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Chapter 565 The indescribable Xihe Road (1)

Wang Daxu has done this kind of escort work countless times.

Already familiar with the process.

He turned back to look at the Qiang cavalry in his team and ordered: "Li Aling, go and tell those Qiang people to follow us and stop wandering around, otherwise you will be punished accordingly!"

The Qiang cavalry named Li Aling accepted the order, clapped his horse and went to talk to the fleeing Qiang people.

Soon, Li Aning came back to report: "Reporting to Tiha, the general has told them the military order of Tiha. In addition, the general also found out which family they are from?"

"Which one is it from?" Wang Daxu asked casually.

"Report Tiha..." Li Aning said: "They said they were a tribe that had relocated and fled from Tiandu Mountain to Huizhou. With the grace of Wang Taiwei (Wang Wenyu) of Huizhou, he sent people to Xizhou."

"Moving home?" Wang Daaxu was stunned.

In an instant, a piece of information he had memorized by rote came out of his mind.

The army is also filled with a large number of Qiang, Tubo, Dangxiang and even Uighurs from the Western Regions.

"The tribes really can't survive, so they can only come to our Song Dynasty to ask for help!"

Wang Daxu reacted, laughed awkwardly, and removed his hand from the short knife at his waist.

"The Western thieves again violently conquered various tribes, breaking their bones and sucking out their marrow..."

His ancestors were originally powerful Qiang chiefs who lived in Hengshan. They were canonized by Li Jiqian and became the leader of the Tibetan tribe. They were also loyal to Wei Mingjia and followed Yuan Hao through life and death, but so what?

Moved without a home - Dangxiang's clan, originally lived in Hengshan, was defeated by Zhang Dujian (Zhang Shouyue) of Huanzhou, then moved to Nanmouhui to guard the palace for Yuanhao, Li Duzhi (Li Xian) defeated Nanmouhui , the rest of the people fled into Tiandu.

"promise!"

So he knew instantly that those people were not Qiang people, but Dangxiang people.

So, Wang Daxu led the patrol team under his command and escorted more than 300 party members back towards Nanguan Fort.

Li Aning nodded: "When I return to Tiha, I am indeed a member of the Party!"

These are the words written in the pamphlet given to him by You Zhizhou, the new governor of Xizhou last year.

Although, that was what happened when Li Duzhi destroyed the Nanmou Society and set fire to Tiandu Mountain.

However, all this has nothing to do with Li Aning.

"Why does the house look like this?" Wang Daxu asked.

But it’s not so miserable, right?

When he said this, a trace of hatred clearly flashed in Li Aning's eyes.

Unlike Bianjing, this place is almost entirely Han. In the states along Xihe Road, Tibetan and Han people live together.

His father was just the cousin of Li Baoshun, the current leader of the Li clan, and his status in the clan was not high. There were many brothers in his family, so as soon as he came of age, his parents gave him a horse and asked him to make a living by himself.

Li Aning had nowhere to go, so he simply rode on his horse and joined the Song army. He ate the royal food from Zhao Guan's family and arrived there.
It is now in its fifth year.

"In the past two years, Tiandu Mountain and Hengshan Mountain have been experiencing continuous drought."

Fortunately, he has almost adapted to Xihe now.

This is also a characteristic of many Han Qiang people and even Dangxiang people.

Han people, Tubo people, Qiang people, and Dangxiang people are neighbors to each other.

After the whole family moved to the Song Dynasty, they were initially settled in the Bao'an Army. In order to integrate into the Bao'an Army, they falsely called themselves Li after claiming to be Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty because of the legend in the family that their ancestors came from Lingwu.

Wang Daxu nodded as he listened, and said with emotion: "The Western Thieves are indeed jackals and beasts, but they are so ruthless even with their own clansmen and the same clansmen who once guarded the chief's palace."

They hate Wei Mingjia even more than the Han people, and want to destroy Wei Mingjia's country even more!

