In the afternoon, Chen Ke and others stayed at an inn. In the past month, Xu Shi was used to falling asleep while swaying, and he couldn't fall asleep when he stopped swaying. Xu Shi was still shocked by the scene of the Duke offering sacrifices to Fan Gong. He was obviously very moved.
Drowsy, but still tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.[]
Drowsily, there was a faint sound of silk and bamboo in his ears, and Chen Ke couldn't sleep at all. He put on his shoes and got out of bed, opened the door, and heard the sound of Hunan girls singing again:
"The scenery is so different when autumn comes under Saixia. When the geese in Hengyang leave, no one notices it.
Sounds are heard from all sides, thousands of miles away, long smoke sets, the sun sets, and the lonely city closes.
A cup of turbid wine can lead to a home thousands of miles away, but Yan Ran has no plan to return home.
The Qiang pipes are covered with frost. People are sleepless, and the generals have gray hair and their husbands are in tears..."
In this era, the "Huajian Ci School" that was popular was soft and graceful. Although the poem Chen Ke heard was sung by a woman, it had a tragic and desolate momentum, and a strong and vigorous artistic conception, which swept away the decadent sound of the Huajian School.
.It is the song "Proud of the Fisherman - Autumn Comes under the Fortress" that pioneered the bold lyrics of the Song Dynasty, written by Fan Wenzhenggong.
It is said that Ouyang Xiu once jokingly said to Fan Gong: "Xiwen, you are always 'forcing the country in the autumn'. You are such a poor frontier fortress!" Even close friends said so. Fan Zhongyan's poetry style is out of tune with the times. Naturally,
Not to please the public, Chen Ke has been in Sichuan for so many years, but he has never heard anyone sing it.
Now, perhaps it was to commemorate Mr. Fan that I sang it. But it was much more refreshing than those songs like "Leaning on the Red and Nestling in the Green" and "The Sorrow of the Cicadas". Chen Ke followed the singing and strolled to the front of the inn.
In the hall, I saw a singer with a pipa in her arms, playing and singing to herself.
It was not yet dinner time, and there were several tables of guests scattered in the front hall, drinking and listening to music.
Chen Ke walked in quietly. He was very lively. He looked around and saw a middle-aged guest with slender eyebrows and a strange appearance drinking alone at a table in the corner. He walked over and asked with gestures if he could sit down.
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The man looked up at him, with a pair of deep eyes that seemed to be able to penetrate people's soul. Chen Ke was greatly surprised, but refused to avoid his sharp gaze and stared back.
It was the first time that the man saw such an interesting person, and he almost couldn't help laughing. He nodded and asked him to sit down. The waiter thought that they were together, so he added a pair of bowls and chopsticks... Neither of them expressed any objection, and they both listened attentively.
The singer sings.
After the song ended, the singer bowed and bowed, and went down to rest for a while. Then the lobby became lively again. The middle-aged man at the same table with Chen Ke picked up the wine cup and gave it to him, then drank it himself.
Chen Ke, who is so cheeky, is the best at building close relationships with people. He hurriedly poured wine for the middle-aged man and said, "Senior, is he alone?"
"I still have company sleeping in the room." The middle-aged man looked at him, smiled lightly and said, "My little brother sounds like he has a Sichuan accent."
Chen Ke was depressed. He had stayed in Qingshen County for eight years, so he spoke with a Sichuan flavor. He nodded and said: "Well, I just got off the ship."
"Going out with the elders in the family?"
"No, Wansheng took a few younger brothers to travel around Sichuan."
"Oh?" the middle-aged man said slightly curiously: "At such a young age, it is rare for someone to be willing to leave the land of abundance and cross the Three Gorges to get out of Sichuan."
"Isn't that what happened?" Chen Ke said with a smile.
"Oh..." The middle-aged man suddenly laughed and said, "Interesting, interesting," but then he stopped smiling and said slowly, "But now is not a good time to travel."
