In the fifth year of Yonghe, spring, the first month, Xinsi, Shuo, and amnesty. Gengyin, earthquake. Shi Jilong is the emperor located in Ye, amnesty, changed to Yuan Taining, and all sons are kings. The king of Ming rode into Yizhou with ten thousand qiang, and all the thieves in Shu were frightened and frightened overnight.

____________ Introduction

In the north of Guangyang County, Wenshan County (now north of Maowen Qiang Autonomous County, Sichuan, west bank of the upper reaches of the Min River), the Wenshan Qiang people are taking advantage of the rare sun in today's winter to drive the sheep out of the head people to bask in the sun, and they have covered it all winter.

Although the wind was still blowing on the ridge, there was already a little heat in the sun, much stronger than the cold of winter. The stones drove more than 100 sheep to the edge of the valley. The rushing river (Min River) does not freeze all year round, and even the valley slopes along the river are warm all year round, and it is also the first place where the plants and trees turn green and sprout at the beginning of the first month of spring.

The sheep, who had eaten hay all winter, saw the green grass that was a little dazzling, and hurriedly ran over with joy, bleating happily as they ate. The stone crouched to the side, staring blankly at the flock of sheep in the distance. He wrapped his only torn sheepskin jacket tightly, and the cruel cold winter was finally over, and spring finally came. Shi should be glad that this winter was not too cold, at least as far as he knew, the Qiang people under the few leaders in this vicinity did not freeze to death.

I heard that those Baimaqiang people in the north have begun to divide cattle, sheep and pastures, and those Baimaqiang people with the same roots can each family have their own flocks, cattle and horses, as well as fertile pastures, and no longer have to work hard to look after the cattle and sheep for the head, but this sounds like an impossible day.

After squatting for a while, Shi couldn't help but feel that his feet were a little numb, so he quickly stood up and moved a little.

The leaders all said that this was a rumor, it was impossible, and it was impossible for those Baimaqiang hiding in the high mountains and snowfields to live such a good life. The leaders also said that there could be no such thing since ancient times, everyone divided the pasture cattle and sheep, what do you want the head to do!

The stone felt that the head man was a little right, since he was sensible, the stone was known in the Qiang people, the head man is the sky, the Qiang people are the earth, and the Qiang people are like lost lambs in the wind and snow.

With a grunt, Stone felt a little hungry. It seems that the bowl of millet and wild vegetable porridge in the morning will not be able to go back to dinner in the evening, and I will find something to the bottom of this grass with the sheep today.

The stone chewed on the grass roots, and suddenly remembered the words of a caravan porter. This well-informed porter who traveled south and north quietly told himself the last time he came with the caravan to deliver goods, and the people of Liangzhou in the north had also begun to divide the land. As long as you are a male in the household register, as soon as you reach the age of eighteen, the government will divide one hundred acres of good land and let you cultivate it, except for taxes, as long as you plant well, the rest is your own. It is said that the government also reduced or exempted taxes in good fields, poor fields, and good and bad years.

When Shi Shi heard this, his first reaction was that these people in Liangzhou didn't farm the land and went crazy?

"Of course, those people in Liangzhou are working hard to farm the land, and they can't wait to sleep in the fields at night." The porter pursed his lips contemptuously and added. It's really an unseen bun.

But the other shepherd who listened to the "story" asked a different question: did the leaders agree?

"Yes, who promises? But who wouldn't dare to say yes? The porter's words made the stone and the others take aback.

"Liangzhou is the same as Shuzhong, and the head of the place is called the Haoqiang family. Of course they don't want to be Juntian, Juntian will eat a fart! The porter said unhurriedly, "But they ran into Lord Shizeng, the assassin of Liangzhou." ”

At this, the porter lowered his voice. A few people who "listened to the story" also understood. The name of Lord Zeng is not only well-known in Shuzhong, but even the shepherds have heard of it in this remote Wenshan County, which is too famous. The leaders were not thrilled when they said the name, Stone had never seen one man so afraid of another, and the two had never met. But no matter how much everyone hates this person and is afraid of this person, when it comes to Zeng Hua, they are all "honorific" Zeng Lord, and they don't dare to scream, as if once they call the wrong person, a ghost will come out of the ground and arrest him.