Therefore, Wang Daxu couldn't help but subconsciously put his hand on the short knife at his waist. He looked at Li Aning: "Dangxiang people!?"

There are more than a thousand young men alone, tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and more than a thousand horses.

And it was the Dangxiang tribe that had fought with the Song Dynasty!

But he will not forget the blood feud of the tribe!
Therefore, when Li Aning encountered Western bandit soldiers and horses on the battlefield, they were even more ferocious than his Han colleagues!
Every time I mentioned Wei Mingjia, I gritted my teeth.

It was not that they were forced to have no way out by the Wei Ming family. In the end, they had no choice but to move their entire clan to the Song Dynasty more than thirty years ago. When they fled into the Song Dynasty, only more than 300 young people were left out of the large tribe of several thousand people. They were women and children, but the old and the weak all died on the way to escape. It was a terrible tragedy.

Li Aning's branch followed Wang Xiangmin Gong (Wang Shao) to Xihe more than ten years ago, and then settled here and took root. Now it can be regarded as a powerful tribe in Xizhou.

The patriarch, Li Zhongshun, was also canonized for his meritorious service and served as Zuo Shijin, military commander of the Tibetan tribe, and patrol officer of the Tibetan tribe in Chongdi.

Although Wang Daxu is not good at reading and cannot write articles, and can only barely read, he has a good memory.

Although he has been in Xihe for more than a year, he is still a little nervous about the party members.

Wang Daxu didn't think much and said to Li Aning: "Let's protect these people and return to Nanguan Fort first."

Back then, the cavalry alone had more than 300 people and could pull out more than 1,200 soldiers. How did the Yimojia become what it is now?
Li Aning sighed and said, "It's not the West Thief's fault!"

In Xizhou, although it is not as good as the super wealthy families such as the Bao family (Brothers Bao Yue and Bao Shun) and the Yang family, it is still a strong family.

Therefore, he kept in mind the words about the various ethnic groups in Dangxiang and the Qiang people in Hengshan in the book about traveling to Zhizhou.

He remembered very carefully that in You Zhizhou's booklet, it was written that the Yimojia had six standards, one thousand, two hundred and twenty-five strong men, more than three hundred strong horses, and forty-eight teams.

Li Aning sneered: "The ugly chief Wei Mingchou, how could he ever regard other parties and Qiang tribes as human beings?"

……

Escorting the team that moved their homes, they walked along Didao and soon entered the river valley area.

In the distance, you can already see the spectacular sight of cotton fields.

Cotton fields begin to wither in late July.

The branches and leaves on the kapok are starting to die, but this is a good thing!
The Li people who paid a lot of money to the Xiang and Gao families from Yazhou and other places said that kapok must be completely dead and exposed to the sun for more than ten days or even a month before it can be picked.

So I looked around and saw that the vast fields were filled with snow-white cotton wool.

Wang Daxu looked at these cotton fields and remembered the one hundred acres of cotton fields he planted. Last winter, he was given three hundred acres of land for his contribution to welcoming Renduo Baozhong. With the original one hundred acres, he now owns Four hundred acres of land.

Unfortunately, due to lack of cotton seeds, only 100 acres of cotton fields were planted this year.

But he did not leave the rest of the land idle.

Let the hired Qiang people plant a hundred acres of alfalfa - which is used to feed livestock.

The remaining two hundred acres were planted with millet, wheat, barley and beans.

Mainly beans!
There was no way around it. Although Didao was irrigated by the Wei River, his land was also adjacent to Xiang Qianha's family's land, so he could enjoy the convenience of drawing water from the waterwheel built by Qianha's family.

But in the past two years, the weather has been dry, the river flow has been insufficient, and irrigation water has been in short supply.

So you can only grow beans that don’t require much water.

So does everyone else.

Especially those wealthy Qiang and Tibetan tribes who have no cotton seeds but cultivate their land.

As a result, this year Xihe Road achieved basic self-sufficiency in food for the first time.

This is also the material basis for Xihe Road to accept a large number of fleeing tribes.

