Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2860 Two aspects

In the Western Regions, it is not that there are no talented people, and it is not that no one has imagined to form a unified country, but under the different interests of each state, it is not that simple to unify .

The people of the Western Regions, just like the people of most other states, have difficulty forming a unified consciousness. Even if they are separated by a river or a mountain, the friction between them may be due to some years of accumulated friction. The basis of natural union is lost.

  At the same time, within the states of the Western Regions, there is no such powerful country as Qin, so until now there is no chance to touch the threshold of unification. After all, the Qin State was blessed with three or four consecutive shrewd and wise kings, so that it could seize the fleeting opportunities in the long river of history, and the royal families of the Western Regions obviously did not have such good conditions.

but…

  It's like brothers who often fight with each other, but after encountering foreign enemies, they will put down their disputes and work together to make external efforts. Now it seems that there is another opportunity in front of the Western Regions.

  Resisting the Han people, this is not the first time in the Western Regions.

Not all countries in China, Spring and Autumn and Warring States can inherit the good inheritance of three generations of kings like Qin State. The guardians of the Western Regions also have good and bad, strong and weak. People like Zhang Qian or Ban Chao are, after all, a minority. In the era of Ban Chao's son Ban Yong, because of the Eastern Han Dynasty's attitude towards Kansai's strategy and even cutting off its own arms to suppress political opponents, the Protector of the Western Regions was once changed to the Chief History of the Western Regions and lost control of the army.

  Obviously, in places like the Western Regions, there is no control over the army. The so-called long history of the Western Regions is like a staff officer without a chief, and his words have no power at all. And the officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the court never considered how much the order in the Western Regions that had been built with great difficulty would cause a backlash after it collapsed.

  The irony is that they originally instigated the states of the Western Regions to rebel against the great Han, saying that the unified order is rubbish, and freedom is the more precious Guishuang, and now they start advocating the benefits of unity...

  The memory of the people of the Western Regions is always short.

  Because the people in the Western Regions have no written language.

   No matter how vivid the pictures are, they cannot carry the power of inheritance like words. And for some reason, the pictures handed down in the Western Regions are often religious themes, and are rarely used for folk experience or wisdom.

   It's a pity that Busen didn't realize this. The so-called secret volume is the fundamental reason why he can be respected by the states of the Western Regions. How can he spread the words or the history of these Western Regions to the world?

   People who are not smart enough often think that they are smart people.

  Finally, Busen agreed to Taxa's suggestion.

  Maybe the pancakes drawn are very sweet, or maybe the moths can't help but throw themselves into the fire...

  Some rumors spread quickly.

  Darkness will eventually be expelled, and light will eventually come.

  The Buddha's final test is about to come.

  The devil is coming, and only by joining hands can we deal with it...

  These somewhat endless, but meaningful words spread among the people of the Western Regions. When these people were discussing the tragedy in Qiuciqiu Cicheng, lamenting the difficult times in the Western Regions, etc., they would add such a sentence or two at the end, and then everyone's expressions became a little intriguing.

  Especially with "Buddha" as an endorsement.

   This is the power of religion.

  In many cases where the explanation is not clear, you only need to say that this is the true meaning of the Buddha, and you can block people who have doubts from speaking. It's like the "top file" on the mysterious side of later generations.

  Never seen it, but there is.

  The file cannot be taken out, but it is there.

   I don’t know the details, but there is.

   Therefore, the people of the Western Regions seem to be under the influence of these rumors. Although there is no basis, everyone is sure that such days will never last long, and a change will come soon.

   Immediately, from Qiuci to the outside, the states, cities, villages, and tribes in the Western Regions were filled with an unusual atmosphere.

  In those ordinary mornings and evenings, the people in the Western Regions seem to be grazing or working as usual, and then go home to rest after sunset, but these people are turbulent and restless inside. These people will take out the knives, guns and arrows again, arrange them again and again, and then put them in the most convenient position.

   It seems like everyone is waiting for something.

   looking forward to something.

  But in fact, what they don't know is that their anticipation is the beating of a heart that is unwilling to be mediocre, and their thoughts of waiting are the accumulation of resentment that has been oppressed for many years.

  Tense dark clouds hang over the entire Western Region, getting thicker and darker. It seems that in the sky, between the clouds, and in every piece of land where the wind blows, the smell of war has already been brought out.

   Guishuang people are still accumulating strength, but this smell has already blown into Xihai City first.

  In Xihai City, there are not only Han people, but even in some places, Hu people make up the majority.

   I don’t know when it started, but something happened in Xihai City...

  Hu people in the Western Regions began to consciously speak loudly and quietly in Hu language around the Han people. Before, these Hu people did not speak Hu language when communicating with each other, and they were even more proud of speaking Chinese characters correctly.

In some dark corner alleys, there are barbarians staring at the Han people who are alone, and when night falls, there are barbarian people running around in the dark. Before, these barbarians were more guarded than the Han people. rule.

