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- Chapter 322 Crossing mountains and rivers
Mangdang Mountain is thousands of miles from east to west, and the narrowest point from north to south is seventy miles. <-> At that time, Emperor Taizong ordered to open mountains and build roads. People from the Ministry of Industry sent people to visit Mangdang Mountain for a year before selecting this place. Although this is not the narrowest place, the mountain is the gentlest, and there is a broken gorge that can be used, which saves a lot of labor.
Even so, it took so long for 200,000 migrant workers to gather here to open the mountain road. To commemorate the opening of this mountain road, officials from the Ministry of Industry built a mountain-opening platform at the foot of the mountain using stones and trees picked out during the construction of the mountain. This platform is one mile in diameter and made of large stones. The platform is flat and broad, and there is also a mountain viewing hall.
The bricks and stones picked up from the mountain were used to build the Kaishan Platform. This matter once provoked the people who came to Yushitai for a while, but Emperor Taizong did not care about it at that time. When the army marched to the south of the Yangtze River, he had been to Mangdang Mountain. , climbed to the opening platform, and watched the majestic and spectacular scene of the army passing through the mountain road.
General Li Xiao led his army through the Mangdang Mountains, boarded a warship on the bank of the Yangtze River, and defeated the Southern Dynasty Navy, which was known as the strongest in the world. Then the army crossed the natural chasm and set foot on the land of Jiangnan. After that, the great soldiers of the Sui Dynasty such as Like boiling soup and splashing snow, the Southern Dynasty's army was unable to fight back.
When the convoy passed Kaishan Terrace, Fang Jie couldn't help but stop.
Although he had seen it once from a distance yesterday, he glanced at it briefly and did not look at it carefully at all. Today, standing under the platform and looking up, I can truly appreciate the enormity of this project. It is not easy to build a giant platform that is almost one mile long and wide and three meters high.
Looking up at this high platform, Fang Jie couldn't help but imagine the scene of 200,000 people opening the mountain in his mind. From Mangdang Mountain to here, there is a dense team of people moving like ants. They relied on their arms and shoulders to dig out a piece of the mountain, and then moved it to the bottom of the mountain to build this high platform.
More than a hundred years have passed, and the majestic mountain platform has become mottled, covered with green grass, and even a few trees have become very strong. Fang Jie walked slowly up the stone steps to the high platform, stood on one side of the high platform and looked at the towering mountains not far away.
¡°Perhaps, Emperor Taizong stood here back then, watching his heroic soldiers march through the mountains with an unstoppable force and cleanse the south of the Yangtze River.
This platform looks very low compared to the mountain, but standing on the mountain platform, I suddenly have a majestic feeling that the world is in my hands. This feeling makes people feel very excited, and they even have the urge to shout loudly.
It was at this moment that Fang Jie suddenly realized that he liked this feeling very much.
In front of his eyes, there seemed to be teams of heroic soldiers marching forward with great strides. He saw the endless line of troops, the battle flags swept by clouds, the long tree like a steel jungle, and the slightly bulky but extremely strong chariot. In a daze, he even saw a very special team among the majestic army. Wearing heavy armor and holding Mo Dao, they were guarding a huge chariot drawn by ninety-nine horses. On the large and luxurious seat on the chariot, sat a man wearing golden armor.
That person, I don¡¯t know why he looks so familiar.
He saw the pride on the faces of all the soldiers, and their eyes were firm and fierce. Following this mountain road, a long queue of people passed through Mangdang Mountain and headed north.
To the north?
Fang Jie was startled and rubbed his eyes subconsciously.
Wherever there is an endless army in front of us, where there are battle flags as long as the forest and clouds, let alone a chariot pulled by ninety-nine horses, naturally there is no general in golden armor. The mountain road is still empty, there is nothing. It turns out that the boundless black-armored army and the majestic marching drums were all imaginary.
Duke Huaiqiu, who was being helped onto the high platform, happened to see his surprised expression and couldn't help but smile and said, "Are you feeling the magnificence of the mountains and Taoism and the high platform built back then?"
Fang Jie smiled, hiding his doubts and confusion.
"Yes Only in our Sui Dynasty can we have such a miraculous project. Standing here, I can't help but think about the scene when troops were sent to Jiangnan. Hundreds of thousands of troops marched forward, crossing the mountains. Crossing the natural chasm, the force spreads across the south of the Yangtze River like broken bamboo."
Duke Huaiqiu nodded and said: "Back then, I went to Beijing to take the exam. When I passed by here and saw this mountain road and this high platform for the first time, I was extremely shocked. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, no one would believe that this road is It was made possible by manpower. From the cultivation of Taoism in the mountains, we can see the determination and courage of Emperor Taizong in his expedition to the south. "
"With such determination and courage, the decadent Southern Dynasties will have no resistance at all."
He pointed in the direction of the mountain road and said: "Back then, I walked on my own.Walking across that road, alone, without companions. I left home a year in advance and wore dozens of pairs of shoes before walking to the imperial capital. Thinking about it, over the years, I have only returned to my hometown twice, and one of them was to carry out an order. "
Hearing his emotion, Fang Jie echoed a few words.
But in his mind, he still had the hallucination picture from before.
