"Jin History" here admits that the Jin army at this time was quite aggrieved and timid, 20,000 people huddled together, hiding in a deep ditch and high fortress to endure, thinking about how to hold out for a long time, so as to consume the sharp energy of the Liao army. At the same time, they sent some guerrillas to wander outside the main position, test the opponent's grain routes, or catch a few stragglers...

An unprecedentedly huge surprise, at this moment, it accurately hit Wanyan Aguta and his Dajin Kingdom!

Captured a Liao State grain transport officer, and from his mouth, Jin Jun got a piece of news. At this time, not to mention that most of the Jurchens who had just come out of the deep mountains and were in the brainless stage, even Wanyan Aguda himself couldn't believe it!

According to him: On December 10, the prison army Yelu Zhang Jianu rebelled again! Is this news possible? Wanyan's brain was running sharply, and he thought about good and bad things!

How can it be such a coincidence? said that it was possible, Yelu Zhangjianu saw that Yelu Yanxi raised troops to fight, and the capital was empty, so he succeeded in bringing the troops back at this time. And royal infighting is a tradition of the Khitan people. Since the "Imperial Uncle Yelu Chongyuan Rebellion", large-scale rebellions have not been carried out for a long time. How can tradition be discarded? In addition: 20,000 Jurchens are enough to tie Yelu Yanxi to the front line, and with the defeat of the previous million army collapsing in one day and one night, he will never dare to draw troops to quell the chaos in battle!

After all the calculations, Ah Guta still didn't dare to move. After all, the soldiers are in danger, and if it is a trap, his 20,000 people will fill it, and he will not be able to fill this pit... What to do? At the critical moment, another news came - Yelu Yanxi, the emperor of the Great Liao, personally led his troops back to the capital to quell the rebellion, and it has been two days since he left!

On the 13th, Wanyan Agu fought without hesitation and attacked! Directly attacking the Liao army, where the Great Liao Emperor should have been-Yelu Yanxi is in? Capture the thief and capture the king! Absence? There is no principal in the Chinese army, and the strongest point is already the weakest!

There's really nothing to say about the next, it's a remake of the previous war. The right flank of the Jin army attacked, and the Liao army retreated; The left flank of the Jin army attacked, and the Liao army was completely defeated, and even the previous day and night could not hold out. The army of more than 1 million people, not to mention that someone can stabilize their position, they can't even resist the Jin army a little and delay the pursuit!

The Liao army was defeated all the way, on the road of more than 100 miles, left countless corpses, chariots, weapons, seals, cattle and horses, treasures, should have no way to go to the sky and no door to the earth, doomed to be annihilated, at a critical moment, there was a smart Liao people stood up, Xiao Temo had a whim. A large area of war supplies was ignited, and the fire was used to cut off the unrelenting pursuers!

This battle made the Liao people want to cry without tears, and together with Yelu Zhang's slaves, they were so depressed that they were going to die. Who would have thought that Yelu Yanxi would do this? Seeing that he didn't care about the mortal enemy in front of him, he actually led his troops back to quell the rebellion... We are an internal struggle of the nation, well, why should we cheapen foreigners?

This battle is called the "Battle of Hubu Tagang" in the history books, which is different from the "Battle of the Ancient City of Daru". In that battle, the so-called "700,000 Liao army foot soldiers were wiped out" was obviously an exaggeration. However, the Liao army did lose hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in the "Battle of Hubu Dagang". After this battle, the military strength and even financial resources of the Great Liao State fell into the abyss, not to mention gathering troops to attack. Even the normal forces guarding the borders of the vast empire are stretched!

