Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

Gongliang nodded, "Shixiong and I have inquired a lot about Taizu. Decades ago Zhou and Southern Tang competed for Huainan and fought fiercely in Shouchun. Up to now, the people of Shouzhou still remember the matter of Emperor Taizu being trapped in Southern Tang. The new water army camp was built in the south of Zijin Mountain, and the villages of Zijin Mountain were breached, and its corridors were destroyed. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, his generals either fled, surrendered, or were captured, but Liu Renshan, the governor of the Qinghuai Army, still insisted on guarding the isolated city. The food and grass in the city were almost exhausted, but Qi Wang Li Jingda refused to rescue him. It was such a difficult critical moment. Liu Renshan His son Liu Chongjian actually stole a boat and crossed the river to Huaibei in the middle of the night. He wanted to surrender to Zhou Zhou, but he was captured by an officer. His biological mother said: I love Chongjian as much as my life, but military law does not allow family affection, and loyalty and integrity must not be tarnished. If you forgive him, then the Liu family will become unfaithful and traitorous ministers. How could his father have the face to see the soldiers! So he urged the executive officer to cut Liu Chongjian in half, and he personally handled the funeral. The soldiers under his command wept over his parents' righteous act of killing their relatives, and they all vowed to fight to the death. After more than a month of siege, Taizu The emperor sent his troops to attack again. Liu Renshan was tired of defending the city and fell ill. Liu Renshan went to the front of the tent, gave him a jade belt and an imperial horse, and paid homage to the inspector Taiwei and Zhongshuling Tianping Army Jiedu envoy, but at the age of 58, Liu Renshan died of grief and indignation on the same day, and Sejong named him Pengcheng The king of the county, the Emperor Taizu admired the loyalty of Liu Renshan and his wife very much. After the founding of the Song Dynasty, he even gave him the posthumous title [Zhongsu]"

Jia Jun nodded appreciatively, "Although Liu Renshan was once an enemy of Taizu, his couple's acts of loyalty will be remembered by future generations."

"Yes, this Shouzhou is not easy to say. Yuan Shu in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty were all established here. We heard a lot of stories about Taizu and loyal people in Shouzhou in Shouzhou. We wrote a pamphlet and brought it back to present. With the prince."

"Then are you making this trip specifically to inquire about Taizu's affairs in Shouzhou?"

"No, my lord said that Shouzhou's tea and yellow porcelain were very famous in the Tang Dynasty, but they were rarely seen in the capital, so let the two of us find some high-quality tea from the former dynasty and bring them back to the mansion." Gong Liang said with a smile, "There is also a very special kind of grass. , and it was also the one that the prince specifically asked to bring back, saying that it was to be planted in the mansion for trial cultivation."

"Grass?" Jia Jun was puzzled, "Why did you bring grass back to Beijing from Shouzhou? What kind of grass is so special?"

"Brother Song didn't know something. When Emperor Taizu led the army to attack Shouzhou, he rode a horse to Dongchan Temple one day to check. The horse was tied to a tree trunk and grazing with his head bowed. When I took the grass close to my nose and smelled it, it was fragrant and fragrant, and I couldn't help but say: vanilla, vanilla."

"Vanilla?" Jia Jun was quite interested, "Is there really fragrant grass?"

"Indeed, and this vanilla is very strange. It only grows in the northeast corner of Shouzhou City. If it is transplanted elsewhere, it will mutate if it does not die. From Huaibei, it is an old saying of trifoliate."

"So strange?" Jia Jun seemed to be in disbelief.

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