Zhang An was a Chinese-style minor official in the imperial examinations in the fifth year of Taixing. In the sixth year of Taixing, he arrived here in the Western Regions and served as the counselor of the Xihai City in the Western Regions.
『Consul! Brother Zhang! Save me!』
On this day, Zhang An's friend Li Xin ran to Zhang An's house when night fell. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was startled, "Brother Zhang, only you can save me in this matter!"
Li Xin is a minor official in the Protectorate Office, responsible for trivial matters such as organizing documents, copying, archiving, etc.
"Two days ago, I was so mean... that I angered General Wei..." Li Xin's face was a little pale, and she told me about what he said too much that day.
『This is not a big deal...』 Zhang An said, 『General Wei... That person recognizes money the most. If you don't have it, you can pay a portion of it... Although this is not good, I still have some savings here. If you don't have enough, use it first...』
"No, it's not a matter of money..." Li Xin's face was still a little pale, "I'm afraid this matter cannot be solved with money..."
『Even money can't be solved?" Zhang An was a little surprised, 『Aren't you just talking too much?"
Li Xin was silent for a moment, "This...this is just an introduction..."
"Introduction? What did you do?" Zhang An asked.
Li Xin was silent for a moment before sighing, "I wrote more..."
"What?" Zhang An asked subconsciously, and then he understood, "What have you written? You...you, you, you, you won't..."
Li Xin's body was a little limp, "I... the memorial I wrote to the cavalry was... the person... the person...
"Ah!" Zhang An frowned and was about to stamp his feet, "You...I dare not write... You are... cough!"
"I was so angry some time ago, but really, I was so angry... I wrote it, and I didn't think about handing in it..." Li Xin held her head, "I was so... I wrote it with great effort, and they used it for nothing. Then they said that I could respect me... This wasn't once or twice, I really couldn't bear it, so...
"Then you can't write it! Look, who is in charge of the affairs of the Western Regions now? The Protector of the Great? Believe it or not, your memorial will not reach the Protector of the Great!" Zhang An also said anxiously, "Last time, did you forget how did the counselor Wang of the Superintendent died?"
"He wrote a letter of advice to Dadu Protector, and what?"
"Not only was the advice missing for no reason, but the Protector didn't see it at all, but a group of people came to scold him, and some even sued him for forcing people's wealth and extorting bribes..."
"God is pitiful! Who doesn't know that in the Western Regions, the people in the Zhiyinjian are the poorest among all the officials of the Protectorate? Consul Wang just took advantage of his leisure to write two words on the street, write letters on behalf of others, and exchanged some money to subsidize the family income... This became evidence of Consul Wang's crime! Later, not only the officials of the government office were talking about him, but even the people in the neighborhood threw feces into his house! The people who had written letters to him before heard about this, went to ask him for money one by one! Give him a living...'
Li Xin held her head and said, "Stop talking! I... Brother Zhang, save me, save me! Didn't you, Yin Jian, directly understand the General of the Cavalry? Report this matter! Report it! I...
Zhang An was silent, and did not speak for a long time, just looked at Li Xin.
Li Xin's face became paler and paler, "No...can't it?"
"Don't mention opening this dedicated direct channel, you need three or more consultants from the Direct Yin Supervisor to jointly authorize... Even if it's OK, I'll go find someone, ask someone, and send your affairs information... Are you sure you can wait until that day? This time..." Zhang An sighed, "Sorry, I really can't help you..."
When Li Xin heard this, she was almost lying on the ground.
"Or..." Zhang An couldn't bear it when he saw this and whispered, "You really want to live... or escape... As long as you can escape back to Guanzhong, you can't tell me this..."
"Yes!" Li Xin seemed to have grabbed the last straw, "Yes! I can go back to Chang'an! Chang'an!"
Zhang An got up, then took some money and stuffed it to Li Xin, "I have only this left here... If you want to escape, it's better to get faster... I have to do it in the past two days. Maybe I haven't had time to take care of you yet. In addition, the city defenses may be looser... By the way, you'd better not wear official robes and pretend to be herdsmen. The leather robes are older, and some mud on your face are covered with mud and dust..."
"Okay!" Li Xin responded one by one, and just as she was about to leave, she stopped and asked, "Brother Zhang, why do you have so many ways? She also knew that she wanted an old leather robe and ash..."
Zhang An was slightly stunned, then smiled bitterly: "Actually... this is what I thought about. If I want to escape that day... Alas, take care! Be careful all the way..."
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Yumen Pass.
Gao Shun patrols the city every day, once in the morning and evening, without any movement in the wind and rain, without any change in the thunder.
When the weather is clear, you can see some figures of Lop Nur. In the Han Dynasty, the river shu was not as powerful as the dry-ups of later generations. Even in the Western Regions, many small countries lived a very comfortable life and had never considered any issues of water and soil.
It can be said that except Fei Qian, no one in the world will pay attention to these "small issues".
