Latest chapter

Bookfriends 41 Comments

Chapter 1 Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty

On the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, large and small sandboats are crowded, a busy scene.

This canal connecting the Central Plains from the Yangtze River to the Haihe River has been planned since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It was formally dug during the Sui Yang Emperor's period. In order to dig this river, he lost his country and let the Tang Dynasty take advantage of it. This traffic connecting the north and the south is coming, but it has affected the whole of China since then.

Since the Tang Dynasty, this river has played a huge role in the transportation between the north and the south, especially in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Especially in the Song Dynasty, Luoyang was originally chosen as the capital of several dynasties. Neither location nor foundation can be said. Because of the canal, Kaifeng was the final capital.

Bianliang has also become the most important hub of the canal. It has become much closer to Luoyang through the Yellow River, Hebei, Shandong and even the south.

On the broad canal, a three masted sand boat with 200 materials is slowly sailing. This is one of the most important ships on the canal. Although the canal has a wide water surface, it cannot compare with the boundless sea. 400 materials are already the limit, most of them are between 150 and 300 materials.

Every year during the water transport, I saw a large number of ships with 400 materials sailing from the south to the north. At this time, the wind was blowing southerly, but the angle was slightly off. The boatman was very skilled in manipulating the sail, and the half hung sail pushed the ship forward slowly.

The boatmen and sailors on both sides use oars to push the sand boat. The speed of the sand boat is not fast, and it is a bit slower than walking. The boat appears stable and unusual on the water without current.

It was nearly dusk, and the wharf was not far ahead. The boatman on the boat was discussing the evening activities. Occasionally, the singing of the boatman and the horn of some boat trackers would come from the distance.

On the boat, a small figure looked at the boundless scenery through the westward sun, leaving no trace in Zhao Xin's heart. He was used to the glitz of the 21st century, and even thousands of boats on the canal could not stir up the ripples in his heart.

After all, Zhao Xin could not go back. Three days ago, Zhao Xin attached himself to the child. After receiving few memories, he found that he had gone through the Renzong years of the Northern Song Dynasty, closed his eyes for thousands of years, and spied on fate.

Zhao Xin was a doctor of Peking University in ancient Chinese history and Song history before he crossed the border. His 20 years of hard work made him successful. It was a time of high spirits, but he crossed the border.

Without a mirror to see his own appearance, his arms and legs are extremely delicate, not more than 7 years old. His young body is also impacted by his memory, which is fragmented.

In the memory of a few people, he is a loyal elder father and a loving mother. What is more prominent is their identity, the emperor and imperial concubine, as well as his name, Zhao Xin, the second son of the emperor, Zhao Xin.

He grew up as an orphan. He was admitted to Peking University from a remote mountain area and learned from the most famous historical scholar of Peking University. He is likely to stay in school and teach immediately after graduation. He can also be regarded as a model of knowledge changing destiny.

Who knows, what a satire it is to travel to the Northern Song Dynasty. He is also going to serve his hometown elders, and after graduation, he will take a project back with him. Everything stops suddenly when he travels.

An ordinary folk tomb, however, was found with a large number of sacrificial objects that only the imperial family was entitled to have. It was supposed to be the development of district level cultural relics, which shocked the Central Bureau of Cultural Heritage and the Palace Museum all the way, and a large number of capable forces including him entered the development of ancient tombs.

When exploring the tomb, Zhao Xin found a gold medal and accidentally pierced his hand. On the gold medal of blood drops, the golden light suddenly formed a black hole, and the powerful force broke all nothingness in an instant. Zhao Xin's body was destroyed instantly, but his soul was attracted by huge attraction.

The gold medal took him across thousands of mountains and rivers, and he couldn't bear it anymore. Then he fainted. After waking up, his soul passed through here, and Zhao Xin passed through, becoming Zhao Xin, the son of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of the journey, I didn't even know where I was. It took me three days to complete my broken memory. He was the second son of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty. He should have stayed in the court of the Northern Song Dynasty. I don't know why he was sent back to the Miao family secretly by Renzong. The Miao family dare not stay in Bianliang. He was sent to the manor in Baozhou. His external identity was Miao Ding, the fourth young master of the Miao family.

"Fourth Young Master!" The silver bell like voice from the door was quite pleasant.

The door curtain was lifted, and two maids who were less than ten years old and dressed in green came in. They were the maids of the Miao family. The round face on the left was called Ruyi, and the slightly pointed face on the right was called Luhe.

After they saluted Zhao Xin, they told him that when Nanle arrived, they would stop the ship for a while to supply some necessities.

In Nanle County, Zhao Xin quickly recalled that Zhao Xin had few memories in her body, some were fragmented, and more were in the court.

As a doctor of history who specialized in the Song Dynasty, he knew where Nanle was at a moment's thought. On the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, Nanle on the canal was Nanle County in Henan Province later. It belonged to Beijing Daming Mansion, which was one of the thirteen counties of Daming Mansion. It was also a relatively close and prosperous county.

Beijing in the Song Dynasty was not the same place as Beijing in later generations. It was one of the four capitals in the Northern Song Dynasty. The specific location was in Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province. Later Beijing was in the Northern Song Dynasty, in the hands of the Liao State, and was the Youzhou of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures.

The eternal pain of the Northern Song Dynasty was the loss of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, which not only made the whole northern region without danger to defend, but also made China lose the traditional place to raise horses. In the end of the Song Dynasty, there was always a shortage of horses, and even in the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the powerful army was quiet. It was also gradually lost because of the lack of load-bearing and heavy riding of tall war horses. This may be the eternal pain of the Song Dynasty.

Daming Mansion, one of the four capital cities in the Northern Song Dynasty, has a very large jurisdiction area. It governs 13 counties, and Nanle is one of them. It is not far from Daming, only 60 miles away. If you stay in Nanle at night, you can reach Daming Mansion in two days according to the ordinary boat Su. If the wind helps, one day will be almost enough.

In the northern important town of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Daming Mansion can never be ignored. Zhao Xin knew the meaning of the Daming Mansion in the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty. Whenever the Song and Liao dynasties were nervous, he would send a prime minister to lead the Daming Mansion in person, and Han Qi, who was in charge of the three dynasties, was the calming needle of the Daming Mansion.

Since he became famous, every time there was friction between Liao and Song Dynasties, he would be in charge of the Daming Mansion, which became a political and military center. Of course, at this time, Han Qi, a veteran of the three dynasties, was just emerging as a member of Fan Zhongyan's Qingli innovation, and was the core figure.

The third year of Qingli, 1043 AD, was an important node of the Northern Song Dynasty. In this year, Fan Zhongyan talked about He Lvyi's bamboo slips continuously, which won the trust of Renzong, and opened the influential New Deal of Qingli. Even if the New Deal ended in a year or four months, it was the beginning of the reformers and conservatives, which affected the Northern Song Dynasty for nearly 80 or 90 years later.

The most magnificent era has begun. Unfortunately, Zhao Xin cannot participate in it, not only because he is the son of Renzong, but also because his age, born in 1039, the second year of Baoyuan, is four years old. Even because of unknown reasons, he left the Northern Song court and went to Baozhou, not to mention being unable to affect the court, even his own safety, has great doubts.

One thing haunted him all the time. Zhao Xin, the second son of the emperor, died in January of the third year of Qingli in history. At this time, it was October of the third year of Qingli. What had happened, whether the history had changed or the real history was buried in the white loess.

Copyright: Start Chinese Website

QQ reading mobile version