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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 235: Trouble with the Huns

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    Wu Yingqi looked at the white clouds on the horizon and secretly calculated the next days. In two months, the pioneering team would leave the Hehuang Valley and return to Chang'an. Thinking of the warmth of home, he felt much more at ease. After more than 800 days and nights, he experienced the wind and snow on the plateau.  The test, harsh living environment, strong sunshine, and invisible and intangible altitude sickness.  ▲∴Top▲∴Dian▲∴Xiao▲∴ said, 2+3wx Life in the Hehuang Valley is extremely monotonous and depressing. There is nothing but the endless prairie and cattle and sheep everywhere. More than 50,000 Han pioneering groups live scattered in the area.  At the confluence edge of the plateau, people live in settlements and grow crops.  The crops on the plateau are very special. Wild cereals similar to wheat are the only food. Cao Shi named this cereal barley, a mysterious plateau food above Qinghai.  Late July is the harvest season for highland barley, and Han people carry sickles on their backs to harvest grain in the field ridges of settlements.  "Uncle Zhang, thank you for your hard work." "It's not hard work. There are still 20 acres of land that have been harvested, so we can rest this year." The yield of highland barley per mu is very low. The Qiang people do not know how to grow highland barley. The yield per mu remains at about one stone all year round.  I came to the plateau and discovered highland barley, and established settlements along the Huang River and the Yellow River to plant highland barley. Initially, the yield of highland barley was less than two dan, and by this autumn it is expected to exceed three dan, although it is not as good as the five dan of corn produced in Chang'an City.  The harvest is great, but this achievement is absolutely astonishing when placed on a bitter cold plateau.  Although the Hehuang Valley is only a section of the plateau, it is still a vast and sparsely populated place. The Qiang people do not like to settle in one place for a long time. The Qiang tribe leads a traditional herding life of moving around for water and grass.  All the fertile land was given to the Han people for farming, causing the Han people to desperately expand the area of ??cultivated land.  There was a shortage of labor everywhere, so that each Han had to look after a hectare of cultivated land.  A family of five must cultivate at least three hectares of land.  Few people and more land are also one of the many reasons for the low yield of highland barley, even though the yield of highland barley per mu in the Hehuang Valley has exceeded three stones.  After conversion, it is only 180 pounds, which is still far from the ideal high yield.  Wu Yingqi himself had an acre and a half of arable land. An unmarried commander like him had to cultivate more fields. Some high and low-ranking members of the pioneering regiment had to obey the discipline and work in the fields. Every year, the food that the pioneering regiment ate came from the fields.  Highland barley, self-sufficiency without a grain of grain in Chang'an is the purpose of the pioneering group.  Cao Shi once told them that the money earned from selling salt, horses, cattle and sheep was calculated separately.  The purpose is to cultivate the perseverance of the Han people on the plateau. The lucrative industries that bring in quick money cannot allow the Han people to take root in the Hehuang Valley forever. Only self-sufficient farming and grazing on the plateau can take root forever. From then on, the Hehuang land and even  The entire plateau belongs to the Han family.  The wind and snow in winter are severe, and the scorching heat and bright light in summer are unbearable. During the autumn harvest season, every Han person is rushing to collect grain. Next month is a good time to dry grain. After this threshold, the wind of winter will usher in.  Snow, autumn soybeans must be planted before the heavy snow comes.  The yaks trained by the Qiang people can pull the bent-shaft plow, water and fertilize the land, thresh grain and dry it to store straw for livestock feed. There are quite a lot of busy things to do.  On the plateau.  The Han people restored the traditions of thousands of years ago and lived a life of half farming and half herding.  Each Han household raises hundreds of cattle and sheep, and yak dung is the main heating fuel in winter.  A year's worth of yak dung is collected for cooking and cooking in the winter. Yak hair is an important raw material for making felt.  Almost all the clothing materials of the Qiang people, including felt tents, felt hats, felt robes, and felt boots, are made of felt cloth. Even in the hottest seasons, they can only wear felt robes.  But these days will soon end.  The Han people brought light and breathable linen from the plateau in summer. The price of a piece of linen or a piece of felt was satisfactory. The Qiang people liked the cool linen clothes very much. There were also more expensive silk brocades for sale, and a piece of cheap silk.  It requires three pieces of felt cloth to be exchanged, four pieces of slightly more expensive felt cloth, and one piece of the best and exquisite satin requires twenty pieces of the best felt cloth, which only the king of the Qiang people can afford.  Wu Yingqi raised his head and saw a familiar figure flying towards him, and shouted: "Gerib, why are you here? Have you harvested all the highland barley at home?" "My father is harvesting it! Ah Wu, I have one  The news tells you that the Huns from the mountains in the north sent envoys to our Qingtang to meet our king. They promised to make our king the commander of ten thousand cavalry and give the crown prince a beautiful Huns noble girl.  "Alliance, the king is considering the request of the Huns." A strong Qiang man named Geribu, with a string of earrings made of wild beast teeth hanging on his ears, and complicated bracelets wrapped around his neck and wrists, some of which were green.  Some of the red colors are really beautiful. The Qiang people are the descendants of the Gurong people on the plateau and still maintain the totem worship and ancient habits of the Gurong people. The Yuezhi people also retain the custom of wearing beads.  "Huns? What are they doing on the plateau?" Wu Yingqi was very confused. The Huns were born in a fraternal alliance with the Han emperor. With the grassland as the border to the north was the Great Huns Empire.To the south is the Han Empire. In theory, the plateau south of the grassland should belong to the territory of the Han Empire. It seems wrong for the Huns to cross the border to seek alliances. It feels like the Huns are a little half-hearted.  "I have to go and have a look." "No need to go, the Huns envoys have gone back. They said they would come back this season next year to greet the king." Gerib led the horse to the river to drink water. His mount was a beautiful Qinghai Cong.  , the sharp fur is shiny, a fat Qinghai Cong can travel eight hundred miles a day, and can travel three hundred miles a day with an unloaded rider without any pressure, and a person and two horses can gallop six hundred miles, so the Qinghai Cong can travel in Chang'an City  Sold for sky-high prices, it's like a top-notch luxury car in BC, which even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it.  Wu Yingqi also has a Qinghai Cong, which is no less inferior to Geribu's crotch mount. The most indispensable thing on the plateau is good horses. There is no adult foal that can survive four cold winters. The proud Qiang people will not allow it.  The horse can survive two winters, and the Qiang people would rather use a slow yak to carry their tent than any horse.  The Han people lived on the plateau for less than three years and learned a lot of new knowledge that they had never heard of before. The breeding technology for horses, cattle and sheep came from the Qiang people of the Qing and Tang Dynasties. The sturdy Qiang people were not only brave and good at fighting, but also excellent herders and outstanding soldiers.  Veterinarians, almost every Qiang people have the ability to identify and treat livestock. The huge temperature difference between day and night on the vast plateau will not provide a good environment for livestock.  If you cannot cure the diseases of livestock, you will never be able to gain a foothold on the plateau.  Wu Yingqi hesitated and said: "I remember that the relationship between the Qiang and the Huns was not good." Geri preached: "The relationship with you Han people is not good either. Except for our brothers Yueshi people, we Qiang people will not trust anyone. You.  The timing is very good. A Han caravan came to Qingtang to recruit dozens of brave and capable Qiang warriors to go to the west. After being introduced by the Yuezhi people, our king has seen the power of the Han people. I believe you will do our best for our brothers.  The Yuezhi people wanted to take revenge, so they allowed you to live in Qingtang." "Everything changed later." "Yes, everything changed. The Han people brought strange and new things, which we Qiang people have never seen before.  Things. Teach us to fish and catch shrimps, dig salt lakes in summer, and fish for alkali blocks in winter. In addition to grazing, the Qiang people can also make extra money. No matter how lazy they are, they can have three meals a day, wear beautiful silk clothes, and use  The beautiful celadon jars and spicy cabbage made by the Han people are delicious. In winter, I like to eat hot roasted mutton with spicy pickled cabbage. "Gerib is not a foodie, but it is just due to the influence of cultural customs.  In addition to eating, drinking, hunting and grazing every day, the rest is nothing more than love between men and women or competition between horses and pastures.  The simple and boring days have been experienced repeatedly for more than a thousand winters and summers, and it has almost become the instinct of every Qiang person. The hard life has created the Qiang people's perseverance.  Every Qiang person is brave and strong and can fight wolves, tigers and leopards with bare hands. Even Qiang women can draw bows and shoot arrows to defend their homeland.  Because the traditional and conservative Qiang people still stubbornly refuse.  The younger generation of Qiang people are gradually getting used to the Han people in the river valley, although the Han people's herding skills are so poor that even the Qiang children are laughing at them.  Although the Han people's riding skills made Qiang women laugh at them, they learned something unprecedented from the Han people. The Han people were very diligent and brave, willing to bear disasters they had never encountered before, and willing to adapt to plateaus they had never experienced before.  For ordinary Qiang people to live on the plateau, I am afraid that few Qiang people can get used to it. The foot of the mountain is indeed a good place with rich water and grass. However, the Qiang people are used to the poor life in the mountain. They must go through a long adaptation period when they go down the mountain. Not everyone  Everyone is willing to accept that adaptation process.  Geribu admired the Han people very much. Wu Yingqi was his Han friend and the trading agent of their tribe. However, he had a line in his heart. The Han people and the Huns were both outsiders in their eyes, even if their ancestors had eight poles.  It's useless to have unrelated relatives. The Qiang tribes are also closely related to each other, and the competition for pasture and water sources has not been bloody.  