Chapter 473
Zhuge Liang is obviously a person who is much more self-disciplined in life than Li Su. His premature death in history was just because of overwork, not because of unhealthy living habits.
So in this life, if Zhuge Liang had no need or power to grasp the country's affairs, he would rather do his own things well and cultivate his character in a relatively comfortable way. He might not be able to enjoy his whole life like Sima's old turtle.
What's more, Zhuge Liang has been eating "goji sauce" made from citrus (guaiju) a few years ago. He thought it was delicious and could be eaten as jam all year round. That thing was later turned into a "liver protection treasure" that was fooled by Koreans in the future. It would be even more difficult for Zhuge Liang to explode his liver again.
Zhuge Liang, who has such a healthy living habit, ate mutton ramen and garlic leaves, leeks, flowers and radishes in Yinchuan City. Even if he is angry, he will not vent his anger. What's more, he has a pure gay relationship with Huang Yueying, and Huang Yueying is still too young.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang only replenishes but not vents. Finally, when he was sent to Huchuquan, he was almost full of energy like a person who did not go wild after eating Wushisan.
Li Su sent him a special tin four-wheel caravan. Zhuge Liang thought it was troublesome and acted slowly. He personally rode a good horse to his life, and there were still many opportunities to ride a four-wheel caravan in the future, so it was not bad this time.
During the past few days of wandering and repairing in Yinchuan City, Zhuge Liang even got into the brains of magic change because he was too energetic.
He felt that although Li Su's four-wheeler was huge and safe, he could hold many things, and it was fine to live in a house and had luxurious facilities. However, the movement was not fast enough and was not suitable for inspecting the enemy situation on the battlefield. So, if you have the chance in the future, it would be better to make a quicker four-wheeler yourself.
Dian Wei, who was responsible for escorting Zhuge Liang, was actually a little depressed, but for Li Su's orders, he would not reveal it openly.
After all, he is now the "General of the Guardian", which is equivalent to the stage when Zhao Yun became the "General of the Yi Army" in history. After all, he can be considered a miscellaneous general. It would be too frustrating to protect a 16-year-old Lingtai Order with a rank of 600 stones.
If Li Sujue hadn't invited Zhuge Liang to use the flags that were used by the Huns General, at least he would have helped Dian Wei find a way out.
"Look at whether Zhuge Liang has the eloquence and persuasion of the Right General when he arrived at Huchuquan. If Zhuge Liang was indeed extraordinary in diplomatic talent and could impress the four barbarians like the Right General, this matter would be fine. If he was unable to embarrass the Han Dynasty, he would have to secretly tell the brothers in the army after he returned."
Dian Wei thought to himself. He would still not do such things as not giving Zhuge Liang face, and Li Su would not be able to get over it. But if the task fails, it would be normal for a private story about the ugly appearance of his failed colleague.
It’s like in a unit where everyone works diligently, but a guy who is as fast as a rocket has been promoted to airborne as a leader, but he even messed up the matter. How can the people below avoid gossiping behind their backs? Will they gloat when eating in the cafeteria?
On the fifth day of the April 19th, Zhuge Liang and his party were about to enter the grassland of Shuofang County at the northern junction of Beidi County and Shang County. As expected by intelligence, they finally found the grazing camp of Huchuquan.
This broken place really doesn’t even have a place name because there is no county town nearby.
The Huns also lived by water and grass. They came here to herd sheep in spring, and at most they ate the grass near late summer. In autumn, the land with only grass roots and seeds left to rest, and they may not even be able to come here next year.
However, if we apply the map of later generations, this place should be considered a banner under Ordos. Anyway, it is no longer Ningxia or northern Shaanxi, but slightly penetrated into Inner Mongolia. Who made the theoretical area of Beidi County in this era too large, and it can occupy 40% of the entire Hetao area?
If it were more than a thousand years later, the grassland degenerated due to excessive grazing in the Hetao grassland, and it would have been almost desertified, and it was even closer to the north than the Mu Us Desert. During the Han Dynasty, the ecological environment here was good, and the grass could grow every year.
