"Uncle Tang, since this place is a cave mountain, why did the plank road of the Ming Dynasty have to be built here? Are they not afraid of what is in these cave mountains?"
Song Siyuan looked at the map and could easily see that the Yungu Plank Road crossed the Kushan area, which also meant that the Wanyanku Mountain could be seen from the entire Yungu journey. Such a weird and strange place, and the ancients were so superstitious, how could they choose this kind of place? Build hundreds of miles of plank roads in unlucky places.
Old Man Tang thought he knew the reason, coughed a few times, and explained to them the reason why the Yungu Plank Road was built here.
Since ancient times, the Qinling Mountains have stretched for thousands of miles and are steep. Baoxie Road and Chencang Road are the most special!
Let’s talk about Chen Cangdao first.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were fighting for the world. Xiang Yu personally organized the Hongmen Banquet in order to kill Liu Bang's dog. He saw Xiang Yu's intentions and left the Hongmen Banquet on the pretext of peeing and escaped back to the Hanzhong fiefdom via the Qinling Plank Road.
Although Liu Bang claimed to the outside world that he would never leave Hanzhong, secretly he had been building plank roads and secretly visiting Chencang. This paralyzed Guanzhong, and then he had the opportunity to attack the east and west by making excuses, and pacify the Three Qin Dynasties in one fell swoop.
Chencang Road has since been called the Qinling Ancient Road!
As for Baoxie Dao, it has a close relationship with Pre-Qin Dynasty.
Rumor has it that Baoxie Road was a product of the era of Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. It was built as a plank road during the period of Xia Yu. During the period of King Huiwen of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, Fan Ju served as a general and prime minister in order to develop economic and trade exchanges between Qin and Bashu, making everyone in the world aware of Qin's history. Shenwei decided to rebuild the Baoxie Road, widen the originally narrow plank road to three meters, and set up a wide range of post battles for traders to rest.
From then on, Shu Han merchants and department stores were continuously transported to Guanzhong. It also became an important route for economic and trade exchanges between the north and the south and for military garrison. It is known as "a thousand-mile plank road that leads to everything". The golden bull that destroyed the Bashu Kingdom came from Here you can enter Sichuan and Shu via the Jiange Road in Hanzhong!
There are endless allusions to the ancient roads of Qin and Han Dynasties, so let’s not talk about it for now, let’s go back to Wanyanku Mountain.
Wanyan Cave Mountain is located to the west of Qinling Mountains, at the southern foot of the mountain between Chencang Road and Baoxie Road. This place was famous for its mysterious cave mountain thousands of years ago.
Their records can be traced back to the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. It is said that Xia Yu built the Baoxie Road in order to dig up mountains in the Qinling Mountains to get stones to smelt the Jiuding. These caves were the caves left when he was knocking out the raw materials for the Jiuding. Some people also say that the Qin and Han Dynasties built the Sword Pavilion. Tens of thousands of soldiers died during the Taoist period, and their souls rested in the cave as tens of thousands of cave spirits. What's more, it is rumored that this is the heart of the Qinling Mountains, where the old gods of the Qinling Mountains live, making it the most taboo place in the world.
It is so complex that there are different opinions. No one knows how long this cave has existed, let alone its purpose. And because of the treacherous mountain terrain, wild animals and birds often build nests in the caves and remain entrenched. Once a living person enters the cave mountain, Nearby, the most common sounds heard were the roars of strange beasts and the chirping of birds. If wild beasts roared in the cave, it would add a touch of terror.
In this case, Kushan is actually more like a ghost cave in the eyes of ordinary people. Not many people are willing to take the initiative to come. This is also because there are few people and few villages. Once people get near Kushan, they often get lost and are killed by wild beasts and raptors. He was so attacked that he never left Cave Mountain again.
To this day, no one has ever been able to walk through the entire cave unscathed.
It can be said that Kushan is not mysterious at all because of the Ancestral Line Soul Palace. Instead, the Soul Palace is built deep in the Kushan Mountain. This ensures that it will never be discovered by outsiders and can still exist with the Qinling Ancestral Line to this day. Even if it is heard Without the legend of the Soul Palace, anyone who sees these caves will only think that they are ghost caves and lairs of spirits.
In this case, the cave is actually more terrifying than the Soul Palace. After all, the Soul Palace is just a palace built by the Tang Dynasty. It has a name and a reason. The people are just curious and fearful of the Soul Palace instead of being frightened. It really makes them feel scared. What frightened Ma was always the cave of unknown origin.
After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chencang Road and Baoxie Road were still used as important passages for goods entering and exiting the south. After the development of north-south trade, bandits in the mountains saw the profits, and gradually entangled the grassroots people who fled their homes and gathered into villages to make a living by robbing merchants along the way. .
Even if a businessman escorts a cart of rice bran, he has to catch a handful to feed the livestock. In this case, even if the businessman really wants to do business, he will be stopped because of the rebellion of bandits. These bandits know that the Qinling Mountains are mountainous, so they use it to The Wanyan Cave Mountain between the two roads was used as a stronghold. They occupied the mountain to set up strongholds and waved flags at the entrance of the cave. The imperial court sent troops to suppress the bandits many times, but failed because of the many caves in the cave mountain. The government never knew where the caves where these bandits were hiding were. Which one, not to mention a lot of manpower and material resources, was not even able to catch a single bandit.
Later, Liu Bowen looked at the mountain and found that the evil atmosphere in Kushan was strong and the righteousness was absent. He thought that it was the strong evil energy that attracted bandits. In order to completely solve the banditry problem in the Qinling Mountains, he proposed to the Emperor Taizu of the Zhu Dynasty to rebuild the Yungu plank road to protect the freight on the pass. At the same time, the plank road is used as a sword to cross the Kushan Mountain to suppress the evil spirits in the Kushan Mountain.
After him, the Zhu Dynasty officials rebuilt the Yungu plank road during the Hongwu period, connecting Fenghuang Post and Wusheng Post with 2,275 post pavilions, and monitored the entire Kushan area with 400 miles of plank road. From then on, bandits disappeared , it is no longer possible to threaten the freight artery.
If Phoenix Station is compared to the hilt of a sword, Wu Shengyi happens to be the tail of the sword, like a sword piercing the cave mountain, so that it will be suppressed by the sword forever, and there is no possibility of doing evil again.
