Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Five years after the Ming Dynasty restored China. The fourth year of Kangguo's reign in Western Liao Dynasty. AD 1137.

Yelu Dashi established the Imperial Academy to select noble children and impart Confucian knowledge to them.

The noble lords of the former Kara Khanate must also choose one of their descendants to come to the Imperial Academy to study together. This aroused little resistance. Everyone thought that they were sending hostages and there was no need to convert to religion in the Imperial College.

An eminent monk from China served as their teacher.

In order to avoid conflicts among foreign students, eminent monks must put on Confucian crowns and Confucian clothes when teaching in the Imperial College, and are not allowed to dress like monks.

At the same time, several Buddhist temples were built at the same time in the capital.

War orphans from all over Central Asia, and even young children among slaves, were arranged to be ordained by eminent monks and become disciples.

These alien orphans must first learn Chinese and Chinese characters. In addition to practicing Buddhism and chanting sutras, they will also learn some Confucian knowledge in the future. If you perform well, you can be recommended to study in the Imperial College and be an official in Xiliao when you grow up.

Yelu Dashi was heartbroken about this and desperately hoped that the orphans would grow up soon.

Because the Fergana Basin has just been conquered, there have been many tribal rebellions, just due to sectarian disputes.

The two Karakhanate states, the Eastern and Western ones, although they belong to the same religion. But when the country was divided into two, it was because of sectarian fighting. Now the officials appointed by Yelu Dashi suppressed the local sects in the Fergana Basin, forcing four tribes to rebel one after another.

It can only be suppressed!

Then officials were replaced and local scholars were selected as officials to appease the hearts of believers in the basin.

…

"The war in Mobei is over," Ju Ming handed the military information document to the eunuch. "The Klie tribe suffered a few minor defeats. They didn't even need the mediation of Ming Dynasty, so they took the initiative to compensate some livestock and reached a settlement with the Mongolian tribe."

Ma Kuo took the document from the eunuch and said, "This is very strange. How can it be so easy to call a truce?"

Ju Ming smiled and said: "The Merqi tribe went south to plunder. The Kelei tribe and the Mongolian tribe were busy fighting, and the pastures behind were extremely empty, and a large number of people and livestock were taken away. Now the two tribes have formed an alliance, and they are going to seek revenge from the Merqi tribe. Mo. The competition between the two heroes in the north has turned into a tripartite confrontation.”

Ma Kuo said: "There are four major tribes in Merqi who attack and plunder each other. How can they go south together?"

"After Yelu Dashi left, the four major tribes of Merqi were unified," Ju Ming said. "They suffered from white disasters one after another. They first attacked each other for several years, and finally elected a chief and went to plunder the richer Mobei. "

Ma Kuo lowered his head to read the document carefully, and finally said with a smile: "With three pillars, Mobei can fight for decades."

Ju Ming still had some impressions of this Miler Begging Club.

After all, Temujin's wife was captured by the Mierqi tribe and handed over to Wang Khan to give birth to Jochi. Wang Khan himself was also captured by the Mierqi tribe, and they forced Wang Khan to help them pound rice.

This tribe is no weakling. They live in the area south of Lake Baikal and have expanded to the northern grasslands of Mobei.

They are both nomadic, fishermen and hunters, good at using long bows and arrows, and even cannibalize human flesh when food is scarce.

Ju Ming said: "You are familiar with Xixia. Please be a messenger and go there."

Ma Kuo asked: "Has something happened in Xixia?"

Ju Ming nodded and said: "Xi Zuo, who was mixed up in the caravan, sent back a message saying that the king of Xixia was seriously ill and it was difficult for the imperial doctors to cure him. He was searching for famous doctors among the people."

"If the leader of the Xixia Kingdom dies of illness, Xiao Heda's rebellion will not be far away." Ma Kuo was very sure.

Xiao Heda almost rebelled last time precisely because of Ma Kuo's conspiracy.

…

Li Qianshun of Xixia was not dead yet, but Li Yanghuan of Annan died first.