"Why?" Chen Ke asked in surprise.
"Don't you know?" The middle-aged man was a little surprised, and then said with relief: "It's no wonder, there is no information in the middle of Shu. You have been on the boat for another month, so it is normal that you don't know about the fall of Lingnan."
"Lingnan fell?" Chen Ke opened his mouth and said, "How could it happen?"
"Yeah, how could it be possible?" the middle-aged man said with a wry smile: "I believe everyone will have the same reaction as you when they hear the news." He said with a serious look on his face: "But it did happen! In April of this year,
Nong Zhigao, a barbarian from Guangyuan Prefecture, led his army eastward along the Yujiang River and broke through the Hengshanzhai Fortress. Zhang Rixin, Gao Shi'an, Wu Xiang and other generals were martyred."
"On the first day of May, Yongzhou, the most important town in the southwest, fell. More than a thousand people in the Song army were killed, and all the officials were killed. After Nong Zhigao captured Yongzhou, he established the Great Southern Kingdom, and claimed the title of Emperor Renhui, and granted hundreds of civil and military officials.
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"After Nong Zhigao captured Yongzhou, he led his army to march eastward and quickly conquered Hengzhou, Guizhou, Tengzhou, Wuzhou, Fengzhou, Kangzhou, and Duanzhou. In just over ten days, he reached the city walls of Guangzhou and captured Guangzhou.
The capital city of Nandong Road is surrounded." The middle-aged man said with a worried look on his face: "I don't know what the current situation of Guangzhou City is, whether it is defended or whether it fell like Yongzhou."
Chen Ke was stunned when he heard this. He really could not have imagined that during the time he was out of Sichuan, the Song Dynasty, which he had an impression of being prosperous and peaceful, would have such a terrible rebellion.
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"You can't think of it. The officials of the Song Dynasty and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty can't think of it." The middle-aged man sneered: "Every drink and peck is determined by heaven. Today, I finally reaped the consequences!"
"What does senior mean?"
"Did you know that before the rebellion, Nong Zhigao actually wanted to join in?" The middle-aged man said solemnly: "According to the habits of officials and princes, as long as they see a letter, they will definitely welcome it with a raised hand."
"Yeah." Chen Ke has long heard about the conduct of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty that "tolerance is the highest and harmony is the most precious": "So, Bianliang didn't receive his report?"
"Yes, because his reports were all detained by Chen Gong, the magistrate of Yongzhou." The middle-aged man said angrily: "And Chen Gong's reason is that one thing more is worse than one thing less. The chief was furious, When he led his army to the gates of Yongzhou City, he originally wanted to threaten Chen Gong and ask him to speed up his work, but who knew that the paper defense line was broken with a poke, and he actually defeated Yongzhou without any effort." The state is now the capital of Guangxi, Nanning.
"Thanks to the development of post roads in the Song Dynasty, the news of the fall of Yongzhou soon shocked the officials and ministers of Bianliang City. They ordered the troops and horses from all over Guangnan East Road to return to the Guangdong prison, Li Shu, and
The troops under the control of Chen Shu in Guangdong gathered from the direction of Shaozhou, moved towards Guangzhou, and intercepted Nong Zhigao."
"The response was quite timely." Chen Ke woke up.
"The order is issued very quickly, and it is hard to tell what the army will do..." The middle-aged man sneered: "Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, in the eyes of the northern court, the people of Lingnan are lambs who will never rebel. They proudly believe that,
The people of Lingnan could even endure the Southern Han Dynasty, which was as cruel as the devil. How could anyone under the enlightened and gentle Song Dynasty think of rebellion?"
"Fifty years have passed since the Battle of Chanyuan. The most elite army and the strongest fortress in the empire have all turned into rubbish. And since the Ping of the Southern Han Dynasty, Lingnan, which has not used weapons for a hundred years, has become so decayed.
