Hoan Kiem Lake is the most famous of the many large and small lakes in Thang Long City. It is located in the central area of the city. It is a long and narrow oval from north to south, covering an area of about 180 acres. It is not small, but in
Thang Long City is not that big, and there are some lakes bigger than Hoan Kiem Lake.
This place was originally a tributary of the Er River. In the past, there was a waterway connected to the Red River not far to the east. Later, it was cut off by a river embankment and became a lake. It became famous in later generations and is the number one scenic spot in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.
Since it can become the first scenic spot, it is naturally beautiful. The lakeshore is surrounded by green trees and dense shade. The lake is as clear as a mirror, elegant and quiet.
However, at this time, Hoan Kiem Lake was still relatively "original". Although there were some pavilions and waterside pavilions, they were not well managed and seemed a bit desolate, which made Gao Pangshi feel that it was not worthy of its famous name in later generations.
Of course, the reputation of Hoan Kiem Lake in later generations is also related to the legend. What makes Gao pragmatic even more interesting is that the word "Huan Kiem" in "Hoan Kiem Lake" is exactly related to a man who is closely related to the Ming Dynasty.
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It is said that in the 16th year of Yongle, on the eve of the Lanshan Rebellion, Li Li, the later Taizu of the Later Li Dynasty, accidentally got a sword body with the word "Shun Tian" engraved on it. Later, he picked up a sword hilt, which had a special meaning when put together.
strength.
Annan folklore says that Le Loi, the hero of Annam, used this sword to defeat "seven million Ming troops" and later became king and established the Later Le Dynasty.
Ten years later, one day when Le Loi was on a boat at Green Thuy Lake - Green Thuy Lake was the former name of Hoan Kiem Lake - he suddenly saw a golden turtle emerging from the water, swimming to the side of the boat, and said to Le Taizu: "The enemy is the enemy."
The army has been defeated, please return my sword to me." As soon as he finished speaking, the sword on Li Taizu's waist suddenly shook and fell into the beetle's mouth, and the beetle then dived to the bottom of the lake with the sword in his mouth.
Li Taizu and his ministers were very surprised. They thought it was a god appearing, so they called the golden turtle the divine golden turtle (turtle: you are crazy!). In order to express their respect for the golden turtle, Green Water Lake was changed to Hoan Kiem Lake. Later it was said that
The sword was returned by the immortal and inserted into the lake. The handle of the sword was left on the water, forming a small pagoda in the center of the lake.
Now, Gao Pingshi has confirmed the nonsense of this story - there is no dilapidated little tower in later generations on the small island in the center of Hoan Kiem Lake.
This island, which was very famous in later generations, is now just a small desert island with an area of only a few dozen square meters. There is nothing to see except weeds. However, the big island in the lake to the north is interesting. I heard that it was Mo Dunrang who didn’t know how to do it.
During the war, King Ying sent people to build some pavilions and waterside pavilions, so that he could barely rest.
Therefore, Gao pragmatically placed the meeting with the prince and princess of the Nanzhang Kingdom here.
Gao Pingshi, who was wearing a red silk flying fish suit, stepped across the redwood bridge from the shore to the island. Two young men, a man and a woman, had been waiting at the pavilion in the middle of the lake for a long time.
The two young men were dressed in the same clothes as Ming Dynasty. When they saw Gao pragmatic coming, they immediately stepped forward and bowed.
"The eldest daughter Biajue and the eldest son Nuojiao Gumeng, the Xuanwei envoy of the Lao Military and Civilian Propaganda Department, Setha Thila, visited the Guangxi patrol censor of the Great Ming Dynasty and asked for the true Duke. I hope that the Lord Gao will be protected by ten thousand Buddhas."
Ten thousand Buddhas protect you? Is this an auspicious saying from Nanzhang Kingdom?
But it doesn’t matter. Although Gao Pragmatic does not believe in Buddhism, some Buddhist words are quite philosophical, and Gao Pragmatic does not reject them.
He casually returned a half salute and said with a smile: "You two have come a long way and it's been hard work. I was busy with my duties in the past few days, so I've been a bit neglectful to you. I hope I'll forgive you."
The two "princess" and "prince", who were both a bit swarthy, even said some polite words, but their Chinese was not only a bit awkward, but also had a heavy Yunnan dialect accent. Gao Jingshi only listened.
I don't understand half of it.
Gao pragmatic introduced them to the two people behind him: "These two are Annan's right-hand men, Tusi Cen and Tusi Huang. From now on... you may have to deal with each other, so you might as well get acquainted."
The black prince who was about fifteen or sixteen years old seemed not to be good at words. He just bowed honestly. The black princess Bia Jue, who was about twenty-something, said a few more words that roughly meant "please give me some advice", which was almost polite.
talk.
Seeing her following what he just said, Gao Pingshi called Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting "Cen Tusi" and "Huang Tusi" and couldn't help laughing: "I'm afraid no one will mention these two titles in Annan in the future. Otherwise, you guys
Call them their new positions in the Annan Capital Division - Cen Ling, the garrison envoy to the west of Beijing, and Huang Zhiting, the garrison envoy to the east of Haidong."
The titles of the Annan people, those in the past, have been abandoned in name. The previous official positions such as King Ying, King Dunhou, etc. have also been abandoned in name. Such things as left and right are definitely not allowed -
—You are all members of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty allows you to have your own way, you can't go too far, right?
In the past, the Ming Dynasty refused to interfere, and you could just mess around. Now you can't continue messing around, so Annan's official positions have been demoted almost once. However, after all, they are "used to being independent", and the court does allow them to do it themselves.
