Chapter 3067 The Oasis Road for Eternal, Different Passers-by
Shule River.
This is the name of later generations. In the Han Dynasty, this river was called Jiduan Water and also called Ming Water.
Come from Shule Mountain, then go against the current, or it looks like it is going upstream, flowing from south to north, from east to west, and then disappearing into the desert. There are many sections of the entire river that are underground rivers, just like river water gushing out from the Nine Nethers, so it is called Ming Water.
Fei Qian is now leading the army along the Shule River.
In front is Wuwa Pond.
The water ripples, like the beautiful woman's gentle eyes.
Such a graceful lady naturally cannot be disappointed.
"Cross the river in the front until you reach the camp at the Wowachi!"
Fei Qian issued the order, and immediately a soldier shouted and passed the order out. The soldiers rushed and moved forward accelerated.
Looking back, the Shule River is like a piece of silk, shining brightly in the wind, emitting soft and delicate brilliance. It is also like a gentle mother, surrounding oasis, like holding children.
The temper of Shule River is hidden in the dark, not as irritable as the Yellow River and Yangtze River at some stages, and the water waves are so surging that it makes people discourage it. Most of the sections of Shule River are not very high and the water flow is not too large, but some sections of the river cannot flow across the river, even if the water level is not high.
Because at the bottom of the Shule River, there are very sharp stones in the riverbeds of certain areas. People who are not familiar with the terrain mistakenly think that crossing the river only requires looking at the water level, and then happily goes into the water, they will inevitably be cut off by the hidden temper of the Shule River and are bleeding.
From Yumen Pass to the Hexi Corridor, the area is very wide and the scope is very wide. However, no matter how you walk on the road, there is only one road, which is the road along the Shule River.
There is no other way.
In the pre-Qin period, the Shule River Basin was occupied by Wusun, Dayuezhi and Xiongnu. Nomadic culture was the mainstream culture of this region. During this period, this was the paradise and cradle of the nomadic peoples. The Shule River Shule Song was sung for many years.
Later, Emperor Wu of Han set his sights here. Emperor Wu of Han sent General Huo Qubing to the west to defeat the Huns, fundamentally solving the harassment and threats from the Huns. He then established the four counties of Jiuquan, Wuwei, Zhangye and Dunhuang, and set up Yumen Pass and Yang Pass.
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 longest and most prosperous trade channel and cultural avenue in the world. The Shule River Basin is the bridgehead of this civilization road.
During the repeated thousand years of Silk Road opening and closing, opening and closing, the Shule River has always been here. Although the Shule River has become older with the changes of time, it still cares about the surrounding oasis and children around it as much as possible. If there was no such east-west river, the Han people would not have a suitable channel to open up any Silk Road.
This is a window and a door left by God to China.
Cities are the symbol of human social civilization. There are naturally many cities on both sides of the Shule River, and the most basic urban pattern was left behind in the Han Dynasty.
Fei looked towards Dunhuang.
The grottoes there have not yet begun construction.
After the Five Barbarians and Invasion of China began, the monk Lezun walked to the end of Mingsha Mountain and felt the gurgling water in the valley and the trees were ginseng. He also saw Sanwei Mountain radiating strange golden light under the sunset, which looked like a thousand Buddhas. Lezun believed that the beautiful water of Lingshan must be the holy land of the Buddha's kingdom, so he begged everywhere and carved the first cave of Mogao Grottoes on the steep wall on the banks of the Dangquan River.
From then on, the sound of axe and chisel jingling sounds sounded over the Dangquan River for thousands of years.
The extremely chaotic wars and the countries that were in their own way. During the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and those forgotten history once again taught the Chinese people a lesson.
But, can you remember?
Who remembered it?
The generation who experienced pain remembered it, and then the next generation of children forgotten it in the happy laughter.
Sir, times have changed!
Stop talking about the past!
Young people always say this.
The Buddha statues in the Dunhuang Grottoes are the only and the last spiritual sustenance for those who live in the incomparable pain of the Five Barbarians. They live and endure endless pain, apply the last hope and blood in their hearts on the cold and ruthless rocks, so among all the colors of the grottoes, red is the brightest.
