Da Wei Chun

Chapter 244 The Base

Now that even the commander-in-chief has already yelled out, it means that Li Chengzhi's taboo has also been committed, and there is nothing to worry about whether he can enter the camp or not.

Li Chengzhi walked into the camp calmly.

When he saw more than 2000 soldiers bursting into tears, looking at him expectantly, wanting to say something but not daring to say it, like a needle prick, Li Chengzhi's heart shrank suddenly.

These soldiers are reluctant to part with him, so why is he willing to part with these soldiers?
But what can be done?
Unless he rebels on the spot...

When he knew that the soldiers of the fifth brigade had already left the camp to line up after noon, and they had been basking in the sun for nearly two hours in order to wait for him.

When I knew it again, the scout was so excited that he accidentally slipped his mouth. In less than half a moment, the news that he was going to go there spread to the whole barracks. Even Zhang Xinyi couldn't suppress it. When he came out of the camp to greet him, Li Chengzhi couldn't bear it any longer, and tears flowed out in a "swoosh".

If there are soldiers like this, what will they ask for?
Although Zhang Jingzhi was watching quietly, no matter how he suppressed it, his heart was still excited like thunder, and his joy was hard to calm down.

Leading the army for [-] years, this is the first time I have seen such a soldier, such a general?

I really didn't see the wrong person...

Knowing that he was going to set off before dawn, and knowing that from tomorrow onwards, he would travel day and night and travel two thousand miles in a hurry, but Li Chengzhi was still drunk.

As long as the heart is happy, no matter how tired the body is, it doesn't matter.

In the early morning of the next day, the east side had just turned pale, and the watchmen in the camp had just sounded the locks, and more than a hundred fast horses quietly left the camp in the dark.

From Li Chengzhi down, nearly fifty personal guards are all riding three horses.One is carrying people, one is carrying weapons and armor, and the other is carrying felt tents, dry food, water bags, etc.

There was silence above Xiaoguan, and by the morning light, one could vaguely see only one figure standing on the tower.

But the strange thing is that the closed door is wide open...

Walking to the bottom of the city, Li Chengzhi didn't stop his horse, but just cupped his fists towards the top of Guancheng.

Zhang Jingzhi sighed softly, his voice was inaudible: "Chengzhi, take care..."

……

Crossing the Longshan Mountains, crossing the Yellow River, traveling day and night, wearing the stars and wearing the moon... At the end of the fourth day, Li Chengzhi had already arrived at the foot of Wuwei City.

Doing the math, they have traveled more than [-] miles in a hurry in the past three days.

In two days at most, they will be able to reach the West Sea...

Adding Li Chengzhi, there are a total of 51 riders, one counts as one, and each of them looks like it was made out of mud?
A group of clay figurines and horses stood at the foot of the city, chewing the dried meat while looking at Wuwei City dozens of feet away.

Some people are paying attention to it, such as Li Chengzhi.

There are also some who remember their ancestors, such as the remaining [-] personal guards of the Li family.

In this city, Li Qi served as the deputy town general, Li Shiliang served as the commander of the guard (from the fifth rank), and Li Shixian served as the middle soldier and joined the military.

Further on, Li Xun, the first ancestor, served as the prefect in Wuwei, assisted Dou Xian in sending troops to the north to attack the Huns, and helped him achieve the extraordinary feat of "Yan Ran Jin Shi", but he was dismissed from office in the end.

In the biography of Li Xun in the "Han Shu", it is recorded very clearly: Xun moved to Wuwei as the prefect, and the great general Dou Xianbing stationed Wuwei at that time.

Therefore, Li Xun's reputation as a "post-Han official" is really not blown out.

The county soldiers had seen them a long time ago. Fortunately, Li Chengzhi was shining the tooth flag of the Guanzhong Town Guard Mansion, otherwise the county soldiers would have beaten the drums long ago.

Seeing that they were just waiting and watching, but didn't come forward to call for the door, the guards of the city asked loudly: "Dare to ask the envoy, but you want to go to the city to rest?"

Li Rui quickly let go of the meatloaf and water bag in his hand, quickly clenched his fists, and shouted according to Li Chengzhi's confession: "I'm going to go soon, don't dare to disturb, thank you general..."

There was really nothing to see, and Li Chengzhi was just curious.

I am curious about what Wuwei, whose ancestor Li Xun, grandfather Li Qi, and uncle and father all served in the post, is like.

But after watching it, I was inevitably a little disappointed.

It's not disappointment that the city is not strong and the wall is not high.

