Cheng Yin and Qi Ji were all in tears, and they couldn't bear to look at it, so they both walked over and grabbed Xin Zan's arm, led the horse, and walked slowly forward first.

Suddenly, I heard Xin Zan chant word by word:

"Since ancient times, there have been ripples of affection, and righteousness has always been full of thorns.

Righteousness is floating in the world, and blood is boiling in the world. ”

The steps are faltering, the voice is whimpering, the pathos is between heaven and earth, swaying in the wind.

After walking a long way like this, Xin Zan let Chengyin help him on the horse.

The grandfather didn't say much for a while, but he slowed down the horse, and was hurrying to himself, when he suddenly heard a loud noise behind him, and when he looked back, it was Wan Yanliang's team of men and horses galloping over. Xin Zan was taken aback and ordered urgently: "Let's hurry up and flash to the side, try to stay as far away as possible, don't stare at it!" And signaled to become silver, and the good life took care of the disease, and did not act rashly.

As he spoke, he had already arrived, and the grandfather flashed aside. There were eight guards in front of and behind this group, all mighty and majestic, two in a row, very neat, galloping past the eyes of the three men. The person in the center is dressed in a light yellow dragon robe, with a jade belt around his waist, and a bowled felt hat, about thirty years old, tall and majestic, and he should be the emperor of the Jin Dynasty. Riding a tall horse, with a bird's neck and elephant back, a long body and a thin waist, and an unusually strong man. There were two white spots on the horse's face that went straight from the left and right sides of the forehead to the mouth and teeth, and under the blue and black coat of the body, they became a little more vicious.

Seeing the people walking away, Cheng Yin asked Xin Zan: "Wan Yanliang should be bringing Princess Wulinda back to Yanjing today, why did he go to the northeast at this time?" ”

Xin Zan pondered for a moment and replied: "He may have hurried back in a hurry because of the difference in the princess just now, in order to prevent Yan Yong's change. This person is decisive and does not hesitate, and he is really a powerful character.

"You see that he is riding, all blue and black, with white spots on his forehead, and it is a famous horse horse, called 'Lu', also known as 'Yu Yan'. This horse has the fastest foot, but it has always been regarded as a fierce horse, and Liu Yiqing in the Southern Song Dynasty recorded in the "New Words of the World" that "the slave passengers died, and the master abandoned the city". However, during the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei insisted on taking advantage of it with the idea that "mortals have a life and a life, how can a horse interfere with it", and once fell into the water of Tanxi in the west of Xiangyang City, he relied on Lu Ma to get by, so it is known that it may not be true that he interferes with the master. Wan Yanliang is pretentious and has always acted unscrupulously, so he naturally doesn't care about this. ”

After traveling about 500 miles, he came to the city of Yuguan on this day.

Yuguan, a Yuguan, also known as Linlu Pass, Linyu Pass, Linyu Pass, it is located at the east end of Yanshan Mountain to the north, south of the Bohai Sea, choke the west entrance of the West Liaoning Corridor, is the land of natural locks, the boundary of Hebei and Liao.

The circumference of the city wall is ten miles, the city is five zhang high, and the thickness is two zhang two. The south and north ends of the east wall are connected with the Great Wall as the main line, and the southeast and northeast corner platforms are built, and the corner towers are built on them. The city gates are placed in the east, west, north and south: the east is 'Zhendong', the west is 'Ying'en', the south is 'Wangyang', and the north is 'Weiyuan'. The city gate tower is built on the four gates of the city platform, and there is an urn city outside of it, and the door is opened on the side. All the city tower buildings, are all brick and wood structure, set up the top of the heavy eaves of the mountain, the top ridge double kiss symmetrical four-corner cornice, the top is decorated with the ridge beasts of different forms, the shape is beautiful, lifelike.

Luocheng has two water gates in the north and south, and there are moats and sanitation on its northeast and south sides.

Guancheng south and north two miles respectively set up wing city, the shape is the same as Guancheng, look at it from afar, the wall is high and the city is wide.

There is Kuiguang Building in the southeast corner of Guancheng, and there is Weiyuan Hall in the northeast corner. There are two corners in the north and south of Dongluo City, respectively, there are two floors of pastoral camp and Linlu. In the center of Guancheng, there is a bell and drum tower with a height of two zhang and seven feet, five zhang square, and four holes in the heart.

The three of them stood and watched for a long time, and they couldn't help but admire in their hearts: What a Xiongguan fortress!

