In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, An Lushan captured Chang'an in the following year, the Son of Heaven Li Longji fled westward in a hurry, the situation in the Tang Dynasty was precarious, and then the Ma Weipo Incident occurred, the prince Li Heng ascended the throne in Lingwu, reused Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi, but suffered from weak troops, so he asked for help from Hui Su, after seven years of hard fighting, the Anshi Rebellion finally subsided, at this time, Li Heng died of illness, a palace coup occurred within the Tang Dynasty, and the Yue King Li Department killed the prince Li Yu with the support of Empress Zhang, forcibly ascended the throne Dabao, and changed the year name to Qingzhi.

Hui Dengli Khan peeped into the Tang Dynasty's internal strife and external emptiness, colluded with the Tang general Gu Huai'en, sent 100,000 iron cavalry from Hebei to attack the Central Plains, and broke Tian Chenghei, Li Huaixian, Li Baochen Hebei Three Towns Alliance, and then went to Hedong to capture Taiyuan, defeated the 200,000 Tang army led by Yu Chaoen in Shaanxi County, and attacked Guanzhong again, the new emperor Li fled into Hanzhong in a hurry, the Central Plains shook, when the Tang Dynasty was about to fall, the great families around the country recruited righteous troops into the king of Beijing Qin, and the responders amounted to millions of people, at this time there was internal strife within the Hui Dynasty, Seeing that the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty were gradually solidified, Dengli Khan ordered the sacking of Chang'an and then retreated from Shuofang to Mobei, and the crisis in the Tang Dynasty finally subsided, but the seven great families supported their own troops and controlled the government.

In the following ten years, the Hui people always looked at Mobei and delayed it, plundering the people from time to time, waiting for the opportunity to invade the Central Plains for the second time.

The winter of the fifteenth year of Qingzhi is extraordinarily warm, the big river is not frozen, the snow does not fall, the climate is very abnormal, it is also from the summer of this year, the rain does not fall in Mobei, many rivers dry up, the pasture withers, the cattle and sheep die in large numbers, in October, the locust plague broke out near the ear of the capital city, the locusts that overwhelm the earth devoured everything, the insects and droughts increased, and the Huifu snow was worse.

At the end of November, the Hui Dengli Khan decided to eat in the Tang Dynasty, and ordered the seven tribes of Fugu, Hun, Batuogu, Tongluo, Sijie, Qibi, and Absi to send 10,000 troops each, and 30,000 troops to the Hui Ministry, a total of 100,000 iron horsemen crossed the Yin Mountain, went south along the Henan Mountain, and assembled near Lingwu County, in an attempt to cross the river from here to open up a passage into the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty.

Lingwu County was in an emergency, Shuo Fang and Longyou Jiedu made Wei Ge urgently transfer 60,000 troops from Longyou to the north to reinforce Shuofang's army, and ordered Hexi Jiedu to make Xin Yunjing lead the army to help.

Wei Ge personally went to Lingwu County to command the battle, 150,000 against 100,000, the Tang army and the Hui army formed a confrontation on both sides of the Yellow River, because the Yellow River was not frozen, the Hui army could not cross the river in a big way, the imperial court gradually returned to calm, and announced that the imperial examination in January of the 16th year of Qingzhi was held as usual, the news came out, and scholars from all over the country rushed to Chang'an.

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On this day, there are several horses on the official road south of Jincheng County (today's Lanzhou) and slowly come back and forth, followed by a carriage, the people on the horse are all dressed in scholar's robes, and carry swords at their waists, it is Zhang Huan and his party who entered Beijing to catch the exam, Zhang Huan, Zheng Qingming, Song Lianyu, Lin Zhiyu, Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan's wife Lin Qiaoqiao and his party of six people set off from Taiyuan in early December, Zhang Huan was unwilling to go with Zhang Xuan and others, everyone unanimously decided to go around Longyou from the west road to Fengxiang into Beijing, by the way to visit the scenery of Longyou, after visiting Jincheng County, The group marched in the direction of Kaiyang County.

Kaiyang County is also the location of Guan Long Wei's main sect, the head of the family Wei Ge is the son of the former Xiangguo Wei Jiansu, in addition to serving as Shuo Fang, Longyou Jiedu envoy, he also serves as the military department of Shangshu, with the book of the door under the Ping Zhang, Wei family in fifteen years ago in the Hui Hui rebellion in China recruited 60,000 Longyou army, Hui Hui retired after the Wei family ranked among the seven families of the fourth, but ten years ago after the split of the Zhang family in Hedong, Guan Long Wei jumped to the third, the main forces are distributed in the Longyou, Shuofang area, now the town guards Shuofang, Longyou Jiedu envoy of the 120,000 army, Most of them were recruited by the Wei family themselves.

There are quite a lot of pedestrians on the official road, in addition to the businessmen who come and go, there are also many Longyou scholars who enter Beijing to catch the examination, from time to time there are groups of people on horseback who gallop past Zhang Huan and them, stirring up the rolling yellow dust, the dust is very dazzling in the air, and the heads and bodies of the people are dyed yellow.

