It got dark and lit up again, and then it gradually got dark again. The will of nature is never transferred by the thoughts of a certain person, just like the common saying in later generations, this earth, without anyone will turn the same.

This is the Heroes Shrine established by Fiji Pingyang, with the white stone as the base and the black stone as the stele, solemn and solemn. On the north side of the wordless main monument, there is a black stone wall like a screen, and on the wall, there are some words carved, some are names, and some are just a number, representing these people, who have been here and have paid......

The presiding officer of the sacrifice was a doctor from the Shoushan Academy, who stood in front of the wordless stone tablet, and in an old and generous voice, he roared out the poems that would be recited at every sacrifice:

"There is life ~ there must be death! Early end ~ non-fatal! ”

"Yesterday twilight ~ the same person! Today ~ in the ghost record ......"

The old man's voice echoed between the heavens and the earth, and he had the heroic spirit of a northland man.

This poem is thought to be written by General Zhengxi, but in fact it is not, but General Zhengxi felt that it was also a little pertinent, so he wrote it, and inadvertently circulated it, evolving into the opening elegy of every sacrifice......

When he got to the back, General Feiqian of Zhengxi was also thick-skinned, so he pinched his nose and thought that he wrote it himself, anyway, no one could jump out to trouble him, and besides, whoever had a good literary style, and it was impossible to say what different things he could write.

Under the stone stele, there are the students of the Shoushan Academy and some scribes of Pingyang, all wearing green or white cloth clothes, standing solemnly, and in the front are several women and children wearing linen and filial piety, holding spirit cards, kneeling on the ground, and wailing in a low voice.

This time, the Xiongnu rebelled in Yinshan, and the casualties of the soldiers were not very large, but those indoctrination books that were originally near the left side of Yinshan were implicated a lot, and they fell in the chaos. Naturally, this sacrifice was mainly set up for the education of these unfortunate deceased scholars.

The mountains are blowing, the long flags are fluttering, and it seems that the wind is whimpering.

Mr. Shui Jing and Sima Erlang stood in the back, mingling in the crowd watching the ceremony.

"This ......" Sima Hui closed his eyes and said in a low voice, "This elegy also has a bit of a strong and free taste......

Sima Yi was standing aside and muttered in a low voice: "...... The words are plain, flat and straightforward, there is no use of classics, and there are no chapters, hehe......" Sima Yi pursed the corners of his mouth, "like the song of Chu Shu...... "Han people still prefer the prosperous and gorgeous articles of Han Fu, especially the children of a family like Sima.

Sima Hui opened his eyes and glanced at Sima Yi, then slowly shook his head, closed his eyes again, and said softly: "Erlang, you don't want to lose your proportion...... Such a rhetoric is also ...... for the ingenuity of the expedition to the west."

“？” Sima Yi was a little puzzled at first, but soon understood it, sighed lowly, and replied, "Uncle has taught me a lesson, so it is used here...... It's the right thing, it's really subtle......"

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Four hundred miles northwest of Wuwei City, the first Qiang camp was held.

The wind of the grassland whistled by, carrying flags to the left and right of the tents.

First zero, in fact, you should read the city "Xi Anlian", but when it was recorded in the early days, I don't know if it was because of the problem of the person who recorded it, or because there was a problem with the translation, so that it was later called "first zero".

At the beginning, the first Lingqiang people pasted in the lower reaches of the Huangshui River to the Zhuanglang River and other areas, but there was also a period of peace and quiet, and then they colluded with the Xiongnu and attacked the Han land such as Lingju and Angu.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty naturally couldn't bear it, and immediately sent a partial army to crusade in the second year, after all, the main combat object at that time was still the Huns, and as a result, the Han family partial army attacked Zhuqiang in the Western Regions, and Xian Lingqiang couldn't even withstand a round, and retreated to Yanchi and other places in the West Sea. As a result, in the name of not forgetting his homeland, Xian Lingqiang expressed his willingness to return to Huangshui and other places where there was no farmland to graze, trying to hug the thigh of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and let them go......

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said that he had already done something, he liked to play, he didn't play rolling, he stood up and tied his belt, and he didn't want to pay attention to Lingqiang first.

So Xian Lingqiang had a lot of resentment, and then he was endlessly entangled with the Han Dynasty, until the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, it was also the first Lingqiang to gather Zhuqiang, unite the rebellion, occupy Longyou, and attack Sanfu.

It was precisely because of Xian Lingqiang's latest rebellion that Dong Zhuo officially stepped onto the stage of the Han Dynasty.