Wang Daxu didn't know this, he was just doing his job diligently.

Only when passing by the 400 acres of land that belonged to him, I jumped for joy.

His one hundred acres of cotton fields were well taken care of by the workers he hired.

The plump white flower buds fluttered in the breeze against the sunshine of Xihe River.

This made Wang Daxu extremely satisfied.

This is all money!

Money worth hundreds, even thousands.

……

Wang Daxu escorted the fleeing "righteous people" and finally arrived at Nanguan Fort in the evening.

This is the throat that controls Didao.

Under the fort, porridge sheds have already been set up, and there are more than one.

The "Guiming people" who fled into the Song Dynasty were of course more than just "immigrants".

When Wang Daxu arrived at the foot of the Walled City, an acquaintance immediately came to greet him.

The grandson of the Bao Shun family, a local extravagant family in Xizhou, is called Bao Zhongguan. He is about the same age as Wang Daxu. Ever since Wang Daxu was promoted, he had been deliberately getting close to him. He had never acted like the grandson of a powerful Qiang chief in front of him, just like the children of the merchant families that Wang Daxu met in Bianjing City.

He was always kind and cheerful, smiling all day long: "Thank you for your hard work, King Tiha!" Bao Zhongguan smiled, took the initiative to step forward, and led Wang Daaxu's horse: "I have prepared some preparations for Tiha and all the brothers in the fort. It’s time to eat and drink!”

"Please also ask Tihar and his brothers to show their respect."

Wang Daxu got off his horse, raised his hands to Bao Zhongguan and said: "How dare you trouble the office? Ashamed! Ashamed!"

"Please!" Bao Zhongguan smiled and handed over his hands, and behind him, dozens of young men from the Bao family had already greeted the "Guiming Yimin" who had been brought back by Wang Daxu to "move home".

They greeted these people using proficient party language.

Wang Daxu didn't care too much.

He knows what Guan Bao Zhong is doing?
It's nothing more than trying to gain favor with those young people who have been displaced and don't know the reality of the Xihe River. First, they can gain favor with a meal of porridge cooked with highland barley and beans, and then let them get the deed of "Zhongyi Yaxing" in the Bao family. They signed a pledge and agreed that 'Zhongyi Dental Store' would be responsible for introducing them to work in the next five years.

This is a very popular way of operating in Xihe now.

The "Gui Ming people" who returned to Yi were no matter whether they were Tubo people, Qiang people or Dangxiang people.

There must be a Yaxing approved by Xihe Lanhui Road Manager and Appeasement Envoy to make unified arrangements for docking with Mianzhuang.

This is not only the official meaning of Xiang and Gao, but also the official meaning of the manager.

After these three people reached an agreement, there was no force that could stop Xihe Road.

As a result, Yahang became an institution that monopolized the labor force.

And those who can set up a dental shop are all from the wealthy and luxurious families of Xihe Road!

For example, the Bao family and Yang family in Xizhou were large Qiang tycoons with tens of thousands of members in the past.

Or the Zhao family in Qinzhou, such a noble descendant of Tubo.

There are also the two big leaders on the Tubo side who please the Xiang family and the Gao family.

This is a game only the big guys can afford.

Wang Daxu is no stranger to this.

Because that’s what Bianjing City was like.

In the past, his younger brother Daqiang fought against Bao in Bianjing City and had to go through Yaxing to find a job.

When foreigners come to Beijing, unless they live in a hotel, if they want to rent a house, they need to be introduced by Yaxing.

Yaxing is everywhere, interfering with the production and life of Bianjing.

Wang Daxu has long been used to it.

But Wang Daxu didn't know that when he was led by Bao Zhongguan and entered Nanguan Fort.

Behind him, two men in ragged clothes, dressed like refugees, were gaping at the scene in front of Nanguan Fort at dusk.

Big pots, steaming hot.

Thousands of ragged Qiang, Dangxiang, and Tubo people lined up in front of these porridge shacks.

The smell of highland barley and beans wafted into their noses.

Their eyes were full of fear.

All the things they saw and heard along the way also emerged in their hearts.

The fear is getting stronger, the panic

Because along the way, there were vast fields on both sides of Didao, which was originally desolate.

Although I didn’t see much staple food such as millet, wheat, and highland barley.

What catches the eye is not the small tree-like crop with the white 'buds' growing on the top.

It's all kinds of grass and beans.

however……

This vast wilderness in the past was eventually reclaimed into land by the southern barbarians.

Moreover, these lands are cared for.

Groups of Tubo, Qiang, and Dangxiang people were buried in the fields, waving sickles, stacking haystacks, drying grass, and digging beans.

Soybeans, mung beans, adzuki beans...

In the end, their pupils reflected the huge wooden waterwheels they saw on the road, standing on the river.

And the channels that were dug out.

The Southern Barbarians have reclaimed this desolate land into fertile soil!
And everything they saw before them told them, how did the Nanman do it?
Taking advantage of the disaster in the Dabai Gao Kingdom, they actually opened the country's gates and used food to seduce the simple herdsmen, the ignorant Qiang people, and even the Tubo people on the Qingtang Plateau.

Then, let the simple herdsmen, serfs, and those Qiang and Tubo people in the Dabaigao Kingdom who only know how to eat cultivate land for them!
"No wonder many of the forts in Tiandu Mountain are already empty..."

"Damn it! Damn it!"

The two men were cursing in a low voice, whether they were cursing the Nanman or the Qiang and Dangxiang tribes who defected to the Nanman for a little food, regardless of the kindness of the soldiers.

Fortunately, the Prime Minister had already heard about it. Not only did they sneak into Nanman for investigation, but they also sent soldiers and horses to station in Tiandu Mountain. They believed that they would soon be able to block the escape route of those ungrateful Qiang people and Dangxiang serfs.

At the same time, doubts also arose in the minds of these two people.

This southern barbarian border fortress does not restrict or screen people entering the country at all.

Aren't they afraid that the Gao Kingdom will repeat the story of the founding of the country and the raising of troops - entering the city carefully and coordinating the inside and outside.

Dabai Gaoguo relied on this method to easily capture the fortresses that could not be conquered from the front.

Even the Jinming Village guarded by Mr. Iron Wall was captured by Dabai Gaoguo because of this.

From then on, the Southern Barbarians no longer dared to accept deserters and rebels at will.

but now……

What happened to them?

Aren't you afraid that Dabai Gaoguo will repeat his old tricks?
Soon, the two men knew the answer.

Because when they appeared, someone immediately stared at them.

Then he was greeted with enthusiasm.

"You two, are you hungry?"

"My lord Renyi has already cooked porridge and rice. Please come over and use it!"

The two men were still thinking about how to answer.

The other party was already surrounding them on the left and right, walking towards the porridge shed, extremely affectionate.

Can you not be affectionate?
They are all young men who have come to farm the land for them!

Especially, now everyone can see the situation in the kapok field with their own eyes, and at the same time, everyone has personally experienced the benefits of hiring workers.

Even if you don’t plant cotton, just plant some barley, millet, pasture and beans, it would be great!

Xiang and Gao, two close relatives of the country, set up academies in various places.

Today the furnaces are being forged every day.

Pieces of farm tools were built and then sold to everyone.

The wealthy families in Xihe have never been as comfortable as they are now.

We need people, we need food, we need iron tools.

Soon, everyone was not even short of money.

This is a magical day!
"By the way..." Several strong Qiang men from Kongwu led people to line up in front of the porridge shed set up by their family, and then asked: "What are your names?"

"Ami!"

"Dubuk!"

The two young Tanguts looked up.

If Zhao Xu were here, he might be able to think of something when he heard their names.

In his previous life, in the fifth year of Shaosheng, there was the first battle of Pingxia City.

The Xixia commander in charge of the troops was named Weiming Ami, and the supervisor was named Meradubuke.

(End of this chapter)