Zheng Qingming was choked by the dust and coughed loudly, he patted the dust off his body vigorously, urged the horse to Zhang Huan's side and complained: "Lao Zhang, can we go another way, there are still more than 400 miles from here to Fengxiang, even if we enter Guanzhong, we have to walk for a few more days, I am afraid that when we get to Chang'an, we will all choke on the sick." ”

At this time, Zhao Yan also urged him to step forward, he looked at the carriage worriedly, and said implicitly: "Go sick, I think it's better to be cold in winter, more rain and snow, less yellow dust, and Qiaoqiao won't be so uncomfortable!" ”

Zhang Huan understood what he meant, so he stopped the horse and looked around, here is a mountain col, on both sides are gentle hills, the hills are bare, bare large loess, stretching into the distance, at this time, the coachman next to him smiled: "Zhang Gongzi, from here to the south twenty miles is the Wei River, this year's weather is abnormal, many big rivers are not frozen, it is estimated that there are passenger boats on the Wei River, I see that you are also tired, it is better to go to the Wei River to take a boat into Beijing." ”

"It's good! The water surface is clean and just free of dust. ”

Zhang Huan immediately decided, he turned around and shouted to everyone: "Everyone speed up, out of this mountain pass, let's go to the Weihe River to take the waterway." ”

Hearing that they were going to take a boat instead, everyone was in high spirits, and they marched all the way to the north bank of the Wei River after an hour.

This is the upper reaches of the Wei River, the water flow is turbulent, the forests on both sides are dense, showing a golden color, the Wei River is not frozen, the river flow is turbulent, the boats come and go, it seems very busy.

Zhang Huan and his entourage walked three miles along the river, and did not see a wharf, Song Lianyu urged a small dirt slope, set up a curtain to visit both sides of the river, suddenly, he pointed to the front and shouted: "Go to the sick, it seems to be a wharf in front, there are many boats there!" ”

Everyone was overjoyed, Zheng Qingming and Zhao Yan were even more impatient, the two of them grabbed the horse, and rushed over, Zhang Huan and they rushed to the front, and sure enough, there were several large passenger ships moored, all of which could accommodate two or three hundred people, the merchants and pedestrians on the wharf were crowded, and the flatbed trucks were full of goods, and they were laboriously carrying to the ship, and the wharf was full of mules and horses and their dung, and the smell was stinking.

"Go sick! Let's go get on that one! ”

Zhao Yan greeted him, and shouted on a boat on the far side of his finger, Zhang Huanshun looked at his finger, there was no cargo there, and there were no pedestrians and merchants on both sides of the ship, it was very quiet, and he saw the boatman giving a lecture to a group of scholars before boarding the ship.

From afar, I heard the boatman say very seriously: "You will let you get on the boat because of your fame, but you can only use two cabins, and you must keep quiet after you get on the boat, especially not to pee on the river, otherwise I will drive you off the boat, do you understand?" ”

Zhao Yan whispered in Zhang Huan's ear: "I just heard that this ship is going to pick up a young lady from a big family in the capital, and the boat family wants to bring some private guests to let these scholars get on the ship, I think this ship is very clean, why don't we take it too." ”

Zhang Huan nodded, "I also have this intention, let me try." ”

He turned over and dismounted, slowly stepped forward and bowed to the boatman, pointed to his companion in the distance, and said, "The boatman, we also want to take a boat with a tailwind, can it be convenient." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the taxi who was carrying the luggage next to him suddenly shouted, "There are only two cabins in total, and we have all booked them, and there is no extra space." ”

Without waiting for Zhang Huan to come forward to discuss, a tall purple-faced scholar among them stood up and shouted to everyone: "When you go out, who doesn't have a problem, people are also scholars, you are not afraid of others laughing at you?" ”

Everyone was obviously very afraid of him, and when he drank it, they were all silent and didn't dare to speak, so he immediately smiled at Zhang Huan and arched his hand and said: "Everyone is a person who entered Beijing to take the exam, and meeting is fate, so there is no need to say kind words." ”

Zhang Huan returned a salute to him and smiled: "Then thank you!" ”

Everyone settled the money for the carriage and horses, unloaded the luggage, carried the large bags and small bags on the ship, and the horses were led by the crew to the cabin for fostering, everyone got on the boat, and immediately encountered an unexpected trouble, they only had one cabin, so what should Lin Qiaoqiao do? You can't huddle with them!

Zhang Huan thought about it, and went to the ship's house to discuss, he was willing to rent another cabin at double the price, but the boatman refused, the other cabins have been chartered, only these two cabins, either pull a curtain, or please get on another boat, there is nothing to negotiate, Zhang Huan has no choice but to find the purple-faced gentleman again.

"This brother, we have a young lady here, it is inconvenient to share a room, I wonder if you can accommodate a few more people there?"

The purple-faced scholar didn't speak, and after a while, he suddenly asked, "Listening to Brother Tai's accent, it seems that you are from Taiyuan, could it be that you are students from Jinyang Academy?" ”

Zhang Huan nodded, "Exactly!" May I ask your surname? When have you been to Taiyuan? ”

The scholar smiled slightly and said: "In Xinlang, Lower Jincheng County, I lived in Taiyuan with my father before I was ten years old. ”

Zhang Huan was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked him deeply: "Zhang is sick in Xiataiyuan, and it is indeed a fate to be able to meet Brother Xin today." ”

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