"This pass doesn't look high, why does Naigong still feel out of breath."
In late March of the first year of Yuan Ting, on the hillside path leading to the sea of fresh water, Han Dangdang fell off his horse with a flushed face, sat on the stone on the side of the road and gasped for breath, looking at the "small mound" in front of him with some incredulity.They followed Zhao Chongguo and Ren Hong to pursue the remnants of Xian Ling and Beihe, and continued to walk two hundred miles west along the West Ting Barrier, and the tall Sun Moon Mountain appeared in front of them, but the army only had to take a Daban under the mountain.It doesn't look high, only more than 100 zhang, which is far worse than the Tianshan Pass he climbed with Ren Hong two years ago."
You don't look tall, but you're actually tall."
Ren Hong asked everyone to stop the rest meeting, and popularized the concept of "sea level" to Zhao Chongguo and the military officials."
There is a legend that Gonggong angrily touched the Zhou Mountain, broke the pillar of heaven, and the Jedi dimension, so the sky tilted to the northwest, and the sun, moon and stars were gone; The land is not satisfied with the southeast, so the rivers and rivers are returned.In short, the terrain is high in the west and low in the east, which is a truth that the ancients have long understood. ”"If the seashores of the East China Sea and Langya are one foot high, Chang'an is about 2,000 Han feet high, and the passes of the Sun Moon Mountain and Tianshan Mountains are more than 15,000 feet."
Ren Hong pointed to the top of the mountain, which was still wrapped in silver: "As for its peak, it is 20,000 feet!"
I call it elevation. ”"The higher the altitude, the thinner the qi, the more difficult it is to breathe, and when you reach more than 15,000 feet, you will even have headaches, discoloration, vomiting, and extreme discomfort."
Each of them was in line with the symptoms that Han Dangdang was experiencing, and the more he listened to it, the more uncomfortable it became."
It's the first time I've heard someone explain cold miasma like this."
Zhao Chongguo is over sixty years old, on this plateau is still not red and breathless, "cold miasma" is the Han army in the Western Regions plagued by stubborn disease, leading to the green ridge pass of the Pop Bin country, along the way you have to pass through the big headache mountain, small headache mountain, terracotta Han, body hot Han, not to mention people, donkeys and horses can't stand it!
Cold miasma is also the main reason for restricting the Han army from sending troops deep into the Xianshui Sea and Salt Lake, but it has always been attributed to the miasma that cannot be touched and seen, and now it has only been unveiled by Ren Hong.However, although Ren Hong could reveal the reason, there was no good way to solve it, and when he asked Lu Jiuyu to send people to Shuzhong to buy tea, he also asked them to find the plant Rhodiola rosea, but he failed to penetrate into the west of Shu County, so he found nothing.The soldiers of the Northern Army's Shooting Battalion were so strong that they were extremely uncomfortable, and they stopped at the foot of the mountain.The symptoms of the Jincheng County soldiers and the recruited cavalry are mild, and the Xiaoyue clan and the burning Qiang soldiers are even more like no one.Ren Hong said that they have lived here for generations and are accustomed to the climate of the plateau.If you want to solve it, you can only rely on stupid methods, several generations of people live here and slowly adapt, or simply, intermarry with the locals, and give birth to offspring that may have the physique to adapt to the plateau, after all, the reason why Tibetans can live in the third pole is thanks to their ancestors tens of thousands of years ago, mixed with the local indigenous Denisovans.Zhao Chongguo bowed his head and asked the soldiers to rest on the spot: "Let's rest, Daoyuan will talk about what he said in the West Ting Barrier that day, and talk to the old man again." ”On that day in the West Thunder Barrier, Ren Hong refuted the proposal of the golden reward and strongly advised Zhao Chongguo that the Qiang people must not be moved inward.The internal relocation of the surrendered barbarians began when the Qiang Department moved to Longxi and other places during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and since then there have been Eastern Qiang Tribes.In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Dongou Kingdom was forced by the oppression of Minyue and asked for internal relocation, and the whole country migrated to Jianghuai.After Yuanjia Yuanding, Hun Evil and Xiu Tu surrendered, and more than 40,000 people under his command were placed in the five subject countries by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and still maintained the original tribe, living a half-farming and half-pastoral life, and the subject country rode later became a sharp weapon for the Han Dynasty to deal with the Xiongnu.After tasting the sweetness twice, the imperial court regarded internal relocation as a panacea for solving border troubles, and in dealing with foreign tribes who rebelled and surrendered on the border, a word of disagreement is to help you move.Taishou has been able to increase the political achievements of the household registration, and the barbarians in the border counties have also been weakened, which seems to kill two birds with one stone, but they don't know that the root cause has been buried.After understanding this, Ren Hong suddenly realized, and said secretly: "No wonder in history, Xiqiang has repeatedly rebelled and failed, but every time he is defeated, he can still continue to develop eastward, not only all over Liangzhou, set foot in Sanfu, and finally be able to go to Hedong and Hanoi!"
