Chapter 9: The Sound of the Drums Fills China (4)

[Make up the next chapter before 1 o'clock at noon.] 】

Guwanzhai is not far from Yongzhou, along the left river up fifty or sixty miles, is Guwanzhai.

This village is the southern gateway of Yongzhou, and a little south of Yongping Village, Taiping Village, together form the southern Xinjiang defense line against Jiaozhi.

At the same time, Guwanzhai is located on the main traffic road, and business travel is frequent, and it has always been a place of wealth. Since the defeat of Nong Zhigao, after more than 20 years of development, in addition to the military village, a wealthy town has been formed. Yongzhou here has always had the idea of upgrading Guwanzhai to a county government, but after the looting of barbarian thieves, nearly 1,000 houses outside the village were burned down, and the people were devastated.

Su Mian stood on the wall of Guwan Village, looking at the town outside the village, his eyes were full of gray-black traces after the fire. The walls collapsed and the houses collapsed, and the beams and pillars burned into black charcoal, and the lonely ones were supported on the ashes. The corpses were placed in the open space, all of which were burned beyond recognition, making it difficult to identify.

When the barbarians attacked, most of the townspeople fled into the stockade, but some did not leave in time. The barbarians slaughtered and plundered outside the wall, but the defenders in the wall did not dare to step out of the wall. By the time Su Mu sent troops to help, the thieves were already scattered in the mountains and wilderness, and it was difficult to chase them.

The survivors of the catastrophe searched the rubble for the remains of their loved ones and the remnants of their belongings, while the children who were left aside sat on the side of the road and cried. Su Mian's heart was like a knife, and he whispered vigorously, "This is my fault, this is my fault!" ”

"Imperial City, this is not the time to blame yourself!" A thin man came over and said sharply, he was Su Mian's staff, and his time in the curtain was not short, "Quailtail, located in Jingzhou." These two roads in Guangnan are also the land of Jingchu. The comet is a military disaster, and the omen has been revealed! ”

In the past two days, the comet clearly hanging on the zenith has been seen here in Guangxi. When I appeared in the Nakshaku the day before yesterday, I only darkened a few stars. But only two days later, the broom-like tail grew halfway, not only covering the Changsha star in the center of the chariot, but also the left star of the chariot, and the light of the four stars of the chariot was all suppressed by the comet.

It is a car, and it has the meaning of sorrow, so it is more ferocious, and the comet is needless to say, this is more than a murderer. The more Su Mu looked at it, the more frightened he became, according to the division of heaven and earth, Yongzhou was located, but he was in the area of the control.

This staff member stood on the wall with Su Mian, worried: "Xinde spy report, Jiaozhi and Guangyuan Prefecture have been gathering township soldiers recently, and they are about to invade the north in the near future. And the barbarian rebellion two days ago, they should have gotten the news first. Imperial City, if you want to play it immediately, please smell it! ”

Su Mian let out a long sigh helplessly, and his increasingly old complexion had a painstaking heartache that he couldn't recognize: "How can it be useful." are all talking about the suspicion of the lord and the country, and the woman is in power. The princes of the two mansions, how many times have you seen the south? ”

"Kill the Queen Mother, take care of your life, and now the Queen Mother Yilan, who is in the country of Jiaozhi and listens to the government, is not an idle role, how can she be regarded as an ordinary woman." The staff gritted their teeth fiercely, "If the major affairs of Southern Xinjiang are bad, the court will bear the first responsibility!" ”

Su Yan's dry hands pressed the pheasant on the wall tightly, the green tendons on the back of his hands were protruding, and his arms trembled slightly, showing that his mood was difficult to suppress.

In the fifth year of Xining, Li Qiande ascended the throne, and his father Li Rizun was falsely called the Holy Sect. Li Rizun's edict was to order the queen Yang to listen to the government for the queen mother, and the prince Li Daocheng was outside to assist. But a year later, the newly enthroned Li Qiande was accused of the Empress Dowager Yang's obstruction of her biological mother, Concubine Yilan, and imprisoned her in Shangyang Palace together with 76 palace people, and then ordered a group of people to be martyred in front of Li Rizun's tomb, and at the same time made the auxiliary minister Li Daocheng known to the outside. In the blink of an eye, the person in control of the government became Li Qiande's biological mother, Concubine Yilan.

Of course, this thunderous method is not something that a seven-year-old child can have, but the credit of the Empress Dowager Yilan. However, if there was no pseudo-Holy Sect Dynasty, Li Changjie, who commanded the army of Jiaozhi and was named the Taifu of the Auxiliary State and the righteous disciple of the Son of Heaven, would not have been able to do it. And in the legend, the Empress Dowager Yilan has some unclear relationship with this meritorious general.

The Empress Dowager Yilan came from a humble background, and when Li Rizun went out on patrol, she happened to see her picking mulberry and returning, leaning on the orchid grass, and pleasing her color and putting it into the harem, so she had the name of Yilan. But now she is sitting behind the curtain in the Zichen Palace, and she can know that her mental skills are comparable to those of the Empress Dowager Zhuang Xian of the Great Song Dynasty; And there are capable ministers 'assisting' inside and outside, and people have to think of the Khitan Chengtian Empress Dowager Xiao who once led the army into China in the north.

Women control the government, and their ambitions will be even stronger than men's, and there are many clear records in the history books, so there is no need for more examples. If you think that the master of Jiaozhi is suspicious and does not dare to fight, then it is a big mistake.