Among the shops in the city, some barbarians openly took things in Han shops without paying them, and then they were caught and beat the Han guys, claiming that it was the Han people who discriminated against them... Cough cough, it was oppression for so many years, and then He is just taking back a little bit now.

Among the vassals in the camp outside the city, the Hu vassals also began to be arrogant, as if suddenly these Hu soldiers became elusive, they no longer obeyed orders, and their temper became very bad. For trivial matters, Hu soldiers dared to blow their beards and stare at the Han military academy, and even cursed at them.

   There is more and more friction between the soldiers of the Han and the Hu.

   Fights and brawls are also constantly escalating, and the cause may be just a simple sentence, a look, and a collision. However, the tense antagonism between the Hu and Han soldiers continued to heat up, escalate, and intensify in such an atmosphere.

   Bloodshed eventually occurred.

During a quarrel over the order of queues, several Han and Hu soldiers fought violently. In the chaos, one Hu soldier was stabbed to death with a knife for some reason, and blood flowed out. The soldiers started to shout, and then more and more Hu soldiers heard the sound and came from all directions.

   At the beginning, it was just a fight between a few people, but it quickly evolved into dozens, hundreds of people, and then the entire vassal barracks broke out...

Fortunately, Meng Hua still had a bit of sense. He ordered the non-commissioned officers of the Han and Hu people to separate the mixed soldiers and barely maintain order. However, the soldiers of the Han and Hu people confronted each other. Meng Hua was not satisfied with this decision. Although it was Menghua who slowed down the deterioration of the scene at that time, the situation in the military camp outside the city actually became worse.

  The Han people and Hu people inside and outside Xihai City are isolated from each other, do not talk to each other, and ignore them. Hu people dare not go to places where there are many Han people. Similarly, Han people dare not go to areas where Hu people are the majority.

  Meng Hua and Han Guo urgently reported the current tense situation in Xihai City while appeasing them. The two of them are actually very clear that in the land of the Western Regions, the number of Han people is not very large, and most of them are Hu people. Even if order can be maintained in Xihai City, the settlements of Han people outside Xihai City are very small. It may not be guaranteed.

   Lu Bu and Zhang Liao returned to Xihai City with their troops under such circumstances.

If it is a retreat, then of course the most important thing is to escape with your life. Nothing can stop you from fleeing. However, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, especially Zhang Liao, don't want to turn the entire army into a bereaved dog. They only know how to escape and do nothing else. No matter, so in the process of returning to Xihai City, they are relatively restrained and cautious. Of course, this also makes it take longer for them to come back, but the benefit is that the troops are more complete.

   What's the downside? The rumors run faster than them.

  The morale of the soldiers collapsed, and it was difficult to think quickly.

It was a bit chaotic at first, and the army rations and soldiers were not paid enough. In the end, they encountered a situation where their own people beat their own people and lost a general. Under such a situation, if the morale can remain strong and not drop, it is really Outrageous **** opened the door for outrageous.

   Or pure undead troops, not affected by morale?

   Once morale collapses, even with the best equipment, it is impossible to carry out continuous combat. After all, it is the people who use the equipment, not the equipment users, so Zhang Liao took over the affairs of Xihai City almost under the general situation of hell.

   In terms of people's livelihood, materials are in short supply, prices are surging, and the shortage of many things has led to meaningless looting by the people.

   That's right, looting, looting by the Han people themselves.

  Han Guo’s original idea was to take out part of the official reserves to stabilize some market prices and ease the public’s emotions, but what he didn’t expect was that when he took out these materials, he didn’t achieve the desired effect. As soon as these materials appeared on the market, it immediately triggered the looting of these materials by the Han people.

  Of course, it’s not a zero-yuan purchase, but a frenzied purchase regardless of one’s own demand. Even if it is not needed for the time being, it has to be bought back and stored away. This makes people who are really desperate, but will not be able to get it later...

   As a result, it caused even greater panic.

  Because the shops representing the government were sold out and closed.

  Later, Han Guo learned his lesson and adopted a small-batch limited sales model. Each person could only buy a little. Although it did solve part of the shortage situation, it did not ease the tension in the city, but increased panic. The first thing all the people do when they open their eyes every day is to queue up in various shops, and after one round of queue, the second round...

And those who still have some supplies at home can't help but participate in it under such circumstances, so there will always be queues on the street, and various secondary problems caused by long queues. Conflict broke out under the instigation of some people, intentionally or unintentionally.

  If it weren't for the city patrol and inspection team to rush there with people, the shop would have been smashed, and the shop assistants would have been beaten to death on the spot.

  This is the case in the city, and it is even more tense in the barracks outside the city.

  The confrontation between Hu people and Han soldiers has become very obvious. The Han people don't trust the Hu people, and the Hu people don't trust the Han people either. Although there are some Qiang people from Longxi in the vassal army outside Xihai City, these Qiang people are even more embarrassed. During this time, he will neither gain the trust of the Han people nor the approval of the Hu people.

  As far as Meng Hua is concerned, he has tried his best to control the riots in the barracks. As for reconciling conflicts, resolving disputes, and uniting the morale of the army, etc., he is really powerless.

