Chapter 8 The Thorns of the Ridge Road

Tracing the river upstream, into the Pengli Lake in the north of Jingbei, but along the Yushui, Zhangshui and other water systems can also enter the hinterland of Jingjun.

The Jiangning water battalion assembled in Wuzhou, and the warships stopped on the river like clouds, and the sails were covered.

To the west of Jiangning, the low hills are intermittent, passing through Liyang, in the east of Pengze Mansion, the terrain is steep and steep, Jing Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, pulls up thousands of miles from the end of the river, goes south, extends to the hinterland of Linchuan Mansion, and the remaining potential of the mountain range is directly connected with the Qitian Ridge that lies in the north of Nanning. In the east of Linchuan Mansion in Jingnan, there is the majestic Huaiyu Mountain between it and the Qingjiang River.

Wuling Mountain, Huaiyu Mountain, Yucheng Ridge, Qitian Ridge four huge mountain systems from the southeast, northwest and four directions meet in Dayu. Although Dayu is the meeting of the four mountains, but the landform does not belong to a mountain, so that the mountains and tombs are stacked on top of each other, the ravines are connected, the surface is fragmented, for tens of millions of years, the wind and rain erode it, so that the tomb collapses and the valley is filled, although countless strange peaks stand up, but between the mountains and the mountains, there are mostly the dams that are filled with long and narrow stones and soils, and there are also the big lakes surrounded by the mountains and the mountains where the flowing water of the four mountains converges.

Several miles, more than ten miles of flat dams are connected, in the place where the four mountains meet, in the territory of Dayu to form hundreds of miles of twists and turns of Gengcheng Ridge Road.

Yuchengling Road is connected with Qingjiang River and Yushui in the north, and Qinshui in Nanning in the south, which is the most important land passage connecting Nanning and Jingyue.

The mountains in Linchuan Prefecture are congested, the forests are dense and deep, and there is no flat land.

The surplus water source flows out of the mountains in the north of Dayu, flows through the mountain stream valley at the west foot of Huaiyu Mountain, passes through the deep gorge in the middle of Jingshan Mountain, zigzags to the north, and merges into Pengli Lake.

The Qingjiang River is connected with Jingnan Linchuan Mansion through the hole between Huaiyu Mountain.

For more than 200 years, the Sanmiao people have gradually controlled the steep mountains that are thousands of miles wide, including Mengzhu Ridge, Qitian Ridge and Yucheng Ridge. In order to resist the persecution from the Zhongzhou family, Sanmiao blocked the roads connecting Qitianling, Mengzhuling, Yuchengling and Jingjun, including the most important Yuchengling Road.

For more than 200 years, the world has almost forgotten this important land passage that once connected commercial ports and shops, and traveled and traveled endlessly.

Emperor Zhaowu conquered Nanning, and built a spiritual canal in Shi'anyi, the same source of Lixiang and Xiang, so that Lishui and Xiangshui were connected, so that Nanning and Nanping were connected; He also recruited 100,000 Yi people in Dayu to open up the Yucheng Ridge Road.

Emperor Zhaowu's troops went out in two ways, advanced into the hinterland of Nanning, attacked Le'an, destroyed the Great Yue Kingdom, and established Nanning County.

In order to strengthen the control of Nanning, the old dynasty successively opened several ridge roads in the Qitian Ridge, but the important surnames were not as good as the Lingqu and Yucheng Ridge Road.

Cao San parted the knee-deep weeds and stared down, only the ruins of the ancient road that carried hundreds of years of heavy years were left, and occasionally a long piece of granite could be seen, the granite was dark brown, and it seemed that there were still traces of blood from hundreds of years ago.

Yi Guanyuan, Yue Shiheng, and Di Fu raised their eyes to look at the beautiful peaks in the distance, and hundreds of thousands of Sanmiao people were gathering here from the deep mountains and dense forests.

