In Guanzhong in late autumn, it didn't rain in previous years, and the weather didn't look like snow at all.
In the northwest of Guanzhong, the situation of land cracking is becoming more and more serious, especially in some plains.
"The lower reaches of the weak water have dried up."
Ji Chang was holding a report from the northwest that had recently gathered in his hand, and the weak water he was talking about was a large tributary extending from a large lake in Juyanze: "The lower reaches of the weak water have dried up, and the rivers and streams that have been separated have all become dry riverbeds. ” Juyanze is composed of two lakes, the larger lake in the north and the smaller lake in the south, which have existed since the Han people did not set foot on this land, and were used as a common grazing area for Hutu, Baiyang, and Hun evil during the Xiongnu period.
There has been no rain for a long time, the amount of snow in two years is also very small, the northwest itself is a plateau area, people who know the common sense of geography should understand a point, the groundwater of the plateau has always been insufficient, and then lack of sufficient rainfall, the water is evaporated, once the lack of water must be a large-scale disaster.
There are two large lakes and a small lake in the northwest.
The two large lakes are Juyanze and Mingze, which maintain two large river systems of weak water and dark water respectively, and at the same time, weak water and dark water extend a number of tributaries, which can be regarded as providing water for the northwest, especially for the irrigation system.
The small lake does not have a proper name, it is called an oasis for a long time, that is, a lake north of Yumen Pass, but north of Yumen Pass is a multi-Gobi environment, and the lake is a desert dozens of miles ahead, and it is understandable that it will be named an oasis by the locals.
In the absence of sufficient rainfall, the water level in Juyanze, Mingze and Oasis is falling rapidly, and the river bed, which depends on the water supply from the lake, is decreasing.
If there is not enough water supply upstream, the downstream will definitely have to bottom out the riverbed, and people in the downstream will not be short of water.
It was about to be the tenth year of Yuanshuo in 351 AD, the drought in the northwest was getting more and more serious, and Guanzhong and Guandong also showed signs of drought, and the most urgent thing for the Han State was to deal with the inevitable natural disasters, and the locust plague that would inevitably follow after the drought.
"We have spread our manpower extensively, and we have not found any signs of locust activity for the time being."
Ji Chang said that the detection of locusts was in the direction of the grassland, and since a drought had broken out in the northwest, a large-scale locust infestation would inevitably occur: "No one could figure out why a large number of locusts suddenly appeared. ” Locust plagues often go hand in hand with severe droughts, and they move in groups from arid areas to low-lying and flood-prone areas.
There is a so-called saying that "locusts will be in extreme drought" and "locusts will be there in a long drought".
But no one really knows if there were so many locusts in the first place, or if there were so many locusts suddenly after the drought.
"I have ordered the locusts to be collected."
Cai You was somewhat sad, his dignified internal history of Su was actually presiding over the study of how to eat locusts: "Fried can indeed be eaten, and daring to eat is indeed a delicacy." ” Eating insects Zhuxia is not without a hobby of eating insects, for example, silkworms were regarded as a kind of food at the beginning, or the role of silk was discovered later, and silkworms avoided the fate of being on the table.
Eating insects in the southwest has developed more diversity, including Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, and Ningzhou also have a new food culture, not to mention eating insects, as if there is nothing that the locals dare not eat.
Ji Chang belongs to a member of the people who have eaten fried locusts, and his thoughts make him so disgusting when he eats them, the psychological rejection dispels his taste buds, and when he thinks of eating locusts, how can he still think that it is delicious.
Cai You was also extremely repulsive about eating insects, he saw the faces of his colleagues present and knew what the situation was, subconsciously covered his mouth, swallowed his saliva before continuing: "I have researched the grinding powder, although the taste is not very good, but if it is not locust powder, no one will know what it is." ” "Ahem" Sang Yu's face was quite normal, but he coughed twice and already showed his true thoughts: "Your Majesty has a saying, this thing contains a lot of protein and is a nutritious thing. ” "We are ready to hunt a large number of locusts as soon as they see a locust infestation."
Cai You subconsciously looked left and right, and then continued: "After the hunting, it will be ground and specially provided to the army." ” Cai Youhui subconsciously looked at it, confirming that there was really no military person present, for fear of being pounced on and beaten.
"Dispatch the army in a timely manner, then buy it from the civilian sector, deal with it and then provide it to the military."
Sang Yu laughed a few times: "Good governance, great good governance." ” Ji Chang, who was depressed, had a smile on his face, he really didn't have the heart to study the nutrition of locust powder, as long as there were countermeasures.