The gateway to northern Xinjiang has been opened, and the Jin army can fight wherever it wants, and there is no hindrance! Next. The goal of the battle has fundamentally changed! He began to focus on the five major towns of the Great Liao Kingdom - Shangjing Linhuang Mansion, Zhongjing Dading Mansion, Tokyo Liaoyang Mansion, Nanjing Xijin Mansion, and Xijing Datong Mansion! This is a large municipality at the level of five capitals in the Great Liao Kingdom, which is equivalent to the four capitals of the Northern Song Dynasty and occupies an important role in the empire. Good! Then capture them one by one! The day when all the five capitals are occupied is the time when the Great Liao will fall!

24th. The Great Liao Jinzhou Assassin Shi Yelu sorcerer responded to Yelu Zhang's rebellion. On the 25th, Yelu Mago of Linya in the north was ordered to put down the rebellion.

This year, a 31-year-old young man named Zhang Zeduan presented a famous painting to Zhao Jijin of Song Huizong - "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", which is one of the top ten famous paintings in China. It is known as "China's first divine product" and is a well-deserved national treasure-level cultural relic, which is now stored in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The picture of the river during the Qingming Festival is 25.2 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and is ink and color on silk. In the form of a long scroll, the work adopts scattered perspective composition to vividly record the urban appearance of Bianjing and the living conditions of people from all walks of life of the Han society at that time on the eve of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, which reached the peak of glory. It depicts the prosperity of the Qingming Dynasty at that time, mainly the natural scenery and prosperity of Bianjing and the banks of the Bianhe River, leaving an eternal witness of the prosperity of Kaifeng City. This masterpiece is unique in the history of painting in China and even in the world. In the 5-meter-long scroll, there are 814 characters of various colors, 73 cattle such as cows, mules, and donkeys, more than 20 cars and sedan chairs, and 29 large and small boats. Houses, bridges, city towers, etc., have their own characteristics, reflecting the characteristics of Song Dynasty architecture. It has high historical and artistic value.

It was a folk custom at that time to go to the river during the Qingming Festival, like today's festival gatherings, through which people participated in commercial activities. The whole map is roughly divided into three parts: the spring light in the suburbs of Bianjing, the scene of the Bianhe River, and the market in the city. The specific original painting does not need to be introduced too much by the author. The author just wants to use the "Qingming Riverside Map" to talk about what the appearance of Kaifeng City was like in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty and the most glorious period:

Tokyo Kaifeng City is as beautiful as a dream. 150 years have passed since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Han nation has been revived, turning the whole country into a paradise. According to research, there were more than 3,000 cities and towns with a population of less than 10,000 at this time. Between 10,000 and 100,000, there will be no less than 1,000. There will be no less than 6 super cities with more than 100,000 people, such as Suzhou, Chengdu, Ezhou, Luoyang, and Daming. But all of them are far inferior to Kyoto Kaifeng! The great city of Kaifeng, it has a population of at least more than 1 million!

And its prosperity is provided by all the cities mentioned above. One of the most important survival lifelines is the four canals - Bianhe, Caihe, Wuzhang River, Guangji River (also known as Jinshui River), every year Guangbian River alone transports more than 6 million stones of rice from the south! The rest of the local specialties are even more innumerable. The history is called "a collection of treasures from all over the world, all of which are returned to the market." The peculiar smell of the Huihuan area is all in the kitchen, "As for other treasures and jade toys, costumes and utensils, it is even more unimaginable. It was until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and even in modern times, it was beyond reach and never reached again!

The paradise of materials, the price is the limit of survival. There are too many people yearning for it, including Gong Mei, a small silversmith in Shuchuan back then, who traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to make a living, but he could only sell his wife Liu E to barely survive. Of course, there are many more people who come in destitute, but become dignitaries. Glory for a lifetime. Like those who passed the exam... This is the truth hidden under the glamorous exterior, everyone is tired of living. The villain is busy making money, and the adult is busy fighting for power.

