Everything is changing, but none of the changes seem to be so obvious.
Outside Chang'an City, the wilderness has awakened from its winter slumber. Although it is still a little cold, there are some grass buds competing to grow, and thousands of trees competing for spring.
As the sky and the earth became a little brighter from the white, gray and black colors, a new activity also started.
Outing in spring.
Fei Qian was no exception. He took his family to visit the ruins of Shanglin Garden in the north of Chang'an. Shanglin Garden was destroyed during the Wang Mang period. At that time, Wang Mang demolished more than ten palaces and palaces in Shanglin Garden in the first year of Emperor Dihuang's reign.
Its materials and tiles were used to build nine ancestral temples. Later, the war between Wang Mang's regime and the Red Eyebrow Rebel Army for the capital caused Shanglinyuan to suffer a devastating disaster.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of Shanglin Garden was destroyed and no longer looked the same as before. "Ode to the Western Capital" also said: "Only looking at the traces in the old ruins, and hearing about the old ruins" shows that in fact, during the Bangu period, Shanglin Garden was already in ruins.
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Near the woods not far away, Xiao Feizhen was running happily. Huang Yueying followed helplessly. There were guards guarding the surrounding area. From time to time, Xiao Feizhen's excited laughter could be heard.
Comparing to the balance between work and rest, for children, as long as they can go out and play, it is a good thing.
Fei Qian and Cai Yan were walking slowly on the grassy slope beside the woods.
"Is this guy quite obedient these days?" Fei Qian asked casually, "Actually, many people are staring at this guy, but he doesn't know it yet..."
Cai Yan tilted his head slightly, "You mean..."
"These people, they know that they also need me to cover them in front, so they won't move too much when I'm here... But that won't be the case when this kid comes up. Ten or twenty years later,
It’s almost time to rest and recuperate, and people’s hearts will definitely wander..." Fei Qian looked at Fei Zhen, who was laughing and running, "If he is not smart enough by then... hum..."
"Ah?!" Cai Yan didn't know much about politics.
"Liu Jingzhou must be in trouble this time. After all, some things cannot be joked about often..." Fei Qian continued to say slowly, "One must have two, so this time people from Yuzhou and Jiangdong came...Liu Jingzhou is old.
, and everyone dislikes Liu’s son..."
"Liu Jingzhou..." Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, "They..."
"They came to discuss with me how to carve up Jingzhou..." Fei Qian said with a slight smile, "After all, I have left a force in Jingzhou. If they want more, they naturally want to see my attitude.
What's going on... So I met with Lu Zijing a few days ago, but I didn't meet with Chen Changwen... Do you know why?"
"Well..." Cai Yan hesitated, "Is it because of... me?"
Fei Qian chuckled and said, "That's right. I brought you imperial orders and rewards, but not Yueying's... But they never thought that as long as you teach this kid with all your heart, Yueying will definitely respect you...
…So…hehe…』
"..." Cai Yan was speechless and lowered his head slightly.
The breeze blew through the grassy slopes and also blew over the cloaks worn by the two of them.
"This is the price of marrying me..." Fei Qian looked ahead, "Yueying's character is not suitable for these, but she is also learning and changing. Your personality is actually not suitable for these either..."
"I will work hard too..." Cai Yan whispered.
Fei Qian smiled slightly, turned around, stretched out his hand from the cloak, and took hold of Cai Yan's catkins.
Huang Yueying in the distance looked back as if she was sensing something.
Cai Yan subconsciously wanted to shrink his hand, but was held back by Fei Qian, and not only that, Fei Qian also waved towards Huang Yueying...
Huang Yueying turned her head and seemed to say something to Feizhen, but Feizhen didn't have enough fun at all. She was still running on the grass, releasing her energy, and seemed unwilling to come back.
Huang Yueying stamped her feet, and finally stopped following Fei Zhen. She asked the guards to watch over her carefully, then turned around and walked towards the grassy slope where Fei Qian was, "What are you talking about?"
