Late Tang

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"The Dragon King Temple in the East China Sea is a temple that has flourished in incense in all the prefectures under the rule of the county king." At this time, Da Yue'er seemed to be a landlord, and introduced the prosperous city landscape of Dengzhou City to the Bohai King's Da Weizhen and his party. .

Before, the Bohai Kingdom defeated Liaodong and lost [-] soldiers, and was forced to sign a peace treaty with Li Jing for land cession and indemnity.Because of this battle, the Heishui Mohe tribe, which is of the same species as the Bohai Kingdom, saw clearly that the Bohai Kingdom is now strong in the outside world. Daxuanxi sent troops to fight against the Heishui Department. As a result, he lost three times in three battles, and lost more than [-] soldiers.Seeing that the Heishui Mohe was coming fiercely, the Bohai court proposed to transfer the troops deployed in the west to the east to deal with the Heishui Department.

Not only the King of Bohai was also worried that Li Jing from the west would take the opportunity to attack Bohai. After much deliberation, Bohai transferred most of the troops from the west to the east, and at the same time sent Prince Da Weizhen as an envoy to bring Da Yue'er's mother with her. The Bohai Mission, including Concubine Gao, came to congratulate Li Jing's mother's birthday. In fact, they hoped to improve some relations with Li Jing and stabilize the situation in the west of Bohai.

The twelfth year of Li Jing's mother's birthday has passed, but Da Weizhen has been stranded.

Mrs. Han specially asked Da Yueer to entertain her elder brother and mother. Today, Da Yueer took her mother and elder brother to watch the scenery of Dengzhou.

"The Dragon King of the East China Sea is extremely effective. The king of the county asks the Dragon King for rain, and he responds to every request. Therefore, in the five provinces and thirty states, the Dragon King of the East China Sea has the most incense." Da Yue'er stroked her mother's hand and said with a smile. She just saw her mother and brother again, and she was indescribably happy.And this time when the mother came, she also said that the father finally accepted the fact that she followed Li Jing.

"I heard that the county king was invited by the Dragon King to enter the Crystal Palace several times, and even the god fire, sky fire, and glass were all given by the Dragon King. The county king was awarded the god fire by the Dragon King at the beginning, and defeated the Feng family in a battle with the god fire. Shamen Town has stood still." Da Weizhen always felt a little awe of this cheap brother-in-law, but during the time from Bohai to Dengzhou through Liaodong, he also saw earth-shaking changes in Liaodong along the way, especially when he arrived. After Dengzhou, I found that this is actually a huge city with a population of one million.The degree of its prosperity shocked him, there is everything here, only unexpected.What is even more surprising is that such an important city has no city walls outside. The four walls inside only enclose less than one-third of the population in the city, and more commercial, residential, school, etc. are outside the walls. .

"Well, the Dragon King of the East China Sea is the most respected by the people. Temples are set up in one hundred counties in five provinces, thirty prefectures. Today is the second day of February, when the dragon raises its head, also known as the Qinglong Festival. Wine shops, dignitaries, government yamen, traffickers and pawns all come to offer sacrifices. Therefore, today is also an important festival, in the second month of the year, second only to the Shangyuan Festival." Dayueer introduced to her mother on the road.

Concubine Gao and Da Weizhen listened to Dayueer's introduction, opened the curtain of the four-wheeled carriage and looked outside.

When they arrived in Duli City from Shangjing, they already felt that the prosperity of Duli City, which has a population of [-] households, is almost like a paradise on earth, far surpassing Shangjing City, which is known as the prosperous country of Haidong.But after arriving in Dengzhou, I realized that Duli Town was actually not half as lively as Dengzhou City.

At this moment, all they saw was crowds of people bustling everywhere, even the people from the entire capital gathered together, probably not as lively as the front of the Dragon King Temple in the East China Sea.If it weren't for the guards of the county king to clear the way, it is impossible to imagine how to squeeze into the temple.

"Dengzhou Yamen has been preparing for sacrifices since yesterday. It is said that as long as you can grab the first pillar incense at the fifth watch, you will be able to guarantee a smooth year. Since yesterday, I don't know how many people have been there They are waiting in line here, and they are all waiting for the fifth watch, so they will fight for that stick of incense. I heard that the first stick of incense last year was snatched by people from the Ship Industry Guild..."

"People from the yamen are also coming to fight?" Da Weizhen was a little surprised, and looked at his sister in disbelief.Da Yue'er smiled and said: "Of course we have to fight, not to mention Dengzhou, even other places are the same. Every yamen, business house, guild hall, guild, etc. will send people to fight for burning this incense, whoever has the ability will fight Yes, but you can’t bully others.”

