Although he was angry in his heart, Zheng Pu still gave a satisfactory answer to the Zhang family in Dunhuang.
Everything depends on the authority. In order to preserve more of the war background for the big man, it is better to be confused about some small details.
However, the principled bottom line must still be adhered to.
Before making the promise, Zheng Pu emphasized one point: if the Han army's frontline points towards the Hexi Corridor, the Dunhuang Zhang family will not send a single soldier out of Dunhuang or Xihai County.
Whether it is to send troops to deal with it in order to avoid the criticism of secular loyalty, or to provide food and supplies for the sake of personal friendship with others.
In this regard, the messenger made a promise without thinking.
Being able to be appointed as an envoy, he is not only Zhang Jiu's confidant, but also more familiar with the matter of flies and dogs.
For example, the Zhang family in Dunhuang did not want to join forces with other Hexi governors to resist the Han army, so he had an idea as soon as he heard what Zheng Pu said.
At that time, if Yang Fu or Huang Hua and others invite the Zhang family to send troops, the Zhang family only needs to secretly instruct several powerful people in the county or small Qiang and Hu tribes to pretend to be horse thieves who take advantage of the situation to plunder, and then they can use the excuse of guarding the county and bringing peace to the people.
Others can't comment. In fact, the Zhang family can still secretly ask several small countries in the Western Regions to send troops to wander outside Yumen Pass or Yangguan, pretending to be knocking at the pass.
Is it solved?
If the heart has its own desires, there is no need to worry!
Naturally, in order to thank the Han for abiding by the agreement between the two parties, he also vowed that after returning, he would advise Zhang to seal the county and county mansions and warehouses, so that when the Han army arrived in Dunhuang County, he would lead the common people to "eat pots of pulp to welcome the king"
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After seeing off Zhang Jiu's envoy, Zheng Pu received the envoy from Lu Shuihu.
It was an old man with a face full of ravines, a thin body, a gray and unkempt beard, and cloudy and dull eyes, which made people worry about whether he could survive this year's cold winter.
The most eye-catching thing is undoubtedly his deeply curved back.
I don’t know whether it was bent by the years or by years of oppression by the Wei State.
How evil is it to send such an old person to serve as an envoy? Lu Shuihu has already declined?
As soon as he saw the appearance of the envoy, Zheng Pu was shocked. When the soldier who led the way told him his name, even Zhuge Qiao, who had already cultivated his energy and seemed to be unfazed by honor and disgrace, couldn't help but sigh.
He is Ekin's concubine!
In the first year of Zhangwu (the second year of Wei Huangchu), he was one of the leaders of Lushuihu in Hexi who gathered tens of thousands of people and rebelled against Wei.
Although he is not yet fifty years old, his appearance already has the look of death.
However, if you think about the fact that Zhiyuan, another leader who was similar in age to him and had raised an army, died of illness so long ago, there is no need to feel too much.
When I was in the Han Dynasty, I always respected the elderly.
Zheng Pu and Zhuge Qiao, who were a little sentimental, took the lead in setting up a table and helping Yi Jian sit down, one on the left and the other on the right.
However, after the two of them returned to their seats, Ekin the prostitute stood up and bowed to the ground, crying like an old owl in the mountains.
It also made Zheng Pu and Zhuge Qiao look at each other.
The ethnic origins of the Lushuihu tribe are too mixed, and their language is quite strange. It is neither Qiang nor Xiongnu.
They had only a brief understanding of the Qiang language and had no idea what was being said.
In desperation, he had to stand up again to avoid the old man's salute, and quietly waited for Ekin and the concubine to finish crying, and then listened to the translation by the army guide.
Listened for a while.
In the intermittent words of Yi Jian, Zheng and Zhuge roughly understood what Lu Shuihu wanted here.
Lushuihu is the collective name given by the Han people to the many small Qianghu tribes that thrive in the Lushui River Basin (mainly concentrated in the three counties of Libei, Fanhe and Xianmei).
