Chapter 1299 The matter of Bingyou
Superintendent Li’s home, or the place where his wife and children live, is actually within the scope of Dahe Gongfang School.
However, there is a specially designated living area for school employees and their families.
The house is a large red brick house with two entrances and two exits.
Stoves and kangs are all available, and free charcoal is available in winter.
His wife and children are on the hot bed, and he has enough food and clothing.
My life was really good.
At least it’s many times better than the days when I got up early and was sent to a place like Yuexunbian County, where I had to do everything myself and was constantly threatened by barbarians.
No, when I turned a corner, I saw a woman standing at the door of my courtyard, looking forward to it.
When she saw Superintendent Li, the woman's eyebrows were crooked and she came up to greet him:
“Alang is back?”
“Well, didn’t you tell me that I will come back later?”
The woman speaks Chinese very fluently, but if you listen carefully, you will notice that her intonation is a little weird, with a tinge of nonsense.
This is not surprising. Han people who live in frontier fortresses all year round will unconsciously pick up some habits that are unique to frontier fortresses.
However, the woman’s voice is soft and soft, which makes people feel more comfortable:
“I always feel at ease when I see Alang.”
Her mother is a survivor of Jiuyuan.
At that time, Cao Cao completely abandoned the Jiuyuan area and moved all the Han and Hu people to Taiyuan and other places.
There are always some people who, for one reason or another, will continue to stay in this vast prairie.
Not to mention that in the past few decades, the Central Plains has been in turmoil. I don’t know how many Han women have fled outside the Great Wall with their families to avoid the disaster of war.
Perhaps some barbarians from the frontier fortress took advantage of the chaos and ran into the interior to plunder. Some Han women had no choice but to live outside the fortress.
Cai Wenji, a famous talented woman in history, had a prominent family background. Wasn't she also kidnapped by the Huns and taken to the Hu land?
It's just that Superintendent Li's maternal aunt obviously did not have Cai Wenji's good luck. In the end, she was not able to return to the Central Plains and could only commit herself to a small tribe leader.
If the original course of history was followed, Superintendent Li's wife would also marry a Hu man and give birth to a child to a Hu man.
Then the descendants will gradually become completely barbarians.
But fortunately, this historical line has one more country bumpkin who illegally crossed it.
Proctor Li's foreign uncle did not follow the inward migration in his early years, but in the end he was annexed by Kebi Neng, who came to Jiuyuan to lick his wounds.
At that time, Kebineng was defeated by Qin Lang. The people under him fled, left, and rebelled, which was a great loss of vitality.
In order to win people's hearts, he was not too harsh on the tribes in Jiuyuan.
So this small tribe transformed from the Huns into the Xianbei people.
Who would have expected that in a few years, Feng would lead the Han army through Jiuyuan, and what would happen next would become clear.
Be it the Xianbei people, the former Xiongnu people or the later Xianbei people, some of the elite Hu people in Jiuyuan were burned to ashes by Feng at Qiaoshan.
Feng Gui Wang did not intend to let go of the remaining part, and even did not hesitate to lead his army back from Qiaoshan to eradicate the roots.
In this battle, almost all the young men and women of Li Xuejian’s uncle’s small tribe were killed or injured.
If the Han army had not dispatched officials in time to stabilize the situation in Jiuyuan, there would have been only a few tribes of old, weak, women and children left, and they would have been exterminated on the spot.
Well, in fact, it is not much different from genocide.
Fortunately, the Huns had a tradition of the Yan family being in power, so Li Xuejian’s aunt, who had just taken over the tribe, decided to join the Han people with her whole family at the next moment.
I don’t know if anyone in the tribe is willing to face the Han army that threatens a great victory.
As well as the vicious dogs under the Han army—Hu Qiyi Cong holding a shining saber—certainly no one would dare to stand up and say no at this time.
A tribe whose chief was a Han woman took the initiative to seek refuge, which was a good start for Liu Liang, Xu Xun and others who stayed in Jiuyuan at that time.
So it was naturally taken as an example.
There is no need to say more about it later.
Jiuyuan Governor's Mansion was established and Dahe Gongfang School was established. Li Ming, who passed the Liangzhou examination, was transferred from Liangzhou to Jiuyuan to serve as the supervisor of Dahe Gongfang School.
One day, Superintendent Li, who was walking along the river to enjoy the beautiful scenery of "the sun sets over the long river", suddenly heard the sound of Han singing Hu music not far away.
Looking curiously, he saw a shepherd woman bathed in golden light, gently waving the sheep whip in her hand, up and down, up and down, like a heavy knock on his heart...
