Chapter 429 0424 [Li Yanxian said he likes Hanzhong]
Apart from the major earthquake in the north and slight floods in the south, there have been no other major disasters this year. Overall, it can be said that the weather has been smooth.
A group of more than 20 people headed south from Fuzhou.
The person who led the group to see off the relatives was named Zhe Zhichang, who was Zhe Yanzhi's legitimate son and had just turned sixteen this year.
He is the hope of the new generation of the Zhe family. He has studied with famous scholars since he was a child and was trained as a civil servant.
Historically, the home of the Zhe family was occupied by the Kingdom of Jin. In order to save the lives of the tribe, the main force of the Zhe family army chose to pay gold. At the same time, they bet on both ends. A group of tribesmen followed Zhao Gou south. Zhe Zhichang went to the Southern Song Dynasty to work as a civil servant, and fought with
Zhu Xi, Fan Chengda, Yang Wanli and Yue Fei's son Yue Lin were all good friends.
"Fourth sister, we are in front of Yi County." Zhe Zhichang was dressed as a scholar, but he was riding a horse, with a long sword hanging from his waist, and a long spear hanging on his victory hook.
Zhe Yanxiu opened the car curtain, took a look, hung it up directly, and complained: "It's really hot this summer. It's very uncomfortable to be suffocated in the car. It's better to ride a horse all the way."
Zhe Zhichang said: "Mr. Zhu is a great scholar in the world. How can he ride a horse on the way to see his bride? It's too unseemly."
Zhe Yanxiu complained: "The daughter of the Zhe family has always been riding horses, but it's my turn. I shouldn't have sent you to study. You are almost turning into an old scholar at such a young age."
"We have to abide by some rules," Zhe Zhichang said with a smile. "We are also generals. The more books the Zhong family has read, the more important they will be used by the court. Our Zhe family can't just hold the handle of the knife, but someone should also hold the pen."
Zhe Yanxiu said: "I can't read those poems and books. I doze off as soon as I read them. I can still feel comfortable dancing with guns and sticks."
Zhe Zhichang said with a headache: "You don't need to read other poetry books, but Mr. Zhu's "Great Learning Chapters" and "Zhongyong Chapters" must be studied hard. After marrying, if Mr. Zhu talks about knowledge, he will be too ignorant if he doesn't know three questions.
The Zhe family is in disgrace."
Zhe Yanxiu said with a smile: "He is a rebel and a fighter. No matter how good his knowledge is, can he still persuade the emperor to give up the throne?"
The siblings and their entourage stayed at a delivery shop in Xi County.
He didn't say that he was going to marry Zhu Thief, he just said that he was going to visit relatives and friends. After all, Song Huizong did not agree to grant marriage.
Take a day off and walk along the river.
However, an official ship came up from behind and soon overtook them.
Cars and boats passed through Wuzhangyuan and arrived outside Xiegu Pass.
The Zhong family had been granted a marriage by the emperor, and the ceremony was much grander. There were more than 200 people in the procession, and they also headed to Hanzhong with a large amount of dowry.
Compared to Zhe Yanxiu's free and easy attitude, Zhong Miaoyun seemed a little miserable, as if she was about to be sent to a den of thieves to be the wife of a stronghold.
Zhong's family arrived first, then left their families. After spending the night in Xiegu, they were arranged to go together.
"Greetings, brother!" Zhe Zhi often bowed and saluted.
Zhong Yancen, who was in charge of seeing off the bride, bowed and said in return, "Unexpectedly, I met my dear brother Zi Ming. Has he also been granted a marriage by Your Majesty?"
These words were so strange that Zhe Zhichang was really embarrassed: "My fourth sister and Mr. Zhu are in love with each other. The elders don't want to see lovers who are not married."
Zhong Yancen pursed his lips and smiled, revealing a sarcastic tone.
Both families took a boat to go south, but soon they had to abandon the boat and go ashore, crossing the mountains and ridges.
Zhe Yanxiu was bored out of her mind. When she learned that the daughter of the Zhong family was also on the boat, she hung a sword on her waist and ran to chat with her.
"My name is Zhe Yanxiu, I am seventeen years old this year," Zhe Yanxiu asked carelessly, "Are you an elder sister or younger sister?"
Zhong Miaoyun bowed and saluted: "I've met my sister."
Zhe Yanxiu said with a smile: "Why is my sister looking so sad? I heard that Zhu Chenggong was both civilized and military, and he was one of the best men in the world. It's a pity that you and I are marrying as concubines, otherwise we would have found a good match."
Zhong Miaoyun responded awkwardly: "My little sister is not unhappy, she just misses her relatives far away from home."
Zhe Yanxiu said: "Looking at you, you should be someone who has read a lot of poetry and books. But I can't read his "Great Learning Chapters". From now on, when it comes to learning, my sister can help me deal with it."
"If I can help, I will definitely not hide my secrets." Zhong Miaoyun said.