More than ten years ago, Wuwei was still one of the important towns, with high natural walls and strong walls, much more majestic than Jingzhou City.

Li Chengzhi is disappointed that Hexi has lost so far?

Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" said: It was time (Tang Tianbao years), China was strong and prosperous, from the west of Anyuanmen to the west of the Tang Dynasty, there were thousands of miles in the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yan faced each other, mulberry, hemp and wilderness, the world was famous, and the rich and wealthy were like no other. Longyou...

Li Chengzhi didn't know whether Longxi would really be that prosperous after more than 200 years, but what he saw in his eyes was completely the opposite scene.

Hedong (west of Longshan Mountain, east of the Yellow River) is better, but once you cross the Yellow River, it can be described in one sentence: evil beasts are rampant in a hundred paths, and thousands of miles of people are inhabited!

Good guy, since we crossed the Yellow River and left Jincheng (later Lanzhou), we have seen not many people but quite a few wolves in the [-]-odd miles.

Even saw a few leopards and two black bears.

That is to say, he was busy on his way, otherwise Li Chengzhi really wanted to taste the taste of pure natural and pollution-free bear paws.

The wolf shot several of them backwards, and broke two horses for it... At this time, Li Rui and the others were chewing on this stuff.

It's no wonder that Li Song and the others ran away less than ten days earlier?
It turns out that he is not afraid of being bumped into by people at all?

As long as you avoid a few counties and towns, you can still march during the day.

Li Chengzhi couldn't help feeling cold: How many years would it take for the White Armored Army to grow up in Hexi in order to have the capital to contend for world hegemony?

It is estimated that the great-grandchildren are enough...

By that time, the day lilies were cold.

But no matter whether it is to escape or go to Hexi, it is all a temporary idea. At that time, Li Chengzhi had no chance to find someone to ask for advice. How could he have thought that Hexi would be in such a situation?

Besides, besides Hexi, where else can we go?

At that time, Li Song mentioned that there were few people in Hexi Taoist. When asked how many there were, Li Song didn't have a specific figure, but said that at most it was [-]-[-]% of Guanzhong Taoist.

Two or three percent?
Li Chengzhi thought about it: There are nearly 200 million households in the five prefectures of Guanzhong alone, and only 80 to [-] percent in Hexi, plus [-] million households in hidden households.

enough……

Zhang Jingzhi had hinted that there were few people in Hexi, but that was after Li Song escaped.

Li Chengzhi didn't even think about it, could it be so little?
The combined population of Hexi is less than one-tenth of Guan Zhong?
When passing by Jincheng County, Li Chengzhi realized that the combined population of the three counties and one town in Hexi Road is less than 20?

The most pitiful thing is mighty.

Weiwu used to lead ten counties, but now the eight counties are empty, leaving only two counties: the second leading county in Wuwei County, 340 households in Guzang, and 370 nine households in Wei'an County, totaling 160 and three households.

This is the official data from the imperial court three years ago. Even if the number of hidden households is doubled, it is still less than [-] people...

Zhangye is slightly better, with a population of over [-].

Jiuquan is not much better, there are only ten thousand people.

Following the rules of the Han Dynasty, the system of the Wei Dynasty: if the number of Dingkou is less than [-], the county magistrate shall not be called "Ling".

Therefore, the magistrates of these three counties are not even qualified to be called county magistrates, and all of them can only be called "county magistrates"...

The remaining nearly 17 people all live in Dunhuang.

It is also because Dunhuang is the bridgehead of the Silk Road, and its commerce is extremely developed.In addition, there are military towns stationed, and the society is relatively stable.

If I had to give an example, it would be like Shenzhen in later generations...

The main reason why there are so many uninhabited scenes today is that from Xinmang to the end of Jin Dynasty, Hexi has basically never had a rest.

Especially during the Three Kingdoms period, the population dropped sharply. Compared with the time of Emperor Zhaodi of the Han Dynasty, there was almost no one in ten.

After more than a hundred years, that is, when the Five Hus were wreaking havoc on the Central Plains, Hexi was relatively stable. Under the governance of the Zhang family of Qianliang and the Li family of Xiliang for nearly a hundred years, Hexi became prosperous again, with a population of nearly one million.

After that, the war started again, but let alone how many people died, let's see how many people were robbed first.

In 376, when the former Qin Dynasty destroyed Qianliang: there were more than [-] households in Tuhao, and tens of thousands of households in Guanzhong...

In 403, Lu Long, the lord of Houliang, surrendered the whole country to Houqin: Long led a household of [-], and moved eastward with the disaster, to Chang'an...