"Captain, the water level this year seems to have dropped by a point compared to last year..." A minor official stood beside Gao Shun, holding a book in his hand. "Captain, as the command of the cavalry, we made pillars and signs on the edge of the dock. When we went to check it two days ago, it seemed to be lower than last year...
"It seems?" Gao Shun frowned.
"Uh... it's true, it's indeed down from the same time last year." Xiaoli's eyebrows twitched and he quickly added. He knew that what Gao Shun disliked the most was vague words, but Xiaoli said that he was used to it on weekdays and forgot it for a while.
During the Han Dynasty, there were still many water sources near Yumen Pass. In addition to Hele Shu, there were also places such as Wowachi, Xitugou, Huoshaogou and other places. However, these places are related to Lop Nur. The drop in Lop Nur water level means that the water level in these places will also drop.
If it is someone else, they will most likely be bored with such cumbersome and repetitive affairs. Because there is no timely reward for such things, they may not be of much use for ten or twenty years, nor can they be seen or not rewarded in some respects, so the more they go back, the more they may become slack.
It’s like observing astronomical stars. Everyone can look up at the sky at night. As long as it is a place where air pollution is not serious, they can see the stars. In ancient times and later generations, they only observed the differences in instruments. However, it is not much difficult to do this. The difficulty lies in serious and meticulous persistence, repetition, day after day, and never slacking off.
"Sort the records and send them to Chang'an." Gao Shun ordered.
Since it is an order, it will be executed without any compromise.
Gao Shun never asked why, so he didn't like to explain why to his subordinates.
He will do what Lu Bu told me, and he will do what the cavalry told me.
He was at Yumen Pass, with Lu Bu to the west and Fei Qian to the east. Not only in terms of geographical conditions, but he was actually like a person sandwiched between Lu Bu and the dart flag.
Lu Bu didn't trust him very much.
Of course, Lu Bu is no longer the Wen Hou of the past.
Yumen Pass is not Gao Shun's home, nor is Yanzhou.
"Captain!Captain!" A soldier came to report that "The outpost met General Wei's personal guard Yishi and was coming here!"
Before, Wei Xu was just following Lu Bu, the personal guard who resisted the halberd and led the horse, and now he has become a general, while Gao Shun is still an unstoppable captain.
『…』 Gao Shun was silent for a moment, 『What are they doing?
The soldier shook his head. Obviously, Wei Xu's personal guards didn't say it, and they couldn't ask.
After a while, Gao Shun received a new report, saying that Wei Xu's personal guards took over a checkpoint twenty miles in front of Yumen Pass and were checking the pedestrians and caravans coming and going.
"Captain Captain..." The soldiers who came to report the message looked at Gao Shun with a little careful look, "How to deal with this matter?"
"Come, prepare the horse!" Gao Shun didn't talk much nonsense, and after getting off the city wall, he rushed to the checkpoint in front.
When Wei Xu's personal guards saw Gao Shun coming, they were delivering colors to each other, but they did not have much fear or look of panic.
"I have met the high school captain." Wei Xu's personal guard leader came forward to greet him.
Gao Shun frowned and said, "When you can get a military order?"
"According to the order of my general, we will arrest the fugitive soldiers and arrest them." Shi Chang said, as if one plus one equals two.
"Feithful soldiers?" Gao Shun pondered slightly, then said, "If you take over the checkpoint, you need to have a military order. Please get the military order and write it!"
"I reported to the Higher College Captain, and the Great Protector has an order. Because the Western Regions are vast and the information is inconvenient, the army with less than 30 people can be handled first and then filed for filing." The Chief said calmly, "I... have only ten people. The general's post is only a number of three troops. Even if they are all added together, they are less than 30, so they did not violate the military rules... I wonder if the Higher College Captain has other instructions? If not, please ask the Higher College Captain Kuanxing. After Rong arrested the deserter, he would naturally return the post. Please rest assured.
Below thirty people, act cheaply.
There is indeed this regulation within the Western Regions Protectorate. After all, not all places can receive approval from superiors in a timely manner.
But the problem is that this checkpoint is only twenty miles away from Yumen Pass, and it is not a place that cannot be reported at all.
But it doesn't seem very strange, because after this regulation was implemented, many people were dispatched according to this regulation, but very few reported it. In some places, twenty-nine people were dispatched, and then a few more times...
It was said that the limit was 50 people at one time, but later, after a lot of these things, it was lowered to 30 people.
After all, there are policies above and there are those under...
Gao Shun was silent for a moment, then waved his hand.
Unless Gao Shun is preparing to not abide by this regulation, there is no way to violate it. There are regulations on the regulations. Although Gao Shun's rank is older than Shi, he is Wei Xu's personal guard leader. He also depends on the owner of the dog. Unless Gao Shun wants to turn against Wei Xu now, it is not easy to do anything at the moment.
Wei Xu's personal guard Shi nodded, bowed to Gao Shun, and then turned around and shouted.
Although the few Wei Xu's personal guards did not speak and there was no problem with etiquette, they looked a little contempt, which made the soldiers around Gao Shun somewhat angry. "Captain, did you just let them take over? This is our checkpoint!"
