[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

In the eyes of those who have a deep understanding of the world, mountains are not mountains, but treasure houses of stories, water is not water, but a long river of inspiration, and wind and snow are not wind and snow, but...

No, even if there is more storage in the stomach, it will still be cold in the face of the blizzard.

When Mu Bai and his party crossed the Baoxie Road and stepped on the land of Mei County, they encountered a major drop in temperature. Atu, who thought he could be liberated from the trembling plank road, couldn't hold back at the moment, and was squeaked by the cold Call.

Mei County is located between Baoji and Xi'an. It is the only way for the cold air to go south, and it is also in the west of the Guanzhong Plain. To the north is the Weihe Plain, where the Weihe River, the largest river in Guanzhong, flows. The sunlight is blocked, which is exactly the environment of the mountains in the north and the water in the south, which shows that the climate here is terrible.

In later generations, the landform here was summarized as "seven rivers, nine plains and one slope, six mountains, one water and three fields". For an era where agriculture was the pillar industry, such an environment was not bad.

The poor natural resources have given the local people a spirit of tenacity and hard work. Countless people who have struggled with their own destiny have come out of this place, and the people here have cultivated their lives with their own hands.

In the pre-Qin period, they opened up the first road in the Qinling Mountains by slashing and burning - Baoxie Road, which connected themselves with Hanzhong in one fell swoop and became an important commercial entrance. To facilitate the development of business tourism.

Everyone who walks out of the Long Shu Road will have an urgent desire to take a good rest and relax after stepping on the exit.

Although many post hotels have been opened in the middle of the Shu Road, the fear of long-distance travel and walking in the sky has always made people unable to really relax, and leaving the Shu Road means that the most dangerous part of the road has passed. In this bad weather The next is the happiness of escaping death, which is really worth celebrating.

Here I have to mention a special product of Mei County.

Although the soil here is barren, there are many mountains and few fields, but the geothermal resources here are quite rich.

After a long journey, take a dip in the hot spring, and then find a back massage master to rub and sleep, and the blue bar can be filled up to [-]% at once.

Mu Bai and his party are also planning to go to the hot springs, but they have to return Mr. Luo's horse before taking a bath.

Mr. Luo went up the Shu Road on foot. All his luggage was a few thin clothes and a whole box of manuscripts. It was not difficult to carry it on his back, but it was impossible to catch up with Mu Bai and others on horseback.

Fortunately, the place where they met was the largest post station on Jinniu Road, where there was a carriage and horse shop for renting horses and carriages.As long as you pay a certain deposit, you can borrow the other party's horses, and the most considerate thing is that there are horse return places at the exits of Shu Road in Hanzhong and Meixian, which is very convenient.

Of course, this kind of mid-term rental situation will inevitably be "cut" by someone, and the amount of horse rental at Jianmenguan Post Station is more than [-]% higher than that at the foot of the mountain.

However, in order to appease these customers who were irritable due to the price increase, the shopkeeper of this car and horse shop signed a note to Mu Bai, saying that their "Pass Passepartout" car and horse shop has branches in most places in the northern region. , so Mu Bai and others who have already rented a car once can use this note to rent mules and horses at the price of old customers.

Considering that most of the road ahead will be a flat area that does not need to climb mountains, after returning the horses, the group rented a mule cart.

The price of a mule cart is much more expensive than borrowing a horse, especially the deposit is a little bit painful, but it will be much more convenient to have a car on the next road.

All the way from Mei County to Xi'an is a road. According to regulations, there are only official post stations and no private hotels around the road. According to their footsteps, at least one-third of the time must be spent in the wilderness.

If you live in the wild in this weather, it is much more comfortable to have a carriage than a tent.

"However, if possible, it's better to find a caravan to travel together, but you need to pay a little protection fee. So it's best to meet the government's caravan."

Mr. Luo, who is quite experienced in travel, wet a warm veil and covered his shoulders to soothe his sore shoulders and neck.

Most of his body is exposed on the water. Although the old man is old, he has considerable muscles.This attracted Halati, who is also a muscle lover, to come over and exchange experience with others immediately.

But Atu's reaction was much more direct. He wiped his face with hot spring water, stretched out his hand to pull Mu Wen, who was floating on the small wooden board with his stomach upright and little JJ drifting with the crowd, and asked, "What is this?" Why?"

"The current Chang'an is not the Chang'an of the past." The old man who used to ride a horse back then smiled sarcastically: "Do you know why the anti-Yuan campaign was fought from the south to the north?"

Before anyone could answer, he chuckled, "Because the north has already been squeezed dry by the Kublai Khan family."

Since the Tang Dynasty, the Han regime has gradually lost its control over the north. As the gateway to the northwest of the dynasty, Chang'an has always been uneasy. Both the Fan regime in the west and the nomads in the north have frequently invaded. Therefore, Chang'an was renamed in the Song Dynasty. It is Yongxing Army Road. From this name, we can see the original situation of Chang'an City.