Although the Zhong family is a family of generals, their ancestral home is in Luoyang. Generations of people have cultivated both civil and military skills. The first generation of generals in the Zhong family was originally a great Confucian who had transferred to the military position.
Zhong Miaoyun, like his father and brother, has been practicing Guanluo studies since he was a child.
Ju Ming's knowledge is very similar to that of Luo School, because he copied a lot of it from Zhu Xi. However, the great scholars of Luo School slandered Ju Ming the most, because Ju Ming also adopted some of Wang Anshi's views, and they believed that Ju Ming's knowledge had tampered with the essence of Luo School.
Especially after Ju Ming's rebellion, Dao Yongxue was denounced as a rebellious study.
Zhong Miaoyun heard so many slanderous remarks that he was inevitably affected by this kind of thinking and felt that Ju Ming was not a good person.
The two women were chatting with each other, and they had nothing in common.
But Zhe Yanxiu's carefree attitude did not make Zhong Miaoyun feel annoying. Basically, the former was talking and the latter was echoing every word.
After passing the boating area, everyone started walking.
Zhe Yanxiu was in high spirits, and was able to climb mountains and ridges without any problems. From time to time he marveled at the steepness of the Baoxie Road and said with emotion that it was no wonder that the Western Army was defeated.
But Zhong Miaoyun complained secretly. When she saw Zhe Yanxiu walking on her own, she inevitably became competitive and followed the team on foot. After only climbing a section of the mountain road, she was out of breath from exhaustion, and her delicate feet had blisters, but she herself
There is a sense of tenacity in him, and he refuses to lose to the opponent. He drags his tired body and endures the pain.
"Seventh sister, it's better to sit on a bamboo horse. This is just the beginning." Zhong Yancen advised.
Zhong Miaoyun looked at Zhe Yanxiu who was walking like flying, gritted his teeth and shook his head in refusal: "We can't let the Zhong family lose face. We can't lose to anyone, and we can't lose to the Zhe family."
After walking all day, Zhong Miaoyun felt like all the bones in his body were falling apart when he rested in the evening.
She hid quietly and asked her brother to open the blisters on the soles of her feet, then apply ointment and bandage them with cloth.
When he woke up the next day, Zhong Miaoyun still wanted to show off his strength, but as a result, his thigh muscles were sore. Every step he took was painful, and he started to cramp as he walked, so he had no choice but to sit on the sliding pole and move forward carefully.
Li Yanxian and Yan Ping followed the horse-buying team back to Hanzhong, but gradually caught up with them and were blocked on the plank road by the bride-to-be team.
"The people in front of us, even their luggage, are all dressed in red and colorful. Could it be that they are traveling thousands of miles to see off their bride?" Li Yanxian inquired.
The horse buyer was also very curious and went to inquire about it in person. When he came back, he explained: "It's the daughters of the Zhong family and the Zhe family who went to Hanzhong to marry the generalissimo."
Li Yanxian couldn't help but be horrified when he heard this, and looked at each other with Yan Pingping.
Both the Zhong family and the Zhe family are actually married to Ju Ming. How will the Western Army go to Hanzhong to fight in the future?
Yan Ping asked: "Aren't the Zhong family and the Zhe family afraid of offending the emperor?"
The horse buyer smiled and said: "It was the Emperor of Song who granted me the marriage."
Yan Ping scratched his head: "This is very strange. What did the emperor think?"
The horse buyer said: "At the time of the peace talks last year, the rebels were only more than 200 miles away from Tokyo. What demands could the emperor dare not agree to?"
Li Yanxian shook his head secretly, that emperor in Tokyo was so ridiculous.
They arrived in Hanzhong in mid-summer, and the first phase of the Shanhe Weir had been completed. From Baocheng County to Hanzhong Fucheng, countless lands were irrigated, and many dry lands were turned into paddy fields.
As far as the eye can see, the land is golden and rice fields are being harvested everywhere.
Zhong Yancen was extremely shocked. From Wuzhangyuan to Hanzhong Fucheng, he saw no refugees along the way, only countless people welcoming the harvest.
Shaanxi did not encounter any disasters this year and it was also a good year.
However, the imperial court sent the Western Army to Hebei to suppress bandits and recruited too many soldiers to fight and a large number of civilians to transport grain, which inevitably affected agricultural production.
The exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed to suppress the bandits also made it difficult for the people of Shaanxi to resist, and many refugees still fled in good years.
"It's fertile soil in the southeast, but it's nothing more than that, right?" Zhe Zhichang was equally shocked. How much food would be harvested?
But Li Yanxian whispered to Yan Ping: "As expected, as the horse-buying officer said, the Zhu family and his son implemented good governance, and the people in Hanzhong were very wealthy. If the Zhu family were allowed to conquer the world, perhaps the border areas would also be wealthy, and the men in the border areas would no longer have to do that.
