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- Chapter 310 Da Luntai
"The north wind blows the white grass on the ground, and the sky is full of snow in August. Suddenly, like a spring breeze coming overnight, thousands of pear trees bloom"
In early winter in Luntai, the temperature has dropped below freezing. () Amidst the falling snowflakes, it is quite enjoyable to warm a pot of hot wine and watch the Qiuci dancers singing and dancing.
Wang Pu was enjoying everything in front of him, and he was a little doubtful that this was really the bitter and cold Western Region in the frontier that he had remembered before?
When setting off from Yanjing, Zhang Mai asked two personal secretaries to choose to stay - he wanted to take one to the Western Regions and leave the other to Guo Fen to handle relevant documents. As a result, Li Fang, who had been following him for a long time and had gradually established his roots in Hebei, chose Wang Pu stayed, and as a first-time convert, Wang Pu still needed to gain merit, so he decided to come to the Western Regions with a strong willingness to take risks - in the impression of scholars in the Central Plains, to travel all the way to the Western Regions, you have to risk your life. .
When passing through Yedu, Zhengzhou and Liangzhou, Zhang Mai would always stop for a period of time to conduct an examination. The subjects of the examination were young people aged 25. The content of the examination was to be able to recite a classic, or read through the histories, or Being able to be proficient in more than one of the 19 kinds of "Practical Learning", taking into account the current cultural status of Shilin, the two categories of classics and history account for one-sixth, and the "Practical Learning" category accounts for two-thirds, it is necessary He would select young people under the age of twenty-five who were literate, mentally agile, and physically strong, and he would take them to the Western Regions for some experience.
Although everyone knew that going to the Western Regions was difficult and difficult, thousands of people came from all three places because of Zhang Mai's reputation and the hope that they would have a chance to get close to the Supreme Being in the future. The scholars in Shandong had always only read classics and history. Everyone knows that Zhang Mai likes people who understand "Practical Learning". Among these scholars, those with higher education levels and higher IQs will not find it difficult to master a practical subject through hard work.
Yedu radiates to Hebei and Shandong, and the selected students have the highest level of education. Liangzhou radiates to Hexi and Guanzhong, and the selected students are the most brave. Zhengzhou radiates to Hedong and Henan. The situation is somewhere in between - as expected, it is in line with the old saying: Kanto produces prime ministers, and Kansai produces generals.
These three exams were publicized two months in advance. In the end, 300 people were selected. The average age was less than 20, and the youngest was only 15 years old. The 300 students were organized into one battalion, and all of them had fought thousands of miles. The veterans led the team, and finally Wang Pu was appointed as the general commander of the camp. Walking on the road, everyone followed the march. It’s been a lot of hardships along the way!
What's more, from the selection examination in Yedu to Dunhuang, Zhang Mai never showed up in the student camp, which disappointed many students who were determined to follow the dragon.
Thirty percent of the one hundred students from Yedu fell ill when they arrived in Liangzhou. Zhang Mai stayed in Liangzhou for a long time, and they were recuperating. When they started again, more than a dozen of them asked to withdraw. Zhang Mai didn't force himself. Travel expenses were issued and they were repatriated on the spot.
So go all the way. There were people falling behind all the way, and by the time we got to Dunhuang, only half of the Kanto students were left, but not a single one of the Kansai students was left behind - the northwest is a land of martial arts, let alone in the past ten years. Under Tiance's education system, Hexi is even more skilled in both civil and military skills. Anyone who dares to go to Liangzhou to take the exam is courageous. For these people, going from Liangzhou to Shazhou is actually just a journey. Just a longer trip.
Dunhuang is further northwest. No one will be left behind anymore. After the people from the Student Camp crossed the Tianshan Mountains and arrived at Luntai, Zhang Mai finally arrived at the Student Camp. Wang Pu counted the number of people and found that only 234 people were left.
But at this time, the more than two hundred people were no longer the Binbin students they had been when they set out. The wind, frost, snow and rain along the way had turned everyone's faces dark and strong. Coupled with the military uniforms they were wearing, if no explanation was given, the faces along the way would The herdsmen would certainly not be able to tell that these people were from scribes.
