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

Chapter 488 Journey to the West ([-])
The summer of the fourth year of Duke Yan 240 (454)
Yizhou
Wenchuan County

Du'an County

When Xu Xiake traveled all the way west to a county town at the foot of the Snowy Plateau, more than a year had passed since he bid farewell to Liu Chuyu.

During this period of more than a year, Tuobayu, the emperor of the Northern Wei State, came to the throne. Soon after he took the throne, he killed Zongai, Zhongchang Shi, and then defeated the Song army in the Northern Expedition. Implement the national policy of recuperating and recuperating, and conduct peaceful negotiations with Liu Song.

In the south, Liu Song Emperor Liu Yilong insisted on going his own way, disregarding the opposition of his officials, forcibly launched the Northern Expedition, and also carried out remote micro-management during the Northern Expedition, and once again placed a long line of soldiers along the river to the south of the Yellow River. The result of the snake formation was not unexpected. The Song army's long snake formation was divided into sections by the Wei cavalry. Each section could only fight on its own, and could not support each other.

The original idea of ​​"hit the head will reach the tail, hit the tail will reach the head, hit the middle will reach the head and tail", has naturally evolved into "hit the head and the tail will watch the play, hit the tail and the head will see the play, If you hit one, you will watch the show from the beginning to the end."

After the failure of the Northern Expedition, Liu Yilong was restless in the country and wanted to replace the prince, because the prince always prevented him from the Northern Expedition.

After the prince Liu Shao knew that his father had deposed him, he acted preemptively. Before the emperor's father deposed the prince, he killed the emperor's father in advance. In this way, the emperor's father would not be able to depose the prince.

Liu Yilong, the emperor of Liu Song who had been losing battles all his life, died in the hands of his prince just like that.

Prince Liu Shao murdered his father and usurped the throne. Naturally, the whole country was in an uproar. There were many opponents. Liu Jun, the governor of Jiangzhou, took the opportunity to raise troops. .

When Liu Jun ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he also conferred the title of "Princess Shanyin" on his beloved daughter Liu Chuyu.

"Shanyin" is a place name, which is Shanyin County in Kuaiji County. It was here that the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi wrote the "Lanting Collection Preface". Wang Xizhi's son Wang Ningzhi also prayed for the blessing of the gods here, but was hacked to death by the pirate king Sun En. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Wang Lang crossed the sea and fled to Sugarcane Island from here. The talented woman Xie Daoyun was also captured by the pirate king Sun En here. This is also the main area for smuggling people in Yan State.

There are too many stories about "Shanyin", not only the place of Shanyin County, but also the person of Princess Shanyin.

At the same time, Liu Jun also canonized his eldest son Liu Ziye as the crown prince.

This Crown Prince Liu Ziye, who is only five and a half years old now, is the younger brother of Princess Liu Chuyu of Shanyin, born from the same mother, and has a very good relationship with his older sister Liu Chuyu.

"Your Majesty ordered Xu Xiake to go to Jiankang to take up the post of Prince Zhong Cheng."

The eunuch from Jiankang City came to convey the latest order from Du'an County to Emperor Liu Jun.

However, the magistrate of Du'an County replied: "Mr. Xu has already traveled west."

"Westbound?" The eunuch was very puzzled. He was from Wenchuan County, so he naturally knew that there was a snow-covered plateau to the west of Du'an City, and there were endless snow-covered mountains. Who would go there to endure hunger and cold?

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Daisetsuzan

A man, a dog, and a horse were crossing mountains and ridges. The man was a young man, Xu Xiake.

His face was covered with bloodstains, which were scratched by stones while climbing the snow-capped mountains, and he still had chilblains on his hands.

"Little husband, Daxiong, we will soon reach the flat ground, so keep going." Xu Xiake came to rest on a stone, stroking the fur of the pastoral dog with his hand.

The pastoral dog is named Xiaofu, and the big brown horse is named Daxiong.

Huhu——

The cold wind howled constantly on the snow mountain, and it was very difficult to walk every part of the way. Fortunately, Xu Xiake brought enough dry food, and there was no food crisis within ten days.

However, in order to be able to last longer, Xu Xiake tried his best to dig some wild vegetables left in the snow to eat, or catch some small animals to eat. When he couldn't dig or catch them, he had to eat his own. Dry food, so that I could only eat dry food for ten days, but it was only two days late on No.30.

After a month of hard work, Xu Xiake finally climbed over the snow-capped mountains, arrived at the snow-covered plateau, and came to Xiaojinchuan.

After Daxueshan, there is Xiaojinchuan, after Xiaojinchuan, there is Dajinchuan, and after Dajinchuan, it is the hinterland of the snow-covered plateau.

The current large and small Jinchuan are occupied by the Dangxiang people, who belong to a kind of Xiqiang nationality. At this time, the degree of Sinicization is almost zero, far inferior to those Hexi Qiang people who have migrated to the Central Plains.

The so-called Qiang people are just like the "Westerners", "foreigners" and "aliens" that later generations said. " "Aliens" "Westerners."

The Qiang people themselves do not know that they are Qiang people. After Sinicization, they only knew that they were Qiang people. Before Sinicization, they only knew that they belonged to a certain tribe.

For the same reason, Yan State collectively referred to all the aborigines of the Spice Islands as "Spice People", but the problem is that the "Spice People" themselves did not know that they were Spice People. There are blood feuds, not a whole at all.

After entering the territory of the Dangxiang people, Xu Xiake was captured by the Dangxiang warriors and taken to their tribe.

"Are you from Tuyuhun?"

A party member spoke poor Xianbei dialect and mistook Xu Xiake for a Tuyuhun from the north of the party member.

The Tuyuhun people were originally a branch of Murong Xianbei, and later migrated to the edge of the snow-covered plateau (in Qinghai Province) during the Eight Kings Rebellion.

Therefore, they are actually Xianbei people, and they speak the Xianbei nationality, the so-called Tuyuhun language, which is Xianbei language.

Xu Xiake did not understand the language of the Dangxiang people, but fortunately, he understood the language of the Xianbei people. After all, Yan State had been exchanging and trading with Xianbei Wei State all year round.

So he explained in Xianbei language: "I am a native of Yan from the east. I just came here for a tour, and I have no malicious intentions."

Later, Xu Xiake used Xianbei language to tell these party members who had never been to the Central Plains about the power and prosperity of the Central Plains,

And teaching them to farm, showed their own value, so that the party members did not embarrass him.

After staying in the Dangxiang people's territory for a whole year and getting acquainted with many Dangxiang elders, Xu Xiake finally found a chance to leave here.

And left such a sentence in "Journey to the West": After the Great Snow Mountain, there are party members who don't know the harvest and the age of the grass and trees. They are isolated from the Central Plains, but they have communication with Tuyuhun.

Going west like this, after walking for half a month, Xu Xiake encountered another ongoing war.

(End of this chapter)