Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1127 When fooling around

Followed by Jia Xu's cavalry leader, Qu Chang, standing on the haystack, using a wooden fork to fork off the bundles of hay, the wind blows away his short robe, and the exposed thighs are wrapped in circles of Gebu, with a faint blood color Come out. But Qu Chang didn't care about the injury on his leg at all, but looked at the strong man who was feeding the horses in the stable and picked up the hay, and said very sadly: "It's a pity these horses... It's almost useless what…"

The man in the stable is using a wooden rake to even out the hay and beans in the manger, so that some horses will not eat all the hay, and some horses will only eat a full belly of hay, and then come out to pick up the hay. A large bundle of hay was dismantled and thrown into the manger. Hearing Qu Chang's words, he laughed a few times and said, "...It's not that bad, it's just a little bit of fat loss. After a year of raising it, it's all gone." It's back, and it will be even stronger! This horse is just like a human, if it doesn't run, it will be useless..."

While talking, the big man fell silent, his expression was a little lonely, he didn't continue talking, he just picked up the hay and beans for the horses more carefully, and waited three or four times from one stable to another. After tidying up the stables, he patted one of the strong black horses. Then, the black horse was eating happily with its head down. After being patted, it was a little dissatisfied, and it kicked and paved the ground twice.

   "This guy..." the big man said dotingly, as if treating his own child, and gave the **** horse some fodder before walking out of the stable.

The cavalry chief Qu stopped his hands when he saw that the forage was almost gone, then stood on the haystack, turned his head to look at the valley and the villages stretching up in the valley, and said, "You guys are really good. That's a good job...there's a lot of horses here...twenty horses in a stable, four here, four over there, that's eighty plus eighty...well, there's still...eleven...no, twelve …that’s, well…”

The length of the cavalry is already too much to count. In addition to the few stables near the mountains, there are also many stables dotted along the valley. Wranglers are grazing...

  The horse herders, although wearing leather robes, the cavalry chief Qu could tell that they were all Han Chinese, but for some reason they were dressed as Qiang people, perhaps to avoid something?

  This horse-raising valley is located near the Guanlong Ancient Road and close to Guanshan Mountain, so it is called Guanshan Grassland, which is a natural pasture in the mountains.

  As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, this place was used as a grassland for the Qin people. At that time, Feizi, the ancestor of the Qin people, raised horses for the royal family of Zhou between Siwei and Weiwei. The transition to an agricultural nation.

  From this point of view, this is actually the earliest birthplace of the old Qin people, and it is also one of the earliest sources of the unified Han culture of the Chinese nation.

With the unification of the Qin Dynasty, although the Longshan generation became an ordinary county, it was still important. In the Han Dynasty, because it wanted to fight against the Huns in the north, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty turned to a strategic counterattack and finally defeated the Huns. , and the realization of this process is closely connected with the Guanshan Grassland.

"What is this?" the big man said, "When Jing Huanhou was alive, there were over ten thousand horses here! This...what is it..." Even though he said this, the big man didn't seem to despise the present day at all. The appearance of the number of horses, on the contrary, has an attitude called humility and pride.

"That's it!" The big man put down the wooden rake, inspected the war horses, and said, "If you can eat them all, that's enough! Speaking of which, you guys are pretty good. From Guanzhong to here, counting... well, one day is enough." I ran four or five hundred miles..."

The cavalryman Qu Chang turned over from the haystack, and when he landed, his wound was involved. He couldn't help grinning, took a breath, and said slowly: "It's nothing. Back then...well, Wenhou killed Xianbei. At that time, we rushed from Jiuyuan County to Yunzhong, and we only ran for three days...By the way, brother, I don't know your name yet..."

   "A certain surname is Jiang, first name is Jiong..."

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  In the cottage on the hillside of the Guanshan Grassland, Jia Xu was chewing with his cheeks puffed out.

   "Uh..." Jia Xu belched contentedly, half spread on the mat, sipping teeth and said, "Tsk tsk, the beef here is still the best..."

