After Ying Zhan and Sheng Long paid their respects to the Duke of Fuguo, they went home with a snowflake, and Miao Yi, who was teasing the two children in the hall, hurriedly greeted her, swept the snow on her husband's body, and asked, "How is it?"
Ying Zhan shook his head gloomily.
Sheng Long looked like he was not giving up, said hello to Miao Yi, and said curtly: "Uh, I bought a pair of sandalwood prayer beads and want to give them to Xue to give to Jinglian monks." ” Ying Zhan said to the steward angrily: "It's rare for Master Sheng Long to have some thoughts, you can accompany him over."
Sheng Long had the opportunity to see the woman he had liked for a long time, and he was overjoyed for a while, and followed the steward to go.
He is a Tufan person, originally believed in Buddhism, through this reason, always send a scripture, send a wooden fish copper chime, always look forward to seeing Snow Lotus, and talk to her a few more words.
He didn't care about the purge that happened on the sandbank, anyway, he wasn't the one who did this, and with his identity as the master of Toast, no one dared to touch him easily.
When Sheng Long went out, Ying Zhan took off his robe, sat down in the hall, and teased his little son before he sighed lightly to Miao Yi: "This grandfather is amazing."
Miao Yi was uncomfortable when she heard Yang Xu's name, but she also heard about the bloody purge in Shazhou City recently, who knows if the butcher knife will kill the Ying family.
According to the thunderous and rainstorm strike style of those people, even if she is willing to come forward shyly, it may not be too late to beg Yang Xu with the feeling of the past, they will kill first and then convict.
Hearing Ying Zhan say this, Miao Yi couldn't help but get nervous: "Why, he won't be bad for our family, right?"
Ying Zhan shook his head and said: "That's not it, I have always had a good relationship with Sunan and Kunji, and I didn't collude with foreign forces in the past, but I won't find my head." ” Ying Zhan paused, and said: "I thought that when he arrived at Shazhou, it was just to appease the emperor's grace, and use some high-sounding truths to win over the magnates of Shazhou, and try to be used by the Ming Dynasty, who knows, he will have such a way to eliminate dissidents, and no one in the sandbank can do it himself now, and it has become inevitable to lean on the side of the Ming Dynasty."
Miao Yi blinked, a little unclear.
Ying Zhan took his youngest son into his arms, stretched out a finger for him to hold, and said to Miao Yi: "With the strength of the Ming Dynasty's force, if you want to conquer the sandbank, it is as easy as a finger, why did the Ming Dynasty establish the country for forty years, stop at Jiayu Pass, and only impose restraint on the Guanxi tribes, because it is easy for them to defeat the Guanxi tribes, and if they want to really occupy this place, they will lose more than they lose."
The people's will is the most thorough means to control a place, and force is only a process, and this goal cannot be achieved.
However, this is feasible when the Ming Dynasty is absolutely strong, and once another powerful force appears that is strong enough to compete with it, it will not be enough to control the place.
Right now, this is the situation, I thought that at this sensitive moment, the only means that this auxiliary prince could use was to appease and win over, but I didn't expect him to take a sideline approach and take a different path. ” Although Ying Zhan is a Mongol, his family has been in business for three generations, and he is also quite accomplished in Sinology, so he is not rude when he speaks, and he said admiringly: "At the beginning, this prince only sent his men and horses to fight a swarm of bee and horse thieves, and this matter was in the interests of everyone in the sandbank, and no one did not approve of it.
However, he actually used this group of horse thieves as a breakthrough to attack those forces who were not strong-willed and swayed from side to side.
In the process, he used the contradictions between the Ba family and the magnates of Dunhuang, and the contradictions between the major families in Dunhuang to win over a group and crack down on a group, constantly dividing and provoking, getting rid of those who have two hearts, and cutting off the back road of those who tend to be Ming.
In this way, the wealthy family that has broken off the way out can only stand firmly on the side of the Ming Dynasty, and the family that has just been supported by him to become a first-class wealthy family is inseparable from the help of the Ming Dynasty, he changed the situation of the entire Dunhuang without a trace, and in such a short period of time, although because of the rush of time, there are still a lot of troubles, but that is already to deal with the change of Timur.
Moreover, through the temporary common interests, he made the Dunhuang magnates form a group, united to support the Ming Dynasty, and through these hidden dangers left behind, to ensure that once the foreign enemy is gone, the various gate valve factions in Dunhuang will be divided again and compete with each other, so as to avoid a monopoly, so that the tail is too big to fall, so that the means are both sophisticated and ruthless, but like an antelope hanging horns, there is no trace to be found, and it is very powerful."
Because Xia Xun is in the same city, Miao Yi has been a little restless, wishing to be as far away from him as possible, as soon as he heard her husband say this, he hurriedly said: "Otherwise, let's move our family to the place of Shenglong Tusi, temporarily avoid this military disaster, and come back when the wind and waves are calm."
Ying Zhan shook his head: "Now, this is not something we can decide, if Hami is lost, we will probably have to move into Jiayuguan according to the will of the Ming Dynasty, leaving only the rangers here to tie up the army of Timur, and the means of clearing the wilderness with the wall, if you want to go first or don't want to go, hmph, I'm afraid we can't make our own decisions." ” "Is he so powerful?"
