Chapter 719 Flowers bloom on the other side of the river (End)
In autumn, the leaves gradually begin to turn yellow.
In the ninth year of Tianhui, under the hard-working rule of the second emperor Wu Qimai, the Jin Kingdom's national power was booming, and it ruled the world as the most powerful country in the world.
Datong, Xijing, was the military center of the Jin Kingdom in the southwest at this time, and Wanyan Zonghan's marshal's palace was located here. To a certain extent, it was almost a stronghold that could compete with the north.
However, although Wanyan Zonghan had a high status and was extremely powerful in the Jin Kingdom, after the death of Wanyan Zongwang, the former second prince of the Jin Kingdom, it was difficult for anyone among Aguda's legitimate sons to compete with him head-on, and there were often rumors from the outside world about him from the northern and southern courts.
However, there was not much major friction between the Jurchen court and the Marshal's Mansion. The reason was that there were still many Jurchen founding ministers in the court to keep the scene under control.
In particular, Wanyan Wu Qimai, the emperor who once stood out under Aguda but tempered his temper after he succeeded to the throne, becoming gentle internally and powerful externally, is still the brightest among all the stars at this time. This emperor
The emperor who could defeat a hundred on the battlefield and fight against tigers and bears was actually honest and kind in front of his own people. When he took over the throne, he was dragged down by a group of powerful ministers and beaten twenty times because of secretly drinking wine. He never resisted.
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After taking the throne, although the Jurchen army continued to conquer the south, the Jurchen domestic governance was actually stable and peaceful. On the one hand, Wu Qimai encouraged mulberry farming, on the other hand, he reformed the domestic system and made many efforts to eliminate slavery and improve the economic system.
During the third war, he had begun to implement the slave redemption system in the country, which protected the lives of slaves to a certain extent, and began to implement policies to suppress land annexation. Although the external war was fierce and harsh, the golden age during this period
The territory of the country indeed seemed peaceful and peaceful. As the lord of defense, Wu Qimai was worthy of his position as emperor.
With him in charge, the Jurchens seemed to move forward steadily. Even though they were as unruly as Zong Han, they still had enough respect and awe for them.
However, in the years since the country was pacified, there have indeed been many brilliant Jurchen heroes who have fallen one after another in the constant conquests.
The former Jurchen military god, the second prince Zong Wang, died of illness during the third Jurchen war.
The God of War Wanyan Loushi died in the battle of conquering the northwest four years ago.
In the eighth year of Tianhui, he met Banbo Jilie (the crown prince in the Jurchen Bojilie system), who was also Aguda. Wu Qimai's biological brother Wanyan Xie also died of illness. Xie was also among the people, although he was not as famous as Zonghan.
, Lou Shi has such outstanding military exploits that he is almost victorious in every battle. However, with his steady character, he is also a well-known general with a high status. In the first two military campaigns of the Jin Kingdom, although Zong Han and Zong Wang were each the marshal of an army,
In fact, it was Xie Ye who held the title of commander-in-chief. If he had not died, he would have been the next emperor of the Jin Kingdom.
In the same year, General Cibu was defeated in the battle of Yanzhou in the northwest, and was captured and beheaded after falling into a treacherous trick.
Generals died in hundreds of battles, and strong men returned after ten years. The death of each star did not stop the Jurchens' march forward. On the northern line of the Mongolian grassland, Shu Lie led thousands of cavalry to fight against the rising Mongolian tribes. The battle was slightly frustrated.
The troops participating in the expedition returned triumphantly from the south.
They entered from the south gate and presented their trophies to the generals. However, this time the army returned and brought back not much trophies. After all, its scale was not as large as that of Fawu. However, it held back the Jurchens for four consecutive years.
The pace of the campaign, and the Battle of the Northwest, in which the Jurchens lost two famous generals, indeed attracted the attention of many interested people.
The rebellious people who killed the king in the south, the demons in the northwest, and the powerful black flag army were finally crushed by the Jurchens' iron-blooded conquests.
