Chapter 507: Yang Zhen also had a headache
Looking at Li Yanping, who was sad but helpless, Yang Zhen also had a headache. It is simply impossible for these two to go to the left and right flags of Linsey and Bahrain, which are currently fighting fiercely. It's a battlefield there, so let these two scholars who are powerless and haven't even touched a gun go, what if there is an accident?
If there is an accident, it will have a very bad impact. What are you kidding, that's a battlefield, not a tourist spot. Although the scenery of Linxi and Bahrain is good, if there is no war, it will be a good choice to travel anywhere. But for now, forget it.
In fact, even if they were allowed to go there, it was actually too late. The entire county town of Linxi was leveled, and Wang Guangyu carried out armed demolition along the way in order to raise the timber needed to erect the pontoon bridge, and there is really nothing left of the entire East and West Wuzhumuqin Banner and the ancient buildings in Linxi.
And the Bahrain Left and Right Banners, which are currently fighting fiercely, and the Alu Korqin Banner, which has just experienced the war, almost all the buildings have been flattened. What is the prince's mansion, Beizi's mansion, this temple, that temple, there is nothing left. Let these two go, I'm afraid I won't see anything. If these two people who love ancient architecture and are obsessed with it know, they can't turn the sky upside down?
As for the ruins of the capital in the Liao Dynasty, and what is the Liao ancestral mausoleum, because according to the location they said, it is not on the main battlefield, so there should be nothing to do. But those things in the territory of the right banner of Bahrain are not accurate. Because the Bahrain Right Banner is now one of the main battlefields of the Linxi Front.
According to the current fire density of tens of thousands of shells fired by the two sides within an hour, after a battle has passed, there will be ghosts left on the ground. Not to mention those temples, even semi-permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete could not withstand a direct hit from a 75-mm field shell.
What you want on the battlefield is to race against time, to fight to the death, who cares if the thing in front of you is an antique or not, and what era was built? A minute of hesitation can even make the difference between life and death for hundreds of people. As a front-line commander, if you still worry about whether the house in front of you is a Wangye Temple or an antique like Beizi Mansion, then there is no way to fight this battle.
And what's even more joking is that the location of the battlefield is where you say it is? Do you think the devil is air, or is it a scarecrow? For these ancient buildings that I don't know when they were built and have no historical value, do we let our troops use human lives to build them? Or is it the fate of these intellectuals, and the lives of the soldiers of the army are not?
And the hell what the Liao Dynasty imperial mausoleum, the ghost knows where it is. He has never heard of the experience of decades before and after, and what other imperial tombs are there in the territory of the Left and Right Banners of Bahrain? There are imperial tombs in the northeast, and he knows this. What Beiling and Dongling, aren't they all around Fengtian, that is, around Shenyang in later generations?
In addition to the imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty, are there other imperial tombs of other dynasties in this northeast? He Yang Zhen has lived for so long in his two lives, why hasn't he heard of it at all? The most important thing is that it's really alive and hell, how can this rabbit not in Ximan have any imperial tombs?
What else is the ruins of Shangjing, and there is still this thing in the territory of the Left Banner of Bahrain? When I went to the battlefield in Ximan, why didn't I see anything? Even in the territory of Bahrain Left Banner, where there is not even a proper house except for the lama temple and the residence of the Mongolian princes, what is there like a capital city? In that place, apart from the mountains and grasslands, what is there like an imperial tomb?
In fact, it's not that Yang Zhen is rare and strange, but these places don't talk about the current Chinese, that is, the Chinese of later generations, and how many know that in the territory of Bahrain Left Banner, there is also the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital and the imperial tomb of a once glorious minority dynasty?
The Xila Murong River Basin in the West Manchurian region itself is the birthplace of the Khitan people who established the Liao Dynasty. After the rise of the Liao Dynasty, Shangjing Linhuang Mansion was set up here. It is the most important capital among the five capitals of the Liao Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, it was the main nomadic area of the Horqin tribe of the royal family, as well as the Mongol tribes of the Southern Mongols, which were controlled by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty.
The Empress Dowager Wen of Xiaozhuang, who single-handedly cultivated two generations of emperors, was born in the Horqin tribe in the Tongliao region. Among the Qing royal family, there were a large number of Mongolian concubines, and even queens came from here. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty in successive dynasties have divided many titles such as princes, county kings, Baylors, and Beizi here.
In order to win over these Mongols from rebellion, the Manchu government rewarded them with a large amount of wealth, and gave a considerable number of royal princesses to these Mongol princes and princes. These are not fake princesses pretended to be by those clan women in the Tang Dynasty, but they are all princesses who are serious and innocent.
Emperor Kangxi alone, there were as many as seven princesses who married the Mongol tribes of Monan. As for the adopted daughters of the emperor and the children of the clan and the princes, there are even more who marry the Mongolian tribes. Inside and outside, it has also reached more than 200. The Manchu and Mongolian marriage was an important means for the Manchu royal family to control Mongolia, especially the Monan and Mongol tribes.
Not only are there a large number of princesses and clan daughters marrying, but even many queens and concubines in the palace are also born in Mongolia. In particular, the Horqin tribes, which had the closest relationship with the Manchus. There was only one Korqin Department in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were three queens, and there was a world-famous Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang Wen.
And these princes and Baylor, relying on the habit of robbery by their ancestors, have also accumulated a large amount of wealth. These mansions and mausoleums are quite magnificent. Although it cannot be compared with Kannai, it is extremely luxurious in the Mongolian steppe, which is dominated by animal husbandry.