The four-wheeled carriage slowly moved forward on the wide street, and Da Yue'er kept introducing all kinds of things she saw to her mother and elder brother in the car.In this lively day, juggling is naturally indispensable, and there are performances everywhere along the street, and the concubine Gao and Prince Dawei are dazzled and dazzled.

Da Yue'er suddenly felt a little proud in her heart when she saw the amazement of her mother who was a princess and her elder brother who was a prince.He smiled lightly and said: "There are quite a few of these people in Dengzhou City, and the king of the county has issued an order to revoke their humble status. Now they are also common people, relying on performances to make money. Therefore, these artists under the king's rule are special A lot of them come from other places. The place is prosperous and the people are rich. During festivals and festivals, the yamen and rich families will always invite these troupes and jugglers to perform. During festivals, there are many people nearby. To see these, Baba I came here on purpose."

Saying that, Dayue'er suddenly felt that the princess of Bohai and the prince of Bohai were like those country people who had never seen the world.

Princess Bohai and Da Yue'er chatted happily, but Da Weizhen seemed a little silent, just answering one or two sentences at random.

She set off from Shangjing Longquan Mansion in November last year, and has not left until now. She stayed here for two months in a blink of an eye.In fact, he came here this time with an important mission, one is to continue the previous contract with Li Jing to ensure the safety of the West.At the same time, the Bohai Kingdom also hopes to buy a batch of excellent weapons and armor from Li Jing. It would be better if they could buy Skyfire and Shenhuo. .

It would be even better if he could use Dayue'er's relationship to convince Li Jing to borrow an elite army to deal with the Black Water Department.

However, I have been in Dengzhou for two months, and I only saw Li Jing two or three times, and I didn't come to have a deep talk each time.

The country of Bohai is originally Sumo Shuimohe, which is the same species as Heishuimohe.At the beginning, there were dozens of Mohe, and then gradually developed into seven major ones.It is mainly distributed in Sumoshui (now Songhua River) and Heishui (now Heilongjiang).Sumo Mohe and Heishui Mohe are the most powerful.

The Sumo part in the south has more contact with the outside world and has always been relatively advanced. It planted and raised pigs, which belonged to half agriculture and half pastoralism. After the demise of Goguryeo, it absorbed a large number of Goguryeo, Han people, Baekje people, etc., and finally established the Balhae Kingdom.

However, the Heishui tribe in the far north lived on fishing and hunting, and lived between the white mountains and the black waters. They were tough but more barbaric.

After the destruction of Goguryeo in the Tang Dynasty, Bohai Dudufu and Heishui Dudufu were established in Mohe. The leaders of each department were the governors, and the rest of the ministries were subordinate to the Dudufu.

Since then, the Mohe tribe has been divided into two major groups, and the relationship between the two has gradually become tense.At the end of the millet, Mohe established the Bohai State, and its power gradually became stronger.After the establishment of the Bohai Kingdom, its national policy was to move eastward. Instead of developing to Liaodong, they have been developing towards Heishui Mohe.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty once wooed the Heishui Department and offered rewards, which attracted the wild revenge of the Mohe Department and sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty.

For the Bohai people, the unification of Mohe and the conquest of the Black Water Department are the most important.

But these years, although the Bohai State has been suppressing the Black Water Department, it has not been able to conquer them.Up to now, Bohai State is weakened, but the Ministry of Black Water has begun to fight back.

Over the years, Bohai has been known as the prosperous country in the east of the sea.However, because they fully imitated the Tang Dynasty and implemented the settled farming system, the result became the same as that of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the level of the fierce cavalry at the beginning continued to decline.Up to now, although Bohai has more than 500 million civilians and 30 soldiers.But the [-] soldiers and horses lost in the battle with Li Jing completely exposed the true situation of the Bohai Navy's corruption.

On the contrary, Heishui Mohe has always maintained a fierce atmosphere. Although its tribe is small, there are more than 500 households, and almost all the people are soldiers. The Bohai State with a population of [-] million, faced with the Ministry of Heishui with [-] households, could not resist it.

The next day, the county prince's mansion.

Mrs. Han, who had just passed her 55th birthday, leaned on the heated kang with her eyes closed, surrounded by Da Yueer, Zhang Hui, Wang Guiniang, Waner, Wang Wanjun, sisters Pei, Xiao Yulou, Yu Youniang, etc. , even Megan and Julie, who were rarely seen at home, changed into women's clothes and sat honestly on one side.

Li Jing was also sitting on the side, surrounded by a bunch of children, flustered.

