"Dare to tell the capital protection, the subordinates saw with their own eyes, after June this year, there was a severe drought in Sanfu and Sanhe, there was no rain for more than 100 days in some places, the county was even drought, some fields were not harvested, and the people were poor and displaced from the road.""
What's worse is that there are also flying locusts with them, and there are many places that have been spared by floods and droughts, but there are locusts in the extreme drought.For thousands of miles, the grass and trees are all gone, or the cattle and horses are all gone, and the harm is especially worse than the flood and drought. ”After listening to Feng Fengshi's observations, Ren Hong only sighed, but it was not unfortunate that he encountered a great drought this year, which disrupted his plan.Compared with the surrounding states, although the agriculture of the Han Dynasty was developed, to a large extent, it still depends on God's face to eat.Originally, the world was so big, and the water, frost, and locusts would make trouble every year, but the trouble was that it was precisely the disaster of the Sanfu and Three Rivers, and it was June, when the crops were about to be harvested, that the danger rose to the level of shaking the country's capital.Ordinary people are powerless in the face of drought, so they can only rely on old grain accumulation to survive, or borrow grain from large merchants, but there is a risk that their land will be taken away or even their families will become slaves.Ren Hong remembers that Xia Weng asked craftsmen to make a mural on the manor wall of Bailuyuan.It shows a flock of birds flying around, scorched trees, a woman's hair wrapped around the branches, and a red garment hanging from the trunk.Under a tree lies a nude woman with purple-gray skin.The right arm is stretched out, the breasts are drooping, and the eyes are closed and the hands are raised.A fierce winged tiger stood on the woman's body, pressing the woman's head with its right paw, and was devouring the woman's left shoulder, which had already eaten most of it.Hey, the customs of the Han Dynasty are really open, and the scale is so big!
It looks creepy, Ren Hong saw it at first glance, and thought that Xia Weng had some perverted hobby that he had hidden for many years, after all, he was a little girl who knew how to take radishes.When I asked, I found out that Xia Weng had been wronged, and this is a painting of "Tiger Eating Female Fish" that is often painted by the folk to pray to avoid drought.The people believed that the drought was brought about by the drought, and that the only hope was for the winged tiger sent by the gods to eat her!
Then the drought will pass.Of course, it is impossible for the gods to send the winged tiger to the world, and when the clan is unreliable, the people can only hope that they can usually scold and curse another "tiger", that is, a big government that is fiercer than a real tiger to come to the rescue."
What should the Son of Heaven and the Great General do?
Ren Hong asked Feng Fengshi, although he couldn't reach the whip, he hoped that everything was fine in the court.Feng Fengshi said: "The Son of Heaven issued an edict that the counties and counties that were affected by the disaster should not rent their taxes this year.In serious cases, next year's rent will also be waived. ”In fact, Sanfu Ren Hong is not too worried, Guanzhong grows wheat extensively, and a wave of grain was harvested before June, which is also the reason why Dong Zhongshu strongly suggested that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promote Sumai winter wheat, not because of how high it is and how delicious it is, but because it can evenly share the risk of disasters.However, the Kanto region adheres to the old customs, no matter how the imperial court promotes, it is still not happy to plant wheat, and the crop is single, and this time it will lose a lot, although I heard that Yan Shengzhi planted well in the land of Xi'an Houguo, and the yield per mu of the district field method is close to ten stones, but I can't expect that experimental field to save the emergency."
Sanfu sent the official government to save it, saved Yuzhou with the rice of Jiangling, and saved Hedong Hanoi with the millet of Jizhou and Yanzhou.Where the food did not have time to arrive, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to open up the mountains and forests held by the government and the raunes of the pond to share with the people, and to give the poor horses. ”Even so, far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and there will definitely be a lot of tragic things happening in Sanhe this year, and I am afraid that tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 displaced people will come during the famine.Ren Hong sighed: "The imperial court should be able to dispose of the past." ”During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, disasters were more frequent, such as the sixth year of Yuanfeng to the second year of Taichu, three consecutive years of catastrophes, the most serious time, locusts from the east of the country all the way to the west, all the way to Dunhuang County, hundreds of thousands of people into the customs.Now that the country is fine, and after recuperating and saving for several years after the war, it is more convenient to deal with it, and I only hope that there will be fewer mediocre and corrupt officials in the local area.But this year, the focus of the imperial court must be on disaster relief and stability maintenance, and it is no wonder that Ren Hong's proposal to send a large army to attack the Xiongnu was directly denied, and the general did not want to repeat the mistakes of domestic turmoil in Xiaowu's later years.As a result, Ren Hong was also very interested in this war, which was prolonged because he ridiculed Shan Yutong and scolded him for having no seeds.Relying only on the Han army in the northern court of the Western Regions and the soldiers of the cities of the various countries, there were more than enough rules, and they went out of the fortress to fight with the Xiongnu, but the chance of winning was relatively small.At this time, Liu Wannian, who had been staying here with the Shache soldiers to help, hurriedly came to inform him: "My sister is all protective, and the Huns are here to call for battle!"