Although Xian Lingqiang suffered a defeat some time ago, his strength is not as good as before, but compared with the Han Dynasty, if compared to those small Qiang tribes such as Baima Qiang and Yak Qiang, of course, it can still be regarded as a behemoth.

Thousands of people gathered in one place, together with cattle, horses and livestock, such a degree of convergence, at this node in the Han Dynasty, can already be compared to an ordinary medium-sized town, and naturally will form an independent and special ecological circle, such as the outermost is often responsible for the realm and grazing, and the closer to the first Lingqiang head of the big tent, the higher the status......

At this moment, Quinoa Xiangli, the leader of the Xianling Qiang people, was holding a bowl of mare's milk tea, sitting on a tiger skin and watching the two people fighting not far in front of him.

The tribe is large, and there are naturally many things, and the Qiang people have a system of civil and political affairs like the Han people, most of them are verbally reported, and then dealt with directly, so from time to time there are quinoa Xiangli's deputies or henchmen, who come over from the side, whisper something in the ear of Quinoa Xiangli, and then take Quinoa Xiangli's words and retreat to deal with affairs.

The two men engaged in the gladiatorial fight in the open space were both tall, but one of them was a Qiang man, while the other was wearing Hanfu. Both men were not wearing armor and were bare-handed.

It's just a gladiatorial fight, not a death match.

Naqiang was strong and burly, with muscular arms, but he was obviously no match for the Han Chinese. Although the Qiang people have great strength, but because of this, they suffered a loss, and were caught by the Han people, and they fell face down on the ground with a snort, although it was grass, but after all, they fell hard, and when they turned over, they didn't know if they broke the dough or touched the nose, and they were suddenly bloody.

The Qiang man was brave, he didn't care about the blood on his face at all, he roared, it seemed to be ferocious, and he was about to rush up again with a wipe of his hand, Quinoa Xiangli sat there, but put down the tea bowl, and said very gently: "Riza, you lose, change people." ”

"I'm coming!"

Another Qiang man, who was watching from the outside of the circle, dropped his sword, took off his armor, struck each other twice with his hands and fists, and then circled in the center with the Han people. The new Qiang people consciously took on the honor, and after seeing the skills of the Han people, they did not dare to step forward recklessly, but carefully circled around, looking for flaws, hoping that the previous battle of the Han people had consumed a lot of strength and could win in one fell swoop.

But the Han people played a general momentum, and took the initiative to approach several times, but the new Qiang people avoided it, causing a burst of cheers from the Qiang people in the surrounding area, although some of them were cheering, but most of them were also disgusted with the evasion behavior of the new Qiang people.

Maybe it was because of the pressure of shouting outside the field, or maybe it was really finding a flaw in the Han people, and the Qiang people rushed forward, but the Han people took the opportunity to grab their arms, and as soon as they used their feet, they threw the Qiang people to the ground......

The onlookers shouted loudly, muttering jokes, praising and saying anything.

"That's it!" Quinoa applauded, "If you win three battles in a row, you can be regarded as a warrior!" Come, give wine! ”

Immediately, a quinoa Xiangli guard untied a cowhide bag filled with mare's milk wine from his body and threw it to the Han Chinese.

The Han people were not polite, they reached out and grabbed it, pulled out the stopper and poured a small half of it in one go, and then held the cowhide bag to thank the quinoa Xiangli, turned to the Qiang man who had just beaten with a bloody face, and threw the cowhide bag over: "Come, please drink!" ”

The Qiang people with a bloody face laughed, and also pulled out the stopper, regardless of the fact that the blood was not dry, he poured a long breath, and then stepped forward and pulled the Han people: "You invite me to eat wine, I invite you to eat meat!" Walk! ”

The Han people gestured to Ma Chao beside Quinoa Xiangli, Ma Chao nodded, and the Han people followed the Qiang people to the side with a smile, and there were two more people in the small circle who jumped close and fought hand in hand, but this time both were Qiang people......

"Commander Ma......" Quinoa looked at the Han people in the distance, and said with a smile, "Your subordinates are good......

Ma Chao laughed and said, "I'm okay with these few people, where do I look like a big commander, my subordinates are all warriors!" ”

The two smiled in unison.

After half a ring, Quinoa Xiangli said slowly: "Commander Ma thinks that the Western Army that is now in Sanfu has a combat power?" It is said that the commander of the horse and the western army have also fought against each other? ”

"Of course, the combat power is still good...... It's not wrong to say that it's my shame...... It's just that I had few people at that time, and the white horse, Tsing Yi, and yak were ...... Don't say it, it's like I'm making excuses......" Ma Chao said with a smile, as if he didn't hide anything at all, "But that army to conquer the West also has a big flaw......"

