Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 483 Journey to the West ([-])

Two months later
Yan Gong 240 Year One Spring (451 Years)
Jin Guo
not its city

A 15-year-old boy came here, his name is Xu Xiake, he is a descendant of a nobleman in Yan State, his father is a parliamentary nobleman in Yan State, and his mother is a scholarly woman surnamed Xu, because he has not inherited his father yet. Therefore, he cannot take Yan as his surname, but can only follow his mother's surname Xu.

Now that the Black Plague is raging in Yan Country, he wants to travel around the world to see the vast world.

Everyone likes different things. Some people like money, some people like beauties, some people like to be famous in history, and he likes to travel the world and record the customs and customs of various places.

A large number of refugees from Huaibei, Henan Province gathered at the gate of the city. Xu Xiake curiously asked an old man among the refugees: "Old man, why are you here?"

"The imperial army's northern expedition ended in a hurry. The commander of the Wei army drove southward, burning, killing and looting along the way. We had no choice but to flee here to avoid the chaos of the war."

The old man was from Henan, and Liu Song's army was very happy in the Northern Expedition, but after the Northern Expedition recaptured Henan, Liu Song's army actually robbed Henan, making the people of Henan miserable, and there were rebels everywhere.

Moreover, Wang Xuanmo, the head coach of the Song Army, was devoted to reselling arms and supplies to make money, and had no intention of attacking the city at all. Former Yan Murong commented directly as an expert, and Xuzhou Suppressant directly referred to his seniors.

Merchants are recruiting countrymen to fight, and generals are selling arms for business. This world is still as magical as ever.

Wang Xuanmo's ability is low, and he can become the coach only because he is loyal enough to the emperor Liu Yilong.

Sure enough, the Song Army who was wandering around Henan all day was suddenly attacked by Tuoba Tao, and the [-] Song Army was wiped out. The coach Wang Xuanmo was really not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he decisively left the army and ran alone.

To make matters worse, the [-] elite Song troops who had reached the north bank of the Yellow River originally planned to withdraw to the south of the Yellow River to preserve the vitality of the Song Dynasty after they heard that the [-] main force of the coach Wang Xuanmo in the south of the Yellow River had been wiped out.

However, the emperor Liu Yilong did not travel thousands of miles away, and asked the scouts thousands of miles to send a handwritten letter from the emperor, demanding that the elite Song army north of the Yellow River not be allowed to retreat southward, but must stick to the city and wait for the imperial court to regroup and mobilize troops and horses for support.

Thousands of miles away and forced micro-management, the Song army north of the Yellow River suffered a lot. They were surrounded by the Wei army, and finally they were outnumbered and wiped out.

Liu Yilong's thoughts are actually unwilling to be reconciled. Finally, the Northern Expedition has achieved some results. He won a city north of the Yellow River. He will never allow it to be lost, so he wants to let the soldiers of the Song Army north of the Yellow River fight against each other. Hundreds, let them drag until they regroup.

The Song army on the front line was wiped out, so Tuoba Tao drove southward, all the way to the opposite bank of Jiankang City, and taunted Liu Yilong across the river.

In the process of going south, it was natural to burn, kill and loot again, and even slaughtered several cities to boost morale.

Those people caught between the Wei and Song Dynasties really suffered. When the Song Army marched north, the Song Army wanted to rob them, and when the Wei Army went south, the Wei Army also wanted to rob them.

That's why so many people came to Jin country on the road. In comparison, Jin country today can still live and work in peace and contentment.

The conflict between Hu and Han in the Wei State was fierce, Liu Song was beaten violently by the Wei State, and the Yan State was suffering from a plague. Suddenly, the peaceful Jin State became a paradise.

Jin Emperor Sima Heng (son of Sima Dewen) repeatedly begged his ally Yan to send troops to help Jin regain his homeland, but Yan was too busy to take care of himself, so naturally he ignored it.

Since the State of Yan refused to help, Emperor Sima Heng of the State of Jin decided to rely on himself.

