49. Hexi Hu Feng
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Gently, Li Shushi left, he waved his sleeves and took away three clouds. (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)
Although there are many characters in Hanyang, but its outstanding people such as Jiang Xu and Yang Fu are the core children of the local heroes, although they will inevitably be recruited by the state and county or go out to study when they are older, but they are still young now, and the world outside is not very peaceful, and Li Shushi has never told each other his true identity, so he is naturally not worried that the children will go out with the group.
As for the three clouds that were taken away, they were Yan Xing, Liang Tian, and Zhang De, who was mysterious and secretive.
Although Yan Xing is not much older than Jiang Xu, but because he is not a member of the Yan family, the Yan family will let his behavior go, and Yan Xing is quite good at martial arts, for the Yan family, if he can make a little name around Li Shushi, it can also increase the prestige of the Yan family and find a new way out for the children of the family.
Liang Tian and Zhang De, one is alone, the other does not seem to have any family drag, and they are both martial arts people, especially that Zhang De, who has a lot of potential, but has no ability to transform it into a skill, and was suppressed by Liang Tian, who has a martial arts potential of less than 70, Li Shushi seems to be able to hear Zhang De's grievances and unwilling potentials crying.
Of course, Li Shushi has some doubts about the identity of this Zhang De, but people don't want to say it, and Li Shushi doesn't want to ask too much.
Leaving Hanyang, Li Shushi's next target is Jia Xu's birthplace, Wuwei County, one of the four counties in Hexi.
The four counties of Hexi are located in the west of the big bend in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. It is a symbol of the Han Dynasty's pioneering and enterprising territory. Although the Hanshu Geographical Chronicles and the Hanshu Wudi Benji have different descriptions of the date and manner of the establishment of the four counties, they both refer to it as the former nomadic land of the Hun Evil King and the Hutu King, and it was the territory recaptured by the Han from the enemy.
Again, you can despise Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's personality, his character of great joy, his suspicious and cruel nature, his bad hobbies, and his cronyism turned the court system upside down, but you can't deny that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's control of the Han Dynasty in the land of Sisai and the great significance of the development for the Chinese nation - North Korea is an inseparable part of the Han Dynasty, and North Vietnam is also an inseparable part of the territory of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, compared with the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, and Tang Sect, Song Zu's military contribution is really sad and pitiful.
The four counties of Hexi are serious border counties, and the four counties have a vast territory, but the total population is less than 350,000, that is, the population of no more than 80,000 households at most. If it weren't for the Han Dynasty's regular delivery of population here, I'm afraid the Han people would have been annihilated by the large number of Hu people. But now, it's not much better.
The land of Hexi is a very special place, and its rise and fall is not only a sign of the strength of the Han Dynasty, but also a barometer of the rise and fall of ethnic minorities in northern China. Take a look at the Han Dynasty's emphasis on the land of the West River, and you can know the recent situation of the grassland peoples.
Why is this such an interesting phenomenon occurring? The answer is the land of Hexi, which is a term we are more familiar with now - the Hexi Corridor, if we use a more vivid metaphor, it is the umbilical cord that extends from the mother of the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions. At the same time, the land west of the river is also a dagger, a dagger that separates the Xiongnu from the Qiang, Di, and Central Asian peoples in the northwest.
Everyone knows that the living conditions of the grassland people are quite poor, and the productivity is far from that of the Han Dynasty, but the trouble that they can become the henchmen of the Han is not only because they are good at riding and archery and bear hardships and stand hard work, after all, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.
As a result, the role of the Western Regions was highlighted at this time.
If we look at the world at that time, the two main civilizations - the Han Dynasty in the East and the Rome in the West stood side by side, and some relatively small but very distinctive small and medium-sized civilizations relied on their characteristics or unique geographical locations to surround the two huge civilizations, and the road connecting the two civilizations was the Silk Road, which was famous in later generations but was almost completely absent when the Western Han Dynasty was first built.
Although the two civilizations are brilliant, those countries that are slightly inferior are not without bright spots. Whether it was the Ptolemaic dynasty that built the pyramids, the Rest Empire (Parthia in the Roman population), which was no less skilled in mounted archery than the Hu people in the north, or the original owners of the Hexi Corridor, and later one of them established the Yueshi people of the huge Kushan Dynasty.
The Xiongnu were indeed low enough in terms of productivity, but they were able to obtain large quantities of war materials from the Western Regions through guò warfare and trade, the most important of which were population and weapons or perhaps just iron ore or iron ingots.
It is certain that the forging process of the Huns is definitely not as good as that of the Han Dynasty, but it is very doubtful whether the same is true in the casting process, after all, the sacrifice of the heavenly gold people who were snatched away by Huo Qubing when King Hutu was sick is obviously the best embodiment of its casting ability.