Such hardship."
In history, Li Yanxian recruited troops to serve the king in the first year of Jingkang. He led three thousand troops to Beijing in commoner clothes.
At that time, Li Gang was ordered to pacify the two rivers. Although he insisted on taking the lead in the war, his military arrangements were very eye-catching. Li Yanxian couldn't stand it, so he was impeached by Shangshu for not knowing how to fight. As a result, he was arrested by the imperial court.
Li Yanxian then used a false name to live in the world and went to seek refuge with the cultivator.
As a result, the military officials were tricked to death by civilian officials. Li Yanxian tried to dissuade Fan Zhixu before the war, but was dismissed from his post. Later, all the armies collapsed, and Li Yanxian only brought a few people to Shaanzhou, but he used actions to call on the people of Shaanxi to defend.
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He led a group of defeated soldiers and temporarily recruited local warriors to capture more than fifty camps of the Jin people within a month, seize more than 300 war horses, and even recaptured the Shaanzhou city occupied by the Jin people.
Then, Li Yanxian took the initiative to go north and fought all the way to Taiyuan, regaining six counties along the way, and repeatedly fought with the Jin soldiers in Puzhou.
It is really unimaginable that a dismissed hero from Longxi, who was unfamiliar with the place in Shaanzhou, could make countless defeated troops and local people fight to the death. He dared to lead troops to launch a major counterattack, and when the main force of the enemy army came for reinforcements, he still
Able to retreat calmly with a group of motley soldiers.
A commoner, relying purely on his military exploits, became the governor of Shaanxi Province and the pacifier. Zhao Gou also sent people to send him brocade robes, jade belts, spears and swords.
Unfortunately, the battles in the court were mixed with factional disputes in the army, leaving Li Yanxian isolated and helpless in Shaanzhou.
Even though Li Yanxian fought alone without any reinforcements to save him, he still killed the golden general Ulusaba, throwing off his helmet and armor. Then he ambushed Wanyan Lou's room and almost captured Wanyan Lou's room alive.
The Jin Kingdom was completely angry. Wanyan Loushi and Zhe Keqiu, who had lowered the gold, joined forces with 100,000 troops to attack Shaanzhou.
Li Yanxian sent dead soldiers out of the city and burned the Jin soldiers' siege equipment. The Jin soldiers were frightened and retreated several miles to camp.
At that time, there was no food in the city, and only some beans were left. Li Yanxian asked the soldiers to eat beans, and he himself drank the soup from which the beans were cooked.
Wanyan Lou's family sent someone to persuade him to surrender and promised to make Li Yanxian the marshal of the Henan army. Li Yanxian directly beheaded the envoy who persuaded him to surrender.
From winter to spring, Shaanzhou's food supply was cut off, and the soldiers fought hungry. The city was breached, and Li Yanxian led his troops to fight in the streets. His left arm was almost cut off, and his whole body was shot like a hedgehog.
Inspired by him, the old, weak, women and children all climbed onto the roof, lifted up tiles and smashed the golden soldiers in the street.
Li Yanxian successfully broke through with the remaining soldiers. When he heard that Wanyan Lou's family had ordered a massacre of the city, he thought that he had harmed the people in the city, so he committed suicide by drowning himself in the river and followed the people of Shaanzhou.
When he was holding on to Shaanzhou, in order to show his determination, he specially brought his family from Longxi. As a result, his whole family was massacred by the Jin soldiers. Only one younger brother and his son survived. All his generals died in the battle without escaping.
people.
Was Li Yanxian loyal to the Song Dynasty court?
I'm afraid not.
The Song Dynasty fought against Xixia and Liao, but Li Yanxian was still unwilling to join the army because he knew how bad the Western army was.
It wasn't until the Jin army went south that he recruited troops to serve the king.
Because of this background and experience, Li Yanxian could not get into the circle of the Song army, and no general was willing to rescue him. To the Song army, he was always an outsider, and he could not urinate in the same pot as the civilian and military generals.
Only Zhang Jun appreciates him!
Zhang Jun later killed Qu Duan, which may have a lot to do with Li Yanxian. Because Qu Duan's army, which was closest to Shaanzhou at the time, sat back and watched Li Yanxian trapped in the isolated city and did not save him.
At this moment, since Li Yanxian came to Hanzhong, the smile on his face has never diminished.
Hanzhong is so good, there are fertile fields with abundant harvests everywhere, and even in the countryside there are no people fleeing for famine.
Li Yanxian and Yan Ping were taken to see Zhu Guoxiang. When they met, he asked: "When will Mr. Zhu send troops to Shaanxi? As long as I return to Longxi, I can immediately recruit thousands of troops to respond. They are all brave warriors who will die in service!"
Unfortunately, Zhu Guoxiang was not familiar with history and had never heard of Li Yanxian. He replied: "I don't know about military matters. You can go to Xiangyang and listen to my orders under my son's account."
