Chapter 812

Taihe city is a city that is extremely difficult to be captured by foreign troops. The most obvious sign of this city is that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The people who chose to build the city must have taken advantage of its advantageous complex terrain from the very beginning.

Because of its complex terrain, Taihe city is not like the square city in the Central Plains, but because it is built on the slope between the peak of Cangshan Buddha and Wuzhi Mountain, thus forming a unique shape city with only two walls.

The steep Cangshan Mountain forms a natural defense barrier in the West and the boundless Erhai Lake in the East. The two natural strategic barriers make it unnecessary for Taihe city to waste time and money on defense in these two directions.

According to the terrain, the north and south walls are strong walls that are like two long dragons, lying between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, forming a strong city that is easy to defend and hard to attack.

In the same way, when he was the king of Nanzhao (mengshezhao), he built two small cities, named Longkou and Longwei, less than a hundred miles from Taihe City, so as to defend Taihe city together and make Taihe city more solid.

However, lawlessness, Yuan Shuji, Guo Shifeng, sherong, xinulu, luoshengyan and others are now standing under the gate of Longkou City, waiting for Li Hong's arrival.

The city is not very big. The meandering streets have the artistic conception of Jiangnan Water Town. In addition, there are many mountains and rivers in Yunnan and Guizhou. There are lots of bridges, ponds and courtyards, thatched cottages or rammed earth with yellow walls. It seems to be quite flexible here.

From time to time, people dressed in various costumes would secretly look at the passing army from the poorly sealed log windows, but no one would come out to investigate.

At this time, the people of Nanzhao were not as good as those of the last generation. They separated and became various nationalities here. Now, most of them regard themselves as Cuan nationality, claiming to be descendants of the ban family.

In the spring and Autumn period, descendants of ruo'ao of Chu state multiplied. It is said that their ancestors grew up eating tiger milk, so they took the spot of tiger spot as their surname.

Li Hong didn't know anything about it. While listening to sherong's voluminous narration of their history, Li Hong sat on his horse and looked at Erhai Lake and Cangshan Mountain, which were connected with the sky in the distance.

Shelong's words are obviously easy to convince people. After all, the meaning of the two characters here is the meaning of the tiger. From then on, it can be basically determined that their ethnic group is the Cuan ethnic group developed mainly by the descendants of the ban family.

In the former Sui Dynasty, because of the internal division of the Cuan nationality, they formed the eastern Cuan and the Western Cuan. At the end of the former Sui Dynasty, with the decline of the East Cuan, the West Cuan took advantage of the fire and plundered, which led to the internal division again, thus forming a tribal state named after their king: mengcuzhao, yuexizhao, langqiong imperial edict, Cuan imperial edict, Shilang imperial edict and mengshe imperial edict.

Mengshe imperial edict is often called Nanzhao because it is in the south of other five imperial edicts.

In addition, Li Hong sent people to support Nanzhao when they were in turmoil. Therefore, in a short time, they helped Nanzhao unify the other five imperial edicts and formed the present grand Nanzhao.

Li Hong understood the purpose of serun and xinulu to tell themselves their history. This was to tell himself implicitly that although they had their own support at that time, they also had the same legitimacy here as the Tang Dynasty established the Central Plains.

Li Hongduan sat on the horse's back and didn't speak. According to the etiquette of Nanzhao, after the gods and ghosts dressed in various abnormal costumes, he stepped on the back of the horse and slowly came down from the horse.

After Li Hong's feet had stabilized, Xi nuluo and others got up from the ground. They were very excited about the big footprints on his back.

In particular, when his son, Luo Shengyan, looked at the dazzling big footprints on his back after he got up and wanted to take them off, he was severely stopped by xinuluo with his eyes. Thus, we can know that xinuluo is quite afraid of Li Hong's arrival.

The gate of Taihe city is not very tall, but as a relic of the old city of Dali, most of the streets and alleys are made of hard stone. Even the main body of the gate is also made of stone. Only in other places with steep terrain can the wall be built with loess tamping.

After years of trampling on the stone, it seems that the whole alley is not even covered with stones, but some of them are not even covered by the mirror.

Xi nuluo was famous for his love of beauty. Even his son also inherited his fine tradition. Every beautiful woman in Taihe city would be forced into the palace by him. If he liked it, he would stay in the palace, and then he would send someone to give money to his family.

If you don't look up to them, it's good, and they will let them go home. But most of the time, the women who Xi nuluo gave up will be robbed from the middle of the road by his son, Luo Shengyan, and become Luo Shengyan's personal things.

