Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 42 Legend
Seeing this, the old man lost a touch of tenderness in his eyes, and said: "It has been recorded in the lost "Taiping Cave Sutra" that when the sun, the moon, and the stars are combined into one, the fairy gate into the cave will open. According to legend, the two jade pendants of Yinyue and Yangri were left behind by Guang Chengzi, the teacher of the Yellow Emperor, after he ascended in the daytime, and the star jade pendant was brought to the fairyland by Guang Chengzi at that time. At first, I didn’t really believe it, and I doubted it. Immortal world and cave heaven and paradise are nonsense."

"The two jade pendants of Yinyue and Yangri are in the hands of Chen Jingyuan and Zhang Wumeng. I have seen them before, and there is nothing special about them. But four months ago, I suddenly sensed the appearance of the Tianxing jade pendant, and according to This feeling, calculated the general location, and really believed in this legend. For countless years, there are not a few people who practice Taoism like me, but I have never seen anyone who really ascended to the fairyland. The legend of Guangchengzi was originally a fairy He descended to the world and appeared in the world with the Heavenly Star Jade Pendant. Later, when he became successful in cultivation, he found two jade pendants, Yinyue and Yangri, and combined with the Heavenly Star Jade Pendant, he was able to open the fairy gate and fly away. Now it seems that leaving our world , the only way to go to the fairy world may be on these three jade pendants."

Yu Daoxiang's body shook, and he lost his voice and said: "Father suspects that Ye Chen is not a person in the world, just like Guang Chengzi, but a fairy descended from the fairy world?"

The old man took a deep breath and said, "That's right! But we can only be sure after further investigation into the origin of this son."

"But this son is an ordinary person, not only does he not know Taoism, he even doesn't know martial arts." Yu Daoxiang said.

"Yu'er! You've heard the legend that an immortal will become a mortal after knocking down the mortal world. If this child really appeared in the world out of thin air, my guess is very likely to be true. Then Chen Jingyuan and Zhang Wumeng should also You can get the same inference. So you have to set off as soon as possible, otherwise you may be shot first by the Taiping Sect and Taiyi. And what their attitude towards this child is, I don’t know. Then Chen Jingyuan in the south has evil skills in practice, maybe he wants to eat it. It is possible to get the meat of this son." The old man said.

Zhao Kuangyin lived in the Imperial Palace of the Northern Han Dynasty, and Ye Chen was not rewarded immediately, presumably because the war with Khitan was completely settled, and he would be rewarded after returning to Kaifeng.

The Song army confiscated a lot of gold and silver treasures from the Northern Han treasury, the imperial palace, and powerful ministers, which was enough to make up for the cost of the Song Dynasty's nearly four-month Northern Expedition.However, because it was besieged by the Song army for four months, hundreds of thousands of people sat on empty mountains and had no supplements. There was not much food and grass in Jinyang City. Looking at the sallow and dull faces of the people in Jinyang City who built the city wall, one can tell that they haven't eaten salt for many days.

Therefore, Ye Chen took Luo Yaoshun back to the saltworks and continued to be in charge of salt production.

Ye Chen naturally knew that there would be several fierce battles between the Song army and the Khitan army, but now that he had made great achievements, he didn't want to risk his life to participate too much.Continuing to be in charge of salt production was exactly as he wished.

On the contrary, Guo Wuwei got his wish on the same day, and was appointed by Zhao Kuangyin as a fourth-rank Guanwendian Bachelor. As previously arranged, he served as Zhao Pu's deputy, responsible for building the Jinyang City Wall and appeasing the people of the Northern Han Dynasty.Because Guo Wuwei wholeheartedly wanted to introduce the power of the Taiping Sect into the Song Dynasty, he was very concerned about what Zhao Kuangyin arranged, and he did his best.

In fact, Guo Wuwei is still very talented, otherwise he would not have been the first and assistant prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty and ruled the Northern Han Dynasty for many years.In the past few days, he used his familiarity with the situation in the Northern Han Dynasty to offer several strategies to Zhao Kuangyin to quickly get the people of the Northern Han Dynasty back to their hearts, all of which were adopted by Zhao Kuangyin and gradually favored by Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Pu, Cao Bin and others wanted to suppress Guo Wuwei, but they couldn't do much at the moment when the Khitan enemy was in urgent need of returning the former Northern Han people to the Song Dynasty.And Guo Wuwei himself was on guard against them, and he was cautious in doing things, leaving no excuses.

Zhao Pu also knew in his heart that the reason why Zhao Kuangyin favored Guo Wuwei so much was that besides relying on him to pacify the original Northern Han Dynasty as soon as possible, the main reason was that Zhao Kuangyin wanted to use the power of the Taiping Sect to deal with the power that he had always feared in the Song Dynasty. mysterious forces.And this is also the main reason why Zhao Pu didn't dare to deal with Guo Wuwei with all his strength.

Guo Wuwei still lived in his original mansion, and just after dinner, a visitor from the north came to his house.

The person who came was one of his younger brothers, who brought a secret letter from Zhang Wumeng, the head teacher of Taiping in the north.

After reading the contents of the secret letter, Guo Wuwei was taken aback, his breathing was rapid and his heartbeat accelerated, and it took a long time to calm down.

"If the master knows that Ye Chen shot at will, he solved the crisis of the Song army with the technique of making salt, and then broke Jinyang City with a snap of his fingers. I don't know how he will feel. I am afraid that the old man will believe in his own judgment even more." Wuwei muttered to himself with a complicated look on his face.