A worn-out blood-stained military flag was presented as a trophy by the Jurchen army in front of Zong Han's throne. The generals of the Marshal's Mansion announced the fact that the Ning bandits had been beheaded by the formation and the entire Black Flag Army had been annihilated. As a result, rumors spread in the nearby streets and squares.
There were cheers. Regarding that army, the Jurchens in the Jin Kingdom who knew the inside story had a rather complicated attitude. On the one hand, the Lou family of the Jin Kingdom did not lose two generals and died in the northwest. Some people were willing to admit his power.
On the other hand, some Jurchens believed that such results showed that the Jin Kingdom had problems and was no longer as invincible as before. Of course, any view was temporarily diluted after the destruction of the Black Flag Army.
Chen Wenjun watched the return of the army in the crowd for a while. The city was bustling with excitement. Back at the mansion, Xiyin was practicing calligraphy in the study. When he saw her coming, he put down his pen and smiled: "Are you going to see Hui Shi? It's a bit boring."
Chen Wenjun shook his head and looked at the most conspicuous place in the study. Xiyin's study was mostly filled with calligraphy and painting relics from famous artists from the south. The one hanging in the center was already a painting that could not be called a famous artist.
word.
The king and his ministers are willing to bend their knees, but a son alone is sad.
The affairs of Xichuan are gone, the King of the North is so majestic.
He sacrificed his body to repay his heroic ancestors, scratched his head and cried to the sky.
If you are still here, who is Yunhan is dead!
This calligraphy written by Ning Yi was hung in the study room after Xi Yin returned from the north. It was hung in the corner at first. Since the beginning of the Northwest War, it has been constantly changing places. After the battle, Xi Yin once took the throne.
I had lowered it before, but then it was still hanging in the center. Today, it was finally moved to the center.
"The ruthless people are here, who is dead..." Chen Wenjun looked up at this word and read it softly. She had seen this word in the past, but when she read it again now, the complexity in her heart could no longer be explained to outsiders.
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Xiyin came closer: "Yes, Lin Lin is here... Ning Liheng was a good friend of Qin Siyuan before the regicide of the Wu Dynasty. I look back on the events of that year. The origins of Confucianism between Qin Siyuan in the Wu Dynasty and the death of Qin's eldest son
In Taiyuan, Qin Siyuan died at the hands of a traitor after being sent away. The second son of the Qin family started an uprising with Ning Liheng. The past three years in the northwest have been worthy of this sentence. I underestimated him. Unfortunately, I could not fight with him.
Let’s talk about it while we are still alive.”
Xiyin sighed slightly, and Chen Wenjun could understand more of the deeper meaning of his words. In the three years in the northwest, it was Xiyin's idea to keep the Jurchens behind and the Puppet Qi army in front. The reason was that the Jurchens were unable to do so due to the powerful black flag weapons.
After finding a good method of restraint, they first used the Puppet Qi army as the vanguard to test the artillery. The Jin Kingdom also continued to follow the war to improve the artillery.
Unexpectedly, the war dragged on and the war almost went on forever. Last year, Xiyin was beheaded at the top of Yanzhou City, and Xiyin felt extremely guilty. After that, the Jurchen army intensified its offensive. Now, although it has mastered artillery technology, it has also produced
However, Xi Yin always felt that he had his share of responsibility for the manpower and material resources invested in the Jurchen's death and the Jurchen's death in the past three years.
Chen Wenjun was silent for a moment, tilted his head and said, "I heard someone say that Ning Yi was full of tricks, and he might have cheated his way out this time. Have you seen his head?"
There was no emotion on her face. Xiyin looked at her and then smiled with a complex expression: "Some people do think so. In fact, the human head is not enough. Things chopped off on the battlefield can be recognized.
It's not difficult to fake it if it's sent over. Fan Hongji, who has been in contact with him, said that it is indeed Ning Yi's head, but there are mistakes."
