Shacheng is of course not Shabak City. This place is located 120 miles northwest of Zhangjiakou. Not far to the south of this city is Xinghe. Xinghe is an important stop for the Mongols to go to Zhangjiakou for mutual trade.
Shacheng itself was probably near Yuanzhongdu in the past, and in later generations it belonged to Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City.
Yuanzhongdu was founded in July of the 11th year of Dade in the Yuan Dynasty. It is one of the four famous capitals of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
It was built by the great-grandson of Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty. Haishan was eager to build the central capital at that time. In order to speed up the progress, he "sent out 18,500 soldiers from the Sixth Guard Army" and ordered "3,000 soldiers from the Shangdu Guard Army" to join the construction, and "stopped the campaign without haste" to ensure the construction of the central capital. .
The palace city was completed in July of the first year of the Zhida Dynasty. It only took thirteen months from the start of construction to the completion of the palace city. It can be said to have created a miracle of ancient palace architecture. Later, the palace turrets, imperial city and Guocheng were added, making it another imperial capital and royal summer resort and hunting resort after Helin, Shangdu and Dadu during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
However, Yuanzhongdu served as the capital for a short period of time. In the first month of the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Yuan Dynasty died suddenly, and his younger brother Aiyulibali Bada succeeded to the throne. He was very dissatisfied with Emperor Wu Zong's waste of time and money in construction. In order to comply with public opinion, he issued an edict to "strike the capital in the city" shortly after taking the throne.
Zhongdu in the Yuan Dynasty only served as the capital for three years, and after that it was only used as a palace. Later Yuan emperors such as Yuan Yingzong, Tai Zong, Wenzong, Shun Emperor, etc. all came here to visit, discuss politics, and perform Buddhist services. In the 18th year of Zhengzheng Dynasty, Yuanzhong, which had only existed for 50 years, was burned down by the Red Scarf Army and became a ruined site.
Since then, Yuanzhongdu has disappeared in the long river of history. It was not until the 1980s and 1990s that its ruins were rediscovered more than 600 years later.
However, this place has not completely become a civilized desert because its geographical location still has a relatively advantageous location. It is the intersection of farming culture and grassland culture. To the north and west are the vast Monan Mongolian grasslands.
After all, in the Yuan Dynasty, this place, originally called Wangwuchadu, was once a beautiful grassland with vast grassland, numerous lakes, swans and wild geese flying in the sky, and roe deer and wild deer running on the ground.
But when Gao Qingshi came here, he found that it was neither a grassland with lush grass nor the majestic Yuanzhong Capital. All that was left for him to admire and pay homage to were only some broken walls exposed in the long yellow sand.
Fortunately, although Yuanzhongdu was burned down by the Red Turban Army, the wooden buildings were easy to burn, but the city walls made of bricks and loess were not, so there are still some faint traces of the city here.
Yellow sand, ancient city, mottled and dilapidated. This is the Shacheng that Gao Pingshi sees in his eyes right now - no wonder it is now called Shacheng, it is truly an ancient city in the sand.
"Sir, the student has never understood. When Haishan came to the throne, Dayuan already had Dadu and Shangdu, and there was Helin in Mobei. Why was it necessary to build a central capital?"
The person who asked this question was a ten-year-old child. He wore a typical Ming Dynasty costume and spoke Chinese with a Shanxi accent. However, although he was young, he did not ride a pony, but a tall horse. There was no sign of panic on the BMW, as if riding a horse was as easy as walking for him.
This child was Erdemutu, the eldest son of Han Naji, and the "sir" he called could only be Gao Pragmatic, the sixth number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty.
Later generations know very little about the history of the Yuan Dynasty, and the same goes for Gao Pragmatism. In fact, there are many problems in the national histories of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, there are too few materials in the Yuan and Song histories, and the Ming history in the Qing has been tampered with too much. The problem with the Ming and Yuan histories is that the compilation time was too hasty, so that Most of them are compiled using ready-made historical materials such as epitaphs, Shinto tablets, family biographies, and travel narratives. Moreover, the historians are not even given the time to cut and carve them out of many hands, so it inevitably contains many confusing places.
