Chapter 1: The Old Man's Song
"Young chivalry, befriending Wuduxiong. Liver and gallbladder holes, hair shrugging. In the negotiation, life and death are the same, and a promise is heavy. An old man sat in the shade of a tree, humming a poem. Shaking his head, it seems that he is intoxicated by his own singing.
A black-haired earth dog lay at the old man's feet and stuck out his tongue, with two paws on his head, as if disgusted with the old man's singing.
"Push and be brave, be bold and longitudinal, cover lightly, fly and fly, and fight in the east of the city. Booming drinking, spring floating cold urn, sucking the sea and weeping rainbows. Idle eagle and dog, white feather picks the eagle bow, cunning Russian empty. Joy in a hurry. Like Huang Liangmeng, quit Danfeng. The bright moon is together, and the sun is lonely. The official is redundant, the concubine, the dust cage, and the books and books. It is like a cloud, for rough use, and it is a miracle. The old man's right hand kept patting his thigh, still singing poetry freely.
Who is this old man? Why is he singing poetry at the mouth of this small village in the deep forest outside the city, and why is his expression so proud when he hums poetry?
The old man's name is Dewey, and he is the only one in this small village outside the city, that is, Sanglin Village, in the past hundred years. After Dewey took the exam, he returned to his hometown and threatened to build a school in the village so that all the children in the village could come to his class. He also said that he wanted to carry out compulsory education, so that everyone could go to school and have books to read.
It's a pity that the sky does not fulfill people's wishes, and he was arrogant after the middle of the year, saying that he wanted to learn what Li Taibai, a scholar of Su University, went to the border to feel the poetry of the broken mountains and rivers. As a result, when he was studying in Bianjing, he happened to encounter the enemy attack, and he was broken in the war, and it took two years to escape back to the village.
It is said that the Song Dynasty was exhausted, above the court, the faint monarch was incapable of governing the country, and under the government and the opposition, traitorous ministers were in charge. Most of the annual military expenditures are embezzled by corrupt officials, and the army is not very strong, and the soldiers in the barracks spend more time drinking and gambling than practicing martial arts. Naturally, it is the Jin country that can't be defeated. After the "Shame of Jingkang", it ended up moving the capital to the south and fleeing, and the Jin State naturally continued to attack, if it wasn't for a flying general, I am afraid that the country would really be destroyed.
Since then, with Xingyuan Mansion, Xiangyang Mansion, and Hefei as the front, the "Southern Song Dynasty" has continued.
After Dewey came back from dragging a lame foot and fleeing for his life, the villagers of Sanglin Village also understood a truth: no matter how high the education is, they still have to rely on their fists to speak. You see how talented the emperor of the Song Dynasty was, Hui and Qin, one was famous for painting, and the other was famous for poetry. In the end, it wasn't that he was lost half of the world, lost his golden job, and even lost his life.
As a result, the villagers of Sanglin Village also cut off the idea of letting their children learn. In this way, the level of education in Sanglin Village can be regarded as completely stagnant. And Dewey could only drag his lame feet and refuse to admit defeat in the village to promote "knowledge is power", and the villagers naturally ignored him again. Even if Dewey taught for free, the villagers were reluctant to let their children go to class.
And over the years, the Western Xia and the Jin alliance attacked the border from time to time, and the people at the border were naturally miserable, only today they were occupied by the Jin people, tomorrow they were liberated by the Song army, and then the day after tomorrow they were occupied by the Jin people, and so on and so on. The young people were all arrested and sent to the army, and the grain they had worked so hard to grow was forcibly requisitioned by the army and used as military rations.
Although Sanglin Village is close to the capital Lin'an, the annual military rations must also be handed over in a real way. The people of the village would rather let their children work in the fields than let them read books that are useless. Moreover, I heard that there was a man called Mongolia outside the border who fought with the Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia, and there were many fewer border wars, and the collection of military rations was also less. Naturally, it is a variety of places to store more grain, who knows if the Jin people didn't come that day, Mongolia came?
What kind of bullshit poetry and songs, in the eyes of the countrymen, it is not as real as a vegetable in the field.
