"It's such a big firework, dazzling and bright."

"Yes, it's a specialty from Bingzhou, and I've only seen it a limited number of times when I was in Luoyang."

This year's Winter Festival seems to have been a little special.

Well, in fact, since coming to this unique plane, Li Shushi feels that his winter festival has been different.

The location alone is from Zhuo County in the northeast of the Han Dynasty through Jinyang in Taiyuan County, Lishi in Xihe County, Luoyang in Yin in Henan, Chang'an in Jingzhao Yin, and the distant Western Regions, which can almost be said to have traveled through the northern region of the Han Dynasty.

And because of his appearance, all kinds of operas, amusement competitions and fireworks are also endless, and all kinds of delicacies also appeared in this dynasty in advance with the help of his family, although it seems a bit exaggerated to say that there are new ideas every year, after all, there are so many stocks in his head, and there are many restrictions in this era. But it should not be an exaggeration to say that he is often able to create some "surprises".

However, this year's Winter Festival still has its own characteristics, that is, there are enough people.

In winter, except for the steppe peoples who habitually went south, the Han people usually chose to hibernate during this time, whether it was war or engineering, they would try to avoid this period, so except for the soldiers who had to guard the frontier in the north, most of the officials had time to put down their work and participate in activities with the people, if they wished.

Originally, Li Shushi only had one place, even if he later included Shuozhou, the Western Regions and the three counties of Liangzhou and Hexi, which were close to the Western Regions. However, most of the former have been barren or have become the boundaries of the grassland Zhuhu, and the latter is far away and has to cross the control area of other forces, so although the winter festival banquet held in Jinyang is also lively, the total number of participants is limited after all.

But look at the present.

The representatives from the Western Regions Protectorate and the envoys of the Western Regions countries who submitted to the Western Regions Protectorate were the most eye-catching group of people in the whole banquet, their clothing styles were messy, some were biased towards the Han people, some were biased towards the grassland Zhuhu, and some were very characteristic of the Western Regions or even further to the extreme west.

Oh yes. It is also not to forget about the envoys from Kushan and on behalf of the Sabbath Empire and the representatives of the Zoroastrian sect as their deputies. It is estimated that Bo Tuo should have integrated domestic affairs and was ready to return to the Gandhara army that had been placed by Li Shushi in the Western Regions to help Ban Fu and Zhang Tai suppress the Western Regions.

Although the Gandhara army has always obeyed Ban Fu's dispatch, after all, Bo Tiao lent the Gandhara army to Li Shushi instead of Ban Fu, so if he wants to go back now, he naturally has to go through such a procedure. This is also a sign of respect for Li Shushi.

Of course. Li Shushi didn't believe that Bo Tuo would come over just for such a trivial matter. Perhaps the Gandhara army was also a formidable force of 10,000 men. But how many of them are willing to go back is another question, in fact, many of their families have already been sent to the Western Regions and made their homes there, and the camp label on them will only hinder their future life and development in Kushan, but will not have much effect on promoting them. And this is the reason why Bo Tuao generously lent this unit in the first place. Therefore, Li Shushi believed that the envoys would definitely have some other purpose.

For example, he has always been obsessed with the Silk Road trade, which was interrupted by the impact of wars in various places.

It is indeed a little confusing that the state of the Rest Empire, which is thousands of miles away from the Han Dynasty, will discharge official envoys, after all, this country is in a good fight with the Roman Empire in the west, consuming the already little national strength left, but when Li Shushi saw that the deputy envoy was a high-ranking Zoroastrian Sect, or simply one of the many sons of Papek's guy, although he had met a few times and had an impression but did not remember the other party's name at all, then the purpose of the other party's envoy this time could probably be guessed one or two.

It should not be out of trade and missionary purposes, and perhaps there is also the idea of learning the culture of the Central Plains.

The former Li Shushi is extremely welcome, because it is a happy thing, and the group of Zoroastrian geniuses who play with fire can also bring him the "fire oil" he likes, well, in fact, it is something that oil is estimated to be more magical and powerful than the original plane after a series of Zoroastrian black technology processing.

The just-concluded offensive and defensive battle of Chang'an has already shown its power, although the number is not enough, but Li Shushi originally did not want to completely destroy the ancient city of Chang'an, let alone that it was just a practical purpose.

Su Xiaololi naturally has the ability to use crude oil to make something that is no less powerful than the finished product provided by the Zoroastrian Sect, but Li Shushi didn't let her take it out, and just did a few tests and sealed it there, after all, it is not easy to get crude oil from the Western Regions alone, so when you have money and a good relationship, you should draw more from the outside to your home, maybe you can make the Central Plains Dynasty realize the important strategic significance of the Middle East in advance (laughs).