Hu Chuquan also received news, knowing that the King of Hanzhong sent someone to talk to him about the new round of profit distribution. He was already resentful that Ma Chao occupied the most fertile grassland along the Yellow River in Beidi County and changed farming and established a new Yinchuan County.
However, at that time, he had not allowed his subordinates to go there to grazle. Strictly speaking, Ma Chao occupied a "borderless land where no one was grazing sheep at that time", so it was difficult for Huchuquan to attack directly.
Now that the Han envoy comes to his door, he has to speak up.
Zhuge Liang wore a crane cloak and a folding fan, and asked the followers to keep the tent outside the tent. He calmly entered the tent with Dian Wei and said a few greetings that were neither humble nor arrogant.
Hu Chuquan asked in an equal manner: "What is the Han envoy from here?"
Zhuge Liang: "I came to inform Shanyu that the Liangzhou Mu Guan Yu submitted a report to the court and established a new Yinchuan County in the lower reaches of Lanzhou County, Liangzhou. By the way, the boundary between the five Hetao counties in Yongzhou and Liangzhou was clarified."
Huchuquan was so angry that he was so angry: this was obviously divided up from the Beidi County, and when Zhuge Liang said, how could Guan Yu set up a new county in the uninhabited land, and then he had to deal with the dispute between the Xin County and the originally Beidi County.
However, Huchuquan has no culture and is not good at speaking. He can't tell the reason for this kind of geographical boundary survey. Especially if he doesn't understand history, if you ask him to prove that "that place has belonged to the Beidi County since ancient times", he can't find any evidence.
Hu Chuquan refused to suffer the loss of being uneducated, so he immediately called the guards under the tent and asked them to invite a civilian staff member.
After a while, a young civil servant under the curtain of Huchuquan came, named Fu Gan, who was a native of Beidi County and was twenty-one years old this year.
The Fu Gan family is also famous on this acre of three-point land in Beidi County. His father Fu Xie was a Sima of the other unit in the Liangzhou army of Huangfu Song.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the first year of Zhongping, Huangfu Song took the Xiliang army to Guandong to pacify Zhangjiao, and also led Fu Xie to defeat the Yellow Turban in the Battle of Cangting in Hebei. The biggest Qu generals of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, Bu Ji, and Zhang Bo, were captured by Fu Xie.
However, after the Yellow Turbans were wiped out, Fu Xie returned to the Western Liang Army. Later, when the unpopular Liangzhou Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, attacked Han Sui, because Geng Bi's army was in chaos, Geng Bi's other army, Sima Ma Teng, also abandoned Geng Bi, resulting in Fu Xie's death in the chaos army.
It was eight years ago that Fu Xie died in battle. At that time, Fu Gan was not thirteen years old. Six years later, Liu Bei successfully made the Northern Expedition and temporarily granted Beidi County to Huchuquan to grazing soldiers and restrained the pseudo-Chhanyu of the Southern Xiongnu. Since Fu Gan was the most famous scholar in the poor place of Beidi County, he was 19 years old and had not had the opportunity to become an official, so he was naturally recruited by Huchuquan as an aide.
Huchuquan, a Huchuquan, could not get a more qualified literati to join him, and could only find literati who had not yet been appointed. Fu Gan used it for him and thought it was also considered to be a service for the court. Anyway, Huchuquan was appointed to serve the king under the order of Liu Bei, so it was nothing to help him, so he made a living.
At this moment, Hu Chuquan roughly told Fu Gan about Zhuge Liang's quibbling and asked Fu Gan to come up with evidence "since ancient times" to refute it. Fu Gan just discussed the matter and said:
"Zhuge Lingshi, the western boundary of this Beidi County has been bounded by the Yellow River since ancient times. According to records in the Book of Han, there were immigrants and settled Diannong during the reign of Emperor Wu. In the late Han Dynasty, in the third year of Emperor Cheng's Yangshuo, the "Beidiannong City" was clearly built, which belonged to Beidi County. It estimated that its former location was roughly the location where General Ma rebuilt the city in Yinchuan County.