Zhang Mai only showed up at this time. He smiled at more than two hundred disgraced young students and said: "From Yedu to here, there was no fighting all the way. It was just walking. People who can't even walk the distance still want to be officials." To be slaughtered? I think it’s better to go home and care for their parents.”
The scholars all over the camp couldn’t help laughing when they heard this, and all the resentment they had felt along the way was swept away in the laughter!
Although the marshal’s words were a joke, they contained a hidden philosophy, and more importantly, there was a subtext clearly revealed in this sentence: Those who can’t bear to go back are the eliminated ones, and if they can stand here now, they are the winners! Some people even vaguely thought that the journey of thousands of miles from Yedu to here was obviously another exam!
Not to mention that along the way, their knowledge, determination and mind have improved to a higher level. For a person's growth, traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books are never substitutes for each other.
Zhang Mai waited for everyone to stop laughing, and then said again: "We will enter Luntai City later. After the city entry ceremony is over, you will split up, either three or five people, and go to various places in the Western Region to investigate what you want to investigate." things, learn the knowledge you want to learn, I will tell you the detailsNo matter, in short, follow your hobbies. This investigation and study can take a few months or a few years. After you complete the investigation and study, you will form a policy paper with your knowledge and experience. Submit this policy paper directly to me, and I will Let’s talk about your origins based on this. For each scholar, I will assign a sergeant for personal protection. If there is a particularly dangerous and valuable operation, you can ask the Luntai garrison to send troops for assistance. Okay, take a shower and change clothes! Follow me into town! "
More than two hundred people were bathing just outside the city. After walking such a long distance, everyone was used to "making enough food and clothing by themselves". They boiled the water themselves and washed themselves properly after it was done. At this time, Ma Xiaochun had someone send him robes. , it was a cotton coat tailor-made for them by a tailor in Liangzhou. The uniform wide robe with slow sleeves was the style of the Holy Sect brought from Qufu. styles.
If a person who only reads poetry and books all day long wears these clothes, he may feel sluggish. Confucius said: "If literature is superior to quality, history will be achieved; if quality is superior to literature, then wildness will follow. If literature and quality are gentle, then you will be a gentleman." The late Confucian in later generations called himself a Confucian. A gentleman who does not know how to exercise or martial arts, and who is better at literature than quality, can only be called a scholar. As for someone who has literature but no quality, he can only be called a nerd.
And these two hundred people, after thousands of miles of elimination and trials, arrived here with strong muscles and bones, a masculine spirit with elegance, and elegance with a sense of persuasion, and they all wore uniforms of Confucianism. As a door waiter, an upright and restrained cultural connotation naturally flourishes.
The veterans who watched these students making fools of themselves had always just made fun of them. Until then, I couldn't help but be awe-struck when I saw such gentle and elegant demeanor - if a cultured person experienced training and knew martial arts, the realm he could reach was beyond the reach of a pure martial artist.
Zhang Mai saw that more than two hundred people had changed into robes, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Everyone, get in the car."
Over the years, Guo Wei has needed it for the war. He asked Liangzhou to build many chariots of various kinds. These thirty-six antique chariots were all provided by Guo Wei. At that moment, a student wearing an imperial chariot was driving. Everyone else was sitting upright in the car. Zhang Mai rode on the Throne of Sweat and Blood. In front, thirty-six chariots followed on both wings, and then came the Mo Dao Battle Ax Formation and the Ying Yang and Khan Blood armies.
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By the time Zhang Mai arrived in Luntai, the new immigrants from northern Shanxi had settled here for more than three years, and the most difficult days were over. Now is the time when hardships have finally come to an end. When they heard about Zhang Mai’s inspection tour to the west, the Han people who stayed in the Western Regions and those who moved here were all excited!
"The Marshal is on a tour to the west!"
"The marshal is here to see us!"
"The marshal has not forgotten us after all!"
As the saying goes, "Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not cross Yumen Pass"!
