Chapter 36: The Ancient Capital of Lin'an
Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, after the Jin destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou promoted Hangzhou to Lin'an Mansion in the third year of Jianyan, as a place to go, and Shaoxing was set as the capital in eight years.
At this time, Lin'an had a population of more than one million, and it was the only city with a population of one million in this era.
Although the national strength of Lin'an City is weak, it is the richest era in history, and it is the most prosperous era in terms of economy, culture and education.
Entering Lin'an City, you can see the streets densely packed with pedestrians, merchants coming and going, as well as soldiers and officials.
Lin'an City is very large, there is a royal street that runs through the north and south, also known as 'Heavenly Street', from north to south, ten miles long street, all the way to Fengshan Gate, there are many shops on both sides,
Seeing the bustling scene inside the city of Lin'an, it is hard for you to imagine that this is the country that survives between the Jin Kingdom and the Mongolian Kingdom.
Everyone who lived in the city lived a relatively affluent life, and even the farmers wore silk shoes on their feet.
Standing on the streets of Lin'an, Yin Zhiping looked at the bustling pedestrians, bustling streets, and all kinds of shops around him, and was a little distracted for a while.
He traveled through more than a dozen cities in the north, but he had never seen a city so prosperous.
As if there was no threat from war or enemy countries, there was singing and dancing everywhere.
And in the territory ruled by the Jin Kingdom, you will see dilapidated city walls, bare trees, and sparsely populated cities.
If you only look at the exhibition of the city, you may think that the country's military strength is stronger than that of the Jin Dynasty rather than the Southern Song Dynasty.
Yin Zhiping couldn't believe what he saw, this qiē was too different from what he imagined.
The country he wants to help, but his capital is so prosperous that it makes people desperate.
The world is extravagant, and everyone is enjoying themselves, which makes Yin Zhiping's heart half cold.
And Yin Zhiping's somewhat stunned expression also caused the Lin'an people to ridicule.
A guy from the grain store saw Yin Zhiping constantly looking around, with a look of surprise on his face, and said mockingly: "It's a hillbilly again." ”
Yin Zhiping was awakened by the man's words, took a deep breath, found an inn, and went in to stay.
In the next few days, Yin Zhiping wandered around Lin'an City, watched acrobatics, listened to people's stories, and watched songs and dances with a learning attitude, and gradually integrated into the city, feeling a little happy.
On this day, he walked to a long street and saw people on the left and right floors surrounded by the street, Yin Zhiping squeezed in, and now some people are performing street juggling.
In the open space, several strong men and two or three women were performing chest smashing boulders, a sturdy man was lying on the ground, with a boulder on his chest, and a big man standing next to him, holding a sledgehammer in his hand, smashing at the man on the ground.
The sledgehammer smashed into the stone, which shattered with a clatter, but the man was unharmed.
In addition, a man stood not far away, put a spear on the ground, the head of the spear against his throat, and slowly bent down, and the spear slowly bent.
Seeing this scene, everyone in the audience burst into cheers.
Immediately after, a stout man came out and took out a bench.
The stool was about knee-high and about two feet long, with only a small gap from the ground.
But this sturdy man knelt down, shrunk his body, did not touch the stool, and slowly squeezed under the stool.
In addition to this, there are also slapping stones with the palm of your hand, doing a handstand with one hand, and pushing the tank with your head.
In addition to these strong men's performances, the two or three women were not idle, standing upside down with one hand, volleying upside down, and at first glance, they were people with kung fu.
Seeing these juggling, Yin Zhiping felt that it was funny, he could do these things to himself, but that was because his martial arts were not low.
But these few people can do this, although some are opportunistic, but they still have kung fu.
At this time, one of the women picked up the gong and struck it, said a witty remark, and then flipped the gong, put it in front of everyone, and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, those who have money have a money field, those who have no money have a personal field, those who are free have a stay, and those who like it have a love field." ”
The woman's voice was loud, and she walked up to everyone and sent the gong to them.
Most of the people took out a few copper plates and threw them on the gong, maybe one or two, or they could give a handful, and some were luxuriously dressed and put a few taels of silver.
When the woman put the gong in front of Yin Zhiping, Yin Zhiping took out a handful of copper plates and threw them at the gong.
The copper plate fell on it, and there was a jingling sound, and after the woman thanked her, she wanted to leave, but strangely appeared, all the copper plates were erected on the back of the gong, and they rotated in place.
Seeing this scene, the woman showed a shocked expression, looked up, but now the handsome and dashing young man just now was gone.
But she also knew that this time they had met a master.
Yin Zhiping left the crowd and went to the West Lake, although he knew the name of the West Lake in his previous life, he had never been there.
At this time, there is this opportunity, and naturally we can't let it go.
And now on the West Lake, there are many painting boats, carrying tourists, rippling and playing on this West Lake.
Yin Zhiping stood for a while, and continued to browse the ten views of the West Lake, including the spring dawn at the Su Causeway, the fish watching in the flower port, and the warbler in the willow waves.
Except for these few, the rest of the scenery is difficult to see the true scene of these characteristic scenery because of the wrong time and time.
In particular, the remnants of snow on the broken bridge can not be seen until after the snow has fallen in winter, so there is nothing too surprising at this time.
After reading it, Yin Zhiping went to a restaurant by the Broken Bridge Bridge, walked straight in, and ordered wine and food.
