Chapter 3: An Unexpected Encounter

At this time, several young men walked past Yang Yuanqing, they were actually talking about Mencius, a soft Jiangnan accent, several people were polite, and when they saw Pei Wenjin, they bowed to him together, and their attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, which surprised Yang Yuanqing, he shook his head, "I really don't know why?" ”

Pei Wenjin smiled and said: "Dunhuang was originally just a small county, with a population of less than 1,000 households, but ten years after the emperor's opening, the first emperor forcibly moved 8,000 Southern Dynasty nobles from the south of the Yangtze River, and Dunhuang County became Dunhuang County. ”

It turned out that this was the case, Yang Yuanqing then understood why there were so many Han people in Dunhuang, and their temperament was elegant and their demeanor was calm, even surpassing Chang'an and Luoyang, and he asked with a smile: "The Shen family I just talked about, but the Shen family in Wuxing in the south of the Yangtze River?" ”

"Exactly, the Shen family in Jiangnan has two rooms that have been moved here, ten years after the emperor opened, after Shen Xuanhui's rebellion failed, several of his sons were exiled to Dunhuang, and now they are combined into one, the head of the family is called Shen Wanchun, is the second son of Shen Xuanhui, and now the Shen family is also one of the big families in Dunhuang."

Yang Yuanqing was shocked, his aunt's name was Shen Wanqiu, and she was Shen Xuanhui's youngest daughter, could it be that this Shen Wanchun was her aunt's brother? A few years ago, Chuchen told him that after they returned to Wuxing's hometown, there was no one in their room, and they were all moved to Dunhuang County.

Yang Yuanqing was moved, he was going to visit the Shen family.

He walked through a academy, such academies abound in Dunhuang County, that is, schools, and this academy occupies a large area, covering an area of more than 20 acres, surrounded by walls, there are more than a dozen rows of houses inside, the trees are luxuriant, can accommodate hundreds of people to study here, there is a sign hanging above the gate, white characters on a black background, and the four seal characters of 'Yuhang Academy' are written on it.

At the gate, there happened to be someone sending off the guests, Yang Yuanqing was suddenly stunned, one of the guests he knew, it turned out to be Luo County Commander Xiao Milling, but this person should be in Luo County on the shore of Dongting Lake, how did he run to distant Dunhuang.

Xiao Mo turned his head, just face to face with Yang Yuanqing, he was also stunned, and finally Yang Yuanqing reacted first, arched his hand and smiled: "Brother Xiao, why are you here?" ”

Xiao Miao's face changed several times, but immediately returned to normal, he stepped forward with a smile, bowed and said, "I came to visit a sick brother, why is General Yang here?" ”

"Coming by order!"

When Yang Yuanqing saw the person behind Xiao Miao, his face finally couldn't help but change, the middle-aged man behind him turned out to be Wang Mo, the strategist next to Chen Yin, who accompanied Chen Yin to negotiate in his house, Yang Yuanqing was very impressed.

Wang Mo saw that he had been recognized, so he had to smile bitterly and stepped forward to salute, "General Yang, I haven't seen you for many years, and I am now a member of the staff of Xiao County's order." ”

Yang Yuanqing didn't suddenly understand until this time, he had always felt strange when Chen Yin was killed inexplicably, but now he understands, I'm afraid that this Xiao Mo is the mastermind behind the scenes, Chen Yin's hard-working Nanhua Club finally made a wedding dress.

Although he understood it in his heart, Yang Yuanqing did not show his face, and only smiled and said: "If we can meet in another country, I will invite Brother Xiao and Brother Wang to have a drink another day, and now that I have official business, I won't talk much." ”

"Good! General Yang please. ”

Xiao Mo smiled and saluted, and watched Yang Yuanqing go, and when Yang Yuanqing walked a little farther, his face changed, and he pulled Wang Mo by the hand, and the two quickly ran towards an alley.

Walking dozens of steps, Yang Yuanqing glanced back again, and saw that the people around him were coming and going, but the two had disappeared, Yang Yuanqing smiled, this Xiao Mo is indeed different from ordinary people, no wonder he can make a big deal with a small Luoxian county order, and now it is only four years of great business, he started his own actions, and the people in the south of Dunhuang gathered, and they actually hit the idea here.

"Yuanqing, who was that just now?" Pei Ju asked, he didn't know Xiao Miao.

"A friend I met in Chang'an before, and I have a lot of friendship."

At this time, Pei Wenjin asked with a smile: "General Yang, when are you going to start recruiting?" ”

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment, and then said: "It's better to start recruiting troops this afternoon!" ”

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In the afternoon, the news that the Sui army began to recruit troops quickly spread throughout Dunhuang City, but the reaction of the Han people in Dunhuang City was very flat, there were few recruits, only hundreds of people lined up at the three recruitment points, and most of them were Qiang people living in Dunhuang County, while the Han people only had thirty or forty people, and they were all scoundrels of Dunhuang City, who wanted to mix in military uniforms.

In the room, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, staring at a lush willow tree outside the window, he was still thinking about meeting Xiao Milling in the morning, obviously, they wanted to come to Dunhuang to develop the power of the South China Society, nearly 10,000 southern Han people in Dunhuang provided them with opportunities, most of the people here were dissatisfied with the Sui Dynasty and missed their hometown, and Xiao Milling would have a great harvest here.

Should he stop Xiao Miao's expansion in Dunhuang County, the answer is obviously no, if he wants to stop Xiao Miao, then he will not let Zhai Rang go.