As I said before, no matter who lives in the frontier all year round, they will more or less acquire some of the habits of the frontier.
Over the years, Superintendent Li, from Yuexun to Liangzhou and then to Jiuyuan, has seen countless incidents of Han, Yi, Han, and even Yi and Hu mixing together.
Not to mention anything else, the fact that the leader named Feng took a barbarian girl as a concubine and even gave the barbarian girl a title was enough to set an extremely bad example for the people below.
Before Li Ming left Yuexun, he had heard about how many poor people who could not afford a wife followed the Xinghan Society to plant tea and sugar cane in Nanzhong.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t afford to marry a Han girl, Yi girls will fall behind anyway!
Marrying wives and concubines, having children and raising children, and living a happy life.
When he came to Liangzhou, he saw with his own eyes how Hu Nu tried every means to marry those soldiers and warriors.
After all, the government's policy promotion, coupled with the wealth of these soldiers and warriors, were really attractive to Hu women.
In the beginning, Superintendent Li had despised and even spurned such beasts and chaos.
Di Yi is a beast.
What is this if it's not a beast?
As the superintendent of Dahe Workshop, it is normal for the government to send two Hu Ji to serve in daily life so that Superintendent Li can concentrate on teaching, right?
After a long time, Superintendent Li felt that personally educating Hu Nu was actually... a responsibility that we should take on.
After all, if we really want to investigate, this is not a precedent set by Feng.
For example, after General Fubo, the father of Ma Teng and the eldest father of Ma Chao, the powerful lord of the Han Dynasty, Ma Ping took it upon himself to teach Qiang girls.
This is the Ma family who made great contributions to Ji Han.
If you accuse this publicly, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of the founding father of Jihan?
Especially the faces of the Five Tiger Generals.
At dusk of this day, Superintendent Li met the shepherdess who made his heart beat. Coupled with the long-term corruption of Hu Nu, he suddenly wanted to imitate his predecessors.
Then the shepherdess not only brought a group of slaves, cattle and sheep as a dowry.
They even carefully selected the two most beautiful orchids from the tribe to marry.
Superintendent Li, who knows the taste of marrow, could not help but look up to the sky and sigh:
With the Han and barbarians as one, it truly is a virtuous government!
"Didn't a new teacher come to the school a few days ago? When I saw him, I seemed to see me yesterday, so I found an opportunity to talk to him today. I came back late, which made Xijun worried. .”
Superintendent Li explained as he and his wife walked home.
"A new teacher in the school?" Superintendent Li's wife's eyes lit up slightly, "He still has similarities with A Lang. I think he must be a good husband."
Seeing Xijun’s appearance, Superintendent Li knew what he was thinking. He shook his head and said with a smile:
“I’m talking about the me before, not the me now. Although the new disciple is not a direct descendant of the big family.”
"But his family has a heritage of at least five hundred years, which is a hundred years longer than our Li family in Shu."
“Although he was exiled here, he has just arrived and the aura of being a member of a well-established family has not faded away, so he will definitely not be able to like the women of your clan.”
As members of the same family, Superintendent Li naturally understands Feng Chuan’s thoughts best.
Hearing this, Mrs. Superintendent Li had a look of disappointment on her face:
“That’s a pity.”
Then he felt relieved:
“A gentleman who can make Alang look at him differently must be someone special and have some spirit, so that’s what he should be doing.”
Superintendent Li shook his head again and said with a smile:
“I just don’t want him to take detours. When it comes to energy, those men in green are the ones with the most impressive energy.”
To be honest, when Li Ming saw the "Four College Sentences" for the first time during the exam, his mind was really shaken to the point of being shaken beyond measure.
What shocked him even more was that among the many college students he came into contact with, many actually took these four sentences as their life goals.
That kind of vigorous and energetic atmosphere and state, which can even be said to be a bit fanatical and exciting, sometimes frightens him.
He didn’t know how Feng Guiwang did it.
But he finally knew that in terms of eloquent words and deceiving people's hearts, this person was indeed unmatched in the world.
In the early years of the Ji Han Dynasty, under the governance of Prime Minister Zhuge Kongming, officials governed in the Qingming Dynasty, and officials prided themselves on forgetting their homes when they were in office.
Under the great influence of these two people, to this day, Ji Han is in high spirits from the imperial court to Cangtou Guizhou.
The entire country is showing vitality and an unstoppable trend.
So what he said to Feng Chuan that "the situation is unstoppable" was true sincerity.
Anyway, this is not the first time for a big family to do this. Why can’t they let go?
