Chapter 390: The few beneficiaries of the Qiang chaos
Although it was very hot in the papermaking workshop on a summer afternoon, every craftsman inside was busy with the process at hand in an orderly manner, repeating it again and again, as if not feeling tired at all, and regardless of the sultry heat in the room that caused sweating.
The beads kept dripping, until finally, it felt like I had just taken a shower, my whole body was wet, even if I was only wearing single clothes that were convenient for working,
Cao Shuang asked the craftsman who was busy using the movable bamboo curtain to salvage the wet paper: "You can also stop and rest for a while before working again. It's not a waste of time!"
The craftsman did not stop, but said with a smile: "The Prime Minister treats his servants well. Now he can even eat some meat every three days, and his family also gives money and food every month, so that the whole family of servants and waiters are free of charge."
Suffering from hunger and cold,
How can I not try my best to do something for the Prime Minister? Besides, if I make more paper, maybe my grandchildren will be able to read in a few years! If it was during the Qiang Rebellion a few years ago,
I dare not think about this."
Cao Shuang nodded and said with emotion: "What you said is right. After all, only a few people benefited from the Yellow Turban and Qiang Rebellion, and the people all over the world suffered, especially those in the Yongliang land. They experienced a lot of prosperity and endured a lot of suffering.
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At the end of October in the first year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turban uprising was defeated, and the Eastern Han Dynasty temporarily stabilized the situation.
But a greater catastrophe unfolded in the northwest area, with the Western Qiang rebellion. Many tribes of the Western Qiang lived in the Hehuang area for a long time, and fought a hundred-year-long war with the Eastern Han Dynasty. Such a long time made the Eastern Han Dynasty exhausted.
When the Western Qiang tribes were strong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, they often fought against each other internally to compete for resources. The Eastern Han Dynasty once defeated the Western Qiang tribes and placed them outside Chang'an, dominated by Beidi County. This was an obvious way to attract wolves into the house.
But once the Eastern Han Dynasty's national power weakened, the Western Qiang tribes began to join forces to cause chaos in the northwest area of Longxi, Wudu, and the Hanyang border.
When the Yellow Turban Uprising occurred, the world was in chaos.
The tribes of the Western Qiang began to rebel again. Due to the Yellow Turban rebellion, the Xianling Qiang in the North united with the Huangzhong Qiang and followed Hu Beigong Boyu to gather a crowd to rebel.
These people supported Hu Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou of Huang Zhongyi as commander-in-chief.
In Liangzhou, Jincheng County, the Song Dynasty was founded. The kingdom took advantage of the situation and responded. In the name of surrendering the city, it paid homage to Bian Yun, the order of Xin'an, and engaged two people in Han Yue.
Han Yue and Bian Yun went to Jincheng County under the persuasion of the prefect Chen Yi.
Song Jian and the Kingdom took advantage of the situation to detain Bian Yun, Han Yue, and dozens of followers around them, escorted the two people to the Qiang camp, and successfully bribed the two people.
These two people were quickly labeled as "traitors" at that time, and the Longxi region issued a notice to capture these two people and create the title of Qianhuhou.
The two of them changed their names to Bian Zhang and Han Sui. With the support of the Western Qiang tribes, they took full charge of the war in Xiliang and became one of the most prominent figures in Liangzhou, disrupting the overall situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
A discerning person will see that this is not a Qiang rebellion at all. The entire northwest border area has formed a group to betray the country!
During the Han Dynasty, the Han general Deng Xun reorganized the Yuezhi in Huangzhong, and the fierce warriors of the Hu tribes in Lushui served as Yicon. This reorganized army was also called the Yiconhu in Huangzhong.
Later, most of these people were filled with a large number of Han army elites, so they were still Han Chinese in nature.
Looking at Bian Zhang again, Han Sui and others colluded with the Qiang people to cause rebellion without any resistance. You must know that they are not ordinary people. They are a relatively prestigious family in the northwest region. They will not be reduced to having nothing to wear or nothing to wear. The food is edible.
But it was the soldiers and wealthy families in these places who had no moral integrity at all. They took advantage of the chaos to raise troops and plundered the wool in the last days of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Under the leadership of Bian Zhang and Han Sui, these people were well versed in the northwest region and soon advanced the front to Longxi.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty hurriedly ordered the dispatch of commander-in-chief Huangfu Song and Zhonglang General Dong Zhuo to pacify Chang'an and defend the ancestral tombs.
Huangfu Song soon met the same fate as Lu Zhi in the Chang'an area. Both of them hated eunuchs, but the eunuchs often used the opportunity to suppress them.