Those powerful families didn't agree, and Lord Zeng directly hung them on wooden poles on the side of the road, and hung them there alive, and let the corpses of those old men dry. Killed thousands of people in one go. The porter's voice grew lower and lower.

"I've heard of it, and I've heard that it was this adult who laid down Chengdu. Later, many people were not convinced, and jumped out, but he was killed by a river of blood, and the people in the entire Shu did not tremble as long as they heard his name. A shepherd immediately told me about the news of Shuzhong that he had heard from nowhere.

"Then how can there be an Immortal Emperor?" The stone refers to Fan Ben in Chengdu. Wenshan County responded to the righteous actions of Deng Ding and Kui Wen, so it was also nominally dominated by Fan Ben, who was forced to ascend the throne.

"That's because Lord Zeng went to Liangzhou to take up his post, if Lord Zeng was sitting in Chengdu, whoever had the courage to jump under his nose would have been killed." The porter said softly.

"Oh," everyone suddenly realized, no wonder the head man couldn't sleep when he talked about this Zeng Lord, they followed Chengdu to make trouble, isn't this Zeng Zeng's nemesis?

Stone sat on a stone and thought nonsense, he might never know that the caravan porter who kindly told them stories and news belonged to a yamen called Guanfeng Interview Bureau in the Liangzhou Thorn Mansion, and was an unknown person who ate official meals.

The stone now pondered over what the porter had said. According to what the porter said, and some time ago, I occasionally heard that this Zeng Master ran away to Xiqiang, and the news from the north should be eight or nine. The Baima Qiang in the north and the Qiang people in Wenshan County are actually the same tribe, but when the former Shu Han Dynasty was in power, most of them moved north, leaving some people to become subjects under the rule of the imperial court Yizhou.

The more Shi pondered, the more panicked he became, he was a shepherd, but he was still very young and had his own thoughts and thinking. Now not only in Wenshan, but also in the whole of Yizhou, there are "rumors" everywhere, and news is flying all over the sky. Many people in Shuzhong are quite yearning for a better life for the people of Liangzhou, anyway, when Lord Zeng killed people in Shuzhong, he didn't hurt them a hair. And the same is true of the closed Wenshan, and I don't know where the news came from, and the Qiang people are panicked. As the stone alone knew, there were already more than a dozen shepherds and slaves who had discussed and prepared to flee to Yinping County, which had already "lived a good life" in the north.

But the stone is still hesitating, he has old and weak parents, the year before the first lady and "gifted" a slave to himself as a wife, although the wife gave birth to a daughter in six months, but it is not easy for the family to live in peace and stability, and last year the wife finally added a son to herself. I wanted to go, but the stone still couldn't make up my mind, and if I didn't go, the stone felt that this day was really getting worse and worse, especially after the comparison of the "happiness index" of nearby places. His daughter looks more and more like the head man, and the head man not only cares more and more about his "daughter", but also pays attention to the more and more plump "daughter and mother".

Shi looked at the sheep and sighed secretly, or you are good, eat it when you should eat, and when you should die, it will be clean and neat, and it will be a hundred, which is much stronger than my two-legged life in the world.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came, and the stone was startled, and he quickly stood up and followed the sound to look north, only to see a few people riding horses not far away galloping towards him.

The stone didn't dare to run, how could his two-legged outrun other people's four-legged ones, so he had to stand there and resign himself to fate.

These riders ran to the side, and the stone realized that these people were too strange. They must have been covered with a rope net, from their head to their feet, and the net was covered with white wool, dead leaves, green grass and other debris, and if it were not for the leather robes and leather armor that could be seen under their rope nets, as well as the horned bows on their backs and the sabers they carried at their waists, the stone really thought that this was a group of horse thieves hiding in the snowy mountains and starving mad.

"Is it your own sheep?" The leader of the people rode out and asked in the White Horse Qiang language,

"No, it's the sheep of Lord Barlow." Shi replied respectfully, this area is close to the Baimaqiang region, and there were often many Baimaqiang people coming over in the past, but there have been fewer in the past few years, especially after the death of the big leader Jiang Cong.

