Chapter 11 The Sunset on the Long River Section 55 Li Hong's worries were also the worries of the hussar general Xian Yufu, who had written to the imperial court and the general as early as last year, analyzing the situation in the desert in detail, predicting the development of the next few years, and worrying about the prospects of the desert.

It has been sixteen years since the Han Dynasty conquered the desert, and the Xianbei tribes have been given sixteen years of recuperation time, and a generation has grown up, Kirby Xiong, Que Kun, Tuoba Hong, Jia Mo, and Sha Mo Khan are all leaders of the younger generation, and they are the same as Murong Feng and Tuoba Feng back then, and their biggest dream is to dominate the desert and dominate the world like their hero Tanshi Huai.

The older generation on the desert gradually passed away, and Shooting Ink Ci, Micah, and Xiong Ba died one after another, and the Han Dynasty relied on to stabilize the desert, such as Shooting Yingtong, Arc Ding, Abandoning Shen, Tuoba Raccoon, and Splitting Wind, etc., are also gradually aging, these people have not been able to establish enough prestige in the desert for sixteen years because of various reasons such as birth and strength, and have not been able to replace Shooting Ink Ci and others to obtain the powerful strength to suppress the Xianbei tribes.

The wolf smoke on the desert will be lit sooner or later, either Fu Luohan or someone else, the reason is simple, the Xianbei people need to survive.

In recent decades, the climate on the desert has been very harsh, and snowstorms, droughts and other disasters have come one after another, although the Han has tried everything to help them, but this can only solve the urgent need, but not eradicate their existential crisis.

This shadow of death looms over the hearts of the Xianbei people, making them very frightened and very uneasy. They wanted to live, to live better, they wanted to move south, they wanted to cross the Great Wall, they wanted to get a better living environment, but the Han were hesitant about their move south.

In addition to the hatred of generations, what is more important here is the safety of the community, and the safety of the community is, in the final analysis, the survival of the Han people.

The struggle for land for survival is the most fundamental reason why Han and Hu have been fighting each other for hundreds of years. Budugen, Arc Ding, Abandoning the City and others helped the Han attack Hexi at any cost, for what?

Don't you want to move to Hexi, move to the beautiful Qilian Mountain, and seek a better place to live?

For more than ten years, why did Tuoba Tao, Shooting Moci and others obey the Han dialect? Don't you want to get the trust and help of the Han Dynasty, so that more people will gradually move to the south of Yinshan and move to Daijun and Shanggu County to live?

Why did Xiong Ba, Micah and others try their best to encourage Kirby Xiong to travel thousands of miles to help the Han army go on an expedition to Hexi?

If nothing else, I just want to realize Murong Feng's dream one day, so that the Xianbei people can cross the Great Yan Mountain and migrate to a place where they can get rid of the threat of survival.

Xian Yufu reminded the imperial court again and again in the recital that in order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the western and northern Xinjiang, it is far from enough to formulate a proper pacification policy, and the huge cost of building the Great Wall and the Tuntian border is to cure the symptoms rather than the root cause, and the most fundamental way is to solve the problem of the survival of the Hu tribes.

Only by solving their survival and completely freeing them from the threat of death can the western and northern frontiers be stabilized, and the war between Han and Hu, which has lasted for hundreds of years, can be stopped.

Now the current situation of the desert is here. The older generation is dead, the younger generation is growing, and the middle generation is fighting for survival.

Today, we still have the strength to defeat the middle generation of the Hu tribes, but what about the future? In the future, these small generations of the Hu tribes will have to fight for survival, and wolf smoke will still be burning everywhere in the desert, but what about us?

Will our next generation still have the strength to defeat them, as they do now? Are we going back to the old ways and continue to rely on the Great Wall, the mountains and the rivers to defend them, and fight them for generations to come?

