When Xia Xun arrived at Dunhuang, he saw more than ten people of different sizes waiting in a formation from a distance, and he couldn't help but be moved by it at a glance.
If you want to gain a foothold in the Western Regions, you have to constantly fight with the sky and people, and you can't do without a strong arm, these teams in front of you, the two largest teams of people and horses on the left and right sides of the official road are wearing Mongolian-style robes and leather armor, but they are the banners of the Ming Dynasty, obviously the Mongolian officers and soldiers of Shazhou Wei and Handongwei, and the other smaller horse teams are naturally the personal soldiers raised by the powerful and wealthy families in Shazhou.
Whether it is the officers and soldiers of the two guards of Dunhuang, or the private soldiers of those wealthy families, although the formation is not neat, but they all reveal the murderous aura of rushing to the night, that kind of momentum is by no means able to be shown by training alone, they have obviously fought on the battlefield and are real soldiers.
"Enter" Xia Xun in front of a thousand horses about a minute, urging the horse forward, compared to the formation and the front of the sandbar people and horses in the number of people and horses is much less, but the momentum is completely overwhelmed, this is a sweet and cool fine horse, in terms of murderous spirit is not inferior to the other party, and the neatness of the team is a hundred times better, even if they are in the march, they are like an iron plate, as if the whole team is lifting the reins at the same time, stepping at the same time, and moving at the same time.
Immovable as a mountain, its scurry as a forest.
This is a truly battle-hardened and mighty army, and the neat costumes and weapons are equipped with weapons, which adds to the shock brought by this uniformity.
The local generals and powerful families in Dunhuang were unconsciously broken when they saw it, and some arrogance in their hearts disappeared.
It is no wonder that such a noble figure as Fuguo Gong dared to come to the Western Regions at this moment to venture into danger, such an iron cavalry is really amazing.
Han Dongwei commanded the envoy Sunan and commanded Tongzhi to attack, and the commander of Shazhou Wei made Kun Ji and Mai Jia already led the officials and gentry of Shazhou to immediately greet him.
"The last general, Han Dongwei, commanded Sunan and met the Duke of Fuguo" "The last general Han Dongwei commanded Tongzhi to attack, and he saw the auxiliary prince" "Sandbank Ma Kui, welcome the national prince" As soon as the ceremony was over, Shazhouwei commanded Kun Ji and said: "I heard that there is a nuisance of horse thieves on the national highway, this is a lowly level that is not effective in governing the place, please ask the national government to surrender."
The cavalry sent to meet him had already heard some rumors, and hurried back to report it, Kun Ji and the others had just heard about it, and they didn't feel a little apprehensive when they heard it, so they asked him for their guilt as soon as they saw Xia Xun.
Xia Xun smiled faintly and said: "The Central Plains territory, ten miles and one city, there are still small evils.
In the Western Regions, thousands of miles of yellow sand, uninhabited, and between the cities, they are far apart, and a few thieves are nothing. ” He glanced back, Feng Crack Yan immediately waved his hand, and a hundred and ten people were escorted out of the array, Wind Crack Yan said proudly: "The Western Regions are so bold that they actually attacked the honor guard of the national government, the head of the thieves Batu has already been given the head, the five thousand horse thieves have fled more than 100 horses, and the rest of the people who have been left with surnames are here."
The words of the wind cracked and immediately caused an uproar among the Dunhuang magnates.
They only heard that Guogong's team encountered horse thieves halfway, and thought that it was a small thief who didn't open his eyes and kicked the iron plate, but they didn't expect that it was a swarm of bees in the Western Regions, the most powerful horse thief force in the entire Western Regions, and they didn't expect that they would actually dispatch 5,000 people, which was almost half of the swarm.
Look at the people and horses in front of the Auxiliary Guogong, there are only three thousand when they are full, once the battle is fought, at least more than 1,000 cavalry must be set aside to defend the Guogong, then the real participants are estimated to be only two thousand at most, with two thousand against five thousand, the elite cavalry of the "swarm of bees" is 5,000 people, and only one hundred and ten horses escaped, and even Barcelona's brother Batu was killed on the spot, the powerful gentry of this sandbar have been dealing with the Ba family for many years, if they can help the Ba family, how can they allow the Ba family to laugh at the Western Regions for so many years, the strength of the two sides is basically half a catty, eight taels, And the auxiliary prince was able to win more with less, and cleanly eliminated this prepared horse thief, and he had little loss, and this kind of combat power suddenly impressed the sandbank magnates.
When they saw Batu's frozen human head, their eyes looking at Xia Xun were only in awe.
These Shazhou magnates, including the commanders of Hanwei and Shazhou Liangwei, are nominally the ministers and people of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, the emperor is far away, and the imperial court decrees are difficult to reach, so they are local emperors.
Originally, they just submitted to the Ming Dynasty and accepted the official position of the Ming Dynasty, and all the local systems and political structures have not changed at all, and they are not like the Central Plains where the three divisions are separated, and the officials are stationed, and the local military, political and judicial affairs are all in their hands, and in the places they rule, the power is greater than that of the vassal king in the domain, and in fact it is a country within a country.
Therefore, the courtesy they showed when they first met Xia Xun was largely just politeness in the officialdom, and they didn't take this passing country too seriously in their hearts, but now they really have respect.
This place, only recognize fists, whoever has a big fist will be respected, Xia Xun cut melons and cut vegetables to kill a swarm of bees who dared to offend, and immediately got their awe.