Xin Zan was very emotional, turned his head to Chengyin, abandoned the disease and said: "This pass is the barrier between the Central Plains and the outside of the plug. When the Han and Tang dynasties were strong, the Central Plains not only had this pass, but also covered a large area of land outside the Central Plains. In the last years of the Later Tang Dynasty, Zhao Dejun guarded Lulong, Shi Jingjiao rebelled in Taiyuan, and asked for help from the Khitan, Yelu Deguang allowed it, and his mother said after the law: "If Lu Long's army goes north to Yuguan, it is urgent to return it, and Taiyuan cannot be saved." Since the Later Liang Qianhua period, Yuguan was finally taken by the Khitan, and there were also large areas of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

"Xue Juzheng later said about this: 'Yuguan is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the land is connected to the north. From the north of Yuguan to the entrance of the cow, eight defenders were placed in the past, and soldiers were recruited to guard it, and the Khitan did not dare to enter lightly. And the Jin king Li Cunqiao took Youzhou, so that Zhou Dewei was the envoy of the festival, Dewei was brave, did not repair the border preparations, and lost the danger of Chongqing. The Khitan herdsmen in the two states of Ying and Ping, which are great border troubles. ’

"Now that the Jin State not only occupies this pass, but also occupies the Central Plains north of the Huai River, it is even more difficult for the Great Song Dynasty to restore the strong and prosperous appearance of the Han and Tang dynasties. However, it is up to man to plan things and things to succeed, and we must be ready to recover the land no matter what. ”

After the Chongqing Pass, to the northeast is the western section of the Liaoxi Corridor, the terrain is dangerous, it was once the location of the ancient Jieshi, so the historian also called it "Jieshi Road".

At this time, the winter is getting deeper, the grass north of Yanshan is withered and the eagle is flying, the sky is high and the clouds are light, Xin Zan's eyes are full of endless emptiness and vastness, thinking that he will never see his daughter Cui'e again, and there is a fierce pain in his heart, gushing out of endless misery and loneliness.

Cheng Yin couldn't bear to look at Xin Zan who was too sad for a while, and deliberately diverted the topic and said: "The north of Yanjing has been Hudi since ancient times, and it rarely belongs to the Central Plains, and Yanshan is the boundary between the enemy and us. ”

Xin Zan thought that his daughter was no longer lucky, and the future was blocked and long, and the grandfathers and grandfathers had their own responsibilities, so they should take care of each other all the way, and they didn't want to blow Chengyin's mind, so they said: "Since the Xia and Shang dynasties in the north of Yanshan, although the situation of each dynasty and generation is different, most of the time it belongs to the Central Plains. The ninth year of Zhaogong has 'Su Shen, Yan, Bo, my northern soil also'.

"To the north of Yanshan, there is the Liao River, which has always been called Liaodi, I don't know whether the land is named after the river, or the river is named after the place. In the summer and Shang periods, it was called Youzhou and Yingzhou, and the Zhou was sealed as the Yan State, and the two counties of Liaodong and Liaoxi were placed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. To Qin, it is placed in Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Youbeiping counties. In the Western Han Dynasty, this place belonged to Youzhou, and Xuansu County was added; The Eastern Han Dynasty added Liaodong vassal states, and the Western Jin Dynasty belonged to Pingzhou. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this place was under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou.

"In the Sui period, it was Liaodong County, Liucheng County, and Yan County, and in the Tang Dynasty, it belonged to Hebei Province, and the Andong Protectorate was set up, and the Sui and Tang dynasties repeatedly conquered Goguryeo here. Although the Sui Dynasty cannot be said to have declined because of this, the recklessness of the army here is also one of the main reasons. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once personally conquered Liaodong, and the famous generals Li Tao, Xue Rengui, Su Dingfang, Xue Wanche, etc., all fought here, and finally destroyed Goguryeo and recovered it in one fell swoop. Later, the Tang Dynasty weakened, and the Khitan Xing developed and gained a foothold here, becoming the middle of the Liao Kingdom, which belonged to Tokyo Road, Shangjing Road, Zhongjing Road, and Xiajing Road. Today, Jin extinguishes Liao, most of which belongs to the jurisdiction of Tokyo Road, and the rest belong to Xianping Road, Shangjing Road, and Beijing Road.

"Further north of the above-mentioned Liaodi, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Northern Classic of the Great Wilderness" contains 'In the great wilderness, there are mountains whose names are not salty, and there are countries of prudence'. Buxian Mountain is Changbai Mountain, and once used the name Gaima Mountain, Xitai Mountain, Taibai Mountain, to Liao history called Changbai Mountain. The surrounding area of Changbai Mountain is the ancient Su Shen land. And now the Jin Jurchen is not only a cautious descendant, but also a pioneer in the meantime. "The Bamboo Book Chronicle: Five Emperors" contains the 25th year of Emperor Shun's 'Xi Shen came to the dynasty', and according to the Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Zheng Xuan's note, 'Xi Shen' is Su Shen in the Northeast Yi, and it is 'the great power of the Northeast since Yu and Xia'. Sima Qian said in his "Records of the Five Emperors" that 'Shanrong, hair, and rest...... The merits of Xiandai Di Shun within the four seas', that is, it is determined that the people of 'Xi Shen (Su Shen)" have supported Di Shun together with 'within the four seas'.

"The Jurchens and Khitans were born nomadic and lived without a fixed residence, and the division of land occupied was not obvious, but it was roughly as described above. It's just that the Khitans started earlier than the Jurchens, and the founding of the country was before the Great Song Dynasty.

