The whole picture has nothing to do with the Buddhist offering pictures. The color tone is strange and tragic, and it has a tragic feeling of a large army pressing down on the situation. From the drawing of the war scene, it can also be seen that there are many white-haired soldiers. If it were not for the fact that they had run out of ammunition and food, and their troops and horses were exhausted. , The white-haired soldiers will never be allowed to go into battle to kill the enemy. If this happens, it means that the defenders of the city have made plans to fight to the death and destroy the city.
It can also be seen from the nearby people fleeing with their families that Shazhou City probably cannot be defended!
They found a place near the two people who were standing and looking into the distance. They could see an ancient text beside them, written freely on the mural:
In the second year of Jingyou's reign in the Wei Dynasty, on December 13th of Yihai, Zhao Xingde, a member of Tanzhou Prefecture in the Song Dynasty, traveled to Hexi and settled in Shazhou. Now, due to the raids from outside and the chaos in the country, the monks of Dayun Temple and others moved the Bible to the Mogao Grotto and hid it in the wall. So they decided to write a volume of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and place it in the cave. May the city be peaceful and peaceful, and the people may be well and peaceful; secondly, I hope that the little lady from Ganzhou will inherit this good cause, not drown in the netherworld, and have all her karmic obstacles in this world be eliminated, and receive immeasurable blessings and eternal support.
Seeing this, Song Siyuan finally understood the taste, and the doubts in her eyes gradually became clear: "If this is the case, I think I understand why these murals were painted here."
As she spoke, she picked up a flashlight to illuminate the ancient inscriptions written in paint, and explained: "The meaning of these ancient inscriptions is..."
It was the second year of Jingyou, and on December 13th of the Yihai year, Zhao Xingde, a member of the Tanzhou Prefecture of the Song Dynasty, traveled to the Hexi Corridor and happened to live in Shazhou City.
At this time, foreign enemies suddenly invaded the city with their troops, civil riots began to occur in the Shazhou area, and the situation became extremely chaotic. In order to protect the Buddhist classics and scriptures, the monks of Dayun Temple led the monks to collect all information about Buddhist objects. The scriptures were carried into the Mogao Grottoes and the walls were built to cover them in mezzanines.
In order to make a wish, I carefully copied a copy of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and placed it in the mezzanine cover hole. First, I hope that the Eight Ministers of Heaven and Dragon will protect me and bless Shazhou City God and the people in peace. Secondly, I hope that the little lady from Ganzhou will be safe because Because of my good deeds of copying scriptures and collecting books, she no longer has to fall into the netherworld. All the karma and disasters she will experience in this life will be eliminated. From now on, she will enjoy all the blessings in the world and be supported forever.
After Song Siyuan explained the meaning of the ancient text, she basically understood the origin of the grotto in front of her. It is estimated that some monks in the Song Dynasty built mezzanines in the grotto and hid the things in order to protect many Buddhist scriptures. A Song Dynasty man named Zhao Xingde hired craftsmen to create new paintings on the murals to record this historical event.
"Look now? The man and woman on the hill refer to Zhao Xingde and the young lady from Ganzhou, so the owners of this picture are probably the two of them."
"If the Buddhist treasure is really hidden, then where are these scriptures?" Xu Xiake glanced at the mural and asked curiously.
Song Siyuan nodded and looked at everyone: "There is very little information on the mural. It only mentions that foreign enemies invaded the sandbank. The writing is very vague, but based on the year, we can know what happened at that time."
Speaking of this, Song Siyuan pointed to the date: "Judging from the date, the enemy invaded Shazhou in the twelfth month of the second year of Jingyou, which was already the era of the Song Dynasty. I roughly estimated that among the years used by Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen, there was a day They are divided into Sheng, Mingdao, Jingyou, Baoyuan, Kangding, Qingli, Huangyou, Zhihe, and Jiayou. The reign name Jingyou was used for a total of five years, from 1034 to 1038 AD. The second year of Jingyou was probably 1035. The transitional year between 1036 and 1036."
"It means that the exact time when they stored the scriptures was probably during the reign of Renzong Zhao Zhen of the Song Dynasty."
At that time, the outside world of Zhao and Song Dynasties was indeed undergoing drastic changes, and what was related to the Zangjing was the fall of the Guiyi Army.
Going back further, when Taoist Wang introduced the Tubo Pagoda in Hexi, he once told the story of the Tubo occupation of Hexi. Among them, he mentioned the story of the Zhang Yichao family reviving the Tang Dynasty and defending Hexi. However, he did not have time to elaborate on it at the time. Now, this There are two words "Guiyi" in the content of the mural, which must be explained carefully:
After the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo took advantage of the Hexi elite to enter the Guanzhong to suppress the rebellion, cutting off the connection between the Hexi Corridor and Guanzhong. After decades, it gradually encroached on the Hexi states and eventually engulfed the Hexi Corridor.
Since then, Hexi fell to the enemy. As mentioned earlier, the Tubo people's rule over the old land of Hexi was extremely simple and crude. They canceled some administrative structures and replaced them with the pastoral system. They divided Hexi into major pastoral areas and allocated them to the upper-class nobles of the Tubo Kingdom.
On this basis, the people of the Tang Dynasty in the old land of Hexi ushered in the most brutal rule.
According to historical records, in the Hexi states ruled by Tubo, young and strong people were turned into slaves and spent all day grazing, hunting and farming. All their earnings were plundered by the nobles, who could only keep part of the rations to make ends meet. As for the old, weak, sick and disabled who were unable to farm. , they are often beaten and humiliated at will by the supporters and tribes of the nobles, their eyes and feet are gouged out, and countless people are abandoned at will.