In response to the drought that broke out in the northwest, the central center of the Han State gave the measure of organizing people to go to the Western Regions, and added a grassland outlet behind it.
It is because the grassland is also included in the natural disaster stop loss area that Ran Min led the army out of the grassland to invade Xigaoche, that is, the grassland is extremely empty and barren, and the tribes that should be destroyed are all finished, and people really have nothing to grab when they go to the grassland.
There are no hostile tribes on the grassland, and even if someone is grazing, it is a government-run pasture, and they go to the grassland to dig grass roots and eat The drought plagued the center of the Han Kingdom, causing Xie An to send back the good news and did not attract much attention, including Liu Yan, the central bosses were all disturbed by the disaster, and there was really no extra energy to spend on the war in the Western Regions.
"Let's open the Wild Moxi Sea again," Sang Yu said in a tired voice: "There is the Great Plains over there, and there is a big lake called Yemo, and the drought around it is not so serious.
Yemo is close to the plateau, there are no people for a long time, there are many wild beasts in the wilderness, and then there is material abundance. ” Yemo does not belong to the northwest territory and belongs to the territory of the country of Tuyuhun.
Tuyuhun is now called Tuhun, the founding time is 313 A.D., established by a branch of Murong Xianbei in Liaodong.
The reason why this Murong Xianbei ran from Liaodong to the plateau to establish a country was because they were defeated in the Murong Civil War, and they had the name Tuyuhun because the first generation of the country was called Murong Tuyuhun.
When Murong Tuyuhun established the country, the name of the country was not actually called Tuyuhun, and he was not the king of Tuyuhun himself.
After all, Tuyuhun is the name of the lord of the country, how can he use his own name to name the throne.
His initial king name was the King of Henan.
Some time ago, Xie An led the army into Xiqiang Mountain, Xiqiang Mountain is located in the southeast of Tuyuhun, the strange thing is that Tuyuhun did not move from beginning to end, neither sent troops to fight with the Han army, nor helped the remnants of the Di and Qiang tribes who retreated from the Central Plains.
It wasn't until Xie An had dealt with the remnants that Tuyuhun sent an envoy to the Han Kingdom.
Tuyuhun's current lord is called Ye Yan, and his father's name is Tuyan, and he is Murong Tuyuhun's grandson.
In the Murong Tuyuhun and Tuyan periods, the name of the king of Henan was adopted, and it was only in Ye Yan that he was officially called the king of Tuyuhun.
Ye Yan, the third generation, is currently very old, and basically nine times out of ten he stepped into the grave, and it was precisely this that he did not respond in time to the approach of the Han army for a while.
During the period when he sent an envoy to the Han Kingdom, Ye Yan was actually seriously ill, and the country was handed over to the management of his eldest son, Sha Xi.
The Han side has already contacted the Tuyuhun envoys, and the official name given by the Tuyuhun side is to call himself Mukeguo, and the lord of the country is called the King of Henan.
The Han also found that their Chinese language was very good, and the characters used were also Chinese characters, and even some etiquette was no different from Zhuxia, the only difference was clothing.
Since the Zhou Room in Zhuxia, no matter what changes have occurred in the clothes, it will not be a clothing with a left placket anyway, it has always been a clothing with a right placket.
This design of clothes has become a part of Huayi's distinction later.
Of course, the name of the Muke country is fake, in the Ye Yan era, this Murong tribe has taken the official name of the country, that is, the name of the Tuyuhun of the grandfather of the contemporary lord Ye Yan as the name of the country, and even the name of the king has also been changed.
Tuyuhun not only reported a fake name of the country, but even concealed his origin, even if he was stupid, he still used the king of Henan.
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At first, the Han side thought it was some inexplicable country, and found out some clues from the king of Henan.
Murong Tuguhun's title of King of Henan was not self-proclaimed, but was canonized by the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty gave many canonizations to the leaders of the Hu people, such as Murong Diao was named King of Yan, Shi Hu was named King of Zhao, and Li Shi was named Marquis of Shu.
That will happen, although the Sima family lost the Central Plains, but the strength of the two Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms still has a certain deterrent legacy to the Hu people.
At the beginning, although the Hu people pressed the Jin Kingdom of the Sima family to the ground and beat them, they still recognized the status of the Sima family.
After Murong Diao did not bird the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Hu people did not bird the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty so much.
When Lu Yi learned that Tuyuhun was using a false name to send an envoy, he was furious and wanted to be imprisoned, and indeed he imprisoned those people in Tuyuhun.
