At the beginning of June of the fifth year of Yuanfeng, in the territory of the original Qiuzi Kingdom, Feng Fengshi accompanied the main reinforcements of the Han army on the way to its Qiancheng.The road was long, the weather was very hot, and the soldiers were very tired from walking, but there was no way, Qiuzi was the only place they could eat in the Northern Western Regions.Feng Fengshi couldn't help but think of the words that Ren Hong left when he left.Although Fu Jiezi asked Ren Hong to forget about the Western Regions for the time being and go back to Chang'an, Ren Hong was still relieved, and on the night before leaving, he and Fu Jiezi talked all night and came up with a lot of ideas."
The ditch plough and the wheel food have been exhausted, and the corn that was easily planted has also been trampled and destroyed by the Huns, and it has to be replanted.The 3,000 new arrivals of the Han army, even if they had to guard against the Xiongnu going and returning, could not be stationed in these two places, so Fu Gong might as well let the 2,000 people go to Qiuzi to disperse and eat. ”The capital of the country was broken, and the king was killed, which was the heaviest blow in the history of Qiuzi, and the former number one city in the Western Regions collapsed, and there was no great ambition again.After the arrival of the Han army, they officially divided Qiuzi into three, namely Shaya, Tingcheng, and Baicheng, and handed them over to three different families to rule.The selected Qiuzi nobleman was more frightened than happy, and obediently sent an envoy to Chang'an, asking the Son of Heaven to send a seal ribbon to officially establish a state.However, along the way, Feng Fengshi also found that in this war, the biggest damage was none other than Qiuzi, not only more than 2,000 young people were taken away as slaves by Wusun, but also the villages and towns along the way were also destroyed by the Wusun people.The earth was torn apart by the hooves of horses, wheat and millet were trampled into the dirt, and in some places wild wolves were seen biting rotting corpses.Although the Wusun people are allied with the Han, their barbarism is on par with the Xiongnu, and the bleeding of Qiuzi this time is too heavy, and it would be good to lick and heal the wounds in the next generation.Feng Fengshi looked away: "One general is incompetent, and the three armies are still affected, and the king of Qiuci chooses to use the knife against the Han first, then Qiuzi can only bear this consequence." ”But there is also a local exception, that is, the Taqian oasis eighty miles west of Qiuci City, which has not been affected by the war at all, and it is a very important part of Ren Hong's plan: "It is the second largest city in Qiuci, and the Wusun people have not violated it, and there is a vast oasis in the local area, with 10,000 acres of farmland, and two or three thousand stones of corn and wheat, and the grain after the autumn is enough for most of the Han army to eat until next year." ”And in the vicinity of its Qiancheng, as Ren Hong said, the oasis is fertile, the population is large, and it has been miraculously preserved under the iron hooves of the Wusun people.Seeing this, Feng Fengshi was inevitably a little discouraged: "Ren is really a genius, and while using the Wusun soldiers to destroy Qiuzi, he also doesn't forget to worry about the food after the reinforcements arrive." ”"Take precautions, take one step and look at ten steps, I am in vain Ren Hong is more than ten years old, when will I be able to do this?"
The only thing to worry about is whether the Qiuzi people in Qiancheng will be hostile to the arrival of the Han army.When Feng Fengshi and the others arrived in its Qiancheng, they found that their worries were completely frustrated.He was surprised to find that before he entered the city, he saw that on both sides of the road, there were people standing on both sides of the road, waving yellow flags that had been sewn and dyed with pomegranate skin for more than a month, and warmly welcomed the Han army to settle in.The people of the city are under the leadership of the elders, out of the city to welcome, the man is handed over with both hands, the Hu woman carries the pot of milk wine on the top of the head, and even the turtle dance music, shaking the shoulders and twisting the neck, singing and dancing all the way, extremely enthusiastic, and the Han soldiers are dazzled.And the high-nosed and deep-eyed elder saluted Feng Fengshi and asked the chief translator to tell him: "It can survive from the hooves of the Wusun people, all thanks to the Han envoy Ren Jun's rescue, and in the future, its safety will depend on the Han Heavenly Soldiers!"
”At the same time, Ren Hong has also returned to Loulan.Ren Hong was a little incredulous.He and Princess Yaoguang and the others went from the canal plough along the Peacock River to Loulan, a full 600-mile journey along the way, but it was calm and quiet, and nothing happened.Even the wolves that wreak havoc on both sides of the Peacock River this season have not been encountered, and the Xinjiang tigers that used to frequently haunt the reeds seem to be extinct, leaving not a single footprint.This is a world of difference compared to the so many thrilling dangers they encountered in Luntai in Qiuzi a few months ago.But it can't be said that it's completely fine, for example, when he was in Zhubin City, a stallion in the mission wanted to force a radish and was sucked away by Ren Hong."
My radish, even if it is bred, you have to find a Pegasus to match, and you are also matched?"
Ren Hong was so angry that he trembled.And when the earthy yellow walls of Loulan City finally appeared in the distance, Ren Hong felt a lot of emotion, and counted with his fingers."
I went north to Zhubin City to join Fu Gong in September last year, and now it's nearly June, good guy, another three months have passed."
Compared with the canal plough and Qiuzi, where the Han army in the Western Regions gathered, Loulan, which was repeatedly contested by the Han and Hungarians last year, was bathed in the sunshine of peace.The farmers of Loulan are still in the fields, fighting over the amount of water released each time, the herdsmen on the meadows beside the poplar forests drive their sheep, and the fishing boats in Lop Nur are dotted, and every net cast can catch a lot of whitebait.This is what is happening in the Western Regions, every time the Han army pushes the battle line outward, the small cities in the rear can be a little farther away from the war."
