Chapter 85: The Eve (2)

Li Wei sent his guard, Qin Eighteen, to inform Hei Tooth Changzhi.

The only requirement is that you have to be as fast as I am, and you can give me as fast as I can. Otherwise, when I saw the crisp autumn weather, the weather was good and suitable for hurrying. But it's time for the people who fled the famine in Qinghai to return to Guanzhong.

Qin Eighteen has this name, and his family background must be bad, but he performed well in the Battle of Qinghai and fled with Li Wei, so he let Li Wei always take him with him. After hearing Li Wei's words, he rushed to Qinghai almost non-stop.

When Tang Seng went to Tianzhu to learn scriptures, it was very bitter, at that time the Tang Dynasty had not really managed the Western Regions, and the scope of radiation was only to Qiuzi, so it was bitter to go and bitter to come. However, since the Tang Dynasty took down the Western Regions, there was a complete post road. This is also forced by the form, the Western Regions are far away, and there is no good post road, so the news cannot be notified to the imperial court as soon as possible.

There are not only complete post roads, but also various post stations, like several pearl chains, distributed in the north and south of the Western Regions, from the broken city to Qinghai more than 6,000 miles, so that he can deliver the letter to the hands of Heizhi Chang within half a month.

Kuroki Tsuneyuki was waiting for the letter.

He is not only in contact with Li Wei, but also with Liu Renliang.

Liu Renliang was also very busy.

The impact of the catastrophe in Guanzhong was so bad that even Chang'an flew in with dense locusts. Under the adjustment of various parties, the grain price in Chang'an City finally suppressed more than 30 wen per bucket, and more than 40 wen in remote places. With a sigh of relief, the artisans can barely make ends meet. This refers to the craftsmen in the city, but what about the peasants outside the city?

Autumn is coming, there is no harvest, and if you want to wait for the harvest, you must stay up until May next year. If there is a big cold in winter, the people will still not be able to live.

And when autumn comes, winter will come. Originally, the river water in the canal was shallow, and after autumn, it was even more difficult to transport grain to Guanzhong. So he used the power in his hands to transfer grain from Shannan from Jianghuai to Guanzhong without his life. This pressure is very great, there are millions of people in Guanzhong, how much food do they have to consume every day? Other local transportation is part, mainly relying on local grain. Historically, this catastrophe has been affecting the year into the next year. Li Zhi's health is no longer good, and he really wants to "return to the roots". As a result, seeing that the form of Guanzhong was not optimistic, he returned to Chang'an, with the families of officials and envoys from various countries, tens of thousands or even nearly 100,000 people returned. So he had to continue to stay in Luoyang until he died.

How did it end up? As soon as they starved, they died, tens of thousands of people died, and the population was reduced, and a group that was most lacking in food was wiped out.

After many changes, the harm caused is less than in history, at least the number of people who died is certainly not as many as in history. If there are no other changes, Guanzhong will be able to recover when the harvest comes up next summer. So Liu Renliang wrote a letter to Heizhi Changzhi, you have to hold on, and the people find a way to stay in Qinghai and can't be repatriated.

It is impossible to count the number of people who fled to Qinghai who fled the famine, but more than 500,000 can be verified, and the actual number may exceed 100,000 or 200,000. With so many people immediately repatriated, there is no doubt that another locust plague has arrived. Can't send them back, at least keep them until next summer.

After seeing the letter, Hei Tooth Changzhi couldn't help but scold: "Big mother's." ”

In the past six months, Qinghai's surplus grain has almost been exhausted. The money spent was not borne by him, and the imperial court continuously transported coins and cloths to Qinghai. Local materials, cheap, Guanzhong at the highest time a bucket of rice more than 100 Wen, and Qinghai a bucket of rice at the lowest time only three or four Wen, so that the disaster people's livelihood has become the best text. But the cost is also cheaper than Guanzhong. But if it continues, Qinghai will definitely not have enough food, and the victims will return, and Qinghai will have to support the food on the road, otherwise the movement of hundreds of thousands of people will have no food to eat, and it will be reversed. The consequences of the cause, that one dare not bear it.

And with so many refugees, what does it bring to law and order? Almost all officials are busy. Either there is another way to go, to the Western Regions, but the people are unwilling to go, and the black tooth Changzhi cannot be persecuted. After persuasion, he persuaded forty or fifty thousand people to prepare food, which was the first batch of people to move to Broken Leaf City. However, with 40,000 or 50,000 people missing, the situation in Qinghai still cannot be resolved. Just at this time, Li Wei's letter arrived.

After reading the letter, Hei Fang Chang was overjoyed.