The most ruthless was Emperor Taiwu, who destroyed Beiliang in the Northern Wei Dynasty in 439: more than [-] disciples and wealthy households lived in Guanzhong and Pingcheng... This is more than just picking up leeks, this is purely shoveling by the roots...

This kind of robbing method is not enough to move the entire India of later generations?

It is also because of these three large-scale migrations that before the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Guanzhong Road, which had been plagued by less than 200 households, has nearly [-] million households, ten times more than Hexi. ...

Otherwise, how could Xi Kangsheng have the confidence to exile tens of thousands of people?
Wouldn't it be good if they didn't kill all of them?
With the current situation in Hexi, how could Li Chengzhi not feel cold?

If you don't even have people in your hands, no matter how wide the land is, how many mines are there, what's the use?

Fortunately, Zhang Jingzhi had the foresight early on and kept back.

Now let's see how much the exiles can steal back...

Rebellion is really not that easy to do!

Li Chengzhi sighed dispiritedly, and shouted, urging Li Rui and others to continue on their way.

……

Two days later, at noon, outside Biaoshi County.

The rare eye is empty and there is no wind.If it was normal, some city residents would have driven their cattle and sheep to graze outside the city, and the guards on the wall would have already leaned against the city wall and began to doze off.

But today, the gate of the city has long been closed, not to mention people outside the city, not even a single bird.There are more than a hundred guards standing on the city wall in the east, each holding a sword and bow, looking nervously and anxiously at the group of horse bandits below the city.

Absolutely a barbarian...felt hat, fur robe, messy hair, stubble beard, superb riding skills, coming and going like the wind...

There are only more than a hundred people, but there are more than two hundred horses, and all of them are tall horses...

Only Lu Shuihu, or a tribe with more than a thousand tall carts, can gather so many cavalry.

I just don't know if it came down from Qilian Mountain in the south, or turned over from behind Heli Mountain in the north?

Li Song was so excited that he almost cried out.

Just when they were at a loss and didn't know whether to continue wandering and grab it, or find a mountain forest to occupy the mountain and become king, Li Chengzhi rushed over?

God bless...

Although my heart was full of excitement, whether it was Li Song, or Li Liang and Huangfu Rang standing on the other side, it seemed that they didn't even dare to vent their anger.

I don't know if they were exhausted from the long journey, but they saw tears in Lang Jun's eyes...

Li Chengzhi looked at Xiongcheng in front of him in a daze.

Even though there are less than [-] households and less than [-] people in the county, the city in front of you is definitely called Shangxiong City.

Although the city wall is made of rammed earth, it is more than six feet high and nearly ten miles wide. It looks even more magnificent than Jingzhou City?
Just because a few decades ago, this place was one of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, the capital of Beiliang.

Another thousand and five hundred years later, the county seat has been moved to the south bank of the Heihe River more than ten kilometers to the north, but the ruins of the ancient city are still there, and several sections of the seven or eight-meter-high city wall and beacon towers still stand.

There are many cultural relic thieves in the city!

Tomb robbery became popular around 2000, and Li Chengzhi was too impressed: two cousins ​​were hired to rob the tomb, and I heard that they didn't dig up much, only a few pottery.

The boss didn't give them any money, and they didn't have the nerve to ask for it. One shared a clay pot, and the other shared a clay pot.

The full-length black is not slippery, not inconspicuous at all.In the spirit of waste utilization, the clay pots were used to feed the chickens, and the pots were filled with tea.

It wasn't until the boss was arrested at the border and they confessed to the two people that they knew that either of those two black and shabby gadgets could sell for two to thirty thousand dollars?

2000 to [-] US dollars around [-]...

One for seven years, one for six years...

My home is just ten kilometers east of here. My parents are nearly 40 years old. No matter how I persuade them, I can’t stay idle. The family still has more than 50 mu of land, seven or eight cows, and more than [-] sheep...

Another seven or eight kilometers to the north is Ruoshui, which is also known as Heishui or Heihe in later generations. Tang Sanzang 100 years later crossed this river and went to India to learn scriptures, which is the Tongtian River in Journey to the West.

In later generations, a wetland park was built on the bank of the Heihe River, and a stone sculpture of Tang Monk, four masters and apprentices, and a white dragon horse riding a big turtle across the river was also built.

After the two nephews read Journey to the West, they argued every day for Li Chengzhi to carry him down the river to find the thousand-year-old tortoise...

Thinking about it, Li Chengzhi burst into tears...

(End of this chapter)