Before entering the 13 gates of the outer city (including the water gate), the first thing you see is a moat about 120 feet wide and full of weeping willows, and the outer city wall that winds and turns like a swimming dragon and is irregularly built on the bank of the moat. This wall is very strange and unfathomable, and many people don't like it because it is not smooth and beautiful. Including Zhao Ji of Song Huizong at this time. He tore down the wall. The neat rectangular wall was rebuilt. It's a pity that under the stone cannon blow of the Jurchens, it soon collapsed. Only then will people think of the original designer of this old wall - Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. This old wall has a special effect in the military, its irregularity, can buffer the fierce attack...

Inside this city wall, it is Kaifeng City in the real sense, a paradise on earth with a population nearly 10 times that of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty!

The thousand-year-old Tokyo Castle walked through the outer castle with a circumference of 48 miles and 232 steps (now 22,436 meters) and entered the inner castle with a circumference of 20 miles (now more than 9,200 meters). What appeared in front of me was a long street that was incomparable, rare in ancient and modern times. That is, the royal street from the "Nanxun Gate" in the south of the outer city to the "Xuande Gate" in the inner city (that is, the imperial city). This royal street is straight and wide. It is about seven or eight miles long and about 200 steps wide (307 meters today). It is surprisingly wide and is divided into 5 passages. The central one is for the emperor. On both sides of the waterway, the banks of the canals are made of huge stones. The shore is full of fruit trees such as peaches, plums, pears, and apricots, and in the ditch are patches of lotus flowers. Every year when the trade wind blows, colorful flowers bloom, and this long street becomes a river of flowers. The fragrance accompanies millions of inhabitants along the way. On the shore is a row of red painted railings, which is not only the screen boundary of the waterway, but also the symbol of the road. It has two pedestrian lanes on the left and right, which are called the Imperial Corridor. This imperial corridor is a symbol of the prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is full of shops, houses, government offices, and many miscellaneous places that are not elegant. Together, they gave rise to the Northern Song Dynasty style, which is unique among Chinese dynasties...

As the flow of people slowly walked, the first thing that appeared in front of me was the Longjin Bridge in front of the Suzaku Gate in the inner city. This is the first section of the three sections of the Royal Street. There are many businesses here, but the quality of the goods is not too high, it is a civilian consumption area, mainly engaged in fresh fruits, pen, ink and paper.

Your interest is quickly attracted by a pavilion and two Taoist temples. The name of the pavilion is "Watching the Street Pavilion" According to records: in addition to dealing with foreign enemies and driving personal expeditions, only Zhao Heng went around burning incense and worshiping God, and the second emperor of Huiqin traveled to the north in the future, and the other emperors did not go out of Kaifeng City around 100 miles. They were the richest emperors in the world, and their activity space was only 5 miles (now more than 2,300 meters) of the imperial city. In addition, there is only one way to sit on the jade chariot that has been used since Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and squeak all the way around the royal street twice. It's also annoying when you turn around, and you can basically only see the horse's buttocks. At this time, the emperor will stop, and he will climb this "street pavilion" to overlook the market life and folk life outside the imperial city, which is a rare relaxation...

Temples? Yanzhen Temple in the west, receiving people from all over the world, is a religious hotel, and there is really nothing to see. The view of the five mountains in the east is really extraordinary. At that time, Zhao Heng of Song Zhenzong invited the gods of Wuyue into the capital, settled down on the royal street, and became neighbors with him day and night. As a result, this Wuyue Temple has become the most majestic Taoist temple in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Walking then, I saw the National University of the Song Dynasty - Taixue. As long as you turn in next to Taixue, it is the charming scenery of the tuan rouge powder fragrance and the sound of warblers and swallows. When the fireworks arrived, the life of the students of the Song Dynasty was very beautiful, and they could hear the chanting of Taoist priests and the flirting of prostitutes every day when they were studying. Amitabha, sins and sins...

