In the order Wang Chang received, not only did he not punish him, but he praised him and asked him to immediately send the captured troops of Beifuyu and Sushen to Luoyang.
Of course, not all the prisoners were sent to Luoyang. Wang Chang also wanted to keep a few suitable people to join the army as guides and pioneers of the Han army.
"Is Your Majesty going to send me to the frontier, a disguised form of exile?"
Wang Chang looked at the edict in his hand and couldn't help but feel a sigh of relief in his heart.
In the edict, Liu Yu asked him to lead his army to continue to pursue the fleeing Blackwater rebels, and not only the Blackwater rebels, but also find ways to subdue the barbarians from Beifuyu, Sushen and other tribes.
Wang Chang thought this was a crazy decision for these barbarians who were still eating their hair and drinking their blood.
"Even if we are expanding our territory, there is no need to be so urgent. It would be a bit of a bully to ask me, a high-ranking official to lead the army there in person."
Wang Chang, who had just received a considerable grant, couldn't help but feel a little proud of his status.
However, it is impossible not to obey the emperor's order.
He ordered that all the prisoners of Sushen in Beifuyu be summoned.
After a while, dozens of lean men wrapped in tattered dog skin jackets were brought over.
Looking at these smelly Yi Di, Wang Chang felt even more disgusted.
He ordered his generals who could speak the Yi language to tell the captives that the Han court had decided to forgive their sins and allow them to perform meritorious service.
"Whoever is willing to serve as our army's guide and help chase down those Blackwater rebels can become a Han righteous sergeant with a salary of rice, silk and silk just like the army."
As soon as these captives heard this, they immediately beamed with joy.
Everyone knelt down together, shouting long live, and decided to act as hawks and lackeys for the big man to chase down the remnants of the Black Water.
"This is the best. If we can wipe out the remnants of the Black Water, then we will reward each of them with ten pieces of silk and ten pieces of fine wine!"
Wang Chang said with a smile.
With such a meager reward, if it were an ordinary Han army general, he would probably have felt humiliated and become angry.
But for these Yi Di tribesmen who have just left the world of raw hair and drinking blood, the gorgeous and warm silk is simply a treasure that can only be enjoyed by gods. As for the refreshing wine, it can make all men addicted.
One of the ways the Blackwater people recruited these barbarian tribes was to use salt, cloth and wine to solicit rewards.
Finally, Wang Chang selected a few more good-looking prisoners who would not affect the appetite of the emperor and princes. He ordered people to teach them Han Chinese language, and then ordered people to take them to Luoyang to resume their lives.
As for the others, after Wang Chang selected two thousand soldiers from the army, they went forward as a vanguard to track down the Blackwater rebels.
Now when the wind and snow blow, those Blackwater people must have found a place to hide.
In other words, not just hiding in one place, but multiple places.
Therefore, Wang Chang did not expect to find any main force of Blackwater. He just sent these people to explore the road first, and then sent troops to advance after the spring of next year.
However, before Wang Chang set off for these forwards, he still asked the leading general for instructions.
"This is a map sent by the emperor of Luoyang. It may be the map east of the four counties that Emperor Xiaowu ordered his sergeants to draw when he established the four counties."
"However, there are many errors in the mountains and rivers above. One of your tasks when you go this time is to compare the maps and correct some of the errors."
As Wang Chang spoke, he handed a map drawn on fine parchment to the general named Yin Xian.
"You can rest assured that Yin Xian has fulfilled his mission!"
Yin Xian said very carefully.
All the Han generals were unwilling to go on this forward mission.
Everyone knows that the Blackwater rebels who lost Wandu City, even if they found a place to hide and escaped the Han army's pursuit, it will be difficult for them to have the ability to make waves in the future.
Because if they go deep into the mountains and forests, it won't take long for them to become barbarians like savages.
Without the original farming and craftsmen, it will be a luxury for them to have a full stomach, and how can they revive their skills?
As a young brigade commander, Yin Xian took the initiative to volunteer.
He thought that even if he could catch up to one or two hundred military merits this time, he would be able to take his military merits to the next level.
Therefore, he felt that he had to perform well, otherwise it would be difficult for Liaodong as a whole to have another chance to gain military merit in the future.
