Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty: Eight hundred and twelve Taihe City

Taihe City is a city that is extremely difficult to be captured by foreign forces. Easy to defend and difficult to attack is definitely the most obvious sign of this city. Those who choose the site to build the city must have used its favorable complex terrain from the beginning. .

Because of its complex topography, the city of Taihe is not like a square city commonly seen in the Central Plains, but because it was built on the **** between the summit of Cangshan Buddha and Wuzhishan, thus forming a city wall with only two sides. The unique shape of the city.

The precipitous Cangshan Mountain forms a natural defensive barrier on its west side, and the boundless Erhai water area on the east side. Two natural strategic barriers are enough to make Taihe City unnecessary to spend time and money on defense. Waste in both directions.

The two north-south city walls are based on the terrain, winding like two long dragon-like solid city walls, lying between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, forming a strong city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Similarly, when Shelong was the king of Nanzhao (Mengshezhao), she built two small towns less than a hundred miles away from the city of Taihe, and named them Longkou, The two cities of Dragon Tail, thus together defending Taihe City, make Taihe City even more solid.

But Lawless, Yuan Shuji, Guo Shi, Shelong, Xinuluo, Luo Shengyan and others are now standing under the gate of Longkou City, waiting for Li Hong's arrival.

The city is not very big, the winding streets are quite the artistic conception of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, the land of Yunnan and Guizhou is rich in mountains and rivers, with small bridges and flowing water, ponds and small courtyards, thatched houses or rammed earth. From here, the yellow wall is also quite alive.

People in various costumes would secretly look at the passing army from the poorly sealed log windows from time to time, but no one would come out to investigate.

The people of Nanzhao weren't like the previous generation at this time. They separated here into various ethnic groups, and now they mostly call themselves cuan (cuan) people and call themselves descendants of the Ban clan.

The formation of the Ban family was in the Spring and Autumn Period. The descendants of Ruoao of Chu State reproduced. According to legend, their ancestors grew up eating tiger milk, so they took their tabby spots as their surnames.

Li Hong didn't know this at all. While listening to She Long talking about their history, he sat on horseback and looked at the Erhai Lake and the Cangshan Mountains that are connected to the sky in the distance.

Shelong’s argument is obviously very convincing. After all, the meaning of the word is tiger here, and it can be basically determined from then on. Their ethnic group is the Cuan clan developed mainly by the descendants of the Ban family. .

During the pre-Sui Sui period, the Cuan clan was split internally, thus forming the Eastern Cuan and the Western Cuan. By the end of the pre-Sui Sui Dynasty, with the decline of the Eastern Cuan, the Western Cuan was taking advantage of the fire and looting, which once again led to internal divisions, thus Tribal kingdoms named after their kings were formed: the six edicts of Mengxiu, Yuexi, Langqiong, Fengqi, Shilangzhao, and Mengshezhao.

Mengshezhao is often referred to as Nanzhao because it is in the south of the other Five Zhaozhao.

In addition, its strength is stronger than other tribes, and Li Hong sent people to give Nanzhao a strong enough military support during their turmoil, so in a short time, he helped Nanzhao unify the other five Zhao, formed the current Great Nanzhao.

Li Hong understands the purpose of Shelong and Sinuruo telling himself about their history. This is telling himself vaguely that they were under Shezhao to unify the other five edicts. Although they had their own support at the time, they were also like the Tang Dynasty. Like the Central Plains, there is absolute legitimacy here.

Li Hongduan sat on the horseback and did not speak. According to their Nanzhao etiquette, after a fairy and ghost wearing various unusual costumes, he stepped on Xinuluo's back and slowly moved from the horseback. Come down.

Si Nuluo waited for Li Hong's feet to stand firmly, and then got up from the ground. Not only did he not feel annoyed by the big footprints on his back, but he was extremely excited.

Especially when his son Luo Shengyan saw the big dazzling footprints on his back after he got up, and wanted to help him take it off, he was actually stopped by Xinluo with a stern look in his eyes. It can be known that Xinuluo was quite afraid of Li Hong's arrival.

The gate of Taihe City is not very big, but as a relic of the ancient city of Dali, most of the streets and lanes are made of hard stones. Even the main body of the gate is also made of stone. Only in other places with steep terrain, will loess be used to rammed the city walls.

There are many buildings made of stone in the whole city. Even the winding alleys under your feet are also paved with stones. After years of treading on them, they have appeared slightly uneven, but on the whole, they are very special. It was walking in a narrow alley after the rain, as if walking on a mirror.

Xinuruo is famous for his preference for beauty. Even his son has inherited his fine traditions. All pretty women in Taihe City will be forced into the palace by him. They will stay in the palace, and then they will send someone to give their family members a sum of money.

If you don’t like it, it’s not bad, you will let him go home, but in many cases, the women whom Xinuluo gave up will be taken away by his son Luo Shengyan and become Luo Shengyan's personal things.

Li Hong walked in the forefront, followed by Xinuluo on the left, and Shelong on the right. Behind him, there are Jingzhe and Mangkin who have not appeared for a long time.

The two whispered to Li Hong what Xinluo did in Nanzhao, and reminded Li Hong from time to time that Xinuluo was in the north of Taihe City this time when he came. Their Longwei City stationed a large number of soldiers and horses to prevent other leaders of the Five Emperors from coming to Taihe City to see themselves.

Taihe City also has a royal palace. After Shelong passed the Mengshezhao to Xinuluo, after receiving the support of Datang, the young Xinuluo suppressed the Wuzhao and unified the whole After the tribe, they began to imitate the Tang Dynasty and built a palace.

Once a person enjoys the supreme pleasure brought by the supreme power, his ambition will become bigger and bigger, just like Sinuruo, after ruling the entire tribe, began to be dissatisfied Dynasty's wink acted.

Instead, they began to secretly communicate with some of the Tibetan forces that wanted to restore their Zanpu, including some of Zhenla's forces, and the Fangling Princess of Jiannan Road, began to secretly communicate with each other, and tried to get close to all forces. It is the hope to be able to completely break away from the control of the Tang Dynasty and become an independent kingdom like Zhenla.

The Annan Protector of Datang is in Song Ping (Hanoi, Vietnam), which is not very close to Taihe City. Moreover, before the dictatorship of Li Hong, the Datang Dynasty did not deploy too many troops in Annan. Only after Li Hong helped Xinuluo unify Nanzhao, he symbolically placed his troops at Songping Mansion in Annan to guard against Zhenla's threat to the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the road from Song Ping Mansion to Taihe City is far away, and dense forests with complex terrain, humid and hot, are very common, and the endless mountains are mixed, and it takes a month to go back and forth, so Annan Duhu Mansion is right Taihe City obviously lacked some deterrence and restraint, which gave them more opportunities to win over others to help themselves.

Liu Yanyou is now in Songping Mansion, and Pei Xingjian and Chen Jingzhi’s warship navy are also at the pier closest to Songping Mansion on Lingnan Road. Although this move does not pose much threat to Sinuluo, it is also Let Xinuluo realize that the Tang Dynasty was dissatisfied with him.

"How much do they know about Chengdu Mansion?" Li Hong stood in the middle of the gate of the palace as expected, was accepting Nanzhao's officials, and under the leadership of Xinuluo and Shelong, he met him. ceremony.

"The slave servants have tried their best to make Jingwei cut off the messengers along the route. Observing these few days, Xinuluo has obviously not noticed any movement, but... the other tribal leaders of the Five Emperors are hard to say, Lingnan Road It's too big, and the land of the six imperial edicts is even more difficult to be monitored by Jingwei. Even if Miss Bai later secretly mobilized the seventy Jingwei, it is still not enough." Jingzhe stood behind Li Hong as usual~IndoMTL. com~ Watching Nanzhao's honor guard continue the lengthy ceremony of welcoming the prince.

"At the time of Chengdu Mansion, Jingwei was not enough, but there is no way. The stalls are too big, but this is a matter of interlocking matters. If you don’t solve the Chengdu Mansion’s affairs, you can’t get here If you don’t solve the problem here, you can’t face Zhenla without any scruples. What happened to Prince Zhenla? Has Xinluo ever asked about it?” Li Hong smiled and nodded at the bottom of the steps. It shows that he is very satisfied with the grand ceremony of welcoming them.

"Xinluo asked about it twice, but until now, he doesn’t know where the three men were held by the slaves. But Liu Duhu is now urging the slaves, if you want Jingwei to sneak into the truth La, it’s the best opportunity to return the prince to them first. I hope you can consider it carefully." Mangkin lowered his head, and Xinluo below could only see his lips moving, but couldn’t hear them clearly. What are you talking about.

So Xinluo smiled with Li Hong on his face, but his heart was overwhelming. I don’t know what the **** next to Li Hong is plotting with Li Hong or accepting Li Hong. Child’s order.

"Then reveal it to Xinuluo, remember to be passive, let him think that he discovered it, let Zhenla Cheng Xinuluo a favor, as for Jingwei's infiltration, there is no need to jump over Hengshan for the time being. Tell Pei Xingjian and Chen Jingzhi that the merchant ships coming from Quanzhou and other places should put some and let Jingwei follow the caravan into Zhenla from the waterway." Li Hong watched the lengthy ceremony finally finished, and then the slaves After Luo and Shelong got their consent, they slowly ascended the steps and began to lead the way to the palace.

The officers of the Tang Dynasty and Nanzhao officials behind them were arranged in two rows, closely following Li Hong and the others, under various ghostly painted symbols of honor, and began to walk to the main hall of the palace.