Persuading Feng Chuan and giving him a hand can be regarded as giving an explanation to his former self.
“I’ve seen the male gentleman.”
Stepping into the front yard, the four beautiful orchids guarding the door respectfully saluted the returning Superintendent Li.
Two of them were each holding a child.
"rise."
Superintendent Li and his wife walked through the courtyard gate together, and the four Hu Ji quickly followed them.
Several people disappeared into the inner courtyard.
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Compared to the slight chill in Jiuyuan, Tuoba Xianbei, who was far away in Youzhou and had already begun his return trip, felt a bit of bone-chilling chill.
After all, there are Yinshan Mountains in Jiuyuan that block the northwest wind on the grassland and provide inexhaustible charcoal.
A small coal stove, with some charcoal added to it, can make a felt tent or even a room as warm as spring.
It not only warms the body, but also warms the heart.
There is also the wool material that although it is a substandard and defective product produced by the wool spinning workshop, it can still be wrapped around the body to resist the white disaster.
The most important thing is to have sufficient food reserves.
Enough to ensure that no one will starve to death in the coming winter.
For most of the Hu people on the grassland, what else do they want if they can live such a life?
Far north of Youzhou, the Xianbei people, who are still looking for the future of their tribe, are taking a break on their way back to their tribe in the north.
Nearly everyone’s faces were filled with excitement, and the smiles on their faces had never disappeared since they left Youzhou.
Under the wise leadership of Lord Suotou Tuoba, Xianbei tribes drove cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock to trade with the Wei people, and they returned with a full load.
It seems that this winter, many fewer people will die in the clan.
“Lord Tuoba is wise!”
“Master Tuoba is the master of heroes, so I should be the one to make you great in Xianbei!”
…
However, among these congratulations, some people looked worried.
Tuoba Desert Khan, who came from the dusty Changchuan River where Suotou lived, didn't have time to take a breath, so he went to see Tuoba Liwei:
“Sir, didn’t we say we were going to Pingcheng? Why did we trade with the Wei people in Baitan instead?”
Two years ago he was ordered to go to Nanxia to investigate the reality of Nanxia.
He once patrolled the passes in Youzhou and Bingzhou, and even had a conversation with a nobleman of Han Dynasty in Pingcheng and received his advice.
After the conversation with the noble man, I saw that winter was approaching on the grassland, and there were also Dou Suhou, Dou Huiti and others who had not returned to Luhui on the way. They had always been unkind to themselves.
Therefore, Tuoba Desert Khan could not stay long, so he could only rush back to the tribe and report to his master Tuoba Liwei.
After listening to his report, Tuoba Liwei had already made up his mind to choose between Han and Wei to be friendly with Han.
The purpose of driving a large number of livestock south this time was precisely for this purpose.
If you do it well, you may be able to establish trading channels with Han.
Unexpectedly, the adults set out from Changchuan and did not go to the southwest, but to the southeast.
How is this different from what was promised?
What worries Tuoba Desert Khan even more is that he heard that the tribesmen and horses led by the Lord encountered a war between the Wei army and the pro-Han tribes as soon as they arrived at the Youzhou Pass.
Some people also say that the so-called pro-Han tribes are actually disguised by the Han army.
But in any case, the Xianbei tribes who obeyed the Lord's orders appeared in a coincidental place at such a coincidental time, and then happened to trade with the Wei people.
It’s hard not to think of it.
It would be troublesome if Han got misunderstood.
So after learning the news, Tuoba Desert Khan, who originally stayed in Changchuan, could no longer sit still.
He came in the name of welcoming the Lord, but in fact he was anxious to know the truth of the matter.
“My lord, now that Han is strong and Wei is weak, would it be inappropriate for us to be close to Wei instead of being close to Han? If this offends Han, I’m afraid it will be detrimental to our tribe.”
Although Suotou brought many tribes attached to them, most of them were centered in Changchuan and lived in the north of the desert, trying not to be close to the southern Xia border areas.
But in recent years, most of the tribes south of Changchuan have defected to the Han State and have no relations with the Wei State.
Even under the instigation of the Han State, they repeatedly harassed the frontier fortress of Youzhou of the Wei State.
So some news naturally reached the ears of the Xianbei people in the north of the desert.
Although the current goal of the Han people is Wei State Youzhou, they are focused on heading east and have no intention of going north deep into the desert.
But once they capture Youzhou, then everything from the westernmost to the easternmost, and from Liangzhou to Youzhou will be under their jurisdiction.
At that time, the Xianbei people in the north of the desert had to contact the Han if they wanted to go south.
