"I only hope that Su Yannian and Chen Pengzu can help and spread today's words to Fu Jiezi's ears, otherwise I have to wait for Fu Jiezi to go to the Hanging Spring, and deliberately let Zhi Sifu or Xia Weng mention it."
Ren Hong calculated in his heart, he deliberately wrote and spoke when he heard that Su and Chen were going to Yumen Pass to meet Fu Jiezi.However, although Chen Pengzu intended to scare, what he said was true, the Western Regions is indeed a dangerous place for people in the Central Plains to talk about.But the greater the risk, the greater the opportunity!
No, for someone of his stature, this is simply the only chance to rise to the top!
This has to talk about the life experience of this "Ren Hong".The ancestors of the Ren family were also broad, and when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Ren Hong's grandfather was a member of the court, and he had been a high-ranking official with more than 2,000 stones.It's a pity that Ren was implicated in the famous campaign "Witch Curse", and Ren Hong's grandfather was executed.Fortunately, the three clans were not punished, and the Ren family was moved to Dunhuang to build the border of the motherland.Ren Hong was only three or four years old at that time, led by his parents, and went to the northwest in the cold winter wax moon, and suffered a catastrophe, and the clan servants were scattered, but a cook named "Xia Ding Mao" did not leave, and took care of the master in distress.The Central Plains people first arrived in Hexi, the water and soil were not adapted, Ren Hong's parents only arrived halfway, they both died, only Xia Dingmao was loyal to his duties, brought Ren Hong to Dunhuang, the master and servant depended on each other for more than ten years, and immigrants continued to arrive, the imperial court set up Xiaogu County by the Shule River, and Xia Dingmao was recruited to work in the kitchen of the hanging spring.And Ren Hong also grew up, and Xia Dingmao poured all his wealth for him to go to the county to worship Confucianism as a teacher.However, in my memory, Mr.
Zheng in Xiaogu County, there is not much ink in his stomach, neither poetry, nor spring and autumn, this Ren Hong has studied for two years, and he has learned the literacy textbook written by Sima Xiangru.Fortunately, Ren Hong is strong and strong, and he can also play some kung fu with swords, and in the era of general blindness, he can also blow a sentence of "can be able to fight".But the disaster is not a single line, in the spring of the third year of Yuanfeng, Ren Hong returned home from the county seat, encountered a rare strong wind and sand, fainted in the sandstorm, and was rescued by someone for a long time to return to the hanging spring, seek medical treatment and worship witches, and finally woke up.However, Ren Hong, who woke up, was already a new person, and Ren Hong was naturally unwilling to stay in Hanging Springs for the rest of his life, and he also tried to behave.Last month, when the western governor of Dunhuang passed by Hanging Springs, he admired Ren Hong's conversation, and once had the intention of promotion.But there is no more about this matter, probably because the superintendent returned to the county and checked Ren Hong's life experience, "The son of the criminal official, imprisoned for three generations!"
”Chanting this spell, Ren Hong walked out of the house and came to the courtyard of the hanging spring.Hanging Spring is a standard square dock yard, 50 meters 50 meters, the wall is two zhang high, rammed up by the loess and grass, and the sky on the top is very blue.As an official post station, the Hanging Spring Sparrow is small, but it has all the organs, integrating the outpost, the post post, the house, and the kitchen, providing all the services of food, housing and transportation for the past businessmen and messengers.Ren Hong saw that the little servant was spreading out the smelly bedding, beating the dust, and letting the sun shine on the dock wall.On the opposite side of the house is the kitchen with smoke curling.The kitchens of the Han Dynasty, whether private or public, were generally set up in the east, so there was a song cloud: "East kitchenware dishes, spine cows cook pigs and sheep." ”Hanging Springs is no exception, the kitchen is against the east wall of the dock courtyard, a separate small courtyard, surrounded by a low wall, which has granaries, stove rooms, firewood rooms and other areas.The women began to wash rice and cook rice, and the cook was already sharpening his knives, and he could faintly smell the smell of meat wafting from the pottery.As for the official in charge of the East Kitchen, Xia Dingmao, the old servant of the Ren family who raised Ren Hong, was standing at the door of the East Kitchen at the moment, reprimanding a pawn, "How many times have you said that the fire pond of the East Kitchen should be optimistic, and it must not be extinguished, why did you squat there and fall asleep!""
It's also difficult to put a pawn for that, because Xia Dingmao's accent is an authentic Shujun dialect, and he speaks it quickly, he can't understand a word Xia Dingmao's beard is gray, and his head is wrapped in a white silk head, and his skin is darker from the sun and rain."
