Chapter 102: Old Stories in the Old Garden
Besides, An Jingsi was accepted as a righteous son by Li Keyong because of his meritorious service in fighting tigers and saving drivers, given the name Li Cunxiao, and was named the Thirteenth Taibao, and Xue Atan was also named a general.
Li Siyuan praised: "Congratulations to my father and the king for having a righteous son, and also to the Thirteenth Taibao and General Xue!" When Li Cunmiao, Li Sizhao and others heard this, they also stepped forward to congratulate them, only Li Cun's confidence was a little unhappy, but he also followed everyone to Li Keyong, Li Cunxiao, and Xue Atan to say goodbye.
Li Keyong saw that the people had finished the celebration banquet, stood up again, and thanked Xu Zhi and the people of Jinzhou for their help, and the people also expressed their desire to keep the king of Jin for the New Year in Jinyang.
Li Cunxin also said: "Father, what the people said is that if it is freezing in the cold today, our army will march for a long time, and the grain and grass will not be able to help, so it is better to follow the advice of the fathers and elders, spend the New Year in this Jinyang City, and then march to Chang'an?"
Li Siyuan retorted: "The fourth brother's statement is fallacious! Now that Huang Shun's foothold in Chang'an is not stable, it is reported that the rebels are running out of food and grass, and they wantonly slaughter the people in the city, and the resentment of the people in Guanzhong is boiling.
Li Cunxin asked rhetorically: "As the eldest brother said, if our army advances all the way, it will be smooth, but if the entry is not smooth, there will be dangerous barriers in front of us, and there will be a big river blocking the road in the back, and our army will only have a few days of food and grass, won't the whole army be wiped out? Unless Xu Zhi can tell the secret in "Tui Bei Tu" and let us realize the success or failure of this trip, please think twice?"
Xu Zhi saw that Li Cunxin was extremely cunning, on the one hand, he wanted to ask the secret of "Tui Bei Tu" from his mouth, if he didn't allow it, he would definitely blame An Jingsi and others, saying that they were not sincere enough, so he smiled and said: "The four Taibao are too elevated Xu Zhi, the so-called Xu Zhi knows the secrets in "Tui Bei Tu" are all rumors in the rivers and lakes recently, King Jin must not believe it to be true, if Xu Zhi really knows the secret in the strange book, the court and Huang Wangyan can let it go?"
As soon as Xu Zhi finished speaking, Xue Atan also defended him: "King Jin, I, Xue Aniu, never tell lies, I can testify for Brother Xu, I have known him for the longest time, and he has also heard of "Tui Bei Tu", as for the secret, we are also looking for it everywhere!"
Li Cunxiao, angry, and stupid also hurriedly shook his head and said that he didn't know the secret in "Pushing Back Pictures".
Li Keyong nodded slightly at the four of them, and said with a smile: "In this case, please also ask a few people to assist Xu Shaoxia in finding out the secret in "Tui Bei Tu", and return it to the imperial court in the future to benefit the people of the world!"
Li Sizhao saw that Li Keyong had no interest in "Tui Bei Tu", and reminded: "Father, this "Tui Bei Tu" is a strange book in the world, which implies the fortunes of heroes in the past, doesn't my father want to know his fate?"
Li Keyong laughed and said: "Hei Zhao, a strange book can change the fortune of the world? Then what do you need princes and generals and loyal and righteous people to do? Those who have won the hearts of the people since ancient times will win the world, as long as we are determined, indomitable, and forge ahead, we will surely succeed!"
Li Sizhao saw that Li Keyong was ambitious, so he had no choice but to stop talking.
Seeing that the eldest brother and the fourth brother were still arguing over "whether to stay in Jinyang for the New Year", Li Cunqiao shouted: "Fourth brother, you are too cautious in doing things. My father has always warned the children: Since ancient times, heroes should make decisions on the spot, and how can they miss a good opportunity? Now that it is the depths of winter, and the river has long been blocked, why worry about the way out? Our army's morale is in full swing, and we should work hard to move forward, seize the pass in one fell swoop, enter the pass, and wipe out the grass and grass! Just as the so-called success, prince, and loser, why not make a gamble with the country's society?"
Li Keyong listened to Li Cunmiao's impassioned words and nodded frequently.
Li Cunxiao also interjected: "Father, although the child is the youngest, he also wants to say something?"
Li Keyong comforted: "Cun Xiao, even if you are bold in your words, even if you say something wrong, your father will not blame you!"
Li Cunxiao replied: "The child and Brother Xu have just come from Chang'an, there is a Xiaoguan in the northwest of Chang'an, which can go directly to the Hetao Plateau, and the father can order a partial division to cross the Yellow River to the west, pointing directly to the Weihe River, and order the main force to detour westward, and secretly enter Chang'an along the Xiaoguan, the thieves will inevitably not be able to take care of both things, and they will inevitably be defeated!"
