Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 692
"Three minutes of the night with a bright moon in the world, and two minutes of rascals is Yangzhou." This is also the first time Jiang Tian came to this city, the legendary southeast metropolis, known as "Yang Yi Yi Er".If Chang'an and Luoyang represent the political center of Datang, then Yangzhou is the wealth/economic center.

Moreover, Yangzhou, the head of the sixteen prefectures in the world; compared with the majestic Huanghuang and majestic two capitals in the North, it undoubtedly has the smoke and fire of the city life and the wealth of the commercial city.This can be seen from the huge Chengxiafang that almost surrounds the outer Guocheng of Guangling.

Undoubtedly, what makes patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder uncomfortable is that there is no clear plan and arrangement in Xiachengxiafang; it is just spread out around the city wall, including many lakes, rivers, ponds, bridges and docks; Larger irregular areas.

Therefore, Daming Temple, located outside the west water gate of Yangzhou City, as the dojo of Master Jianzhen who traveled east to Fusang to teach the Dharma, was also included in these city squares, and became the heartland of the downtown area in a certain sense; even known as " "Ling Ling Feng Hua" has become a part of Yangzhou's grand scene.

That is, it surrounds the oldest pagoda in the temple; in the first year of Renshou in the Sui Dynasty (601), Emperor Wen Yang Jian prayed for his own birthday, and issued an edict to build one of the magnificent nine-story pagodas in the country to support Buddha bones; The garden is made up of large expanses of peonies and viburnum flowers and trees.

Yangzhou peony has been well-known since ancient times, and it is as famous as Luoyang peony; the essence of it is gathered in Daming Temple. ", "louzi" and so on.Standing on the top of the Qiling Pagoda, you can overlook the city.

It can be seen that even in broad daylight, the entertainment venues in Chengxiafang are still open, shouting and shouting everywhere, and it is very lively; it seems that there are crowds of people who are having fun all day long, either reciting poems, singing songs, dancing, or playing the piano to their heart's content. enjoying a good time of peace.

As the saying goes, "Ten miles of long streets and wells are connected, and the gods are seen on the Yueming Bridge. Life is only for Yangzhou to die, and Zen Zhishan is good for the cemetery." The famous work "A Long Journey to Huainan" by the former poet Zhang Hu has a prosperous artistic conception of smoke and willows. , as close as a picture scroll.One of the biggest features is Fanrenfang.

As a bustling metropolis where land and sea meet in the southeast, unnaturalized Tibetans are not allowed to live in Yangzhou city.But in fact, there are foreign feudal vassals and vassal states from all over the world, the barbarians and the nine borders; the barbarians and Hu merchants who have come to China to make a living in the past dynasties are endless.

Therefore, outside the city of Yangzhou, around the big and small Yangtze Ports and along the banks of Hangou, dozens of fanfangs/inhabited areas with different characteristics have been formed.Among them are also the Fanfang established by the descendants of the Yin people from Xinzhou and the Haiyi Tu people from Xiaoxiaoao.

Therefore, after so many unique foreign elements are mixed together in Chengxiafang, it also constitutes the "everything in the city", one of the three strange things in Yangzhou.Because here, you can appreciate almost all ethnic customs related to Datang without leaving Middle Earth.

But after entering the city, the sky has already darkened; the bright moon in the sky and the bright lights in the world are in perfect harmony, and they complement each other to create a grand urban scene on the other side.There are big and small rivers and waterways running vertically and horizontally in the urban area, and ubiquitous bridges and ferries are scattered with large and small night markets.

Under the night, there are shadows of boats, oars, fishing lights, waving flower branches and willows, carrying bamboo poles, chasing children playing on the streets by the river; the laughter of tourists and ladies at night with candles, flying and floating in the wind Between the river bank and the shade of flowers and trees on the street.

As the saying goes, "Thousands of lights illuminate the blue clouds in the night market, and there are many people with red sleeves in high-rise buildings." As a gathering place for wealth and romance in the southeast, one of the most famous features of Yangzhou is that it is a fireworks resort, which has been frequently seen in famous articles handed down from generation to generation. Middle: "Wrap a hundred thousand guan in your waist, and ride a crane down to Yangzhou."

Among them are Luo Binwang, Li Qi, Wang Changling, Meng Haoran, Cui Hao, Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wei Yingwu, Gu Kuang, Dai Shulun, Wang Jian, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi, Zhang Hu, Yao He, Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Wen Tingyun and other famous artists of all dynasties.Among them, Li Bai traveled to Yangzhou six times.

Therefore, in some streets and alleys in the city, even the air is filled with the charming and ambiguous atmosphere of bright red lipstick; Willows and flowers are the spring scenery of the city that sneaks into the night with the wind.

Cool and refreshing, the night wind is blowing gently, the flowers and trees that shade the road, the fragrance of other branches of vines protruding from the edge of the high wall; The fragrance of Tuoye (jasmine), cinnamon twigs and viburnum; it is intimate and intoxicating.

Although it is not the most beautiful fireworks in March with all the flowers and the most beautiful scenery, nor is it the midsummer period when the clothes are not clean and the melons and fruits are fresh; but you can still see the frivolous girl in the shirt, supporting the grace who smells of makeup and alcohol. Passengers; walking the market as usual, or boarding a boat and entering a house.

Between the swaying of the horseshoes and the swaying lights, Jiang Tian and his party headed east through the former site of the lost building in Xishuimen, and came to the largest pool in the city - Jiuqu Pool; on the surface of the pool with clear waves and dim moonlight, Scattered boat lights sway a little bit, and reflect the bright lights of tall buildings and pavilions on the bank.

