Speaking of Hohhot, the pearl of Saibei and the capital of Inner Mongolia, everyone is familiar with it. Here it is simply called the city, formerly known as Guisui and Yunzhong.
But what most people don’t know is that there are two famous ancient cities in Hohhot’s history.
One is the Guihua City built in the third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1575 AD), commonly known as the Old City. Guihua City was first built in the sixth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1572).
One is the Suiyuan City built in the fourth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1739 AD), commonly known as the New City.
The Hohhot we see today was formed by the merger of the original Guihua City and Suiyuan City, hence its name Guisui. During the Republic of China, this was Guisui City, the capital of Suiyuan Province.
"Hohhot" means "green city" in Mongolian. The scale of Guihua City was not large. At that time, Guihua City was made of blue bricks and looked green from a distance. The local Mongolian people called it "Kukuhetun", also translated as "Hohhot", which in Chinese means "green city". .
Because there is a magnificent "Dazhao Temple" in the city, Mongolians, Hans, Tibetans, and Jurchens used to call this place "Zhaocheng" with a homonym.
In the Battle of Zhaocheng the year before last, Lin Dan Khan's army once captured this place and temporarily subdued the Monan Mongolian tribes. As a result, Taiji and Tabu Nang in Monan all surrendered to Huang Taiji in an attempt to build a state to resist Chahar.
If Yang Fan hadn't decisively gone out to the fortress and destroyed the thirty-six tribes of Haraqin and Duoyan, now all the territory outside Jizhen would be occupied by Jiannu.
News of the arrival of the Beijing army had already reached the city. At this time, the city gates were closed tightly and the walls were covered with Mongolian soldiers.
The army camped on the banks of the Dahei River in the southern suburbs outside the city. This river has sufficient water resources and is convenient for the army to obtain water.
Yang Fan's army and civilians numbered less than 200,000 people and hundreds of thousands of livestock. Drinking water was a big problem. The place to camp must be chosen carefully.
On the bank of the Dahei River, there is a very tall mound of sealed earth. The tomb is a large 33-meter-high mound built manually, covering an area of 30,000 square meters, almost the same as a hill. The mound is covered with dense vegetation.
There is a stone archway in front of the mound, with two Chinese characters for "Green Tomb" written on it.
Yang Fan and Zhang Shize curiously walked to the stone tablet and looked at these two words, not understanding what they meant. It is roughly understood that this is a tomb. But I don't know whose it is.
After passing the stone archway, they saw a tall brick pavilion in the distance, and they continued walking over.
This time I saw clearly that it was an official tombstone.
In the brick-vaulted stele pavilion. There is a larger stone tablet. Submit a letter to "The Tomb of Concubine Ming of the Han Dynasty"
"Concubine Ming, who is Concubine Ming?" Yang Fan felt familiar, but couldn't remember.
"Oh, isn't this Wang Zhaojun's tomb?" Zhang Shize slapped his thigh and exclaimed. It had to be this playboy. The first thing I thought of was Wang Zhaojun, one of the four beauties.
Yang Fan suddenly became excited, after all, this was one of the four beauties. A girl from Hubei.
The little beauty Wang Qiang entered the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, and later married the Southern Xiongnu. As the official wife of Shanyu, she contributed to ethnic friendship.
"Zhaojun has done great service to the country by going out of the fortress. Let's send people to sacrifice him." Yang Fan said. "But I think this place is good. It's a commanding height. From the top of this seal, you can overlook the entire Guihua City."
Yang Fan is actually a rather unscrupulous person who sticks to his profession.
In the first sentence, he lamented the burial place of the four beauties, but in the second sentence, he actually wanted to use this place as a headquarters. Just because it is more than thirty meters high, you can observe the reality of Guihua City across the Dahei River.
Zhang Shize was also speechless.
I originally wanted to discuss with him the issue of Shanxi accounting for half of the four beauties. It can be seen that Shanxi girls are pretty good.
Last time we were at Jimingyi, there were several Datong girls in the troupe. They were fair and tender, and they were called Shui Ling'er.
As a result, Yang Fan chatted Tianer to death. He could only shake his head in disappointment.
The two of them climbed to the top of Tushan Mountain. From here, the scenery was beautiful.
In the distance to the north is Daqing Mountain, and to the south is a fertile field suitable for farming and animal husbandry. Guihua City, a famous city in the north of Saibei, is located on the plain south of the mountain. The Dahei River flows through the south of the city.
"There is support behind and photos in front. This place has really good Feng Shui." Zhang Shize exclaimed. "I wonder if Alatan Khan and Sanniangzi asked a Feng Shui expert to show them to them when they built this city. The descendants of King Shunyi have always been prosperous, and they keep pace with the Chahars of Dayan Khan. The two strongest Fighting for supremacy for more than a hundred years.”
"It's indeed good Feng Shui, but it's also a fortified city. I don't know how Lin Dan Khan defeated it last year. He didn't have our siege weapons." Yang Fan said.
"I heard that he was a traitor among the Tumut people, and the city gate was opened for him in the middle of the night." Zhang Shize didn't think highly of Lin Dan Khan, so he curled his lips and said.
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Viewed from the top of the mountain, Guihua City is majestic and its buildings are magnificent and large-scale.
Zhang Shize pointed to the distance and introduced: "Look, that part of the city is the palace of Alatan Khan and Sanniangzi. In this city, the city wall is the outer wall of the palace. It is not so much a city as it is the palace of Shunyi. Long Qingliu It was built in 2008.”
"This small town is not big, with a circumference of two miles and a height of three feet. It is made of rammed earth and covered with bricks."
Yang Fan looked at it with the telescope for a while. Said: "The city is indeed not big. Each section of the city wall is only about 250 meters long. There are only two gates in the north and south. There are horse paths leading up and down the city wall on the east and west walls. It is smaller than Jining."
Unlike the Han region, Mongolia has a large labor force.
It is difficult to survive on the grassland, it is difficult for the population to reproduce, and various natural disasters occur frequently. At the same time, the amount of pasture that can be carried for livestock also limits the population. A few kilometers of pasture can only feed a family.
This small town took more than eight years to complete.
The city is actually the palace of the Prince of Shunyi, and the city wall is just the outer wall of the palace. The herders still live outside the city. There are densely packed Mongolian camps outside the city, and the felt bags are like white clouds dotted among the lakes and river branches.
Most of the Tumut people are concentrated around this city. Confronted with Jingying across the Dahei River. Both sides maintained a tacit understanding of keeping this distance, with no intention of immediate conflict.
Two to three hundred meters in front of Zhaojun's tomb is the Dahei River, which meanders from west to east. About four kilometers past the north bank of the river is Guihua City. On the west side of the city is a north-south tributary of the Dahei River.
In the L-shaped area of this tributary and the Dahei River, there are Mongolian tribes preparing for war.
Yang Fan carefully observed the inside of the city. It was already evening. The afterglow of the setting sun spreads golden light all over the city. The glazed tiles of the Royal Palace, Dazhao Temple and Yinfo Temple in the city are all golden yellow, which is really beautiful.
Yang Fan suddenly remembered that he still had an unmarried wife. She is the princess here. Born in this city, grew up in this city.
I had never seen her even though I had sent her from Ansanxi. She was sent to Xinghe Academy Women's College to attend school.
It seems that if this fight breaks out, it would be best not to tear down the little girl’s home.
At this time, Zhang Shize poked Yang Fan with his arm. Tell him to look north.
Yang Fan picked up the telescope and looked at the north.
At this time, smoke and dust billowed from Daqing Mountain, and countless cavalry, chariots and horses surged over.
Tumut reinforcements arrived.
