Ruishengjun Prefecture, beside Duck Water, is located in the core area of Songnen Plain and has always been the inhabited area of various ethnic minorities in Northeast China.
Duck Water is a section of the Songhua River that flows through Jilin City in later generations. It was also called the Huntong River in the late Liao Dynasty. There are also occasional errors in records. This is related to the failure to unify the names of many ethnic groups in the Northeast.
The Northeast at this time was different from the Northeast in the minds of later generations. At this time, the Northeast region could not be called Beidacang, and certainly not Beidahuang.
At this time, the northeast was densely covered with virgin forests, but there was also a certain scale of farming in the plains where many rivers passed.
How many fishing and hunting peoples live in the deep mountains and old forests? I'm afraid even the rulers of the Tang Dynasty, Fuyu, Bohai, and Khitan have never figured it out.
Ruishengjun Prefecture is located near Wanjin Pagoda in Nong'an County, Jilin Province today. Under the Khitan system, the administrative units are divided into Jingfu, Shuibinfu, Jiedu Prefecture, Observation Prefecture, Defense Prefecture, and Cishi Prefecture. The following are counties.
Things like Ruisheng Junzhou, which sounds like a state but is actually an army, are similar to counties or even worse than counties. It will take a few decades for it to be upgraded to Xiangzhou, and it will cross several levels in one fell swoop to become a festival. Duzhou.
The rise behind this is the prosperity of Huanglong Mansion in Tokyo, the entire Liao Kingdom, because Ruishengjunzhou is located to the north of Huanglong Mansion, only twenty or thirty miles away.
Talking about Huanglong Mansion, many people know this place, usually from Yue Wumu's saying, "Go straight to Huanglong Mansion and drink with all the kings." Even later, "Go straight to Huanglong Mansion" has become a well-known idiom.
The reason why Grandpa Yue wants to go straight to Huanglong is because our Taoist saints, stone collectors, great painters and great calligraphers, but Song Huizong and his son Song Qinzong, who should not be emperors, are studying abroad in Huanglong Mansion.
But in fact, Yue Wumu made a mistake. The father and son were not in Huanglong Mansion, or they just passed by Huanglong Mansion to rest for a few days.
The Second Emperor Huiqin has been imprisoned in Wuguo City, which is thousands of miles away from Huanglong Mansion, that is, Yilan City in Heilongjiang Province, and is almost to Jiamusi.
The reason for the mistake was that I was misled by this 'little guy' who was fetching water by the duck river.
Because since Shi Chonggui was kidnapped to Khitan, there were rumors in the Central Plains that he was placed in Huanglong Mansion, and it was then assumed that Emperor Huiqin was also in Huanglong Mansion.
But historically, even Shi Chonggui was not in Huanglong Mansion.
Because Huanglong Mansion is in Khitan, it is a first-class big city. According to historical records, Huanglong Mansion is densely populated, with dense villages and cities facing each other.
Khitans, Bohai people, Han people, Jurchens, as well as Tieli, Wujia, Turks and Dangxiang people live here in large numbers.
The customs of various countries are mixed. Wherever people from other countries gather together and their languages cannot be understood, the Chinese language can be used to prove it.
Such a big city is definitely not suitable for imprisoning the captive lord of the country.
Therefore, according to history, Shi Chonggui and his party had just arrived at Huanglong Mansion after going through all kinds of hardships, and Shu Luping ordered them to go to Huaizhou (Bahrain Right Banner) to pay their respects.
Before reaching Huaizhou, Shuluping had already lost in the battle with Yelu Ruan. The newly ascended Liao Shizong Yelu Ruan ordered Shi Chonggui to go to Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo.
In the end, it took some kind words from Yelu Ruan's Han queen, Queen Zhen, before Yelu Ruan allowed Shi Chonggui's family to live in the remote Jianzhou and was given fifty hectares of land.
Shi Chonggui then worked with Empress Dowager Li to make a living by farming in Liaoyang. The Khitan people did not kill them, but often came to deliberately insult him.
Shi Chonggui's favorite concubines, Zhao and Nie, and their youngest daughters were all kidnapped and missing. Empress Feng was often insulted by the Khitan nobles who came, and she could not survive or die.
Of course, in this time and space, Shi Chonggui did not experience so many twists and turns, because the Khitan people lost worse than him, and were beaten to death for two emperors in a row. He himself was panicked, so no one came to let him run around.