Dayue Hou whispered to Han about what happened to her mother and elder brother who accompanied her natal family yesterday, "I went to the Dragon King Temple in the East China Sea, and then went to Dengzhou Port."

"In another day, you can accompany them to Liulifang, the zoo, the aquarium, the big clock tower and other places to have a look. They have come from afar, and you should be filial as a daughter. This is also the dignity of our Li family." Han ordered : "Saburo always had some weird ideas, he actually enclosed the white tigers, white elephants, giraffes, lions and other ferocious animals bought by sea merchants from various places, and built an aquarium with that glass. The princess has never seen..."

"Yes." Da Yue'er replied quickly, thinking of these, she sighed again. "The many birds and animals in the zoo are really rare. They have never been seen or heard of before. Speaking of which, those sea merchants are really capable. They can get leopards, white elephants, giraffes, crocodiles, giant pythons, and lions."

Hearing this, Mrs. Han opened her eyes and gave Li Jing an angry look, and said with a smile, "Sometimes Sanlang looks steady, and sometimes he is like a child. He actually spent so much money to buy these birds and beasts from those merchants, and made a mess of them. Such a zoo will eventually attract more merchants to get more rare items, so be careful playing with them and lose your mind. If the yamen has money, it will be used to help the poor."

Li Jing didn't expect to be shot while lying down, and while dodging from left to right to avoid the naughty son's grasping dragon, he replied with a smile: "My mother's words are also reasonable, but this zoo is not purely a plaything. A lot of money was spent to buy these animals, but after the garden was built, the tickets were sold for the people to watch, which broadened the horizons of the people and enriched their lives. It’s a lost deal.”

At present, Dengzhou not only has a zoo, but also an aquarium, which raises all kinds of fish in rivers and seas.People lined up to watch these rare items every day, and Li Jing did earn a lot of money by collecting tickets every day.

Mrs. Han smiled and sighed slightly, "I don't understand those big things, but as a family, it's always right to be diligent and thrifty to manage the house and keep the morals. Huier told me yesterday that the rebels in Hebei The Yellow River has already been fought, and the grass thieves in the south have surrounded Dongdu again, and another army of thieves that belonged to you is now besieging Songzhou. My old lady does not understand military affairs, but Sanlang, you are the king of the imperial court , the commander-in-chief of the army. Right now, the traitors are rebelling against the party and causing chaos, and it is precisely the time when loyal ministers and good generals are needed to come out to protect the world..."

Mrs. Han seemed to be talking casually, but when her topic brought up the Hebei rebels and the grass bandits in Henan, Li Jing couldn't help being startled.Chengde's army is attacking Yichang's army, while Wei Bo's army is divided into two groups, one is attacking Xing and Ming prefectures of Zhaoyi army, and the other has directly crossed the Yellow River to attack Puzhou of Tianping army.And Huang Chao's soldiers and horses have approached Dongdu, and Zhu Wen has already besieged Songzhou.

When Huang Chao captured Ruzhou, the imperial court had already issued [-] edicts to dispatch troops to rescue him.And Songzhou's father-in-law, Zhang Rui, also sent several messengers for help!

"A good general in national calamity, Saburo, don't lose the hearts of the world!" Mrs. Han said slowly.

Li Jing's face was calm, his mother's words already vaguely accused him of being self-respecting and sitting on the sidelines.Even Li's mother has such an attitude, and most people in the world must have such an idea.

Li Jing shook Han's hand, nodded and said: "I was going to talk about this matter today, but I have already mobilized troops, and tomorrow I will personally lead the troops to rescue the Eastern Capital!"

Hearing Li Jing's answer, Mother Li nodded and said only one word: "Okay!"

Zhang Hui'er heard that Li Jing was going to send troops, heaved a sigh of relief, and looked at Li Jing gratefully.

Li Jing grabbed her hand and said comfortingly: "Songzhou City has a high wall, so nothing will happen for a while. I will lead the army tomorrow to ensure that Mr. Zhang is safe."

"Well, take care, my husband." Zhang Huier blushed for a moment when Li Jing grabbed her hand in front of everyone.

After Mother Li heard that Li Jing would send troops, her complexion obviously improved a lot.This is just a traditional woman. In her opinion, since Li Jing is the county king and marshal bestowed by the current emperor, at this time, he should send troops. This is for loyalty.Although the Li family was almost ruined because they followed the Li family who ruled Ziqing, but in her opinion, Li Jing's grandfather was a general of the Li family, and it was right to fight for the Li family in Ziqing. loyal. (To be continued.)