Therefore, he took in refugees, allocated fields and land to them, and cooperated with many guilds in Yan State to feed these refugees, and sold surplus refugees to guilds in Yan State, so as to obtain food to support them and stay in Jin State. refugees.

The fine wine industry in Yan State has suffered a huge blow in these years. Firstly, it was affected by the black epidemic, and secondly, both Song and Wei countries banned the import of fine wine.

"Although Jin is an old state, its destiny is to restore the new!"

"Fengming Mount Tai, destiny is in Jin!"

This is what Emperor Sima Heng firmly believed. He imitated the Yan State and implemented the three-field system, which improved the efficiency of grain production and made farming more reasonable.

At the same time, follow the example of Wei State, establish the system of land equalization and mansion army system, and increase the source of soldiers of Jin State.

In the end, he followed the example of Liu Song and established a civil service examination system to make the recruitment of talents more reasonable and effective.

Xu Xiake entered the city and found that although there was no bustling market like Yan State, there was also a market, and the streets were full of people, and the law and order looked good.

Due to the small country with few people, many things were done by Sima Heng, the emperor of Jin. Xu Xiake saw several stone walls at the entrance and exit of Fangshi, on which were engraved the laws of Fangshi of Jin. Law", but some of the content was changed according to the national conditions of Jin.

"The Jin Dynasty, which was decayed in the past, now has such a new look, which is really impressive." Xu Xiake sighed. He often listened to other people's stories about the Central Plains, so he also knew that the former Jin Dynasty was corrupt and incompetent, far inferior to the new student now. of Jin.

This is also due to the outbreak of the black epidemic in Yan State, which caused Yan State to be overwhelmed by itself, so it had to temporarily give up control of the puppet regime of Jin State, which gave Sima Heng a chance to be self-reliant.

Xu Xiake stayed in an inn. After all, he was the son of a nobleman in the Yan Kingdom, so he brought enough money.

Living in the inn, I write a book every night to record what I have seen and heard during these days, and go out to travel during the day, such as going to the countryside of Jin to observe the differences in the work of Jin people.

Xu Xiake discovered that the state of Jin had to imitate the state of Yan even in opening up wasteland, and there was a government agency that specially guided the people to open up wasteland.

However, because Yan State is strictly guarded against technology, Jin State can only follow suit, and cannot be exactly like Yan State. No one in the Central Plains will build those more efficient water conservancy facilities in Yan State.

After staying in the state of Jin for more than a month, Xu Xiake continued south and entered the territory of Liu Song.

At this time, the war between the Song and Wei Dynasties had ended. The Emperor Liu Yilong of the Song Dynasty had recharged his energy for more than ten years and made great efforts to launch the Northern Expedition. What he got in return was "Yuanjia was careless, sealed the wolf as a servant, and won the rush to the north."

I don't know much about Liu Yilong, an emperor who didn't know how to fight, killed generals who knew how to fight, and always liked to sit on the front line of Jiankang remote micro-management, causing the front line to be defeated like a mountain.

When he came to the Huai River area, there were still traces of the war. There were corpses everywhere on the country roads, and there were many bloodstains on the walls of the city that had not been cleaned. The corpses were pushed by cart after cart. To the mass grave outside the city.

A female corpse on the side of the road looked only eight or nine years old, her body was covered with purple-black pinch marks, and her private parts were already swollen. A vulture was eating the carrion of the female corpse.

A young boy was impaled on a stick, his hands and feet were chopped off, and the wounds were infested with maggots.

A group of ragged refugees, while migrating to the south of the Yangtze River, ate the rotting corpses on the roadside to satisfy their hunger. From time to time, some refugees died of diseases because they ate too many corpses.

Looking at everything in front of him, Xu Xiake could only sigh, "Xing, the people are suffering, death, the people are suffering."

At night, he found a ruined temple, tied his horse to a post, and lived directly in the ruined temple.

However, when he was about to fall into a sound sleep, but not yet fully asleep, a strange sound came from the ruined temple.

(End of this chapter)