At the beginning of October, on the banks of the Peacock River, two hundred miles west of Loulan City, a gust of wind blew, and the withered yellow poplar leaves fell weakly on the water and slowly flowed downstream, and Lop Nur was their final destination.A fleet of boats was marching in the opposite direction, marching along the Peacock River, with dozens of small boats made of poplar wood, one after the other, lined up in a long snake.There were heavily armed Han soldiers with crossbows on board.There are also boatmen from Lop Nur, and the first Loulan man Ren Hong met by Lop Nur is also among them.You also had a long pole on his sturdy arms, and the boat had a deep draft and was loaded with corn and other grains, but fortunately, the Peacock River was very slow, and sometimes it did not even feel like it was going against the current.On the shore, there is also a cavalry escort fleet of dozens of people, led by Ren Hong.He rode a radish, and several subordinates such as Zhao Han'er, Han Dangdang, and Lu Jiuyu followed left and right, but Tao Shaoru, Song Litian and others stayed in the mud to assist the new mud Sima Zheng Ji Tuntian.While resting along the way, Sima Shu, the rider who was in charge of leading the way for them, squeezed over and asked curiously, "I heard Lu Jiuyu say that Ren Shilang refused the invitation of King Shanshan to pay homage to the prime minister?"
”This big tongue, Ren Hong glared at Lu Jiuyu, and that night, King Shanshan cried out after being rejected, and many people heard it.But Ren Hong resolutely refused to admit it, shook his head and said: "There is no such thing!"
”That night, Shanshan Wangwei Tu Qi's request was indeed very sincere, and it sounded quite tempting, Prime Minister of State.But if you think about it carefully, you will find that Shanshan is a country, but it has a population of nearly 10,000, which is only equivalent to a county in the Han Dynasty.What's more, as a squire, Ren Hong is also a young cadre of the central government, even if he has the heart to make contributions in the Western Regions, he will return to Chang'an for a few years to be gilded, and his future is naturally greater than that of "Shanshan Guoxiang".And there is another reason why Ren Hong is reluctant to admit it.Ren Hong remembered that in the Battle of Loulan, on the night of celebration after the arrival of the Han army, he and Xi Chongguo were designated as the first meritorious service by Fu Jiezi on the spot.After drinking too much wine, Ren Hong once mentioned to Fu Jiezi that Dunhuang Gongcao and the central governor suppressed him, so he asked: "Fu Gong brought me with him at that time, so he didn't think that he would offend people because of this?"
”As far as Ren Hong knows, the grain official who reported Ren An back then was already a big man with 2,000 stones, so it was no wonder that Dunhuang Gongcao and the Central Lieutenant were afraid.Fu Jiezi had the confidence to say disdainfully: "Zhilu is all empty. ”"Although I am only a Pingle supervisor of more than 600 stones, I am an official of the Zhonglang Dynasty, and that person, even if he is 2,000 stones, is just a prince and a left official, what is there to be afraid of?"
Zuoguan, this is the title of the princes, although the princes and ministers, Fu and other officials have a high rank, but the actual status is much lower than that of the court officials.When the Han Dynasty was first established, Liu Bang planned to move Zhou Chang, the imperial historian, to Zhao Xiang in order to protect his beloved son Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, and his rank remained unchanged.But Zhou Chang, who stammered, thought that it was "degrading the rank and abandoning the middle way to the princes", and he was very unhappy.During the time of the Han Emperor, Jia Yi was squeezed out by the military nobles and became a victim of the Han Emperor, and moved to the left as the prince of Changsha.Zhilu is much higher than before, but Jia Sheng is also depressed, and he complains about the pain in his heart.After the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the princes were overthrown by the central government, and their status was even lower, and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty dismissed many officials and subordinates of the provincial kingdom and changed their names to prime ministers, changing the gold seal to the silver seal.During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he even formulated the Zuoguan Law, stipulating that anyone who served in the princely kingdom could not enter the central government as an official!
In this way, the channels for the vassal states to absorb talents were killed, and the princes like King Liang Xiao and Liu An, the King of Huainan, who attracted scholars and led the fashion of the altar, could no longer appear.Ren Hong also rejected King Shanshan on the grounds of this law: "The Han Dynasty has the law of left officials, and officials go to the vassal states to serve privately, which constitutes the crime of left officials, and the heavier ones are enough to abandon the city!"
”"The inner princes are still like this, not to mention that Shanshan is only an outer prince now, and Ren Hong never dared to agree to King Shanshan's request."
Don't forget how the Huiji Taishou Yan Zhu, who was trusted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, died, that is, he had a private transaction with the King of Huainan, Zhang Tang convicted him like this: "Help enter and exit the forbidden door, the minister of the heart, and the foreign relationship with the princes is like this, if you don't punish you, you can't be cured!"
”If Ren Hong took it in a daze, Ren's enemies would know about the complaint, and even Fu Jiezi wouldn't be able to protect him!
So don't say that King Shanshan only promised to seal a city for him, even if Shanshan was to be divided equally, Ren Hong had to resolutely refuse.Sima Shu was bored, and instead talked about the news that they had heard about Wu Zongnian."
Ren Shilang can hear that the deputy envoy of Wu did not die, but was taken away by the Huns and taken to the court of the king of Richai, not long ago, Duke Fu sent someone to ask the Huns to return the deputy envoy of Wu, but the king of the day asked Duke Fu to exchange Loulan City."
