Farmer of Shu Han

Different from those piansi liliu proclamations issued by scholar-bureaucrats, Feng Yong knew the details of the group of soldiers under his command.

Although they are literate, in the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats, these big-headed soldiers are still not even close to the edge of the humble family, and they are still regarded as the heads of the Guizhou.

But Feng Yong knows that they are indeed different from Qianshou Cangtou, because they have already begun to have a vague self-awareness, knowing what they want and how to get it.

At the same time, it will independently maintain this rising channel.

Feng Yong only needs to combine their interests with the Xingfu Dahan, and let them realize that only by eliminating the Cao thief can their current life be guaranteed.

Everyone naturally knows how to choose.

When a team has faith, even if the faith is not so high, it is enough to ensure that the team will not degenerate so easily.

Of course, this kind of belief is not enough to rely on Feng Yong alone.

It depends on everyone talking together.

For example, how many cities Cao thief had slaughtered before, how much tax was paid, especially the example of Hanzhong people being relocated to other places, etc. This is called remembering bitterness and thinking sweet.

Talk a lot, talk for a long time, it will naturally become a common understanding.

If it weren't for the students in Nanxiang Academy who were too nervous, Feng Yong actually planned to open a martial arts lecture hall in Nanxiang, select some students to enter, and receive military training in advance.

Then he was sent to the army to specialize in ideological work.

The news brought by Zhao Yun disrupted Feng Yong's arrangement in winter, he had to entrust the matter of Pingxiang to Zhang Yi, and then rushed to Longxi with his people.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and we had to rush to Longxi before the heavy snow came, otherwise it would be difficult to march on the road.

Although Zhao Yun couldn't say that he didn't need to bring too many people there, but for Feng Yong, who cherished his life, there was no sense of security without a certain number of soldiers.

What's more, for Nanxiang soldiers, this is also an opportunity to practice in winter.

Entering Longxi in November, the cold wind blows on the face, faintly like a knife.

Chen Shi, the prefect of Longxi, Ma Yong, the chief minister, and Gongsun Zheng, who joined the army, and other main officials, together with the officials of Xiangwu City, stood at the gate of the east city of Xiangwu City, ready to welcome the arrival of Jiequanting Hou Feng Yong.

Longxi is a newly established land, and at the same time, it is adjacent to Liangzhou. Chen Shi was appointed as the prefect, which can be regarded as being highly regarded by the prime minister.

But compared to Feng Yong, who started offering advice to the prime minister at the age of sixteen and later made great contributions to the Northern Expedition, Chen Shi thought he was far inferior.

In the ranking of officials in Longyou, although Feng Yong appeared to be fourth on the surface, he was actually the second person with real power.

Chen Shi had never dealt with Feng Yong directly, but this did not prevent him from hearing rumors about Feng Yong from others.

Under his tutelage, he was successful at a young age, held a high position, had many tigers and wolves under his command, and was scolded by the prime minister as a domineering general because of Ma Di's incident.

Generally speaking, such characters are not very easy to deal with.

Chen Shi looked to the east, with seriousness and worry in his eyes.

Gongsun Zheng standing behind Chen Shi had another thought.

Gongsun Zheng concealed his identity back then, and quietly went to Nanxiang with a caravan from Longyou.

Among other things, just what he saw and heard in Nanxiang was enough to make him have a strong curiosity about Feng Yong.

In the Xiangwu battle a few months ago, the protagonist was the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, so Gongsun Zheng could only look at Feng Yong from a distance.

Apart from being amazed at his youth, he couldn't even say a word.

This time Feng Yong led the army, but he was able to take a closer look.

From a distance, I saw a cavalry galloping towards me. It was the sentry cavalry delivering the news.

"Report! Captain Huqiang is less than three miles away from Xiangwu."

The sentry rider's face was shiny with oil, which was mutton oil applied to prevent it from being cracked by frost.

"Okay, it's finally here."

