Chapter 17: Yanyun Eighteen Rides

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Liuhe Town is named after the mountain, called Tangyi in ancient times, and was placed in the first year of King Ling of the Western Zhou Dynasty (571 years ago), which is one of the earliest cities in China. It has a long history, a prosperous economy, and simple folk customs. Liuhe Qin belonged to Jiujiang County, the Western Han Dynasty belonged to Linhuai, the Eastern Han Dynasty belonged to Guangling, and the Jin Dynasty belonged to Qin County. The Northern Zhou Dynasty went south, changed Qin County to Fangzhou, and placed Liuhe County. In the first year of the emperor's reign, Liuhe County was abolished, and the counties under its leadership belonged to Fangzhou. In the fourth year of the emperor's reign, the three counties of Weishi, Tangyi and Fangshan were abolished, and they were placed as Liuhe County, which belonged to Fangzhou.

To the Sui Dynasty, the war subsided, and Liuhe, which was close to the Yangtze River, also developed rapidly, and the accumulation of population and the prosperity of the bazaar made Liuhe become the main road of land transportation from north to south of the river.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was an important place in Gyeonggi for the various dynasties that built the capital of Jiankang. It is known as the barrier of Gyeonggi, the passage of Jilu, the important military place, and the giant town of Jiangbei. Although after the Sui destroyed Chen, they destroyed Jiankang City, the center of Jiangnan, so that the important military role of Gyeonggi, the Liuhe Barrier, was no longer important, but Yangzhou City, the new center of Jiangnan, was to the east, and its military, transportation, and commercial status was rapidly restored.

There are six peaks in Fang Mountain, Han Mountain Peak, Deng Zi Peak, Shiren Peak, Furong Peak, Miao Peak, Shuangji Peak, legend Liu Song Xiaowu Emperor of the Southern Dynasty climbed the mountain, saw that the six peaks are around the river, so it was renamed Liuhe. A big mountain has three names: Dingshan, Fangshan, and Liuhe Mountain.

In the Lion Peak of Liuhe Mountain, under the Mizugata mountain pass. There is a mountain temple on the north side of the mountain, and it looks like a temple of the gate of the mountains from afar, and it is very famous in the south of the Yangtze River. The temple is the name of the mountain temple, the mountain temple is surrounded by mountains, the south is like a door, and the temple wall is covered with each other, and the pine sandwich road. This temple of incense is said to be the most Buddhist Emperor Wu of Liang during the Northern and Southern Dynasties for a monk who traveled all over the world and saw a wide range of knowledge, and was named Dingshan Temple. This mountain, which was once renamed Liuhe Mountain because of the landing of Emperor Liu Song Xiaowu of the Southern Dynasty, was also renamed Dingshan. Since its establishment, Jozanji Temple has been an important temple of Zen Buddhism, known as the "First Dojo of Bodhidharma", and is one of the ancestral gardens of Zen Buddhism.

The famous Bodhidharma patriarch in history, was originally an Indian monk, is the third prince of the South Tianzhu Xiang to the country, when he preached in the Middle Earth, was invited by Emperor Wu of Liang to Jiankang to inquire about Buddhism, and later because of the disagreement between the teachings, Bodhidharma left Jiankang and went north. Legend has it that he crossed the river to Changlu Temple, and then to Jozan Temple. Later, Bodhidharma went to Shaolin Temple in Henan, founded Zen Buddhism, and became the patriarch of Bodhidharma.

Because of this, Jozanji Temple is known as "the first dojo of Bodhidharma", and has become a famous temple in Jiangbei, and the Lion Peak of Jozan has also become the first peak among the six peaks of Liuhe Mountain.

In the late spring of March, Jozanji Temple is full of pilgrims. The incense of Jozanji Temple is vigorous, and it also makes the lion bee a famous mountain, and a large number of pilgrims and tourists make the business opportunities here prosperous, and countless shops have been established at the foot of the mountain for many years, and there are countless inns, restaurants, teahouses, and restaurants.

In one of the inns, Joy Come, a few people sat there, listening to a man dressed as an acolyte from the north whispering something to his companion.

After quelling the rebellion in Jiangnan in the first ten years of the emperor's reign, the emperor dismissed the new military government in the southern part of the Kanto region and the northern fringes, and laid off a large number of government soldiers. The remaining government soldiers, although they are still incorporated into the military register, are under the command of the military government. However, he and his family belonged to the prefecture and county where they lived, and like the local peasants, they were allocated land, registered their household registration, and established their household accounts, and from then on the soldiers and peasants were united.

