After being encouraged by Bo Shi, Zhang Weiyang only felt full of strength.
Then, he was sent to the mission by Bo Shi, and became a member of the Han delegation that would travel nearly 2,000 miles in the wind and snow season, through the wasteland and breaking ground, to reach the Wuheng Mountain, where the Wuheng tribe is located.
The mission consisted mainly of people from three parts.
First, it was the Han officials and soldiers led by Bo Xujian, the lord of Xinhua City, including Zhang Weiyang himself, a total of seventeen people.
Second, there are hunters and guides from the Haoren tribe and their hounds, about a dozen of them, all of whom are said to have survived in the snow for more than a month.
The third is to follow the mission back to their own tribe of the Wuheng people.
The number of these Wuheng people is relatively small, there are only five people in total, and there is also a teenager among them.
The status of the young man should be relatively high, and as Zhang Weiyang saw, the remaining four people usually surrounded the young man, quite respectful.
In addition, what is more strange is that these Wuheng people are different from the Yidi that Zhang Weiyang has seen and heard of.
In particular, the hairstyles they wear are even more peculiar.
They don't have their hair braided into braids like the savages of the Nohao tribe.
Instead, all the hair in front of the head was shaved, and only in China, only criminals who committed crimes would be punished by the government as punishment.
But this kind of hairstyle, here in Wuheng people, seems to be a tradition.
Also, at the feet of these Wuheng people, there is a big dog squatting at all times.
This kind of dog, which seems to have been bred after crossing with wolves, is much larger in size and size than the dogs of the people.
The largest, even standing, was almost a man tall and looked extremely fierce.
These dogs seem to have a straw rope tied to their ears, and the straw rope is dyed with colorful paint, and I don't know what it is used for.
When it was just beginning.
Zhang Weiyang was still restrained, but silently under the instruction of the main envoy Bo Xu Jian, he helped to sort out the dry food, flint and blankets covered at night, and put them on the sleigh car.
But.
After the mission departed, on the road, Zhang Weiyang was walking on the outer side, and the distance between him and those Wuheng people was not far.
Gradually, I got acquainted with them, and I was even able to use the language of the people to communicate simply.
Slowly, Zhang Weiyang also knew the names of these Wuheng people, and also knew some interesting anecdotes.
That young man, named: Ye Lizhi, anyway, the pronunciation is like this, he is the son of an adult in Wuheng, and this time he followed the mission to Han to see him.
And within the Wuheng tribe, the high-ranking nobles of the tribe.
They all regard themselves as adults, and the low-level nobles are all handsome.
Between adults and adults, between small and small handsome, the status is equal.
If there is an argument, then they will speak with their fists.
Two adults or handsome, shirtless, fight, whoever wins is right.
This made Zhang Weiyang surprised to hear it.
Naturally, Zhang Weiyang also told these Wuheng people about his hometown Handan and some common knowledge he had heard about Chang'an, the god of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, this must be exaggerated.
Such as.
The scale and permanent population of Handan City were exaggerated by at least three times when Zhang Weiyang touched it.
The Wuheng people were even more stunned.
After coming and going, Zhang Weiyang made friends with these Yidi.
The relationship was connected, especially, during the break, after Zhang Weiyang invited these Wuheng people to drink two sips of wine, the other party immediately regarded Zhang Weixing as a brother.
The young man named Ye Lizhi used a half-baked language. patted his chest and promised Zhang Weiyang: "When you get to Chishan, I will definitely invite you to eat the grilled fish of our Wuheng people, now this season, it is just the time for the winter fishing in our clan to begin, and the fish in the sacred lake in winter is particularly delicious."
As he spoke, Ye Lizhi showed a look of longing.
He is only fourteen or fifteen years old at most, he has no scheming, and he is very simple.
But it is said unintentionally, and it sounds intentional.
Zhang Weiyang immediately secretly wrote down the situation.
In the future, this information will be compiled into a file and sent to Chang'an to appear in front of the Son of Heaven case.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Weiyang looked at the big dog that had been squatting beside Ye Lizhi, and asked curiously: "Why do you want to tie straw ropes to the ears of these dogs?"
Ye Lizhi listened, his face was a little sad, he looked at Zhang Weiyang, and said: "These big dogs are the guiding dogs of our Wuheng people."
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"Guide Dog" Zhang Weiyang was a little puzzled.
