Liu Cheng immediately sent people to look for people who were proficient in the Jiankun language among the Dingling people.
Unexpectedly, he found an old man who was proficient in the Jiankun language.
Liu Cheng then sent Ma Chao to take the old man Ding Ling to communicate with that team.
Soon after, Ma Chao sent a soldier back to report to Liu Cheng: "My lord, that group of people is indeed Jiankun people.
According to what they said, their herdsmen discovered Chen Dao at the junction of the Dingling people's territory a few days ago.
The general's men and horses made inquiries and found out that the Han army had arrived in Mobei, so they sent envoys to pay a visit to the lord."
After hearing this, Liu Cheng ordered: "Go back and tell Ma Chao to bring this team of envoys over."
"Yes, my lord" After the soldiers who reported the news left, Liu Cheng asked Chen Qun, Jia Xu, Guo Jia and others: "What kind of tribe are these Jiankun people?
What is their strength and what are their living customs?"
Among these staff and counselors, only Chen Qun had done a lot of research on the surrounding barbarians.
He replied: "My lord, as far as I know, Jiankun was surrendered to the Huns.
After the Huns left, the Xianbei people occupied the Mobei grassland.
They succumbed to the Xianbei people again.
It is said that the Jiankun people are very different from other tribes in Mobei.
Let's talk about appearance.
Almost all tribes in Mobei have yellow skin color, but the Jiankun people are almost all fair-faced. " "What does fair face mean?"
Liu Cheng asked doubtfully.
Chen Qun was stunned for a moment, then explained: "Back to my lord, fair skin is white."
"White, white noodles, etc., you said they are white people," Zhao Junsheng said in surprise.
"Uh, yes, they are white people."
Chen Qun was stunned for a moment, then said with certainty after he came to his senses.
Then Chen Qun took out an old roll of sheepskin from his arms and spread it on the desk.
He pointed at the map on the sheepskin and said: "Please look, my lord, this is the Beihai.
Our army's current position is at this estuary.
After walking west for ten days, we arrived at a big river.
This river It is called Jianshui.
A large number of Jiankun people live on both sides of Jianshui.
To the west, there is another river.
This river is called Afu Water.
A large number of Jiankun people also live here.
Most of the Jiankun people They all live in the vast land between these two rivers and north of Tanman Mountain."
"Generally speaking, with the Jianshui River Basin as the boundary, the barbarians east of the Jianshui River Basin are all yellow people, while the barbarians living in the area west of the Jianshui River Basin are all white people.
These Jiankun people have red hair and blue eyes.
The Jiankun people are white-skinned, tall, with pierced ears.
There are many boys and girls among the Jiankun people.
The boys have men with tattoos on their hands, and the women have tattoos on their necks.
They live together and are often promiscuous."
Red hair, blue eyes, and white skin means that the Jiankun people are white people with red hair and green eyes.
Moreover, they all wear ear piercings, men get tattoos on their arms, and women get tattoos on their necks after marriage.
After listening to Chen Qun's story, Liu Cheng asked: "What is the strength of this Jiankun people?
How many people, how many soldiers and horses?"
Chen Qun shook his head and said: "I don't know much about this.
What I know is all from ancient books."
Soon, Ma Chao led his troops and horses to bring the envoy and entourage sent by King Jiankun to the camp.
He received the envoy from Jiankun in the tent.
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After the Jiankun envoy babbled for a while, the old man Ding Ling standing next to him translated: "Sir, this Kunjian envoy said his name is Gu Sidun, and he is the youngest son of Jiankun King Takuli.
He is now under the orders of Takuli.
I came to pay homage to you, hoping to accompany you to the capital to see the King of Han and receive a reward from the King of Han.
This time, he brought the treasures and utensils of his clan and planned to donate them to the King of Han."
After hearing this, Liu Cheng nodded and said to Gu Xidun in a friendly manner: "I am very happy that King Jiankun sent you as an envoy.
I can promise you now that our army will leave enough troops to garrison here tomorrow.
The remaining All the soldiers and horses are about to set off back to the country, you and your entourage The personnel can go with my army to Chang'an to see His Majesty the Emperor.
You have come all the way and must be very tired.
I have sent someone to prepare a place for you.
You can go and settle down as arranged by me.
I will host a banquet for you later.
Envoy, someone will be sent to invite you when the time comes.”
Old man Ding Ling translated Liu Cheng's words to Gu Xidun.
Gu Xidun quickly agreed, saluted and said, "Thank you, General, for your warm hospitality."
After Gu Xidun and his entourage went to settle down, Liu Cheng asked Chen Qun: "Chang Wen, didn't you say that Jiankun people all have red hair and blue eyes?
Why does Gu Xidun have black hair and black eyes?"
"This" Chen Qun also felt very strange.
The Jiankun people accompanying him all had red hair and blue eyes, but Gu Sidun was the only one with black hair and black eyes.
It was really strange.
At nightfall, Liu Cheng hosted a banquet for Gu Sidun and his main entourage.
Gu Xidun walked into the camp with several main entourage and saluted Liu Cheng: "Thank you General for the banquet.
Gu Xidun gave the General several gifts, which are all the products of Jiankun people.
I hope the General likes them.
Come, bring me the gift I prepared for the general."
A follower brought three things up.
The guards in the tent took them and put them on the desk in front of Liu Cheng.
Liu Cheng stretched out his hand to Gu Sidun and said: "Please take a seat for the envoy and accompanying officials."
Gu Sidun and others walked to the seats prepared for them and knelt down.
Liu Cheng then looked at the three things on the desk.