More than 300 members of Shi Chonggui's family, including maids and eunuchs, were placed by the Duck River. They lived here under the influence of reeds and reclaimed wasteland. Their life was quite miserable, but they could at least make ends meet.
In three years, Shi Chonggui, who was originally white and fat, has turned into a little old man.
The cold wind from the Tunguska Wilderness cracked all his skin, and it could not heal all year round. It looked like cracked dead tree bark, and a lot of heavy physical labor made him lose weight quickly.
The hard life has made Shi Chonggui's hair completely gray. He looks at least fifty years old, but in fact Shi Chonggui is two years younger than Zhang Yan.
At this time, the Lord of Jin, who three years ago was still extravagant and lustful, dreaming of conquering Khitan in the north and granting the wolf the title of Xu, was fetching water from the river.
The tool he used to fetch water was a water bag sewn with animal skins, which could not hold much water at a time, so Shi Chonggui needed to constantly travel back and forth between the Duck River and his small village, again and again.
Why not build the village right by the river, you ask?
hehe! In that case, maybe the whole village will be flooded one night, or sometimes savages who don't know where they come from will suddenly come in a boat and kill all the people in your village.
Therefore, the village must not only be slightly away from the river, but also must be built on a high ground.
First, it prevents river flooding, and second, it can also play a defensive role to some extent.
Shi Chonggui looked at a dirt dump in the north of the village, and the corners of his eyes suddenly became moist. His biological mother, Princess An, and his third daughter, Miss Yi, were buried there.
One night a year ago, a group of savages who didn't know where they came from attacked Shi Chonggui's village built on a wide spot by the river. They killed more than 30 people and kidnapped more than ten people. If Shi Chonggui hadn't run fast, he would have died. Hacked to death.
This group of savage bandits kidnapped all the young women they captured. Old women in their fifties like his biological mother An Taifei were killed like wild dogs after being insulted.
The daughter, Miss Yi, resisted more fiercely and was beaten into a pulp by the barbarians with stone sticks.
At the cost of their lives, they taught Shi Chonggui a key lesson in survival in the wilderness.
Shi Chonggui still remembers the helpless cry when his third daughter, Mrs. Yi, was beaten to death, and the words "Yeah, yeah, save me" are still echoing in Shi Chonggui's ears.
Then, Queen Feng taught Shi Chonggui another lesson.
After dawn, Shi Chonggui went to Huanglong Mansion crying and complained to the Khitan people that he had been robbed. Then the left-behind general manager of the Khitan Huanglong Mansion rushed over with hundreds of people.
Of course, they were not here to investigate who attacked Shi Chonggui, but they took this opportunity to loot all of Shi Chonggui's belongings.
The governor laughed wildly and with his officers, they humiliated Shi Chonggui's concubines except Empress Dowager Li. Even Empress Feng did not escape.
They taught Shi Chonggui that not only did the top Khitan nobles not take him seriously, but even the middle-level Khitan officers could insult him at will.
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded, and Shi Chonggui's expression changed drastically. He hesitated for a moment, threw away the water bag in his hand in distress, and ran towards the entrance of the village desperately.
The village had long been filled with screams of terror, and the former palace maids of the Jin Dynasty, who could be said to be naked, hid in the back hill of the village in panic.
Twenty or thirty relatively strong eunuchs were holding wooden spears, desperately preparing to resist.
Empress Dowager Li, Shi Chonggui's adopted mother and Shi Jingtang's first wife, was wrapped in an animal skin. She grabbed a handful of mud from the ground and wiped it on the face of Shi Chonggui's youngest daughter, Wan Niang.
Fourteen-year-old Wan Niang shut her mouth in horror, and even quickly smeared mud on herself, making her already thin look even dirtier.
Empress Feng was very calm. She was wearing a long brocade dress that had lost all color. She looked at the running woman with a sneer on her face, but her eyes were full of sorrow.
"Why don't you go hide quickly? What are you doing wandering around here?" Shi Chonggui shouted anxiously at Empress Feng.
Empress Feng glanced at Shi Chonggui sadly, "The prisoner is hovering in the sky like an evil eagle, and the concubine is standing like a wild child in the wilderness. There is no way to hide, so why hide?"
Empress Dowager Li couldn't stand Empress Feng very much, and felt that it was this shameless woman who had seduced Shi Chonggui.