It was a strange death.

When King Li Yanghuan was critically ill, his uncle Du Anhwu joined forces with the Li family (concubine) to launch a coup to isolate the internal and external courts.

Immediately, the queen was deposed and the prince was deposed.

Du Yingwu supported the son of his old prime minister Li Shi and established the two-year-old baby as the new king.

Not only did he manage the government smoothly, he also often stayed overnight in the palace. Queen Mother Li is very young, not even twenty years old!

A wealthy family took the opportunity to rebel and was suppressed by Du Yingwu.

The rest of the party fled to the Ming Dynasty, went to Luoyang to complain, and wanted to see Du.

Ju Ming was happy to see the success and threw it to Wangchuan Valley.

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty must have died of illness!"

The Annan nobleman named Chen Kai said: "Your Majesty just caught the cold occasionally, and the imperial doctors said it was no serious problem, but news came out of the palace that he was critically ill. The uncle also mobilized the imperial army to control the eunuchs and guards in the palace, and no outsiders were allowed. I came to see you and said it was to let your majesty rest. Just one day later, your majesty died suddenly, the queen and the prince were also deposed, and the son of the Li family was appointed as the new king."

Du Shi was so angry that her whole body trembled: "How dare he do this!"

Chen Kai said: "I'm afraid he has had this idea for a long time, but he didn't dare to take action easily when the grand master was still alive. Just two months after the grand master died of illness, he couldn't wait for the coup. How could there be such a coincidence? Also, Li After becoming the Queen Mother, some people even suspected that the new king was his son."

Du Si sat silently, not knowing how to react.

It was her son who was killed, but it was her brother who did the killing.

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Is the deposed Prince Annan still safe now?"

Chen Kai said: "Being under house arrest in the palace is probably a bad thing. Even if you are still alive now, you will get sick and die in a few years."

Zhu Guoxiang said to Du, "Don't worry too much. I will ask Du Yingwu to send Annan's deposed prince."

Mrs. Du held Zhu Guoxiang's hand and cried: "Your Majesty must be the master of a slave!"

Zhu Guoxiang took his wife and children back to Luoyang to play, and went to discuss the matter with Ju Ming himself.

"What are you going to do?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Ju Ming said: "Annan's envoy is in Luoyang, requesting the canonization of Annan's new king. I have rebuked Du Yingwu's coup, and of course the envoy denied it. Now he is still hanging in the Sifang Pavilion."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Let them send the deposed prince."

Ju Ming smiled and said: "This is a good idea. Du Yingwu is definitely not willing to hand over the deposed prince, and even if he wants to hand over the prince, he will poison him halfway. This will confirm the rumors that he is plotting to murder the king. By annexing Annan, it is possible that Kang can be directly surrendered without invading force. I will take the officials and troops to serve as regents and merge with the Ming Dynasty when the time comes."

"Do you have to come in?" Zhu Guoxiang expressed doubts.

Ju Ming said: "First, let Kang'er marry several daughters of the Annan clan; second, allow Annan scholars to be officials in the Ming Dynasty imperial examination; third, bloody suppress the rebels. After the annexation, the system must be restructured, and the Annan clan cannot be allowed to Continue to implement the feudal manor system. At that time, there will be mass killings to suppress the rebellion, and the Han people will immigrate to the freed land. "

Zhu Guoxiang was still thinking about his cheap grandson: "What will happen if Annan deposes the prince?"

Ju Ming said: "If he is killed by Du Yingwu, there will be nothing I can do to help him. If he is lucky enough to survive, take him to Wangchuan Valley and you can raise him as your own grandson."

This cheap grandson still didn’t come after all.

How could Du Yingwu, a powerful official who carried out a coup, hand over the late king's eldest son to the Ming Dynasty?

He ostensibly agreed to release the prince, but when he sent the deposed prince to the border of the Ming Dynasty, he suddenly fell ill and died of a serious illness.

