Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 209 Hetao Arrangement

Crossing Longshan Mountain is Guanzhong.

Huan Xi has walked this road many times, and every time, he has been accompanied by Deng Xia.

Today was no exception. Huan Xi and Deng Xia walked down Longshan one after another. Huan Xi suddenly asked:

"Ying Yuan, how many years have you followed me?"

Deng Xia said without thinking:

"Since the third year of Yonghe (AD 347), Liang Gong concurrently served as the governor of Yi and the prefect of Shu County, the last general has served Liang Gong for eight years."

Huan Xi nodded and said with emotion:

"Eight years, a blink of an eye, these years, you and I have been inseparable. Huan has become a father, and Ying Yuan has now entered his prime."

The ancients regarded the age of thirty or forty as the prime of life. Deng Xia followed Huan Xi in his early twenties and is now in his thirties.

Huan Xi described the close relationship between the two as inseparable, and he was right. Before he formed Lang Wei, Deng Xia had always been his personal protector.

Whether Huan Xi went to Jiankang to accept the appointment as governor of Liangzhou, or whether he left Guanzhong and went to Jiangling to get married, Deng Xia accompanied him.

During every battle, Deng Xia served as a vanguard general and was never absent.

Deng Xia said frankly:

"To be honest with Mr. Liang, eight years ago, when I was asked by Mr. Liang to be his subordinate, I was actually a little worried."

Huan Xi was not angry, he smiled and said:

"But you stayed by my side after all and got along with me day and night."

The reason why Deng Xia was worried in the first place was that Huan Xi actually knew that he was still a teenager at that time, while Huan Wen was in his prime.

Once Huan Wen lived a long life and Huan Xi was still unable to take power, it would be difficult for Deng Xia to achieve anything by following Huan Xi.

At the same time, Deng Xia was a general who won with bravery, but he was afraid that by the time Huan Xi came to power, his energy and blood would have been exhausted, and he would be unable to gain fame for himself or wealth for his descendants.

Deng Xia said frankly:

"The last general was a subordinate of the Duke of Chu at that time. The Duke of Chu has orders. Even if you don't want to, you must obey them."

Huan Xi nodded and asked knowingly:

"Has Ying Yuan ever regretted it?"

Deng Xia smiled and said:

"Now I just regret that it was too late to take effect and lagged behind others."

What Deng Xia was referring to was naturally falling behind Xi Chao, who was the first to follow Huan Xi.

Huan Xi's hearty laughter echoed on the mountain road.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Huan Xi and Deng Xia said goodbye reluctantly, sighing with a wry smile:

"I never thought that Yingyuan and I would be separated one day."

Deng Xia also couldn't bear the sadness when parting, and his eyes were red:

"I will not be able to serve you at this time. Please take care of yourself, Mr. Liang."

After the two said goodbye, Huan Xi led his guards Yi Cong and Guan Long to ride back to Chang'an.

Deng Xia, on the other hand, led the begging cavalry and Baibao Xianbei to Yinchuan.

From now on, he will also stay in Yinchuan, responsible for the training of Baibao Xianbei and guarding the Xitao Grassland.

After Huan Xi left Liangzhou, he heard a lot of news, including Huan Wen's restoration of Luoyang, but what mattered to him the most was Fu Jian's control of Dai.

In the past, with Dai Guo on his side, it was difficult for Fu Jian to invade the Hetao area a second time.

Now that Dai Guo has surrendered, it has not only increased the strength of Yu State, but the Hetao is no longer safe.

Huan Xi could not appoint civilian officials to guard Yinchuan like in the past. He must have a general who could stabilize the situation and wait for reinforcements when the Fu family invaded. Whether it was his loyalty to Huan Xi or his prestige among the Xiongnu and Xianbei tribes, Deng Xia was the best choice.

Moreover, Huan Xi also plans to use Deng Xia to lead Baibao Xianbei. If someone else is in charge, it will inevitably happen that the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers.

At this time, Che Yin, Minister of Industry of Liang State, had been transferred to Yinchuan to serve as the right assistant.

In the past, the only people under Yinchuan Chanyutai's real jurisdiction were the Tiefu Xiongnu living on the Xitao Plain. Therefore, it was enough to send a left assistant.

However, as Huanxi moved the Xianbei Poduolan tribe, the Qifu tribe, and the family members of the Baibao Xianbei tribe to the Xitao Plain, it was no longer a sparsely populated area, so it was necessary to send an additional right assistant to the Xitao Plain. Zuo Fu Suo Xia jointly managed Shan Yutai's daily affairs.

Che Yin was outstanding in talent and learning, and was highly valued by Huan Xi.

He came from a family of officials. When he was young, his family was in trouble and could not afford lamp oil, so he would catch fireflies on summer nights and study hard with the faint light.

'Like a firefly in a bag, like a reflection of snow, even though my family is poor, I never stop studying. '

The twelve characters in the "Three Character Classic" tell the story of Che Yin.

The Xianbei tribe who had been moved to the Hetao area by Huan Xi had been properly resettled by Suo Xia and Che Yin.

Among them, more than 6,000 tents of the Poduolan tribe of Xianbei were arranged in Dijinze (southwest of Yijinhuoluo Banner in Inner Mongolia).

The Mu Us Desert in later generations has not yet been fully formed. At least before the Song Dynasty, Dijinze was still a large oasis in the desert.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao's grandfather Li Jiqian led his tribe to flee into Dijinze. Relying on the protection of the surrounding deserts and using Dijinze as a base, they worked hard and eventually laid the foundation for Li Yuanhao to later proclaim himself emperor and found the country.

The 40,000 tents of the Qifu tribe were arranged in Gaopingchuan.

Gaopingchuan is the Qingshui River Basin in later generations, located in the south of Xitao Plain. During the Western Jin Dynasty, more than 70,000 tents of the Jielu tribe lived in Gaopingchuan, but they were later expelled by Qifu Xianbei.

With the water and grass in Gaopingchuan, it is naturally more than enough to feed 40,000 tents of Xianbei people of the begging tribe.

As for Baibao Xianbei, just as Huan Xi had promised before, they were placed in Yinchuan where the water and grass were the most abundant.

To the north of Yinchuan City is the pasture of Tiefu Xiongnu, and to the south is the pastoral area of ​​Baibao Xianbei.

If he hadn't been away from Chang'an for too long and winter was about to begin, Huan Xi would definitely have gone to Xitao Grassland himself.

However, when spring starts tomorrow, he will still patrol the Hetao area. While promoting his authority, he will also try to see if he can lure some tribes from Dai State to surrender.

Murong Ying, Tuoba Shi, and Tuoba Han had been sent to Chang'an long ago. Quan Yi had already settled the mother and son, and informed Huan Xi of the matter at a three-hundred-mile speed.

Huan Xi was ecstatic about this, not because Quan Yi praised Murong Ying's skin as whiter than snow in the letter and asked Huan Xi to take her as his concubine.

But the identities of the three of them, mother and son.

As the eldest son of Tuoba Shiyijian, there are rumors in the Monan Grassland that Tuoba Shiyijian appointed Tuoba Shiyijian to succeed him as the acting king before his death.

In Huan Xi's opinion, if he wants to send troops to Monan in the future to compete with Fu Jian for the Kingdom of Dai, and under the guise of escorting Tuoba Shi back home, as long as he has the upper hand in the battle with Fu Jian, Tuoba Shi's identity will be revealed. It may even produce unexpected effects.

Therefore, even though Huan Xi was still on his way back and had not met Murong Ying and others, he had already petitioned the court to request that Tuoba Shi be canonized as acting king.

If the imperial court were to be moved to the north, perhaps the Manchu ministers would unanimously resist, but if they were only to confer a King Hu, they would certainly not embarrass Huan Xi on such a trivial matter.

After all, it was not Huan Wen, Huan Xi and his son who were crowned kings.

　There is also one in the evening, but it’s quite late.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)