In fact, since ancient times, there have been nomads such as the Xiongnu, Sushen, and Donghu in the north who confronted the north and south of the Central Plains Dynasty. The Xiongnu are in the northwest, Donghu is in the northeast, and Sushen is still in the north of the two. Before the Tang Dynasty, the Xiongnu were the most powerful, and after the Tang Dynasty, the Donghu took their place. Now the Jurchens are domineering, but they are cautious from outside the two.

According to legend, when Xia died, one of the descendants of Ji fled to the north and continued to conquer and annex, thus giving rise to the Xiongnu. At the beginning, the Xiongnu and Donghu stood side by side, and later the Xiongnu defeated Donghu as the northern hegemon, and then continued to invade the Central Plains. Its courage and fierceness, in and out of impermanence, to the pre-Qin northern countries and Qin and the two Han Dynasty, have brought a deep crisis, the Central Plains had to build the Great Wall to protect it. Until the Northern Expedition of the Dou Gu brothers in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huns declined and were divided into two parts: the north and the south. The south belongs to the Han Dynasty, lives in the Hetao, and is the border of the Han Dynasty. After the Northern Xiongnu were defeated and moved westward.

"Five hundred years later, the Turks entered from the west, and the Central Plains killed each other, that is, the descendants of the Northern Xiongnu, the Book of Zhou" contained that 'the Turks, the other species of the Xiongnu, the surname Ashina.' In the Sui and Tang dynasties, good life was rampant.

After the Southern Xiongnu were attached to Cao Cao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were divided into five departments, and when the Wuhu entered the Central Plains, they established the Han and Zhao respectively. And after being destroyed by the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was integrated into Goryeo together with the Xianbei of the Yuwen clan, and has disappeared since then.

From Shang to the Western Han Dynasty, Donghu also entrenched in the north of Yan and Zhao, but later was defeated by the Xiongnu, and the rest of the troops gathered in Wuhuan Mountain and Xianbei Mountain, divided into Wuhuan and Xianbei. Later, Wuhuan attached to the Southern Xiongnu into the Han Dynasty, and after being conquered by Cao Cao, he lived with other people, called 'Zahu'. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Helian Bobo, a 'Tiefu' person of Wuhuan blood, established Huxia, and there was also a Karasuma Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty, which was later destroyed.

"After Wuhuan surrendered to the Han Dynasty, Xianbei took advantage of the situation, and the surrounding Murong Department, Rouran, Yuwen Department, and Tuoba Department took refuge with each other, and during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was prosperous. The Murong tribe successively established the former Yan, the latter Yan, the Western Yan and the Southern Yan, and the Tuoba clan established the Northern Wei Dynasty. One of the Murong tribes went west in the Sui Dynasty and became Tuyuhun, which was later wiped out by the Tubo.

"The Rouran branch in Xianbei, which was originally attached to the Tuoba tribe and once rampant in Mobei, was defeated by the Turks and decomposed into two branches, the north and the south. Nowadays, the ancestors of the Mongols, the Mengwu Murwei, came from its northern branch, the Khitans came from the southern branch, and the Dieshu Department in the Yuwen Department was one of the later 'Khitan Eight Divisions', and its descendants established the Liao State.

"Today's Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom are from the Xiongnu and Donghu outside of the Su Shen, known as 'Beji' in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, 'Heishui Jian' in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and 'Jurchen' since the Tang Dynasty.

"The Central Plains usually refers to these people around them as Beidi, Xihu, Donghu, Dongyi, Xirong, Nanban, etc., and their respective names are even more varied. Since the Xiongnu in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Qin and Han dynasties, the Xianbei in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Rouran in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Turks and Uighurs in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Khitan in the Five Dynasties, and the Jurchens today, they have fought with the Central Plains people inside and outside the boundaries of the Great Wall.

"Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it has been surrounded by foreign enemies, such as Liao, Western Xia, Jin, etc. Against Liao and Western Xia, they can also attack and defend each other, and sometimes have a slight upper hand. But he didn't know much about Jin, Tong Guan actually joined forces to destroy Liao and lure the wolf into the house, so that Jingkang's difficulty was so painful? ”

When Xin Zan said this, he clenched his fists and choked his wrists, deeply regretted, and turned his face to abandon the disease and said: "You are in the northern country, assassination and rebellion are still secondary, and the first task is to carefully observe the enemy's situation to ensure that you know yourself and your opponent in the future, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles." ”

Abandon the disease and nod yes. From then on, he kept in mind his grandfather's advice, not only did he do everything possible to collect the internal economic, political, and military trends of the Jin State, as well as the geographical situation of the mountains and rivers, and prepared sufficient strategic plans for the army against Jin, but also accurately predicted that the Mongols would rise and that Jin would die at his hands within 60 years. He later wrote books such as "Ten Treatises on Mei Qin" and "Nine Discussions", which shocked the world and eventually became the Guigao of the anti-Jin Dynasty.