"Are you alone?"

"Yes, I'm the only one herding sheep around here."

"Why did you come out at this time?"

"The head man said that the sheep have been hungry for a winter, and he wants me to take advantage of today's sunny weather to drive them to eat the first grass of the year."

As soon as the questioner shook his head, a man behind him immediately turned over and dismounted, walked to the middle of the flock, and then squatted down, looking at each sheep carefully, as if choosing which sheep was the fattest. The stone did not dare to make a sound, although sometimes the sheep were worth more than himself, but now he was definitely worth more than the sheep.

The man chose a sheep, grabbed the horn with his left hand, touched the belly of the sheep with his right hand, and then let go and walked back to the leader, "Shi Chang, it is a sheep that has been hungry for a winter, and today should be their first day of meat." ”

The leader nodded, and said to the stone: "Continue to herd your sheep, you are not allowed to run around, and you can only go back when the point is over, do you hear?" ”

Shi hurriedly nodded and said, "Got it, my lord!" ”

As soon as the words were spoken, the horses immediately instigated their mounts and ran forward, and soon disappeared from the view of the stones. The relieved stone did not dare to run around, nor did he dare to go back, and continued to herd his sheep as usual.

More than two hours had passed, and the sun had begun to turn westward from the center, and Stone continued to watch his sheep while enduring his growing hunger. During this time, the horsemen did not return, but only two more groups of cavalry came from the north, but they did not pay attention to themselves, but only glanced at themselves and continued on their way.

Just as the stone was lying there bored looking at the white clouds in the sky, he suddenly felt the earth behind him tremble slightly, as if an avalanche had occurred in the distant snow-capped mountains, the stone hurriedly attached his head, put his left ear on the ground and listened intently for a while, this trembling and shaking was even more obvious, as if there were thousands of bison running in the distant wilderness.

The stone leapt to his feet, and looked up to the north where the voice had come from.

First of all, there were dozens of horsemen, their leather armor shiny black, and the feathers on their helmets swaying in the wind, as conspicuous as the horned bows on their backs and the sabers on their waists. They trotted along with a banner that whizzed in the wind and depicted a galloping white horse.

White horse? White Horse Qiang? Before the stone could come to his senses, the cavalry had already run to him, and one of them leaned over and said, "Shepherd, gather your flock, and watch closely." ”

The stone was stunned for a moment, but suddenly reacted, and hurriedly shouted to drive the sheep together and hide behind the stones on the side of the road. As soon as it was placed, the stone was immediately stunned as soon as he turned around.

I saw that the mountains were all black on the side of the mountain, like a black ocean surging over, thousands of cavalry lined up, holding flags and trotting over, the neat and dull sound of horses' hooves actually far covered the sound of the river rushing next to it, like spring thunder rolling from the sky.

Watching the black cavalry run past him like a rushing stream, Stone felt his legs grow weaker and weaker. When he saw more than a hundred black cavalrymen approaching from a distance with a man riding a red horse and looking like a big official, Shi Shi quickly knelt down on the side of the road and lay his head deep on the ground.

Listening to the sound of horses' hooves in front of his head, I don't know how many cavalrymen had passed, and suddenly the sound of horses' hooves stopped in front of his head, and a calm and light voice sounded, as if someone was asking him in official language, but the stone could only understand a thing or two, and could not speak, so he had to continue lying there.

"Your Excellency is asking you, asking you where is this?" An older voice asked in Qiang.

"Lord Hui, this is Guangyang County." This time, the stone who understood replied respectfully.

"How far is it from Wenshan County?"

"Back to the adult, the little one once followed the head man to Wenshan County, and it took half a day to walk."

I only heard the old man's voice and the brisk voice muttering a few words in the official language, and then the sound of horses' hooves sounded again, and the old man's voice also sounded: "My lord told you not to kneel anymore, hurry home." And by the way, bring a message to the head of your family, saying that Liangzhou Zeng Hua has returned to Yizhou. ”

The stone was startled, and quickly raised his head to look, and found that a thin figure was turning, and in the front place, under a banner with a red star in the middle of the blue, yellow, and middle, the back of a red horse wearing black armor stood out among the horses.

