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Chapter 499 Playing in Baidi City

After leaving Zhang Juzheng's former residence, the two wandered around again and decided to set off in the evening and rush to Chongqing overnight. Anyway, it was a highway all the way, so they were going to find a service area to rest!Zhao Cui was afraid that Ma Xiaoliang would be tired when driving, so he simply got into the passenger seat of the RV and ran all the way west!Passing by the Yichang service area, I stopped. It was almost 12 o'clock in the morning, so I just spent the night here!Parking at the service area, Ma Xiaoliang got the water tank in the bathroom, added new water, and found a charging place. After everything was safe, he closed the charging port, then returned to the car, leaving only the air conditioner and night light, and Zhao Tsui is ready to sleep!

Although it was in a high-speed service area, with various vehicles passing by, it was quiet after closing the glass. Zhao Cuiyong took a shower, then wrapped a bath towel and lay down on the bed behind to sleep. Ma Xiaoliang was considering safety. , sleeping on a small bed by the car door. The alarm and monitoring outside the car were both running, but since it was in the service area, it was probably no big deal!After a while, Zhao Cui felt that he was not sleeping well, so he came over and pulled Ma Xiaoliang over, and untied the bath towel. Ma Xiaoliang was a little exhausted mentally and physically: "Keep driving, or let me sleep for a while!" Zhao Cui smiled: "Okay. , but I want you to hold me to sleep!" Just like that, I slept until dawn, filled up the gas at the service area, bought breakfast, and then continued on the road!

Starting from Yichang, there are various mountains all the way, constantly passing through various tunnels!Zhao Cui complained that there was no signal on his mobile phone, but luckily Ma Xiaoliang installed the car WIFF, which solved the network problem, so Zhao Cui had to use the car WIFF to watch the show!Passing through many tunnels along the way, it feels like you are coming out of one tunnel and entering another, surrounded by vast green mountains!Following the highway all the way to the west, occasionally crossing the Yangtze River and various rivers, Ma Xiaoliang realized that the road to Shu was really difficult, and it was difficult to reach the sky!I remembered that Li Bai wrote a poem "Early Departure from Baidi City", which said: "The white emperor bids farewell to the colorful clouds, and the thousand-mile Jiangling is returned in one day!" The Jiangling here is Jingzhou, and now I actually walked backwards from Jingzhou to Baidi City!By the way, according to the navigation, Baidi City is 100 kilometers ahead!So Ma Xiaoliang said to Zhao Cui: "How about we go to Baidi City!" Zhao Cui was watching a drama in the back and agreed!So Ma Xiaoliang prepared to leave the highway according to the navigation and go to Baidi City!
Baidi City is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River at the mouth of Qutang Gorge, Fengjie County, Chongqing, on Baidi Mountain in the east of Fengjie. It is a very famous historical city in the Three Gorges Basin.When mentioning Baidi City, many people will think of a story about the emperor and his ministers that has been passed down for thousands of years: Baidi City Tuogu, and the emperor here is Liu Bei, the benevolent and righteous king in the Three Kingdoms period, and the minister is Zhuge Liang, who has been famous throughout the ages.

However, Baidi City is older than the Three Kingdoms period.Probably at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, due to Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. At that time, the Central Plains was in the stage of vying for power. At that time, Wang Mang's general in Sichuan, Gongsun Shu, became self-reliant, occupied Sichuan, called himself the King of Shu, and recruited troops in Sichuan. , strengthen strength.There were two ways to enter Sichuan at that time, one was from Hanzhong and the other was from the waterway. One day, Gongsun Shu rode to the mouth of Qutang Gorge. Seeing that the terrain was dangerous and difficult to attack and easy to defend, he expanded the city fortress and stationed troops to defend it.Later, Gongsun Shu heard that there was a White Crane Well in the city. A white mist often emerged from the well, and its shape was like a white dragon, soaring into the sky.Gongsun Shu tried to make things mysterious, saying that this was a "white dragon coming out of the well", which was a sign that he would surely ascend the throne and become a dragon in the future.So he called himself Baidi (in the 25th year) and built his capital here. The city he built, Ziyang City, was named "Baidi City", and the mountain was also renamed "Baidi Mountain".

