"What's the secret?" Yue Guanchao became curious.
"Secrets about the Liu and Song royal families of the Southern Dynasties."
Song Siyuan continued to explain: "Back then, the Liu Song royal family divided the world equally with the Northern Wei Dynasty based on the south of the river. The Jianghan Plain was naturally a marching camp, where the main force of the Northern Expedition was stationed. It could be said to be the frontline base camp for the Beifu Army to fight against the barbarians. At that time, Jianghan was still It doesn’t exist, only the Beifu Camp is stationed near Xiangyang, and a strange thing happened here.”
Back then, when Liu Yu established the Liu Song Dynasty, at night at the Xiangyang Beifu Camp, you could always hear the sound of marching horses and chariots.
Many soldiers saw with their own eyes some souls dressed in Han army uniforms, roaring to the sky at night, marching in formation, and even if they followed the sound out of the camp, they could see many souls wandering in the official road, carrying banners, food, and generals. , soldiers gathered together.
It can be said that they are no different from a real marching array, except that they are obviously not living people, and are likely to be Yin soldiers passing through.
There are more and more such things, and Liu Yu feels that this matter is not simple!
First, the location of Xiangyang is too special. Outside of Xiangyang, it is basically the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty. If something goes wrong here, it is very likely to arouse the morale of the military. By then, there may not be any trouble, just in case the Northern Wei Dynasty takes advantage of it again. , doesn’t that mean the battle line is unstable?
Secondly, the crossing of Yin soldiers is not a trivial matter. Since ancient times, whenever Yin soldiers cross the border, it must be a serious injustice, or the dead soldiers have unrealized wishes and are entrenched in the world and do not want to leave. Such frequent Yin soldiers crossing the border, There must be a reason, and this is also an explanation for the people near Xiangyang.
Thirdly, after Liu Yu established the Liu Song Dynasty, he always had the idea of the Northern Expedition while he could still fight. Otherwise, he would not have relied so much on the Beifu Army to station a large number of soldiers in the Jianghan Plain, and personally served as the Beifu General. All of his actions They all show that the establishment of the Liu Song Dynasty is just the beginning. His subsequent plan is to seek the Bei people's kingdom and drive these barbarians back to the Central Plains!
How could the Northern Wei Dynasty not know Liu Yu's intention to point his sword towards the north and regain the Central Plains?
At this time, the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty were no longer idlers. They successively destroyed Xia, Beiyan, Beiliang, Kumoxi, Gaoche, Rouran and Houyan, and had completely unified the north. The Liu Song Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty were in confrontation between the north and the south. It's about deciding the winner.
Since both sides understand that the other side is bound to decide the outcome, even if the war has not yet begun, there must be many tricks behind it. When Liu Yu saw the Yin soldiers crossing the border in Xiangyang, he already realized the conspiracy behind the strange phenomenon. , fearing that the Northern Wei Dynasty had done some weird tricks, they sent many Feng Shui masters to Xiangcheng to check the situation.
When those capable people arrived in Xiangyang, they determined that this was a crossing of Yin soldiers. However, the cause was not clear, and they did not know why Yin soldiers always moved in the southwest direction. If all Yin soldiers had a fixed direction, That probably means that there is probably something in the southwest.
These Feng Shui masters found the local people, and after some questioning, they discovered that to the southwest of Xiangyang City is Shennongjia, with the highest peak of Shennongding on it, which can be seen even from Xiangyang.
With these words, the Feng Shui master seemed to understand that all the Yin soldiers seemed to have gone to Shennongjia. They were surprised and also a little curious.
Why do a large number of Yin soldiers appear at this time? Why did the Yin soldiers enter the Shennongjia forest area? What happened to these sinister soldiers after they went to Shennongjia?
If these questions are not resolved, it will be impossible to explore why the Yin soldiers are crossing the border. Some brave Feng Shui masters have no choice but to cover up their living auras and follow these Yin soldiers to the southwest.
After walking about a hundred miles to the Shennongjia Forest, the Yin soldiers disappeared immediately as they walked into the forest area. They even disappeared without a trace in front of them.
This state of completely disappearing in a certain section at the same time was like there was an invisible door in front of them, sucking all these Yin soldiers in. They could clearly feel that the Yin soldiers did not disappear or hide, but were captured by someone. The world is drawn into areas they cannot see.
These Feng Shui masters noticed something was wrong. When they followed the Yin soldiers into the forest area, they found that the surroundings were just ordinary wild forests with nothing special.
This aroused the curiosity of the Feng Shui master!
These people themselves know that people have souls, but they all think that the place of souls is the underworld, not other worlds. Seeing the Yin soldiers entering Shennongjia and disappearing, they are sure that there must be a world in Shennongjia that can absorb souls.
After returning, these people began to inquire about the situation near Shennongjia and Xiangyang. The records in the county annals and the oral records of the people were different. After careful investigation, they still found some clues.
Shennongjia is the courtyard of Shennong, and Wushan to the west is the cave of the Wushan Goddess. The Wushan Goddess happens to be the daughter of Emperor Yan Shennong, so Shennongjia is also the courtyard of the Wushan Goddess. These souls probably entered the Wushan Ghost Mansion.
Each of these statements is bizarre in its own way, and there are even interesting and contradictory legends. Feng Shui masters only regard it as a collection of anecdotes and do not take it seriously. What they really want to ask about are these Yin soldiers.
Although they can see the Yin soldiers at night, they cannot appear directly in front of the Yin soldiers, let alone have any communication with the Yin soldiers. At the same time, the Yin soldiers cannot see them to some extent, and can only see them under special conditions. The way they look!
