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Of course, when Ximen Qing needed Jiao Ting to lead troops to kill the enemy alone on the battlefield, Jiao Ting would be unequivocal.
After walking along the bank of the Bian River outside the city, Lu Xiaoyi had already kept Ximen Qing's instructions in mind.
After the discussion, Ximenqing, Jiao Ting, and Lu Xiaoyi returned to Bianliang City, Tokyo.
The next day, Ximenqing visited Jin Guo envoys Li Shanchang, Sandu and Boda again.
Under the guidance of Ximen Qing, the three of Li Shanchang recalled what happened after they came to Bianliang City in Tokyo, and finally realized that the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty had no sincerity to join forces with the Jin Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty, and it was useless for the three of them to stay here .Li Shanchang hurriedly asked Ximen Qing for advice.
Ximen Qing told the three of Li Shanchang that he had already dealt with the important officials of the Song Dynasty and learned their true intentions, and the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers had no intention of sending troops at this time.Li Shanchang and the three of them don't need to stay in Bianliang, Tokyo anymore, it is better to bid farewell to Song Ting earlier and return to the Kingdom of Jin.
If the Song State really didn't want to send troops to attack the Liao State, it must return to the country as soon as possible to report to the emperor Aguda, so that the Jin army can prepare to attack the Liao State alone.After getting the accurate information from Ximen Qing, the three of Li Shanchang couldn't sit still anymore and decided to set off immediately to return to the Kingdom of Jin.
After Ximen Qing left, Li Shanchang, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, proposed to the officials of the Guoxin Institute that the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin had a request for the duration of their mission. Regardless of whether the Song court agreed on the date of the joint dispatch of troops, the three of them must also return to Dajin. The Kingdom of Jin has returned to life.
After Prime Minister Cai Jing and Taiwei Tongguan learned that the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin were determined to leave, they hypocritically met Li Shanchang and the three of them, and advised them to stay in Bianliang City, Tokyo for a while, and wait patiently for the results of the discussions between the important officials of the DPRK and China. .
Li Shanchang and the three saw that they had proposed to return to the country, while the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty Cai Jing and the Taiwei Tong Guan were still pretending to be snakes, so they still didn't understand that the Song Dynasty had no sincerity.
Therefore, the three of Li Shanchang refused the retention of Prime Minister Cai Jing and Taiwei Tongguan, packed up and saluted and embarked on the road back to the north.
Seeing that the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin could not be kept, the monarch and ministers of the Song Dynasty had to let Li Shanchang and the three return to the country.Along the way, the Song army escorted the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin to Dengzhou.
At this time, it was the most sensitive period among the three kingdoms of Song, Liao, and Jin, and Ximen Qing did not have too much contact with the envoys of Jin.He quietly watched Li Shanchang and the three of them leave Bianliang City in Tokyo, and it could be regarded as having fulfilled the great trust entrusted to him by Jin Guoguo Prime Minister Wanyan Sagai.
So far, several tasks of Ximenqing's trip to Bianliang City in Tokyo have been completed one by one, and Ximenqing is also preparing to leave the capital and return to Yanggu County, Dongping Prefecture.
Ximenqing knew that with the return of the three envoys of the Kingdom of Jin, Li Shanchang, to the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, the king and ministers of the Kingdom of Jin would soon launch a war to destroy the Liao Dynasty alone after learning that the Kingdom of Song had not fulfilled the sincerity of the "Sea Alliance".
The wheel of history is rolling forward, and no one can stop it.Fortunately, the context of history is still under the grasp of senior officials Ximen Qing.
The great era of the turbulent society is right in front of Ximen Qing.
Chapter 728 Afterglow of Xijing Luoyang
After the three envoys of the Kingdom of Jin, Li Shanchang, left, Ximenqing did not go directly to Yanggu County via the Wuzhang River via Liangshanbo.
Ximen Qing took Jiao Ting, Yue Fei and others around Tokyo's Bianliang City several times, and after memorizing the topography, he said goodbye to Xu Ning, Qin Hui and others, and left Tokyo's Bianliang City to the west.