Seeing the cavalry under the city with almost no edges, and hearing a loud voice report the name of Shi Zenghua, the commander of Wenshan County, Li Tuo, felt that his legs and stomach were spinning.

Thinking that thousands of Zeng Hua's subordinates dared to kill Pixian County like a river of blood, and today he brought more than 10,000 Qiang to ride over, if he slowed down his hands and feet, wouldn't he want to wash Wenshan County in blood.

Li Tuo didn't think much else, just asked everyone to open the city gate, and honestly lay down in front of the city gate and begged.

Entering the Wenshan County Shoufu, Zeng Hua ordered all the Qiang cavalry officers above the sentry commander to be concentrated, and a large courtyard was crowded, with generals such as Mi Zhulu, Fei Ting, Hu Nuyang, Zhong Cunlian, Fu Nandang, Dang Tu, Gong Tangxiu and other generals standing in the front, while Zheng Pu and Feng Yangli stood on both sides of Zeng Hua.

Zeng Hua stood in the middle, and his cold gaze swept over the faces of all the generals and officers, which immediately made all the generals and officers shudder.

All the Qiang cavalry were in awe and awe of this general. This god-like general in the mouth of the clerk is as kind as a brother and a brother, like a spring breeze on his face, and the sun warms his heart; He became angry like a judge of Hades, like a cold wind and thunder.

At the end of last year, when they attacked the South Western Regions Road, the men and horses of the first tun escort were hanging when they crossed the Altun Mountain, but they missed the time and let the other more than 20,000 riders wait for half the night at the western foot of the Altun Mountain.

Zeng Hua didn't say a word, the tun commander and all the captains, sentinel chiefs, and even chiefs were all beheaded, and the battalion commander and Fu Nandang, who was in charge of the tun, were pulled in front of the army and whipped twenty lashes fiercely.

During the siege of Pishan Guocheng, due to the danger of the city, the front camp could not be attacked for a long time, and the forward tun was a little panicked after the death of the tun chief, and then retreated from the military flag, and as a result, the remaining two hundred men and horses of the tun were led to the military flag and beheaded. After the capture of Pishan City, Zeng Hua ordered the entire city to kill thousands of people except craftsmen and women, and all the seized property and women were returned to the first place to rush into the city.

When rushing into the city of Xiaowanguo, a team of men and horses were stunned, blocking a blacksmith workshop in the city and killing dozens of blacksmiths and hundreds of families inside. At that time, the captain and the clerk who were frightened and white-faced committed suicide with a knife in order not to affect the other soldiers, and the other sergeants were each given twenty lashes by Zeng Hua, and the spoils of the battle were all attributed to the families of the captain and the clerk.

After a few months, all the Qiang cavalry knew that this lord who was extremely strict in governing the army and had clear rewards and punishments could not only bring prosperity, but also bring death. And the Qiang cavalry knows better, this general has nothing to know about the 30,000 Qiang cavalry. All the Qiang cavalry were mixed, and except for the clerk, who knows how many of the others were the eyes and ears of the general. A small number of "unbearable" Qiang people had just gotten together, and before they had time to come up with any "big plan", they were put in a nest, and then trampled into meat by random horses, and their families were also condemned as "criminals" and deprived of cattle, sheep, pasture, and assigned to serve in the army.

The Qiang riders understood that if they were horses in the wilderness, then the general was a wrangler; If he is a wild wolf on the snowfield, then General Du Hu is the wolf king.

Zeng Hua waited for everyone to be swept into silence by his gaze before he spoke: "This time to send troops to Yizhou, don't think about killing and robbing again." Let me tell you, this Yizhou Shuzhong will be the people under my rule in the future, if you kill a person without permission, rob a household, and engage in military law! ”

A sentence of military law immediately made everyone's hearts tighten, knowing that this was a military order, not an ordinary joke, and quickly remembered it with their hearts, if they accidentally forgot this little life, it would be difficult to protect it.

