: Sun Shuao, not long ago Wei County was slaughtered by these animals! Fewer than 50 people survived!! The old doctor's expression gradually distorted as he spoke, and his anger overflowed.
"Didn't you say that you only looted the finances! Dare to slaughter the city!! Zhao Gongzi kicked it violently, and Zhang Haozi's blood suddenly spurted out.
"Uncle Sun, this guy will be handed over to the people of your county to deal with!" Zhao Gongzi said, "By the way, Sun Langzhong, have you ever seen a child named Shen Youxuan?" That's about that. ”
"Shen Engong, of course I've seen it, it's right behind!"
Eun Gong? At this moment, that guy has gathered people again? Bei Que Yun thought incredulously.
"I'm here!" Shen Youxuan's shout came from afar, and just as Bei Que Yun was about to go over to greet him, Lin Qingyang came out of nowhere and galloped over with a group of people and horses.
"The owner!" The crowd shouted in unison.
"Does the owner feel better?"
"Is the owner hungry?"
"Is the owner thirsty?"
Bei Que Yun looked blankly at Shen Youxuan, who was surrounded by everyone, and felt a sour smell unrecognizablely.
I've grown so old and I've never been treated like this......
"Uncle Lin, hurry up and greet the guests from Wei County, hurry up and prepare food, all kinds of chicken, duck and fish are ready." Shen Youxuan said.
"Yes, owner!"
Lin Qingyang took Shen Youxuan over, turned his hand to Zhang Luoqi and said, "Do you understand what the owner said, go quickly!" ”
Zhang Luoqi ran away with a breath of breath, why do I always do this kind of work........
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The homeless people from Wei County stood in front of the mountain bandit leader Zhang Haozi, and kicked with a mouthful of spit, and in a blink of an eye, Zhang Haozi was out of breath.
Zhao Gongzi watched all this from afar, and suddenly felt that the burden on his body was extremely heavy.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is preparing to return to Bianliang, right?" Shen Youxuan lay on Lin Qingyang's back and looked at Zhao Gongzi with his head down.
"Well, I'll leave later."
"Hahahahaha!"
"What are you laughing at?" Zhao Gongzi was puzzled.
"I knew you were the crown prince! Haha, you didn't dare admit it before. Shen Youxuan laughed jokingly.
"Why, did I say I wasn't?" Zhao Gongzi also smiled.
"Gotta get it, you're still joking here, I'm packing up here!" Bei Que Yun put the grain and grass that had been in Luzhou City onto the cart one by one, sweating profusely.
"I'm a wounded, so naturally it's not my turn to do this."
"I'm the Crown Prince......."
After Zhao Gongzi and Shen Youxuan glanced at each other, they couldn't help laughing, leaving Bei Que Yun to roll his eyes while moving things.
"Senior Brother Lingquan, you still understand me." Ling Quan took a large bag of grain and grass from Bei Que Yun's hand.
"No, you're mistaken, it's yours." Senior Brother Ling Quan pointed to a cart in the distance, but there was nothing on it......
"Iniquity!" Bei Que Yun drooped his face that had not yet subsided, and cried out bitterly.
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At noon, more than 1,000 soldiers drove trucks full of grain and grass to Hehuang led by Xu Jianjun.
About Hehuang, Shen Youxuan really knows a lot.
From Shen Youxuan's history teacher's evaluation of Song Shenzong.
"How can others sleep soundly under the couch", once upon a time, this famous sentence of Song Taizu was so uplifting, so he destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty and unified the south of the Yangtze River.
His younger brother Song Taizong inherited his will to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, ending the chaotic situation of the Ten Kingdoms since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, and partially unifying China.
However, Song Taizong has since two northern expeditions to the Khitan, but they have failed, and then raised tigers to sit back and watch the rise of Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty has no "lie on the couch and let others sleep soundly" of the pride, the Northern Song Dynasty has almost no bright colors in the foreign military, mostly stains, leaving a "cowardly" stalk.