The forward troops sent by Wang Changan were said to have two thousand men. In fact, except for the four to five hundred men led by Yin Xian, the rest were all righteous soldiers, including Xianbei, Liang Fei and Heishui. people.
A standard motley crew.
Not long after setting off for the vanguard troops led by Yin Xian to explore the road, a standard cold winter storm came.
The entire land of Liaodong is filled with silence under the severe cold.
In the beginning, Yin Xian often sent people to send news back from time to time to report on the progress of the march.
But a month later, another bigger snowstorm came, and all news was cut off.
Wang Chang thought that the road must have been blocked by heavy snow, and Yin Xian and others should have found a certain guide's tribe and stopped.
Not long after, Wang Chang almost forgot about this matter.
Just moving the people from Blackwater's hometown is already a headache for him.
These cunning Blackwater people, after suffering two devastating blows, still dared to resist the migration of the Han Dynasty.
Either someone is fleeing again today, or someone is attacking the military officials again, and it will be very busy to kill Wang Chang.
It was already three or four months after I finally got everything straightened out.
With another light snowfall, the howling winter is about to end.
Wang Chang finally found a free time, and planned to have a good drink in Wandu City, and then ordered the few remaining women from the Black Water to serve him, which would be a good reward for himself.
When a pot of turbid wine was just warmed up, Wang Chang didn't even take a sip.
Suddenly, there was a loud announcement from an official outside the door.
"Your Majesty, Yin Sima and the others are back!"
Wang Chang was stunned for a moment.
"What Yin Sima? Oh, you mean Yin Xian?"
Wang Chang then changed his expression slightly.
"It's just the beginning of spring, and Yin Xian is back. He must have been hiding all winter and came back as soon as spring begins. Am I so easy to deceive!"
Faced with Wang Chang's dissatisfaction, the official looked embarrassed.
"Your Majesty, look at that, Yin Sima seems to have gained a lot."
“What’s not a small gain?”
"Not only are there a large group of prisoners, but there are also many Yidi tribe chiefs who follow them. It seems that they have conquered a lot. In addition, there are a large group of deer as tall as cattle, and a black bear with white fur all over its body."
"A black bear with all white fur??"
There are naturally no white black bears in the world. They are either white bears or black bears.
But Wang Chang had never heard of a white bear, so it could only be a black bear that turned white.
"What auspiciousness! What great auspiciousness!"
When Wang Chang saw the white black bear that Yin Xian brought back, he was immediately overjoyed.
In Wang Chang's eyes, this newly grown 'white bear' was much more valuable than the captives he brought back and the surrendered barbarian chiefs.
"Your Majesty, the general has found the traces of the remnants of Blackwater, but the soldiers and horses cannot encircle them and they dare not act rashly, so they come back first..."
Before Yin Xian finished speaking, Wang Chang waved his hand to deal with him.
"The remnants of Blackwater are just trivial matters. I will naturally increase your troops. Let me ask you, this white bear, oh no, where did this auspiciousness come from?" Wang Chang asked with a smile in his eyes.
When Yin Xian saw it, he was immediately overjoyed.
It seemed that he was right to bring this beast back regardless of the danger.
'Reporting to the envoy, this auspicious sign came from a group of barbarians from the north. '
"Which barbarian is it Fuyu? Or Sushen?"
"Your Majesty, it's none of these. It was obtained accidentally by a tribe of savages who wore fish skins and rode big deer in Sushen, thousands of miles further north. They also used it as a rarity and exchanged it with the Sushen people in the south for salt, barley, and wine. Come."
When Wang Chang heard the origin, he was even more happy.
This kind of barbarian who traveled thousands of miles passed through many difficulties and obstacles and handed an auspicious sign into his hands. What is this?
This is the auspiciousness under the influence of heaven and man.
Only when a country has a wise ruler can it be auspicious.
Only when you have virtuous ministers can you be auspicious.
Wang Chang could already imagine how happy Long Yan would be after he sent this white bear to Luoyang.
By that time, I will definitely be the holy scroll of Enlong, and I will not be far away from entering the general phase.
However, this auspiciousness must be sent together with the good news of clearing out the remnants of Blackwater.
Wang Chang did not dare to delay, so he immediately appointed Yin Xian as the forward commander, sent more troops and generals to pursue and encircle the fleeing Blackwater people.
