Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 371 The Southern Han Dynasty of Magical Realism

Autumn is high and crisp, the evening wind blows south, the sky is clear and the clouds are light, and the sun is warm like water.

Zhou Xian gently took his daughter's chubby little white hand, the nurse over there was nursing, the little guy was very well-behaved, not as noisy as her brother Shi Jin.

He just stretched out his chubby little hand to her side from time to time, struggling to find his mother.

Seeing her lovely daughter, she couldn't help laughing, and then reached out to take the little guy over. As soon as the little guy came over, his pink face rubbed into her arms.

"Little guy, your father despises you!" Zhou Xian smiled and pinched his cute face.

The official had just left not long ago, but when she thought of it, she curled her lips and blushed slightly. The official didn't care about the child.
The victories in the north were passed on miraculously, but her mind was not on those. She liked music, poetry and songs more. What she thought about was how to show her most beautiful side to the officials.

The official said to her once that she is the most beautiful woman in the world, and she has always kept it firmly in her heart when she was in a state of confusion and love, and she has never forgotten it until now.

From then on, she felt that she should be beautiful all the time, more beautiful than anyone else.

In the past few years, she can clearly feel that many people are pursuing her, not to mention the central government, there are also many officials in Jiangnan, and more and more letters from Jiangnan, many of them are famous families in Jiangnan, High-ranking officials and dignitaries even represent the name of the Jiangnan court.

Many of the words of wagging their tails and praying for the actress were nothing more than asking her to see the blood of the same family in Jiangnan, and to say nicely in front of the officials not to send soldiers across the Yangtze River in order to ensure the safety of Jiangnan.

Or looking forward to the day when the army crosses to the south, relying on her protection, the family can be complete.

Thinking of why she came to Qin State in the first place, Zhou Xian became more and more annoyed as she thought about it. She despised Jiangnan's actions, but thinking about it from the perspective of blood and family ties and the difficulty of leaving her homeland, it was difficult for her to refuse those cowardly invitations.

After that, she had another subtle emotion in her heart.

I thought maybe I shouldn't help them. It would be better for the officials to cross the river. If Jiangnan was led by a monarch like the officials, at least it would not be as peaceful as it is now, weak and bullying, and relying on others.
But thinking of the reason why I committed myself to the government in the first place, I hesitated, so what is the meaning of my own sacrifice and my own efforts?
When no one was around, she often fell into such conflicts alone, and in the end she couldn't solve it, and couldn't think of any necessary reasons to say, so she had to stop thinking about those things.

But some things are indeed instinctive. From time to time, she will truthfully tell the officials about the developments in the court in the Southern Tang Dynasty, whether it is said in family letters, or various flattering letters, or letters from relatives and friends. She thought that might help the officials.

Although she is still entangled, she has actually made a choice instinctively, but some choices are subconscious, dominated by the subconscious buried in her heart, and it will be a matter of course when she regains consciousness.

In this way, she can also comfort herself, not betraying her homeland, but constantly betraying her relatives and friends.

But far away in a foreign land, she actually has a sense of crisis in her heart. As a woman, especially a woman in the harem, she naturally has her own thoughts in her heart.

Although Empress Fu Shi has a good personality, Zhao Shijian is a straight-talking person, everyone plays cards together, and they are very happy when they play together, but once they are separated, when they return to their palace and are alone, she often thinks wildly , fear of being alone.

So many times, she also wanted to tell the officials about Jiangnan's news, so as to gain more favor and improve her status in the hearts of the officials, so she did not refuse Jiangnan's contact.

In the afternoon, the breeze was blowing the willows, and the evening breeze was blowing, and the most caring maid sent her a letter from Feng Yanlu, the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The maid yelled, but Zhou Xian was so focused that she didn't answer, so the maid stood a few steps away and waited.

She is researching and completing the "Neon Clothes and Feather Clothes Song" from the Tang Dynasty. After the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, many of the scores were lost. However, she is very talented in the melody of the music, and she wants to surprise the officials with this.

Chewing the rhythm carefully, looking for the rules, and slowly completing it, I couldn't help singing softly.

"Ting Gao is looking forward to the extreme, and the lotus in the river has not yet returned. He is sick but has no strength. Kuang Wan's fans are gradually thinning out, and his clothes are beginning to be untied. The moon seems to illuminate the colors.

Quiet, chaotic moaning wall.Moving Yu Xin, Qingchou seems to weave.Contemplating youth wandering.Flute in Guanshan, Liuxia Fangmo, falling red without information.Man dark water, trickling Liubi.I've been drifting away for a long time, what's the point now, I'm lying drunk on my side"

After a song was sung, the lingering sound lingered, and the maid who made tea and swept the floor over there slowly came back to her senses.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Xian asked.

The maid returned to her senses and handed over the letter in her hand.

When Zhou Xian saw that it was written by Feng Yanlu, he generally understood it.

When I opened it, there were some kind words of greeting written on the front, with a very respectful attitude.

