Guzang City is the largest city in Hexi. Although the western half of Liangzhou has long been in a mess, and there have been more than a dozen battles alone, in Guzang City, except for the patrol troops who pass by from time to time, you don't even feel the slightest taste of war.

The people roamed the streets as usual, the vendors were still happily selling their goods, and occasionally there were one or two scoundrels who teased the women of good families, and some thieves openly stole from each other, in short, the people here were rich and comfortable, war, what was that?

Since the Western Han Dynasty to the present, hundreds of years, there has not been a war in Guzang City, no, not even turmoil, Liangzhou has always been the most peaceful boundary in China, even if there is a war, it is basically solved in the periphery, just like 10 years ago the Qin State attacked Zhang Tianxi, who divided Liangzhou, and fought a battle outside, Zhang Tianxi estimated that he couldn't do it, so he surrendered directly.

For the people of Guzang, whoever rules is the same, anyway, this is rich, more taxes and less are like that, and life is still like that, so Lord Jun said that Lu Guang rebelled, and he was going to fight, everyone should follow Lord Jun to fight against the thieves, this is not a feeling for the Guzang people, and you Liang Xi are not our Guzang people? Lu Guang is still a native of Liangzhou, and we are not interested in rebelling or not.

However, there was more or less news about Zhang Tianxi's return and raising troops in Yangwu, but Liang Xi's precautions against Zhang Tianxi were even more Lu Guang, so he cracked down on these rumors and arrested a few people. Although it caused the Guzang people to be quite dissatisfied, it was somewhat suppressed.

Now, Duan Ye and others have found a restaurant to live in and unloaded their things, of course, this century-old car front house has changed owners 3 months ago, and this owner surnamed Li is actually a distant cousin of Duan Ping, needless to say, this is Duan Ye and others' base in Liangzhou.

Now Duan Ye and the others have changed into a dress of gentlemen, and they are strolling around the street with gilded fans, business, naturally they have to do it, but it is understandable to relax by the way.

The planning of Guzang City is well done, the roads are straight and spacious, the houses are tall and neat, the streets are clean and magnificent, in short, among the cities that Duan Ye has seen in this world, Guzang is undoubtedly the first.

"The atmosphere is heroic, the first city in Hexi, and it really lives up to its name!" Duan Ye shook his head and praised, but he didn't expect that he was just expressing his feelings by the way, but someone picked it up.

"This brother, but it's the first time I've come to Guzang!" A teenager who looked two or three years older than the derivative asked.

Duan Ye followed the sound and saw that the top of the young man's head was shaved, but his hair on both sides was pulled into braids, which looked very funny, but his face was clear and beautiful, but his lips were very thin, and he looked slightly sharp.

But he was covered with cowhide equipment, cowhide armor, cowhide handguards, cowhide belt and cowhide boots, and he was not Han at first glance, so Duan Ye had some doubts and said: "Well, brother, it's not wrong for me to come to Guzang for the first time, but my brothers often come to Guzang, well, Guzang City is atmospheric, Guzang people are hospitable and bold, I like it very much!" ”

"You're right!" The man walked up to Duan Ye with a serious face, and glanced at Duan Ye up and down: "You are Han!" ”

"Yes, what's the problem!" Duan Ye was slightly dissatisfied, what happened to the Han people? The Han people have a longer history than you, and the culture is bright and rich, and we have not discriminated against you, so how dare you do it.

And Duan Ping was also quite unhappy. Although Duan Ye didn't give an order, what could he not do? But they're ready to do it.

Anyway, it's not a big deal to get into a fight with a child on the street because of a quarrel.

"No, you're mistaken!" Seeing that Duan Ye and the others had unkind faces, the man said seriously: "I am a Xianbei person, but I admire you Han people very much, I have no malice, I am friendly to you!" ”

It turned out to be a Xianbei person, Duan Ye understood a little, and listened to him. Although the pronunciation is standard, the sentences are a bit stiff, far from being as easy to use as the Han people and those Hu people who have profound Chinese studies.

Duan Ye became interested, and stood on the street regardless of himself and others, and asked with some curiosity: "What do you admire about our Han people?" Can you tell us about it? ”

The young man looked up at the sun and felt that there was still time, so he turned around and said: "After my grandfather's death, I was locked up at home by a few bad relatives for a while, and I had nothing to do, so I had to read in his study, and although they got a lot of books, they were only window dressing, and I didn't read them, so I just started to read, from the Analects of Mencius, to the military books and war strategies, from the rites and music to the Book of Songs, I read a lot of your Han books, and I feel that I have been completely reborn:"

Due to the large city, the large floating population, and all kinds of people and things on the streets, the residents have long been surprised, so no one cares about Duan Ye and others illegally assembling on the street.