Yiguan Yuan said loudly: "For the sake of the soldiers, Emperor Zhaowu opened the Yucheng Ridge Road, Baiyi and Dayue encountered difficulties, and under the butcher's knife of millions of people, it was miserable. To reopen Yuchengling Road, it is necessary to engrave a monument to record the old things and stand next to the road to learn from those who come. ”

Yue Shiheng said: "The past cannot be admonished, but the coming can still be chased." Nanning has been outside Zhongzhou for a long time, and the reopening of Yuchengling Road has made Nanning return to Zhongzhou, which is a century-old event, and Shiheng can meet it, fortunately. ”

Jiangning reopened Yuchengling Road, placed six counties of Lingdao, and took Dayu Mansion under its jurisdiction, and more than 200,000 Miao people moved here from the deep valley and gully of Yuchengling and Qitianling. Although the three seedlings have a wide base, but they are all lofty mountains and mountains, survival is difficult, this time more than 200,000 ethnic groups will move to Dayu, will profit from the mountain road to feed, will greatly alleviate the pressure of survival.

In the later stage of the Battle of Southern Fujian, Di Fu was authorized by Liu Guanwutang, the king of Miao, to lead 500 soldiers of the secret battalion to join Jiangning and participate in the subsequent battles of Jinghai, Liyang and Yuejun. This time, Di Fu was ordered to lead the soldiers of the secret battalion to return to the * place, organize six battalions of garrison, and guard Dayu.

At this time, Di Fujia, who was already the general of the Qingjiang garrison, was accompanied by a sword, and in addition to the scale armor, he was wearing a brown short cardigan. Di Fu is over forty years old, his face is windy and frosty, and his eyes are resolute and sharp.

Cao San straightened up and said: "Miao Yi's life is difficult, but the mountain road is blocked, the goods in the mountains cannot go out of the mountains, and it is not easy to get salt and grain outside the mountains. Yuchengling Road connects Qingjiang and Nanning, to Pingjing County, business travel is endless, along the road commercial port is connected, Dayu has become a place of treasure. ”

Yi Guanyuan said: "Although the old Chaoling Road is prosperous, the inner court regards Miao Yi as a foreign country, and it is still difficult to survive. Now it is said that they are all the people of Zhongzhou, sharing the nourishment of the world, reopening the Lingdao, so that the goods from the north and the south are connected, and the three seedlings live in their merits, and they should share their benefits. ”

Di Fu smiled slightly, and Yue Shiheng was also deeply touched.

When Yue Peixue and Liu Guanwutang led Nanning and Sanmiao to return to Jiangning, everyone was uneasy, and when Jiangning's order was brought down, they learned that Nanning Xingyuan and the officials and generals appointed by Dayu Mansion were all from Nanning and Sanmiao, Jiangning was not in a hurry to extend his tentacles to Nanning, and everyone's hanging hearts settled down.

Nanning has deep mountains and mountains separated from Zhongzhou, the world is scattered, the heroes are fighting side by side, there are nomadic people in the north to invade, Nanning can completely seal the road, outside Zhongzhou, wait for the world to be decided, and then choose people to attach.

For thousands of years of Zhongzhou history, Nanning has always been regarded as a frontier wilderness, which cannot be included in Zhongzhou Zhengshuo, and the road is blocked.

Zhongzhou hegemony, has always been to unify the south with the north, the heroes on both sides of the river to win, occupy the absolute advantage, and then coerce the south, often can spread the world and determine the world.

Xu Ruyu rose to Qingjiang and was invincible, but not all the people in Nanning had full confidence in him in the Central Plains.

Yue Feixue attached her children with the respect of a county, which caused a lot of controversy in the clan, and Yue Shiheng was also puzzled in her heart, but Yue Feixue was able to disagree with the public and achieve this. Jiang Ning was not in a hurry to infiltrate his forces into Nanning, and there would not be too many opposition voices among the clan.

Yue Shiheng still remembers what his father said before going to Jiangning: "Xu Xingshi came out of the Tianji Xueqiu Sect, but what he learned was to inherit the old rules and Fu Yichen. Chen Gui used to be the great sect of Jinghu, but Jinghu passed to Ji Siqian and had entered the Qi Road, and did not inherit the fire of the old rules. Fu Yichen abandoned his home in order to cultivate martial arts; His brother Fu Tao won the Yuan family from afar, and Fu Yichen watched coldly; Gu Shida wiped out the Fu clan, and Fu Yichen escaped from the world, why? Fu Yichen had a despair that others could not see through this earthly world, so he escaped into the Tao. Fu Yichen returned to the world for a child, I couldn't see through the reason at first, but it was only at this time that I understood that whether Xu Ruyu could win the world was still inconclusive, but Xu Ruyu was the only one who could reform the world and make the new. ”

The vast majority of people do not see the battle of Taoism in their eyes.