Later, they said that this time their relatives from the Zhou family also came to the capital and lived in the post house of Honglu Temple, and asked her if she had time to go out and have a look.

Zhou Xian was very happy in her heart. She hadn't seen anyone from her natal family for a long time. At the beginning, the official family also said that if she was depressed in Daliang, they could let people from her natal family come to accompany her. But at that time, the official family was fighting outside, and she I was worried, the tea and rice were not delicious, and I didn't think about these things.

Now that the official family is back, and the heart is back, it is only when I think of those things.

The letter said that her close relatives had come, Zhou Xian thought for a while, the mother and father of the close relatives in the family have both passed away, and several older brothers are still there, but it is unlikely that they will come, the only ones who come here may be cousins ​​or someone from the cousin's side Well, she thought.

Feeling a little lost after thinking this way, he immediately said, "Prepare a pen and paper for me."

The maids were very quick to do it. Concubine Shu has always liked writing and ink, and the palace always prepares it, so the preparations are also very fast.

She took up a pen and wrote a few words of condolences to Feng Chen, then thought about it, and wrote a pen to tell her that if she had time, she would go out of the palace to visit, and she would take some money from her own treasury to give away to relatives. It is not easy for them to live in Daliang.

She couldn't help getting a little excited. No matter how you say it, being able to see people in her hometown is a great comfort. She thought for a while, "I'll tell the officials this afternoon."

Autumn geese return to the south, the wind blows thousands of miles, and the north wind blows across. The top of the turret in Daliang is full of desolation, but Shi Congyun's eyes are not on the north.

Looking from the turrets at the four corners of the imperial city, there are rows of houses in the distance, red walls and black tiles, pieces like the dense scales on the back of a huge black monster, all in one piece.

From this point of view, the entire girder, the entire state of Qin is like a majestic, ferocious beast covered with strong scales.

The bluestone brick road at the top of the city was flat, and while he was pacing slowly, he was holding in his hand the memorabilia sent by Pan Mei from Tanzhou (Changsha).

Tanzhou is the location of Changsha in later generations, and there is Hengzhou in the south, and then it is the border with the Southern Han Dynasty.

Pan Mei guarded Tanzhou. In addition to training the Xiaoxiang Army, she often sent spies into the southern border of the Han Dynasty to spy on intelligence and prepare for the next military attack.

On the one hand, today’s Holy Lord is talking about him. The wise, wise and strategic Emperor Shi’s tendency to engulf the world has already appeared. Even if he doesn’t say anything, everyone knows that there is a high probability that he will go south and annex Jiangnan, the ambition of the Southern Han Dynasty .

On the other hand, the Qin army has continued to conquer in recent years. His lord, Shi Congyun, was born in the army and fought almost non-stop.

In the end, it was naturally Pan Mei's selfishness to continue the fight. The Xiaoxiang Army was the most familiar with the local conditions and the closest to the Southern Han Dynasty, so they must be the pioneers, and the opportunity to make contributions will follow.

All kinds of psychological history can be understood from Congyun. He does have the intention of going south, and he will never leave Jiangnan and the Southern Han to rule the country there and separate one side.

It's just that after reading Pan Mei's Shangshu, he really opened his eyes. He felt that the events of the Southern Han Dynasty were really exciting, much better than the novels written by many authors, and deserved the word "outrageous".

Liu Sheng, the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, passed away five years ago. He was only 39 years old. He was posthumously named Emperor Wenwu Guangsheng Mingxiao, the temple name was Zhongzong, and the mausoleum was named Zhaoling.

Now the emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty is Liu Yan in his early twenties.

However, in the memorandum, Pan Mei was very disdainful of the Southern Han Kingdom, which occupied Guangdong, Guangxi and Vietnam to the south of him. There was a bit of contempt in her words, saying that the Southern Han Kingdom was stupid, with weak soldiers and poor people, and could be taken lightly.

It also described some customs and customs in the Southern Han Dynasty in detail, and the specific situation.

Pan Mei’s memoirs say that the Southern Han Dynasty was extremely superstitious about ghosts and gods. From the king to the common people, no matter what they did, they had to do divination, sacrifice, pray to ghosts and gods, and burn incense and worship Buddha.

There are Buddhist temples and Taoist temples all over the country. In some places, even if the people can't eat, they are still spending a lot of money and money to build temples for monks and Taoists.

Moreover, several generations of monarchs in the Southern Han Dynasty believed that the civil and military officials of the group were unreliable because they had families.

If you have a family, you will have selfishness, and if you have selfishness, you will be selfish in order to take care of your children and grandchildren. You cannot be loyal and selfless to the king, so you only trust eunuchs who are barren.

So after decades of tossing and tossing by several generations of Liu's royal family, now in the Southern Han Dynasty, ministers do not manage affairs, and those who preside over political affairs are eunuchs who are neither male nor female, and maids and female officials in the palace.

If ordinary people want to be reused, they will be promoted from the palace and selected into the center.