  At the same time, in various parts of the Western Regions, the waves of resistance against the Han people that have gathered one after another have become more and more intense, and even began to spread to the checkpoints around Xihai City...

  The gentle and seemingly harmless Hu herdsmen around the checkpoints now look at the Han people like cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. After the single soldier died outside for no reason, the scouts sent by the checkpoint also increased from the five-man squad at the beginning to twenty or thirty men, and they had to bear certain risks.

   As for the scouts, who are the main task of the checkpoint, to detect the surrounding movements, they originally needed concealment and long-term detection. Now that the number of people increases, the concealment is greatly reduced, and the number of detection rounds is also reduced.

  The situation is already obvious. Although the various states in the Western Regions have not officially turned against the Han people, they have actually begun to reject the Han people, and a full-scale war may break out at any time.

  Under such circumstances, Lu Bu, who is the chief protector of the Western Regions, locked himself in the mansion of the chief protector and refused to meet anyone...

   This is of course Lu Bu.

Except for the fact that Lu Bu surpassed the boundaries of mortals in terms of martial arts, other aspects are basically still in the category of mortals, and it may even be because too many points were added to the value of force that he had to reduce the points in other aspects Let's balance it out.

  The same is true when Lu Bu was besieged by Cao Cao in Xiapi in history.

At this moment, Lu Bu's problem of escaping from reality broke out again. He shrank in the office of the Dadu Protectorate, neither expressing opinions on Zhang Liao's execution of many officials in the Dadu Protectorate, nor the current situation in the Western Regions. idea. Lu Bu didn't see anyone, so he locked himself in the room. Even if Zhang Liao went there, Lu Bu drove him out.

   As a last resort, Zhang Liao could only stand up and take on this responsibility.

  The first order issued by Zhang Liao was to ask Ai Maer, the leader of the Qiang people of the vassal army and former subordinate of Ajiesha, to come and meet.

  『Aimar, I now need you to take all the Qiang soldiers and build an **** channel between Xihai City and Yumen Pass to protect the evacuation of the people...』

After Zhang Liao saw the leader of the Qiang people, he said straight to the point: "The Western Regions are already very dangerous now. I have ordered to gather these Han people scattered outside the city. I need you to take your men and send them to Yumen Pass as guards." ! 』

  Aimar froze for a moment, "General, are you going to...abandon the Western Regions?" 』

  Zhang Liao said: "The next step is to be determined by the Hussar General, but the Han people outside are already facing threats, and they must temporarily avoid it before the situation deteriorates completely." I can't draw out the troops on hand, so, can you do this? Safely send these people to Yumen Pass? 』

  The Qiang people and these Hu people in the Western Regions are still somewhat distant and close. After all, the Qiang people and the Han people have been loving and killing each other for so many years. After the death of Bei Gong, there are not many hard-line Qiang people, especially those like Aimar. Once Lu Bu was too nonsense, so many problems would not be involved.

But from another perspective, the Qiang people are Qiang people after all. If under any special circumstances, if there is a little hesitation, or if there is any problem in cooperation, then for the current status quo in the Western Regions that is already crumbling, it is undoubtedly true. It's like a hidden bomb, it may not blow up from the beginning to the end, but if it blows up, it will be worse. Therefore, under overall consideration, it is better to let these Qiang people first **** a group of Han people to evacuate from the Western Regions, which can be regarded as reducing the pressure on people's livelihood and military affairs.

   Seeing that Zhang Liao had already made a decision, Aimar didn't bother to say anything, so he happily received the order and went down to prepare.

  As a Qiang, Aimar has actually noticed that the atmosphere in the Western Regions has changed, and now there is Zhang Liao's order to avoid this vortex, so why not do it?

   Meng Hua watched Ai Maer leave, but he still didn't understand, "General Wen Yuan, why did you let them leave?" In Menghua's view, although the Qiang people may not be able to trust them completely, if a war breaks out, it is still possible to serve as some auxiliary work, and the troops in Xihai City are not very sufficient, let these Qiang people leave , Didn't it reduce its own strength?

Zhang Liao looked at Meng Hua, was silent for a while, and decided to explain it to Meng Hua. After all, he learned a lot from the Lu Bu incident this time. In fact, it was a trivial matter at the beginning, but if you don’t explain it or communicate, it will often become a problem. "Most of the Qiang people are from Longyou and Longxi, so they really don't like to mix with these Qiang people from the Western Regions... But Longyou has only been pacified not long ago. If a large number of Qiang people die in the Western Regions, it will be difficult for the subsequent Longyou people." Right governance is not a good thing. 』

  Meng Hua was stunned, but still worried, "General Wen Yuan is very worried...but these Qiang people have left, and this big camp outside the city..." The troops are reduced, if there is more disturbance, it may not be able to suppress it.

  Zhang Liao nodded and said: "I was just about to talk about this matter... Let them choose for these Hu people's vassal troops, or go back to Yumen Pass with the Qiang people, or dismiss them by themselves..."

"lay off? 』Meng Hua's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it.

  (end of this chapter)