Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

What they advocate is to build more warships. At that time, at least [-] ships will be dispatched, most of which will be used for logistics and transportation, some will be used to protect the troops crossing the river, and the rest will be put into battle.

Emperor Shi couldn't make up his mind for a while, thinking to himself, if it can really be bridged, wouldn't it become the first Yangtze River Bridge in history.

You must know that it is reasonable to say that the Yangtze River Bridge was built after the founding of New China. If I built it, wouldn’t it be more than 1000 years in advance? History has been created.

Of course, he was just thinking about it, and the final plan must consider reality.

But as far as the moment is concerned, fighting the Southern Tang Dynasty and crossing the river is a big problem and a problem that must be solved.

.......

Recently, Emperor Shi often went to Zhou Xian's bedroom, and usually he also liked to go, who made Zhou Xian beautiful, but the frequency of his visits was obviously higher these days.

It wasn't because of anything else, but he heard from Feng Yanlu that Zhou Xian's younger sister had come to Daliang, and he wanted to go and see it out of curiosity, but he didn't think much about it, just purely curious.

But even though he observed carefully every time he went there, he never saw Xiao Zhou. He guessed in his heart that Zhou Xian didn't want him to see her. It's normal for a woman to be jealous, let alone her sister, so it would be embarrassing.

Once when Huarui came to serve him, he found that Emperor Shi actually read ancient books again, so he glanced curiously, and found that what he was reading were allusions and legends such as "E Huang Nv Ying", so he was very curious. The emperor is not usually a person who likes to read these ancient books .

Emperor Shi smiled awkwardly, and prevaricated: "Learn, learn..."

.......

Guanbei, Youzhou in the early spring is very cold, the melting snow has not dissipated, but the atmosphere of fireworks in the world has returned a lot.

Xiao Mansion, there is a bare old pear tree in the compound, under the tree Xiao Hunian is wearing a leather armor and is wielding a knife, while her guards are guiding her, they are masters of the Khitan tribe.

Since returning from Daliang City, the eldest sister has been very irritable, because Shi Congyun, the emperor of Qin, rejected him because she was not Xiao Chuo, not herself...

Xiao Chuo didn't know how to express his feelings for a while, and on the surface he pretended to be filled with righteous indignation, but in fact he was a little happy in his heart, at least she overwhelmed her elder sister who had been competing with him since childhood.

In the few years since she came back from the south, her sister has been extremely violent. She often rides horses and shoots arrows, practices spears and scimitars, and threatens to seek revenge on Emperor Qin one day.

At the same time, I was indifferent and curious, why was their biggest enemy, the emperor of Qin, always thinking about me, I had never even seen his face......

Last year, another big news came from the south. The army of the Qin State captured the South Han State, which was close to the sea in the south, captured their emperor, and killed them in Daliang City.

This incident shocked the world, and so did their Liao Kingdom.

Father wrote a letter to His Majesty, and then sent envoys to the south to congratulate him with cattle and sheep as gifts.

Although this matter is far away in the south, she heard that the south of the Southern Han Dynasty is the sea. She doesn't know where it is, but she has seen it in books.

This matter had a great impact, and there were bad rumors in the country. Some people thought that they could not sit still, and Shi Congyun would definitely send troops to attack Youzhou.

Some people think that Qin is too strong to use force easily, and should continue to maintain the agreement of peace.

For her, another thing has changed. After the discussion of her parents and elders, her sister is temporarily not allowed to marry her uncle Lufeng Sage.

The reason is that my sister is in poor health and needs to recuperate in Nanjing for the time being.

It's just that Xiao Chuo, who is 14 years old, is already very smart. She has already guessed a lot through various signs. The reason why her sister didn't go to the north to marry her uncle Lu Feng Sage was not because she was sick. The last insurance was to replace her.

Ever since Daliao was defeated by Shi Congyun's army one after another, and forced to exchange cattle and sheep for peace, the current emperor of Daliao Kingdom has become depressed, obsessed with shooting and hunting all day long, and does not care about state affairs.

This also makes more people around the corner, more and more turbulent...

The most important figure among them is Ye Luxian, the late emperor's bereaved son, in Yongxing Palace.

She actually has a good image of the prince Ye Luxian, who is five years older than her, because they used to play and ride horses together on the grassland when they were young.

