Chapter 263 An unexpected thing
"Gongsun Zan pays homage to His Highness!"
Thousands of cavalry came out of the city. Liu Cang had just suppressed the Wuhuan cavalry on his side. Thousands of fine cavalry rushed out from the direction of Tucheng. He was the first general, accompanied by dozens of white horses. He raised his head from a distance and shouted to Liu Cang in the air.
"Hoo~ho~" The giant wings flapped in the wind, and the giant eagle slowly landed.
The thick golden eagle claws are like rough wood, and the hooks with metallic luster pierce the stiff soil when gripping the ground.
"Oh? I only saw the Han flag, but I didn't expect that my brother was here." Liu Cang was surprised.
"Your Highness is so brave, huh? Where is Zhang Chun?!" Gongsun Zan sighed, but he did not dare to approach Liu Cang easily and sat down with his head. He turned to look at the enemy army, his eyes focused, and he shouted at Wuhuan Cavalry from a distance.
Everyone in Wuhuan was frightened but did not dare to speak. They looked at Liu Cang, who suddenly realized.
"Um, I wonder if the head is broken, maybe we can still fight?" Liu Cang pointed at the pile of broken corpses behind the general.
Gongsun Zan was shocked, and now he did not dare to approach Liu Cang.
Now if Jin Zi stood upright on the ground and tilted his body, he would be three or four meters tall. With his wings spread out, his body would seem to be bigger than a bull elephant. It is really a huge creature with a terrifying shape.
The most important thing is that the power of the eagles is too extreme, and there is no concept of moderation in their attacks. Gongsun Zan is very keen on these tamed gu by Liu Cang, but he doesn't want to be bumped by them, so he can just watch them from a distance.
"It doesn't matter, brother, you can ask people to escort the surrendered troops, but these are Wuhuan rebels? I wonder how the war is going now?" Seeing Gongsun Zan's taboo, the gold whistled softly, and the eagles flew at a higher altitude.
Liu Cang had been in contact with Gongsun Zan when he was young, but they had not seen each other for many years, and the two had no affiliation. Gongsun Zan was respectful to him, but he was not unkind and still treated him as an elder brother.
"All the leaders of the rebels are here. That person is Qiu Liju. This man still has troops stationed in Beiping. Kill him to show the public. The Youzhou rebellion can be put down!" Gongsun Zan ordered his men to escort the surrendered troops. Seeing that the situation was settled, he pointed
A Wuhuan general whose armor was embedded with tiger skin said.
"I am willing to surrender! I am willing to surrender with all my troops! Gongsun Bogui is incompetent. If King Dongping hadn't saved you, you would have been no match for me!" Qiu Liju shouted loudly.
Wuhuan people are relatively barbaric. It is a bit ridiculous to say that Wuhuan once helped the Han Dynasty fight against the Xiongnu.
Wuhuan originally belonged to the powerful Donghu tribe. They robbed the Han and fought against the Xiongnu, and lived a happy life.
Then, he was overthrown by the Xiongnu, and was even forced to pay taxes to the Xiongnu. Wang Mang dragged Wu Huan to attack the Xiongnu, but in the end, Wu Huan surrendered to the Xiongnu under various grudges.
Later, Wuhuan followed the Xiongnu to plunder the Han Dynasty, and there was nothing left to do here.
But on a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, the Huns were in civil strife and suffered from drought and locust disasters.
Now Wu Huanke saw an opportunity and called him a fool.
Then Wuhuan attacked the Xiongnu. This is true, they really fought against the Xiongnu. Then when the Han people also came to attack the Xiongnu, they occupied the Xiongnu's land, and upholding the tradition, they still plundered the Han land.
It seems to be the time of Guangwu, right? Liu Xiu tried his best to deceive Wuhuan and rewarded Wuhuan with money, land, officials, and women. This allowed Wuhuan and Han to maintain peace for a period of time.
The Han Dynasty allowed the Wuhuan to move to the Han Dynasty. It was originally intended to promote ethnic integration. However, after some Wuhuan moved south, their original place of residence was occupied by the Xianbei.
The Wuhuan are a very strange ethnic group. Since they were overthrown by the Xiongnu, their tribes have fought independently, without unity and contact with each other.
Wuhuan outside the Great Wall often assisted Xianbei, and the Huns in the south raided the Han border.
Wuhuan in the Han Dynasty often fought with the Wuhuan captain to fight against Xianbei and the Xiongnu.
When the Han Dynasty was in conflict with the southern Xiongnu, each Wuhuan tribe also acted in its own way, either attacking the Xiongnu from the Han, or joining forces with the Xiongnu to attack the Han.
Friends and foes are difficult to distinguish and friends and foes are uncertain. Overall, from a distance, we have made a good calculation.
Wuhuan completely turned into a troublemaker from most of the Donghu people. They had their grudges with the Xiongnu, no, they had their grudges with all the ethnic groups including the Han.
But I don’t know how it was passed down from later generations that Wuhuan was brave and good at fighting, and often helped the big men fight in battles.
It suddenly sounds like licking, which seems to indicate that the Han Dynasty has countless friends, and the chaos in the Han Dynasty is all caused by the Han people themselves.
Especially this time, the rebellion launched by Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, and the Wuhuan who plundered several states were not the Wuhuan from outside the country.
After entering the Han Dynasty, Wuhuan flourished in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and then they raised 100,000 soldiers. They were still Han people, and they were directly preparing for King Qin to help Zhang Ju become the emperor.
