"Fifty strings of brocade strings are unprovoked, and every string and column misses the Chinese years" is a true portrayal of Li Shangyin, and his life is also full of this inexplicable color. He was inexplicably involved in political disputes, and was demoted and promoted inexplicably. Just like
His poem "Zhuang Sheng's dawn dream is obsessed with butterflies, and the emperor's spring heart is entrusted with cuckoos." Even if he suspected that life was a dream, Li Shangyin also maintained his unique sobriety and introspection in his dreams. Whether it was his few frontier fortresses or occupied
Most of his poems, including epic poems and allegorical poems, show his sobriety. After countless battles and hesitations, he recognized and accepted reality.
Whether it is Li Shangyin's personal life experiences or the imperial examination cases in the third year of Yuanhe, they are all manifestations of the collapse of the political foundation in the early late Tang Dynasty, and the "Niu-Li party struggle" that lasted for more than half a century is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Niu-Li party struggle reflects a series of contradictions. These contradictions include the struggle between the eunuchs, civil servants, military attachés and the imperial power. More importantly, it is between the Shandong gentry, the Shandong Han tribe and the Jiangzuo literati.
In addition, the iceberg behind the Niu-Li party struggle is the battle between the aristocratic families left over from the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the rise of small and medium-sized landowners headed by scholar-bureaucrats brought about by the imperial examination system. This battle triggered
Clique collusion and even fighting around their respective interests.
Although Wu Zetian deliberately suppressed the Guanlong Group during her reign and achieved considerable achievements, the power of the wealthy families did not completely disappear. There was a dispute between the small and middle-class landowners who emerged through the imperial examination and the remaining old large landowner class.
There was a great showdown in Li Shangyin's era. This showdown shook the foundation of the entire Li Tang Dynasty violently. The powerful Tang Dynasty lost the best period of its rise after decades of internal strife.
It inevitably went into the sunset. And the final victory of the Niu Party also prevented the separatist situation of vassal towns that plagued the Tang Dynasty from being resolved, accelerating the demise of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shangyin, basking in the last afterglow of the glory of the Tang Dynasty, chose to accept reality in the last period of his life. In his many twilight images, there were dissatisfaction and irony with reality, as well as emotional catharsis about his own experiences, but in life
At the turning point, he still said his final farewell to the slowly ending Tang Dynasty with the sigh "The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it is almost dusk". The end of the Tang Dynasty is a historical necessity, and Li Shangyin's frontier fortress and dusk are
It is the pinnacle of the Chinese people's spirit: even if they are deep in the quagmire, they still worry about the world; even if they are in the end, they do not resent history.
After the sunset completely set, our three teams were truly out of touch. The first team, as the front team, was already close to the entrance to the ancient tomb that Zhao Zhen discovered last time. The second two teams were two miles away from us.
They settled down in the village. At the same time, the second group also sent several groups of secret sentries to operate in the periphery to respond.
Hu Bin's plan was very detailed. In this way, the area within a few kilometers around the ancient tomb was controlled, and the advance and retreat were well-established, and could be attacked or defended.
After a while, another group of people also arrived belatedly. The leader was Yelu Qinghui, whom Hu Bin had met in the ancient tomb before. It turned out that after they came out of the ancient tomb, they had agreed to go into the tomb again to hunt for treasure.
However, this time they acted together.
"Yelu Qinghui is late, please don't blame me, Boss Hu."
"Brother Yelu, you're welcome."
Hu Bin and Yelu Qinghui exchanged a few pleasantries and then began to discuss the next steps. During this period, they glanced at me from time to time, probably talking about things related to me.
"Who is this person?" Chen Yina whispered in my ear.
"I don't know." I had no choice but to shake my head. So far, I can't tell Chen Yina the truth. It's not because I'm worried about her knowing that I've met Yelu Qinghui and the danger of being reported.
Hu Bin will smell some "clues" through Chen Yina's abnormality.
With the experience and lessons learned from the last time, the first half of the journey to the ancient tomb went much smoother, with almost no obstacles and no special losses. However, most people here have never witnessed the bloody scene last time.
From the scattered corpses lying on the ground, one can imagine how weird and terrifying the scene was at that time, and how difficult and dangerous the road below would be.
"Stop!" Ahead is the trap where Hu Bin was in trouble last time. Probably out of fear, Hu Bin stopped the team early, "The road ahead is an unfamiliar section. Everyone must be alert and must not take it lightly.
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"Li Zhimu, Li Lizhi, you two go ahead and check the road." Hu Bin pushed the two men next to him, "Hurry up!"
Li Zhimu and Li Lizhi were forced to move forward by Hu Bin. They were trembling with fear, holding weapons tightly in their hands, for fear of encountering danger ahead.
I don't know if they were too nervous and forgot about the trap that Hu Bin reminded. Li Lizhi, who was walking at the front, suddenly shouted loudly. When everyone took the miner's lamp to shine again, they found that the person was gone. Everyone suddenly screamed.
urgent.
When this happened, Li Zhimu ran ahead, ran to the place where Li Lizhi disappeared, and shouted to the ground: "Are you okay?"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that Li Lizhi had fallen into the same trap that Hu Bin fell into last time.
"Damn it, this fool fell into the same trap twice!" Zhang Liqun sneered, "Jon, please pull this person up quickly, let's hurry up and get on our way."
