sweeping the world

Chapter 937

"Xijun, you don't have to go out to pick up horse manure all the time when you have a body!"

"*&*...%...%"

"We don't need to pick up horse dung now, I have plenty of room for firewood."

"*&*&...&*%...￥"

Fang Lun sharpened his sword and looked helplessly at his newly married wife. He had emphasized it many times, but he didn't know whether it was because of the language barrier or some other problem. That white-skinned wife would always go out to pick up A big basket of horse manure came back.

The spring in the Western Regions is not warm, and even the snow in some high-altitude places has not melted yet.

This place is not like Fang Lun’s homeland, where you can see green mountains and green waters everywhere. On the contrary, the Gobi can be seen everywhere. It’s not as easy as he said to make wood. It’s just that the Han people who came to settle in this land are completely different from the locals in the Western Regions. no the same.

People from the Western Regions are naturally enthusiastic people, but most of their enthusiasm is only for those they trust, and they treat more people with indifference or coldness.

It has been two years since the Han people entered the Western Regions on a large scale. Most of the people who came here before made a fortune and chose to return to their hometowns. A small number of people stayed because of various reasons. Fang Lun was one of those who chose to stay.

The Han people who stayed in the Western Regions knew very well that they were in a foreign land, and they also knew the attitude of the local Western Regions people towards the Han people. Unity and mutual assistance were the foundation of their foothold.

The village on the edge of the Gobi has over a hundred Han settlers, all of whom chose to stay in the Western Regions, and were resettled by the Western Regions Protectorate in this newly built village.

"I'll drive the sheep out in a while." Fang Lun gestured and imitated the "bleat" sound of the sheep. After seeing Buyi nod, he continued: "After I go out, you can go to the village to continue. Learn characters."

Buyi nodded ignorantly, it seemed that he didn't know if he understood?

Fang Lun would choose to stay instead of returning to his hometown, because there is nothing in his hometown that he can nostalgia for, his family members died in the war, and he has no house or land of his own. Outside the county, wherever you stay, you stay.

There are many reasons for Fang Lun to choose to stay in the Western Regions. When Han Chinese choose to stay here, the military will be very enthusiastic about arranging houses or helping to build houses from scratch. The same military merits can also be distributed to far more people than in their hometowns. soil of.It was a woman from the Western Regions named Buyi who finally made him decide to stay.

The acquaintance between Fang Lun and Buyi was very bloody. In fact, a group of people rushed into the village where Buyi lived and started burning, killing and looting.

The six of them entered the village fully armed, thinking that they would kill a man as usual, and indeed they killed a few at the beginning, but they rushed out of the nearly hundred cavalry, and they knew in an instant that they were kicked. The iron plate or ambushes, seeing the situation is not good, naturally choose to retreat.

The retreat was not so smooth. Two people did not even escape from the village. Fang Lun was shot and fell off his horse during the escape. Unfortunately, he became a prisoner.

Fang Lun's experience as a prisoner was not good, and he was humiliated and beaten by the gang of horse thieves.

At that time, this girl from the Western Regions named Buyi had been quietly delivering food and water to Fang Lun.

The two of them couldn't understand the language, so they didn't know why Buyi would do this. Fang Lun only found out later that Buyi had a deep blood feud with those horse thieves.

Since Fang Lun is still alive, it is natural that the gang of horse thieves ushered in a catastrophe.It was his escaped partner who brought the army of the Protectorate of the Western Regions. According to the clues left by the horse thieves, he found the old lair to encircle and suppress the group of horse thieves. What was more dangerous was that he was almost killed, if Buyi hadn't killed him by knocking him unconscious with a stick His horse thief, today his bones can be used to beat drums.

The Protectorate of the Western Regions not only wiped out the group of horse thieves, but also the people from the Western Regions in that village were retaliated, either killed or arrested.Buyi, who is also from the Western Regions, also became one of the trophies of the army. Fortunately, Fang Lun gave her testimony.

