Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 495 The Spring of the Northwest Station

"It turned out to be the Maitreya Temple in the south of Kaifeng. If I remember correctly, this temple was once suspected by the intelligence department to be related to the Maitreya religion, but after a secret investigation, it was found that it had nothing to do with it. Now this temple has something to do with Mrs. Huarui. Could it be that Is it a stronghold of the holy church? However, the strongholds of the holy church are often hidden in the city. The name of the Great Maitreya Temple is too sensitive and ostentatious, which makes people easily think of Maitreya. "Ye Chen thought to himself, planning to let the intelligence department personnel secretly stare at the big Maitreya Temple tomorrow.

The annual Chinese New Year is here again. There is no doubt that it is not delayed, and there is nothing new about it.

This year's Ye Mansion has become a county king's mansion, and there is another little princess, especially when the news of Ye Chen's death came more than three months ago, the mansion organized a funeral, so this Spring Festival is celebrated in Ye Mansion's hostess Han Ke. Under the strong request of Er'er, the whole Ye family had a lot of excitement and extravagance.

Hanging red and colorful everywhere, Ma Gangzi is instructing the concierge to hang two huge red lanterns in front of the door, and there are servants who go out to buy chickens, ducks and fishes to move home.In addition, the best theater troupe in Kaifeng was also invited. Han Keer distributed the largest red envelopes in the family of official Xungui in Kaifeng to every servant. The servants all felt that this life should not be too happy, thanks to the medicine that the senior ghost doctor personally prescribed to help digestion, which is very effective

On the evening of the [-]th, after a lively New Year's dinner, Ye Chen and Han Ke'er first watched the show with the servants for a while, and then they got together with Shui'er and Kou Zhun to fight together. In the middle of the night of mahjong, the two adults lost a total of [-] guan to the two teenagers, which made Kou Zhun and Shui'er happy.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year's Day, early in the morning, Ye Chen took Han Ke'er, Shui'er, and Kou Zhun, and carried his little daughter to the half-dead maze to pay New Year's greetings to the ghost doctor.

Ye Chen did not attend the annual New Year's Day gathering because he would leave Kaifeng for the northwest in two days, and Cao Bin also did not attend because he was unwell.

Therefore, Ye Chen went to the Cao Mansion early with gifts such as a well-sealed iron stove produced by his own workshop, perfume, soap, etc., to pay New Year greetings to Cao Bin.

Compared with the lively and festive Ye Mansion, the Cao Mansion is more festive, but not as lively as the Ye Mansion, not because of anything else, but because the Cao Mansion has strict rules, Cao Bin governs the family like an army, and the servants in the mansion are well-known in Kaifeng rules.

Cao Wei was on duty in the imperial city today. Ye Chen paid New Year's greetings to Cao Bin and the old lady, and waited for the servants to serve all kinds of food and tea. Cao Bin waved all the servants away, leaving only two people.

After briefly hearing Ye Chen's plan to go to the northwest, Cao Bin frowned and said, "Northwest is no better than the capital, let alone Jianghuai. There are veritable mountains, high rivers and deep rivers, and the emperor is far away. Although they have surrendered to our Great Song Dynasty in name, they are actually rebellious and full of wildness, and every year they dress up as bandits and thieves and come to our Great Song Dynasty to secretly raid Caogu."

"In addition, although the two feudal towns of Zhejia in Nafuzhou and Yangjia in Linzhou are nominally the cities of Xiazhou ruled by my Great Song Dynasty, they are actually self-respecting soldiers in the true sense, because the troops in their hands are actually private troops. They only recognize the Zhe family and the Yang family, but not the imperial court. Fuzhou and Linzhou are like a country within a country.

"Look at Murong Yanzhao again. He has been in command of the Northwest Camp for five years. In the past few years, he fought with various party departments and won many battles. It is mainly due to him that the party members surrendered to our Great Song Dynasty. I won't say much about this, but by From this, it can be imagined that his prestige in the Northwest camp must be extremely high, and his influence in the Northwest is not small. I know that you made a big fuss in the Southern Tang Dynasty more than a month ago, but the various forces in the Northwest are intricate, It is very murderous, even if you bring a thousand black cavalry, no matter if you meet a party member, or Fuzhou and Linzhou, or Murong Yanzhao, the combat power of the army is not comparable to that of the Southern Tang Dynasty, as long as there are 1 Thousands of people surround you, and you will wipe out the entire army. Therefore, you must be careful in everything, and once you make a move, you must control the opponent to death or let him go for a while, don't rush it for a while."

Ye Chen heard the worry in Cao Bin's words, and knew that he was reminding himself, and solemnly said yes.

The two chatted for a while, and Ye Chen left for Luo Mansion.

The situation in Luo's Mansion is similar to that in Cao's Mansion. Luo Yaoshun is also on duty in the palace today.Luo Gongming also gave Ye Chen some announcements, mainly to persuade Ye Chen to focus on stability and not to act rashly.

