Chapter 46 Mysterious Guest
"Chang'an is easy to defend, Luoyang is easy to facilitate, and Kaifeng is easy to fight." During the Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasty, China's political center moved from Xi'an, Luoyang east to Kaifeng, and Bianjing became the capital of the dynasty. In order to fundamentally eliminate the root cause of war caused by the vassal states calling military chaos, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin adopted the strategic deployment of "strong, dry and weak branches" and staged a strange drama of "release military power with a cup of wine", which included the "800,000 imperial guards" stationed in the capital area. In this way, hundreds of thousands of troops, plus the imperial palace office, the people had to have more than one million mouths. To feed so many people, the supply of food became the first priority of military and national affairs to solve the problem of food. In the era of no trains and cars, canal transportation became the first choice.
"The foundation of the founding of the country is Bian". The Bian River is the main transportation channel leading to the Fushu River from Kaifeng to the south of the Fushu River. Since the Bian River leads the Doushui River to the sand as a source of water and has severe silt, since the early Northern Song Dynasty, sailing and dredging must be stopped every autumn and winter season. After dredging and remediation, in the spring of the following year, the cabbage ships carrying large amounts of daily necessities such as grain, salt, tea, and materials that were urgently needed in the capital city were "transported" along the Bian River. During the Later Tang Dynasty, Later Zhou Dynasty and Song Dynasty, they paid attention to the development of artificial canals, dredging, and widening shallow and narrow rivers in the north, and together with natural rivers such as the Yangtze River, Huai River, and Pearl River, forming a very busy inland navigation system.
Another canal canal channel in Kaifeng, capital is Huimin River, which starts from Minshui, Wushui, etc. on the northwest Jing Road. All the waters in Xuzhou and Zhengzhou are transported. Weishi goes to Kaifeng and joins Caihe. They carry 600,000 shi of canal transport every year. Zhao Qi and his party set off from Kaifeng to Xiangyi and then travel east along the Huiji River. Through areas dominated by water transportation, important port towns along the river and along the river, there are "stations" halls for passing officials to stay. With the coming and going of the canal boats, traveling far and near, welcoming guests and seeing off guests has become a new trendy sight. The docks, bridge ports, ferries, and boats are crowded with people, which are very lively and spectacular.
In late spring and early summer, the weather is clear. The sails are lightly rising along the wind, heading east along the elm-covered embankment. The fields on both sides are colorful, flying in the wind, illuminating the spring water throughout the river, and even the sails are dyed with a faint red color. Thousands of sails compete on the canal, and the canal ships are connected, but when they see the apricot yellow flag flying in the wind on the official ship, whether it is civilian ships, official ships or navy ships, they avoid the waterways.
Zhao Qi stood at the bow of the boat, quietly admiring the scenery on the river, watching the vitality and scenery of the river gulls chasing and playing, and experiencing the joy and joy brought by the flowing water. He had not been a boat in his previous life, but this kind of sailing is the first time. It is more relaxed and free compared to riding a horse, less bumps on the road and more leisurely.
"Flying flowers on both sides shine on the red boat, the wind of the elm bank for half a day. Lying down and watching the clouds in the sky, I don't know that the clouds are all east of me." He suddenly felt a sense of emotion and chanted his masterpiece.
"Your Majesty, what a poem is, it's up to the situation." Zhao Qiong turned his head and saw He Qufei coming with a middle-aged scholar. He knocked his hand on his folding fan and praised him.
"The teacher has praised it, just express his feelings," Zhao Qi said embarrassedly. This was true. He still felt a little guilty about this "shameless" behavior.
"The prince is too humble. The first two lines of this poem use Cui Hu's face and peach blossoms in red and Li Taibai's 'A thousand miles of Jiangling'. It has new meaning in the inspiration, and uses flying flowers to set off one day to make him look elegant. Although the second sentence does not have the heroic momentum of Li Bai, it is also not lacking in elegance. The last two lines describe clouds. Li Taibai once used 'Sleeping Song Cloud' to write Meng Haoran's "romantic news in the world". The prince uses the unmoving clouds to write the dynamics of the east with the clouds, only to take its elegance; while "Jundong" has the spirit of the green clouds and straight up to the sky, and the emotions are blended with the scenery and water." The middle-aged scholar commented.
"I am ashamed of Zhou's praise, but I am ashamed of being so profound," Zhao Qi blushed and bowed. Zhou's name was Bangyan, whose courtesy name was Meicheng, was quite talented. He was respected by later generations as the genius of the Gelu School and was called the top of the Ci family. If he could get his praise, he would be considered as "thank you for being so shameful". But he also had good fortune and misfortune because of his talent.
During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, he was a student of the Tai family. He wrote an article "Fu of Biandu" to praise the new law and was promoted to the Imperial Academy. During this dynasty, he was promoted to the Huiyou Pavilion and was promoted to the Dasheng Mansion.
Otherwise, sleeping in flowers and willows harms people, Zhou Bangyan also had this bad habit. He admired Li Shishi's reputation and often went to Li Shishi's place to play, and wrote lyrics and composed music for her. Li Shishi became famous because of this. Later, Emperor Daojun fell in love with this and often went to Li Shishi's home. Once two people collided, Zhou Bangyan couldn't mess with the emperor and hurriedly hid under the bed. Daojun brought a new orange from Jiangnan and tasted it with Shishi. Zhou Bangyan could hear it clearly and wrote this poem afterwards - "Youth Travel".