"Yes, if I die, then it will carry my clothes and hair back to the sacred mountain Chishan, and then, the adults of the tribe will know that Ye Lizhi's soul has returned, and they will burn my clothes and hair with fire, so that this big dog, with my soul, will reunite with my ancestors and gods" Ye Lizhi explained with some sentimentality: "These straw ropes are the faith that our Wuheng people have returned to the arms of our ancestors and gods after their deaths, and every straw rope has a shaman priest to bless the past year in front of the gods, Our tribe has returned more than 300 guide dogs."
"More than 300 guide dogs" Zhang Weiyang didn't turn around for a while.
"Yes, a guide dog is a person, I only see a dog, I don't see a person, that is, the owner has died outside" Ye Lizhi's tone became more and more gloomy.
But when Zhang Weiyang heard it, he didn't care in his heart.
More than 300 people died in a year It doesn't seem to be very serious But how did Zhang Weiyang know that in the Wuheng clan, the people who can raise a guide dog are the elite of the tribe.
Slaves and ordinary herdsmen are neither qualified nor have the spare energy to raise such a large dog.
Usually ordinary herdsmen die, they are all in a unified time period, and the shaman sends an old dog to carry dozens or even hundreds of people's clothes and hair before death, and burn them together.
This is still a good year for the tribe.
Therefore, in all the tribes of Wuheng, all combined, there may be less than 2,000 people who can raise guide dogs.
Three hundred died at once, which is equivalent to the death of one-seventh of the elite.
Such a loss, placed in any ethnic group, is painful and may even cause the extinction of the ethnic group.
But what can the people of Wuheng do?
These dead people were all forcibly conscripted by the Xiongnu to fight.
They died on the way to charge for the Huns, and used their own lives to give the people of Wuheng a way to live.
Their deaths.
More than 1,000 babies have survived this year.
From the point of view of the maintenance and survival of the clan, they died a well-deserved death.
However, there is a premise for this view, and that is that the Huns want to guarantee it.
It is the overlord of the grassland and the world, and can decide and control the life and death of the tribes on the grassland at will.
And now, the hegemony of the Huns began to waver.
The Han Dynasty from the East rose strongly.
Last year.
The Xiongnu even had to kill Wuheng's neighbor, the leader of the Xianbei tribe, take his head, and appease the Han Dynasty, as evidenced by this.
Otherwise, with the domineering of the Huns, it would simply not be possible for it to bow its head in front of a force weaker than him.
So, through the tragedy of their neighbors, the Wuheng people knew that they had one more choice.
It's just that.
In the Han Dynasty to the east, the Wuheng people had never dealt with them, and it was not clear whether the Han Dynasty people were man-eating tigers or kind elders.
This is why there is a visit of several people from Ye Lizhi, and what makes Ye Lizhi and others happy is that the Han Dynasty showed great enthusiasm for their visit, and Shan Yu of the Han Dynasty even ordered to send the current mission to visit Wuheng.
And this.
Undoubtedly a good start.
Ye Lizhi stayed in Xinhua City for more than ten days, he saw it with his own eyes, heard it with his own ears, and passed it.
The Hao people, who were often bullied by Xianbei, Wuheng and even Ding Lingren, have been getting better and better day by day since they defected to the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty Shan Yu even sent troops to garrison troops on the territory of the Hao people to protect them.
The upper echelons of the Hao tribe. and lived a life that stunned Yeli.
Even if it was just a small head, they all lived in a large spacious house, the walls and warehouses of the house were full of dried fish and dried meat, and they were dressed in beautiful and warm fur clothes.
As for the leader of the Hao people in the past, the guy who is now called Canghai Jun.
In the past, every year, people would be sent to send livestock and slaves to Chishan with their heads bowed and waisted, so as to bribe the Wuheng tribe so that the Wuheng cavalry would not invade them.
But now, when this guy saw Uncle Wuheng, his eyes were facing the sky, and he didn't even bother to get up.
And he does have such a reason to be proud.
With his back to Shan Yu of the Han Dynasty, it is said that he has been approached and rewarded by Shan Yu of the Han Dynasty many times, plus the head of the Xianbei King who was made of wine vessels in his living room, in this extreme east, there is no one who dares to offend him without opening his eyes.
The consequences of offending him would be tantamount to waging war against the huge empire in the east with a million armor and a territory of tens of thousands of miles.
No one can stop the thunderous wrath of Shan Yu of the Han Dynasty.