”When Ren Hong went to the highest place at the head of Daban City and stood next to the "eldest sister" among the three sisters, he happened to see a group of Huns showing off their might outside.They drove a group of ragged Wusun people to hundreds of steps outside the Saiwai, and the little prince of the Huns, Zhizhi, rode by, making people shout, saying that the city of Chigu had been broken, and that the Empress Dowager Wusun and Kunmi Dale had been captured by the Huns, and they wanted to be killed on the spot to Ren Hong and Yaoguang."
Fake, a little trick that messes with our army."
Ren Hong had already asked Han Dangdang to explain to the Qu and the Wusun people and the kings of the Western Regions that they had just received the Empress Dowager's envoy from Chigu City yesterday and had been informed of what had happened in Wusun.The Huns were still cunning, and at the same time that Da Dan Yu led the main force to the north court, he also sent the right Xianwang and Zhizhi, with an army of more than 10,000 horsemen, to the west to attack Wusun Yileshui.But on the eve of winter, most of the Wusun people have moved to the Atami Valley, and Princess Xie Wu sent the right general to guard the pass into the basin, and also built a city fortress, and the Han army and hundreds of light warriors recruited to help guard it, but it was very safe.When the Huns arrived at the place, they saw that it was a hard state and a fortress, and they suddenly lost interest.Most of the people caught by the Huns were the people who were lucky enough not to evacuate from Ileshui, and there were even those who went south from the northern Wusun Wu.After all, the Qihe region is not as fertile as the upper reaches of the Yilie River, and it stands to reason that these people are friendly troops of the Huns, but they were captured by the Zhizhi and brought back thousands of people and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.These Wusun people were men and women, old and young, with desperate expressions on their faces, and they were probably tortured on the road, and they were stripped naked and stood naked in the cold weather, while Zhizhi led the Huns to ride through on horseback, and kept driving these people to the side of Dabanchengsai.For the Han army, they are a foreign race, and for the Wusun people under Yaoguang, they are not relatives, but there is still a little unbearable on the faces of the defenders, do the Huns want to hit the morale of the defenders, or drive Liang to attack the city?
Zhi couldn't hold back his might, and loudly pointed at and made fun of the crowd, while whipping the Wusun people around them with whips, and with the help of the horse's momentum, each whip was dripping with blood, and they were forced to continue to move forward, gradually getting closer to the firing range.The soldiers looked at each other, all waiting for Ren Hong's order, but in the end, it was Ren Duhu's side, and an arrow was the first to shoot!
It was Yaoguang who fired the bow herself, and she saw the opportunity to shoot a Hun who accidentally entered the shooting range under her horse, but unfortunately failed to kill.After the Hun got up, he was not afraid, but mocked loudly, and even hacked to death the old man Wusun next to him.Yaoguang was furious and wanted to shoot again, but Ren Hong hurriedly stopped her: "Madame, don't be angry." ”And those Wusun people who thought they could escape, after walking ten steps and dozens of steps, were also shot by arrows from behind one after another, leaving only a naked corpse to die in front of the plug.Wusun cavalry general Ubu calmly asked to go to battle, but was rejected by Ren Hong: "Just like we beheaded the Huns and hung them on the horse to send back the humiliating Shan Yu, this is also the method of the Huns." ”The Huns were not good at attacking the city, and the tens of thousands of horsemen under Da Dan who had been aggrieved for several months were waiting for the Han army to come out of the fortress.A few months ago, the Huns did something similar, and after the defeat and escape of the little prince of Zuoxian, Jihou Shan, in the battle of Flame Mountain, he destroyed the Pu Houguo by the way, captured the whole country and brought it to Bancheng to show off, making it seem as if they had won.What made Ren Hong most uncomfortable was not only watching the people of the Houguo of Pu being slaughtered by the Huns, but also making one less state under the rule of Du Hu, from 50 to 49.This number must not be seen by the general, Ren Hong is even considering, for the sake of Huo Guang's obsessive-compulsive disorder, whether to divide a certain state that is too big into two to make up a whole number, or to pull one of the states west of the green ridge that is not part of the capital protection?
And Shan Yu's attack on Wusun not only slaughtered the prisoners to anger the Han army, but also to save face for this long-term fruitless war.Xi Chongguo immediately asked for battle, and Yaoguang also wanted to take the Wusun people to retaliate, but Ren Hong still disagreed.After all, the Huns have tens of thousands of horsemen, rashly out of the fortress may repeat the fall of Li Ling, the most important thing to deal with the Huns is to be patient, can not make mistakes, since the court is unwilling to send divisions, this war will end here, only to them: "Return to the division do not stop." ”Yaoguang was still resentful that the Xiongnu could not break the blockade and vent their anger with the Pu Houguo and the Wusun people of Yireshui, and said hatefully: "If the Xiongnu are let go so easily, this battle will only be a small victory." ”killed the other party's king, beheaded thousands of people, and Gan Yanshou's credit is enough to seal the marquis, which is not small?
