Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 429 0424 [Li Yanxian said he likes Hanzhong]

Except for the big earthquake in the north and the slight flood in the south this year, there are no other major disasters, and the overall situation can even be called good weather.

A group of more than [-] people went south from Fuzhou.

The leader of the team to see off relatives is called Ori Zhichang, who is the direct son of Orihiko, who has just turned 16 this year.

He is the hope of the new generation of Zhe family. He studied with famous masters since he was a child and was trained as a civil servant.

Historically, the old nest of the Zhe family was occupied by the Kingdom of Jin. In order to save the lives of the people, the main force of the Zhe family army chose to surrender the gold.At the same time, they bet on both sides. A tribe followed Zhao Gou to the south, and Zhe Zhichang went to the Southern Song Dynasty to be a civil servant. He was good friends with Zhu Xi, Fan Chengda, Yang Wanli, and Yue Fei's son Yue Lin.

"Fourth Sister, Mei County is in front of you." Zhe Zhichang was dressed as a scholar, but he was riding a horse, with a long sword hanging from his waist, and a long spear hanging from the victory hook.

Zhe Yanxiu lifted the car curtain and took a look, then hung up the car curtain and complained: "It's really hot this summer, it's very uncomfortable to be stuffy in the car, it's better to ride a horse all the way."

Zhezhi often said: "Mr. Zhu is a great Confucianist in the world. How can he ride a horse on the way to see off his relatives? It's too inappropriate."

Zhe Yanxiu complained: "The daughter of the Zhe family always rides a horse, but it's my turn that I can't do it. The family shouldn't send you to study, you are almost becoming a pedant at a young age."

"You have to follow some rules," Zhe Zhichang said with a smile, "You are also a general, and the Zhong family read more books, so they will be reused by the court. Our Zhe family can't just hold the handle of the knife, someone should also hold the pen."

Zhe Yanxiu said: "I can't read those poems and books. I doze off as soon as I read them. I can still feel comfortable dancing with guns and sticks."

Zhezhi often had a headache and said: "You don't need to read other poems and books, but Mr. Zhu's "University Chapters" and "Doctoral Mean Chapters" are good to learn. After marrying, if Mr. Zhu talks about learning, he will be too stupid if he asks three questions. Zhejia is ashamed."

Zhe Yanxiu laughed and said: "He is a rebel and a war fighter, no matter how good his knowledge is, he can still persuade the emperor to abdicate?"

The siblings, with their entourage, stayed in a bunk in Mei County.

He didn't say that he was going to marry Zhu Thief, but that he was going to visit relatives and friends. After all, Song Huizong did not agree to grant marriage.

Take a day off and walk along the river.

However, an official ship came from behind and quickly overtook them.

Vehicles and boats passed through Wuzhangyuan and came to Xiegu Pass.

The Chong family had a marriage bestowed by the emperor, and the ostentation was much bigger. There were more than [-] people in the send-off team, and they went to Hanzhong with a large amount of dowry.

Compared with Zhe Yanxiu's free and easy, Zhong Miaoyun seemed a bit sad, as if she was about to be sent to a den of thieves to be Mrs. Yazhai.

The Zhong family arrived first, followed by the Zhe family. After spending the night in Xiegu, they were arranged to go together.

"Greetings, brother!" Zhezhi often bowed and saluted.

Chong Yancen, who was in charge of seeing off the relatives, bowed back and said: "Unexpectedly, I met Ziming's good brother Zhe's family and was also married by His Majesty?"

Zhe Zhichang felt a little embarrassed when he said this in a weird way: "My fourth sister and Mr. Zhu are in love, and the elders don't want to see lovers who are not married."

Zhong Yancen pursed his lips into a smile, revealing a sarcasm.

Both families went south by boat, but soon they had to abandon the boat and go ashore and cross mountains and mountains.

Zhe Yanxiu was bored out of her mind. When she learned that the daughter of the Zhong family was also on the boat, she hung a sword from her waist and ran to chat with her.

"My name is Zhe Yanxiu, and I am 17 years old," Zhe Yanxiu asked carelessly, "Are you an older sister or a younger sister?"

Zhong Miaoyun bowed and saluted: "I have seen my sister."

Zhe Yanxiu smiled and said: "Why is my sister so sad? I heard that Zhu Chenggong is both civil and military, he is a first-class good man in the world. It's a pity that you and I are married to be concubines, otherwise we have found a good match."

Zhong Miaoyun responded awkwardly: "My little sister is not unhappy, she just misses her relatives far away from home."

Zhe Yanxiu said: "Looking at you, you must have read a lot of poetry and books. But I can't read his "Great Learning Chapters". From now on, when it comes to learning, my sister can help me deal with it."

"If you can help, you must not hide your secrets." Zhong Miaoyun said.