Miao Yi muttered to herself, her impression of Yang Xu, her memory was still preserved ten years ago, and she still remembered the graceful and pretty boy in her mind, and she remembered most of the heart-warming love words he said, and now she remembered the picture of cheating and seeking pleasure in the Jade Emperor View of Qingzhou, which is no longer self-conscious, and she really can't connect that person with a scheming politician.
Ying Zhan saw her in a daze, thinking that she was worried about the safety of the Ying family, so she comforted: "Lady don't need to worry too much, now that all the minds of Shazhou have gone to see Fu Guogong, see what he means, he will not continue this kind of purging behavior, alas, it has also reached the point of moderation, and if he continues to toss, it will hurt the vitality of Shazhou." ” After a pause, Ying Zhan said again: "Fu Guogong also reassured the heads of all parties and said that everyone will do business as such, he knows that the wealth of Shazhou mainly comes from business, and it will not cut off the source of livelihood of the people of Shazhou, and regardless of him, take one step at a time."
Oh, by the way, Fu Guogong and Su Nan and Kun Ji want to be brothers."
Miao Yi said in surprise: "Sworn brother" Suddenly, she thought of her mother's recruitment as a son-in-law, her stepfather was not the same back then, but he led the wolf into the room, this color embryo, isn't it a woman from the Kunji and Sunan families Just thinking about it, Ying Zhan said: "Three days later, General Kunji's mansion will hold a banquet to feast all the people with heads and faces on the sandbank to celebrate the sworn ceremony.
Don't lose Bali over there, I still have to go in person, I'm afraid I can't catch up, I've already instructed my cousin, ask him to back up the generous gifts, and then go for me, the Fuguo Gong has to bring a female dependent, and the wives of the two generals Kunji and Sunan will also attend, you go for me, the focus is to accompany the two concubines of the Fuguo Gong. ” "Oh no, I'll go with you, don't lose eight miles" Suddenly hearing this, Miao Yi's heart was suddenly shocked, the customs of the Western Regions are not as strict as the Central Plains, and female guests may not be able to show their heads, if they collide with Yang Xu in Kunji Mansion, then how can they be at this moment, Miao Yi even thought that with Yang Xu's lustful behavior, now you are a prince of the country, and you must be more unscrupulous and lawless, once you see her, will she use the excuse that her husband is also a fellow horse thief, and then come to a bloody mansion.
So Miao Yi didn't think about it, and immediately objected.
Ying Zhanqi said: "I'm going to do business in Don't lose eight miles, the journey is not hard, what are you going to do?"
"Me" Miao Yi rolled her eyes and thought about it: "People have children since they have children, they don't go out of the gate, they don't step out of the second door, it's so boring in the house, you go, I'm even more difficult to go out, it's better to go out with you."
Again" Miao Yi grabbed Yingzhan's sleeve and said coquettishly: "Besides, after people are pregnant with children, they can't be intimate with officials for a long time, if you can accompany the officials, wouldn't it be better to fight with the two of them for you."
This Yingzhan is also very in love, and she is so coquettish, her bones are crisped by three points, and she said with a smile: "Okay, okay, let's go together."
In that case, I'll have to get someone to get a comfortable car, but I can't compromise my good lady."
The place of the soldier is in the horse, the number of horses, in the period of cold weapons, is an important indication to judge the strength of the battlefield, so horses have always been a very profitable business, in the past dynasties, the operation of the horse farm is a wealthy and powerful party.
The grassland in Hexi is abundant in water and grass, and produces the most good horses, not only the Central Plains is in short supply of good horses, even in the desert areas more west, they often buy good horses from Hexi, so this time Shenglong Tusi went to the sandbank, not completely for his sweetheart, but to personally escort a group of good horses to the Western Regions.
If it weren't for Sheng Long's desire to go to Don't lose Bali, Yu Zhan could have sent someone instead of leaving at this sensitive moment, but Sheng Long had to go, so he had to sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman.
There are also several caravans preparing to set off, the two cities in the Western Regions are too far apart, and the strength of a single caravan is not enough to deal with all kinds of possible dangers along the way.
The reason why Yingzhan had to leave on time and couldn't be delayed for a day because he went to the banquet of the Auxiliary Princes was here: he was not alone in the caravan.
Most of the caravans that set off with him were caravans that they had cooperated with many times, and only one was a new addition, that is, the caravan of the merchant Tuoba Mingde.
Caravans were ready to depart, tall camels laden with goods, and the bells of camels chimeled in the alleys as the camels shook their heads and bowed their heads.
Tuoba Mingde stood in front of the window on the second floor of the inn, looking down at the caravans in the alleys and alleys, and said in a deep voice: "I'll go first, take that Hu Qi, and come back this time, I can get the full trust of the Shazhou magnates, at that time, our people should have occupied Hami and forced Dunhuang, and I can follow them to retreat to Jiayu Pass."
Tuoba Mingde was silent for a moment, sneered twice, and said: "You stay first, and when it is clear that Yang Xu is going to Hami, then come and join us, the news has been reported to the general, and the general can also lead the army back earlier, so as not to work in vain."
"Yes" Behind him, a tall figure bowed deeply To be continued: