Kaifeng City at night is strange, it is like a miracle that suddenly appeared under the historical sky. Song hasn't been there before, and Song hasn't been shown since... The reason for this miracle comes from an epoch-making order in the history of urban development during the Tang and Song dynasties - the abolition of the separation system of fang and city...

Said Fang City separation system. The cities of the Song Dynasty were different from all previous dynasties. Since the pre-Qin period, the characteristics of Chinese cities have been in two words - closed!

Taking the great Tang Dynasty as an example, Chang'an and Luoyang, the two most famous metropolises, were actually two super-large concentration camps. They are surrounded by the outermost tall and solid wall, and at the innermost end is an even stronger and more luxurious wall, the Imperial Palace. Between the outer city and the palace is more than 100 residential areas, which are called "fang". In addition to the two or three commercial districts in the east and west, this is called "city"

There are several horizontal and intertwined avenues between the squares, which seem to be passable, but there are strict restrictions. First of all: the fang and the city are to be separated by a wall, and each becomes an independent body. On the only street where you can walk around, there are no shops or ordinary houses along the road. Only high-ranking bureaucrats with a grade of three or more are qualified to open their doors on the street. Is it demanding? No! That's a lot of progress. In the Han Dynasty, if you want to open the door on the street, you have to be at least a marquis of ten thousand households.

Secondly: if you want to buy something, you have to do it early, especially if you have to be fast. Each city is only open for half a day, and dusk is the order, and the whole city must have a curfew! All residents must go home immediately and go to bed early!

This kind of life can be summed up in 2 words - indifference! There is a strict hierarchy between people, and there are few opportunities for communication. And business is not going to be able to talk about development. Spiritually and materially are imprisoned by high walls, which can reflect the suaveness of those "Wuling teenagers", only such a group of people are crazy and playful...

This was not the case with the Song Dynasty, which was the most open and liberal of all Chinese dynasties. She was the Han and Tang dynasties before her, and even more so that the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties failed to achieve. For example, let's take the northern section of Yujie in Kaifeng City. From the state bridge to the north, until the imperial city of Xuande Gate for example, you will know what the atmosphere of the Song Dynasty was...

On this road, there are many yamen, there are super large yamen such as the Privy Council, the secretary province, the door of the province, there are also the inferior such as Taichang Temple, Dujin Yuan, Du Tingyi, and then there are the sacred Jingling East Palace, Jingling West Palace, this is the royal family temple, which enshrines the gods of the ancestors and ancestors. In such a place, the common people are opening all kinds of shops from morning to night, from night to midnight. Constantly ushering in and selling, shouting and selling, it's so noisy...

And the government does not drive away the shop, the shop does not avoid the high-ranking officials, and the two sides coexist peacefully, which is harmony! Not to mention that not far from them, in the nearby neighborhood, there was Taixue, the highest school in the Song Dynasty, where at least 2,000 students were maintained at any time, and the sound of reading aloud was simply a chorus. What's more: there is a red light district near Taixue, and their chorus will always be mixed with some warblers, songs, and scolding...

On January 1, the 6th year of Zhenghe (1116), a great change occurred in Tokyo Province of the Great Liao Kingdom! More than a dozen evil young people broke into the left-behind mansion. Kill Xiao Baoxian, who stayed behind in Tokyo. The household department made Dagongding (Bohai people) hear the change, and immediately made a decision, temporarily stayed behind, and gathered thousands of Xi and Han coalition troops with Gao Qingming, the deputy left-behind. Suppress this upheaval. But the course of history is irreversible!

The Great Liao Tokyo Road was the Bohai State during the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji fought hard for more than 20 years before finally destroying the family. However, since the Holy Emperor Dynasty, the Khitan people changed their consistent lenient policy towards the Bohai people and caused Dayan Lin to oppose Liao, the Great Liao Tokyo Road has never been calm. This is the last one of the last days of Daliao Tokyo, and Xiao Baoxian is also an out-and-out cool official. In the past few years since taking office, the Bohai people have suffered. Now, no matter how high the prestige of the First Follower Grand Duke Ding is, even if it is his own people, he can't extinguish the anger in the hearts of the Bohai people!

