Kaifeng Bianliang is an ancient city. Legend has it that Bi Gonggao, the son of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, built the city here not long after the founding of the Zhou Dynasty. The name of Kaifeng originated from the Spring and Autumn Period. Because Zheng Zhuanggong chose this place to build a granary storage city, it took the meaning of "opening up the frontier" and named it "Kaifeng".
During the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, Kaifeng was renamed "Kaifeng" to avoid the name taboo of Emperor Jing Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty. During the Warring States Period, King Hui of Wei moved the capital here and named it "Daliang". During the Five Dynasties, Liang Taizu established the capital in Kaifeng and renamed it "Eastern Capital".
Later Han, Later Zhou and Song Dynasty were all called - Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo.
There are many lakes and rivers here, with a mild climate, sufficient rainfall, and four distinct seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. However, the large population and tall buildings have caused some rivers in the city to be covered by the reflections of the eaves on both sides, and the water surface can be seen almost all year round. No sunlight.
The steps of Huanxi extend into the water, and the steps of the other house can be connected to the steps of this house on the river bed.
Every early morning, figures carrying hot water hawking are all over the streets and alleys. The flavors of thousands of meals and snacks fill the luxurious pavilions and ordinary people's houses, enough to arouse anyone's appetite. .
The gardens, mountains, lakes, buildings and pavilions built by the emperors of the Song Dynasty have become the most dazzling embellishments of this city, either low-key after vicissitudes of life or timeless.
The wealth among the states in the world flows endlessly between water and land, and is concentrated in this extremely rich and plump city.
So, when the city was broken, every soldier in the attacking army looked at such a city with red eyes in shock, hunger, and disbelief.
Even the war horses under their crotches were neighing impatiently, trampling on the ancient bricks and stones with hidden moss, and charging and driving the people in the city wantonly.
They came from the Kingdom of Jin and suddenly rose up in the bitter cold mountains and rivers. They swept across the earth like a storm, destroyed the Liao Dynasty, and then came to the Song Dynasty.
The prosperity of Bianliang was unparalleled by any place in the Liao Kingdom. After the city was broken, even their generals lost control of the soldiers and could only let these people wreak havoc in the city and rob them of their favorite things. They ravage the women they like and kill the men, old people and children they find an eyesore.
Of course, their general had no intention of restraining them, and only some of his close friends, the Golden Soldiers, rushed into the palace and plundered the most elite and finest part of Bianliang's wealth.
The eunuchs and maids were all wailing in panic and running away, and then they were stopped, robbed and killed. Like quails that had lost the ability to think, they fell weakly to the ground and tremblingly had their belongings taken away and peeled off. Clothes on the body.
The officials of the Song Dynasty, who were so majestic that they could suppress their own generals with just a single order, behaved equally badly.
In the Song Dynasty, when the entire city was captured, the dynasty's luck flew away like a wailing rain of blood. Not to mention condensing the luck and magic, even if they were allowed to follow their usual habit of using official power to impact other people's minds. , can't do it.
The young emperor was still blessed by luck, but when he was pulled off his horse by the leader of the Golden Army, the remaining luck only prevented him from being beaten to death on the ground.
Even the Supreme Emperor Daojun, who had abdicated the throne, was picked out, dragged through the palaces, crawling on his knees, and became one of the prisoners.
The bloody setting sun shone on the capital city, and the stacked eaves collapsed and burned down, so that the water surface could finally reflect this ominous sunlight.
The bloody sun was speechless, silently witnessing a brutal and bloody carnival, until the soldiers and horses of the Kingdom of Jin reluctantly left here.
Of course they didn't leave empty-handed. In addition to their property, they also had prisoners.
Along the way, they were supervised by General Zong Wang of the Kingdom of Jin, including Emperor Daojun, Empress Zheng and their princes, grandsons, consorts, princesses, concubines, etc., and went north along Huazhou.
The other route led Zong Han into custody, including the young emperor Zhao Huan, Empress Zhu, the prince, the clan, Sun Fu, Zhang Shuye, Qin Hui and others along the north route of Zhengzhou.
In these teams, there were also thousands of musicians and skilled craftsmen captured by the Jin soldiers. They brought books, maps, treasures and artifacts, and no less than 100,000 men and women returned north.
Many people in the team died every day, being dumped on the roadside, thrown into the water, naked, covered with bruises, and many others were thrown into the pot.
Emperor Zhao Huan of the Song Dynasty huddled in such a team, terrified and unable to sleep every night, and sobbing from time to time. However, he also had the opportunity to see the decayed battlefield and the traces of the Jin soldiers who defeated the Song army when they came.
