Zhuolu is a very ancient place name. The name of the county comes from the name of the city, which comes from the name of the mountain. The mountain is named "Bamboo Deer" after the plant "bamboo" and the animal "deer" under the mountain.
Later, according to the sound of "Zhulu", it was recorded with many names such as Zhuolu, Dulu, Zhuolu, Zhuulu, Dulu and so on.
It is said that at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the North Sea froze, causing a severe cold in the world.
After the weather gradually became colder, bamboo, a plant that likes humidity and heat, disappeared from this area. After there was no "bamboo" in Zhulu Mountain, the name of the mountain and the city were randomly remembered with the sound of "Zhulu" for a period of time. In the Spring and Autumn Period,
After that, it was gradually unified into the word "Zhuolu".
"Zhulu Mountain" became Zhuolu Mountain, "Zhulu City" became "Zhuolu City", and "Zhushui" was naturally written as "Zhuoshui" long ago.
As for the word "涿", it should be said by percussion. Because the sound of beating the tile drum is similar to the sound of dripping water, it is later "涿流水 dripping". From water, the sound of "涿".
If hunters in ancient times wanted to catch a deer, they had to send one group of people to ambush with bows and arrows, while another group of people knocked on the equipment at an opposite place in the distance to make a sound, which frightened the deer and ran towards the ambush of the hunter. Finally, he was caught by the hunter.
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Deer with good skin and flesh are really rare, and whoever kills the deer becomes a hero. From then on, "Zhuolu" has its extended meaning - a place where princes compete for hegemony in the world.
Li Chang had great admiration for figures like Ban Chao when he was still in school. Whenever he read the biography of Ban Dingyuan, his blood boiled for a long time. He was beaten several times by his mother, and considering his cowardice, he gave up and prepared to go it alone.
A grand idea to conquer the Western Regions.
After fighting with Yunzheng for almost ten years, he felt that he had become much bolder. Back then in Qingtang, with a donkey and a book, an old servant persuaded the six tribes of Yuanzhai to bow before them. From then on
This ended the history of the Song Dynasty without strong cavalry.
With this achievement, even though Li Chang was not well-liked by others in the court, others had to maintain enough respect for him.
Since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, he was just a prefect of Tangzhou. Tangzhou should have been Tang County, because after Yunzheng annihilated the fierce Yelvhuata troops here, in order to appease the severely affected Tang County, the Song Dynasty court
This small county with less than 20,000 people was elevated to a state, and Tangzhou's taxes were exempted for ten years.
Li Chang was relegated from the post of Huangmen Shilang to become a magistrate in Tangzhou. Naturally, his status was very different. However, this phenomenon was not uncommon in the Song Dynasty. An important minister in the court accidentally offended him because of something.
It was common for the emperor or prime minister to be sent to the state capital to serve.
Even among Pang Ji, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu, Di Qing and Yun Zheng, which one has not gone through this path? Therefore, Li Chang did not feel much loss for offending Wang Anshi and was finally reprimanded by the emperor to become the prefect of Tangzhou.
On the contrary, he came to Tangzhou at his own request, and even got this position after going through some connections.
The mere prefect of Tangzhou had only 20,000 people under his jurisdiction. How could he trap Li Chang who wanted to do big things?
Therefore, he left an aide to handle Tangzhou's official affairs, and after a trip to Yanmen Pass to discuss with Yunzheng, he took over the control of the Taihang Mountain bandits and disappeared.
A long time ago, Li Chang knew that Yunzheng had a big plan. The full name of this plan was the "Homecoming Plan". The real implementers were the Kong family in Qufu and the Yan family who lived together in Qufu. These two families used their influence in the literary world to
It has been ten years since he started recruiting disciples in the land of Yanzhou, started giving lectures, and prepared to let the people here regain their yearning for the Han race.
After the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty began, the Kong family and the Yan family withdrew a large number of disciples, while also leaving many disciples with martial arts skills who insisted on teaching in the north.
From the beginning, the target of their lectures was the common people at the bottom of the class, and those children from wealthy families were not allowed to come to study.
The purpose of this is actually to create an opposing concept, rather than simply to implement an education plan for the world.
According to Yun Zheng's plan, all the property owners in the North are the targets he will attack, because these people are the beneficiaries of the rule of the Liao people, and they have naturally moved closer to their own class from the day they were born.
In other words, they automatically pledged allegiance to the Emperor of Liao!
After occupying the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, what the Song Dynasty needed was a peaceful and peaceful land, not a borderland full of wars. Therefore, everything Yun Zheng did in Yunnei Prefecture was so ruthless, and wherever the army went
A Thousand Miles Away...
Yanzhou has been a place full of powerful people since ancient times. The Liao Emperor ostensibly rules this land, but those who really rule every village are local powerful people. Do they use their clan surnames as a bond, or cross villages in the form of alliances?
They united villages and formed cities to protect themselves. Their alliance was much tighter than the rule of the government, so their combat effectiveness was also exceptionally strong.
At first, the Liao people used the Han people in Nanjing Road as slaves to serve as slaves. Later, they were tired of the constant rebellions, so they handed over the management of Nanjing Road to the Han people themselves. The Liao people were only responsible for collecting taxes.
Once they came, all the rebellions were put down.
The first stop Li Chang chose was Zhuolu County. This place has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. It borders Fengsheng Prefecture to the north, faces Xuanzhou across Huangyang Mountain to the northwest, is adjacent to Yuzhou to the southwest, and is adjacent to Laizhou to the southeast.