For these Feng Shui masters, the worlds of Yin soldiers and living people are similar to the human world and the underworld. In most cases, there will be no intersection. Only under special conditions can the two worlds intersect. , usually, if you want someone to explore these worlds, you can only turn to certain things or certain people.
In other words, they must find a shaman who can channel spirits so that things from the two worlds can briefly intersect or even communicate.
This point is not the strong point of these Feng Shui masters. At most, they can control Feng Shui and resolve disasters. If they want to communicate with Yin soldiers, they must be capable or expert.
The Jianghan Plain is the old land of the Three Chu culture, and the Chinese people are especially fond of witchcraft. In order to find out where the Yin soldiers went, they found a Wu Zhu goddess in the Jianghan Plain. After a conversation with these Feng Shui masters, Wu Zhu also understood that they wanted to capture Live with some Yin soldiers and ask them to find out the truth about going to Shennongjia.
The goddess said bluntly that it was easy to communicate with the Yin soldiers, but it was too difficult to catch the Yin soldiers. After all, the world where the Yin soldiers lived was not the human world. They had no choice but to listen to the goddess and take advantage of her fate. The magic, separated from the body, came to the cave near Shennongjia under the guidance of the goddess.
Here, they saw countless Yin soldiers, and also saw many scenes that were completely different from the mortal world. This place was magical like Peach Blossom Spring and the Cave of Immortals. When they went back, these people could not help but ask these Yin soldiers why they appeared so frequently in the human world. .
When the Yin soldiers explained the reason, they realized that almost all of these Yin soldiers were soldiers and civilians who died in the Northern Expedition.
As mentioned earlier, after Yiguan moved south, most northern people fled to the south of the Yangtze River. When the Northern Army was established in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, many exiled northerners became soldiers. In this way, they could not only beg for food but also reimburse their country and contribute to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.
However, from the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Liu and Song Dynasties in which they lived, the royal family and the Jiangnan clan organized seven or eight Northern Expeditions in the past century with the intention of regaining their homeland. Each time they failed to succeed. On the contrary, many loyal court officials were killed and injured because of the Northern Expedition. The morale of the soldiers in Beifu was greatly reduced.
The reason is that the Eastern Jin Dynasty royal family and the Jiangnan clan were unwilling to fight the barbarians in the north. They preferred to live in peace and quiet in the south of the Yangtze River. The low morale from top to bottom and the chaos of the powerful officials had already made the Eastern Jin Dynasty a mess. It is also powerless.
The prosperity of the people was miserable, and the death of the common people was miserable. The royal family kept saying that they wanted to go to the Northern Expedition, but when the war was actually fought, it was the people on the front lines who were dying, causing the lives of soldiers and civilians to die. Over the past hundred years, hundreds of thousands of innocent souls were buried along the river.
It can be said that all these Yin soldiers died because of the Northern Expedition. These Feng Shui masters speculated that these Beifu soldiers and people missed their homeland, and their obsession after death was so profound that even after they became Yin soldiers, they were still practicing marching. He has never stopped marching since his death.
This means that the Yin soldiers have been crossing the border for more than a hundred years. It should be that some changes occurred in Shennongjia, which allowed these Yin soldiers to be seen by living people, which triggered countless speculations.
After the Feng Shui masters returned, they reported what they saw and heard to Liu Yu. Only then did he realize that the cause of the Yin soldiers was the remnant of the unfavorable Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty for a hundred years.
For the current plan, if we want to make the Yin soldiers give up their obsession, they can only recover the Central Plains and sacrifice the ghosts and gods in all directions at the same time. In this way, these Yin soldiers will lose their obsession and be reincarnated, or they can only use Feng Shui. Come and suppress Shennongjia, so that the two worlds can be completely separated.
Whether it is to restore military morale or to appease the people, Liu Yu must choose one of these two options, otherwise, the Yin soldiers' affairs will only become more mysterious.
However, the Northern Expedition had just ended at this time. If he wanted to use more troops and horses, he might not be able to get what he wanted when the men and horses were exhausted. Liu Yu had no choice but to ask the Feng Shui master to pay tribute to heaven and earth and build a tomb for the sacrificed Beifu troops. The tomb site is Choose Shennongding.
In this way, he commemorated the contribution of the Beifu Army to the stability of the country. At the same time, he also made an agreement with the dead souls of the Beifu that the country would be restored and unified in his hands.
Liu Yu can make such bold words simply because he does have this ability!
At that time, he changed the disastrous outcome of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's multiple Northern Expeditions and snatched the land south of the Yellow River, Shandong, the Guandong Plain, and Huaibei from the hands of the Northern Wei Dynasty. These places were then included in the territory of the Southern Dynasty and became the territory of the Liu Song Dynasty.
At this point, the Eastern Jin Dynasty's century-old cowardice was completely changed by Liu Yu's powerful rule, realizing a territorial pattern of "four out of seven parts of the world"!
This achievement, from the beginning of the Five Hu Dynasty to the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, even Zu Ti, Huan Wen, and Xie An could not achieve his achievements!
He was able to achieve this result, and of course he was very confident in the Northern Expedition. In fact, his cultivation at this time was just to accumulate knowledge.
For this reason, Liu Yu combined his imperial mausoleum and the tomb into one, and only waited for the North to be recovered a hundred years later, and was buried in the tomb himself, bringing the good news of the recovery of his homeland to the Beifu army.
