Chapter 628: Guzang Night Market

Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju and the Wuhuan people said that the rebellion of the Son of Heaven was not settled, and the Southern Xiongnu killed Shan Yu again, and they rebelled together with Tu everyone, which undoubtedly made the situation in the northern Xinjiang of the Han Dynasty worse.

The news reached the capital of Luoyang, the Han Emperor Liu Hong and the hundred officials and ministers scolded the traitors shamelessly and ungrateful on the one hand, and on the other hand, they could not, so they could only continue to send soldiers and horses from all over the world to quell the chaos in the north.

First of all, the Youzhou soldiers led by Gongsun Zan before, the Jizhou soldiers of Huangfu Song and the soldiers and horses of Fude must continue to rescue, and then Zhang Yi, the assassin of the state and state, made every effort to dispatch the soldiers and horses of the state and county to resist the combined forces of the Southern Xiongnu and Tuge, and then from Sili and other places, thousands of reinforcements composed of three river knights and crossbowmen of the forbidden army were dispatched to rescue Liangzhou.

Of course, in this, it is natural that the current Liangzhou war has basically reached the last Liangzhou army.

This time, the imperial court not only wanted Fuquan to return the soldiers and horses that originally supported Liangzhou, but also sent another 5,000 Liangzhou cavalry as reinforcements to rescue and annex the state. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the imperial court knew that Liangzhou still needed soldiers and horses to appease the situation, I am afraid that it would be far more than 5,000 cavalry to let Fuquan send troops to rescue this time.

The will of the Han court is still on the way to Liangzhou, Fuquan is busy recovering the counties of Liangzhou at this time, since the Han army defeated the rebels led by Wuge Haojian, Han Sui, who was watching in Wuwei County at that time, got the news, did not hesitate to flee to the Western Regions, leaving a city equivalent to an empty city, Fuquan is now the lord of Liangzhou, of course, did not hesitate to send troops to take over these cities.

Wuwei County Governance, Guzang City, formerly known as "Gai Zang", its place is the jurisdiction of ancient Liangzhou, because of the geographical location is dangerous, known as "the country's guard, the world to rush" reputation.

And Guzang City is also the earliest and oldest city in the history of Liangzhou, and it comes from the Xiongnu. In the pre-Qin period, the Xiongnu people arose in the Yinshan area of Mobei, and were a nomadic people who "migrated by water and grass, and did not have the industry of cultivating the fields in the city", "because the valley was the city, and because the water and grass were the warehouse", and the language belonged to the Altaic language family. During the Warring States Period, it was often active in the areas north of Yan, Zhao and Qin, and in the first year of Qin II, the leader of the Xiongnu Leader Man was killed by his son Mao Dun, who succeeded to the throne of Mao Dun, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Central Plains Chu and Han to fight each other, quickly became strong and constantly invaded the border of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, this part of the land to which Guzang belonged was the territory of the former nomadic overlord Yueshi, who migrated with the cattle and had the same customs as the Xiongnu, while the Yueshi people were nomadic in Wuwei County and Dunhuang County in the west of the Hexi Corridor, and were powerful and fierce enemies of the Xiongnu, and often had entanglements with the Xiongnu.

In the 14th year of Emperor Wen of the former Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu defeated the Yueshi and occupied the entire Hexi after the strong leadership of Mao Dun, and since then, Hexi has become a vast pasture for the Huns. At that time, the right king of the Xiongnu divided the Hexi region into seven or eight kings such as the Hun Evil King, the Hun Tu King, the Zhelan King, and the Lu Hou King, among which the Wuwei area was the territory of the Hun Tu King, and the Hutu King, also known as the Yuezhi and Yuzhi Territories, belonged to Yongzhou to build the Hutu City in its place, as the palace, and this was the predecessor of Guzang City.

However, in the second year of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty, the famous general Huo Qubing defeated the Xiongnu, in order to show the martial arts and military might of the Han Empire, the Han government placed Wuwei County in the territory of the former Xiu Tu Wang, and Wuwei got its name from this, and at the same time transformed the original Hun Tu City built by the Huns, and renamed it "Gu Zang", as the seat of Wuwei County.

In the tall Guzang City, thousands of Han troops entered the city in turn, and they gradually controlled the county seat of Wuwei County in the warm atmosphere of many Han people eating pot pulp to welcome the king's division, and the governance of a county was controlled by the Han army, which was equivalent to most of the land of this county, and basically returned to the hands of the Han army.

"This place is Wenhe's hometown, and now it is the joy of returning home with the army." Fu Quan, who rode into the city, said with a smile to Jia Xu beside him, he was very happy, after all, it was a pleasure to recover Liangzhou under his jurisdiction.