Fuyu Sushen and other troops who had already seen the strength of the Han army had no reason to continue to follow the Blackwater people. Facing these lost dogs, they naturally followed the Han army and gave them a beating.
In less than two months, almost all the remaining Blackwater rebels who fled were captured and killed. The Blackwater puppet king who had just taken office less than half a year ago was also beheaded by the rebels.
With this good news, Wang Chang immediately ordered people to send the auspiciousness to Luoyang.
Also accompanying me was a parallel prose in praise of virtue that Wang Chang had written overnight, which was nothing more than a reference to the reincarnations of Yao and Shun.
As a witness, Yin Xian was naturally sent to Luoyang to deliver good news to the emperor.
When they arrived in Luoyang, as soon as they entered the city, this white-haired black bear became the focus of everyone's attention.
Before Liu Yu saw this auspicious sign with his own eyes, he had already heard people talking about it.
His curiosity aroused, and when Liu saw the auspiciousness that Wang Chang boasted in the memorial, he couldn't help but be surprised.
"Isn't this a polar bear!?"
Liu Yu looked at the already weak 'Xiang Rui' in front of him and recognized it immediately.
"Your Majesty, does he know this thing?"
The civil servants and generals on the left and right gathered around and expressed surprise.
"This is a kind of bear that lives in the far north where there is ice and snow all year round. If you don't live three to five thousand miles away, you probably won't see it."
Liu Yu kept thinking as he spoke.
He couldn't understand how people like Wang Chang got this thing. The range of polar bears was thousands of miles away from Liaodong.
"Isn't it dyed white?"
Liu Yu suddenly had an idea. He got closer to the iron cage and took a closer look to confirm that it was not dyed white.
With the technology at this time, it was simply impossible to have a dye that could dye the hair roots white.
In the past, some barbarians offered white auspiciousness as tribute, but after being infected, there will no longer be such a white existence.
"It's actually true!"
Liu Yu turned to look at Wang Chang's general who came to pay tribute, and then asked.
"How did you get this white bear?"
Upon hearing the emperor's question, Yin Xian swallowed hard and then carefully explained the whole story.
The civil servants and generals in the palace all heard an interesting story, but Liu Yu was greatly touched when he heard this.
According to what the Han army general named Yin Xian said, the savage tribes who drove the big deer should be the primitive fishing and hunting tribes living north of the Waixing'an Mountains.
If these primitive tribes go further north, they may come into contact with polar bears.
The fact that these tribes can transport a white bear to the Sushen people's territory in the Blackwater area for trade shows that they have already communicated with each other.
It can even be said that these tribes knew that the Sushen people must like this kind of white bear, so they transported it here regardless of the hard work.
In this way, the tribes in the north and south of Blackwater are not as isolated as imagined.
Since there is communication between each other, there can be a basis for establishing rule.
"Yin Xian, let me ask you, have you seen the situation of those savage tribes with your own eyes, or have you heard from the Sushen people?"
"Reporting to your Majesty, half of what I just said was what I saw with my own eyes, and half was what Sushen himself described."
"What things have you seen with your own eyes?" Liu Yu asked.
"I once met the 'Yu Deer People' in the Sushen tribe. They have similar customs to the Sushen Fuyu people and have similar looks. However, they don't know that there are written words, and they don't know that there are monarchs and ministers. They only know that the leaders of the tribe interact with each other. The deer he controlled were as tall as oxen. When I returned to Liaodong, I brought two of them back with me. Unfortunately, those big deer were intolerant of heat and died of plague within a few days." Yin Xian said.
When Liu Yu heard this, he immediately felt that his idea was interesting.
These tribes have trade relations with each other, which means they have basic trust in each other.
If there is a treasure land between the white mountains and black waters, then the near-Arctic zone in the Outer Xing'an Mountains farther north is a 'golden land'.
The gold mines there fed countless Tsarist Russian explorers and Cossacks in later generations.
"Yin Xian, if I ask you to lead an army and go to Sushen to establish the Protectorate, do you think you can do the job?"
When Yin Xian heard this, he was immediately stunned.
What an honor it is to establish the Protectorate. It marks that you will become a real feudal official.
The several military governors of the Han Dynasty are all located in the Western Region and Mobei, and none of them is a well-known strongman.
He Yin Xian was just a small military commander, but he was chosen by the emperor?