Seeing that the ceremony was over, the stars of the Shazhou magnates welcomed Xia Xun into the city and entered the mansion of Kunji, the commander of Shazhou Wei.
Xia Xun noticed that Kunji's mansion architecture was distinctly Islamic, and it was clear that he was also a Muslim.
In his imagination, an oasis in the desert of thousands of miles, even if it is rich, the environment is limited, but as soon as he enters Kunji's mansion, he unexpectedly finds that the luxury and wealth here are comparable to those of princes, and the desolation he saw on the way is completely gone.
What surprised him even more was that there was wine at the banquet.
In fact, this is Xia Xun's misunderstanding, just like the beginning of Buddhism's doctrine is to abstain from eating meat, this meat is not the current concept, what we now call meat, at that time it was called fishy, meat refers to Wuxin, that is, garlic, green onion, green onion, orchid onion, Xingqu.
As for meat, the monks eat whatever the donor gives, and there are no special requirements.
Until the time of Emperor Wu of Liang, he thought that since he abstained from killing, he should not eat meat, a holy decree, which became the precept of today.
And the Muslim saint Muhammad also has a process of prohibiting alcohol, at first he only tried to prohibit believers from getting drunk, and later forbade believers to pray after drinking, but alcohol is really not a good thing, vomiting and talking nonsense after getting drunk is still light, and it is not uncommon to make trouble and deliberately hurt with alcohol, so the Quran established the doctrine that alcohol is not to drink.
However, there was also a gradual implementation of this ban, and in the initial stage, it was not possible for all believers to ban alcoholic beverages.
When we look at the Thousand and One Nights, most of them are stories of Muslim countries, and those caliphs, princes, ministers, judges, including scholars, poets, singers, musicians, etc., often attend drinking parties, and even get drunk, which are all portrayals of the upper class society at that time.
For the time being, the lame emperor Timur, who launched the Eastern Holy War, was also an alcoholic hero, and it is not surprising that these Mongols who converted to Islam in the Western Regions still maintain their drinking habits.
The spacious and gorgeous living room was lit with the fragrance of other countries in the Western Regions, and on the scarlet carpet, a group of graceful and charming girls from the Western Regions danced along with the exotic songs, and the officials and gentry accompanied Xia Xun, singing and dancing to help wine, and drank well.
It is rare to see such an original song and dance in the Western Regions, Xia Xun watched it with relish, Kun Ji and Su Nan and others couldn't help but smile when they saw it, and only gave a slight gesture, and when the song and dance ended, these beauties who were full of flowers and branches and fragrant and fragrant did not retreat, but turned to the banquet, sat down next to Xia Xun, Feng Crack, and Saihazhi, and served wine diligently.
Sehazhi is a Tartar official, surnamed arrogant, and very familiar with this set, he grinned widely, he only mentioned it with one arm, and then hugged the beauty on his knees, hugged her slender waist, asked her to take a sip of wine, and then pouted and came up, and on the other side, the wind crack was even more familiar, and a bloody mouth had already blocked the lips of the girl, and a big hand was still rubbing her chest like a steamed bun.
Only the two beauties snuggling up to Xia Xun had never been treated like this, so they couldn't help but hug Xia Xun's arm and took the initiative to put the plump and upright, round and moving part up.
Xia Xun was a little unbearable, he couldn't compare to these heroes of the Western Regions who had been exposed to it since he was a child, and he had long been accustomed to this kind of behavior, and he was so profligate in public, Brother Xia would be shy, although the feeling of the soft bullet from the elbow was also quite comfortable.
Xia Xun hurriedly sat upright, as if he suddenly remembered something interesting, got rid of the entanglement of the two delicate babies, and smiled at Kun Ji and the others: "Ah, I saw this banquet singing and dancing today, and my father suddenly remembered something.
In my house, there are two turtle dancers, who are also good at dancing in the Western Regions, and they usually sing and chant in the house to cheer up their own public drinking, but the environment of Jinling is not as good as the Western Regions, and I always feel a little out of place, so it is better to ask them to come out to perform and enjoy it together."
Xia Xun was so interested, of course everyone wanted to cheer, everyone responded one after another, and after a while, two bewitching beauties dressed in peach-colored dance clothes, with bell trousers at the waist and legs, holding the pipa in their arms, and looking like flying in the sky, came to the hall.
Everyone saw that these two women were blonde and blue-eyed, proud, very beautiful and enchanting, with a smile on their faces, like three spring flowers blooming, dancing freely, and walking lightly, which made people feel excited when they saw it, and couldn't help but cheer in unison.
Kun Ji looked at it but had a familiar feeling, and after looking at it carefully for a long time, he suddenly remembered that he had bought two excellent beauties from Hu Shang in the Western Regions with a lot of money, which seemed to be the Qiuzi people's clan, because he was stammering with Xiliang Song Sheng at that time, so he reluctantly cut his love and gave it to General Song, could it be that if the two girls in front of him were them, it must have been transferred by General Song to the Duke of Fuguo.
I heard that the Duke of Guo said that they had lived in the Jinling Mansion, so it was not a gift that the Duke of Guo received only when he visited the Western Regions, so General Song had already stammered with the Duke of the Auxiliary State, Kun Ji did not know much about Xia Xun's power in the Ming Court, and the most feared and stammered in his eyes was only one Song Sheng.
But General Song, who he tried his best, was like him, trying his best to tie up the young prince in front of him with a brocade robe and a wide sleeve and a high crown, so the power of this prince can be imagined.
As soon as he thought of this, Kun Ji didn't dare to slack off on Xia Xun even more.
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