Li Keyong listened to it and praised: "It's a good idea to save filial piety, now Huang Yi's army is concentrated in Tong and Hua Prefectures east of Chang'an, and our army can only disturb the sight of Cao Kou and succeed in one fell swoop!"
Only Zhou Yuanzhi was unhappy in her heart, Xu Zhi knew that her mind was still on the side of Huangchao, so she had to persuade Wen Yan: "Since ancient times, princes and generals, success and failure have a certain number, Yuan Zhi, since we have left the officialdom, the land of right and wrong, why bother to add trouble?"
He Mengjiao also said: "Sister Zhou, what the eldest brother said is that the society in this world is all a man's business, why should we girls be deeply involved in it?"
Li Cunxiao was also afraid of hurting Zhou Yuanzhi's heart, and said embarrassedly: "Sister Zhou, Jing Si just wanted to contribute to King Jin to calm the world, so I forgot my sister's concerns, Jing Si was too reckless!", and apologized to Zhou Yuanzhi after speaking.
Zhou Yuanzhi hurriedly hugged Li Cunxiao and comforted: "Jing Si, Ah Niu, you are talented and martial, and you are a young man, it is a pity to follow Brother Xu to wander the rivers and lakes, you should follow Lord Ming and make a vigorous career." Now that you have a good home, my sister is really happy for you, and I feel sorry for the Yellow King for not being able to reuse talents like you, which is also the fixed number of his old man!"
Li Cunxiao and Xue Atan saw Zhou Yuanzhi talking like this, so they were relieved. He Mengjiao was afraid that Zhou Yuanzhi still couldn't think about it, and persuaded again: "Sister, you have Brother Xu by your side, what else can't you let go?" In fact, let's think about Li Xiuyun's whole life to be busy for the imperial court and run for the country, in the end, her career and love are empty, and she can only escape into the empty door, won't she miss her daughter's family and spend the same youth?"
Zhou Yuanzhi suddenly realized at this time, and muttered: "Thank you Sister He for your enlightenment, even if Yuan Zhi throws away everything in the world, she doesn't want to be separated from Brother Xu!"
Xu Zhi listened to Zhou Yuanzhi's straightforwardness, and knew that she was also the most in need of comfort at this time, so he silently held Zhou Yuanzhi's little hand and didn't let it go for a long time.
At this time, Li Keyong had already led the twelve Taibao and two thousand black crow troops to say goodbye to the people of Jinyang one by one, and the people all knelt on the ground and offered gifts and property, but Li Keyong rejected them one by one. At this time, I don't know who among the people first sang: "There is a king of Jin in Hedong, Chinese New Year's Eve has passed Jinyang, the people are in chaos and the party, they do not want to be rewarded, they are dedicated to revitalizing the dynasty, and all the people are singing together!"
When Li Keyong was leaving, he said to Li Cunxiao and Xue Atan: "You are not only Xu Zhi's brothers, but also the generals of my Jin army, I hope that while you take care of the friendship of friends, you must not forget the righteousness of you and my monarchs and ministers today! I hope that after the two elder brothers Xu who assisted you deal with the grievances in the rivers and lakes, they will immediately join up with the lonely king, clear the universe, and return the people to peace!", Li Cunxiao and Xue Atan listened and nodded in agreement.
He Mengjiao saw Li Keyong leading the black crow army to gradually move away, and sighed: "This King of Jin is not good-looking, but he is a real hero in troubled times, he leads the troops to eliminate violence, neither disturbs the people, nor covets the secret of "Tui Bei Tu", he is dedicated to pretending to be the country and the people, and the Yellow King will definitely not be his opponent in the future!"
Zhou Yuanzhi also sighed: "Although blood is thicker than water, Yuan Zhi is reluctant to say too many mistakes of his father, but since my father became emperor in Chang'an, he has only listened to the slander of Zhu Wen, Li Zhen and a few other people, and forgot that the people who are suffering thousands of people in the world are indeed incomparable with this arrogant King of Jin, but it is not very believable to say that he is not greedy for the secret of "Tui Bei Tu"!"
Li Cunxiao Qi said: "Sister Zhou, didn't my father say it very clearly just now? He believes in himself, not the so-called fate!"
Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Xue Atan, Anger, and Idiot also had the same doubts, and replied: "Cunxiao, although my sister has no objection to you taking refuge in King Jin for the sake of your future, this King of Jin is far from being as simple as the four of you imagined! Think about it, if he didn't have ambition, how could he endure in Tatar for so many years, and if he didn't have ambition, how could he accept you knights from unknown places?"
