Because the Western Regions were dry, some of the corpses were so rotten that only bones remained, but some of the corpses became dried corpses.Ren Hong carried these corpses back to the grave one by one, the direction of the head was always towards the east, towards the location of the home, and then the soil was re-covered, the tombstone was straightened again, and he also silently read the words on it: "The tomb of Dr.
Sun Shang of the recruit commander Ling Renli.""
The tomb of Song Jun in the stone of Niyang, Nanyang County"."
The tomb of Yuyuki Tanato in the west of the tomb".They were all ordinary officials who had lost their lives to the Tao, and their good clothes were taken away by tomb robbers, and the personal swords and armor that were buried with them were no exception, and at most they were left with one or two pieces of wood.One of them was a letter written to him by the family of the "doctor Sun Shang", the words were simple, but the emotions were very sincere, and Sun Shang treasured it until his death.Ren Hong couldn't help sighing, if this letter was placed in two thousand years, it would be held in the hands of archaeologists with tears in their eyes, and carefully sent to the museum for collection, so that the world would know Sun Shang and his story.At present, the tomb thieves were thrown aside at will, and there was a footprint left on it, but the five baht coins carried by the officials when they were buried were looted, but there were also accidentally left behind, Ren Hong picked one up on the edge of the tomb, which is why the tomb was stolen.In the past few years, there has not been a thousand miles to the desert to find some exquisite ancient city to touch the gold, and the suspect who robbed the tomb is easy to determine: "Those who will pass by here, except for the envoys who are Hu Shang and Xiongnu envoys, the Huns are not interested in Han money, it must be Hu Shang's doing!"
”Not all Hu merchants in the Western Regions are their own people, and there are many opportunists mixed in them, and they will even do things that pretend to be envoys to defraud Han goods, covet the money and silk that may be buried in the tomb, and it is not surprising to do theft and excavation.Xi Chongguo has always shown a calm side, but at this moment he became extremely angry, shouting to ask Fu Jiezi for his life, let him catch up with the thief!
Fu Jiezi didn't say a word, and reburied the Han soldiers with Ren Hong, gently brushed off the soil on each tomb plate, and even took out one of his own clothes and wrapped it in the corpse of a Han pawn who had been stripped of his armor.But in the face of Xi Chongguo's mania, Fu Jiezi woke him up: "These graves have been dug up for a long time, and the corpses are covered with thick sand, and those Hu merchants have been gone for a long time, how to find them?"
Do you know that they went to Dunhuang in April?
Or did you go to Qiuzi in March?
We blindly chase after it, and we can't go to Loulan anymore?
”Xi Chong Chinese, sulking, used his own knife to slash a camel thorn on the edge of the beacon, and beat it harder.Ren Hong wanted to persuade him, but Fu Jiezi stopped him: "The father of Xi Chongguo, who is also an old pawn of Zheng Dawan, sang with me, and died in battle and was buried under the Second Division City." ”"The last time Xi Chongguo went to Dawan with me, he wanted to bring his father's bones home, but when we went to Ershi City, we found that the tomb had long been gone, and the Ershi City Lord said that it was dug by the Huns" That's why he was so out of shape?
Probably thinking that he would never be able to find the bones of his deceased father again, and that things would hurt him.Ren Hong was surprised, and said to Fu Jiezi: "Fu Gong, the subordinates have an idea, maybe they can find the Hu merchant who stole these money!"
Fu Jiezi raised his eyebrows: "Oh?
Tell me about it. ”Ren Hong called Lu Jiuyu over: "Old Lu, you once boasted that the money minted by Emperor Xiaowu and the money minted after the succession to the throne today, you don't need to look at it, you can know what year it was minted by touching it, is it true or false?"
”"What is a boast, of course it is true!"
Other Lu Jiu didn't dare to blow it, but he has always loved money, and the biggest pleasure is to count money."
Then look at it, what year is this money?"
Ren Hong took out the five-baht coin he picked up next to the cemetery and handed it to Lu Jiuyu.Lu Jiuyu touched it, looked at it, and said firmly: "It must be the three officials and five baht when he was filial piety!"
And it was twenty or thirty years ago, in the early days of Taichu and Tianhan. ”Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty tossed the currency system too many times, and it was not until the sixth reform that the official currency of the Han Dynasty was completely determined: Shanglin Sanguan and five baht.Ren Hong asked Lu Jiuyu: "What is the difference between it and the current five baht?"
”Although the current coins are also minted by Shanglin Sanguan, there are only two words "five baht" on the five-baht coin, and there is no year name.But compared to 30 years ago, the paradigm, characters, and calligraphy structures have changed, and ordinary people can see the difference.Lu Jiuyu took out the hundred coins he had earned from Han Dangdang, and said, for example: "In fact, although the five baht coins minted three years later in Xiaowu Yanhe are the same size as the five baht in Taichu and Tianhan, the weight is lighter, and the color is more dark red."
