Three Kingdoms

On this day, Pei Mao came to the camp of the Southern Huns again and met Yuvluo.

"I've met Shan Yu..." Pei Mao smiled and said, cupping his hands, "General Hussar replied to what Shan Yu said..."

"Oh?" Yuvrou asked quickly, "What did the hussar general say?"

Pei Mao shook his head and said: "General Hussar said that he and Shan Yu are like brothers. They have been friends since they fought against the Baibo bandits in Pingyang, Bingzhou..."

"Hmm..." Humphrey nodded repeatedly.

"Since we are brothers, we can't favor one over the other..." Pei Mao continued naturally, "If Shanyu wants to learn some craftsmanship, General Hussar said that of course he is welcome. He has already arranged a residence in Pingyang, and he didn't know that Shanyu wanted to send him. How many people are going to study?”

"Hmm... eh?" Humphrey was stunned for a moment, "What? Send someone? Didn't General Hussar send craftsmen?"

Pei Mao said with a smile: "Brothers, of course, have to help each other, but that doesn't mean that everything can be connected, right? For example, I think the cattle and sheep here in Shanyu are also quite good, better than us. It's much better. You can't just say, we are brothers, and Shanyu's cattle and sheep are my cattle and sheep, and then take them all away...right?"

Humphrey: "..."

"So, Qiaoqi is the best..." Pei Mao continued, "The Chanyu might as well think about it. If the craftsmen we send are not good, the Chanyu will definitely feel uncomfortable, right? Yes? They think that we have withheld the good ones and refused to give them to the Shanyu. Then the Shanyu will inevitably be resentful, and the brotherhood will be divided..."

Hufro shook his head quickly and said: "How is it possible? How is it possible? There is no such thing..."

Pei Mao smiled, did not continue, and continued: "We can't send the best craftsmen here, just like Shan Yu can't send us all his men, horses, cattle and sheep... So isn't this the best way to do it? A good way? If the Chanyu feels that there are some craftsmen missing, he will send someone to learn it. After he learns it, won’t he become the Chanyu’s own craftsman? Isn’t this the best of both worlds?”

Humphrey frowned, thought for a moment, and then asked: "Can you learn anything?"

Pei Mao nodded and said with certainty: "Yes! General Hussar said that Chanyu can learn whatever he wants!"

Yuvluo rolled his eyes a few times, then clapped his hands and said: "Okay! In that case, I will gather some people and go to Pingyang!"

"Okay!" Pei Mao agreed immediately and said immediately, "Then the Chanyu will pay the tuition first... I wonder how many people the Chanyu will send to study?"

"(⊙o⊙)?" Yuvrou stared, "Tuition? What is it?"

"Tuition! As the name suggests, it is the cost of learning!" Pei Mao also stared and said seriously, "You have to pay tuition to learn anything! We Han people have to pay tuition for everything we study! And this tuition It’s not for me, or for General Hussar, it’s for those craftsmen! Just think about it, you sent people there, do you want to learn more and learn better? Then if you don’t give tuition fees to the craftsmen, the craftsmen will Why are you willing to teach? Craftsmen are not willing to teach good things. People who go there can't learn anything every day. Even if the hussar general is exempted from the accommodation fee, he still has to eat and drink. Isn't it a waste of money? Yu’s money?”

"This...wait, wait..." Yuvrou rubbed his head with a headache, "Why do I feel...this seems to mean...are there any other expenses besides tuition? Aren't they brothers? These and other things Fei, shouldn’t it be paid by General Hussars..."

"What Shan Yu said..." Pei Mao pointed out and said, "Brothers are guests. Of course it is appropriate to entertain them, but this study does not mean one or two days, or ten or eight days. What can be learned... Just like when I come once or twice, the Chanyu entertains me to eat and drink cattle and sheep, but next time the Chanyu comes to our place, we also entertain the Chanyu. This is what we should do, and there is nothing to say. , but if I bring tens of thousands of people over every day and do nothing, just eat and drink every day, and have to be entertained by Chanyu, how many days can Shanyu feed these cattle and sheep? Moreover, our Hussar General said that the accommodation has been arranged Okay, for the sake of brotherhood, we won’t charge money, but for food and drink, the Shanyu people have to prepare it themselves..."

"This..." Yufro was speechless, "Let me think about it... think about it again..."

Pei Mao smiled brightly, "Okay, Chanyu can think about this study matter slowly, but as for the war matter, the fighting opportunity is fleeting, so we can't say that we should think about it slowly..."

……(??_??)……

For Fei Qian, Yuvluo's problem is basically not a problem, but there are still many problems waiting for Fei Qian to solve...