As well as the Southern Han Dynasty, the main body was nothing more than the land of Guangdong and Guangxi, with a small population and more than [-] eunuchs. Thinking about the Qin Dynasty, the land was vast and the population was large, and there were only a hundred eunuchs in the palace. There were far fewer eunuchs than in the Southern Han Dynasty.

Especially in Liu Yu's reign, this kind of atmosphere became more and more serious.

The government of the country has been completely controlled by eunuchs and court ladies. The king does not care about political affairs. If he wants to be reused and become an official, no matter civil or military, he must first be ruthless and give himself a knife.

Even now workers in charge of castration in the Southern Han Dynasty are in high demand. The employment prospects are very promising, and there is no pressure on employment.

Shi Congyun looked at these memorials and immediately became righteous, thinking that the people of the Southern Han Dynasty were really living in dire straits!My teacher of justice must go down the Xiangjiang River to help them!

In the Memorials, another description of the characteristics of the Southern Han Dynasty is that the king is superstitious about ghosts and gods, ignores political affairs, and idles around all day long.

The country's government was controlled by a few eunuchs named Gong Chengshu and Chen Yanshou, as well as Lu Qiongxian among the maids.

Shi Congyun was almost stunned when he saw it for the first time. The servant is a prime minister of the third rank, so can he be a court lady?I don't know whether to say that he can play or that he is stupid.

And the most outrageous thing is yet to come.

The most powerful person besides the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty was not the prime minister or the privy envoy, but a witch named "Fan Huzi".

I heard that she did it in the middle school. After singing and dancing, she claimed to be the Jade Emperor's descendant. Then she said that the lord Liu Yu is the son of the Jade Emperor and is blessed by the God of Heaven. .

Liu Yan was very happy after hearing this, and actually believed it. On the one hand, he felt that the son of the Jade Emperor was invincible and blessed by God, so he became more arrogant and extravagant. If she is a guest, even let her take over the power.

When Shi Congyun saw this, he wondered if Liu Yan had mental problems?
Under such a court, ordinary people are naturally miserable.

Pan Mei also talked about a few specific things that the spies he sent had spied on the people of the Southern Han Dynasty.

One is that the local army of the Southern Han Dynasty owed a lot of wages.

Because the king is busy worshiping gods and having fun, he doesn't pay attention to the food and pay of the army at all, and the endless wars in the Central Plains allowed the Southern Han Dynasty to take advantage of the chaos in the south to establish a country for 50 years, and basically had no time to pay attention to them, which caused the king and many ministers to be arrogant , I feel that the world is invincible, I don’t need to worry about the north, and I don’t care about army building.

Shi Congyun shook his head, even if you are closed, you can't be closed like this, don't you have any b numbers in your heart?Was it because they were powerful that the Southern Han Dynasty was able to establish a country?Certainly not, but the world is in a scuffle, and no one pays attention.

Even in the more remote Shu Kingdom, troops from the north invaded every ten or so years, while the Southern Han Dynasty was completely left alone.

Second, the large-scale construction of temples and Taoist temples in the Southern Han Dynasty was still prevalent. Hezhou spies alone discovered the large-scale construction of temples by local officials in Linhe, Guiling, Fengcheng, Fengyang, Fuchuan, Dangshan and other counties.

In fact, the Central Plains also experienced the flooding of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, but it was rectified by the first emperor Guo Rong with iron and blood methods. But it's different, he didn't compromise, but was directly fooled by others.

The third is that in the area south of Hezhou in the Southern Han Dynasty, in order to exploit the people, there were actually two kinds of dou in the local area. The dou used by the government to collect taxes was bigger, and one dou was actually roughly equivalent to one dou and eight among the people!That is to say, the people pay almost double the tax.Otherwise, the ruler would not have the money to enjoy extravagant pleasures, travel around mountains and rivers, or build so many temples and Taoist temples.

Fourth, many leading generals in the Southern Han Dynasty were castrated eunuchs, and Pan Mei despised them very much.

After synthesizing the information, Pan Mei, who was stationed in Tanzhou, made his own judgment at the end of the memorial. He felt that the Southern Han Kingdom was far worse than the Shu Kingdom. It is also possible to organize some productive resistance and slow down the advance.

However, if the imperial court sent troops in the Southern Han Dynasty, [-]% of the people would not fight for the lord and could easily attack, so he explained the advantages and disadvantages, and stated the desirable principles of the Southern Han Dynasty to the emperor.

Shi Congyun was also hesitant after reading it. If what Pan Mei said was true, then this Southern Han Kingdom is really real. He doesn't even know how to describe it.

The country of magical realism?
Thinking about it, it still hurts. Fortunately, he traveled to Hou Zhou. If he went to the Southern Han Dynasty, he would have to choose between Qian Future and Dan Dan. He doesn't know the Sunflower Book, and he can't be the Invincible in the East.

He handed the memorial to Luqiu Zhongqing and Fan Zhi behind him to read, and then asked, "After reading it, tell me what you think."

(Brothers, I am thick-skinned, do you vote or not)

(End of this chapter)