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Chapter 772 Muk Country?Have not heard

In Guanzhong in late autumn, the rain that should have fallen in previous years did not fall, and the climate did not look like it would snow at all.

In the area to the northwest of Guanzhong, the situation of land cracking is getting worse, especially in some plain areas.

"The lower reaches of Ruoshui are dry." Ji Chang held in his hand the reports collected recently from the Northwest. The rivers and streams that went out have all turned into dry riverbeds."

Juyanze is composed of two lakes. The lake in the north is larger and the lake in the south is smaller. They have existed since the time when the Han people did not set foot on this land. During the Xiongnu period, they were the lakes of Xiutu, Baiyang and Hunxie. Common grazing area.

There has been no rain for a long time, and the amount of snowfall within two years is very small. The Northwest itself is a plateau area. Anyone who understands geography should understand that the groundwater on the plateau has never been sufficient. It is evaporated again, and once there is a lack of water, it must be a disaster on a large scale.

There are two large lakes and one small lake in the northwest.

The two big lakes are Juyanze and Mingze. They respectively maintain the two large river systems of Ruoshui and Mingshui. At the same time, Ruoshui and Mingshui have many tributaries, which can be regarded as providing water for the northwest. , especially for irrigation systems.

The small lake does not have a proper name, it has been called an oasis for a long time, that is, a lake in the north of Yumen Pass. It is a desert, so it is understandable that it will be named an oasis by the locals.

In the absence of sufficient rainfall, the water levels of Juyanze, Mingze and the oasis are all dropping rapidly, and the linkage is that the riverbeds of the rivers that rely on lakes for water supply are lowering the riverbed.There is not enough water supply in the upstream, and the bottom of the river must be bottomed out in the downstream. It is impossible for people in the downstream to have no shortage of water.

In the tenth year of Yuanshuo (AD [-]), the drought in the northwest is getting worse, Guanzhong and Kanto are also showing signs of drought, the most urgent thing for the Han Dynasty is to deal with the inevitable natural disasters, and there will be inevitable disasters after the drought. A plague of locusts will follow.

"We spread our manpower widely, and we haven't found any signs of locust activity for the time being." Ji Chang said that the detection of locusts was in the direction of the grasslands. Since a drought has broken out in the northwest, the raging locusts will inevitably happen: "No one can figure out why it suddenly happened. There were a lot of locusts."

Locusts tend to water and prefer low-lying areas, and locust plagues are often accompanied by severe droughts, and they migrate from arid areas to low-lying areas that are prone to waterlogging.There is a saying that "there will be locusts in extreme drought" and "there will be locusts in long-term drought".But no one really figured out whether there were so many locusts in the first place, or so many locusts suddenly appeared after the drought.

"I have already ordered people to collect locusts." Cai You looked a little sad, and his majestic internal history of millet management actually presided over a study on how to eat locusts: "It is indeed edible to fry, and it is indeed a delicacy if you dare to eat it."

eat bugs?It’s not that Zhu Xia didn’t have a hobby of eating insects. For example, silkworms were regarded as a kind of food at the beginning. It was only later that the role of silkworms was discovered that silkworms avoided the fate of being on the dining table.

Insect-eating in Southwest China has developed more diversity, including Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, and Ningzhou. There is also a new food culture. Let alone eating insects, it seems that there is nothing that locals dare not eat.

Ji Chang is one of the members who has eaten fried locusts. His ideology made him feel disgusted when he ate them. The psychological rejection dispelled his taste buds.

Cai You was also extremely repulsive to eating bugs. Seeing the faces of his colleagues present, he knew what was going on. He subconsciously covered his mouth and swallowed before continuing: "I have researched the powder, although the taste is not very good. , but if you don’t say it’s locust powder, no one will know what it is.”

"Cough cough..." Sang Yu's face was quite normal, but he coughed twice to show his true inner thoughts: "Your Majesty has something to say, this thing contains a lot of protein and is a nutritious thing."

"I'm ready. Once locusts are found to be rampant, they will be hunted and killed in large numbers." Cai You looked around subconsciously, and then continued: "After the locusts are killed, they will be ground and specially provided to the army."

Cai Youhui subconsciously took a look to confirm that there were no military personnel present, for fear of being attacked and beaten up.

"Send out the army at the time, and then buy from the civilians..., deal with it and provide it to the military." Sang Yu laughed a few times: "Good governance, great good governance."

There was a smile on Ji Chang's gloomy face. He really didn't care about the nutrition of locust powder, as long as he had a countermeasure.

