Volume 1 The Quiet River Zheng Shu (1)

Thousands of years later, in a history department at a well-known university, an elderly professor walked into the podium of a lecture hall with a book in his hand. Facing the dozens of students working in the lecture hall, the old professor stroked his reading glasses of several hundred degrees, cleared his throat again, and planned to start lecturing.

As soon as the old professor lowered his head and opened the lecture notes, suddenly the lenses of his reading glasses fell out of the frames, and the transparent eyes were like a crystal, shattering on the hard ground. The old professor, who had only one lens left, looked up at the crowd of college students like a one-eyed pirate ship captain.

"Haha," the students below burst into laughter. Hearing this laughter, the silver-haired old professor suddenly became as powerful as a young man in his twenties, and the old professor, who was already in his sixties, turned around, picked up the blackboard from under the blackboard and threw it at the student who laughed the loudest. The blackboard eraser flew away at lightning speed, and the astute college student flew over his scalp with a spinning blackboard eraser, hitting a female classmate with nearsighted glasses in the back. Before the female classmate could react, the "poof" blackboard eraser had already fallen to the ground, accompanied by overwhelming chalk dust. When the dust settled, the white-faced schoolgirl looked blankly to the left and right. "Haha" The student laughed louder.

The old professor, who felt bored, waited until the laughter gradually died down before continuing to lecture.

"Students, today we are talking about "Vernacular Zheng Shu". Please turn to page 5. But with the rustling of books below, the old professor went on to speak.

"The Book of Zheng" is the cultural heritage of Zhao Hong in our country, and the "Historical Records", "Book of Han", "Book of the Later Han" and become the first four histories of our country, and the author of "Book of Zheng" Chen Shou has also left a name in history. Today we study the Book of Zheng, the first of Emperor Wu.

Emperor Taizu Wu, Si Li Xingyang is also a native of Xingyang. The surname is Zhao Minghong, and the word Pengfei. During the Warring States Period, Zhao Guoma served Jun Zhao Hao.

Taizu's family is a well-known local family. Before Taizu was born, a comet brighter than the moon slipped through the sky and crashed on the outskirts of Xingyang, and then Taizu was born. Locals privately say that this is a sign of the re-arrival of the true dragon emperor.

When he was a child, Taejo used to play games with the children around him. In these children's games, Taizu always played the role of the emperor, while some of the other children played the role of samurai to protect Taizu, and some played the role of Wenchen to give advice to Taizu. Taizu cut the leaves of the paulownia tree into the shape of a paulownia tree and gave it to these children, who held the leaves of the paulownia tree in their hands and knelt on the ground to bow three times and bow nine times to Taizu. There was an old man riding a crane and holding a dusty crane with a childish face passing by, and he was greatly surprised, and said, "This son will have the world!" With that, the old man with the crane hair and a childish face disappeared on the crane, and no one saw him again.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion led to chaos in the world, and at this time, Xingyang, where Taizu's hometown was located, was also affected by the thieves who took advantage of the chaos. In the process of fleeing, Taizu was unfortunately separated from his family. Taizu followed the fleeing crowd to a village in Shiyi, Changshan County, which was called Baoji Village.

The pavilion chief of Baoji Village was very surprised to see Taizu's extremely strange appearance. The chief of the Baoji Village Pavilion therefore valued Taizu very much, and wanted to marry his daughter to Taizu as his wife, Taizu said: "I am just a homeless person who has been displaced here, and I have already received your kindness when I first came here, and then accept your daughter, which is not in line with the etiquette system." "Stubborn.

A few months later, the Xianbei invaded Youzhou and northern Jizhou. Shiyi was also attacked by the Xianbei people in this invasion, and Baoji Village was also slaughtered by the Xianbei people. It happened that Taizu transported grain to Shiyi, so he was lucky to escape. When Taizu returned from Shiyi City, he was overwhelmed with grief when he saw the scene of corpses strewn across the Baoji Village. Taejo cut off his long hair and became short like a monk. Taizu, who broke off his will, vowed to take revenge.

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In the autumn of the eighteenth year of Jian'an, Taizu sent troops to attack Xianbei under the edict of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Taizu personally led 100,000 infantry, 50,000 cavalry, and 500 chariots from Baideng City as the left army to attack Xianbei, while Cao Peng, the general of the chariot and cavalry, led 60,000 infantry, and 20,000 cavalry as the right army from Jixian. The Han army sent troops on the left and right at the same time.

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The minister of Taizu drove straight into Mobei for more than 2,000 miles, and met Kebineng, the leader of Xianbei at the foot of Wolf Juxu Mountain. The two armies lined up to engage in battle, and Kebi was able to use cavalry to surprise the troops on both flanks of Taizu. The advance of the Han army was frustrated, and some Xianbei rangers reached a few hundred meters away from Taizu's car, and the generals saw that it was unfavorable to the Han army in wartime, and asked Taizu's car to retreat a little.

Taizu said: "If there is anyone who says to retreat, cut it.!" "The hearts of the generals are not at peace.

Taizu sent three hundred chariots full of soldiers to approach the Xianbei assault cavalry. After arriving at the predetermined position, the Han soldiers armed with swords jumped off the chariots one after another and formed a horizontal formation. Xianbei bullied and bullied the Han army with few soldiers, so he indulged the cavalry to charge the Han soldiers who were armed with swords. When the Xianbei cavalry reached within five paces, the Han army neatly waved the sword of the horse and advanced like a wall, and the Xianbei people and war horses in front of the Han army did not turn into pieces.

Taizu also ordered the Chinese artillery to fire sideways at the Xianbei cavalry column, and finally defeated the Xianbei cavalry on both flanks. In the afternoon of the same day, the Thunderbolt artillery advanced to the front of the battle line and began to bombard the Xianbei Chinese army, which was eroded for dozens of miles with one shot. The revitalization of the Xianbei Chinese army, which was densely formed, was suddenly in chaos. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Taizu sent the tiger Ben Zhonglang general Wang Ming to lead the heavy cavalry to assault the Xianbei people's Chinese army from the center, Wang Ming captured the banner of the Chinese army of Kebineng, Kebineng abandoned the army and fled, so Taizu defeated the Xianbei people. In this battle, more than 50,000 heads were beheaded, more than 200,000 Xianbei people were captured, and cattle, sheep and other burdens were countless.

Kebineng fled to the North Sea, and Taizu left his infantry and baggage, and personally led the elite cavalry and chariots in pursuit. It coincided with the heavy snowfall, and the Han soldiers chewed the white snow, and the war horses marched through the hay under the snow. The ears and fingers of the Han soldiers were frozen by the severe cold, and the corpses of the people and horses frozen to death on the side of the road could be seen everywhere, but Taizu's determination was unwavering.

After twenty days of marching, he finally caught up with Kebineng by the North Sea, cut off his head and returned.

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Taizu ordered that all Xianbei men who exceeded the height of the wheels should be executed, the boys were castrated as eunuchs, and the women were given meritorious soldiers as slaves. So the Han army built more than 200 Jingguan on the grassland with the heads of the Xianbei people.

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I Chen Shou commented that not accepting the pavilion chief's daughter for no reason is a sign of etiquette; Burying the chief and his daughter with the courtesy of his wife and father-in-law is an expression of righteousness; The vows taken must be fulfilled and are the expression of faith. The ancients still had a knot of grass rings, not to mention the true dragon emperor? (End of volume)