Things sometimes feel very simple if you just imagine them before actually doing them. Just do something first, then do something, and finally do something. It seems that it is enough, but when you actually start to do it, you will do it.
After doing some specific things, you suddenly realize that there are still so many problems that you didn't even think of at the beginning.
Leader Ding Ling did not expect that there would be so many follow-up problems after occupying Xianbei's pasture.
When there is no pasture, all I think about is more pasture. With more pasture, you can raise more livestock. With more livestock, you can have more people, and you can continue to occupy more pasture.
Lots of pasture...
Everything seems so beautiful, but now it feels like waking up from a sweet dream. In addition to feeling emptiness, there is also a sense of confusion, a kind of confusion about the future.
During the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, tribes such as Ding Ling, Wuhuan, and Wusun could not bear the bullying of the Huns. At the same time, under the instigation of the Han people, they began to attack the Huns, which exposed the internal conflicts of the Xiongnu alliance. During the reign of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ding Ling and
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.
Later, the Xianbei people occupied the pastures that originally belonged to the Xiongnu, and then slowly became larger and larger, while Ding Ling did not change much, and then he was naturally suppressed by the Xianbei.
Therefore, the Dingling people will inevitably have a kind of anger "I treat you as a brother, but you treat me as an RBQ". In the past, Xianbei was so powerful that the Dingling people dared not speak out, but now they see that the two great kings of Xianbei have been defeated by the Han people.
After being beaten to pieces, this idea came to life, and he began to suppress the Xianbei people in turn, and grabbed a lot of pasture that originally belonged to Xianbei in one fell swoop.
Because the Han people have always pursued a political strategy of pulling in the small ones and defeating the big ones, the Han people actually have a good relationship with these relatively small tribal alliances in the north. Not only are they generous rewards, they sometimes canonize their kings, open markets on the borders, etc.
etc., so the relationship between Ding Ling and the Han people is relatively harmonious.
Leader Ding Ling himself can be regarded as a warrior in the desert. He has few rivals among the Ding Ling tribe. He also has many brave warriors of his own tribe. The entire tribe directly under him has nearly ten thousand people, so he also uses this to control and influence the rest.
Ding Ling tribe. In terms of the morale of Bu Dugen and Kirby Neng, the Ding Ling tribe has about 50,000 to 60,000 troops. It is also a force that cannot be underestimated. Therefore, neither Bu Dugen nor Kirby can easily go there.
Provoke the Ding Ling people.
Now that the Xianbei regime has basically collapsed, the Ding Ling people have taken advantage of the situation, but they have also brought about many problems. The first to bear the brunt are the original Xianbei people who remain on various pastures.
In the desert grassland, there are no rules for the law of the jungle. It is the law to defecate with the fist. However, leader Ding Ling always feels that there is an unresolved problem in his heart, and he is somewhat uncomfortable, just like there is a wooden thorn on his clothes.
I can't see clearly, and I can't feel it clearly, but as soon as I put it on, I feel prickly.
At the same time, various disputes and fights broke out from time to time in the Xianbei pastures occupied by Ding Ling. The Xianbei people captured by the Ding Ling people were not as obedient as they thought, and they rioted, escaped, and even assassinated the Ding Ling people.
This happened so often that many people in the tribe began to suggest that all Xianbei people should be killed so as not to leave any future troubles.
So, if we really kill all the Xianbei people, the problem will be solved?
Totally impossible!
Because during this period of time, the Ding Ling people were busy occupying this and embezzling that. When they were happily acquiring one pasture after another, they suddenly realized that winter was almost here.
The cold wind howled, causing Leader Ding Ling's originally heated mind to gradually cool down.
During this period of time, I was busy occupying pastures, which reduced the winter reserves that should have been prepared long ago to almost zero...
If we really follow the advice of some idiots and resort to killing people to solve problems, then do these idiots have to conjure up the hay for the next winter?