In response to the drought that broke out in the Northwest, the measures given by the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty were to organize people to go to the Western Regions, and then added a way out of the grassland.

It was because the grasslands were included in the natural disaster stop-loss zone that Ran Min led his army out of the grasslands to invade Xigaoche. The grasslands were extremely empty and desolate, and all the tribes that should be exterminated were finished. It was really nothing for people to go to the grasslands. So easy to grab.

There are no hostile tribes on the grassland. Even if someone is grazing, it is a government-run pasture. Is it to go to the grassland to dig grass roots to eat?
Drought plagued the central government of the Han Dynasty, and Xie An did not pay much attention to the victory report. The central bosses, including Liu Yan, were all devastated by the disaster, and there was really no extra energy for the battle in the Western Regions.

"Open Yemo (West Sea) again?" Sang Yu said in a tired voice: "There is a big plain over there, and there is a big lake called Yemo, and the surrounding drought is not so serious. Yemo is close to the plateau, and there has been no human habitation for a long time. There are many wild animals in the wilderness, and then there is abundance of material things.”

Yemo does not belong to the northwest territory, but belongs to the territory of the country Tuyuhun.

Tuyuhun is now called Tuhun. It was founded in [-] A.D. by a branch of Murong Xianbei in Liaodong.The reason why this Murong Xianbei ran from Liaodong to the plateau to establish the country was that they were defeated in the Murong civil war. The name of the country was Tuyuhun because the first generation of the king was called Murong Tuyuhun.

When Murong Tuyuhun founded the country, the name of the country was not actually Tuyuhun, nor was he himself the king of Tuyuhun.After all, Tuyuhun is the name of the lord of the country, how can he use his own name to name the throne.His initial title was King of Henan.

Some time ago, Xie An led his army into Xiqiang Mountain, which is located in the southeast of Tuyuhun. The strange thing is that Tuyuhun did not make any moves from the beginning to the end. It neither sent troops to fight the Han army, nor helped Di who retreated from the Central Plains. and Qiang remnants.It was not until Xie An got rid of those remnants that Tuyuhun sent envoys to Han.

The current ruler of Tuyuhun is Ye Yan, and his father is Tuyan, who is the grandson of Murong Tuyuhun.During the periods of Murong Tuyuhun and Tuyan, they both adopted the title of King of Henan, and it was not until Ye Yan was officially called King Tuyuhun.

The third generation Ye Yan is now very old, and is basically in his grave nine times out of ten. It is precisely because of this that he did not respond in time to the approaching Han army.During the period of sending an envoy to the Han Dynasty, Ye Yan was actually seriously ill, and the country was handed over to his eldest son Suixi to manage it.

The Han Kingdom has already contacted the Tuyuhun envoys. The official name given by the Tuyuhun side is that they call themselves the Muk Kingdom, and the ruler is the King of Henan.The Han Dynasty also found that they spoke Chinese very well, and the characters they used were also Chinese characters. Even some etiquettes were the same as those of Zhu Xia. The only difference was in dressing.

No matter what changes have occurred in Zhu Xia's clothes since the Zhou Dynasty, they will not be left-fronted clothes anyway, and they have always been right-fronted clothes.This item of clothing design will later become part of the distinction between Hua and Barbarians.

Of course, the name of the Muke Kingdom is fake. During Ye Yan's time, this Murong tribe had already taken the official name of the country, which was the name of the current leader Ye Yan's grandfather, Tuyuhun, and even changed the title of the king.

Not only did Tuyuhun give a false name of the country, but he even concealed his own origin, even if he was stupid, he still used the title of King of Henan.At first, the Han Kingdom thought it was an inexplicable country, but some clues were found from the title of the King of Henan.

Murong Tuyuhun's title of King of Henan was not self-proclaimed, but was bestowed by the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty bestowed many titles on the leaders of the Hu people. For example, Murong Xin was named King of Yan, Shi Hu was named King of Zhao, and Li Shi was named Marquis of Shu.

Such a situation will happen because although the Sima family lost the Central Plains, the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms still has a certain deterrent legacy for the Hu people.At the beginning, even though the Hu people pushed the Jin State of Sima's family to the ground and beat them, they still recognized the status of Sima's family as Zhengshuo.After Murongxin stopped the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Hu people didn't like the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty much.