"We're talking about Jingzhou..." Cai Yan said softly.
"Jingzhou..." Huang Yueying also fell silent. Compared to Fei Qian and Cai Yan, Huang Yueying's feelings for Jingzhou were obviously stronger and deeper.
"My idea is to keep Jingzhou as it is as much as possible..." Fei Qian stretched out his other hand and pulled Huang Yueying to his side. The three of them stood side by side, "But these guys are almost certainly unwilling... so the final result
, it just depends on whether the Liu family can hold it, if not... Jingzhou will definitely lose three points..."
"Three points..." Huang Yueying muttered and repeated.
"In the northern part of Jingzhou, Wancheng, and Nanyang, no one will dare to move unless we die..." Fei Qian said calmly, "Cao Sikong is sure to win the Xinye area in Xiangyang, and the Jiangxia area is what Jiangdong covets, and both sides
The main point of the fight..."
"Jiangling..." Huang Yueying sighed.
"Yes, that's right." Fei Qian looked into the distance, "Cao and Sun both wanted it, so they came to me. Whoever I support will be more likely to win Jiangling..."
"But..." Cai Yan hesitated for a moment, and then continued under Fei Qian's encouraging eyes, "In that case, why does Chen Changwen still intend to sow discord between me...me...me and my sister..."
"What provocation?" Huang Yueying asked.
Cai Yan's face was a little red, but he still said: "It's just those rewards from the court, I have them, but not my sister..."
"Aha..." Huang Yueying suddenly understood, then laughed twice, turned her head, "I don't care about that at all, I don't care..."
Fei Qian said: "That's because we attacked the Xianbei Royal Court again in Youzhou... and also threatened Yuyang... If Cao Sikong does nothing, what will the people under his command think? Especially now.
...Jizhou and Yuzhou are trying to undermine each other, each with their own agenda... Therefore, if this strategy succeeds, it is naturally the best, but if it fails, it also shows an attitude..."
Huang Yueying clicked her tongue and said: "It's really complicated..."
"Haha, this is the human heart..." Fei Qian raised his chin slightly, pointed at Fei Zhen who was walking back in front of him and said, "Look, if you follow this naughty kid, he will feel safe, so he will run away."
You have to have no scruples... Now that you are back here, even if there are other guards, he will feel a little unsafe, so he comes back naturally... This kid is still young and feels he is safest around his parents.
After six or seven years, when I was half a year old, I started to feel very irritated and restricted around my parents, and I wished I could hide away every day..."
"A naughty kid can change his mind and temperament at any time, and now, there are so many other people around us..." Fei Qian sighed slightly, "How can it not be complicated?"
"Husband... ah..." Huang Yueying leaned against Fei Qian and sighed. Then she thought of Jingzhou again and couldn't help but said, "Then Jingzhou, Jingzhou is really... irreparable?"
Fei Qian slowly shook his head and said: "This will happen sooner or later..." It is indeed the case. In history, Jingzhou eventually fell into a situation of being divided. The whole country fell into pieces. Can the local area be immune?
?
"Sometimes, it's not just that one can stop if he wants to..." Fei Qian said, "It's like us... if we say we are not willing to continue moving forward, and then give it to others... even if
This person is willing to let us go, but what about the rest of the people? Are they willing to listen to this person's orders? Then this person needs to convince the crowd, what will he do? So, whether it is us, the Cao and Sun families, or the
Liu Jingzhou...to this day, it is no longer a matter of one or two people, but a matter of a group of people..."
"So..." Fei Qian turned to look at Huang Yueying, then turned to look at Cai Yan, "Do you understand now?"
Huang Yueying curled her lips and said: "I see... I thought you really wanted to take us out for an outing today, but... Hi!" Huang Yueying shook off Fei Qian's hand, and then stretched out her hand towards Cai Yan
Go, "Dr. Cai, let's ignore this guy. Really, he even plots against us when we come out to play... Go away, ignore him..."