If they are copied as they come, they are repeated back and forth, and they are lost in tailoring; they are not mutually correct, and when they examine similarities and differences, they often see contradictions.
For example, a chronicle may be written once about one event, and a biography may be written twice by one person. The same proper name has different translations. Translations of historical texts sometimes completely contradict the original meaning. Following the text of the documents, official titles such as Geng Shenzheng, Tian Situ, and Hao Shenzheng appeared in "Hequ Zhi" and "Sacrifice Zhi" without recording their names. In addition, the chronology of the prime ministers was compiled based on the case slips, and only their official titles were deleted without verification, so that they had surnames but no names.
And so on and so forth.
However, this was the Ming Dynasty after all, and when Gao Jingshi, a Hanlin official, was compiling the "Da Ming Huidian", he inevitably had to check the history of the Yuan Dynasty, so his level of Yuan history was much improved than before time travel.
Fortunately, it has improved, otherwise this high school student who was praised by Han Naji as "the most talented student in the world" in front of his son would lose face in front of the new students today?
Gao Pragmatic walked freely, looking at the ruined capital of the ancient Yuan Dynasty as if visiting a tourist attraction, and said gently: "The question you asked starts with Haishan's fight for the throne."
Erdemutu had asked his father Bhannaji the same question before, but Bhannaji was a strange person. He didn’t know as much about the history of the Yuan Dynasty as he did about the Ming Dynasty, so naturally he couldn’t answer his son’s question, so now As soon as Gao Pragmatic spoke this way, Erdemutu was overjoyed and politely raised his hands and said, "Please give me some advice, sir."
Gao Pragmatic nodded secretly. Apart from anything else, this boy had inherited the virtues of respecting culture from his father.
"In February of the 11th year of Dade, the second emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Chengzong Tiemu'er, died of illness. His crown prince Deshou died young and had no other heirs, so the throne became vacant. According to the old Mongolian system, the queen of the palace was temporarily responsible for the divination. As the regent of Luhan, she will convene the ministers of the clan to hold a Kulitai meeting and choose a new king." Gao pragmatically put what he learned into practical use, taking a little bit of Yuan history he learned the year before, and began to talk about it in front of the students.
"Buluhan and the Prime Minister Ahutai on the left planned to support Chengzong's cousin King Ananda of Anxi as king, so they called him to the capital to assist in the government; while the Prime Minister Hara Hasun on the right tried to support the Haishan brothers. So Hara Ha Sun and Ayulibali Bada, who rushed back to Beijing from Huaizhou first, launched a coup and arrested Queen Bruhan, Left Prime Minister Ahutai and Ananda - both of whom were later executed.
At this time, King Huaining Haishan was still in Qinghai. Harahasun and other kings Kuokuochu, Yahudu and others wanted to make Haishan's younger brother Aiyulibali Bada the emperor, but they were forced to do so because of the power of his eldest brother Haishan. Due to the military pressure, Ayu Lebalibada did not succeed to the throne, but only took charge of the government in the name of supervising the country, and later supported his eldest brother Haishan as emperor.
In May of the eleventh year of Dade, Haishan ascended the throne in Xanadu. In order to repay his younger brother Aiyu Libalibada for his support, he was named the crown prince and received the Zhongshu Ling. …
But regarding this point, you are a Mongolian, and you should have heard about what happened next. In the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Da, Yuan Wuzong Haishan died suddenly, and Aiyu Libalibada came to the throne as Renzong. He reigned for nine years, but after his death The throne was not passed on to Wuzong's son He Shixuan as agreed, but to his son Shuode Bala, breaking the oath passed down from uncle to nephew. This approach also led to the brutal and bloody struggle for throne in the Yuan Dynasty that lasted for twenty years..."
Erdemutu nodded and said, "Yes, students know these things."
Gao Pragmatic nodded lightly and continued: "After Haishan ascended the throne, in order to get rid of the constraints of the old aristocrats of Xanadu and Dadu, establish his own authority as soon as possible, and conveniently contact the Mongolian kings and aristocrats during the expedition in Mobei, so he took the throne only ten days after he ascended the throne. An imperial edict was issued to "build a palace in the place where Wangwucha was the capital, and establish the palace as the central capital".
