At the foot of Xue Mountain, a flag embroidered with "Da Ding" appeared, and with the appearance of this flag, everyone's attention was on Sima Shu under the flag.

Sima Shu wears a silver-white steel chain neck guard helmet with a red tassel helmet on top of it, and a colorful feather stuck in the left brim. There is a stainless steel chain armor inside, and the outside is a set of fish scale bright light armor, a set of upper body and three sides of the lower body are covered to the knees, and there are two horizontal knives hanging on the left and right sides of the waist, the left knife is slightly longer, the right knife is slightly shorter, and there is another horizontal knife and a strong bow on the saddle on the left, but there are two quivers on the right.

There was also a coat on the outermost part of Sima Shu. It is a sleeveless jacket made of light yellow satin with heavy armor.

Sima Shu instigated his horse and walked to the middle post of the team, and the soldiers of the various armies who had been prepared for a long time waited for Sima Shu to give the order. In the quiet waiting, the generals and leading the officers looked at the big Ding banner from time to time. Their eyes were filled with urgency.

Sima Shu stood in the waves of the sea of soldiers. Looking at countless pairs of distant or near eyes projecting at him, the owners of those eyes are the Central Plains, the Longhan people, the Qiang people, the Huns, the Di people, and even a small number of Xianbei people.

In the past, they spoke different languages, they believed in different ancestors, and they worshipped different gods. Their customs and habits are different.

But from the moment they stepped into the barracks, they would believe in a main god, practice a script, worship an ancestor, and they would slowly begin to accept a common name—Huaxia.

Sima Shu instigated his mount to slowly walk through the procession, and when he saw the faces of different appearances and the eyes of different shapes, these people all looked at him with great reverence, as if they had gained infinite confidence and strength from their bodies.

The sun rose higher and higher, and the wind became tighter and tighter, blowing the flag one after another. Sima Shu felt that he was about to melt into these burning gazes.

"Today, in front of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, I promise you that no matter whether you were a Qiang or a Di person before, as long as you are willing to be a Han and learn Chinese civilization. From now on, we will worship one ancestor, worship the same main god, and learn from the same culture. Lonely will be treated equally! Long live Huaxia! ”

"Long live Huaxia!"

"Huaxia will win!"

"Long live Your Highness!"

A huge wave of sound was made up of countless roars, which exploded in an instant. Countless soldiers of the new army held up steel knives, spears, and crossbows in their hands, and then shouted in their loudest voices: "Huaxia will win!" ”

Feeling the overwhelming sounds, Li Tet muttered, "There really is only one voice." ”

And at this time, as hundreds of thick horns sounded, the Jin army began to move, slowly marching towards Beidi County.

In this way, Sima Shu and Li Te, with more than 6,000 cavalry of the New Army, continued north along the river, and their destination was Fuping and Lingwu in Beidi County.

Since the crown prince's defeat of Qi Wan last month, the Hu people in the Guanzhong region have regained their respect for the imperial court. This time, King Liang transferred him to Beidi County, and he just took the opportunity to personally inspect the situation of the Hu people in the northern border counties.

As a result, along the way, Sima Shu learned that since the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court has been implementing the policy of internal relocation of the Hu people, and the Qiang tribes such as Baima, Xianlingqiang, and Yaodangqiang, who moved from Longxi and Guangwu, have settled in Beidi and Fengyi counties, and the number has reached more than 100,000.

"Do you know Xuanxiu? The front Fuping County (now southwest of Wuzhong, Ningxia) was set up and built in the 33rd year of the former Qin Shi Huang (214 BC), and has a history of four or five hundred years now. Sima Shu pointed to the dilapidated city in front of him and said playfully.

Seeing Li Tezema standing by and listening, Sima Shu thought that he was suppressed by himself and continued to say in a high-spirited manner: "There is Lingwu in the northeast of this Fuping County, and there is Lian County (now Yinchuan City) along the north side of the river, both of which were set up in the former Han Dynasty. The former was placed in the fourth year of Emperor Hui of the former Han Dynasty (191 BC), and the latter was placed in the fourth year of Yuanjia (119 BC) of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty. The terrain here is flat and there are Qin canals and Han canals to divert river water for irrigation, it was originally a rich land for farming, but look at it now, Lone never thought that it would be barren grass here anyway, and it is so dilapidated and desolate, it is really a vicissitudes of life! ”

In the end, Sima Shu didn't expect that he would be like some literati and ink writers, giving birth to historical feelings, and after a while, he was interrupted by Li Te's words, "Your Highness, you really know a lot!" ”

"Hahaha, Xuan Xiu has won the prize, let's go to Fuping County to have a look!"

Saying that Sima Shu led his troops into Fuping City, riding on a horse, Sima Shu looked at the city wall built with rammed earth, which had been mutilated like a knife and axe in the wind and rain for hundreds of years. The low houses crumbled in the scorching sun and wind, the road in the middle was potholed, and hundreds of people who were still dressed in tattered skins under the scorching sun looked blankly at Sima Shu and Li Te, who were slowly walking by, without saying a word.

He stepped forward and coughed, then asked aloud, "Who are you in charge of here?" ”

At this moment, a middle-aged man dressed in an old robe but dressed a little neatly stood up. Bend down to Leet and bow his hand, "Meet the General!" ”

"Who are you?"

"I'm the county magistrate here, my name is Zhou Xun."

