Chapter 3068 The eternal oasis road, different travelers
Chapter 3067 The eternal oasis road, different travelers
Shule River.
This was the name of later generations. In the Han Dynasty, the river was called Jiduanshui, also known as Mingshui.
It comes from Shule Mountain, and then flows upstream, or it looks like it flows upstream, from south to north, from east to west, and then disappears into the desert. The entire river has many sections of underground rivers, like
It is like the river water gushing out from the Nine Underworlds, so it is called the underworld water.
Fei Qian now led his army along the Shule River.
Ahead is Owa Pond.
The ripples of water are like the soft eyes of a beautiful woman.
Such a graceful lady cannot be let down.
"The front part crosses the river and reaches the camp under Wowa Pond!"
Fei Qian issued the order, and immediately the soldiers shouted and passed the order. The soldiers and horses surged and accelerated towards the front.
Looking back, the Shule River is like a piece of silk, shining brightly in the wind, emitting a soft and delicate brilliance. It is also like a gentle mother, surrounding the oases, like holding each one.
child.
The temper of the Shule River is hidden in the dark. It is not as obviously violent as the Yellow River and the Yangtze River at certain stages. The water waves are so rough that people can't stand it. Most of the sections of the Shule River are not very high.
, the water flow will not be too large, but there are some sections of the river where it is impossible to cross the river, even if the water level is not high.
Because at the bottom of the Shule River, there are large and small very sharp stones on the river bed in some areas. People who are not familiar with the terrain mistakenly believe that crossing the river only requires looking at the water level, and then jumping into the water happily, and they will inevitably be hidden by the Shule River.
His little temper was cut with blood.
From Yumenguan to the Hexi Corridor, the area is very wide, but no matter how you go, there is only one road, which is the road along the Shule River.
There is no other way.
During the Pre-Qin Dynasty, the Shule River Basin was occupied by Wusun, Dayuezhi, and Xiongnu, and nomadic culture was the mainstream culture in this region. During this period, it was the paradise and cradle of nomadic peoples. Shule River Song,
I don’t know how many years it has been sung.
Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty focused on this place. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent General Huo Qubing to the west to defeat the Xiongnu, and fundamentally solved the harassment and threats from the Xiongnu. Then he established the four counties of Jiuquan, Wuwei, Zhangye, and Dunhuang, and set up Yumen Pass.
Yang Guan.
From then on, the Silk Road was officially opened.
On the Eurasian continent, which accounts for one-third of the world's land area, a beautiful ribbon forms the world's longest and most prosperous trade channel and cultural avenue. The Shule River Basin is the bridgehead of this road to civilization.
During the thousands of years of repeated opening and closing of the Silk Road, opening again, closing again, etc., the Shule River has always been here. Although with the changes of the years, the Shule River has become older, it is still here.
It is possible to nurture the surrounding oases and surrounding children. Without such an east-west river, the Han nation would not have a suitable channel to open up any Silk Road.
This is a window and a door left to China by God.
Cities are symbols of human social civilization. There are naturally many cities on both sides of the Shule River, and the most basic urban pattern is left over from the Han Dynasty.
Fei Qian looked in the direction of Dunhuang.
The construction of the grotto over there has not started yet.
When the Wuhu Luanhua began, the monk Lezun walked to the end of Mingsha Mountain and realized the gurgling water and ginseng trees in the valley. He also saw Sanwei Mountain emitting a strange golden light under the setting sun, resembling a thousand Buddhas.
Le Zun believed that this beautiful mountain and beautiful water must be the holy land of Buddhism, so he went around asking for help and dug the first cave of Mogao Grottoes on the steep wall beside the Danquan River.
From then on, the tinkling sound of axes and chisels echoed along the Dangquan River for thousands of years.
The extremely chaotic wars, countries each doing their own thing, the chaos in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the forgotten history once again taught the Chinese people a lesson.
But, can you remember it?
Who remembers it?
The generation that experienced the pain remembered it, and then the next generation of children forgot it again amid the laughter of happiness.
Sir, times have changed!
Stop talking about what it was like back then!
Young people always say this.
The Buddha statues in the Dunhuang Grottoes are the only and final spiritual sustenance for people living in the extremely painful Wuhuanhua. Living through endless pain, they smear their last hope and heart blood on the cold and ruthless world.