As a result, leader Ding Ling scolded those mindless idiots and said that he was not allowed to continue killing Xianbei people for no reason, but that he should let these Xianbei people work together to prepare hay reserves for winter. In addition, he also felt that something was wrong with Ding Ling's current situation, so he
I found the wise man in the clan, who was actually the wizard in the Ding Ling clan, and asked for his advice.
"Big leader..." The old wizard of the Ding Ling tribe was sitting by the campfire. He took out a cow hind leg bone from somewhere and handed it to the leader Ding Ling, "Here, God will tell you the answer..."
Leader Ding Ling ignored some tooth marks remaining on the cow's hind leg bone. He closed his eyes and put the cow's hind leg bone against his forehead. He murmured something in a low voice, and then took the cow's hind leg bone.
Thrown into the bonfire.
The two of them stared silently at the cow hind leg bone that was burned in the flames. After a while, both of them heard the obvious sound of bone cracking, and saw the old wizard and his agile movements using his black paint stick.
Using a crutch of unknown material, I pulled out the cow leg bones from the campfire, and then covered them with a layer of sand. When they slowly cooled down and were taken out, I could clearly see the cow leg bones.
There are some more cracks.
"God..." Leader Ding Ling swallowed subconsciously, "What, how did you say that?"
The old wizard stroked the beef leg bone with some cracks, his eyes were half-opened and half-closed, and he muttered something. After a while, he sighed and handed the beef leg bone to leader Ding Ling.
Leader Ding Ling took it in his hand and looked at it for a long time by the light of the campfire, but he couldn't understand it at all...
"This...what does this mean?" Leader Ding Ling asked.
The old wizard pointed to the thickest and most obvious crack on the cow's leg bone, "Big Chief, what do you think this... looks like?"
"What does it look like?" Leader Ding Ling tilted his head and looked, "It looks like... well, this... looks like a spear?"
The old wizard nodded, "Yes, God's warning is very obvious... What will happen next, the big boss should have the answer in his mind..."
"..." Leader Ding Ling's face darkened, "War..."
The old wizard nodded slowly again, "Yes...then, what will this bring?"
"Bleeding...injury...even...death..." Leader Ding Ling squeezed the cow's leg bone tightly, gritted his teeth, and said with difficulty, "We have occupied the Xianbei people's pasture, and these Xianbei people have not completely
If they lose their fighting spirit, they will come back... It will definitely be a big war, and countless people will be injured or even die... I... what should I do now?"
"Then..." the old wizard continued to nod, "Why haven't the Xianbei people lost their fighting spirit?"
Leader Ding Ling replied, "That's because we are not...not really strong, we, we are just...thieves...it was the Han who defeated the Xianbei people, not us..."
"The Huns and the Han Dynasty have been fighting each other for hundreds of years. What did the Huns gain? When the Huns were at their most powerful, they had two to three hundred thousand troops. But where are the Huns now? They have occupied even an inch of the Han Dynasty.
Land?" The old wizard asked slowly.
"Not even an inch..." Leader Ding Ling shook his head.
"What about the Xianbei people?" The old wizard asked again, "When the Xianbei people were strong, they defeated the Han Dynasty several times, but what about now? What did the Xianbei people get? Where was the land they once got?"
Leader Ding Ling said, "It was taken back by the Han Kingdom again..."
"Hundreds of years..." The old wizard's slightly chaotic eyes stared at the jumping flames of the bonfire, as if he saw the rolling desert sand. "In the desert, generations of brave men are trying to defeat the Han Dynasty. First,
The Xiongnu, and later the Xianbei... When they were powerful, they seemed to be able to summon the entire desert, with hundreds of thousands of troops under their command, as if they could overwhelm the Han Dynasty in the next moment..."
"But now, the Han Kingdom is still standing..." The old wizard continued slowly, "The Han Kingdom is still strong. It was defeated by the Xianbei people before because the Han Kingdom did not put its thoughts here... Now they are back.
