Yanzhi Mountain is located a hundred miles southeast of Zhangye County, Ganzhou Prefecture, at the narrowest waist of the Hexi Corridor. The Qilian Mountains in the south face Longshou Mountain in the north, and Yanzhi Mountain is in the middle of the corridor formed by the two mountains. If you want to pass through the Hexi Corridor, you can only detour to the north or south of Yanzhi Mountain. Yanzhi Mountain is the real throat of the eastern section of the Hexi Corridor, so Yanzhi Mountain has been known as the "Throat of Sweet and Cool" since ancient times. The mountain is about 80 miles long from east to west and 40 miles wide from north to south. The main peak, Maomao Mountain, is more than 12,000 feet high. Because the mountain is rich in red and blue flowers whose sap can be used to make rouge, it is also known as Rouge Mountain.
On the morning of the tenth day of the tenth month of the third year of Renshou's reign, a golden eagle and two gyrfalcons swooped down from the clouds. To the east of Yanzhi Mountain they passed by, a long black dragon composed of more than ten thousand Sui cavalry suddenly appeared. , rumbling past the official road, the silent and solemn Yanzhi Mountain marched south. The soldiers' sharp swords and sturdy armor reflected the sunlight, making them look fierce.
The horses' hooves hit the ground like a torrential rain, making the ground seem to be trembling. As time went by, this team revealed its true face in Mount Lu from a distance, with Sui soldiers covered in iron armor riding tall war horses.
They were the Great Sui army that traveled thousands of miles from Guanzhong to Liangzhou. This was just a vanguard of 10,000 people led by Yang Ji himself. There were also 30,000 soldiers behind to protect more than 100,000 immigrants.
The army bypassed the southeastern foothills of Yanzhi Mountain, and suddenly it opened up. What came into view was the endless grassland. The grassland was full of rich green. Groups of horses were galloping in the wilderness. Sheep were grazing leisurely by the river. In the distance was the snow-capped mountains. Qilian Mountain, the sun shines on the top of the mountain, shining with the magnificent brilliance of gems.
The beautiful scenery outside the Great Wall made Yang Ji broad-minded. Suddenly he heard someone chanting. When he turned around and looked back, it was Liu Zhuo who was reciting the Huns' eternal lament to Yanzhi Mountain: "If I lose my Yanzhi Mountain, my women will be lost." Colorless. Losing me from the Qilian Mountains will deprive my animals of their ability to thrive."
Yang Ji couldn't help but smile and said: "Mr. Liu, you are in a good mood!"
Liu Zhuo was appointed as Liangzhou Jijiu and in charge of Liangzhou's academic affairs. He and Yang Ji set out from Chang'an and marched thousands of miles. He was obviously haggard. However, people are in high spirits when happy events happen, and they are filled with excitement and joy from the heart. His feelings could not be concealed at all.
Hearing Yang Ji's words, Liu Zhuo smiled and said: "The journey through the mountains and canyons was so groggy, but after passing the Wushaoling range and seeing the boundless grassland, my mood immediately improved."
Yang Ji nodded and said with a smile: "Ganzhou is the center of the Liangzhou General Administration. There are rivers here, oases, grasslands, and hills. The land is fertile, with abundant water and grass, and is arable and grazing. Since Huo Qubing took back the Hetao and Hexi areas , after firmly controlling the Hexi Corridor north of the Qilian Mountains, a large area of fertile land was reclaimed here, allowing the army and people of Ganzhou to be self-sufficient."
"We are marching to the south of Yanzhi Mountain. This is a high-quality prairie. At present, our largest and oldest horse farm in the Sui Dynasty - Shuidan Racecourse is here. Shuidan Racecourse was the site of Huo Qubing's capture of Yanzhi Mountain. It was established later. It was the pasture of the Huns before. They lost the Hexi Corridor and had to go to the bitter cold outside the Great Wall. How could they not cry? The Han Dynasty gained Yanzhi Mountain and the Hexi Corridor and had excellent horse farms, so it could provide the army with more war horses. , forming more cavalry will be even more detrimental to the Huns. When we settle down, Mr. Liu might as well go around with Mr. Guangbo, investigate the local customs, the mountains, rivers and swamps of Liangzhou, and write a weighty map of Liangzhou, which will be important to the court and the government. It is of great benefit to the military and civilians to understand the geography and strategic value of Liangzhou’s mountains and rivers.”
Liu Zhuo frowned and said, "But I am here to run the school according to the holy order, not to travel."
"It doesn't matter!" Yang Ji said with a smile: "The sage has previously established four schools for enlightenment, county schools for consolidating knowledge, and state schools for nurturing talents in all states in the world. The systems, methods, and school buildings for running schools are all ready-made. As long as an order is given, state and county officials can activate it. Now the three studies are waiting to be done, and ordinary scribes can be qualified for the post of master. If the two Mr. Liu teach children to read, interpret ancient sentences, or set up a school step by step , it will only waste your precious time in vain. I think that justice is the right way for you to annotate classics, and running schools also requires inspections in various states. This does not affect your compilation of Liangzhou Illustrated Chronicles and annotation of classics."