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In the suburbs of Pingyang, the memorial for the people who fell in Yinshan this time has come to an end.

Sima Hui quietly looked at the people who were worshipping the martyrs, and only said slowly after half a sound: "This is the pastor...... Conquer the West, ......"

The memorial to the soldiers can boost morale and encourage the soldiers to move forward bravely when they are on the battlefield, and the memorial to Shuzuo can stimulate more people to devote themselves to the project of Hu people's education.

The county keeper is the shepherd of the Son of Heaven. What is "herding" means that the people at the grassroots level are like cattle and sheep, they are easily attracted by some things, and then bleating and gathering somewhere, even if they are dragged out and slaughtered, they still care about the grass in front of them, and forget the fur and flesh on their bodies.

But among this flock of sheep, there are also some peculiar loners.

For example, Sima Hui.

Sima Hui is sincerely praising Fei Qian, thinking that Fei Qian's hand is very beautiful, but it does not mean that Sima Hui is willing to follow Fei Qian's whip.

In the past, Sima Hui also ran north and south, after all, there was the aura of celebrities, and the princes who fought on the land of the Central Plains would not deliberately embarrass Sima Yi, so Sima Hui actually saw the Shandong scholars covering up under the so-called Qinwang banner, and saw the control of the Han Dynasty fall apart in this process.

From north to south, large and small princes, in the open, in the dark, are engaged in large and small games and conflicts, and the nobles and nobles from all over the country are also in this process, or wait and see, or bet, or start to stand in line under forced helplessness, but there are also those who stand in the wrong place and step directly into the ghost gate......

Hanoi is generally lucky, except for the beginning after Dong Zhuo led the troops to attack Hanoi, it has basically stabilized now, and production and life have generally recovered as before, but the only unstable factor at the moment is this general Fei Qian.

The two armies are fighting, not only the soldiers of the two sides are fighting, but even the cities and villages where the two armies are fighting, will also be implicated, resulting in the destruction of the family, and the entire city and village become a ghost domain It is also a common thing, if it is said that in the future, Fei Qian and Yuan Shao will one day start to fight, Hanoi will become the front line.

At that time, even if the Sima family has the ability and excellent vision, and stands on the side of the victor first, can it completely avoid the madness of the loser under the dying struggle? Isn't it common for a big war to engulf a family with hundreds of years of heritage, or several?

This is the complex reality that the Sima family must face.

What kind of strength Yuan Shao has, the Sima family can naturally see it clearly, but the Sima family can also see what kind of ambition Yuan Shao has, not to mention anything else, just Yuan Shao's previous behavior of supporting Liu Yu as the emperor made Sima Fang and Sima Hui very disapproving. Sima Fang's personality is upright, even when he talks to his son at home, he is very serious, and he always pays attention to etiquette, so he is naturally very disgusted by Yuan Shao's behavior of destroying etiquette, so he is not willing to serve Yuan Shao at all.

Therefore, investigating Fei Qian's strength and deducing the subsequent changes has become a more urgent matter for Sima Hui and even the entire Sima family. As for the struggle between modern and ancient texts, it is also necessary to fight for life, if even life is gone, then what is the dispute?

The mountains blew by, and the long flags above the altar fluttered.

Sima Hui looked up, squinted his eyes, as if thinking about something, and said for a long time: "Erlang, tomorrow you go to visit General Zhengxi...... Be humble and don't make any more mistakes......"

"Uncle?" Sima Yi said with some puzzlement, "Why do you need to do this? Speaking of which, his uncle is still kind to him...... If it weren't for his uncle giving him a name and strengthening his reputation, how could he be famous in Hanoi? ”

Sima Hui shook his head and said, "Have you heard of this name in Pingyang in the past two days?" ”

"This ......" Sima Yi was dumbfounded. In Pingyang, I can hear that it is more about the general of Zhengxi, where is there still someone who calls Fei Qian why "Hidden Kun"......

Mr. Shuijing looked at the long banner that was fluttering in the distance, as if he was about to fly away by the wind, and said slowly: "Hidden in the abyss, you need to be famous, now it is swaying, the wings are shaking and the wind is thundering, why do you need to care about some floating clouds?" ”

Hearing this, Sima Yi couldn't help but be silent, and with Sima Hui's gaze, he also threw himself to the altar in the distance, his eyes flashed, and he didn't know what he was thinking......