Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

From Shandong to this pass, there are mountains and rivers blocking the journey, and the journey is long, so there is no guarantee that there will be no robbers along the way.

In order to ensure the safety of the caravan, of course the officials of Ximen Qing needed armed escort.

Yanzhou's "Jiuzhilong" Shi Jin, "Shenji Military Division" Zhu Wu and other four people came in handy this time.

They are already familiar with the geography of this pass, and they can take turns to lead troops to protect the caravans entering and leaving the pass, and further grasp the topography and landforms of various places in Guanzhong and between Tongguan and Hangu Pass, so as to prepare for the future dispatch of troops to the Guanzhong area of ​​Shaanxi.

There are also Yue Fei, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian and others. They have traveled around with Ximen Qing this time and gained a lot of knowledge. This exercise their ability to stand on their own.

The battle between the Liao and Jin Dynasties is imminent, and training more generals is also a top priority for Ximen Qing.

Wang Zhongfu, who is only ten years old, Ximenqing can't use at this time.But after some training, he can leave it to his sons to drive him in the future.

In this way, after Ximenqing developed Wangjiazhuang into his own stronghold in the Guanzhong area, he left Wangjiazhuang with Jiao Ting, Yue Fei and others, and continued on the road to investigate the reality of Jingzhao Mansion.

After leaving Xianyang County, Ximenqing and his party came to Liquan County to the west of Xianyang.

Liquan County is named after a sweet spring in the county.However, the most famous in Liquan County at this time was Zhaoling, the joint burial mausoleum of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin and Empress Wende's eldest grandson.

Zhaoling Mausoleum is located on Jiuyi Mountain in the northwest of Liquan County, and the mountain is used as a mausoleum.

Li Shimin was the hero of the generation who created the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It took hundreds of years to complete his Zhaoling Mausoleum, which is the largest mausoleum among the emperors of the Tang Dynasty.

Now that he has come to Liquan County, Ximenqing will of course go to see the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Tang Taizong Li Shimin.

In Ximenqing's view, Tang Taizong Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Change for power, assassinated his two brothers, and forced his father Tang Gaozu Li Yuan to abdicate, killed all the sons of the two brothers, and married them His wives and concubines are notoriously bad in terms of personal morality.

However, Li Shimin pacified the world by virtue of Wenzhiwugong, attacked Turks in the north, retreated Tubo in the west, and created a prosperous Tang Dynasty under the rule of Zhenguan.

What does this mean? "The one who steals the hook will be punished, the one who steals the country will be the king", the winner is the king and the loser, history always favors the winner.

Now Ximenqing is about to face chaos in the world.As long as Ximenqing can rise in time, seize the world, and create a greater era, who will care about the stains that he once killed Wu Dalang and Wu Song?

Compared with Li Shimin, Ximenqing can be regarded as a good person!

As long as we win the world, our Ximen Qing might not be able to become the eternal emperor admired by future generations.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin is Ximen Qing's teacher on the way forward!

With the intention of visiting fellow travelers, Ximen Qing led the crowd to Zhaoling on Jiuyi Mountain.

The construction of Zhaoling Mausoleum lasted for 29 years from the first burial of the eldest grandson of Empress Taizong Wende in the [-]th year of Tang Zhenguan to the [-]th year of Kaiyuan. Huge city.

Around Lingshan, there is a city wall imitating Chang'an City, with four gates in the east, south, west and north.There are sacrificial palaces and many stone sculptures in the city, which stand proudly in front of Ximen Qing and others despite hundreds of years of wind and rain.

After Ximenqing found someone to inquire, he quickly bypassed Lingshan and came to Beisimamen in the north of the mountain.

North Sima Gate is located in the North Xuanwu Gate of Lingshan Mountain, close to the northern foot of Jiujun Mountain, high in the south and low in the north.

The North Sima Gate is rectangular, about [-] feet long from north to south, and [-] feet wide from east to west, with five floors of steps.

On the steps of the North Sima Gate, there are verandas and east and west verandas, and there is a three-outlet gate in the east and west.

Ximenqing came here on purpose because the world-famous precious cultural relics "Six Horses of Zhaoling" high-relief stone screen and round stone statues of "Chiefs of Fourteen Kingdoms" are now intact and placed on the two sides of the third step. side.

Looking around, there are priceless cultural relics of later generations everywhere!

Chapter 741 The Traveler Should Be the Same

Ximenqing's deepest impression of Tang Taizong Li Shimin's Zhaoling is the Zhaoling Six Horses.

The Six Horses of Zhaoling Mausoleum are bluestone relief carvings of six horses on the east and west sides of the North Simamen Altar in the north of Zhaoling Mausoleum.