Since then, although the imperial court has often fought against the Turks on the northern border, major wars have been rare. In addition to taking turns to guard the city of Daxing, many government soldiers only need to spare a small amount of time every year to gather and train, and the rest of the time, we are just ordinary farmers like other people. However, what is more advantageous than ordinary farmers is that the government soldiers do not need to rent and adjust the land. These soldiers were collectively referred to as chamberlains, and were mostly elected from some middle-class families.

This squire was a standard northerner-looking, with a full beard, but he was not very old, about thirty or so. Broad-shouldered, tall, but somewhat lean, with a head on his head, and a shirt with high slits on both sides, a pair of trousers tied with trouser straps, and a brass and leather sash tied around the waist, which was a multifunctional belt. The head and buckle are made of brass zuò, and the belt is of yellow cowhide, with eleven buttonholes made of brass and eleven small straps tied underneath, and nailed with copper ornaments. This kind of belt has a strong storage function, which can hang kettles, money bags, fans, sachets, knives, swords, musical instruments, quivers, and even pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc.

At this time, the chamberlain of this house hung a kettle, a sachet, a money bag, and a short knife on his waist. At the same long table as him sat several men in similar attire. It seems that they are also the attendants, because they are all dressed similarly, lacking shirts, large mouth pants, and beautiful swords around their waists, and swords hanging from them, and even the bulging money bags hanging on them so generously. And all of them are sturdy and powerful.

Now the prosperous era is peaceful, the government prohibits martial arts, and the people are not allowed to privately own swords and soldiers, that is, the guards of high-ranking officials and nobles, and most of them take sticks and swords, and swords and spears are strictly prohibited. Only those military officials can swagger around with swords in such a grand manner, and this group of people still has the faces of northerners.

The shop was full of customers, and everyone tried not to look at the waiter.

The shopkeeper was a native of Jiangnan, wearing a faded blue cloth robe, and he was holding a jar of good wine, which was ordered by the northern guests at that table, and everyone else ordered a glass or two, but they ordered a jar directly, and this was already the third altar. He was a little worried, what if these people got drunk and caused trouble in his shop?

It has been nine years since Nan Chen destroyed the country, and eight years have passed since the Jiangnan Rebellion. The incompatible hatred between the southerners and the northerners in the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties has not disappeared completely, but it is indeed much better, at least they can survive each other. The people in Jiangnan no longer regard the northerners as Hulu barbarians, and the northerners no longer regard the southerners as weak and promising, and do not regard them as human beings. I have to say that the swords of the Sui Dynasty let the people of Jiangnan know what it means to be powerful, and the virtuous king who has been in Yangzhou for many years has made many people in Jiangnan feel that in fact, the northerners are the emperors, which is better than the original Jiangnan own people being the emperors. The people don't really care who is the emperor, they just want to live a better life and live a good life. Now that the Sui Dynasty has ruled Jiangnan for many years, the massacres and enslavements that they feared at the beginning have not appeared, and they are naturally no longer so hostile to the northerners.

Those officials from the north and the garrison officers from the north are now walking in the south of the Yangtze River, and they don't have to worry about being hit with black bricks. Sometimes, there are even some merchants and landlords in Jiangnan who take the initiative to pay the bills for them.

However, the group of northerners in the store today has a fierce spirit that is difficult to see in the ordinary garrison, which is the fierce smell of the stock, so everyone is careful to eat, drink and chat, try not to look at this side, and no one takes the initiative to come over to let the northern attendants talk about their past wars, and no one comes to drink and chat with them.

The northerners sat there like that, in the middle of the shop, but they didn't fit in with the atmosphere of the shop, but they were so comfortable that they didn't care about the feelings of the other people in the store.

"How is the leopard now?"

"It's not a big deal anymore, but the love is still not very good, and it's a little low."

"Are you still blaming yourself for losing your second brother?"

"Hmm!"

"Actually, he can't be blamed for this." One of them, a man in his mid-thirties, said that he had a half-inch-long scar on his left cheek, which made him look even more vicious. "If he had been taking his second brother with him that day, he wouldn't have been able to get rid of those eagle dogs."

