Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

At this time, not only the medicinal material merchants on Ma Xing Street have turned to Ximen Qing, but also the leading figures from all walks of life have come to vote, hoping to rely on the big tree of Ximen Qing.

Just when the people of Bianliang City in Tokyo were settled down and the prosperity of the past was gradually restored, the emergency report from the Northwest came like snowflakes, bringing a news that shocked the government and the public: the Xixia Army invaded the invaders in a large scale, the Zhenrong Army fell, and Jingyuan Road After the defeat, Qu Duan, the commander of the Economic Strategy Division, retreated to defend Weizhou.Weizhou has now been besieged by Brother Li Cha of the Xixia Army, and it is in danger!

Weizhou City is an important town on Qinfeng Road, once it falls, it will endanger the entire Qinfeng Road.

When Zhang Bangchang, the emperor of Chu State, learned that Weizhou was in danger, he hurriedly called a group of ministers to discuss how to save Weizhou.

Of course, Zhang Bangchang has no military power, and everything can only be counted on the privy envoy Ximen Qing who holds a strong soldier.

Ximenqing heard that Qu Duan was defeated, so he asked his subordinates in the Privy Council to find out who Qu Duan was.

Qu Duan, whose style name is Zhengfu, was a soldier in the town of Qinfeng Road.

Qu Duan was also a descendant of Jiangmen. His father, Qu Huan, went to Zuoban Dianzhi and died in battle.

Qu Duan was given a job by the third class under his father's shadow and began to join the army.

In the first year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers invaded, and Xi Gong, the envoy of Weizhou Economic Strategy, appointed Qu Duan as the commander of the Economic Strategy Division and also knew the Zhenrong Army to guard his hometown and prevent the Xixia people from taking advantage of the fire.

Qu Duan didn't disgrace the name of his father's generation, he recruited local braves in the town army, repelled the Xixia people's attacks many times, and gradually made a name for himself in the northwest.

"There are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings." When the famous generals of the Western Army, Zhong Shidao, Zhong Shizhong, Liu Zhongwu, Liu Yanqing, Yao Gu, Yao Pingzhong, Zhe Keqiu and others died or fled, or were demoted or transferred, they stayed in Shaanxi For a while, the remnants of the Western Army of the Fifth Route had no famous generals.

Qu Duan took this opportunity to rise in the Western Army and became a new generation of famous generals.

However, this famed general of the Western Army was also defeated and trapped, with nothing to do.

Chapter 992 Weizhou's Past and Present

Weizhou is an important frontier town on the northwestern border of the Song and Chu countries to prevent the invasion of the Xixia Kingdom.

The city of Weizhou was originally called Pingliang in ancient times.

The name of Pingliang began in the second year of Ganlu in the former Qin Dynasty (376 A.D.) during the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In order to publicize his achievements in pacifying the former Liang Kingdom, Fu Jian, the former king of the Qin Dynasty, set up Pingliang County in the Jinghe River Basin to the east of Longshan Mountain, which means "pacify the Liang Kingdom".

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, Pingliang was renamed "Weizhou".

Weizhou is named after the Wei River.

Wei refers to the Weihe River. The Longshan Mountain running north-south is a watershed between the Jingwei River and the Weihe River. The streams in the east of the Ling River flow into the Jing River, and the streams in the west of the Ling Mountains flow into the Wei River.

Both the Jing River and the Wei River flow eastward and merge into one river at Jingzhaofu.

Pingliang is located in the Jinghe River Basin to the east of Longshan Mountain, and it is completely out of touch with the Weihe River.

As the saying goes, "the Wei and the Wei are distinct", so why is Pingliang by the Jing River named after the word "Wei"?

In fact, the place name Weizhou was first born in the third year of Yong'an in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 530), Xiangwu (now Longxi County, Gansu Province) west of Longshan where the original government was located.

At that time, the Weizhou Mansion was set up in Longxi, which was named after the Wei River, and it deserves its name.

From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the territory under the jurisdiction of Weizhou Prefecture included Longxi, Dingxi, Zhangxian, Weiyuan, Wushan and other places, which coexisted with Pingliang in the world.

Therefore, the name of Weizhou was born, which had nothing to do with Pingliang at first.

Pingliang was renamed Weizhou in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The reason for the name change was that the Tang army was defeated by the Tubo army and lost the territory of the old Weizhou Longxi.