"Since you don't want to hide, why don't you die quickly?"
"If Ge Ruo gets two cups of poisonous wine, please die with the emperor and escape from this sea of suffering as soon as possible."
Queen Feng has completely ignored her, because her status as queen has attracted many Khitan nobles to covet her.
In the past few years, some members of the Khitan clan even traveled thousands of miles to Huanglong Mansion just to humiliate her.
It has only been less in the past year. It is said that many people have gone to war and have not returned. In days like this, what does it matter whether they are dead or alive?
However, just when everyone was in a panic and extremely frightened, the dozens of horsemen who were galloping did not break in to rape and plunder, but stopped at the door.
A tall Khitan man came over and asked, "Who is the Lord of Jin?"
Shi Chonggui trembled and was pushed forward by the eunuch and Feng Yu behind him.
Having fallen into such a state of desolation, it is natural that the people around him cannot still regard him as an emperor, and even hope that he will die soon, and then the Khitans will not continue to detain the remaining people here.
Shi Chonggui was almost pushed out of the crowd. He was filled with grief, anger and fear. Before he could speak, the tall Khitan man shouted at him: "According to the order of the Queen Mother, the Jin Lord and others will immediately go to Dading Mansion in Zhongjing."
Dading Mansion in Zhongjing is to the south of Chifeng in later generations, and Huanglong Mansion is near Changchun. This trip is at least more than 1,200 miles away. Shi Chonggui screamed when he heard this, and everyone behind him was also shocked.
They managed to grow some black millet this year, and exchanged some salted fish and dried meat from surrounding tribes through textiles. They could barely survive, but after leaving, all the food they grew was gone.
Before the words of begging for mercy could be uttered, the Khitans commanded the Mohe people of the Tieli tribe who came in log boats to start looting and setting fire to the people.
Shi Chonggui and others cried loudly, and were tied up with ropes by the Khitan people. They were like leading oxen and horses, and they immediately began to move.
.
.
And in the Khitan's Zhongjing Dading Mansion, Li Gu looked at Shu Luping with a sarcastic look in his eyes.
Shuluping, who was sixty-eight years old this year, sat on a luxurious throne made of white tiger skin and looked at Li Gu, but there was nothing he could do.
This time Li Gu led more than a hundred riders out of Gubeikou and almost missed Shuluping and his son.
It turned out that the Queen Mother of Broken Wrist was much more ruthless than Yelu Ruan. As soon as Zhang Gao entered Youzhou, she immediately left Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo with Yelu Lihu, for fear of being surprised by Zhang Gao Qianli.
The two women ran all the way to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, that is, in the Bahrain Left Banner area and hid there. They did not dare to come out until they confirmed that Li Gu was on a mission.
However, after coming out, Shu Luping actually wanted to blackmail him for some benefits, insisting that she would only agree to see Zhang Yan if he came out of the city to Shangjing Road to see her.
So Li Gu stopped talking and only said that he needed to inform Zhang Yan.
Immediately afterwards, news came that the Zhou army had begun to leave the fortress, but it was not to meet Shulu Ping, but to start sweeping away the Khitan tribe.
The cruel reality immediately made Shuluping sober up. She finally realized that the Khitan was no longer the original Khitan, and the Central Plains was no longer the original Central Plains. She didn't have much leverage.
Shu Luping resisted the urge to order someone to kill Li Gu, gritted his teeth and shouted in a low voice: "Then you go back and tell my lord that this dying woman is waiting for him at Dading Mansion in Zhongjing."
Li Gu smiled coldly, "The saint said that he has been very busy recently and has no time to come to Dading Mansion in Zhongjing. He also asked my mother-in-law to take the extra time to go to Bei'an Prefecture to meet her."
Khitan's Bei'an Prefecture was near Chengde in later generations, which was already very close to Youzhou. If Zhang Gao wanted to, he could send troops to destroy her immediately, but Shu Luping immediately vetoed it.
"Han'er goes too far! How about my mother and son give the Great Khitan Kingdom to you!"
Li Gu laughed and said, "If the Queen Mother can understand the righteousness so deeply, I would never ask for it.
But if you say angry words, it is unnecessary. If the hundreds of thousands of Khitan people in Saibei want to survive, it is impossible without showing a little sincerity. "
Shu Luping was so angry that he turned around and left with a livid face, but Li Gu didn't care.