He shook his head, looked at the words in front of him, and sighed: "Retreating troops from the court is not such a superficial matter. In fact, the Black Flag Army is not dead..."
Xi Yin paused for a moment when she said this, and saw a glimmer of light flashing in Chen Wenjun's eyes. She was worried about the Southern Dynasty and sympathized with the Black Flag Army. Xi Yin knew that, and Chen Wenjun didn't shy away from it, so he looked at her and smiled.
Laughing: "The battle in the northwest was extremely chaotic, and Liu Yu was incompetent to kill. Many things can only be understood now. Some of the Black Flag Army escaped from the northwest, and they even did more powerful things. We are all now
Still investigating. The remnants of the Black Flag Army have now turned to the southwest, and Ning Yi's golden cicada's escape may have been planned originally, but there are always surprises."
"What?" Chen Wenjun turned around.
"The battlefield is changing rapidly. He led the army to and from the dead several times. It is very possible that... the fake death turned into a real death, just like Lou Shi, who suddenly encountered an accident and no one expected it." Wanyan Xiyin said this
He looked at the matter with complicated eyes and sighed: "He can't be found within the Black Flag Army now... If I hadn't confirmed this matter, how could I have allowed him to withdraw even if there was a battle on the northern front. Once he died, the Black Flag Army would keep its troops.
A million is just a thought, just go away..."
Chen Wenjun was stunned for a moment, but only after this moment, he smiled bitterly.
"Then... what is the more powerful thing that the master said?"
"It was also my mistake. If Ning Liheng is still alive, there will be some trouble, but... if he dies, let Liu Yu and the others in the south have a headache. This is the news that I only learned recently..."
Xiyin looked at the words again and chatted casually with his wife...
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To the south, news about the destruction of the Black Flag Army and the beheading of the regicide rebel Ning Liheng is gradually spreading throughout the world.
In the Central Plains, although the war has stopped, the fruits of that war in this land are still too bitter to swallow.
Some information gradually appeared after the chaos of the war. After being known by some people, the situation became even more chaotic.
In the Daming Palace Palace, in the autumn after the war, Liu Yu began to become suspicious and panicked all day long. In the past few days, he had killed more than ten palace guards in a row.
Rumors coming from the bottom are spreading and expanding among people's mouths and ears.
According to legend, during the three-year Northwest War, the Black Flag Army forced many prisoners to surrender during the battle. And this forced surrender was not just a simple surrender. There are rumors that before the Northwest War began,
, after the Black Flag Army killed Lou Shi, the demon Ning Yi was already actively planning. He sent a large number of Black Flag soldiers scattered throughout the Central Plains, wherever crowds gathered.
When the Northwest War began, the Jurchens forced Daqi to send troops, and Liu Yu's forced conscription began in these places. At this time, the Central Plains had been baptized by three wars, and the original order had long been chaotic. Officials could no longer judge who was a good citizen and who was a good citizen based on their household registration.
In this forced conquest of the local people, almost all the black flag soldiers have infiltrated into Da Qi's army.
They are soldiers to begin with, and they naturally perform well in the army and get promoted easily. These people connect with the people around them and choose those who are strong and whose thoughts are inclined to the Black Flag Army to fight against the Black Flag Army on the battlefield.
The army surrendered, and in every battle, it passed information to the Black Flag Army. In that battle, a large number of people disappeared silently into the battlefield, becoming the nourishment for the Black Flag Army to grow.
This is not the scariest thing.
The most frightening thing is that there are still many people lurking in Daqi's army today. Some of them have become high-level generals, some are still developing members of the Black Flag Army, and some may even have been promoted.
He became Liu Yu's palace guard.
These days, every soldier Liu Yu sees looks like a lurking Black Flag member.
After several days, his spirit became weak.
The night wind was blowing, rolling up the leaves, and there seemed to be water dripping under the eaves.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock... a thin and broken sound.
