Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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Today's Tongguan Pass City is stuck on the beach on the bank of the Yellow River in Yuanxia, ​​which seems to have blocked east-west traffic.However, the old road from the old Guancheng on this plateau can bypass Tongguan.

If they could occupy the top of the plateau first and attack Tongguan City condescendingly during the war, the defenders of Tongguan City could only be beaten passively and had no power to fight back.Based on this, it is not difficult to attack Tongguan.

Assuming that there are guards stationed at Yuanding Jiuguan, it is still possible to surprise Tongguan City.Because, without the dense forests of the Han Dynasty, the Qinling Mountains in the south of the plateau became easier to traverse.You only need to send an infantry army across the mountains in the south of the plateau, and you can surprise the defenders of the new and old Tongguan from behind.

And for Ximen Qing, who has a powerful navy, this Tongguan pass is even less dangerous.

Ximenqing only needs to send a navy fleet westward along the Yellow River, then they can cross Tongguan and directly enter the hinterland of Guanzhong by taking the Weishui River.

From Hangu Pass all the way to Tongguan, Ximenqing found that no army could stop him from entering Guanzhong by virtue of the geographical advantage in the future.

Chapter 733 A Murder Case Caused by a Nickname

After Ximenqing and others surveyed the geography of Tongguan on the plateau south of Tongguan, they got down to the plateau, walked westward along the official road by the Wei River, and entered Huayin County.

On the left hand side of Ximen Qing's team is the majestic and steep Huashan Mountain.The north of the mountain is Yin, and Huayin County got its name just because it is located in the north of Huashan.

To the west of Mount Hua is Shaohua Mountain where "Jiuzhilong" Shi Jin once fell into the grass. This Huayin County is the hometown of Shi Jin's brothers.

Leaving Tongguan all the way to the west, Ximenqing and his party first arrived at Guanxi Town in Huayin County.Guanxi Town got its name because it is located in the west of Tongguan.

Seeing the name of the town on the archway, Ximen Qing couldn't help but think of the unlucky Zheng Tu, the "Town of Guanxi" in Weizhou City.

To be honest, Zheng Tu, the "Zhenguanxi" guy, is a wealthy businessman who kills pigs and sells meat under the Zhuangyuan Bridge, and is not a heinous person.The conflict between him and Jin Cuilian was mainly due to the fact that his wife was jealous and could not tolerate Jin Cuilian, a concubine.

In Jin Cuilian's words: "In less than three months, the eldest lady of his family was very aggressive, so she drove out the slaves and did not allow them to reunite. They went to the shop owner's house and demanded three thousand guan of the original code."

That is to say, what Jin Cuilian suffers from is that she can no longer be Zheng Tu's concubine, enjoy the glory and wealth with him, and is chased by Zheng Tu's eldest wife for the pawn money that Zheng Tu gave to Jin Cuilian's father and daughter. The words "not allowed to be together" revealed that Jin Cuilian actually wanted to live with Zheng Tu.

To put it bluntly, in the words of later generations, this is a family conflict that cannot be resolved by an upright official.

Jin Cuilian's father and daughter said that Zheng Tu used false money to trick Jin Cuilian into being a concubine, I'm afraid it's just their one-sided words, not all of them are true.

Why do you say that?Jin Cuilian's father and daughter got Lu Zhishen's money and escaped from Weizhou.When Lu Zhishen saw Jin Cuilian again half a month later in Yanmen County, Daizhou, she turned out to be an outer room for someone else.

Lu Zhishen rescued Jin Cuilian's father and daughter, and originally wanted them to flee back to their hometown in Bianliang City, Tokyo.However, the father and daughter did not return to Tokyo, and did not find their own safe place. Instead, within half a month, they hurriedly married Zhao Yuanwai, a wealthy family in Yanmen County, Daizhou, through the introduction of a fellow villager, and became a concubine. .

From Weizhou on Qinfeng Road on Shaanxi Fifth Road to Yanmen County in Daizhou in Hedong, I am afraid that it will take half a month on the way.From this, it can be seen that as soon as Jin Cuilian and her daughter arrived in Yanmen County, they immediately pawned themselves as Zhao Yuanwai's concubine before thinking about it.