According to Ximenqing's distribution, Lu Xiaoyi stayed in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and continued to lead Zhang San, Li Si and others to develop the intelligence network.
To go back to Yanggu County, Dongping Prefecture, one should go out of the east gate or the north gate, but Ximen Qing went out of the west gate and headed west all the way.
A few days later, Ximenqing and his party came to the Luoyang mansion in the capital of Song Dynasty.
There were four capitals in the Song Dynasty, namely Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, Luoyang Mansion in Xijing, Daming Mansion in Beijing and Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing.
Ximen Qing is already very familiar with Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo and Daming Mansion in Beijing. Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing is on the East and West Road of Beijing, not far from Dongping Mansion, so Ximen Qing is no stranger to it.
In Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, there are Li Shishi, Xu Ning and others, as well as many brothers of Lu Xiaoyi.There are Lu Junyi and Yanqing brothers in Beijing Daming Mansion.Nanjing Yingtianfu stays behind and is about to be replaced by Cheng Wanli, the future father-in-law of Ximen Qing.
These three capitals, not to mention all under Ximen Qing's control, but Ximen Qing also has the confidence to grasp their latest changes.
Only Luoyang Mansion in Xijing was a place Ximenqing had never set foot in before.
Considering that after the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, Li Shanchang, and others return to the country, the Jin-Liao War will break out and the Song Dynasty will be involved in it. Ximen Qing believes that it is necessary to learn more about the Luoyang Mansion in Xijing and even the Jingzhao Mansion in Shaanxi before the war begins. Case.
Shaanxi Jingzhao Mansion, also known as the former Chang'an City, was the ancient capital of the Han and Tang Dynasties, just like Luoyang Mansion.
Ximenqing has a hidden worry in his heart. When Zhao Song's royal family collapsed and Zhao Gou was unable to inherit the great unification due to his influence on history, would someone take the opportunity to separate and become king?
If that happens, Luoyang, Chang'an and other cities are very likely to become the capital of one party's separatist regime.
From the perspective of preparing for a rainy day, Ximen Qing believes that it is necessary to learn more about these two cities.
Although the Song Dynasty Luoyang City that is displayed in front of Ximen Qing's eyes is still large in scale and maintains the pattern of the Sui and Tang Dynasty triple cities, it is actually far from the old view.
After the Anshi Rebellion and the wars in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Luoyang City was greatly damaged. Although it has been repaired, it is far from what it was in the heyday of Tang Dynasty.
Today's Xijing Luoyang not only simplified many buildings in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but even the outer city is quite simple, fundamentally lacking defensive functions.
The height of the triple city in Luoyang City is four feet and eight feet for the palace city, three feet and seven feet for the imperial city, and only one foot and eight feet for the outer city.This kind of high center and low outside retains the majesty of the royal family, but in terms of the defensive function of the entire city, it can no longer be compared with Bianliang City in Tokyo.
However, as far as the whole country is concerned, the outer city of Luoyang covers an extremely large area, and it can be regarded as the largest city in the Song Dynasty. No other city can compare with it.With the size of the city, Luoyang of the Western Army is well-deserved as the first accompanying capital of the Song Dynasty.
Different from the later generations before Ximen Qing's crossing, the gardens of the southern cities were not well-known at this time, and the most famous garden city in the Song Dynasty was Luoyang.
When Ximenqing and his party rode into the outer city of Luoyang City, they saw gardens and courtyards of various shapes on both sides of the road.Luoyang gardens are the best in the world, and it really lives up to its reputation!
The prosperity of Luoyang's gardens cannot be compared with other cities.There are many reasons for this, including natural factors, that is, the superior conditions of water, soil and climate, as well as historical and political reasons, that is, Luoyang has been a popular area for gardens since the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Su Zhe, Su Dongpo's younger brother, once said: Luoyang, the ancient capital of the emperors, was accustomed to the customs of the Han and Tang Dynasties. He lived at home to manage gardens, built terraces and pavilions, and planted vegetation, thinking that it was good to visit at all times.Its mountains and rivers are beautiful, clear and bright, and it is a pleasant place to live.The one-acre palace looks at the green hills from above, listens to the flowing water from below, and is lined up with exotic flowers and bamboos.