It is said that even the Xiongnu Shan Yu does not dare to annoy the Han Dynasty's Shan Yu now.
"It's a pity, we Wuheng people, there is no ancestor named Shaogao" Ye Lizhi thought of this, and couldn't help but be a little depressed.
The appearance characteristics of the Hao people are very similar to those of the Han Dynasty.
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Therefore, they are naturally very refreshing when they climb up their relatives.
However, the Wuheng people can't Ye Lizhi looked at the yellow beard and obviously different skin tones of his people, and shook his head helplessly.
The appearance of the Wuheng people is not only not like the Han Dynasty, the Hao people, the Koreans, but even the Huns, in the grassland, only a few of their close relatives are like Xianbei or something, and they have the same skin color and appearance.
After hitting the road again, Zhang Weiyang took a break and ran to the envoy of the mission, Bo Xu Jian, the master of Xinhua, and reported some news he had inquired about.
After listening to this, Xu Jian was also very interested, and immediately asked people to record it and form a text.
Chinese scholars, since the Spring and Autumn Period, have noticed that in order to deal with Yidi, one must first understand their customs and traditions.
Moreover, Xu Jian is not like Zhang Weiyang, who was semi-illiterate a year ago.
Xu Jian was born in Jicheng, and his father and ancestors were all attendants of the Yan Palace, so he once saw some records in the palace collection of the Yan Kingdom.
And these records are quite similar to some of the habits and customs of the Wuheng people mentioned by Zhang Weiyang, in some places.
"It's about Wuheng, when it's Donghu," Xu Jian guessed in his heart.
During the Warring States Period, when the Yan State was expanding, it was once challenged by the Donghu people, and the Donghu was even able to suppress the Yan State for a time.
It was not until the late Warring States period that Li Mu was born, which made the strategic situation of Yan State better.
During that period, there were close diplomatic exchanges between the Yan people and Donghu.
Even the Yan Kingdom once had a prince hostage to Donghu, and there are many relevant records, and there are many that have survived to this day.
It was from these fragmented records that Xu Jian smelled the vague connection between Donghu and Wuheng.
It's just that.
He wasn't sure.
After all, there is not much in common between the two, and it is possible that a certain tribe that was once influenced by Donghu was transformed.
The mission trudged through the icy wilderness, gradually moving north, slowly moving away from Xinhua City.
Three days later, it left the farthest patrol area of the Han army.
After crossing the mountains, you enter a world of ice, snow and mountains.
When you get here, the whole world is white, and it's easy to get lost.
Fortunately, the hunting dogs carried by the Wuheng people seem to have a talent similar to that of an old horse, and can always guide the direction in time at critical moments.
In addition, they seem to have a very keen sense of smell and can easily spot animals such as rabbits hiding in the snow.
It also added a lot of meat to the mission.
The only trouble for the mission was that they had to sleep in the open.
And in the world of ice and snow, choosing a good place to sleep without waking up the next morning to find that you have been buried in ice and snow is undoubtedly a matter of life and death.
Moreover, the bitter north winds in the mountains and the almost murderous temperatures at night began to plague the mission.
After entering this strange and barren world of ice and snow, the mission began to suffer from injuries.
By the next day, Zhang Weiyang found out when he got up.
There was even a Han soldier who froze to death on the sentry post during the night vigil, but a fire was still burning in front of him.
This is undoubtedly a painful lesson.
So.
From then on, the people in the mission, every time they kept vigil, there would be three people to remind and warn each other.
But this is not a long-term solution.
Fortunately, the accompanying Wuheng people comforted the rest of the mission. said that he would soon be able to enter the range of activities of the Xianbei people.
The Xianbei people will definitely leave the stone caves or even stone chambers where they lived when they hunted nearby.
When you enter the cave, you don't have to worry about the cold and low temperatures, which will silently take people's lives.
Sure enough, after entering the place mentioned by the Wuheng people, the mission found several inhabitable caves on the hills along the way, and in the caves, there were even extinguished fires, neatly laid hay shops, and even luckily, a lot of firewood.
But, as they continued to move forward, the Wuheng people and their hounds began to get nervous.
Zhang Weiyang even discovered that sometimes, those originally extremely quiet and tame hounds would crouch down and bark low, and Ye Lizhi was even more vigilant as if facing a great enemy.
"What's wrong," Zhang Weiyang then went over and asked.