The Jin soldiers practice magic methods that have disappeared in history. They don't know where they got the mysterious method of exploring mineral veins, and they became so prosperous that even the country's name was "Jin".
But their original territory was too small. The attacks on Liao and Song Dynasties, and the months and months of battles, were not enough time for them to rely on the output of the mines to push all the soldiers to the level of elite demon soldiers.
The soldiers and horses of Song and Liao relied on the dynasty's luck method and should have been able to compete with them. After all, it had been proven during the Han Dynasty that the potential of the dynasty's luck method was by no means inferior to the magic method.
Even though the Liao Dynasty was in constant internal strife and was besieged by the Song and Jin Dynasties, it lost its opportunity. However, on the Song side, although the emperor was mediocre, there were still many virtuous ministers and generals who could play their part.
However, both Song and Liao were defeated, which has always puzzled many people in the court.
Only when Zhao Huan saw the traces of the battlefield and saw the white bones exposed in the wild where the Jin soldiers passed, not a single survivor left, and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, did he understand why.
Because Jin Bing not only has magic skills, but also dynasty luck, which is the dark side of luck. Some benevolent emperors and powerful monarchs in the past have been determined to hide it, so that later emperors will not The knowing side.
The Dynasty Qi Luck method is the ultimate heresy, manipulating people's hearts and collecting the thoughts of the masses to gain power. However, these thoughts can be positive, loved and recognized by the people, or they can be negative, feared and resented by the people.
Wherever the iron hooves of the Jin soldiers passed, the places they fell, and the fear of the survivors of the Song Dynasty all became the material of the Jin soldiers.
Side ways, side ways!
Even when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was at his peak in the Spring and Autumn Period, he never thought of naming this dynasty's luck method as the righteous and royal way. This is why.
Zhao Huan was confused and seemed to understand these things, but it was meaningless. He became a prisoner and was imprisoned in different places and suffered humiliation.
Two years or three years passed in a state of confusion? He couldn't remember much, but he remembered hearing a lot of things.
For example, the secret method of the Jin Kingdom was originally buried in the Changbai Lake and was beaten by Wanyan Agu.
For another example, the nobles of the Jin Kingdom also began to learn the ways of enjoying themselves in the Song Dynasty. There seemed to be a different atmosphere among the military and officials.
But these are meaningless.
The reason why Zhao Huan's life is still maintained is simply because he dare not die.
Another nobleman from the Kingdom of Jin came to the place where he was imprisoned. They stopped their horses and laughed from a distance. The once young Emperor of the Song Dynasty, whose pampered face had become thin, pale and haggard.
Emperor Tianming stood on a tall building, overlooking the pale face in the distance, with no wave in his eyes.
That was himself in the previous life, let's call it the past life, because after being imprisoned for an unknown period of time, when he opened his eyes again, Zhao Huan found that he had returned to the period when he was still the prince.
At that time, he questioned whether everything around him was true or false. Even if every eye, ear, tongue, nose, touch, and touch in the palace were telling him the word "reality," he still couldn't escape the nightmare of the past, so much so that he cried in terror at night. Call.
Even though he later used the information he knew in his previous life to do many things, ascended to the throne in advance, and destroyed the Wanyan family, the panic and hatred in his heart were still not completely eliminated during the first three years after he ascended the throne.
But now, Emperor Tianming looked at his former self and his former enemies, and he was no longer moved.
He was just distracted and thinking about some things while he was practicing, and randomly drew a scene from his memory as a place for thinking.
When Emperor Tian Ming deliberately opened his eyes, all the surrounding streets and buildings collapsed silently. The enemies and nobles of the Jin Kingdom, the parents, wives and daughters of the past, and the old self.
Even in the far distance of this dream, the scarred Bianliang City was destroyed like smoke.
What caught his eyes was today's Bianliang, and today's imperial garden.
This city is not so quiet and luxurious. Instead, it is filled with the mineral smell of demonic turbidity. The dynasty's fortune that only a few people can see in the sky is not so sad and raining blood. Instead, it is sending out extremely vicious pain. groan.
It was this dragon's roar that made Emperor Tianming wake up with a frown on his face.
Among the colorful smoke and clouds of the dynasty's luck, there is a bloated and huge golden dragon hidden. Its body is covered with blood-colored mottled marks. After being hurt, there is no sadness, only anger.
Its right front paw has been completely shattered, the other three claws are also damaged, and the dragon horns on its head have become incomplete.
This morning, the golden dragon, which represented the destiny of the dynasty, was already like this. The complete collapse of the dragon's claws meant the defeat of the Liangshan battlefield.