Chen Shi let the sentry ride down to rest, and raised his eyes to look into the distance. After a while, he saw a dark shadow appearing in front of him.

Driving in winter is very painful, especially on the face with glycerin. It may be due to psychological effects, and I always feel sticky on the face, which is not very comfortable.

There is no zipper in the down jacket, and the cold wind always pours into the gap when riding a horse.

Fortunately, there are leather gloves sewn by Ah Mui, so the hands will not suffer.

Looking at the crowd of officials crowded at the gate of Xiangwu City, Feng Yong clamped his horse's belly, let the horse run two steps quickly, and dismounted in front of everyone.

Before he could speak, Chen Shi, who had only met but never dealt with him, stepped forward, "Chen Shi has met Junhou."

Feng Yong laughed, "Prefect Chen, don't be too polite."

He said and stomped his feet, "It's really uneasy to ask everyone to wait outside in such a cold day."

"It's hard work for the princes and marquises. I have to lead the army here in the cold winter. I'm afraid I have suffered a lot along the way. Shi has prepared hot food and soup to warm up the bodies of the soldiers."

Chen Shi looked at the followers and personal guards behind Feng Yong, and saw that everyone was wearing strange sheepskin hats, covering their ears, sheep jackets on their bodies, and long boots on their feet.

It's very warm just by looking at it.

Especially those personal guards, all of them were wearing exactly the same clothes, which seemed to be uniformly custom-made by the Huqiang school lieutenant army.

This made Chen Shi stunned. Although the style of this kind of clothes looks a little weird, but at first glance, you can tell that they are not ordinary items. They are probably produced by Nanxiang Workshop.

This kind of clothing that can only be used by wealthy families, Feng Junhou actually used it to distribute it to his personal guards, and he was generous.

However, these personal guards didn't seem to be tired from the long journey at all, but they were full of energy and stood neatly behind.

Although he was silent and didn't even have much expression on his face, he might still look a little silly and indifferent.

But Chen Shi, who had been in the army for a long time, knew at a glance that this was the favorite soldier of all the generals in the army.

These soldiers have undergone strict training and are extremely obedient. At the same time, they have been on the battlefield and are not afraid of swords and guns. When the general gives an order, they turn to battle and conflict, and rarely retreat.

With this thought in his heart, he said to Feng Yong, "Your Majesty has come from a long way, why not go to the city to rest first?"

Feng Yong waved his hand and said, "Please, gentlemen, I will wait for a while."

Said, turned and looked back.

If he doesn't enter the city, the officials in Longxi can only continue to wait.

Many people looked in the direction Feng Yong was looking at.

Only then did I realize that after a while, the soldiers brought by Feng Junhou had already started to line up in the open space not far away.

The unique passwords of Nanxiang soldiers came from time to time, and even Chen Shi couldn't understand what the military orders were.

They just feel that every time a team leads an order, there will always be soldiers who respond loudly, and then they can quickly line up.

Among the thousand soldiers that Feng Yong brought over this time, there was no Modao Squad.

Five hundred men carried long spears, a pair of bows, three strings, and thirty arrows.

Five hundred men armed with sabers, a pair of crossbows, three strings, and thirty arrows.

Everyone wears leather armor and carries a bag of dry food.

At the same time, there are two hundred auxiliary soldiers and some military medical workers.

A thousand people, say more or less, say less.

In less than a moment, a neat phalanx appeared in front of everyone.

No one spoke, not even a cough.

Only their exhaled breath filled the air.

"I've heard for a long time that Feng Junhou has a good command of the army, leading the soldiers under his command, and fighting against the elites led by the famous Cao thief in Jieting. It really makes sense."

Watching Feng Yong walk towards the phalanx, Gongsun Zheng whispered to Ma Yong.

Ma Yong nodded, "Although it's not severe cold, but in this kind of weather, he came here from Pingxiang, and he was able to list such a neat army formation in such a short period of time. Zhang He deserved to lose."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Chen Shi felt proud and interjected, "What is this? I heard that the Nanxiang soldiers led by General Feng are very good at running around."

