One thousand five hundred and sixty-ninth section spoiler
As midsummer approaches, the temperature in Munan also rises to the highest level of the year.
The water in the salt pond even started to smoke.
The beach on the lakeside is hot enough to cook food.
A group of cavalrymen from the Flying Fox Army were enjoying the cool in the shade of a tree by the lake and eating some dry food.
"Have you heard?" A Han cavalryman wearing a coarse cloth uniform, leaning against a bush, said to the crowd: "Several scholars will come here recently, saying they want to educate the Yi Di..."
Others looked surprised when they heard this.
This land of salt ponds is so barren that even to drink water, one has to travel twenty to thirty miles to find clean fresh water.
A scholar is actually coming?
Just kidding!
Just those little pretty boys coming here, I'm afraid they'll be crying and looking for their mother in less than three days.
"Would you like to start a bet?" The person with good intentions immediately asked: "Bet on how long these scholars can stay here?"
Gambling and women have been the favorites of the military since ancient times.
There's nothing the military doesn't love.
As soon as everyone heard that someone was opening the market, they immediately cheered up. They took out a lot of five-baht coins from their pockets and asked loudly: "What kind of betting method? What are the odds?"
"Ahem..." When the leader of the team saw this situation, he coughed twice: "Don't talk nonsense... These scholars were ordered by the king to come here, and they have important responsibilities. General Zhi and General Guan and
Lieutenant Li has repeatedly given orders not to humiliate, ridicule, or abuse the men he has ordered, but to do everything possible to help them adapt to the environment in Munan..."
The soldiers listened and laughed a few times.
Then……
If it is time to open, continue to open, and if it is time to place a bet, continue to place bets.
There is nothing the team can do about it.
"Hopefully, here are a few people with real talents and skills..." Team leader sighed in his heart.
Since half a month ago, scholars who were ordered from Chang'an came to the Muannan area. In Zhidu, under the arrangement of senior generals like Guan He, they entered each Muannan tribe that had surrendered to the Han family to promote the king's culture and spread the Han Dynasty.
The benevolence of the emperor.
These young scholars made a lot of jokes soon after arriving in Makunan.
Many people didn't even stay for three days, so they cried and shouted to go back to Chang'an.
Then, they were suppressed by General Zhi, and they were all arrested and sent to Nanchi as laborers...
Just as they were thinking this, the team suddenly saw smoke and dust appearing on the horizon in the distance.
He immediately stood up, observed and alert.
Ever since General Zhi defeated the main forces of Weiwei and Changlin, there have been no large-scale anti-Han tribes in the central and northern parts of Munan.
However, the defeated Weiwei and Changlin people got mixed up with some Dingling horse bandits.
They often attacked the Han army's small strongholds, outposts, and transport convoys.
This was exactly what the Han army wanted. The cavalry of the Feihu Army and the Juzhu Army spread out in all directions, looking for possible traces of the enemy, and then launched an attack.
In the blood and fire, the young warriors grew up very quickly.
Let's take the soldiers under this team as an example.
When they were preparing to come three months ago, these guys were just new recruits who had never seen blood.
When they first encountered the enemy, some fools even forgot to cock their crossbows because they were too nervous...
But after these few months of training, the new recruits have evolved into veterans.
They have learned when to rest, when to fight, and when to retreat.
I understand better how to kill people with the least effort.
The most important point is that the attack range of the Han cavalry has begun to become extremely large!
A cavalry captain, leading two thousand cavalry, can fight on this endless grassland for half a month, covering more than two thousand miles, relying only on the dry food he carries with him.
The expeditionary capabilities of the Han army have been greatly enhanced!
If it were not blocked by the desert, maybe some Han cavalry would cross the Gonglu River and reach the foot of Guyan Mountain to question the Chanyu.
Therefore, as soon as the team leader announced the situation, the entire Han cavalry immediately entered a combat state.
Everyone has already reined in their horses and is ready to mount and charge at any time to chase down the enemies who come into sight.
After a while, the team leader lowered his raised arm and said to everyone: "It's time to lift the alert. It's a business trip..."
On this prairie, the most common creature nowadays is business travelers.
Although the Yanchi area is more than two thousand miles away from the Great Wall and lies in front of the Gobi Desert, business travelers of all sizes come from time to time.
These merchants sell and purchase any profitable commodity.
Sometimes he even appears as a human trafficker.
It was these merchants who brought all kinds of good things to various tribes in Munan.
They sold sickles, iron pots, bronzes, cloth, purchased wool, sheepskin, cheese, dried meat and even slaves from China.
