The whole picture has nothing to do with the offering map of the Buddha Gate, the tone is strange and tragic, there is a sense of tragedy and grandeur of the army pressing the realm, from the drawing of the war scene, it can also be seen that there are many white-haired soldiers, if it is not for the exhaustion of ammunition and food, the soldiers and horses are exhausted, and the white-haired soldiers will definitely not be allowed to go into battle to kill the enemy, this situation can occur, indicating that the defenders of the city have been ready to fight to the death, and the city is destroyed and people are going to die.

It can also be seen from the nearby people fleeing with their families that most of the Shazhou City can't be defended!

They found the vicinity of the two people who stopped to look into the distance, and could see that there was an ancient text beside them, which was written on the mural with arbitrary expression:

In the second year of Weishi Jingyou, on December 13 of Yihai, Zhao Xingde, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, traveled to Hexi, suitable for Shazhou. Now the edge of the foreign thieves to cover the attack, the land is disturbed, the monks of the Dayun Temple and others moved the Bible in the Mogao Grottoes, and hidden in the wall, so the heart, respectfully wrote a volume of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and placed it in the cave, wishing that the dragon and the sky are eight parts, the long is for the protection, the city god is safe, and the people are healthy; I hope that the little lady in Ganzhou will inherit this good cause, not drown in the netherworld, and the karma of this world will be eliminated, and she will be blessed immeasurably, and she will be provided for forever.

Seeing this, Song Siyuan understood the taste, and the doubts in her eyes gradually became clear: "If that's the case, I think I understand why these murals are painted here." ”

In the middle of the words, she picked up a flashlight to illuminate the ancient texts written on the paint, and explained: "The meaning of these ancient texts is ......"

In the second year of Jingyou, on December 13 of the year of Yihai, Zhao Xingde, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, traveled to the Hexi Corridor and happened to live in Shazhou City.

At this time, the foreign enemy suddenly brought the enemy army to invade the city, and civil riots began to occur in the sandbar area, and the situation became extremely chaotic.

In order to make a wish, I also carefully copied a copy of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and put it in the mezzanine cover hole, the first hope that the eight ministers of the heavenly dragon will be the protector and bless the Shazhou city god and the people are peaceful, and the second hope that the little lady in Ganzhou will not have to fall into the underworld because of my good deeds of copying the scriptures and books, and all the karmic disasters she will experience in this life will be eliminated together, and then she will enjoy all the blessings of the world and be provided for forever.

Song Siyuan explained the meaning of the ancient text, basically clear the origin of the grotto in front of him, it is estimated that some monks in the Song Dynasty, in order to protect the many classics and scriptures of Buddhism, directly built a mezzanine in the grotto, and hid the things, a Song Dynasty man named Zhao Xingde, hired craftsmen to create a new painting on the mural, and recorded this historical event.

"Now? A man and a woman on this hill refer to Zhao Xingde and the little lady in Ganzhou, so the owners of this picture are probably the two of them. ”

"If there is really a treasure of Buddhism, then where are these scriptures?" Xu Xiake glanced at the mural and asked curiously.

Song Siyuan nodded and looked at everyone: "There is very little information on the mural, only mentioning that there is a foreign invasion on the sandbank, and the writing is very vague, but according to the year, you can know what happened at that time." ”

Speaking of this, Song Siyuan pointed to the date: "Judging from the date, the enemy army invaded the sandbar in the second year of Jingyou, and it was already the era of the Great Song Dynasty, I roughly estimated that the years used by Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong were Tiansheng, Mingdao, Jingyou, Baoyuan, Kangding, Qingli, Huangyou, Zhihe, and Jiayou, and the name Jingyou was used for a total of five years, from 1034 to 1038 AD, the second year of Jingyou was probably the transition year between 1035 and 1036. ”

"It is equivalent to saying that the exact time when they hid the scriptures was probably during the reign of Zhao Zhen of Renzong of the Song Dynasty."

At that time, the outside world of Zhao and Song was indeed undergoing drastic changes, and what was related to the Tibetan scriptures was the fall of the Guiyi Army.

Going back, when Wang Daoshi introduced the Tubo Futu in Hexi, he once told the story of the Tubo occupation of Hexi, among them, it mentioned the story of Zhang Yichao's family reviving the Tang Dynasty and defending Hexi, but at that time I didn't have time to elaborate.

After the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo took advantage of the elite of Hexi to enter the Guanguan to quell the rebellion, cut off the connection between the Hexi Corridor and Guanzhong, and after decades, gradually encroached on the Hexi Prefectures, and finally swallowed the Hexi Corridor.

Since then, Hexi has fallen to the enemy, and as mentioned earlier, the Tubo people's rule over the old land of Hexi is extremely simple and rude, abolishing some administrative structures and replacing them with a pastoral system, dividing Hexi into major pastoral areas and distributing them to the upper nobles of the Tubo State.

On this basis, the people of the Tang Dynasty in the old land of Hexi ushered in the most brutal rule.

According to the records of historical classics, in the Hexi prefectures ruled by Tibet, the young and strong became slaves, grazing and hunting and farming all day long, and the income was plundered by the nobles, and only part of the rations could be left to make ends meet.