Go west from Kyoto.Bypass the Great Qinling Mountains.Through several tributaries of the Yellow River.After ten or so days, they entered the Qinling Great Plain, which stretched for [-] miles. Ye Chen and his party rested for a day in Chang'an Jingzhao Mansion, and then continued to go northwest.

Today, there are two roads in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, namely Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Jun Road.Qinfeng Road mainly governs Fengxiang Mansion, Qinzhou and Weizhou.Yongxing Junlu has jurisdiction over Yan'an Prefecture and two feudal towns of Fuzhou and Linzhou.

And these two roads are currently the poorest places in Song Dynasty, but they are also places with the most peculiar scenery.

This road land.Most are hundreds of years old.The place where the Huaxia regime in the Central Plains fought repeatedly with the Hu people of various races.During the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties, it has been firmly controlled by the Han people.It was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty that the power was weak, and after the chaos of the Five Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were in chaos for more than 50 years. These places once again became the world of the Hu people. Rising in the dark, he began to ask the Hu people for blood debts and land for thousands of years.

It was fought for many years and many people died.The two lands were finally firmly controlled by Song State.At the same time, many cities were newly built on it, and many people were moved.However, it is a place of prosperity after all.Except for farming, commerce is not well developed, and there is no valuable production, and the trend of emigration of the people who migrated has only slightly improved in recent years.

Some land is just dry land that is flat and seldom cared for.And the endless lines of the sky.There are also mounds protruding from the edge of the line.The desert further away looked desolate.

It's the time when the sun goes down here.Compared with Kaifeng, it is not obvious, but compared with Hangzhou, at the same time, it is a little later.The blood-red twilight shrouded the vast land, reflecting a majestic city.A majestic city formed entirely of earth and rocks suddenly appeared on the edge of the land, showing off the mighty national power and military strength of the Song Dynasty, and frightening the people on the grasslands to the west of Xiongcheng.

This is Qingzhou City, an important town in the western frontier.

The official road leading from Chang'an Jingzhaofu, the largest city in the northwest, to Gyeongju is well maintained and can accommodate eight horses running side by side.This was mainly built during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty by spending a lot of manpower and financial resources in order to keep the western region safe forever and firmly control this large piece of land.But the facts have proved that these are only external causes, and the internal cause is the people themselves, the court itself, and the country itself.If this country starts to rot from the inside, no matter how strong its limbs are, it will collapse sooner or later, and before it collapses, the hungry wolves around will pounce on it and bite it, grabbing pieces of fat.

A convoy is galloping towards Qingzhou City on this official road.It seems that he wants to enter Gyeongju City before the sun goes down, but he just looks at the mountain and runs to death.Especially on this plain, Gyeongju City seems to be in sight.But far away.It seems that there is no way to catch up and enter the city before closing the city gate.

About twenty miles away from Qingzhou City, there is a post station.This inn is not a military inn, and it is not under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Army, so it looks a bit dilapidated and old in the northwest. Seven or eight men are yawning under the setting sun. They have already had dinner and are starting to gamble for a while. .

It was getting dark, these men suddenly showed strange smiles on their faces, leaned towards the backyard, listened to the voice from inside, covered their mouths and smiled, thinking that the guy inside was too impatient.

In a stone room in the backyard, the only official official of the post station, Yi Cheng, was holding a woman's two snow-white thighs, pressing his hands on her soft chest, screaming non-stop, his body was covered with sweat, and everyone in the room It's a lustful taste.

Gyeongju is remote, there is no entertainment, and the night comes too late, so whenever the sun goes down, he will hurry up and have this only entertainment. The woman under him is a brothel woman brought from Gyeongju city, although he is willing The girls from the brothel outside the city are very ordinary-looking, but he really likes her charm and soft flesh.

Holding slippery milk in his hands. The fleshy Yi Cheng was extremely happy, only to feel that the woman under him seemed to be made of cotton candy, especially the eyes were sweeter and greasy than the well water in Qingzhou City, this one Thirty cents a month is really worth it.

While he was enjoying himself, the door of the room was pushed open suddenly, the postman was generous, he still stretched his waist, pierced towards the ecstasy without looking back, and cursed: "Listen if you want, listen if you want Just look at it, you fucking bastards, a bunch of melons, eavesdropping and not talking, be more careful, and actually crashed directly into the door, be careful to make Lao Tzu an instant wind."

The brothel woman who was pressed down by him also giggled, not afraid of being seen at all.

Suddenly, Yicheng felt a little strange, because there was no sound for a long time, he looked back subconsciously, and saw a stranger, he jumped up, quickly jumped up from the kang, fastened his pants, and did not forget to pull Heihei The ground quilt covered the white body of the woman in the brothel on the kang.

Yi Cheng wanted to yell at him, but seeing that this stranger was dressed very luxuriously, he was afraid that he was someone who could not be offended, or an official of high rank, his mouth became dry and he became afraid.

He said in a trembling voice, "Who are you?"

(End of this chapter)