Whose is that endless army? Who is the general in golden armor sitting on the huge chariot drawn by ninety-nine horses?
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"Back then, I walked from the south to the north, and now I walk from the north to the south. The road is still the same, and the mountain is still this mountain. This mountain platform looks unchanged, but people are so old that they can't even walk easily. ¡±
Huai Qiugong sighed with emotion.
Fang Jie shook his head to get rid of the chaotic thoughts in his mind. He knew that the hallucinations in his mind just now were just because of the Kaishan Terrace, the Mangdang Mountain, and the emotion of the battle that year. Back then, the Northern and Southern Dynasties were at odds with each other. Dazheng in the north and Nanchen in the south had been at odds for hundreds of years. No one could do anything about the other because of the natural chasm of the Yangtze River. Later, Emperor Taizu of the Sui Dynasty raised troops to destroy Zheng and established the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Taizong worked hard to rule, and finally destroyed the Southern Dynasty, and the world was unified from then on.
Such a magnificent past event will inevitably make people sigh with emotion.
"Let's go"
hsk Fang Jie shook his head and smiled: "When I return from the southwest, I will take this road again and go up to this stage to see if I feel nostalgic."
Huai Qiugong laughed and said, "Even if you walked back and forth on this road when you were young, your state of mind would not change."
Fang Jie smiled and said: "That's right, I'll be back in a few months at most."
¡°I don¡¯t know why, Ye Jinnan has been silent. When he heard the conversation between Huai Qiugong and Fang Jie, his expression changed slightly. Standing behind Fang Jie, he looked at this young and promising man with a complicated look in his eyes that he couldn't understand.
Everyone went on the road again and passed by the place where Fang Jie had sniped Lu Ou. Fang Jie deliberately opened the curtain and looked outside. He found that the official road was clean and there was no trace of anything. He couldn't help but smile. Huai Qiugong saw him smiling and couldn't help but ask: "What makes you happy?"
Fang Jie shook his head slightly: "It's nothing, I just feel that the mountain scenery makes me feel comfortable."
Huai Qiugong knew that he was not telling the truth, but it was hard to ask again.
In fact, Fang Jie laughed because he knew that there was someone else following him. He killed Lu Ou, shot the five bosses with five arrows in a row, and shot the horse pulling the cart with another arrow. The corpses and the remains of the carriage were gone. So Fang Jie concluded that the emperor sent others to follow him. This was obviously the emperor's distrust of him, but it was not necessarily a bad thing for Fang Jie. At least someone would wipe his ass.
He knows that the emperor is a person that no one can trust, so this is a qualified emperor.
The convoy passed through Mangdang Mountain and arrived at the bank of the Yangtze River in the afternoon. This is the first time Fang Jie has seen this big river. Back then, he took a different route from Dali City in Nanyan to Fangu in the northwest of Sui Dynasty. This big river, also called the Yangtze River, is as majestic as the Yangtze River that Fang Jie has seen in his previous life, and is even much wider than the Yangtze River in his previous life. There is a light layer of water vapor on the river, so the other side of the river cannot be seen at a glance. hsk
When you get here, you have to separate. Huai Qiu Gong goes to the east, and only then can he go to the west.
The waters in this section are quite gentle and it is a large ferry. It is said that the water channel upstream is slightly narrower, but the current is very fast and ordinary boats cannot cross it.
Fang Jie and the others were riding a large boat that was seventy meters long, a Guandu boat. There are generally two types of ferries at ferries. One is Guandu, which is a large and stable boat and the charges are not high. But because there are too many pedestrians coming and going, it is impossible to use Guandu alone. Therefore, there are many fishermen ferrying here. Their boats are small but fast. They don't have to wait for the people to fill up like the official boats.
Almost all the people on the banks of the Yangtze River are good sailors. Letting them cross the river by boat is as simple as letting the Mongolians ride horses.
Once here, their carriage was of no use. On the other side of the river, local officials will naturally prepare carriages again. So as long as people get on the boat, there are about a hundred people in the group, and the official uniforms they wear are particularly eye-catching. Especially the fifty or so flying fish robes made the common people fear them.
This big ship has been ordered by the government and is waiting for the imperial envoy here. Fang Jie and the others set off as soon as they got on the boat, but Fang Jie stopped them and asked the people waiting on the shore to get on the boat. It would be unbearable for such a big ship to take them all away, and it would be unbearable for the people to wait for the official ship to come back.
Ye Jinnan couldn't help but his eyes changed when he heard Fang Jie's instructions. There was appreciation in them.
??"general"
A soldier approached him and lowered his voice: "I asked on the shore and no one has seen General 6 board the ship Logically speaking, General 6 and the others should also be very eye-catching. It is impossible for no one to see it."
Hearing these words, Ye Jinnan's brows immediately wrinkled.
"Don't mention it to anyone After returning to Yongzhou, if anyone asks about General Lu just say that the ferry encountered rough waves and General Lu unfortunately fell into the river!"
"But¡¡"
As soon as the soldier was about to speak, he was stopped by Ye Jinnan: "No but! If I know that someone dares to say a random word, don't blame me for not remembering the old relationship! This is the case. It is like this no matter who asks. I still need to say more. Once again! "hsk - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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