This kind of rule can almost be regarded as a regression of civilization, and the people of Shazhou miss their homeland even more and refuse to obey the rule of Tubo, but at that time, the national strength of Tubo was strong, and the people of Shazhou rebelled against the rule many times, all of which were suppressed by the Tubo nobles and could not be freed.

It was not until the second year of Dazhong that the national strength of Tubo began to decline, coupled with the internal tilting of the Tubo aristocracy, their rule over Hexi was loosened, coinciding with the improvement of the national fortunes of the Tang Dynasty at this time, the Tang Emperor ordered Fengxiang Jiedu to make Cui Heng recover Fuzhou, Weizhou, Fuzhou and other places, and at the same time, also recovered Shimen, Yizang, Muxia, Tesheng, Liupan, Shixia, Xiaoguan and other seven passes.

The victories of the generals of the Tang Dynasty in the past two or three years not only made the imperial court see the favorable situation of the prosperity of the national fortunes, but also made the people realize that the general trend of Tubo has gone, and the people of Hexi have continuously resisted the rule of Tubo for decades, and finally saw a glimmer of victory in the rebellion.

They are waiting, waiting for a possible opportunity to recover Tang land in a few decades!

Soon, the opportunity came!

The generals were afraid of heat and took their 5,000 Tubo cavalry all the way from the Tubo Plateau down to the Hexi Corridor, and constantly harassed the eight prefectures of Hexi, such as Gua, Sha, Shan, Kuo, and Gan, in order to plunder wealth along the way.

The common people of Hexi were already very dissatisfied with the brutal rule of the Tibetan aristocracy, and because of the civil strife in Tubo, the behavior of Kong Re who continued to harass the people made the people of Hexi hate him so much that they could not get rid of their hatred by biting their silver teeth.

Zhang Yichao, a wealthy family who grew up in Shazhou, saw that the behavior of the Tibetan nobles and generals had already aroused the people's resentment, and in the second year of Dazhong, he scattered his wealth to recruit brave people, led them and the people of Shazhou, and launched an uprising in Shazhou City.

As the old saying goes, there is much help for the righteous, and there is little help for the unjust, Zhang Yichao is resolute and righteous, and his uprising responded to every call, and soon gathered a lot of heroes and heroes who rebelled against the Tibetan aristocracy, even if they were unarmed people, they were willing to pick up bows and arrows and knives and guns, and follow Zhang Yichao behind to protect the sandbar and fight against Tibet.

After a brave resistance, they expelled the Tibetan defenders located in the city of Shazhou, these Tubo troops did not expect that the Tang people, who had always been ravaged by them, would become so brave and humiliated, and these Tibetan generals continued to mobilize the surrounding forces, wanting to continue to attack the sandbar and punish the rebels.

How did they know that Zhang Yichao's rebellion was not a struggle for power and profit for each family, but a backwater battle for thousands of families to resist the enemy army and protect their home and country.

Subsequently, under the leadership of Zhang Yichao, all the women, children, and children in Shazhou followed the soldiers and horses to fight, and once again defeated Tubo.

After the recovery of Shazhou, Zhang Yichao immediately sent a messenger to Beijing to achieve victory, and transmitted the good news of the recovery of Shazhou to Chang'an, Guanzhong.

It's just that this really doesn't match Zhang Yichao's expectations!

What Zhang Yichao wants is the position of the envoy of the Anxi Jiedu, not only to control Guazhou and Shazhou, he has such a heart not to become the envoy of the feudal Jiedu to be the king and hegemon, but just to justify the name and recover the lost territory of Anxi for the Tang Court, and to make the name of the Jiedu, he can recruit more men and horses to crusade against the enemy army in the name of Fengzhengshuo.

His thoughts, the current reigning Tang Xuanzong is very clear, but the Tang Court is no longer the all-encompassing and heroic Tang Court before the Anshi Rebellion, the first consideration of this Tang Emperor is not whether he can recover the lost land, but whether he will raise a second "An Lushan" after the canonization of Zhang Yichao's envoy.

After all, Emperor Tang Ming trusted An Lushan, so he gave An Lushan the power to control the three towns of Heshuo, and in the end, An Lushan coerced the rebels in response, almost defeating half of the Tang Dynasty, and even Chang'an, where the royal family was located, was occupied by the rebels.

In this battle, although the Tang court put down the rebellion, it was like a strong man who had been released half of his blood, and he no longer had his former glory.

After the Anshi Rebellion, even if the Tang court has recovered Chang'an, it is already a great injury, leaving the successor emperor is no longer the Tang Dynasty, which has become the kingdom of heaven, but the people's livelihood is withering, and the national strength is declining.

Now, Zhang Yichao has really recovered Guazhou, but Tang Ting began to hesitate, as if they had the traumatic sequelae of the feudal envoys, and they did not dare to easily canonize the envoys of the festivals.

After that, even if Zhang Yichao successively recovered the four prefectures of Gua, Sha, Gan, and Liang, he failed to shake the Son of Heaven in Guanzhong, and never got the position of the envoy of Jiedu, but in his later years, he was forced to move to Chang'an as the proton of the Guiyi Army.

This, for Zhang Yichao, is difficult to calm down!