Between the static and the moving, the bright and the bright, a certain kind of sharp contrast and contrast is formed.This time, the Dudu Mansion in Yangzhou is used as a banquet venue for entertaining guests; it is located between many buildings beside the Jiuqu Pool, between the seven-storey high-rise building with a corridor like a flock of chickens, and the large Qionghua Garden.

According to the introduction of the officials who led the way, this was once part of the Forbidden City of Emperor Yangdi Jiangdu, and it is also the site of the only remaining Shuijing Palace during the Jiangdu Change.It was only later that it was stolen by Yu Wenhua of Jiangdu and rebuilt into another garden, thinking that it overlooked and supervised Luocheng (Wai Guo); since then, the name of Qionglou has been passed down to this day.

(Emperor Yang, in the Shuijing Hall of the Jiangdu Palace, ordered the people in the palace to wear crowns with louvered leaves and insert sesel tins, all of which were decorated with pearls and emerald greens, and put on purple cloaks. They also had half-moon pheasant fans and dove-head shoes, which were called "Fairy Flying". )
Of course, at this moment, the Qiong Tower and the upper and lower floors have been emptied and used as a special place to entertain Jiang Tian.Therefore, when Jiang Tian stepped into the banquet hall on the second floor following the singing and reporting one after another, he saw the governor of Yangzhou as the host, a burly man in a purple robe and gauze crown.

I saw that he was nearly 50 years old, with a medium build and a thick and dignified appearance, with frosty white hair on his temples and sharp eyes; the nasolabial folds on his forehead were particularly deep;Surrounded by guests and subordinates with different temperaments; it is like a natural focus under the stars.

But Jiang Tian thought again that he had collected relevant information about the other party before that.As the governor of Yangzhou, who is in charge of the southeast, his real name is Duguyun; he was born in the famous Yue family in the Northern Dynasty, and also a member of the distant branch of the Dugu family in the dynasty; he originated from the family of generals in the Yulin Army.

It's just that he is not the eldest son who can inherit the family business.Therefore, he was selected into the Jiangwu Academy, one of the three affiliated schools, as usual, and then used it as a springboard to enter the Capital Armed Forces University; finally, with excellent grades in general science, he was awarded the title of Captain of the Military Academy and selected as Zuoqianniuwei Trainee military machine.

But he didn't take the path of the Qinggui Suwei or the internal war squads like other nobles and foreign relatives; instead, he asked himself to be released very early on, as a guarding envoy of the Xuanfu envoy, He went to foreign feudal vassals and even foreign vassal states, and even stayed in the Great Xia/Tiancheng Dynasty of the Western Kingdom for half a year.

And his accompanying travel experience outside the territory was also written as "Sanzhou Fengtuji", which took up a lot of descriptive pen and ink.Then after the return of the envoy of Xuanfu, he stayed for half a year to recuperate due to illness, and was invited by accident as foreign aid to participate in the battle of the Kunlun kingdoms.

As a result, he also brought out a well-known Yi Cong in the local area; coupled with his aristocratic/famous origins as a child of the Dugu family, he was almost defeated by one of the few great vassals in the local area, the Ansu Kingdom (Kingdom of Axum) The deputy king of the Tang Dynasty recruited him as his son-in-law, and promised him the post of general of the forbidden army.

Later, on the way back to his country by sea, he accidentally got involved with some Tu nationality lords in West Tianzhu and colluded with the great rebellion of the Balo Dynasty in Central Tianzhu; Get away; but it also became an important addition to his qualifications.

As one of the nobles and relatives, one of the few people who knows how to fight well; even if he is only from a side branch of a family of generals, it is enough for him to step into the fast lane of official career.But the real rise was more than 20 years ago, when he led troops to escort the new princess, and participated in the quelling of the chaos in Tonghai.

In this specific process of countering the rebellion, he was relatively good; but he gained a lot of resources and potential contacts from it; he also forged a certain sense of relationship with the contemporary princess.Therefore, his official career went relatively smoothly, and he became the governor in his thirties.

Even if the head of the family can't ignore the early years before the event, the two parties have kept communicating in private.But Dugu Yun's voice is loud and clear, and in the conversations that deliberately create topics, the public and private standards are also clear, but it will not make people feel alienated or offensive.

At least in the first impression, it feels more like a capable official, not like the potential behind-the-scenes and overshadowed suspects that Xu Zhiyuan, the censor, secretly investigated.In fact, when Xu Zhiyuan was routinely introduced on the scene, he didn't even lift his eyelids.

After the polite greetings, the wine and food are served, and it is the turn of the most common subordinates during the banquet to test and get close to each other.And Jiang Tian began to taste the local Huaiyang cuisine.For example, crucian carp and carp finely shredded with bamboo shoots and chrysanthemum seedlings;
Finely sliced ​​fresh sea bass and wild rice are seasoned with seasoning and seasoned with golden squid; fried wild rice is golden, and the snow-carved plate is mixed with refined crispy cheese; tender lamb cut into pieces and almond casserole "Mountain Boiled Lamb" stewed together; "Zhuhai Danxin" boiled with sea cucumber and shrimp balls and soup.

There are also steamed jade pillars with pumpkin powder, fish eggplant brain flower, three-color tripe soup, two-color water dragon powder...Just as the so-called appetite was present, Jiang Tian temporarily suppressed other plans, and took up the wine bottle as a cover, and looked at the performances of everyone on the scene with cold eyes.The sound of singing and dancing instruments sounded in turn.