"Agitation, Yuyang lane, thinking of sorrow. Don't ask for long tassels, tie the pride of the sky, and the sword roars the west wind. Hate mountaineering and water, hand send seven-string tong, and see the return to Hong. When Dewey finished the song, he sighed deeply, and the proud expression on his face turned into helplessness. It turned out that Dewey had already figured it out after escaping, and although what he could learn from books was able to govern the country, he still had to rely on martial arts to secure the world. Therefore, a few years ago, he no longer dragged the village children to read and write, but began to talk to the village children about military law and warfare.
Just like General Fei, a young hero, drove the Jin people who almost attacked the capital back to the north, and also subdued a large piece of lost territory. Yes, if it weren't for General Fei, Xiangyang, the sad place where his leg was broken, would probably not be considered a national land now. And when General Fei first joined the army, he was just an illiterate person who could only write his own name.
But after a few years, no one in the village was willing to listen.
"Hey. Dewey sighed, remembering that the Jin Kingdom was destroyed by the Mongol and Song coalition forces three years ago, although he solved the problem that had plagued him for half his life - that is, whether it was the Jin or the Tangut who broke his leg back then.
It turned out that in the fifth year of Shaoding, Mongolia sent envoys to discuss the Song and Mongolian joint attack on the Jin State, and the main force of the Jin army had been annihilated by the Mongol army in the "Battle of Sanfeng Mountain" at that time, and the Jin State was in a state of extinction. Emperor Li agreed to the Mongol demands, and the Mongols promised to return Henan to the Song dynasty after the destruction of Jin.
After Jin Aizong learned about it, he naturally sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to state the interests and disadvantages, and explained to Li Zong the truth that "lips and teeth depend on each other, and lips and teeth are cold", hoping to unite against Mongolia, and Jin Guo took the "Maritime Alliance" of that year as an example. Although it was the Jin State that tore up the maritime alliance, it was difficult to guarantee that Mongolia would also tear up the alliance, not to mention that if it was not taken back to Henan, it would lose the barrier of the Jin State, and after Mongolia went south, this "stable situation" could not be guaranteed.
However, the newly enthroned emperor Emperor Lizong Zhao Yun decisively rejected the joint anti-Mongolian plan proposed by the Jin State and continued to invade Jin. Soon, Bianjing was attacked by the Mongols, and Jin Aizong could only flee to Caizhou. After the Song Dynasty defeated Meng Heng in Caizhou, he brought the bones of Jin Aizong, who died by hanging, back to Lin'an. Li Zong brought the remains of Jin Aizong to the Taimiao to comfort the spirits of Hui and Qin Erzong in the sky.
After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, the Mongol army retreated north, Henan was empty, and the Southern Song Dynasty wanted to take advantage of the Mongol retreat to recover the land occupied by the Mongols. After all, the lessons of the Jinguo Maritime Alliance are still there, and they are worried that Mongolia will not go according to the agreement.
After the Song army attacked, it successfully recovered Nanjing, then stationed in Kaifeng, and finally took back Luoyang, Xijing, and declared a success. After that, morale soared, and they took the opportunity to go north and regain more lost ground along the Yellow River. In the end, in just one year, he actually got back all the "Northern Song Dynasty" lost. Although he had a grudge with Mongolia because of this, he recovered the Central Plains and recovered the lost territory, and the whole country was jubilant.
But even if the capital of the Great Song Dynasty was recaptured, Li Zong did not move back to Bianjing. Instead, he continued to stay in Lin'an, although some people in the court objected, but after all, it was the best situation in a hundred years, and no one mentioned the matter of returning to Beijing in the end.
"Outside the mountain, Qingshan Lou Wailou, West Lake singing and dancing when will it be off. The warm breeze smoked the tourists drunk, and they made Hangzhou Bianzhou!" Thinking of the poem written in that building in the year of the East China Sea feast, Dewey touched the head of the earth dog beside him and sighed again.
In the years that followed, Mongolia naturally invaded the border from time to time, but because most of them were ineffective, the so-called war gradually became less and less noticeable.
