It only took the caravan seventeen days to reach Chang'an City.
After finding an open space to set up camp outside the city, each detachment carried out material supplies based on the losses along the way. Huang Xiaoshi went to Chang'an City with a handwritten letter written by Master Yang.
It is really troublesome to travel far in this era. You must have a handwritten letter indicating where you are starting from and why you need to go somewhere else, and then have the government stamp it for confirmation along the way.
Without such procedures, they will be regarded as refugees.
Regardless of the fact that refugees are everywhere now, in fact they are not protected by the government. Not to mention their personal property, even if they are injured and killed, their death is in vain.
This is one of the reasons why most refugees are beggars. Even if you were not a beggar when you fled, you will automatically become a beggar after you escape halfway.
Therefore, those who have some connections and can think of ways will try their best to find a relative to seek refuge with.
Don't worry about whether you can take refuge here, at least keep your identity as a "good citizen".
However, there are some categories of people who do not need this procedure.
The first type of people are readers.
As long as one has a reputation, even a scholar can use "study tour" as an excuse to wander around without restriction.
Therefore, many people like to wear scholar clothes when walking around. Whether they have fame or not is another matter. As long as they look presentable, they can avoid a lot of troubles along the way.
The second type of people are monks and Taoists. As long as they have an ultimatum, they can travel all over the world. But getting a ultimatum is much more difficult than getting a road.
The last category of people is the martial arts people.
Don't get me wrong, people in the martial arts world don't have any privileges. It's just that everyone in the martial arts world is talented, and they are the kind that the court doesn't want to control, and can't control even if it wants to.
Besides, people in martial arts circles don’t need the court to protect themselves. Everyone is out to do chivalry and righteousness. If they don’t even have the ability to protect themselves, what else can they do?
The above three categories are not included in the Shennong Baicaomen. No matter how talented Huang Xiaoshi is, he can only go to the city to complete the formalities.
Sending letters or directions does not refer specifically to a certain yamen, as long as the ins and outs can be explained clearly. Therefore, Huang Xiaoshi needs to go to the Arsenal Department.
Every time he went in and out of Sichuan, he had to pass through Chang'an City, and Huang Xiaoshi was already very familiar with Chang'an.
However, Huang Xiaoshi was shocked when he entered the city.
"Why is it so messy?"
I really don't blame Huang Xiaoshi for making such a fuss. If the streets of Luoyang are full of beggars, then Chang'an is a beggar's den.
I saw several layers of beggars sitting paralyzed on Chang'an Avenue wherever the sun and wind sheltered them. It seemed that Luoyang was only affected by the spillover effect from Chang'an, and Chang'an was the hardest-hit area.
At the entrance of the Arsenal.
Compared with the crowded Luoyang Gate, the Luoyang Arsenal Gate was really crowded with people coming in and out, and the soldiers guarding the gate didn't even check anyone who came in or out.
This saved Huang Xiaoshi a lot of trouble. He followed others and walked directly into the Arsenal Department.
After entering the Arsenal Department, Huang Xiaoshi didn't know the way. He just followed the people in front of him and didn't know how many doors he passed until Huang Xiaoshi was stopped.
This is the experience summed up by Huang Xiaoshi (pseudo).
"Hey, who are you to get here?" A man who looked like a clerk opened his mouth and yelled at Huang Xiaoshi, "Get out of here quickly, or I'll give you a beating."
The crime of trespassing in forbidden areas.”
"Brother, I came from Luoyang, and this is a letter from Mr. Yang of Luoyang." Huang Xiaoshi nodded and bowed to the clerk.
The clerk was dubious, but after opening the letter in Huang Xiaoshi's hand, he saw the bottom of it a few times. After seeing the official seal of the Luoyang Arsenal Department, the clerk called Huang Xiaoshi, "Follow me," and then took Huang Xiaoshi with him.
Xiaoshi passed through several doors and courtyards and came to a hall.
"Just wait here." After the clerk said to Huang Xiaoshi, he turned around and took the letter to the hall.
Alas, it is really "the door is difficult to enter, the face is ugly, and the things are difficult to do."
Huang Xiaoshi took advantage of this and skipped the outermost floors. If he started chatting from the doorman, he would not be able to finish this thing all day long.
Just as Huang Xiaoshi stood outside the hall, after studying the green buds that had just sprouted on the two big trees over and over for a long time, he finally finished the book.
The clerk handed the letter to Huang Xiaoshi. Huang Xiaoshi took a look and found that in addition to the seal of Chang'an, there was also the word "quickly go" at the end of the letter.
This is settled.
However, Huang Xiaoshi didn't know what the "quickly" at the end of the hand letter meant, so with a flattering smile on his face, he asked the clerk: "Brother, please ask again. This 'quickly' means."
