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Seeing Fuzhou City from afar, I saw that it was facing the river and back the mountain, and it was a Xiongcheng city at the end.

The land of Fuzhou is close to the Khitan in the north and Western Xia in the west, and there have been many fierce battles between Song Liao and Song Xia here. However, although it was repeatedly attacked by the Western Xia and Khitan, the city of Fuzhou still stood strong here, becoming the bridgehead of the Great Song Dynasty in Hexi, relying on the danger of this city.

Fuzhou City was built on the stone mountain beam on the north bank of the Yellow River, where the mountains and rivers are blocked, the terrain is precipitous, and the Fuzhou City is really easy to defend and difficult to attack here. Fuzhou city wall is built according to the mountain situation, roughly in the shape of boots, all are bluestone built, the circumference is about five miles, there are four gates and two small gates in total, there are city towers on the city gate, among them, there is an urn city outside the big south gate and the small west gate, the building is strict, solid and abnormal.

There is a auxiliary city in the north and south of Fuzhou City. There is a deep stream in the north of Fuzhou City, forcing the mountains in the north of the Yellow River in the south, named Yingpanling, and the Yongan Army of Fuzhou has stationed heavy troops here. And there is a dangerous place in the south of the city called Shizuiyi, which is also a military fortress, and the Yongan Army also has heavy troops here. These two auxiliary fortresses are horns with Fuzhou City, echoing each other, and guarding Fuzhou City tightly in the middle.

The city of Fuzhou is so dangerous, and it is no wonder that the Western Xia and Khitan people have repeatedly attacked Fuzhou, but they have not found any bargain.

Of course, the reason why Fuzhou is strong, in addition to the strong city of Fuzhou, it is also very important that Fuzhou soldiers are brave and good at fighting.

There is the Yong'an Army stationed in Fuzhou, which is led by the Zhejia family who is a local tyrant in Fuzhou, and is a well-known elite army in the Western Army.

In the Great Song Dynasty, a dynasty that attaches great importance to the clear separatist forces, it is really not easy for the Fuzhou Zhejia to always be a local tyrant, hereditary and lead its army.

Although the Fuzhou Zhe clan was the vanguard of the Great Song Dynasty against the Western Xia, they were not Han Chinese, but were of the same race as the party members who established the Western Xia, and the ancestors of the Zhe clan were the party Xiang Zhedu.

Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Zhe family has lived in the clouds and started to operate for hundreds of years. In the beginning, Fuzhou was called Fugu by the same name as later generations, and it was just a military town along the river. The ancestor of the Zhe family, Zhe Zongben, because he was more prestigious in the local area, had the title of Taishan Gong, so many people rushed to serve.

The real trace of the folded family is in the Tang Dynasty after the fifth dynasty, when Li Keyong, the king of Jin, still served as the envoy of the Hedong Festival, he knew that the Taishan Gong could pay for things, and under the account, those who could not do it would be ordered to be controlled. Fold the Zongben "Gather Harmony", and take the merit as the pillar country.

Later, Zhe Sizuo served as the assassin of Linzhou, controlling Linzhou and Fuzhou, and the Zhe family officially began to operate Fuzhou and became a wang clan in the clouds. Later Tang Li Cunmian "took the northern tribes as a border trouble" and appointed his son Congruan as the general of Hedong. The prefecture was promoted from a town to a county, and then to a prefecture, and from Nguyen to the deputy envoy of the prefecture. In the second year of Tongguang in the later Tang Dynasty, he was promoted to the history of Fuzhou Thorn. He went through the Tang Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty, and was tired of being an envoy to the Zhenwu Army. At the beginning of the Later Han Dynasty, Fuzhou was promoted to the Yong'an Army, and he was reappointed as the Yong'an Army Festival Envoy from Ruan.

The Central Plains Dynasty has been constantly changing, and the Zhejia family has always been attached early, so it is proudly preserved. In this process, Fuzhou gradually became the private territory of the Zhejia family, and they recruited their own soldiers to train them, so that they had the famous Zhejia army in the northwest. By the time the Song Dynasty was established, the Zhejia family had the same strategy.

Because the Zhe family had its own city and army, it was difficult for the Zhao and Song dynasties to completely take over. In addition, the Zhe family had a feud with the Li family, which was sitting on the five states of Dingyan at that time, which could serve the purpose of dividing and disintegrating the feudal towns in the northwest. At the same time, because of the special geographical location of Fuzhou, it can resist the invasion of Liao, and to the east, it can threaten the Northern Han regime, which is still stubbornly resisting.

It is precisely because of these considerations that Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, acquiesced to the existence of Fuzhou and allowed it to be hereditary. Of course, there is a premise that the Zhe family cannot betray the imperial court and must contribute to the Great Song Dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, he entered the court, and Chen "Taiyuan can be taken", was rewarded by Song Taizu, and returned to the town. promised: "After that, the descendants will become the prefect of the state." You have to use its subordinates and eat its rental", in fact, confirming its status as a feudal town.

In the nearly 100 years since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, the Zhi family has been doing its best to defend the frontier for the Great Song Dynasty as a barrier against Western Xia and Khitan. And as a traveler from later generations, Zhong Hao knew that the loyalty of the Fuzhou family would continue until after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was also a far-sighted politician.

Fuzhou is actually not big, only Fugu County is a county. With the land of one county, in exchange for the brave and good fighting loyalty, he tried his best to fight for the Great Song Dynasty, so that this family of origin in the party has been one of the most determined forces to resist the power of the Western Xia party for more than 100 years. It was not until the Jingkang Change, the Northern Song Dynasty perished, and the Song dynasty crossed to the south, unable to give any support to the Zhe family, and the last generation of the Zhe family, Zhe Keqiu, was forced to surrender after the defeat in the war with the Jin State.

Zhe Keqiu was later poisoned by the Jin people, and his son Zhe Yanwen fled to Yunzhong, and Fuzhou was immediately attacked by the Western Xia people. The eight generations of the Fold family are ranked from De, Yu, Wei, Ji, Ke, Ke, and Yan, and the last generation of Yan characters did not succeed in continuing the glory of the Fold family. After the Western Xia people broke through the city of Fuzhou, they hated the Zhejia family and confronted them, so they made people dig up their ancestral graves to vent their evil anger. It can also be seen that the Fuzhou Zhe clan resisted fiercely against the Tangut people. The Fuzhou family is also regarded as doing their best for the Great Song Dynasty, and they are dead.

I have to say that Zhao Kuangyin's decision is indeed a far-sighted decision.

"At the end of the Five Dynasties, China was eventful, and only Xirong was the only way to get it. China has not tried to send a horse and a soldier to the far tun, but let the local tyrants be served by the public, sealed with states, and the levy is enough to support the soldiers, so it is boundless and despised...... Recruit local tyrants, take their posts, make the following from the defense, stab the history of the first seal, and give Yilu gold silk. He also used the natives to make up for the generals, so that the brave were greedy and the rich were at home, and the hearts of the people were determined by themselves. The policy of treating the local tyrants in the northwest proposed by Liu Ping, the minister of the Song Dynasty, in his "Attack and Defense", also became the policy implemented by the Great Song Dynasty against local tyrants like the Zhejia in the future.

Of course, although the imperial court acquiesced to the special existence of the Fuzhou Zhejia as a local tyrant hereditary land, it did not mean that they were absolutely at ease. For example, the successive general judgments in Fuzhou were all officials sent by the imperial court, and the Zhe family had no right to appoint them, and the purpose of this was naturally to monitor and contain the Zhe family. In addition, there is the Linfu Terracotta Division, which is in charge of the armies of the two states of Linfu, and it is generally the governor of Linzhou who serves as the head of the Linfu Terracotta Division, and the Zhejia of Fuzhou can only serve as the deputy commander, and the purpose is naturally to check and balance the Zhejia family in order to prevent them from rebelling.

Moreover, in terms of official position dispatch, the imperial court also has many restrictions on the folding clan. Although the head of the Zhe family can easily get high positions such as the festival degree envoy and the festival degree observation and retention, he sends ordinary officials to the jurisdiction of Lu Xuan. The highest positions of the military generals of the Great Song Dynasty on the front line were the deputy head of the road and the deployment of the road capital, and the Zhe family was never awarded. And the Yang family, who gave up the status of a local tyrant in Linzhou next door and completely became a minister of the Great Song Dynasty, from Yang Ye, the three generations of the Yang family can be officials to the deputy head of the road or all deployed.

