Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.

The news of Emperor Gaozong's escape soon spread throughout the city of Yangzhou.

Originally, some people were skeptical, but after a while, everyone found out again that many palace ladies in the emperor's palace scattered out and fled in a hurry.

Everyone understood at this time that the little emperor had indeed escaped, in other words, the golden soldiers in the north were about to kill here.

At this moment, Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan, the two high-ranking officials of the imperial court, were still listening to the eminent monks preaching Buddhism, when someone suddenly broke in and shouted: "Prime Minister, the emperor has fled!" ”

Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan were stunned by fright, and finally came back to their senses, immediately changed into military uniforms, got on their horses and left the city, and fled towards the south.

The bad habit of Chinese people who do not abide by order and do not like to queue is once again presented in front of the world:

Hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou fled together, scrambling to be the first, and were blocked by a Yangzhou city gate of Nuoda; The result of each other's inadequacy is trampling on each other, resulting in a large number of casualties.

"Renewal of Capital and Governance. Volume 13 records: "The number of soldiers and civilians who died in the battle for the door is innumerable. ”

In this surging tide of escape, there are two small episodes.

Emperor Gaozong fled in a panic, and when he passed by the Yangtze Bridge, he was ridiculed and sarcastic by a small guard.

The angry little emperor turned over and dismounted, drew the sword at his waist, and stabbed the guard to death.

The truth of history is always inadvertently revealed in the literature.

This little episode can prove that Emperor Gaozong was not a weak and timid person. It's a powerful one. A young man with strong blood.

"Renewal of Capital and Governance. Volume 13 records: "Emperor Yangzi Bridge. A guard spoke a bad word, and the emperor killed him with a sword. ”

The emperor fled in embarrassment, and of course the hundreds of officials in the court also followed him out of the city, among which Si Nongqing Huang Yi also fled to the riverside, and at this time an acquaintance greeted him: "Huang Xianggong is here." ”

Originally, it was just a polite conversation between acquaintances, but unexpectedly, this shout actually cost Huang Yi's life.

The people who didn't know Huang Yi next to him thought it was Huang Qianshan, and someone immediately scolded: "You have brought disaster to the country and the people, and you deserve ...... death." Before he finished scolding, there was already a military academy rushing over with a Pu knife.

Before Huang Ye could open his mouth to defend himself, his head had already fallen to the ground, and he was dying.

Huang Yi was not the only one who was mistaken for Huang Qianshan, but Huang Zhefang, Honglu Shaoqing, Huang Tangjun and others were also unjustly killed by the angry masses for the same reason.

It seems that the angry youth clan is not only in modern China, but also in ancient times.

For a time, all the officials surnamed Huang in the DPRK and China were in danger and could not live in fear.

"Renewal of Capital and Governance. Volume 103 recorded: "When the army and the people complained about Huang Qianshan, Si Nongqing Huang Yi went to the river, and the sergeant shouted: "Huang Xianggong is here." The number said: "Misleading the country and harming the people." All your sins. "The first party distinguishes what is wrong, and the first has been broken...... Tell Huang Zhefang about hiking in the middle of the matter. A knight drew his bow and shot it, and the middle four died. On that day, Honglu Shaoqing Huang Tangjun crossed the river and drowned. ”

The resentment of the military and people of Yangzhou against Huang Qianshan and his ilk has reached an unforgettable state

The Grand Canal in Yangzhou has been blocked by various ships, and Emperor Gaozong and his party of six people can only hurry up and continue to go south, and come to the Yangtze River ferry in Guazhou Town.

Here, the ranks of the little emperor Gaozong were slightly stronger, because Lu Yihao, Zhang Jun and other ministers had already caught up.

Emperor Gaozong was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when suddenly he discovered a very serious problem: on the edge of the surging Yangtze River, there was nothing, not to mention any warships and big ships, even small boats.

Emperor Gaozong hurriedly asked, "Wang Qingjia, didn't you say that there are more than a dozen warships waiting here?" ”

Wang Yuan, the leader of the Imperial Forest Army, replied cautiously: "There are warships, but now they are all used to rush the property in the palace to Hangzhou, which is an order issued by His Majesty a few days ago. ”

In fact, Wang Yuan also missed the most important sentence, the largest warships have been requisitioned by Kang Lu and several other eunuchs to transport their own private goods.

Looking at the rapid flow of the water and the boundless water of the Yangtze River, Emperor Gaozong suddenly understood what it meant to "call the heavens and the earth not spiritual"

Emperor Gaozong eventually crossed the Yangtze River, and only before the arrival of a large number of official ships.

There are two theories in history about how Emperor Gaozong crossed the Yangtze River.

The first is the statement of the canonical history:

"Renewal of Capital and Governance. Volume 13 records that if you get a small boat, you will multiply it by it.

This statement is actually very debatable.

Can a small boat cross the surging Yangtze River? That's the first question.

Even if a small boat can barely cross the Yangtze River, there are bound to be risks; And Emperor Gaozong is a body of ten thousand gold, and he does not take risks; Does Gaozong himself dare to take this risk, do the ministers around him dare to let Gaozong take this risk, if something goes wrong, who will be responsible? This is the second question.

Therefore, some of the statements of the official history cannot be fully believed.

Compared with the first statement, which is full of loopholes, the second statement, that is, the rumored version, is more credible.

Legend has it that Emperor Gaozong crossed the Yangtze River on a white horse.

At that time, the situation was critical, and the white horse ridden by Emperor Gaozong suddenly exerted its own strength, carrying Emperor Gaozong to jump into the Yangtze River, wading all the way, and when he reached the opposite bank, he threw Emperor Gaozong to the ground, and the white horse ran away by itself.

Later, Gaozong continued to walk south, and found a Water Emperor Temple more than ten miles away from the Yangtze River.

When I entered the temple, I saw that the right hand of Cui Fujun, the first judge on the left side of the Water Emperor, was leading a mud horse; The mud horse was drenched all over, and there was a bunch of aquatic plants hanging from the horse's neck.

Emperor Gaozong recognized this water weed, because when he crossed the river before, this water weed floating in the river just hung on the neck of the white horse that Gaozong was riding, and he kept pulling it.

Only then did Emperor Gaozong know that it was Cui Fujun who sent the grass and mud horses under his seat to help him.

This is the story of Emperor Gaozong's mud horse crossing the river. And the grass and mud horse under the throne of Cui Fujun appeared for the first time in the historical records.

It is also rumored that the grass and mud horse that Gaozong rode has been cultivated until modern times, and finally became a god and became China's first protector of the country.

For this legend in the market, one of the three major nests of Qianlong, the famous poet and historian Zhao Yi of the Qing Dynasty also made a special research.

In Zhao Yi's "Examination of the Remainder of the Cong. Gaozong's mud horse crossing the river" wrote: "When Gaozong of the Song Dynasty first arrived in Hangzhou, he ordered the establishment of Cui Mansion Jun Temple to show the supernatural, so Jingzhong novel then had the mud horse crossing the river. ”。 (To be continued......)

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