Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

"Didn't they say that Liangshan was just a group of bandits, and that they had taken over a lot of civilians and made a lot of noise? Now it seems that this is all nonsense!"

"I knew long ago that the higher-ups were trying to appease the people. Think about it, if the bandits were not strong, how could they defeat the army of the ten governors, and how could they have conquered more than a dozen military states and nearly a hundred counties in the eastern route of Hebei?"

"That's right, the court lost face and deliberately belittled Liangshan."

"Haha, in fact, this is belittling the court itself... A group of incompetent bandits conquered dozens of military states and two hundred counties, all of which were densely populated important states and counties. The court had to mobilize 300,000 or 400,000 troops to fight, but it is still not enough now. Is it true... Is this how ordinary bandits are?"

"Fuck him, I get one or two strings of money a month to barely make a living, stand guard, and guard the city gate. This is my job, I won't say anything. The bandits are powerful now. You see, they have more than a hundred warships and tens of thousands of elite soldiers. We will just die if we go up..."

"Yes, I want to run away. It's important to take off this dog skin first."

A large group of imperial guards slipped down from the top of the city. When they got to the bottom of the city, they took off their imperial guards' robes, threw away their weapons, mixed into the crowd in groups of three or five, and slipped into the alleys. Not long after, they disappeared.

At first, there were military officers who scolded them, but later even the military officers ran away.

Fortunately, the guards at the city gate finally knew what was good for them, and closed the tall and heavy city gate with more than a hundred imperial guards.

As the city gates slammed shut, the people nearby suddenly realized what had happened and began to panic. Many vendors packed up their goods and left. Vegetable farmers even gave up the vegetables they had set up and just carried their own shoulder poles and ran away to both sides of the city gates.

The snack stalls, tea stalls, and soup stalls that were originally nearby all packed up and ran away. In less than a quarter of an hour, the market that was originally more than ten miles long near the Zhouqiao city gate became empty, leaving only a mess on the ground.

The grain ships and cruise ships on the river were all ordered by Liangshan to anchor on both sides of the river, drop anchor and stop the ships without permission.

Under the orders of the Liangshan soldiers, all the ships were honestly anchored.

Zhao Mingcheng, Li Jiong, and Lu Defu complained bitterly.

None of the three could have imagined that an ordinary river cruise would actually encounter such a thing.

Even if he was extremely anxious, he couldn't return to the city at this time, and he couldn't get out.

He didn't know what would happen.

At this time, Zhao Mingcheng was looking forward to the fact that the Liangshan Army's military discipline was excellent, far superior to that of the officers and soldiers as written in Li Qingzhao's letter.

If not...

I'm afraid his life would be in danger.

What court, what righteousness, at this time, Zhao Mingcheng had thrown it out of his mind.

If it endangers his life...

I have to surrender and serve the enemy, save my life first!

Not far away, a few miles away, another city gate was also closing.

What was just closed was the Zhouqiao Water Gate, and now it is the Land Gate.

As hundreds of thousands of people outside the city wereDuring this period of escape and hiding, a jade-like moat was exposed under the empty city wall.

There are also towering city walls.

Several city gates and urn cities.

In terms of defense, Kaifeng's city walls are also unique in the world.

Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Kaifeng has been the center of commerce, handicrafts and transportation.

During the Five Dynasties, the capital was built here, and the original foundation of the city could no longer meet the needs of social and economic development. (To read the violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

In 955, Chai Rong, Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, issued an edict to expand and renovate Kaifeng.

The edict pointed out the urban problems existing in Kaifeng at that time, such as insufficient land, narrow roads, poor drainage, "the suffering of heat and humidity in summer, and the worry of fireworks in the house" and so on.

The imperial edict put forward the requirements for expansion and reconstruction: expand the urban land, build Luocheng, which is the outer city, widen the roads, dredge the river; stipulate that the "grass market" with smoke and dust pollution must be moved seven miles away from the city, etc.

The imperial edict also formulated the implementation steps: first conduct a survey and "set up a flag first"; the government will make a unified plan "within the flag, and the Houguan will make a plan"; after the locations of streets and alleys, military camps, warehouses, and various government offices are determined, "the people will be allowed to build". According to the imperial edict, Kaifeng carried out planned expansion and reconstruction, laying the foundation for the construction of the Northern Song Dynasty later.

Since the expansion began in the Later Zhou Dynasty, Kaifeng has three city walls: Luocheng, Inner City, and Palace City, and each city wall is surrounded by a moat. Luocheng, also known as the New City, is mainly used for defense. It has a circumference of more than 38 miles, nearly 40 miles, with five gates in the south, four gates in the east and north, and five gates in the west, all of which include water gates. The city gates are all equipped with urn walls, with towers and watchtowers built on them. The inner city is also called the old city, with a circumference of nine kilometers and nearly twenty miles, and three gates on each side.

The inner city is mainly arranged with government offices, temples, mansions, houses, shops, workshops, etc.

The palace city is also called "Da Nei", with three gates on the south side and one gate on each of the other sides with corner towers built on the four corners; the palace is built in the city for the royal family to live. This pattern of three walls with the palace city in the middle is basically followed by the capitals of Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

The outer city is 40 miles in circumference, and the inner city is nearly 20 miles in circumference. This is also the reason why the Northern Song Dynasty still had a chance to turn over when the Jin Dynasty opened Fengli for the second time, even if it conquered the outer city.

The inner city with a circumference of nearly 20 miles also has watchtowers, arrow towers, and urn city gates.

The smaller the city, the easier it is to defend.

It's not just the palace city and the Da Nei left.

As a result, the coward Zhao Huan, Emperor Qinzong of Song, was deceived by the Jin people and went to the Jin camp to negotiate in person.

The emperor was arrested and detained. The morale of the army in the inner city was not high to begin with, and it collapsed immediately. The inner city fell, and Huizong Zhao Ji in the palace city certainly could not escape, and all the princes, princesses, and officials were all arrested.

Including officials and civilians, more than 100,000 people were escorted north, and the miserable situation along the way was unbearable to watch.

Only by seeing the majestic city of Kaifeng at this time can you understand how big a mistake Zhao Ji and his son made, and it is simply not a pity to die.

It is a pity that this ancient city with a long history has been destroyed after more than 200 years of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty.Management, the majestic city in the heart of the Central Plains later fell into ruin.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty did not use Kaifeng as its capital at the beginning, and did not pay enough attention to Kaifeng. In addition, the Yellow River flooded after the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. The Yellow River invaded Kaifeng many times in history, a total of six times: twice invaded the outer city, and four invaded the inner city. There were more than 40 other times, flooding near Kaifeng. The Yellow River flooded and changed its course many times, causing the original Bian, Cai, Wuzhang, Jinshui and other rivers and Penglai and Shahai to be silted up since the Jin Dynasty.

Emperor Shundi of the Yuan Dynasty once ordered Jialu to dredge the Jialu River, but he could not restore the old appearance, and Kaifeng became a city without navigation.

The Yellow River flooded many times around Kaifeng, causing the riverbed to be higher than the ground inside the city, causing saline-alkali soil to develop, and destroying the surrounding forest vegetation. The deterioration of the environment is an important reason for the decline of Kaifeng after the Yuan Dynasty.

When Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, Kaifeng had been declining from the first city in the north, but it was still the most important city in the heart of the Central Plains.

But Li Zicheng dug the Yellow River to flood Kaifeng. This time, both the inner and outer cities were flooded, and Kaifeng became a swamp.

It has never recovered since then.

This majestic city is now buried deep under the silt. The Kaifeng of later generations has nothing to do with the Kaifeng of the Song Dynasty. .