Jia Xu still replied with a cold look: "The recovery of 'Wolong City' is a small achievement, not as good as the generals who charge on the battlefield, if you say that you are rich, Duan Zhongming can say the same more than me!" ”

Fuquan's smile gradually lost when he said this, Jia Xu pushed the pot to Duan Xuan, and he didn't have a move, after all, compared to Jia Xu, a strategist who planned the layout in the rear, Duan Xuan, Duan Xuan's clan brother, fought on the battlefield, which was more popular with ordinary people.

In this regard, Fu Quan could only secretly disappoint the fun, but thinking of Jia Xu's character, he scolded him in his heart for being boring. Knowing that this guy in front of him is a ruthless person with no joke cells, he has to hit Jia Xu's muzzle, who else can he blame if he doesn't blame him?

The so-called "Wolong City" is actually Guzang City, the reason why it is called this name is because Guzang City is in the shape of a dragon, so the locals call it "Wolong City". When Fuquan first heard this name, he was also muttering in his heart, could there be a famous man named "Wolong" here, who has the ability to divide the world into three parts, so he will be called so. Of course, it turns out that there is only one poisoner in this Guzang city who can cause trouble in the world, but now, this poisoner has become a loyal and loyal strategist who protects the Han Dynasty.

"I will give birth to a boy, return to Zibang, and end up in this building...... Shuwei, are you cowardly coming here today? Seeing that the harassment could not be harassed, Fu Quan could only change people, and when he saw Zhang Meng, who looked hesitant next to him, he half-jokingly. He said that it was Zhang Meng's mother's pregnancy, and he dreamed that it took Zhang Huan's seal ribbon, climbed the stairs and sang, and his father Zhang Huan later invited the prophecy obtained by the diviner, and now this Guzang City is the county where Zhang Huan was the Taishou of Wuwei at that time.

Originally, Fuquan thought that Zhang Meng would hesitate to come to Guzang City because of that divination words, but this guy still wanted to come to Guzang City on the grounds that he was his deputy general, and he wanted to use his military exploits to go to the place where his father used to be glorious, to prove that his father was a famous general, and he was not bad.

When Zhang Meng heard this, he came back to his senses, shook his head and smiled: "The words of divination are not enough, so why do you say it in vain!" ”

In the tone, Zhang Meng didn't seem to care much about what Fu Quan said, but if you look at Zhang Meng's face carefully, there are still some unusualities, think about it, the words of Wei Wei have been greatly promoted by the rulers since the founding of this dynasty, unless Zhang Meng is the same as Fu Quan, he has the cognition from later generations, and it is impossible for him to really have no influence at all.

"Lie?" Fu Quan muttered: "If Lone Cousin plays Shuwei as a martial guard, can you dare to respond to it?" ”

"Why don't you dare?"

"Good!"

was counterattacked by Zhang Meng, Fu Quan was also a little angry, his mind turned, thinking of the situation of this Zhang Huan's youngest son in history, and suddenly decided to let him be the ruler of this Wuwei County to defend Liangzhou for him.

I don't want Zhang Meng to be a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and he didn't hesitate to come back to Fuquan's counterattack, just in line with Fuquan's way, in this way, the tricky thing in his heart was also completed.

After learning that Han Sui took his rebel soldiers and horses, together with his family, and tens of thousands of people fled to the Western Regions, Fu Quan ordered all the troops to go to the west of Liangzhou on the one hand, and accepted those cities where most of them were only guarded by dozens or hundreds of people, and on the other hand, he ordered Huang Zhong to lead his troops to pursue Han Sui.

Those rebel soldiers who were still guarding the cities of Liangzhou were all Han soldiers under the command of Han Sui, they did not want to stay away from their homeland, nor did they want to take refuge in the Qiang people who were not good swords, and Han Sui was not willing to be ruthless to these few subordinates, and let them stay in various places to garrison, and after they saw the Han army receiving the city, they were also very interested in opening the city and surrendering, such as Guzang City, where Fuquan is now located, is the case.

As for the pursuit of Han Sui's rebel army, Fuquan also sent his cronie Huang Zhong to take the elite soldiers under his command, all the way according to Fuquan's meaning, slowly embellished behind Han Sui's soldiers and horses, until they went out of Yumen Pass and really entered the land of the Western Regions, then they went to the court, saying "Han Wei retreated to the Western Regions, Liangzhou is short of grain and grass, and there is no foreign reinforcements, so there is nothing to chase", which was used to prevaricate the imperial court.

Of course, Fu Quan deliberately let Han Sui go, hoping that he would go to the Western Regions to explore his way for himself, and naturally he would not let go of such a good opportunity to reveal to the imperial court the intention of subduing the Western Regions. Therefore, at the end of the prevarication, Fu Quan still added a paragraph asking the generals to recover the Western Regions to show his intentions.