”The reason for this is that in order to "enrich" Kansai, the Han court demolished and relocated indiscriminately, and as a result, something happened.The Qiang people absolutely could not attack the border of Longban, the government helped them, and for the Qiang people, this kind of forced relocation was not their wish, they were oppressed and abused along the way, and after arriving in the place, their livelihood was lost, and they were often reduced to slaves.After a long time, I was full of resentment, which was originally just a racial contradiction, and then mixed into a class contradiction, and the situation became even more complicated.In addition, after the internal migration, it was still managed according to the tribe and ruled according to customs, so it was difficult to be naturalized as a household and a common people, and there was a natural estrangement from the Han people, and the cohesion was stronger after being oppressed.When the time is right, its leader can raise his arms and spark a rebellion, which will grow stronger and stronger after merging with the bankrupt civilians of the Han Chinese.It's like Sun Monkey got into the belly of Princess Pipa and made a big fuss in Guanzhong, so that Zhao and Wei in the east, Shu and Han in the west, the five states were broken, the six counties were cut down, and the Qiang chaos was eroded.At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin dynasties were even more exaggerated, because the population of the Central Plains was sharply reduced in the Three Kingdoms war, and the land was empty, in order to "enrich" the inner county, not only the Qiang people, but also the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, and the Wuhuan also moved inward, like the later generations of Europe to accept refugees into the country, the most exaggerated time, half of the population of Guanzhong was the Qianghu tribe, and there was a rhythm of France changing to Franstein for a while.How easy is it to integrate nationalities, the fastest sinicization is the upper class of Qianghu, but they learned the transformation of the Han people, and after growing their knowledge, they encountered troubled times, Liu Yuan, and Shi Le's generation came out.Therefore, at that time, a scholar named Jiang Tong wrote a treatise on migration, counted the disadvantages of internal migration, and issued a prophecy, thinking that if Qianghu was not moved back to his hometown, I am afraid that a catastrophe would happen!
Within a few years, the Wuhu Rebellion began.However, as Jiang Tong said, reverse migration is also unrealistic, and it is too late to make up for the loss, in the words of Grandpa Mao in later generations: "Migration is chaos, and if you don't move, you will be chaotic."
In feudal times, chaos was indispensable.Thousands of years later, it has to be turned into a chaotic beginning. ”This is the correct solution, without the diamond diamond, don't do porcelain work, don't be too blindly confident in your ability to integrate different races, and you can't overestimate the quality of your own officials.After careful consideration, Ren Hong found that the introduction of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Wuhu Chaos in history was buried by the Western Han Dynasty.Although the current Han Dynasty is strong and has a large population, it is still necessary to prevent it from happening and must be cut off from the source!
Before digesting the Qiang, Hu, and Yue people who have moved into the inner county, it is better to honestly expel the others from the country.Ren Hong can only be alarmist, since Jin Xian is not there, he can say something to Zhao Chongguo, such as "the inner Xia and the outer Yidi", "the disaster of Shen Xuan, subverting Zong Zhou" and so on."
Today, Longxi and Tianshui have few household accounts, and if they want to make the Qiang people live with them, they are still planting thorns in the fertile fields, and raising snakes indoors.The Qiang people are fierce and untamable, and the small officials Hao right also oppressed them, this back and forth, although there is a virtuous and holy world, the king of great virtue, Xian failed to lead by Tonghua, and with kindness and tenderness. ”"Once the East and West Qiang join forces to make trouble in the future and threaten Sanfu, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as a border trouble."
Besides, if you want to move, the Qiang Department may not be willing to move, I'm afraid there will be resistance, but it is not beautiful.Ren Hong didn't need to convince Jin Reward, he only needed to persuade Zhao Chongguo, the two people who knew the Qiang affairs best agreed with each other, and Huo Guang should adopt it.Even if the gold reward is sparse alone, even if the emperor agrees, it is useless.Zhao Chongguo was indeed persuaded by Ren Hong, and also thought that it was better to maintain the status quo, his opinion was that the rebellious Qiang Xianling and Beihe should be completely driven away first, and driven to the west of the Fresh Water Sea to drink the northwest wind.As for the more than 10 tribes of Hehuang, more than 20,000 Luo, and more than 100,000 Qiang people, they migrated one after another, this time not inward, but outward, and drove to the west of Siwang Gorge."
