36: First arrival in Taiyuan

"Ah~~~Well, no." Cao Muwen had to admit it.

"Well, it doesn't matter. We can ride slowly. Even if Jinyiwei's kung fu is not good, horse riding is indispensable, especially for foreigners like us. Especially in the north, we can't compare with the horse riding skills of Mongolians.

"Uh~~~, I see. I will study hard." Cao Muwen said with a straight face.

"Hey hey, it doesn't seem to be as difficult as I thought." Cao Muwen rode on the horse and thought proudly. Wu Zheng and Wei Bingwen slowed down the speed of riding and walked slowly in front, while Cao Muwen carefully controlled the horse behind. In these two hours, Cao Muwen actually mastered the basic tricks. Riding on this obedient "pony", Cao Muwen was very happy.

"This horse riding is easy to learn, but it will take some time to specialize in riding." Wu Zheng looked back at Cao Muwen and said, as if he saw that Cao Muwen was a little complacent.

Cao Muwen immediately cleared his mind and recalled the riding essentials that Wu Zheng said before. Sit firmly on horseback and don't shake." Sit straight and lean back slightly. Step on the front end of the foot, press the heel down, and the toes forward." Tighten the legs and knees of the horse. The heel kicks the horse's stomach. When the horse is running fast, it should release the reins, split the legs, point the staves, and lower its posture so that it will not fall off the speeding horse. It seems that it is not difficult to ride a horse if you master these points well.

The three of them wanted to travel to the northwest and left the Gyeonggi area and entered Hebei Province. Fortunately, I thought in advance that Cao Muwen couldn't ride a horse and left two days earlier. It should not be a mistake." Wu Zheng thought of this and was a little uneasy. "Fortunately, I didn't tell them the task after arriving in Taiyuan, otherwise they would not be beautiful if they missed it first." Although he immediately leaked his timidity in front of Shangguan when he knew it.

The three people in this row are those who stay at night, hungry and thirsty. Day and night, "no hurry" to Taiyuan. This has been the case a few days ago, but Cao Muwen's riding skills have grown very fast, which even he is deeply surprised. Two days later, even if Wu Zheng and Wei Bingwen accelerated, he could keep up. This also made Wu Zheng and Wei Bingwen admired them greatly.

"Hee," Cao Muwen had a sense of superiority. Haha, am I a genius in this field, or~~~ I have practiced before and I don't know." Cao Muwen felt guilty for a moment. This "horse riding" seems to have been "practiced" in a dream. Cough, uh~~~ I think too much, I don't want to." Alas, it seems that this 'horse riding' is also from young people~~~No! No! Start with the teenager!"

Cao Muwen secretly encouraged himself. Come on, young man, run for the future.

Finally, in the bumps of several consecutive days, Wu Zheng and the three of them saw a faint black line between heaven and earth from afar after crossing a mountain - this is the Taiyuan city wall.

Taiyuan is the largest town among the "nine sides". The city is high and thick, in order to defend against foreign invasion. This tall wall, carved with cyan boulders and smashed against each other, is extremely strong, and the enclosed Taiyuan can be said to be as solid as gold. Tens of thousands of troops besieged the city without engineering equipment, and the only choice was to look at the wall and sigh.

This wall is well-defended, with complete facilities, dark castles, clear piles like clouds, and countless stars. Thousands of soldiers stand up and are still as stable as Mount Tai.

In the old days, farming people used civil engineering, masonry and other materials to build barrier buildings around the city as defense. Ancient military defense facilities, military defense lines composed of walls and other auxiliary military facilities. The Chinese nation is the largest farming nation in the world, and the history of farming is continuous and smooth. The accompanying history of invasion also complements each other, which is why China's cities have always built large and small, high and low walls. From foreign enemy invasions to peasant uprisings; from national wars to thieves and mountain thieves, without exception, the city walls have played a role in protecting the safety of its residents. Taiyuan is an important frontier fortress town, and its walls are towering and majestic.

Taiyuan City is also a historical ancient city. Its predecessor is Jinyang City, and its former site is in the area of Guchengying Village, Jinyuan Town, Jinyuan District. After Song Taiping Xingguo destroyed Jinyang City in four years, Taiping Xingguo built Taiyuan City in Tangming Town in seven years. Hongwu expanded into Taiyuan Mingcheng on the basis of the wall of the Song Dynasty in nine years. Today's Taiyuan City has expanded many times on the basis of Ming City, forming today's pattern. Many evolutions of these zoning have developed on the basis of Ming City, and even the names, ruins and evolution of streets and alleys have a special relationship with Zhu Wei, the king of Jin.