However, this matter is definitely impossible for the time being, after all, the Great Han Kingdom has just experienced the Taiping Road Rebellion and the Liangzhou Rebellion repeatedly, and now the chaos of Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and Tu Ge in the northern Xinjiang has appeared again, how can it be possible to have the spare strength to subdue the Western Regions? Moreover, the Western Regions have been lost for many years, and how many of the hundreds of officials and ministers in the DPRK want to sincerely recover the homeland of the Han family, this is also unknown, I am afraid, only when Fuquan really holds the power of the world, can this wave troops in the Western Regions.

After dealing with these, another major problem in front of Fu Quan also appeared one after another, that is, to arrange officials to rule on the lost land of these Han troops who were subdued.

The Qiang people have rebelled repeatedly, and there is a big reason that the officials in many places in Liangzhou are corrupt and exploit the Qiang people, making the Qiang people hate the Han because of the official office.

Now Zhang Meng is not afraid of being the Taishou of Wuwei, and even forced by himself to take the initiative to ask to do it, which undoubtedly makes Fuquan solve a big problem, after all, Wuwei County is the key place in Liangzhou, and ordinary people really can't serve as the Taishou here.

Moreover, even if they are capable, if they are in the small counties of Liangzhou such as Dunhuang and Zhangye, they will rule very well, but when it comes to the big county of Wuwei County, it is not necessarily.

The position of Wuwei County in Liangzhou is very important, and the reason for this is that the market in Guzang City, since the establishment of the Silk Road in the Western Regions, as a key road, Guzang City, has become a leader in the prosperity of the northwest border trade. Moreover, because of the special history of Guzang City and its location in the Han and Western Regions of the traffic artery, many ethnic groups live here, there are many Liangzhou Hu people here to trade with the Han people, and the market trade of the rest of the counties in Liangzhou is obviously not as good as Guzang City.

In the words of later generations, Guzang was actually a special economic zone, and with the deepening of development, he was given the mission of "currency Hu people" for foreign trade. Legend has it that during the period of Guzang City, there were many business travelers, so Guzang City could only "meet the city day and four times".

The so-called "four days of the market", that is, after the end of the evening market, a special night market is set up to extend the trading hours, which is not only the situation of Hanhu trade, but also a breakthrough in the conventional market system. As a result, Guzang has a night market that is rare in the whole Liangzhou, and at the same time, this Guzang night market has gradually become the largest night market in this dynasty because of the prosperity of border trade, and it can be said to be very prosperous in the northwest.

It is precisely because of this Guzang Night Market that Fuquan is very cautious in choosing Wuwei County Taishou, because those who hold this position, in addition to their ability, must also have a great reputation, and they can shock the heroes of Liangzhou and those naturalized Hu people.

If you screen it like this, in fact, there are not many people in front of Fu Quan, originally those people from Liangzhou were born in Liangzhou to take on this important position, Fu Quan felt that it was the most reliable, such as arranging his most trusted Jia Xu as the Wuwei Taishou, with Jia Xu's calculations, he would definitely be able to continue to push this Guzang Night Market to a more powerful point.

It's just that it is obvious that limited by the "three mutual laws" of the Han Dynasty as an official, a Liangzhou native like Jia Xu can be an official in his county, but he must not be an official, which directly disappointed Fuquan's expectations. As for the non-Liangzhou natives, it is obvious that in the eyes of the local wealthy people in Liangzhou, they are not famous enough to completely suppress them, and today, when Fu Quan and Zhang Meng were chatting, they also remembered that the most suitable person was this young reckless teenager.

For Zhang Meng, Fu Quan has known him for many years, and he has worked together for many times, and he also recognizes his ability very much. The most important thing is that his father was the former "Liangzhou Sanming" Zhang Huan, and when Zhang Huan was young, he also served as a Wuwei Taishou, and he governed well, leaving a lot of reputation, which laid a solid foundation for Zhang Meng to become a Wuwei Taishou.

And the most important issue of Zhang Meng's place of origin is actually not a matter, after all, Zhang Huan moved his home from Yuanquan County, Dunhuang County, to Huayin County, Sili Hongnong County, because of Zhang Huan's efforts to level Qiang, and the special order of the imperial court was to allow Zhang Huan to move his home from Yuanquan County, Dunhuang County, to Huayin County, Sili Hongnong County, which has changed Zhang Meng's household registration.

In the words of later generations, Zhang Meng's ancestral home is now from Yuanquan County, Dunhuang County, Liangzhou, but his real household registration in Dahan is actually a native of Huayin County, Hongnong County, Sili, and if he goes to serve as Wuwei Taishou, he completely circumvents the requirements of the "Three Mutual Law".

Therefore, it is very suitable for Zhang Meng to serve as the Taishou of Wuwei now, but I don't know if he will have the ending in history again.