Looking at Qiu Liju in front of him, to be honest, Liu Cang quite agreed with Gongsun Zan in killing him.
Later generations often say that "the Han Dynasty died due to force", but no one mentions the efforts made by the Han Dynasty in national integration.
It is said that the Han Dynasty has actually put a lot of effort into ethnic integration. Then, haha, imagine that the black uncle accounts for one-tenth of the country's population, and it is enough not to give the black uncle the privilege of being superior to others.
"It's easy to kill him, but there are tens of thousands of people who can fight, but they are just helpless people. Liu Yu will not let you kill those people. Brother, it is better not to cause trouble for yourself." Qiu Li did not shy away from staring at Gongsun Zan.
Liu Cang said to Gongsun Zan.
Gongsun Zan frowned, and Liu Cang didn't explain much. Jin Zi spread his wings and fanned the strong wind. His movements were not sudden, and at least he didn't panic the horses around him.
"My brother has taken charge of the military merits of this battle. These horses are my victory. I have taken the trouble to hand them over to the governor Liu to send them to Sanshan Pass. The soldiers guarding the pass are short of horses." Liu Cang shouted amidst the rumblings of the wind.
Gongsun Zan was astonished and then thought of Liu Yuzhi's words. With a smile on his lips, he responded to what Liu Cang said.
How could Gongsun Zan not know about Liu Yu's appeasement to Wu Huan? Instead of waiting for Wu Huan to surrender before asking for the horses, it would be better to just let Liu Cang take them away.
Liu Cang didn't pay much attention to the subsequent situation. It only took half an hour to resolve a battle along the way.
In half an hour, thousands of Wuhuan war horses were obtained, which could almost catch up with the number of war horses produced by one's own war horses in two or three years.
As expected, war and plunder are the fastest ways to make a fortune. While Liu Cang was sighing, he could see fighting and pursuit from time to time along the way. The rebellion in Youzhou was only stronger than the wandering nature of Liangzhou.
The Hu Qiang people outside the barrier were guarded by the Great Wall, and the Liaoxi people were sealed off. But the scenes of light cavalry chasing each other and fighting each other in Yuyang and Peking seemed so ironic to Liu Cang.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Flying over Zhuojun, Liu Cang was in a slightly better mood.
After the research and approval of the prefect Pan Feng, Lousang and Dongcun were merged to build the city. After three years of construction, the city has begun to take shape. When passing the county town, Liu Cang even saw Pan Feng waving to the sky and shouting in the prefect's mansion.
Entering Zhongshan, reaching Wuji, and looking across the land, neat fields are scattered all over the mountains and flat hills.
Paddy fields, dry land, millet, broomcorn millet, sorghum, rice, bean sprouts, and wheat are planted here with far more types of crops than in most counties.
There are also large areas of earing corn, and a large number of yaks can be seen being pulled by farmers from household to household in the fields.
Corn was brought by Liu Cang. He could grow it by just getting a few corn kernels. A strong storm could sweep away the seeds. Even if it was planted, it would be hard to hide.
Liu Cang did not move it eastward as a treasure, but it has not been planted in large quantities in Han Dynasty for the time being. The lack of seeds is one aspect, and on the other hand, more people are still waiting to see the effect of planting.
Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, including peanuts, are products that have been publicly exposed in Han Dynasty. Not only did Liu Cang not hide them, Cai Yong and his old gang also helped to promote them.
The Han area is still in the experimental stage of farming, and it is only a matter of time before the surrounding foreigners learn from it. Liu Cang also understands this clearly. Compared with farming, they can't grow the Han people, and the most important thing is that they really don't like farming.
In fact, the essence of farming and storing grain is to resist disasters. Those ethnic groups that survive in special geographical climates have special needs for meat. At the same time, the grain exchanged for cattle and sheep is no less than the grain obtained from farming.
Rather than abandoning food due to choking, it is better to spread it out in a big way. It is not that nomads cannot or cannot farm, but that they really don’t want to.
Besides these crops, Liu Cang paid close attention to sweet potatoes and pumpkins.
It’s not about their edible value, it’s mainly about the fact that these two things don’t require much maintenance, they don’t have any defects, and their yields are still high.
It can live people and raise livestock. If the foreign population cannot be controlled, Liu Cang would still prefer to plant these things in the south, trying to avoid Hu Qiang and Xianbei.
At Zhen's Manor, the arrival of the eagles did not panic the locals. Wuji was one of the few places in the Han Dynasty that was accustomed to the presence of poisonous insects.
In recent years, the Zhen family specially built a ten-meter-high falling tower in the manor, where the eagle rested, and Liu Cang directly entered the Zhen family.
Liu Cang was already familiar with everyone in the Zhen family, but several officials who seemed to have high status seemed to be waiting for him at the Zhen family.
[To be honest, I have been using the Huanyuan app recently to read and catch up on updates. It allows me to switch between sources and read aloud with many sounds. .huanyuanapp is available for Android and Apple.]
As soon as Liu Cang arrived, several people came out from Zhen's house to welcome him. Everyone signed up to ask for gifts. Liu Cang was slightly surprised by the identities of these people.
Chen Yi, the prime minister of Lu, Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, Xu You from Nanyang, Zhou Jing from Pei, and there was actually an alchemist Xiangkai wearing a red robe.
When they entered the mansion, Liu Cang didn't like to talk to each other, so a few people excitedly announced their intentions, which really left Liu Cang stunned for a while.
"What? Do you want to depose His Majesty and make me the emperor? Do you have a cry? Or do you think that I have a cry?!" Liu Cang asked in surprise.
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