Chapter 125 The Scholar's Westward Journey II
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Wei Renpu and other twelve scholars, under the leadership of two veterans, are ready to go to Broken Leaves, in addition to Wei Renpu, there are two scholars who are also students of Fan Zhen, Fan Zhen sent them to Wuli Pavilion outside the city, raised a glass to wish them peace, and said: "From Liangzhou to Broken Leaves, unlike from Luoyang to Liangzhou, I am afraid that there will be many difficulties and dangers along the way, Brother Daoji should be careful all the way." But God bless the good, outside of this realm, there may be many other Psalms sent back."
Tiance Datang's style of action is known for its swiftness, a group of people immediately set off, out of Liangzhou City along the Silk Road westward, from here to Gaochang is in recent years by the merchants to walk familiar with the business road, Tiance regime in order to maintain the business road has also done a lot of effort, the current public security situation is not the beginning of the pacification of Hexi is comparable.
Lanzhou Liangzhou Ganzhou last year a heavy snowfall, and now it is close to the winter wheat harvest season, this is a small harvest year, everywhere is a piece of gold, think about a month or two ago Tiance regime is still fighting for the food problem, and then look at this stretching for hundreds of miles like gold wheat fields, but people feel as if the lack of grain has been a long time ago.
The scholars have the heart to see the scenery, but the two veterans were ordered to rush all the way, and the journey was set every day, in case they missed the stay, twenty or thirty miles of a temple, fifty miles of a pavilion, a hundred miles of a guard, every time they arrived at the land, they took the token to the post station along the way to receive the coiling, only the middle through the state city can stay for a day, and the others are overnight and left. So after Zhangye, Jiuquan, to Suzhou has felt that the harvest is mediocre, the harvest of Guazhou is worse than Suzhou, the harvest of Yizhou is second, fortunately it is not a famine year, after entering Gaochang, the water conservancy facilities here are better than those of Yizhou and Guazhou, and the growth of crops is comparable to Suzhou.
Although there was little rest along the way, Wei Renpu still found that Zhangye, Jiuquan, Jinchang, and Yiwu, which should have been very prosperous at the turn of spring and summer, showed a recession that had not been seen since the founding of Tiance. If you put it in the past, this season is just in time, and the caravans on the Silk Road are bound to meet each other, either to the east or to the west, but now they only occasionally encounter caravans, which seems a little deserted.
Wei Renpu walked to Gaochang, although there were mounts all the way, but also the buttocks were turned to no fat, although he did not encounter **, but the northwest wind and sand were big, the air was dry, and he had already scraped out a few ravines on his originally smooth face, and two more scholars fell ill when they encountered the rejuvenation cold, and stayed in Jinchang and Yiwu to recuperate, after Wei Renpu arrived in Gaochang, the two veterans handed over to Luo Fu, Luo Fu read Guo Fen's letter and came to meet them in person, and said to them that if they want to break the leaves, they have to fold and go north, first to Luntai, Then turn back to the west. He left them in Gaochang for three days, and then asked Xi Sheng to send a group of cavalry to escort them.
Three days later, the ten soldiers, led by the same group of soldiers, set foot on the wheel.
The road was not lonely, and the Luntai Mountain Road was crowded with people - but not merchants, but soldiers, herdsmen, and some farmers who had been sent to Beiting to settle in the fields. The whole number of people added up to more than 100,000 people, which is much larger than the caravan walking, but it is also much more chaotic, the herdsmen are of course driving their own herds, the farmers are moving with their families, each family has at least a few horses, the Luntai mountain road is not small, but it is not very open, 100,000 people6 continue to travel north, and there are people everywhere.
After crossing the Longquan Pass, the strong city is on the back, and there are thousands of snow peaks on the left and right, Wei Renpu sighed: "If there is not such a natural road in the Tianshan Mountain, it is really difficult for birds to cross, and it is difficult for apes to climb Li Bai said that it is difficult to go to the blue sky of Shu Road, and this Tianshan Mountain is obviously difficult to reach Shu Road, I don't know how many times, this is really an eye-opener."
This is the wettest season in the northwest, there are some places on the Luntai mountain road where the snow melts and the road becomes muddy, sometimes you can't get through the guò on horseback, you have to lead the horse, or you have to meet the army has not yet repaired the broken road, and you have to help with firewood to fill the mud.
