Hoan Kiem Lake is the most famous of the many large and small lakes in Thang Long City. It is located in the central area of the city. It is a long and narrow oval from north to south, covering an area of about 180 acres. It is not small, but in Thang Long City is not that big, and there are some lakes larger than Hoan Kiem Lake.
This place was originally a tributary of the Er River. In the past, there was a waterway connected to the Red River not far to the east. Later, it was cut off by a river embankment and became a lake. It became famous in later generations and is the number one scenic spot in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.
Since it can become the first scenic spot, it is naturally beautiful. The lakeshore is surrounded by green trees and thick shade. The lake water is as clear as a mirror, elegant and quiet.
However, at this time, Hoan Kiem Lake was still relatively "original". Although there were some pavilions and waterside pavilions, they were not well managed and seemed a bit desolate, which made Gao Pangshi feel that it was not worthy of the famous name of future generations.
Of course, the reputation of Hoan Kiem Lake in later generations is also related to the legend. What makes Gao pragmatic even more interesting is that the word "Huan Kiem" in "Hoan Kiem Lake" is exactly related to a man who is closely related to the Ming Dynasty. Character related.
It is said that in the 16th year of Yongle, on the eve of the Lanshan Rebellion, Li Li, the later Taizu of the Later Li Dynasty, accidentally obtained a sword blade with the word "Shun Tian" engraved on it. Later, I picked up a sword hilt, which had special power when put together.
Annan folklore says that Le Li, the Annan hero, used this sword to defeat "seven million Ming troops" and later became king and established the Later Le Dynasty.
Ten years later, one day when Le Loi was on a boat at Green Thuy Lake - Green Thuy Lake was the former name of Hoan Kiem Lake - he suddenly saw a golden turtle emerging from the water, swimming to the side of the boat, and said to Le Taizu: "The enemy is the enemy." The army has been defeated. Please return my sword to me." As soon as he finished speaking, the sword on Li Taizu's waist suddenly shook and fell into the beetle's mouth. The beetle then dived to the bottom of the lake with the sword in his mouth.
Le Taizu and his ministers were very surprised. They thought it was a god appearing, so they called the golden turtle the sacred golden turtle. In order to express their respect for the golden turtle, Green Water Lake was changed to Hoan Kiem Lake. Later, it was said that the sword was returned by an immortal and inserted into the lake. The handle of the sword was left on the water, forming a small pagoda in the center of the lake.
Now, Gao Pingshi has confirmed the nonsense of this story - there is no dilapidated little tower in later generations on the small island in the center of Hoan Kiem Lake.
This island, which was very famous in later generations, is now just a small desert island with an area of only a few dozen square meters. There is nothing to see except weeds. However, the big island in the lake to the north is interesting. I heard that it was Mo Dunrang who didn’t know how to do it. During the war, King Ying sent people to build some pavilions and waterside pavilions, so that he could barely rest.
Therefore, Gao pragmatically placed the meeting with the prince and princess of the Nanzhang Kingdom here.
Gao Pingshi, wearing a red silk flying fish suit, stepped across the redwood bridge from the shore to the island. Two young people, a man and a woman, had been waiting at the pavilion in the middle of the lake for a long time.
The two young men were wearing the same clothes as Ming Dynasty. When they saw Gao pragmatic coming, they immediately stepped forward and bowed.
"The eldest daughter Biajue and the eldest son Nuojiaogu Meng, the eldest daughter of the Xuanwei Envoy of the Lao Military and Civilian Propaganda Department Setha Thila, visited Guangxi's patrol censor in the Ming Dynasty and asked for the true Duke. May the High Lord and Ten Thousand Buddhas protect him."
Protected by Ten Thousand Buddhas? Is this an auspicious saying from Nanzhang Kingdom?
But it doesn’t matter. Although Gao pragmatism does not believe in Buddhism, some Buddhist words are quite philosophical, and Gao pragmatism does not reject them.
He casually returned a half salute and said with a smile: "It's hard work for you two to come from afar. I was busy with my duties in the past few days, so I'm sorry for my slightness to you."
The two "princess" and "prince", who were both somewhat swarthy, even said some polite words, but their Chinese was not only a bit awkward, but also had a heavy Yunnan dialect accent. Gao Pragmatic only listened. I don't understand half of it.
Gao pragmatic introduced them to the two people behind him: "These two are Annan's right-hand men, Tusi Cen and Tusi Huang. From now on... you may have to deal with each other, so you might as well get acquainted."
The black prince who was about fifteen or sixteen years old seemed not to be good at words. He just bowed honestly. The black princess Bia Jue, who was about twenty years old, said a few more words that roughly meant "please give me some advice", which was almost polite. talk.
Seeing that she followed what he just said and called Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting "Cen Tusi" and "Huang Tusi", Gao Pangshi couldn't help laughing and said: "I'm afraid no one will mention these two titles in Annan in the future. Otherwise, you guys Call them their new positions in the Annan Capital Division - Cen Ling, the garrison envoy to the west of Beijing, and Huang Zhiting, the garrison envoy to the east of Haidong."
The titles of the Annan people in the past have been abandoned in name. The previous official positions such as King Ying, King Dunhou, etc. have also been abandoned in name. The left-right minister is definitely not allowed - —You are all members of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty allows you to do your own thing, you can't go too far, right?
In the past, the Ming Dynasty refused to interfere, so you could just mess around. Now you can't continue messing around, so Annan's official positions have almost all been downgraded. However, they were "used to being independent" after all, and the imperial court did allow them to do their own thing internally, so this time they basically established a new system imitating the Ming Dynasty, but with a lower-key name.