Xue Atan heard this and muttered, "What Miss Zhou said makes sense! It is impossible for King Jin not to have the ambition to compete for the world!"
Zhou Yuanzhi then analyzed: "Since he is ambitious, of course he will not be indifferent to the strange books in the world, he is just making a show for you on the spot!"
Li Cunxiao listened, and said a little confused: "The younger brother also knows: my sister is for the sake of saving filial piety, but my sister's words, Cunxiao still doesn't understand it for a while!"
Li Cunxiao said again: "Sister Zhou, you can rest assured, we can distinguish between public and private affairs, and this time to help Brother Xu find out the secret of "Tui Bei Tu" is purely a private matter between our brothers, and it has nothing to do with our general identity. We will never tell King Jin this secret, if we violate it, let us die with arrows through our hearts!"
Xu Zhi was afraid of the contradiction between Zhou Yuanzhi and Li Cunxiao because of the incident of "Tui Bei Tu", and persuaded: "Cun Xiao, this "Tui Bei Tu" is the treasure of the world, and it should be hidden in the big house, if the King of Jin is dedicated to the people, he will win the world in the future, and Brother Xu and Sister Zhou are willing to return "Tui Bei Tu" to Zhao Di and return it to the imperial court!"
Li Cunxiao said with a smile: "Brother Xu, this is the best, the younger brother has thanked the eldest brother and sister for King Jin first!"
Xu Zhi comforted: "Cun Xiao, everyone is brothers and sisters, we share weal and woe all the way, there is no need to be polite! Now we are in Jinyang City to find the location of the old palace, looking for the whereabouts of "Tibetan Head Poem"!"
Xue Atan replied: "What's so difficult about this? Find a passer-by to ask, won't you be able to find the old palace?" After speaking, he stopped a pedestrian and asked about the way, but after asking seven or eight people in a row, those people shook their heads and said they didn't know.
He Mengjiao worried: "This huge Taiyuan City, no one even knows about the palace more than a hundred years ago? Even if it was destroyed in the war or rebuilt by the Dam, it should also leave some clues!"
Zhou Yuanzhi smiled: "Sister He, don't worry, if you want to know the old things from a hundred years ago, there is only one place to find out?"
Angry and stupid, he asked in surprise, "Sister Zhou, where is it?"
Xu Zhi saw Zhou Yuanzhi smirking at him, and replied, "Yuanzhi, the place you are talking about is the household registration archives of Taiyuan Mansion?"
Zhou Yuanzhi praised: "Brother Xu, you are so smart, you can know a little!"
Xu Zhi said: "Miss He, Yuan Zhi and I will go to the Fuya Archives, and you will lead Cunxiao and them in the Xinghua Building in the city to wait for us to come back!"
Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, anger, and idiocy also want to go to the government with them, Xu Zhi persuaded: "This Taiyuan Mansion is heavily guarded, and it is easy to be found when there are many people, and it is not easy to get out",
He Mengjiao agreed, and led Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, anger, and idiocy to Xinghua Restaurant.
Besides, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi walked along the bustling streets until they reached the bank of the Fen River, crossed the state bridge, and found the location of the Jinzhou state office. Xu and Zhou carefully watched the layout of the state government, the high wall is more than a zhang high, there are four guards guarding the gate with knives, except for the east side near the Fen River, there are lively markets on three sides.
Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi carefully discussed the method of entering the palace, the two first hid under the state bridge, and when the third watch was quiet, all the officials had gone to bed, and then flew up to the big willow tree by the river, and jumped into the wall by the branches of the willow tree. Xu Zhi took Zhou Yuanzhi's hand, and with the faint moonlight, bypassed the state government hall and came to the Archives of Classics and History.
Zhou Yuanzhi said softly: "Brother Xu, why don't we climb on the roof, open the tiles, and jump in from the beams!", Xu Zhi praised: "Yuanzhi, good idea!", after speaking, he pulled Zhou Yuanzhi to jump on the roof and enter from the roof. After the two entered the house, they lit a candle with flint, and saw that the bookshelves in the house were full of household registration, land and houses, and documents and archives from the past dynasties of Jinyang. The two of them didn't know how to check it, and Zhou Yuanzhi exclaimed in surprise: "Big brother, these books and archives are stacked according to the dynasty chronology, we will definitely find something if we look carefully!"
Xu Zhi followed the chronological order to find the archives of the Tianbao period of the Xuanzong Dynasty, and smiled at Zhou Yuanzhi: "Yuan Zhi, I found the archives of the Anshi Rebellion back then, can you help me see if there is a record of the specific location of the old palace of Jinyang?"