"The fundamental reason for the repeated rebellions of the Hu tribes is survival." After Li Hong explained, he said helplessly,

"The result of today's battle is obvious, and in the future, there will be only three overlords of the desert. One is Hexi's Budugen, who is moving the Xianbei tribes in the west to the foot of Qilian Mountain, where the rich pastures and land of the four counties of Hexi will provide them with a steady stream of food, and their survival will be guaranteed. One is Tuoba Tao, after Budu moves to Hexi with the western Xianbei tribes, he can get more grassland, his territory will be expanded many times, and his strength will be even greater. One is Kirby Bear, the southern Xianbei has been split because of the betrayal of Shelong, and the strength has been lost after the war, Danhan Mountain will definitely be annexed because of the betrayal of Fu Luohan, and the eastern Xianbei is also difficult to survive because of the betrayal of Jiamo, but many of these tribes will return to Kirby Bear. In this way, only Kirby Bear is the strongest of the three Xianbei in the east, south, and middle, and he will become the king of the three Xianbei. Li Hong's hand slapped heavily on the map of the case,

"Sixteen years ago, we conquered the desert and divided the Xianbei parts into five major divisions and more than thirty small divisions, completely dispersing their strength, but sixteen years later, the desert has returned to its original state, and it is still the eastern, central and western three major divisions." Li Hong shook his head again and again, the smile on his face was very sad and painful,

"Fengxue once said to me, she said that before Dashuai died, he had instructions to Kirby Bear, Xiongba, Micah and others, saying that Dahan would help the Xianbei people through the difficulties, and that the Xianbei people would one day recapture the desert. His words worked, and only sixteen years later, the Xianbei people inadvertently completed the reorganization of the tribe, and they will become stronger step by step, and may recapture the desert after more than ten or twenty years. There was silence in the tent.

"In the heart of the great general, Murong Feng always exists like a god." Fu Gan sighed,

"Could it be that Murong Feng is really so powerful? Didn't the general defeat him in the Battle of Sunset Plains that year? He is not God, and His words will not come true. ”

"The general's words are right. No matter how the battle of the desert is fought, this is the end in the end. Jia Xu pointed to the map and said,

"Now we can't help fighting, if we don't fight, it is equivalent to admitting the decline of the Han Dynasty, and the Xianbei people on the desert will be even more arrogant, and the consequences will be unimaginable. Let's fight, we have to accept this result, but fortunately, this result will not cause much harm to the big man in the short term, and we still have enough time to come up with a countermeasure to solve this potentially huge problem as soon as possible. ”

"How to fix it?" Jiang Ji frowned,

"Lord Xianyu said it well, whether it is the Xianbei people, the Karasuma people, the Qiang people, or the Huns, they have gone forward from generation to generation, repeatedly Koubian, and sworn bloody battles with us, all for survival, in order to live. In this world, who doesn't want to live without worrying about food and clothing? Who doesn't want to live a peaceful and happy life? But how can we meet their most basic requirement? Hundreds of years, countless ancestors have not solved the problem, can we solve it? Li Hong looked up to the sky and sighed, extremely melancholy.

"If I am a Xianbei person, when I grow up, I must lead a large army into the Great Wall." Xiao Tianzi suddenly said something shocking, startling everyone in the tent.

Li Hong's face changed slightly, his eyes stared at Xiao Tianzi, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"From the beginning of my walk into the Western Xinjiang, in addition to the beautiful scenery in front of me, it was those poor Hu people." There was a hint of sadness in Xiao Tianzi's eyes,

"They lived in tattered tents, in tattered clothes, black and thin, and could only eat one meal a day, and it was a very unpalatable black thing. I remember that when I was Tu Shenze, Xiu'er once helped a child catch a fish, and the child was very grateful to Xiu'er and gave her a piece of mutton, a very small piece, fishy and smelly. Xiu'er didn't want it, so she threw it on the ground, but the child picked it up like a baby and hid it in his arms. ”

"From Hexi to Jinxueyuan, I have walked thousands of miles, passed through hundreds of tribes, and I have seen too much. I think they are like bison on the prairie, the only thing they have to do all day long is to forage for food, that is, to eat their stomachs, and then get up the next day and look for something to eat. After watching too much, I only have one feeling, that they are going to die at any time, and that they have no hope of living. In their lives, in addition to looking for food, they are waiting for death. ”

"I'm going to die anyway, so why not grab it? If you don't rob, you will die, and if you rob, you will be a full ghost. Xiao Tianzi waved his fist excitedly,

"It's better to be a full ghost than a starving ghost, right?" Everyone looked at Xiao Tianzi in amazement, and their hearts were heavy.