Although the Zhong family is a family of generals, their ancestral home is in Luoyang. Generations of generations have cultivated both civil and martial arts.

Like his father and brother, Zhong Miaoyun has practiced Guan Luo's studies since childhood.

Zhu Ming's knowledge is very similar to Luo Xue, because he copied a lot from Zhu Xi.However, those great Confucians in Luoxue slandered Zhu Ming the most, because Zhu Ming also adopted some of Wang Anshi's views, and they believed that Zhu Ming's learning tampered with the essence of Luoxue.

Especially after Zhu Ming's rebellion, Dao Yongxue was denounced as disobedience.

Chong Miaoyun heard too many slanderous words, so it was hard to avoid the influence of this kind of thinking, and felt that Zhu Ming was not a good person.

When the two women chatted, they had nothing to do with each other, and they had no common topics at all.

But Zhe Yanxiu's carelessness did not make Zhong Miaoyun feel disgusted, basically the former was talking, and the latter echoed nothing.

After passing the boatable area, everyone started to walk.

Zhe Yanxiu was in high spirits, and it was easy to cross mountains and ridges. From time to time, she marveled at the steepness of the slope, and said with emotion that it was no wonder that the Western Army was defeated.

But Zhong Miaoyun secretly groaned, seeing Zhe Yanxiu walking by herself, she inevitably felt compelled to follow the team on foot.After only climbing a section of the mountain road, she was so tired that she was out of breath, and her delicate feet were blistered, but she had a lot of tenacity, and she was unwilling to lose to the other party, so she dragged her tired body and endured the pain on the way.

"It's better for Seventh Sister to sit in the Zhuyu, this is just the beginning." Zhong Yancen persuaded.

Zhong Miaoyun looked at Zhe Yanxiu who was striding like flying, gritted his teeth and shook his head and refused: "You can't embarrass the Zhong family, and you can't lose to the Zhe family if you lose to anyone."

After walking for a day and resting in the evening, Zhong Miaoyun felt that all the bones in his body were about to fall apart.

She hid quietly and asked her elder brother to pop the blisters on her soles, and then applied ointment and bandaged them with cloth.

When he woke up the next day, Zhong Miaoyun still wanted to be brave, but the muscles in his thighs were sore.Every step I take is suffering, and I start to cramp as I walk, so I have no choice but to sit on the sliding pole and move forward carefully.

Li Yanxian and Yan Ping followed the horse-buying team back to Hanzhong, but gradually caught up with them and were blocked on the plank road by the bride-to-be team.

"The people in front of us, even their luggage, are all dressed in red and colorful. Could it be that they are traveling thousands of miles to see off their bride?" Li Yanxian inquired.

The horse buyer was also very curious, so he went to inquire about it himself, and when he came back, he explained, "They are the daughters of the Chong family and the Zhe family, and they are going to Hanzhong to marry the Generalissimo."

Li Yanxian couldn't help being horrified when he heard this, and looked at each other with Yan Pingping.

Both the Zhong family and the Zhe family are actually married to Zhu Ming. How can the Western Army go to Hanzhong to fight in the future?
Yan Ping asked: "Aren't the Zhong family and Zhe family afraid of offending the emperor?"

The horse buyer said with a smile: "It was the emperor of Song who bestowed the marriage."

Yan Ping scratched his head: "This is very strange, what does the emperor think?"

The horse buyer said: "During the peace talks last year, the rebel army was only two hundred miles away from Tokyo. What demands did the emperor dare not agree to?"

Li Yanxian shook his head secretly, the emperor in Tokyo is really ridiculous.

They arrived in Hanzhong only in midsummer, and the first phase of Shanheyan was completed. From Baocheng County to Hanzhong Fucheng, countless lands were irrigated, and many dry lands were turned into paddy fields.

As far as the eye can see, the ground is golden, and there are rice fields being harvested everywhere.

Chong Yancen was shocked. From Wuzhangyuan to Hanzhong Fucheng, he saw no refugees along the way, only countless people welcoming the harvest.

Shaanxi has not encountered any disasters this year, and it is also a good year.

However, the imperial court sent the Western Army to Hebei to suppress bandits, recruited too many soldiers to fight, and also recruited a large number of civilians to transport food, which inevitably affected agricultural production.

The exorbitant taxes levied by the bandits also made it difficult for the people of Shaanxi to resist, and many refugees still fled famine in good years.

"It's the fertile soil in the southeast, isn't it?" Zhe Zhichang was equally astonished, how much food would be harvested.

However, Li Yanxian said to Yan Ping in a low voice: "Sure enough, as the horse buyer said, Zhu's father and son practice good governance, and the people in Hanzhong are very rich. If the Zhu family can win the world, maybe the border areas will also be rich. as difficult."

Li Yanxian in history, in the first year of Jingkang, recruited soldiers and led three thousand soldiers to Beijing.