Gao Yongchang. A Bohai general, seeing that the Liao is declining and the gold is strong, this is a good time for him to restore the country! So with 3,000 people, he entered Liaoyang Mansion, the capital of Tokyo Province. Soon there were 8,000 people from near and far. So Gao Yongchang founded the Great Yuan and built the Yuan Longji. Yelu Yanxi sent Xiao Yixue and Gao Xingshun to appease him, but of course Gao Yongchang didn't follow... In this way, Tokyo Province, one of the five capitals, is no longer owned by the Great Liao Kingdom!

On January 4, Xiao Hanjianu and Zhang Lin were ordered to crusade against Gao Yongchang. On the 23rd, Yelu Yu, the defender of the Great Liao Guide Prefecture, rebelled against Gao Yongchang with Guangzhou Bohai.

At this time, the Great Liao Kingdom was on fire on all sides. In addition to the Bohai people and Jurchens, the Khitan people have more important to deal with their own people. On February 4, Xiao Tzubu was also defeated by Yelu Zhangjianu's rebels in Zuzhou. On the 21st, he ordered Xiao Temo to crusade against Zhang Jianu. On the 24th, Zhang Jianu lured more than 10,000 people, including Raozhou Bohai and Zhongjing thief Hou Yan, to capture Gaozhou. In March, Hou was captured in Sichuanzhou. On April 5, Yelu Yanxi personally recruited Yelu Zhangjianu. On the 10th, the rebellion was put down. On the 11th, the traitor was executed. Raozhou Bohaiping. But Xiao Han's slaves and Zhang Lin were defeated by Gao Yongchang. Of course, Gao Yongchang also knew that after Zhang Jianu was pacified, Emperor Liao's next target was of course himself, so he immediately sent an envoy to ask for help from Jin, "willing to take Liao", but Wanyan Aguta's answer was "And take Liao?" No problem! But Tokyo Road can't be tipped by you. Now I order you to surrender Dajin, and you should be awarded the title of king" Gao Yongchang did not obey. Not from? Then wait for me to destroy you! Poor Gao Yongchang, the enemy in his mind, the Liao army, did not come, but the reinforcement Jin army came to destroy him first...

In May, the Jin army first captured Shenzhou. Gao Yongchang was terrified, so he asked to be called a vassal domain. But it was too late. The Jin army has been killed under the city of Liaoyang Mansion. In a big battle, Gao Yongchang was defeated and fled to Changsong Island with 5,000 horsemen. Liaoyang Prefecture surrendered in Kaesong. The tart also caught Gao Yongchang to offer, and dragged out the beheading... So in May 1116, the Great Liao Tokyo Province officially fell!

In the battle of Song and Xia this year, the Song army broke through the two cities of Renduoquan and Zangdihe, and slaughtered the city. The new Zhenwu Castle was built. The old land of the Song Dynasty was all in the Song Dynasty. In November, in retaliation for the Song army's slaughter of the two cities, tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the Western Xia attacked Jingxia City on Jingyuan Road, and also slaughtered the city.

On January 11, 1117, the commander of the palace, Gao Yu, was appointed as a lieutenant.

Everyone has the impression that Gao Taiwei is a demon character who is despicable, shameless, cowardly and cruel, and he is taller than Cai Jingjing on the list of villains in "Water Margin", ranking first in the Northern Song Dynasty! But in real history, he is really only as evil as possible...

Gao Yu has no diploma and is self-taught, according to the analysis, his "talent" should be very good, because he can do some copying and writing work under Su Shi, the first writer of the Northern Song Dynasty. With the talent of Dongpo. How can you tolerate the presence of someone who writes ugly and crudely? Therefore, Gao Yu's speech and writing ability are at least above those of the Chinese.

Su Shi liked Gao Yu very much, and before he was expelled from the capital to become an official in other places, he recommended Gao Yu to other high-ranking officials. The first is Zengbu. But unfortunately, Zeng Bu said that he had enough people at hand, so he had to find another home. Gao Yu took refuge with Wang Xu, the commander of the horses. This is an incompetent colt, Wang Xu's life is too fragrant, attracting bees and butterflies all day long, and the eldest princess of Shu is angry to death. As a result, Song Shenzong was furious, and the princess had just been buried. Immediately remove Wang Shu from his post. But this did not delay the personal friendship between Wang Shu and Zhao Ji. The two are masters of painting in the Song Dynasty clan, and they can't afford to be together for 25 hours a day...