Each of these six bluestone relief stone carvings of horses is about six feet two inches wide, five feet two inches high, one foot thick, and weighs about five thousand catties.Even Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Tao Zongwang, Chao Gai, etc., who are born with supernatural powers, may not be able to move these six stone carvings.

The "Six Steeds of Zhaoling" has a beautiful shape, smooth carving lines, fine and round knife workmanship, and can be regarded as a precious stone carving art treasure of the Tang Dynasty.

The six steeds on the stone carvings are said to be the war horses that Li Shimin rode successively when he conquered the world before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to commemorate the six war horses that accompanied him to conquer the world, Li Shimin ordered the two brothers Yan Lide, a craftsman, and Yan Liben, a painter, to depict the six war horses in relief and place them in front of his mausoleum.

Before crossing, Ximenqing once visited Xi'an and saw four horses in the "Six Horses of Zhaoling" in the Forest of Steles Museum.Two other horses were stolen during the Republic of China and sold to foreign cultural relics dealers, and were later collected in American museums.

During the feudal dynasty, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty has always been respected by all dynasties. Despite thousands of years of war and chaos, Zhaoling is still well protected.At least the "Six Horses of Zhaoling" have been preserved intact until the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.

In the early years of the Republic of China, in order to steal and sell the "Six Horses of Zhaoling" stone carvings, the unsatisfied descendants cut these six bluestone relief stone carvings of horses into small pieces for transportation, which caused irreparable damage to the stone carvings.

Therefore, what Ximenqing saw in the Xi'an Forest of Steles Museum before crossing in his previous life was only four incomplete stone carvings, which inevitably left a lot of regrets.

Today, the "Six Horses of Zhaoling" are perfectly presented in front of Ximen Qing.

The six stone carvings in the North Sima Gate, three on each side, stand against the back eaves wall.On the upper corner of each stone carving is Taizong's own Ma Zan poem written by Ouyang Xun, a famous regular script calligrapher of Tang Dynasty. On the base of the stone carving, there is also a description of official script written by Yin Zhongrong, a famous official script calligrapher of Tang Dynasty.

Ximenqing and others stopped in front of the stone carving of "Six Horses of Zhaoling", admiring the six horses one by one, watching the horse hymn poem written by Tang Taizong Li Shimin for his beloved horse, and the stories of these six horses .

Among the six stone carvings, the "Sa Luzi" with figures is the most unique, attracting the attention of Ximen Qing and others.

This pair of "Salu Zi" stone carvings is Tang Taizong Li Shimin, in order to commend the achievements of Qiu Xinggong, a fierce general under his command.

There is such a legend about Qiu Xinggong drawing arrows for Tang Taizong's beloved horse:

In the fourth year of Tang Wude, Qiu Xinggong followed Tang Taizong Li Shimin to crusade against Wang Shichong, and fought a decisive battle with Wang Shichong's army in Mangshan.

Before the battle, Qiu Xinggong followed Tang Taizong Li Shimin to test the enemy's true strength, and led dozens of cavalry into the enemy's formation. He was unstoppable and killed many enemy troops.

Soon, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin and all the cavalry were separated because of the obstruction of the long embankment, and only Qiu Xinggong followed Li Shimin.

At that moment, a group of cavalry from Wang Shichong's army chased after them, and fired random arrows, hitting Tang Taizong's war horse "Saluzi".

In the critical stone carving, Qiu Xinggong turned his horse's head back and shot at the chasing enemy army. The arrows shot without missing a few of the enemy army, and the rest of the enemy army did not dare to move forward.

Therefore, Qiu Xinggong got off his horse and pulled out the arrow from Tang Taizong Li Shimin's horse, and then gave his own horse to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and walked in front of the horse.

Holding a long knife in his hand, Qiu Xinggong shouted loudly, shocked the enemy's formation, and beheaded several enemy soldiers in a row, protecting Tang Taizong Li Shimin from the encirclement, and returned to the Tang army camp.

In the end, the Tang army under the leadership of Li Shimin defeated Wang Shichong's army and captured Luoyang City and Henan.

Except for "Sa Lu Zi", the other five horses are also the horses ridden by Tang Taizong Li Shimin to conquer the enemy.

"Qing Zou" is pale and variegated, which was used by Tang Taizong Li Shimin when he pacified Dou Jiande.

"Shifachi" was also the mount used by Tang Taizong Li Shimin when he pacified Wang Shichong and defeated Dou Jiande in the south.

In the battle of suppressing Wang Shichong and defeating Dou Jiande who came to aid, Tang Taizong Li Shimin killed three horses successively, which shows the fierceness of the battle at that time.

Among the other three horses, "Telepiu" was ridden by Tang Taizong Li Shimin when he pacified Song Jingang.

"White Hoof Crow" was used by Tang Taizong Li Shimin when he pacified Xue Rengao.