Chapter 9: Lin'an City
The streets are full of people, the cries of all kinds of vendors on both sides of the streets are endless, and from time to time there are merchants from other places pulling trucks rushing past at the city gate.
At this moment, a young man in a Taoist uniform led a horse and a sword on his back to the city gate, attracting constant scrutiny from the people around him.
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, successive emperors have always admired the art of Huang Lao, and generally people with a little knowledge have a certain understanding of Taoist culture.
As the saying goes, if there is something good at the top, it must be followed, so people have followed suit, and therefore the theory of cultivating immortals and practicing qi has been widely spread among the people.
Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the status of Taoist priests is not low, and it is not that any person who wears a Taoist robe can be called a Taoist, those are just some wild fox Zen.
Lin'an City is the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the people here are naturally not those who have not seen the world, and there are not a thousand Taoist priests here but eight hundred.
And the reason why they kept looking at this young Taoist priest was mainly because this young Taoist priest was too strange in a Taoist robe.
I saw that this Taoist priest was dressed in a light blue robe, and a circular pattern was tattooed on the placket of the clothes, which was divided into two halves with a curve, and then matched with colors to form a pattern of two yin and yang fish connected from end to end.
Although the people looking around didn't know what it meant, they all felt that the figure felt so mysterious and beautiful.
If there are people in later generations here, they will definitely shout out loudly when they see this figure, this is not the Taoist Taiji Yin Yang Fish!
And if he could come up with this thing in this era, this young Taoist priest naturally appealed for it, and naturally it was Qin Zhan who came down from Zhongnan Mountain.
It is said that after Qin Zhan felt that he had bullied the little dragon girl that day, he was not embarrassed to continue to stay there longer, and after a hurried tour of the ancient tomb, he left a letter of apology for the little dragon girl on the cold jade bed, and then went straight down the mountain.
On Zhongnan Mountain, the ancient trees are deep, far away from the fireworks and red dust of the world, too ethereal, staying here for a long time, people will slowly forget their seven emotions and six desires.
But Qin Zhan is essentially a prodigal son who is attached to Hongchen, and more than ten years of Taoist education can't erase the feelings of the rivers and lakes in his bones.
Then he went down the mountain.
The so-called people rely on clothes and Buddha rely on gold, since they want to wander the rivers and lakes, they naturally have clothes to protect themselves from the wind and rain, for this Qin Zhan is unwilling to treat himself badly.
So as soon as he opened his brain, he made the Tai Chi Yin Yang Fish Taoist costume that would only appear in the Ming Dynasty in the later generations.
After everything was ready, Qin Zhan began his first trip to the rivers and lakes in this life, and the destination was Lin'an City, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Someone wants to say, since it is in the world of the Condor Heroes, why didn't Qin Zhan go to Xiangyang but went to Lin'an, could there be anything else in Lin'an City that could attract Qin Zhan.
In fact, speaking of which, we have to talk about Qin Zhan's purpose.
Qin Zhan is now in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, according to the description in the original novel, in another thirty or forty years, the Southern Song Dynasty will be wiped out by the Mongol army, if there are no other changes, from now on the Han people will experience a long hundred years of humiliation, and the majesty of the nation will be worn out.
The so-called no China after the Southern Song Dynasty and no China after the death of the Ming Dynasty is the most unbearable pain in the history of the Han nation.
In the real world, we can only be full of resentment against history, but nothing can be changed.
But now that he has come to this world and holds many bargaining chips that can change history, Qin Zhan naturally will not let this kind of tragedy happen again.
After all, the world of the Condor Heroes is only a low-martial world, and no matter how high the force value is, it is difficult to reach the realm of one person against ten thousand armies, and if you want to rely on your high force value to fight against Mongolia, you can only become another Guo Jing in the end, which Qin Zhan does not take.
This route to save the country with rivers and lakes has been blocked, so the other road is also the only way, only the rich country and the strong army are left, so it is absolutely imperative to use the power of the imperial court.
But there is another problem here that Qin Zhan must solve, that is, the Southern Song Dynasty court has already rotted from the roots, if this problem is not solved, let alone with the help of strength, so that Qin Zhan will not be dragged back by these moths, and Qin Zhan will ask to worship Buddha and worship God.
A great man once said that if you want to solve a problem, you must understand it, and Qin Zhan agrees with this sentence one hundred percent.
And since he had already determined his goal, Qin Zhan naturally sorted out everything, and Lin'an City was his goal this time.
When he first came here, Qin Zhan almost couldn't believe what he saw in his eyes.
You must know that this way, from north to south, after Qin Zhan figured out the direction, he relied on his martial arts to be a first-class master in the rivers and lakes, and he had always walked through the forest and the wilderness, and he was not able to walk out of the mountains until he reached the vicinity of Lin'an City.
And Lin'an City can be regarded as the first Southern Song Dynasty city he saw.
The city is full of traffic, the flow of people, there are no beggars on the streets, and no parents sell their children and daughters, which is a little bit like the country is about to die.
If Qin Zhan hadn't known that the Southern Song Dynasty would be destroyed soon, he would definitely think that this was another paradise on earth.
It is no wonder that people in later generations commented on all dynasties, and they all said that the strong Han Dynasty was prosperous and the Tang Dynasty was weak and the Song Dynasty was weak.
A dynasty with an extremely developed economy and civilization was finally characterized by being 'weak', which has to be said to be a huge irony.
Throughout the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty seems to have been playing the role of a weakling, and has continued to provide blood to other races.
The entire history of the Song Dynasty can be said to be a blood supply road.
In the first two hundred years, the Song Dynasty was supplying blood to the Liao State, the Western Xia, and the Tubo.
A hundred years later, the Liao State was destroyed, and the Song Dynasty then supplied blood to the Jin State and Mongolia to the Mongolian State.
Chongwen suppressed the military to make the development of the Han nationality in this era deformed, and while helping the Song Dynasty accumulate a rich material people's heritage, it also left a major sequelae of weakness and incurability.
This also made Qin Zhan understand how big a problem he was going to face, it was easy to treat a physical illness, but it was extremely difficult to treat a person's inner disease, not to mention that this was a disease of the entire nation.
Originally, Qin Zhan was full of confidence before going down the mountain, but judging from the results obtained now, the entire Han nation was already terminally ill, and it was almost to the point of being hopeless.
Fortunately, Qin Zhan appeared in this world.
Heavy medicine is needed to treat a serious illness, and if it really comes to that moment, don't be ruthless.
Qin Zhan glanced in the direction of the center of Lin'an City, and his eyes at that moment were cold to the bone, so cold that the sun in the sky seemed to freeze.