Just as everyone was moving forward slowly, Gai Yin suddenly asked Yan Zhong a question that had been bothering him for a long time. He asked: "Hanyang is far away from Anping, and there are many strongmen on the way. I see Shibo's side.
No one is following me. Could it be that I didn’t bring my bodyguard with me on this trip?"
No wonder Gai Yin asked this question. After all, this is Liangzhou. There are not only Han people, but also Qiang people and Huns. It can be said that the entire Liangzhou is a place where various ethnic groups live together. It is a place with more frequent wars than Bingzhou.
Borderland!
You must know that Bingzhou is in chaos, but there is still order. After all, Bingzhou has the Wang family, a native emperor, and Taiyuan, Shangdang, Xihe and other southern places are relatively peaceful, with basically no banditry.
Even if they did, they would not dare to act too arrogantly, lest they attract government encirclement and suppression.
But that's not the case in Liangzhou. There aren't any powerful aristocratic families here. Although there are many aristocratic families like the Gai family and the Zhang family, although there are many people serving as officials in the court, they simply cannot bear such an important responsibility due to their own background problems. p>
In addition, Liangzhou is now basically a place where Hu and Han people live together, and this has also spawned many bandits. Therefore, in Liangzhou, if you want to go out alone and travel far, you need to have a certain degree of strength.
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Otherwise, travelers will bear great risks, because you don’t know whether you will encounter bandits or barbarians when you go out.
Fortunately, if you encounter bandits, most of them are basically robbing money. If they catch the children of a wealthy family, they will be afraid and may just let them go.
But if you meet a barbarian, the situation is different. They are not afraid of your origin. They will even raise the price when they know that the other person is of noble origin.
Of course, even so, it would be okay if they can save their lives, but some barbarians are afraid of leaving behind troubles. Not only do they raise prices and collect money for their own use, but they also directly reject it after getting the money.
And this kind of thing accounts for 99% of the cases in Liangzhou. They come and go without a trace, and they can't be found at all. After all, there are too many barbarians. Even a wealthy family cannot be implicated just because one of their own children was killed.
The entire Hu tribe!
They are not stupid either, so in the end they had no choice but to let it go.
It is precisely because of this situation that all people in Liangzhou have developed a habit of taking their trusted followers with them to protect their own safety every time they travel far away.
"Of course I'm not alone, I'm not so stubborn!" Yan Zhong replied to Gai Yin calmly, and then replied: "Although I brought a guard to wait for me on this trip, due to bad luck, the guard died on the way.
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"Uh..."
Hearing this, Gai Yin couldn't help but be stunned for a while. It took him a long time to react. Finally, he couldn't help complaining in his heart and said: "After a long time, you tried your best to invite a few of us to your home because you wanted to have free meals."
Bodyguard!"
However, if Wang Yu knew what Gai Yin was thinking, he would never think so. He intuitively told himself that Yan Zhong's purpose was to get closer to him, although he didn't know why he did this.
Wang Yu is naturally willing to accept Yan Zhong's kindness, after all, the latter's abilities are also very good.
Yan Zhong’s current five-dimensional attributes are: Commander: 70, Force: 58, Intelligence: 92, Politics: 85, Charm: 90;]
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The land of Liangzhou was actually the northwest region of later generations. Even in later generations, the environment was a bit harsh, not to mention the ancient times when the economy and society were not developed.
Along the way, Wang Yu and others passed through deserts, mountains, and hills, and the road conditions were extremely bad. Even if everyone's mounts were BMW horses, they could not run quickly here.
After seeing the situation here, Wang Yu couldn't help but feel that in this inaccessible and inaccessible place, it was the best place to be a bandit, because after killing the ticket, he could just find a place to bury him.
Coming down, it can be said that it is no wonder that the gods are not aware of the ghosts.
However, just because the road was difficult, Gai Xun and Yan Zhong started chatting again without incident, which made Wang Yu's impression of him become more and more profound.
Because Yan Zhong is knowledgeable and knows everything about Liangzhou, he is well-deserved for his title of celebrity. No wonder Han Sui and Ma Teng dragged him along when they rebelled, probably just to expand their influence! p>
The two people started talking about the local customs of Liangzhou, but because the place where Wang Yu and others came this time was the main battlefield where Duan Xi suppressed the Qiang rebellion, they talked about the past events of Ping Qiang.
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On the surface, the Qiang rebellion seems to be a Qiang rebellion, but in fact the water is deep, because it involves all aspects and is a complex political issue.