It was clear that the situation was good before, but overnight, the army of 100,000 was defeated.
At that time, the emperor was so furious that he almost issued an order to mobilize 100,000 forbidden troops, and then transferred half of the 300,000 border troops back, marching under the stars and night, and marching in person.
However, Li Gang and others tried their best to persuade them, saying that the border troops should not move lightly and at least prepare food and grass first. They also said that time should be set aside for Han Shizhong to prepare in advance and use the remaining troops to rearrange defenses to prevent Liao raids and so on.
After a tumultuous early morning meeting, the emperor actually changed his order temporarily and only mobilized the imperial army first, leaving Han Shizhong five days to deploy defense and another twenty days to raise food and grass, allowing them to divide the frontier army into two by the end of the month. Move 150,000 people to Liangshan.
This was not simply because of Li Gang's persuasion, but because the emperor thought for himself and found that there was nothing wrong with letting the war in the Song Dynasty continue for a while.
The method of dynasty luck, whether it is the positive or the dark side, is actually very difficult to grasp.
How difficult it is to form a positive and prosperous dynasty. Just look at the history books and you will know that there are only a few people throughout the ages. Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who pioneered this method could not maintain the prosperity in his later years and was burdened with some stigma. The difficulties are self-evident.
As for a foolish emperor like Emperor Daojun, don't talk about prosperity. He can't even grasp the dark side of the dynasty's destiny.
The lives of ordinary people are like weeds. Even if the emperor is in power, as long as they can barely survive, they will have very little hatred, because all their energy is used to maintain their livelihood, and it is difficult to have time to hate.
Moreover, they have too little knowledge to tell the source of the things that make their lives difficult. They cannot find the direction of their hatred, and naturally they cannot provide the luck of the dark side.
After Emperor Tianming figured this out, he sighed in his heart more than once, "What a pariah!!", so he deliberately kept Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other six thieves, and first captured them and then released them, just to make them good. Use the means of persecuting the people.
The current mining system, which is full of loopholes and allows local governments to raise private soldiers and exploit minerals layer by layer, was established by these six guys at the emperor's request.
In this way, those who have gained will support the imperial court, and their accumulated wealth and private soldiers will become the oxen and horses that protect the imperial court when necessary.
And the people all know who to resent.
Why is life getting harder and harder? Because all the young and strong people were dragged to the mines.
Why are there fewer and fewer people in the family? Because those who went to the mines died there, and those who came back also died of illness.
They were finally able to figure out this most obvious and simple logic, and they were finally forced to the point where they couldn't survive even if they tried hard, so they could only hate it.
Emperor Tianming was very satisfied with this.
But when the war broke out, he discovered that with rebellions and wars everywhere, the dark side luck of the people of the Song Dynasty could be more effective.
As long as they don't let their rebellion succeed, the emperor's cultivation will be faster if this war continues for a while.
It was originally expected that it would take about ten years to reach the realm of ascension, but now this time is constantly shortening.
"If I can really ascend this year, then even if the war drags on and rots until the Song Dynasty cannot be saved at all, it won't be a problem."
Emperor Tianming tasted the fine wine made from the hardware and medicinal stones, and listened to the sound of the Forbidden Army being mobilized closely in the distance, feeling relaxed and content in his heart.
In the five-color smoke cloud invisible to the naked eyes of the common people, the blood-spotted golden dragon rolled, and the endless dark dragon energy, like a blood-colored waterfall, fell from the nine heavens and poured into the emperor's body.
The refined mineral pills and French wine stored in every corner of the palace also turned into long demonic essence, infiltrated from the ground, and belonged to the only person in the palace who was qualified to enjoy the treasure.
He lowered his eyes, and in the only sliver of his eyelids, the deepest desire that demanded to be realized at the cost of all the blood and tears flowed thickly and slowly.
"After ascending, if I look back, can I see the two Great Song Dynasties..."
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In the Liangshan River, Guan Luoyang continued to activate his Lihuo Golden Eyes for several hours, scanning the vast smoke waves.
After a long time, he stretched out his hand and a figure emerged from the water, and he caught him and fell to the shore.
"call!"
Guan Luoyang heaved a tired breath, and then smiled at the soldiers waiting on the shore, "This is the last one who fell into a coma and fell into the water. Send him to Mr. Gongsun and the others for treatment quickly."
"Others can take a little rest and bury the dead. Even if they are enemy soldiers, many of them just don't have the chance to choose."
Many soldiers nodded.
On the mountain road, Li Kaixian hurried over and said: "Big leader, there is a group of people who claim to be envoys from the Liao Kingdom and are here to visit."