Luoyang was the capital of the Song Dynasty. Since the Five Dynasties, many bureaucrats have settled here and formed their own comfort zone.
By the beginning of the Song Dynasty, many bureaucrats were officials in Kaifeng, and their families were still resettled in Luoyang. It can be said that the degree of bureaucratic settlements is second only to Kaifeng, Tokyo.
These bureaucrats or their families living in Luoyang took advantage of the barren land since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties to expand their land possession as much as possible. The method was to build gardens and occupy the land.
The combination of houses and gardens has formed a trend in Luoyang City, where bureaucrats compete with each other, and the prosperity of gardens has arisen from this.
Fan Zhongyan, a famous official, saw the scene of Luoyang City, and once said: "The scholar-bureaucrats in the western capitals face each other in the garden."
Mu Xiu has a poem "Passing Xijing": "Xijing has been an imperial palace since ancient times. It is an infinitely famous garden surrounded by water and bamboo. I wish I could not meet the peach and plum day, and the city is full of mangroves in the autumn wind."
Sima Guang, who has lived in Luoyang for a long time, is very familiar with Luoyang gardens. He also wrote a poem: "Luoyang's famous gardens are endless, and the gates and lanes are connected like comb teeth. The bamboos are long, the Yangs are deep and the paths are circuitous, which makes people feel uncomfortable. .”
There are quite a lot of such verses, which shows that there are many and prosperous Luoyang gardens, which are well known to people in the Song Dynasty.
Of course, when it comes to Luoyang gardens, Li Gefei's "Luoyang Famous Gardens" is the most researched in the Song Dynasty, which mentions nineteen famous gardens, which are particularly eye-catching.Because these gardens are not only prosperous, but also have their own characteristics, which are enough to represent the style and appearance of Luoyang gardens in the Song Dynasty.
According to Li Gefei's opinion, the gardens in Luoyang are Fuzheng Garden, the garden of Fu Bi's family who was the prime minister, and the other Dong Garden, Guiren Garden, Miao Shuai Garden, Lishi Renfeng Garden, Tianwangyuan Garden, Songdao Garden, Famous gardens such as Zhang's Huiyin Garden are also large in scale, with pines, stones, forests and springs, each with its own characteristics.
As for Prime Minister Sima Guang's Duyuan, it is only a small garden among the various gardens, but it is also as large as five acres. Quite attracted the attention of the world.
Generally speaking, the bureaucratic mansions in Luoyang all have garden buildings with a certain area, but the size is different.
It was these numerous official and private gardens, taking advantage of the favorable conditions at that time, to plant flowers and trees in competition, which made Luoyang a typical garden city. Its unique scene is rarely seen in the whole country.
Li Gefei, who was full and had nothing to do to study Luoyang gardens, was the father of Li Qingzhao, a poetess through the ages who had a good relationship with Ximen Qing.
Perhaps it is Li Gefei's father who loves gardens and recreation, and is full of leisure and elegance, that can raise a literary and artistic young woman like Li Qingzhao!
Ximen Qing rode a horse in Luoyang City, looked at the beautiful gardens in the city, but sneered in his heart, and sneered at the bureaucrats of the Northern Song Dynasty.
If we say that Genyue Wanshou Mountain, which is being built in Bianliang City, Tokyo, reveals to the world the extravagance and lust of the Taoist Emperor Zhao Ji.Then this city of Luoyang in Xijing exposed the true face of the dignitaries and nobles of the Northern Song Dynasty who were increasingly corrupt and built gardens and pavilions for their own enjoyment.
The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty had no way, and they were all greedy for pleasure. Facing a strong enemy, how could they be undefeated?