Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 608 Liu Zhiyuan's Tale of the White Rabbit
Hedong, Taiyuan, this year's spring came especially late.

Until March, there were repeated snowfalls in various parts of Hedong. This extremely long and severe winter and heavy snow dealt a fatal blow to the people's livelihood in Hedong.

You must know that in Hedong at this time, animal husbandry occupies at least half of the people's lifestyle.

Such a terrible snow disaster, for the Han people, may wait for the snow to melt in spring. Although the winter wheat is gone, the rest of the crops can still be planted one or two.

But for the herdsmen who lack the means to keep livestock warm and cold-proof at this time, the cattle and sheep must be dead. Without cattle and sheep, the herdsmen have no possibility of survival.

The reason for the numerous nomadic pastoralism in Hedong can be traced back to the end of Tang Dynasty.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Li Guochang and Li Keyong's father and son rose to Daibei. This was not only the luck of Daibei and Hedong, but also their great misfortune.

Because from Li Guochang to Li Keyong to Li Cunxu, they failed to complete the establishment of a stable unified dynasty, but lost the choice of history for them.

Daibei and Hedong, in this process, after three generations of Li Guochang's father and son and Shi Jingtang's consumption, the population has withered, with more women than men, and by this time, the decline has been fully evident.

They took power, but instead of making the cake bigger, they fell into internal struggle.

In this era, most of the Han'er from Beibei and Hedong, and the heroes and even adult men of the Sinicized Shatuo tribes had entered the Central Plains, forming the Daibei and Hedong Wuxun Groups in power.

In the 37 years from the Houliang to the Northern Song Dynasty, the change of regime, the rebellion between Jiedushi and the central government, was basically carried out between Daibei and Hedong Wuxun Group.

If you count the period during which Li Keyong, Li Cunxu and his sons fought against the Later Liang Dynasty, and the Northern Han Dynasty resisted the Northern Song Dynasty.

It can be said that the entire Five Dynasties is the big stage for Daibei and Hedong warriors.

But behind this big stage with infinite scenery on the surface, the warriors of Daibei and Hedong were completely lost.

When the Sibei and Hedong military groups were strong, the Fengzhou and Zhenwu troops in the Hetao area were overcrowded.

But after 60 years of consumption, Fengzhou and the Hedong area where the Zhenwu Army is located have long been abandoned because no one lives there.

Even in the most important Yunzhou (Datong) and Taiyuan, the main ethnic group has become the Tuyuhun people of the former Yinshan Dudufu of the Tang Dynasty.

In the history of the Northern Han Dynasty, it was even supported by the Yang family and Tuyuhun people in Linzhou.

At this time, it is of course better than that of the Northern Han Dynasty, but the Tuyuhun people have already begun to occupy nearly [-]% of the population of Hedong.

The Tuyuhun people naturally wanted to be nomadic.

. . . .

Guo Rong led the curly-haired green horse behind him, and carefully entered Taiyuan City from the south gate of Taiyuan.

This caution is not because he is afraid that someone will rob him of the Hexi dragon horse gifted by Emperor Shao, no one has such courage.

It was because there were a large number of frozen corpses lying outside the south and west gates of Taiyuan, which looked like branches in the snow.

Hedong is the later Shanxi. The terrain is called Biaoli Mountains and Rivers, which means that Hedong has its own dangers of mountains and rivers, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack everywhere.

It sounds like a good word, but it's actually...hard to say.

If the country is unified, and Hedong serves as a barrier in the Central Plains, and some countries mobilize supplies, they only need elite soldiers and strong generals to kill the enemy, then this is a good word.

Since the Warring States Period, the successive monarchs of the Zhao Kingdom and even the King Wuling of Zhao, Hu Fu, rode and shot, completely covered the east of the river, and Shanxi was the barrier of the country. Such geographical conditions made the nomads frightened when they saw it.

But in such a troubled world, it would not be a good word. The mountains and rivers on the outside represent inconvenient transportation and poverty.

The whole good place in Shanxi is divided into Xinding Basin, Taiyuan Basin, Shangdang Basin and so on by mountains and rivers.