One day, Wang Shu sent Gao Yu to give Duan Wang Zhao Ji a grate knife for combing his hair, when Zhao Ji was playing football. Gao Yu's opportunity came, he looked intently, and saw that the future emperor took the initiative to ask him: What do you see, will you kick? Don't be too good at kicking! That day, he played at a super level and kicked Zhao Ji into a football friend, and he couldn't do without him every day. Since then, he has become Zhao Ji's confidant. When Zhao Ji ascended the throne, he followed the chicken dog to heaven and became the highest official of the front division of the palace.

Since then, the army of the Northern Song Dynasty has changed its taste. Specifically, Gao Yu regarded the national army as his own engineering team. Build him a house and a garden. It became a handicraft workshop, and the soldiers processed utensils and transported them to other places to sell. As a follower, I don't train every day. Walk around with him. He also confiscated his military salary, had no source of livelihood, and forced the soldiers to engage in all kinds of extra work to support their families... In the process. The forbidden army in the Northern Song Dynasty was finished, and the military quality was lost, and when the catastrophe came, although there were many people, there was no combat effectiveness at all!

On the other hand, Gao Yu seems to be very humane. He drank water and thought of the source, and always remembered the grace of Su Shi's recommendation. After Su Shi's death, whenever the children of the Su family entered Beijing, Gao Yu would take care of them in many ways.

So outside the military circles, it will always be said that Gao Taiwei is kind, Gao Taiwei is righteous, and Gao Taiwei does not forget his roots... In any case, Gao Yu is not hated. Even within the military circles, no one bared their teeth at him. Because of the so-called corruption of the forbidden army, rotting combat effectiveness and the like, it is not a precedent for him...

There is the Song generation, except for the period of the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin, the Beijing forbidden army won a hundred battles and shocked both inside and outside, and it was all over in the era of the big sluts. The Battle of Yanyun, the Northern Expedition of Yongxi... After these two super battles, the old bones of the forbidden army are gone, and the rest are young master soldiers! Every month, when the army leads the rations, they hire people to carry them home. What is there any hope for waste to be lazy to this point? As for letting officers and men do private work, it is not the patent of Gao Yu. During the Zhenzong and Renzong periods, there were many legends, such as which soldier brother had unique craftsmanship and made new things; Which soldier's brother was lucky, which commander ran long distances, and how much money he earned... There are too many things, strictly speaking, Gao Yu's damage to the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is at most worse, and he insists on buttoning the hat of the rotten army to his head, I really don't know what to do...

This month, the Jin army captured Chunzhou and Taizhou. Its strategic intention is directly aimed at the Shangjing Road of the Great Liao Kingdom! Following the fall of Tokyo Province, the most fundamental part of the Great Liao Kingdom was directly threatened by the Great Liao Province!

On February 5th, the Great Song Dynasty canonized Duan Zhengchun's son Duan Heyu (this person's surname is Duan Honor in "Tianlong Babu", I really don't understand why Mr. Jin Yong wants to eat the word "and" for him) as the envoy of Yunnan Jiedu and the king of Dali.

On the 6th, the last immortal who collected the greatest achievements finally made a grand appearance - Lin Lingsu. If anyone has to surpass him, I am afraid that there is only the "immortal" who appeared at the most critical moment in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is the "immortal", and it is by no means the legendary barbaric and unstoppable alien people, the open capital of the Han people!

Lin Lingsu is a native of Wenzhou, Jiangnan. It's just that the best Taoist priest in the future, he was actually a monk at the beginning? He worshipped a monk as a teacher and studied Buddhism. But Lin Lingsu's luck is too "bad"? The monk master was a pure violent. Beat and scold all day long. In a fit of rage, he decided to transfer schools!

In his youth, Lin Lingsu left his hometown and went to Shuchuan to study with a famous Taoist Zhao Sheng. After that, the supernatural powers are great, but they are still worried about survival. If he had no money to pay the bill after drinking, he was embarrassed and embarrassed, so he raised his hand and slapped himself hard... The slap was drawn, and the onlookers were all stupid. I saw that the flesh and skin on the left side of his face, which he had been slapped, was all gone, and he became a dry bone skeleton, but the right side of his face was the same as normal!

