In the summer of the Gengzi year.

Huang Chao had 150,000 yuan, and Cao Quanshi fought with him with 6,000 yuan, and was quite killed. He was outnumbered and retreated to Si, waiting for the army to arrive and attack him. However, Gao Pian refused to rescue him, and the bandits attacked Quanshi and defeated him.

Huang Chao captured Shenzhou and then entered the territory of Ying, Song, Xu and Yan, where the officials and people fled.

"Zizhi Tongjian" Sima Guang

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When more than 8,000 Taiping Army led by Zhou Huaian entered Tanzhou and was about to board the ship north to Jiangling, when Bo Guo Yan, the head of local civil affairs and military farming affairs, came to report the work, he also presented an unexpected news.

"What's the situation with descendants of Duke Yan Lu...?"

Zhou Huaian couldn't help but feel stunned for a moment before he came to his senses. The so-called Duke Yan Lu should refer to Yan Zhenqing, who was the prime minister and was named Duke Lu. The character "Yan style" is a milestone in the history of Chinese calligraphy. However, after asking in detail, he realized that the person he was receiving had made a mistake.

Strictly speaking, the descendants of Yan Zhenqing's elder brother, Yan Gaoqing. Compared to Yan Zhenqing, who has been prime minister for five dynasties, whether in calligraphy or literature, he has made great achievements in history, this person is a benchmark for generations of loyalty and martyrs in a sense.

During the Anshi Rebellion, he and his son Yan Jiming guarded Changshan, and his companion Yan Zhenqing guarded the plains. He designed to kill Li Qincui, the general of An Lushan, and captured Gao Miao for thousands of years. There were seventeen counties in Hebei responding. An Lushan was so scared that he hid in the Luoyang palace and looked at his adviser Yan Zhuang, and Gao Shang wept and regretted it.

As a result, when Suzong ascended the throne in Lingwu, he ordered all the troops and horses around the world to gather around him to serve the king. Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who had already invaded the Central Plains, had to lead their troops back to stand for the new king; so these military and civilian officials who were righteous in Hebei were tragic.

(Tang Xuanzong, Tang Suzong. The three generations of pig teammates of the Tang Dynasty, the magical operation of giving heads to the enemy is simply no match for him)

With the garrisons from all over the country fled, in the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756), the rebels besieged Changshan and captured Yan Jiming first. Soon after the city was broken, Yan Gaoqing was taken to Luoyang. He glared at An Lushan and scolded An Lushan. He was eventually pulled out his tongue on the Tianjin Bridge in Luoshui, dismembered and killed. When Emperor Suzong recovered the two capitals, he posthumously awarded Yan Gaoqing as the crown prince Taibao and named Zhongjie.

Wen Tianxiang said in "Song of Zhengqi": "It is Zhang Suiyang (Zhang Xun) and Yan Changshan's tongue." However, what is more famous in later generations is an allusion and case left by Yan Zhenqing for his son.

Because more than 30 people in the family, including Yan Gaoqing, were killed, only the eldest son Yan Quanming was detained by Taiyuan Yin Wang Chengye because he delivered a memorial to the court, and survived afterwards. At that time, Yan Zhenqing was the governor of Puzhou, so he ordered Yan Quanming to go to Hebei to visit his lost relatives.

Among them, he found that his sister's daughter was left in the hands of the thief, and one of Yan Quanming's daughters also fell into the hands of the thief, and he had to ask for a reward of 30,000 yuan. Yan Quanming raised all the expenses and redeemed his aunt's daughter. When he went to pay the money to redeem the person, his daughter no longer knew where to go.

When Yan Quanming brought the skull of his younger brother Yan Jiming and part of his father Yan Gaoqing to Yan Zhenqing, Yan Zhenqing was very sad, and grind ink and spread paper, writing a calligraphy work with both literary and emotional expressions - "Commemorating to the nephew and praising the Shanda Doctor Ji Mingwen":

The whole article is full of emotions, the mind is condensed, and the writing is erected, and the recitation is painful and sad, and the grief is thirty times. Although there are more than thirty changes, the posture is erect, the spirit is flying, the thickness is heavy, and the lush and vigorous, which is completely different from Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Wang Xianzhi's charming style. It is known as the "second running script in the world" after the "Preface to the Lanting Collection".