The first section was finally passed, and it was the longest part of the Royal Street, with a total of 5 miles. The next paragraph is the most fascinating state bridge. Do you still remember the crooked Hongqiao with the most ink in "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival"? The river below is surging, the bridge is full of traffic, and there is actually a big umbrella shed set up for business, and the business has achieved a needle. But compared to the state bridge, it is still a small thing, and the comparison is not in the stream... The state bridge is also called Tianhan Bridge, which means that it is like a bridge in the sky, wide and large, please imagine that it is a bridge connecting the 307-meter-wide super long street! Look down: the river flows under the bridge, but there are no boats to pass. Because it is a stone pillar-supported bridge, it does not span both sides of the Bianhe River like the Hongqiao. The second is the imperial city and the yamen, the ships are too mobile, and there is a threat to security...

Looking around, you can see that the state bridge is at the intersection of the royal street and the east and west royal roads at the center of the sub-city, which is a veritable city center!

The beauty of the state bridge is at night. At night, it will really come alive. At that time, the bridge deck was brightly lit, crowded with beds, and all the delicious snacks you could think of were here, and the people of the Song Dynasty who you couldn't think of would make them! From the first day of the lanterns to the third watch in the middle of the night, no matter when you come, there is everything here. Stir-fried, stewed, steamed, cold dressed, chicken skin, kidney kidney, minced chicken, fried sheep, white sausage, preserved fish, frozen fish fillet, badger, wild fox, coiled rabbit, swirling wild boar, wild duck... Wait, tired of eating meat, the fresh fruits on the state bridge are even better.

If you are noble and disdainful of crowding into the people, there are even restaurants near the state bridge, and the Yuxian Lou main store on the corner of the interface between the south end of the bridge and Quyuan Street is the most, known as "Taishang", which is the third place in Tokyo City. What the? You ask the first and second? There is no doubt that it is "Fan Lou" and "Ren Dian"

Going to Fan Lou? Please turn east first, it is outside the Donghua Gate of the Imperial City. In fact, it is more eye-catching than the imperial city, and a check of the information shows that the late Mr. Bai Yang may have said it wrong, and his "Outline of the History of the Chinese" mocked China's feudal era, saying that the buildings in the country were very low and should not exceed the height of the imperial palace... But this was not the case during the Northern Song Dynasty. Fan Lou is a huge building with "three floors high, five floors facing each other", considering that it was a traditional brick and wood structure at that time, saying 3 floors actually refers to 3 floors on the stairs, that is, it is a 4-storey hotel! Although the specifications of the imperial palace are high, for example, the Tian'an Hall where the ceremony is held, it is not as high! 5 four-storey buildings are connected to each other, there are flybridge railings on all floors, and the light and shade are connected between the buildings, if you stand in the night and look up, you will see that the windows of each pavilion are hung with beaded curtains and embroidered foreheads, revealing warm lights, and there are lamps hanging on the corrugated walls of each eaves.

And the back kitchen of Fan Lou, that is where the value of its name in history lies!

Everyone knows that in ancient times, it was a small workshop production of handicraftsmen, just like the farmers in the past, the family did not divide labor, from sowing, transplanting, hoeing, harvesting and other farm work to everyone had to do, mapped to the catering industry, is now all mom-and-pop shops. The corresponding is the modern hotel, where there is a clear division of labor, and everyone is responsible for a share. This is an epoch-making symbol! Only when the hotel is opened to a certain scale and the social consumption power has reached a certain height, can this division of labor appear! And Fan Lou did this more than 1,000 years ago! Its operation consists of three parts: first, there is a supervisor on each floor, who presides over the business of the floor. There are 5 four-story buildings in Fanlou, so there are more than 20 people. The second is the back kitchen. A total of 20 floors of diners have to be taken care of. Think about what kind of service that is? The third point is the privilege of Fan Lou. The reason why it is so strong is that it has the right to make wine licensed by the state. Every year, the government allocates 50,000 catties of koji to Fanlou, divided by 365, with an average of 137 catties of koji per day, and 137 catties of koji can make more than 5,500 catties of koji! These wines can be produced and sold in-house, and they can also be sold in bulk to other hotels... (To be continued......)