Seven thousand miles away, there are two men, one leaf on the eighteen beaches.
Shan Yi likes the dream of laboring far away, and the name of the place scares the lonely minister.
The long winds see off guests and strengthen the belly of the sail, and the accumulated rain reduces the stone scales of the floating boat.
If you are just a sailor with an official, you will have more than a little knowledge in this life.
——"Entering Jiangxi for the first time on August 7th and crossing the beach of panic" Su Shi
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Bai Fu patted Ma Daifeng's shoulder and comforted him: "Since transforming into a yokozuna sumo wrestler is a black art, we don't need to blame ourselves too much.
Although we cannot create a peerless armor, we have trebuchets and crossbows, and we can easily attack the city."
Ma Daifeng looked a little strange, and he said to Bai Fu: "I thought so too at first. When General Zi Chexi told us all this, we also decided to give up. Unexpectedly, Tang Huan brought your soldier armor,
It gave me another glimmer of hope.”
"Oh?" Bai Fu's curiosity was completely aroused.
Ma Daifeng said: "The alchemy created by 'Hermes Trismegistus' cannot be practiced in future generations, not only because the alchemy passed down is incomplete, but more importantly, no one can find the point."
The 'Philosopher's Stone' that turns stone into gold - the real meteorite.
And the soldier's armor, also known as the Ju Zang Yue Hook, is the real meteorite iron."
"How do you say this?" Bai Fu asked.
Ma Daifeng paused and stared straight at the sky, as if thinking about how to describe the real meteorite.
After a moment, he said: "This piece of meteorite iron is different from the gold, silver, copper and iron in the middle earth. In essence, it is a kind of liquid iron, like mercury, which can flow along channels and disperse in an instant.
It flows away and turns into gorgeous patterns. But mercury is difficult to solidify, and when it splashes on the ground, it will appear in the shape of water droplets. This is not the case with meteorite. When it solidifies, it is extremely hard, like diamond.
However, what is even more mysterious is that it seems to have life and can sense our thoughts.
In order to understand its mystery, I once hung it on an armor rack and pondered over it over and over again, staying up for days and nights without rest.
One night, I woke up from a nightmare and suddenly opened my eyes. Unintentionally, I discovered that when I stared at it, it was also staring at me coldly and ruthlessly..."
At this point, everyone had a shuddering feeling, and only felt chills running down their backs.
Bai Fu also experienced this. He was silent for a moment and said: "I also experience the feeling you mentioned. When I was playing polo, once I felt resentful, the stick seemed to be able to feel my anger and could control it.
Anger instantly transformed into strength, amplifying the power of my bat several times, like a living creature.
I once tried to communicate with it using python beads, but there was no response. Later, when things got busy, I stopped caring about the stick.
Later, the head of Tang Gu made it into a soldier's armor with his own hands. But the head of Tang never told me that anything unusual happened when he made the ju staff into armor, nor did he mention that it seemed like
Topics like having life.
One more question, what happened next? Can you find a way to communicate with it?"
Ma Daifeng shook his head, looking lonely, and said: "This kind of life is different from the flowers, birds, insects, fish, birds and beasts in our eyes. It is difficult for us to understand it with common sense.
After that time, I never felt its presence again.
If there really is some kind of magic weapon that can communicate with it like a python bead, then the power and shock it can bring to us will be far better than a set of super armor that is not afraid of swords.
In short, the development of this super armor has been full of twists and turns, which always makes my hopes shattered and my wishes frustrated when I am about to reach my destination."
Bai Fu sighed: "Compared to the weird things we talked about tonight, the Battle of Jianghuai is really nothing.
The more you know, the more you realize you are ignorant. There are still so many mysteries in this vast world waiting for people to discover."
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Everyone was chatting happily, and before they knew it, the rooster crowed and it was already bright.
The messenger suddenly came to report: "Commander, I received the message from the scout pigeon, and the imperial envoy from the imperial court is about to arrive."
Bai Fu hurriedly cleaned up his troops and went ten miles out of the city to meet him.
Outside Yangzhou City, there was a long pavilion ten miles away, and Bai Fu led the generals to line up to greet him. On the official road, flags were fluttering, and five hundred soldiers, wearing helmets and carrying armor, were neatly arranged on both sides, with their heads held high and their chests held high, without squinting.
The Imperial Envoy's chariot arrived quickly, and a cavalry force of nearly a thousand people, wearing bright clothes and angry horses, came roaring with majesty, surrounded by several luxurious carriages.
Bai Fu dismounted and led Huyan Tieyi, Yuchi Hussar, Tang Kui and other major generals to come forward to greet him.
Bai Fu bowed and saluted, and said loudly: "Welcome minister Bai Fu, welcome the angel!"
Unexpectedly, the driver of the imperial envoy turned a blind eye to the generals and drove away without any intention of stopping, and did not even open the car curtain.
The iron cavalry roared past, kicking up dust all over the sky, covering their heads and faces with dust covering the faces of Bai Fu and other generals.
Yuchi Qiaoqi was furious and was about to catch up and curse, when Hu Yan Tieyi grabbed him and held him tightly.
Bai Fu raised his head and looked at the billowing yellow dust rising behind the carriage, with an imperceptible sneer on his face.
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After the imperial eunuch entered Yangzhou City, he drove directly to the camp to rest and refused Bai Fu's banquet.
The next day, the imperial eunuchs entered the palace and announced Suzong's imperial edict to all the civil and military officials in the Jianghuai area.
Only then did Bai Fu see the imperial eunuch, the eunuch Ai Dong, who was forty-seven or eight years old, with a round head and a lot of gray hair mixed in his bun.
