Chapter 40 The undetermined can only be slaves

Tie Xinyuan agreed to Wei Chiwen's suggestion, and the army began to encircle the meander. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Meng Yuanzhi did not argue anymore, and the conquest of Caotou Tatar itself was one of the goals of this return trip.

More and more Uighurs poured into Hami, and these easily betrayed Uighurs needed a relatively quiet place to slowly acclimatize.

The Sea of Calamus is a good place to be.

Although only a small area of water and a large salt marsh remain, Tie Xinyuan thought that as long as the Tarim River was diverted, the Calamus Sea would still become a place of abundant water and grass.

This happened once, but seven hundred years later.

At that time, the Tarim River overflowed, washed away the river, and finally emptied the Peacock River, so the calamus sea came back to life.

Tie Xinyuan wanted the Tarim River to be diverted as soon as possible, and although he was very sorry for the Uighur king, he didn't care.

If he could not recover Khotan from the Qarakhanid in the future, he even wanted to intercept the Hotan River together, so that all the water of the river would flow into the Tarim River and finally flow to the Calamus Sea.

In the desert Gobi, the saying that water is the source of life is not false at all.

If someone can control the water source, it is equivalent to controlling the entire Western Regions.

However, this is impossible, there are more than 570 rivers in the Western Regions, and it is these rivers that feed the people of this land, and even the most daring and crazy careerists cannot control all the rivers.

Still, one or two are fine......

This is a standard posterior mentality......

Controlling the grain in the Western Regions, controlling the materials in the Western Regions, controlling the price of material exchange in the Western Regions, and then controlling the water sources in the Western Regions, this is the ambition of Tiexinyuan.

The people of the Western Regions are untamable in their ambitions, and even if they succeed for a while, there is no way to guarantee that these people will be obedient forever.

With Musin, even if his country is established, he will be beaten with a religious stick and his head is full of bags.

There's no way to ban this thing.

Buddhism, which is much milder than the Great Cannibal sect, has also been banned seven or eight times in history, and each time it has been able to revive and eventually flourish.

In order to counter Musin, Tie Xinyuan introduced Bon, and also welcomed Buddhism to station, and if possible, Taoism came in, and Tie Xinyuan did not object.

He didn't care if the region he ruled would become a place where religious conflicts would erupt, and the royal power could only take precedence over religion when all religions needed the support of the royal power.

Once an idealistic sect has taken over people's brains, it is very difficult to drive it out.

The main reason why the Qarahanids were able to attack the Uighurs like the autumn wind swept away the leaves was that the Uighurs seemed to be closer to the Qarakhanid than to the Uighur kings.

The only difference between the two is that one is religious and the other is not!

Therefore, when the Qarakhanid first began to attack, they did not encounter much fierce resistance.

If the Qarakhanid had been kind to the Uighurs who had surrendered, it is estimated that the Uighur king would have abandoned the Uighurs and returned to his role as horse thieves.

It was the Qarakhanid's strict adherence to the Kafir (non-believers) that gave the Uighur king hope of defeating the Qarakhanids and created a new Hami kingdom.

The Uighurs lived in nomadic and commercial life, and the only thing they were in awe of was the vast sky they saw every day, and at night, the moon changing sequentially, and the intricate star charts.

This experience is very similar to that of the Great Cannibal.

In ancient times, the superstition and worship of the sun, moon and stars was a phenomenon that many peoples in the world once had.

And in the desert, the worship of the moon is even more prominent. After Allah revealed the Qur'an to the Saint Muhammad, ****** religion was first spread in Arabia.

It is hot and arid, and the production and life of the nomads are mostly carried out at night. The Arab calendar then celebrates the sun's descent to the first rising of the sun as a day and the first day of the new month as the beginning of the month.

Ramadan is the month from the first day of seeing the new moon to the beginning of fasting at the first day of seeing the new moon and ending with the new moon again.

In Muhammad's view, the crescent moon represents a new force, from the crescent moon to the full moon, signifying the destruction of the ****** religion, the victory over the darkness, the consummation of deeds, and the light of the world.

The moon is fickle, and as such, it is only natural that this moon-worshipping religion is fickle......

Fortunately, there is more than one way for Tiexinyuan to control the Western Regions!

He prefers to believe in what can be truly controlled by human nature rather than the fickleness of human nature.

If possible, Tie Xinyuan even wants to engrave the words Qingxiang Country on every stone on the Gobi, and brand the seal of Qingxiang Country on the buttocks of every animal running on the ground!

Swamp, these two words are not a good place to go, let alone a good place for human survival.

In order to avoid danger, it really doesn't matter if you hide in a swamp for a short time, and even if there is a loss, the grass-headed Tatars can lose it.

