The Ejina River crosses the northwest land, but as time goes by, the river dries up, leaving only a riverbed with rich water and grass. Slowly, the junction between the riverbed and the land becomes less and less obvious, and a city connecting the north and the south is formed.
Rising from the ground everywhere.
Ejina means black water, and this place is also called Heishuicheng. Because of its abundant water plants and dense lakes, it has gradually become a prosperous place for Dangxiang and is one of the most important cities in Dangxiang land.
Heishuicheng is located at the junction of the north and south of Dangxiang. The scale of grain and livestock trading is very large, which is an urgent need for all the tribes of Dangxiang. Therefore, although there was a city here very early, it was not to resist war, but to local people.
Residents defend themselves against thieves.
But now Heishuicheng's geographical advantage has not been used to its ten thousandth. Under the not-so-high city wall, a fat monk walked slowly, proclaiming the Buddha's name wherever he went. Although he always smiled,
But its appearance is so majestic that no one dares to violate it.
Almost all Dangxiang people believe in Buddhism. This is not a custom or religious habit, but because of Li Deming's advocacy.
Only a group of people with faith will slowly change from beasts to valuable people. This is what Li Deming often said to his son Li Yuanhao. A valuable person can do many things and can realize his dreams as soon as possible, while a valuable person can
In addition to the ability of beasts to bite their enemies, the rest is their instinctive desire.
Slowly stroking the city wall, Monk Kongkong couldn't help but sigh at the inconvenience of the Dangxiang people in building the city. Such a city could not be considered as a defense in even a county in the Great Song Dynasty. The city wall in a middle county must be three steps wide and two feet high.
It is a joke that the city wall is less than ten feet high. But a war horse passes by with its head inside the city gate but its butt outside. Isn't this the most ridiculous thing in the world?
Looking up at the sun, and then looking at the direction he came from, Monk Kongkong finally believed the words of the young man in Tokyo, and couldn't help but murmur to himself: "Heishui Chengna is also the hub of the road from the west of the river to Mobei.
The important town of Dangxiang, the gateway to the northwest! But the people of Dangxiang turn a blind eye and just regard it as a place of trade, which is a waste of natural resources!"
The fat monk walked and arrived at the city gate. The Dangxiang soldiers guarding the city did not dare to come forward to question him. The eminent monk who appeared in Dangxiang must be a guest of the nobles, and they did not dare to offend him.
Some children even carefully put the dry biscuits in their hands into monk Kongkong's alms bowl. Monk Kongkong raised the Buddha's name and casually took off the silver belt around his waist and handed it to him: "Do you want to hear the great monk tell a story?"
No child can resist the story of a traveler from afar. The naive child yelled and pulled Monk Kongkong's silver belt, waving it while telling his friends the news.
So after a while, a group of children gathered under the old poplar tree at the city gate to listen to the story.
Although the adults also like to join in the fun, they do not come over unscrupulously to listen to the stories. In their opinion, the stories told by the eminent monks contain infinite Zen meaning.
"According to legend, a long time ago, a general named Haribaat'er built a town here to guard the city. Over time, people called Haribaat'er the black general, and the city became known as the Black City.
Because Haribaat'er was brave and good at fighting, he was not only promoted to general, but also won the favor of the emperor, so he betrothed his youngest daughter to General Hei as his wife.
Later, General Black became more powerful and powerful, and he even coveted the imperial power and attempted to unify the world. While he was plotting with his confidants on how to usurp the throne, the princess learned of this conspiracy.
She cut off her hair, dressed as a man, left General Hei's house, and reported to her father the news of General Hei's conspiracy to usurp power.
In anger, the emperor sent tens of thousands of troops to attack Heicheng, offering a reward for the capture of Haribaat'er. However, the army could not attack Heicheng for a long time, and could not break the city every time. In order to prevent General Hei from escaping, the emperor had to order Heicheng to be besieged.
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After the emperor learned the news that the long-term attack could not be defeated, he asked the eminent monk to divine, and the divination he got said: "The black city is high in the ground and the river is low. The officers and soldiers surrounded the city and dug wells outside the city without water, but the soldiers and civilians in the city did not show signs of hunger or thirst. There must be
There is a secret passage leading to water, and if the water passage is blocked, victory will be certain."
Therefore, the emperor sent an additional 10,000 troops to the throat of the upper reaches of the Omuna River. As the eminent monks loudly recited the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra, the sergeants filled their helmets with sand and quickly cut off the river.
And built a huge earth dam.
Within a few days, people and animals in the city were hungry and thirsty, and the seedlings near the city were withered. General Hei ordered his soldiers to dig wells in the city. During the digging, they often saw water coming out, and then it bottomed out again. He continued to dig until it reached eighty feet, but still no water.
Izuku. Under this unbearable hunger, thirst, and helpless situation, General Black had no choice but to order preparations for a breakout.
Before leaving, he threw all the gold and silver treasures in the city into the well, and said to his two children: "You should be the masters of the treasures! I hope that one day a man riding a bald green yak will come and take away our treasures."
"Let's go." Then, they buried two children, a boy and a girl, alive in a deep well. They also ordered the soldiers to dig through the northern city wall overnight, led all the soldiers and horses in the city to rush out, and cut a bloody road to break through and go north."
After Monk Kongkong finished telling his story, people were standing around him, not only children, but also a large number of party members.
People from the Song Dynasty were not popular in Dangxiang. Almost all the people from Song Dynasty who came were merchants. They would make money from Dangxiang and make Dangxiang less money from the Western Regions. But the monks were different.
Everyone who is willing to go to Dangxiang to promote Buddhism is an eminent monk and a being respected by Dangxiang people. The story of Monk Kong Kong is so vivid that it is hard not to believe it.
At this time, someone in the crowd exclaimed: "Yes, all the wells within a radius of 20 miles of Heishui City are dry. This is probably because when the emperor sent tens of thousands of troops to block the river, the monks chanted
It was caused by the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra"."
"Then...an apprentice at a wholesale shop in the city said a few days ago that the two long green and white snakes he saw after the storm were not the incarnations of General Hei's two children?!
The trees killed by the water all followed the direction of General Black's escape to the north?!"
Once the details that no one cares about in daily life are connected with the story, it is difficult not to believe it. Yes, the wells dug twenty miles away from Heishuicheng are all dry, and all the dead trees around them have fallen to the north.
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As a result, everyone looked at Monk Kongkong in a different way. They did not expect that the monk in front of them knew so much about the past and present life of Wastewater City, and that he saw everything the same.
The history of Blackwater City can be traced back very early, and in that era when there were no documented records, all history relied on oral tradition.
Everyone present called Monk Kongkong "the eminent monk, the holy monk". Only Monk Kongkong himself cried and laughed in his heart. I am afraid that this so-called eminent monk is not himself, but the young man far away in Tokyo. This story comes from Ye Anzhi.