The most impressive thing is that this person's eyes have gray-yellow pupils, wandering and uncertain, and from time to time they show a cruel and ferocious light like a jackal. At first glance, he is not an easy person to deal with.
The eunuch Ai Dong spoke with a high tone, and on the surface he sounded high-sounding, but in fact he made double entendres and deliberately made things difficult for the generals.
After the eunuch Ai Dong announced the imperial edict, he handed the edict to Bai Fu. He smiled and said to Bai Fu: "It's been a long and tiring journey, and I'm not accustomed to the climate. I'm feeling a little unwell, so I won't waste General Bai's time. We're here today.
Here it is.”
After the eunuch Ai Dong said his goodbyes, surrounded by his cavalry, he walked away and returned to his cabin to rest.
The civil and military officials in Jianghuai are pampered and unable to fight, but they are observant of people's words and intentions, and they are all cunning and calculating. They are all foxes of thousands of years.
Seeing the posture of the imperial eunuch Ai Dong, everyone understood. The imperial envoy came here in the name of Xuan Wei Tang Army in Jianghuai, but in fact he wanted to thoroughly investigate the Tang Army generals headed by Bai Fu.
In the next few days, the eunuch Ai Dong always kept a distance from Bai Fu's generals, and was only accompanied by the eunuch Xing Yanen.
The eunuch Ai Dong ordered his servants to divide into five groups and continuously interview the military generals. The questions asked were nothing more than whether Bai Fu withheld military pay, lied about military achievements, falsely reported battle results, etc.
The general of the Tang army replied truthfully, leaving the eunuch Ai Dong unable to find any loopholes.
Huyan Tieyi and other generals, together with the eunuch Ai Dong's subordinates, checked and counted the captured trophies of Liu Zhan's navy one by one and put them into storage.
In addition to most of the grain and grass in Luoyan Valley being burned, the rest of the military supplies were piled up in hundreds of tents. Weapons such as arrows and shields, materials such as tents, quilts, and clothing, and supplies such as flags, gongs, and drums were piled up like mountains.
Money and goods such as silk and satin, gold ingots, copper coins, rare treasures, etc. are packed in thousands of nanmu boxes, locked with copper locks, affixed with seals, and guarded by dedicated personnel.
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Everything was in order, so that the eunuch Ai Dong and his attendants could not find any fault.
The eunuch Ai Dong was very unwilling. He came with a mission this time. If he continued like this, how could he communicate with the prince and the master behind him?
Eunuch Ai Dong rolled his eyes and had a plan in mind.
In the following days, accompanied by Xing Yanen, the eunuch who oversaw the army, the eunuch Ai Dong visited the former Jiangnanxi, Zhejiang and Western Jiedushi Li Long, the former Huainan East Jiedushi Deng Jingshan and the Huaixi Jiedu, the initiator of Liu Zhan's rebellion.
Wang Zhongsheng, the envoy, and other officials from the feudal frontiers in the Jianghuai area.
Soon, the eunuch Ai Dong compiled the charges against Bai Fu, formed ten conclusive charges, and reported them to the court.
First, after Liu Zhan's rebellion was put down, the Jianghuai area should deal with the aftermath as soon as possible. The brave soldiers and cooks outside the establishment should be demobilized, the fields and houses occupied by the rebels should be returned, the displaced refugees should be compensated, and the merchants who had taken refuge in the chaos should be recruited...
When Bai Fu and other generals were dealing with the aftermath, they extorted wealthy merchants and disturbed the people under the pretext of hunting down the rebels. They showed no discipline and made the aftermath in the Jianghuai area increasingly chaotic.
Secondly, the relatives of the generals of the Tang Army who were originally from Jianghuai relied on the power of their brothers to blackmail the county guards, set up private courts, and ran rampant in the countryside for revenge, causing trouble for everyone.
Third, he angrily denounced all kinds of illegal activities in the Tang army, listing Bai Fu, Hu Yan Tieyi, Yuchi Hussar, Tang Kui, Yue Huzhu, Pei Pookong and other generals for condoning their soldiers to do whatever they wanted, saying that the Tang army's navy captured the city and captured the territory, but the imperial court gained very little.
The damage was huge. Liu Zhan was defeated this time simply because the rebels were unpopular and their strength was exhausted. It was not the result of war.
Fourth, among the generals of the Tang Navy, such as Ding Jiuqu, Sheng Hailiu, and the Ruan brothers, the green forest bandits and local gangsters who were already gathering in the mountains and forests took advantage of the opportunity to steal high military and political positions. This was not a blessing to the imperial court, but an unforeseen disaster.
.Even if these green forest tycoons who are recruited for peace surrender to the imperial court, they should only be given humble positions and cannot be entrusted with important responsibilities...
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At the end of the memorial, the eunuch Ai Dong petitioned to remove Bai Fu and other generals from their posts, and to select capable ministers and officials from the court to come to Jianghuai to deal with the aftermath;
He requested the imperial court to severely punish the evil gentry in the Jianghuai River and to enforce discipline in the countryside, so that his relatives could serve as senior generals in the Tang army;
The memorial asked Ding Jiuqu, Sheng Hailiu, Ruan brothers and other generals from Green Forest to be demoted to use in order to see the effect.
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When the eunuch Ai Dong's memorial was delivered to the capital, the government and the public were shocked.
The generals of the Tang army who were far away in Jianghuai soon learned the contents of the report, and the three armies were in an uproar...:
"So, we are not the heroes but the culprits?!"
"Is Liu Zhan a rebel, or are we the rebels?!"
"I, Mr. Ge, need to clear up your side!"
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Suddenly, the military camps in the Jianghuai area were full of hostility, the wind was roaring, and the trees and grass were filled with soldiers.