Only in these basins can one engage in planting, and the rest of the areas basically belong to mixed farming and nomadic areas, and are also extremely barren areas.

This is also an important reason why the Tuyuhun people can nomad in the east of the river today.

Since they left the oppression of Khitan and moved inland, the characteristics of Han people farming in the basin and Tuyuhun people grazing in the mountains have formed on the land of Hedong.

Therefore, most of the refugees who died outside the city of Taiyuan were Tuyuhun people. In this long winter, which can be compared to the grassland white disaster, the Tuyuhun people and livestock almost died.

The herdsmen had no way out, and after eating up everything they could eat, they spontaneously flocked to Taiyuan, Jinzhou, Fenzhou, Shizhou and other big cities, hoping to come here to beg for a stutter.

Then, and then no more.

Liu Zhiyuan, in order to have capital and fight for world hegemony with Zhang Yu, scraped three feet in the east of the river, and he didn't even care about the life and death of the Han people and Shatuo people in the basin, so he didn't care about the expendable Tuyuhun people in his eyes.

So the four gates of Taiyuan and Fenzhou were closed tightly, and thousands of Tuyuhun refugees were froze and starved to death outside the city in the heavy snow.

"Thus I heard: At one time Bhagavan lived in the vast Vajra Dharma Realm Palace blessed by the Supreme Heaven, and all Vajra holders gathered together.

The supreme heaven believes in the transformation of the game gods, giving birth to the treasured kings of the big pavilions, the heights have no middle borders, and the various great treasure kings are decorated with various decorations. The body of the Bodhisattva is the seat of the teacher. "

Guo Rong suddenly looked in the direction of the voice, this scripture is wrong!

The Buddha in it was replaced by the Supreme Heaven, and everyone knows who is the Supreme Heaven.

Then he slowly lowered his head again, let alone in Hedong, even in Hebei, there appeared temples that enshrined the Buddha at the highest point and enshrined the Supreme Heaven at a slightly lower place.

Folk fools and foolish women basically regard Supreme Heaven as the closed disciple of Buddha and the representative who deals with ordinary things.

"Heaven, the Great Merciful Dharma King, knows my heart and what hurts me."

Guo Rong walked over slowly, and the person chanting sutras was a Tuyuhun woman who hadn't fallen down yet, and the tears streaming down her face had been frozen into icicles and hung on her face.

On the opposite side of the woman was an old Tuyuhun old herdsman with a hunched back. His face was dark and ravine. Because it was completely frozen, it showed a strange icy face, and his eyes were as white as dead fish. He stared at the sky with regret. .

The woman chanted the compassionate heart mantra of the Great Merciful Dharma King in a trembling low voice, as if she had lost any perception, which made people's hearts tremble and creepy.

Guo Rong thought about it again, the people in Hedong have always believed in Buddhism the most, especially the Tuyuhun people. In recent years, most of the Tuyuhun people in Hedong have faith in the supreme and benevolent king.

What's more, the direct descendant of the last sweat of the Tuyuhun people is the most beloved adoptive son of the Supreme Heaven, and he also takes the title of Qinghai, the ancestor of the Tuyuhun people.

And in this upcoming battle, Supreme Heaven has the greatest chance of winning, so what the Tuyuhun people thought from herdsmen to wealthy chieftains was almost revealed.

By coincidence, Guo Rong stretched out his arm, and lifted the woman onto the horse like a chicken, and then walked towards the city of Taiyuan.

This time he came to ask the King of Beiping (Liu Zhiyuan) to increase his troops, because Yan Jin's troops who were confronting them in the Fushui area had recently increased by at least 5000 people, and all of them were the brave eight towns of the state of Zhou. , the war has come.

. . . .

Taiyuan City, Beiping Prince's Mansion, Liu Zhiyuan was dark and thin, and looked much older than a year ago, but the fiery flames in his eyes made Li Sanniang tremble with fear.

Li Sanniang felt that this flame seemed to burn up everything she knew and cherished.

The love story between Liu Zhiyuan and Li Sanniang can actually be regarded as a pair of legends, and was later written into the opera "The Story of the White Rabbit by Liu Zhiyuan".