After Jingkang, Chang'an fell directly into the hands of the Jinren, who renamed it Jingzhao Mansion, and in the Yuan Dynasty, it was renamed Fengyuan Road in the meaning of offering it to the Great Yuan Kingdom.

Since they wanted to serve Dayuan, they had to use all their strength. The taxes on Fengyuan Road were extremely high, and they also had to bear the responsibility of raising horses. The people of Chang'an were once in dire straits, and those who had the conditions fled one after another.

In addition, in the second year of Hongwu, General Xu Da fought a very difficult battle to accept and pay Chang'an. At the beginning, when the Northern Yuan's Shaanxi Pingzhang Hamatu fled, he caused damage to Chang'an's infrastructure. As a result, Chang'an City, which suffered several destructive blows, was dilapidated and has not been completely repaired so far.

"In fact, it doesn't matter if the city is destroyed. The worst thing is that the population of Chang'an is almost gone. It is said that when General Xu Da broke through the city of Chang'an, the young and strong people in it were only three digits." After a pause, Mr. Luo sighed: " That is Chang'an City."

But every literati will more or less have a "Chang'an plot", which is the starting point of the Silk Road, the place where the Han people originated, and the beginning of the glory of the Han people.

Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism meet, debate, split and merge here, colliding with the most dazzling spark of the Chinese nation.

There used to be endless caravans and horses in that place, towering palaces reaching into the clouds, many kings changing, camel bells ringing, and all nations coming to court.

What is a thousand-year-old capital?Even every tree, every brick and tile in Chang'an has a story, and everyone here can tell ancient stories, and every resident randomly pulled out has a high-ranking official or celebrity in his ancestors.

No matter how many years the people in Chang'an have passed, they are the men of Guanzhong who can fight and fight.

This used to be a place that every literati had dreamed of and wanted to visit since they opened their doors.

But now that place is like a scar that is still bleeding, engraved in the hearts of every Han Chinese.

It only takes a year or two for a city to be deserted, but it takes decades to revive it.

"Since then, the New Dynasty has repeatedly ordered people to fill Xi'an, but the effect is not obvious. The old Xianyang people who have been exiled before have landed elsewhere, and ordinary refugees are more willing to go to places close to the south. Even if someone is willing to come here, Chang'an is also It’s no longer that Chang’an.”

Thousands of miles of palaces and palaces have been filled with earth, and there is no Qin opera in Qinchuan for eight hundred miles. Now when we talk about Chang'an, except for a city named "Xi'an" by the new dynasty, the only thing to say is to be careful of hooligans and robbers on the road.

Mr. Luo let out a long sigh, and patted Xiaowa's head who didn't know when he came over: "If possible, I really don't want to say this, but, when passing through today's Xi'an City, you must be careful."

He deliberately used the new name of Chang'an City, as if he wanted to separate the two places: "There are a lot of refugees in the Shaanxi-Gansu area, and the forests are dense here, so you have to be careful about bandits, bandits and tigers. So if you can, follow the It is best to go eastward behind the government, but it is a pity that this season is not the time for the government to operate."

However, when Mu Bai and his party headed towards Xi'an after paying homage to Qin General Bai Qi, they heard a shocking news—the Ming prince Zhu Biao happened to have finished his inspection of the Qinchuan area and was preparing to respond to the New Year's Eve. I just set off from Fengxiang, and I will arrive in the Xi'an area in three to five days.

Of course, the royal family's travel rules and routes are kept secret. The reason they know this news is that an advance team has come out to clean up the road and deal with the bandits and refugees nearby.

The experienced caravan immediately smelled something wrong, and after inquiring and inferring, they could naturally come to this conclusion.

This is a great opportunity for traveling caravans.

"I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince is kind, and if he encounters caravans or people on the way, he is willing to give him shelter!" A businessman who was traveling with Mu Bai and others was rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find things, and he was talking to the team he had just traded with. He explained: "Hurry up and hurry up, the prince travels in a car and there are many guards, following him, no matter how tough the bandits are, they dare not disturb them."

While speaking, he dug out a piece of exquisite silk from the best-hidden box, put it in a brocade box embroidered with the name of the cloth workshop, and placed it on the top of the cargo compartment. Strangely, the old man blushed: "Ahem, this is a thank you, thank you, His Royal Highness is kind..."

Repeating a sentence twice means guilty conscience.

Mu Bai's expression was a little speechless, no matter how kind he is, you can't treat him as a living sign for free, right?You are clearly trying to force Amway in the name of giving gifts!

Next, do you plan to hang up a sign saying that my things are for the crown prince after the crown prince uses your stuff? Hey!

Your ambition is written all over your face! !