Li Hong walked in the front, followed by Xi nuluo on the left and serong on the right, while behind him were Jingzhe and mangzhong, who had not appeared for a long time.The two men quietly narrated to Li Hong what Xi nuluo had done in Nanzhao, and reminded Li Hong from time to time that when he came, Xi nuluo sent a large number of troops and horses to the north of Taihe City, that is, their Longwei City, to prevent other leaders of the five imperial edicts from visiting Taihe city.

In Taihe City, there was also a king's palace. After shelong passed the mengshe imperial edict to xinulu, the young xinulu, with the support of the Tang Dynasty, suppressed the five imperial edicts in one fell swoop. After unifying the whole tribe, he began to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty and set up a Royal Palace.

Once a man enjoys the supreme pleasure brought by the supreme power, his ambition will become more and more great, just like Xi nuluo, who ruled the whole tribe, began to be dissatisfied with the eyes of the Tang Dynasty.

Instead, he began to secretly communicate with some Tubo forces who wanted to restore their Zanpu power, including some forces of Zhenla, and Princess Fangling of Jiannan road. In this way, she tried to draw close to all forces, hoping to completely break away from the control of the Tang Dynasty and become an independent kingdom like Zhenla.

In the Tang Dynasty, Annam's capital was in Songping prefecture (Hanoi, Vietnam), which was not very close to Taihe city. Moreover, before Li Hong's dictatorship, Tang Dynasty did not deploy too many troops in Annan. Only after Li Hong helped Xi nuluo unify Nanzhao, they set troops symbolically in Songping mansion of Annan to guard against the threat of Zhenla to the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the distance from Songping prefecture to Taihe city is far away, and the complex terrain, humid and hot dense forest are very common. The endless mountains are mixed, and it takes a month to go back and forth. Therefore, the annandau palace guard obviously has less deterrent and restraint on Taihe City, which gives them more opportunities to attract others to help themselves.

Liu Yanyou is now in songpingfu, and Pei Xingjian and Chen Jingzhi's warship mariners are also at the wharf nearest to songpingfu on Lingnan road. Although this did not pose a great threat to xinulu, it also made xinulu realize that the Tang Dynasty was not satisfied with itself.

"How much do they know about Chengdu government?" Li Hongli should have stood in the middle of the gate of the palace. He was receiving the salute of paying homage to himself under the leadership of Xi nuluo and serong.

"I have tried my best to let Jingwei cut off the messengers along the route. From the observation of these days, it is obvious that Xi nuluo has not found any movement, but It's hard to tell the tribal leaders of the other five imperial edicts. The Lingnan road is too big, and it is difficult for all the six imperial edicts to be supervised by Jingwei. Even if Miss Bai later secretly mobilized the 70 Jingwei, it is still not enough. " Jingzhe stood behind Li Hong as usual, watching the guard of honor of Nanzhao continuing the lengthy ceremony of welcoming the prince.

"In the Chengdu government, Jingwei was not enough, but there was no way. The stalls were too large, but this was a closely related matter. If you don't solve the problems of Chengdu government, you can't get here. If you don't solve the problems here, you can't face Zhenla without any scruples. What about Prince Zhenla? Have you ever asked about it Li Hong nodded at the bottom of the steps with a smile, indicating that he was very satisfied with the grand ceremony of welcoming him.

"He asked twice, but up to now, he doesn't know where the three men were held by the slaves. However, Liu Duhu is also urging the maids. If you want Jingwei to sneak into Zhenla, it's the best chance to send back their prince first. I hope your highness will consider it carefully. " The grain of grain lowers his head, the fine Nu Luo below can only see his lips moving, but can't hear what they are saying.

Therefore, Xi nuluo was smiling with Li Hong on his face, but his heart was full of confusion. He didn't know what eunuchs around Li Hong were plotting with Li Hong or accepting Li Hong's orders.

"Well, let him think that he discovered it by himself. Let Zhenla inherit the favor of Xi nuluo. As for the infiltration of Jingwei, there is no need to leap over Hengshan Mountain for the time being. Tell Pei Xingjian and Chen Jingzhi that the merchant ships coming from Quanzhou and other places should release some, and let Jingwei follow the caravan into Zhenla by waterway." Li Hong watched as the lengthy ceremony was finally completed. After obtaining their consent, Xi nuluo and sherong slowly climbed the steps and began to lead the way to the palace.

The Tang generals and soldiers, as well as the officials of Nanzhao, followed Li Hong and other officials in two rows, and started to walk to the main hall of the Royal Palace under the guard of honor like ghosts and amulets.

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