Therefore, at least the part of Yinchuan County land on the east bank of the Yellow River has undoubtedly been the land of Beidi County since Emperor Cheng of Han. How could the theory of occupying land and demarcating boundaries again on the uninhabited land?"
Zhuge Liang shook the handle of the folding fan slightly, thinking that he could not underestimate the civil servants under Huchuquan. Although the Huns were not educated, since they appeared in the image of Zhao'an, there would still be Han scholars who defected to him.
I don’t know about this Fu Gan’s other level, but his basic skills in history books are still solid.
At least the Book of Han is very familiar. What happened in the "Three Years of Yangshuo of Emperor Cheng of Han" have been quoted from classics and I probably memorized the chronology of the Han Dynasty's emperor's major events.
"I didn't expect that the reading method of "pure" like ordinary nerds is also useful. This kind of reading method is useful when searching for chapters and quoting sentences and quoting classics. My reading method of "looking at the general idea" is not suitable for this kind of mission negotiation that is careful about details." Zhuge Liang reviewed it slightly in his heart.
However, it was only a slight moment. He came this time and prepared in all aspects.
After all, he is Zhuge Liang. No matter how skilled Fu Gan is in his studies, he will hesitate to think for a few more seconds, which will not have any greater effect.
Zhuge Liang talked jokingly: "Fu Shenjun is quite familiar with historical materials and knows the same great events recorded during the Yangshuo period of Emperor Cheng. But Fu Shenjun can tell that over the past two hundred years, the Yellow River has been changed many times in the Yinchuan Basin and even in the Hetao Shuofang?"
Fu Gan was stunned: "Replace...the Yellow River has been changed? Since ancient times, I only knew that the lower reaches of the Yellow River have been changed, but from the upper reaches of Mengjin, Luoyang, there is a river channel between Shaanxi Gorges, and I never knew that the upper reaches would also change the Yellow River."
Zhuge Liang shook his head and sighed: "Of course, the upper reaches of the Yellow River will also be diverted. Only those mountains are surrounded by hard riverbeds, and the riverbed is hard, so it is difficult to divert. Once the river flows out of the mountains and enters the low-lying and fertile basin plains, there are no farmers who maintain water conservancy all year round. Once the silt on the riverbed accumulates, it gradually increases above the two sides of the straits, it is natural to divert the way...
We can even speculate that Diannong North City was set up during the reign of Emperor Cheng, and then gradually became deserted. Although at the rebellion between the Han Dynasty, after Wei Xiang was destroyed by Emperor Guangwu of Liangzhou, Wei Xiang was left with abandoned places.
But if the land in Yinchuan County is so fertile that after the imperial government loses control over the local area, it should continue to subsist in the land and do not even have to pay taxes. Wouldn't it be wonderful?
Even with such superior ruling conditions, the local area gradually abandoned the military farms. It was obvious that no one organized the construction of water conservancy dredging embankments for a long time, which led to the diversion of the Yellow River to destroy the fertile land home. Nowadays, several silted lakes in the east of Yinchuan County can be proved. I brought a map for this trip..."
Fu Gan didn't know how to refute the geographical part, so he could only pick a few historical points on the matter, just like he was catching a life-saving straw to refute: "After Wei Xiang's destruction, the desolation of Diannong North City may be related to the Qianghu and Xianbei. Maybe the local Han people could not bear the nomadic disturbances and retreated to Jincheng County along the Yellow River..."
Zhuge Liang: "Impossible. The complete abandonment of Diannong North City was not in the early years of the Later Han Dynasty, but after the two emperors of Mingzhang. At that time, the general Dou Xian had already defeated the Hulu and defeated the Northern Xiongnu to Yanran Mountain. The "Dongguan Han Ji" clearly states that it is not recommended to the nomadic cause, it is to change the route of the Yellow River. I have other evidence..."
Of course Fu Gan had never read the "Dongguan Han Ji" mentioned by Zhuge Liang, because it happened after Ban Gu's death who wrote the "Han Shu". Folk scholars like Fu Gan can only see the historical materials of the previous generation that have been finalized.
