Taiping Inn

On Beim Mountain, a scholar walked alone in it. The howling spring breeze surged, and the chanting sound of the scholar came from: "The mountains and rivers are broken and the people are lonely, and the beacon fire is looking at Xijing in March. The smoke and dust are chaotic and the corpses are everywhere, and the Hu horses are galloping into the sky. Beiting. A leaf hangs in a lonely city thousands of miles away, and a soldier with iron armor, golden spears and white hair. The foreign minister of the frontier clouds hang in the sky, and his loyal soul is buried in history. "

This poem was written by a scholar. It is said that when the Central Plains dynasty was at its peak hundreds of years ago, its territory could reach the current territory of the Golden Horde. The farthest Western Region Protectorate is less than a hundred miles away from the Golden Horde's Golden Horde's Golden Horde's Golden Horde's Golden Horde's Golden Horde's Golden Horde's Golden Horde's . However, with the civil strife of the dynasty, a large number of border troops were transferred to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, and the Western Regions, grasslands and other places were occupied by the Jin Horde Khanate. Later, this place gradually became inconsistent with the Central Plains, which made the Central Plains believe that the entire Western Regions had fallen into the Jin Horde. The hand of the royal court.

Little did they know that at that time, the Great Protector of the Western Regions still led tens of thousands of soldiers to defend the city, and in the following decades, they repelled the attacks of the Jinguan Iron Cavalry again and again. There were no reinforcements, and it was not even known that the Central Plains imperial court changed its reign title, and it still used the old era name to mint coins. When the city was broken, all the soldiers in the city had white hair, and they were all old men, and they eventually died for their country.

"A lonely city is full of white-haired soldiers." The scholar stopped above the former site of the Changsheng Palace and sighed, "Respectable, pitiful, sad, and lamentable."

The current trend of the world is even worse than that of the past. Emperor Taizu of the Great Wei established a country, but only expelled the Jin Horde from the Central Plains. When Emperor Wude was revived, he only regained Liangzhou and Qinzhou, and was far from regaining the entire Western Regions. I don’t know how much the difference is. Even the Liaodong border is constantly invaded by the Jin tent cavalry, which forced the court to place the most elite cavalry of the entire empire here, thus making the Qingyang Sect more important than the outside and less than the inside. There is room to go around. If there was no threat from the Golden Horde, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry could purge the Qingyang Cult rebels from all over the country in an instant, and it would not be impossible to attack the three northwest states in one go.

Speaking of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, a considerable number of troops were former subordinates of Qin Xiang when he recaptured Qinzhou and Liangzhou, so Zhao Zheng strongly invited Qin Xiang to Liaodong. Zhao Zheng had a great plan. Some people speculated that he wanted to start a war with the Golden Horde once and completely defeat the Golden Horde. As the saying goes, "I can punch one punch, so as not to come a hundred punches." As long as I win this battle, I will let The Khanate of the Golden Horde was damaged and he did not dare to provoke him rashly. He could free up his hands to lead his army south. At that time, there was great potential for both clearing the emperor and pacifying the world.

Of course, in order to prevent the Liaodong Governor’s family from being dominant, the imperial court specially arranged a Youyan Governor. However, the biggest difference between the Liaodong Governor and the Northwest is that the three prefectures of Liaodong can be self-sufficient, unlike the northwest, which is a desert Gobi, especially After leaving Liangzhou, the number of people was sparsely populated, and the army had to replenish food. As long as the food and grass were cut off, it would be equivalent to shaking the army's throat. Today, after several years of operation by Zhao Zheng, tens of thousands of acres of wasteland have been reclaimed. Under such circumstances, it is difficult for the court to control Liaodong. If Zhao Zheng insisted on going south, it would not be possible for long with just one Governor of Youyan. In addition, the Liaodong tyrants led by the Qin family and Butianzong were closely related to Zhao Zheng, which made Zhao Zheng actually able to listen to the tune but not the Xuan, just like a vassal king.

The King of Jin once proposed to let Zhao Zheng go to Beijing, add the title of Taishang Guard, and re-establish the position of Grand Commander who had been abolished for many years. Zhao Zheng was appointed as Grand Commander, commanding the Grand Commander's Office, and governing the military affairs of China and abroad. The Grand Governor is the first rank, and is above the left Governor, and is on par with the cabinet chief. At the same time, Zhao Zheng was also allowed to take the post of Minister of War and could also participate in cabinet political affairs. However, Zhao Zheng politely refused.

Later, the King of Jin proposed that Zhao Zheng go to Beijing, and he still had the title of Taibao and was granted the title of Duke of Liao. Zhao Zheng was appointed as the chief assistant of the cabinet, and also in charge of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War, and was in charge of the position of governor of Liaodong. Sun Songchan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, has also been He acquiesced, but Zhao Zheng still refused.

The bargaining chips offered by the King of Jin are very large, so the surname is different from the name of the king. However, Zhao Zheng understood very clearly that whether it is the Grand Governor or the Chief Auxiliary of the Cabinet, even if he is a king from another surname, it is false under the current situation. What is really true is the military power in his hands. If he does not have military power, he will go to the cabinet to serve as the minister. , the title of the king is just an empty name. In the imperial capital, his life is in the hands of others, and he will be taken down if he is taken down. It is better to hold military power in your hand than to hold a bunch of empty names.