After what Yang Ji said, Liu Zhuo thought about his own level of knowledge and felt that if he taught illiterate children and wasted his time in schools in various places, he would be overqualified and not doing his job properly. It would be good to write a map of Liangzhou while doing business. He made up his mind and nodded: "Okay, wait until I get to Zhangye City to discuss it with Brother Guangbo."
Yang Ji and Liu Zhuo chatted for a while and then ran towards the middle of the army. There were more than 4,000 carriages mixed in the army, loaded with various supplies brought from Guanzhong. In addition to daily necessities such as grain, there were also iron drills, Simple tools such as shovels and hoes were all tools given to him by the imperial court to clear wasteland and build cities in Tingzhou. There are also many carriages carrying people. In addition to the maids and general family members brought by Yang Ji and Xiao Ying, there are also family members of some soldiers. They will also become Xinliangzhou people and will settle in Tuoleshui, Fulu County, Ganzhou. On both sides of the Taiwan Strait, there is no need to go to distant Tingzhou to cultivate wasteland.
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"Did you see it? That's Yanzhi Mountain." Among Yang Ji's family members, Zhang Chuchen, who was riding on horseback, pointed at Yanzhi Mountain and introduced to Xiao Ying and others cheerfully: "The mountain is rich in Red and blue flowers, this kind of flower is purple in color, and its juice can be used to make rouge. In the past, Huns women relied on the rouge here to make up. After Huo Qubing took away Yanzhi Mountain, the Huns women were not happy because they had no rouge. Crying and shouting, 'The loss of my Yanzhi Mountain has made my women colorless'. From then on, the faces of Xiongnu women became as black and yellow as tree bark."
"Black and yellow? You say it as if you have seen a Hun woman!" Liu Rumei next to her joked: "Are they as black and yellow as you?"
"I don't call it black and yellow. Young Master said it is the color of mature and healthy wheat. If wheat is not mature and healthy, then it is not good wheat. Since everyone likes good wheat, my skin color is also good." Zhang Chuchen has recognized Gongsun Huan as his adoptive father. Gongsun Huan not only taught her swordsmanship, but also gave her all the fine swords in his collection.
Zhang Chuchen has lacked father's love since he was a child. He has been living in an insecure environment with his mother, and his heart is always hanging. After having a father, it seems that he has a strong backer, and his temperament has been subtly affected. She feels Grandma has a foster father to take care of her, so this time, she no longer worries about being bullied as before, and her lively and cheerful nature is also released.
How would she feel if she knew that the most dangerous person was Gongsun Huan?
Her emotions also infected other people, but women are very good at finding topics when chatting, and they are also very good at going off-topic. The first thing they talked about was Huo Qubing, and she talked about how the red and blue flowers turned into rouge from Yanzhi Mountain, and then she said We started dressing up and chatting enthusiastically.
Xiao Ying was also very happy. She looked at the white clouds and blue sky, the sapphire-like ice peaks in the distance, the vast green grasslands, the crisscrossing rivers, and the herds of cattle and sheep everywhere. The horses...everything was as beautiful as she had imagined.
"I really want to get out of the car and go horse riding." Xiao Ying had just learned riding skills and was about to learn it. When she saw the shepherd girls galloping freely on the grassland, her eyes showed eagerness to try.
Yang Ji happened to come over here, and when he heard what she said, he said smoothly: "There are too many people here. If you don't have good riding skills, you will be easily hit. When you settle down, I will take my wife to find a piece of grassland to practice."
"Okay!" Xiao Ying nodded happily. After a second thought, she was full of yearning and expectation for her new home, and asked Yang Ji, "Mr. Lang, I wonder what our family will be like?"
"Zhangye City is the administrative office of Liangzhou and the administrative seat of Ganzhou. The city spans 20 miles and is divided into three parts. The official office of the administrative office is in the center of the north city. On the left and right are the administrative offices of Ganzhou and Zhangye County. There are three levels of official offices. The responsibilities and powers of the first and third-level officials also vary; the middle part south of the official office is the residence of officials and rich people, usually with a large courtyard. I used to live in the back garden of the official office of the General Manager's Office, but I'm afraid it's not the case now ”
Xiao Ying asked curiously: "Why not?"
Yang Ji smiled bitterly and said: "When my uncle appointed me as the governor of Liangzhou, my mother-in-law had people buy more than ten large houses connected together, and then they all were demolished and rebuilt. When I went to the capital to present prisoners, many skilled craftsmen and laborers carried out internal repairs. , it’s been a few months now, maybe it’s been repaired.”
Xiao Ying chuckled, her eyes smiling like crescent moons, and said very firmly: "If Mr. Lang goes to work in Youzhou, Bingzhou, Yangzhou and other places in the future, I think Aniang will also let people follow him to repair the house."
