The fat turnip was a little uneasy on the bulging sheepskin raft, it had never been on such a "boat", and the water was so cold in October that it would be uncomfortable to fall.Han Dangdang was also very vigilant, because the prince actually allowed that "traitor" Long Ye Ganmang to join the team and become one of the lieutenants of the Qiang Guard.Ren Hong is not worried: "I heard that the Qiang people are happy to die in battle and ashamed of illness, he is strong and strong, and he has the opportunity to escape, but he has endured it and was sold to Jincheng County."
I heard from the little official that this person was fine when he was beaten on weekdays, but he was extra protective of his relatives, so he thought he cared about them. ”What's more, in the mouth of Long Ye Ganmang, Han Guan is hateful, but his biggest enemy is still the Xian Lingqiang Zhuhao who destroyed the tribe and killed his father.Ren Hong promised Longye Ganmang a cake to return the freedom of him and his clansmen, plus he came to Jincheng County this time, the problem to be solved came from Xian Lingqiang, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and it is not impossible to use each other.After crossing the clear river on a raft with a sheepskin peculiar to the area, Huangshui, the largest tributary in its upper reaches, there is a ravine-crisscrossed valley in front of it."
Huanggu has arrived."
Long Ye Ganmang stood up with some excitement, he had been away from the river that their tribe called "Mother" for too long.This is the core of Jincheng County, the Huangshui River Valley, and if you go upstream along it, you can enter the boundary of Qinghai Province in later generations, until Xining.Further west, near the Huangxia Gorge, is the birthplace of the Longye Division.But see that the loess of the terraces here is fertile, the grassland has not completely died, there are caragana grass and willow trees by the river, Tibetan antelope and yellow sheep shuttle through the forest, the fallen leaves and moss on the ground are clattering, the mountains in the distance grow fir, the tributaries divide the loess, and there are some lilu and farmhouses distributed on both banks.The abundant rainfall brought by the monsoon from the east every summer makes the Huangshui Valley more like an extension of the Loess Plateau, fertile and suitable for farming, rather than the harsh rest of the Tibetan Plateau.You must know that in later generations, the counties of Minhe, Ledu, Xining, Huangzhong, and Huangyuan in the Huangshui Valley only accounted for 2 of the area of Qinghai Province.It is such an insignificant volume, but it has 55% of the arable land area of Qinghai Province and nearly 60% of the population."
No wonder Zhao Chongguo told me that there is bitterness in Qiang, and only the river is meritorious."
Looking at the river valley that stretched to the west, Ren Hong said secretly: "I now know why the Qiang people have sharpened their heads and want to return here. ”From the book Ren Hong found in the subject country, it was learned that the descendants of the Qiang people were divided into more than 150 kinds from the earliest ancestor Jianjian, which were scattered on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Hehuang Zhuqiang accounts for more than 80 kinds, the most powerful is called "Zhong Chong", also known as Xian Lingqiang, forming a strong clan alliance, once nomadic in the lower reaches of Hehuang, the rest of the big more than 10,000 people, small thousands of people.Zhuqiang in the early Han Dynasty had a lot of living space, because the Yueshi moved westward, the Xiongnu could not occupy Hexi, Zhuqiang could go over to graze, as long as they helped the Xiongnu to attack the Han during the war, so the Qiang people were very willing to obey the Xiongnu.But everything changed after the Battle of Hexi, and the Qiang tribes who did not belong to the Han Dynasty were excluded.Xian Lingqiang was not satisfied, united with the prison sister Qiang, and the feudal Qiang to resolve the feud and form an alliance, and the Xiongnu communicated, combined more than 100,000 troops, and attacked Han Lingju and other places.As a result, it was counterattacked by the Han army, not only did Hexi Longxi not be defeated, but even Hehuang's hometown was lost.Zhuqiang can only migrate to the west, first Lingqiang ran to the plateau of Qinghai Lake, Chaka Salt Lake area to live a hard life, and the Huangshui area became the Han realm, the first six years of the first year in 81 BC formally set up Jincheng County jurisdiction.As a result, the living space of the Zhuqiang is even narrower, and the only places suitable for their slash-and-burn cultivation are the large and small elm valleys south of the Yellow River.For the sake of those two warm river valleys, the Qiang attacked each other, the wars were cruel and frequent, and the resentment grew deeper and deeper.No wonder Zhao Chongguo said that the contradictions between the Qiang people are greater than those between them and the Han Dynasty, as long as they do not blindly bully and take advantage of the grudges between them, it is enough for the Qiang people to attack each other and cannot work together to deal with the Han Dynasty.These tribes of the Longye tribe are poor and small, and they are not even qualified to compete for the big and small elm valleys, so in order not to be bullied by the big races, they can only rely on the Han, and thus obtain the qualification to be nomadic in the Huangshui Valley.Although the Han Dynasty also migrated to Hehuang, the population was scarce, and the more than ten counties of Jincheng County combined were only in their early 100,000s, and they were still concentrated in the east.To the west of Huangxia in Anyi County, the Xining Basin was almost undeveloped in later generations, and after the border was relaxed, the Qiang people came back one after another.When resting, Long Ye Ganmang squatted by the river, held the water in the palm of his hand and drank it, which did have some familiar taste: "We are stationed in the Huangxia area, and the two generations are fine, but a few years ago, Xian Lingqiang began to return to Huangshui, and gradually invaded the departments, we were invincible, and we also asked for help from the captain of Huqiang, but the Han officials did not save them." ”A few years ago, the Han Dynasty broke with Wuhuan in the northeast, and began to venture into the Western Regions, especially the four or five years of Yuanfeng, thanks to Ren Hongzhu's Iron Gate Pass, the Han and Xiongnu fought in the Western Regions, and the Hexi garrison was all transferred to the west."