   Maybe it’s a childhood memory, or maybe it’s a personal feeling. Whenever Jia Xu sits here in the Guanshan pasture, he always feels the most relaxed and enjoys the food here the most.

  Although the delicious food in Pingyang can make Jia Xu salivate, it cannot make Jia Xu feel relaxed like here.

   "Well, hurry up and get out after eating." A man sat in front of the hall with his back to Jia Xu, looked up at the sky, and said neither salty nor weak.

  This person has a wide robe with long sleeves, and his figure is not considered weak, but perhaps because he is too thin, the whole robe looks a bit empty. Although there is a crown on the head, you can still see the gray hair color in the exposed place. Looking from the back, anyone would think that this is a drooping old man.

Jia Xu almost couldn't hold on to her pretensions, fell down on the mat, sat up quickly, put on a look of bitterness and hatred, and said: "Brother, I thought that your hair just turned gray, but I didn't expect that even your heart has changed." It's dark..."

  The man turned around, and it was Li Ru, but Li Ru's black hair was all gray, as if he had added twenty years, and the wrinkles on his face had deepened a lot.

  Li Ru glanced at Jia Xu, then walked back, sat down and said, "Why bother to find a..."

  Guanshan Grassland is actually not a hidden place. It was just because the Han Dynasty abandoned the policy of Xiliang, which led to the corruption of Xiliang's administration day by day. Even here, such a good horse breeding land, was eventually abandoned.

  Later, the Qiang people came and occupied this place. Later, I don’t know when it started, and it became a refuge base for Li Ru and the others.

  Jia Xu was silent for a while, but did not answer directly, but said something similar to Li Ru: "Why do you..."

  Li Ru is silent.

You must know that Li Ru is only in his forties now, which should be the age of a man in his prime, but he has turned into a gray beard and looks like an old man, most of which is because he has endured too much pressure in his heart. Sincerely.

   There was another silence between the two.

  People from Xiliang, in fact, the original leaders were not Dong Zhuo, but Beigong Boyu and Song Yang. It's just that Beigong Boyu is of Qiang blood, so he cannot be completely convinced by the Han people in Xiliang. And Song Yang is a guy with great ambition and talent. He didn't show any problems at first, but after the incident, he was exposed under various incidents.

It is precisely because of this that Bian Yun and Han Yue, that is, Bian Zhang and Han Sui, turned against each other because of various problems. In addition, the Qiang people's natural incompatibility with each other made them unable to be like the Xiongnu. Or maybe an extremely powerful leader like Xianbei appeared to completely unify the Qiang people and the Han people, which eventually led to endless internal strife and the uprising failed.

Bian Zhang died, and some people suspected that Han Sui did it, and Han Sui could not completely get rid of his own suspicion, which caused many people to lower their evaluation of Han Sui a lot, and Li Ru and others finally did not choose the one who already had some power at that time. Han Sui chose Dong Zhuo instead.

But what I didn't expect was that Dong Zhuo, who used to be the most commander-in-chief, was very popular in Xiliang, whether he was a Qiang or a Han, and he was doing well in Xiliang. The Han people in Xiliang were powerful and powerful, and eventually became a huge power group. Such a perfect situation, but after entering Heluo, it declined so suddenly.

  It's like everything before, but it's just a bubble...

   "Let's talk..." Li Ru shook his head, stroked his sleeves, and said calmly, "What's wrong with you this time?"

   "Uh," Jia Xu rolled his eyes and said, "No, there's nothing difficult, it's just that I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you a lot, so I came here to pay a visit..."

  Li Ru didn't even raise his eyebrows: "Tell the truth."

   "Ahem..." Jia Xu coughed twice, and said helplessly, "It's like this..."

Jia Xu briefly talked about the process, and then said: "...Actually Zhengxi General... As for what he said, the method should be applied to its spirit, not the technique... This is of course still open to discussion... The rest are still considered That's right, compared to Dong Zhongying... um, what... at least younger, isn't it..."

   After listening, Li Ru was silent for a long time, and said, "Got it."