At present, those people are still in prison, and there is not even a single person who has gone back to report the news.
Tuyuhun's behavior is an extremely bad deception at present, serious enough for the Han State to justifiably launch a war of annihilation against him, but isn't the Han Kingdom currently overwhelmed by natural disasters?
At the same time, there are many ongoing wars in the Han Kingdom, the biggest overseas war is with the Gupta Dynasty, the northeast side is also cleaning up the Tuoba and the remnants of Murong and the East Gaoche, and the west is recovering the Western Regions.
The obvious thing is that no matter how aggressive Liu Yan is, there are so many ongoing battles, coupled with the natural disasters that have broken out, no matter how leisurely, he really can't go to Tuyuhun with great fanfare.
Since it is impossible to launch a war of extermination against Tuyuhun, it is impossible not to take being deceived seriously, otherwise where is the dignity of the country, Sang Yu suggested that Ye Mo should also be regarded as a place to stop natural disasters, which is a means to deceive the Han State against Tuyuhun.
"Have you considered their reactions" Ji Chang has nothing to object to in retaliating against Tuyuhun, which is an extreme political correctness.
What he needs to care about is what will happen to the Han people after they pass: "Yemo is indeed a fertile land, and it is precisely so that there must be many tribes inhabiting it. ” Sang Yu chuckled: "Li Kuang led his troops into the Western Regions, and encountered repeated victories in the coalition forces of various countries.
The Han people, who are also armed, are young and strong, and there is no reason why those savages can compete. ” The central side didn't pay much attention to the war in the Western Regions, that is, Li Kuang's standing army and 50,000 armed young men could easily take over the Western Regions Coalition Army, and then Xie An didn't even make much effort to annihilate the Western Regions Coalition Army in Bailongdui.
The troops going to the Western Regions fought so smoothly, how could the center attach importance to the consequential feeling that "the big man is really invincible in the world", and felt that he needed to consider the cost of picking up who he wanted, and he didn't have to worry about whether he could win the battle at all.
"Exactly."
This time, Lu Yi put aside the differences between the north and the south, and chose to echo Sang Yu's words: "Its people are fugitives, and they are mixed with Qiang to establish a country."
Most of its parts are scattered and nomadic habitats.
The Yemo Plain is rich in water and grass, and there must be many livestock. ” The territory currently occupied by Tuyuhun is Qingyi Hai, which is second only to Hetao in terms of abundant water and grass, and it is also an extremely suitable place for grazing.
Murong Xianbei's tribe, when they migrated only a few thousand, but in the past few decades it has increased to hundreds of thousands, in addition to annexing some Qiang tribes, inhabiting high-quality territory, can provide a stable source of food, is one of the factors of population growth.
At present, there is no shortage of war horse breeding bases in the Han Kingdom, if the Western Han Dynasty found the great plain of the Qing1 Sea, he definitely didn't want to occupy it directly, so he didn't have to shed blood and spend national strength to fight with the Huns to grab pastures.
In the following dynasties, as long as they knew about the existence of the Qingyi Sea Great Plain, they basically tried their best to control it, and no one dared to easily lose this high-quality horse-producing land.
"Since Zishen has the same opinion as Yanzhi," Ji Chang sighed helplessly before continuing: "I'll wait for the three of us to jointly report to the Son of Heaven." ” The housekeeper of the Han Kingdom is not good, the perennial war continues, and the production is basically consumed in various wars, Ji Chang, who is forty-one years old this year, should be in the prime of life, and his temples are already white, and it seems that some people believe it in their fifties.
"Prime Minister."
Sang Yu still has more respect for Ji Chang, and he said softly: "The grassland is barren and unobtainable, only the Western Regions is not enough, and the wild Mo is good governance." ” Ji Chang didn't know that giving the people an extra way out was good governance, but he had to consider Tuyuhun's reaction, and he also thought that Tuyuhun must raise the strength of the whole country to resist.
In the final analysis, the Han people went to Yemo with the purpose of robbery, which would inevitably make Yemo a war-torn Shura land, and there was no reason why the Tuyuhun people would not resist when they were robbed.
As soon as Tuyuhun resisted, the Han State had another front, and the dispatch of the standing army in the past became an inevitable reaction, and the already scarce resources had to be tilted over, can Ji Chang not be helpless "The big man is like the sky, and no one can be the edge."
Lu Yi also comforted Ji Chang: "Prime Minister and relieved."
Fighting to feed the war will only increase the input. ” Even if Ji Chang has a thousand words, in the end he can only turn it into: "I hope so." ”: