"We have to take the initiative to go over," Li Tan should say, a relatively young and handsome young man.
The sun was in full bloom, shining on the moat ditch, reflecting on the rammed earth city wall, two people wearing the wide sleeves that the Jin people loved stood on the earthen city wall about two zhang, they were a middle-aged and a young man.
The breeze was blowing, and there were waves in the wheat field in the distance, and the wind was everywhere, and the green wheat stalks were bowing their heads in rows.
There are no extra trees, some are just a straight stream to provide irrigation, but I don't know how much manpower and how much time the Li family used for this set of irrigation needs.
Li Mingzhi is forty-four years old, and he has experienced too many things from his childhood to such an age.
Because of the vagaries of the situation in the Central Plains, he was a citizen of the Jin State, experienced the wanton slaughter of the Jin people by Zhao before the Han Kingdom, and passed the relatively mild period of Zhao after the Zhao Kingdom. said that Hou Zhao treated the Jin people gently, it was at the time of Shi Le, when Zhang Bin was still alive, although the Jin people were brutal, but Shi Le followed Zhang Bin's advice, and treated the scholars of the Jin people relatively preferentially, or collected taxes, or recruited the best of the Jin people to serve the imperial court, and at least the ordinary Jin people were not as wanton as they are now.
"It's a different year."
Li Mingzhi's eyes were slightly cloudy, and only those who had gone through vicissitudes would have such eyes: "The gentleness of the Jin people to the Jin people has ended with the battle of Yangzhou."
In fact, Shi Hu first became the emperor, and under the established rule of "there are no two heavens and no two people", it is equivalent to directly becoming hostile to the Jin court.
Later, Shi Hu was persuaded by some ministers to change his title to the Heavenly King, but the relationship between the Zhao State and the Jin State under Shi Hu's leadership did not improve at all.
"When the king ascended the throne today, he never regarded us and other Jin people as human beings.
In this way, his father went from being a county magistrate to a rural villager.
Li Mingzhi has too many stories, and they are stories that the young and vigorous Li Tan feels impatient to listen to.
He knew that his son was arrogant, but now he couldn't tolerate the existence of such a high-minded and arrogant mood in the Jin people: "The Han Dynasty is new, if it is destroyed in the last conquest, it will be fine."
They survived, and the court would not make a big move for the Han Ministry.
If the Han Ministry sent people to Xiangguo for activities, Liu Yan would inevitably become the new county guard. ” It's all a process that can be guessed, there are too many Hu people who are officials like this, kill weak opponents, send people to Xiangguo to surrender, and then spend money and silk, no accident can definitely achieve the goal.
This is also a means for the imperial court to control the locality, encouraging the local Hu people and strong clans to kill each other, and the more ruthless those people kill, the better the imperial court will rule the locality.
Another means is that once the foreign army is to be used, any local family needs to send people.
Both methods are "the method of reducing the Ding", and I heard that it came from Zhang Bin's strategy.
"Not counting the cities that have been killed, the Han Department has already occupied Cabinet County and Jijin County, and will not do anything to the rest of the county seats."
Li Mingzhi's gaze scanned back and forth between the various departments in the dock fort: "The Han Department has lifted the threat from the outside, and its eyes will inevitably turn to the periphery.
We are too close to the habitat chosen by the Han Department, so we can only take the initiative to show goodwill. ” It is this point that Li Tan is not convinced, they have well-defended dock forts, thousands of households, and can gather a not weak army.
In the past, they were attacked by the Hu people more than once, and they were able to rely on perfect fortifications to support them many times, and no Hu people could enter the Li family's dock fort, Li Tan believed that even if the Han army came to attack, it was helpless to resist the Li family.
"Father, the Hu people are unreliable."
Li Tan's young face had not yet renewed, and he carried deep suspicions: "If we don't make enemies with it, why bother currying favor even if the Han Department comes to attack, are there still fewer Hu people we block?"
Li Mingzhi looked at his son's energetic face, and he couldn't say that he didn't feel it in his heart.
The Li family has a family education, and there are classics that are precious compared to other families.
That was when Li Mingzhi was the county magistrate, he used the convenience of his position to privately collect books, there are Mencius in the four books, and there are Spring and Autumn in the Five Classics, although they are not complete versions, but in the world, except for those thousand-year-old families, who has a complete version The most regrettable thing for Li Mingzhi is that it is the Hu people who rule the Central Plains, and it should not be said that it is a pity that the Hu people who rule the Central Plains do not hesitate to be talented and love talents, otherwise Li Tan, who has been cultivated with the background of the Li family, should have a place in the officialdom no matter what.
