The Xiongnu, a powerful nomadic people who rose in the late Qin and early Han dynasties to dominate the north of the Central Plains, were a major border disaster in the early Western Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after nearly 70 years of recuperation in the Western Han Dynasty, Wei Qing and Huo Quai, the two uncles and nephews, were born.

"The loss of my mountain makes my women colorless. The loss of my Qilian Mountain, so that my six animals will not rest", the Huns sang, not only their sad resentment for the loss of the rich grassland, but also their fear that they knew that they would no longer flourish.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Northern Xiongnu feared the Han Dynasty and moved westward, and the Southern Xiongnu were attached to the subject, which stopped.

It's just that the alien race is like a hungry wolf who recuperates and recovers, when the Han people, the master of the Central Plains, decays, they will always come out and bite back, whether it is the Xiongnu or other alien races, history has been proving this with bloody facts.

The Southern Xiongnu was alone in the court tent, and Fu Quan and others sat on the Hu sit and participated in the banquet.

The current Shan Yu Qiang Qu frequently toasts with Zang Min, there are Hun musicians around them playing Hu Ji, pipa, Hu flute, "unlike", Gong Hou and other musical instruments, there is a young Hu girl in the center of the tent to show her singing voice, singing a kind of Hu people ballad that Fuquan does not understand, but it is very beautiful, there are more than ten Hu girls around him dancing, a strong exotic style makes people fascinated, and it is very lively.

When sitting on the beard, the feet are crossed, and the shin is crossed on the seat, which is also called cross-legged sitting. Han people like to kneel and sit, regard other sitting postures as very rude, indecent behavior, Zang Min and others sit on the beard and look unhappy, but after all, they are guests, and they can only follow the customs.

However, this is not a big problem for Fuquan, the stools and chairs of later generations are not all this kind of cross-legged sitting, and kneeling has long disappeared in China with the evolution of the times, but has been inherited by the Korean and Japanese people who deceive the world and steal their reputation, together with some other etiquette and customs of the Han ancestors in the Qin and Han dynasties, which is really ridiculous and generous.

To say that the most important person in this banquet is Huang Zhong, the most important warrior of the grassland people, the same is true of the Southern Huns, and even more so is the warrior who is like the Condor Archer, not to mention that Yu Fuluo and his brother Hu Chuquan frequently toast with him, that is, Yu Qiangqu is also a personal toast, but the Zang Min on the side is embarrassed, and it seems that he will be forgotten by the Hun Zhonglang who is more dignified than two thousand stones, fortunately, his nature is open-minded, and he knows that Huang Zhong is brave, and later he also toasted in person, there is really a free and heroic wind.

Hu Chuquan is Huang Zhong and Yu Fuluo that day to grab the carving, the language is not inferior, quite arrogant young man, his tone of toast is still very arrogant, which is very unpleasant.

At the end of the banquet, everyone laughed continuously, and Zang Min talked with Shan Yuqiangqu for a long time, and he had to leave for a long time. At this time, it is already afternoon, the cool breeze blows slowly, taking away countless wines, and the green grass that grows to the calves is extremely lush, and there is a faint refreshing fragrance, which makes people happy.

I thought that today's matter was over, but I didn't want to go back to Meiji Road, Zang Min suddenly rode to Fuquan's side and said: "You reprimanded Yuan Yu in the court, it is really a great good, this year's locust plague has affected the counties and counties of Qizhou, the court is tired, the people are sleepy, and they can't fight, plus the Xianbei national strength is getting stronger, if the Han army is not victorious, I am afraid that the Hu people in the Han realm will think about change." ”

Fu Quan was stunned for a moment, didn't think Zang Min mentioned this matter, thought about it slightly, and found that Zang Min had something to say, and asked tentatively: "Shibo is Yan Meiji?" When he spoke, his fingers were just in the direction of the court.

"Exactly."

"What's wrong?"

"Recently, many tribes of the Xiongnu have fled north."

Herders fleeing north? Where to flee? Obviously, there is only Xianbei.

Fuquan asked, "But the plague of locusts?" ”

"Indeed, a few months ago, the locust plague was raging, and the state was not spared, with no vegetation and countless herders suffering heavy losses, and there was no other way out. It is said that the policy of Liuchuan to treat locusts is really the blessing of the people of the Han Dynasty, if there is no such strategy, it is estimated that there is no grass and trees at this time, at this time in previous years, the grass has grown to the waist, and the cattle and sheep are all gone, and people do not know it. Zang Min nodded.

"The Hu people in the border county, most of them are elite soldiers and good horses, they should be vassals of the Han Dynasty, driven by the Han army, and they think they are eyes and ears, but now they have made a wedding dress for Xianbei in vain, which is really hateful." Fu Quan clenched his horsewhip and said hatefully.

"Don't mention this matter, you need to be careful when you go to Youzhou, Xianbei has to cure locusts late, the grassland is thousands of miles of red land, cattle and sheep are difficult to live, this year will continue to be Koubian, for the sake of the people, loot goods and grain, in order to supplement the economy, Liucheng is located in the western county of Liaoning, and it is impossible to say that Xianbei can come quickly. After you take office, you should be careful and not careless. ”

"Rukawa remembers the teachings of Shibo."

The next day, the convoy left Meiji and embarked on the road again, and then there was no delay on the road, all the way through Taiyuan County, through Zhongshan Kingdom, and then to the boundary of Youzhou.

"Zhou Li: Staff" has a saying that the Northeast is called Youzhou, that is, the place in the Northeast is Youzhou. Like the state, it is a bitter cold land in the border county, the people are fierce, and it is also a place to produce elite soldiers. The famous "Youzhou Cavalry" comes from this, and it is the same as the Liang, and Erzhou cavalry, with good warfare inside and outside.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the ancestor Guangwu pacified the world and relied on his merits, and later at the end of the Han Dynasty, Gongsun Zan won it with Yuan Shao to compete for Jizhou, and the Juma Water Battle broke Yuan Shao. If it weren't for the fact that he killed Liu Yu without permission, after getting Youzhou, he became more and more arrogant, did not care for the people, remembered and forget, and would have retribution, which led to a rebound from Hanhu in Dezhou County, and united with Yuan Shao, so that Yuan Shao broke his army in the two battles of Jieqiao and Longcuo, and the "White Horse Yicong" that he relied on to start was annihilated, so that he fled to Youzhou in a daze, and he could not shrink from then on, otherwise God knows how long the dispute over the ownership of the north in the late Han Dynasty would last.

However, the territory of Youzhou is also the same as the two states of Merge and Liang, there are many counties attached to Wuhuan scattered everywhere, which is one of the pre-Qin Donghu tribes with Xianbei, but the situation is different, and it is now a vassal of the Han Dynasty, and it is the eyes and ears of the Han army on the border to drive.

In mid-September, the convoy finally entered Liaoxi County, Youzhou, from Ruoyang to Liaoxi, with a total length of more than 2,000 miles.

Fu Quan did not go to Liucheng County, where he worked, but went to Yangle County, the seat of Liaoxi County, after all, he had just taken office, and it was not possible to visit his immediate boss first.

Yangle County is located in the southeast of Liaoxi County, and when the convoy traveled all the way, Fuquan inquired about his boss in Liaoxi County, and his face was quite worried.

Guy Liaoxi Taishou Zhao Bao is actually the younger brother of Zhao Zhong, both of whom are from the Zhao clan of the Ganling clan, and most of them are eunuch cronies. And he just scolded the head of the eunuch for being an official to avoid trouble, and he is a relative, how can this eunuch's relatives treat him?

However, the people in Liaoxi County all said that Zhao Bao was benevolent and righteous, and that he was an upright official, unlike other eunuch relatives, which made Fu Quan puzzled and secretly prayed, hoping that this county keeper would be as true as the people said, otherwise this shepherd guard would really have a headache to deal with himself.