Northbound Notes: Tumu Fort
All along, book friends in the warehouse have a small idea: Let’s make a relationship with this book, so why not deepen the fate?
After a long time of planning, Master Yu and Sister Yu coordinated the plan in Beijing and provided complete logistics arrangements.
But good things have gone through. According to the plan, this book lover gathering will be held after the New Year, but many book lovers gave up because the time cannot be coordinated, which is a pity!
With these regrets, several book friends, including myself, rushed to Beijing from different places.
Yes, we are going to take the North Expedition!
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The trip started well. After an eight and a half hours of high-speed train journey, 8,000 contacted me and he would meet me at the South Station.
Later, Sanhua was the first to arrive at the party place.
Finally, the Knight will also arrive at the station, and there is still a short novice who is further north and will be with us in the early morning of the next day.
The first impression that 8000 gave me was quite serious. We took the subway all the way, and finally met the Knights in Huangzhuang and walked all the way to the place arranged by the leader and the others.
It was already dark at this time and we were not far from the gathering place.
But the three big men drove the navigation and within a short distance, we actually went in the wrong direction. Here we omitted the specific feelings of the man who was shouting in his heart: "I'm not a rookie..." and was about to collapse.
However, the short walk happened to be a good move and the body was stiff due to a long time of driving.
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The party place is an apartment with a kitchen, which is very convenient.
When we arrived, the leader, Sister Yu, and the leader’s daughter were cooking and preparing to entertain us.
The first impression that the leader gave me was extrovert and excellent affinity, and I was very happy to smile.
Yes, the first impression the leader gave me was happiness!
Sister Yu has short hair, which looks particularly capable and energetic.
When we first met, the leader used a passionate hug to eliminate the strangeness of everyone. Of course, I also wanted to hug Sister Yu, but I didn’t dare to be afraid of being knocked over by a punch.
After everyone got to know each other, dinner was almost ready.
Of course, you have to drink wine when you eat. Except for the ladies, all five men drank a kind of white wine specially bought by the leader.
The white wine tastes sweet and excellent.
After drinking two bottles of white wine, then there is beer.
The Knight has a good alcohol tolerance, and Sanhua is even more generous. If it weren't for him to drive a car the next day, I would probably have drunk a few...
Of course, you must have wanted to ask how much I drink. I don’t want to say that, really... Among the six people who drink, I probably have the worst alcohol tolerance.
After getting a little drunk, everyone's topics spread a lot.
At this time, you can see your true nature. Looking at the very serious 8000, it is actually a hidden joke teller. You should be able to imagine that a guy who looks very serious suddenly tells a joke with a stern face. The effect is really a sarcastic person.
The Knight is also a joke, and the leader is even more happy, so the meal ends very late, and then drinks tea and chats. As I drink, I put them all to bed. In the end, only the leader and I were left, and we didn’t go to bed until the early morning.
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At around six o'clock the next morning, everyone gathered together, and there was still a waning moon hanging in the sky, so Xiaobai rushed over.
Two cars and nine people rushed into the dawn of Beijing.
At the first stop, we went to Tumu Fort, a mixed place. Many local houses are being built or repaired. The brick stacks blocked a lot of roads that were not wide. It happened to be the market, and the two cars were separated.
The two cars were driven by Sister Yu, while Sanhua took a car with people and slowly found them according to the address provided by WeChat. They had already passed by the Tumu Fort ruins. For time consideration, we were preparing to give up our plan to go to the ruins.
The parking place we parked was just an open space, which was the territory of Tumu Village Health Center.
Just next to the open space, a stage built around the 1950s and 1960s is still solid after storms.
There are two lines of poetry on both sides of the stage, but the calligraphy should be cursive, which is really difficult to identify. The leader and the others studied there for a long time, but they still couldn't understand them all. Finally, through Baidu, I realized that it was an excerpt from a poem that year.
It is probably because we were lucky to have been destined to leave from our homes. Just when we regretted not being able to see the ruins of Tumu Fort, Sister Yu, who was looking for materials for taking photos, found a ancestral hall.
Xianzhong Temple!
The leader’s daughter was a lively girl. She went to ask someone and asked, and then someone opened the door and took us in.
As soon as you enter, you can see several steles, one of which is the most mottled, with a poem engraved on it.
When we entered the Xianzhong Temple, we didn’t feel big, and the left and right wings were closed. An uncle opened the door of the main house and we walked in with curiosity.
This is an old building with a bit mottled wall and even cracked in many places.
The talismans painted on the wall are vaguely visible, and there are some sacrifices placed on the platform in front of them, which makes people feel that hundreds of years later, the civil and military officials who died in the chaos are still paying attention to here.
Yes, it's dead...
On the right there is a board with the words: The tablets of all the ministers who died in the transformation of Tu and Wood.
The long list below is written on the yellow board with black ink.
Civil officials: Wang Zuo, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was awarded Shaobao and was posthumously named Zhongjian.
Below are the official positions and names, which seem dull...
The first name on the left is literary and the right is military, and the first name on the right makes me feel a little moved.
Zhang Fu: Grand Tutor, Duke of England. He was posthumously granted the title of King Dingxing and was posthumously named Zhonglie.
After that, Zhu Neng...
Looking back at the battle back then, the merits and demerits cannot be judged, but the chaos of the Ming army and the failure to make a timely decision to take the initiative... In the case of the water cut off, I don’t know what the monarch and ministers were thinking at that time.
In this battle, he first attacked more with fewer attacks, but instead surrounded the Ming army.
This battle is unimaginable for the wise rulers and ministers.
This battle destroyed the most elite army, civil officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!