Chapter 41: The Age of Grandeur
"If I heard it right, it seems that they are talking about Wei Qing, right? Dahan..., Guanzhong..., Chang'an..., Wei Qing! Doesn't this mean that the current emperor is Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty? Hold a grass..."
Although Zhang Ran couldn't distinguish the emperor's year name, and he didn't know how many emperors there were in the Han Dynasty, he still had some memories of those characters who left their names in history and shined in the annals of history.
And whether it is Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, or Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they all belong to the kind of great historical figures that are still fresh in people's memories and unforgettable for a long time after seeing them.
Therefore, when the diners mentioned Wei Qing, Zhang Ran immediately thought of Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and various events related to them.
The great general Wei Qing will win the battle, attack and win, and win seven battles and seven victories...... Hussar general Huo Quai, bravely crowned the three armies, crossed the desert, sealed the wolf Juxu, drank Ma Hanhai...
Thinking of the brilliant achievements of these two uncles and nephews, which are enough to glorify the glorious achievements of future generations for thousands of years, Zhang Ran couldn't help but boil his blood.
The appearance of this extremely key figure let Zhang Ran know what a magnificent and great era the era he lives in.
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Just when Zhang Ran fell into the "memory killing", the surrounding moments were not idle, and they were still discussing with great interest.
After hearing that the Son of Heaven sent Li Xi and Wei Qing to attack the Huns, some diners analyzed: "Li Xi is okay to say, since the first emperor led the army to fight with the Huns, and he is also considered a general..., but Wei Qing, just a slave, occasionally lucky, how can he beat the murderous Huns..." So I think the general is still very good at fighting! ”
The diner pouted and said, "It's just luck, if he encounters the main force of the Huns, the whole army will be wiped out..."
"Nonsense, how do you know that the general of the chariot cavalry can't beat the Huns... It's not that I haven't fought! The diners who refuted were obviously more optimistic about Wei Qing, so they couldn't help but retort again.
Listening to the quarrel between these two diners, Zhang Ran, who had already opened the "God perspective", couldn't help but want to laugh...
Can Wei Qing defeat the Huns?
Needless to say? Wei Qing not only won seven battles and seven victories, defeating the Huns again and again, but he and his nephew Huo Quai's illness joined forces, and they could fight until the Huns called Dad!
Because the achievements of these uncles and nephews are so strong that they are rarely comparable to the foreign wars of many dynasties in ancient Chinese history.
Counting back and forth, in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing broke the Turks and captured Jieli Khan. In the Ming Dynasty, there were few people such as Lan Yu Fishing and Meng Yuan who could be compared with it.
For such an epic hero, Zhang Ran naturally has a deep memory of his life, so much so that Zhang Ran also remembers the battle of Monan, which made Wei Qing soar into the sky, and remembers it very clearly.
The battle of Monan (the first time) was roughly as follows:
In the second year of Yuan Shuo, that is, at the beginning of this year, the Xiongnu took advantage of the warm weather to invade Shanggu, Yuyang County, first broke through Liaoxi, killed Liaoxi Taishou, and defeated Yuyang Guard Han Anguo, plundered more than 2,000 people, such as entering a no-man's land, extremely arrogant!
After the news was transmitted back to Chang'an, Liu Che, the Son of Heaven, was extremely angry and immediately sent the general Li Xi to attack from Daijun, and at the same time ordered the general Wei Qing to lead 40,000 troops to the rescue.
After Wei Qing led the army to arrive at the border pass, he analyzed the battle situation, and did not rush to Yuyang County to rescue as before, but led the army to attack the Henan land where the Xiongnu were entrenched, and adopted the tactics of "roundabout flank attack", went west around the rear of the Xiongnu army, went straight to Gaoque, and quickly captured this border fortress, cutting off the Xiongnu Aries King stationed in Henan, and the contact between the King of Lou and Shan Yu Wangting.
Then, Wei Qing led the elite cavalry and the flying soldiers to the south and entered Longxi, forming an encirclement of the Aries King and the King of Loufu.
After a bloody battle, the Han army defeated the army of the king of white sheep and the king of Loufu, captured thousands of enemies, millions of cattle, sheep and other livestock, and captured Henan in a battle.
You must know that the Henan land of the Han Dynasty is the Hetao Plain area of later generations, as the saying goes, thousands of miles of the Yellow River, only a set of riches, the Hetao Plain is located in the Yellow River Bay, the water and grass are fertile, the land is fertile, and the situation is dangerous, it is a very important strategic place, it has always been the frontier base of the Xiongnu invasion of the Han Dynasty.
The Xiongnu controlled this place, which was equivalent to choking the throat of the Han Dynasty, and they could take what the Han wanted at any time. It can be seen how important Henan is to the Han Dynasty.
In this battle, Wei Qing not only completely recovered the Jiuyuan hometown of Qin and Zhao periods, and captured the strategic place of Henan, but also swept away the decline of Hanxing for more than 70 years, which greatly encouraged the national pride of the Han people, and opened the prelude to the glorious era of the Han Dynasty and Wuhu.
Wei Qing was also named the Marquis of Changping for his merits, with 3,800 households, becoming the most dazzling star of the Han Dynasty, and the two empires of Han and Hungary opened his legendary life.
Wei Qing's life, if you summarize it, it is simply a model of the ancient version of Diaosi's counterattack.
At birth, he was just the illegitimate son of a slave and maid, and his status was lowly, like a weed in the dirt.
When he was a child, because of his hard life, Wei Qing was sent by his mother to the home of his biological father Zheng Ji. But Zheng Ji didn't care about Wei Qing, the illegitimate son, and directly asked him to herd sheep, and the son of the Zheng family didn't regard Wei Qing as a brother, but treated him as a slave and a beast.