When he stopped, he set up a tent and had to take care of his own cooking in the field. The fire cavalry was only responsible for protecting them, but they were not prepared to serve them, Wei Renpu and the others had to eat and sleep with the herdsmen, farmers, and soldiers along the way, doing the same work, eating the same things, and sleeping in the same places, if the journey from Liangzhou to Gaochang had trained their courage, they had already been forced to put away all the scholarly smell when they arrived here, and they walked for more than ten days all the way, and when they saw Luntai City, they were covered in filth - because they hadn't bathed for a month, Wei Renpu at this time, At first glance, where is there still the appearance of a scholar?
The fire cavalry sent them to Luntai, and then asked Luntai to send someone to escort them.
Yang Yi was busy with the deployment and placement of the North Courtyard at this time, and he was very busy, but when he heard that they came, he still took the time to meet them, and when he saw them, he smiled and said: "People say that the scholars of the Central Plains are suave, but now they seem to be no different from the herdsmen in our great northwest." ”
Most of the scholars were embarrassed, and Wei Renpu responded: "Scholars are not just poetry and graceful. Enter the capital city to practice the politics of paperwork, go to the countryside to manage agriculture and animal husbandry, and naturally have the color of wolf smoke and beacon fire outside the plug, change with encounters, and can be safe everywhere, which is the true color of my Confucianism. ”
Yang Yi glanced at him and asked, "What's your name?" ”
"Wei Renpu."
Yang Yi showed a look of ridicule in his eyes, and said, "You have come this way, how can there be any wolf smoke and fire?" It was a place that was beaten to peace by us, if Beiting was still in the middle of the war, and there would be Hu Lu on the road at any time, then it would be considered a wolf smoke."
Wei Renpu didn't even mean to continue the debate, but said: "What the governor said is that when we were in the Central Plains and Liangzhou before, we heard from others about how to do outside the Saiwai, and we only knew the difficulty of creating a foundation along the way. ”
Yang Yi glanced at him again, his eyes were already a little good, and asked: "You said that you have seen a lot of local customs and customs along the way, so what do you think of the people's livelihood in Hexi now?" ”
"Not good" Wei Renpu didn't think about it, and said: "The east of Suzhou is better, but the west of Suzhou is more bleak, although there is no famine, but the people's livelihood should be quite difficult. ”
Yang Yi nodded and said: "The war in Beiting has almost wiped out our family, but the matter of recuperation and recuperation must be done when the Quartet is pacified, the Huns have not been destroyed, it is difficult to take care of the family, we still have to tighten our belts, and we will suffer for a few more years." ”
He told them to rest in Luntai City for two days, and then sent a team of cavalry to escort them to Broken Leaves.
At this time, Luntai City has started a new plan, although the construction of the city wall can not be carried out immediately, but the overall planning is already underway, and as before, the re-planned Luntai City will not only be a defensive castle, but a metropolis integrating politics, commerce and military, in terms of the peripheral situation of the Beiting Basin, it is conceivable that this will become a larger city than Shule. Of course, whether it can grow more energetic than Shule depends on the stamina of the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.
Wei Renpu and the others rode westward, and when they were at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, many areas except CITIC City had already decided to be desolate and remote, but when they arrived at Beiting, they knew what was the real vastness of the sand sea and what was the real vast grassland
The Silk Road at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains has been going back and forth for many years, and the North Tianshan Road does not even have a formed road.
And between Liangzhou and Gaochang every other distance there are official post stations, Buddhist temples and folk inns formed by the settlement, but Beiting is not, although the Tiance Tang army conquered this land after the westward expedition, but in the past winter, there are some places here hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles are still no man's land, to this day, from the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains to migrate back the military and civilians are also gathered in the area around Luntai, and after leaving Luntai hundreds of miles, it takes one or two hundred miles to meet the garrison of the Tang army.
And the so-called road in the north of the mountain, there are no road signs, if you go right in a straight line between the two hundred miles, you can reach the garrison within a day, but if you take a slight detour in the middle, you have to find a place to station.