"Prefectural order? Is there still a county order in this broken place? Was it appointed by the imperial court? ”

Sima Shu felt strange. The Hu people have been rebelling for so long, and there is still a county order in this broken place? Beidi is the main place of the Qiang people, Lu Shuihu, and trouble, and even the county guard Zhang Yi of Beidi died, but I didn't expect this county order to be alive and well.

"General Hui was not appointed by the imperial court, but by Liu Yuan, the governor of the five Xiongnu departments." Zhou Xun replied honestly.

"Fuck! The hands of the Liu family's father and son actually reached here. Sima Shu scolded hatefully.

Since you want to go north and occupy territory, of course, you must find out what forces are in the north. According to the latest intelligence, the north of Beidi County, Anding County, and Fengyi County are mostly Xianbei, Beiqiang, Hu, Xiongnu and other tribes, and there are about hundreds of parts scattered in the land of the two rivers thousands of miles from east to west.

To the northeast of Fengyi County is the Wubu Xiongnu region, which is the territory of the Xiongnu in Bingzhou, which can also be called the territory of the Southern Xiongnu, and their leader is Liu Yuan.

During the Zhongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (184-190), Qiangqu Shan Yu sent his son Yu Fuluo to lead troops to aid the Eastern Han Dynasty and pacify the Yellow Turban Army. At that time, it was encountered that Qiangqu Shan Yu was killed by the people, so Yu Fuluo left the soldiers led by him in the Eastern Han Dynasty, calling himself Shan Yu.

Immediately after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Yu Fuluo led troops to plunder Taiyuan and Hedong, and then stationed in Hanoi. After Yu Fuluo's death, his younger brother Hu Chuquan succeeded him and appointed Liu Bao, the son of Yu Fuluo, as the king of Zuoxian, Liu Bao was Liu Yuan's father. Later, Cao Cao divided Huchuquan's soldiers into five divisions, appointed Liu Bao as the left commander, and the rest of the commanders were also served by the surname Liu.

During the Taikang period (280-290 years), the old system was changed, and the Duwei was set up, and among the Xiongnu tribes, the left lived in Zishi (now Gaoping, Shanxi) in Taiyuan, the right lived in Qidi, the south lived in Puzi, the north lived in Xinxing (now Xinzhou in the north, Shanxi), and the middle lived in Daling. Although the surname Liu lives separately in the five departments, from a large range, they all live in the Fenshui and Jianshui areas of Jinyang.

Liu Yuan and his Xiongnu tribe were in possession of the state, although Sima Shu had long wanted to find trouble with the other party, and he also knew that the other party was an ambitious person, but he didn't expect Liu Yuan to put his hand here at this time. However, Sima Shu knew that perhaps Liu Yuan's primary target was not Guanzhong, but the Qiang, Xianbei, and Xiongnu tribes distributed in the Hetao region in the north.

"Which who? That's right, Zhou Xun! Sima Shu finally called out the other party's name under Li's special reminder, "You report to Gu, what are the people around here?" ”

"General Hui, there are mostly Xianbei, Malanqiang, and Lushuihu tribes around here, especially in Helan Mountain in the west and a large number of Lushuihu and Malanqiang tribes in the Hulu River Valley in the north, while Fuping, Lingwu and Lian counties are mostly people who moved from Guanlong in the early years, and the total number of people is only more than 100,000." Zhou Xun replied slowly.

"Where is your ancestral home?" Sima Shu continued to ask.

"Back to the general, I was originally from Fufeng in Yongzhou, and my ancestor moved his family to Fuping for refuge, and it has been fifty or sixty years."

"Zhou County Order, Gu will be honest with you, this palace intends to write to Luoyang as the crown prince of the empire, please ask you to pacify the tribes and people around Fuping for Gu for the fake Beidi County Guard?" Sima Shu said to Zhou Xun with a rare smile.

"Huh!? You...... Are you too ...... His Royal Highness the Prince! This, this, minister...... The minister is sparse and shallow, and it is difficult to take on such a big responsibility. It is better for His Highness to choose another good person to do things, so as not to delay His Highness's major affairs. When Zhou Xun heard that the previous person was the prince, he was immediately a little frightened, although he was also a snake in Fuping, but in the eyes of the prince, it was definitely not worth mentioning.

"Sir, don't shirk it, that's it. Mr. is talented and virtuous. If you are respected by the people, you should take on this great responsibility. ”

Sima Shu had already turned over and dismounted and sincerely grabbed Zhou Xun's hand, and asked him to serve as the county guard of the Northland. This Zhou Xun has the "temperament" of a scholar, and he is the local head snake, Sima Shu has no reason to let the other party go, it is estimated that Liu Yuan also valued the identity of the other party, so he let him serve as the county commander.

Moreover, just now, Zhou Xun was not afraid or flustered in front of thousands of soldiers, he was always answered, he was not humble or arrogant, and he spoke moderately. This insight and courage are naturally not comparable to ordinary people. And those people all shrunk and shrunk behind him, and with Sima Shu's insight, he could see that Zhou Xun was highly respected here.

Seeing that Zhou Xun still wanted to resign, Li Te, who was next to him, couldn't help but add: "Mr. should come forward for the sake of the tens of thousands of people in Fuping City, if you don't say anything else." ”

Zhou Xun glanced at the mighty and majestic general in front of him and couldn't help but sigh: "That's it!" Zhou will respect this position. ”