However, the Jingxi Town Guardian Envoy and the Haidong Town Guardian Envoy are two newly established official positions. They are purely tailor-made for Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting. They are determined within Annan as "second only to the Governor of the Capital and the Governor of Tongzhi." ", compared to the Ming Dynasty, it is roughly equal to the military preparation.
However, except for Thang Long City and Haiyang Xuanfu Division, which were named and occupied by Gao Pangshi himself and written into the "Sixteen Points of Beijing", the rest of the areas in northern Annam were owned by them respectively. Therefore, these two "military preparations" The real power of "Tao" can be said to be quite huge.
However, the actual strength of the two of them in Annan is not strong, each has only 20,000 people, and they are not all direct relatives. Therefore, whether it is "Western Beijing" or "Haidong", there are new highly pragmatic reorganized troops. The troops stationed here can be regarded as supporting them.
The arrangement of Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan's troops is also quite interesting - they were all transferred away from Thang Long City, Mo Yulin's troops were transferred to defend Anh Du Prefecture, and Ruan Juan was transferred to defend Hue Prefecture, and the name of the transfer was even more interesting, it was "Ni'an, Hue" Newly attached, at the request of the Jinghua Group, the Department of Capital Affairs temporarily dispatched troops to clear out and guard the area."
But with the troops Gao pragmatic has on hand, it is obviously enough to guard the south. Why do they need their help?
The main reason for doing this is simply that Gao Pragmatic was quite satisfied with the performance of Mo Maoqia's lackeys, so he temporarily transferred the two of them away so that Mo Maoqia could be a dog with peace of mind. If you are not worried, since they are just Ying Jinghua Group Those who are invited to be temporarily transferred to the south can naturally return to the north at any time.
In fact, according to Gao Pragmatic's plan, Mo Yulin's department was used to threaten Mo Maoqia, while Ruan Juan's department actually existed to check and balance Mo Yulin.
The three people with different names and abilities are an interlocking chain of mutual restraints laid out by Gao Pragmatism. As long as Jinghua is slightly biased, it can affect the entire "chain".
It's subtle, but a little complicated, but... it's very pragmatic.
"Shijun Cen, Shijun Huang." Biajue then met Cen Ling and Huang Zhiting again. However, there are still problems with her understanding of Chinese culture. Although "guardian envoy" carries the word "envoy", it is actually incorrect to use the title "envoy".
Fortunately, everyone knew each other's identity and were relatively tolerant of it. No explanation was given, but the two sides just greeted each other again.
Hoan Kiem Lake is already the private residence of Gao Pragmatism - although the "residence" still only exists in the planning, and the Annan Governor is still arranging to mobilize craftsmen and prepare building materials, but after all, this place has become Gao Pragmatism's territory in a legitimate manner, so he Then he behaved like a host and asked everyone to sit down separately.
"Master Dao, Miss Dao, you two came to see me. I heard that it was because Laos was bullied by Myanmar, resulting in a disorder of dignity?"
The Lao Xuanweisi of the Ming Dynasty, and the actual line of kings of the Nanzhang Kingdom, can be traced back as far as Piluoge, the king of Nanzhao during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of the Tang Dynasty.
Phi Luo Ko was known as Khun Bolung by the Laotians, and Chung Sai's "History of Laos" states that Phi Luo Ko "left seven sons, all of whom were sent to rule several areas of the empire. As we all know, Khun Lok was sent to rule The Southern Palm, Luang Prabang, became the ancestor of that dynasty, which continues to rule to this day, with other brothers being sent to rule Yunnan, Annam, Lanna, Ayutthaya, Khammang and Sichuan.”
No one knows whether this is the case, but the Ming Dynasty did identify it according to this genealogy, and based on the customary translation of the Han people, it gave the surname "Dao" to a series of monarchs of the Nanzhang Kingdom - which is Mr. Jin Yong's "Dragon and the Eight" In "Part", the "sword" used by Duan Yu's mother to slash Baifeng.
"Disorder of superiority and inferiority" is a polite way of saying it. The throne of Nanzhang Kingdom was first usurped by the prime minister, and then was vacated by the newly established monarch of Myanmar, Mang Yinglong. This is not what "disorder of superiority and inferiority" is. It is purely "Losing the country".
But the Ming Dynasty only treated the Nanzhang Kingdom as the Lao Xuanweisi, and Gao Pragmatic could not just describe them as one country - as an official with high political consciousness, of course he must "maintain a high degree of consistency with the central government", so All I had to do was vaguely say "disorder of dignity and inferiority".
Fortunately, the two siblings, who had lost their country for ten years, had recently learned a lot about Han culture because they were begging for the Ming Dynasty. In addition, they had received a certain amount of Chinese education when they were young, so they could barely understand the meaning of Gao pragmatism. .
The princess of Nanzhang Kingdom, Biya Jue, clasped her hands together, bent down and saluted, and said: "Yes, Duke Gao, after our father died in the battle, not long after Prime Minister Sensurin usurped the throne, he was attacked several times by the White Elephant King of Burma. Later he died, and the White Elephant King made Wu Balu, our sister and brother's uncle, his puppet... We complained to Yunnan, but Yunnan ignored them, so I had no choice but to raise an army. It was progressing smoothly, but after hearing the news, The White Elephant King was defeated, and now our siblings have no place to go, so we can only come to you to beg you, Gao Gong...I heard that you are a great scholar in this world, so I think you will definitely uphold justice for us, right?"
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