Jiujiang City, also known as Xunyang, is an ancient city with a history of more than 2,000 years. In the Song Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou. Yes, Jiangzhou Sima Bai Juyi was in charge here. One day, he was on the riverside outside Xunyang City.
While seeing off guests at the pier, I suddenly heard a boat girl playing the pipa, which was very touching. Then I called the girl over and chatted for a while. The singer's life experience was tragic, and Lao Bai's official career was bumpy, so he came up with the sentence: At the same time, the eyes of heaven have become human, so why meet again?
Famous sayings from time to time.
This ancient city has countless history and culture, but Chang Yu and his party, who had just arrived outside the city at midnight, were not in any mood to visit the past and present. They just wanted to take a bath and sleep easily.
As a prefectural city, Jiujiang City (Xunyang City) has nine gates and two east gates. The Panshi Gate is also called the Little East Gate, and the Big East Gate is called the Yingchunmen. Chang Yu came from the east to knock on the Dadong Gate.
"That should be the Suojiang Tower." Li Muxian raised his hand and pointed. In the dark night, he saw a tall tower on the river bank in the northeast of the city. The tower could not be seen clearly, but there was a light coming from high up.
Li Yan's blog notes: "This was built by Wu Xiu, the prefect of Jiujiang during the Wanli period. It is said that four iron bulls were cast to hold down the dragon in the river..." Just as he was talking, he was interrupted by Huang Degong: "Hey, can you two chat again tomorrow?
, hurry into the city."
It is not that easy to enter the city. The guards heard that they were from Dongchang and did not dare to let them into the city at will because Yuan Jixian issued a death order and the city was under martial law during the day, let alone in the middle of the night. However, the people from Dongchang had special status, so they
Go to the Yamen to report urgently.
Although the night was deep, Yuan Jixian had not yet fallen asleep. After hearing the news, he hurried to the head of Dadongmen City and saw hundreds of people below the city, holding torches to illuminate the surroundings. Several people dismounted in front of the city gate and were doing something.
Stretching exercises.
"Master Yuan, after checking the waistband, it turned out to be from Dongchang. But how could hundreds of people come to Dongchang at once? Could it be that the thieves or... ahem, picked up a Dongchang waistband to defraud the door..."
"My officer Yuan Jixian, I wonder who is in charge of the team below?" Yuan Jixian asked loudly at the top of the city. He is an old man in the officialdom. He knows that if there are hundreds of stories at once, then the leader is not an ordinary person.
When it comes to stalls, they have to be senior executives of Dongchang, such as waiters, foremen, housekeepers, etc. In fact, he just asked to test it out. There are more than a hundred stalls in Dongchang, but it is impossible for him to recognize them or even hear them.
It's impossible for him to have heard of it. There are more than 40 senior executives in charge, and he may not have heard of a few of them. However, it is almost impossible for executives like Mr. Ban to leave Beijing. If they are not from Dongchang,
, one's mouth will reveal the truth.
Chang Yu was doing stretching exercises at the gate of the city. He did not become angry because the guards on the city were not opening the door. Instead, he felt at ease. It seemed that Yuan Jixian was really reliable.
Suddenly hearing Yuan Jixian's question at the head of the city, he burst out laughing: "The governor sent someone to convey a few words to Mr. Yuan the day before yesterday. His visit late at night was abrupt."
Yuan Jixian reacted immediately and hurriedly asked someone to open the door. He hurried down to the city to greet him at the door. He was shocked when he saw the real person Chang Yu. He was rumored to be very young and was actually a weakling. However, his aura was so powerful that he swallowed up mountains and rivers and followed him.
The temperaments of the few people around me are also extraordinary. When I inquired about them, I would tell them that they are all big guys!
"Pengpi is brilliant!" This is the word Yuan Jixian said most often.
He was not very interested in Gao Jie and Huang Degong because they were both absolute roughnecks. As a standard civil servant, he rejected such generals from the bottom of his heart, but he had a good impression of Li Muchian, Li Yan and Chang Yu.
After everyone washed up, Huang Gao and Huang Gao went straight to sleep. Chang Yu, Li Yan and Li Muxian returned to the lobby to drink tea and discuss matters with Yuan Jixian. Chang Yu had nothing to hide from this loyal and patriotic old man, Chang Yu, and ordered him to
When Zuo Liangyu read the letter, he sent the grain and Zuo Mengeng to Jiujiang within five days.
Li Yan and Li Muxian also just learned about the little eunuch's tricks. When they heard the contents of the letter, they were all shocked and looked at each other in silence for a long time.
"Lord Governor, you are trying to force him to rebel!" Yuan Jixian gritted his teeth and sighed.
"So Mr. Yuan thinks he will rebel?" Chang Yu smiled slightly. Yuan Jixian felt that the young eunuch was indeed too young, or too arrogant and underestimated Zuo Liangyu: "He may not have rebelled originally, but the governor is so
With one move, he will rebel even if he doesn't."
"Not necessarily." Chang Yu chuckled: "If he wants to rebel, he should raise the flag when the governor and Bai Wang are fighting fiercely. Now that the governor has sent him to the city first, in front of Chen Bing's house, he has to carefully consider whether to drink from the court now.
Break your face!"
Yuan Jixian just sighed and said nothing. In his opinion, the young eunuch's move was too aggressive and would irritate Zuo Liangyu. He also knew that the imperial court was completely unable to start a war with Zuo Liangyu.
"How many days has Kuang Ren been away?" Li Yan suddenly asked.
Chang Yu glanced at Li Muchian: "It's been almost five days."