As for the issue of proselytizing, Li Shushi and Cheng Yu Jiaxu also decided to adopt a limited laissez-faire attitude towards it after research.

The Central Plains Dynasty said that it was also a big country, and it had its own cultural traditions, and this tradition spread to most corners of the country with the existence of local culture and shrines, so that the country had the courage and confidence to embrace all rivers, even if it was Buddhism from outside the territory or Zoroastrianism that was later reduced to Zoroastrianism or Zoroastrianism, as long as there were not careerists who used this to riot, these foreign monks could not shake the mainstream values of this society.

On the contrary, we can use some new ideas and new things brought by these outsiders to impact the entrenched society, inject some new energy and motivation into the society that has gradually become a backwater, and let them know that there is a truth outside the sky.

Even if you can't let go of the idea of the Heavenly Empire and the pride that arises from it, you should at least broaden your horizons. Knowing that the outside world is also exciting, don't just guard one acre and three points of land and think that you are amazing.

Although the Western Regions are far away from the Central Plains and inconvenient to travel, no matter who controls the Chang'an regime, they will not make any rude actions to these envoys, as long as there is no serious riot, and they will even ceremoniously entertain each other to show the bearing and strength of a great power.

It's just that no one would have thought that because of Li Ru's behavior, it would be very embarrassing for Li Shushi and at the same time make the storage of these envoys embarrassed - let them go to see the emperor, this is really not; But if they are sent away like this, it will obviously be a very shameful thing, and it will obviously be a very strict diplomatic accident between countries. Even if it is heavy, it is possible to make new and huge waves appear in the already stable Western Regions shape shì.

As for letting Li Shushi meet with these envoys instead of the emperor?

All right. Although Li Shushi has also done things that have been trespassed in private, it is better to avoid being so blatant, it is a private matter to reach some agreements or something in private, and it is absolutely impossible to get it under the sun. God knows if he'll be sprayed to death by those old masters. That Yan zhòng Cheng dù is definitely more than the emperor's disappearance incident that has just subsided.

So it's now. The only thing anyone can do. The only way to do this is to continue to keep these envoys from foreign countries in captivity in Chang'an, and wait until the little emperor finds a place to settle himself, and then send these envoys over.

Of course. As for the Zoroastrian Sect, the Kushan and Wusun, as well as the people of the Western Regions Protectorate, they will reach a private agreement with Li Shushi and send their deputies back to their respective forces, but they do not have to worry about delaying the "business" between the parties.

If these envoys from distant lands just gave this grand banquet more talk, but for most of them they didn't experience it at all, then the other two groups of people were more "eye-catching".

One group of people is naturally the generals of the former Western Liang Army group with the Liangzhou people as the main body and the local heroes of Liangzhou who surrendered, while the other group is the ministers of the DPRK and China who survived all kinds of storms and the powerful groups from the family of Sili.

Most of the former are good at dancing and fighting on the battlefield, and even if they sit quietly, they give people the illusion that there are all swords and swords nearby. The latter, on the other hand, are mostly personable, at least on the surface, as well-read civil officials.

It is true that there are many, many people who are both civil and military in this era, and many of them are not really martial artists or scribes, but they have been in the corresponding environment for a long time, and they have gradually been contaminated with the atmosphere of that circle. However, it is undeniable that this situation shows how consistent the actual state of these two circles is with the external style of these two circles, and how big the difference between these two circles with very different styles is.

And although these two circles did not have the potential to fight in person, they almost did not intersect with each other at all.

Except for a very small number of special beings like Fu Xie.

After all, no matter how conspiratorial and intriguing on the battlefield, in the final analysis, it is still necessary to fight with a knife and a gun, and in order to achieve the ultimate goal, it is necessary to have such a straight last blow, otherwise the previous foreshadowing is a mirror, so every qualified soldier and commander has a decisive temperament to kill at a critical moment.

Civilians, on the other hand, are not indecisive, but they are more accustomed to hiding their thoughts or expressing them in a more tactful way, because this is probably the best way for them, because they are in an environment where it is rare to make a "head-to-face blow", and the kind of thing that falls into the hands of others is a big taboo for them.

The two styles have caused a natural estrangement between the two sides, and now there is a huge entanglement of interests and emotional grudges between the two groups of people sitting in the banquet hall - although Li Guo and the others are the culprits who disturbed Guanzhong and the traitors who caused the most impact, this does not mean that the other members of the Xiliang Army are as clean and pure as Zhang Xhua.

It is true that those families in Guanzhong have close ties with the families in Liangzhou, whether it is the Dou family, the Liang family, the Ma family and other large and small families, so there is a saying that the west of Tongguan is Xiliang.

But there is still no contradiction between them, especially Dong Zhuo's death has intensified this contradiction.