Fei Qian let go of Cai Yan's hand, nodded slightly, and then smiled, watching Huang Yueying and Cai Yan holding hands and facing Fei Zhen, who was running towards him. Then the two elders and the younger one said something unknown,
Then they held hands again and walked to the side of the stream...
Fei Qian smiled, then turned to look in the direction of Jingzhou in the south, the smile on his face still maintained. Presumably, Chen Qun and Lu Su must have had a confrontation in the past two days. Anyway, this matter made Cao Sun anxious.
, Fei Qian is not in a hurry at all, and people who are not in a hurry can often take more initiative...
……(^.^)YYa!!……
In the fourth year of Taixing, under the first month of the lunar month.
Another group of people also started to get anxious...
The land of the Central Plains is gradually entering the golden season when the sky is blue, the ground is green, and the trees are lush and lush. However, deep in the desert, it is still a scene of the late winter with withered grass and trees, and steep and gloomy scenery.
The cold wind coming from the extreme north region lingers and won't go away. Although it is not as brutal as the brutal one in the cold winter months, it still makes people dare not provoke it easily.
In this desolate place with no end in sight, the cold wind howls, blowing down the grass, bending the trees, rolling up the grass and dust, howling incessantly, and the bleak daylight lingers.
Standing in the deserted sky, it looked like it had been forcibly struck by the cold wind a dozen times.
From time to time, the remaining snow was picked up by the wind, changing places as the wind tightened and relaxed. The lead-gray clouds were driven unwillingly and moved slowly.
The dark clouds in the distance are connected with the horizon. It is unclear where is the sky, where is the earth, and where is the direction to go...
This is the land of Dinling. Near Lake Baikal.
"Ding Ling" was originally the sound of blacksmithing, which belonged to the Xiongnu blacksmiths. Then Xianbei called these people the Chiler people, and because these Ding Ling people were accustomed to using vehicles with large wheels, they were also called Gaocha.
Historically, during the Three Kingdoms period, the Ding Ling tribe once again had a huge split. Among them, the weather may have played a decisive factor to some extent.
"Alas..." A Ding Ling man held a handful of withered grass that had just been pulled out from the outside and placed it in front of him. "If we go by the time in previous years, new grass should be growing now, but... you see,
This grassroots..."
The people sitting in the big tent are all the leaders of Ding Ling. The Ding Ling tribe still follows the ancient tribal council model.
"..." Everyone's eyes focused on the withered grass.
Although everyone here is a leader, every one of them is very familiar with the grassland. They don't even need to take a closer look at the dead grass in front of them, but they know it by looking at the dilapidated grass blades and black rotten grass roots.
Even if the weather gets warmer, it will be impossible for the grass to grow again because the roots have rotted.
Weeds are generally perennial. As long as the underground roots are still there, they will grow back the next year even if the wildfire burns them out. But once the grass roots rot, it is hopeless.
After a moment of silence, everyone couldn't help but start chirping and expressing their opinions.
To survive in the desert, one needs water sources and the other needs grassland. Cattle and sheep are like crops for nomadic people. Year after year, these are the necessary conditions for their survival. But now, what about water sources?
It is still there, but if the grassland is gone or reduced, it will also be a disaster.
The word "migration" pops up in many people's minds, but even if there are various drifts in later generations, it is not that easy to move, let alone a whole family migration?
What's more, many good pastures in the south are in the hands of the Xianbei people...
The pasture is like the home of the Chinese farming people. No one will easily give up their home and the place where they live to others. Therefore, after the word "migration" popped up, it was followed immediately by,
Another terrible idea suddenly popped up!
Historically, Xianbei's decline will take a long time. It was not until the rise of the Tuoba clan and the formation of the Rouran tribe that Xianbei gradually withdrew from the stage of history. But now...
"Is what the Han people...what the Han people said...is true?" someone whispered.
Ding Ling and the Han Dynasty were not completely isolated. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, Ding Ling and several other ethnic groups had united to deal with the Huns because they could not bear the plunder and cruel oppression of the Huns.