"General, the Hu people are also my Han's people, why are they so poor?" Xiao Tianzi looked at the general and asked,

"When I was inspecting the Hetao, I felt that the peasants on the border of the fields were already very poor, and who knew that when I arrived in the desert, I realized that there were still such poor people in this world. Is there nothing we can do to help them? Li Hong was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the minister has also worked hard. When the army conquered the desert, there were snowstorms on the desert, and the Hu tribes had difficulty surviving, and they also migrated south. However, the border counties have limited pasture to support so much livestock, and there is little land in the border counties, and even if they are willing to give up livestock to engage in farming, there is not so much land to provide. At the same time, there was a deep hatred between Han and Hu, and conflicts between the two sides were extremely frequent because of differences in customs and habits. The Hu people did not want to live with the Han Chinese, they loved their homeland so much that they returned to the grasslands, and only a small part remained, and the Han people despised the Hu people so much that they were eager to drive them all back to the desert. ”

At that time, this kind of southward migration was an expedient measure, but later the desert disaster was reduced, and the imperial court immediately refused to allow the Hu people to move to the border counties. Because the southward migration of the Hu people not only brought contradictions in grassland, land, wealth, laws and other aspects, but also brought great hidden dangers to the safety of the community, so the large-scale migration of tens of thousands of people like the Maiye tribe in the past has been extinct. Li Hong looked at Xiao Tianzi and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the matter of relocation is too complicated, it doesn't mean that the imperial court agrees, the tribal leaders just agree, this involves all kinds of problems, and it is too difficult." Governing the country is actually like being a human being, sometimes you have good intentions but may not be able to do good things, sometimes you want to do good things, but it backfires. In short, it's hard, it's too hard. Xiao Tianzi was stunned for a while, and said in frustration: "I understand a little. Because the matter is too difficult to solve, so the Hu people on the desert thought of the easiest way, when they can't eat enough, they go south to plunder, rob and run, and we have nothing to do, so we build the Great Wall, and occasionally they are in a hurry, so they kill into the desert and kill a large number of people. When the next generation grows up, this kind of thing repeats itself over and over again, and it goes on for hundreds of years. Everyone looked at each other and did not speak.

Xiao Tianzi has been in the western and northern Xinjiang for more than a year, and it is rare to have such an understanding.

In September, the great Sima Xu Rong sent news from Chang'an. There was infighting in Xiangyang, and Yuan Xi died. Zhong Xuan, the general of the expedition to the west, has always been looking at Nanyang, and it is Yuan Xi who sits in Nanyang, and he has become Zhong Xuan's target for killing.

During this time, Zhong Miao and a group of his subordinates tried every means to secretly contact old friends in Xiangyang, trying to separate Liu Biao and Yuan Xi.

In mid-July, Liu Biao learned from many sources that Yuan Xi was in contact with Chang'an and was very likely to surrender the city.

Liu Biao was shocked and found an excuse to trick Yuan Xi to Xiangyang and kill him. Xu Xuan, Yin Kui, Yuan Jing, Han Xun and others were all Yuan Shao's subordinates in the past, and now they follow Yuan Xi.

Kuai Liang and Wen Ping arrested them and persuaded them with good words. Xu Xuan was filled with grief and anger, and committed suicide that night.

Yuan Jing fled overnight and surrendered to Zhong Xuan in Yingchuan. Yin Kui and Han Xun had no choice and took the army to Liu Biao.

Yuan Tan was shocked to hear the news and was extremely sad and indignant. He was worried that Liu Biao, Cao Cao and others would use this as an excuse to attack and kill him, so he hurriedly sent someone to contact Sun Quan, surrender Lujiang to him, and then take his men and horses to cross the river south and take refuge in Jiangdong.

Sun Quan picked up a big bargain and occupied Lujiang County without much effort. There was infighting in Bashu, and Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou, was driven to Xiangyang.

After the news of the Han army's pacification of the western frontier reached Chang'an, Liu Zhang was panicked and worried that the Han army would enter Bashu.

In May, Zhang Song secretly rushed to Chang'an, presented a plea to Chang'an, and presented a map of Bashu. This news leaked out, and it was known to Zhang Yi from Chengdu, who was born in a Bashu family.