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First of all, send people to publicize the disaster victims, and if you have the conditions to return to Guanzhong, I will not stop you. However, the situation in Guanzhong is not good, and Liu Xianggong wrote a letter to him, thinking that it is best for you to receive it next summer before you can go back. Going back now is probably a dead end. It may not be the case, but if we go back together, the situation in Guanzhong will be very bad. So Liu Renliang wanted them to stay in Qinghai and share the pressure between the two places. Without these hundreds of thousands of people pouring back into Guanzhong, the rescue pressure would be light.

It's not that the imperial court is bad, such a big disaster, in that dynasty, that region, it can't bear it. In order to relieve the disaster, the imperial court allocated more than 3 million yuan from the treasury as a subsidy. And continue to soft paste until next year. Although Li Zhi was so faint that he continued to practice Zen in this context, this point was still good, and it was precisely because of this attitude that there was no large-scale uprising among the people of Guanzhong, both now and in history. It's also rare.

As long as the people continue to stay in Qinghai, Guanzhong will be able to recover its vitality ahead of schedule next summer. Once they all come back, they will not be able to regain their vitality next summer, and the officials in Guanzhong will have to bear it this winter.

The people in the middle didn't know, but Liu Renliang wrote such words in black and white, and he also stamped his big seal. There were also some literate people among the victims who spread the word about it. Then he took out the letter written by Li Wei and showed it to everyone. See, the emperor has vouched for you.

You only have a few ways to go. I will not stop you from returning to Guanzhong for the first one, but I will not provide you with food to go back. It's not that I didn't save you and let you go back, but it hurt you and the court. Either settle in Qinghai, squeeze in, and at most take in another 50,000, 60,000, 70,000 or 80,000 people, which is the limit of Qinghai. Either go to the broken leaves, I will provide food, so that you can support the broken leaves, and a lot of things happened in the Great Eclipse, and the people of Khorasan are in revolt, resulting in the governor of Khorasan not invading the Transoxiana region for more than two years. So there's a lot of grain stored in the river, so you don't have to worry.

There was no deception, and well-informed people had heard that the imperial court had sent a large number of goods from Guanzhong to the Western Regions, and the first batch of goods had arrived in the Hexi Corridor. Even the goods transferred from Jiannan, Jiannan to Broken Leaves, had to pass through Qinghai, and the people also saw it. Originally, I didn't know why, but even the people could understand that they were exchanging food with the countries of the river.

Either you stay in Qinghai and boil slowly. Winter is coming, and you know how cold Qinghai is. Qinghai is so big, and there are so many of you. I also don't have the ability to build houses for all of you, send quilts and charcoal, and when the time comes, you will starve to death and freeze to death, and you can't blame me. Where to go, you will figure it out for yourselves.

However, some people still heard that the price of grain in Guanzhong was gradually lowering, and returned to Guanzhong. However, most people remain hesitant to stay in Qinghai. Black Tooth Changzhi used the second killer trick to select a group of people with good mouth kung fu from the disaster victims to pass on this pyramid scheme.

Don't dare to delay.

Qinghai is harvesting, and the task is almost complete. September is coming soon, and when it is September and a half, they must all be allowed to go, otherwise they will not be able to leave if they want to go in October and a half.

The catastrophe in Guanzhong was a misfortune for the people of Guanzhong, but it had an important impact on the future of the Tang Dynasty. Soon after, the Western Regions saw the most spectacular migration of the Central Plains people in history.

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Qinghai immigration was an important layout of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions in the future, and it had nothing to do with Kang Dahu, An Zhengyu, and Shi Yibin.

They led ten men to set out from Broken Leaf City, passing through Kulan City, Talas, Shiguo, and Kangguo to arrive at Peiken (Buraha, Uzbekistan), the capital of Angola Province. From the city of Peiken to Moufu (also translated as Mulu, Turkmenistan Marv).

It was one of the most important cities in former Persia and the most important gateway to the Transoxian-Chinese countries. In the area of the transfer of power between Dashi and the Tang Dynasty, one is the binding city of Tocharo, which leads to Tocharo in the east, and the Shiguo and Kangguo in the north. One is this Moufu City.

Its geographical location has become the focus of Li Wei's inspection.

The climate of Moufu City is very extreme, and in summer it is like a brazier, at least a dozen degrees higher than the temperature difference of broken leaves. In winter, it was very cold, as low as the temperature in Shattered Leaf City. But in September, the weather is very pleasant, and the autumn is crisp and cloudless. Desertification also began, but it was not as severe as it was later, and it was surrounded by small rivers that created oases. This makes the Moufu region an important base for food and animal husbandry in Khorasan.

