Xunyang is a blessed land. There was once a scholar who went to the top of the city after drinking and said that he was sleepy-eyed.

Xunyang and Xiangyang are both located in the territory of Cangzhou in the northwest of Zhongzhou, and the emperor is far away. Xunyang has been established for 400 years, and on the border between Qiyang and the Northern Desert, it has witnessed too many changes in honor and disgrace.

Four hundred years ago, the founding emperor of Qiyang and the emperor of the Northern Desert fought a decisive battle in the northwest, a big battle was fought for four years without a victory, so he had to shake hands and make peace, Qiyang set up Jiuyuan City, the two sides could not afford to make an alliance, the history is called "Huangsha Alliance". This pact lasted for a long time, because of the extremely frequent natural disasters at that time and the years of war that followed the fall of the Peng Dynasty, both sides urgently needed to be recuperated for a long time. As a result, Kuhara Castle became a symbol of peace. In the next two hundred years, due to the existence of the covenant, the two sides really chose to forbear and stand still, and Jiuyuan City did not listen to the iron hooves and war drums.

However, for the Bei people, the environment here is really too harsh. In the north, the desert in the hinterland occupies nearly forty percent of the country's land area, and the desert has no food and water sources, so the people cannot survive, and the same is true in the vast eastern region, where the perennial tundra makes it difficult to resist the grain. What can really make the Bei people live with peace of mind is only nearly 20% of the land near the Keel Mountain. The keel mountain is located in the west of the north, across the north and south, its east side is a narrow savanna area, here is very suitable for the northern people to hunt and migrate, its west side is the most suitable for the north tribe to survive a small piece of land, perennial by the ocean breeze from the west, here can form precipitation, can also grow live grain, get a good harvest. Including the capital city of Shangjing, where nearly seventy percent of the population of the Northern Nationality and the state city are gathered, it is a veritable "Tianfu" among the Northern Population.

But even if the land is fertile, it is still too small compared to the population. From 30,000 people 200 years ago to 400,000 people 200 years later, how could only one Tianfu be completely raised? When the Northern Clan was at its most turbulent, mountains of bones could be seen everywhere outside the city. It is not uncommon for refugees to starve to death if they are not allowed to enter the city, and it is not uncommon for people in the city to throw their bodies outside the city. The enlistment age of the Northern Clan has changed from eighteen years old at the beginning to ten years old later, and how many people who want to enter the barracks to beg for food can survive? If you can't support your family, you might as well be sent to the battlefield to fend for yourself...... This is the original words of the Northern people at that time, and it is also a portrayal of the most difficult years.

And so the war broke out as a matter of course. Two hundred years after the first alliance between the two dynasties, the covenant broke down, and the North Court knocked on the gate. At that time, when the Northern Emperor led the more than 200,000 hungry troops behind him, he said, "My Northern Clan has every inch of land and sand, and if I don't go to war today, I will die tomorrow." Don't blame me, the 260,000 troops behind me will either die in battle or starve, and I have come to Zhongzhou to find our new hometown. ”

On the side of Qiyang, at that time, a generation of Tianjiao, Emperor Taiwu served all his national strength, gathered 600,000 troops to the north to resist, and the two sides fought in the sandy land further north from today's Xiangyang, and the battle was fought in the dark. The Northern Army was once the most courageous army, and at its peak, it was known as one armor breaking six armors, and 10,000 hit 80,000. But at that time, more than 200,000 soldiers of the Northern Clan were about to starve to death, but in the end, they did not win against Qiyang's 600,000 soldiers, and Qiyang defeated the Northern Dynasty miserably. After this battle, the direction of Zhongzhou after a hundred years was basically laid, Qiyang opened the city in this place, and it took seven years to build the Great Wall-like Xiangyang, saying that it would be stationed forever to guard the elite soldiers. The two dynasties, like the first war, were both greatly damaged, the Northern tribe was defeated and retreated, and Qiyang was not much better. Huangsha, the north town of Xiangyang City, after which Huanghuang could not afford to fight, and there was nothing to do for two hundred years.

After Emperor Taiwu, there was finally a long-term peace without war. However, for the first Xiangyang guard general and Emperor Qiyang, no one is really down-to-earth, after all, this ethnic group living in the north was once too strong and brave, and every large-scale war will exhaust Qiyang's national strength. And for the two dynasties, two hundred years seems to be a reincarnation, the last two hundred years came to an end, the northern people broke the kettle, and their backs hit the south, so what about this two hundred years later? Since Emperor Taiwu established Xiangyang, it is a fact that he can't afford to fight, but it is also a fact that there are many small disturbances like pomegranates. No wonder the world says that the north is inhabited by a pack of wolves, and when they have the opportunity to bite it, it is a piece of meat.

But the world also says that the Great Wall of Xiangyang is ironclad, and the wolf's teeth can't be bitten.

After the iron wall, there is Jiuyuan, which is now Xunyang.

It is also fortunate that the wind and sand of the Northern Desert for thousands of miles have been honest here. At that time, with Jiuyuan as the boundary, the north looked at the rolling yellow sand, and the white bones were accumulated; Looking south at the ancient country of thousands of miles, Haiyan is leveling. A river flows through Sanzhou, and the people of Xunyang call Xunshui, feeding millions of people and 100,000 soldiers and horses in the northern line. It is no wonder that the Northern Emperor led his army across the desert to seize this city; It is no wonder that Emperor Taiwu returned from the northern expedition to the south, looking at this river, he would have the feeling of "it looks like a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, why not be a merry city in the northwest". In the same way, Jiuyuan changed its name to Xunyang.