When he was a teenager, Wei Qing didn't want to be enslaved by the Zheng family anymore, so he returned to his mother and became a riding slave of Princess Pingyang, feeding and washing horses for Princess Pingyang... I don't even have the qualifications to lead a horse for Princess Pingyang, so I can only hide in the corner or in the stable, and secretly look at the noble swan-like hostess...
When he was an adult, thanks to the blessing of his sister Wei Zifu, Wei Qing was fortunate to become the emperor's bodyguard, and was appointed as a captain or even a general, and began to have a different life... But the hostess of the past is still the benefactor of their family, and Wei Qing still needs to look up to the eldest princess of the Han Dynasty...
When he was young, Wei Qing led the troops to attack the Huns, crisscrossing the battlefield, winning every battle, and was sealed as the Marquis of Wanhu for his merits... At this moment, Wei Qing has been able to look at the former hostess at a level and has the ability to repay the other party for taking him in...
When he was in the prime of life, Wei Qing had become the official of the Great Sima General, and became the Optimus Jade Pillar of the Han Dynasty, a well-deserved god of war... And the hostess who was once high up and like clouds on the horizon also became Wei Qing's wife because of the emperor's marriage... I will grow old with him and spend the rest of my life together...
From a humble slave giving birth to a son, a riding slave under the fence, to becoming a marquis of ten thousand households, a great general Sima under one person and above ten thousand people, and the husband of Princess Pingyang...
Wei Qing used his legendary life to tell all the hot-blooded men of the Han Dynasty what it means to take fame immediately, and what it means to find a marquis thousands of miles away...
His deeds inspired countless aspiring young people of the Han Dynasty to work hard and forge ahead, so that there was a grand scene of the Han Empire and a Han Dynasty as a Wuhu.
Promotion, salary increase, CEO, marrying Bai Fumei?
No, in the Great Han, as long as you are brave enough and willing to take the sword and follow General Wei to fight against the Xiongnu, open up territory for the Han and His Majesty.
Then you will have the opportunity, like Wei Qing, to seal the marquis, rip the soil, be Jiuqing, and marry the princess of the Han Dynasty...
And no matter how humble your background is, even if you are a slave, a slave, or a captive, as long as you can behead and make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, you will have the opportunity to become a glorious military noble...
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However, at this moment, Wei Qing is still at war with the Xiongnu on the border, and the battle situation has not yet been transmitted back to Guanzhong, so the diners do not know what magnificent results Wei Qing will achieve in this battle.
Listening to the surrounding diners still arguing over whether Wei Qing could fight and defeat the Huns, Zhang Ran couldn't help but laugh a few times in his heart with joy.
The things I want to know most are now known, and the results are still so satisfying, Zhang Ran can be said to be satisfied at the moment.
Next, Zhang Ran listened to the quarrels of the diners while enjoying the delicious mutton and the world-famous Xinfeng wine.
This meal has been eaten for more than half an hour, Zhang Ran paid for the wine and food, and took Sankui, who was also full of food and drink, to leave the wine store and buy food in front of Su City.
Although Wei Qing's deeds make people can't help but worship and admire, with Zhang Ran's current identity, the distance between him and such a character is still too far.
And Zhang Ran can't have any intersection with Wei Qing in a short period of time, so it's better to go to the market honestly to sell some food at the moment, and let's solve the problem of eating in the near future first.
Xinfeng's Su Market is not too far from the wine shop, Zhang Ran and Sankui pushed the cart all the way, and it took a few minutes to arrive at Su Market.
After buying four bags of corn and two bags of soybean from Sushi, Zhang Ran went to Yanshi to buy some salt and other trivial spices such as green onion and ginger, and daily necessities.
Finally, he found a blacksmith shop in the city, intending to buy a large iron pot. But what makes people feel helpless is that the blacksmith in the blacksmith shop doesn't know what an iron pot is, and he strongly recommends his iron kettle to Zhang Ran...
But the iron kettle, although much easier to use than the clay kettle, is still the main function of boiling and stewing... It is difficult to use for stir-frying, and what Zhang Ran wants is a big iron pot that can stir-fry.
In desperation, Zhang Ran had no choice but to draw the appearance of the iron pot in later generations to the blacksmith himself, and described to him in detail the thickness of the iron pot and so on...
In the end, the blacksmith told Zhang Ran that although he could make this kind of kettle, because it was too demanding, it required at least the best iron materials and the most exquisite craftsmanship, and it would take at least half a month to complete.
So the price is naturally outrageously expensive, and the blacksmith directly opened his mouth for five hundred dollars, and it was a fixed price, and he never bargained.
Zhang Ran has already asked just now, the average ordinary pottery kettle is only a dozen yuan, the copper and iron kettle is only a hundred yuan, and the price of a good sword is only seven or eight hundred yuan. The other party dared to ask for 500 yuan in one pot, which was simply a lion's mouth.
With such a big loss, Zhang Ran must not be willing to eat it, so he argued with the blacksmith and asked him to reduce the price.
But the other party bit five hundred dollars to death, and said to Zhang Ran, this is already the lowest price, and he can't find a second one in Xinfeng County, if he doesn't want it, he can leave.
Seeing that the other party was so sure, Zhang Ran couldn't help but believe most of it, and he also knew that with the current iron-smelting methods, making iron pots would never be as simple as in later generations...
Therefore, in the end, he gritted his teeth and paid a fixed payment of 100 yuan, and told the other party to make the iron pot as soon as possible.
Then, he left Xinfeng County with Sankui and embarked on the road back to Zhangli.