Initially, this was due to the fact that the various tribes were not united at first, so they were often treated unfairly when the government conquered horses, cattle and sheep supplies and competed for pasture lands. Later, because Dong Zhuo's rebellion caused the world to fall out of order, the government was unable to control counties.
In order to protect themselves, they began to huddle together for warmth.
When Cao Pi took over the Han Dynasty, the right-wing lords of the counties in Hexi took advantage of the situation to separatist forces. When the Yongliang and Wei troops suppressed the rebellion, they intensified the recruitment of the people of Lushui and Hu people, causing them to unite with the people of the three counties to rebel and capture Wuwei County.
However, their good times did not last long.
In other words, Lu Shuihu, who had little literature and little knowledge, was simply unable to resist the Wei army's attack.
At that year, Wei Wen Cao Pi appointed the famous minister Zhang Ji as the governor of Liangzhou and led the army to fight against the rebellion.
Zhang Ji, who knew the situation well, not only successfully crossed the river with the plan of making a sound to the east and attacked the west; he also used military skills and speed, and was very decisive and did not wait for Xia Houru's army to arrive, so he led the general Fei Yao and Cheng Gongying, who joined the army, to drive to Xianmei County.
The plan of false defeat defeated Lu Shuihu's main force of more than 7,000 cavalry, and Lu Shuihu was unable to recover from the fall.
Because the subsequent governors of Liangzhou or the prefects of Wuwei all used the past as a lesson to adopt high-pressure policies against Lu Shuihu.
For example, today the Lushuihu tribes are isolated from each other by the government and are constantly monitored by soldiers and horses. The supplies and corvees collected every year are twice as much as those of other Qianghu tribes.
The euphemistic name means that it makes Lu Shuihu unable to rebel again!
In fact, Wei State did it.
Having been deprived of their pastures and expropriated by extortionate expropriations, all members of the Lu Shuihu tribe were suffering from hunger and cold, and it was difficult to maintain food and clothing.
Forced to make a living, it also ushered in disintegration.
In order to survive, many people chose to herd sheep and horses for Haoyou, or even became apprentices to their families.
Ekin's concubine, who was defeated and surrendered, is no longer the leader.
In other words, under the strict surveillance and vigilance of the government, Lu Shuihu had no possibility of giving birth to a leader.
Now that the Wei army has withdrawn from Hexi, Lu Shuihu has been able to unite again. With Yi Jian's former prestige and reputation, everyone elected him as an envoy to seek help from the Han army to get rid of the predicament of oppression - Ruo Han Junbing
Heading west, they will gather all the young men in the tribe who can wield swords and spears to be the vanguard of the Han army!
After the Han army regained the Hexi Corridor, they could return the former pastures and acres to them, and less material and corvee levies were required.
Don't ask for special treatment based on the merits of the expedition, but just ask for no more than other Qiang and Hu tribes.
Such cooperation conditions are very fair to the Han army.
It can even be said to be humble.
Perhaps, in Lu Shuihu's impression, the difference between the Han army and the Wei army was not big.
After all, in the second half of Yi Jian's life, she was oppressed by Cao Wei; in the first half of her life, she was in power when Emperor Ling was in power with corrupt officials and endless wars in the world, when the Qiang rebellion in Liangzhou was at its fiercest and their bones were exposed in the wild.
However, Zheng Pu, who listened carefully and pondered for a while, did not intend to do what Lu Shuihu wanted.
It was not the stubbornness to believe that "those who are not of our race must have different hearts", nor was it the lack of people's hearts. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Han army's recovery of the Hexi Corridor to be a foregone conclusion, he appealed to Lu Shuihu Yu who was at the end of his road.
But he didn't want Lu Shuihu to stay in the land west of Hexi.
It doesn't take much thinking to know that every tribe in this tribe, which has been oppressed by Wei, is willing to do their best to "expedition to the north to defeat Wei and conquer the Central Plains."
And he has to take into account the overall situation.
Let Lu Shuihu stay in Hexi and treat him well, which will inevitably lead to turmoil in the future.