Then, someone smiled and said that this was just a great fusion of the nation.
Actually, what these people want to say is—
Adult, I've eaten stool!
Don't close your stinky mouth yet!
The melodious camel bells gradually became cold. In the third year of Jiajing in 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 to a nomadic society overnight, hanging outside the pass for hundreds of years.
Close your mouth, stick your eyes, and block your ears.
The world suddenly became quiet, so happy...
Hundreds of years later, the Central Plains dynasty's national gates closed in the northwest were opened by Westerners from the southeast coast again!
Every peck and drink, all of them are like this.
Therefore, Fei Qian thought that if the rise and fall of the Silk Road and the fate of Dunhuang were summarized and reflected on a wider and deeper level, we can see that when a nation opens its mind and actively communicates with other nations in the world, it will also be enriched and developed. However, if it rejects all foreign cultures behind closed doors, it will lose its vitality and declining.
Intra-scroll, intra-strife, intra-strife.
Excellent generals do not die on the battlefield outside, but in the dark cell at home.
What civil servants think about is not how to manage and develop, but are thinking about making money.
Being an official is to make money, and making money is to become an official.
The powerless and powerful people are like a little girl who can only cry and can't speak clearly. Anyone can come up and do whatever she wants, and can do whatever she wants, and can ban it if she wants, and can also show a contract, indicating that the girl has signed and sealed it. This is her own voluntary! Others can't control it!
Even if the girl died and buried underground, she would still belong to the contract holder for fifty years, whether it was flesh or bones...
Because there are too many people, the rulers think that it is not necessary to have so many people.
Just like when does the shepherd take care of the flock most? Naturally, the flock is not big, and one missing will affect the quality of life of the shepherd. When the shepherd has tens of millions of cattle and sheep, and a few dozens of cattle and dozens of cattle and sheep are missing, what does it matter? I may think that there are too many cattle and sheep and can’t feed it, so I might as well have a feast of 100 days without sheep and kill some cattle and sheep to reduce the burden.
If you want to change, is it useful to talk to the shepherds about the great truth?
I told someone that I could find a way to communicate. Even if this person is a sensible person, there is a way, but I want to communicate with a group of sensible persons...
kill?
Then wouldn’t you become a fool like a gangster?
Killing is a means, not an end, but an ultimate means. Because after killing, if there are still people who are not afraid, then there is no way out, which is equivalent to a complete failure of oneself.
Therefore, if these herdsmen in China want to pity cattle and sheep, they will replace a group of herders and remove the cruel shepherds, and on the other hand, they will increase the value of cattle and sheep.
After being a shepherd for a long time, you will forget that you were once a cattle and sheep.
As for making cattle and sheep evolve into shepherds...
Not that there is no, but it is difficult.
It's really difficult.
Some cattle and sheep are just willing to be cattle and sheep, which is worry-free!
Only a very small number of cattle and sheep want to become shepherds. This "small few" is not the very few controlled by Fei Qian, but the very few cattle and sheep themselves. Most of them want to change in pain, but once the pain disappears temporarily, they return to their original state. They will not remember it again until the next time they suffer. They have such ambitions.
The camp landed.
The moonlight soars into the sky.
Ordinary soldiers are on duty and sleeping deeply.
Fei Qian sat in the tent, watching the battle reports gathered from all over the place.
It was one of his nights.
It is also the night he has come every day for thousands of days.
The amount of effort will bring you a reward. As the head coach of the battle, if you want to sleep easily and get victory in the battle, it is better to dream faster.
Life and death have always been a big problem.
The test paper is spread out among the rivers that are thousands of miles away, and the pen and ink of the questions are dripping flesh and blood.
The chess piece has a strong deterrent power when it has not fallen, but once the position is finalized, there is basically grinding of blood and flesh, and fighting between knife and fire.
Fei Qian looked at Tuyu.
Red and blue arrows crisscross.
From the north to the south, every place is testing the question-setting and answering questions.
