Mangdang Mountain is thousands of miles from east to west, and the narrowest point from north to south is 70 miles. When Emperor Taizong ordered to open the mountain and build roads, people from the Ministry of Industry sent people to walk in Mangdang Mountain for a year before choosing this place. Although this is not the narrowest place, the mountain is the slowest, and there is a broken gorge that can be used, saving a lot of labor.
Even so, it took so long for the 200,000 migrant workers to gather here to open the mountain road. In order to commemorate the opening of this mountain road, officials from the Ministry of Industry built a mountain platform at the foot of the mountain with stones and trees picked from the mountain. The platform has a radius of one mile and is built with large stones. The platform is flat and wide, and there is also a mountain viewing hall.
The bricks and stones picked from the mountain were used in the construction of the mountain platform. This matter once attracted people from Yushitai to participate in the impeachment for a long time, but Emperor Taizong didn't care about it at that time. When the army marched into the south of the Yangtze River, he had been to Mount Mangdang. , Climb to the Kaishantai, where you can see the mighty and spectacular scene of the army passing the mountain road.
General Li Xiao led his army through Mount Mangdang, boarded a battleship on the banks of the Yangtze River, and defeated the Southern Dynasty Navy, which was known as the strongest in the world, and then crossed the sky and set foot on the land of Jiangnan. Like boiling soup and snow, the army of the Southern Dynasty was beaten to the point that they had no power to fight back.
When the convoy passed Kaishantai, Fang Jie couldn't help but stop.
Although he had seen it once yesterday from a distance, he took a quick glance and didn't look carefully at all. Today, standing under the kaishan platform and looking up, I can truly feel the grandeur of the project. It is not easy to build a huge 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 in his mind the scene of 200,000 civilians opening the mountain. From the top of Mount Mangdang to here, there is a team of peasants as dense as ants moving. Relying on their own arms and shoulders, they forcibly dug out a piece of the mountain, and then moved it down the mountain to build this high platform.
More than a hundred years have passed, and the majestic Kaishan Terrace has been mottled and covered with green grass, and there are even a few trees that are already very strong. Fang Jie walked up the high platform slowly along the stone steps, stood on the side of the high platform and looked at the towering mountain not far away.
Perhaps, Emperor Taizong was standing here back then, watching his soldiers pass through the mountains with an unstoppable power and cleanse the south of the Yangtze River.
Compared with the big mountain, this platform looks very low, but standing on the Kaishan platform, Xie suddenly has a magnificent feeling that the whole world is in my hands. This feeling makes people feel very excited, and even has an urge to yell.
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 groups of soldiers striding forward. He saw the endless team, the battle flag swept by the clouds, the long lance like a steel forest, and the chariot that was a bit bulky but extremely strong. In a trance, he even saw a very special team in that majestic army. They were wearing heavy armor, holding mo knives, and guarding a huge chariot pulled by ninety-nine horses. On the large and luxurious seat above the chariot sat a man in golden armor.
That person, I don't know why he looked so familiar.
He saw the pride on the faces of all the soldiers, their eyes were firm and fierce. Along this mountain road, the long dragon-like team passed through Mangdang Mountain and headed north.
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Fang Jie was startled, and subconsciously rubbed his eyes.
Where is there any endless army in front of him, where is there any battle flag like a forest of long spears like clouds, let alone a chariot drawn by ninety-nine horses, naturally there is no general in golden armor. The mountain road is still empty, nothing. It turned out that the endless black armored army and the mighty marching drums were all imagined by myself.
Mr. Huaiqiu, who was being helped up to the high platform, happened to see his surprised expression, couldn't help but smiled and said, "Are you feeling the magnificence of building a high platform when you started mountain cultivation?"
Fang Jie smiled, hiding his doubts and confusion.
"Yeah... only in our Great Sui Dynasty can there be such a miraculous project. Standing here, I can't help but think about the scene when I sent troops to the south of the Yangtze River. Hundreds of thousands of troops marched forward, passing through the mountains The natural moat is as powerful as a broken bamboo to level the south of the Yangtze River."
Duke Huaiqiu nodded and said: "When I went to Beijing to rush for the exam, when I passed by here for the first time and saw this mountain path and high platform, I was shocked beyond measure. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, no one would believe that this path is It was made by manpower. And from the mountain cultivation, we can see the determination and courage of Emperor Taizong's southern expedition."
"With such determination and courage, the decadent Southern Dynasty has no power to resist."
He pointed to the direction of the mountain road and said: "Back then, I walked up that road by myself, alone, without a companion. I left home a year in advance, and walked to the imperial capital after wearing out dozens of pairs of shoes. Think about it. It seems that over the years, I have only returned to my hometown twice, and one of them was to follow orders."
Hearing his emotion, Fang Jie echoed a few words.
But in his mind, the picture of the hallucination before was still there.