Xia Wen!"
Ren Hong only shouted, and Xia Weng immediately changed from a fierce god who reprimanded his subordinates to a kind eyebrow.When he walked over a few steps, he was about to salute Ren Hong, completely forgetting that he was a cook who was "more than a hundred stones", and he was even higher than Ren Hong when it came to rank."
Is the gentleman hungry?"
How many years has been the hot soup in the east kitchen, although time has passed, Xia Dingmao has always remembered Ren's kindness to him, and treats Ren Hong like a young master.Ren Hong didn't let him salute, the two of them were called master and servant, but for Ren Hong, Xia Weng was like his own uncle!"
Xia Weng, that's good news."
Ren Hong whispered to him: "The person I was waiting for, Fu Jiezi, is finally coming!"
”After a while, an old man and a young man walked towards the gate of the hanging spring.Ren Hong was in front, he was carrying a basket made of red willow on his back, looked back at Xia Dingmao and said, "It's almost time to eat now, Xia Weng left the kitchen, is it really not tight?"
”Commoners in the Han Dynasty only ate two meals a day, and breakfast time was the time to eat, about 9:10:30 in later generations."
It's almost time to eat, but the shallots in the east kitchen are not enough, and those apprentices can't be relied on, so the old man came out to find it himself."
Xia Dingmao said as he wiped the sweat from his head: "It's so hot in the morning, it's going to be difficult today." ”Ren Hong knew the reason why Xia Dingmao had to go out: Hanging Spring was located in such a small place, but there were a total of 37 officials, pawns, apprentices, and royals, plus officials and pedestrians, it was simply dense, and it was really not suitable for whispering.Out of the hanging spring, the world suddenly opened up, when there is no sand and dust, you can see the surroundings clearly, it is a completely different scenery from the Central Plains.The sky was a striking deep blue, with not a single cloud, set against the earthy yellow earth.To the north of the Hanging Spring is a Gobi Desert, with occasional poplar forests and strange willows growing, and more black pebbles and scattered small grass piles.It is the Xishawo and the salt-alkali flat, and through them, the beacons thirty miles away from the north can be faintly seen, one by one, like a resolute sentinel, standing still, stretching for hundreds of miles from east to west, constituting the defense line of the Great Wall in the north of Dunhuang.With these beacons guarding Dunhuang, the Huns did not dare to come over to herd horses and plunder.The south side of the hanging spring is three lines from far to near, from high to low: the farthest white line is the Snow Mountain, or more than 100 miles away, that is the Qilian Snow Mountain that spans the entire Hexi Corridor.The middle is the black line, this is the Sanwei Mountain, the color is black and brown, it is said that in ancient times, Emperor Shun exiled the unruly three seedlings here.The nearest is the red line, the flame mountain of the three dangerous branches, and there is no grass on the mountain, showing a strange brownish red, like a fire, hence the name.At the foot of the Flaming Mountains there is a patch of greenery, an oasis nourished by a stream called "Hanging Spring", like an emerald in the Gobi, no matter how big the sandstorm is, it cannot hide it.Flowing along the springs, the oasis spreads out and continues to the avenue connecting the Central Plains with the Western Regions.Ren Hong has already made a name for this road."
Silk Road!"
Walking on the road, there was no one left and right, Xia Dingmao expressed his doubts: "The old servant is stupid, and I still don't understand why the gentleman is so concerned about Fu Jiezi." ”Ren Hong sold Guan Zi: "How much does Xia Weng know about Fu Jiezi?"
”Xia Dingmao laughed: "The old servant is just a cook, and the understanding of this person is naturally from his food." ”"A year ago, Fu Jiezi went to the Western Regions with a festival, passing by Hanging Springs, at that time the old servant was a chef, I only remember that this person has a lot of food, especially likes to eat chicken!
Fu Jiezi alone ate two!
”Although the chickens are relatively thin this year, one person kills two, and he is also a big stomach.Ren Hong couldn't help laughing: "I know all this, and they are all recorded in the book of fees for the horse to supervise the Hanging Spring, but it's a pity that I came to the Hanging Spring late and couldn't see this scene with my own eyes." ”So Ren Hong's understanding of Fu Jiezi was only to ask the officials and businessmen who came to him.Fortunately, there was no entertainment at night these days, and Hanging Springs did not provide special services, so chatting with the mountains became the only way for travelers to pass the time during the long night.Everyone lay on the couch of the house, chatting about the scenery of their hometowns, talking about the news of the Western Regions and Chang'an, and the accents of different counties converged here, although most of them were useless nonsense, but after a long time, Ren Hong also collected a lot of information.Ren Hong said: "I heard from the past officials that Fu Jiezi is a good family in the north, Emperor Xiaowu was an official in the army, and accompanied the general Li Guangli of the second division on an expedition to Dawan, but his fame is not obvious, and now twenty years have passed, and he is just a 600 stone horse supervisor" The horse supervisor is subordinate to one of the servants of Jiuqing, and the rank is the same as the county order."
