Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 412 Savage Qin City
The sky was clear, with not a single cloud overhead.

Under the scorching sun, the trees on Siming Mountain were all wilted.

Hot as hell.

The long, narrow, conical head of the black fine dog had long been languid, with its red tongue sticking out, panting unceasingly, lying on the ground without wanting to move.

Qin Lang also felt hot. He had tried his best to put on a cool shirt, but he still felt his whole body was drenched in sweat. It was a sweltering day with no wind at all, and his sweaty clothes were all sticking to his body, making him extremely uncomfortable.

The damn weather.

Although he was an authentic southerner in later generations and had seen all kinds of furnace cities, but after living in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty for three years, it was difficult for him to adapt to the heat.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, I set off from Chang’an to the south. It’s more than a thousand miles from Chang’an to Changsha, and another thousand miles from Changsha to the Yuecheng Ridge at the junction of Hunan and Guangxi. It’s more than a month’s time to walk and see on the road. At this time, I arrived at Siming Mountain, which is already in the middle of June. Now, it is the hottest time.

Looking back, most of the 'knights' and 'samurai' from Guanzhong were as listless and listless as those Guanzhong dogs.

In fact, it was only in the morning, but everyone was already too hot to walk.

All the way from Changsha, the main way is to take a boat on the Xiangjiang River, which is relatively easy, but when we reach the border of Hunan and Guangxi, the waterway is difficult, and the mountain road is even more difficult.

These days, many knights and warriors in Wu'an Prefecture have regretted it. Chang'an is so good. Why did Guanzhong fertile wilderness go to this damn wilderness?

Many people miss the happy days of being a ranger in Chang'an. The girls in Pingkangfang are so juicy and gentle, the wine in Zuixianlou is so fragrant, and the Persian orchid who sells wine in Xishi is also full of style. Even the flax pancakes in Chang'an Morning have a tempting aroma. Take a bite, and your mouth will be full of fragrance and oil.

Damn, but now I have to trek through mountains and rivers in this wild place, my hot thighs are almost rotten.

"Wildness, this is the real wildness!"

Qin Lang fanned the wind with a fan, looking at the vast mountains.

"We are still in Yongzhou on the Jiangnan West Road. We haven't even passed the Five Ridges. What are you talking about? The real wildness is still far away." He shook his head. This group of guys made him a little disappointed. The further south, The slower the team marched, and Qin Lang was appointed by the emperor to be the Prosecutor on behalf of Tiannan, so after crossing the Yangtze River and passing through counties, local officials came to welcome them one after another, and Qin Lang couldn't ignore it. .

He has to get close to these people on behalf of the prince, and also to inspect the place for the emperor, to declare the majesty of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and to inspect the situation of the place along the way, to find some business opportunities, to engage in some cooperation and so on.

"Yuechengling, Qincheng!"

Qin Lang looks to the south, and there is a white jade belt winding among the mountains, and finally crosses the mountains and connects the two places. That is the Lingqu that was specially built by Qin Shihuang to conquer Baiyue in the south. The Lingqu connects the Xiangjiang River in the south and the Lijiang River in the north. , so that the problem of transshipment of grain and grass materials was greatly solved, and it also laid the foundation for the subsequent pacification of Baiyue.

The Yuecheng Ridge where Qin Lang is now is the southeastern tip of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the northwest branch of the Wuling Mountain System, spanning the eastern part of Guilin in Guangxi, the southern part of Shaoyang in Hunan, and the northern part of Yongzhou.

With a total length of five hundred miles and continuous ups and downs, countless Nanmanzi have gathered.

Standing on the Babu Ridge of Siming Mountain, you can see the Lingqu at the foot of the mountain. When Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and conquered the world, he decided to open up Lingnan and ordered Tu Sui to lead an army of 50 to march south. , each occupying a pass in Lingnan.At that time, the first army on the side of Zhao Chengling was blocked by Manyue, and it was difficult to transfer the army's salary, and it was difficult to break through in three years.