When Dou Xian attacked the Northern Xiongnu and arrived in Yanran Mountain, he brought Ban Gu. How could Ban Gu leave any words to describe what happened after his own death?
Nowadays, all the original materials of "The Legend of the East Guan Han" are in the hands of Cai Yong and Cai Yan and his daughter. Fu Gan can't read them even if he wants to "read history books well". What are you doing with "since ancient times"?
After Zhuge Liang easily abused several arguments, he said with confidence: "... Regardless of the above, we can not mention how the Yellow River changes its route. It is just that only those who are virtuous live in the land of the four barbarians. The Han people have cultivated and managed it and made it a familiar land, so that it is worth entering the territory.
If you live in a nomadic way to rush water and plants, plunder the land without knowing how to raise it, and just seek it, how can you talk about territory? Even if someone once had farmed land, it had become an uninhabitable barren land when water conservancy was disrepaired. It was General Ma Boqi who brought the corvee-service people to rebuild water conservancy and rectify the land, so that this place became mature land and was placed in the clear border of Yinchuan County. What's wrong?
There were no counties and counties west of Beidi County since ancient times, and the boundaries were blurred. This time, a new county was set up in the east of Lanzhou County to establish agriculture and animal husbandry, confirm rights and responsibilities, and settle disputes and stop disputes. Wouldn't it be wonderful?"
The more Fu Gan said, the more speechless he felt that he was really ignorant, and he didn't know how to refute it. However, he was still very smart and justly fought for Hu Chuquan for a last fight: "But... even if all these are right, when the Yellow River was changed direction in Yinchuan County, it might not have changed eastward. This..."
Zhuge Liang: "Not to mention that I have just argued that whether the Yellow River goes east or west, it will not affect our conclusion today. The Yellow River's lost revision path has turned the local area into a homeless place again. But if you have to argue this, it's OK. I will teach you some common sense in water conservancy physics..."
Zhuge Liang talked endlessly and wanted to start from "How should the deflection force of the northern hemisphere affect the river erosion of river banks", starting from "Shangshu Yao Dian", down to "Shan Hai Jing", and "Shui Jing" (I just wrote Cai Yan when she gave birth to a baby in Chengdu two years ago. In order to make Li Su's mistaken citation of the "Shui Jing Notes" that did not exist, he had to let his wife actually write a "Shui Jing")
Poor Fu Ganba doesn't understand physics knowledge. How could he be the opponent of Zhuge Liang, a geological debate like Zhuge Liang, who holds a gun and stick, and takes physics to geology to bless the geology.
Not to mention Fu Gan, you are just looking for a high school liberal arts candidate in the 21st century. Even if you have to take the geography exam, as long as this person studies geography by rote memory and fails physics courses, then debate these issues with Zhuge Liang will also fail.
Zhuge Liang, who was trained by Li Su, has learned a little bit from the analogy and has a strong ability to solve problems from multiple angles.
A bit similar to Pandora's box after it was opened, no one knew how much evolutionary potential the monsters in the box had. Even Li Su himself could not control the growth limit of this academic master he trained.
Hu Chuquan was even more stunned as if he had been Tianshu next to him. Finally, he couldn't help but feel that he was really unreasonable. He was embarrassed to let Fu Gan speak again, and he actually played the role of a peacemaker:
"Fu Jun, thank you for speaking out for your righteousness. But I have also heard what you said. The Han envoys made a clear sense of justice. Ben Shanyu was really ashamed of the facts. The small matters of the Shanyu no longer questioned. Yinchuan County should have been built by General Ma. Let me tell you what other requirements did the King of Hanzhong have."
After saying that, Hu Chuquan seemed to remember some long-standing memories.
"This feeling... is a bit familiar. By the way, nine years ago, my father Khan shared the letter of help from Li Youjun that he received from the old King of Yan to share with me and my elder brother, and the elder brother and I also felt this way..."
I was obviously the party who suffered a loss, but why did I feel that I had become the party who owed the other party, or at least took advantage of the situation?
Chapter completed!