If they stay in the swamp for a long time, even if the grass-headed Tatars know the road in the swamp well, the cattle and sheep in their hands will not be able to hold on for a long time.

Hundreds of miles longitudinal and horizontal, vast, endless swampland, grass and rivers and ditches are intertwined, the silt black stagnant water exudes a fishy smell, some are even emitting methane, the surface of the rotten grass is very soft, muddy, under the lush green grass, is a big quagmire full of traps, as long as the pedestrian is not careful, in the meantime, will fall into the catastrophe.

And that's not the only thing that's hard to accept.

Most of the water in the swamp is black sewage, and there is no cure for humans and animals who get sick immediately after drinking it.

The most terrifying thing is the thatch in the swamp, most of them have hard burrs, and once they scratch the skin of people and animals walking in the sewage, their skin will fester, and the same is true for people and animals!

Tie Xinyuan agreed to Wei Chiwen's plan to march into the meander, but did not agree to his suggestion to send troops to the swamp.

This stupid boy thought that as long as he was given money, those thugs would die in the swamp.

He forgot that people make money for enjoyment, and if their lives are gone, what is there to talk about making money.

Mercenaries will never fight a hopeless war!

The cold air of the meandering river in May was oppressive, and the ground under the feet was soaked after the snow had melted, and a layer of frozen soil on the surface had melted, and the one-foot-thick mud made it extremely difficult for the war horse to move.

Tie Xinyuan has come to the river meander!

He stood on a high place and saw the grass-headed Tatars, who did not go deep into the swamp, but more to show an attitude to Tie Xinyuan.

They couldn't afford to go deep into the swamp, and likewise, they didn't have the courage to walk straight out of the swamp......

Meng Yuanzhi believes that such a group of people does not exist in this world.

But Tie Xinyuan clearly knew that there was indeed such a group of people in this world, and they were full of yearning for the new world, and they really walked out of the three-hundred-mile swamp.

If this group of people really walked into the depths of the swamp and walked out of this swamp, Tie Xinyuan swore that he would definitely stay away from this group of people in the future, and he knew what kind of height the group of people in the future would reach in the end, and how powerful they were.

Since this group of people didn't have the courage, then Tie Xinyuan had ten thousand ways to make them submit, surrender, and finally bow at their feet!

Meng Yuanzhi thought that the army could only trap these people for ten days, at most ten days, otherwise the situation on Hami's side would deteriorate.

The war between the Qarakhanid and the Uighurs had come to an end, and the 6,000 mercenary army of Song and Tibetan people should quickly return to Hami.

Looking at Meng Yuanzhi's anxious eyes, and then at the gloomy sky, Tie Xinyuan agreed to his suggestion, he didn't think that those grass-headed Tatars could hold out in the miserable wind and rain for ten days!

He even thought that leaving two thousand men here would be enough to nail the grass-headed Tatars to the swamp.

He even hoped that Meng Yuanzhi would leave first with the three thousand soldiers and the group of civil officials, and he and Zhang Tong and the others would stay to see the final result.

Meng Yuanzhi rejected Tie Xinyuan's suggestion, gritted his teeth and prepared to stay in the river meander for another ten days.

The weather in the meandering land was unpredictable, and it was only cloudy at first, but in an instant the rain poured down.

The water level in the swamp rose rapidly, and Tie Xinyuan had to order the entire army to move up the mountain.

Sitting in the tent on the top of the mountain, Ouyang Xiu roasted the fire, looked at the heavy rain outside the tent and said, "It's too cruel." ”

Su Shi lost the heartless smirk on his face, leaned his hand out of the tent, and came back with some rain, feeling that his hand was beaten by the rain very painfully, and when he looked down at the rain in his hand, he found that there were still a few hailstones the size of peas in his palm.

Then I heard the hail beating on the cowhide tent with the sound of a drum.

He turned his head hard, felt his neck rattle like a jerky doorway, looked at his husband, and said, "The grass-headed Tatars are finished." ”

"They're not finished!"

Tie Xinyuan's voice came from outside the tent.

I saw Tie Xinyuan walking in from outside with an umbrella, and smiled at Ouyang Xiu: "Sir, it's not safe here, let's go to the Chinese army's tent with the students." ”

Ouyang Xiu shook his head and said, "This is the conquest of the Western Regions that you are talking about?" ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "They will be fine, hail is very rare in the Central Plains, but ah, in the area of the Daochuan River, hail in June is nothing, experienced herdsmen have known that there will be hail today since yesterday, they have their own way of life, these methods are often very useful." ”

Su Shi interjected: "Can't we let them go?" They're dying......"

Tie Xinyuan looked at Su Shi solemnly and suddenly smiled: "A nation without persistence and courage can only be a slave to others!" (To be continued.) )