Liu Yu woke up from his sleep with a cold sweat on his back. He thought he saw a dark shadow beside the bed, and then... there was really a dark shadow beside the bed.
The man in black came over and clamped his mouth tightly with one hand like an iron hoop. His eyes were looking at him, face to face.
"emperor……"
When the voice sounded, the man took out a dagger, put it on his neck, made a gesture, and started to point the tip of the dagger at his eyes, and slowly pierced it.
"...Kill another emperor..."
Liu Yu struggled, but the strength in that hand was still increasing. His cheek bones were rattling, and there was a damp and hot feeling under the quilt. He was so frightened that he became incontinent and closed his eyes tightly.
The hand clamped around his mouth suddenly let go, and then hit it hard, and Liu Yu fainted.
When he woke up the next morning, the red mark on Liu Yu's face had not faded, and huge chaos had already occurred in the palace.
Rumors about inner demons and black flags are spreading among the people...
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The impact is still continuing. In Jiangnan, the news of Ning Yi's death and the destruction of the Black Flag Army has been spread through people's mouths. Except for a few scholars who began to pay homage to the dead Zhou Zhe and lamented "bringing order to order", this time, the voices of civil discussions
, seems quiet.
In the southern suburbs of Jiangning City, a large area of courtyards was built among the hills with beautiful mountains and rivers. There were also troops from the Wu Lie Camp stationed nearby. This area is now the villa of Prince Junwu studying the research of objects. There are a large number of elm cannons and iron cannons.
Today, it was created from here, and troops are distributed everywhere. The prince himself often sits here.
At the end of autumn, a man with a severed hand knocked on the wooden door of a courtyard. This man was tall and steady, with several scars on his face. He looked like a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time. After giving some secret codes,
, the person who came out to receive him was Lu Agui, now the chief steward of the Prince's Mansion. What this veteran brought back was news about Xiaocang River and the three-year war in the northwest. He was an internal agent Lu Agui personally placed in the Xiaocang River army.
This man's name was Lin Guanglie. He had been in Xiaocanghe for several years. He joined the Black Flag Army and fought bravely. He was once promoted to the side of the rebel Ning Liheng. He was captured in the last few chaotic battles in the northwest and was severely punished.
He was tortured inhumanely, and while in custody, he escaped from prison with several Black Flag Army soldiers, cut off his own arm with his own hands, and narrowly escaped death. At this time, he went south to report the news.
Naturally, he was treated like a hero. After hearing relatively important information, Lu Agui settled him down and at the same time sent someone to inform the prince who was still in the capital at this time.
Lin Guanglie was arranged in the best house and received the best treatment. On this day, Lin Guanglie went out to Jiangning for shopping. He got rid of the two guards assigned to protect him and walked along the path after leaving the city.
From a distance, I saw Lu Agui and a group of soldiers waiting in front.
Lu Agui's eyes were puzzled. The person in front of him was a person he carefully selected. He had strong martial arts skills and a loyal character. His mother was still in the south, and he even saved his life... On the mountain road that day, Lin Guanglie knelt down and kowtowed to him.
He apologized, and then told him about his last things in the northwest.
During the three-year war in the northwest, enemies continued to come. Even though Ning Yi had made many arrangements to withstand it, the battle was still extremely brutal. In the last year, the Jurchens' offensive intensified, and everyone ran here and there. Ning Yi led
The Zhili troops also joined the battle, and Lin Guanglie was already a member of this team at that time.
The sword has no eyes on the battlefield. Although everyone protects him, Ning Yi has also been injured several times. In a desperate environment, he fought with everyone and once said that he might one day be Wanyan Lou.
During those times, Ning Yi liked to talk to people, and he did not shy away from many of his thoughts. When it came to his views on war and the world, not everyone might understand them, but over time, they understood
What kind of heart is that.
"...The battle in which I...was captured was one of the last battles that took place. The day before the battle started, I remember that the weather was very hot and we all hid in the mountains. When it was getting dark, we sat on the edge of the mountain.