However, as Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty, he sent troops from the north and south to conquer Sichuan. The water route started from Jingzhou and went west along the Yangtze River into Shu.Due to the extremely fierce fighting that took place near Baidi City, Baidi City was destroyed by the war, and the remains of the city wall are still visible.Due to the chaos in the world at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, only the Baidi City area was relatively peaceful. The local people were very grateful and built a temple on Baidi Mountain and erected a statue to worship him, so it was called "Baidi Temple".Baidi Temple is located on Baidi Mountain at the entrance of Qutang Gorge.From a distance, you can see the red walls, lush trees, and towers and pavilions dotting it.When the morning glow is like brocade and the colorful clouds are lingering, the beauty of the fairyland and the palaces is even greater.

Since then, all dynasties have worshiped the White Emperor. Until the Ming Dynasty, because Gongsun Shu was considered a rebellious and not an orthodox emperor at that time, in the seventh year of Zhengde (1512), the governor of Sichuan moved the statue of Gongsun Shu and enshrined the god of rivers, gods of earth and horses. At the same time, the Baidi Temple was changed into the "Three Gong Temple".In the 20th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1533, the statues of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were enshrined again, and the "Sangong Temple" was changed to the "Zhengyi Temple". Later, the statues of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were added. This is why the Baidi Temple no longer enshrines them. The main reason for Bai Di.

What really made Baidicheng famous all over the world was not Gongsun Shu, but the Tuogu drama between the emperors and ministers Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was also in chaos, and all the heroes came together. The Han Dynasty was already in turmoil. It was not until Cao Cao took the emperor to order the princes that there was a trend of unification.After the Battle of Chibi, the three sides were divided, with Cao Cao dominating the north, Sun Quan sitting on Jiangdong, and Liu Bei straddling Jingchuan.At that time, before Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, he made a plan to Liu Bei: If there are Jing and Yi across the road, protect the rocks, make peace with the Rong in the west, pacify the Yiyue in the south, befriend Sun Quan on the outside, and cultivate political principles on the inside; If there is a change, I will order a general to lead the army of Jingzhou to Wan and Luo, and the general will lead the people of Yizhou out of Qinchuan. Will the people dare not to eat pots of pulp to meet the general?If this is the case, hegemony can be achieved and the Han Dynasty can flourish. "For Liu Bei, who had longed to revive the Han Dynasty and return it to the old capital all his life, after many years of struggle, he finally had strong troops and horses, spanning Jingzhou, Xichuan, and Hanzhong, and was promoted to the king of Hanzhong. The soldiers pointed out, and the world was shocked.

But everything will not go smoothly. No one expected that just when Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army and shocked China, and even Cao Cao had to plan to move the capital to avoid his influence, Soochow, which had always been an ally, stabbed him in the back. With a knife, Lu Meng crossed the river in white clothes and captured Jingzhou. Soon after, Guan Yu was surrounded and suppressed by the armies of Cao Cao and Sun Quan, and defeated Maicheng and was killed.For Liu Bei, this was like a bolt from the blue. To Liu Bei, Guan Yu was his second brother, a brother and sister. To Liu Bei, Jingzhou was the foundation of the country. Whether it was the Eastern Expedition or the Northern Expedition, it must not be lost.Without Guan Yu, it is like losing an arm, which is painful; losing Jingzhou is like losing half of the country, and being trapped in Sichuan.Both emotionally and rationally, Soochow are Liu Bei's allies, but there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.Facing Liu Bei's strength and Guan Yu's military front, both Cao Cao and Sun Quan felt that their lips were dying and their teeth were cold. Once Liu Bei's Northern Expedition was successful, Soochow would also enter a countdown.

Soon after, Cao Cao died of illness, and Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor. For Liu Bei, whether it was the Northern Expedition or the Eastern Expedition, it was difficult to choose.After a difficult choice, Liu Bei decided to march eastward and recapture Jingzhou.Many people don't understand, thinking that Liu Bei did it because of brotherhood. In fact, for Liu Bei, the best route for the Northern Expedition is to go north from Jingzhou, with Sichuan as the rear, instead of crossing the Qinling Mountains and losing Jingzhou. The Shu Han will be the local power of Sichuan and unable to compete. The world.In fact, Zhuge Liang also understood this truth, but because many ministers opposed it and believed that Cao Wei should be targeted first, and were worried that the Eastern Expedition would be defeated, not to mention that uniting Soochow was Zhuge Liang's suggestion, so he remained silent.