With the blood transfusion in the Western Regions, it not only increased the combat capability of the Xiongnu, but also increased the staying power of the Xiongnu. Moreover, for the Han Dynasty, controlling the Western Regions not only cut off the blood source of the Xiongnu, but also added a new direction of attack, so that the Huns suffered from the enemy, so the impact of Zhang Qian's trip to the Western Regions on the Han-Hungarian War is this.
Therefore, for Hexi, as long as the Xiongnu is strong for one day, its role will still be valued by the rulers of the Han Dynasty.
However, with Dou Xian's Yan Ran Le Shi, the Xiongnu, the behemoth that had been entrenched in the heads of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty for hundreds of years finally completely dissipated between history, leaving only a few remnants with their bloodlines to sing about their former glory, although they were still able to set off several large and small waves in the rest of history, but they were still drowned in the rolling red dust of history.
Although the Xianbei people rose after the decline of the Xiongnu and inherited most of the territory that originally belonged to the Xiongnu, their threat was not great, and it was not until the defeat of Xia Yu, Zang Min and Tian Yan that the frequency and scale of their invasions of the Han became frequent and large. Second, at this time, the most important external enemies of the Han Dynasty had become the Qiang people located on the east and west sides of Liangzhou, so the land in Hexi, which was not very fertile, but the climate was quite bad, became chicken in the eyes of the Han court.
As a result, when Li Shushi and his entourage crossed the Yellow River and officially set foot on the land west of the river, all they saw was yellow and blue—blue was the color of the sky, and yellow was the color below the horizon to their feet.
The desert, the yellow sand, the lonely smoke, the strong wind, the sunset, the empty and silent sunset makes people feel that he is the only one in the world at this time, and it seems that he is the only one left in the world.
He was only fifteen years old, but he had experienced so much more than many fifty-year-olds.
He walked aimlessly on this great road, which he did not know where he came from, and where it led.
He didn't need to find a woman, because there was already a woman in his life who made his heart move, and there was a woman who was destined to leave a space in his life, and he didn't need a superfluous woman anymore.
He also doesn't need to find an enemy, because he doesn't know what a real enemy is, the two people who were originally facing each other with swords can finally sit and drink laughing and laughing, and those who have betrayed can also talk and laugh together as if they have nothing to do.
So, he was confused, he was uneasy, he was afraid that this qiē was just a passing cloud, and when the sun was angry again, it would disappear, he was afraid that this qiē was just a mirage, and when the sun set again, he found that it was just someone else's shadow.
Night has finally covered the land. There were no lights, no candles, no fire, only darkness.
"Wake up from your darkness!"
With a rather crisp sound, Li Shushi felt that the scene in front of him had changed, the land that had been shrouded in darkness had turned into day again, and there were a lot of all kinds of guys around the originally empty except himself.
Of course, the most important thing is that there is also a Lori standing next to him who is holding a wooden stick that can be used as a whip, which makes people look very disobedient at first glance, looking at him with an unhappy face, and from time to time there is a dissatisfied snort or two in his nose.
As a large mercenary group with hundreds of people in hand, the appearance of Li Shushi and his party is undoubtedly a blessing for the businessmen living in the war-torn northwest, after hearing the news of Li Shushi's intention to go to Wuwei, many stranded businessmen began to gather around Li Shushi, and this trend did not stop until Li Shushi and others crossed the Yellow River to the land west of the river.
Among these merchants were Han merchants, but there were also many merchants of different races. They speak different languages, and the vendors are a commodity that everyone is accustomed to in modern times but is quite rare in this day and age. In addition, some gem merchants sell goods that will be quite rare even in the future, and some of the craftsmen sell handicrafts that have long been lost in modern times.
These are just so in the eyes of Li Shushi, but in the eyes of others can be called dazzling goods, so that Li Shushi and his party in those guys from the Kanto region completely turned into ignorant buns, one by one around those merchants asked this question is very curious, and some people secretly took out their own money, planning to take advantage of this rare opportunity to buy a few small things, after all, the merchants because of the war The turnover of materials is inconvenient, if you can take this opportunity to sell some goods, even if it is cheaper, you are willing, After all, for businessmen, it is obviously much more cost-effective to turn over funds than to smash goods in their hands.
As for the soldiers under Li Shushi, especially those who followed Li Shushi since the Yellow Turban Uprising, their net worth is not bad, after all, although Li Shushi did not disperse all his family wealth to his subordinates like some generals, he also rewarded a lot, and several captures also made those big-headed soldiers gain a lot.
can not only be protected, but also take the opportunity to do some business, no wonder more and more businessmen gathered around Li Shushi and his party.
p.s. The author area has been on for a long time and can't be logged in.,I don't know why.,Anyway, let's pretend to be the second emperor for a while......
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