manynovel Chapter 314
Chapter 314
As Li Guanghong grew older little by little, he slowly understood many things.
First of all, the small city he lives in is called Quli City, which is the royal seat of the Quli Kingdom, nominally under the dual jurisdiction of the Han Empire and the Quli royal family, in fact, the Quli royal family has almost no power, and it is just a false name.
And his father's name was Li Shi, an official sent by the Han Empire to the Western Regions-Quli Tuntian Deputy Envoy and Light Car Commander, with 300 regular soldiers and several auxiliary soldiers, subordinate to the Western Regions Tuntian Envoy and Tuntian Captain Lord Zheng Song, and Lord Zheng was subordinate to the Western Regions Ambassador of the Han Empire and Wuwei Zuo Commander.
Since Lord Zheng's seat of government was located in Luntai, he would not come to Quli City more than three times a year, so his father Li Shi became the highest military and political official in charge of military and civil affairs in Quli City in the Han Empire, and was the de facto city guard.
Quli City is bordered by the end of the southeast and the end of the city, the south and the Jingjue, the west has the river, and the Guzi is 580 li, with superior location and convenient transportation, it is a necessary place for east-west exchanges, and it is also one of the two wedges of the Han Empire controlling the vast western regions - one is the quli, and the other is the wheel platform.
Quli City is located three miles east of the Peacock River, and the river flows around the northwest and south sides of the city, forming a small river loop, so this place has always been fertile. With the continuous victory of the Han army in the Western Regions in the past ten years, the situation around Quli City has become more and more stable, attracting a large number of farmers in Longxi and Kanto areas to migrate here, at the same time, with the growing momentum of the Han Empire, there are many small tribes around, the whole clan moved east, fled to the camp, and was placed in the area around Quli City nomadic herding and reclamation.
In recent years, under Li Shi's painstaking management, as a large amount of farmland was reclaimed, the grain output in the Quli area has risen year by year, from less than 50,000 stone (Note 1) to nearly 400,000 stone, which is known as the granary of the Western Regions.
Quli City has a circumference of two miles, which is a very large city in the Western Regions, with 130 households and nearly 1,500 people in the city, these are only all kinds of merchants sitting on the ground in the city and merchants and craftsmen who operate inns, restaurants, liquor shops, medical halls, blacksmith shops and other businesses, and there are farms, orchards, horse farms of different sizes, and even horse fleets specializing in undertaking freight around the city. The camel caravan, plus the Zhuangzi of Tuntian, and the people under his father Li Shi's rule, are close to 30,000 people, which is a very powerful force in the Western Regions!
This is not counting the nomadic herdsmen, the caravans that pass by all year round, and the large and small envoys who pass by, these travelers who pass through the city with various purposes usually rest here for ten and a half days, on the one hand, to replenish all kinds of supplies and materials, so that the tired horses, The camels and the fellows regained their strength well for the more difficult journey ahead, and on the other hand, it was also here for the final trade, according to the present market, unloading the goods that were not very profitable, and turning them to buy some valuable goods, so as to maximize the profits of the trip....
Since
the old man Zhang Qian and Zhang Ziwen of Bowanghou unimpeded the countries of the Western Regions, there has been an endless stream of envoys sent by the Han Empire to various parts of the Western Regions, and envoys sent by the Western Regions countries to Chang'an, and merchants of various ethnic groups have also frequently traveled between the interior and the Western Regions.
Due to the sparse population, difficult roads, years of conquests, and rampant banditry, messengers and merchants who traveled frequently suffered casualties.
In order to ensure the safety of this important traffic artery, in the fourth year of the early Taichu Dynasty (Note 2), the emperor of the Han Empire issued an edict to set up a captain of the Tuntian envoys of the Western Regions, leading hundreds of soldiers and soldiers to eliminate bandits in the Tuntian Jigu Valley around Luntai and Quli, so as to supply the envoys and pawns of the Western Regions, guard the roads by the way, appease the places, and turn into all sides, so as to deter disrespect!
These 300 soldiers, each with iron armor, one sword, one spear, and one bow, three flying axes, six short spears, and several iron-tipped feathers and arrows, each of them was equipped with three horses, two of which were war horses that could be used for rotation, and one was a pack horse that carried armor and food and grass, and could travel hundreds of miles a day during a rapid march!
Whenever Li Shi's army attacked, thousands of horses neighed, hooves rolled, and the noise was magnificent!
These soldiers were mainly elite men recruited from the Li family in Longxi, and local Hu warriors recruited by Li Shi, accounting for about half of each, so in the official military register, only the 150 soldiers reported by Quli City could be seen, in fact, Li Shi's real strength was twice as many as recorded!
You know, to support such a soldier, people eat horses and chew, you need to consume 100 stones of grain a year, 300 elite soldiers, you need to consume 30,000 stones of grain, it is really not a small burden, anyway, the imperial court only bears the consumption of the sergeants on the military register, as long as they can raise it, how much Li Shi loves to recruit, no one cares.
The reason why Li Shi had to raise so many more soldiers was to talk about his family!
Li Shi came from a famous military meritorious family, the Longxi Li clan.
During the Qin Dynasty, the Longxi Li clan had long shouldered the heavy responsibility of guarding the frontiers and resisting the Xiongnu. By the time of the reign of the current emperor, with the fame of the Fei general Li Guang and the political status of the great prime minister Li Cai, the Longxi Li clan was famous all over the world and shocked the Western Regions!
By the time of the Han Dynasty, the Li family had been silently accumulating strength in Longxi, and at the same time became the Longxi clan.
Li Jiaerlang has been stationed in the Western Regions for a long time and has made many meritorious achievements. Needless to say, Li Xin, a general of Qin and Marquis of Longxi, did not mention his merits, and Li Xin's son
was Li Chao, a general of Han. Li Chao's son was Li Zhongxiang, who successively served as the general of Hedong Taishou and Zhengxi. Li Zhongxiang's son was Li Bokao, who successively served as the Taishou of Hedong and Taishou of Longxi. Li Bokao had two sons, the eldest son Li Shang, who served as Cheng Jiling, Li Shang's son was the Fei general Li Guang; the second son Li Xiang, Li Xiang's son was Han Chengxiang and Li Cai, Marquis of Le'an.
However, in the fourth year of Yuangari (Note 3), the sixty-year-old Fei general Li Guang delayed the military plane because he got lost, and committed suicide, and in the fifth year of Yuangari, Li Cai was reported for encroaching on the tomb of Emperor Jing and imprisoned, and he died of humiliation and self-destruction, and since then, the reputation of Longxi Li has been seriously frustrated....
Li Shi was born in the branch of the Longxi Li clan, and according to the generation, he should call Li Guang and Li Cai as clan uncles, and he was regarded as a relatively high ranking person in the Li clan.
However, not commensurate with his generation, his status in the Li family clan was very low.
Li Shi's father was Li Guang's clan brother, more than thirty years younger than Li Guang, who followed General Fei on his expeditions to the Western Regions for many years, while Li Shi's mother was a noble lady of Yanqi, who was captured by his father from a conquest and later accepted as a concubine and gave birth to Li Shi.
Since the Longxi Li clan became Prime Minister Li Cai, the atmosphere of the entire clan has changed.
In the past, the Li clan members diligently studied martial arts since childhood, and when they grew up to be thirteen or fourteen, they would follow their father and brother to go into battle. The brothers Li Guang and Li Cai, when they were thirteen years old, joined the army as sons of a good family to fight Hu, and in order to "use their good bodies to kill many leaders", they were both promoted to the rank of regular attendants of martial arts, and began their respective careers of fighting horses.
However, since Li Cai abandoned Wu to enter politics and was appointed prime minister, the atmosphere of the Li family clan Shangwu changed, and he began to advocate reading. Later, the "Li Ling Incident" occurred, and the people in Longxi were ashamed that Li Ling could not die and affected the family, and the Li family's martial arts style completely declined, and there were no great generals again.
When the main vein of the Li clan in Longxi withered, Li Shi, a half-breed who was not welcomed in the side branches, was a sudden army, only relying on the canal to plow the small city, raising three hundred elite soldiers, and from time to time went deep into the land of the Xiongnu, or chased the north, or beheaded the general to seize the flag, and made some military merits.