"In five days... I should be back. There should be news about success or failure. Nothing will happen, right?" Li Yan frowned, Li Muchian's face became solemn, Chang Yu still looked calm: "If
If Zuo Liangyu wants to rebel, Kuang Ren and the others are already dead regardless of whether Zuo Liangyu is dead or not. But if Zuo Liangyu doesn't want to rebel, he is more afraid of something happening to Kuang Ren than anyone else, because as long as something happens to Kuang Ren, he
You can’t escape the relationship.”
After saying that, Chang Yu stood up and stretched: "Everything may be revealed tomorrow. I'm going to rest first if I'm tired. You can do whatever you want."
Yuan Jixian quickly stood up to see them off, and then talked with Li Yan and Li Muchian before returning to the room, but he couldn't fall asleep. In his opinion, Zuo Liangyu was in trouble, and he really had no words to talk about.
Not strong. Legend has it that this little eunuch is both wise and brave. How come...
The more I thought about it, the more frightened and uneasy I became. I didn't go to bed until dawn. As a result, I woke up at three o'clock in the morning. I hurriedly got up to see Chang Yu, only to be told that he had gone out early in the morning.
Where did it go?
There are so many places to go in Jiujiang.
Suojiang Tower in the northeast of the city, Bai Juyi's Pipa Pavilion outside Wangjing Gate (Jiuhua Gate, west gate of Jiujiang City), Yanshui Pavilion (Zhou Yu's Dianjiang Terrace) in Gantang Lake, Yue Fei's Pavilion outside Fuxing Gate (Yue Shimen)
The old Kwun Tong where sailors trained, and the Longevity Pill Stele left by Lu Dongbin when he was the county magistrate. Li Muxian felt closer to him holding the stone stele than seeing his father. Of course, there is also the famous Western Han Dynasty general Guan Ying who built it in Langjing Lane, Beicheng when he was stationed in the army.
The well where you can hear the waves.
Under the guidance of the tour guide's yamen boy, Chang Yu and the others walked through the streets, sometimes riding horses and sometimes going boating, feeling nostalgic about the past and worrying about the present. It was almost noon and they had wandered to Suojiang Tower on the bank of the Northeast River in the city.
The tower is located on Huilongji, a place on the riverside. The river bank protrudes more than 30 meters above the river surface. The river turns into a whirlpool and the current is very fast. Ships often get into trouble here, so they built the tower to suppress monsters. The tower is 35 meters high.
The seven-story building is built with green bricks and has a stone vaulted roof. There is an original wooden ladder in the tower. You can climb to the top along the ladder plate and look around. You can see the distant mountains in the north, the elegance of the ancient city in the south, and the beautiful blue sky in the sky.
The blue river is sparkling, just as the couplet hanging below says: "The waves of Baidi are shining around the shore, and the colors of Huangmei Mountain are coming across the river."
Everyone climbed up and looked into the distance. They saw the white clouds in the sky and the rushing river below. They looked very heroic. Gao Jie cursed: "Isn't there four big iron oxen? Why are there only two left? Could it be that they were eaten by the dragon?"
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The yamen boy was also interesting: "It's true that on August 7, the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, Jiujiang earth dragon turned over, and his Suojiang Tower and two iron oxen fell into the river. Only this tower and two iron oxen were left intact.
No shortage of……"
Gao Jie said: "Then this tower is really strong...but the magistrate is just fooling around and using cows to suppress the dragon. Who knows what is the purpose of suppressing the dragon? Feed it, I think sooner or later the two cows will also be eaten by the dragon."
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"You know what? The use of iron oxen to control water was passed down from the ancestors. It started with Dayu's water control. I heard that there are iron oxen beside the Yellow River. Haven't you seen it when you went to Puzhou..." Huang Degong said the most
I fell in love with Gao Jie, and as expected, the two of them started to quarrel again.
However, Chang Yu was secretly shocked that Gao Jie was right. The Suojiang Tower and Suojiang Tower were built in the thirteenth year of Wanli. Eleven years later, there was an earthquake and the Suojiang Tower and the two iron bulls fell into the river.
Qianlong and Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty rebuilt it, but in the third year of Xianfeng and the war between the Taiping Army, the tower collapsed again and two cows fell into the river. However, the tower remained fine and strong. Even after the Japanese came, the tower collapsed.
I fired three shots at the tower, but it didn't fall!
When people climb to the top of the tower, they can see the whole city of Jiujiang and the river for dozens of miles. Although Jiujiang is closed these days, there are still many boats going up the river, and there are hundreds of boats docked at the pier outside the city.
The docks were even piled with goods, presumably because they didn’t enter the city in time due to the city’s lockdown.
"Hey, the city gate is open." When Li Muchian saw it, Chang Yu raised his eyebrows: "It seems that Old Yuan Tou has woken up. How long did you talk about yesterday?"
"It's just a cup of tea, Mr. Yuan is too thoughtful." Li Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "But the medicine given by the governor is too strong, even the general can't take it, and he always feels unsure." Li Yan laughed.
: "I didn't even see General Li frowning when he was charging into battle. How could he be so distracted when he was playing dim sum?"
Li Yan sighed: "If this trick is not done well, it will not be solved by charging into the battle once or twice, but at least more than ten times. But how can we have so many families fighting now? When it comes to military strength, food and morale, we don't have a small share.
"child advantage".
"But we have such a mouth." Chang Yu chuckled, and everyone was confused for a moment. Li Muxian reacted quickly: "What is true and what is true, then Zuo Liangyu will never launch troops easily until he can't figure out who our boss is, but
Lord Governor’s background is so easy to figure out. Before going south, many people probably felt that the imperial court was unable to conquer the south and quell the chaos, but now..."
Binggo, Chang Yu snapped his fingers and looked at the sky. It's noon, and Mr. Yuan is here to treat us.