What's the meaning of 'go'?"
When the clerk heard this, he hurriedly said a few words to Huang Xiaoshi, turned around and left.
"Brother, brother, let me ask you again, where are you going from?" When Huang Xiaoshi came back to his senses, the clerk seemed to have practiced Qinggong and had already gone a long way.
Oops, what a bad habit.
Huang Xiaoshi couldn't pursue him, so he had to find someone to ask for directions several times before he walked out of this maze-like Arsenal Department.
Standing at the door of the Arsenal Department, Huang Xiaoshi recalled the two sentences the book office said.
"Go quickly. I'm telling you to go quickly. Don't you know the latest military order? The imperial army has just conquered Wuwei and is marching towards Ganzhou.
Mr. Wu is very satisfied with the speed at which you came from Luoyang. This is the word 'go quickly' written by him in his own hand."
Oh, and there are such good things.
With the word "quickly go" written by Lord Wu of Chang'an, Huang Xiaoshi could go straight to Ganzhou without any further delay.
But, is it still necessary to go to Ganzhou now?
According to the speed of information transmission in this era, the battle report received here about the front line was at least half a month ago.
Taking into account this time difference and the time it took for the caravan to reach Ganzhou, needless to say, the imperial military line has definitely pushed through Ganzhou and may have occupied Jiayu.
There is a saying that defeat is like a mountain falling.
In the confrontation stage, it often lasts for a long time, but once the winner is determined, it will be devastating in an instant.
The Nomadic Tribe, or the Tianlong Sect, is defeated.
Oh, give me a hammer medicine, you guys don’t need it anymore.
Huang Xiaoshi still didn't know how to break the news to Ji Wushuang.
Alas, the Dragon King was still playing slow after all. The battle was at its most strenuous before he realized that he didn't have enough supplies. No matter how hard he rushed, he couldn't win.
Of course, this shipment still has to go. After all, there are still a thousand pieces of goods from the imperial court to be sent, which cannot be ignored. There are also so many private goods that I have brought with me, and the brothers are all waiting to share the money.
After returning to the caravan, Huang Xiaoshi did not hide anything from Ji Wushuang. He directly told Ji Wushuang the new news about the war ahead.
As expected, Ji Wushuang, who was originally waiting for Huang Xiaoshi to come back from work and take her to visit Chang'an City, immediately lost her expression after hearing the news, and naturally had no interest in going shopping.
"Husband, the one who has the temple before the battle is considered to be the winner must be counted as more; the one who has the temple as the loser before the battle is counted as the less; the more is the winner, the less is the loser, and what is more, nothing is counted."
These few sentences have clearly explained the importance of pre-war planning.
Some people often joke and say, "It takes three years for scholars to rebel." In fact, there is another sentence after this sentence, "Success must be achieved."
As for the battle in the Western Region, it was a battle of overcalculation and deception.
The imperial court had been planning this battle for many years. However, neither the tribes of the Western Regions nor the Tianlong Sect could understand the various actions of the imperial court at all. They would even think that the imperial court was extremely weak and easier to bully, so they went crazy towards the imperial court.
Expanding in the southeast direction.
Now, the dividends received from the expansion that year must be paid out with interest.
Not to mention the tribes in the Western Regions. After losing a large number of troops, they were driven out of the Hexi Corridor by the imperial army. In the past, they were threshing grain and grass every year, and their attacks were getting deeper and deeper into the Central Plains. When I escaped this time, I wanted to find a way out of the Central Plains.
It has also become further away.
After being chased and beaten fiercely by the imperial army, many tribes either disappeared or surrendered to the imperial court. The remaining tribes were not unwilling to surrender, but wanted to surrender to the imperial court.
After all, if you do it once, you can't do it a second time.
The Tianlong Sect, which expanded together with the tribes in the Western Regions, also suffered a major blow this time.
Originally, the Tianlong Sect was actually just a sect, and it was not like this. It suffered because of its rapid expansion.
When it was in great shape, the tentacles of the Tianlong Sect expanded from nomadic tribes to Han villages. However, compared with the tribes, which were still blank in terms of religion, the religion of the Han people has been highly developed through thousands of years of development and inheritance.
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When the Tianlong Sect was preaching, it encountered great resistance.
Originally, the Tianlong Sect adopted a slow infiltration method and gradually developed believers in Han villages. However, seeing that the nomadic tribes were almost running to the edge of Lanzhou as the threshing grass penetrated deeper, the Dragon King couldn't bear it anymore.
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Next, the Tianlong Sect adopted the most radical alternative of "either my brother or the enemy". Sure enough, they took down all the villages that could not be pushed back at once.