The emperor sat far away in the capital city of the Central Plains and issued many imperial edicts to bestow favors. Nothing is as touching as coming directly to the northwest!
And the Hu people also responded enthusiastically. After all, Zhang Mai's reputation as "Khan of Heaven" was not false, but was earned through many wars! This mark of blood and iron is most deeply rooted in people's hearts. It will be difficult to erase the time of several generations. If we say that the Han people are full of admiration and affection for Zhang Mai. Then they were in awe of Zhang Mai - the several wars in the Western Regions and the overwhelming conquest of Mobei were all piled up with human heads. No Han emperor who could defeat the powerful Hu regime had ever been here - Not even Tang Taizong, the first Han emperor who was known as the Khan of Heaven!
Therefore, as soon as Zhang Mai arrived, almost the whole city of Luntai was in a sensation, and both Hu and Han came out of the city to welcome him.
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Xue Fu served as the commander-in-chief of this western tour. It goes without saying that he presided over the city entry ceremony. The power of Mo Dao's battle ax and the vigor of Ying Yang's sweat and blood are all needless to say. Everyone has heard about it in Bian Wen, but this entry into the city caused the greatest shock to the Luntai people. . Instead, it was not these tens of thousands of troops, but the hundreds of humble scribes who stepped off the carriage!
When the Throne of Sweat arrived outside the city, the chariot slowed down, and the Luntai people marveled at the hundreds of young people sitting on the thirty-six chariots. They had seen many powerful cavalry, and Tiance's The iron cavalry is at best a bit stronger, but these young people have a temperament that the barbarians in the Western Regions have never seen.
"This is the scholar from China!"
Conquest by force brings awe, which can establish the foundation of rule, while cultural influence can bring admiration and the possibility of long-term governance and integration.
After the chariot entered the city, more than two hundred scholars got out of the chariot and followed Zhang Mai according to etiquette. Even the pace of their walking makes people seem to see a kind of musical beauty with their eyes - integrating "ritual" into their daily words and deeds. This is one of the greatest characteristics of Han culture. Is the reputation of "the land of etiquette" an empty lie? Alas!
This walking etiquette was proposed by Shandong scholars and summarized and approved by Wei Renpu. All the scholars had practiced it when they were in Liangzhou. However, after the practice in Liangzhou was completed, Xue Fu went to watch a rehearsal and came back. Two comments: "elegant" and "weak"!
But after thousands of miles of experience, when hundreds of scholars saluted again, even Xue Fu, who was in charge of the overall situation behind, couldn't help but secretly admire it!
Unlike the rigor of the Mo Dao Formation, the fierceness of the Ying Yang Army, and the vigor of the Khan Blood Cavalry, although the students' ceremonial steps are slow and not as strong as the battle steps, they carry another kind of internalized power!
After Zhang walked into the city, he met with the leaders of various armies, ethnic groups, and towns, and also enjoyed the songs and dances presented by various ethnic groups. Then the students who had prepared for it also performed some performances. Two of the students from Kaifeng performed cross talk, which triggered In order to arouse all the laughter present, two Dengzhou scholars performed a harp and harp ensemble, the tune was from the south of the Yangtze River, and a Kansai student performed a solo flute, but the sound was the Qiang sound from beyond the Great Wall, and the Hu tune from the northwest was certainly It can arouse the resonance of most people present, and the song "Night at Maple Bridge" with Wu's sound not only arouses the homesickness of new immigrants, but also makes the Hu people in the Western Regions yearn for the distant Suzhou even more.
Then came the stage of a group of famous actors brought by Zhang Mai from Yanjing - the performing arts of the Central Plains, driven by private commercial needs and Zhang Mai's guidance behind the scenes, have finally developed into a full-length excerpt. The current product is still far away from the Kunqu Opera and Peking Opera that Zhang Mai knows. However, the music that combines playing, playing and singing, and the martial arts performances of rolling and rolling are integrated into a familiar story, and then displayed on the stage. come out. This is the first time that such an art form that is ahead of its time has been seen in the Western Regions!