Since Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin was also an important minister in Soochow, and Zhuge Liang had a good relationship with Soochow, Liu Bei did not take Zhuge Liang with him in his Eastern Expedition. Perhaps it was because Zhuge Liang guarded Chengdu and could guard against sneak attacks from Wei. All in all, Liu Bei personally went out to fight, and as everyone knows, the result was a complete defeat in the Battle of Yiling, and he lost all his troops and horses.Liu Bei led the remaining army to retreat, but Soochow did not pursue it in depth because it was worried about Cao Wei's sneak attack.

Liu Bei, who retreated to Baidi City, did not return to Chengdu due to physical reasons and many other factors.For the Shu Han at that time, Baidi City must not be lost again, otherwise the Shu Han would risk subjugation. This was also an important reason why Liu Bei had been stationed at Baidi City in the end.Liu Bei, who was in Baidi City, was full of regrets, his health was deteriorating, and he probably couldn't stand the torment, so he summoned the prince Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang and other important ministers stationed in Chengdu to Baidi City to take care of him.

Birds sing mournfully when they are about to die, and their words are kind when people are about to die. For Liu Bei, his struggle from a straw sandal seller to a generation of emperors is a magnificent history of personal struggle in itself, which is quite inspiring.However, for the Shu Han, this was a fateful moment. It had just experienced a disastrous defeat. The Shu Han's national power was weakened. Cao Wei was eyeing him. Sun Quan and Chen were on the river. However, the domestic situation was unstable and the prince Liu Chan could not govern the country independently. Liu Bei knew that after his death, he would not be able to rule the country independently. To stabilize the situation, a minister must be entrusted. Just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty entrusted Huo Guang, Liu Bei chose to entrust Zhuge Liang.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty entrusted Huo Guang, who was assisted by four important ministers. Huo Guang was so powerful that he deposed the emperor but did not usurp the throne (deposing Liu He and establishing Liu Xun). Liu Bei knew this story very well, so he also entrusted Zhuge Liang with full power, and also gave Zhuge Liang deposed him. The right to establish an emperor (the emperor is ten times more talented than Cao Pi, he will be able to secure the country, and ultimately achieve great things. If the heir can assist, he will assist him; if he is not talented, the emperor can take it for himself.) At the same time, he entrusted Li Yan as an orphan, and made Li Yan the central protector. , unified the internal and external armies, stayed in Yong'an, and assisted Zhuge Liang in the posthumous imperial edict.

In fact, many people only remember Liu Bei Tuo Zhuge Liang, but ignore Li Yan.For Liu Bei, Li Yan was born in Shu Han and had a high reputation. He was also a minister of Tuogu. He could not only win over the local people in Shu, but also prevent Zhuge Liang from plotting to seize the throne (it is okay to depose the emperor, after all, Huo Guang did it too , but changing dynasties does not work), but Li Yan was soon deposed by Zhuge Liang, who took over military and political affairs and became the de facto leader of Shu Han.Many people think that Liu Bei Tuogu is the king and his ministers, but Liu Bei still left a back-up, but Li Yan was eventually deposed, and it was his own fault. Zhuge Liang finally died of exhaustion, leaving behind an eternal legend.

There have been many times in history, but this time it can be said that it was perfect, starting well and ending well.Zhuge Liang served the country all his life, went out to Qishan six times, and finally died of illness in Wuzhangyuan.From Baidi City to Wuzhangyuan, we witnessed the fall of the Shu Han. Soon after, Deng Ai's army arrived, and Liu Chan left the city to surrender. Since then, the Shu Han has perished.Thousands of years have passed slowly, and only the Yangtze River can be seen rolling.Since the Three Kingdoms, countless celebrities and poets have been left behind, among which Li Bai is the most famous: "The white emperor's speech is among the colorful clouds, and the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are returned in one day." In a few simple strokes, he wrote the lightness and cleanliness of Baidi City.But the most unforgettable thing is probably Baidicheng Tuogu, a rare story about a monarch and his ministers in history.For those who want to appreciate the scenery of the Three Gorges and the culture of the Three Kingdoms, Baidi City is a place not to be missed.Arriving at Baidi City soon, Ma Xiaoliang chose to find a place to stay, parked the car and filled up the water. It was already the time when the lights were on, and he was ready to go sightseeing tomorrow!
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