What is the outer chamber?In fact, they are not even counted as concubines, but they are just like mistresses raised by rich men in later generations.

This time, no one forced Jin Cuilian's father and daughter, but the father and daughter had hands and feet and were unwilling to make a living by themselves, so they couldn't wait to choose to use Jin Cuilian's beauty to sell themselves for glory.

From this, it can be boldly guessed that Jin Cuilian and her daughter are very familiar with being concubines, serving as concubines, and eating based on their looks!In short, from what happened in Yanmen County, it can be seen that Jin Cuilian and his daughter are definitely not the ordinary kind people they said.

The father and daughter said that they were deceived by Zheng Tu, but the truth may not necessarily be the case, perhaps there is something else hidden.

It's a pity that Lu Zhishen, who is as hot-tempered as he is and likes to be a hero, saw Jin Cuilian and chose to believe the words of the father and daughter without thinking. between is doomed.

Maybe Zheng Tu was unlucky because he was not strong enough, and he took such a domineering nickname of "Zhen Guanxi".When Lu Zhi heard about his nickname, he was indignant at that time.

What did Lu Zhishen say in his original words? "Sajia began to vote for the old-fashioned businessman, and he became the five-way official visit to Guanxi. It is not in vain to be called Zhenguanxi. You are a butcher who kills pigs and sells meat. A dog-like person is also called Zhenguanxi?"

What Lu Zhishen meant was that I was so awesome that I was worthy of the nickname "Zhenguanxi". You, a businessman who kills pigs and sells meat, dare to take such an awesome nickname?From this point of view, you must be a bully. If you don't beat me, who else will I beat?

So Zheng Tu was preconceived by Lu Zhishen as a bully because his nickname of "Town Guanxi" was too domineering and offended Lu Zhishen.

It was still because of the nickname of "Town Guanxi" that Lu Zhishen misjudged Zheng Tu's strength and lost the importance of his strikes. As a result, he killed Zheng Tu with three punches.

Lu Zhishen must have been extremely depressed at the time: Zheng Tu, since you dare to call yourself "the town of Guanxi", how can you be so weak?The Sa family only punched three times, you can't take it anymore, you died in the street, you have made the Sa family suffer!

Therefore, Zheng Tu's original crime was doubtful, even if he was guilty, he was not worthy of death.Lu Zhishen only wanted to beat him up out of righteous anger, and never thought of taking Zheng Tu's life.

Lu Zhishen beat Zhen Guanxi to death and was forced to flee to the end of the world. It was really a tragedy for the two of them caused by a nickname.

Without diamonds, there is no work on porcelain.This quack nickname really can't be called indiscriminately!

When he came to Guanxi Town, Ximenqing couldn't help laughing when he accidentally remembered the past between Lu Zhishen and "Town Guanxi".

It's a pity that I traveled a few years late, otherwise I would rush to Weizhou on Qinfeng Road in advance, and resolve the crisis between the two before Lu Zhishen attacked Guanxi in anger, and then take these two as his subordinates, wouldn't it be great?

While imagining the interesting scene of sworn brothers with Lu Zhishen and Zheng Tu, Ximen Qing took Jiao Ting, Yue Fei and others through Guanxi Town to Huayin County.

After passing Huayin County, Ximenqing and his party continued westward, passing through Huazhou City and Weinan County, and finally entered the territory of Jingzhao Mansion.

Jing is the capital city, Zhao is the range, and Jingzhao Mansion means the area near the capital.Although Chang'an has been the capital of China since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the name Jingzhaofu was officially named after the Tang Dynasty.

In the first year of Kaiyuan, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji changed Yongzhou, where Chang'an was located, to Jingzhaofu, and set the head of Jingzhaofu as Jingzhaoyin, who led Wannian, Chang'an, Xinfeng, Weinan, Zheng, Huayin, Lantian, Hu, The 22 counties of Yumen, Shiping, Wugong, Shangyi, Liquan, Jingyang, Yunyang, Sanyuan, Yijun, Tongguan, Huayuan, Fuping, Liyang and Gaoling.This is the origin of Jingzhao Mansion.