"Don't be surprised."
Jon looked at Li Lizhi who had fallen into the trap and stretched out his hand. At this moment, Li Lizhi below shouted loudly: "Go away quickly, something is coming down below, please go away quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of gunshots coming from the trap.
Zhang Liqun, Zhao Zhen, Yelu Qinghui and others looked at each other and immediately ran towards the place where Li Lizhi fell into the trap.
But just as he was about to approach the trap, five more holes suddenly appeared where Jon walked, and then several of Yelu Qinghui's men fell in.
Now everyone did not dare to act rashly. Jon over there was still looking into the trap, not knowing what he was looking at, and the sound of Li Lizhi's gunshots in the trap never stopped.
Finding that there were no more holes in the ground, a few people began to try to get closer to the entrance of the hole to see what was in the trap.
Just when everyone was just starting, a person was suddenly thrown out of the hole, and he suddenly fell on Yelu Qinghui's body.
Yelu Qinghui was also startled by this sudden person, but he quickly calmed down.
Just when Yelu Qinghui was about to push away the guy pressing on him, suddenly a drop of something fell on Yelu Qinghui's face.
Yelu Qinghui touched his face, looked at it in front of his eyes and shouted: "Don't go near those holes, there is something damn inside."
After Yelu Qinghui shouted this, and combined with what Li Lizhi said in the cave trap just now, no one dared to move.
Zhang Liqun moved closer to Yelu Qinghui and looked at the man who was lying on top of Yelu Qinghui and was now thrown aside. He found that this man was already dead, and his death was outrageous.
Zhang Liqun shined a flashlight, his face changed, and he turned back to Hu Bin and whispered: "Why did these people die like this? It shouldn't be right."
"Zhao Zhen, go and see if it was done by the 'Corpse Monkey'?" Hu Bin said immediately.
After Zhao Zhen heard what Hu Bin said,
As soon as he said this, he had no choice but to take a look at the dead man and became puzzled.
"The man's entire body has been chewed to pieces, and the bite marks should be caused by corpse monkeys. But then again, corpse monkeys can't dig holes. Could this be something else?" Just as Zhao Zhen was hesitating, he wanted to take a closer look.
When looking at the wound of the dead man, Li Lizhi had already been pulled up by Qiaoen.
Zhao Zhen glanced at Li Lizhi, but was immediately attracted by the wounds on his body.
Zhao Zhen slowly walked towards Li Lizhi, walked up to him and asked, "What did you see down there?"
Li Lizhi replied breathlessly: "I almost died in there. Why the hell are there so many toads in there."
After hearing what he said, Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment and then asked: "What kind of toad is it? Have you seen it clearly?"
Li Lizhi raised his head, glanced at Zhao Zhen, and shouted: "I can still fucking see clearly, but when I do, I will be bitten to death." After saying that, he lowered his head to tidy up his wounds and ignored it.
Zhao Zhen felt a little uncomfortable after being yelled at by Li Lizhi. He coughed twice and said to Jon: "Give me your gun. I'll go down and take a look." After saying that, he stretched out his hand and waited for Jon's reply.
Jon raised his head and glanced at Zhao Zhen, then at Li Lizhi who was bandaging himself, and then at Hu Bin who had been silent for the whole time. He said in a very embarrassed tone: "Zhao Zhen, I don't mean by the boss, I...
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Zhao Zhen stood up and said in a different voice: "Okay then, just keep the gun to protect your boss. I'll borrow someone else's." After saying that, he slowly walked towards Yelu Qinghui without looking back.
Walking to Yelu Qinghui, Zhao Zhen glanced at the dead man lying on the ground and said, "Do you want to know what killed your men?"
Yelu Qinghui had been thinking about the cause of death of his men. He paused when Zhao Zhen asked, and then asked: "What do you mean?"
Zhao Zhen did not answer Yelu Qinghui's question, but continued to ask: "Which hole was your subordinate thrown out of?"
Yelu Qinghui saw that Zhao Zhen did not answer his question, but continued to ask himself. Thinking about his identity, Yelu Qinghui suddenly felt angry in his heart. He turned his head and stopped looking at Zhao Zhen and replied: "I don't know.
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Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment after hearing Yelu Qinghui's words. He did not expect that Yelu Qinghui would be angry because he did not answer his question, so he said: "I want to go down and see what is going on. Just now Li Lizhi said that he
I met a lot of toads down there.”
Yelu Qinghui, who had been sulking beside him, was surprised when he heard what Zhao Zhen said. He turned around and asked, "What kind of toad?"
Zhao Zhen shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know either, so I wanted to go down and see what the situation was like, so I came here to borrow a gun from you."
Yelu Qinghui smiled and said, "Why are you borrowing it? Mine is not yours." After saying this, he said something to the subordinate holding the gun next to him, took the gun and handed it directly to Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen took the gun and said to Yelu Qinghui: "If I don't come up within ten minutes, don't wait for me and keep going forward. Remember not to touch anything. I think the soldier in front of me
There seems to be something wrong with the servant, so you must not touch it, you know?"
Yelu Qinghui glanced at Zhao Zhen, nodded and said, "Don't worry, you will definitely come back." After saying that, he smiled at Zhao Zhen again.
Chapter completed!