Don't look at the rank Lu is not high, but Fu Jiezi is in charge of the horseback riding of the Son of Heaven, and often walks in the palace, which is quite appreciated by the general Huo Guang.This time he went to the Western Regions, passing through Loulan and Qiuzi, he did a lot of things. ”"When he went, he angrily scolded the king of Loulan, and when he came back, he killed the Hun envoy in Qiuzi, but it was not the point, his main purpose was to go to Dawan!"
Dawan has been in the west of the Green Ridge, in the Kyrgyzstan and Uzbek areas of later generations.Speaking of this, Ren Hong asked Xia Dingmao: "Xia Weng knows what Dawan is most famous for." ”This Xia Dingmao is clear: "Naturally, it is sweat and blood!"
”Ren Hong clapped his palm: "That's right, it's Tianma!"
”By this time, they had gone around to the southwest of the Hanging Spring.Sitting on 15 carriages, more than 40 cattle and horses in the hanging spring stable, every day produces a large amount of livestock manure, the smell is touching, it is not appropriate to smoke the envoys and officials.Therefore, the stables are located outside the south wall of the dockyard, one is close to the oasis for grazing, and the other is to let the howling wind carry away some of the smell.At this time, a dusty post man had just arrived at Hanging Springs from the west, and the stableman welcomed him into the house, while the others were responsible for feeding the horses water and beans, and if the post man was in a hurry, he was to replace him with a new horse.Ren Hong stood on tiptoe and could see that the horses in the stable, the shoulder height is generally seven feet, placed in the Central Plains, this is already an outstanding "Hexi horse".But the height of the Dawan Pegasus can be more than eight feet!
The Soma Sutra says: More than six feet is a horse, more than seven feet is a horse, and more than eight feet?"
For the dragon!"
Half a century ago, for this rare horse breed in the Central Plains, the Han Dynasty even conquered Dawan twice!
Although the people of the whole country tightened their belts, they were exhausted by this expedition.Although the Han Dynasty won a crushing victory in the end, only 23 out of 10 people returned to Dunhuang alive.But in this war, the harvest was not only thousands of Dawan horses, but also the entire Western Regions saw the strength of the Han Dynasty, and the oasis city-states were all subdued.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was also very happy, when Tianma entered the court, he personally wrote a song of the West Pole Tianma, for this great auspiciousness, specially changed the yuan to "Tianhan"!
Therefore, Tianma had special political significance for the Han Dynasty.These past events were witnessed by Xia Dingmao when he was a servant of the Ren family in Chang'an, but what happened next required keen insight.Ren Hongdao: "According to the alliance under the city that year, Dawan has to send two sweat-blooded horses as tribute every year. ”"But this tributary relationship has been interrupted for a long time."
This is what Su Yannian and Chen Pengzu said to Ren Hong before, the Han soldiers have not left the Jade Gate for more than ten years, which makes the countries of the Western Regions a little neglectful of the Han Dynasty.Coupled with the provocation of the Xiongnu, for three consecutive years, every year Han envoys were intercepted and killed, and the influence of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions seemed to have retreated to the Han Empire, which had recovered its national strength after eleven years of recuperation before the Battle of Dawan, would not tolerate this situation for too long."
The year before last, the general Huo Guangcai overthrew his political enemies Sang Hongyang, Shangguan Ji, the eldest princess of Eyi, King Yan and others" After Ren Hong finished reading, he was shocked to realize that this list was so long, and he felt that Huo Guang was really terrible."
Last year, I immediately asked Fu Jiezi to go to Dawan with a festival to try to restore the tribute of Tianma when Emperor Wu was in power, what does this mean?"
Xia Dingmao still didn't understand too much, and guessed randomly: "Is it the general, or does Your Majesty want to ride a heavenly horse?"
”Ren Hong couldn't cry or laugh, riding a ghost, not to mention that the sweat and blood were very fierce, the little emperor couldn't climb up without help.Let's just say that Huo Guang, a creature who lives entirely for politics, must have a clear political purpose in making decisions and doing things.He pointed to the west, the Silk Road stretching west under the scorching sun, and expressed his guess: "No, this means that the imperial court intends to reopen the Western Regions!"
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