Whether Hulan occupies Zhongzhou, or Yuanrong restores and ascends to the pole, it is a great harm to Nanning, and Xu Ruyu was born out of thin air, which is really the best choice for Nanning Yue.

Xu Ruyu pacified the Puji bandits, making the waters outside Zhongzhou calm. In order to prevent the family from competing for land with the commoners, so that the county policy could be implemented smoothly, Xu Ruyu vigorously developed HNA in Jinghai, Gantang and Quanzhou, so that the attention of the family was focused on the benefits of maritime business.

Yongyang has become the first city in the world in ten years by virtue of the benefits of Hainan navigation in the northeast sea, and the benefits of Hainan navigation in the southeast and southwest are several times this, how can it not make the family rush to it?

Nanning has long been outside Zhongzhou, and the shipbuilding technology lags behind Yongyang and Quanzhou a lot, and the sea ships built cannot pass the wind and waves of the sea, and there is no strong sailor to escort them, so they naturally cannot share the benefits of sea navigation.

Baiyi joined Xu Ruyu, and in a few years he got out of the dangerous situation of extinction, and obtained land for survival at the foot of Wuling Mountain. In order to obtain land for survival at the foot of Wuling Mountain, Baiyi once shed the blood and tears of hundreds of thousands of people, but he could not compete. Sanmiao belonged to the Yue clan, and the situation was slightly better, but it also decayed for a hundred years. Sandwiched between Nanning and Jiangning, Sanmiao will undoubtedly make new choices in the face of a broader road.

Various reasons prompted Nanning to make a choice before the situation in the world was clear.

Yue Shiheng was distracted, Yi Guanyuan said: "A total of 4,000 soldiers from the 12 sentinel water battalions of the Quanzhou Navy Division will be assembled at the end of April, go to Haiyang and Jiangmen, and go to Nanning with the water camp There will be more than 1,000 shipmasters and craftsmen to build a dock with Nanning to build a big ship. ”

Jiangmen is located in the southwest of Le'an Mansion at the corner of the river and the sea, which is actually the gateway of Le'an Mansion; Haiyang Coast, the gateway to the south of Chaoyang Province, Jiangning will transfer 4,000 water battalions from Quanzhou to be stationed in two places to build a dock harbor to show Jiangning's rule over Nanning.

The garrison of Southern Fujian will reduce 10,000 troops, and then transfer 5,000 troops to fill the water camp in Quanzhou, and from then on Southern Fujian will become the real hinterland of Jiangning.

Yue Shiheng came back to his senses and said, "The matter within the division is a matter of course. The lord said that he had sent a letter from Zhenning, asking Nanning to buy horses from Nanzhao and transport them to Jiangning. The horse breed produced by Nanzhao is short and not good at galloping, far less than the Mobei Liangji, used for farming, and the cost of raising is more than that of cattle, only the mountain road transportation has a slight effect. Shiheng was a little puzzled, our army and Nanping competed for victory, but with ships, guarding Jianghuai, and it was a horse Pingchuan, where would the horses that could not be used for the battlefield? ”

Yi Guanyuan smiled slightly and said: "It is very useful, although the Yucheng Ridge Road is connected to Qinshui and Qingjiang, but the Ridge Road still needs horses to transfer goods. The horses produced by Nanzhao, although the speed is not fast, the endurance is good, and it can also bear weight, which can be used for the Gengcheng Ridge Road. After a pause, he said, "Ru Yu should not mean this, although Jiang Ning has no resolution, but Ru Yu mentioned the formation of the Ma Bu Army a few years ago. ”

"Ma Bujun?"

Yi Guanyuan said with a smile: "Yes, the horse infantry army, when marching, ride a horse, and when encountering the enemy, dismount and fight in formation." ”

Di Fu said on the side: "The last general in the Yanwu Hall has also heard the adults mention the matter of Ma Bujun. The strong bow and hard crossbow are popularized on the battlefield, the charge of the war horse on the battlefield is quite limited, and the advantage of the cavalry is reflected in the rapid mobility, which is also a strategic advantage that other arms can not match. ”

Jiang Ning spared no effort to cultivate generals who knew the military, and did not turn Miao Yi away, which was especially popular.

Yue Shiheng said: This is also a bearing that others can't match.

Yi Guanyuan continued to explain: "Liangji can be used as a war horse, and the cost is extravagant, and the number of Liangji purchased from Baekje by Jiangning through Wuhu is really limited, and it is hoped that the horse breed will be improved, and it will not be able to compete for several years. It is extremely difficult to build a jockey that can compete with the Hulan Iron Rider. Raising horses is more expensive than raising cattle, and the common people are naturally reluctant to do it, but Jiangning has set up military camps all over the border areas, and the horses purchased can be supported by the military camps. The system of Jiangning Juntun, the border defenders, the Wucheng Ren horse garrison, the Wucheng Ren horse cultivation, the horses raised by the military tun, the cultivation of the peace, and the foot power in wartime. ”

Yue Shiheng said: "The adult's concerns are very thoughtful......"

At the end of August last year, when the Jiangning Group proposed the political hall, Yue Shiheng took the opportunity to congratulate Xu Ruyu on the gift of his newborn son Mu Lin, and went to Jiangning to meet Xu Ruyu on behalf of the Nanning family.

At that time, Jiangning had just ended the Liyang War, and there were signs of dominating the southeast, and in just a few months, the Fan people were annexed, and Jiangning unified Yue County.

When Liang Bao and Sleeve Er got married, Yue Feixue took Yue Shiheng to congratulate, and Yue Shiheng also felt that he had yielded his identity. At the beginning of letting Yue Feixue send to Jiangning, I still felt that my father was in a hurry. However, the longer he stayed in Jiangning, the more he felt that Xu Ruyu was a rare person of great ambition for hundreds of years.

The matter of Nanning's annexation, without Yue Shiheng's strong support, would not have gone so smoothly.

This time, Yi Guanyuan will go to Le'an with Yue Shiheng to preside over the restructuring. In addition to not announcing to the world for the time being, Nanning will gradually follow the political system of Jiangning, set up the Xingyuan Xingyuan and the Metropolitan Yuan to take charge of the military and politics, and form a garrison on the basis of the Nanning family army, so as to better contain Nanping's troops from the west.

Gengcheng Ridge Road is not passed, from Jiangning to Le'an, you can bypass nearly 10,000 miles of sea route from the southeast sea; You can also take Qingfeng Gorge, cross Wuling Mountain into Southern Fujian, and detour from Yi'an, the southern foot of Yucheng Ridge, there are also four or five thousand miles of land routes.

Starting from Jiangning, tracing the Qingjiang River, entering Dayu, crossing Yucheng Lingdao, entering Qinshui, passing through Anyuan, Shaozhou, Zhenyang, Qingqi Zhuyi, you can enter Le'an, the whole journey is only more than 2,000 miles. Half of the way down the river was as fast as a galloping horse. From Jiangning to Le'an, the boat is fast and fast along the way, and it does not take ten days to complete the journey.

Yi Guan Yuan and Yue Shiheng stayed in Gengcheng, the administrative office of Dayu Mansion, which did not have the official residence of the city, for two days, and then led their close entourage to go south along the old road of Gengcheng Ridge, which was full of thorns.

Mi Yusheng led a team of water battalions to arrive in Jiangmen first, and when Yiguanyuan arrived in Le'an, Mi Yusheng rushed to Le'an with Yitingxue from Jiangmen a hundred miles away to meet him. After Mi Yusheng and Yi Tingxue got married, he succeeded Luo Shanyang to lead the Quanzhou Water Camp and became Liang Bao's deputy in Southern Fujian. Nanning was annexed, the political situation in southern Fujian was said to be stable, the garrison was about to be reduced, and the situation in the north was said to be tense, and there were rumors in Jiangning that Liang Bao would be transferred to Jiangning, and Mi Wusheng would take over the post of governor of Southern Fujian.

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