It's a pity that the imperial court and Zhao will not be a stage for the Jin people to show their talents.
"Do as I say," Li Mingzhi was still looking at the various places in the Dock Fort: "Go, don't put that pride on your face." ” The dock fort of the Li family is not small, there are trenches dug on the periphery, and the trenches are attracted by living water, and then equipped with thick rammed earth walls, the earthen walls are not straight lines, but are irregular shapes with edges and corners, which are the fortifications on the periphery.
They had obviously been instructed by a superior to know that angular walls were the strongest defensive effect, or at least the defensive side would have more shooting on the bow.
Rows of rammed-earth buildings are connected to each other in what counts as internal defenses, and even if the perimeter is breached, those connected buildings can serve as another layer of defense.
Even if the fortifications on that floor of the house were breached again, the attacking side would still need to face the real core of the Li family, which was the tulou built into a circle.
The tulou looks quite large, the thickness of the walls of the first and second floors reaches one zhang, there is only one entrance and exit of the whole tulou, the height of the whole building has a distribution of five floors, pay attention to the observation and you can see that the third floor has a lot of round but narrow windows.
The narrow holes on the third floor of the tulou are usually windows, and when needed, they are arrow holes, which seem to be about one every three meters.
In the middle of the tulou is a large open-air patio, there is no housing on the first floor, that is, a space for various labors, there is a cellar for storing materials underground, and there is a platform for drying wheat on the top floor.
When the top platform arrives in wartime, archers can be arranged, and wood or stones can be hoarded.
The whole is actually a strengthened version of modern Hakka tulou The Li family's dock fort covers a large area, and there is land that can be cultivated, but most of the acres are actually outside the earthen wall.
It's summer now, and the seeds planted in the spring have grown into wheat stalks, and in the autumn, the farmland outside Lijiawu Fort should be ears of wheat hanging down and forming a golden yellow.
"In order to be able to have a harvest in the autumn," Li Mingzhi withdrew his gaze and looked at Li Tan: "Why don't you take this trip?"
Yes, it is not good for the Li family to have a bad relationship with the emerging Han Ministry, and if they can hold the dock fort, what about the food outside Even if it wasn't for anything else, the Han Ministry was selling weapons and salt, and Li Mingzhi had already been tempted, but he was slow to take action.
This time, whether it is for the actual security needs, or for the sake of being able to get along with the Han Ministry to obtain weapons and salt, the Li family should take action.
In order to show enough sincerity, Li Mingzhi chose to send his eldest son Li Tan to the current residence of the Han Ministry.
Li Tan will not go alone, he will bring enough samurai, and the necessary gifts will also need to pull a few carts.
The Li family's dock fort is really a little close to Huangdao District, Li Tan set off from the moment of sunrise, and when it was close to noon, he was stopped by the people of the Han Department from a distance.
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"We are from Lijiabao, and we are here to present a gift from your tribal chief.
Please inform your officer.
Li Tan rode a tall horse, with the well-fitting outfit on his body, looking full of youthful heroism.
Stopping the Li family's group was Dou Aé, who is now a long man and is responsible for controlling a key road.
Li Tan didn't have a lot of people with him, about twenty or so horsemen, and then four carriages, loaded with gifts, about thirty or so warriors, some on foot, some sitting on horse-drawn carriages.
Dou A glanced at Li Tan a few times.
To be honest, he didn't like the arrogance on Li Tan's face, that kind of expression would remind him of some bad memories, and his attitude would be more rude.
"Check it out."
Dou A waved his hand, raised his head slightly in disgust, and shouted to Li Tan: "All dismount" Chen Qun engages in the nine-grade Zhongzheng system, so that people are divided into three, six, nine and so on as soon as they are born, and it is too difficult for people to change their fate.
People are born with a fixed fate, what a tragedy it should be, I didn't understand it before, but Dou A now understands a little bit, and naturally has no good impression of the arrogant family at every turn.
Li Tan's face flashed with anger, and when he thought of Li Mingzhi's instructions, he snorted coldly and dismounted, but he looked at Dou's expression very unkindly.
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