In May of the first year of Emperor Lizong Jiaxi of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, in 1237 A.D., the Dali country in a corner of the country changed, and one of the 36 barbarian tribes, the Shimen Fan Department rebelled, and played the banner of the Qing monarch and the Gao clan.

Dali power is higher than the city of Long led the army to conquer, and the Shimen Fan Department in the Longshou Pass outside the battle, was the Shimen Fan ghost pawn a blow and defeated, tens of thousands of people or died or surrendered, the Longshou Pass changed hands overnight, the moat turned into a smooth road, Dali City was exposed to the Shimen Fan blade.

Gao Yuchenglong fled back to Dali City, was taken by the lord Duan Zhixiang, and died in the prison cell for unknown reasons.

A wave of unevenness rose again and again, the Duan clan who celebrated the crown had not been happy for two days, Duan Zhixiang and the crown prince Duan Xiangxing were assassinated by the remnants of the Gao clan on the imperial banquet, and the thirty-six barbarian troops gathered troops outside Dali City, with great intentions to make waves.

Shimen Fan Ghost King Changsun Hong Xingye waved his army into the city, elected Duan Zhilang of the Dali clan as the lord of the country, and the thirty-six barbarian tribes echoed one after another, and the soldiers besieged the city. The queen issued an edict on the same day that Duan Zhilang was the lord of Dali, Dong Ruotang, the head of the Dong family, the founding prime minister, was the prime minister, and Duan Wu, the general of Shimenfan, was the governor of Dali, and the powers were clarified. The prime minister is in charge, the general is in charge of the army, and the military and government are separated, each doing its own thing.

At the end of the edict, there is a small tail, which says that all decisions such as personnel appointments and dismissals, military deployments, and tax increases and decreases must be stamped with the seal of the king of Dali, otherwise they shall not be implemented.

Dali's one-word side by side king is the eldest grandson Hong.

This is the first prince given by Duan Zhilang after he ascended the throne.

During this period, several of Duan Zhixiang's sons, some of whom made waves in the town, raised an anti-flag base as the king, clamoring to avenge their father and brother. However, within a few days of the anti-flag being erected, it was pacified by the nearby barbarians, and the prince who raised the army died in the chaos.

Even the other princes who did not act rashly for a while were taken in Shimen Fan Shengwei also died strangely. There are many strange ways to die, some die of food poisoning, some die of a ferocious disease, and one person actually fell into a dung pit and drowned while going to the toilet, which is inexplicable.

These news reached the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the bigwigs in the court took a quick look at it, and then threw it aside, noncommittal. After all, compared with the wolf-like Mongols, the chaos in Dali is just a small matter.

No matter how chaotic Dali is, it will not be chaotic to the Great Song Dynasty, so those barbarians will fight to the death.

The life-and-death struggle in the mountains, it seems that only the people in it are concerned, the nearest envoy of the Song Dynasty Sichuan system, after sending someone over to shout twice, just like the adults in the Privy Council, no longer ask.

Chengdu City is lost, can you still take care of Dali?

However, there are still people who care.

Looking from Chengdu Mansion to the southwest, it is Zhuyi in western Sichuan. Here, the geography is not quite the same as that of northern Sichuan, although the mountains are also undulating, but the mountains are more steep and steeper, there is almost no flat land, and the official roads turn around in the valley, like twisted flowers. Between the mountains, the great rivers rush and gallop, roaring to the east, the water is turbulent and the reefs are dense, forming a beautiful and dangerous strange geographical environment.

To the south of Chengdu Prefecture, is Jiazhou, from Jiazhou to the west, that is, Yazhou and Lizhou, in the south of Lizhou, and the junction of the barbarian two forest departments, there is a very famous river in history------ Dadu River.

Dadu River is the largest tributary of the Min River, originating in Qinghai, flowing thousands of miles, the river section before the Xiaojin River is called the Zumu Foot River, the section of the river that flows through Sichuan after the Xiaojin River is called the Dadu River, and the Dadu River flows into the Min River in Jiazhou.

The Dadu River will cross two sections in the west of Sichuan, the cliffs on both sides of the river are high mountains, thousands of miles and thousands of feet, it can be called a natural danger, almost all of them are torrents and deep valleys along the river, if you want to cross the river, there are only a limited number of ferries with relatively gentle water flow, as for the bridge, in the Song Dynasty period, there is none.

In July of the fifth year of Jiaxi, the weather has begun to get hot, and both sides of the Yangtze River are exposed to the scorching sun, and people have changed into thin summer clothes. But in the deep mountains and old forests of Lizhou, western Sichuan, it still maintains a bit of coolness.

The mountain breeze blows through the valley, the cool is familiar, the green trees are all over the mountain, and the tall mountains are like giants, using their bodies to block the scorching sun behind them, and sprinkle a shade in the valley of the two mountains.

The city of camels is located in the shade of the mountain.

Mantuo City belongs to Lizhou, is the southern pass of Lizhou Prefecture to govern Hanyuan City, although it is in the Song Dynasty, it is the territory of Baimaqiang, the Song people and the Qiang people govern together, the Baimaqiang people, the Song people pay money, build this city together.

If you want to say why you will spend a lot of trouble building a city like a military fortress between the mountains and mountains, it is not that the Song Dynasty took pity on the poor people of the Qiang and built them a place to live with kindness, but for a ferry on the edge of the camel city.

The Fulin Ferry of the Dadu River is on the edge of the camel city.

In this era of transportation, to cross the river, in addition to the bridge, the only way to cross the river is to rely on the ferry.

With the bridge craftsmanship level of the Song people, if you want to build a bridge here, it is not impossible, but the cost of building a bridge is too great, the gains outweigh the losses, the people who live here are all Qiang people, and spend the silver of the Song Dynasty to build bridges for the Qiang people, are the bigwigs in the court stupid?

So the Fulin Ferry became the only option. The Dadu River is in the area of Fulin outside the city, the flow rate slows down, although the cliffs on both sides are still towering, but the river channel is obviously open, much wider, in the turbulent Dadu River, this is extremely rare.

Build a ferry, it is logical, the Song Dynasty sent a ferry here, built a stone wharf, set up a patrol inspection department and a tax department, a complete set of yamen team have, the camel city is equivalent to a military city, stationed in a battalion of soldiers, led by a commander.

The merchants of the whole western Sichuan trade, if they don't want to go over a few mountains and detour hundreds of miles from Chengdu Mansion, then the camel city is the only way, the caravan from the south to the north from the moment the sun rises to the end of the mountain, will not be interrupted, and the queue on the wharf waiting for the tax department to pass the customs and get on the ship can be lined up for two miles.

Where there are people, there is commerce, and where there are many people, there is more prosperity.

The houses made of wooden planks, strips and yellow mud are one after another, and under the tiles and above the eaves, there are all kinds of signboards. Inns, wine shops, teahouses, gambling houses, everything, but where a town should have, there are camel cities. In addition to the Qinglou that has not been opened because the Qiang people do not agree, you can buy drunk, you can eat, you can stay, once night falls, the quiet Dadu River on both sides, it is the most lively here.

The lights of the city are shining, like a bright pearl in the black sky, inlaid on the side of the galloping riverbank, and the merchants who travel far away speak different accents and make different temperaments, pushing cups and changing lamps on the rough wooden table, throwing heroism. Walking hard, don't indulge in booze like this, and the fatigue can't be removed.

A few people in cloth robes sat in a wine shop near the river, drinking, eating, and talking.

These people have different appearances.

A middle-aged man who is like a pedant, Wenwen is weak and weak, holding a small cup with chopsticks, and taking a reserved sip; Four or five big men with long or short beards, swords at their waists, felt hats on their heads, faces full of horizontal meat, wide foreheads and thin eyes, almost everyone wore earrings, tore mutton with their hands, drank wine in large gulps, and laughed loudly from time to time.

Among the crowd, a young man in his twenties is particularly eye-catching, he is sturdy, his gestures seem to contain the strength of a leopard, and a pair of slender eyes under the felt hat are like stars in the night sky, blazing, not as gentle as the pedant, not as rough as the big men, but there is a majesty between the eyebrows. He sat there motionless, surrounded by people who seemed to be the heads of the group.

This is a group of people from the north.

Knowledgeable drinkers know at a glance that only people in the northern desert will have this kind of appearance.

(End of chapter)