Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 352 Controlling the Dajiang Gang

The Four Vajras in Maitreya Religion are named after the Four Great Vajras revered in Buddhism.They are also Lou Yanming's four direct disciples.

As far as Dorothy knows, the other three Great Vajras Viliuli, Viliu Bocha, and Bishamen are also not around Yanming, the old lair of the Maitreya Sect in Jinling City, but control three huge forces with various mysterious identities. Not only in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but also in other countries, such as Wuyue Kingdom and Great Song Dynasty.

Lou Yanming acted cautiously, the four King Kongs did not know each other's identities on the surface.Relatively speaking, Dorothy was the last one sent by Lou Yanming among the Four Great Vajras. Originally, according to the plan, Dorothy would replace Liu Jinyuan in one year at the latest and completely control the Dajiang Gang.

That night, except for Liu Jinyuan and his very few confidants who knew what had happened, the Dajiang gang only knew that the gang leader, the priest, and a mysterious businessman from the north had negotiated a big deal.They don't know anything else.It is even more impossible to reveal the identity of Ye Chen and his party.

And this is the main reason why Ye Chen went around in a big circle and hid his identity to subdue Liu Jinyuan.

In the lobby, Liu Jinyuan and Duo Luozhen stood obediently in a corner of the room. In front of Ye Chen, the two carefully put their waist tags into their arms, signed their names on the document, and pressed the After stamping his bright red handprint, he respectfully handed over a kraft paper bag.

Ye Chen glanced at the document, nodded, and said with a smile: "From now on, you two will be the envoy and deputy envoy of our Huaxia Weifu Nanfu."

Although Ye Chen has Gu worms to control the two, he knows that these procedures must be strictly implemented, because although he established the Huaxia Weifu, almost all the officials are his confidantes, and his orders are even more important than imperial decrees in the eyes of many people. It works, but after all, the Huaxia Weifu is still a yamen institution of the Great Song Dynasty. No matter how special it is, there are still the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and the court.

According to Zhao Kuangyin's previous instructions, Ye Chen has the right to appoint officials above the seventh rank of the Huaxia Weifu, but the kraft paper, which is similar to the personal files of later generations, must also be sent to Zhao Kuangyin for his review. Ye Chen had no choice but to agree to this appointment.In addition, the personal files of all high-ranking officials in the Huaxia Weifu will also be archived and filed by Wu Desi, who is responsible for supervising the Huaxia Weifu.

The Yangtze River, thousands of miles long, originates from Qinghai, crosses the Three Gorges, crosses Jingxiang, crosses Jianghan, connects Wuyue, and is majestic and mighty.In the vast and bottomless lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there are only two easy-to-cross ferries, one is Caishi Ferry and the other is Guazhou Ferry.

Between the two is the eternal Jiangning, the capital of the Six Dynasties - Jinling City (renamed to Nanjing after Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty).

Jinling regards the mountains as the city, the river as the pond, the Yangtze River as the moat, and the danger of the mountains and rivers. It is one of the few imperial capitals that make people look like a king.However, all the dynasties whose capitals were here were short-lived.It is said that the reason for this is that Jinling's feng shui is so good that it has been completely destroyed by people.

Legend has it that during the Warring States Period, some alchemists saw that the king's aura was very strong here, so they offered to bury gold to suppress the king's aura. So King Chuwei ordered someone to cast a golden man, which was buried next to the pagoda bridge of Lion Mountain in Jinling City today. The Jinling town was built on the stone mountain with the spirit of the king, and the name of Jinling came from this.

When Qin Shihuang was touring Yunmeng, Chang Sheng, an alchemist with extremely high Taoism under him, and Xian Dao once again found that there was a kingly spirit here, and reported it to the first emperor.Qin Shihuang's courage is much greater than that of King Wei of Chu. What kind of golden man is buried, and what kind of king's spirit is suppressed?The first emperor gave an order to directly call people to cut off the dragon vein of Fangshan, and then diverted the Huai River to run through Jinling City to vent the king's anger.

Since then, Fangshan has been broken, and the Huai River has penetrated through it. The stone city with tigers and dragons has lost its aura of dominance, and the quiet Huai River has flowed silently.

However, there are many monarchs who do not believe in evil, and besides, there is really no place in Jiangdong that is more suitable for the capital than Jinling City, so the Southern Tang Kingdom is still established as the capital today.Now it has been passed down for three generations, and it is in the hands of Li Yu. Now Li Yu is afraid of the aura of the Song Dynasty, and has asked himself to remove the title of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Li Congshan and Xu Xuan were envoys to the state of Song, but they concealed poison in the congratulatory gifts, which poisoned the emperor of Song Dynasty. Immediately afterwards, dozens of assassins in the mission assassinated the emperor of Song Dynasty on the spot.The Emperor of the Song Dynasty narrowly escaped death and was rescued by Hou Xiangfu.

The above news has been passed back one after another. After Li Yu heard it, he couldn't care less about lamenting that it's a pity that the emperor of Song Dynasty didn't die, but he was already scared to death. It is said that the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground on the spot and sat down. .He could swear to God that the poisonous smoke, the assassins and so on were definitely not arranged by him, and he had no knowledge of it.

Although Li Yu was a little cowardly and stupid, he was not actually stupid. After a little thought, he knew that it must be the arrangement of the national teacher.Just when he was worried that Song Dynasty might invade the country at any time, and at the same time, he complained about the national division very rarely.Lou Yanming, the national teacher, came, and after a ecstasy-like conversation, Li Yu not only stopped complaining about Lou Yanming, but also thought about Lou Yanming's painstaking efforts to assassinate the emperor of the Song Dynasty for the safety of the Southern Tang Dynasty, regardless of the sacrifice of teaching masters Thank you very much.

In addition, Lou Yanming gave him an analysis to let him understand that Song Dynasty will definitely conquer Tang one day, but whether he will call at the moment.Most importantly, Lou Yanming told him that there are still arrangements ahead.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the news that the Huaxia Weifu of the Great Song Dynasty had killed Qian Wu, the younger brother of the Lord of Wuyue, Qian Hongchu, who was envoy to the Great Song Dynasty.After the news came, Li Yu was ecstatic, and in addition to rewarding the Maitreya Sect secretly, he took Xiao Zhou and waited for the harem concubines to have a banquet to celebrate, and even wrote a poem.

However, after waking up the next day, Li Yu's cowardly side flared up again. Before the news from the north whether the Great Song Dynasty had agreed to the Southern Tang Dynasty as its vassal state, and before the official Xuanfu imperial envoy of the Great Song Dynasty arrived, he ordered the court Immediately reform.

Zhao Kuangyin was called the emperor, and he was called the lord of the country. Lusi Temple was directly downgraded to the Courtyard, and the plaque was immediately removed and replaced with a new yamen signboard.

The younger brothers who had already been crowned kings were also changed to public titles: Li Congshan was named Zheng Guogong, Li Congyi was named Jiang Guogong, and Li Congqian was named E Guogong.When Lou Yanming came to see him again, Li Yu was instructing the eunuchs in the palace to move the ladders to climb up to the palace, and knocked off all the owl kisses that symbolized the imperial style with a hammer. The reform was really thorough.

Lou Yanming turned a blind eye to Li Yu's actions. The more cowardly Li Yu became, the easier it would be for him to manipulate.

After the two exchanged salutes, Lou Yanming said: "Your Majesty! I have received news that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty married his daughter to the son of the Wuyue Kingdom, and also sent Ye Chen to the Wuyue Kingdom as a marriage envoy."

Li Yu's expression was suddenly worried, and he said: "The two countries are reconciled, so Wuyue and Song have reconciled as before. Wouldn't our goal of Tang and Wuyue joining forces to resist Song be defeated again?"

Lou Yanming said: "My old man has already thought of a countermeasure."

Li Yu cheered up, and quickly said: "What's the best strategy for the national teacher, please tell me quickly."

Lou Yanming said: "I also sent envoys to Wuyue Kingdom in the Southern Tang Dynasty."

Li Yu was stunned when he heard the words, with a puzzled look on his face, he said: "Going to Wuyue Kingdom? Who will go? What will you do?"

Lou Yan obviously had a plan in mind, and immediately said: "I have already thought about the candidate for Your Majesty, and after I go, I will naturally find a way to destroy the peace between the Song Kingdom and the Wuyue Kingdom."

Li Yu asked: "How to destroy?"

Lou Yanming smiled slightly and said, "If the prince of Wuyue killed Princess Yongqing of Song, what would be the result?"

After Li Yu was stunned for a moment, he was very happy and said, "I have to trouble the national teacher to plan this matter."

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Wuyue Kingdom was located in the southeast, and its capital was established in Hangzhou.

Hangzhou is governed by Qiantang, and has jurisdiction over eight counties including Qiantang, Qianjiang, Yuhang, Anguo, Yuqian, Tangshan, Fuyang and Xincheng.Under the nearly 80 years of rule and enlightened governance by three generations and five emperors of Wu and Yue, and through the hard work of the working people, Hangzhou has now developed into a place of economic prosperity and cultural gathering on the land of China.

More than 20 years later, Ouyang Xiu described it in "The Story of Youmeitang": "Since the Five Dynasties, Qiantang has not bothered to fight, and its people are happy and prosperous. There are more than [-] families, surrounded by lakes and mountains, reflecting the left and right belts, while Fujian Merchants on the sea, with sails and waves, go in and out between the mist and mist, it can be said to be prosperous!"

Of course, this itself is inseparable from Hangzhou's unique geographical location on the southeast coast, the lower reaches of the Qiantang River, and the southernmost end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Hangzhou has a history of more than 1000 years since the county government was established in the Qin Dynasty, although it is called one of the seven ancient capitals of China by later generations.But before Wuyue Kingdom, it had never been capitalized by any country, that is to say, Wuyue Kingdom was the first country with Hangzhou as its capital.In the original history, Hangzhou was also established as the capital later in the Southern Song Dynasty, so it established its status as one of the seven ancient capitals.

But in fact, the source of Hangzhou's fame is mainly because of its beautiful scenery, known as "paradise on earth".The prosperity of Hangzhou is due to the convenience of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and treaty ports, as well as its own developed silk and grain industries. It is the most important commercial distribution center in the world.

In addition, even in this era, Hangzhou has formed its unique cultural charm, such as West Lake culture, Liangzhu culture, silk culture, tea culture and so on.

Qian Liu, the first king of Wu and Yue, built a "Zicheng" in Fenghuang Mountain, Hangzhou, with palaces inside as the country's governance, and "Luocheng" on the outside, with a circumference of [-] miles, as a defense.This capital starts from Qinwang Mountain in the west, runs along the Qiantang River to Jianggan, borders Qiantang Lake (West Lake) to Baoshi Mountain, and reaches Genshan Gate in the northeast.It looks like a waist drum, so it is also called "Waist Drum City".

The kings of Wu and Yue in the past dynasties paid great attention to the construction of water conservancy, and led the water from the West Lake into the canal in the city; along the Qiantang River, they used the "stone pile wooden pile method" to build more than [-] miles of revetment seawalls; they also built the Longshan and Zhejiang gates along the Qiantang River to prevent salt water Reverse irrigation, reduce tide damage, and expand flat land.It can be said that the merits have been passed down for thousands of years, and the people have been able to live and work in peace and contentment for decades.

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