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Chapter 41: The Magnificent Times

"If I heard correctly just now, they seemed to be Wei Qing? The big man..., Guanzhong..., Chang'an..., Wei Qing! Doesn't this mean that the current emperor is Liu Che, Emperor Wu of Han? He held a grass..."

Although Zhang Ran could not tell the emperor's reign and did not know how many emperors there were in the Han Dynasty, he still had some memories of those who had their names left in history and were recorded in history.

Whether it is Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, or Emperor Wu of Han, they are all great historical figures that are still fresh in memory and unforgettable after seeing them for a long time.

Therefore, when the diners mentioned Wei Qing, Zhang Ran immediately thought of Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che and various events related to them.

General Wei Qing will win the battle, win the attack, win seven battles and wins... General Huo Qubing, the cavalry, was bravest in the three armies, crossed the desert, sealed the wolf's servants, and drank the horses in the vast sea...

When Zhang Ran thought of the brilliant achievements of these two uncles and nephews who were well-written in history and were enough to shine for thousands of years in the future, he couldn't help but feel excited.

The appearance of this extremely critical figure made Zhang Ran know what a magnificent and great era he was in.

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Just when Zhang Ran was trapped in the "memory killing", the moments around him were not idle and were still in the midst of an enthusiastic discussion.

After hearing the emperor sent Li Xi and Wei Qing to attack the Huns, some diners analyzed: "It's okay for Li Xi to say. Since the time of the Emperor, he has led his army to fight with the Huns, and he is also considered a long-time general... But Wei Qing is just a cavalry slave, and he accidentally got lucky. How could he fight the cruel Huns..." But as soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately retorted: "You can't say that. In the sixth year of Yuanguang, the emperor sent four armies to attack the Huns in the north. The two sides were gone, and they were useless. Only the general Wei Qing, the general of the chariot and cavalry, was brave and good at fighting, and directly attacked Longcheng... So I think, the general of the chariot and cavalry is still very good at fighting!"

The diner curled his lips and said, "It's just that he is lucky. If he meets the main force of the Huns, he will still be wiped out..."

"Nonsense, how do you know that the General of the Cheqin could not defeat the Huns... It's not that he had fought!" The diner who retorted was obviously more optimistic about Wei Qing, so he couldn't help but retort again.

Listening to the quarrel between the two diners, Zhang Ran, who had already started to "God's perspective", couldn't help but want to laugh...

Can Wei Qing defeat the Huns?

Is this a matter of saying? Wei Qing not only won seven battles and defeated the Huns again and again, but also joined forces with his nephew Huo Qubing, and he could fight until the Huns' Chanyu called him father!

Because the uncle and nephew's record, which is enough to affect the direction of history, few of them can match the foreign wars of many dynasties in ancient Chinese history.

After counting, in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing defeated the Turks and captured Jie Li Khan. In the Ming Dynasty, a few of them could be compared with Lan Yu, a few of them, including the Blue Jade, and the Mongol Yuan.

Zhang Ran naturally has a deep memory of such an epic hero, so that Zhang Ran still remembers this battle in the south of the Moxi, which made Wei Qing soar into the sky, and remembers it very clearly.

The battle in the south of the desert (the first time), the roughly the following is:

In the second year of Yuanshuo, that is, at the beginning of this year, after spending a difficult winter, the Huns took advantage of the warmer weather and invaded Shanggu and Yuyang counties to attack western Liaoning, kill the prefect of western Liaoning, and defeated the Yuyang garrison Han Anguo, plundering more than 2,000 people, as if they were in a no-man's land, with extremely arrogant arrogance!

After the news came back to Chang'an, the emperor Liu Che was extremely furious and immediately sent General Li Xi to attack from Dai County. At the same time, he ordered General Wei Qing, the chariot and cavalry, to lead 40,000 troops to rescue.

After Wei Qing led his army to the border, he analyzed the situation of the war and did not rush to Yuyang County to rescue as before. Instead, he led his army to attack Henan, where the Huns were occupied, and adopted the tactic of "circumcision and side attack", and went west to the rear of the Xiongnu army, attacked Gaoque, and quickly captured the border fortress, cutting off the connection between the Xiongnu Aries King, King Loufan, and the Shanyu royal court stationed in Henan.

Then, Wei Qing led the elite cavalry and the flying troops to the south and entered Longxi, forming an encirclement of King Aries and King Loufan.

After a bloody battle, the Han army defeated King Aries and King Loufan's army, captured thousands of enemies, millions of cattle, sheep and other livestock, and captured Henan in one battle.

You should know that Henan in the Han Dynasty was the Hetao Plain area in later generations. As the saying goes, the Yellow River is only rich in thousands of miles away. The Hetao Plain is located in the Yellow River Bay, with fertile water and grass, fertile land, and dangerous situation. It is a very important strategic location. It has always been a frontier base for the Huns to invade the Han Dynasty.

The Huns controlled this place and strangled the throat of the Han Dynasty and could seek it at any time. It can be seen how important Henan is to the Han Dynasty.

In this battle, Wei Qing not only completely recaptured Qin and the former land of Jiuyuan during the Zhao period, seized the strategic key land of Henan, but also cleared the decline of the Han Dynasty for more than 70 years, greatly inspiring the national pride of the Han people, and thus kicked off the glorious era of the Five Barbarians.

Wei Qing was also named Changping Marquis for his merits, with a fief of 3,800 households. He became the most dazzling star of the Han Dynasty, and shocked the two empires of the Han and the Huns, opening his legendary life.

If Wei Qing’s life is summarized, it is simply a model of the counterattack of the ancient version of the loser.