Fu Gong, please see, the pen on both sides of the five characters of the money has become bent, the word baht has also changed, and the outside of the coin is slightly lower than the five baht at the beginning."
It was the peak of the Han Dynasty, so the five baht coins of Taichu and Tianhan were the heaviest and the casting process was the best, and ordinary people were reluctant to spend it even if they had it.Just like the later generations of RMB, the five baht money is also eliminated, and the five baht in the Taichu and Tianhan periods are now many of them are recast, which is not common.Ren Hong arched his hand and said: "Since it can be screened, if a Hu merchant is trading in Dunhuang with five baht coins in the early years, he has to check it carefully!"
”Fu Jiezi bowed: "This is a good idea, but we can only ask Dunhuang Taishou to give an order after we return to Dunhuang, if those tomb robbers and merchants spend the money before this, I'm afraid they won't be able to catch up." ”"Therefore, this method is still a symptom but not a root cause!"
Fu Jiezi stood up and asked Ren Hong to summon Xi Chongguo over: "Even if we can't capture the Hu merchants who are stealing and digging in the desert one by one, I can ensure that this kind of thing will not happen in the future!"
”Only then did Xi Chongguo get into good spirits: "How can I do it?"
”Fu Jiezi smiled: "It's very simple, as long as our mission can be successful, the officials of the Han Dynasty will be able to return to the Western Regions!"
”Carry out a beheading operation in Loulan, replace the chieftain with the least price paid by the empire and the least damage to the people of Loulan, and support a pro-Han king of Loulan.After that, the Han Dynasty was able to send officials and soldiers to settle in Loulan, and the pavilion barrier from Dunhuang to Loulan will also be restored one after another.Fu Jiezi glanced at the few people who knew the mission of this trip to Loulan: "You haven't seen it, during the Taichu Tianhan Dynasty, the pavilion barrier went out of the jade gate in the west, through the three ridges of sand, through this valley, through the white dragon pile, until Yanze Lop Nur, in those more than ten years, merchants traveled through, and the envoys came and went, how prosperous it was!"
”Ren Hongcong has been abandoned all the way to the post station, pavilion barrier, in fact, there are feelings, small countries are numerous, all kinds of forces to seize the Silk Road is not safe, only the Han Dynasty completely unified the Western Regions, can bring her long-term peace.But now, eleven years after the empire abandoned the Western Regions, under the harassment of the Xiongnu and robbers, the normal trade of the Silk Road was almost cut off, and even those Han soldiers who died in the desperate region for the sake of the face of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and for the unification of the Western Regions for the empire are not guaranteed!"
This is one of the reasons why we must return to the Western Regions, no matter how dangerous the road is."
Fu Jiezi said: "Re-erect the prestige of the Han Dynasty, let the Han flag flutter in the various pavilions again, and want to guard the bones of the soldiers who died outside the fortress in the past, relying on the benevolence and morality in the mouth of the virtuous and virtuous scholars, but the real armor and crossbow!"
”And in the early morning of the next day, when everyone was about to set off to continue westward, Fu Jiezi took everyone to the dozens of tombstones that had been re-converged, left some food sacrifices, and poured a whole pot of rice wine on the ground."
Gentlemen, Shang Fang!"
Then Fu Jiezi bowed to the tomb plaque: "Many years ago, Fu Jiezi passed by many pavilions similar to Julucang, and had to bury the bones of the robe there, so I swore an oath. ”"It is difficult for me to transport all the corpses of everyone, tens of thousands of people, back to my homeland, so in order to prevent them from losing blood and food, and in order to prevent them from being bullied and humiliated by the Hu people, there is only one way."
Fu Jiezi said this to the loyal souls underground, and also said to himself and all the Han family sons and daughters under his command: "All the places where the robes and bones are buried, whether it is Loulan or Luntai, or Dawan west of the Green Ridge, must become Han soil, so that they can lie in the territory of the Han Dynasty!"
”The days of traveling in the Akik Valley were the most comfortable for Ren Hong along the way.Although the Shule River has disappeared from the surface, it still quietly lurks underground, accompanying the envoys and nourishing the narrow valley.As long as there is water, all kinds of life can survive tenaciously, yellow sheep haunt here, eagles hover overhead, and wild camels can be found.In the reed-covered depression, there is sweet spring water bubbling out, and the envoys do not have to worry about the water anymore, in addition to the poplar forest and camel thorns, there is even a dense sand and ice grass, which is the best pasture, and the radish is very fond of eating.In the past few days, they don't even have to feed the animals too many beans, and they have a lot of farts to smoke the officials who are walking behind.But what Ren Hong didn't expect was that in this seemingly comfortable valley, there was a hidden danger, and on the tenth day after leaving Yumen Pass, the first victim since departure appeared in the envoy group!
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