Whose is that endless army? Who is the golden-armored general sitting on the huge chariot pulled by ninety-nine horses
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"I walked from the south to the north back then, but now I walk from the north to the south. The road is still the same, and the mountain is still the same mountain. The mountain platform does not seem to have changed, but people are so old that they can't even walk. gone."
Huai Qiugong sighed.
Fang Jie shook his head, shaking off the chaotic thoughts in his head. He knew that the hallucinations in his mind just now were just because of the Kaishantai, the Mangdang Mountain, and the emotion of the great battle that year. When the Southern and Northern Dynasties were opposed, the Dazheng in the north and the Nanchen in the south were opposed for hundreds of years, and no one could do anything to the other because of the natural moat of the Yangtze River. Later, Emperor Taizu of the Great Sui Dynasty raised troops to destroy Zheng and established the Great Sui Dynasty. Emperor Taizong worked hard to govern, and finally put an end to the Southern Dynasties, and the world has been unified since then.
It is inevitable that such a magnificent past will not make people feel emotional.
"Let's go."
Fang Jie shook his head and smiled: "When I come back from the southwest, I will take this road again, and then go up to this stage, and see if I feel nostalgic."
Huai Qiugong laughed loudly and said, "Even if you walked back and forth along 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."
For some reason, Ye Jinnan remained silent. When Huai Qiugong and Fang Jie talked about this, his expression changed slightly. Standing behind Fang Jie, he stared at this young and promising man with a complex look in his eyes, which he couldn't understand.
Everyone went back on the road, passing by the place where Fang Jie shot and killed Lu Ou, Fang Jie deliberately opened the curtain and looked out, and found that the official road was clean and there were no traces, he couldn't help smiling. Seeing him laughing, Huai Qiugong couldn't help asking: "What makes you happy?"
Fang Jie shook his head slightly: "It's nothing, I just feel that the mountain scenery makes people feel at ease."
Huai Qiugong knew that he wasn't telling the truth, but he didn't want to ask again.
In fact, Fang Jie laughed because he knew that there were others behind him. He killed Lu Ou, shot the five bosses to death with five arrows in a row, and shot the poor horse pulling the cart to death with another arrow. The bodies, the wreckage of the carriage, were gone. So Fang Xie concluded that the emperor sent someone else to follow him. This is obviously the emperor's distrust of him, but it may not be a bad thing for Fang Xie, at least...someone wiped his ass.
He knew that the emperor was a person no one could trust, and this was a qualified emperor.
The convoy passed through Mount Mangdang 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 road from Dali City in Nanyan to Fangu in the northwest of Sui Dynasty. This big river, also called the Yangtze River, was as magnificent as the Yangtze River that Fang Jie had seen in his previous life, even much wider than the Yangtze River in his previous life. There was a layer of faint water vapor on the river, so he couldn't see the other side of the river at a glance.
When they got here, they had to separate, Huaiqiu Gong went east, Fang Jie went west.
The waters in this section are quite gentle, and it is a big ferry. It is said that the upstream waterway is slightly narrower, but the current is so fast that ordinary small boats cannot cross it.
Fang Jie and the others were on a big boat with a length of seventy meters, which was a Guandu boat. Generally, there are two types of ferry boats at the ferry crossing, one is Guandu, which is large and stable and the fee is not high. But because there are too many pedestrians coming and going, it is impossible to use Guandu alone. So there are many fishermen ferrying here. Their boats are small, but they go fast, and they don't have to wait for the people to be full 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 easy as letting the Mongolian people ride horses.
When they got here, Fang Xie's carriage was useless. On the other side of the river, the local officials will naturally prepare the carriage again. So as long as the personnel board the ship, there are about a hundred people in a group, and the official uniforms on their bodies are particularly eye-catching. Especially those fifty or so flying fish robes made the common people fear.
This big ship has been ordered by the government, and it is waiting here for the imperial envoy. Fang Xie and the others set off as soon as they boarded the boat, but Fang Xie stopped them and let the people waiting on the shore also board the boat. Fang Jie couldn't bear to pull them and the others on such a big ship and make the people wait for the official ship to return.
Ye Jinnan couldn't help but change his eyes when he heard Fang Jie's order, it was full of appreciation.
"General."
A soldier approached him and said in a low voice, "I've inquired on the shore, and no one has seen General Lu board the ship... Logically, General Lu and the others should also be very eye-catching, it's impossible for no one to see them."
Hearing these words, Ye Jinnan frowned immediately.
"Don't mention it to anyone... After returning to Yongzhou, if someone asks about General Lu... just say that the ferry encountered a storm and General Lu fell into the river unfortunately!"
"But… "
Just as the soldier was about to speak, Ye Jinnan stopped him: "No, but! If you let me know that someone dares to say something nonsense, don't blame me for not remembering the past! This is the case, and it is the same for anyone who asks, and I need to say it again Do it again!"