Three lieutenants and ten subordinates, in Peiken City, more than 20 camels sent by the Empress Dowager Anguo, as well as some goods, and two dead soldiers who were proficient in multiple languages, came to a low hill, and after this hill, not far south is the city of Moufu.

Because the river was wet, and the hills were covered with green trees, looking at the sun, Kang Dahu waved his hand and told everyone to stop. A few pieces of cured meat were taken out, a fire was built on the spot, the cured meat was skewered with wooden sticks, and grilled on the fire.

Fifteen people sat on the stones, and after Kang Dahu gave some precautions, he hastily ate lunch.

Set out again, over the hills, to the Muwang River, a small river that is difficult to find on the map, shallow and covered with gravel, but the water is clear, the banks are covered with lush pastures, and in the distance are patches of crops, but they have been harvested, and only an infinite emptiness remains. The grass is also half green and half yellow, and from time to time you can see herders driving cattle and sheep to graze.

He patted his horse and washed down the creek. Horses and camels splashed and made a crisp splash and came ashore. After a while, they came to the city gate, where there was a long queue, and there were more than a dozen big food soldiers who were fiercely inspecting. More than a dozen people also lined up into the brigade to enter the city, and after a while, it was their turn, with a nervous mentality, they paid a lot of money to enter the city, or other commercial taxes, anyway, the dead soldiers of Anguo were talking with the big food soldiers, and Kang Dabeard couldn't understand a word. When the conversation was over, the soldier fiercely opened the luggage on their camels, and after checking it out in a mess, he waved his hand and let them into the city with ease.

This is due to special circumstances.

Salem went to war, and the rebels of Khorasan and Sestan made him lose his temper at all, but he did not expect that the Tang Dynasty would suddenly change its previous policy and would fight Khorasan's idea. In addition, the campaign initiated by Ni Nishi to recover Persia and oppose the Great Eclipse also distracted him.

Li Wei's evaluation of Ninishi is still mediocre. The Great Cannibals occupied all of Persia, but only occupied, and many places were still in a vacuum, such as Sestan, where several powerful rebel armies were active, and it took the Great Cannibals decades to reluctantly suppress these rebel armies. Although Khorasan was inferior to Sestan, the people were also very opposed to the rule of the Great Cannibals. In addition, according to its unique topography, surrounded by mountains on three sides and leaning north on the small sea (Caspian Sea), the Persian expedition to the east in Toksdan (present-day Surrey, Iran) resisted the Great Eclipse for generations, until the rise of the Black Clothes Eclipse, and annihilated it. At this time, as long as the Ni Nishi was not afraid of death, he went to the city of Jiling, and with a wave of the banner, the eastern Iraq region was lost for a long time, but at least the people of Khorasan and Sestan were excited, and it was very likely that the Persian state would be re-established. But he only stayed in Tocharian and shouted, and the effect was much lower.

It was not for nothing, it was his flag-waving cry that made the uprising of Khorasan and Sestan stronger than before. This divided Salem's heart again. In addition, the big food business atmosphere is strong, and the policy for merchants is very generous, of course, you have to pay taxes first. Therefore, Li Wei sent more than 300 scouts before and after, almost all of them in the name of merchants, and successfully infiltrated the territories of Khorasan and Sestan. Dozens of people even went further afield to Baghdad, Damascus and Medina.

As soon as I entered the city gate, I saw a group of big food soldiers escorting more than a dozen people towards the city gate, shouting something along the way.

"What did they say?" Kang Dahu asked in a low voice to Gu Huitan of Anguo. Along the way, they also learned the language of the Persians and the Great Cannibals, but they still couldn't understand it for a short time.

Gu Huitan listened for a moment and said, "General Qiyu, do you see the two young people in front of those prisoners?" They sneaked into the house of an official in the Great Eclipse last night and tried to assassinate the official, but they were unsuccessful in being caught. ”

"I see," Kang Dahu didn't ask again, the big food wants to rule, you people want to kill their officials, and it's strange if the big cannibal doesn't come to the whole house. Take the initiative to lead the camels and horses to the side of the street and get out of the way.

He had this idea, but the Persians on both sides of the street showed anger in their eyes, but they were forced by the obscenity of the big cannibals, and they dared not speak out.

After a while, the group reached the gate of the city, and with a wave of their scimitars, they killed a dozen Persians, and shouted again, and the crowd dispersed. Kang Dahu continued to walk towards the city, came to an inn, chartered a cross-courtyard, and settled down. Then he asked Gu Huitan to ask the innkeeper, because this inn also lived another Tang Dynasty scout Miranda, who had been here for many days, and his companion went back to report the news, but he did not go back.

