When Yang Ke took down the picture of returning to the boat from the wind and rain, he stared at the ten big characters on the wall that he left behind, "imperial examination, official governance, collection of feudal domains, peace and borders, and trade", Zhang Rui asked with a smile: "When you made this grand wish that year, did you ever think that the day of returning from the wind and rain would be even more distant?" ”

Yang Ke Weiran sighed: "Madame, you said back then, no matter how difficult it is, accompany me to retreat, even if you can't turn back, you won't change your original intention, do you remember?" ”

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Yang Ke nodded: "There are still two major things missing, that is, peace and trade." ”

Zhang Rui counted with his fingers: "The imperial examination, the rule of officials, and the cutting of feudal domains, these three things have made a good start, but in my opinion, it is only the first step." ”

"You're right, I'm just getting started, putting up the shelves, and putting the talent in place. But this is actually what I should do, to really do these things well, to do them, to do them all the time, to persist in doing them, in fact, it depends on the collective wisdom and efforts of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military. ”

Zhang Rui tilted his head and looked at Yang Ke for a long time and said, "What you said sounds a little reasonable." ”

"Of course it makes sense, the ancient kings were always regarded as the Son of Heaven, on behalf of the herdsmen of the sky, in fact, there is no Son of Heaven, the people are the foundation of the country, the sky is the sky, the one who obeys the sky is prosperous, and the one who goes against the sky dies, only by letting the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty move, respond to the people in accordance with the sky, and do a good job, the court can sit firmly in this country." Yang Ke talked eloquently.

His words are normal for future generations, but at that time, it can be said that it was shocking and earth-shattering, Zhang Rui's previous cognitive system was obviously inconsistent with this theory, but she felt that Yang Ke's words had her own inexplicable and unclear truth.

"Father-in-law is in charge of salt affairs and degree branches, Zhou is in charge of the officials' department, Wen Hou and Ma Long, Tang Bin, and Pei Zan are in charge of military affairs, Liu Ling is in charge of Guozijian, that Hu He will go to take charge of the Yushitai after completing the errand of population inventory, plus Master Tang is in charge of the center, my core team is now completely set up, you can help me clean up in the past two days, just bring some clothes with you, everything is simple, I want to go out of Beijing, the long is half a year, the short is a few months, I will come back." Yang Ke said as he unfolded a map and looked at it carefully.

Zhang Rui saw that Yang Ke had drawn a zigzag road map with charcoal on the map, starting from Luoyang, Kyoto, and extending to the southwest.

"Are you going to do the other two things?" Zhang Rui asked.

Yang Ke nodded: "If you are lucky, after ten years of exhaustion, these five major events can be a small success, I really hope that God will help me get what I want." ”

"You have been traveling all the way, you must pay attention to your body, or you will take the strings with you, and someone will take care of you in your daily life and diet?"

Yang Ke shook his head: "This journey is all about eating and sleeping in the open, besides, there are also pro-army escorts, not so delicate, you can rest assured, I will take care of myself." ”

Zhang Rui sighed, wanting to say something, but she retracted her words again and again, and just sighed and said, "Has the day of departure been set?" ”

Yang Ke thought for a while and said: "Let's set off the day after tomorrow, Zhang Chang said that it was an auspicious day, and it was beneficial to travel far away." ”

When various changes were in full swing in Luoyang, Kyoto, Yang Ke led Zhang Chang, Heiqi, Stuffy Gourd, and hundreds of his own personal pro-army to quietly go out of Luoyang City, neither alarming the officials nor the people, and even many people thought that King Yu just went out of the city to hunt. It's just that in the accompanying team, there are also Honggu and some of her own stewards.

Hei Qi is an old man, and he has followed Yang Ke many times, and he knows his preferences and personality very well, and he did not arrange it according to the way of marching in the army formation on this trip, but divided the whole team into three parts. In front of the head is to send four to five scouts in civilian clothes light cavalry to be responsible for exploring the road and sharpening, in the middle are Yang Ke, Zhang Chang, stuffy gourd and himself, as well as Honggu and others, all of whom are also in civilian clothes, and the pro-army and logistics convoy of the brigade are behind, but the distance between them is no more than 20 miles, such an arrangement can not only ensure Yang Ke's safety, but also not alarm the people and the government. What's more, this time Yang Ke went on patrol, there was no text along the way, and there was no intention to alarm the government. Therefore, Yang Ke was obviously very satisfied with Heiqi's thoughtful consideration and arrangement.

A group of people stayed overnight, unconsciously arrived at the hinterland of Guanzhong, taking advantage of the sunset in the west, saw a male city lying between the mountains in the distance, Yang Ke said to Zhang Chang: "But to Tongguan? ”

Zhang Chang nodded: "It's Tongguan." ”

Yang Ke couldn't help but be interested, and pointed to Tongguan City and said: "Let's speed up our foot strength, enter Tongguan before the retreat, and early tomorrow morning, let's take a good look at the place where Cao Mengde defeated Ma Chao back then." ”

In Yang Ke's memory, in 758 AD, in 758 AD, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and other nine jiedu envoys led 200,000 troops to besiege Ye County (now Anyang, Henan) occupied by An Qingxu (An Lushan's son), but finally suffered a miserable defeat. The defeat of Yecheng made the Tang Dynasty panic: send the old man and child to the battlefield, grovel and beg to return to the army to quell the rebellion. At this time, the Tang Dynasty could no longer regain its former strength; The secession of the feudal towns has been established, and the central government has not only lost face and prestige to intimidate the Quartet, but also lost its vital military and economic strength. And it all started with the loss of Tongguan.

It can be said that the fall of Tongguan made the prosperous era that several generations of emperors of the Tang Empire had worked hard to protect for hundreds of years disappear, and also made Chang'an, the greatest city of that era, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, be ravaged by war for the first time. The fall of Tongguan may also be doomed to the fate of Chang'an being breached several times.

Tongguan, the ancient peach forest stopper, according to legend, when the father chased the sun, abandoned the cane in this place and became a hundred miles of peach forest highland. During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, in order to control Guanzhong in the west and resist Ma Chao from Liangzhou, Cao Cao built Guancheng at the east entrance of the Guanzhong Plain.

Prior to this, the Qin and Han dynasties could only communicate with Guanzhong and the Central Plains by sending letters to Guguan in the east. However, at the end of the Han Dynasty, Ma Chao raised troops to attack the pass occupied by Cao Cao's forces, Cao Cao suspected that the old road of Hangu was narrow, and in order to meet the increasing military needs, he mobilized personnel to dig mountains and open roads on the side of Qinhangu Pass, causing Qinhan Valley Pass to lose its basic function of controlling the road; Coupled with the erosion of the riverbank by the Yellow River for thousands of years, the riverbank landslide formed a new channel, and the Qinhan Valley Pass was gradually abandoned. In this context, in order to control the Kunshan Road and clamp down on Ma Chao (to control the westernmost exit of the Kunshan Road), Cao Cao built the Tongguan Pass, which served as the gate to the eastern part of the Guandong for the next 2,000 years.