Enjoy the cool air. I remember that the sun was as red as blood. Mr. Ning came back from visiting the wounded and told us that so and so was dead..." When Lin Guanglie said this, he had already stood up. "He sat with us for a while, and what he said later was,
I will remember it all my life..."
"He said... I have been nagging you all day long, and some people have said to my face that they are annoying me to death. I know... He said, in fact, I am a person who is afraid of death. I don't want to die or feel pain.
It feels good... He said, I don't want to talk about why we have to die and feel pain today, but I feel honored to be able to fight with you and rush forward together, because you are human beings and have noble and noble things.
It’s not some random rubbish. You have done your best for the best thing... So, if something happens one day, I really don’t think it was in vain..."
The man stood there with tears in his eyes.
"I was caught by them. Not long after, they said that Mr. Ning was dead. Because of this, I was not killed. That night I broke my hand, killed three people, and rushed out with everyone. I didn't know Ning
Is the gentleman really dead? But when he said those words, I really felt that I was a person who was not inferior to anyone, not even to the emperor..."
"Presumptuous!" Lu Agui's eyes turned cold when he heard the other party say this, and he shouted out. A group of soldiers around him drew their swords at the same time. For a moment, the mountain road was filled with fierce sword light. Lin Guanglie took a breath and used his remaining right hand.
Pull out the steel knife from your waist.
"Manager Lu, I accept your saving my life and I respect you. I cut off my hand and just thought that even before I die, I want to give this life back to you. I brought you the news about Xiaocanghe. Xiao Canghe
Cang He is upright and there is nothing he cannot say to others! But I have finished telling the news, Mr. Lu, I want to send this life back to the Chinese Army. If you want to stop me, you can keep my life today. But there is something,
Let me make it clear to everyone, after three years of fighting in battle, I only have one hand left, and I can still kill people, so be careful."
He lowered his figure slightly, stood sideways, and narrowed his eyes. There was only one person at this distance. If he rushed out, he would probably be shot dead on the spot. But even so, at this moment, he did not give people any sense of oppression.
Lower, this is the tiger returning from the hell in the northwest.
Lu Agui was silent for a moment: "If... Ning Liheng is really dead, what's the point of going back?"
"Mr. Ning told us what he said..." Lin Guanglie said, "If he really dies, the Chinese Army will pass him down. Manager Lu, you can't save this world."
The autumn leaves were turning yellow and falling from the trees in the wind. In the sky, the wild geese flying south formed a row. During the confrontation between the two sides on the mountain road, Lu Agui raised his head and sighed silently.
This was also the hometown of that scholar.
Now that the swan geese have returned, many people will never come back. Either they are not here, or their hearts are not here...
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Dali, in the southwest, is a quiet and peaceful country where Buddhism flourishes.
Duan Xiaoqing, the daughter of Duan Baosheng, the Marquis of Lianyi, is thirteen years old this year. Although she has not yet reached the age of hairpins, Duan Xiaoqing has been familiar with poetry and calligraphy since she was a child. She has studied female red and melodies. She has become a famous talented woman in Dali City at a young age. This is
In the past two years, people who have come to propose marriage have crossed the threshold of the Hou Mansion, making the Hou Mansion very proud.
Duan Baosheng has always been very proud to have such a good daughter, but of course he also knows that the main reason why his daughter is so eye-catching is not only that her daughter has been beautiful since she was a child, but also mainly because of the man who found her a few years ago.
Female gentleman, this female laywoman named Wang Jingmei is not only knowledgeable, proficient in nühong and music, but most importantly, she is well versed in Buddhism. After being introduced by Master Jingxin of Tianlong Temple, she finally joined the Hou Mansion to teach. Regarding this matter, Duan Baosheng
Always grateful.
Duan Baosheng always had admiration for this female layman who was outstanding in appearance, temperament, and knowledge. He once thought about making her a concubine in the Hou Mansion and proposed marriage to others. However, she declined politely, so there was no choice.