And the young man seemed to be interested: "We Xianbei people, riding and archery bravery, you Han people are incomparable, but after reading your book, I found that in the past, there were dog Rong, Bai Di, ghost Fang, Lin Hu, and later there were Xiongnu, and the warriors on the grassland have always been heroes on horseback, and you will definitely not be able to fight in war, but those nations have died out or failed one by one, or simply assimilated by your Han people, we can capture your cities, plunder your wealth, and rob your women." But in the end, our aristocratic lords still have to put on your furniture, put on your silks, speak your language proudly, read your poems and books elegantly, I think about it, I can't figure out why? But these seem to be taken for granted, you say, shouldn't I have great admiration for you Han people! ”

What the young man said made Duan Ping listen leisurely, it turned out that his own nation was so powerful! Isn't this the legendary soldier who does not surrender to the people, so the eyes of the young man are much friendlier.

But Duan Ye was very, very surprised, he didn't expect that a person who was about the same age as the derivative could have such insight, what he just said, to put it bluntly, wasn't it the cultural advantage of the farming people over the nomads?

The farming nation takes agriculture as the foundation, the land as the maintenance, and the clan as the link, from the home to the country, all take the land as the gathering, the river as the source, and the nature is conservative, and the limit of general expansion is to the natural dividing line between the forest and the grassland, and the Central Plains Dynasty has always been based on agricultural civilization, plus the later Son of Heaven and scholars shared the world, and it has formed a cultural tradition of reading and farming as the top, and being a soldier and doing business.

The nomads on the grassland, due to the harsh natural conditions, chase water and grass, have no fixed residence, so they live by riding and plundering, and do not care about the territory, and because they often face the danger of life, the grassland people are generally good at conquest, and the cavalry is almost unstoppable, and the Central Plains Dynasty is often not an opponent due to the lack of horses and the limitation of folk customs.

But? The Central Plains Dynasty always repaired the city, fixed the defense, and always ensured that although the cavalry on the grassland could go south to plunder, it was difficult to completely subvert the Central Plains Dynasty, and on the contrary, the culture of the Central Plains, the customs of the Central Plains could always be introduced into the grassland through means such as harmony and trade. It is not far from defeat, gradually, the Central Plains Dynasty will let them live the life of the Han people through a combination of soft and hard, swords and infiltration, once they get used to eating rice and housing, once they begin to move south, a nation will be finished.

This is the power of civilization, moisturizing things silently, but almost invincible, the backbone of the Han nation is poetry and books, is words, is clothing, never need to remember, never forget.

Of course, the vacated grassland will not be empty forever, Donghu was wiped out, there were Xiongnu, part of the Xiongnu scourge of the Roman Empire, part of the Xianbei after the south, in short, the desert north and desert south grassland, there will never be a shortage of new heroes.

Duan Ye looked at the young man silently, and he also calmly looked at Duan Ye, Duan Ye read his admiration for Han civilization from his eyes, but more vigilant and unyielding.

"You're right!" Duan Ye finally spoke: "You can see these clearly, it's really rare, the Han people have countless erudite Confucianism, and they may not be able to see it so thoroughly, brother, you are not a mortal!" ”

"Neither are you!" The young man said immediately.

"Oh!" Duan Ye was a little curious: "How can you see it!" ”

"There's no reason, it's just intuition!" The young man smiled slightly, approached, and stretched out his hand: "I am willing to make you a friend!" ”

Duan Ye stretched out his hand to high-five him with a little dizziness: "Bang", the two looked at each other and smiled.

But Duan Ye is about to say a few words? The young man actually waved his hand and said, "I still have something to do, so I'll leave first!" ”

Duan Ye came back to his senses at this time, what is this, after chatting for a few words, he said that he was a friend, and he didn't leave his name before leaving: "Hey, what's your name?" ”

"You'll know when you turn around, you'll see you again if you have a fate!" The young man had already laughed and walked away, leaving Duan Ye to look at his back a little stupidly.

"Ahem, host!" Duan Ping came over a little embarrassed and said, "This person, is it a little strange?" ”

Duan Ye was also a little embarrassed, just chatting with people on the street for so long, it was really not good, didn't he look at the little derivative holding his arms and looking at himself impatiently.

"This person ...... Probably not mortal! If you can meet them in the future, you should pay attention! Duan Ye said seriously.

"Yes!" Duan Ping arched his hand.

If Duan Ye knew who this person was, he would probably risk killing people on the street, and he would have to eliminate this hidden danger in time.