Once there is a discussion, it will inevitably cause disagreements.
No, during the discussion, the two people's opinions quickly became inconsistent.
The first is Yan Zhong. As a scholar, he is still too naive in some aspects, or takes it for granted.
Take Duan Jue's bloody method of treating the Qiang people as an example. He strongly disagreed with this. Compared with Duan Xi, who killed with iron blood, he admired Huangfu Gui and Zhang Huan more for their recruitment ideas.
In his opinion, since the Qiang people moved to the Han Dynasty, they have been tainted with the customs of the Han people over time. The reason why they have repeatedly surrendered and rebelled, and are so capricious, is because of the treacherous and corrupt officials in the government.
, causing the situation in Liangzhou to get worse and worse.
As long as the imperial court punishes eunuchs, removes corrupt officials, and re-appoints talented and educated high-ranking cadres, as long as these talented and educated people take office in Liangzhou and govern in Liangzhou, it is not necessarily impossible to end chaos with a single word. p>
Moreover, in this case, the price spent by the court will be small. At least, there will be no need for billions of dollars in military spending.
You must know that Duan Xi has spent billions of money since he defeated the Qiang. If converted into horseshoe gold, it would be at least hundreds of thousands of gold. What a price this is.
When he heard Yan Zhong's idea, Gai Xun couldn't help but shake his head. At this point, he, like Duan Xi, advocated killing. Because he had always followed Wang Teng, Gai Xun's idea was not that naive, but
The answer can be found from the actual situation.
In his opinion, punishing the eunuchs and some corrupt officials will not solve the problem of Liangzhou, or even the problems in other states, because the eunuchs are, to put it bluntly, puppets of the emperor and the powerful families seizing power!
Only when the emperor can use him can they have certain power. If, according to what Yan Zhong said just now, he harmed the people of Liangzhou, wouldn't he be the current emperor!
Moreover, even if corrupt officials are removed, the situation in Liangzhou will not be better, I’m afraid.
Scholars have always criticized Duan Xi. On the one hand, it is because he took refuge with the eunuchs and became their minions. On the other hand, he spent more than half of the country's annual taxes in order to quell the Qiang rebellion.
In Gai Xun's view, those scholars were just for their own benefit. After all, the money spent to quell the Qiang rebellion was all obtained by the late emperor from the hands of the aristocratic families.
Duan Xi spent so much money, so they naturally wanted to find trouble with Duan Xi, and this was probably the reason why Duan Xi took refuge with the eunuchs. If the eunuchs had not relied on the emperor's power to protect him, he would have been swallowed up by the scholars. p>
Therefore, it is not without reason that Duan Xi is now at odds with the scholars.
However, as the two of them chatted, after looking at each other, they both shook their heads and sighed, looking at each other in silence.
Because both of them knew that whether they advocated pacification or encirclement and suppression, they actually reached the same goal by different routes, and the purpose was the same, which was to stabilize Liangzhou so that the people could live a peaceful life.
But this is easy to say, but too difficult to do, because if you want to restore stability to Liangzhou and let the people live a peaceful life, the most important thing you need to do is to govern the Qingming Festival, and this is another one.
Easy, but harder to do!
However, if sooner or later the officials fail to govern properly, sooner or later the Qiang people will start another riot because of the unfair treatment they received, and the intensity of the outbreak will only become more and more violent.
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In particular, among the Qiang people now, there is a fierce man like Er Zhurong, with a commander attribute as high as 99. Looking at the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, he can also be ranked among the top three.
At this period, in terms of the attributes of the commander alone, Xianbei's Tan Shihuai was on par with him.
Wang Yu didn't say a word when he heard the two people's views on the Qiang chaos. I'm afraid the two people who were having a heated discussion didn't know that a strong man had been born among the Qiang people and was eyeing the Han Dynasty.
In original history, the Qiang Rebellion has always been an unavoidable topic. Take the fall of the Han Dynasty, many people attribute it to the Yellow Turban Uprising that lit the fuse!
In fact, Qiang chaos is also an important reason.
After all, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the emperor was not a fool, so he naturally carried out some measures, including disbanding the militiamen. Only those who held official positions in the court had their own military power.
However, there were too many remnants of the Yellow Turbans, which led to the rise of the state pastoral system, which gave those local warlords the opportunity to develop and grow.