There is a solution. Buddhism is flourishing in Dali. Although Duan Baosheng likes the other party, he does not insist on marrying him by force. In order to favor the other party, he has always maintained a sense of proportion. In the past few years, except for the occasional meeting when the other party was teaching his daughter,
During the rest of the time, Duan Baosheng didn't meet much with the layman Wang.
In the past few years, the external situation has been turbulent. The Wu Dynasty was suddenly knocked down from its original stronghold. Fighting continued in the Central Plains and the northwest, and Dali gradually became tense. On this day, Duan Baosheng sent away a man from the courtyard where he received guests.
Guests met Wang Jingmei walking in the garden with her daughter on the way.
He paid attention to the beautiful woman in his eyes, slowed down his steps, and was still talking. The layman Wang never looked here, Duan Baosheng just looked at her profile. At a certain moment, she turned her head and looked this way, and Duan Baosheng saw her.
His face was completely pale.
What happened...
Duan Baosheng didn't understand.
On this day, the woman who used to be named Li Shishi but now goes by the pseudonym Wang Jingmei heard the news of Ning Yi's death in a corner of the southwest.
Before that, the army in the small valley where she once lived faced the ferocious Jurchens, held them back, and fought a big battle for three years...
She once thought that this battle would go on endlessly, and even then, the pain would not come as overwhelming as it did at the moment.
Many things suddenly came to mind. That figure, a simple fragment of her childhood, that reunion in Jiangning, she had always been full of misunderstandings about him. That man killed tens of thousands of people in Liangshan, during the disaster relief.
Chasing profits and manipulating human nature, when the Jurchens came, he resisted outside the city. When the Right Prime Minister's Mansion fell, he kept running. He killed the emperor and took her captive to the mountains in the northwest to let her sort out the texts.
At a certain moment, she thought of him and remembered that she once liked him. However, after killing the emperor, she could no longer like him. He would not deliberately give in to their arguments. Then, she went to Tiannan, and he blocked Tianbei.
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Such a tough, stubborn and unyielding person, she almost... almost forgot about him...
On this day, Duan Xiaoqing saw her intellectual and beautiful female gentleman losing her composure for some reason. She hid in a small room on the side of her boudoir and cried for a long time...
The next day, Wang Jingmei resigned from Duan Baosheng.
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The geese returning south flew across the sky of Wu Dynasty.
In the Central Plains, Liu Yu's regime began to prepare to move the capital to Bianliang.
Yue Fei led his army towards the battlefield on the northern front. After defeating the two armies and recovering a prefecture and county, he was reprimanded by the capital. With the Black Flag Army gone, the Jurchens no longer had any obstacles to move south and could not
Let's start another provocation.
Prince Junwu returned to Jiangning and listened to Lu Agui finished talking about Lin Guanglie. He sighed slightly. Outside, another piece of iron cannon and gunpowder were shipped out of the workshop. The improvement of various firearms was in full swing.
To the south, Li Shishi cut off his hair, left Dali, and began his journey north.
Lin Guanglie walked on the road to the west, just like his journey to the south, passing through the majestic and dangerous passes.
In Xixia, after the defeat at Xiaocanghe and the fall of the Chinese army, Li Qianshun began to reorganize the trade routes, preparing to flex his muscles in the beginning of spring. Then spring began...
The black iron cavalry roared like the wind. In a powerful and violent offensive, it trampled the vast plains of the Black Water of Xixia. Soon after, it set foot along the Helan Mountain. The beacon smoke was burning, and this was the beginning that no one knew.
Mongolia, Genghis Khan Temujin, stepped onto the huge stage.
At the southern end of Tubo, a not-so-powerful tribal settlement called Dayang has gradually developed and begun to look like a Han settlement. A force that once shocked the world is gathering here, waiting. Waiting for the opportunity.
Arrival, waiting for someone's return...
The peaks and ridges are like clusters, and the waves are like raging waves. The time for chasing deer has arrived. (To be continued.)