The title of this poem is real, and Li Shishi likes it very much, and often practices singing according to the score. When Zhao Ji came to Li Shishi's home again, Shishi was on a whim and sang Zhou Bangyan's song "Youth Travel". When Zhao Ji heard it, he said all about the love affairs in Li Shishi's room that day. At first, he thought it was written by Li Shishi and was about to praise him. Unexpectedly, she casually said it was written by Zhou Bangyan. As soon as she said it, it was obvious.
His face suddenly seemed uneasy. Zhao Ji looked at Li Shishi's expression and knew that Zhou Bangyan must have been in the room that day. His face suddenly changed. He thought to himself: Everyone in the capital, Li Shishi is my outer favor. If you dare to come again, it would be great. If you don't punish him severely, Li Shishi's door will be opened. On the same day, he sent his confidant to collect the erotic poems written by Luo Zhou Bangyan on weekdays as evidence of his crime, saying that he was frivolous and could not be an official in the court, and demoted him from Bianjing.
"The prince has been in the capital for a long time, and now he has been able to leave the capital with orders. He is in a happy mood and feels like he is thriving in the spring breeze." He Qufei said with a smile.
"Haha, the teacher said it well. The capital city is like a golden bird cage. I am the bird locked in it. I can come out and get some breath and feel much more comfortable." Zhao Qi smiled.
"The prince is elegant, and his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness are all poems, which makes the officials admire him. This will not disturb the prince's elegant delight." The middle-aged scholar bowed deeply.
"Please," Zhao Qi raised his hand and said. The two of them left together. At this time, a melodious and gentle sound of piano came from the cabin. He listened to the sound of piano, looked at the back of the middle-aged scholar, and smiled. He didn't know how to bring them the same result.
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As he drifted away from the capital, Zhao Qiong's long-lasting sense of oppression dissipated, and he felt much more relaxed. It was almost noon and the sun was shining. He returned to the cabin, ate some casually, and leaned on the bow of the boat to read. Although the boats came and went in the river, the sounds were noisy, they were stable as home. This trip was a thousand mountains and rivers, and it was consumed a lot on the road. You can calm down and read books, and you can also relieve the loneliness of the journey.
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"Father, I'm not that way, no, I'm for the Song Dynasty..." Zhao Xin, who was sitting by the bed, suddenly heard the prince's dream, twisted uneasy, his face was full of anxiousness, and he hurriedly put down the needle and thread in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, Prince, wake up."
"Oh" Zhao Qi sat up and said, before he was on the boat. It was just a dream just now.
"Second Master, are you dreaming?" Zhao Xin poured a cup of tea for the prince and said.
"Well, I had a nightmare and dreamed that the emperor wanted to kill me," Zhao Qiong said with a sip of water.
"Has the Second Master done something wrong? I'm afraid the emperor is going to be?" Zhao Xin teased with a smile.
"Nonsense, I'm not doing anything openly when I'm doing things, so I've never done anything dirty," Zhao Qi handed the teacup back to him and said. Zhao Xin was not angry again, and he never laughed after getting on the boat.
"Tsk, the second master was messing around in the capital, but he secretly kept one on the boat..." Zhao Xin said with a lip silence.
"Oh, who is that person you are?" Zhao Xin became more and more 'unrestrained' in front of him, and the other people's affairs were coming.
"No, but I don't think she looks like a good woman," Zhao Xin said with a pout, but he had to admire the prince's eyes. Although the woman was wearing ordinary clothes, she would be very different from many people. The kind of graceful charm and beauty that was completely beyond her appearance. What attracted people was not only her appearance, but her temperament beauty that was difficult to imitate.
"Haha, your eyes are not yet right, but it's not entirely right." Zhao Qi smiled and didn't continue. He suddenly saw the needle and thread on the short table in front of the bed. "Zhao Xin, you are sewing, I haven't seen you do needle and thread yet."
"No, just sew the clothes." Seeing the prince ask, Zhao Xin hurriedly put away the table.
"Hey, isn't this the Mohouluo I bought a few days ago?" Zhao Xiao grabbed a pair of clay dolls on the table and looked carefully. The clothes on the clay dolls had been changed, thinking that Zhao Xin had just made them.
"Second Master, return it to me." Zhao Xin snatched it and held it tightly in his hand, as if he was afraid of being snatched away by the prince. Although it was made of mud, it was very valuable. A few days ago, the prince took them to Daxiangguo Temple to watch the Buddha bathing ceremony of the Ullamban Festival. The streets were betrayed "Mohouluo". It is said that the python god who can be transformed into a child in the Tianlong Basin Temple, which originated from Buddhism. It will swallow the moon at some time. At this time, everyone needs to work together to shave the noise and force him to spit out the moon.
But when he arrived in Middle-earth, his appearance had changed drastically. Most of the mud-wolf monsters mixed in Tokyo turned into holding lotus leaves, happily and cute little dolls. There were popular goods worth a few guan and a thousand guan on the street. Some exquisite ones would make them some colorful clothes, furniture or small houses. When he saw a pair, he couldn't walk at the time, but when he saw the price, he could only stop. But when he returned to the mansion, the prince gave him the guan and acted like a magic trick.
"I'm so stingy, I can't see it, but that's fine. If I cause a big disaster this time, I will be chopped off one day by the emperor. I think we will be in a relationship with our master and servant, and I will still think of me when I see it." Zhao Qi rolled his eyes and said angrily with Kong Kong hands.
"Second Master, no, if you really have that day, I will go with you." Zhao Xin said to the prince with tears in his eyes.
Chapter completed!