At that time, Li Gang was ordered to declare and appease Lianghe. Although he was resolute in the main battle, his military deployment was very eye-catching.Li Yanxian couldn't stand it anymore, and Shangshu impeached Li Gang, who didn't know soldiers, but was arrested by the court.

Only then did Li Yanxian use a pseudonym to travel around the world, and ran to seek refuge in the cultivator.

As a result, Zhong Shizhong was murdered by civil officials. Li Yanxian dissuaded Fan Zhixu before the war, but was dismissed and transferred.Later, all the armies were defeated, and Li Yanxian brought only a few people to Shanzhou, but he used actions to call on the people of Shanzhou to defend to the death.

He led a group of rout soldiers gathered together and temporarily recruited local braves, captured more than 300 camps of the Jin people within a month, captured more than [-] war horses, and even recovered the city of Shanzhou occupied by the Jin people.

Then, Li Yanxian took the initiative to go northward, fighting all the way to Taiyuan, regaining six counties along the way, and repeatedly saw-saw with Jinbing in Puzhou.

It is really unimaginable that a dismissed Longxi hero who is not familiar with the place of life in Shanzhou can make countless defeated soldiers and local people fight to the death.He dared to lead troops to launch a major counterattack, and when the main force of the enemy came to help, he could still lead a group of miscellaneous soldiers to retreat calmly.

A commoner, relying purely on military exploits, he became the magistrate of Shanzhou and the comfort envoy. Zhao Gou also sent people to send him a brocade robe, jade belt, spear and sword.

It's a pity that the court battle was mixed with factional disputes in the army, which left Li Yanxian isolated and helpless in Shanzhou.

Even if Li Yanxian fought alone without any reinforcements to rescue him, he still killed the golden general Ulu Saba and threw his helmet and armor off.Then he ambushed Wanyan Loushi and almost captured Wanyan Loushi alive.

The Kingdom of Jin was completely furious, Wanyan Loushi and Jiang Jin could ask for a compromise, and joined forces with [-] troops to attack Shanzhou.

Li Yanxian sent dead soldiers out of the city to burn the Jin soldiers' siege equipment, scaring the Jin soldiers back several miles to set up camp.

At that time, there was no food in the city, and there were only some beans left.Li Yanxian let the soldiers eat beans, and he drank the soup from which the beans were boiled.

Wanyan Loushi sent someone to persuade him to surrender, and promised Li Yanxian to be the marshal of Henan soldiers and horses. Li Yanxian directly beheaded the envoy who persuaded him to surrender.

From winter to spring, the food in Shanzhou was cut off, and the soldiers fought hungry.The city was breached, and Li Yanxian led his troops to fight in the streets again. His left arm was almost cut off, and his whole body was shot like a hedgehog.

Inspired by him, the old, weak, women and children climbed onto the roof, lifted up tiles and smashed the golden soldiers on the street.

Li Yanxian succeeded in breaking through with the remnant soldiers. Hearing that Wanyan Lou's family ordered the massacre of the city, he thought that he had killed the people in the city, so he threw himself into the river and followed the people of Shanzhou.

When he was sticking to Shanzhou, in order to show his determination, he specially brought his family from Longxi.The whole family was slaughtered by the Jin soldiers, and only one younger brother and son survived. All the generals under his command died in battle and no one escaped.

Is Li Yanxian loyal to the Song court?

I'm afraid not.

When the Song Dynasty fought against Xixia and Liao, Li Yanxian was still reluctant to join the army because he knew how bad the Western Army was.

It wasn't until the Jin soldiers went south that he recruited soldiers to serve the king.

Also because of this background and experience, Li Yanxian couldn't get into the circle of the Song Army, and no general was willing to rescue him.For the Song army, he was always an outsider, and he couldn't urinate in the same pot as civil officials and military generals.

Only Zhang Jun appreciates him!
Zhang Jun later killed Quduan, which may have a lot to do with Li Yanxian.Because Qu Duan's army, which was the closest to Shaanzhou at the time, sat back and watched Li Yanxian trapped in the isolated city until death.

At this moment, since Li Yanxian came to Hanzhong, the smile on his face has never diminished.

Hanzhong is so good, there are fertile fields with good harvests everywhere, and even in the countryside, there are no people fleeing from famine.

Li Yanxian and Yan Ping were taken to meet Zhu Guoxiang, and he asked, "When will Zhu Xianggong send troops to Shaanxi? As long as I return to Longxi, I can immediately recruit thousands of soldiers to respond, and they will all be brave and serve the warriors of death!"

It's a pity that Zhu Guoxiang is not familiar with history and has never heard of Li Yanxian's name. He replied: "I don't know about military affairs. You can go to Xiangyang and listen to orders under my son's account."

(End of this chapter)