"At the beginning of the military training, the Lord and Marquis sent soldiers from Nanxiang to Jincheng within half a month. Later, they rushed all the way to win the battle of Longguan."

"I heard that the army of the princes and lords requires that soldiers must travel at least sixty miles a day to be considered qualified if they are armed with sufficient weapons."

"This time from Pingxiang to Xiangwu, according to someone's estimate, it is a normal march of forty miles a day, which is the easiest for the soldiers led by Feng Junhou."

Hearing Chen Shi's words, Gongsun Zheng and Ma Yong couldn't help but looked at each other in shock.

Ma Yong knew the soldiers, so he couldn't help asking, "Prefect, wouldn't the soldiers be very tired in this way?"

It makes sense to travel forty miles a day.

One is to prevent the soldiers from being too tired, and the other is to quickly form an army formation when encountering an enemy.

Chen Shi gave a wry smile, "The prince treats the soldiers very kindly, and the whole Han Dynasty dares to ask the soldiers like this."

Although the words are not clearly stated, the meaning is clear.

Don't say anything else, just talk about the clothes of those soldiers, and you can understand how kind Feng Junhou treats the soldiers.

Gongsun Zheng and Ma Yong thought about it just now, those soldiers lined up in a square formation in a very short period of time, and they all understood.

After Feng Yong finished lecturing the soldiers, he came back and said apologetically, "I kept you waiting for so long."

At first, some people thought that Feng Yong brought his maid (A Mei) over, and felt that this young man was a bit too hedonistic.

At this time, I saw the soldiers with high morale not far away, and then saw Feng Yong with a natural expression, as if he had just done a very ordinary thing.

At the moment, no one dares to look down upon it.

"It's okay, left and right is just a moment's work. On the contrary, the monarch is good at running the army, and his subordinates are all tigers and wolves, which opened the eyes of a certain class."

Chen Shi gave a compliment.

Feng Yong had self-knowledge, shook his head and said, "Facing the enemy in front of the battle, arranging troops and arranging troops is not Feng's specialty, so I can only put more effort into managing the army."

He was telling the truth, but to Chen Shi and the others, they felt that this young prince was too modest, and he was not at all frivolous and arrogant.

Not to mention getting carried away or thinking too highly of oneself, it's really rare.

Several people couldn't help feeling more respect in their hearts.

Especially Chen Shi, he knew that Ma Di was defeated in Jieting because he was valued by the prime minister, had a high self-esteem, was self-willed, and could not listen to other people's advice.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly feel ashamed, it was really wrong for him to have prejudiced against the princes before.

"Your Majesty, please."

"Okay, please, everyone please."

Everyone embraced Feng Yong and entered the city.

The banquet had already been set up in the prefect's mansion. Although it was not as fine as Feng Yong's usual meal, it was better than the sumptuous one.

These days, he was on his way in the cold weather, and seeing these steaming meals at this time, Feng Yong was not polite.

For a while, the host and guest enjoyed themselves.

After having a full meal, remove the leftovers and let irrelevant personnel leave.

Feng Yong took a sip of the hot soup before he said, "Chen Taishou, this time I got news from General Zhao. I heard that the Qiang Hu in Longxi had changed, so I hurried over here."

"I know Liangzhou, Longyou, and even Guanzhong. Over the past few years, the Qiangs have been in constant chaos. They have repeatedly suppressed and rebelled, and they have repeatedly rebelled. I wonder if you can tell me what is going on?"

If you want to govern Liangzhou, Longyou, or even Guanzhong, you cannot avoid an extremely serious problem-the Qianghu Rebellion.

The Qiang chaos in Liangzhou was like a maggot attached to the bone, which caused headaches for the Eastern Han court throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty.

For this matter, Feng Yong knew the general situation, but he didn't know much about the specific process.