Of course, there is no way to talk about this, not to mention that the Han army can't let go of Loulan City, and even the only city controlled by the Xiongnu must find a way to take it back!
This is the new errand that Ren Hong got temporarily: escorting the grain and grass provided by Loulan City, and sending it to Fu Jiezi's army besieging Zhubin City.Ren Hong wanted to scold, but it seemed that the old man had to delay for another three months before letting him go to Chang'an.But scolding and scolding, Ren Hong also guessed that Fu Jiezi took advantage of the opportunity of the Xiongnu day to lead his troops to the north to winter pastures for wintering, and led more than 1,000 Han troops to the west.Zhubin City is the western boundary of Loulan in the past, located on the bank of the "Zhubin River", a tributary of the branch of the Peacock River.The flotilla made a turn at the fork of the river and headed south.It is convenient to have a river, and thanks to the fact that the people of Loulan are actually a water people, many people are proficient in water and good at rowing, and it is said that the coffins are boat coffins.So when the Han army moved, You was still waiting for the fishermen boatmen who were begging for a living in Lop Nur to be conscripted into the army, and the migratory birds flew away after winter, and the results were not big, and working for the Han army was paid more anyway.When they had walked along the Zhubin River for half a day and rested for the night, and the next morning they came out of their tents, but Ren Hong squinted a few miles to the east, and in the sunlight there appeared the outline of a mound with buildings full of sharp wooden piles.Ren Hong pointed to the building and asked, "Could that be a beacon?"
”"It's not a beacon, it's not a city, it's a cemetery."
Sima Shu yawned and gushed about the scene he had seen with his own eyes: "That's a big sand mountain, and there are thousands of coffins buried underneath!"
”And Sima Shu is most interested in the hundreds of poplar stakes inserted in the sand mountain."
The roots are as high as two feet."
Sima Shu, who likes to talk about meat jokes on weekdays, somewhat obscenely compared his morning erection to his lower body, and performed it for everyone to see: "Some wooden stakes look like this work, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, winding wool ropes, fixing straw bundles, and dyeing red at the top." ”"There are also many wooden stakes carved into the shape of oars, painted black, like women's things, you know it?"
The older officials all laughed, indicating that they understood, and only a few chicks looked confused.Ren Hong was shocked when he heard this, not that he didn't understand, but suddenly remembered: "According to this description, could it be the world-famous Xiaohe cemetery in the future?"
”The fertility cult of the Loulan people is indeed very straightforward."
It is said to be the grave mound of the first group of Loulan people."
At this time, the Sogdian Shi Bodao came over, and after Ren Hong took his advantage, he wrote a letter to Fu Jiezi to ask for his consent, and also took the Sogdian to Zhubin City."
I have also been to Zhubin City, the old people in Zhubin City said that it is rumored that the ancestors of the Loulan people came from the West, and they stopped here to reproduce, and Zhubin is the oldest city, and then the population increased, and this oasis could not stay, so they slowly migrated downstream.""
It is said that the outside of the coffin boat is wrapped in raw cowhide, and the people in the coffin have not rotted for thousands of years and have become dried corpses, while women are buried under the root-shaped wooden poles, and men are buried under the paddle-shaped wooden poles."
Sima Shu didn't treat the Sogdians very well, and sneered: "It's not corrupt for thousands of years, and it's so detailed, you saw it when you went to rob the tomb?"
”Shi Bodao was not angry, and still had a smiling expression: "Dogs are divided into black and white, people are divided into good and bad, and businessmen are also divided into treacherous and good."
No matter what the others are, but the Sogdians in the city of Suxu Xiè only earn the money of the living, and never touch the graves of the dead!
”"Yes, the tomb robbers have cut off their children and grandchildren!"
Sima Shu's mouth was poisonous, and he still sneered unrelentingly, but at this moment, a group of people from the west came over, but it was Fu Jiezi who sent them to pick them up and carry the grain, but the leader was the old acquaintance Sun Shiwan.Sun Shiwan saw Ren Hong from afar and waved his hand and shouted: "Ren Shilang, you are too late, Zhubin City was beaten the day before yesterday!"
”So fast, the day when Fu Jiezi led the troops to set off was not a few days faster than the transport brigade, this is going down without a fight?
Seeing that the credit was not lost, Ren Hong had no choice but to smile and said: "It's just right, the rice, noodles, wine and food on the ship can be used to celebrate the merits, by the way, there are a lot of roasted naan, do you want to try it?"
”Sun 100,000 hurriedly waved his hand, and Han Dangdang, who was carrying a bag of corn ashore from the boat, scolded: "Sun 100,000, don't make a noise, come down and help!"
”Sun 100,000 is also an official now, wearing a decent robe, riding on a horse, shaking his finger and saying: "Remember, you will call me Sun 100,000 again in the future." ”Ren Hong thought that Sun 100,000 also took the word, but unexpectedly he said: "My parents gave me this name because they expected me to have a fortune of 100,000 yuan in this life."
But after the Battle of Loulan, I got a reward of more than 200,000 yuan, and my wish of 100,000 yuan has been fulfilled, it's time to take a long-term view and magnify my courage!
”"So I changed my name."
Lao Sun got off the horse, patted his chest, and said proudly: "In the future, you will call me Sun Million!"
”PS: The second chapter is in the evening.