, it’s over for Xianbei... Big boss, can’t you understand what God means? Don’t let what you see in front of you blind you. Big boss, you should look further and see the future of our clan.
...』
Leader Ding Ling took a deep breath and fell silent.
After a long time, leader Ding Ling lowered his head, and his body could not help but stoop a little, "I... understand... tomorrow, I will order everyone to stop heading south... Our current strength is not enough to let us
Occupying so much grassland... we need to wait, waiting for us to become stronger... and waiting for the day when the Han Dynasty will weaken again..."
The old wizard stood up, and then knelt down to leader Ding Ling again, "Wise leader, you have made a wise decision... Under the leadership of the leader, Ding Ling will definitely become stronger..."
Leader Ding Ling stood up and helped the old wizard, "Yes, we will definitely have that day..."
……/(ㄒoㄒ)/……
Human life is actually very short, and even the body of a warrior is still very fragile.
Perhaps a warrior like Zhang He could easily defeat a dozen or twenty Xianbei people, but after two or three meals and no water for several days, even a child could easily stab Zhang He.
turn.
Therefore, human beings are inevitably short-sighted and only focus on the present, because if there is no food and drink in front of them, what future is there?
But after eating and drinking, if you don’t think about the future...
That's quite stupid.
Zhang He looked at the Xianbei people around him who were respectful to him, but sighed slightly in his heart. Everything requires effort to gain anything, and what Zhang He needs to pay is to give these Xianbei people the so-called "correct" guidance.
Except for a very small number of people who know they are wrong, but still stubbornly blame others for their mistakes, are unwilling to listen to anyone's opinions, and only ask others to cooperate with them, but they themselves are unwilling to change.
, most people hope that they can have a system when they are faced with difficult choices, and when they are confused and at a loss in the face of the future... uh, an old man... um, there can be a Du Niang... Bah, there can be one.
A sage tells me how to go.
Hey, that’s what it means anyway.
Copying answers is always fun. If there is anything more fun than this, it would be to be able to copy answers all the time. But now Zhang He has no answers to copy, and he can't even show any weakness, even if he is exhausted physically and mentally.
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Many people are unwilling to choose, generally because they are unwilling to take responsibility.
Just like the simplest meal, when a group of people choose what to eat, there will always be some people who will answer casually when asked what they want, but when someone else suggests eating a certain food, they will immediately object.
Do people like this really have no ideas and are they really casual?
Not really.
As long as you don't say what you think, you will be invincible. When someone finally says what you think, you can pretend to be happy and agree...
It's a pity that Zhang He didn't have the right to choose, and he didn't even have the conditions to seek advice from others.
Dark clouds were billowing in the sky, which was not a good sign. It might rain in two days, or even ice. The cold wind came and went, blowing the already withered grass and shaking it.
In the distance, Xianbei people were scattered and cutting the withered grass, trying to store as much food as possible for the coming winter.
This work should have been done since the summer, but now...
In the entire Xianbei territory, there are now two major forces. One is the Wuhuan people, Nanloulouban Liu He and others. Relying on their relationship with Zhao Yun, they are frantically encroaching on the Xianbei pastures in the south and east of Youzhou, and
To the north are the Ding Ling people...
Zhang He and others struggled to survive in the crack between the two forces.
Zhang He was not afraid of the people in the team, whether they were Wuhuan people or Ding Ling people. However, as the forces on both sides suffered some losses, the number of people chasing and rounding up Zhang He gradually increased, leaving Zhang He and others in a difficult situation.
It's getting more and more difficult.
Along with the whistling wind, Zhang He suddenly heard some low cries in his ears, and then there was a stretched-out song that seemed particularly long...
Xianbei people believe that only singing can send the souls of the dead back to heaven, so as long as conditions permit, they will sing a song similar to a requiem for the deceased after the death of a family member.
"Huh..." Zhang He turned his head and waved to a Xianbei man.