With such a supernatural spirit, he was soon escorted into the capital to meet the emperor. When they met, Zhao Ji was in a trance, and he didn't know what to do, he blurted out, "Aiqing, have you ever been an official?" Have you ever seen me" The emperor took the initiative to pull the relationship, and the fool will catch it, right? Lin Lingsu smiled, "Yes, Your Majesty." The minister served the Jade Emperor back then, and he had seen His Majesty "He caught it, but it was pulled to the sky. The two met in heaven...

Zhao Ji was even more in a trance, and he really entered the state. Then he asked, "I remember when you rode a green cow, and now what about the cow" Lin Lingsu did not hesitate, "The cow is fostered in a foreign country, and it will be sent over in two days."

The evil sect is: within a few days, the Goryeo Kingdom really paid tribute to a green ox... What else is there to say about this! The green ox was given to Lin Lingsu, and from this moment on, he could ride the green ox every day and enter the palace in a grand manner! Just this scene, everyone who saw it trembled in their hearts. I ask you: Who is the person who rides the green ox in Taoism? As we all know, it is the supreme patriarch of Taoism, Li Er, that is, Taishang Laojun!

The next thing to do is all what the previous supernatural people have done, but he can do better, and the previous supernatural people want to do things that they shrink their heads into. First things first: rainfall. In the end, Wang Zaixi's rain in front of him was a brain teaser, and he played tricks to fly immortals, which benefited Zhao Ji personally. Political consciousness is very high, but the rain does not fall at all... Strictly speaking, Wang Tsaixi failed.

But Lin Lingsu really rained. It was still that drought, Zhao Ji continued to ask for rain, and asked for Lin Lingsu, an old acquaintance in the sky. In the face of difficulties, Lin Lingsu also shook his head, "This is the heavens, that is, what your father meant, is not to let it rain in Kyushu." For this purpose, even all the rivers in the world have cast spells to imprison them," Zhao Ji was shocked.

Lin Lingsu changed his words: "At present, there is still a big river that is not banned, but it is useless." It's the Yellow River, and there is too much sediment in the water, even if it goes, it's not good for the crops" Zhao Ji let out a long breath, do thirsty people still carry water to drink? Where there's water, it's done! Whatever it is!

So Lin Lingsu took the stage to do it, and sure enough, the rain poured down, but after the rain, there was a yellow mud in the sky and on the ground, not to mention that the crops couldn't be drunk, and even the streets had to be cleaned...

Second: Fighting Method! Maybe you don't know the way, right? The Song Huizong Dynasty was a Taoist paradise. But Zhao Ji's eldest son Zhao Huan, the future of His Majesty Song Qinzong, is actually a Buddhist believer. The future His Majesty is trustworthy and pious, and seeing that the monks on the land of Shenzhou are becoming scarcer and rarer, and wigs are being sold more and more, he can't help but feel angry: Aren't the Taoist priests just powerful? Can they be as great as the Bodhisattvas of the Heavens and the Arhats? Actions speak louder than words! Under the order of "Fighting Method", his son sent a great monk, and Lao Tzu sent Lin Lingsu!

Limited to the information, the specific process cannot be verified, but the result is very definite: the monk lost completely, the son not only was his faith hurt and his face was disgraced, but even the most basic request was rejected!

The son said, "The fighting method is in the fairy world, and the punishment is in the mortal world, even if the monk loses, there is no need to punish it" But Lin Lingsu doesn't do it, what he wants is to win or lose, that is, high and low, he must be punished! So the monk was put in prison... At this moment, he can be regarded as offending the then crown prince and future majesty! But he is not afraid, the third thing he does has to do with politics! Not to mention the crown prince, even the emperor's face and the political affairs of the empire, Lin Shenxian dares to interfere! I'll introduce this later...

Let's look at another thing: On the 17th, Lin Shenxian ascended the altar and said! Zhao Ji's recognition of Lin Shenxian continued to escalate. Soon after, he let Lin Shenxian come to the front of the people, making it possible for him to become the spiritual mentor of the Great Song Dynasty! (To be continued......)