When he was born, he was just an illegitimate son of a slave, with a humble status, just like a weed in the soil.

When he was young, because of the hardship of life, Wei Qing was sent by his mother to the home of his biological father Zheng Ji. However, Zheng Ji did not care that Wei Qing, the illegitimate son, directly asked him to herd sheep. The son of the Zheng family did not regard Wei Qing as a brother, but abused him like a slave and an animal.

When he was a teenager, Wei Qing was unwilling to be enslaved by the Zheng family, so he returned to his mother and became Princess Pingyang's riding slave, feeding horses and washing horses for Princess Pingyang... He didn't even have the qualifications to lead a horse and kick off for Princess Pingyang. He could only hide in a corner or stable, secretly looking at the noble hostess like a swan...

When he was an adult, he entrusted his sister Wei Zifu's blessing. Wei Qing was fortunate to become the emperor's guard and was appointed as a captain or even a general, and began to have a different life... But the mistress of the past was still their benefactor, and Wei Qing still needed to look up to the eldest princess of the Han Dynasty...

When he was young, Wei Qing led his troops to attack the Huns, traversing the battlefield, winning every battle, and was named Wanhu Marquis for his merits... At this moment, Wei Qing was able to look up to his former mistress and have the ability to repay the other party's former grace of taking in...

By the time of his prime, Wei Qing had already become General Sima and became the Great Han Dynasty's Jade Pillar, a well-deserved God of War... And the mistress who was once high and like clouds in the sky also became Wei Qing's wife due to the emperor's marriage... She will grow old with him and spend the rest of her life...

From a humble slave who gave birth to a child, a cavalry slave who was living under someone else's roof, to becoming a marquis of Wanhu, one person, the Grand Sima General above ten thousand people, and the husband of Princess Pingyang...

Wei Qing used his legendary life to tell all the passionate men of the Han Dynasty what it means to take to fame and fortune, and what it means to seek a title from thousands of miles away...

His deeds inspired countless young men with ambition to work hard and forge ahead, which led to the great Han Empire, where the Han Dynasty was the prosperous scene of the Five Barbarians.

Promotion, salary increase, become CEO, marry a rich and beautiful woman?

No, in the Han Dynasty, as long as you are brave enough to follow General Guard with swords and swords to fight against the Huns, expand territory for the Han Dynasty and His Majesty.

Then you will have the opportunity to be a marquis, break up the soil, become the nine ministers, and marry the princess of the Han Dynasty...

And no matter how humble your background is, even if you are a slave, a slave has a son, or a prisoner, as long as you can behead and make meritorious deeds on the battlefield, you will have the opportunity to become a glorious military aristocrat...

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However, Wei Qing was still fighting with the Huns at the border, and the situation had not been reported back to Guanzhong, so the diners did not know what magnificent results Wei Qing would achieve in this battle.

Listening to the diners around him still arguing over whether Wei Qing could fight and whether he could defeat the Huns, Zhang Ran couldn't help but laugh a few times in his heart with joy.

I already know what I want to know most now, and the results I get are still so satisfactory. Zhang Ran is now satisfied.

Next, while listening to the diners' quarrel, Zhang Ran enjoyed the delicious mutton and the world-famous Xinfeng wine.

After eating this meal for more than half an hour, Zhang Ran paid the money for wine and meals, and took Sankui, who was also full of food and drink, to leave the wine shop and buy grain in front of the millet market.

Although Wei Qing's deeds are unbearable to admire and admire, Zhang Ran's current identity is still too far away from such a person.

Zhang Ran would not have any intersection with Wei Qing in a short time, so now, he should go to the market to sell some food and solve the problem of recent meals first.

The Sushi in Xinfeng is not too far from the street of the wine shop. Zhang Ran and Sankui pushed the cart all the way and took a few minutes to arrive at Sushi.

After buying four bags of corn and two bags of beans from the corn market, Zhang Ran went to the salt market to buy some salt and other trivial seasonings such as onion and ginger, and daily necessities.

Finally, he found a blacksmith shop in the city and planned to buy a large iron pot. But what makes people feel helpless is that the blacksmith shop has no idea what the iron pot is, and he strongly recommends his iron pot to Zhang Ran...

But although the iron pot is much better than the pottery pot, its main function is to cook and stew... It is difficult to use for stir-frying, and what Zhang Ran wants is a large iron pot that can stir-frying.

In desperation, Zhang Ran had to draw the appearance of the iron pot in later generations for the blacksmith himself, and described the thickness of the iron pot to him in detail, etc....

Finally, the blacksmith told Zhang Ran that although he could make this kind of cauldron, it was too strict, so it required at least the best iron and the most exquisite craftsmanship, and it took at least half a month to complete.

Therefore, the price is naturally ridiculously expensive. The blacksmith directly asked for 500 yuan, and it was a single price and never bargained.

Zhang Ran had asked just now. Generally, ordinary pottery cauldrons are only a dozen yuan, copper and iron cauldrons are only a hundred yuan, and a good sword is only a seven or eight hundred yuan. The other party dares to ask for five hundred yuan in one pot, which is like a lion opening his mouth.

Zhang Ran would definitely not want to eat such a big loss, so he argued with the blacksmith and asked him to reduce the price one after another.

But the other party bit 500 yuan to death and told Zhang Ran that this was the lowest price. He couldn't find a second one in Xinfeng County. If he didn't want it, he could leave.

Seeing that the other party was so confident, Zhang Ran couldn't help but believe it most of the time. He also knew that using the current iron smelting methods, making iron pots was definitely not as simple as later generations...

So, in the end, I gritted my teeth and paid a deposit of 100 yuan, and told the other party to make the iron pot as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!
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