Therefore, in Tuoba Desert Khan's opinion, it was unwise to offend Han at this time.
“Why did the eldest prince say this?”
Tuoba Liwei didn’t speak, but a man in black standing next to Tuoba Liwei spoke:
“It is precisely because letting Han rule the east and west will be detrimental to our great Xianbei, so we must help Wei to prevent it from losing Youzhou!”
The man in black is the deacon holding the head, which is equivalent to the state minister of Southern Xia, or the prime minister.
The Tuoba branch, after moving south from the far north to Monan, has been nomadic in the Shanggu and Yunzhong areas.
Later, he was attacked by Putou of Xianbei in the west, and his tribe was scattered. Tuoba was weak and had no choice but to seek refuge with Dou Bin, the leader of Wuluhui tribe.
Then the two tribes formed an alliance and went to attack Xianbei in the west. Unexpectedly, they were defeated again.
At the critical moment, Tuoba Liwei gave his horse to Dou Bin, and Dou Bin was able to escape.
Dou Bin fled back to his tribe and found out Tuoba Liwei's identity. In order to repay his help, he not only married his daughter to him, but even prepared to give him half of the country as a gift.
If it had been anyone else, I wouldn't have agreed long ago.
But Tuoba Liwei rejected Dou Bin's move to "divide half of the country" and only wanted to live in Changchuan in the north to find a place for the tribe.
Of course Dou Bin agreed.
Unexpectedly, this tribe, which initially demanded people for a place to stay, would grow into the largest tribe in Monan more than ten years later, with more than 100,000 string masters.
And in the process of Tuoba Liwei's promotion of virtue and attracting many tribes to come to seek refuge, the black-clad deacon of the tribe in front of him made a great contribution.
Even when Tuoba Liwei refused to accept Dou Bin's proposal to "divide half of the country" and moved his tribe to Beichuan, it was the result of the tribal deacon's strong persuasion.
It can be said that without tribal deacons, there would be no Suotou today.
Tuoba Desert Khan couldn't help but be startled when he saw the tribal deacon speaking:
“What does the deacon mean by this?”
He looked at the adults sitting at the main seat who still didn’t speak, and then at the deacon in black, and he suddenly came to his senses:
That's right, things that have been clearly discussed before, if there is no deacon to persuade you, why would your Excellency change your mind midway?
But I saw a faint smile on the face of the black-clothed deacon:
"As the saying goes, when two tigers fight, one of them will be injured; it is also said that when the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman will gain. In the Southern Xia, Han and Wei were fighting. The Han wanted to destroy Wei and had no time to go north. It was a good opportunity for our great Xianbei to recuperate and grow stronger. ah."
“Looking at what the Han Dynasty did to the Jiuyuan lands in Liangzhou, all the grassland tribes were either plundered as slaves or slaughtered. If they could free their hands, I, the great Xianbei, would probably have no peace.”
“But Wei is not like that. If he wants to resist the Han, he will not hesitate to give up great benefits to me, the great Xianbei, just to prevent the Han from advancing eastward.”
"The Han is strong and the Wei is weak. Isn't it wonderful that we help the Wei and suppress the Han, taking advantage of the situation in the middle?"
After hearing what the black-robed deacon said, Tuoba Desert Khan wanted to refute, but he didn’t know where to start.
Looking at the appearance of the lord and the black-clothed deacon, I don’t know if they changed their minds temporarily or if they had already made a decision.
He opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't ask the question. He just asked reluctantly:
“The State of Wei has ceded great benefits to our great Xianbei, but I don’t know what great benefits it is?”
This time, Tuoba Liwei finally spoke, even impatiently: "Liaodong."
“Liaodong?”
“The Wei people promised us to cede Liaodong to us as compensation for joining forces to fight against the Han.”
"What?!" Tuoba Desert Khan was shocked, "But, Liaodong, I heard that the Liaodong area is not taking orders from Wei State now."
"I know," Tuoba Li nodded slightly, "so it gives us a reason to unify Xianbei. Only by reunifying Xianbei can we move south together, and then urge the Wei people to march eastward from Youzhou to help us win Liaodong.”
“What if the Wei people regret it?”
“Haha,” the black-clothed deacon chuckled. I don’t know whether it was a sneer or a sneer. “Then how can the eldest prince be sure that if we help the Han Dynasty to destroy the Wei Dynasty, we will not be attacked by the Han people?”
“In other words, Western Xianbei, Central Xianbei, especially Kebineng’s people, all perished at the hands of the Han people. Why should they make exceptions for us?”
Tuoba Desert Khan was silent and speechless.
(End of this chapter)