The Dragon King also knew that this rapid expansion of power would definitely bring about some problems, but he believed that these small conflicts were not big and could be suppressed.
It's true, the power of the Tianlong Sect can indeed suppress these minor conflicts.
But the premise for this is that the nomadic tribes penetrated deep into the northwest, posing a great existential threat to Han villages.
Youdao means that people have to bow their heads when they are under the roof. Converting to a Protestant religion is not a big deal.
However, as the imperial army conquered the Western Regions and the Nomads were completely defeated, these followers who had originally joined the Tianlong Sect under coercion suddenly turned against them.
All kinds of evil deeds of the Tianlong Sect were revealed, and the number one charge turned out to be "disrespect".
The villagers cried to the official An and said that the people of the Tianlong Sect did not respect heaven and earth.
To be fair, although the Tianlong Sect was more violent when they joined the religion, it treated the Central Plains cultists a lot more preferentially. However, sometimes, just like the problem Gong Guangjie encountered, many things in this world are really not
A matter of pure interest.
Whether it's life habits or thinking inertia, these are things that cannot be solved by interests.
There is a saying that when a drum is broken, thousands of people beat it, and when a wall falls, everyone pushes it down.
With the defeat of the nomadic tribe, the Tianlong Sect has suffered a great loss in strength and has lost all the territory it has opened up over the years.
Many of the church members who had developed in the local area, as well as some who stayed voluntarily, were subjected to extremely harsh liquidation, and their roots were dug up.
The most direct consequence of this is that the connection between the Tianlong Sect and the Central Plains has been severed for a long time.
Therefore, what Ji Wushuang didn't know at all was that the order she received to transport drugs was issued three months ago and had expired when she received it.
The imperial court has been preparing for this battle for many years and has considered all aspects.
From the day the imperial court cut off the trade routes, these tribes, which had been relying on the Central Plains for decades to support themselves, and whose population had expanded to the point where nomads were no longer self-sufficient, were doomed.
In the final analysis, war is all about logistics and material production and reserve capabilities.
The Nomadic Tribe, which seems to be extremely powerful in recent years, like the Tianlong Sect, has become increasingly unstable over the years.
Perhaps, this is a difficult dilemma for the nomadic department.
I often hear some tribes say proudly: "XX is no more than ten thousand, but if there is more than ten thousand, it is invincible."
In fact, these tribes collapsed after population expansion.
The upper limit of the nomadic population carrying capacity is very low, and it is greatly affected by the weather.
If you want the population to grow rapidly, you need the support of agriculture.
But once they accept farming, they are no longer called nomads. Even if they are half farmers and half herders, they have lost their greatest advantage-mobility.
For the Central Plains court, an unsolvable dilemma is that once a certain nomadic tribe is expelled from the Central Plains, they will gradually become stronger. One day, after accumulating enough strength, they will break in again and bring greater success.
Big damage.
The irreconcilable contradiction between nomadism and farming, mobility and self-sufficiency will exist for a long time. It will not be until the war model changes and the cavalry loses its advantage in field control that the tug-of-war between nomadism and farming will be completely broken.
Now, it is the turn of the Central Plains court to become stronger.
It is true that the situation is stronger than the people. The Northern Expedition launched by the emperor can be said to be a force that defeats a hundred tricks.
The Northern Expedition not only expelled the Nomads, but also stopped the Tianlong Sect from infiltrating into the Central Plains. More importantly, Bai Jiuchi had been planning a plan for King Cheng for several years, but one of his thighs was cut off by the emperor with a single sword.
As long as the imperial court reoccupies Jiayu, it doesn't care what your thoughts and plans are. You can only eat sand and drink the northwest wind outside the pass.
It was such a waste of time that even Huang Xiaoshi couldn't help but applaud the emperor. It wasn't to applaud others, but because he had grasped this opportunity so accurately.
However, Huang Xiaoshi had a vague feeling that the original "history" did not seem to be like this.
What kind of "pre-plot" changes have occurred that caused the Northern Expedition, which was supposed to be a tug-of-war, to end in less than two years until the Nomadic Ministry sent Princess Weini as an apology and begged the emperor to marry him in reverse?
The Nomadic Department was destroyed.
What Huang Xiaoshi didn't know was that he actually helped cut off one of King Cheng's thighs.
What Huang Xiaoshi didn't know was that King Cheng's second leg was also cut off by his own people.
The person who took out the sword this time was Gong Guangjie.
On the last day of vacation, my friend took me to see Azolla.
After reading it, I cried, really.
Very, very uncomfortable, really.
It took me more than three fucking hours. Isn’t it great to code?