This kind of rule can almost be regarded as a regression of civilization. The people of Shazhou missed their homeland even more and refused to obey the Tubo rule. However, the Tubo country was strong at that time, and the people of Shazhou resisted the rule many times, but they were suppressed by the Tubo nobles and could not be relieved. .
It was not until the second year of Dazhong that Tubo's national power began to decline. Coupled with the internal strife among the Tubo nobles, their rule over Hexi was somewhat loosened. At this time, the national fortunes of the Tang Dynasty improved. The Tang Emperor ordered Fengxiang Jiedu to restore Cui Gong. Zhou, Weizhou, Fuzhou and other places, at the same time, also recovered seven passes including Shimen, Yizang, Muxia, Tesheng, Liupan, Shixia and Xiaoguan.
When the national destiny comes, nothing can stop it. The successive victories of the Tang Dynasty generals in the past two or three years have not only allowed the imperial court to see the favorable situation of the national destiny being prosperous, but also made the people realize that the Tubo situation is over. The people of Hexi have continued to struggle for decades. Resisting the rule of Tibet, finally saw a glimmer of victory in the resistance.
They are waiting, waiting for the opportunity that may arise in the next few decades to regain the Tang Dynasty!
Soon, the opportunity will come!
Civil strife in Tubo was frequent, and the generals divided their own territories. The generals discussed the fear of tropical turmoil and led their 5,000 Tubo cavalry all the way from the Tubo Plateau to the Hexi Corridor. Along the way, they looted wealth and continuously invaded the melons, sands, pickles, Kuo, and Gan in Hexi. Waiting for eight states.
The people in Hexi were already very dissatisfied with the brutal rule of the Tibetan aristocrats. Due to the civil strife in Tubo, Kong Re's behavior of continuing to harass the people made the people in Hexi hate him so much that they could not even break their silver teeth to express their hatred.
Zhang Yichao, a wealthy family who grew up in Shazhou, noticed that the behavior of the Tubo nobles and generals had aroused public resentment. In the following year of Dazhong, he spent all his wealth to recruit brave men and led them and the people of Shazhou to fight in Shazhou City. An uprising was launched.
As the old saying goes, if you get good, you will get many help, but if you don't, you will get little help. Zhang Yichao is a resolute and loyal man. His uprising was responded to by hundreds of people, and soon gathered many powerful people who resisted the Tibetan nobles. Even the unarmed people were willing to pick up their bows, arrows, swords and guns, and follow him. Protect the sandbank behind Zhang Yichao and fight against Tibet.
After brave resistance, they expelled the Tibetan defenders located in Shazhou City. These Tubo soldiers did not expect that the people of the Tang Dynasty, who had always been ravaged by them, would become so brave. They were shocked and deeply humiliated. These Tubo generals continued to mobilize surrounding troops. , want to continue to lay down the sandbank and punish the rebels.
Little did they know that Zhang Yichao's rebellion was not a struggle for power by one family, but a last-ditch effort by thousands of families to fight against the enemy and protect their country. If they win, they will restore the country, and if they lose, they will commit suicide.
Later, under the leadership of Zhang Yichao, all the women, children, old and young in Shazhou City went out to fight with the troops and defeated Tibet again. These Tibet generals knew that Tibet was defeated and returned in anger.
After the recovery of Shazhou, Zhang Yichao immediately sent an envoy to the capital to report the victory, and conveyed the good news of the recovery of Shazhou to Chang'an, Guanzhong. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was deeply pleased with this victory. He not only praised Zhang Yichao and others for their loyalty and bravery to the country, but also He promised generous rewards to all the soldiers in the army, and promoted him to the position of Shazhou Defense Envoy, allowing him to temporarily control Shazhou in order to restore the Tang Dynasty.
However, this is indeed inconsistent with Zhang Yichao's expectations!
What Zhang Yichao wanted was the position of Jiedushi of Anxi, not just to control Guazhou and Shazhou. He did not have this ambition to become a Jiedushi of a feudal territory and dominate the country. He just wanted to regain the lost territory of Anxi for the Tang Dynasty. In the name of Jiedushi, he could recruit more troops to attack the enemy in the name of Feng Zhengshuo.
His thoughts are very clear to the current reigning Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. However, Tang Ting is no longer the all-encompassing and heroic Tang Ting before the Anshi Rebellion. The Tang Emperor's first consideration is no longer whether he can recover the lost land, but canonize Zhang. Discuss whether there will be a second "Anlu Mountain" after the Tide Level Festival.
After all, Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty trusted An Lushan and gave An Lushan the power to control the three towns of Heshuo. In the end, An Lushan threatened the rebels and almost conquered half of the Tang Dynasty. Chang'an was also occupied by rebels,
In this battle, although Tang Ting quelled the rebellion, it was as if the strong man had been drained of half of his blood and would never regain his former glory.
After the Anshi Rebellion, even though the Tang Dynasty had regained Chang'an, its vitality was already severely damaged. What was left to the succeeding emperor was no longer the Tang Dynasty that had become a blessing to all nations, but a mess of poor people's livelihood and declining national power. The subsequent emperors did not experience this. He didn't want to regain Hexi, but the Han Dynasty was already half-dead by the vassal towns. Concerned with one thing and the other, the Tibetans were allowed to rule Hexi for decades without ever attacking it.
Now, Zhang Yichao really recovered Guazhou, but Tang Ting began to hesitate. They seemed to have suffered from the post-traumatic sequelae of the military governor of the feudal town and did not dare to canonize the military governor easily again.
After that, even if Zhang Yichao successively regained the four prefectures of Gua, Sha, Gan, and Liang, he was unable to shake the emperor of Guanzhong, and he never got the position of Jiedushi. On the contrary, in his later years, he was forced to serve as a hostage for the Guiyi Army. Moved to Chang'an to live.
This, for Zhang Yichao, was extremely frustrating!