It has its own set of rules, so this time it basically established a new system imitating the Ming Dynasty, but the name was a little lower-key.
However, the Jingxi Town Guardian Envoy and the Haidong Town Guardian Envoy are two newly established official positions, which are purely tailor-made for Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting. They are determined within Annan as "second only to the Governor of the Capital and the Governor of Tongzhi."
", compared to the Ming Dynasty, it is roughly equal to the military preparation.
However, except for Thang Long City and Haiyang Xuanfu Division, which were named and occupied by Gao Pangshi himself and written into the "Sixteen Points of Beijing", the rest of the areas in northern Annam were occupied by them respectively. Therefore, these two "military preparations"
The real power of "Tao" can be said to be quite huge.
However, the actual strength of the two of them in Annan is not strong. Each has only 20,000 people, and they are not all direct relatives. Therefore, whether it is "Western Beijing" or "Haidong", there are new highly pragmatic reorganizations.
The troops stationed here can be regarded as supporting them.
The arrangement of Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan's troops is also quite interesting - they are all transferred away from Thang Long City, Mo Yulin's troops are transferred to defend Anh Du Prefecture, and Ruan Juan is transferred to defend Hue Prefecture, and the name of the transfer is even more interesting, it is "Ni'an, Hue"
Newly attached, at the request of the Jinghua Group, the Metropolitan Government has temporarily dispatched troops to clear out and guard the city."
But with the troops Gao Pragmatic has on hand, it is obviously enough to guard the south. Why do they need their help?
The main reason for doing this is simply that Gao Pragmatic was quite satisfied with the performance of Mo Maoqia's lackeys, so he temporarily transferred the two of them away so that Mo Maoqia could be a dog with peace of mind. If you are not worried, since they are just Ying Jinghua Group
Those who are invited to be temporarily transferred to the south can naturally return to the north at any time.
In fact, according to Gao Pragmatic's plan, Mo Yulin's department was used to threaten Mo Maoqia, while Ruan Juan's department actually existed to check and balance Mo Yulin.
In name, the three people with different strengths are an interlocking chain of mutual restraints set up by Gao Pragmatism. As long as Jinghua is slightly biased, it can affect the entire "chain".
It's subtle, but a little complicated, but... it's very pragmatic.
"Cen Shijun, Huang Shijun." Biajue then met Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting again. However, her understanding of Chinese culture was still problematic. Although "Guardian Envoy" contained the word "Shi",
But it's actually wrong to use the title "lord".
Fortunately, everyone knew each other's identity and were relatively tolerant of it. No explanation was given, but the two sides just greeted each other again.
Hoan Kiem Lake is already Gao Pragmatic's private residence - although the "residence" still only exists in the planning, and Annan's Dutong Division is still arranging to mobilize craftsmen and prepare building materials, but after all, this place has become Gao Pragmatic's territory in a legitimate manner, so he
Then he behaved like a host and asked everyone to sit down accordingly.
"Master Dao, Miss Dao, you two came to see me. I heard that it was because Laos was bullied by Myanmar, resulting in a disorder of dignity?"
The Lao Xuanweisi of the Ming Dynasty, the actual line of kings of the Nanzhang Kingdom, can be traced back as far as Piluoge, the king of Nanzhao during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of the Tang Dynasty.
Pilao Kok was called Khun Bolong by the Laotians. Chung Sai's "History of Laos" says that Pilao Ko "left seven sons, all of whom were sent to rule several areas of the empire. As we all know, Khun Lok was sent to rule
Nanzhang, namely Luang Prabang, became the founder of that dynasty, which has ruled until now. Other brothers were sent to rule Yunnan, Annam, Lanna, Ayutthaya, Khammon (now called Thaqu) and Sichuan Kuai."
No one knows whether this is the case, but the Ming Dynasty did identify it according to this genealogy, and based on the customary translation of the Han people, it gave the surname "Dao" to a series of monarchs of the Nanzhang Kingdom - which is Mr. Jin Yong's "Dragon and the Eight"
In "Part", the "sword" used by Duan Yu's mother to knife Baifeng.
"Disorder of superiority and inferiority" is a polite way of saying it. The throne of Nanzhang Kingdom was first usurped by the prime minister, and then was emptied out by the newly established monarch of Myanmar, Mang Yinglong. This is not what "disorder of superiority and inferiority" is. It is purely
"Losing the country".
However, the Ming Dynasty only treated the Nanzhang Kingdom as the Lao Xuanwei Division. Gao Pragmatic could not just describe them as one country - as an official with high political awareness, of course he had to "maintain a high degree of consistency with the central government", so
So I could only vaguely say "disorder of dignity".
Fortunately, the two siblings, who had lost their country for ten years, had recently learned a lot about Han culture because they were begging for the Ming Dynasty. In addition, they had received a certain amount of Chinese education when they were young, so they could barely understand the meaning of Gao pragmatism.
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The princess of Nanzhang Kingdom, Biya Jue, clasped her hands together, bent down and saluted, and said: "Yes, Duke Gao, after our father died in the battle, not long after Prime Minister Sensurin usurped the throne, he was attacked several times by the White Elephant King of Burma.
Later he died, and the White Elephant King made Wu Balu, our sister and brother's uncle, his puppet... We complained to Yunnan, but Yunnan ignored them, so I had no choice but to raise an army. The progress was going smoothly, but after hearing the news,
The White Elephant King was defeated, and now we, my siblings, have no place to go, so we can only come to you to beg you, Gao Gong... I heard that you are a great scholar in this world, so you will surely uphold justice for us, right?"
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