The shopkeeper is definitely not the only one who has the same idea. He glanced over blankly. There are not a few merchants who start to rummage after asking. With all kinds of goods that I carry with me, I began to consider whether it is better to send honey or Yunnan brocade.

Mu Bai hastily pulled him back, what is mixed, he is a merchant, we are examinees, it is understandable that merchants follow their interests, you, an examinee who came to take the imperial examination, gave something to the prince in advance, what is called bribery!

Moreover, the profession of prince does not seem very safe, so it is better not to get close.

If outsiders know his thoughts, they will feel strange. In fact, in the era when Mu Bai lived, the royal family member with the highest consumption and elimination was the prince.

At that time, the crown prince was not as good as an ordinary official position. Generally speaking, ordinary officials would not have their lives in danger except for fighting. After all, positions were generally inherited, and uncles and brothers around them could take care of each other, but the crown prince was very hard.

Except for foreign forces, my brothers, sisters and uncles are all competitors.Forget it, there are definitely not a few parents who cheat their sons. Those who are eccentric grab a lot with one hand, and those who want to abolish the prince even grab two. It can be said that the prince has been a living man since the moment he was established. Target, don't even think about succeeding to the throne until you have survived the wind, frost and arrow rain.

After succeeding to the throne, it may not be safe to go anywhere, and there are not a few people who are destroyed, ahem.

So in Mu Bai's eyes, the crown prince is really not a very high-ranking professional, he is almost a professional cannon fodder, so he can't understand the enthusiastic attitude of the people around him towards this prince of Ming Dynasty.

"Hey, little baby, hurry up and recall some poems, and then recite them to the prince." Mu Bai looked back, and there was someone urging his younger brother to perform in front of the prince. What a surprise, Mu Bai hurried He ran over and hugged the ignorant younger brother, "Don't teach my brother bad!"

"Oh, I forgot Da Lang. Da Lang, you should also prepare. When the time comes, you and your brother will hold hands to recite poems. This opportunity is really rare. If you can get a compliment, it will benefit you a lot in the future." The man smiled and patted Patting Mu Bai on the shoulder, he sincerely suggested.

Mubai rolled his eyes, and just about to refute, Ah Tu, who came out holding a box, chuckled: "Da Lang recites some poems, let's memorize "The Analects of Confucius" backwards, it must be eye-catching."

"Oh, Dalang still has this ability?" The onlookers were already quite excited, and they became more pretentious when they heard the words, and encouraged Mu Bai to come to the scene one after another, causing Mu Bai to kick Ah Tu: "What nonsense, I How could that be?"

And the booing merchants don't know their situation, don't you know yourself?Once again, we were elected by Yunnan to participate in the scientific examination in Yingtianfu!Can you be a little more conscious?

If we are picked up by someone in the future and we recite "The Analects" backwards in front of the prince's car on the road, we must not be scolded to death by scholars?

"You still have to scold me!" Ah Tu obviously didn't know the dangers in the world, so he spoke very innocently.

Mu Bai nodded deeply, and said in vernacular: "My husband reminded me before I left that the cultural people in the Central Plains are very bad, and they are especially prone to trouble, and they like to hold on to even the most serious things."

... Cough cough, in fact, the original words of the old man are just to let the students be cautious, and did not attack the scholars in his hometown, but Mu Bai has always been very good at over-understanding ← there is no way, my husband’s words are very reserved, if you don’t think about it, it’s okay There is a way to communicate!

"Listen!" Mu Bai pulled the few friends who were ready to move back to the queue: "What we have to do now is to hurry up and visit Chang'an City before the prince arrives, and then hurry up before the prince leaves Come out and fall behind the Prince's frame, this will be a worthwhile trip!"

He tugged at the neck of Ah Tu who wanted to see the prince and shook it: "Be sober, if you want to see the prince, you can do well in the imperial examination, but this is the only time you want to see the city of Chang'an that is empty of people! "

"Don't you want to see Chang'an in [Chang'an One Moon]?"

Ah Tu was shaken so that half of his soul flew away. After hearing the words, he raised his hand firmly: "But it's the new moon now."

The moon of the new moon is only a little bit, and the viewing degree is really not as high as that of the prince.

The author has something to say: Jinjiang swallowed my words, and the sad author doesn't want to say anything! !

I worked so hard yesterday to write words, angry!

The little alligator is very cute, when it grows up...although it is also a handsome crocodile with round eyes, but it has short legs, hehehe.

An adult alligator is 1.52 meters long, and its body is as long as its tail, so if there is no accident, it is impossible to ride a crocodile.

Old Zhu’s pets are very wild. In fact, when the male hormones are very strong in the founding of the country, everyone walks the wild way, just... the neighbors in the north are similar to the wild way, but we have more animals than the north, so...

When Wen'er arrives in the capital, she will find out where she is.

Mu Xiaobai is a clean stream!

Mu Xiaobai: No, I already raised the most powerful gold swallowing beast (tired)