What's more, the answerer and the question-setting are always evolving, exchanging, even cheating, cheating, then accuse, accuse, use the other party to make tricks, or use the tricks to make plans.
"Lord," Zhang Liao finished his patrol and came to pay the order. "Everything is settled in the camp, and there is no abnormality."
"Yeah." Fei Qian nodded, then pointed to the horse stool beside him, "Sit down."
"I saw the messenger's urgent response," Zhang Liao bowed and asked, "I don't know if something has happened?"
『It was not a change in Guanzhong, but there was a change in Youbei. Youbei came to report that Cao's army led the remnants of Wuhuan and Xianbei, and set up a hiding in the Black Stone Forest...』 Fei Qian did not mean to hide Zhang Liao, and said directly, "As far as I know, there is coal in the Black Stone Forest... Therefore, it is called the Black Stone Forest...』
There are some coals around the Black Stone Forest. These coals look like black stones, so they are called Black Stone Forest.
But I don’t know if it was the scattered coal on the surface or the deep coal exposed to the surface.
Someone had a rough survey in the early years, but because of the inconvenience of remote transportation, he simply marked it and did not dig and exploit it.
Zhang Liao was shocked, "Now the north wind is pouring, is this... going to attack fire?"
Fei Qian nodded, "It's probably the case."
Zhang Liao bowed and said, "I wonder if the Protector Zhao can help him?"
Fei Qian shook his head, "There is only this, there is no follow-up..."
Zhang Liao:『…』
Can I send a blade?
"Zilong has always been cautious and should not have fallen into this plan. Black Stone Forest... Hey, Black Stone Forest..." Fei Qian thought for a while, and finally knocked on the table and put it aside. After all, even if Fei Qian thought of any wonderful strategy at the moment, it would not be possible to pass it on to Youbei.
"It's better to focus on the present... The land of Hexi is at the right time." Fei Qian said to Zhang Liao, "Wen Yuan thought, where should we start?"
Zhang Liao took a breath, then spit out two words, "Big House!"
Fei Qian smiled and nodded, "Tell me, let me see."
"The land of Hexi is slightly different from that of Longxi." Zhang Liao said, "Longxi is close to Guanzhong, and Hexi is adjacent to Hudi. If Guanzhong is obtained, it will be easier to pacify Longxi, but if the Humans defeat the Humans, it will be possible to settle Hexi. This was the case during the Han Dynasty and the same is true now."
Fei Qian laughed, "That's it! The land of Hexi is the key to the throat of the Western Regions, and it must not be missed. Wen Yuan will arrange military affairs. After a day of repair, he will go to Jiuquan!"
It would be easy to understand if the local big family was replaced by public intellectuals from later generations...
Both good and bad.
Now it is time to distinguish and filter.
After receiving a relatively clear order, Zhang Liao said goodbye and left the tent, while Fei Qian still had to face the map on the table alone, just like Fei Qian had always faced the situation of the Han Dynasty alone.
Fei Qian left Taishici and some soldiers and horses in the Western Regions, but also brought back some other troops.
The Qiang people in the Western Regions, Hu people and Seminren, and a large number of gold, silver, money, cattle, sheep, and horses that would be transported into Guanzhong along the Hexi Corridor. These were either plundered during the war or after the war. Jia Xu at Yumen Pass would approve all the people and things that passed the customs, but when he arrived at the Hexi Corridor, Fei Qian needed to clean up in advance...
Fei Qian's eyes patrolled the Hexi Corridor for several times, but not long after, he fell to the position of Shangdang Taiyuan.
Compared with the current situation in the Northern Region or Hexi, Fei Qian is more worried about the Taiyuan generation.
Taiyuan will be under greater pressure.
Because the troops in Yinshan will not give Taiyuan much support.
After all, compared with Hedong and Taiyuan, Hedong is naturally more important.
Xihe, Shangjun, Beidi and others are all focused on supporting Pingyang and Chang'an. Even if Taiyuan encounters danger, it is impossible to increase its troops in large quantities.
This is the strategy after discussion between Fei Qian and Pang Tong and others.
Shangdang Huguan and Jiaqu have been operating for many years. The city defense is stable and reserves are sufficient. As long as they are steady and they will die at Huguan, it will not be a problem to persist for one year or even two years.
Most people think that the wall of Huguan is the scope of the battlefield, and the strategy formulated by Fei Qian and Pang Tong is to regard Taihang Mountain as the outer wall of Shangdang Huguan. Then, Wei Yan outside the outer wall is not a lonely soldier, but a connection with Huguan.
If Cao's army is seen as a whole from south to north, then Huguan relies on Taihang and Shaanxi and Jin rely on Dahe, which is two nails stuck on Cao's army's waist, and it is stuck in an area that is difficult to reach with his back.
Huguan is covered by Taihang Mountain and Shaanxi and Tianjin has a large river as a barrier. It is very difficult to suppress it with heavy troops or circumvent it.
In history, Cao Cao conquered Huguan with no worries and no more ways to go. He could use brute force to pry it directly. Even so, he was in a mess of blood. Now Lejin is just a side-in-arms, just like a thief holding a small screwdriver who wanted to pry open the heavy treasury door installed with the Heaven and Earth Lock...
The same is true for Wei Yan. With naval troops stuck in the three gates, Cao Cao wanted to advance against the current, but he didn't even think about it without a huge naval army. However, Cao Cao's naval troops were all in Jingzhou, so there was no shortage of transport ships in Shandong. The problem was that there were no organized naval troops in the entire Shandong area.
Even if we take a step back, Cao Cao pieced together the navy army and exchanged the navy chess piece in Wei Yan's hand. As long as Wei Yan could control his impulse and retreat into the mountains, he would be the main battlefield of Wei Yan's mountain soldiers in the mountains. What could Cao Cao do?
Then we will temporarily form mountain soldiers and Wei Yan to play hide-and-seek?
Therefore, as long as Jia Qu and Wei Yan are steady, not greedy for merit or make progress, Cao Cao can only say that he can do nothing, and there is not much good way.
There are stable areas on the defense line, and naturally there are weak points.
Taiyuan County...
Fei Qian hopes Cui Jun can hold on, but also hopes Cui Jun can't hold on.
This is a very contradictory idea, but it is very realistic.
Different regions, different environments, and different positions will inevitably lead to different behaviors.
Taiyuan County is actually a bit like the land of Hexi.
The prosperity of Hexi was due to the opening of the Silk Road, otherwise it would be a nomadic land.
Because of the need for communication with the outside world in the Central Plains, Hexi was developed 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.
This is also the case in Taiyuan County, the aura of the merchants that has settled is too heavy.
Fei Qian does not despise merchants, nor does all merchants not patriotic, just like there are also traitors in the three categories of scholars, farmers and workers. Sometimes it is more about human nature, rather than a single category that can be generalized, but because merchants have always calculated too much and smart, they are often driven by interests.
People are flawed.
Just like a river, it is impossible for all places to be perfect.
Although Shule River is beautiful, it is a desert outside the oasis.
There is light, there must be shadow.
If someone who has made a declaration openly, there will naturally be people who have smuggled the dog.
Jia Xu cleaned up trade documents at Yumen Pass, and would inevitably find some holes dug out by rats and foxes.
These pits are in Hexi for the Western Regions.
For the Northern Region, it is in Jin.
In the late Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants smuggled and traitors were unquestionable. However, Hui merchants and Zhejiang merchants were also smuggling at that time. As for why they all looked at Shanxi merchants with dark faces, it was because there were many officials in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area. Those who became sons could not slander me on my face? So the hats of traitors could only be worn by Shanxi merchants. Who told Shanxi merchants to do these things, and the number of officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang later did not have as many officials?
So if you want to block the hole and find the rats and foxes that are digging the ground, of course you need to smoke it...
No merit fell from the sky, and no trust was born for no reason. In the Hexi land, Fei Qian was about to set fire to the fire, but in Jin land, I wonder if Cui Hou and Cui Jun could hold on to the fire this time?
The friendship of the past can reduce a temporary sin, but it cannot be exempted from a lifetime.
The way to go depends on Cui himself...
Chapter completed!