There is a legend about traveling south quickly along the Fen River: The Wen family of Taiyuan was unable to assassinate Liu Ping, but was exterminated by the Zhang family of Nanyang.
Who is Liu Pingnan?
After Changsha was crowned king, the seventeen-year-old Han Zhonglang General.
When he was 16 years old, he raised an army to Qingjun's side, led 5,000 cavalry to defeat the greater number with less, and annihilated the five battalions of the Northern Army. Instead of blaming him, Your Majesty was granted an official title.
Zhang's chariots and cavalry are at the forefront, Zhang's assassination is at the back, and the Zhang family of Nanyang wants to invest in this young hero.
How can we see it?
The "understanding person" has spoken. When the Liangzhou thieves entered Sanfu, they fought hard, but it was difficult to recruit Liu Ping. After the thieves were defeated, it was time to pursue them. Zhang Boshen insisted on recruiting this young hero, and Huangfu Yizhen ran away.
Come out and support me, think about it, there is an inside story here, do you understand?
Got it, got it!
There is one more "understanding person".
Rumors continued to spread, and there were more and more "understanding people". Liu Xiang was touted as the seed of a famous general, the leader of the next generation, and looked like a political star.
This legendary rising star is scratching his head now.
When the army reached Linfen, they could no longer march along the river. When the Fen River reached here, they turned around and headed west toward Longmen Mountain. There were mountains and dangerous shoals along the way, which was not suitable for cavalry to march. They had to change the land route to the county of Hedong County.
Get the second batch of supplies there, then follow the road to Chang'an.
But there are still more than 4,000 stones of grain and more than 6,000 bundles of fodder in the boat. It would be a pity to throw them away. It is not enough to haul away the cart.
The civilian husbands who followed the army didn't want to go back. During these days when they went south with the Anping Army, they had enough to eat and no one abused them.
The magistrate of Linfen County who welcomed the army was shaking like chaff. He heard that because of the problem of military rations, more than 300 heads of the general were killed, and the whole family of the county magistrate was wiped out. Now he has also caught up with the problem of military rations, although
There is no need for Linfen to supply grain and grass, but there are no large carts, and military grain cannot be transported. This is also a problem.
His neck felt cold and the head on his neck was not safe.
In fact, Liu Xiang's requirements were not high, just four to five hundred large vehicles. Linfen had developed water transportation and merchants gathered there, so large vehicles were not a problem at all.
However, the county had just been robbed by thieves, and not a single large vehicle was left.
More than forty miles north of Linfen, there is an iconic place named Baibo Valley in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It was the place where Bai Bo and the Yellow Turbans raised their troops. Zhang Baiqi has not yet risen up, but Bai Bo Valley has always been a place where bandits have been entrenched, and the terrain of the valley is complex.
It is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is close to the Fen River, making it easy to rob merchants sailing. It is a natural den for thieves.
No one knows how many groups of bandits there are inside, and they themselves can't count them. Anyway, they are fighting every day. If they finish counting today, they won't have the same number tomorrow.
However, when they came to Fen to borrow food, they were very united. They gathered together in nests and surrounded the city with overwhelming force. Those bandits also knew how to fish in dry marshes. Linfen was ruined and they also had to starve.
He wanted to die, so he only borrowed food and did not attack the city. As long as the merchants paid tolls, they would not kill wantonly.
Of course, there are also many stupid young men who dump their corpses on the Fen River every year, adding to Baibo Valley's reputation as a thieves.
Liu Xiang's arrival was unlucky. All the carts had been pulled away, and the quantity of new works was not enough.
Wait a minute, the people of Linfen are famous for being good at making large cars, and they do it quickly and well. The newly built cars still have the marks from a few years ago.
He doesn't want to pay attention to those messy things in Linfen, and he won't go to annihilate Baibo Valley like a little fool, not to mention that Zhang Baiqi will be a potential ally in the future.
Just speaking now, the locals would not like the destruction of Baibo Valley. This is their way of making money. Blocking people's way of making money is like killing their parents.
The locals don't want to suppress it, but outsiders can't. Baibo Valley, the heart of Hedong County, is only a key location more than 400 miles away from Luoyang, and it has always existed.
Therefore, its existence is reasonable, and many people need it.
As Liu Xiang expected, the people of Linfen were particularly good at making carts. Two days later, five hundred carts were assembled, and the army immediately set off and headed straight for Anyi.
In Anyi, he added 6,000 shi of grain, 12,000 bunches of fodder, and recruited 1,000 carts, 2,000 men, and 1,500 pack horses. Because Anyi was close to the salt pond, he also levied 1,500 shi of horses.
Coarse salt can marinate the entire army.