On the rocks, so among all the colors in the grotto, red is the most vivid.
Then, some people laughed and said that this is just a great integration of nationalities.
In fact, what these people want to say is -
Sir, I've eaten poop!
Don't shut up your stinky mouth yet!
The melodious camel bells gradually became colder. In the third year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, the indestructible Jiayuguan city tower was officially closed, and Dunhuang and the entire Shule River basin were abandoned outside the pass. Dunhuang retreated from a prosperous capital on the Silk Road overnight.
The nomadic society has been isolated for hundreds of years.
Close your mouth, close your eyes, and plug your ears.
The world suddenly became quiet, so happy...
Hundreds of years later, the door that the Central Plains dynasty had closed in the northwest was opened by Westerners from the southeast coast!
A peck and a drink, that's all.
Therefore, Fei Qian thought, if we put the rise and fall of the Silk Road and the fate of Dunhuang on a broader and deeper level to summarize and reflect, we can see that when a nation opens its mind and takes the initiative to communicate with other nations in the world,
Over time, it will enrich and develop itself, but if it closes its doors and rejects all foreign culture, it will lose its vitality and go into decline.
Infighting, internal strife, internal strife.
Excellent generals do not die on external battlefields, but in dark prison cells within their own country.
What civil servants think about is not how to govern and develop, but how to make money.
Being an official is to make money, and making money is to be an official.
The powerless people are like a little girl who only cries and can't speak clearly. Anyone can come up and manipulate her at will.
She can also shake out a piece of contract, indicating that the girl has signed and pledged it. This is of her own free will! No one else can control it!
Even if the girl dies and is buried underground, within fifty years, whether it is skin, flesh or bones, they will still belong to the person who holds the contract...
Because there are too many people, and the rulers think they don’t need so many.
Just like when does a shepherd take the best care of his flock? Naturally, the flock is not big, and the loss of one sheep will affect the quality of the shepherd's life. When the shepherd has tens of millions of cattle and sheep, how many will be lost if there are only a few of them?
Ten, what does it matter? There are probably too many cattle and sheep to feed, so why not hold a feast without sheep for a hundred days and kill some cattle and sheep to reduce the burden.
If you want to change, is there any use in talking to the shepherd?
You can find a way to communicate with a person. Even if this person is a bully, there is still a way, but if you want to communicate with a group of bullies...
kill?
Then wouldn’t it mean that he has become a fool like a gangster?
Killing is a means, not an end, and it is the final resort. Because after killing, if there are still people who are not afraid, then there is nothing you can do, which is equivalent to your own complete failure.
Therefore, if we want these shepherds in China to show pity to their cattle and sheep, on the one hand, we need to replace a group of shepherds and get rid of the cruel shepherds, and on the other hand, we need to increase the value of cattle and sheep.
After being a shepherd for a long time, he will forget that he was once a cow and sheep.
As for making cattle and sheep evolve into shepherds...
It's not that it's impossible, it's that it's very difficult.
It's really tough.
Some cows and sheep just want to be cows and sheep, so you don’t have to worry!
Only a very small number of cattle and sheep want to become shepherds. The "very few" here are not the few controlled by Fei Qian, but the very few cattle and sheep themselves. Most of them want to become shepherds when they are in pain.
Change, but once the pain temporarily disappears, it returns to its original state. It is not until the next pain that I remember again that I once had such an ambition.
The camp was launched.
The moonlight rises into the sky.
Ordinary soldiers are on duty and sleeping.
Fei Qian sat in the tent, watching the battle reports collected from all over the country.
This is his night.
It was also his night every day for hundreds of days.
How much you pay will bring you rewards. As a battle commander, do you want to win the battle easily while sleeping? It is better to dream faster.
Life and death have always been a big issue.
The examination papers are spread out among thousands of miles of rivers, and the writing and ink used to write the questions are like dripping flesh and blood.
The chess piece only has full deterrence when it does not fall, but once the position is determined, it is basically the grinding of blood and flesh, the struggle between knife and fire.
Fei Qian looked at Tuyu.
Red and blue arrows crisscross.
From north to south, everyone is testing the question-askers and answerers.
What's more, the answerers and questioners are constantly evolving, exchanging, even cheating, cheating, and then accusing, accusing, using the other party to cheat, or taking advantage of each other's tricks.
"My lord," Zhang Liao came to pay the order after completing his inspection of the camp. "Everything in the camp has been fixed, and there is nothing abnormal."
"Yeah." Fei Qian nodded, then pointed to Maza beside him, "Sit down."
"I saw a messenger urgently reporting," Zhang Liao asked, cupping his hands, "I wonder if something has changed?"
"It's not a change in Guanzhong, but a change in Youbei. When Youbei came to report, Cao Jun led the remnants of Wuhuan and Xianbei and set up an ambush in the Black Stone Forest..." Fei Qian did not hide Zhang Liao's intentions and said directly, "According to a certain
You know, there is coal in the black stone forest... so it is called the black stone forest..."
There is some coal around the Black Stone Forest. These coals look like black stones, so they are called the Black Stone Forest.
But I don't know if it's scattered coal on the surface or some coal in the deep layers exposed to the surface.
Someone had done a rough survey in the early years, but due to the remote location and inconvenience of transportation, they simply marked it and did not carry out any excavation.
Zhang Liao was suddenly shocked, "Now that the north wind is blowing, this...is this going to be a fire attack?"
Fei Qian nodded, "Most likely."
Zhang Liao cupped his hands and said, "I don't know how Zhao Duhu will respond?"
Fei Qian shook his head, "The letter is just that, there is no follow-up..."
Zhang Liao: "..."
This...can I send the blade?
"Zilong has always been cautious, so he probably won't fall for this trick. Black Stone Forest... Hey, Black Stone Forest..." Fei Qian thought for a moment, and finally knocked on the desk, putting the matter down. After all, Fei Qian was considered to be Fei Qian at the moment.
No matter what brilliant strategy he comes up with, it is impossible to pass it on to Youbei.
"Let's focus on the present... The land west of Hexi is at the right time for order." Fei Qian said to Zhang Liao, "Where do Wen Yuan think we should start?"
Zhang Liao took a breath, and then spit out two words, "Big House!"
Fei Qian smiled and nodded, "Let's talk about it."
"The land in Hexi is slightly different from Longxi." Zhang Liao said, "Longxi is close to Guanzhong, and Hexi is adjacent to Hu. If you get Guanzhong, you can conquer Longxi, but only by defeating the Hu barbarians can you conquer Hexi. This was the case during the Han Dynasty, and it is still the same today.
in this way."
Fei Qian laughed and said, "Of course! The land west of Hexi is the gateway to the Western Region and must not be lost. Wen Yuan will go to arrange military affairs. After a day of repairs, he will go to Jiuquan!"
It would be easy to understand the local big family if they were replaced by public intellectuals of later generations...
Both good and bad.
Now is the time to distinguish and filter.
After Zhang Liao received relatively clear instructions, he said goodbye and left the tent. Fei Qian still had to face the map on the table alone, just like Fei Qian, who had always faced the big man alone.
The situation is the same.
Fei lurked in the Western Regions, leaving behind Tai Shici and some soldiers and horses, but he also brought back some others.
The Qiang people, barbarians and Semu people from the Western Regions, as well as the large amounts of gold and silver, cattle, sheep and war horses that will be transported into Guanzhong along the Hexi Corridor later. These were either plundered during the war or compensation after the war, and were collected at Yumen Pass
Jia Xu will approve all the people and things that pass the customs, but when it comes to the Hexi Corridor, Fei Qian needs to clean it up in advance...
Fei Qian's eyes wandered around the Hexi Corridor for a few times, and it didn't take long before he landed on Shangdang Taiyuan.
Compared to the current situation in the Northern Territory or Hexi, Fei Qian is more worried about the Taiyuan generation.
The pressure in Taiyuan will be greater.
Because the soldiers and horses of Yinshan will not give Taiyuan much support.
After all, compared to Hedong and Taiyuan, Hedong is naturally more important.
Xihe, Shangjun, Beidi, etc. are all focused on supporting Pingyang and Chang'an. Even if Taiyuan is in danger, it is impossible to massively increase troops.
This was the strategy that Fei Qian, Pang Tong and others had discussed before.
Shangdang Huguan and Jiaqu have been operating for many years. The city defense is stable and the reserves are sufficient. As long as we fight steadily and die at Huguan, it is not a problem to persist for one year or even two years.
Most people would think that the wall of Huguan is the scope of the battlefield. However, the strategy formulated by Fei Qian and Pang Tong regarded Taihang Mountain as the outer wall of Shangdang Huguan. Then Wei Yan outside the outer wall
, it is not a lonely soldier and horse, but connected with Huguan.
If Cao's army is viewed as a whole from south to north, then Huguan relies on Taihang and Shaanxi relies on the river. They are two nails stuck in the waist of Cao's army, and they are stuck in the area of the lower back that is difficult to reach.
Huguan is protected by the Taihang Mountains, and Shaanxi and Tianjin are protected by the river. Whether you want to suppress it with heavy troops or encircle it, it is very difficult.
Historically, when Cao Cao conquered Huguan, he had no worries about his retreat, and there were no multiple ways to advance. He could use brute force to pry directly. Even so, the prying was a mess and bloody, but now Le Jin is only partial to the army, like
It was a thief holding a small screwdriver who wanted to pry open the heavy vault door with a heaven and earth lock installed...
The same is true for Wei Yan. There are naval forces stuck at the three gates. Cao Cao wants to go upstream, but without a huge navy, he can't even think about it. However, Cao Cao's naval forces are all in Jingzhou, and there are no transport ships in Shandong.
The problem is that there is no organized naval force in the entire Shandong region.
Even if we take a step back, Cao Cao cobbled together a navy army and exchanged the navy chess pieces in Wei Yan's hands. As long as Wei Yan could control his impulse and retreat to the mountains, the mountains would be the main battlefield for Wei Yan's mountain soldiers. What could Cao Cao do?
manage?
Temporarily forming mountain soldiers and playing hide-and-seek with Wei Yan?
Therefore, as long as Jia Qu and Wei Yan remain stable and do not greedy for success or make rash advances, Cao Cao can only do nothing but do nothing. There are not many good options.
On the defensive line, there are solid areas, but naturally there are also weak points.
Taiyuan County...
Fei Qian hopes that Cui Jun can survive, but also hopes that Cui Jun cannot survive.
This is a very contradictory idea, but very realistic.
Different regions, different environments, and different positions will inevitably lead to different behaviors.
Taiyuan County is actually somewhat like the land in Hexi.
The prosperity of Hexi is due to the opening of the Silk Road, otherwise it would be a nomadic land.
Because the Central Plains needed to communicate with the outside world, Hexi was opened up and the seeds of civilization were sown here. With the countless sweat and blood sprinkled on the banks of the Shule River, the flowers of civilization bloomed.
It is also because of this in Taiyuan County that the aura of settled merchants is too strong.
Fei Qian does not despise businessmen, nor does it mean that all businessmen are unpatriotic. Just like there are traitors in the three categories of scholars, farmers, and workers, sometimes it is more about human nature and cannot be generalized by a single category.
It's just that businessmen have always been too calculating and too shrewd, so they are often driven by interests.
All people are flawed.
Just like a river, not everything is perfect.
The Shule River is beautiful, but beyond the oasis, there is a desert.
Where there is light, there must be shadow.
If there are people who report things openly, there will naturally be people who are sneaky and smugglers.
When Jia Xu was cleaning up the business documents at Yumen Pass, he would inevitably find some holes dug by rats and foxes.
These potholes, for the Western Region, are in Hexi.
As for the Northern Territory, it is in the Jin region.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants were smugglers and traitor lackeys. There is no doubt that merchants from Huizhou and Zhejiang were also smuggling at that time. As for why they all looked at Shanxi merchants with black faces and bodies, that was because many officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang later became officials.
A son can't smear his face. So the label of traitor businessman can only be worn by Shanxi businessmen. Who knows that Shanxi businessmen have indeed done these things, and there are not as many officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang later?
So if you want to plug potholes and find mice and foxes digging in the ground, of course you need to smoke them...
No achievements fall from the sky, and no trust is born without reason. In the land of Hexi, Fei Qian is ready to start a fight, and in the land of Jin, I don’t know if Cui Hou and Cui Jun can hold on this time.
Smoky?
The friendship of the past can alleviate the sin for a moment, but it cannot absolve it for the rest of the life.