, you can imagine!" The middle-aged man said sadly: "In my opinion, the military and political system in Lingnan is completely useless. If the imperial court points them to put down the rebellion, I am afraid that another Xixia will be born.
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"The Lingnan civil and military personnel are not available." Chen Ke said: "The court will just replace them!"
"Well said." The middle-aged man nodded coldly: "But the most suitable candidate passed away at this time..."
"You mean, Mr. Fan?"
"Yes," the middle-aged man said with a sad smile: "When the Song Dynasty was employing people, it discovered that its loyal ministers and generals had been tortured to death by themselves... What do you mean if you don't reap the consequences?!" He said with a sneer:
"Now, do you know why the government and the public cherish Fan Wenzheng so much? There is no other reason. It's just that the country is in trouble and we miss our good ministers!"
After saying that, he picked up the wine pot, shook it, and asked the store owner to pour another pot and serve some hot dishes. He smiled at Chen Ke and said, "These complaints are like stuck in the throat. They are not painful when they are expressed, but they are uncomfortable when they are expressed.
"As he spoke, Cang Sheng smiled and said: "Why can only Du Kang relieve my worries? Today I will accompany someone to drink till I get drunk."
"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders."
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The two drank for a while, and Chen Ke asked: "Looking at the senior's plain clothes, he seems to have come specifically to pay homage to Duke Fan."
"I came to Yueyang Tower to pay my respects to Fan Wenzheng," the middle-aged man said, "but I didn't expect that there would be such a big public memorial."
Listening to his tone, Chen Ke couldn't help but thought: "Senior seems to be familiar with Mr. Fan?"
"I can't say we're familiar with each other. We've met a few times." The middle-aged man looked at Chen Ke and said, "Young man, it's your loss for not meeting Fan Wenzheng." He sighed softly: "Fan Gong, he is the most upright and pure, almost.
Yu Dao can be said to be the first person in three hundred years and the most sage after Confucius!"
"Alas..." Chen Ke sighed softly and said, "Actually, we were planning to go to Yingzhou to pay homage to Duke Fan."
"Oh..." the middle-aged man said: "That's a pity." Then he suddenly said without thinking: "Young man, we are destined to meet each other. Let me tell you a fortune."
"Uh..." Chen Kexin said that you can also tell fortunes? But he thanked him and said, "It doesn't matter. Calculating bad things will only cause trouble. I'd better worry about it when it comes."
"Hahaha..." The middle-aged man was very amused and laughed loudly: "How many princes and nobles have asked me, Shao, for a divination, but you have refused."
"Shao..." A person suddenly flashed into Chen Ke's mind: "Are you that, that..." He wanted to say 'Shao Yong', but it was too impolite to call someone by his name in person, but he couldn't remember that person.
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'Shhh...' The middle-aged man gestured to be silent and said with a smile: "If you don't let me tell you your fortune, I won't tell you your name."
"Forget it." Although this person may be the most amazing person in the Northern Song Dynasty known as the 'God of Hexagrams', Chen Ke has always been against these mysterious things, for fear that they would figure out his abnormality.
"That's it for today. But sooner or later I have to make a fortune for you!" The middle-aged man narrowed his slender eyes, stared at Chen Ke closely, and said word by word: "Because you are a messy person!" After finishing speaking,
, threw a bunch of money to him and said: "Now the government is investigating spies, you Shu people are wandering around, be careful of being arrested."
"What is this?" Chen Ke looked at the exquisite money. On each coin, there was the character 'Shao' in seal script.
"It's something I use for fortune-telling." The middle-aged man said with a faint smile: "I always give a little bit of sympathy to those who know the truth."
Because my daughter-in-law is about to give birth, the place where I used to live is too far away from my mother’s house. I am planning to move tomorrow. The whole family has been busy since the day before yesterday. But I am almost not allowed to do anything because I am afraid that it will affect my writing. Oh, what?
I don’t even need to say anything anymore, come on. Please vote...