After all, in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, except for the Northern Expedition of the old demon Zhuge, unless it was a big event or a relatively famous person, he didn't know much about the rest.

What's more, is it the Qiang Hu Rebellion that belongs to the cold knowledge of the Three Kingdoms?

But now, as the captain of Hu Qiang, he has to face this problem, and he is not sloppy at all.

Some time ago, there was a shortage of food, and I only cared about appeasing the Qianghu in Longyou, and then arranged various tasks in Pingxiang. I have never had the opportunity to understand the overall situation of the Qianghu in Liangzhou.

So this time, taking advantage of the change of the Qiang Hu in Longxi, I happened to find out.

Because of the leadership of the prime minister, the big man has a good officialdom, and Feng Yong's style of going to work immediately after eating is also in line with the trend.

When Chen Shi heard Feng Yong's question, he looked at Gongsun Zheng, "Your Majesty, Gongsun Canjun is a local, and he knows a lot about Qianghu. How about letting Gongsun Canjun talk about it?"

Chen Shicai had been the prefect of Longxi for a few months, Feng Yong didn't make things difficult for him, and nodded immediately.

Gongsun Zheng got permission, and then said, "Back to the Lord, the story of the Qiang chaos in Longxi is a long story, and it is quite complicated. I hope that the Lord will not be too wordy about being an official."

"It's okay, I'm here this time to solve this matter, please explain in detail, the more detailed the better."

Feng Yong signaled.

"No. Speaking of the Qiang Rebellion in Liangzhou, we have to start from the seventh year of Guanghe at the latest. It has been forty-five years since then."

"At that time, Beidi County, Anding County, Jincheng County, and Longxi County each had a chaotic Qiang."

"Later, the great Han sent a Huang Zhongyi Cong Hu Bing to quell the chaos, but when the Yi Cong Hu Bing arrived at Lingju, he actually killed the leading captain, along with..."

"Hey, along with the captain who protected the Qiang at that time, he was also killed. The Qiang rebels in the four counties of Longxi, Jincheng, Anding, and Beidi were also merged into one because of the rebellion of Yiconghu soldiers."

When Gongsun Zheng said this, he glanced at Feng Yong.

Feng Yong asked, "I know that the big man has always had the habit of recruiting Qiang Hu soldiers as Yi Cong Hu soldiers to defend the border together. But why this Yi Cong Hu soldiers will participate in the rebellion, do you know?"

"Of course I know." Gongsun Zheng nodded, "Because Zuo Chang, the governor of Liangzhou at that time, embezzled military pay."

"The lieutenant protecting the Qiang and the generals who lead the army are all imitators. They have taken too much away from Yi Cong and Hu soldiers, and they have treated Hu soldiers too badly on weekdays..."

Chen Shi coughed lightly.

Gongsunzheng suddenly came to his senses, and quickly added, "Of course, the most important thing is that the Hu people are bad-natured and ignorant of ethics..."

Feng Yong raised his hand to stop, "Go on."

"No. At that time, the area from Liangzhou to the Dahe (Yellow River) to the north of Guanzhong was controlled by Qianghu, and its leaders were Lieutenant Generals Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou of the Yuanyi Conghu Army."

"The rebel Qiang not only killed Chen Yi, the prefect of Jincheng at that time, but also captured Bian Zhang, the magistrate of Xin'an County, and Han Sui, the governor of Liangzhou, and finally even persuaded them to join the rebellion."

"As a result, Qianghu became more and more powerful, defeating Zuochang and Song Nie, the governors of Liangzhou in a row, Xia Yu, the captain of the Huqiang school, and Shi Gaixun, the governor of Hanyang County."

"Later, although the Qiang rebels were defeated by the cavalry general Zhang Wen sent by the Han Dynasty, they soon regained their momentum."

"Even defeated Dong Zhuo, Zhou Shen and others who came after them. Fortunately, not long after, Bian Zhang, the leader of the rebel, died of illness, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou died of internal strife, and only Han Sui remained."