Zeng Hua led the army down the river (Minjiang River), and the Guangrou, Du'an, and Pixian counties along the way looked at the flag and surrendered. Because Zeng Hua's army marched too fast, when he arrived at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, Fan Ben, the "Immortal Emperor" who had been living in seclusion here to "cultivate", did not have time to run back to Chengdu and was directly captured by the Feiyu Army.

After meeting with Zeng Hua, Fan Ben immediately wrote a text to Shuzhong, profoundly exposing Deng Ding and Kui Wen for coercing him to be called a puppet emperor, but in fact, the two formed a party to seize power, brutalized the people, and called on the people of Shu to obey the will of heaven and expose the rod to drive away the thieves.

Deng and Kui, who were in charge of affairs in Chengdu, were already frightened by the news that Zeng Hua had brought more than 10,000 Qiang riders, and Fan Ben was so anyway that he suddenly came to an end. When Zeng Hua took the Qiang cavalry through Pixian County and came to the city of Chengdu, Deng and Kui, who had already rebelled against the people, didn't even have the intention of surrendering, and directly found a crooked-necked tree and hanged themselves.

Xiao Jingwen in Fucheng was shocked three times in one night, Zhang Qu and Zhang Shou, who were originally stationed in Zitong City, had already beaten him a little north with 6,000 Xiang troops and 3,000 Chong soldiers, Zeng Hua and more than 10,000 Qiang cavalry pressed over from the west, which still made people live?

Xiao Jingwen was accumulating grain and grass, recruiting more soldiers and horses, repairing the city, and preparing to fight to the death with Zeng Hua, who was always so lucky, when he suddenly heard that Zhang Shou sent troops from Langzhong, Brazil, and directly attacked Guanghan, cutting off Xiao Jingwen's long snake formation from Fucheng to Deyang.

Now Xiao Jingwen is in a dilemma, go to the rescue and recover Guanghan City, Zhang Qu in the north of Fucheng is eyeing him there, he is so many, as soon as he leaves Fucheng, who can guarantee that this canal will not attack the city? When the time comes, he loses both ends and he really becomes a wild dog in the wilderness. If you don't go to the rescue of Guanghan City, then the north, south, and west will be surrounded on three sides, and then it will really be the king in the jar.

After thinking about it, Xiao Jingwen gritted his teeth, counted the remaining more than 10,000 people, went out of the city to Guanghancheng, and prepared to annihilate Zhang Shou, who only had 3,000 people in one fell swoop, and then went north to counterattack Brazil County to see who could beat whom!

However, Xiao Jingwen didn't see Guanghan City but saw thousands of black-armored flying feather troops rushing from all directions, and under several impacts, Xiao Bu quickly collapsed in a panic, and Xiao Jingwen died in the chaos.

Yizhou saw that it was calm, but Peng Mo's Zhou Fu was extremely depressed. After quelling the Yizhou rebellion for more than a year, he just cleaned up Qianwei County, and it was easy to fight a tug-of-war with the two thieves Deng and Kui in Chengdu for a year, tossing them to exhaustion. Who knew that Zeng Hua rushed over from the north with a crackle, and directly picked the peaches that were almost ripe, and also cleaned up Xiao Jingwen, who should have been destroyed in Fucheng, a long time ago. Now the government and the opposition are saying that Yizhou Thorn Shi Zhou has been pacified for more than a year, and it only took more than a month for Liangzhou Thorn Shi Zeng Hua to pacify, and the gap is too big.

Then, Zeng Hua went to the imperial court, in order to ensure that there was no more rebellion in Yizhou Shuzhong, he was willing to lead the Yizhou Thorn History to guard Chengdu, and "kindly" Zhou Fu for the Liangzhou Thorn History.

Zhou Fu was dizzy at that time, why didn't he see this kid so adulterous before? Play with the means and still set a set. I went to Liangzhou by myself, with you as the governor above, your cronies leading the counties below, and your henchmen with the army next to you, why did I go? Go to sweep the Liangzhou Thorn Mansion?