Yongxing Palace is in the South Courtyard, because His Majesty wants Ye Luxian to stay away from the political center of the North Courtyard and hand him over to the South Courtyard to take care of him, so every New Year's day, his father will also go to give him things and pay him a visit.

So she sees her often, and now that the undercurrent is surging, she guesses that Yelvjing will become more and more important.

I also guessed in my heart from the way my father didn't want her to go to the south. In all likelihood, my father had rebellious intentions and planned to marry her to Yelujing. The throne of the Son of Heaven.

She will be queen by then, father will be in charge, and many nobles must have participated.

But to let her go, most likely it was Ye Luxian's request, because she and Ye Luxian have known each other since childhood, and they have a good impression in their hearts.

And if it wasn't for Prince Yeluxian asking for her by name, it would be impossible for his father to take the risk of offending the emperor of Qin and not let him go south. The Xiao family still has a daughter.

In this way, my sister can't go, but she has to stay. In case the emperor of Qin is angry because she didn't go south, he can find a reason to say that she is seriously ill or dies, and then let her go south on her behalf to appease the emperor of Qing Dynasty.

As for the matter in the north, the sky is high and the road is far away, so it is difficult for southerners to know the truth.

Looking at the elder sister in the distance who is still practicing martial arts angrily, her little head is already filled with the thoughts and plans of her father's generation, but the elder sister doesn't know that she is a substitute for herself, if she knows she will definitely be more angry up.

As for her own thoughts... She couldn't tell, although her father doted on them both since childhood, but as children of a wealthy Khitan family, it was difficult for them to disobey their parents in such matters.

But there is always anxiety and fear in her heart, entangled in her heart, like the never-ending wind on the grassland.

Father was right, she wasn't right, it's just that her little head also wondered what kind of scenery in the south, wondered if they had misunderstood something, misunderstood Shi Congyun's intention?Why do people who think so scary always think about her?I think she witnessed the blood of countless Khitan sons outside the city of Youzhou that year...

The girl's melancholy is also like the never-ending wind on the grassland, her eyes are wandering between the dancing lights of her sister.

The daughter's body is so graceful, her face is as beautiful as a flower, and her skin is as white as snowflakes. It is fascinating, but it is mixed with dangerous swords and swords...

Perhaps this is the fate of women, especially one like her, Xiao Chuo thought blankly.

Chapter 446, Cultural Reorganization

"What's the news from the north?" Xiao Siwen was dressed in a Han official uniform with a thick fox-fur cloak on his outside, his eyes flickered.

"Your Majesty is still the same as before. It has been more than two months since I went to the grassland this time. The concubine in the palace can't keep his heart. He likes to stay with wild wolves, foxes, and horses." In the hall, an official from the north While chewing the mutton, he said rather dissatisfied.

He is a dusty man, and his clothes are very different from those of officials in Nanjing. They are traditional Khitan costumes.

In Nanjing, ordinary people can tell at a glance that this is someone from the north.

Xiao Siwen didn't speak, but asked something else, "Is Your Majesty the same as usual? Especially in the palace."

The man looked at him without speaking.

"Don't worry, there are many treasures in the South Courtyard, and it's far away from Shangjing." Xiao Siwen said.

The officials who came to Beijing put down the meat in their hands, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty still likes to drink. After being drunk, he often beat and scolded his eunuchs and court ladies, and killed many people. Especially after being defeated by Qin again, His Majesty became more and more serious. Getting more irritable."

Xiao Siwen nodded: "Is there any change in the court?"

"Young brother Yeluxiu is a newborn wolf cub. He followed the prime minister to quell the rebellion at a young age. Now he has a high prestige in the court. His Majesty also met him on the grassland."

Xiao Siwen nodded, thinking about the news he had heard, and then he asked a lot.

The one who came was a close friend of the emperor of Beiyuan. He came to Nanjing to collect some tribute from the emperor. This is also the best way to inquire about news from the north.

After inquiring, he sent people to send a lot of treasures, and then arranged envoys, and then hurried out to discuss things with Guo Xi, the political order of the South Court, and Gao Xun, the privy secretary of the South Court.

Xiao Siwen has many secret alliances and capable generals in both the North and South Courts. The generals are like the Yelu royal family, and Yelu Xiezhen, who is now boarding under him, is the most important alliance. One is Guo Xi, the privy envoy and political order of the South Court.

And they all have a common goal. Gao Xun is a person who likes to make friends with nobles and longs for fame and fortune. He surrendered from the Jin Kingdom in the south and was named King Zhao.