Although Dong Zhuo was ruthless, he was still polite to the Sanfu family who supported him. At the beginning, he also married the daughter-in-law of the Huangfu family and the daughter of the great Confucian Ma Rong as a link between himself and these Xiliang families, although he did not succeed in the end and cheapened Li Shushi, but since there were no dead people, it could be regarded as releasing a certain friendly signal.

But Dong Zhuo died.

As a result, these long-established families in Guanzhong had to face the need to choose between the scholars represented by the courtiers who had become powerful and the martial arts nobles represented by the Xiliang army.

This is really not a difficult decision to make, because even if those families belong to Xiliang regionally, they are an important part of the scholar clan in terms of class attributes, and most of them are still civil officials, even if they are located in Xiliang and the martial arts are more prosperous, but they still think that they are more civil officials than martial artists, if it were not for Dong Zhuo's status and the strength of his subordinates are enough to suppress the dissatisfaction of any force under his command, maybe these people will not agree with Dong Zhuo, a "barbarian" born in Longxi?

I'm afraid it will take generations. Or maybe generations won't be able to change that pride in the legacy. It's like the five surnames in the future Tang Dynasty Kanto are not even the emperor, which can be called another model representative of the family.

So when the Western Liang army became leaderless and began to have civil strife, many Guanzhong families turned their guns and began to help their courtiers deal with their warlords of the Western Liang army. One side has strong self-sustaining force, many generals, and strong destructive power; The other party has a large self-sustaining family. It has deep roots and a great reputation in the local area. Not like those courtiers who followed the emperor. Being so infamous as an enemy is only the most basic, and it will eventually make it have no place in the land of Guanzhong.

Who is the egg and who is the stone, that must be touched to know.

As a result. Naturally, Xiucai met the soldiers, and he couldn't explain it clearly.

Well, the heroes of Guanzhong are not a group of talents, these families who have been harassed by the Qiang people for decades have a group of family private armies with good combat effectiveness, and if they join forces, they are not lambs to be slaughtered. And they are good at planning, in the face of a scattered Xiliang army, as long as they use some vertical and horizontal means, they can make the Xiliang army kill each other.

But how can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet, and if you are not careful with this kind of tightrope walking, you will definitely capsize and be firewooded.

In particular, this kind of contempt for others in terms of IQ makes those generals in the Xiliang Army who are always ridiculed in private feel angry, and their way to vent their anger is not difficult, except that individual people can get into the troops of other members of the Xiliang Army to pray for protection, remove the glossy coat, those dock forts are a dish for many generals of the Xiliang Army, as long as they are willing to attack at any cost, none of them have the ability to resist the murderous army.

Especially Sanfu, a place that has been plowed by Dong Zhuo.

In addition, because of the chaos of the Xiliang army and a large number of chaotic bandits, although these cunning and ferocious small-scale armed groups can not break through the dock fort of those powerful families, but still caused great trouble to Guanzhong and Xiliang area, those tenants who belong to the powerful family have lost a lot of money, and the loss of property is even more shocking.

Therefore, Li Shushi was able to get the support of the Xiliang family so easily, and the turmoil caused by the Xiliang army was really a great contribution, so that those originally budget-conscious family owners had an overwhelming pursuit of peace and tranquility.

Besides, Li Shushi can also be said to have a "bad record" in treating the family, but with the growth of age and the passage of time, Li Shushi's methods have become more and more gentle, and it has also given the family room to display...... Well, once again, thanks to the butchers of the Xiliang Army, these powerful family owners all suffered from Stockholm syndrome.

It's just that such a big "blood feud" now wants to be ministers in the same palace, and it is understandable that they can't look at each other.

But ah, but......

"It seems that it is really not easy to get these two groups of people to cooperate with each other in the future."

Li Shushi raised the wine glass in his hand and looked at Cheng Yu who was smiling beside him, and the other party seemed to be very excited today.

"Now that the place is big, it's not hard to separate them, and if something really goes wrong with them, it just gives us an excuse. Moreover, the students of the 'official school' created by the lord have already passed the assessment, and the state and county officials and even the heads of a county should be competent. ”

"But I originally hoped that they would be able to go to the bottom for two or three years to exercise, and then appoint them after they are familiar with them."

"Extraordinary times can only use extraordinary methods, the lord you need to know how many students will pass the guò assessment every year in your 'official school', and the number will only increase, if you don't seize the opportunity at this time, it will not be so easy to promote your ideas in the future when those family heroes are relieved."

Cheng Yu's voice was not loud when he said this, and his mouth kept drifting, as if he was drunk, which made people wonder if it was just him muttering some crazy things there because he was drunk, as for whether it was really crazy words......

"You should also be regarded as a local hero."

"But I hate those families who occupy Mao X and don't pull O!"

Well, I guess I'm really drunk. (To be continued......)