"I think so." Yang Jishen agreed, not even surprised.
The aristocratic families have a morbid preference for fields and houses. Wherever their children serve as officials, their industries will develop there. If the land in a certain place is fertile, they will try their best to take it for themselves. They are all over the world. This is how industries generally come about.
Compared with the aristocratic families who annexed land, Dugu Min was considered a good person. She focused on business and was not keen on the fields that could not make a lot of money in good years and lost money in bad years. Therefore, the farms in the palace were all gifts from Yang Jian. Annexed an inch of land.
Zhangye, a house with a larger site than the palace, was built into two parts. One part is a house for people to live in, and the other part is a warehouse. It can be seen that in addition to building it for myself, it is also a warehouse and transfer station for her foreign trade. Once it is occupied, Once inside, she didn't even need to hire a guard.
At this time, there was a sound of horse hoofbeats in the distance, and a group of female knights were seen galloping towards this side. When they approached, Yang Ji recognized them at a glance and said to Xiao Ying with a smile, "It's Auntie here!"
The woman leading the way was Dugu Min. When she heard that her son and daughter-in-law were coming soon, she couldn't contain her excitement and came to greet them with her female bodyguard. She walked nearly a hundred miles away. She was wearing a royal blue Hu suit. , with a sword on her waist and a long bow on her back, like a heroic female general.
"Auntie, here, here!" Xiao Ying got off the carriage and waved excitedly to her mother-in-law.
Dugumin walked closer, reined in the horse, and jumped down vigorously. She smiled and reached out to pinch Xiao Ying's cheeks that were red with excitement, and said with a hearty smile: "The little girl is getting more and more beautiful."
Xiao Ying was embarrassed to say anything. She blushed and bowed, took Qiu Shui and Qiu Yue and said, "Auntie, they are the Qiu Shui and Qiu Yue I mentioned. They look exactly the same."
Dugumin once heard Xiao Ying talking about the twin sisters, and casually said, "I'll meet you if I have a chance." She never expected that Xiao Ying not only remembered them, but also brought them here. She looked at the twins curiously. The surprise in the twin sisters' eyes became more and more intense.
Generally speaking, twin brothers and twin sisters will become less and less alike as they grow up, but this pair of twin sisters look exactly the same, making people unable to tell who is who. They couldn't help but curiously asked: "Which of you is Qiu Shui and who is Qiu Yue?"
Qiu Shui Qiuyue is Xiao Ying's maid and will become Xiao Ying's dowry in the future. They have also heard Xiao Ying talk about Dugu Min countless times. Although they are all words of praise, they are very uneasy when facing this big shot.
Qiu Shui quickly saluted and said: "Back to the concubine, this servant is Qiu Shui, and this is my sister Qiu Yue."
"Your sisters have different buns." Dugumin looked carefully and finally discovered the difference between the two of them. She reached out and took out two strings of pearl bracelets from her bag and handed them to them: "I heard Aying mention it many times. You guys, when I met you today, you are indeed as beautiful as the autumn water and the moon. This is my gift to you, so you can serve Aying well in the future."
She only hoped that her son would live a better life and that the people around him would be more dedicated. As for treasures and money, she never cared about them.
When Zhang Chuchen, Liu Rumei, Murong Xianyue and other maids entered the palace, because they were his son's personal bodyguards and the last line of defense, they were not only given many rare treasures, but also made proper arrangements for their relatives. Of course, this time I met Qiu Shui and Qiu Yue, who were very likely to be my son's pillow, and I was generous in rewarding them.
"Thank you, Princess!" Qiu Shui and Qiu Yue expressed their gratitude after seeing that Dugu Min was not as serious and ferocious as they thought, and even gave him precious treasures.
"Aniang." Yang Ji stepped forward and saluted. After he was taken to the palace to be raised by Queen Dugu, my mother began to do business. First she ran around Guanlong, and then went to the Central Plains, Jiangnan and other places. They spent more and more time apart. , longer and longer, and to this day, both mother and son are used to it.
"I heard you got into trouble again in Daxing?" Dugumin glared at his son. In fact, Yang Ji brought many messenger eagles and pigeons to Daxing, and Zhangye is the main station for receiving letters. After many attempts, the letter Eagles and homing pigeons were already in use, but only a few knew about them.
Dugumin also knew what Yang Ji had encountered in Daxing through the letter eagle and the letter pigeon, but the letter eagle and letter pigeon only recognized Zhang Ye's home base, so she had to have someone run back.
Now there are eagle slaves tamed in the palace. When the pigeons and eagles are tamed, they will be sent here in cages, and when necessary, they will be sent back with messages.
"It is others who provoke me, not me who provokes others." Yang Ji said with a smile.
Dugu Min's face darkened and he said coldly: "I'll settle the score with you when I get to Zhangye."
"Okay!" Yang Ji didn't want to say anything more here, so he turned around and shouted: "Everyone, speed up and enter the city before dark."
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