Chapter 16 Yellow sand is long in Loulan City

Seeing that Lord Fuzun was a little unhappy, he just leaned over to explain, and saw Fuzun looking at a man who walked into the city gate with two large bundles of firewood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, not only the Fuzun was watching, but also the Song people who were waiting in the urn city, regardless of men and women.

Tongzi didn't have so many ideas, the father took the children, and the wife was tidying up the new house and wanted to cook and eat, only to find that the new home had everything else, but there was no firewood.

Before entering the city, he saw a large forest of dead poplars, and he hurriedly chopped a load of firewood with an axe, and rushed to the urn city at sunset.

Tongzi knew that someone was watching him, but the children in the family were already hungry, and the children had not eaten a hot meal for so many days, and the adults couldn't stand it, let alone the children.

Therefore, no matter how others squeaked and asked him about the situation in the city, he walked quickly to the house without saying a word, who had the time to grind his teeth with these fools, and the wives and children at home were still hungry.

Huang Yuanshou watched Tongzi walk into the inner city, and said to Lao He with a smile: "After more than a year of busyness, this ancient city finally has fireworks in the world. ”

Huang Yuanshou's words are not false at all, since last year's calamus sea began to store water, Hami craftsmen have been in full swing to prepare for the construction of Loulan City, for the upcoming large group of Song people to build residences, during the experience of difficulties, these Loulan officials have a deep experience.

This is part of the founding plan of the Hami State, only when the construction of Loulan City is completed, the Hami area of Nuoda will be surrounded by its own city, which will effectively isolate the possibility of bandits and horse thieves entering Hami.

Only after a complete set of defense systems is established, can the hinterland of Hami truly become a vast territory that can be used.

Tie Xinyuan had great hopes for the construction of Loulan City, and he understood that once the Peacock River returned to its original path, the Loulan Ancient Road would inevitably flourish again.

This city is the most important military position in the northwest of the Hami Kingdom, and its completion indicates that the control of the Hami Kingdom over the Calamus Sea and the Loulan Ancient Road has become a reality.

Even if Mu Xin went down the Peacock River, he would have to capture Loulan City before he could continue to advance into the hinterland of Hami.

Long before the city was built, Tie Xinyuan demanded that the Song people should make up the vast majority of the residents of this city, which could ensure that the city farthest away from Qingxiang City could maintain absolute loyalty even without much effective supervision.

The Uighurs are wild and untamable, and even with all the efforts they can make, there are still a large number of Uighurs who do not identify with Hami.

Last year, Tie 300's men killed countless people, and Ouyang Xiu spent countless money and food, and the integration of the races was still not very ideal.

As a result, there was a deep prejudice against the Uighurs throughout the Hami kingdom.

If the Uighurs migrated over, the Hami officials thought that they only needed to build some shelters for them, and that there was no need for any city to protect, and even if the city had to be built for military reasons, it was not necessary to build a large one, but only a small military city was enough.

Now, Tiexinyuan wants an important town in the northwest, and the future Silk Road will pass through here, how dare you put a large number of wild and untamable Uighurs here?

It is only right to keep the Uighurs under their noses and constantly supervised.

Loulan City is on the edge of the Calamus Sea, and Hami did not choose another place, so it directly built Loulan City on the original site.

A long time ago, Loulan was the throat of the Western Regions, the southwest through and the end, Jingjue, Kuami, Khotan, the north through the Cheshi, the northwest through Yanqi, the east when the white dragon dui, through Dunhuang.

Unfortunately, 600 years ago, after the diversion of the Peacock River, the country of Loulan, which was later known as Shanshan, was completely lost to the desert after the Uighurs conquered the country.

At the same time, the West Silk Ancient Road through Loulan also disappeared.

Water is the source of life in the desert Gobi, without which life cannot survive on this land.

Since Tiexinyuan sent Shui'er to blow up the embankment of the Tarim River, which had long been silted up into an above-ground river, the Peacock River, which had received a large amount of water, had to be diverted again and headed for the Calamus Sea, and finally stayed in Loulan.

The flow of the Peacock River is the greatest in spring, and the melting of the snow and ice on the mountains makes the river reappear hideous.

In just ten months, the water area of the Calamus Sea has expanded for a full three hundred miles, and finally there is some meaning of smoke and waves.

The strength of life is vividly expressed in this spring, and the iris sea, which has been dry for more than 600 years, has only experienced a spring with water, and the iris sea has become a world full of flowers.

Perhaps these plants have been silent for too long, and when spring is melting, they can't wait to burrow out of the earth and everything recovers.

Beneath the poplars, which have been dead for many years, countless seedlings emerge from the earth, hungrily stretching their branches to the sky.

