Chapter 34 In the Name of Mercy

When he came to Lanzhou, Tie Xinyuan was a little broken. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He was born on this land a long time ago, and he is extremely familiar with every plant and tree here.

The appearance of the big river in front of him is still the same, and the turbid water stirs up the waves that are one person high, like thousands of horses roaring down.

This is the most spectacular appearance of the Yellow River, since entering the era of the Great Song Dynasty, the climate has become strange and impermanent, and Longzhong, which was originally smooth and rainy, has become arid and rainless.

Large tracts of forests have dried up, countless small rivers have dried up, and the originally verdant oasis has become a withered yellow piece in just one hundred years.

A river that has nurtured the Chinese nation for tens of thousands of years has finally become a harmful river, flooding and becoming a disaster every year, and it is like a perverse mother who has begun to become hysterical after raising her children for tens of thousands of years......

Tie Aqi, the person engraved on his mother's heart, was also swallowed up by this river, so that his mother did not have any good feelings towards this river.

If she could turn into Jingwei, she would definitely find a way to fill the river with stones.

No matter how important the river is, it is not as important as the person in the mother's heart.

The ancient ferry in front of him was crowded with people, and a pontoon bridge paved with sheepskin rafts floated on the water like a big bow, and hundreds of slender men and boatmen dragged the pontoon bridge tightly, lest the pontoon bridge that was finally laid down was overturned by the huge waves.

The dark-skinned boatman shouted and threw the huge stone anchor into the murky water, and in a moment the iron chain connecting the stone anchor was taut and moving slowly downward.

It wasn't until the stone anchor got stuck in the boulders at the bottom of the river that the undulating pontoon gradually stabilized.

Zhang Tong led the vanguard army to the pontoon bridge first, and slowly moved to the opposite bank in a single column.

The soldiers on the bank had already unloaded all the supplies on the cart, and even the cart was disassembled into small pieces that could be carried across the river, and then reinstalled after it went to the other side.

With a team of more than 6,000 people and a large amount of supplies, it would take at least three days to cross the river from such a small pontoon bridge.

Ouyang Xiu looked at the Qingtang Lanzhou guards who were trying to help the boatman and the slender man stabilize the pontoon bridge, and said softly to Tie Xinyuan: "Qingtang is resting!" ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said: "Don't underestimate the Qingtang people, their combat power is unparalleled in the world, the reason why we can enter Qingtang at a small price is that on the one hand, there is certainly the greed of the Lanzhou guards.

On the other hand, it also shows that our people enter the hinterland of Qingtang, and people don't care. ”

This is to the effect that no matter how strong the tribe or the country is, there is no reason to allow an armed army of 6,400 people to enter its own territory.

This time we are just passing through, and next time, if we are going to conquer them, will they also allow our army to enter? ”

Ouyang Xiu looked at the soldiers who were slowly crossing the river with a look of fascination.

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "If the Great Song Dynasty wants to conquer Qingtang, it can only rely on strong troops to push it over.

If you have a mind that you shouldn't have, such as sending a small number of troops from Lanzhou to launch a surprise attack, you just want to die.

The land of Lanzhou was originally not the border town of Qingtang, just a portal, this portal is just a fence portal, it prevents gentlemen and villains, and the dangerous terrain you think is not very important to Qingtang.

Four hundred years ago, Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty married in Tibet. Tang Taizong sent Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, to the west from Chang'an, through Tianshui, Lanzhou, into Qingtang Ledu, Qingtang City, and then through Huangzhong Zhenhai Fort, Huangyuan Riyue Mountain, through the Daoliu River and finally sent Princess Wencheng into Tubo.

There are many dangerous passes on this road, and many fortresses with the difficulty of flying birds. Compared to those places, the Yellow River is really nothing.

At the beginning, Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty was such a hero, and he never pulled out the thorn in the flesh of Tubo, and the biggest reason was that the terrain of Tubo was too dangerous.

We enter the river in the pass, all the way are on the up, since ancient times from the low to the high place to attack is called the back attack, a two moats may still be pacified, eight, ten, dozens of moat passes, it is not human power can compete. ”

Ouyang Xiu looked at Tie Xinyuan for a long time before he said: "The path we are going to take is similar to that of Princess Wencheng's entry into Tubo, except that when we enter the deepest part of Tubo, we will fall into the river instead of Luo.

The old man will compile what he saw and heard along the way into a document and send it back to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "This is a good statement, but Mr. needs to revise his style." ”

Ouyang Xiu, who was very confident in himself, glanced back at Tie Xinyuan and said with a smile: "Those who have no precedent in learning are the first, I don't know what the king has to teach, although he says it clearly." ”

Tie Xinyuan didn't care about the old master's slightly mocking tone at all, and opened his mouth to come: "Less embellishment, less exaggeration, a city with a population of 20,000, just say 20,000, if there are 200, say 200, don't use words like catching shoulders or a few people, the city is two feet high, don't use words like towering into the clouds, only one zhang high, don't use such a statement that you can lift your feet."