These are the few Xianbei people who know Chinese, and they should be among the nobility among Xianbei, because only the upper-class nobility of Xianbei can specialize in learning some Chinese culture.
As for the average Xianbei people who can’t even write, how can they understand foreign languages?
It's just that Zhang He didn't know what his name was, and he didn't care what he was called. He slightly raised his head and looked in the direction where the singing was coming from and gestured, "Didn't you make it through?"
"Yes..." The Xianbei leader lowered his head, "The injury is too big..."
Zhang He nodded, with no emotion on his face. It was not because the people who died were Xianbei people, but because Zhang He had seen so many life and death scenes on the battlefield that he was already numb.
"Next..." Zhang He asked, "Do you have any ideas?"
"What to pick up?" asked the Xianbei leader.
Zhang He frowned slightly. As for the shortcomings of the Xianbei people in foreign language, he didn't want to waste any effort to continue explaining. He directly took out the short blade in his boots and drew it on the ground. "This is Youzhou, and Yuyang is here. We can probably
The location...here...understand?』
"Yuyang..." the Xianbei leader muttered, "Oh, what a famous watch..."
"Then from here to here, there are Wuhuan people..." Zhang He sighed and drew several crosses on the ground, "The Wuhuan people have blocked the road to the east... Now this road is unreachable.
...Then on this side are the Ding Ling people, occupying the pasture to the north..."
"The situation is roughly like this now," Zhang He finished the painting, and then looked at leader Ding Ling, "Do you understand?"
"It's a famous watch..." The Xianbei leader frowned and nodded.
Show your head.
Zhang He twitched the corner of his mouth and said nothing. He just turned his gaze to the direction where he had just sung the soul song, "If you force yourself to break through, you might be able to get through... but it will be difficult... many people may die..."
For Zhang He alone, it is not a big problem to break through, because one person's target is small and the risk of exposure is also small. In addition, even if he is discovered, the other party will not send large troops to hunt down the person.
By the time he realized something was wrong, Zhang He must have already gone away.
But with the addition of these Xianbei people, it is different. This is a temporarily put together Xianbei tribe. Naturally, there are old and young, and there are also some women and children gathered along the way. With such a structure, it is undoubtedly for most people
Said it was tantamount to committing suicide.
"There is one more troublesome thing," Zhang He continued to draw two arrows, "People from both directions are coming this way... In a few days, this pasture will no longer be safe..."
"So now there are two roads and one road..." Zhang He raised his short blade and pointed to the west, "To the west... The Huns fled westward and disappeared without a trace, so I don't know what this road is like...
Whether it’s life or death... I can just give it a try..."
"There is another direction, northwest..." Zhang He sighed, "There shouldn't be any enemies on this road, but the only danger is... God... if we encounter a snowstorm halfway, we can be killed."
I swallowed it all in one breath... So, you have to think carefully about which one to choose..."
"So General Zhang, which one do you think is better?" the Xianbei leader asked.
Zhang He looked at the sky, "The weather seems to be getting colder and colder... Both of them are not good... But if you go into the depths of the desert, it all depends on God's face... And I hope to be able to
It's better to hold your destiny in your own hands..."
The Xianbei leader thought for a while, nodded and said: "Yes, that's it...so, to the west...then is General Zhang still willing to go with us?"
Zhang He still looked up at the sky, "Maybe... Zhang is also homeless now..."
"But..." Zhang He suddenly seemed to have thought of something. He frowned, pondered for a moment, and finally said, "If you think about it...there is actually another way, but...do you know why Xianbei was defeated?"
?It’s because you Xianbei are too big. The Han Dynasty has already defeated the Xiongnu once and doesn’t want to fight again... So in this desert, whoever becomes stronger will definitely become the opponent of the Han Dynasty... Now
Xianbei fell, and then the Wuhuan and Dingling people rose up... In other words... this may be an extra way..."
Maybe, you can give it a try?
At least this is the worst case scenario now, right?