Later, the Qin army built the Lingqu, dug an artificial canal of more than 70 miles between the Xiangjiang River and the Lijiang River, opened up the watershed, and made the two sides a smooth road. It took six years to build the Lingqu.

Seventy miles has been built for six years, but it is known that the construction of this spiritual canal is difficult.

However, the importance of Lingqu has been the most important channel and canal between the Central Plains and Lingnan for more than 800 years after it was built.

During the Han Dynasty, Jiaozhi Jiuzhen Zhengbian and Zheng Er sisters rebelled, and Ma Yuan led the Han army to Lingnan from then on.

Although there are Wuling passes in Lingnan, the most important pass from Qin to Tang is the pass of Yuechengling.

Yang Guangshi once sent Lingnan soldiers to conquer Lin Yiguo. At that time, the generals of the court also arrived in Guizhou from Lingqu, and recruited Feng An, Ning Changzhen, Chen Shilue and other Lingnan local kings to gather troops and horses to march south.

Digging through a mountain and connecting two water systems with different north-south directions, this was in the state of Qin 800 years ago. Qin Lang couldn't help but lament the greatness of this project.

Lingqu is not just as simple as digging a ditch. Many of his engineering technologies are still great after 2000.

The Xiangjiang River goes north, and the Lijiang River goes down, running in opposite directions.

800 years ago, the craftsmen of Daqin connected them.

Lingqu is called a canal. It is really small, not as grand as the canal, but its grandeur is no less than that of the Grand Canal. Qin Lang, who came from more than a thousand years ago, would be amazed standing here.

Back then, the people of Qin built dams to divert the water at the place where the two rivers of Xiangli and Lijiang were separated by only eight miles. Then open a canal to divert water directly into the Shi'an River, a tributary of the Lijiang River.

The Lingqu canal is also divided into north and south canals. The south canal was dug to solve the problem of diverting Hunan into Li, and then the north canal was dug to smooth the water flow so that ships traveling from south to north can navigate smoothly.

The North Canal starts from the Fen Reservoir to the north, winds across the plain on the right bank of the Xiangjiang River, and then enters the Xiangjiang River.Standing at the commanding heights of Siming Mountain, we can see that if the North Canal were excavated in a straight line, it would only be three or four miles away. However, in order to smooth the slope, the North Canal turned two big bends, forming two large S-shaped, extending the canal by six The seven-mile channel slows down the slope and widens the river to three to five feet wide.

However, during the dry season, the Lingqu canal actually has insufficient water. It needs to be dredged regularly, and trackers must be used to pull the fibers. It is even necessary to adjust the water volume through steep gates to allow boats to pass smoothly. There are 36 steep gates in the entire Lingcanal.

Only now, this great aqueduct has been destroyed.

The channel was already silted up due to the chaos of the Sui Dynasty, but now the barbarians deliberately blocked it with wood and stones, and the Doumen was also destroyed.

The Lingqu collapsed and the boat couldn't move.

Along the coast of Lingqu, there used to be a piece of fertile land irrigated by Lingqu water, but now the water culverts have been destroyed, and the dikes of the canal have destroyed the fertile fields.The surrounding area used to be an idyllic scene full of villages, but now it is full of sores and overgrown with weeds.

Many villages can still be seen to have been destroyed for a short time.

The exuberant vitality of the past is now replaced by ruins.

"I didn't expect that once Li Xizhi left, the Yuechengling barbarians would be so arrogant and bold!" Qin Yong, who was traveling with him, frowned, "A bunch of bastards."

According to the plan, Qin Lang's trip to the south should be relatively smooth. The plan is to travel from Chang'an to Changsha, then to Guilin, then go to Guangzhou, and then go southwest to Qinzhou and Jiaozhou. Finally, the fiefdom of Wu'an Prefecture should be properly managed and arranged. return to court.

But who would have expected that it took a month to get to Yuecheng Ridge, and before entering Lingnan, there would be obstacles in the way.