In the second year of the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty, Ding Ling and Wu Huan attacked the Xiongnu and dealt a heavy blow to them.
In the second year of Yuanhe of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ding Ling, Xianbei, and other ethnic groups in the Western Regions, together with the Southern Xiongnu, defeated the Northern Xiongnu and forced the Northern Xiongnu to move westward.
So, now, it's just a different target.
"It is said that the Wuhuan people..." Someone on the left side of the big tent spoke, "They have cooperated with the Han people... In the north of Youzhou, there is a new, very large pasture..."
"Wuhuan people..."
"哜哜哜哜哜。"
Immediately it triggered a flurry of discussion.
The Wuhuan people are somewhat similar to the Dingling people. They were both forced to resist under the oppression of the Xiongnu, and then were oppressed again by their former allies Xianbei. Now the Wuhuan people's first step seems to have brought some benefits to the Dingling people.
New revelation. In an instant, an idea flashed in the mind of Ding Lingtou in the big tent. Could it be that the scene of jointly expelling the Huns in the desert was now about to happen again after changing the protagonist?
performance?
Leader Ding Ling, who was sitting at the top, was silent and did not speak easily, not because he was dismissive of the current situation, nor because he did not take the current changes to heart, but because he discovered a very interesting question, that is
A dozen years ago, or a few years ago, the performance of the Han people was very different...
It is the consensus of almost all nomads in the desert that Han people have more people. In the minds of nomadic people, more people equals fighting power, so tribes with more people are generally not easy to mess with. Because the people of the Qin Dynasty were
The Han Dynasty was very warlike, and even in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, people in the desert were still somewhat wary of the Han people who dared to confront the most powerful nomadic people at that time.
It was not until after the Five Husties disrupted China, or even later, that the nomadic people in the desert gradually changed their views on the Chinese farming people...
So what leader Ding Ling is thinking about now is whether the Han people will have been recharging their strength for several years, and then prepare to stew in a pot in the desert, including Xianbei and other tribes?
A series of questions circled back and forth in Leader Ding Ling's mind like a revolving lantern. Often before a question was concluded, another question followed, and these questions were inextricably linked. Each one
Every possible answer to the question will involve the final result of one or several other questions.
This is really too complicated!
Even though Leader Ding Ling frowned and thought hard, he could not clear away the fog in front of his eyes to see the truth hidden behind the problem. He was completely lost in thinking.
Seeing that the leader didn't speak, the rest of the people in the tent gradually stopped and focused their attention on the leader.
Leader Ding Ling looked around, was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "First, we must solve the problem at hand... and the most important problem. We need a new, good pasture..."
"right!"
"That's right!"
Everyone agreed that this was indeed the most critical issue before us and the one that needed to be solved most urgently.
Leader Ding Ling said slowly: "Only when our own people are safe and strong can we consider further matters. Between the Han people and the Xianbei people... don't jump to conclusions right now... But we can first
Send someone to "borrow" a piece of pasture from the Xianbei people..."
"Borrow?" Some people understand it, but some people still don't understand it.
Leader Ding Ling continued: "If the Xianbei people are willing to borrow it, it would be best. If you don't want to borrow it..."
"Let's use the threat of joining forces with the Han people to threaten him, and if he doesn't lend it, we'll beat him!" said someone in the tent, clapping his hands.
"Wrong!" Leader Ding Ling laughed and said, "Send troops first to "borrow"... Are your pastures willing to be lent to others in just a few words? So kill one first, and then send someone to say "borrow".
of……"
"Oh..." Everyone suddenly understood and praised him unanimously, indicating that the leader had thought carefully.
"If... I mean if, the Xianbei people are not willing to "borrow" and then send troops to come..." a voice asked.
Leader Ding Ling said: "Then let's go back. Anyway, it will take at least two or three months to come and go. The pasture here should have grown a bit... And if the Xianbei people are willing to "borrow"...
…hehe……"
"That pasture is ours!"
"No..." Leader Ding Ling looked into the distance, "That means there are more pastures that can be "borrowed"..."