Build a pass in Siwang Gorge, place the Qiang people and the branch surname Xiaoyue in Jincheng County in the upper reaches of Huangshui, and set up Jincheng under the jurisdiction of the subordinate state."
Subjects are a good system, but they should no longer be located inward, but outward.Ren Hong thought that in the future, he could learn from the Manchu Qing Dynasty's alliance flag system in Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, and divide and rule the Qiang people who were already scattered.In addition, the balance of the Xiaoyue clan and the Qiang tribe was maintained, so that the two tigers of Hankai and Yaodang fought south of the Yellow River, and the Han was the referee in the middle, and whoever was inferior helped whom, so that the peace of Hehuang could be maintained for decades.The only question now is where the western boundary of the Jincheng vassal state will go.Zhao Chongguo looked up at Daban in Sun Moon Mountain: "As Daoyuan said, if the land is higher than 15,000 feet, the Han people will be uncomfortable, and the three armies have not yet arrived at the battlefield, they are no longer able to fight, how can they compete with the Qiang people in the sea of fresh water?"
I've heard that Xian Zero has fled westward, and Beiheqiang is still nomadic around the Fresh Water Sea, so it's no wonder they have nothing to fear. ”"Therefore, the boundary of the subject country of Jincheng starts from Siwang Gorge in the west, reaches the Great River in the south, and reaches the Sun Moon Mountain in the west."
However, after they landed on Daban, Zhao Chongguo's mind changed.Although it is the middle of March, the northern slope of the mountain is still dotted with snow that fell not long ago, and the sky is filled with a faint fog."
It's magnificent."
Zhao Chongguo, who had never seen the sea, couldn't help but sigh."
I thought there was a sea in the east, but it turned out that Hehuang also had it, it was better to see it than to hear it, and it was better to see it than to hear it!"
The northern and western shores of Qinghai Lake are surrounded by a wide area of salt-rich grasslands, with the southern shore close to the foothills of Nanshan and the eastern shore farther away from the mountains and covered with quicksand.Just in the dry and warm weather, there are many Tibetan antelopes and wild asses here, the grassland is wide and boundless, and pikas are full of burrows.But the scouts roamed around, but they could not see a single Qiang herd, and all the cattle and sheep were driven away."
It seems that Zero and Beihe were killed first, and they moved west."
After all, seven or eight thousand people died in the West Thunder Barrier, which is equivalent to half of the tribe's young and strong, and it will take several generations for the two to recover."
But as soon as we retreat, sooner or later they will turn back."
Zhao Chongguo knew the temperament of the Qiang people.Ren Hong proposed: "You can make Xiaoyue Clan's righteous congqi and Jincheng tiger ride camp in the Xianshui Sea, and then let people go to the west to appease Zhonghao and Xiaohao of Xianling and Beihe."
As long as they are willing to belong to the Han Dynasty and are under the jurisdiction of the subject state of Jincheng, they can come back to stay in the pastoral, and it is not a new defeat, so that the congregation will rebel and leave. ”"In the future, if the sea of fresh water and the salt pond of more than 200 miles to the west can be included in the territory of the Han Dynasty, so that the Qiang people can transport salt and silk silk grain and tea, not only can they use the customs market to confiscate, but Jincheng can also get the benefits of green salt, which is enough to ensure the salt of the entire Liangzhou army and people."
Zhao Chongguo didn't express his position immediately, but laughed at himself: "The old man used to ridicule some border generals who did not forget to expand their territory day and night, and wanted to expand the land to the sea of fresh water, but now this matter is my turn to do it." ”However, Ren Hong didn't have a chance to take a good look at Qinghai Lake and go to see the "Sky City" of Chaka Salt Lake.On the first day they camped by the lake, they received an urgent report from Jincheng Taishou Hao Xingci."
Chang'an urgently summoned, ordered the captain of Huqiang and Xi'an Hou Renhong to return to Beijing immediately!
The book is driven by the times, and the four seals are passed on for driving, such as the law!
”The specifications of the four seals are extremely high, and this is to ask Ren Hong to go back at a speed second only to that of the post horse.Zhao Chongguo and Ren Hong were both stunned, and read the same idea from each other's eyes."
Something is wrong!"
PS: There is only one chapter today.