Of course, the story of Liu Zhiyuan and Li Sanniang is not as beautiful as in the story of the White Rabbit.

Uh. Actually, The Story of the White Rabbit is quite cruel.

From the perspective of the world in the future, Liu Zhiyuan and Li Sanniang can be regarded as one of the tragedies of this era.

The reason for the so-called legendary love is simply that Liu Zhiyuan, a soldier in his thirties and not yet a serious mother-in-law, happened to fall in love with Li Sanniang when he was out for a day.

But he is old, ugly and dark, and he is still a small school with no future. Li Sanniang's father is not willing to push his daughter into the fire pit, and Li Sanniang is not willing to come.

But this is five generations!If the soldiers are willing to come to propose marriage, it is enough to give you face, since you are not knowledgeable, that's good.

As soon as Liu Zhiyuan's brothers conspired, they immediately snatched Li Sanniang onto Liu Zhiyuan's bed.

Originally, this should have been a tragedy. The sixteen or seventeen-year-old Jiaohua was robbed into the bed of a rough man who was 20 years older than her.

Fortunately for Li Sanniang, Liu Zhiyuan had admired Li Sanniang for a long time. After getting along, he was conquered by her intelligence and virtuousness. Since then, he has been obedient and loving to Li Sanniang.

It was also under Li Sanniang's persuasion that Liu Zhiyuan abandoned his bad habit of being a soldier and began to make progress. In less than ten years, he became a governor of a town called the emperor of the land, and now he is even more qualified to compete in the world.

The stories of the two of them can be created again and again by later generations, presumably it is also the rare colorful lucky color in this dark and terrifying era.

Liu Zhiyuan saw Li Sanniang looking at him worriedly, and a warm smile appeared on his usually majestic dark face.

"Sanniang is worried about a certain family? Hahaha!"

Liu Zhiyuan pretended to be heroic and laughed three times, "Thinking that I, Liu Zhiyuan, started from a small age, fought hundreds of battles, and was invincible, and I was also popular in the east of the river.

That piece of iron is no more than a child in Hexi, originally a slave, after pretending to be loyal, all the heroes in the world are in their eyes, and he has only been in business for more than ten years, and has no relatives, as long as he is killed, the state of Zhou will surely collapse.

Sanniang is waiting in Taiyuan. At this time next year, a certain family will pick you up and go south to Tokyo, and also become the queen of the world.Dalang is sick and takes good care of him. "

After finishing speaking, before Li Sanniang could speak, she strode out.

Li Sanniang stood up in a daze, looking at the back of Liu Zhiyuan who was going away, tears were already rolling in her eyes.

She took a few steps hastily, as if she wanted to call Liu Zhiyuan back, but she didn't speak in the end, and finally leaned against the door to look, and then sighed softly.

"You said that you started from a young age and won a hundred battles, but the Son of Heaven also started from a young age. Even the Khitan Lord was beheaded by him, and he was victorious in every battle. At this age, why bother to fight?"

. . . .

Liu Zhiyuan strode into the White Tiger Festival Hall of Hedong Jiedushi.

Outside the festival hall, all civil servants and generals Wang Jun, Bai Wenke, Guo Congyi, Shi Hongzhao, Murong Yanchao, Su Fengji, Wang Jingchong, Guo Rong, etc. have been waiting here for a long time.

You said, Liu Zhiyuan doesn't know how strong Zhang Ting is?
He knew, but he didn't have time to confront Zhang Ting because he couldn't afford to wait.

Liu Zhiyuan was born in the second year of Emperor Zhaozong Qianning in Tang Dynasty, AD 895, and was 912 years older than Zhang Ting, who was born in the second year of Qianhua in AD 17.

If he waited any longer, it was time for him, Liu Zhiyuan, to meet King Hades.

In addition, Zhang Yu occupies Henan, with fertile land and numerous Dingkou, and Guanzhong, Hexi, and Longyou as the backing, one more day will have a better chance of winning.

On the other hand, in Hedong, after this heavy snow disaster, if you don't move, you may never be able to move again.

(End of this chapter)