However, because the true version of Lanting Xu was crazy about calligraphy, Emperor Taizong of Tang buried him in his Zhaoling Mausoleum, and only a bunch of copies of famous artists were left; therefore, this draft left by burning the main text is actually the number one calligraphy work in the world.

However, when Zhou Huaian thought of the turtle son who was left by the island by the sea more than a thousand years later, he gave this thing to neon and was ruined. It would be better to be captured and burned down now, leaving merely an inspiring thought and legend.

The most famous sentence accused "The thief ministers are not saved, they will be surrounded by lonely cities, their fathers are trapped and their sons are killed, and their nests are covered." Isn't it the best portrayal of the later civil wars, internal and external wars, and various pig teammates use their own people to cheat their own people's dried fruit regimes?

The person who came to join was obviously from Yan Quanming's branch, called Yan Rang. Of course, as the son of a loyal minister and a martyr, Yan Quanming also formed a man of both responsibility and integrity; although he was the prime minister after his father was the prime minister; but why was he honest when he was an official in his lifetime?

The salary income of almost a lifetime is spent on redemption and offering to those who follow the family members of the soldiers and officials who died of his father. Hundreds of people were born, old, sick and died until the last moment of their lives. This is another moral benchmark that is truly true.

Although the Yan family in Jingzhao has declined and destroyed, the moral benchmark set by the father and son is still praised by the world, just like the Chief Zhang (Xuan) Zhongcheng; not to mention that their ancestors were the first disciples of the saints, who were worshipped by Yan Zi (Yan Hui) beside Confucius in the main hall of the Confucian Temple as a sub-sage saint.

If someone publicly betrays the (corrupt) court and joins the (emerging) Taiping Army, even as a temporary self-promotion and subsequent publicity method, it will be a very beneficial and shocking material.

"How can we prove this person's identity instead of making false statements..."

Thinking of this, Zhou Huaian was not in a hurry to make a conclusion.

"He claimed to have brought his family's "Mission of Nephew" and would like to ask the army to send a special person to appreciate it."

Guo Yan, who seemed confident, immediately responded.

In an instant, Zhou Huaian choked in his throat with a drink and spit out suddenly. What is this? The world's number one and second calligraphy book and national treasure "The Book of Nephew", came to his door by himself? It was like a dream.

For this reason, Zhou Huaian also decided to meet the people who came in at the wrong time. Then, in the prefecture of Tanzhou, Yu Hou Changmibao led the people in the future.

"In Xia Yanshe, the Jingzhao family... has been transformed and has to seek shelter under the nobles because of their family background."

I saw the other party as if he was thin bamboo pole and his clothes were dilapidated and despicable, and his face was full of sorrow and his face was timid and bowed timidly.

Well, this name reminded Zhou Huaian of the two beautiful faces that were gathered together in the carriage and horse not long ago, and they were indeed very suitable for the situation.

"Now that the Han family is broken, only this thing remains as a thought. I only want the nobles to copy and appreciate it. Don't have the idea of ​​forcing and robbing again; otherwise I would rather go to the fire with it."

The visitor continued to sing.

"Oh, is there such a reason... My Taiping Army takes it as its responsibility to save people and help people. I hate the most about the robbery in the world. I should just let you do it."

Zhou Huaian suddenly became interested and slightly improved his evaluation of the visitor.

Then he secretly thought about it. Is there any inside story about protecting the coveted heirloom for the descendants of the Yan family and having to go out to join the thief? This is another topic of promotion for the top-ranking propaganda used to rate the dark and corrupt court.

Look, even the Yan family, who was loyal and wise, was forced to take the heirloom to fight against the thief. Doesn’t that mean that the dynasty, which is where the destiny is, has gradually deviated into our camp?

At least for most ordinary people who are ignorant, blind, limited in their knowledge and need subtle transformation to awaken, they are very fond of this set of mystical things like "qi" and "destiny".

Then Zhou Huaian called his colleague Xu Zhong and others to come and taste it. At least Zhou Huaian has no ability to distinguish such things; at most he can only appreciate the old man who wrote Spring Festival couplets on the street, whether his calligraphy is good or not.