Obviously, they were both local tyrants in the northwest before, but compared with the Zhe family, who still inherited the prefecture and did not give up the identity of the local tyrant, the Great Song Dynasty court trusted a family like the Yang family who gave up the identity of a local tyrant. Therefore, the hereditary prefecture of the Fold family is not without a price.

But no matter what, from the time of the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty to the time of the Jingkang Change, there have been outstanding famous generals from generation to generation, which can be said to have made great achievements for the Great Song Dynasty and made many contributions to the Great Song Dynasty. Naturally, the Zhejia family has also left a strong mark in history.

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After Zhong Hao arrived in Fuzhou City, he was worried about where to go first, but he didn't expect to meet Yang Yong outside the south gate of Fuzhou.

It turned out that Yang Huaiyu had not returned since he came to visit the seriously ill Zhe Jimin, Yang Huaiyu heard that his father had summoned Zhong Hao that he would come, and the day of Zhe Jimin's public sacrifice was approaching, so Yang Huaiyu guessed that Zhong Hao should arrive in these two days. He knew that Zhong Hao had never been to Fuzhou, and he was afraid that he would have no place to stay for a while, so he had asked Yang Yong and a few of them to wait at the city gates everywhere for the past two days to pick up Zhong Hao.

With Yang Huaiyu's arrangement, Zhong Hao naturally didn't have to bother to find a place to live, and he didn't have to ask what etiquette there was for the condolences of the public sacrifice of Zhizhou Zhiji Min, and then he asked Yang Huaiyu. At that moment, Zhong Hao and his entourage followed Yang Yong to Yang Huaiyu's residence.

Fuzhou is a border city, and at this time, the death of the head of the Fuzhou family is a sensitive time, and the entry and exit inspection at the city gate is naturally very strict. However, led by Yang Yong, although Zhong Hao and his entourage carried knives and bows, they were not subjected to too much interrogation when they entered the city, and it seems that Yang Huaiyu still has a lot of face in Fuzhou.

It has been almost two months since Yang Huaiyu came to Fuzhou to visit Zhi Jimin, and Zhong Hao thought that Yang Huaiyu had already returned to Linzhou, but he didn't expect to be in Fuzhou. Zhong Hao couldn't help but be a little strange, even if the Yang family and the Zhe family were in-laws, but after all, it was two generations ago, so Yang Huaiyu didn't have to be so concerned about the matter of the Zhe family?

When I asked Yang Yong, I found out that Yang Huaiyu actually had a marriage contract with the Zhi family, and his fiancée turned out to be the youngest daughter of the former head of the Zhi family, Zhi Jixuan. Zhe Jimin is the second brother of Zhe Jixuan and the second father-in-law of Yang Huaiyu. Zhi Jimin was seriously ill, and Yang Huaiyu naturally wanted to express his concern, and it was inconvenient to leave. Now that Zhe Jimin has passed away, Yang Huaiyu naturally has to participate in Zhe Jimin's public sacrifice before leaving. Therefore, since he came to Fuzhou, he has never left.

It turned out that Yang Huaiyu, this kid, had a marriage, this kid was very strict, and he had never shown his mouth in front of him, Zhong Hao couldn't help but secretly slander Yang Huaiyu, this kid was not enough to put his heart into his heart.

After Zhong Hao followed Yang Yong into the city, he came to Yang Huaiyu's residence in Baihuawu.

The families of Fuzhou City are all gathered in Baihuawu. Although Fuzhou City is not too big, this Baihuawu occupies more than half of Fuzhou City, and its scale is definitely not small. Yang Huaiyu, as the son-in-law of the Zhe family, and also a descendant of the Yang family, was naturally arranged by the Zhe family to live in Baihuawu.

Now it is the season of flowers, and the Baihuawu is full of peach and apricot white, purple and red. Along the way, it is quite pleasing to the eye, but it really lives up to the name of this hundred flowers.

When Zhong Hao came to Yang Huaiyu's residence, Yang Huaiyu was in the small school field in the courtyard, competing with a white-robed young man with red lips and white teeth.

Zhong Hao himself watched the competition on the small school field with great interest, and asked Yang Yong to arrange Zheng Feng's residence first.