However, on the one hand, because the "Li Ling Incident" caused great resentment in the emperor's mind, he was a little disgusted when he heard about the Li family, and on the other hand, Li Shi's status as a half-breed was not welcomed, so Li Shi, who had repeatedly made extraordinary achievements, did not receive the corresponding reward, and was still a light car captain of the qu plow, leading three hundred troops!
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Li Shi's own light car captain was completely bought with his own life.
He followed the tradition of the children of the Li family, and when he was less than fourteen years old, he followed his father into battle to kill the enemy, because of his identity, he was arranged to be in a position of partial edge, and he was free to play and live and die.
As a result, this gave him the opportunity to get ahead, and the first time he went into battle, he killed ten enemies, which can be regarded as the leader among the juniors of the Li family who practiced martial arts at the same time!
Li Shi is tall and big, tiger-backed and bearish, fair, bold personality, quite supported by his corporal pawns, at the same time, because he has half of the Hu blood, high nose and deep eyes, therefore, he is also quite prestigious among the local Hu people, with which he recruited many local Hu people to use him, and trained a peerless elite soldier.
In addition, although Li Shi is a mixed race, but he is very handsome, because he has read books, he does not speak as rude as ordinary generals, and he seems to have both Han elegance and Hu heroism, so he was favored by the Quli royal family and married a princess to him.
Li Shi was unhappy at first, he himself felt inferior because he had Hu blood, and he didn't want his right wife to be a Hu person, so he refused and insisted on not being allowed many times
! As a result, the princess was not happy, personally ran to his house to theorize, and then successfully persuaded him!
When Li Shi saw it, his heart was moved, and he couldn't care about anything else, from ...
In the year of Li Guanghong's birth, Li Ling, grandson of Li Guang and the leading figure of the younger generation of the Li family, and the lieutenant of the riding capital, surrendered to the Xiongnu because he went deep alone, encountered a great enemy, ran out of food, and could not be rescued
Therefore, Li Shi, who had suffered a lot of grievances, followed the example of the Li family's own sect, did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, and invited a gentleman from Zhangye who was rich and rich to teach Li Guanghong to study, hoping that he could enter the profession with literature!
Zhang Mingshan, also known as Hongyuan, was the native of the famous Bowang Marquis Zhang Qian, who once served as a retinue and followed Bowanghou on his envoys to the Western Regions in the fourth year of Yuangari, and was one of the deputy envoys, successively sent to Kang Ju and Dayue Clan successively, and did not return to Beijing until the fifth year of Yuan Ding.
By the time he returned to Beijing, Bowanghou had died of illness for two years....
It stands to reason that Zhang Mingshan sent the two countries to great merit, and should be rewarded and held a high position, but because he said a fair word for Li Guang, he ended up returning empty-handed and returning to his hometown to study.
After reporting the situation to the emperor, the emperor smiled and asked: "Can the countries of the Western Regions know the power of my Great Han Tianzi?" Zhang Mingshan replied bluntly: "Because of Guang, I know that Han Wei cannot be taken lightly!" The
emperor asked him, can the Western Regions countries now know the majesty of the Great Han Tianzi, right?
Speaking of which he deserved it, the emperor was just joking with him, and he was so serious
that he was purely unhappy! At that time, the emperor was so angry that his face turned blue, and he casually found an excuse to make him go back to his hometown to study....
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Li Guanghong was born in such a family, and he also met such a teacher, you can imagine the rigor
of his education! In this way, under the double blessing of Yan Shi and Yan Father, Li Guanghong developed in an all-round way in the direction of all-round talent in culture and martial arts
! At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he bent his bow and took arrows, swords and guns, and his courage was outstanding! Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang, the four important towns of the Western Regions, all have his talent name
! Except for one point, as he grew older, he slowly began to feel confused about his appearance!
Once, he finally opened his mouth and asked his teacher: "If he looks so different from the Han people, but he looks similar to the Xiongnu and Hu people, then is he a Han or a Hu person?
"Kong Qiu'er has a good saying, it is called 'There is no class in teaching
'!" "Hong'er, you can remember!" "
Wear my clothes, learn my skills, speak my language, write my words, be indoctrinated by me, follow my orders, honor me as a saint, inherit my Taoism, that is, the people of Wuhuaxia, you must not look at people!"