The Qiang Rebellion gave the original historian Dong Zhuo an opportunity. He relied on quelling the Qiang Rebellion to serve as the governor of Liangzhou, and he developed and expanded in Xiliang, eventually leading to a situation where he could not lose his position.
But the court has to pay for all the causes and effects.
Because the Qiang people were forced by the ruling stage.
The history of the Qiang people is very long.
The earliest Qiang ancestors were active in central China and appeared in modern Shanxi, Shaanxi and even Henan.
But later, they were defeated by merchants and moved westward. Later, Qin Mugong, the strong man of Qin State, drove the Qiang people westward again. This nation finally basically settled in Tibet and Qinghai Plateau, China.
Individual tribes are distributed throughout the Western Regions, Gansu, Yunnan and Sichuan.
With the development of the times, in the Western Han Dynasty, this nation began to appear in the vision of the rulers of the Central Plains.
Because his scale has come out.
By the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were nearly a hundred Qiang tribes of varying sizes.
Some large tribes had a population of more than 500,000 when they were "annexed" in AD 94.
During the reign of Emperor Shun, the total number of rebel Qiang people who could fight exceeded 200,000.
When mentioning the word "enclosed", one has to mention Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The Qiang people were often punished during Emperor Wu's reign, but at that time, all ethnic minorities were bullied by Liu Mengnan, so it is not surprising that the Qiang people were beaten.
When talking about the Qiang people, we have to mention the word "nei" again.
"Inner attachment" is a nice word, but to put it bluntly, it means surrender. I tell you, a big man, that I obey your leadership. I will guard the border for you. Please let me live in your border county.
For the Han Dynasty, the Qiang people's internalization seems to have only benefits at first, just like Liu Xiu's attitude towards the southern Xiongnu later. I will give you a special zone, and then use the barbarians to control the barbarians. If there are any robbers over there, you can fight them. There are a lot of them.
This reduces the pressure from border troubles.
What’s even better is that the Qiang and the Xiongnu are different from the Western Regions. The Xiongnu and the Western Regions still need a lot of yearly coins from the Han, but the Qiang don’t need anything, not even technical help.
As long as the big man gives him a piece of land, he will help the big man guard the border and not cause trouble to the big man.
This kind of foreign troops stationed at the border made the Han Dynasty open to the issue of "Qiang annexation".
As early as the period of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty, the chiefs of the Qiang tribe first requested permission to guard the Longxi frontier fortress.
The request was finally approved by the Han Dynasty, and the tribe was eventually settled in five counties of Longxi County.
But later, the trend of Qiang people's internalization began to fail.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Central Plains was in chaos. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was managing the borders of the Han Dynasty, a large number of Qiang people began to move to the northwest border counties on a large scale.
The land will definitely become more fertile as we go inland, so who doesn’t hope that their location will get better and better!
In 34 AD, when Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu took over Longdi from Kaixiao, he already discovered that there were already a large number of Qiang and Han people living together in this area.
As a hero, Wei Xiao properly handled the problem of coexistence between the Han and Qiang people when he was entrenched in Longdi for a long time. The people of the two ethnic groups had been friends for more than ten years. However, as soon as he was destroyed, it didn't take long for the Qiang people to rebel.
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In 35 AD, under the counter-rebellion of Ma Yuan, a macho man who was accustomed to working miracles with great force, the Qiang rebellion in Longxi was suppressed, and the rebel tribes continued to be settled in Tianshui County and Longxi County, but there were already a small number of Qiang people.
People began to be resettled in the Fufeng area.
For the Han Dynasty, this was an unoptimistic signal because the Qiang people had already entered Guanzhong.
After Wang Mang, Chimei, and Yancen successively caused harm to Guanzhong, huge derivative disadvantages began to appear.
The Sanfu area is thousands of miles fertile and wild, but there is a huge population vacuum. The Qiang people are in the Longxi Plateau, but they have not participated in your chaotic retro chaos at all.
Due to the ebb and flow of the situation, the Liu family's land of Longxing no longer has such a large population to guarantee an absolute advantage.
In AD 94, the Qiang leader of the Dazhi Yi tribe on the border of Shu County led more than 500,000 people of his tribe to surrender to the imperial court. Emperor He of the Han Dynasty appointed Zaotou as the chief of the city and gave him a seal ribbon.
In 107 AD, the Qiang Longqiao and other six tribes outside the boundaries of Shu County surrendered to the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In 108 AD, the Qiang Bo Shen and other eight tribes outside the borders of Shu County surrendered the entire area to the Eastern Han Dynasty.