Zhong Hao looked at it for a while, and saw Yang Huaiyu and the white-robed young man fists and feet, constantly dismantling moves like butterflies wearing flowers, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

Zhong Hao knew that Yang Huaiyu had laid a foundation since he was a child, whether it was a sword, a gun, a bow or a horse, or a fist and foot kung fu, which was very powerful, this white-robed young man looked thin and could fight with Yang Huaiyu, Zhong Hao seemed to be really powerful.

Zhong Hao estimated that this young man should be a child of the Fold family, otherwise he would not have such kung fu at such a young age! It seems that the prestige of the Zhe family's courage and good fighting is not a fluke, and any young kid has such martial arts, which shows the strength of the Zhe family's army.

Yang Huaiyu and the white-robed young man rolled over and over more than 20 moves, and suddenly one of them was caught off guard, and the white-robed young man kicked the left waist and hip, and sat down on the ground backwards.

The white-robed young man raised his chin and said very arrogantly: "Your martial arts are still too bad, too unpracticed!" ”

Zhong Hao thought that Yang Huaiyu was careless for a while, but then he saw Yang Huaiyu get up in embarrassment, a little sneering, and listened to the words of the white-robed young man, and did not refute it, only to find that the white-robed young man's martial arts were really higher than Yang Huaiyu, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised. When Yang Huaiyu was in Jingqiang Village, his martial arts could be regarded as the strongest, and he couldn't even beat a young man who broke his family?!

The white-robed young man saw Zhong Hao at this time, and when he saw that Yang Huaiyu had a guest, he said to him: "Come here today, and I'll come tomorrow to teach you your fists and feet!" ”

Yang Huaiyu frowned a little reluctantly and said, "Tomorrow is the day of the public sacrifice after Gong Min, I'm afraid I don't have time, why don't you practice tomorrow?" ”

The white-robed young man listened to Yang Huaiyu's words, and snorted lightly: "My second uncle's public sacrifice naturally can't be delayed, but the public sacrifice will be over tomorrow morning, you are the son-in-law of the Zhe family, not the son of the Zhe family, and you have nothing to do with going to the funeral in the afternoon." This kung fu must be practiced diligently in order to grow. Continue to practice tomorrow afternoon, that's it! ”

Yang Huaiyu snorted speechlessly and didn't say anything more.

After the white-robed young man with red lips and white teeth finished speaking, he turned his head and walked towards the courtyard gate, and when he passed by Zhong Hao, he nodded slightly at Zhong Hao.

Zhong Hao hurriedly arched his hand and saluted, and before he could speak, the white-robed young man floated away.

When Zhong Hao looked at the young man up close just now, he found that the young man's chest was bulging, and there was no Adam's apple, coupled with his pretty face with red lips and white teeth, it suddenly dawned on him, it turned out that this white-robed young man was a girl dressed as a man, no wonder he spoke so arrogantly to Yang Huaiyu, I'm afraid this is Yang Huaiyu's fiancée Folding Coke!

Hehe, this name sounds like a bit of coke to Zhong Hao! Hiss...... But this martial art is really powerful, Yang Huaiyu can't fall down!

Yang Huaiyu also found out that Zhong Hao had arrived at this time, afraid that he had been abused and disciplined just now, and that he had already been seen by his eldest brother, so he couldn't help but be a little sneering. At that moment, he arched his hand towards Zhong Hao and said, "Big brother is here!" ”

Zhong Hao smiled meaningfully at Yang Huaiyu and said, "It's been a while, who is the son of the Fold family who is strong in martial arts just now?" Zhong Rong didn't introduce it! ”

Yang Huaiyu had a bitter and sad face, and reluctantly showed a smile and said, "Alas, that ...... That kid of the Fold family, uh...... Miss Zhejia is the fiancée of the younger brother, and her father has set a family affair for the younger brother since he was a child! ”

Zhong Hao pretended to be stunned and said, "Ah, it turned out to be a younger brother and sister, no wonder I see this young man so handsome!" The younger brother and sister have a family background, they want to have good looks, and they are good at martial arts, how can Brother Zhongrong Xian still be unhappy with bitterness and hatred! ”

Yang Huaiyu listened to Zhong Hao's words, couldn't help rolling his eyes, rubbed the big crotch on the left side hard, and said in a sigh: "Big brother, don't you say cool words, don't you see that I have to be beaten every day." I'm looking for a daughter-in-law, not a bodyguard, and the martial arts are a fart! (To be continued.) )