"The people who stayed in the army stared at what they were doing..." Gao Shun ordered, "Since they followed the military regulations, we will act according to the law, just deserters? Humph, you will be caught and brought to see me..."
Gao Shun felt that this was a bit strange.
Is deserter a matter of generally not a big deal? Which dynasty would have deserters not existed?
Moreover, most of the time, the general's personal guards do act as a responsibilities similar to the "gendant police", arresting deserters and supervising the battle against retreating soldiers on the battlefield, so there seems to be no problem.
If Gao Shun is not cautious, this matter may have passed.
But in fact, desertion is very common in Shandong. Even when Gao Shun was in Yanzhou, he had deserters under his command. Because from a new recruit to train to become a trap, it is not possible to do it just by just having a few tricks a day. Hard work is necessary, and he may even be exhausted on the spot when practicing. Therefore, it is very common for the soldiers recruited in Shandong to leave simply for the sake of making a living.
But after arriving in Guanzhong, the situation was different.
In Guanzhong, there were almost no deserters.
Moreover, in Guanzhong, new recruits will not start as soon as they come up, but will have a stage of recruit training camp. During this stage, the training level will be gradually increased and the recruits will be diverted. After all, not everyone is suitable for the heavy armored and powerful weapon mode similar to the trap camp. It is also fine for weaker people to go to the archer line and small-body cavalry line. There is no case of forced being a heavy infantry.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The most important point is that the military pay and benefits are good.
Just like later companies advocated that the company should be their home, and they would always say that they would love their jobs, be dedicated and dedicated, but they would not pay overtime, and even donate their salary voluntarily. They would want employees to live and die together with the company? I am afraid that they would either not leave for other reasons, or they would submit their resumes online and have not found the next one yet...
Therefore, after Gao Shun arrived in Guanzhong and arrived at Yumen Pass in the Western Regions, he had almost never heard of any deserter incidents.
And now deserters appear again?
Maybe it's just because of personal grudges or something else?
When Gao Shun left soldiers to monitor and the others returned to Yumen Pass first, a man with herdsman looked like a herdsman emerged from somewhere and followed a small caravan.
Outside Yumen Pass, it was desolate in later generations, but when Lop Nur had not dried up in the Han Dynasty, Lop Nur was once considered to be "three hundred miles wide, and its water pavilion did not increase or decrease in winter and summer." However, in fact, due to the water and soil, Lop Nur continued to shrink. By the Qing Dynasty, even when the water was rising, Lop Nur was only "eighty or ninety miles long from east to west, two or three miles wide from north to south, or one or two miles wide", becoming a mere small lake.
Lop Nur was very large in the Han Dynasty, and there were many herders around herding for a living.
Of course, the caravan leader saw the actions of the herdsman, but he didn't say anything, because Yumen Pass is a pass, but it can also be regarded as a larger city around. Some herdsmen went to Yumen Pass to change some oil and salt, which is too common. Anyway, as long as the herdsman does not do anything out of the way, can the caravan still dominately express that this road is all its own and no one is allowed to follow?
The herder carried a bag of skin on his shoulders and tied it up with a few hemp ropes. Perhaps because the skin blocked his sight, the herder always looked at the road with his head tilted.
The herdsmen followed the caravan and walked forward. After walking not far, they suddenly found that there were many people staying at the checkpoint in front.
Actually, this is not very normal.
However, people who are inexperienced or who do not know much about the situation in Yumen Pass cannot detect anything from this abnormal phenomenon.
Normally, this checkpoint will not search the caravan in detail again.
From the front checkpoint to Yumen Pass, only two of them will be searched in detail. One is the forward camp a hundred miles away, and the other is in front of Yumen Pass. There will be no additional searches in the small checkpoint in the middle.
Because the main responsibility of this checkpoint is to prevent risks, the main purpose is to detect whether there are any abnormalities. For example, when the caravan passed the first checkpoint, there were 100 people, but when the last checkpoint was reached, ninety people were left, or one hundred and ten people were turned into ten cars, and then in a blink of an eye, they turned into twelve cars, etc.
About ten days, the code words that specifically select certain words will be changed once. The chief of the checkpoint will confirm the situation of the caravan or other passers-by based on the approval of the road ahead. If you find something wrong, you will not immediately start to attack on the spot. Instead, you will summon the rangers near Yumen Pass according to the scheduled situation, either by intermittent smoke, by flags, or by other methods, and give them a heavy blow in the joy of luck and joy that these people think they can get away with.
The checkpoint is set up next to the road.
Several horse-rejecting pieces were erected on the road, and some simple wooden fences were also set up. Of course, these things were only aimed at the road. If you have the ability of Beiye, you can never go to this road.
『Stop all! Line up! Accept the inspection!』
A soldier in armor shouted loudly, his eyes sweeping back and forth in the queue, as if searching for something.
The herdsman's face seemed a little pale. He recognized the signs on the armor representing Wei Xu's personal guards.
He hesitated a little, not knowing whether he would turn around and leave now, or follow the caravan to the front and take a look...