Just to suppress the dissent in the country, Yilan and Li Changjie must win a big victory. In addition, after Liu Yi knew Guizhou and took charge of the soldiers and horses in Guangxi, he forbade the exchange with Jiaozhi City, and the tribes in Jiaozhi were already unstable. As long as you don't want this fire to burn yourself, the Empress Dowager Jiaozhi and the righteous brother of the Son of Heaven must also take the Great Song Dynasty to open the knife.

Although it is a small country, its ambitions have never been small.

Su Mian looked back at the mountains on both sides of the Zuojiang River, and he also had a lot of hatred in his heart, and stomped his feet hard: "How can you not be prepared!" ”

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Tianzhao reminds the people in the capital every night, and the disaster is just around the corner. In the court, there was a debate about which side of the comet was.

The comet's blow to the New Party was as powerful as last year's drought, and Wang Anshi only felt that his luck was really bad, because the drought lasted for several years, and the north was dry, and the south was dry again.

Because of a sudden uninvited guest in the sky, the Son of Heaven has avoided the damage to the temple according to the rules, and issued a pardon edict to ask for advice, which is another blow to Wang Anshi.

"Over the years, disasters have been uncommon, landslides and earthquakes, and droughts have continued. Now it has come out of the East, and it has become especially big. Only shallow, dare not be afraid? ”

Just looking at these sentences in the edict, Wang Anshi knew that the Son of Heaven was shaking again, and the old ministers outside were about to jump up and down again.

He also explained to the Son of Heaven: "Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty was five years old, and he was released from the throne for ten years, and he reigned for twenty-eight years, which is inconsistent with what is said in "Yi Si Zhan". Heaven is far away, and personnel should be repaired. "But it also needs the Son of Heaven to believe.

When Wang Yi came back from her mother's house, her heart was also heavy. Unlike his father and brother, who have no scruples about the changes in the sky, Wu and Wang Yi are both worried about the calamity in the sky.

When I returned home and walked to the inner courtyard, I saw that the light was on in the study of the West Wing, and through the window paper, I could see Han Gang sitting at the table.

Wang Yi walked into the study, but it was a mess inside, with a book spread out on the shelves and on the ground, littered everywhere. Yan Suxin led a little maid to squat on the ground and put away the books one by one, and when she saw Wang Yi, she immediately got up and saluted.

Han Gang didn't care, he put the medicinal soup drink in his hand steaming, it should have been just served, but he didn't move, he frowned at the page on the table.

"Official, what's wrong?" After Wang Yi came in, his eyes widened in surprise when he saw the study that seemed to be the aftermath of the disaster. I forgot all the things I was going to say to my husband.

"Coming back?" Han Gang raised his head and smiled, picked up the paper on the table casually and handed it to Wang Yi.

Wang Yi took it over suspiciously, the thin page was still fresh, obviously it had just been written, and the words were also her husband's words, not the letterhead she thought. From right to left, one column after another is neatly arranged, and the entries are distinct.

The first one is, 'The seventh year of the first emperor, Xin You. The comet came out of the east first, and now the north; May, now the West, 16th'. This sentence is followed by a 'one' in small print.

Next, 'In the second year of the Han Dynasty, Ji Mao. In the first month of the first month, the sky is set in the southwest'. This sentence is followed by a 'seventy-eight'.

Wang Yi also knew the Tao in the past two days, and there are many other names for comets, such as Tianqi, Tianquan, Tiangun, Xingxing, Pengxing, all of which refer to comets. She asked Han Gang inexplicably: "Official, what is this?" ”

Han Gang smiled a little tiredly, today he took a lot of effort to go to the history books of the past dynasties to find the information he wanted, "Keep looking down and you will know the way." ”

Wang Yi lowered his head and continued to look at it. Yan Suxin, who cleaned up the study, brought the medicinal soup for daily health preservation to Han Gang.

The third is the first year of the Han Zhao Dynasty, 'Liang Chenghui, the eunuch of the Han Dynasty, and Wu Moru, the candidate of the Yan King, saw Pengxing go out of the east gate of the western Tianshi Wall, crossed the river drum, and entered the barracks. ’

The fourth article is the first year of Emperor Yuanyan of the Han Dynasty, 'Xinwei in July of the first year of Yuanyan, there are stars in Dongjing. ’

The records about comets continue according to the chronology, the Han, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties, until the second year of Taizong Duangong and the third year of Yingzong's reign, a total of 18. Each one is marked with the year number, the stem branch, and at the end there is a number written on it, and the last one at the end of the number is 1307.

Wang Yi's beautiful eyebrows furrowed, and he looked at it again from the beginning, but he still didn't see any doorway in it. "Official?" She asked, her eyes wide open, puzzled.

Han Gang sipped the medicinal soup and pointed to the paper, "You can calculate, how many years have passed between each record?" ”

Calculate the interval according to the year number, unless it is a thorough understanding of historical materials, it will never be possible. It can be calculated by dry branches, which may be a headache for future generations, but for people who are accustomed to this chronology, it does not take much effort. Wang Yimo did some calculations, and found that the intervals between the two adjacent ones were the same as the results of subtracting the numbers written by Han Gang at the back of each record, and they were always around seventy-six.

"What is this?" Wang Yi was even more puzzled, whether this was a coincidence or some other reason. Tilting his head sideways, he looked at Han Gang, waiting for her husband's explanation.