Under the peaceful scene of the world, who wants to listen to the old things of the broken mountains and rivers back then, the people in the village are naturally not interested. Dewey had no choice but to tell the children in the village about some heroic deeds. At first, there were still people listening, but the more they listened, and fewer people were willing to listen.
"Humans keep repeating the same mistakes. Thinking about whether the world was also like this before the Jin people invaded, Dewey said lightly.
At this time, a commotion came, and Dewey looked up to see several teenagers beating around a teenager, and although the teenager who was beaten had been beaten, he had not fallen.
Dewey recognized the beaten boy as Zhang Shanfeng, one of the few children who liked to listen to him tell about his heroic deeds.
"General Fei is very powerful, if he is powerful, he will not be captured and killed by the emperor!" a tall young man kicked Shanfeng with disdain on his face. "What else is Guo Juxia, if you really want you to be so good, her wife will not be killed by the Mongols!
Huang Daxia was arrested by the Mongolian army in order to save the people who were abused by the Mongols. Besides, if it weren't for Li Tong, the main general who defended the city, who was greedy for life and feared death, surrendered and rebelled, how could the Mongols succeed!" Zhang Shanfeng glared at the young man and shouted, in his heart, Guo Juxia is a great person, and General Fei is even more so.
"And General Fei has long been rehabilitated, don't you even know this?"
"Hah, I can't even protect my wife, what are you embarrassed to call Guo Juxia?" the other teenagers laughed, and their fists and feet continued to smash on Zhang Shanfeng's body.
Zhang Shanfeng's nose was blue and his face was swollen after being beaten, but he gritted his teeth and refused to beg for mercy.
"Stop!" a girl in red rushed out and shouted at everyone, her hands on her waist as if she didn't care about the taller boys in front of her.
"Oh, it's Guo Xiang, are you? come to save this kid again?" As soon as several teenagers saw Guo Xiang appear, they were about to laugh, and when they saw Zhang Wenyuan, who was like a shadow behind Guo Xiang, their faces changed greatly. "Zhang Wenyuan is here too! A few people, shouting, all ran away, as if they had seen a ghost.
While running, he didn't forget to turn around and sing: "Zhang Shanfeng is a big waste, and he eats soft rice at a young age." Guo Xiang chick, you are not rampant, Wen Yuan is not all of you. ”
"These bastards who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard!" Guo Xiang's face was flushed, and he stood in place and scolded. Zhang Wenyuan walked to the side of the mountain peak and pulled up the mountain peak full of bags.
"Are you alright?" Wen Yuan patted the soil on the mountain peak and asked.
"It's okay! These guys actually dare to be disrespectful to Guo Juxia and General Fei, they deserve to be beaten by me. "This mountain peak is also a happy child, obviously he was beaten, but he actually said as if someone was beaten by him.
Guo Xiang smiled in surprise: "How many times have I told you? Can't you run if you can't fight?" As long as Wen Yuan and I help you, they will definitely be looking for teeth all over the ground." ”
When Shanfeng heard Guo Xiang say this, he shook his head: "How can a hero escape? Even if you try your best to support it until the last moment, this is how Old Man Du's story is told. ”
"You!" Guo Xiang wanted to beat the mountain peak a few times, but he couldn't bear to do it when he saw that the mountain peak was full of black and green.
"Let's go, let's listen to Old Man Du's story, yesterday he said that Guan Yunchang went to the meeting alone, and he hasn't finished talking yet. Zhang Shanfeng didn't care about his injuries, pulled Guo Xiang and Zhang Wenyuan and walked towards Old Man Du under the tree.
Old man Du looked at the three children walking towards him, and his heart was slightly hot. "Who says heroes are dead? At least we have hope. He tried to reach out and touch the dog's head at his feet, but he couldn't find the right position, and his fingers actually stuck into the dog's nostrils.
The earth dog was frightened by the finger that suddenly inserted into his nostrils, and immediately jumped up and bit the middle finger of Old Man Du.
"Ahh
The three teenagers all laughed when they saw this scene, and Guo Xiang clutched his stomach and laughed with tears. It's really funny for a sloppy lame old man to chase an ugly earth dog inflexibly.