Zhou Yuanzhi dug out the city defense map of Taiyuan City at that time and the records of the relevant household registration fields and houses from the complicated and complicated materials: I saw that it was recorded: from the ninth to the eleventh year of Xuanzong Tianbao, the northern capital Taiyuan had a total of 80,000 household registrations and a population of 300,000, including 30,000 households in the city and 100,000 mouth......s; There is a big Ming Palace in the south of the city, it was built in the Northern Qi Dynasty, it is adjacent to the Fen River in the east, it is the place where the dragon dives in the north of the country, it is the place where the ancestor of the dragon dives in the founding of the country, it has been repaired and expanded in the later generations, it is the ten times of Xuanzong's northern tour hunting, and its scale system is slightly inferior to that of Chang'an and Luoyang court.
Xu Zhi saw that Zhou Yuanzhi had found the location of the old palace, and hurriedly leaned over to watch, and the two saw that the Daming Palace in the picture was very spectacular, divided into two layers, inside and outside, and there were nearly 100 large and small palaces inside. After careful identification, the two knew that Daming Palace was located in the south of Taiyuan City, on the bank of the Fen River, close to the Jin Temple, and nearly 100 miles of suburbs.
Zhou Yuanzhi sighed: "How could such a luxurious royal palace disappear so quickly? Now there are no people in Taiyuan City who know about its existence!"
Xu Zhi smiled and said to Zhou Yuanzhi: "Let's check the records later, won't it be clear?", after speaking, he picked up the files of the three dynasties of Suzong, Daizong, and Dezong, and saw the records above:
An Shun Lushan from Fan Yang raised troops, trapped Hebei 33 states, my northern capital Taiyuan also fell, Daming Palace was destroyed in the war, and its palace people were moved to Luoyang by the rebels. After the restoration, Suzong convened a group of ministers to discuss and planned to rebuild the Daming Palace on the basis of the original site! Due to the huge project and the fact that the imperial court did not allocate the treasury silver in the later period, the palace was not yet completed in the Daizong Dynasty; until the first year of the establishment of Dezong, the Yingfu demon star appeared in Taiyuan, turned into a scholar, and bewitched the children in the city to chant everywhere: "The palace is built, the strange book is now, the sword and the sword, the heaven and the earth change!", causing the Hebei feudal town to be ready to move, vainly trying to attack our Taiyuan, seizing the strange book, and gathering people to rebel. Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, suggested that Dezong stop building the Daming Palace, and bury the treasures and books in the palace on the spot, breaking the rumors of Xiao'er, and sending heavy troops to garrison the Daming Palace to prevent it from being attacked and disturbed by the princes.
After the Xianzong Dynasty, the town of Hedong Domain has changed several times, causing the Daming Palace to be deserted and shaky in the wind and rain, and the guards of the palace have also fled, and the Taiyuan group of thieves saw that there was an opportunity, wantonly stole the treasures in the palace, robbed and set fire, and looted many times to destroy a century-old palace. After the Xuanzong Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and no one remembered the past of Daming Palace.
Zhou Yuanzhi finished reading the records about Daming Palace, and sighed: "Brother Xu, it turns out that we are looking for the old palace of Taiyuan is this Daming Palace, but it and the palace records of "Tui Bei Tu" have been buried in the ground for a long time, I don't know if they can be allowed to reappear!"
However, it is said that Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi sneaked into the state office of Jinzhou late at night, looked through almost all the official records, and did not find the internal structure of Daming Palace.
At this time, the sky was about to brighten, and Zhou Yuanzhi said to Xu Zhi: "Brother Xu, the sky is almost dawn, we have to leave the state government quickly, if it is discovered by the soldiers in the ya, it will be difficult to get out!"
Xu Zhi replied: "Yuan Zhi, my eldest brother originally had a hand-drawn map of Daming Palace, a key to the imperial study, and a sword book, all of which were old things that Grandpa Wang handed over to me, but we disappeared after we were captured by the imperial court in Ziyun Gorge, and later Senior Brother Hui returned the package to me, and we saw that the book was still there, but we lost the key and map." ”
Zhou Yuanzhi sighed: "Then how is it good?"
Xu Zhi persuaded: "Let's look for it again, maybe there will be an unexpected gain!"
Zhou Yuanzhi persuaded: "Big brother, little sister has checked it carefully twice, and there is no relevant record, presumably this palace is the inner court of the royal family, and foreign ministers are not allowed to enter, let alone put its drawings into the file!"
Xu Zhi sighed: "Yuan Zhi, what you said makes sense!", after speaking, he heard the crowing of the rooster outside the house, and knew that it was almost the end of the year, and the scribe of the pavilion would soon come to duty, he hurriedly stuffed a Jinyang city defense map in the Tianbao period into his arms, took Zhou Yuanzhi's little hand, jumped on the roof beam of the pavilion, and jumped from the roof.