When Lu Yi learned that Tuyuhun had used a false country name to send an envoy, he was furious and wanted to imprison them, and indeed he imprisoned those from Tuyuhun.At present, those people are still eating in prison, and there is not even a single person who has reported back.

Tuyuhun's behavior is currently an extremely bad deception, serious enough for Han to justifiably launch a war of annihilation, but isn't Han currently troubled by natural disasters?
At the same time, there are quite a lot of wars going on in the Han Dynasty. The biggest overseas war is with the Gupta Dynasty. The northeast side is also cleaning up the remnants of Tuoba, Murong and Donggaoche, and the west is recovering the Western Regions.

The obvious thing is that no matter how aggressive Liu Yan is, with so many ongoing wars and natural disasters that have already erupted, he should take it easy.

Since it is impossible to launch a war of annihilation against Tuyuhun, one cannot but take the deception seriously. Otherwise, where is the dignity of the country?Sang Yu's suggestion to regard Yemoye as a place to stop the loss of natural disasters is a means of deceiving the Han Dynasty against Tuyuhun.

"Have you considered their reaction?" Ji Chang had nothing to object to taking revenge on Tuyuhun, that was an extreme political correctness.What he needs to care about is what will happen to the Han people after they pass by: "Yemo is indeed a fertile land, and it is precisely because of this that there must be many tribes inhabiting it."

But Sang Yu let out a chuckle: "Li Kuang led his troops into the Western Regions, and they encountered the coalition forces of various countries and won many battles. The Han people who are also armed are young and strong, so there is no reason that those savages can compete."

The Central Center didn't pay much attention to the war in the Western Regions. Li Kuang's standing army of one division and [-] armed young men could easily take down the Western Regions Allied Forces. When Xie An arrived later, he even wiped out the Western Regions Allied Forces in Bailongdui without any effort.

The troops going to the Western Regions fought so smoothly, how could the center pay attention to it?Associated with this is a kind of self-confidence that "the big man is indeed invincible in the world", feeling that if you want to deal with someone, you need to consider the cost, and you don't have to worry about whether you can win or not.

"That's right." Lu Yi put aside the differences between the North and the South this time, and chose to echo Sang Yu's words: "The people are fugitives, mixed with Qiang to establish a country. Most of their tribes live in scattered nomads. Yemo Plain is rich in water and grass. There must be a lot of livestock.”

The territory that Tuyuhun currently occupies is Qingyihai, which is second only to the Hetao with abundant water and grass, and it is also a very suitable place for grazing.

The tribe of Murong Xianbei had only a few thousand people when they migrated, but it has increased to tens of thousands of people in the past few decades. Apart from annexing some Qiang tribes, they live in high-quality land and can provide stable The source of food is one of the factors of population explosion.

At present, there is no shortage of war horse breeding bases in the Han Dynasty. If the great plain of Qinghai was discovered in the Western Han Dynasty, it would definitely not even want to occupy it directly, so as not to have to shed blood and waste national power to fight with the Huns to snatch the pasture.

In the following dynasties, as long as they knew the existence of the Qinghai Great Plain, they basically tried their best to control it, and no one dared to lose this high-quality horse-producing land easily.

"Since Zishen and Yanzhi have the same opinion..." Ji Chang sighed helplessly before continuing: "The three of us will jointly report to the emperor."

It is not easy to be a housekeeper in the Han Dynasty. There are constant wars all year round, and the production is basically consumed in various wars. Ji Chang, who is 41 years old this year and should be in his prime, has gray temples. He looks like he is in his 50s. Believe it.

"Prime Minister." Sang Yu respected Ji Chang, and said softly, "The grasslands are barren and nothing can be obtained. Only the Western Regions are not enough to stop losses, and Ye Mo is good governance."

Didn't Ji Chang know that it is good governance to give the people one more way out?But he had to consider Tuyuhun's reaction, and he also thought that Tuyuhun must use the power of the whole country to resist.

After all, the Han people went to Yemo with the purpose of robbing Yemo, which would inevitably turn Yemo into a war-torn Shura land. There was no reason for the Tuyuhun people to not resist when they were robbed.

With Tuyuhun's rebellion, the Han Kingdom had another front. The deployment of the standing army became an inevitable response, and various resources that were already in short supply had to be diverted. Can Ji Chang be helpless?

"The big man is at the height of his power, and no one can stand out." Lu Yi also comforted Ji Chang: "Prime Minister, please be at ease. Using war to support war will only increase income."

Even though Ji Chang had thousands of words, in the end he could only turn them into: "I hope so."

(End of this chapter)