Tug-of-war is an old custom in Nanjun, and this is not a black man's boasting, but it is true.

When the imperial Sangmu led the officials to explain the rules to the ruler of the Rong Department, Heifu also said to Wang Wei, Zhai Chong and others: "Have you heard of Lu Ban?" ”

Wang Wei is young and has never left the north, shaking his head, Zhai Chong is old, and he has fought in the Central Plains, so he has until.

"Lu Ban lived two hundred years ago, was a craftsman of the Lu State, at that time, the King of Chu was competing with the King of Yue for hegemony in Jianghuai, so he hired Lu Ban into Chu to make boat war tools for the Chu State."

When the enemy is at a disadvantage, the hook can hook the enemy's ship, and the soldiers pull it back vigorously to prevent it from escaping, and when the enemy is in an advantageous position, the refusal can resist the enemy's ships and prevent it from pursuing. The Chu army had a hook and a rejection, and was invincible, defeating the Yue Kingdom, invading eastward, and reaching the Sishang ......"

Wang Wei listened attentively and praised: "What a great craftsman! ”

It was also from that time that the people of Jianghan, who were often the soldiers of the Chulou boat, also practiced the technique of pulling the hook and pulling whenever the lord recruited them to perform martial arts, so that they could come in handy during water battles. Slowly, it evolved into a folk "hook play", although the state of Chu perished, but the customs have been handed down, which is the origin of the tug-of-war.

And now, Heff has brought the movement to the Northland.

While speaking, the ten warriors of the Cattle Killing Department and the Tiger Fall Department had already listened to the rules, and when they arrived on the field, they looked at each other with wide eyes. The two tribes already have enmity, and the fight a few days ago started from them.

The people of the Rong tribe in ten miles and eight townships near and far also heard about the new things that happened in Pengyangyi, and they helped the old and the young one after another, and rode horses and chariots, and there were as many as two or three thousand people, surrounded not far away, to cheer up the warriors of their respective tribes.

They saw that in the open space, there was a long hemp rope more than ten zhang long, and ten people from each of the two parts of killing cattle and tiger falling were lined up on both sides, and they picked up the rope and stood still. In addition to the shallow ditches separated by each other, the officials also erected a red flag in the middle of the hemp rope as a boundary, and beat the drum as a signal for the two teams to pull the rope with each other.

With a drum beat, the strong men who killed the bull and the tiger fell all gritted their teeth, leaned back, pulled the rope with all their strength, and raised dust under their feet, the number and strength of both sides were about the same, so they could not hold each other, and the red ribbon tied to the middle point of the hemp rope would go to the left and the right for a while, and the rope would be broken violently, and it would still creep and not return.

Not only was the field anxious, but others were also nervous, ten people dragged, thousands of people shouted, and the noise was moving.

But in the end, it was the Niu Killer who became the final winner, and the people who killed the Niu suddenly burst into huge cheers, rushed up and lifted the ten strong men high, regarded them as heroes, pushed them to the horse, and let the ten people show off their might.

The strong man of the Tiger Fall family got up from the ground in embarrassment, and his face was a little dissatisfied, but at the order of Heifu, Gongsun Bailu, who ruled for both sides, said with a gloomy face:

"I have sworn before, there is no hidden evil in defeat, there is no hidden power in the strong, the tiger is falling, do you want to regret it?"

"Don't dare, it's true that the Niu Killer has a lot of strength, and the Huluo clan lost."

Huluo Luo glared at his own children, and let them return to the tribe in a gloomy manner, inevitably being counted by the clansmen for a while, but this tug-of-war was compared in front of thousands of people, and the government testified, and if they lost, they lost, and there was no excuse.

So, this winter, a water source and a hill were used by the cattle killers.

Next is the other three, but where there is a territorial dispute, on the tug-of-war competition, they all sent the most powerful children, or win or lose, the last time, at the moment of the victory or defeat, the hemp rope also "snapped" a break, the people of the game Hula all fell to the ground, causing thousands of onlookers to laugh.

By the time it was about to get dark, the intricate territorial disputes of the five tribes had all been resolved by tug-of-war. Compared with the previous battle, seven or eight tribal warriors had to die every time they resolved a dispute, today's competition, at most, a few people flashed to their waists with too much force, which was really friendly and harmonious......

Afterwards, Heifu asked thousands of people from the five tribes to gather outside Pengyangyi and said loudly:

"When you were waiting for the tug-of-war, Ben Wei visited the old people in the various departments, and they told Ben Wei a story."

"In ancient times, the various tribes fought for the water source of the pasture, all of them fought with short blades, never to the death, each time they fought, hundreds of people were often killed and injured, the coldest winter, the worst famine, and the losses caused to the tribe were nothing more than that."

"So decades ago, the five monarchs gathered in Pengyang, and it was agreed that only ten people would be sent to fight in the future, and the winner would be able to use water and grass for a year."

"But even so, more than a dozen strong men die every year, so why bother?"

"It is better to die 10 people than to die 10 people, and it is better not to die than to die 10 people, from now on, whenever there is a dispute between the five departments, ten people will each be sent out to tug of war instead of fighting, what is it?"

Dayuan Zhirong is often conscripted into the army, and he also knows the law and military law of the country, and has a certain degree of discipline, the county lieutenant speaks, and the five monarchs can only only make promises, as for ordinary herdsmen, they also feel that there is nothing bad about this.

After the people of the five tribes dispersed one after another, a huge bonfire was lit outside Pengyangyi, and Heifu asked people to slaughter all the sheep sent by the five monarchs, so that the soldiers who came with him to stop the private fight were shared, and even cut the meat for them himself.

The county lieutenant's closeness to the low-level county guards naturally won the cheers of Wang Wei and other soldiers, but just when everyone was eating happily, Gongsun Bailu found Heifu and put forward his opinion to him.

"The county lieutenant thinks that the five departments of Ohara will really abide by the rules set today in the future?"

……

Heifu swallowed the roast mutton in his mouth, looked at Gongsun Bailu, who was red by the firelight, and said: "I'm afraid not, let them tug of war today, it's just an expedient measure, so that the five departments can be divided for a year, don't make trouble." ”

"The same is true of the subordinates."

Gongsun Bailu's accent was extremely positive, and he said: "There are too many cattle and sheep in a small circle, and they will fight each other, not to mention the five warlike tribes? ”

"What's your solution?" Heifu asked.

"There are two ways to do it." Gongsun Bailu nodded his head.

"Tell me about it."

Gongsun Bailu glanced at the Yiqu White Wolf who was dancing happily with the Rong riders not far away, approached Heifu, and said in a low voice: "First, let the Dayuan Rong people abandon grazing and farming!" ”

"Oh?" Heifu looked at Gongsun Bailu in surprise, this person's insight is not bad.

He knew that this was not the place to talk about things, so he excused himself to go to the toilet and asked Gongsun Bailu to leave the noisy bonfire with him, return to the city, and sit opposite each other, and Heifu's words were also a little polite.

"Please also ask the county lieutenant Gongsun to talk about it in detail."

Gongsun Bailu said: "The county lieutenant should know, the identity of the grandfather of the family, is the son of Yiqu Jun and the Empress Dowager Xuan, King Zhao is benevolent, and it is not easy to know the Empress Dowager, so after the destruction of Yiqu, he left the life of the eldest father (grandfather) and the eldest father Zhong. ”

"The eldest father was ashamed of his identity as a Rong clan, so he changed his household registration, thinking that he was Xia Zi, wearing summer clothes, saying Xia Yan, and changing his grandson."

It was also the old mother who had an illegitimate child with a wild man, but King Qin Zhao and Qin Shi Huang responded completely opposite.

But think about it, Empress Dowager Xuan is committed to Yiqujun for state affairs. Relying on the sacrifice of the Empress Dowager Xuan, the Yiqu was enveloped for many years, so that the Qin State could have no worries, free up his hands to enhance the country's strength, and fought endlessly among the vassal states, and repeatedly won successes, King Qin Zhao knew and even acquiesced in this matter: "The matter of the Yiqu is urgent, and the widow invites the Queen Mother on the day." Now that the matter of the righteous canal has been completed, the widow has been ordained! ”

Zhao Ji was purely for his own lust, and he also tried to rebel against Chang Yu, so Qin Shi Huang was not soft at all.

Gongsun Bailu said again: "But my eldest father Zhong is not, he just wants to be a Rong person, continue to take Yiqu as his clan, braided his hair and clothes, and wear his left hair, and lead his people to migrate to livestock, eat meat and drink cheese." ”

One stem bears two fruits, and it also represents the two ways of life of Northland.

Heifu knew it, so after accumulating three generations, the Gongsun family had mixed up with the title of Gongdafu, and Gongsun Bailu even became the county lieutenant of a neighboring county, relying on his family's status as a "distant relative of the clan", and he was more trusted by the government than ordinary Rong people.

"Before his grandfather died, he warned his father and uncle that they should dig graves according to the customs of the Qin people, and not to follow the customs of Yiqu and Qiangrong, and burn their ashes. He also said that if you want to gain a foothold in the north, you must make meritorious contributions, get knights, and give more fields, and nomads will die! ”

Heifu was a little surprised by the old grandfather's knowledge, and under questioning, Gongsun Bailu told the reason.

"My father, who was a pastor's supervisor, found that a family needed five to ten hectares of woodland and pasture to survive in the event of rain and snow. And a family of five can get food and clothing if they govern 100 acres of land. ”

"However, the number of immigrants in Guanzhong is increasing, and there is a lot of water and muddy water, while the land in Beidi County is limited. Although there are not many people moving in every year, where is there still so much vacant land for the Rong people to graze their cattle in the long run? ”

"What your father said is true!"

Heifu bowed his head and deeply agreed that this is a simple economic question, and it is also a multiple-choice question in front of all the people on the agricultural and pastoral dividing line of Beidi County and even the "Longmen-Jieshi":

"The land needed to feed the same population and livestock is dozens or even a hundred times larger than farming!"