After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, Hou Liang established Kaifeng and Luoyang as capitals, and changed Jingzhao Mansion to Da'an Mansion.In the later Tang Dynasty, Luoyang was established as the capital, and the area around Chang'an was changed back to Jingzhao Mansion.After that, the name of Jingzhao Mansion remained unchanged from the Later Jin Dynasty, Later Han Dynasty, Later Zhou Dynasty to Song Dynasty.

When Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne of God, he followed Chai Rong's old system of the Later Zhou Dynasty, changed Daliang to Bianliang, and established Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo.

Zhao Kuangyin considered Kaifeng's "lack of situation, and it is difficult to prevent maintenance". He planned to move the capital to Luoyang first, and then to Chang'an. Chang'an'er, in order to secure the world."

Zhao Kuangyin did not change the name of Jingzhao Mansion, which may have the meaning of moving the capital to Jingzhao Chang'an.

It's a pity that Zhao Kuangyin's plan to move the capital was strongly opposed by his younger brother, Kaifeng Governor Zhao Guangyi.Zhao Guangyi was afraid of moving the capital to Chang'an, so he left his sphere of influence, so he strongly opposed it.

After Zhao Kuangyin's violent death, Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, and the matter of moving the capital was abandoned.Xi'an passed by the imperial capital, but the name of Jingzhao Mansion remained.

Chapter 734 The increasingly barren land

The Six Roads of Shaanxi where the Great Song Dynasty and Xixia fought at the junction are, in order of importance, Yongxingjun Road, Yanyan Road, Huanqing Road, Jingyuan Road, Qinfeng Road and Xihe Road.

Yongxing Jun Road is the seat of Jingzhao Mansion, the political center of Northwest Song Dynasty. It has the largest population among the six roads in Shaanxi, with a household registration of one million.

Among them, Jingzhao Mansion with Chang'an as the center has thirteen counties under its jurisdiction: Chang'an, Fanchuan, Huxian, Lantian, Xianyang, Jingyang, Liyang, Gaoling, Xingping, Lintong, Liquan, Wugong, and Qianyou.The entire Jingzhao Prefecture has a household registration of 23.

After Ximenqing and his entourage entered Jingzhao Prefecture from Weinan County, Huazhou, they crossed the Weishui River northward in Lingkou Town and arrived in Liyang County.

This time westward to Jingzhao Mansion, Ximenqing decided to inspect the counties around Chang'an City from east to west and north to south, and finally entered Chang'an Jingzhao Mansion City.

Therefore, according to Ximenqing’s plan, the route will pass through the nine counties of Liyang, Gaoling, Jingyang, Xianyang, Liquan, Xingping, Huxian, Fanchuan, and Lantian, and then enter Lintong County from Lantian County along the Bashui River to the north. Finally, enter Chang'an City from Lintong County.

As for the two counties of Wugong and Qianyou, because they are far away from Chang'an, they are not included in Ximenqing's investigation plan.

In particular, Qianyou County, although it is under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture, is already located in the south of Qinling Mountains, separated from Chang'an City by a Qinling Mountains.

When Yue Fei, Wang Gui and others surrounded Ximen Qing excitedly, asking him if he wanted to check the geographical environment and dangerous passes around Chang'an City, and discuss how to use troops with everyone, Ximen Qing shook his head and proposed a new goal.

Ximen Qing told Yue Fei and others that Chang'an City is surrounded by the Guanzhong Plain, and it is far from Zhongnan Mountain in the Qinling Mountains to the south, so there are no dangerous passes.

This time in Jingzhaofu, we will focus on the rural agriculture in the counties of Jingzhaofu. The Guanzhong Plain was once known as the land of abundance. This time, we want to see if this Guanzhong is as prosperous as before and has the power to set the world.

Yue Fei and the others stared at Master Ximenqing with wide eyes after hearing this, and were speechless for a while.

None of them could have imagined that Uncle Ximenqing had studied so extensively and had such profound knowledge. He was not only highly skilled in martial arts, knew how to march and fight, could write poems and songs, but also studied the national economy, the people's livelihood, and the situation in the world.