This group of actors already caused a sensation when they performed in Yanjing this year, and now they are showing off their heroic performances in Luntai, which has everyone present intoxicated.
The banquet ended with more than half of the participants drunk and staggering around. During this period, a Kucha dancer made secret glances at a Shandong scholar, and a wealthy Kucha family wanted to recruit a scholar as their son-in-law! After this night, various legends about Chinese literature and art spread through the trade routes in the Western Regions. After taking off their formal attire, the students dispersed in small groups to conduct various investigations as instructed by Zhang Mai. . Even Wang Pu himself. He was also sent out to investigate by Zhang Mai.
"You are the camp supervisor of the student camp and you should lead by example."
To be honest, most people, including Wang Pu himself, don’t know what they should investigate yet, so for most people, the most important thing at the moment is to figure out what they want to do. Of course, they haven’t fully understood it at the beginning. Let go. Everyone still gathered in the Luntai area to walk around the streets and ask about the people's livelihood and customs here. Ask about some military and political affairs.
In the end, Wang Pu decided to focus his investigation on the immigration policy of the Western Regions. He organized several students with similar temperaments to himself and started taking action.
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Luntai is no longer what it used to be. This military city built by the Khitan and Uighur people has now changed greatly.
The Daluntai area with Luntai City as the center is the most important area ruled by Xintang in the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions. The area of ??the direct jurisdiction reaches 50,000 square miles, and 400,000 acres of irrigated farmland have been reclaimed in the area. and more than five million acres of ranchland.
When Tiance established the Western Regions, the Han people gradually "emerged" in various parts of the Western Regions. The influence of immigrants from the Han and Tang generations had not yet died out. Regardless of whether they were of mixed race or Chinese, Han Chinese power was re-emerging in the Western Regions. Many of them changed their Chinese nationality, and together with the people who moved in from Lianglangusha, Gansu Province, it was enough to support a small city in Luntai.
The reason why Yang Yi chose to station troops here for training is because he can get logistical supplies from here.
When the rebellion in northern Shanxi occurred, the Yang Zhe family led hundreds of thousands of refugees to move westward. A large part of them settled along the way. In the end, only a few hundred thousand people arrived in Luntai. After arriving in Luntai, most people were arranged in the Daluntai area, and some people were arranged in other Han settlements.
For the resettlement of these people, the Tiance regime gave considerable policy support. Almost all of the thousands of miles of empty land at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains was used to resettle them.
In addition, because most of the people who died of illness or were left behind on the road were old, weak, women and children, when they arrived in Luntai, the proportion of young and strong was quite high. Therefore, the Tiance regime tried to find wives for them, and those who could get Han girls would take Han girls. If you get a Han woman, take a Hu wife. The Han people are now powerful, and these people are destined to have large tracts of land, so Hu women are also willing to marry them. There are also children who have lost their parents and are being raised by those who are willing to take care of them. In terms of household registration, the newly formed family followed the head of the family and registered as Chinese. In the end, this round of immigrants resettled a total of 80,000 households and 230,000 people in the Daluntai area. Including the original Han population, the Han population in the Daluntai areaThe number reached 370,000, and at this time, there were only 80,000 Hu people in the Daluntai area - it was the first place in the entire Western Region where Han people dominated the population.
After investigation, Wang Pu and his partners discovered that after the arrival of the more than 200,000 new immigrants, the Tiance regime did not let them go like sheep, but carried out a carefully planned colonial operation based on local conditions.
Precipitation in the Western Region is sparse, and the land is nourished entirely by snow. Qiuci, Yanqi and other places at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains have suffered relatively few wars, so the local forces are relatively strong. Even after immigrants from Sha and Gua came in and some local Hu people were conquered After the "relocation" to the east, Han people accounted for less than 40% of the population. However, the Luntai side was completely wiped out by Hu Feng. The most beautiful dozens of large and small oases were originally the free land of the Uighur nobles. , now all empty.