The first one was a box of agate.
The color was very good.
This agate was of high grade and valuable.
The second piece is a piece of pottery, which looks like it should be used for drinking water and drinking.
The quality of this pottery is quite good, especially the pattern on it, which has a very high level of craftsmanship.
It seems that the Jiankun people are making pottery.
Already have a high degree of technological attainments in this regard.
The third item was a weapon, a scimitar with a leather sheath made of deerskin.
Liu Cheng took out the knife and saw that the decoration of the knife was ordinary, but he felt that the material of the knife was extraordinary. , I used my fingers to test the sharpness of the blade.
It was far sharper than the ordinary Han sword, and the shape of the knife was very suitable for chopping.
Liu Cheng ordered his people to accept these three gifts, and said to Gu Sidun with a smile: "Your Highness, these three gifts are very good.
I like them very much.
Come, let's have a drink together."
Gu Xi was very happy to hear what Liu Cheng said, and quickly picked up the wine glass to drink with Liu Cheng.
Under the arrangement of Chen Qun, several young Xianbei women came in to perform dances in beautiful clothes.
Gu Sidun was very interested in this and could not blink his eyes.
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Liu Cheng asked while eating meat: "Your Highness, what do you Jiankun people do for a living?
Do you live in tents or do you have houses?"
After listening to the translation, Gusidun replied: "General, my people mainly rely on grazing and hunting for a living.
In addition, they also plant a small amount of crops.
The livestock we graze are mostly cattle and horses, and there are few sheep.
The hunting wild animals The main types of birds include yellow sheep, ibex, deer, black-tailed birds, geese, ducks, magpies, eagles, falcons, etc.
Sometimes we can also hunt tigers and leopards.
My people all live in yurts, on the rock wall.
Describe and record important events."
Liu Cheng asked curiously: "Oh, what kind of crops do you plant?"
"Mainly grass, millet, barley, wheat and highland barley.
Where we live there are a lot of pine and birch trees, especially birch trees."
Liu Cheng nodded and asked again: "The prince gave me a weapon just now.
It was a weapon made of iron.
Is there iron ore mining in the Jiankun people's territory?"
Gu Xidun smiled and said: "General, we Jiankun people don't need to mine at all.
Whenever it winds or rains, a large amount of iron ore will definitely roll down from the mountain."
Me, isn’t this an open-pit iron mine?
After some conversation, Liu Cheng finally had a certain understanding of the Jiankun people in this period.
According to what Gu Xidun said, Liu Cheng deduced that the Jiankun people at this time should still be in the slave society period, and the gap between the rich and the poor was already very large. obvious.
Liu Cheng asked the last question: "Your Highness, I found that all your followers have red hair, green eyes, and fair faces.
Why are you the only one with black hair and black eyes?"
Gu Xidun was very proud when he talked about this.
He said: "What the general doesn't know is that my ancestor's name is Li Ling, and he was also a general of the Han people.
Three hundred years ago, my ancestor was named King Jiankun.
Since then, my ancestor's descendants have been Future generations will inherit the throne, but whoever inherits the throne must have black hair and black eyes, and the rest cannot be King Jiankun."
No wonder Li Ling was surprised by Liu Cheng.
Li Ling had been dead for three hundred years, but he didn't expect that his descendants would still be kings of Jiankun until now.
After a full meal, everyone dispersed.
Early the next morning, the army set out to return south.
Wang Shuang, the general who suppressed the barbarians, and the soldiers who stayed here lined up to send them off.
Liu Cheng specifically told Wang Shuang that other tribes were not allowed to sneak into Mobei.
Once discovered, they must be resolutely expelled.
If it cannot be driven out, then annihilate it.
Before leaving, Gu Sidun also sent people back to Jiankun to report the situation to Jiankun King Pagoda.
Among the soldiers and generals who stayed here, many of them soon found a woman to be their wife from Xianbei women and Dingling women.
There were men and women.
Naturally, something inevitably happened, and the guarding general Wang Shuang did not stop this kind of thing. , as long as there was no fight over snatching women, he would not care.
Some soldiers even found several women together.
After eight days of march, Liu Cheng's army arrived at the Monan grassland north of Wuyuan County.
On this day, Liu Cheng ordered to camp and rest.
At night, he summoned the generals and officials to discuss matters.
In the tent, Liu Cheng said: "After we have annihilated the Xianbei people's vitality, there are still some old, weak, women and children of the Tuoba Xianbei people in the Monan area.
Although these people are not harmful to us, we must send people here."
Guard, General Yang Ding, how about you guard the Monan Grassland here?"
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No one thought that Liu Cheng would send people to guard here, and Yang Ding naturally didn't think of it either.
He still stood up and clasped his fists and said: "My lord wants me to guard here, and my subordinates will guard here."
Liu Cheng smiled and said: "Don't worry, I won't let you stay here for a long time.
For up to three years, I will transfer you back to Chang'an.
I will give you 5,000 cavalry, divided into five schools, and leave you enough food."
You will spend the winter with livestock, furs, and supplies.
I will also ask other soldiers to help you build barracks in the past two days.
After next spring, you can organize the soldiers and the old and weak nearby barbarians to build a city."
Yang Ding cupped his fists and said: "Yes, my lord, my subordinates will definitely live up to my lord's expectations.
After the city is built this morning, please ask your lord to name the city to be built."
Liu Cheng thought for a while and said, "Since you, Yang Ding, are in charge, call me Yang Dingcheng."
The location of this city was approximately near the surrender city of later generations, not far from Wuyuan County, and the old and weak barbarians nearby were all under its attack
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