"At this time, the newly appointed governor of Liangzhou, Geng Bi, felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, and he was greedy for great achievements. Without imperial reinforcements, he wanted to lead the soldiers of Liangzhou to quell the chaos."

"However, his behavior is extremely unbearable. Appointing a corrupt official, Cheng Qiu, to govern, chills the hearts of Liangzhou officials, and he commits cruel actions, which lose the hope of the people of Liangzhou."

"When Li Xiangru, the prefect of Longxi, rebelled, Longxi was then owned by the rebels. Geng Bi refused to listen to Fu Xie's good advice and insisted on leading the army himself."

"Geng Bi was originally unpopular. When it came to Didao, there was a mutiny in the army, and both Geng Bi and Cheng Qiu were killed by the mutiny."

"The leader of the rebellion, Wang Guo, led the army to attack Hanyang County. The prefect of Hanyang is Fu Xie, who treats the people well and respects them from far and near."

"At that time, there were thousands of Xiongnu cavalry from Beidi County outside the city. They kowtowed together outside the city, begging Fu Xie to leave the city and surrender, willing to escort Fu Xie back to his hometown Beidi County safely."

"At the same time, the Kingdom sent Huang Yan, the former governor of Jiuquan, into the city to persuade him to surrender. Fu Xie rebuked Huang Yan and led Hanyang's few troops into battle. He died in the battle. After Fu Xie's death, the Liangzhou rebels had no scruples."

"Geng Bi's subordinate Sima Ma Teng led his headquarters to surrender to Han Sui, and together promoted the Kingdom as commander. So far, the entire Liangzhou has finally completely fallen into the hands of the rebels."

"Later, the rebels besieged Chencang again. Fortunately, they were defeated by the left general Huangfusong. They were finally divided into three groups. One was Han Sui of Jincheng, the other was Ma Teng of Weigu, and the third was Song Jian of Longxi Huahan."

"Song Jian claimed to be the King of Heshou Ping Han, and occupied the western part of Longxi for thirty years. Although he was defeated by the Great Wei, er, by the Cao thief Xia Houyuan, the Qiang rebellion in the western part of Longxi could not be stopped any longer."

"Until the Cao thief usurped the rebellion, not only failed to restore the governance of the west of Longxi, but moved the governance to Xiangwu. Except for Di Dao and Shouyang, which could barely hold because of the city, all other places became the land of Hu people grazing horses. .”

Feng Yong was silent after listening to Gongsun Zheng's account of the Liangzhou Qiang Rebellion, and asked after a long time, "Where are Di Dao and Shouyang today?"

Gongsun Zheng quickly said, "The change of Qianghu this time is related to Didao. This year, there was a severe drought in Liangzhou, and Qianghu flooded into Longxi to drink water from Dahe and Taoshui."

"In the Hexi area, there used to be General Hao Zhao, uh, the Cao thief Hao Zhao, who guarded Hexi for more than ten years, the Qiang Hu mostly believed him, because Di Dao went straight to Liangzhou, so the Longxi Qiang Hu generally would not attack Di Dao. "

"Only this time," Gongsun Zheng glanced at Feng Yong at this point, "After Hao Zhao was defeated by the Prime Minister, he could only defend Hexi by himself, but he was powerless to control Di Dao."

"In addition to the shortage of food after the severe drought, the Qiang Hu wanted to find food, so they surrounded Didao with soldiers, and even some bold people looted around Shouyang."

Shouyang County is located at the source of the Wei River, and it is easy to get there from Xiangwu along the Wei River.

Feng Yong listened, and pondered for a while, "Shouyang is fine, I can lead the troops there myself. It's just that Di Dao..."

Compared with Xiangwu, Didao is a bit far away.

At the same time, it is relatively close to Jincheng County in Liangzhou.

And it stands to reason that it was controlled by Cao Wei, because Hao Zhao fled back to Liangzhou from Didao at that time, and the big man didn't have any extra troops to send to Didao.