"The Xianbei people are coming" Ye Lizhi said cautiously: "Go and tell the others, get ready to fight, our hound smells the scent of the Xianbei hunter, this will never be wrong" "Xianbei people" Zhang Weiyang didn't take it very seriously when he heard this.
As a Han Chinese, Zhang Weiyang is confident enough.
Last year, the Xianbei people killed a few people in a sneak attack, and their king's head was sent to Xinhua, and it is still in the living room of Canghai Jun.
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With such a small clan and widow, what else can they do Do they have the audacity to attack and stop the Han mission, which is tasked with the mission of the Son of Heaven?
However, Ye Lizhi's next sentence made Zhang Weiyang immediately alert.
"There are many savage tribes in Xianbei, and some of these savage tribes are headhunters, and they will hunt other humans who are not Xianbei people like hunting wild beasts" Ye Lizhi said solemnly: "Especially in such winters, it is difficult for them to hunt prey, so they will feed on people."
Zhang Weiyang didn't dare to slack off, and immediately reflected the situation to Xu Jian.
After Xu Jian heard this, he immediately gave the order and armed himself, but he was not too afraid.
There are more than a dozen soldiers with military training in the mission, and there are more than a dozen Hao people, and they also bring bows and crossbows.
However, Xu Jian soon knew that he was wrong.
On the mountains in the distance, a figure appeared.
Not one or two, not ten or twenty, but hundreds, densely packed, riding a sleigh cart, roaring Yidi.
Moreover, they appear from more than one direction.
When Ye Lizhi saw it, he immediately shouted loudly: "This is a person from the Xianbei Headquarters" For their neighbors, the Wuheng people are too familiar.
With your eyes closed, you can tell that those are wild and those are really fresh.
It's just that these Xianbei people, when did they come down from Xianbei Mountain Xu Jian saw such a situation, but he was relieved.
In such weather, with such fanfare, Xianbei people definitely did not come to embarrass them.
So, Xu Jian picked up his yak, flicked the snow on his body, walked out of the mission, came to the front, and shouted in Xiongnu language to the Xianbei people who were roaring: "Who is coming, this is the place where the Han mission is stationed, according to the law of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu alone, where the Han mission is located, it is regarded as the Xiongnu alone in the big beetle, and all the big and small canals are handsome, and they must not be violated."
After shouting three times in a row, the Xianbei people who were roaring stopped a hundred steps away from the embassy, and then there was no movement.
This made Xu Jian feel a little dry in his throat.
Maybe about a quarter of an hour later, or more, when Xu Jian felt that he was about to lose the knotted yak in his hand, the Xianbei people a hundred steps away walked out of a man in a fox skin, and the man shouted to the mission in Xiongnu dialect: "Lord Xianbei Qiu Kegu, I am overjoyed to hear that the Han envoy is coming, and I specially invite the Han envoy and the delegation to come to Xianbei Mountain as a guest."
He uses Chinese with a round accent and is extremely fluent.
And it's obviously Chinese with a Qilu accent.
This made Xu Jian suddenly feel like seeing aliens, this cold and snowy place, deserted, and never visited by Chinese, the figure of Han appeared S: Note: Xianbei and Wuheng are of the same origin, and the current social habits of Wuheng people are not very examinable, only sporadic records.
For example, some can be found in the Book of Wei, some can be found in the Book of Jin, and some are also recorded in the Book of the Later Han.
From these accounts, we can know some general information.
For example, the beards of the Wuheng people are yellow and belong to the Caucasian race, and the Xianbei people are similar.
The evidence is that Emperor Jin Ming was scolded as a yellow-bearded Xianbei slave, because his mother was a Xianbei person, and he himself was also a yellow-bearded man, with Caucasian characteristics.
In addition, Wuheng people are good at raising dogs, and Xianbei people live in stone caves, which are all recorded in Ming history.
According to the Later Han Dynasty, the Wuheng people sang and danced when they were buried.
Fattening a dog, leading it with a colored rope, and taking the clothes of the deceased's horse, burning it and giving it away, proves that they will use the dog to send them to the end.
As for the records of the Xianbei people living in the stone cave in the early days, there are many records, and the Northern Wei Dynasty even sent people back to the stone cave where their ancestors lived to worship.
In addition, the leaders of Xianbei Wuheng are all called adults, and I don't know why.
Now, it is no longer clear where Wuheng Mountain and Xianbei Mountain are, but we only know roughly that they were in Raoleshui at that time, and the area around the current Xilamulun River. t1706231537: