In Yangqu County, Chen Lan wore a piece of 2-dang armor and covered with a thin quilt. She was lying in the city gate tower and fell asleep in a daze. When he opened his eyes again, the genius had just begun.
Chen Lan was one of the earliest educational envoys.
When Fei was potentially promoting education in the Southern Xiongnu region, Chen Lan, Wang Ling and others went to the Hu tribe in the northern part of the country to educate, and taught many good students of Hu.
The culture of the Han people was undoubtedly very powerful in this era, so powerful that the surrounding nations had to learn. Although some of the surrounding Hu people would object, whoever has a strong culture will be able to take the initiative and will also bring more cultural bonuses.
This influence is more concealed and terrifying than swords and guns.
Nowadays, the Southern Xiongnu have basically been sinicized. Most Southern Xiongnu people will give a Chinese name, and they also use Chinese during daily communication...
If a nation, a tribe, wears Hanfu, speaks Chinese, uses Chinese characters, and does Han affairs, then who is this nation? Hu people or Han people?
What if it is the other way around?
If a Han man speaks foreign language every day, wears foreign dresses, drinks foreign wine, is proud of foreign countries, and is ashamed of Chinese...
Chen Lan was promoted because of his merits in education and was now the magistrate of Yangqu County.
The wind, frost, rain and snow in the Hu area gave Chen Lan a stronger willpower than ordinary literati. When Cui Jun brought Cao's army to persuade him to surrender, Chen Lan cursed him unceremoniously, causing Cui Jun to cover his face and leave.
"The county master is awake?" When the chief clerk of Yangqu saw Chen Lan wake up, he did not come over. Instead, he leaned over the light of a torch and flipped the wooden slip in his hand, as if checking for something.
Chen Lan rubbed her face and asked: "When will it be?"
"The second moment of Yin." Xu Zhubu said, "This winter day is so bright that it is too late..."
"You came early, why didn't you wake me up?" Chen Lan rubbed her face, rubbed her hands, and then turned around to let the bonfire bake her back. "Is there any military situation change?"
If the twelfth lunar month is not cold, then the first lunar month will be cold.
Anyway, God will not spare anyone.
In this kind of weather, even if there is a place to shelter in the city gatehouse, the wooden city gatehouse is still air leaking everywhere, and the bonfire can only ensure warmth on the front, while the person carrying the bonfire is cold. This is pretty good. If it is in the wild, if it cannot shelter from the wind, it will be useless no matter how strong the bonfire is, it will be burnt in the front and freezing in the back.
Xu Zhubu didn't look back, and said while looking at Mu Du, "It's the same as before... Thank you for your hard work in the county magistrate, it's good to have a rest for a moment..."
Chen Lan felt that her back was a little relieved. She moved for a while, but it was not as stiff as before. Her nose twitched and she smelled some disgusting odor. "Have you started to boil the golden juice?"
Xu Zhubu nodded, "I collected five urns first, and the city is still collecting... The arrows on the top of the city have been quenched, but now they are mostly transported after quenching the others... Oh, by the way..."
Zhuan Xu pointed to a clay pot next to the bonfire, "There are some food there... the county general will deal with it... I've eaten it first..."
Chen Lan said hesitation and picked up the clay pot that was kept warm by the bonfire. Although the smelly smell on the city tower made people feel bad, he still held the clay pot and ate it.
While Chen Lan was eating, Xu Zhubu checked the data on the wooden slips and said: "The population and food in the city have been counted, distributed and dispatched, I sent someone to stare... There are not many archers, so I asked some hunters who are good at archery to add some... There are also some rolling stones and wood, and it is too late to dig outside the city, so I can only demolish the houses in the city first..."
Zhuzhu Xu said in a nagging manner.
Xu Zhubu was older than Chen Lan's. He was an old official in Yangqu. Compared with Chen Lan's experience, he was richer. Therefore, Xu Zhububu was doing the material preparations for defending the city.
Chen Lan just woke up and her head was a little drowsy. She was eating, so she didn't say much. She just listened to it. She put down the crock pot that had been eaten, looked up and thought about it. Only then did she remember something that Zhuzhu Xu did not mention, "By the way, have the people outside the city moved into the city?"
Xu Zhubu's hand seemed to shake, but it seemed that there was nothing at all. "The incident happened in a hurry, how could it be said that it was all moved? I can only say that I tried my best... There are some villages in the mountains, and even if I send people there, it would be too late..."
Chen Lan frowned and said, "Although the Cao army can be said to be able to Jinyang, it definitely does not have enough troops to attack everywhere. The key is not to give the Cao army the opportunity to plunder the population and destroy the farmland... Otherwise, the spring of the next year will be..."
"I know this... I have arranged everything I can, and occasionally missed... There are not many people. I have tried my best and have achieved the best I can do..." Xu Zhubu sighed, his eyes flashed, "We all live in a mixed family, and it is not easy to manage..."
Chen Lan heard that Xu Zhuan was a little vague and thought for a while, and said, "The chief clerk is older than me and has lived here for a long time. He must be more familiar with the situation here than me... Now Cao's army is urgent, so it must not last long... But if one person can be moved more, one less person will die. They are all my great men..."
Xu Zhubu nodded and said, "What the county master is talking about... It is our duty to protect our great men and the people. Please rest assured..."
Chen Lan looked at Xu Zhubu's expression, and there seemed to be nothing unusual, but she always felt that there was something missing. While she was thinking, she heard some messy sounds outside the city gate tower, and then someone shouted that Cao's army was coming.
Chen Lan's face turned solemn, "It seems that Cao's army is going to attack the city!"
The two of them left the city gate together.