It borders Nanjing and is only three hundred miles away from Xijin Prefecture in Nanjing to the east.
There are rolling mountains on both sides of the southwest, including Lishan Mountain, Qiaoshan Mountain, Zhuolu Mountain and Fanshan Mountain, embracing Zhuolu County. It is the first strategic location of Fengsheng Prefecture.
At the foot of Zhuolu Mountain, spring grass was already plentiful. The vegetation on the mountain was luxuriant, and the seedlings in the fields at the foot of the mountain had grown more than half a foot long.
Under the cover of the mountain forest, there is a large wooden building. The wooden building looks simple, but the farmers coming and going are walking on tiptoe. If someone's cattle bray twice, they will be whipped by the owner. Here, there is only a bright and clear sound.
The sound of reading is the main theme.
A middle-aged scholar in his thirties walked out of the wooden building with his hands behind his back, and then a large group of children followed him and respectfully came out of the wooden building.
Compared with the children with runny noses outside, the biggest characteristic of these children is that they are clean. Although the clothes they wear are not new, regardless of whether they are patched or not, the only thing they have in common is that they are washed very clean.
An old man leading an ox saw his husband coming out and saluted him respectfully: "Mr. Kong, I went to the fields today and came down with a few hares and picked up two hares to add a plate of food for my husband to drink at noon."
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The tall Kong Yuanda smiled politely and took the hare from the old farmer's hand and said: "What a fat rabbit. It's the best to drink with wine at noon. Why don't you stay with us and talk about Sangma and Ma?"
What a pleasure.”
The old farmer smiled and said: "Old man, don't bother me anymore. You have friends coming from afar, so you should treat them well."
After saying that, he led the cow away.
Kong Yuanda looked around in astonishment, and suddenly found Li Chang riding on a donkey, looking at him with a smile, and bowing from a distance.
Kong Yuanda was surprised and took two steps quickly to hold the hand of Li Chang who had jumped off the donkey's back and said: "Why did Brother Li come to the border and desolate place?"
Li Chang smiled and said: "Brother Zizheng can live in seclusion in the land of Zhuolu for ten years, why can't I, Li Chang, come to visit you?
You have lived in the frontier for a long time, and letters from home are worth tens of thousands of dollars. I came here this time to bring a letter from Mr. Zongmen, as well as a letter from brother Zizheng, his mother, wife and children. After you read it, we brothers can have a drink and talk about it again.
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As he spoke, Li Chang took out a cloth bag from his arms and put it in Kong Yuanda's hand. He called the old servant to take the hare from Kong Yuanda's hand and take it to the stream for disposal.
Kong Yuanda held the small cloth bag in a daze, with tears streaming down his face. After a long while, he knelt down on the ground and cried: "Mother, my child is unfilial!"
Li Chang sent the children away and helped Kong Yuanda, who was heartbroken, to walk into the wooden building. As he walked, he said: "When I left Tangzhou, I went to visit my aunt in Qufu, Taoyuan County. My aunt is in good health and is still in good health.
There were endless mulberry trees, and my aunt was feeding silkworms when I went there. When she saw me, she asked, "Is it because of state affairs that I am going to a distant place?"
I answered yes.
The aunt asked again: The state affairs are still unresolved?
I replied that we will definitely see the result this year or next two years.
The aunt said that a good man serves the country. Naturally, he had nothing to say. He just pitied his wife and lived a widow's life with a young son. Later, when the aunt heard that I was coming to see you, she said, if you are outside
Once a woman is born, she is kept outside the house and cannot be brought home... She even murmurs why she has not brought her younger siblings with her for ten years, thus delaying her children and grandchildren...
Ever since Kong Yuanda heard Li Chang talk about his mother, he bent down and listened. After Li Chang finished speaking, he smiled bitterly and said: "I was shocked three times in one day in Zhuolu. I have no idea of contaminating a woman. My mother is too worried."
, Zhuo Jing has always been virtuous, and she is enough for my younger brother.
Before I came to the Liao Kingdom, Zhuo Jing had already given birth to Bo'er, so why did I lose my descendants?"
Li Chang laughed and said: "Old people always dislike the small number of children and grandchildren under their knees. After ten years of hard work, Brother Zizheng lost at least five children and grandchildren. It is reasonable for the old man to complain.
But your hard days are coming to an end, the general’s troops have already reached Tongtou Pass, and will soon arrive at Fengsheng Prefecture, and Zhuozhou will naturally fall down as well.”
Kong Yuanda smiled and nodded, then saluted Li Chang and said, "Brother Li, please sit down. It won't be too late to talk to Brother Li after I read the family letter."
Li Chang agreed with a smile. When he saw Kong Yuanda hurriedly entered the inner room, he had time to take a look at the wooden building in front of him.
The wooden building is of the standard Northland style. Thick wooden beams support the entire wooden building. There is no paint on the beams and columns, and naturally there are no carved beams or paintings. The original color of the wood is not very clear anymore. It has been burned by ten years of smoke and fire.
It turned into a weird dark yellow color.
Looking at the pieces of bacon hanging on the beams, and then at the tables and chairs made of logs, Li Chang couldn't help but sigh. If he persisted in educating people for ten years in such an environment, it was natural that the Kong family's prestige could last for thousands of years.