The lean man sighed: "It's been so many days, and the eldest sister is looking like crazy, but until now, I haven't found the slightest clue, I can't see anyone, I can't see a corpse!" ”

"Don't say bad things about Niu Ri, what kind of person is the second brother, and what kind of sinister situation didn't break through? Maybe it's just where to hide to recuperate, didn't Wei Bao also say it, was the second brother seriously injured that day? Liu Ying interrupted. Although so many days have passed, everyone has become more and more aware of the fact that this matter is not good, but it is still difficult for everyone to accept such a result. After so many days, no one can be found, there are only three possibilities, one is that after Wei Bao left that day, the second brother woke up and left alone, and now he may be hiding in a safe place to recuperate. Or, the second brother was captured by those men in black. Third, maybe the second brother is dead, but no one has been able to find his body for a while.

"What about Ji Yao, is there any news about her?" The Scar Man asked. If you can find Ji Yao, maybe many problems can be solved because of this, at least, you can know who ambushed and attacked the second brother.

"No news yet." Wang Xiong replied in annoyance.

"No news at all? Didn't you fight those eagles and dogs twice, and you didn't find the slightest clue, captive? Liu Ying asked.

"No prisoners!" Wang Xiong replied, "Actually, we have already fought each other three times. "The first time, Wei Bao was chased and killed, they met, intercepted and ambushed the group of men in black, he was about to defeat the other party, but all the captives immediately committed suicide, not a single one was caught, and not even the slightest clue was found from the corpse. The second time, they tried their best to find some clues, but when they arrived at the place, they only saw the corpse of a man in black, and then met a group of guards who rushed to fight with them, the other party claimed to be the guards of the Jin Palace, but soon the other party's reinforcements arrived, and they had to withdraw. Then, the next day, the place where they were hiding was attacked, but fortunately they were alert, and both sides fought fiercely in the dark night before dawn, and they finally withdrew, and they were almost captured, let alone captured. In the end, they didn't know who attacked it. "

"Jin Wangfu? Yang Guang, the governor of Yangzhou? Scar Wang Bao raised his eyebrows unexpectedly.

Wang Xiong said bitterly: "Since arriving in Jiangnan, I feel that this place is like a swamp under the fog, full of deadly traps, and we can't see the shape clearly at all. According to the analysis of the eldest sister, we may face more than one opponent. It may be the same people who ambushed the second brother and pursued the leopard and then intercepted and killed by us. In addition, the corpses of the men in black seen later may also be these people. Later we were attacked near the corpses, and later it was probably the same people who attacked us in hiding. In addition, those in the woods who were ambushed by us and later rescued by helpers, claiming to be the guards of the Jin Palace, may be the other party. Things aren't entirely certain yet, but it's highly likely. In addition, those who claimed to be guards of the Jin Palace, we later tracked them and found that they did return to the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion. ”

This matter is too complicated, and Liu Ying has a headache when he thinks about it.

First of all, the man in black tied up Ji Yao, lured them south, and asked what news about Yu Pei, Yang Lin and Yi Feng, and wanted to capture the second brother alive.

Then, a group of mysterious people appeared, and while they attacked and killed the man in black who kidnapped Ji Yao and ambushed the second brother, they attacked the eldest sister and them.

Finally, the guards of the Jin Palace's mansion also appeared.

What kind of relationship is this, and who is Yang Lin?

It's a mess.

"It's good that you are here now, what the eldest sister means is that no matter how many forces there are, we will find and rescue Ji Yao and the second brother." Wang Xiong said.

"But now the situation is so complicated, we haven't even figured out who the enemy is." Liu Ying said.

Wang Xiong looked at Scar Wang Bao, "It's not entirely unclear who the enemy is, at least we know that there is a group of people from the Jin Palace." ”

"Do you want to start with Yang Guang first? He is the second son of today, the governor of Yangzhou, who commands the 44 states of Jianghuai and has countless troops. A man said worriedly.

"So what, don't care about him Emperor Laozi, since he dares to ride on our heads, we can be afraid of him." Wang Bao glared at Zhang Yue with a dark face, clenching his fists, "We are in the north, we have done with the Turks, with the Kumo Xi people, with the Khitan people, with the Murwei people, with the Tiele people, and with the Goguryeo people, the Jin people, and even the Baekje, Silla, and Dongying people, are we still afraid of a prince of the Sui Dynasty?" We, Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry, have never been afraid of anyone, and whoever dares to provoke us, we will fight with whoever we want. ”

"Okay, the third brother's words are happy, we have received the news that Yang Guang will come to Liuhe Mountain tomorrow to hunt, this is a great opportunity! The other brothers have already arrived, and the third brother is the latest to come, originally thought that you would not be able to catch up, but this is just right. Wang Xiong said.

"Then what are you waiting for, take me to see the eldest sister now!" Wang Bao drank all the wine in one gulp.

"Let's go!"

PS: Six and, six, Otolu.