After Taizong, Zhenzong, Renzong, and Yingzong, the Song Dynasty finally ushered in an emperor who no longer wanted to be a "coward" - Song Shenzong.
Song Shenzong, who succeeded to the throne at the age of twenty, was very dissatisfied with the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty. "With You, Ji, Yun, Shuo fell into the Khitan, Lingwu, Hexi specialized in Tuoba, Jiaozhi, Ninan system in the Li family, do not know that Zhang Zhi officials, accept the enlistment, compared to the Han and Tang Dynasty, there is still incomplete, deep use is ashamed, so there is a will to conquer and pioneer."
The sixteen states of Youyun in the north fell into the hands of the Khitan, the northwest was controlled by the party members, and the Li clan of Jiaozhi often harassed the southern border, and the north, south and west were the ancestral lands since the Han and Tang dynasties, and they all fell into the hands of others, and Song Shenzong was deeply ashamed.
"The thieves attacked it and couldn't defend it, and Rong Di plundered it but couldn't resist it", the big country had to grovel and bribe Yidi in exchange for border tranquility, how could Song Shenzong not be angry?
When Song Shenzong was puzzled, Wang Shao, a native of Jiangxi, presented "Ping Rong Ce".
Wang Zhao proposed that "if you want to take the Western Xia, you should first restore the Hehuang", and recover the Hehuang "to cut off the right arm of the Western Xia", so that "the Xia people have the worry of suffering from the enemy", and the Hehuang has been an important place for horse production since ancient times, and the Great Song Dynasty controlled the Hehuang, so as to protect the horse source and enhance the armament.
Song Shenzong was waiting for people like Wang Shao, who restored the old frontier of the Han and Tang dynasties, first starting from the northwest.
In the fourth year of Xining (1071), Song Shenzong reused Wang Shao and began his own initiative to expand the border - to recover Hehuang. Wang Shao first appeased the Yu Longke tribe, the largest Tubo tribe in the Qingtang Dynasty, and made it "attach 120,000 mouths to it", and some small tribes also joined one after another, which expanded the territory of the Great Song Dynasty by 1,200 li.
In the fifth to sixth year of Xining (1072-1073 AD), Wang Shao sent troops twice, defeated the Tubo and Qiang people, and recovered Xizhou, Hezhou, Taozhou, Minzhou, Danzhou, and Diezhou, which is known as the "Battle of Xihe" in history. Deep into Hexi, the mountains are high and the road is far away, especially in the six years of Xining, the Song army marched for more than 1,800 miles, marched for 54 days, and there were many difficulties, and the army went through hardships.
"Shao is a scholar who knows the soldiers, and honesty is not a talent. And the plan must win, the attack must be overcome, Song Shiwenchen is on the side, and the merit has not been excessive. ”
The victory of the Battle of Xihe, more than 2,000 miles of frontier, it was not only the biggest victory achieved in more than 80 years since the Song Dynasty ended the situation of the Ten Kingdoms, but also the only bright color of the Northern Song Dynasty in the exploration, successfully driving an iron nail into the rear of the Western Xia.
The Battle of Xihe swept away the long-standing political atmosphere of the Northern Song Dynasty court, which greatly inspired people's hearts and gave a shot in the arm for the further reform of Song Shenzong.
Above all, the Battle of Xihe regained the six states of Hehuang and reopened the Silk Road, which restored the situation of long-term control of this area by the Central Plains Dynasty before the Anshi Rebellion.
Song Shenzong realized the first step in restoring the old frontier of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and was worthy of the ancestors and countless sages who communicated the Hexi Corridor.
It was also the history teacher that made Shen Youxuan love this backbone emperor from the bottom of his heart.
The temple number is "Shenzong", although the history teacher said that the temple name of Shenzong is not good, but Shen Youxuan believes that the word god contains the meaning of comparing gods and spirits, of course, this is just Shen Youxuan's personal thoughts.
