Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 680 Arrive at Lingyun City

Lingyun was called Sicheng in ancient times.

Since the Song Dynasty established Sicheng Prefecture in Yongzhou Youjiang Road, Guangnan West Road in the fifth year of Huangyou, and now in the eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Lingyun County has a history of about 600 years as a prefecture, prefecture, and county seat.

Lingyun was the land of Baiyue in ancient times, and it belonged to Guilin County in Qin Dynasty; Yulin County in Han and Jin Dynasties; it belonged to Shuangcheng Prefecture in Tang Dynasty.In the fifth year of Emperor Huangyou of the Song Dynasty, Sicheng Prefecture was established, which belonged to Youjiang Road, Yongzhou, Guangnan West Road; Ceheng and Lizhou, Tangxing, Guile, Shanglindong, Anlong, Gukandong, Chengxian, Longchuan.

In the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Cen, the chieftain, moved Sicheng Prefecture to Gukandong, which is now Lingyun City, and Sicheng Prefecture became the largest Zhili Prefecture in Guangxi.

The current governor of Sicheng Prefecture, Cen Shaoxun, took up his post as early as the 30th year of Jiajing. At that time, his father, Cen Shi, was actually only in his thirties. It is said that he asked the court to let his son take up his post in advance because of an injury. When Cen Shi passed away, Cen Ling had just been born.

Gao Yushi came from Tianzhou to the northwest, along the road of the imperial court horse station.After Tianzhou, go all the way through Bosai Mayi, Guile Mayi, Xiangdian Mayi and then turn northeast to Lingyun City.

At present, Lingyun City is already far away, but the ancients said: Wangshan ran to death, this Lingyun City is actually among the mountains, the terrain is very high, and the high-level people at the foot of the mountain can even see the city in the mountains shrouded in a distance. Among the clouds and mist.

No wonder it's called Lingyun City, it's really not nonsense.

However, this kind of terrain can be regarded as making Gao Wushi understand one thing: Tianzhou Cen Meng was the most powerful among the chieftains in Guangxi back then, but he captured Sicheng Prefecture for several years, but he failed to win Lingyun City. It's really not that Cen Meng is incompetent, but that the terrain of Lingyun City is too easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Gao Yushi couldn't help feeling a little scared, and secretly said: Fortunately, I didn't plan to attack this city by force, otherwise the difficulty of transportation alone would drag down this impoverished Guangxi.

As a landlord, Cen Ling accompanied Gao Yushi as he walked like a rein, and at the same time helped him introduce the situation of the Cen family: "According to the table, my Cen family originated from the surname Ji of the Zhou Dynasty. Ting, the Viscount's place in the north of Liangguo, is known as Cenzi, and his descendants thought it was his family. Later generations moved to Nanyang, Henan Province. It has a history of more than 3000 years.

There are no written records for more than 1000 years from Zhou to Qin.In the Han Dynasty, he came out of Cen Penggong and was ordered to conquer Shu.Since the Han Dynasty, there are historical records of our Cen clan, that is, Nanyang was the birthplace of the clan.

In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, there were Cen Wenwen, Cen Changqian, Cen Xi and Cen Shenshi.Cen Shen settled in Sichuan and formed the second branch.In the Song Dynasty, Cen Jingquan moved from Nanyang to Zhejiang and formed the third branch.Cen Zhengshu moved from Zhejiang to Guangdong, and Mianyan became the fourth branch. "

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "Your family's genealogy research is more detailed than mine. But if that's the case, why did you come to Guangxi later?"

Cen Ling smiled, not without color on his face, and explained: "In the fourth year of Song Huangyou, Cen Zhongshu, the second son of Cen Xiang's second son Cen Shiheng, followed Di Qing to conquer Nong Zhigao in Guangxi, was entrusted by the imperial court to settle in Guangxi, and became Guangxi Cen Shiheng. ancestor.

The Cen family who stayed in Yongzhou evolved into the fifth branch. After that, some people moved to Lianghu and Fujian, mostly from Zhejiang.Those who moved to Yunnan and Guizhou mostly originated from Guangxi.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Cen Tiemuer, the eighth grandson of Cen Zhongshu, was in charge of Tianzhou Mansion, Cen Acilan was in charge of Sien Mansion, Cen Numuhan was in charge of Sicheng Mansion, and Cen Acixin was in charge of Zhen'an Mansion, so they became the four branches of Guangxi.It can be said that the Cen clans in various places in western Guangxi are basically descendants of the branches of these four prefectures. "

"Oh, it turns out that your Cen family was divided into four at that time."