Far outside the city, Cao's soldiers were surging in the chaotic sky that was half bright and half dark.
Cao Jun's movements were very fast.
Because if the Yangqu problem cannot be solved quickly, the recruitment and inclusion operation around Jinyang will inevitably be seriously hindered.
In fact, the inclusion that Xiahou Dun originally thought had already occurred...
It is easier to reorganize private soldiers from the gentry and gentry around Jinyang, but it is not so smooth to collect the lower-level Hussar soldiers. At first, these Hussar soldiers on duty everywhere thought Cui Jun was still following Fei Qian's orders, but when they saw that it was the Cao army flag, they became restless on the spot. Some were killed and some fled. Only a small number of Hussar soldiers obeyed the command of Cao's army.
In order to ensure the benefits they gain, the ruling class or the vested interest class often does not care too much about their position, ideology, system, etc. They pay more attention to how to preserve their existing interests and obtain more benefits. These people often talk about what positions, ideology and system they say on a daily basis, and they often do not say what they say for themselves.
On the contrary, the most grassroots emotions are the simplest and direct.
『Dongdongdongdongdongdong...』
The sound of war drums dispelled the darkness and opened the curtain of the battle for offense and defense of the Yangqu.
"Who are those people?" Chen Lan's eyesight was inevitably affected because she read a lot. He grabbed the soldiers beside her and pointed at him and asked, "Just there, do you see it? She doesn't feel like the soldiers of Cao's army..."
The soldiers' eyesight was obviously better than Chen Lan. After a little calming look, he whispered: "County Master... Those are...those should be ordinary people..."
Chen Lan was stunned and then turned to look at Xu Zhubu, "Didn't it mean that all the people outside the city have moved into the city?"
Chief Xu remained silent.
The sky is getting brighter and the teams are getting closer and closer.
Not only Chen Lan saw it, but also others on the top of the city saw six or seven hundred men, women, young and old, being driven by Cao's army and rushing towards the county town.
Among these people, there are not only Han people, but also Hu people. Of course, more Hu people are also Hu people, wearing tattered leather robes and their hairstyles are somewhat different from Han people.
The crying had reached the city wall, mixed with scolding and screams.
Chen Lan turned his head, pulled Master Xu to his side, and gritted his teeth and asked, "Didn't you say that most of the people have been moved into the city? Look, why are there so many people out now?!"
Xu Zhubu was silent and said nothing. He was already relatively old, but at this moment, it seemed that he was much haggard again.
"You didn't inform those Hu people, right?" Chen Lan saw that, "Those Hu people are also the people of our great man..."
"No! No!" Xu Zhubu stared at him, "Why are those Hu Man the people? Never! When these beasts robbed the Han area before, why didn't they think they were the people of the Han people? Now they say they are the people?! Bah! When we killed us Han people, the unjust souls of the Han people were still crying outside the city! If I let these Hu people enter the city now, I would have betrayed my ancestors! I am not wrong!"
『You!" Chen Lan pulled Xu Zhubu's collar, 『They have educated him! You are a major education plan that has harmed the lord!』
Xu Zhubu grabbed Chen Lan's hand and said, "I don't know any major and minor plans for education... I just know that before the cavalry came to the northern border, these Hu people were killing us Han people... At that time, why didn't anyone tell the Hu people about education? Let the Hu people be kind?"
"You..." Chen Lan didn't know what to say for a moment.
While the two were arguing, the people who were forced by Cao's army gradually walked down Yangqu City.
A man driven away shouted at the top of Yangqu City, crying, his voice full of fear.
"Okay, please open the city gate... They can't open the city gate, so... they want to kill me... they want to kill us, they want to kill all of us... they want to open the city gate, save everyone, save us... we beg... ah...
The man shouted while walking, and didn't pay attention to his feet. He accidentally stepped into the trap and stuck his head on the wooden stake at the bottom of the trap, and his voice stopped abruptly.
The subsequent people were forced to move forward by Cao's army.
The traps that were originally made for disguise were all trapped one by one.
These traps were dug in a place with arrows away from the city wall, and were filled with pointed wooden stakes. They were originally used to kill Cao's soldiers, but at this time, thirty or forty captured people fell into it...
The sharply cut wooden stakes, as hard as steel in the severe cold, easily pierced the bodies of these people.
Blood flowed out, and there were traces of white smoke.
The screams were loud at first, but in a blink of an eye it became smaller.
Most of the people who were pushed only knew how to cry, and a small number turned around and didn't know whether to resist or escape. They were killed on the spot by the Cao army soldiers following behind, so the other people even cried even more earth-shaking.
Crying is instinct.
They cried, as if they were begging for mercy, or hoping that someone would fall from the sky to take care of them.
People are born to know how to use crying to exchange for pity and care from their parents. However, when they fail to get pity and care when they cry in front of outsiders for the first time, they understand that crying is not omnipotent. However, once they encounter their own brains and the situation is urgent and dangerous, they will still instinctively and simply use crying to deal with the problem.
They cry and call their parents, even at this time their parents may not be there.
After all, only parents will come over to protect their children when they cry...
Chen Lan's body was stiff and her hands tightly grasped the battlement.
Zhubu Xu has selfish intentions, but he cannot say how wrong this selfish intention is.
At least in Xu Zhubu's concept, the Hu people are not considered common people. Even though the relationship between the Hu people and the Han people has eased a lot in recent years, can the bloody things done by the Hu people back then be regarded as farts because the relationship between the Hu people and the Han people has eased? Then the Han people were in vain?
Why?
Chen Lan turned to look at Master Xu, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything. He stopped looking at Master Xu, but shouted at the thief Cao on the top of the city, "Don't let them fill the trenches!"
To be continued...