The Han people are the best at farming. The Central Plains people’s impression of the Western Regions sometimes always remains in the desert and sandstorms, but they don’t know that the fertility of the oasis land in the Western Regions is not as good as or even greater than the fertile acres of the Central Plains. The only thing that has to be overcome is the hard work of starting a business and the various initial unaccustomed conditions. As immigrants from the Central Plains, the biggest advantage of the new immigrants is farming, but the people of northern Shanxi are in a semi-arid zone. Therefore, the new immigrants are no strangers to animal husbandry.
In response to this situation, Tiance carried out fixed-point reclamation and built farms and ranches dotted around Luntai. The Western Region is rich in animal power, and farms and pastures can use animal power to transport food and livestock materials to Luntai. Such as leather goods and wool. As the most important commercial city on the Silk Road at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, Luntai transported various production and daily commodities to various countries, and at the same time provided military protection. Hundreds of farms and pastures were located on the periphery of Luntai City. It is the core of hundreds of farms and pastures, which together form an important town that is both self-sufficient in agriculture and animal husbandry and important in business.
But there is more than three thousand miles north of Tianshan Mountain! Even if hundreds of thousands of people come, how much space can they occupy? A Daluntai area is enough to support hundreds of thousands of people. If hundreds of thousands of people are to be spread out and take root in thousands of miles around, it will be impossible to achieve a strong effect if the power is dispersed. But if they are all gathered in the Daluntai area, then all the other places will be left vacant?
At this moment, Wang Pu discovered a very interesting phenomenon. Many of the new immigrant families they visited had knights who had just returned from thousands of miles away, and they were not going to perform military duties. They had traveled so far to do it. What?
“Let’s go see my reserved land!”
All the knights who were asked answered in unison.
"Reserved land?"
"Yes. Reserved land."
It turns out that the New Tang Dynasty regime not only gave the new immigrants their existing farms and pastures, but also gave them many "reserved lands." And the area of ??the reserved land. Usually three to five times more! Some families are allocated several stretches of hills, and some villages are evenly divided into several complete oases. There are also some families who have obtained the taxing rights of a certain desert trade route.
The reserved areas are located in uninhabited oases outside the Daluntai area. Naturally, these oases were not uninhabited forever, but were affected by the Luntai War and became "no man's land".
In the first year, no new immigrants took the "reservation" seriously. Everyone is immersed in the cultivation of the currently allocated land - survival has been a problem in the first year of arrival, how can they consider anything else? But after they took root and stabilized their lives, almost at the same time, the new immigrants began to pay attention to the reservations, following the Han nationality's strong habit of "planning for the long term for their children and grandchildren."
As a result, they ran to the reserved area designated for them to take a look. In some oases, Hu people already graze and even make their homes there.
"That's our family's land! The marshal pointed it out to us! Although I can't use it now, my son can." A new immigrant who was visited by Wang Pu said angrily. In fact, he was only 20 years old. One year old, but he married two Hu girls the year before last. In less than two years, the two Hu girls had given him two sons and a daughter. Although one of them died in infancy, he also adopted an orphan, so he had already I have three children. If I continue to have children, even if my son’s survival rate is not high, I still have to consider the livelihood of at least five or six sons: “With the land here in Daluntai, I can still support myself even if I have a few more sons. , but what should I do with my grandson!"
So in anger, he and his fellow villagers who shared the oasis sued the government - that is, the Luntai garrison. The reply given by the Luntai garrison to them was that they were allowed to exercise the power of the oasis lords and expel the barbarians. If the barbarians dared to resist, they were allowed to use force, killing and wounding without guilt, and seizing for themselves.
"These new immigrants have come all the way here. They have been equipped with weapons since they arrived in Liangzhou. They have gone through hardships along the way. Most of the men who can get here have become warriors, even the women."?Hide a sword and ride a horse.
"So last May, we formed a patrol team and went to the reservation to drive away the bad guys."
"Don't those Hu'er resist?" Wang Pu asked.