Focus on the overall situation of the world."
Ren Hong secretly recited what Zhao Chongguo said to himself, presumably a few years ago, the magistrates of Jincheng County also received such instructions.As long as Lingqiang did not directly attack the Han army's county east of Huangxia, Jincheng County would be regarded as not seeing.It doesn't matter if Long Ye and the other departments are destroyed, anyway, it is common for the foreign Qiang to attack each other, so how can they manage it.What's more, Xian Lingqiang learned to be smart, changed his previous confrontational posture, and sent one of the defeated tribesmen's livestock population to Jincheng County every time, so that the county acquiesced in their behavior.Xian Lingqiang got the land they needed, and slowly infiltrated the hometown of Hehuang; The border officials received animal bribes and lived on subsidies; Jincheng County was given a captive population that could be used as merit, avoiding a conflict with Xian Lingqiang.On the note received by Chang'an, it was only written that Biansai was peaceful, the country and the people were safe, and the Qiang and Han were harmonious.You only need to say that Long Ye is a "traitor", and all the problems will be solved, and everyone will be happy, Long Ye Ganmang, who has become a slave, can still go to Chang'an to shout grievances?
Ren Hong doesn't know how many years this situation has lasted, but this tacit understanding of deception and concealment is obviously out of balance this year.According to the news obtained by the subject country, Xian Lingqiang was no longer satisfied with the south bank of Huangshui, and began to be eager to try the north bank of Huangshui.Chang'an realized that the situation was wrong, but except for Zhao Chong, the princes of China and North Korea probably didn't take it seriously, and only sent Ren Hong, a young man, to deal with it."
It's too radical, it's not good to stimulate the Qiang people every day to force them to unite, it's too inaction, and it's not appropriate to let the first Qiang sit big."
On the way to the west, Ren Hong was thinking about what he knew, the gains and losses of Jincheng County in the past few years, and at the same time noticed that the road conditions were very bad, and the car went faster as if it was about to fall apart, so that his waist was about to break.Around the county seat, the traffic situation is worse than that of Hexi, Ren Hong can't help but worry, once there is really chaos in Qiangzhong, it is not easy for the imperial court to transfer troops.Fortunately, there is a city in front of them, that is Yunwu City, the seat of Jincheng County, and now they have arrived in the territory of Qinghai Minhe County in the future.He speculated on the seriousness of this matter: "For a whole year, the Jincheng County Guard, the Western Governor of Jincheng, the Liangzhou Thorn History, and the Qiang Guard, these four officials related to the Qiang affairs were not subordinate to each other, but their caliber was surprisingly consistent, and they did not say a word about the great grievances of exterminating the clan in Long Ye Ganmang's mouth.Even if the former captain of Huqiang stepped down, Xian Lingqiang was a little out of control, and he continued to hold on and not report it. ”Of course, Ren Hong didn't believe that Xian Lingqiang was so capable that he could buy the four chiefs together, which was mostly a tacit understanding of officialdom.The war in the northwest and northeast is about to break out, and the general doesn't want Jincheng County to cause trouble, so don't make trouble.You Panda has been running for Ren Hong for the past few days, and he also understands the reason for this matter, and said in a low voice: "Is the prince going to set off a big case next and arrest those officials who concealed the report one by one?"
”He remembered that when the elders talked about Ren An's Yizhou assassin history, they were so vigorous and resolute, and they couldn't help but prepare for a big fight.Ren Hong's style is obviously different from that of his eldest father, and he rolled his eyes: "I am the captain of Huqiang, and I am not the assassin of Liangzhou, let alone the imperial doctor." ”He secretly said in his heart: "It is difficult for a strong dragon to suppress the head snake, I am a newcomer to the Qiang Lieutenant, I have no soldiers in my hands, I have no power, and the evidence is insufficient, why do I have to turn my face with the county guard and the captain, can I do the work, do I want to go back to Chang'an next year?"
”No matter what problems there are in Qiangzhong, Ren Hong has to solve them within half a year.He can afford to drag it, but he can't afford to drag it out, and the child in his wife's womb can't afford it.Yunwu City is closer, and he can already see the team at the door, Ren Hong is a dignified prince, more than two thousand stones, and the county guard will also sell him face, and set up a formation to greet him in person.Ren Hong's face was full of smiles, and he made up his mind: "According to the rules of the Han Dynasty, if something happens, someone must be responsible, and you can't directly lift the table to paralyze the local administration, the best way is to point to the most conspicuous thing on the table, and then throw all the sins on him." ”Just like Wang Hui in the siege of Mayi, Li Ling in the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty relied on his own strength to take the blame for others.Ren Hong already knew how to write the first note to the general."
Since the county guard and the lieutenant are not moving, then my former captain of the Qiang Protector is you!"