   "Ah, ah?" Jia Xu was a little dumbfounded. If it was someone else, Jia Xu could still use some schemes and schemes, but for Li Ru, it was almost useless if used, and sometimes Li Ru would grab his painful feet and beat him up severely. From now on, that's it.

  Jia Xu rolled his eyes and said, "Now that Xiliang is gone without Dong Zhongying, and the place is in chaos, brother, don't you worry about the damage to the books stored in Anding Tianshui, Wuwei?"

   "Don't worry..." Li Ru said lightly, "I have already taken all of them and put them in the valley..."

"This..." Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "...books are all dead things. If no one can pass on the mantle, they are just a pile of waste...I see that most of the people in the valley are reckless, and the brothers don't Worried about breaking the inheritance in the future?"

  Li Ru suddenly smiled, and said: "You are right...so I have found a heir, and he is considered smart, and I will call him to visit you tomorrow..."

   "Ahhhh..." Jia Xu rushed forward with all her teeth and claws, and then hugged one of Li Ru's arms, "Senior brother! You can't just ignore death!"

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  The sky is gloomy, as if stretching out your hand, you can tear down a dark cloud in the sky, the air is so dull, it's like twisting the corner of your clothes casually, you can wring out water, it's very depressing.

   It seems that there may be a heavy rain soon.

  When the seasons change, it is often the rain that goes first, whether it is getting hotter or getting colder.

Once the rainy season comes, it means that the horn bow is weak, the shaft of the arrow is swollen, and even the nails are extremely easy to corrode and rust, and even the clothes will be three points heavy, not to mention the muddy roads, so most people Under normal circumstances, the rainy season is also a short dormant period of the war. .

  When dusk was approaching, at the ferry of Shanjin, a few small boats came at some unknown time, staggering towards the south bank.

  The pontoon bridge was destroyed, and if you want to cross the river, you can only ferry back and forth.

Businessmen, at any time, are like Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death, full of resilience and strength, fully reflecting the independence of individuals, even if there are two opposing sides in a war, businessmen will appear, abandoning the original organization The position of the collective, even regardless of the position of the country, is only busy for immediate interests.

  Of course, this interest is in excess, huge, exciting interest...

Just like the merchant ship in front of us with the small flag of the Wei clan of Hedong, the young man standing on the bow of the ship pointed at the arrows of the guards on the south bank, waved his arms and shouted: "Don't shoot the arrows! Don't shoot arrows! A certain merchant from the Wei family wants to go to Luoyang..."

   "Wei family? Merchant?" Qu Chang, who was in charge of guarding the Beacon Tower on the South Bank of Shanjin, said suspiciously, "Didn't they just pass by a few days ago, why did another group come?"

   "This...isn't the rainy season coming soon...the road is still dry, let's go again, otherwise it will be impossible to go..." The young man standing at the bow replied.

   "Is this..." Hearing this, Qu Chang nodded slightly. This reason also makes sense. After all, merchants also depend on the sky to eat when transporting goods. If it is rainy season, it will also be a headache.

   Qu Chang lay on the beacon tower, looking at the young man who was stopped by the river bank. The young man was not very old, but his face was dark. He really looked like a businessman who was on the go all the year round.

  However, I don't know.

   "Young man! I look at you so hard!" Qu Chang said, "You said your surname is Wei? Hedong Wei?"

   "Exactly," Pang Tong arched his hands and said without changing his face, "The Duke of Wei in the east of Anyi City is an uncle of a certain clan..." Anyway, there are many people with the surname Wei in Anyi City...

   Chief Qu nodded. At his level, it is impossible to know any important roles of the Hedong Wei family. It is just a routine questioning.

   "What are you transporting?" Qu Chang looked at the flat-bottomed boat and asked. The draft of this ship is a bit deep, and it must have transported a lot of heavy loads.

   "This... it's just some dried fish..." Pang Tong glanced back, and said a little stiffly.

   "Dried fish?" Qu Chang laughed out loud, then pointed at Pang Tong and said, "How dare you bully someone! Come on! Get on board and search!"

  (end of this chapter)