After pondering for a while, Guo Wuwei wrote a secret letter, reporting in detail what happened to Ye Chen recently, as well as his current status in the Great Song Dynasty.

After his junior brother left with his reply letter, Guo Wuwei thought for a while, then changed into his night clothes, left Jinyang City without anyone noticing, and galloped towards the salt field where Ye Chen was.

Under the starry sky, the full moon is in the sky. Although it is night, the sky and the earth are very bright.

It was still on the hill beside the salt field, but there was an extra flat stone in front of Ye Chen and Luo Yaoshun, with wine and vegetables placed on it.The two ate, drank and chatted, very leisurely and happy.

"Brother, who is your benefactor? Brother, you are already extraordinary. Let alone the secret method of making salt, you were able to predict the collapse of the city wall of Jinyang. With such an ability, you made an incomparable achievement with ease. You and Let me tell you about your mentor!"

Ye Chen sighed in his heart, told a lie, and needed countless lies to cover it up.Forget it, let's tell this lie to the end today and make it an end, and the more mysterious and inscrutable the lie is, the easier it will not be exposed.

"As far as I can remember, I have grown up in the arms of my mentor. I am said to be a master and student, but in fact, I am no different from a father and son. My teacher often said that my appearance was an anomaly, a miracle, and I should not have appeared. In this world. His family background is a monk, but he is different from the current Taoist priests. In my memory, his appearance has never changed, but suddenly one day, he told me that life is like a duckweed in the rivers and lakes, and we meet together by fate , Fate is gone, don't pay attention to life and death, just treat it as a journey, he and I are both travelers on the way, see different scenery, taste different life, now it's time to break up, maybe we can meet each other by fate. This sentence puzzled me a lot. Immediately afterwards, my tutor passed away, and I buried his body in a deep mountain. Therefore, he said that there is fate or we can meet again, which has always puzzled me. After passing away, how can we meet again?" Ye Chen said quietly with a look of nostalgia.

Neither of them noticed that there was a ghostly black figure behind a boulder on the hillside behind them. When the black figure heard Ye Chen's words, their expressions changed drastically and their bodies trembled violently.

"Your master can't be a fairy?" Luo Yaoshun guessed.

"This... maybe it is! Who knows!" Ye Chen said casually.

Luo Yaoshun saw that Ye Chen didn't want to talk about it, so he stopped entangled in it, and started to persuade Ye Chen to drink.

Since the two met, they hit it off and drank a lot of wine these days, but every time at the end Luo Yaoshun fell down drunk first, and in the end Ye Chen seemed to be fine except for his blushing face.

This incident made Luo Yaoshun very dissatisfied and unhappy, but when it came to drinking, he became more and more courageous as he fought, and became more courageous as he lost.Whenever there is a chance, they will fight wine with Ye Chen, and the result is that history repeats itself.

Guo Wuwei hid behind the boulder on the hillside for an hour. It wasn't until Ye Chen supported the drunken Luo Yao down the hill and back to the camp that he was so emotional that he felt that the trip was worthwhile and left quietly.

In the past three days, the Song Dynasty sent a large number of scouts. While the army was resting and reorganizing, the army was preparing for battle, and it was ready to fight against the Khitan army.

On the fourth day, Zhao Kuangyin received information from the military plane that Yelusha, Prime Minister of Khitan Southern Academy, Yelu Frogge, Yelu Deli, Lingwen Dumin, and Xiangwen, Yiwang Yeludi Lieshuai, had rushed to Tongtianhe.

It was Song General Pan Mei who was stationed at Tongtian River to stop the Khitan East Army, and his deputy was Guo Jin. These two brave generals had rich experience in battle, especially Pan Mei, who was the second most famous general in Song Dynasty after Cao Bin.

Speaking of which, Pan Mei is not described in the later storytelling book "The General of the Yang Family" at all. She became the grand master by virtue of her nepotism, and Pan Renmei, the first treacherous minister of the Song Dynasty who specially framed the general of the Yang Family, was indeed one of the founding fathers of the Song Dynasty A famous general, he destroyed Jinghu, Houshu, and even the Southern Han, Southern Tang, and Northern Han in the original history.

Pan Mei is alert and intelligent, able to fight well, and her contribution in the original history is not much worse than that of Yang's general.

Yelusha, the Prime Minister of Khitan Southern Academy, was also a warrior on the battlefield, but he still suffered a lot of defeats against Pan Mei, who had been prepared for a long time.

Yelusha got the news that the city wall of Jinyang had collapsed, so he wanted to go to Jinyang as quickly as possible, and take Jinyang back before the city wall of Jinyang was repaired.

Of course, if the Khitan defeated the Song army and drove them out of the original Northern Han territory, it would naturally be impossible to support and restore the Northern Han Dynasty. Of course, the Northern Han territory would directly belong to the Khitan.

The Khitan established the Liao Kingdom, and there are many Han people in the territory under its jurisdiction. Over the years, some Han people have been promoted and reused. The official system and culture have all been learned from the Han people. The support of the Han people in the territory under less jurisdiction.

But years of habit still make the Khitan people good at riding and shooting field battles, but they don't like and are not good at siege.So when they heard that the city wall of Jinyang had collapsed and hadn't been repaired, the Khitan army immediately thought it was a great opportunity bestowed by heaven.

It was in such a state of mind that Yelusha, the Prime Minister of Khitan South Court, hurried to Tongtianhe with his army.

(End of this chapter)