Huang Yuanshou received this errand in November last year, and with more than 10,000 Uighur refugees who had been assigned to him, he had been working on the calamus beach for more than half a year.

And the generals of Hami's camp have already begun to choose a site for Loulan City in September last year.

It's a pity that there are not many mountains near Loulan, and even if there are some mountains that are not high, there is no way to provide enough rocks for Huang Yuanshou to build Loulan City.

The ancient Loulan city wall is all made of loess and wheat straw, which has been eroded by wind and rain for hundreds of years, and has become dilapidated.

It was not easy to build a strong city on the barren Gobi, where there was a lot of loess, but no wood or suitable stones.

The craftsmen who will be working on the camp were lucky enough to find a large amount of red clay on the old road of the Peacock River.

So, these excited craftsmen used red clay to build the bones of the city wall of Loulan City.

When the two rings of low walls made of red clay were erected, the craftsmen led the Uighurs to fill the two walls with a large amount of dried poplar firewood, set them on fire with oil, and burned them.

Three days later, the two originally soft red clay walls became solid pottery walls, with these two bones, and then rammed the earth walls with loess, five months later, a strong city wall up to four zhang high slowly appeared on the ruins of Guloulan.

When the father and son came to Loulan, it was already the middle of July, which was the best time of the year in Loulan.

After living in a sturdy house, the convicts who had been clamoring slowly accepted their fate in the face of the strict control of the Iron 300.

Huang Yuanshou also issued an order at the same time, requiring those female prisoners who came to Hami to marry after a month, and once this period was exceeded, the official family would match them.

Tie Xinyuan stopped being silent after seeing Huang Yuanshou's documents and asking Ouyang Xiu's opinion, he was very unaccustomed to official behavior, which was not uncommon in the Great Song Dynasty, and it was even more common in the former Tang Dynasty.

When the country was in ruins after a great war, in order to increase the population, it was a great act of righteousness to implement official rations and give dowries to women.

Ouyang Xiu didn't treat these women who had been in prison as human beings at all, and felt that the state could forcibly marry these women with dowries, which was simply a grace to those women.

This thing has been done into grace, and Tie Xinyuan naturally has nothing to say.

In fact, Huang Yuanshou only gave these Great Song prisoners ten days to think about it, and Loulan City still had a lot of work to do, so he didn't have time to wait for those men or women to be hypocritical.

Therefore, a guy with a wife like Tongzi was recruited by the government to temporarily serve as the head of the woman's family, and sent away fifteen brides in three days.

The Song prisoners came in batches, and seven or eight thousand houses were simply not enough to accommodate the more than 100,000 Song prisoners who were about to arrive.

The dead boxwood that had been usable earlier had been exhausted, and now I wanted to continue building houses, and the leftover boxwoods in the wilderness could not be used.

Fortunately, the Hami government fired a large number of red clay beams and pillars from local materials, and finally solved this problem.

It was a gift of the Song people to live a hard life, and no one else could learn it, at least, in the eyes of the Uighurs, the Song people had already lived the life they dreamed of in this almost hellish place.

In the beginning, they would only laugh at the stupidity of the Song people.

The Uighurs couldn't figure out why the small, one-inch fish tasted so good when pickled.

They couldn't figure out why the black ground on the ground in Loulan didn't eat the cattle and sheep, and why they could make delicious local vegetable buns by adding some wild vegetables after being washed by the Song people.

The most important thing is that before autumn, these people, who are very different from the Song people in Qingxiang City, have already begun to store food, and for this reason, they do not hesitate to go hungry from now on to save food.

The yellow sheep they caught did not eat it, but salted it and hung it on the beams of the house, and they did not eat the wild vegetables they dug up, but dried them and put them in clay urns, and as long as they had a little time and free time, they would go to the iris sea in a canoe to fish.

There are not many fish in the iris sea, and it can even be said that there are very few fish, and this lake has only been formed for more than half a year.

As a result, the Song people often came back disappointed from the sea of calamus, and watched the Song people come back with a string of palm-sized fish, as if they had seen fools.

A day's work was hard enough, and they didn't understand why the Song people were so persistent in stockpiling food.

The Uighurs looked at the Song people as if they were fools, and the Song people looked at the Uighurs in the same way.

People who have never eaten Guanyin soil do not understand how terrible hunger is.

The Western Regions are vast, there are fish in the lakes, there are animals on the ground, there are mountain treasures in the mountains and forests, food is not scarce, for many years, the Uighurs have always been able to find some food to eat for the winter, not to mention, the government will distribute food every month, sometimes even some dried fish and oil.

By the time the vegetation began to wither, the lives of the Song and Uighurs had changed considerably, and after the government distributed food without discrimination, the Uighurs were surprised to find that the Song tables were always much richer than theirs. (To be continued.) )