The resolute man had just finished winning the battle, and returned with the few remaining soldiers and horses, looking at this jade belt flowing endlessly, and casually said to the generals around him: "Beimo lost this time, but it is far from being a broken muscle, and the battle is still fought." We won, and we will always win, and our ambitions will always be strangled. ”

General Han Qi led the horse forward, nodded and said: "One day, this border city will no longer hear the iron hooves and war drums, just like the perennial peaceful Jiangnan." ”

Emperor Taiwu laughed, galloped along the river, and rode his horse to the west wind.

Xunyang Xunshui, which is a piece of fat paste in the eyes of the Northern people, if it were not for the heroic martial arts strategy of the two generations of emperors, I am afraid that Xunyang would have already turned away.

After the war stopped, relying on the heavenly barrier Xiangyang, Xunyang developed. A large number of businessmen flocked here from all over Zhongzhou, dragging their families, flying eagles and rabbits, and playing tricks...... Xunyang has been lively since then. There are also big businessmen with good roads, bringing a large number of nanmu and ceramics purchased from the mainland over the mountains and mountains, leading chariots and horses across the border. Enter the north, cross the yellow sand, and exchange for valuable pearls and keels from the hands of the Bei people...... They then transported these back to Zhongzhou to sell, and the profits were so abundant that the wealthy merchants in the East China Sea also coveted them.

As a result, with the influx of foreign businessmen and tariffs, Xunyang has gradually developed from a border town to a big city lit up all night. At the same time, the Northern Shang Gang, led by Xunyang, also faintly had a tendency to compete with the Shangzhou and the Imperial Capital Shangjiuliu Chamber of Commerce near the East China Sea. A scene that I didn't dare to imagine a hundred years ago, in the land where the drums of war shook the sky in the past, there were camel bells since then.

Over the past two hundred years, to this day, what has made the hearts of the people of the three northwestern states stable, in addition to Xiangyang, the name of Xunyang has also begun to become more and more loud.

Xunyang, which has prospered, in the face of the cliché Wenxing phenomenon, a temple, a tower and a high-rise building, is unexpectedly not as vulgar as imagined. After the reconstruction of Xunyang, there were business travelers everywhere, and officials and businessmen colluded, and it was almost impossible to find a master who feared the gods. Think about the era when even the city lord changed his way to do business in disguise, wasn't the jade tile high-rise building made of rotten and smelly people's hearts? So there is a very interesting phenomenon, the more ungodly and unthinking people, the higher and more expensive the Buddha's head will be, as for those portals that enshrine several gilded Buddhas or Huangmu Heavenly Masters, how much incense do they have to burn to suppress the evil things they commit?

What made this phenomenon better was a respected old monk more than a hundred years later. Legend has it that there is night in front of him, and there are hundreds of ghosts behind him, and he walks in the night with fire. After the monks traveled through Zhongzhou, they practiced in Xunyang. The city is full of ghosts, and the bell will ring at once, and the hearts of the people in the city will be purified in ten years. Later, after the old monk left Xunyang, someone built the first temple and pagoda in Xunyang.

As for the Qilin Tower, which is known as a collection of 100,000 volumes, it is said that it was secretly ordered to be built by the former emperor of Qiyang 30 years ago...... Located next to Xunshui, located on the side of the city lord's mansion, it is a treasure trove that makes anyone greedy. However, for decades, none of the countless martial artists who wanted to sneak into the building to steal books have ever come out alive, either disappeared, or were fed wild dogs outside the city, but they added a bit of indescribable deterrence to this library.

In addition to the prosperity of business and the prosperity of literature led by towers, temples, and high-rise buildings. The beautiful scenery of Xunyang is also famous in Zhongzhou. Xunyang maple beauty, when autumn comes, a tree maple leaves are crowded together, falling in the sunset, sliding to the ground in a dazzling manner, as if it is raining a grand red snow, the beauty makes people forget to breathe.

Xunyang is full of maple trees, and when the wind comes, the city is full of maple trees, as if it is snowing. The "Maple Snow City" or "Wind Snow City" rumored by outsiders is not clear if it is rumored too much, but after all, it is said that it is good.

As a result, the scenery here attracted thousands of literati, including many talented people from the imperial capital of Chang'an. A leaf of red maple falls, and everything is on the mind. They came with joy and departed with sorrow.

In the maple of Xunyang City, some maple leaves are special, with a light fragrance, some people use boiling water to pass it through, dry it, smoke some spices sent from the northern region, and then sew it with needle and thread, it is made into a small maple lamp, which is a special product of Xunyang. Every year in the Mid-Autumn Festival, such lanterns are hung all over the city. It is also loved by the merchants, because it is unique, the road is far away, and it is not easy to preserve, and the maple leaf maple lamp can often be sold at a good price when it is carried to the mainland. Therefore, there are many places in Zhongzhou where you can see the figure of maple lanterns, and there are many large households.

There is also the sunset here, perhaps because of the pass, which brings a solemn atmosphere. When the weather is good, when you climb the tower, you can see a huge red sun sinking close to the horizon, and even the clouds are dyed red in the sky. Suddenly, the wind rose, and a layer of hazy sand rose on the desert, half-covering the sunset. The wind and sand linger, and the wild eagles rise and fall thousands of miles away......

If sometimes the horn between heaven and earth sounds, it is the soldiers and horses of Xiangyang who go out of the customs and enter the customs.

At this time, it is good to have poetry.

Wine is even better.

The ancients once said that "the desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the sun sets on the long river", or "in the thousands of mountains, the long smoke and the sunset are closed in the lonely city"......

Probably nothing more than that.