Regarding Song Shenzong, there are too many regrets in the history books that cannot be made up, and this eternal emperor also died at the age of 38.
Here I have to mention the famous minister of the Great Song Dynasty - Sima Guang
For example, Sima Guang, a generation of famous ministers, believed that the six states of Xihe were "the old realm of the Xia Kingdom" and should be returned to Western Xia.
In the eyes of these conservatives, the Hehuang region, which Wang Shao and countless other soldiers exchanged for blood, was not the land of their ancestors, not the old frontier of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and they had to be "returned" to Western Xia.
Fortunately, a group of people of insight and some generals resolutely opposed it, but even so, Sima Guang finally abandoned important military fortresses such as Mizhi, Futu, Jialu, and Anjiang and gave them to Western Xia in vain.
When the Xihe River won a great victory and recovered the six states, the news came, Tokyo was jubilant, and these conservatives also joined the jubilant team, thinking that "opening up the homeland is a beautiful thing for the country", and many people also wrote poems to celebrate this great victory (such as Su Shi wrote "Twenty-two Rhymes of the Noble Chapter").
It was only a few years later that Shenzong died, and these people began to deny attacking Xihe again.
From today's point of view, Sima Guang's move is undoubtedly a typical policy of appeasement, in a vain attempt to beg the Western Xia not to invade him by "rejecting the land and the enemy" and retreating and forbearance. Facts have proved that the appeasement policy will not work, but will only make the Western Xia gain an inch, and despise the Great Song Dynasty even more ("take it lightly than the foreign Yi"), and feel that the Great Song Dynasty is easy to bully.
From the perspective of today's people, it is really difficult to understand how a person like Sima Guangwen Yanbo, who is famous and virtuous, can be so pedantic? Is it because of the old and new party disputes? Is it because the river is consuming the financial resources of the national treasury?
Maybe they have both, but the pedantic cognition in their bones is the deadliest.
Forget it, instead of thinking about how to make Da Song better now, it's better to think about how to find my girlfriend......
"Please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for one thing." Shen Youxuan grabbed Zhao Gongzi, who was sitting on the horse.
"What's the matter? But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”
"I hope Your Highness can help me find a girl named Jiang Yixi."
"What, your crush?" Zhao Gongzi quipped.
"Let's just say that. Then bother Your Highness? ”
"I can help you, but you can invite me to eat flower wine then!" Zhao Gongzi said that he rode away, and in a blink of an eye, there were no more officers and soldiers in Luzhou City.......
How do you feel empty......
"Hey! I heard you have a little lover? Bei Que Yun came over and asked, "How old are you, I didn't expect you to be a disciple." ”
"Get out!"
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The following is not the main text, but there are a few points to elaborate.
Regarding the crown prince in this article, that is, the next emperor after Shenzong, Song Zhezong, was actually not born at this point in time.
Then why am I taking him out now?
1. The plot needs. (No spoilers yet)
2. Timeline and cosmology: As can be seen from the readers of the previous article, martial arts exist in this world, and there are many more sects that have never existed in history.
To put it simply, this world is subject to external intervention and can be understood as a parallel world.
If readers want to know more, they can take a look at the tuba book, for example, in the first chapter of this book, about the reason for Shen Youxuan's crossing, tuba will mention.
3. Regret: About the Song Dynasty, but also about the history of Song Shenzong, it is the most attractive to me.
There are too many regrets, too many great achievements, too many love and hatred, therefore, it is rare to see an author choose this time period to write a power plot, because it is too complicated........
Of course, I can't write without sufficient knowledge, so I came up with the idea of telling the story in my heart in a way that the rivers and lakes and power schemes complement each other.
The Song Dynasty was so pitiful that many authors used the term "weak Song" to evaluate the Great Song Dynasty.
Never mind........
It's a lot of nonsense, look at the text, I will show you the most colorful picture scroll.
Not much to say, I don't know if anyone has seen it, the test has not yet come, and the total collection is now only 36........
I ate crayfish and went, bye-bye.