Between Hunan and Guangxi, the mountain barbarians rebelled five hundred miles away from the Yuecheng Mountains, destroying the Lingqu Canal, blocking the narrow roads, looting the villages, and attacking the prefectures and counties.

Originally, although Yuecheng Ridge stretched for hundreds of miles, and there were countless savages and barbarians living in it, but because the Lingqu Canal was opened in the Qin Dynasty, it has been an important passage from the Central Plains to the south of the Lingnan for 800 years.

Guilin in the south is the strongest bridgehead operated by the Central Plains court in Lingnan, so the mountainous area between Guizhou and Yongzhou has a lot of barbarians.

But for hundreds of years, a large number of Han people have also moved south and settled down, and even after continuous expansion, in fact, the Yuechengling area between Hunan and Guangxi, the mountainous area, and the flat land at the foot of the mountain have basically been occupied by the Han people. The tribe either moved south, or retreated to the backward mountains, or lived on the top of the mountainside.

Generally speaking, the barbarians in the mountains are actually not completely barbaric. In the eyes of the court officials, these barbarians are actually quite different from the barbarians in Lingnan. These people are actually called Shuman.

It means that they completely accept the rule of the imperial government and have transactions with the Han people. Although most of the barbarians do not become naturalized and do not pay taxes, etc., in the eyes of the imperial court, as long as these barbarians do not mess around, the imperial court is not too bad. Control them too much, anyway, these people are dying of poverty, and there is nothing to control.

But who would have expected that this time, these city-crossing barbarians would unite and kill them down the mountain.

What is the reason?
As soon as Qin Lang arrived in Yongzhou with his team, he heard that there was a riot here. At first, the officials in Yongzhou refused to report the truth, only saying that it was some small conflict. Qin Lang really believed it.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived in Xiangyuan County, they discovered that the county town had been breached by barbarians and looted, leaving behind a dilapidated dead city.

Qin Lang did not return to Yongzhou Lingling, but took the initiative to follow the trail.

Chased all the way to Siming Mountain.

"Could it be related to Feng An?"

"Impossible, Feng An would say that it is the most powerful in Lingnan, but the Feng family territory is in the southeast of Lingnan, which is in the northwest of Lingnan." Qin Lang shook his head.

"But Feng An doesn't get sick sooner or later, but he got sick when he arrived in Hengzhou. Isn't that a problem?" Qin Yong raised doubts.

Qin Lang felt that Qin Yong was still very perceptive. At that time, Feng An suddenly fell ill when he was passing by Hengyang. The accompanying doctor said that he would stop the treatment and recuperate. Qin Lang didn't think much about it. Looking back now, maybe Feng An knew about it at the time. The chaos here, but this guy didn't tell Qin Lang, he just found a reason to stay by himself and let Qin Lang go south alone.

This is suspected of killing people with a knife, and it is not ruled out that Feng An took the opportunity to see Qin Lang's strength, or that he wanted to use the Yuecheng Man to give Qin Lang a prestige to dismount.

"Maybe, but so what if we know? The problem now is these barbarians. We can't be blocked by them in Lingbei, right?" Qin Lang smiled.

"Perhaps it has something to do with Li Xizhi. The court recruited him to join the court. This guy left Guizhou with his front heel, and when he crossed the city with his back foot, chaos broke out."

"Whoever he is, maybe it's Feng An or Li Xizhi, more likely it's Tan Dian or the Ning family, there must be someone in Lingnan who doesn't welcome me to go south, they're scared and worried, so I don't know how to provoke this Yuecheng is in chaos, but I, Qin Lang, are not scared too much!"

Qin Yong tapped his silver hammer in the palm of his hand, a little irritated, "But now we don't have many troops, and we are going deep alone, and we are not familiar with the terrain in the mountains, and we don't know the situation of those rioting barbarians. Dangerous. Maybe we can retreat temporarily and report to the court, or recruit troops from nearby to attack these barbarians!"

His proposal was relatively stable, no matter how chaotic the mountain barbarians were, it would not be a climate change, but Qin Lang just shook his head.

"No need!"

(End of this chapter)