Because he knew that Shulu Ping had no choice at all. It was just her going or Yelu Lihu going. These were the two options.
.
.
In Pingzhou and Lulongcheng, Zhang Yan waited for a while. There was no news about Li Gu, and the Jinyi guards did not find any news about Shulu Ping and his son. He immediately chose to use military operations to remind the Khitan people that the current situation had long been over. It’s different from before.
Therefore, Zhang Gao personally led his army out of Gubeikou and advanced towards Pingzhou. The Khitan people stationed in Pingzhou fled. By the time Zhang Gao's army arrived at Lulong, the city of Pingzhou, there was no Khitan left in Pingzhou.
The specific location of Pingzhou is approximately equivalent to Tangshan and Qinhuangdao cities in Hebei Province in later generations.
Judging from the experience of later generations, if you want to build the Yanshan defense line with Youzhou as the mainstay, it is impossible not to capture Pingzhou. You must know that Yuguan, that is, Shanhaiguan can be located here.
So after Zhang Gao captured Pingzhou, he immediately resumed the defense of Yuguan, which had been abandoned by the Khitan, and transferred Zhang Xibao here and ordered him to take charge of building the city.
Gao Huaide immediately attacked and attacked the Khitan eastward at Xizhou (Suizhong), Xingcheng and other places along the Bohai Sea. His troops were directed towards Jinzhou, the important town of Khitan.
For the Khitans, Jinzhou was their most important fortress in western Liaoning. The name Jinzhou was given by Yelu Abaoji.
In order to build this city, Yelu Abaoji, a Han citizen, raised nearly 150,000 people, which was quite a big deal in Khitan.
Gao Huaide tried to attack Jinzhou, but found that the Khitans in the city did not collapse at the first touch, so he began to pretend to build siege equipment and put pressure on the city.
Sure enough, the news of Jinzhou's siege quickly reached the ears of Shulu Ping in Dading Mansion in Zhongjing. This is why Li Gu dared to be confident, because he knew that Zhang Gao would definitely attack to put pressure on the Khitans.
Shu Luping was deeply saddened by the decline of Khitan's national power, while Zhang Gao was playing around.
He personally came to Jieshi Mountain, which was adjacent to Jieshi in the east to view the sea when Cao Cao conquered Liaodong in the past, and placed tributes in memory of the ancestor of the Cao family in Qiaojun.
Zhang Yan was naturally coming, not only because he had the same hobby as Emperor Wu of Wei, but also because the Cao family in Shazhou claimed to be a descendant of the Cao family in Qiao County. To a certain extent, Cao Cao was also a descendant of Zhang Yan. Ancestors.
However, when everyone recited Cao Cao's "Guan Cang Hai", those who expected Zhang Shengren to become popular in poetry were completely disappointed. Zhang Gao said that he wanted to appreciate the poems of various literary officials, but he did not leave any famous poems.
Are you kidding, Zhang Shengren writes poems, they are all critical, uh no! You have to remember everything first and then do it.
At Jieshi Mountain, he remembered a line from the Hong Dynasty Taizu's fishing boat outside Qinhuangdao. What did he use to compose poetry?
However, Zhang Yan didn't just come here for fun. He completed the canonization and promotion of heroes from Hebei at the foot of Jieshi Mountain.
A large number of state and county official positions were thrown out, and they were only waiting for the children of Hebei's local tycoons to pass the imperial examination before they could be awarded official positions.
At the same time, Murong Nobunaga was promoted to Duke of Yan from Qinghai County, Gao Xingzhou was granted the title of Huairou Marquis, his son Gao Huaide was granted the title of Changping Marquis, and Zhang Xibao finally received the title of Pingzhou Count.
Subsequently, Zhang Gao transferred the leaders of his eight Khitan tribes, Yelu Sizhong, Yelu Sixin, Yelu Sixiao and others to Pingzhou, and appointed Yelu Sizhong as the governor of Pingzhou.
He was ordered to follow the example of Zhao Dejun and Zhao Yanshou in the past and recruit various tribes from western Liaoning, eastern Liaoning and the grasslands to form Yin'an Khitan Zhi, Yin'an Nvzhen Zhi and so on.
Saint Zhang did not intend to storm a fortified city like Jinzhou. He wanted to disintegrate the Khitan from within.