For a person like him, a major opportunity, a chance to get promoted is very hard to find, but it is right in front of him.

And Guo Xi is a very capable and traditional Han official, loyal to the emperor, patriotic, and conscientious.He wrote letters to the current emperor several times, hoping that the emperor would not be addicted to hunting, he should pay attention to state affairs, take care of the world, and be diligent in government affairs. This goes on.

What's more, the current His Majesty relied on mutiny to ascend to the supreme position, so he got the wrong position, so he also has other thoughts.

In addition, there are many Khitan Eight Great Clans who have secretly expressed their dissatisfaction to him. After years of defeats, the Khitan people suffered heavy casualties, and the inaction of the court made many people more dissatisfied. With ghosts in his heart, he wanted to settle the old accounts from many years ago.

Before he knew it, he realized that he had many more allies, which made Xiao Siwen even more excited.

Over the years, the northern and southern parts of Khitan have become more and more Sinicized.

Under the rule of King Nanyuan, the Han people gradually became the largest ethnic group, but the Khitan people, the main body of the country itself, were not culturally rivals of the Han culture at all, and were more and more assimilated. Copying the Han system, more and more new-generation officials, such as Xiao Siwen, not only read the Four Books and Five Classics, but many customs are more and more biased towards the Han people.

The northern courtyard is close to the grassland, and it is the political center of the Liao Kingdom where the Khitan people are the mainstay. The Sinicization is slower, so the officials in the southern courtyard are almost exactly the same as the Han officials in the south if they don’t take off their hats to see their hairstyles, while the officials from the northern courtyard Many still retain the Khitan people's clothing, food, housing and transportation habits, which are very easy to distinguish.

Apart from their dissatisfaction with today's world, they all agree that if the Daliao Kingdom wants to have a long-term future, it must learn from the methods of the Han people. The country must be regulated, and the culture needs to be passed on. Not enough, if they don't act fast, sooner or later they will not be the opponents of the South.

Fortunately, the emperor of Qin sent a letter before, although he still urged him to send Yanyan there, but he also gave him a grace period of two years, allowing him more time to mediate.

And judging by Shi Congyun's tyrannical tone, they must temporarily suspend fighting in the next few years. If the Qin Imperial Guards are all in Daliang, they are actually very afraid. In the previous two disastrous defeats, once they lost all the land south of Youzhou. He once lost all the land south of Yanmen Pass, and he still remembers it vividly, and he dared not disobey it.

Speaking of this incident, he also had a headache.

It would be understandable if the prince Ye Luxian liked Yanyan, because the two were childhood sweethearts and often played together near Yongxing Palace when they were children, but why did Shi Congyun, who had never even seen Yanyan, keep staring at her?

Xiao Siwen didn't understand, it could only be attributed to the rumor that the emperor of Qin State liked women very much, maybe he heard that Yanyan was still young but a rare beauty in the Liao Kingdom, so he wanted to ask for it.

In the end, he had to put these troubles behind him. He still had a lot to prepare for.

......

"You don't even know what Confucius' Confucianism is." In the garden outside the city, Emperor Shi shook his head and said to the several prime ministers around him.

Today was a rare day off, and old father Shi Yanchao was lucky enough to hunt a deer, and his family couldn't finish it all, and there was no refrigerator, so he simply asked a few prime ministers with good relations to come over and have a big meal.

At the banquet, after drinking almost, they discussed whether the Khitan people would be able to rule well after the Liao Kingdom was conquered in the future.

Everyone was pessimistic, thinking that the Khitans might be as difficult to deal with as the Huns and Turks back then, and they were not easy to rule. They needed to be prepared for long-term tug-of-war and repeated battles.

However, Shi Congyun was more optimistic. He felt that as long as they were defeated and went to Beijing, the rule of the Khitan people would not be easy, and it would never be as difficult as it was for the Huns and Turks.

The reason is simple, because the Khitan people have "worshiped Buddhism and obeyed Confucianism" for many years.

Everyone didn't understand, so Emperor Shi said that they didn't understand Confucius' words.

In fact, what does Confucius mean, not to mention today, after more than a thousand years, there are all kinds of explanations for Confucianism that are beneficial to oneself after Confucius' death. There are different opinions, but a spirit of Confucianism is very important and is also It is the reason why the civilizations of later generations, as long as they respect Confucianism, are cohesive and powerful.