Of course, if you have gold or five baht, that would be even better!
Thanks to these merchants, the Han soldiers who were far away from their homeland finally had somewhere to spend their five baht coins.
Whether you spend money to buy some specialties from the Central Plains from a merchant, or go to a certain tribe to have fun, it's all worth it.
This caravan came from the east and soon appeared in the sight of the Han cavalry.
This is a small business trip of average size, with only five or six carriages in total, and the goods they carry are not much, mostly furs and gems.
The leader of the caravan was a stout man riding a brown war horse, with more than a dozen fully armed and crimson-clad guards on his side.
These people look very capable and have good skills in bow and horse.
"It should be the ranger..." Captain thought in his mind.
These days, the Northland Rangers are getting rich!
Nowadays, as long as the rangers in the northern counties have some reputation, they will definitely be hired away by merchants with high salaries.
Become an escort or bodyguard for their caravan.
Protect their property and lives.
Therefore, many smart rangers simply went it alone after making their first pot of gold.
Take your little brother with you, buy a few cheap and sturdy horse-drawn carriages, and hit the road.
In this scene, all the tribes in the south want everything and lack everything.
As long as the furs produced by various ministries are transported back to the Great Wall, the profit will be more than doubled.
If you are lucky or even make one purchase, you can make back all your capital with interest!
It was not because the general protecting the Huns issued an order: all business trips out of the fortress must bring a certain proportion of food, otherwise they are not allowed to leave the fortress, and they are not allowed to trade outside the fortress.
Otherwise, there might be more business travelers in Munan.
There is no way, this area is too vast!
It is almost equivalent to most of the Han Dynasty, with a radius of thousands of miles, where water and grass are prosperous, and birds and animals are prosperous.
This place has countless resources and millions of people.
No businessman will let this place go.
The big man dismounted and walked towards the Han army. He cupped his hands from a distance and said: "Zhang Yuan, a certain northern county, has met you. May I ask you, is this a salt pond?"
The team leader nodded at him and said: "Mr. Zhang, this place is already a salt pond... If you want to trade with the tribes here, sir, please go a hundred miles south along the salt pond, where the city of Suining is..."
Since Wang Shi launched the offensive against Mu Nan in accordance with the holy order, no one knows about the other things.
But one thing has become true. Under the iron heel of the King of the Han Dynasty, all the tribes in the southern part of the tent bowed their heads and paid homage to the Holy Emperor of Chang'an. They proclaimed "Long live the Heavenly Chanyu", and then they all adopted "registering households to equalize the people" as the holy system.
The general who protected the Huns in Zhidu not only led his troops to fight against the disobedient people, but also dispatched a large number of capable officials and capable officers to organize the Hu people who had surrendered, returned to justice, and surrendered to the people according to the Chinese system.
However, because this project is so huge, it has been continuously promoted.
For the time being, the Han army's strategy for all the tribes in the southern part of the country was to disperse them, regroup them, and then settle them in the cities chosen by the Han army.
Suining is the largest gathering point near the Yanchi.
Although the city has not yet been built, tens of thousands of tribal herdsmen have gathered here.
Professor Han Jun taught them the technology of digging cellars and fermenting green storage.
At the same time, livestock, dome huts and alfalfa seeds were also distributed to each household.
Every five households are divided into one Jia, and the Qin Dynasty's continuous sitting method is adopted.
If something happens to one household, the other four households cannot escape their involvement.
Shijia was also used as a village, and a village chief was appointed for management. The chiefs were all Hu people who were pro-Han.
A township was also set up in the village. The head of the township was called Youyou, and he was a noble Hu from Guiyi (mainly veterans of the Zhongyong Army and the Loufan Army).
A county was established in the countryside, and the county was called an order. For the time being, General Guan He of the Han family Loufan was responsible for the Suining order.
After several months of management and education, the Hu people in Suining are now basically accustomed to these jurisdictions, systems and laws.
Many people began to learn Chinese and try to communicate with the Han army.
The veterans of the Zhongyong Army and the Loufan Army were jumping up and down from place to place, preaching their "theory of guilt" and "theory of salvation" everywhere.
It deceived countless people, and now every sunrise and sunset in Suining, you can see thousands of people worshiping in the direction of Chang'an, repenting and atonement devoutly.
Not to mention, after such an incident, local order in Suining has been restored, and people's hearts have basically stabilized.
The team leader heard that the captains above were discussing that if the herdsmen in Suining and other urban gathering points in Munan can survive this winter safely, then the rule of the Han in Munan will be as unbreakable as an iron plate.