What's more, Ren Hong glanced at Xiang Yaoguang's abdomen, which was already slightly bulging, for him, the biggest gain of this battle was that the husband and wife finally had time to have a second child.However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, after the withdrawal of the Xiongnu army, the sky has been gloomy for a long time, but the snow has fallen, and the snowflakes have fallen on the Wusun people who died naked and stiff outside the plug, like a warm velvet quilt.Ren Hong stretched out his hand to pick up the snowflakes and said to Yaoguang: "It's not yet October, although it is said that it will snow in August in Hutian, but this year's snow in Beiting, is it too early?"
”Not only was the snow early, but it was also heavy.This is a decade, or even decades of heavy snowfall, a day of snow thick to more than a zhang, even a few zhang deep well directly filled, a few days ago was lively in front of the city of Daban, no longer see any livestock.The sudden heavy snow makes people feel cold to the bone, but fortunately, the winter clothes from Loulan, Quli and Dunhuang have been there for a long time.Today it was Wanzhang Shousui's turn, he was afraid of the cold, in addition to his own cotton shirt, he also "borrowed" a cotton shirt from the robe and wrapped it around his body, and the sheepskin fur was tied on the outside, wrapped like a ball, and the person who wore a squirrel skin glove on his hand wore it in turn."
This padded shirt is really good."
He squatted in the flint and muttered, "We are all cold like this in Sene, and I am afraid that it will be even more difficult for Hu Lu to endure in the wild?"
”Some people thought otherwise: "I have heard that the Huns are hardy, born in the snow, and are not afraid of the cold." ”"When I was in Guanzhong, I also heard people say that the upper body of the Huns is a human, and the lower body is a horse!"
Wan Zhang said with a smile: "No matter how cold-tolerant it is, it is also a human being, you see that those kings of the Western Regions and the Wusun people were also born in the bitter cold land of the northern country, aren't they also trembling at this moment?"
”Hearing about the drought in Guanzhong before, the Han army was still very helpless and regretful, and now the Huns have also suffered a disaster, and the sky is really fair!
On the other side, the kings of the Western Regions also gathered together, and they were also presented by Ren Hong with cotton shirts made of silk silk, all wearing mink fur fox armpits, hiding in the warm room, and talking about the heavy snow.Tu Qi, the king of Shanshan, was the most favored by the capital protector and shared the information he knew: "The scouts who were ordered to follow the Huns reported that the Huns also hit this heavy snow head-on, and I am afraid that many people will freeze to death on the way back to the division, and their livestock after the army will also suffer great losses!"
”"And it is said that from Beiting to Puzhihai, the entire north of the Tianshan Mountains, there is heavy snow in the sky for thousands of miles, and the right part of the Xiongnu has not escaped, and it is still in the next place."
King Shanshan was very happy with this news, after this battle, all the protectors were defeated, and the Western Regions City Guo Guo had more confidence in the Han Dynasty, with Daban City plugged in, the north and south of the Western Regions could keep safe, as for the Pu Houguo, who let them be north of the Tianshan Mountains!
Liu Wannian, the king of Shache, has lived in the grassland for many years, and is the most experienced, drinking wine and saying slowly: "There are three disasters in the grassland, the white disaster, the black disaster, and the yellow disaster, the white disaster is the heavy snow covering the grassland, causing the herd to have nowhere to graze, such a big snow, I have rarely seen it in Wusun for so many years, and the right part of the Xiongnu should not have enough grass for the winter, I am afraid that many people will freeze to death." ”At the end, he said mysteriously to the kings: "Actually, this is all part of the plan to protect the capital!
”"What do you mean by that?"
The kings were stunned, and even King Shanshan didn't expect this layer.Liu Wannian said with a smile: "Du Hu is my sister-in-law, I know that he is quite wise, he will look at the sky, he must have expected in advance that there would be heavy snow in winter, deliberately humiliated Shan Yu, and dragged the Hun army here, just because of the heavy snow, this soldier who surrendered without a fight." ”"Tsugo knew a few months ago that it would be snowing at this time?
Could it be that he has the help of the Fire Jacket God again?
”King Yanqi will be skeptical.Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Liu Wannian continued to boast: "Not only did I know it half a year in advance, but I am afraid that I expected it two or three years in advance!"
Don't you know that Du Hu is a poem to say goodbye to the Marquis of Yiyang!
”"What poem?"
In the past few months, although the kings of the Western Regions have chased ducks to the shelves and learned some Chinese, except for King Shanshan, they must not know the words, and they are at a loss.Liu Wannian is determined to blow Ren Hong into a wise and close demon prophet."
The north wind swept the white grass and folded, and the snow flew in August.""
That's so!"
And King Shanshan picked up the next sentence, he stood up with a spirit, waved his hand, and said excitedly at the thousands of miles of ice and snow outside: "Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom!"
”PS: The second chapter is in the evening.