"Resist? I am in the army, but I am a captain!" The young captain sneered: "A few Hu'er can be our opponents! However, there are also Hu'er who gather together, and the Han people cannot defeat them, but as long as there is a village If the Han people can't defeat them, people from other villages will help. It's a shame! The oasis was pointed out to us, and it belongs to us. If these Hu'er are allowed to ignore the law and do whatever they want, is there still a place for us to stand in the Western Region?"
"Then the Hu'er won't collude with each other to deal with the Han people?"
"Haha!" said the young captain: "They dare! In the Western Region, if they dare to gather more than 300 people, they have to report to the Luntai garrison. If herders above this size dare to use force, it will be a crime of genocide. ! Once discovered, the Luntai defenders will immediately drive over and destroy them!"
Although Wang Pu is also a Han, when he heard this, he couldn't help but lament for those poor Hu'er people. Although these people are foreigners, they are too pitiful.
Seemingly seeing the other party's intentions from Wang Pu's expression, the young captain showed a sly smile: "Master Xiu Cai is soft-hearted? Ha, we Han people are good at everything, even if we are soft-hearted, so am I, so when I see those beards, I It's pitiful, so I just want to give them a way to survive."
Wang Pu exclaimed, feeling happy that the young captain had a benevolent heart: "Brother, did you lend them the reserved land?"
"How is that possible!" The young captain rolled his eyes: "There are two Hu'er who can't survive and have come to my house to work as herd slaves. It's just a mouthful of food for them. How can I give them the land? Then It is to be left to our descendants!”
He was a little embarrassed when he said this, and he covered up one thing - one of the two Hu'ers was a woman, and she had just become pregnant with his child recently, and the young captain was considering whether to accept her. For concubine
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The more in-depth he visited the Daluntai area, the more interested Wang Pu became in this issue. He even braved the severe cold and rode a horse hundreds of miles away to see the nearest reservation to Luntai. When it snowed, he also wanted to visit the more distant Yi Bohai.
This visit to the new immigrants had just ended, and it completely changed Wang Pu's view of the Western Regions, and also changed Wang Pu's view of Zhang Mai. Many of the practices of Tiance Xintang - or more directly Zhang Mai - were obviously not in line with the Confucian principle of benevolence and forgiveness. This Tian Khan, who was known as a benevolent man in the Central Plains, actually acquiesced in the Western Regions They even encouraged people to use force to kill people!
Luntai was occupied and the reserved land was divided. Based on the results of the visit, Wang Pu and his companions estimated the total area of ??the reserved land north of the Tianshan Mountains and found that although the northern part of the mountain is large, the elite land has been occupied. It's almost done. Under the current policy environment, the remaining Hu'er in Shanbei will probably have a very difficult life. In the next twenty years, the growth and decline of the population between the two sides can be known almost without thinking.
Marshal Long Xiang, who was originally expected to be the Holy Lord, turned out to have such a violent and fierce side in the northwest. But Wang Pu cannot say that Zhang Mai is wrong.
In such a dangerous environment, the gentleness advocated by Confucianism seems not to be applicable at this time. Perhaps, only this method can effectively establish rule, truly protect the tribe, and allow Chinese orthodoxy to truly take root and sprout here.
This is already the case in Luntai, so what about Shule and Suiye, which are more distant and have fewer Han people? What about the Hezhong area, which is further away than Shule and Suiye, and where the Han people are even rarer?
Suddenly, Wang Pu, who was originally opposed to Zhang Mai's western tour, changed his attitude. He was in Luntai and the road was blocked by ice and snow, but he already hoped to see Guo Luo early and hear about the situation on the other side of the river.
But if you want to see Guo Luo, you have to wait until the beginning of spring, then you can cross the Tianshan Mountains and go to Shule along the south of the mountain. At the same time, Guo Luo also has to cross Congling, and then the two giants of Tiance and New Tang Dynasty can go to Shule. Successful meeting.
In other words, it must have been at least the summer of Tiance’s eleventh year.
"If it's so difficult to even meet," Wang Pu thought, "can the rule of the Tang Dynasty in Hezhong and Tianzhu really last long?"
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