When the Qiang King agreed to allow so many Han people to settle along the river, it was because he valued the countless grains sent by the Han people to feed more Qiang people. He had no interest in maintaining a balance between the two parties. It was a joke to talk about the kinship relationship that existed more than a thousand years ago.  "I heard you say, your leader won a war in the south and conquered millions of barbarians there. Will your leader also come to fight us?" Wu Yingqi caught a glimpse of Gerib's serious expression, hehe.  Laughing: "Our leader is called Pingyang Hou. He led 200,000 soldiers to attack South Vietnam to avenge the South Vietnamese people who joined forces with the rebellious remnants of our Han region to kidnap Pingyang Hou. Fortunately, he was lucky enough to escape smoothly, so he led the army  Destroy several countries and avenge the past humiliation. You Qiang people and us Han people have no hatred. On the contrary, we are a good partnership. We have common interests. Why should we attack you? " " Are you telling the truth?  Taiyi GodIn fact, we Han people never lie before God.  "Gerib raised his head and looked at the fiery sun in the sky. He clasped his hands in awe and prayed silently. I am afraid no one would have thought that the easiest way for Han and Qiang people to communicate is in the realm of gods. Taiyi is the main god of the Han people.  Kunlun Ploughbearer is the main god of the Huns. The Qiang people also have their own totem gods, which are roughly equivalent to the sun god or the god of heaven. The custom of sky burial is roughly the same as that of the Huns. There are 100 settlements in the Hehuang Valley, each with one person.  Hundreds of households were built with rammed earth and stones, and the most basic township system was established by imitating the Lu li household registration system. Wu Yingqi temporarily served as the village's policeman, in charge of public security cases such as catching thieves.  It is voluntary labor and does not receive any salary. All public positions in the pioneering group are voluntary labor. It is not easy for 50,000 people to take root in the Hehuang Valley. There are many people in the settlement of 50,000 people, and not many people actually have families.  Some people choose to come to the plateau alone. Only a few military meritorious families are not doing well in Chang'an, so they simply drag their families with them and move to the plateau to take root. There is a Taiyi Temple between the settlements.  There are ten separate buildings scattered among the villages. The believers of the pioneering group serve as temporary shamans. They go to the temple to pray every evening. They also provide underground shelters for the people. The temple is responsible for storing settlement materials.  The books for children to read and read must have the characters and beliefs of the Han family to ensure that they are not lost in Chinese culture, instead of falling into the trap of becoming Qiang people. There are also newspapers in the temple that are copied every month from the county and the imperial court.  The news was delivered to the Hehuang settlement from Longxi a month late, and every month there would be a letter from home: "You go back, I have to write a letter to my family. The sudden appearance of the Huns on the plateau is very strange.  "Wu Yingqi took out a charcoal pen and started writing a letter to his family quickly. Ge Ribu stared at it for a while and didn't recognize even a word. Like all his fellow tribesmen on the plateau, Ge Ribu was also illiterate, including their great Qiang people.  The king is also illiterate. The Qiang people do not have their own writing. The Yuezhi people have writing but are not developed. They are still far from a mature civilization. This letter will be sent to Chang'an City with the knights, and there will be people there.  The messengers went down to rest. The princes sat around and pondered. Cao Shi put away the secret message sent by Wu Yingqi and looked around with a heavy heart. His appearance caused a big deviation for the wise king.  The intensification of the conflict was unexpected. King Zuo Guli Yizhixie almost defeated the Wuhuan people. King Zuo Xian madly raided the Xianbei people in the left area of ??the Xiongnu. King Youxian was not convinced and secretly sent an envoy to contact King Qiang of Qingtang. The army  Chen Shanyu seemed to turn a blind eye to the internal fighting among the Xiongnu. He ate large pieces of meat and drank wine from a large bowl with peace of mind. He was happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, which made people confused. If he allowed the Xiongnu to mess around, sooner or later there would be a big disturbance, Zhao said.  The ability of one person to stir up troubles was beyond expectation. Cao Shi felt a headache. The Xiongnu had a good reputation in history. It was not the only nomadic overlord civilization, but the Xiongnu was recognized as the ancestor nation of many ethnic groups two thousand years later.  The era is one of the two poles of the world. At least before the emergence of the Roman Empire, it was the only superpower. 60 years ago, Maodun Shanyu controlled 400,000 strings in the era. 60 years later, today, there is no problem in controlling 600,000 to 700,000 strings.  The balance of power in front of them is enough to give every military general a headache. Stirrups and high-bridge saddles are not worth relying on. The unskilled harness is easy to imitate. No matter how stupid the Huns are, they will think of leather ropes instead of iron stirrups.  , It is difficult for the Han people to be opponents of the Huns' cavalry, and it is not possible to practice cavalry overnight. What should he do? "The Huns are in front of me. How should I implement the strategy of advancing westward and southward?"  "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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