In order to stabilize Bashu, Liu Yan killed Jia Long, Ren Qi and other Bashu forces, and the Bashu people swallowed their anger and always wanted to take revenge.

Zhang Yi is one of them. Zhang Yi immediately secretly reported to Liu Pan, the general of Zhenxi. Liu Pan has been stationed in Chengdu, and he has been staying in Bashu under the pretext of transporting grain and grass to Liu Bei.

After Liu Pan got the news, he immediately sent his cronies, one to Hanzhong, asking Liu Bei to go south to Chengdu under the pretext of seeking support, and the other to Jiangzhou in Ba County, asking Li Yan and Zhu to quickly go north under the pretext of escorting grain and grass to plot to kill Liu Zhang.

Liu Bei was shocked when he heard the news, and led 5,000 elites out of Nanzheng, and flew south along the Micang Road. When Liu Zhang heard that Liu Bei had come uninvited, he was a little flustered, and rushed to Fucheng with an army of 20,000 troops, stopped Liu Bei, and prevented him from entering Chengdu.

The two have their own thoughts, drink every day, and are very affectionate. A few days later, Li Yan and Zhu arrived in Chengdu.

When Li Yan heard that Liu Bei's army was blocked in Fucheng, he immediately offered a plan to use the Bashu forces in the city that opposed Liu Zhang to take Chengdu first.

Liu Zhang and his 20,000-strong army had no food and grass, could not support it for a few days, and would soon be defeated. Liu Pan followed his plan and asked Zhang Yi to discuss.

Zhang Yi was very happy and agreed. Two days later, Zhang Yi persuaded Lu Kai, Yang Hong, Wang Chong, Ma Zhong and a group of Bashu civil and military officials to open the city gate and put Liu Pan and Li Yan's 3,000 men and horses into Chengdu City.

Liu Pan told Liu Zhang, I have occupied Chengdu City, if you know each other, pack up your things and roll to Xiangyang as soon as possible, otherwise, I will fight Liu Bei back and forth, and kill you for treason.

Liu Zhang was furious and led his army to turn around and attack Chengdu, but Mianzhu made Fei Shi betray him and let Liu Bei in.

Liu Zhang was stupid, he had no food and grass, most of the army was Bashu people, and he didn't want to kill each other, and Liu Bei was waiting behind his back, ready to attack at any time, and he was dead.

Liu Zhang had no choice but to accept Liu Pan's conditions, and under the escort of a team of Jingzhou soldiers, he took his family to Xiangyang.

Liu Biao got his wish and got Jingzhou, and Liu Bei was relieved that he didn't have to worry about his back.

In August, Li Yan, Wang Chong and others led the army out of Jinniu Mountain, and Liu Bei led the army out of Yangping Pass.

Huwei general Sima Yi and Huya general Wei Yan led the army to block the attack and asked Chang'an for help. Great Sima Xu Rong ordered Yan Liang and Wen Chou to lead the four battalions of the Northern Army and quickly move south to Wudu, making sure to ensure the safety of the front line in Longnan.

In order to get rid of the heavy debts of the imperial court, Prime Minister Li Wei invited the gate lords and big businessmen in the Gyeonggi area to gather in Kunmingchi in July to promote his new strategy, but he was severely frustrated, and no one was willing to accept his proposal.

Li Wei was very angry, and he instructed Zhang Liao, the lieutenant of Sili, to arrest the Ziqian merchants (usury merchants) in Chang'an, especially the people of the guards, and catch them one by one.

The guard valve immediately panicked, and the head of the family, Wei Che, hurriedly ran to the prime minister's mansion and begged Li Wei to raise his noble hand.

"Okay, tell me, who's going to assassinate me?" Wei Che's face turned white with fright,

"Prime Minister, with the grudge between you and me back then, do I dare to kill you? Isn't that self-defeating? ”

"Do you hear the wind?" Li Wei smiled,

"I deliberately said that sentence so that you could find out for me who was going to kill me. Have you found out? Wecher hesitated.

"I warn you......" Li Wei said gloomily,

"You know what I want to do, you know who I am, don't make me anxious, otherwise we will settle the grievances of more than ten years ago." Wei Che didn't dare to hide it anymore, and immediately said it.

"I expected it to be him." Li Wei sneered,

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