Chapter 402 (1/2)
In the early morning of the second day, before other gates of Chang'an City were opened, the gate to Baqiao direction was opened out in disorder. In the quiet darkness before dawn, the sound of horses' hooves on the streets of Chang'an city still awakened the people in each square passing by, and let other early risers stop their work and listen attentively The neat sound of horses' hooves.
In the palace, standing at the gate of xuanzheng hall, Wu Mei, who had not left all night, watched the long cavalry quickly and orderly get out of Chang'an city. Wang Lou walked slowly behind him and said in a low voice, ”the queen, the seventeen people in the bow and crossbow guards, for some reason or other, got into a fight after drinking and died ten people.”
”Oh? What about the other seven? ” Wu Mei is picking eyebrows. The unfilial son is quick, but not clean. It seems.
”After returning to the empress, seven other people were found out by Li Qiao, a doctor of the imperial historian, because of their drinking. Today, they were sent to go to Liaodong with his royal highness.” Wang Lou doesn't understand why his highness should take risks with them since they are dissidents.
Hearing Wang Lou's last words, Wu Mei's face suddenly turned cold. She pointed her sharp eyes at Wang Lou's heart and said in a cold voice, ”are you sure you were taken away by Li Hong?”
”It is true that the queen was taken away by his royal highness.” Wang Lou's heart string fiercely tight, pressed in the bottom of his heart, is afraid to ask.
However, Wu Mei's tone softened again: ”this Li Hong, really does not know the importance, do you really fear that there is something wrong with your mother?”
Hearing the Queen's words, Wang Lou was full of doubts. The prince's taking the seven people away really solved the hidden danger in the palace, but what did it have to do with the Queen's safety?
Wu Mei turned her head and watched the torch go away. She looked up to the sky with a long sigh and asked, ”are you very puzzled. Why does the prince take those seven people around?”
”After returning to the queen, the maidservant is really puzzled. Since the prince knows that they are very dangerous, why does he have to take them with him? In this way, does he not put his highness in danger?” When Wang Lou saw the queen asking, he had to brave his head and say his doubts.
”Yes, he told people who had a heart to it. Li Hong claimed that it had nothing to do with this palace. He didn't want to put this palace in danger because he and his majesty were not in Chang'an.” Wu Mei smiles bitterly and shakes her head.
Li Hong's action is to tell Li Xian that I killed your man. If you have the ability, you can rush to me. It has nothing to do with the mother.
However, Wu Mei could imagine that the seven people who had not died were afraid that there were only two ways to go. Either they were drowned on the waterway to Youzhou, or they were killed in the battle of Liaodong.
Taking waterway from Luoyang to Youzhou is the battle route in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After all, compared with the land March, the cost of waterway is much cheaper. Moreover, you can go straight down the Yongji canal to Youzhou.
Located between the Taihang Mountains and the Yanshan Mountains, Youzhou has always been an important town in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The gap between the two mountains is the shortest natural channel between the farming civilization of the Central Plains and the nomadic people.
Similarly, the two mountains are also the natural dividing line between the farming civilization of Central Plains and the nomadic people.
In a strict sense, the boundary between agriculture and animal husbandry in Yanshan mountain range, from the north mountain outside Taihang Mountains, starts from the northeast of Tibet Plateau, and continues to Shanhaiguan to the East. It is a mountain range stretching for thousands of kilometers, which completely separates the nomadic people from the farming civilization of the Central Plains.
From this we can see that the rolling Great Wall built on the Yanshan Mountains is of great importance to the Central Plains to resist the nomadic people.
As an important military town in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Youzhou guarded the gateway of nomadic people to enter the Central Plains smoothly. It was also very important for the Tang Dynasty. In the future history, Youzhou was equally important.
Whether in the former Sui Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, the use of troops to invade Liaodong area and so on, all started from here to really gather troops.
However, with the wheel of history rolling, Li Longji, Li Dan's third son and the grandson of Li Zhi, encountered the rebellion of Anlushan when he later appointed Anlushan Town, a town of Hu Han mixed blood, to guard Youzhou.
As a governor of Fanyang, Pinglu and Hedong, Anlushan had a large number of elite cavalry, together with the troops of his comrades Shi Wei and Pei, which led to the beginning of the turbulent period of the Tang Dynasty. As a result of the rebellion of an Shi, the Tang Dynasty entered the situation of vassal and town separatism, and never recovered the glory of Taizong, Gaozong and Xuanzong in the first half of the period.
From a historical point of view, if the Anshi rebellion was to warn the Han people of the importance of Youzhou to the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, then the alarm bell did not ring for a long time and did not arouse people's attention to Youzhou.
In the period of Five Dynasties and ten states, Shi Jingtang, who called himself as the emperor ER in front of Khitan, handed over the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and Qidan, which forced the Song Dynasty to start its two hundred years of servile national destiny.