However, Haishan himself was too indulged in wine and sex. On the eighth day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of his reign, Haishan, who had been in power for less than four years, unexpectedly died suddenly in the Jade Hall of Dadu at the age of thirty-one. After the death of Yuan Wuzong, his younger brother Aiyulibali Bada succeeded to the throne as Yuan Renzong. After Renzong succeeded to the throne, he quickly announced that he would not build the central capital, but it was still used as a palace. Many subsequent emperors also visited here to visit and discuss politics. In the eighteenth year of Zhizheng, the Red Scarf Army burned down the Zhongdu Palace and turned it into an abandoned site. Well, it is the Shacheng in front of us now. "
Erdemutu said thoughtfully: "In other words, the situation of Haishan building Zhongdu is similar to the situation when Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty went to Jiangdu?"
Gao Jingshi was startled for a moment, then laughed: "Do you still know about Emperor Sui Yang?"
Erdemutu raised his chest slightly: "Of course I know."
Gao pragmatic smiled and asked: "Why do you think Yang?"
"Uh..." Erdemutu was speechless for a moment, scratched his head and said, "I don't know about this, but it is definitely not a good posthumous title."
"The "Posthumous Law" says: "Being good at home and being far away from the rites is called Yang; going out to pay homage to the people far away is called Yang; going against the will of heaven and abusing the people is called Yang; being fond of great and unruly politics is called Yang; being ruthless and ungrateful is called Yang; being away from a virtuous and desolate country is called Yang." Gao Gao After speaking pragmatically, he glanced at Erdemutu: "Do you think this evil posthumous title given by Li Tang is suitable for Yang Guang?"
"It seems quite suitable, right?" Erdemutu was still scratching his head.
Gao Pragmatic did not bluntly say whether he was suitable or not, but said: "Yang Guang's posthumous title of 'Yang' was given by Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty. In fact, Yang Guang had three other posthumous titles with completely different meanings.
The first one is that after Yang Tong, the Yue king who stayed in the eastern capital, succeeded to the throne, he gave Yang Guang the posthumous title "Ming" and the temple name Shizu. This should be regarded as the most formal posthumous title. In other words, Yang Guang should be the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Ming.
Coincidentally, after Wang Shichong usurped the throne and established Zhengzhou, and killed Yang Tong, he gave Yang Guang the same posthumous title as Li Yuan gave Yang You, both "Gong", that is, Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty.
In addition, after Xia King Dou Jiande heard that Wang Shichong had usurped the throne, he severed ties with him and gave Yang Guang the posthumous title "Min", which was Emperor Min of the Sui Dynasty. Mutu, do you know the difference between these four posthumous titles? Why did different people give him different posthumous names? "
Erdemutu shook his head and said: "The difference must be good and bad, but students don't know why the difference is so big."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "Without him, his nectar is my poison, and vice versa. Yang, the focus is on coma and violence; Ming, the focus is on merit and karma; Gong, the focus is on yielding and humility; Min , the focus is on thoughts and sorrow.”
Erdemutu didn't seem to understand, but was still a little confused, and asked: "Then why is the focus different?"
Gao pragmatic replied: "Li Yuan raised troops to rebel against the Sui Dynasty because his ministers rebelled. He had to emphasize that what Yang Guang did was outrageous and his destiny was no longer in the Sui Dynasty, so he focused on Yang Guang's coma and violence; King Yang Tong of Yue was the orthodox of the Sui Dynasty, so he naturally wanted to Emphasizing Yang Guang's merits and deeds; Wang Shichong usurped the throne, and in order to gain some legitimacy, he had to emphasize Yang Guang's concessions and humility; Dou Jiande claimed to be a loyal person, and Yang Guang was his old emperor after all, so he emphasized his respect for Yang Guang Thoughts and sorrows.”
When he said this, he laughed: "You see, a person has so many completely different images in the eyes of different people, so it is very difficult to make a final conclusion."
Erdemutu thought about it thoughtfully, and suddenly asked nervously: "Sir, tell me, in the future Erchige..."
"Your father?" Gao Pingshi smiled: "If he wins this battle, I guarantee that he will have a good posthumous title."
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