In the Hulunbuir grassland, there are also Wuzhumuqin grasslands, as well as in the left and right banners of Bahrain, in addition to mansions, there are also a large number of luxurious cemeteries of princesses and princes. Therefore, when you go to the Ximan area, there are quite a lot of place names such as Wangye's Mansion, Beizifu, or Wangye Temple and Beizi Temple. The seat of the government of the puppet Manchurian Weng Niute Banner is even directly called the prince's mansion.
In addition, during the Qing Dynasty, Lamaism was quite popular in Mongolia. In accordance with the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the reincarnation of a living Buddha is even carried out. Pious Mongolians, like Tibetans, donate even the poorest to the monasteries as long as they have a little savings. Or make offerings to living Buddhas, or build temples.
Coupled with the donations of those wealthy Mongolian princes, there are quite a lot of large and small lama temples in the West Manchurian area, and it can be said that they are exquisite. Although it is not as large as the native birthplace of Qinghai-Tibet Lamaism, the total number is quite large, and the distribution is quite widespread.
It's just that these things are generally difficult for people who are not familiar with Chinese history to understand, and it is not that Yang Zhen is rare or strange. He was born as an authentic soldier in both his previous and second lives, and if we talk about the history of war, especially the most magnificent in human history, as well as the history of World War II with new tactics and new equipment. There is also the history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which represents the darkest and most humiliating in China, but he recited it backwards.
But if he talks about his understanding of ancient Chinese history, it is only the little thing he learned in history books when he was in school, and there is no more. And the little things I learned in books were basically returned to the teacher over time. After all, studying history is an extremely boring thing, and there are not many people who have a hobby for this thing.
In addition, a large number of lama temples, the mansions of the princes and princesses, and the luxurious cemeteries of the princes and princesses in the Ximan region in later generations were mostly destroyed in that crazy era. Most of the so-called land tourist attractions that were developed later were copied in the later period. And the geographical location of the left and right flags of Bahrain is somewhat biased, and the fame is not big. Compared with the well-known tourist spots in China that are full of people on a holiday, the fame is much different.
For ancient buildings and imperial tombs, Chinese people still recognize a large number of imperial buildings in Beijing, Ming Ming Tombs, Qing Dynasty East and West Tombs and other more famous things. After all, the famous imperial capitals in Guannai are much more famous than the poor mountains and remote areas like Bahrain, and the transportation and other comprehensive conditions are much better.
Although it is crowded with people on holidays, it is not so much a trip as a look at the back of the head or a crime, but it still can't resist people's enthusiasm. China's 5,000-year-old history has left too many resources for future generations. Those places with good traffic conditions can't be seen, except for a few enthusiasts, who come all the way to this corner to travel?
In this era, all day long is either a career of fighting horses, a rain of bullets, or thinking of using the rare opportunity of World War II to intrigue with the United States and the Soviet Union to develop and establish China's own industry. A little spare time is also devoted to the study of military theory.
I don't have time to dig into the stacks of books and study Chinese history. So for these things proposed by these two people, he is also blind. Except for knowing that there are many lama temples in the West Manchurian area, and they are all relatively exquisite, I don't know anything about the rest.
In fact, he didn't know that the Shangjing ruins and imperial tombs of the Liao Dynasty located in the left and right banners of Bahrain were quite famous during the melee of the Beiyang warlords, and the domestic archaeological community was very clear, and even the Liao Zu Mausoleum was openly excavated by some warlords and other tasks. After the 918 Incident, the Japanese also organized the excavation of the imperial tombs of the Liao Dynasty in the name of archaeology.
These two architects also mastered these circumstances through the lost cultural relics seized from the hands of the enemy and the puppets when they saw it in Harbin.
Worried that the tombs of the emperors of the Liao Dynasty, which had been stolen and excavated on a large scale many times, as well as the hundreds of years of history throughout Ximan, which can be described as the essence of Manchurian and Mongolian architecture, exquisite lama temples and the residences of Mongolian princes and nobles, were completely destroyed in the war, they repeatedly asked to go to the battlefield of Ximan to investigate.
From the warlord melee of decades since Beiyang, to the invasion of foreign enemies in the 918 and 77 incidents, too many ancient buildings in China have been destroyed in the flames of war. The tombs of the emperors of the past dynasties suffered a lot of disasters because of the large amount of treasures in the tombs. Those warlords were financially scarce, and many of them turned their brains to these mausoleums.
These buildings, which embody the essence of thousands of years of China's historical development, have been destroyed in large numbers and even burned to the ground. Let these two people in later generations, because of the demolition of the Beijing city wall and wept, openly argued with the central high-level, and even pointed to the head of the State Cultural Heritage Bureau to scold, everyone in the construction industry who cherished ancient buildings as their lives was extremely sad.
A fire in the Shaolin Temple in Songshan that year, and the final outcome of the thousand-year-old temple becoming a ruin, made these two feel distressed for many years. Now they are worried that the temples, palaces, and mausoleums of the Qing Dynasty lamas, who are all over the West Manchurian region, will suffer the same results, so they came up with this solution.
For this situation, Yang Zhen also scratched his head a little. But the problem arises, and we have to find a way to solve it. It's just that Yang Zhen, who has a certain understanding of the temper and temperament of these two, can't come up with a solution to the problem for a while. Whether they go or not is quite a headache. For a while, he couldn't think of any way to deal with these stubborn two.