When the news of the deposed prince's death spread, some of the nobles who had been squeezed out by Du Yingwu returned to their hometowns to start an army. Three groups of rebels appeared one after another.

They were all suppressed by Du Yingwu!

…

Zhu Kang is adapting to the climate in Hunan. He recently had a lot of fun with his uncle Bai Qi.

Bai Qi was so idle that his balls ached.

Since Zhong Xiang was destroyed, Bai Qi has been responsible for guarding Hunan.

After so many years, Manichaean believers have long since returned home. Who would rebel if they had enough to eat?

During this period, Bai Qi also suppressed a Wuxi barbarian riot, and then led his troops to Guizhou to fight against Qi State.

I usually practice military training, read books, travel around the mountains and rivers, and hold cultural gatherings.

Very leisurely and comfortable.

Cun Aguo, the female chief in southern Sichuan, has personally visited Beijing three times to pay tribute. Every time I pass by Dongting Lake, I always come to reminisce with Bai Qi, and they gave birth to two sons and one daughter one after another.

Bai Qi is not a scumbag, and there is no need to be a scumbag. He is willing to give Cun Aguo a status.

But Cun Aguo doesn't want to get married.

She wants to stay in her tribe and make it stronger.

She is currently one of the five major ghost masters in Henan (south of the Dadu River), and they plan to let her and Bai Qi's son succeed them as ghost masters.

Bai Qi could only try his best to help, and asked the court to bring some prisoners over to teach knowledge and technology to the tribe.

"This year's harvest is good, and there are no floods or droughts." Bai Qi lay on Junshan and looked at the stars.

Next to him were not only his wife and children, but also Zhu Kang's principal concubines and concubines.

Zhu Kang looked at the starry sky reflected in the lake: "I think of my father's poem. When you are drunk, you don't know the sky is in the water. The boat is full of clear dreams and the stars are overwhelming. Is this about Dongting Lake?"

Bai Qi laughed loudly: "This poem is very famous in Hunan. Many literati and elegant people go boating in Dongting, just to experience the boat full of dreams and the stars."

"I heard that Dali is like spring all year round, but the emperor has a good place to go," Zhu Kang said with emotion, "but it is not possible to occupy the city. It is very hot in summer, even hotter than here in Hunan."

Bai Qi shouted: "There are mosquitoes, why is the smoke gone? Hurry up and smoke it up!"

He called his followers to smoke mosquitoes and said helplessly: "To attack Dali, I don't know how long it will take to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse."

Ju Ming had already told Bai Qi that after the Dali Kingdom was destroyed, it would be renamed the Yunnan Province. Bai Qi and his descendants have guarded Yunnan for generations, and are hereditary kings and general soldiers of Yunnan.

Not only is it as simple as guarding Yunnan, but it is also responsible for suppressing the rebellion of the surrounding barbarians.

Including later Laos, Myanmar, and the barbarians in southern and western Guizhou. Those who have no peace of mind must have a prince permanently stationed in Yunnan, and this prince is both a clan member and not a clan member!

Only the clan can mobilize Yunnan's civil and military officials.

If you are not a clan member, you are not afraid of rebellion by the Yunnan prince!

Bai Qi was just the right person. He was Zhu Guoxiang's stepson. He would never get the throne, but he also had the status of a clan member.

Zhu Kang talked about his ambition: "I went to Champa to be the king. I will first educate the people and develop internal affairs. When I reach the age of thirty or forty, I will lead troops to expand the territory. My father said that as long as I don't attack Jiaochin in the north, , the rest of the territory will be mine as much as possible.”

"You are young, but you have great ambitions." Bai Qi praised.

Zhu Kang said: "I have already thought about the strategy of governing the country. The land in the city is fertile and it is a place that maritime merchants must pass through. I want to develop agriculture and business there. If there is enough food and enough money, I can raise More elite soldiers.”

Bai Qi smiled.

In the darkness, a speedboat sailed across the lake: "Your Majesty has a decree to order King Yu to go to Guangxi..."