On the eve of the Great War, one was heartfelt, the other was unprepared, and the first step was that the Tang Dynasty people had the upper hand.

Asked very easily. But Miranda was not in the store and went out.

I had to wait, but soon evening came, and Miranda returned.

Several people met and moved him to this cross-courtyard, and Kang Dabeard said what he meant. Moufu is very important, so if you want to fight with the Great Eclipse, you must not only understand its intelligence, but also know more detailed information, such as the distribution of troops between Moufu City and the entire Moufu area, food, production, terrain, the people's opinions on the rule of the Great Cannibal, whether there is a resistance force, the equipment of the Great Cannibal and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and the deployment of the city. Even the composition of the forces in other regions, and the various key checkpoints, and so on. These are all to be understood. Therefore, Li Wei sent more than a dozen scouts to Moufu City as spies.

"It's a little bit difficult," Miranda said.

If you want to know about the information, it's very easy, one is intentional, the other is unprepared, you can always find a chance to talk, just find an excuse to bribe, and then invite you to come for a drink, you can get some information. For example, Li Wei received the situation of the big cannibalism in Guanzhong. It's not that simple, it's a little easier than this one.

Lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "But I have heard a news, the general of the big food garrison of Moufu City is very greedy, it is all an opportunity, but ......"

They came out to pretend to be merchants, and Li Wei also gave a lot of gold and silver, but they didn't really come to do business, and these gold, silver and jewelry were for them to buy news. Some of the tasks are heavy, such as the dozens of scouts who went to eat the abdomen, and brought a little more gold and silver. Some of them are active in the periphery, such as Miranda, and they bring less gold and silver. Maybe Kang Bearded also brought a batch of money, but Miranda didn't ask. If you want to make friends with the big food guard, you have to pretend to be a big businessman, can Kang Bearded bring so much money over?

Kang Dabeard was also pondering, and after a while he said: "When I entered the city, I saw an incident where two Persians wanted to assassinate the Great Cannibal officials, but they were captured by the Great Cannibal and beheaded at the gate of the city for public display. ”

"This happens all the time," Miranda said lightly.

"I thought of a way, are there any big cannibal officials or businessmen in the vicinity, and there are relatively few guards at home."

"Captain Kang, are you trying to ......?"

"yes, why not?"

"What are you doing?" Gu Huitan asked.

"Captain Kang means that it is the first half of the first quarter of the moon, and in the second half of the night, it is dark, and he sneaks into a certain place ......," Shi Yijian replied.

"This ......" Gu Hui was stunned, but relieved for a while, the Tang Dynasty army was brave, and the word brave also means boldness. It is not surprising that such a thing would be dared.

"There is one, but he is not a cannibal, he is a Persian, and he fits the bill, and he has less than ten guards in the house, and a dozen servants and a few family members," Miranda said after a moment's thought. There were Persians in the city who rebelled against the Great Eclipse, and there were also Persians who surrendered to the Great Eclipse, and Miranda was referring to one of the Persian merchants who was willing to surrender the Great Eclipse. Rich and powerful, he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and in order to show his support for the big cannibal, he also married his daughter to the lord of the city as a concubine

。 So Ablah, the lord of the city, who was the counsellor of the Great Eclipse, gave him a small official position, so that the Persian people in the city despised him.

"Yes," said Kang with a beard.

Their businessmen are Xibei goods, and if they are really allowed to do business, they will lose so much that they don't even have pants to wear. But killing people and killing people is what they are good at. A dozen or so people immediately decided, then made some deliberations, and quietly went to the Persian merchant's house and looked around carefully.

Soon the third watch came, the moon gradually fell in the west mountain, and the night was dark, leaving three people to respond sideways, and more than a dozen other people quietly climbed out from the courtyard wall. In the second half of the night, there were patrolling Dashi soldiers and Persian puppets on the streets. However, the city is an ancient city, standing for hundreds of years, and there are even stone sculptures of half-man, half-horse and female lion left by the Roman invasion. There are also terracotta statues of the Sabbats, and stone carvings of the Persians. The city was built in a complex area, and from time to time a dozen people took refuge with the help of complex houses, and after a while, they came to the back garden of the Persian merchant's mansion. The others flashed into a stable, a house across the garden. Shi Yishu took one of his subordinates and quietly touched under the courtyard wall of the garden. I took a ladder and quickly climbed up the wall. Leaned on the wall and looked at it for a while, then waved at the other side.

"Up!" Kang Beard shouted.

More than a dozen mermaids rushed out, touched it, and quickly climbed over the courtyard wall.

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