May it not be long before the entire Western Regions will be at peace."
This is Ren Hong's heartfelt expectation, after all, it is rain and dew that nourishes the flowers, not rolling thunder, which should be the biggest difference between the Han Dynasty's rule of the Western Regions and the Xiongnu, they are not destroyers, but builders.Hearing that the mission had arrived, Liu Wannian, the prince of Wusun, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, ran to meet him outside Loulan City, and finally saw his sister again."
The feat of Sister and Ren Jun to destroy Qiuzi has long been spread in Loulan."
After two months of not seeing each other, Liu Wannian's attitude towards Ren Hong was completely different from before, with reverence in his concessions.After all, Ren Hong changed the situation in Beidao with his own strength, and with the experience of Qiuzi, the envoys of Gumo, Shule, and Shache came east one after another, wanting to enter the Han Dynasty to pay tribute and change peace.If the news that more than 10,000 Huns were forced back by the 3,000 Han army came, I am afraid that there would be more small states in the court, in addition to the Cheshi, Shanguo, and Weisu who were directly controlled by the Xiongnu, more than 20 countries in the north and south of the Western Regions would be invincible, stop swaying and waiting, and obediently fall to the side of the Han Dynasty.Yi Xianghan, the lord of Loulan City, who came out to greet him, also smiled flatteringly: "Now when the name of Ren Jun is mentioned, everyone in the Western Regions knows about it, and Ren Jun's prestige can almost catch up with Fu Gong." ”"In my later life, I rely on Fu Gong to get to where I am today, how dare I compare with it?"
Ren Hong is humble on his lips, but he hopes in his heart that thousands of years later, the three words "Ren Daoyuan" can be the same as "Bo Wanghou", and they will also become a symbol, and future generations will be excited when they mention it.Yi Xianghan strongly invited Ren Hong and others to a banquet, while Liu Wannian was in Shanshan last month, and this month he came to Loulan, and he talked to Ren Hong and the Yaoguang clan about the difference between the two places."
In order to raise enough military rations for the Han reinforcements, King Shanshan and his wife have no different food, and they don't sit at a heavy table, and entertain me with ordinary food.""
On the contrary, the lord of Loulan City, although he also gathered a thousand stones of grain and handed it over to the Han army, he still ate delicious food, drank fine wine, and changed the food he entertained me every day, and gave me a lot of silk silk."
However, if Liu Wannian wants to choose someone he respects more, it is still King Shanshan."
King Shanshan, there is an indescribable look."
Liu Wannian will never forget the eyes of King Shanshan looking at the east when he was hungry.Look, is it the temperament of an elite man?
Ren Hong still remembers that King Shanshan tried his best to keep himself in the mud, and even threw out the bargaining chips of the prime minister.Shanshan Wang is a paranoid personality.,It's a heartfelt recognition of sinicization.,Recognize one thing and do it to the end.,Even at the expense of everything.,Yi Xianghan, a speculator.,Of course, it can't be compared.。
At the banquet in the evening, Yi Xianghan cautiously proposed to Ren Hong that he wanted to invite some Confucian scholars from Dunhuang County to come to Loulan to teach him the Treatise on Filial Piety.Ren Hong understood Yi Xianghan's small abacus very well: "Yi Xianghan is most likely afraid that King Shanshan's performance will be too outstanding, and he will be favored by the Han court, and finally return Loulan to the jurisdiction of King Shanshan, then he is no different from a king, and it will be embarrassing to be short of a nominal Loulan city lord." ”"Zi said: There is no class of teaching, if the city lord of Yi really wants to learn etiquette, he can indeed invite Confucians to come, but the Western Regions are far away, and ordinary scholars are probably not happy to come here.""
I'll invite you with a lot of money!"
This sounded like encouragement to Yi Xianghan, and he was immediately overjoyed, took out some gold that had been prepared a long time ago, sent it to Ren Hong, and further put forward a plan."
I also hope that Ren Jun will return to Chang'an, and after increasing his rank and honor, he will be able to give the son of heaven on my behalf, saying that Loulan is willing to belong to the Han Dynasty, use the Han law, and compare the princes with the inner one!""
Lord Yi is drunk."
Ren Hong became serious, pushed the plate of gold cakes away, and reminded him: "Loulan is just a city, not a foreign prince, you are just a city lord, not the king of Loulan, this proposal will never be agreed by the imperial court." ”Because of this, Yi Xiang Han's name was not right, and even the envoy could not be sent to Chang'an.In Yi Xianghan's opinion, Yu Tu Qi is much more difficult to deal with than his dead ghost brother Chang Angui.Seeing that the hypocritical King Shanshan next door is pretending to be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty more and more like a loyal minister day by day, and his performance is more and more exaggerated every time, how can he not be in a hurry?
Seeing that the proposal was vetoed by Ren Hong, Yi Xianghan was a little panicked, and avoided the table and bowed again: "Then how about letting Loulan become a vassal state of Dunhuang than Zhangye?"
Let me be the chief of Guiyi, as long as the Han can let my children and grandchildren be the city lords for generations, I am willing to hand over all the soldiers and horses of Loulan to the officials sent by the Han Dynasty to manage!
”PS: The second chapter is in the afternoon.