The reason why the imperial party was able to compete with the Later Party without falling was that Zhao Zheng played a huge role, which was the decisive needle. Even because of Zhao Zheng, the envoys from Posaozhou and Fenglinzhou overseas placed the emperor before the Empress Dowager.

Thinking of this, the scholar remembered another interesting thing. In addition to the old northern neighbor of the Golden Horde, the overseas Posa Prefecture and Fenglin Prefecture are also closely related to the Central Plains trend, but these two states are far less powerful than the Golden Horde. , Most of the time, the two provinces were just vassals of the Central Plains court. Because of the disagreement between the two states, Posa Prefecture has a famous saying: "The parents of the Celestial Empire are both foreign countries, like sons. To say that their parents are filial sons in our country, A thief in Fenglinzhou."

The scholar walked aimlessly in the wasteland. This was once a village, but now there was no trace of it. The tomb under his feet was completely destroyed in a confrontation between good and evil, but he didn't care much about this.

Some people have too narrow vision and too small structure. They always stare at their own acre of land and cannot see the huge world. Whether it is the Changsheng Palace or even the entire Beimang Mountain, it is of some use to those who roll in the mud of the rivers and lakes. You can get some so-called opportunities and adventures from it, but for people of his realm, They are all meaningless things. The things he seeks are only two different, both ambitions and immortality.

In fact, to be serious, what the emperors in ancient and modern times want is nothing more than these two things.

After the scholar stood here for a while, a curling white smoke rose. When the white smoke dissipated, an old man appeared, with white hair dissipated, and half of his face had turned into white bones. He was injured in the battle of Beimang Mountain. The old man from Zaoge Sect leader Zang.

Even a rebellious person like the old man like Tibetan, he lowered his posture in the face of the scholar and said softly, "Di Shi Master."

The masters in the world often have many faces, and the Tibetan elderly have two images: tall, white-haired elderly and short hunchbacked elderly. The scholar in front of him is one of the many faces of the Earth Master Xu Wugui, and is often used to walk. The world is not the true true nature.

The scholar withdrew his mind, smiled, and said, "Zang Sect Master, how has he been recuperating recently?"

Old Man Zang said, "If you are tired of the land master, everything is fine, but you have lost the two external incarnations of the body. If you want to refine them, you will have to work harder."

The scholar said, "Your method of "three refinings and incarnation" is the same as the "three corpse souls" I practiced. I have known it, but in fact, it is the second time to spend time. The key is that I lack a suitable body. The Palace of Changsheng was destroyed, and most of the corpses were destroyed. It is hard for a good cook to cook without rice, so your external incarnation will be unable to recover."

The old man Tibetan looked at the scholar deeply and said, "The earth master is aware of it."

The scholar chuckled softly and said, "I have two best bodies in the Yin-Yang Sect, which are the Dharma bodies left by the Buddhist monks after their death. I wonder if the sect leader of the Tibetan Sect is interested?"

The old man Tibetan frowned and did not give an answer immediately.

Because he knew very well that this earth-qi priest never did a loss-making business. Everyone knows that Yin and Yang Sect helped Zaoge Sect up, but they don’t know how much the Zaoge Sect paid for it.

Kunlun is the ancestor of all mountains, and the three dragon veins in the world all originated in Kunlun. According to the trend of mountains, rivers and rivers and the hidden dragon vein trend, from west to east, the winding vein terrain is regarded as Feng Shui and earth veins, and is divided into three forces, called the three dragons, namely: the south of the river is the south dragon, the river and the river. There is a middle dragon between them, and the north of the long river is a north dragon.

The mountains of Beilong are majestic and majestic. They come out of Kunlun Mountain to the east, and the south and middle mountains are stretching and crisscrossing. The mountains are surrounded by each other, forming a series of good places for entering and blessing dragons. The west water on the side of the mountain enters the Longmen West River, and the east water on the side of the mountain enters Youzhou and flows eastward to the sea. Beim Mountain is the remnant of Nanshan Mountain, so its Feng Shui is excellent, which has attracted emperors, generals and ministers of all dynasties to build mausoleums here.

Each dragon vein, from west to east, from Kunlun to the East China Sea, is divided into distant ancestral mountain, Laozu Mountain and Shaozu Mountain, from old to young in sequence. Logically speaking, Beimang Mountain is located in the remnant of Nanshan Mountain, and it is not yet considered Laozu Mountain, but should be Shaozu Mountain. However, due to the evolution of the dragon vein, the closer it is to the Kunlun in the West, the less it is impossible for the dynasty to be born in the west. In order to plan luck for the Northwest Zhou Dynasty, the earth master Xu Wugui used his unpredictable magic weapon to replace the pillars, and transferred the vitality of Beimian Mountain to an Laozu Mountain in Qinzhou, turning Beimian Mountain from Shaozu Mountain to Laozu Mountain.

Beim Mountain is the gate of Zaoge Sect. This move has caused great disasters. How could the old man Zang not know? He was helpless and could not care about the future, so he could only take care of the front of him first.

After a long time, the old man Zang slowly spoke, "I wonder what instructions does the Earth Master have?"

The scholar also did not reply immediately, but asked, "What do you think of the 'Holy Lord'?"