People didn't understand what he said, and Emperor Shi didn't bother to explain it to them, but he knew very well in his heart that as long as the Khitan people continued to respect Confucianism and let them continue to Sinicize, it would be easier to rule in the future.

The core of Confucius' thought can be clearly seen from a short story.

Another time Zigong said to Confucius: "Guan Zhong is not a man of benevolence, is he? Duke Huan killed Prince Jiu. Guan Zhong did not commit suicide, but he became Minister of Duke Huan again."

Confucius replied: "Guan Zhong assisted Duke Huan, made Qi the hegemony among the vassals, and rectified the world, and the people are still benefiting from him to this day.

Without Guan Zhong, we might have become a backward nation with disheveled hair and skirts on the left.Could it be that Guan Zhong, like ordinary mediocre men and women, hanged himself in a small ditch in order to keep the integrity, without being known by others? "

This is the most important part of Confucian thought. Later generations often use various words of Confucius to make far-fetched conclusions, emphasizing the importance of morality.

But in fact, according to Confucius, cultural inheritance is far higher than morality.

The story is very simple. Zigong felt that Guan Zhong's actions were immoral and contrary to Confucian morality.

Confucius taught him that Guan Zhong protected culture, and that morality and immorality are not worth mentioning in front of cultural inheritance.

Therefore, from the beginning, Confucianism emphasized the supremacy of cultural inheritance, and morality is far from being comparable to the priority of cultural inheritance, at least before Song and Ming Dynasties.

It is also because of this that at this time it has extremely strong cultural assimilation, or aggressiveness. Liao's sinicization reform will indeed make them recover and make them stronger, but at the same time, they have also unconsciously Accepted Confucian culture.

The core of Confucianism today is the supremacy of culture, and other things are not so important. There is no distinction between education and education. As long as you accept education, you are a good citizen.

Once the Liao Kingdom gradually restructures its own culture, it means that there will be less resistance to ruling between the same culture in the future.

This is actually a mixed blessing for Emperor Shi. The worry is that they may recover, become more united, and stronger; the joy is that if they carry out cultural reforms themselves, they will overcome it in the future and rule will be a matter of course.

Of course, the north and the south must have their own plans, and both the north and the south must have their own wishful thinking. No one can say for sure what will happen in the future...

Chapter 447, Traitor in the South

In early spring, the warming in the south is significantly faster than that in the north. Along the river, everything grows. There are large red and white peach forests dotted among the rocks along the river.

Along the river, a group of Qin soldiers in black and red armor sang military songs loudly and headed east.

Jiangfang along the Yangtze River is becoming more and more important now. Li Chongjin in the past, Si Chao later, and now Guo Tingwei.

The morale of the soldiers was high and the ranks were neat, which was in stark contrast to the Nantang River Defense Force on the opposite bank.

Morale, confidence, sense of honor, many things are constantly superimposed, invisible but intangible but actually affect the combat effectiveness of soldiers. Successive victories in foreign wars for more than a decade have made the soldiers and civilians all over the country full of confidence and pride, and their morale is very high.

Nowadays, there are two kinds of moods in the north and south of the river. The military ships on the opposite bank dare not approach the north bank, but the Qin army ships often patrol the river, and the troops in the south of the river dare not manage them at all.

The corporal leader was leading people to patrol the river, and the soldiers behind suddenly pointed at Jiang Xin and asked curiously: "What is that man doing, fishing?"

Everyone looked over and saw a man wearing a bamboo hat and a long gown sliding a boat in the river.

"You control what people do."

"But he's here..." The soldier pointed at Jiang Xin's humanity.

The corporal's expression became serious. This is not a trivial matter. Although the two countries allow trade, they are all at the ferry crossings stipulated by both sides.

Several people immediately rushed up and surrounded the person who had just landed, asking loudly.

Unexpectedly, the person coming from the opposite side was not so nervous, he just cupped his hands and said: "I am from the south, I have something important to report, please take me to see your superior."

Several soldiers saw that he was not in a hurry and had no intention of being afraid, and looked at the empty river across the river, with no follow-up ships and crew, and there seemed to be no fraud, so they glanced at each other, and then said: "What's the big deal with you? "

"Major events in the world can only be discussed in person with the emperor of your country." The other party said with a serious face.

Everyone looked at each other, then nodded to each other, and said: "We will search you first, and then we can take you to see the Shangguan."