Just 22 years before Weizhou Prefecture moved from Longxi to Pingliang, in the third year of Zhenyuan (787) of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty, a major event that affected the course of Chinese history happened under the Tiger Mountain on the north bank of the Jinghe River in Pingliang City. It is called "Pingliang Huimeng" or "Pingliang Jiemeng".

At that time, the Pingliang area was occupied by Tubo, and Tubo Grand Minister Shang Jiezan took the opportunity to hijack the main envoy of the Tang Dynasty, Hun Yu, on the occasion of the Tang Dynasty's alliance with Pingliang.

Because of Tubo's repeated military defeats, Shang Jiezan plotted to rob Hunyu in order to get rid of the effective Tang general.

The Pingliang robbery alliance ended when the Tubo army robbed and destroyed the alliance. In the raid, the Tang army killed more than [-] people and captured more than [-] people.

When Sikong Hunyu, a famous general in the Tang Dynasty, was ordered to form an alliance with Tubo Xiangshang, he was robbed by the Tubo army because he was unsuspecting, and then fled back alone.

After the Tubo people robbed the alliance, they plundered neighboring counties and counties, and then retreated to Qingshui County.

After the robbery of the Pingliang alliance, the relationship between Tang and Tibet deteriorated, and the war resumed.Since then, the two sides have not made peace for more than [-] years.

In the life-and-death struggle, Tang Jun regained Pingliang, but lost Weizhou Mansion.

In desperation, in the fourth year of Tang Yuanhe (809 A.D.), the imperial court moved the original administration of Weizhou Prefecture to Pingliang.

From then on, Pingliang officially changed its name to Weizhou, which lasted for more than 300 years through Tang, Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms, Song and other dynasties, and continued to Chu.

Because from Pingliang (Weizhou) along the Jing River, you can directly rush to Chang'an City. Since the Tang Dynasty, Pingliang (Weizhou) has been an important gateway to Chang'an City.

Whether it is the cavalry of the grassland ethnic minorities from the west, or the mighty army of the Tang Dynasty from the east, they all regard Longdong Pingliang as a threshold for mutual attack and defense.

Today you step over to show off your power when you are in power, and tomorrow when he is in power, you step over to loot and burn.

In Chang'an City, the god capital of the Tang Dynasty, there is a scene of flowers singing and dancing like a brocade, but Pingliang, which is only a few hundred miles away, is a scene of swords, lights and swords, corpses strewn across the field, and a chilling and desolate scene.

The Turks came and went, and the Tibetans came and went.

When the rebel army attacked Chang'an, they had to conquer Pingliang first, and King Qin's army had to go through Pingliang to regain the lost ground.

You came to burn, kill and loot, and I came to ask for food and money, and the people of Pingliang suffered from the war.

Whether it is the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, or the Tang and Song dynasties, Pingliang (Weizhou) is always in war.

After the Anshi Rebellion in Tang Dynasty, Pingliang (Weizhou) became the battlefield of Tang and Tubo, and was trapped in Tubo several times.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the military forces of the Tang Dynasty could only control the northern boundary of Kongtong District in Pingliang and the western boundary of Zhenyuan.

For hundreds of years, Weizhou has always been the front line of the Tang and Song dynasties, and it is an important border town.

Tang and Tubo, Song and Xixia all waged tug-of-war in Longshan East and West.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the prosperity of the country's economy, Weizhou City also developed into an important frontier town with a prosperous economy and a large population.

In the first year of Song Renzong's Baoyuan (1038), Li Yuanhao, the leader of the party clan, proclaimed himself emperor in Xingqing Mansion and established the Xixia Kingdom.

After the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, the territory covered thousands of miles, ending at the Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south, and the desert in the north.

Because Xixia cavalry often harassed the border of the Song Dynasty, Song Renzong dispatched a group of forbidden troops to Yanzhou and Weizhou to defend, thus kicking off the war between Song and Xia for more than 80 years.

Because Longshan is the border line, Weizhou in the east of Longshan is called Saixia, and the nomads in the west of Longshan are called Saishang.

The Chusai, Saishang and Saixia songs in Tang poetry and Song Ci are sung from this.

Wang Anshi came to Weizhou because of the war with Li Yuanhao, the king of Xixia, and wrote a poem "Longdong": "The water in the east of Longdong flows eastward, and he refuses to cross Longtou. People worry."

Now, Generalissimo Li Cha of the Xixia State Army is stationed outside Weizhou City, encircling this important frontier town.