Zhu Wei, the king of Jin, is the third son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Hongwu was awarded the title of King of Jin for three years and became a vassal in Taiyuan for 11 years. Song Lian, who studied literature, studied Du Huan, was good at riding and shooting, and had strategies. He did a lot of work to consolidate the northern border defense in the early Ming Dynasty, and made many contributions to the consolidation of the northern border defense in the early Ming Dynasty. Generals such as Feng Sheng, Duke of Song, and Fu Youde, Duke of Ying, are all restrained. He died in the 31st year of Hongwu, and was nicknamed "gong" and later known as "King Gong of Jin".

After the king of Jin became a vassal, his father-in-law, Xie Cheng, the Marquis of Yongping, presided over the construction of Taiyuan New City in the ninth year of Hongwu. On the basis of Song City, he expanded to the north, south and east, and built a new city with a circumference of 24 miles, a height of 4 feet, a pool depth of nearly 3 feet, and a clay brick package, later known as "Mingcheng". The city is equipped with eight gates, 12 gate buildings in the four corners of eight gates, 92 small buildings around the city, 32 enemy platforms, and various defense facilities composed of stacking walls, stacks, city towers, horn towers and other parts. The wall uses compacted soil as the foundation of the wall, covered with several layers of hard soil mixed with sand and stone, and the outermost layer is made of hard stone, which is extremely strong. There are also women's walls and horse lanes on the wall to prevent soldiers from falling from the wall and cavalry.

The "arch gate" of the Taiyuan city wall uses a two-sided tall wooden door as the city gate, which is inlaid with copper nails the size of a bowl mouth to strengthen it. Well, the king of Jin is really outstanding. Look at the construction of this wall. Although the King of Jin moved to the mainland many years ago. Cao Muwen sighed when the three people got off their horses at the gate of the city and slowly walked into the city. This original ancient wall is amazing for him as a modern man. Although this wall is not as tall and heavy as the capital city wall. However, compared with the two, the wall on this side can show a sense of killing. Looking at the various mottled traces and broken bricks on the wall, Cao Muwen suddenly felt a sense of respect.

In particular, the world-famous "Great Wall" is also a relative "wall wall". The huge wall built to resist the invasion of the nomads in northern Serbia stretches for nearly 5,000 kilometers. The Great Wall is like a strong dragon, crossing mountains, passing through cliffs, crossing grasslands, crossing deserts, undulating on the top of the mountains, the other side of the Yellow River and the shore of the Bohai Sea. At home and abroad, everyone who has been to the Great Wall marvels at its magnificent momentum, grand scale and arduous projects. It is hard to imagine how more than 2,000 years ago, in that era of low productivity and technological level, how to build such a huge project that even modern people find it difficult to build. It seems that this is also the reason why the Great Wall has become one of the eight wonders of the world.

Think about those years, the first emperor sent a million husbands, and the hardships and sorrows among them could be imagined by future generations, but it was because of them. There is a horizontal corpse like Qiliang, and there is Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall. The Great Wall has been standing for thousands of years.

After Mengyuan retreated to the north, the Mongolian nobles Tatari and Wula tribes on the Mobei grassland still went south to harass and loot. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Nvzhen people rose again in the northeast region and constantly threatened the security of the border. In order to consolidate the border defenses in the north, the Ming Dynasty hardly stopped the construction of the Great Wall during its rule of nearly 300 years. Previously, when the three of them traveled to a highland outside the city, Cao Muwen saw the towering mountains in the north and the Great Wall. Above the mountains in the distance, he could faintly see a dragon-like black line swimming between the mountains and rivers, which was also spectacular.

After entering the city, the three people went to the office of Qianhu, which is located in Shangma Street in the city. The name of this thousand households is Renbian, but it is very consistent with his name. After staying in the border for a long time, he also became impatient and rough. This Ren Dasheng's beard face, black and hard beard covered his whole chin, and he was full of Zhang Fei. He is also a "Zhang Fei" physique, five and three thick. This is Cao Muwen's impression at first sight.

After coming to the official office to inform a Jinyi guard, the three were led into the side hall to have a tea rest, and then the servant came to lead them to see thousands of households.

After being polite to each other, someone led Cao Muwen. Wei Bingwen went out, leaving Wu Zheng alone to talk. It seems that there is something important to explain. Cao Wei and Wei are both eye-sighted people, and their level can't be listened to. Then he followed a brocade guard to experience the handover of identity documents first.

After the incident, the two returned to the previous side hall and found that there were two more people as soon as they entered the door. It should be the brocade guard on duty to take a rest here. Cao Muwen and Wei Bingwen looked at each other and smiled at each other, and then stepped forward.

Cao Muwen went forward and arched his hands, "Brothers, we have been transferred to your place with Lord Wu Zheng. We are new here, and please don't hesitate to give us advice." After saying that, he winced at Wei Bingwen, who was also smiling. Wei Bingwen smiled, and the two bowed deeply at the same time. As the saying goes, the strong dragon does not suppress the ground-headed snake, raises its hand and does not hit the smiling face. I came from afar, and many friends have many ways. Although there is the saying that "peers are enemies", and it is said that the geographical differences in this kind of "organization" are more serious.