After all, any poet with a little reputation in this era must have a good calligraphy skills. The reason is very simple, it can be said that writing can convey the truth and writing can help others. Otherwise, when posting and publishing their masterpieces, they will never be able to see people or be slapped in the face on the spot.

It’s a pity that Pi Rixiu, Lu Guimeng, Qiu Huan, Fan Chuo and others, who are famous in contemporary times, are not here yet. Of course, there is no need to let them put down their hands and get on the right track for a special manuscript and rush over here with a long journey.

However, after seeing this yellowed silk scroll, Xu Zhong was very impressed and shocked. However, in order to be more cautious, he also confessed that his achievements in calligraphy appreciation were actually insufficient, and it was difficult to make a suitable judgment on the world's second running script.

Therefore, Xu Zhong recommended an old friend and fellow disciple for Zhou Huaian, who is also a famous contemporary poet and painting monk. Now he happens to live in Longxing Temple in Jingzhou.

According to Xu Zhong's introduction: It is said that this family surname Jiang, whose courtesy name is Deyin, was from Lanhuo, Wuzhou. He became a monk in He'an Temple in Lanxi at the age of seven. After becoming an adult, he traveled widely and traveled around the world and had a wide range of friends with monks, scholars, and officials from all over the world. Since then, he has been in contact with Xu Zhong and others for more than ten years. Later, he has gone to Quanjiao Temple on the banks of the Fuchun River in Tonglu County, Yuezhou to settle down;

However, just a few years ago, Cui Miao, the governor of Yuezhou and Zhejiang East Observer, was a few years ago because of his poems. (That's right, Cui Miao, who is the father of the dowry, is now a great ritual envoy in Huang Chao's army.) He was driven away from the local area. Since then, he ran up the river to Jiangling to hold orders, and even visited the thatched cottage in Xuzhong in Yuanzhou.

It is said that he learned from his childhood that the cursive script of the master of the Fan family calligraphy monk Huaisu. This monk Huaisu is the great-great-grandson of the calligraphy saint Wang Xizhi, and the "Huaisu Tie" is also published in the world; the treasure "Lanting Preface" that Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty buried with him was sent by Xiao Yu, a minister who was also proficient in calligraphy, to deceive him from this person on the grounds of copying.

Therefore, his calligraphy attainments that have been immersed in decades are also outstanding; he is not only proficient in the running and cursive scripts of the Wang family, but also studied the same famous Yan style and Liu characters, and even copied similar works of Yan Lugong during the Jingzhao period.

It has only been covered up by his greater achievements and reputation in poetry, calligraphy and painting. Therefore, if he could be invited to identify this "Mission of Nephew" would undoubtedly be more sure.

However, this person is obviously a historical celebrity known to Zhou Huaian. It is mainly because he left more than 500 works in Tang poetry, including the line "Three thousand guests drunk in the hall, and one sword is cold and the fourteen states are shrouded in one stone." It is also often cited as a catchphrase on the Internet.

In addition, as candidates for Xuzhong's recommendation to identify manuscripts, there are also figures such as Qi Ji, Shang Yan, Gu Qichan, etc. who happen to be located in Jingnan, Hunan and Jiangxi. Their common points are those of the slightly famous poetry and calligraphy circles in the world;

Among them, Qi Ji called himself a madman, Shang Yan was a monk who became a monk in Jingmen, while Gu Qichan, a native of Dongting, was a Taoist priest known for his music. For a moment, all the monks, Taoists and Confucianism lived together. In his words, as long as there is this "Mermons and Nephew" to appreciate, at least you don't have to worry that they won't come.

Zhou Huaian also guaranteed to Xuzhong that if they were all within their expected level, it would be no problem to offer them a subject and training class for calligraphy, art and literature.

As the saying goes, after the corresponding power and general trend are established, if the heroes and handsome figures in the world want to make a comeback, they will naturally gather like they have encountered iron-sucking stones.

However, after Zhou Huaian felt that he was used to playing the role of a monk, he seemed to have also involved and attracted all the monks and the likes of the world in disguise.
Chapter completed!