In particular, words such as flying down 3,000 feet must be used with caution, and if the document presented to me by Li Taibai described the terrain as dangerous, I would definitely put him in prison on alarmist charges. ”

Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "The old man has been taught, this is really taught, poetry can be exaggerated, the documents must be detailed, one needs great beauty, the other needs great reality, the functions are different, naturally they can't be compared." ”

The pioneer battalion had already crossed the Yellow River and had begun to guard on the other side, and Ouyang Xiu, as the second person to cross the river, went on the pontoon bridge under the escort of the two boatmen and Gaga.

Although the bridge swayed so badly, the old man staggered a little, but there was no frightened expression on his face, and when he walked to the most dangerous place, he held on to the rope and watched the turbulent scenery for a long time, and then reluctantly walked to the other side.

The old gentleman Taishan is now in front of him and does not change his heart is indeed worthy of admiration, Quack has always been not afraid of anything, helping the old gentleman to stand on the bridge and laugh heartlessly.

As for Su Shi, he was very embarrassed, calling like killing a pig, holding the rope tightly with both hands, but his eyes were wide, and he slowly moved forward while calling.

The rest of the civil servants were very ashamed, and there were seven or eight of them who peed their pants, but those officials who probably often walked in the countryside and suburbs performed much better than the civil officials, at least not one of them was scared out of the urine.

The Qiu Ba people from Tiannan were very proud, and some of the bold rammers actually sang obscene tunes and carried supplies on their backs to step on the pontoon bridge, and a few of them even deliberately shook the pontoon bridge in a mess.

was hit twice by the flying stone thrown by Meng Yuanzhi, and then obediently ran across the river.

Wei Chiwen's approach was extremely clever, knowing that he didn't have the courage to make a scene on the bridge, so he simply sat in an empty carriage and was carried across the pontoon bridge by four soldiers, and in the middle, his eyes were tightly closed.

Six thousand four hundred people only a little later, the sky darkened, since ancient times the Yellow River does not cross at night, Tie Xinyuan strictly followed this rule, and Meng Yuanzhi and Zhao Wan stayed on the other side of the Yellow River.

During dinner in the evening, Meng Yuanzhi walked in and said, "The defenders of Lanzhou have not moved, and General Tashi is very satisfied with the five hundred horses of silk we offered. ”

Tie Xinyuan raised his head and looked at Meng Yuanzhi and said: "Qingtang is really about to fall apart now, the eyes of those old thieves in the court are really vicious, choose to pass through the river at this time, they are at least seventy percent sure of success." ”

Meng Yuan smiled and said, "You were still persuading Ouyang Xiumo to be impatient this morning, why did you change your tone now?" ”

Tie Xinyuan picked up the rice bowl and swallowed the last bite of rice inside, dropped the rice bowl and said with a smile: "If they march too fast, we will have less benefits."

The first problem we faced after returning to Hami was the influx of Uighurs.

Now, the north of the Tianshan Mountains is already in a state of no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the document sent by Qiao Ge'er said that the influx of displaced people is almost reaching the upper limit that Hami can accept.

If the Tianshan Road is not closed, the displaced people will become a disaster.

If there is another war in Qingtang, the displaced people from Qingtang will also flock to Hami, so that we are not well prepared and there will be big problems. “

Meng Yuan said with a straight smile: "We used to worry about the population being too small, but now, if the population is too large, it will also become a big trouble." ”

Tie Xinyuan patted the table lightly and said, "For a ruler, the more people he can rule, the greater his strength.

Even if people from both places enter Hami, we are still seriously underpopulated, but they come in too fast, too much, beyond our ability to accept them for a while.

These people are wealth, since they are here, we have to take them, I have sent an urgent letter to Ah Da, telling him that even if the treasury is empty, we must take in these homeless people, the difficulties are temporary, but the people are eternal. ”

Meng Yuan sat down cross-legged and thought for a while: "The crowd is still too chaotic, some of the tribes that have entered Hami, they are born enemies, even if they come to Hami, they will hate each other, if we don't handle it well, it will cause a big mess." ”

"Musin didn't teach me anything else, but he said something that inspired me greatly, and that was in the name of mercy!

This sentence is so useful and incisive.

We can rule in the name of mercy, we can expand in the name of mercy, and we can deal with all the instability in our country in the name of mercy.

That's what they said, and that's what they did, and because of that, their name of kindness spread far and wide, and countless people rushed to join their banner in the hope of a better life.

They are very successful, good things must be used, there can be no prejudice, we just need to follow the rules. (To be continued.) )