Gao Wushi's expression changed, and he thought, "No wonder the Cen family is not as united as the Huang family. At first, I thought it was because of the great family business, but now I see that there is something wrong with it. It turned out to be because the family separated earlier...

This is not easy to deal with. Although they are both surnamed Cen, the so-called clan relationship between them is probably as weak as water. I want to unite them. Blood relationship is probably useless. It is better to stick to the old method , It is straightforward to use threats and lures.

Cen Ling talked about the genealogy, and then introduced the mountains and rivers of Sicheng Prefecture to Gao Yushi. Gao Yushi also listened very carefully.

After a while, after Cen Ling finished speaking, he suddenly smiled and said, "I am the number one scholar of the Six Poems of the Ming Dynasty, the top literary scholar in the world, and I am here today in Lingyun City. Rongsi City?"

Gao Wushi was slightly taken aback, and thought to himself: Why are leadership inscriptions so popular these days?

However, Cen Ling is the person he intends to support, so it's not easy to save face, so he smiled slightly: "Since you, Mr. Seventh Cen, said it, I should send a couplet to Sicheng...but it's not good right now. Pick up the pen, Mo Bao Yunyun, I will give it to you when I enter the city."

Cen Ling was overjoyed, and immediately bowed his hands to Gao Wushi on the short-footed Yun and Gui specialties: "Thank you for pressing the table, and I thank you in advance."

Gao Wushi looked up and looked around, pondered for a while, and said:
"Four towering mountains, one stream of water, often called Sizhong Xingsheng;

Liangjiang Shangjun, a hundred Yues are respected, and they have long inherited the grace of the sky. "

Cen Ling was overjoyed, and thanked him again and again, and then suddenly thought in his heart: This sentence "Jiu Chengtian Enbo", does it mean that my family has been benevolent for a long time, or he hopes that my family will continue to be loyal to the court, so it is better to "Jiu Chengtian" "This "Heavenly Enbo"?
Or, does the "Heavenly Embo" in his mouth refer to something else?
As for "Hundred Cantons Distinguished Honor, Liangjiang Shangjun", Cen Ling felt that Sicheng deserved it.

In the early years, the Chief Secretary of Guangxi reported to the court about the situation of the chieftains in Guangxi, saying, "Of all the chieftains, Tianzhou and Sicheng are the strongest, and Nandan is the second. Ten thousand, one call is answered; the chieftains are rebellious and rebellious, and they are in trouble with the chieftains at times, so they have not seen our interior. Sicheng is more than a thousand miles away, and the soldiers are better than Tianzhou. They live scattered in caves. "

Later, Tianzhou was divided by the imperial court after the Cen Meng Rebellion, and its strength declined a lot. When Guangxi's chief minister, Si Shangshu, said to the imperial court: "Sicheng has the most extensive extension and the strongest military strength. It is comparable to Qing, Tian, Zhen'an and other prefectures thrive on each other."

It can be seen that today's Sicheng Prefecture can be called a vast land, a large number of people, and a strong army. What is this if it is not "the county on the two rivers, and the respect of a hundred Guangdongs"?
The only trouble is that there was internal chaos, and Huang Ma secretly imprisoned his elder brother, and guarded Lingyun City, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. When the Bazhai Rebellion was put down last year, how could Siming Mansion take the lead and make the first contribution among chieftains?
In addition, this girl Huang Zhiting doesn't know what to think now, she seems to have identified Gao Xunyan... To say that this Gao Xunyan is very powerful, and his background is really strong, but no matter what, his Xunyan is after all. Only for one year!

It's too easy for Huang Zhiting to make decisions. If Gao Xun press returns to Beijing next year, the new Xun Zan's political thinking is completely different from Gao Xun Zan's, I'll see what you do.

While thinking about it, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a group of soldiers and horses coming down from the mountain in front of him, and there were at least a few hundred people.Cen Ling focused his eyes, looked carefully at the flags that the team of soldiers and horses were flying, turned his head and said to Gao Wushi: "Press the stage, Lingyun City sent people down to meet the chief of the stage, and the officials saw Luohu and Huang's family. Banner—oh, Luohu Huang’s family is Huang Ma’s family.”

Gao Wushi nodded and asked, "Is Huang Ma here?"

"I don't know yet." Cen Ling narrowed his eyes and looked ahead, and said, "There are about 800 people here. If Huang Ma is here..."

Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "Even if he comes, I won't touch him now, don't worry, just watch."

(End of this chapter)