Everything went smoothly, all the requests he made were met, and he couldn't find any opportunity to act arrogant. When did the officials of the Han Dynasty become so easy to talk to?
With a heart full of unwillingness and a head full of confusion, 3,500 cavalry, 3,000 civilians, 1,500 carts, 4,000 war horses, 5,000 pack horses, carrying 10,000 shi of grain,
Equipped with eighteen thousand bundles of fodder, fifteen hundred stones of coarse salt, pickles, and medicinal materials, the army left the camp and marched towards Chang'an.
The cavalry and the convoy rushed westward, stirring up dust along the way. They collected 300 ships at Pubanjin, turned around and went south along the Yellow River, crossing the river at Fengling Ferry.
Fenglingdu is the place where Guo Xiang met Yang Guo in Jin Yong's novel. It is also where the Wei River merges into the Yellow River. Although the two rivers meet, the water flow is not fast and is suitable for ferrying.
When we reached the south bank of the Yellow River, we had to abandon the ship again. This is the boundary of the Qinling Mountains, and to the west we reach Mount Huashan. It is twenty miles from north to south and thirty miles from east to west. The terrain is too steep to march along the river, so we have to go to Taolinsai to get through.
Taolinsai is Tongguan. In another ten years, Boss Cao built Tongguan here in order to resist the various warlords in the northwest.
Tongguan is really difficult to walk. The narrowest part of the path can only accommodate one large vehicle. The convoy was like sand in an hourglass. It passed through the pass bit by bit. It took two days to get out of the thirty-mile mountain road.
, arrived at Huayin County.
Everyone was tired, so Liu Xiang stationed his troops in Huayin for repairs and told the whole army to rest quietly and not to cause trouble.
This is the ancestral home of the Hongnong Yang family.
The fourth and third generation of the Hongnong Yang family, the most famous of their family in the history of the Three Kingdoms was Yang Xiu, but Yang Xiu was only famous and his achievements were not as good as those of his ancestors.
The most famous of the Yang family should be Yang Bao. The idiom "tie the grass and hold the ring", in which "hold the ring", tells the story of Yang Bao.
Legend has it that when Yang Bao was nine years old, he saw a ferocious great owl (probably an owl) biting a yellow bird in the north of Huayin Mountain. It was then surrounded by a bunch of ants and was about to be eaten.
Yang Bao felt compassion and rescued the injured Huang Que.
He put the oriole in a box for protection and fed it with yellow flowers. He didn't let it go until it recovered from its injury.
Later, Yang Bao dreamed that the oriole turned into a boy in yellow and came back to repay his kindness, and gave Yang Bao four white rings as a gift.
After that, Yang Bao's son Yang Zhen, grandson Yang Bing, great-grandson Yang Ci, and great-great-grandson Yang Biao were all, as the boy in yellow said, "four generations of Taiwei, with successive virtues and careers", and they all reached the rank of Sangong and became legends.
This is the story of the ring.
Yang Xiu is the son of Yang Biao.
Looking at Yang Xiu who came to his door, Liu Xiang felt that the idioms and allusions were all around him, just like the ancients in the TV series who knocked on the door of your house and asked you whether you had noodles or rice for lunch. It was very strange.
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The strange thing is the feeling, not Yang Xiu.
Yang Xiu was very proud, not just the arrogance of being born into a noble family, but also the arrogance of looking down on others, which was cultivated by his years of IQ crushing.
Although this little kid was only as tall as Liu Xiang's shoulders, he always felt that Yang Xiu was looking at him condescendingly.
Very unhappy.
Liu Xiang was not happy, and Yang Xiu was not happy either.
Recently, he heard a rumor that a leader among the young people of his generation had emerged. He originally dismissed it because there was nothing comparable to an old guy in his twenties or thirties.
But when I heard that he was only five years older than him, he couldn't sit still. He wanted to see something, and it was God's wish. Liu Xiang led his troops to repair in Huayin, and Yang Xiu came to see him.
"Everyone says that Liu Yicheng is the leader of the younger generation. I am here to pay my respects."
"What do you mean by being a leader?"
Yang Xiu was a little disdainful: "If you don't learn and have no skills, being a leader means being the leader."
"What does leader mean?"
This man was ignorant of literature and classics, and was extremely vulgar. It was really disappointing. Yang Xiu became a little impatient: "The leader is the first person."
"Oh, so that's what it means." Liu Xiang pretended to suddenly realize: "Then who do you think should be the second person?"
Yang Xiu raised his head: "Of course it's me."
You're not very smart either. Liu Xiang raised his eyebrows: "Since you consider yourself second, then I'll do whatever it takes and be the first."