Not long after he put down Chang'an, he was ordered to be replaced by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and he was asked to leave Chang'an.
Human beings are always very entangled. If you don’t bow to power, you won’t even have a chance to be loyal to your country!
So, how can there be any absolute good people, and how can there be any absolute bad people?
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty again ordered the chariot generals Zhang Wen and Jinwu Yuan Pang to be the chief and deputy commanders respectively. Under their jurisdiction were the Polu general Dong Zhuo and the Dangqi general Zhou Shen, commanding more than 100,000 infantry and cavalry combined arms. Toward Chang'an.
After these more than 100,000 combined troops arrived in Chang'an, the army was stationed in Meiyang City.
In Bianzhang, Han Sui took advantage of the situation to launch an attack and rushed towards Meiyang City. Zhang Wen and Dong Zhuo led their troops to fight, but the battle was unfavorable and they defended Yingcheng.
In November of 184 AD, a meteor suddenly appeared in the sky over Chang'an, and the light shone on Bianzhang. Han Sui set up camp. The donkeys and horses in the camp were stunned and roared day and night.
The more these two people thought about it, the more something was wrong. They always felt that it was unlucky and prepared to evacuate the outskirts of Meiyang City and return to Jincheng County.
This news soon reached Dong Zhuo's ears, and he and Bao Hong immediately ordered to pursue the retreating troops.
In Bianzhang, Han Sui was still retreating when an army suddenly came from behind. Unprepared, they were defeated by Dong Zhuo and Bao Hong, with more than a thousand soldiers lost. In the chaos, the two of them led their troops to flee. Yuzhong.
In this battlefield in the northwest, two people who will be relatively strong in the future have emerged. They will both play extremely important roles in the future war game.
News of Dong Zhuo's great victory in pursuit reached the ears of the northwest commander Zhang Wen, who immediately issued a new combat mission: Dong Zhuo led 30,000 troops to attack the Western Qiang tribes, and Zhou Shen led 30,000 troops to continue to defeat the northwest rebel army. .
Zhou Shen took the lead in sending out troops. Before he sent out troops, Sun Jian, an officer under Zhang Wen, volunteered and led 10,000 men to rush to Bianzhang. Han Sui's rear wing cut off his food route.
When Zhou Shen heard this, he asked, "Who are you? It's your turn to speak here? What's your identity? How can you get the dignity of being given more than 10,000 people?"
Zhou Shen rebuffed this young man who knew nothing about the world. This 29-year-old young man faced abuse from his boss for the first time in the northwest workplace. He has no real strength and it is impossible to make a name for himself in this land. , Sun Jian knew at that moment that he must have soldiers in his hands.
In troubled times, it is better to have soldiers under your command than to have power in your hands! Zhou Shen led an army of 30,000 troops and approached Bianzhang. Han Sui's camp surrounded Yuzhong City.
But Zhou Shen would not have thought that when his army approached Yuzhong, Bian Zhang and Han Sui had already divided their troops and stationed part of their troops in Kuiyuan narrow.
Kuiyuanzhao is located on the west wing of Yuzhong City, which also means that Zhou Shen's grain transportation route will be seriously affected. After receiving this battle report, Zhou Shen ordered the baggage trucks to be abandoned and retreat immediately to prevent these two guys from taking the back route.
The 30,000-strong army retreated without a fight and returned to Bian Zhang. Han Sui sent a wave of assists! Zhou Shen failed in pursuit, and Dong Zhuo began to suffer misfortune.
When his army attacked the Xianling Qiang, they were besieged in the north of Wangyuan. Their food and grass began to be cut off, and they were in a dilemma. Dong Zhuo wanted to retreat, but it was not easy to retreat smoothly.
He had no choice but to order the soldiers to spread the news crazily nearby that we were starting to run out of food and could only make a living by fishing.
After the news was released, Dong Zhuo boldly built a dam on the bank of the Weishui River and prepared to cross the Weishui River to withdraw his troops.
Xianling Qiang really thought that Dong Zhuo was building embankments to fish because of lack of food, so they didn't take it to heart.
Unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo, a dramatist, immediately ordered everyone to cross the river quickly after the embankment was completed, and at the same time destroyed the newly built embankment.
The Qiang soldiers realized something was wrong and immediately led their troops over to check. Dong Zhuo's army had safely crossed the Wei River, and the embankments had been destroyed long ago, so they could not cross the river to pursue them.
This time Dong Zhuo's entire army retreated safely. Although the attack failed, the army was unscathed. For his merits, he was awarded the title of Marquis of the Countryside and was granted the title of a Thousand Households. The powerful appearance of this northwest warrior officially opened the final prelude to the troubled times!