In the vast area in between, there are all ownerless wastelands, and the herdsmen who migrated north have not yet arrived here, only some nomadic tribes who are close to the Tiance regime, although these tribes have sworn to surrender to the Tang Dynasty after the Battle of Beiting, but the barbarism of the border people is sometimes difficult to predict, and some of them are very friendly to the Tang people, but it is difficult to say if they encounter a barbaric one, and if they are a group of Tang troops, they will definitely not dare to invade.
At the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, it was only hard work, but when they arrived here, Wei Renpu and the others were often worried, and when they met nomadic tribes during the day and heard wolves howling at night, they would make people full of anxiety and anxiety.
When Guo Fen was in Liangzhou, he had already sent someone to equip them with weapons, and Wei Renpu also had Guo Fen give them a horizontal knife, but until Luntai, they only used it as an ornament, and it was not until here that they were in a hurry, and they held the weapon tightly every day - at this time, Wei Renpu fully experienced the importance of the weapon, and the horizontal knife was no longer an ornament in this distance, but a life guarantee for a person facing the sky, facing the earth, facing the wolves, and facing the barbarians
Fortunately, there were no nomadic tribes attacking along the way, and some of them also sacrificed wine and meat in awe, but they still killed a dozen wolves on the way, and hunted small beasts in the grass to supplement food - Wei Renpu himself also hunted a few small beasts, hunted and roasted himself, and had a feeling of drinking blood, but what made the entourage admire was that he found that Wei Renpu did not forget to make a few poems to commemorate in such an environment.
Traveling thousands of miles to the west, he finally arrived at Atami, the more he went to the west the more the taste of the Hu people became stronger, when Wei Renpu often discussed with Fan Zhen that the Northwest Han style was not as pure as the Central Plains, but when he arrived here, he knew what the Liangzhou region was outside the country, even if it was very different from the Central Plains in terms of politics, culture, and life customs, but there was still a feeling of being different from the same country, but when it came to the broken leaves, although it had been placed under the rule of the Tiance Tang Dynasty, there were many Hu clothes that he saw, and many Hu languages he heard. If it weren't for the occasional sight of some banners with Chinese characters written on them and some Han cavalry, it would really be a completely foreign border.
At this time, Zhang Mai was busy with two things: one was the reconstruction of the agricultural and pastoral system in the Broken Leaf area, and the other was the strategy of Talas. Beiting is too far away from here, and Yang Yi is also nervous at hand, so he can't supply here at all, and Ning is not close to here, and the livelihood of the Tang army here can still be maintained, but it is difficult to say if he wants to go on an expedition, so the whole army came here to graze in the field, and opened up new fields on the basis of the original irrigated farmland of broken leaves, mixed with alfalfa, and there was very little dependence on commerce here, but it also allowed Zhang Mai to use the wartime mechanism to control the army and people of the entire region, and everyone was organized to carry out production activities, The means of subsistence are collectively distributed - this is not a sustainable social model, but in times of special it can quickly restore productivity and create a huge surplus of food.
Because of this, Zhang Mai carried out the work of developing in the west during this time, and did not pay attention to the internal affairs of the Anlong area, which was already in the hinterland, and heard that Liangzhou had let ten scholars come to "take the exam", Zhang Mai was not prepared at all, and was a little stunned after getting the letter, and said with a smile: "What is Fen'er doing now, how can we have time to play this?"
He was unscrupulous, and said it directly in front of the scholars, and several scholars ran to the broken leaves with enthusiasm, thinking that they would be the king of Wanli, and they would be reused and promoted after seeing the marshal this time, but Zhang Mai reacted like this, and he was hit hard for a while.
Wei Renpu took a step forward and said: "The way of promotion is the foundation of the country, and the marshal used a word to chill the hearts of the corporal in the world."
Zhang Mai smiled faintly and said, "Luncai? It is not easy for you scholars to get here. But what can you guys do to help me in this place? Wouldn't it be good to stay in Liangzhou to copy and copy documents, and discuss current affairs? But what kind of mess did you come here to? ”
The scholars were not convinced, but when Zhang Mai asked them what they could do, they couldn't say anything for a while. Unique Wei Renpu said: "We are new to the city, and we are not familiar with it, so it is naturally difficult to work. If the marshal does not give up, then let us first copy and copy the documents with the army, and in three or two months, we will have our own day."
Zhang Mai smiled and said, "You are quite confident." Well, I'll see how you come out. ”
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