Generally speaking, if Lao Tzu is particularly famous and is listed in history books, most historians will also mention his descendants and attach the inheritance of his children. However, what is very strange is that the Chen Liu Cai family seems to have Cai Yong and Cai Yan except Cai Yong and Cai Yan. , and couldn’t find anyone else’s name at all.

For example, when writing about Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, the sons of these people must also be mentioned. Even if the son died before me, even if Zheng Xuan was lost in the hands of Kong Rong, he still died in the hands of Yuan Tan. The pen and ink clicked.

Therefore, in the history books, if the previous generation was very famous, and then there was no mention of sons and grandsons after death, the only explanation is that the children and grandsons are not material, and the inheritance is quickly cut off.

In Fei Qian's opinion, the Chenliu Cai family during the Three Kingdoms period was probably in such a situation. Although many celebrities appeared in the Cai family in later generations, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Chenliu Cai family had not seen any well-known figures in the past one or two hundred years since Cai Yong and Cai Yan...

After all, during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, for aristocratic families, even if they were from ordinary down and out families, as long as they were considered middle-class talents, there would be a relatively broad channel for advancement. It was not difficult to become an official. Not a problem either.

The Chenliu Cai family did not leave any mark in the late Three Kingdoms period, whether it was the Wei State or the Shu State and the Wu State. Either the Chenliu Cai family was unfortunately involved in the early battles between Cao Cao and the two Yuan Dynasties, or it was these Cai families. In the process of taking refuge, the disciples were unfortunately hit by stray arrows or infected with the plague, and died before they could do anything memorable.

During the turbulent period of the Three Kingdoms, it was very common for a person to die unexpectedly, so even historians felt that it was so common that there was nothing to note.

Therefore, how to deal with the Chenliu Cai family, or what kind of arrangements should be made, has become a problem Fei Qian has to face.

Marriage is not simply about the love between a man and a woman. Accepting a person is not just one person, but a family. This was especially obvious in the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, how did the famous foreign relatives group come into being in the Han Dynasty?

Cai Gu and others are just like Fei Qian's two brothers from the same family. They are not talented but have great ambitions. They watch others take care of things and don't care whether they can do well. They just get jealous and cause trouble. It will inevitably involve others and let others rub their buttocks. But it's not okay to just leave it aside and ignore it at all.

Fei Qian's rank is already quite high now. If Fei Qian can survive from now on, the Fei clan will become a well-known upstart family in Guanluo. Of course, whether it can settle down and become an old family member , it is not a matter of one generation.

Therefore, Cai Gu, Fei He, Fei Yu and other incompetent people have become a useless problem for Fei Qian now.

Now it seems that Cai Gu, Fei He, Fei Yu and others do not have much ambition. They only pursue food and drink on weekdays. According to Fei Qian's current net worth, even if he raises a group of such people to eat and drink every day, He couldn't spend all the money, so he didn't pay much attention to it before. However, now that Cai Gu is obviously being used by others, and he has no self-awareness, this is more troublesome.

People of that era were not short of ambitious people.

Fei He and Fei Yu are getting older. After all, they can't be left in the academy forever. Do they insist on being promoted? It's just a matter of Fei Qian's words, but the problem is Fei He and Fei Yu. Whether it is knowledge or wisdom, it is a problem. If you really hold any official position, I am afraid that you will bring disaster to the people in the civil affairs and lose troops in the military...

From a certain point of view, it is good to throw it to the local level to exercise at the grassroots level and increase knowledge and experience. However, people like Cai Gu, Fei He, and Fei Yu are used to enjoying it, so of course they will not be willing to do it, and they will not That consciousness, otherwise arrangements would have been made long ago.

This is one problem, and another problem is that if you marry Cai Yan, Cai Yong's tomb will also need to be renovated. And the relationship with the Hongnong Yang family will also become a little delicate. As for the Yang family of Hongnong, they will definitely be worried about when Fei Qian will find a reason to settle accounts during the autumn harvest. Although he may not be very loyal now, Fei Qian does not want to intensify the conflict immediately. is a better model.

In theory, people can learn and improve. Therefore, Cai Gu, Fei He, Fei Yu and other related households may also get better, but such uncertainty is not worth Fei Qian's expectations.

In the Han Dynasty, filial piety was used to govern the country. As long as the filial piety was related, even if the crime was committed, it could be mitigated. Even if you risked violating the national law to fulfill your filial piety, you might be praised for it. In such a general environment, Fei Qian's reputation has always been relatively good, so it is impossible to completely ignore these people. How to arrange them has become a problem.

Not as good as...

While Fei Qian was thinking about it, soldiers suddenly came to report that a large number of Qiang people had gathered in the south of Hexi, and they seemed to intend to attack Hexi and Longxi!

"Huh? This Yang Yishan..." Fei Qian frowned, and then opened the information submitted by the soldiers, and Fang suddenly realized, "So that's it..."

……(づ￣3￣)づ……

At dusk, a ray of setting sun slowly disappeared below the horizon, leaving a few red clouds still lingering in the vast dusk.

This is the plateau area south of Hexi, which is the area of ​​​​later Tibet. In the open space outside the big tent, Yang Fu stood with his hands behind his hands, silently looking at the dim sky, with countless thoughts in his heart.

If he had additional power of choice, Yang Fu would not be willing to push the situation into war. War is a continuation of politics, because if relevant benefits cannot be obtained at the negotiation table and conflicts cannot be reconciled, war will inevitably occur.

These people in Tibet, these mixed Xianbei, Qiang, and Gumeng people, have been isolated in this area of ​​Tibet for a long time, and because the Eastern Han Dynasty has not had the strength to set foot in this area for a long time, so these people They think this area is their territory, including the Hexi Corridor.

In the eyes of these people, the Han people were invaders. So they plundered the Baishi Qiang's goods, burned down the temporary Han camp, and tied the captured people to wooden pillars and sunburned them alive...

The key is that Yang Fu noticed the bad signs in these things. There seems to be someone behind such fierce conflicts and contradictions! In other words, someone deliberately wants to stir up trouble and doesn't want the situation to calm down!

"Join the army..." Xu Ding stood beside Yang Fu, looking at the setting sun on the horizon like Yang Fu, and said, "We still have to fight... Why can't these people make sense..."

Yang Fu shook his head and said: "It's not that it doesn't make sense, it's just that these people are pretending to be confused... Xu Duwei, do you know what the words 'Fulcan Ti Xi Bo Ye' mean in the Qiang language? "

Xu Ding said: "Please join the army for advice."

"Haha..." Yang Fu laughed twice, pointed in the direction of the south with his hand, and said, "This is the title they gave themselves...'Fulcan Tixi Boye', which is the name of the sun in the sky. King, or the King of Light... Xu Duwei, do you think a person who has given himself such a name will be willing to engage in peace talks?"

Xu Ding shook his head silently.

"But..." Xu Ding hesitated.

Yang Fu glanced at Xu Ding and said, "If Captain Xu has any ideas, you might as well tell him directly..."

Xu Dinggong cupped his hands and said, "I just remembered the old events of Xiqiang..."

Yang Fu sighed, nodded, and said: "This is exactly what I am worried about... If we don't fight, we will be in serious trouble sooner or later. And if it can't be decided in one battle, I'm afraid..."

Longxi and Xiliang are barren, and the Western Regions have not been under the control of the Han Dynasty for a long time. This is not because the Western Regions were already desertified during the Han Dynasty, but because of the perennial war, which has resulted in this area being unable to satisfy both animal husbandry and farming. The most basic needs of tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians.

If you want to control this area, you must have at least 20,000 standing soldiers, and to support these 20,000 soldiers, you must have a permanent population base of at least 200,000 or more.

At that time, the Qiang people in Xiliang rebelled. A large part of the reason was not the capriciousness of the Qiang people, but the officials sent by the court who did not care about the life and death of Xiliang. Of course, for these officials, if they want to leave this ghost place, whether it is for Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty or for the Shi Changshi, they must have a large amount of money, and naturally this money cannot come out of themselves...

Therefore, the Xiliang government of the previous Han Dynasty could be said to be the darkest and most corrupt place in the entire Han Dynasty. In the end, a rebellion broke out, and Bian Zhang, Han Sui and others successively led the rebels. In the end, Dong Zhuo was given the opportunity to grow and became the root cause of the overthrow of the Han Dynasty.

The Hexi Corridor is undoubtedly very fragile at this stage, both geographically and militarily. If this group of guys who call themselves the "Clan of Light" is ignored, then who can guarantee that these people will not go further? By then, wouldn't the General Hussler's Western Region Protectorate be isolated?

"Therefore, a war must be fought, but it cannot be fought for a long time..." Yang Fu said, "So I gave the Hussar General a seal and asked the Hussar General to deploy his troops. The decision must be made with thunderous force! If it is said The method of adding more troops like that back then would probably be..."

"The main problem is food and grass..." Xu Ding also looked into the distance and said, "If there are too few soldiers and horses, we cannot give these people a sufficient blow. But with more soldiers and horses, the food and grass supply..."

Yang Fu nodded and said, "I have also considered this, so if I can use Qiang to control Qiang... I just don't know how successful this strategy will be..."