The bartender served the wine and food, which was full of color, flavor and taste, so that Yin Zhiping could eat it happily.
At the same time, Yin Zhiping also saw a screen by the east window, covered with blue gauze, which seemed to be very cherished by the owner.
Yin Zhiping walked over to wipe and look, only to see a "Wind into the Song" kicked on the plain screen under the blue gauze:
"A long spring to buy money, drunk by the lake every day. Yu Cheng is accustomed to West Lake Road, and hisses proudly in front of the Gu Restaurant. Singing and dancing in the fragrance of red apricots, swinging in the shadow of green poplars. The warm wind is ten miles of beauty, the flowers are pressed and the clouds are biased, the painting boat carries the incense back, and the remaining feelings pay the lake and the lake smoke. Tomorrow, I will help the disabled drunk and come to find Mo Shanghuadian. ”
Seeing this word, Yin Zhiping remembered the teacher's explanation of this poem when he was in school in his previous life.
In particular, the sentence of tomorrow's re-support for the disabled drunk is changed for Song Gaozong Zhao Gong, the original text is to re-carry the residual wine tomorrow, change 'carrying' to 'help', and change 'wine' to 'drunk'.
At that time, the Chinese teacher spent a lot of time explaining the change in the artistic conception of the word after the two words were changed.
But at this moment, Yin Zhiping remembered that he was the faint king who reused Qin Hui and killed Yue Fei, and he was angry for a while, he was attracted by the prosperity of Lin'an, but at this moment he immediately woke up, and after paying for the meal, he stood up and left the tavern.
In the past few days, Yin Zhiping has seen the prosperity of Lin'an, the numbness of the Song people, and the extravagance of the world, and he has some doubts in his heart, whether he needs to save the country by himself.
Now that I think of it, there are many righteous people like Yue Fei who sacrificed their lives for the country, so I think of the purpose of my trip to Lin'an.
It's been a bit of a delay in the past few days, and if you want to complete your plan early, you need to start planning early.
After preparing for a few days, late at night that day, Yin Zhiping felt out of the inn, wearing night clothes, like a ghost, and touched the palace.
Lin'an Palace is located at the southern end of the city, with a huge area, divided into five parts: the outer court, the inner court, the east palace, the academy and the palace garden.
Yin Zhiping wanted to go to the inner court, and the inner court was in the northeast of the palace, and he had to enter it from the north and Ningmen.
Yin Zhi went parallel to the north gate and saw the Praetorian Guards standing in front of the gate, holding torches.
Yin Zhiping did not break in directly, but went around to a place where the Praetorian Guards could not see, and wanted to climb over the wall to enter.
Standing in front of the palace wall as high as several zhang, Yin Zhiping jumped suddenly, jumped up more than two zhang high, sucked the wall with both palms, slowly climbed up, and then turned over and entered the inner hall.
When you enter Ouchi, you will be greeted by a magnificent building, and the huge hall is very eye-catching.
Yin Zhiping searched for them one by one, and first appeared in the Qinzheng Palace, knowing that this was the emperor's bedroom.
At this moment, there are guards all around the Qinzheng Palace, with swords across their waists, full of momentum.
But what caught Yin Zhiping's attention the most were the two guards, wearing light armor and a strong aura.
When Yin Zhiping sneaked over just now, he was a little careless, and the two guards turned their eyes on him, almost showing Yin Zhiping's cunning.
Yin Zhiping knew that the two of them must be martial arts masters, and although their strength was only second-rate, it was impossible to touch the emperor's residence under their noses.
Of course, Yin Zhiping didn't want to see the emperor today, he wrote down the location of the Qinzheng Palace, and then moved towards the other halls.
Next to the Qinzheng Hall is the Jiaming Palace, which is the emperor's dining place.
Seeing the Jiaming Palace, Yin Zhiping thought of the imperial dining room, and in the original book, Hong Qigong was full of praise for the dishes here.
Yin Zhiping has never tasted palace food, from eating something in the inn in the evening, it has been three hours late at night, and he is already a little hungry.
So Yin Zhiping went to the east of Jiaming Hall and found the imperial dining room.
At this time, the emperor had already gone to bed, and there were only a few little eunuchs on duty in the imperial dining room, but they were also sleeping crookedly by the pillar.
Yin Zhiping quietly touched in, looking at the imperial dining room full of all kinds of vegetables, melons and fruits and a lot of meat, Yin Zhiping looked around for food, and finally found the food cabinet, there were still some dishes in it.
Most of these dishes were extra after cooking for the emperor and putting them on the plate, and Yin Zhiping brought them out and took chopsticks to taste them.
But just as Yin Zhiping's chopsticks were about to pick up a piece of wild duck meat, an old voice sounded in his ears: "If I were you, I wouldn't eat that dish." ”
Hearing this voice, Yin Zhiping threw down his chopsticks and jumped towards the door, but before he could get close to the door, he saw an old man leaning against the gate and smiling at him.
The old man had a rectangular face, a beard on his chin, patched clothes, a green bamboo cane pinned to his waist, as green as jade, and a vermilion lacquered gourd on his back.
Seeing this person, a name appeared in Yin Zhiping's heart.
(These chapters are more difficult to write, especially today's chapter, you need to check a lot of information, and the next few chapters will be like this, if you really write according to the plan, write about history and politics, I estimate that it will be difficult to do it every day.) )
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