During this time, Yang Yuanqing was quite troubled in his heart, perhaps because of his marriage, he began to desire to be stable, just like Xiao Miao, to get a piece of land of his own, instead of floating around like a wanderer, a Khitan for a while, a Fenyang Palace for a while, a capital for a while, and now he came to the Western Regions, when will this turbulent life end?

When will he be able to return to Toyosu again? His roots are in Fengzhou, and now Fengzhou has begun large-scale immigration and reclamation, and he has no chance to participate, which makes his heart full of regrets, especially when he sees Xiao Mo busy with his ideals today, his heart is difficult to calm down.

"General Yang!"

Adjutant General Wang Wei hurriedly walked into the room, he was Qu Tutong sent 2,000 troops and put forward additional conditions, by the deputy general Wang Wei as the deputy general, led Zhangye 2,000 people, although this Wang Wei is not famous, but he is indeed very experienced, especially good at dealing with the Qiang people, and skilled in military affairs, camping, marching are very good, is Yang Yuanqing's right-hand man.

All the way to the west, they cooperated very tacitly, Wang Wei did not put on a stand because of his qualifications, he respected Yang Yuanqing very much, and entered the boundary of Dunhuang County, Wang Wei told Yang Yuanqing the truth, he was Yang Yuanqing's grandfather Yang Su's old subordinate, and he joined the army in Yang Sushuai's account in the battle of Pingnan.

Qu Tutong sent Wang Weilai, originally because he didn't want Yang Yuanqing to take away his Zhangye army, but by mistake, he gave Yang Yuanqing a capable general.

It is precisely for this reason that Yang Yuanqing's wariness of Wang Wei has been slowly eliminated, and he has a lot of trust in him.

"What, isn't the recruitment going well?" Yang Yuanqing asked with a slight smile.

Wang Wei sighed, "The Han people in Dunhuang are very resistant, they don't want to work for the Great Sui, only dozens of people have been recruited, and their physique is not good, but many Qiang people are okay, I just want to ask the general, can we recruit an army of Qiang people?" ”

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "How many can the Qiang army recruit?" Moreover, the Qiang people are unreliable, which will leave hidden dangers, so try to use the Qiang people as little as possible. ”

He took a few steps behind his back and said: "Although the amount of the army given to me by the Holy Lord is 10,000 people, but I thought about it carefully, I only need 5,000 people, and now we are still short of 1,000 people, and I plan to use the left-behind army of Dunhuang, but in this way, Dunhuang will have no soldiers to garrison, so I need to recruit 2,000 people, so I will leave these 2,000 people in Dunhuang County as Dunhuang guards, so it is best to recruit local Han people, and recruiting Qiang people will have problems." ”

Wang Wei smiled bitterly, "But the problem is that the Han people refuse to apply, and we can't force it." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "I'll talk to them!" ”

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The Han people who were degraded to Dunhuang County by Emperor Wen Yang Jian are almost all nobles and scholars of the Southern Dynasty, most of them are the wealthy families of the original Southern Dynasty, and the family business is huge, even if they are relegated to Dunhuang, they are not down, they still move west with a large number of family businesses, after entering Dunhuang, they quickly formed several major forces, Jingzhou Xiao, Yuhang Lu, Wuxing Shen and Jinling Chen and Xie, of which Jingzhou Xiao, Ling Chen and Xie, the three are the largest.

Xiao is a branch of the royal family of the Western Liang Dynasty, because of the support of the Chen Dynasty and the Great Sui was deposed to Dunhuang, when the dethroned family of more than 300 people, a flash of 20 years, Dunhuang Xiao has developed to thousands of people, become the first family in Dunhuang County.

The Xiao family mansion is located in the north of Dunhuang City, covering an area of more than 60 acres, living nearly 1,000 people of the Xiao family, this family has hundreds of hectares of fertile land in Dunhuang, has three private horse farms in Zhangye, and has more than 100 large and small shops.

But the top decision-maker in control of this big family is indeed a woman, named Xiao Yinyin, more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, she is the eldest daughter of this family, at the age of fifteen followed her father to Dunhuang, for the survival of the family, she did not hesitate to marry the then Dunhuang chief Ma Chongbing, a Qiang person concubine, it is to get Ma Chongbing to take care of, the Xiao family quickly can take root, soon become the first big family, after the death of Ma Chongbing ten years ago, the beautiful Xiao Yinyin was favored by Zhao Hao, the assassin of Dunhuang, became his concubine, Widowed again three years ago.

It was her twenty years of two marriages, sacrificing her life's happiness in exchange for the Xiao family's huge power in Dunhuang, two years ago her father died, the whole family unanimously elected Xiao Yinyin as the new head of the family, as a thank you to her.

Xiao Yinyin is extremely shrewd and tough-minded, the experience of being a concubine twice made her full of disgust and distrust of the officials in Dunhuang, when the assassin Zhao Hao came to hang her filial piety during the day, and sent someone to forcibly take her to the assassin's mansion at night, so she was also cold and indifferent to Pei Wenjin's attitude.

"The Xiao family has literati, merchants, women and old people, but there are no martial artists, you let our children join the army, aren't you afraid of missing military affairs?"

Xiao Yinyin's words were not only said to Taishou Pei Wenjin, but also to Yang Yuanqing, who was sitting next to her, she looked at Yang Yuanqing a few more times, and she had heard of this person's name.

Yang Yuanqing felt her hostility towards Pei Wenjin from the mouth of this old woman who was still beautiful, and Yang Yuanqing smiled at Pei Wenjin: "Thank you Pei Taishou for bringing me here, I want to talk to Mrs. Xiao alone." ”

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