Got it!
The reason is very simple. Who would oppose a holy king who can make himself full and enjoy a stable life at the same time?
With these things in his mind, Team Leader was in a daze for a moment.
But I heard Zhang Yuandao: "Thank you, Your Excellency... I came here at the request of the general who protected the Xiongnu, and brought four scholars to Suining..."
With that said, four men in Confucian uniforms carrying some simple packages stepped out of a carriage.
They were all around 27 or 28 years old. They looked exhausted, but they were particularly curious about the local environment.
They came forward one by one and introduced themselves.
"Wang Xun of Chu..."
"Qi Ren Zou Xing..."
"Yiyang Pu Yang..."
"Luoyang Zhu Sheng..."
These scholars were quite polite and respected the Han soldiers.
This made the captain feel a little better, so he returned the salute and said: "The captain of the Flying Fox Army, the commander of the left school, Division A, Sima Yang Gong, the captain of the squad, Xianxuan, has met all the Ming Gongs..."
Xianxuan raised his hands to everyone and said: "Since you are protecting the talents sent by General Xiongnu, let me do the escorting duty... It just so happened that our troops were about to return to Suining to report to General Loufan about the journey.
What I saw during my inspection..."
"Then it's up to Captain Xian to take the lead..." Zhang Yuan quickly handed over his hand and said, for him, time is money.
If these four troubles are sent to the destination as soon as possible, he will be able to return one day earlier.
Now is summer, which is the best time to make money.
He must seize the time and make more money. You must know that in order to do this business, he borrowed 100,000 yuan from the Zhu family in the neighboring county. The interest was very high. Once he could not pay back, he would have to sell his life to Zhu.
Home.
After bidding farewell to Zhang Yuan, Xianxuan's troops protected the four Confucian scholars and headed towards Suining.
Unexpectedly, these four Confucian scholars were able to endure hardships and had good riding skills.
Even a veteran of the Flying Fox Army would find it somewhat difficult to travel a hundred miles.
But these four Confucian scholars gritted their teeth and persisted, which made Xianxuan's views on the four of them change somewhat.
At least, these four people are not the legendary soft-legged crabs.
Maybe they can do something in Suining!
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"This is Suining..." After passing through a hilly area, a group of lakes with hundreds of miles of blue waves appeared in the sight of Wang Xun and others.
Here, surrounded by mountains on both sides, the lake is clear, with goshawks soaring and swans flying.
It is truly a paradise on earth.
"Suining was the former residence of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu in Munan. It is a good place as famous as Nanchi..." Xianxuan introduced to them: "General Zhi drove from Changlin and crawled to the north of Suining, so he moved this place to the north of Suining.
Named Suining, which means peace and tranquility..."
"In the future, a city may be built here to accommodate residents, but now..." Xian Xuan said with a smile: "Everyone has seen it... It is basically still a place for Qionglu tents..."
"This will probably be the case in the next few years..."
Wang Xun and others looked at the scenery in front of them and listened to Xian Xuan's introduction, but their hearts were surging and they could not control themselves.
"This is a land given by God..." Wang Xun praised.
"Zhongxiu's place..." Zou Xing's eyes shone and he couldn't help but gear up.
"The next day may be Pyongyang for us..." Yang Pu said in a deep voice.
Zhu Sheng squinted his eyes and looked at the world around him, almost jumping up and cheering. He said: "Xunzi said: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. We should keep Xunzi's teachings in mind, step by step, and walk out of our own style!"
Facts have proved that it was not just one Lu Ru, one Gu Liang, and one Chu Shi who had their eyes on the millions of people in Munan who were waiting for enlightenment and education.
Xunzi's school of thought has already caught wind of this trend and taken action.
Wang Xun and four other people are the elites of Xunzi's school of thought.
Their purpose of coming here is simple. This place is remote enough and far enough to meet their requirements.
The success of the Zajia in Anton inspired all schools of thought that were interested in preaching.
Countless people are thinking of finding another virgin land like Anton to replicate the success of Zajia.
But now, the scene in Suining has confirmed their thoughts.
Although the land of Suining is located outside the Great Wall, it is a barren land.
However, the lakes here are deep and wide, with large and small lakes clustered together and spreading for more than a hundred miles. The lake water is clear and the water plants are prosperous. It is the foundation of a king and hegemony! As long as the Xunzi school of thought takes over this place and takes root, it will be able to radiate thousands of miles to the left and right in the future.
, even affecting the entire Munan.
At that time, there will be one more player in the game where hundreds of schools of thought compete.