In this place in the Western Regions, any act of being an enemy of the Han people will not end well, even if the Han people rob and encounter resistance.If you want to say something, you can only blame those people from the Western Regions for having the wrong birth.

As the only person in the village from the Western Regions who helped the Han people, Buyi will receive a generous reward and a "good citizen certificate".

With that good citizen certificate, Buyi can be endorsed by the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and he can choose to live and work in any part of the Western Regions, instead of becoming a dead person or a slave like those arrested Western Regions people.

In the land of the Western Regions, there is only one institution that is qualified to issue a "good citizen certificate", and naturally it is the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

There will be such a thing as a "good citizen certificate", mainly because of the different treatment of people from the Western Regions, so as to attract more people from the Western Regions to serve the Han people.

The Western Regions is now under military control, and there are no counties and counties. The Protectorate of the Western Regions is an institution that integrates military and government affairs. They can intervene in everything in the Western Regions.

Now that Buyi has become Fang Lun's wife, it means that there is still a story in the follow-up. It is nothing more than a process in which a Han man takes care of a girl from the Western Regions in many ways, and the two get together later.

If it is written in a storybook or adapted into a movie or a serial drama, Fang Lun and Buyi will not lack the necessary elements in many literary works from their acquaintance to becoming husband and wife: male and female protagonists, different nationalities, men in order to spread civilization, and women have tragic pasts. A gang of villains, a team of brave and skilled masters, and the hero and heroine finally come together.

The stories of Fang Lun and Buyi did not come to an end after coming together, they still have a long follow-up.

The Han Chinese came to the Western Regions this time, which was completely different from the previous few times.

It was during the Western Han Dynasty that the Han people set foot in the Western Regions for the first time.At that time, the Western Regions were a colony of the Huns. At the beginning, the Han people did not stick out their fangs. On the contrary, the Han people came here with friendship.

The Western Han Empire began to show its fangs to the Western Regions after the Battle of Hexi was over. The next step of the Western Han Empire, which opened up the Hexi Corridor, was naturally to drive the Huns away from the Western Regions. Naturally, it should not only use goodwill to impress the Western Regions, but should Let people in the Western Regions know that Han people have big sticks besides radishes.

The two "Dawan Wars" made the people of the Western Regions understand the strength of the Western Han Empire. It happened that the Xiongnu had to flee far away. Then the Western Han Empire established the Wuji Xiaowei Department in the Western Regions for the first time, and later established the Western Regions. It became the sphere of influence of the Han people.

The Western Han Empire collapsed, and the Han people for a long time ignored the Western Regions at all. Although the new dynasty established by Wang Mang still had the Protectorate of the Western Regions, it actually existed in name only.

Waiting for Liu Xiu to establish the Eastern Han Empire, the Han people marched into the Western Regions for the second time, but this time the Han people were far more domineering than in the Western Han Dynasty.

The domineering power of the Eastern Han Dynasty to regain control of the Western Regions is reflected in many aspects. There is no tens of thousands of troops advancing, some are just an envoy plus dozens of soldiers, often enter a certain king's palace like that, and after reading the imperial edict, draw out the sword and roar. "Dangzhu" killed the king who disobeyed the Eastern Han Empire, and appointed someone who was close to the Eastern Han Empire as the new king.

One envoy and dozens of soldiers dared to do that. It was established during the Western Han Empire that it left enough impressions on the people of the Western Regions. To put it bluntly, the prestige of the Han Empire was very useful in the Western Regions. war.

Unfortunately, there was another civil strife at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and once again lost control of the Western Regions. It was still waiting for Cao Cao to unify the North, and the next generation of Cao Pi established the Wei State to control the Western Regions again.

The Western Jin Dynasty established by the Sima family inherited control of the Western Regions from Cao Wei, but the control of the Western Regions by the Sima family was worse than that of the Cao Wei period. Later, it experienced five random chaos, which made the Western Regions out of the control of the Han people for a long time. up.

The Han Empire established by Liu Yan is regarded as the fifth large-scale invasion of the Western Regions by the Han people.

This time the Han people treated the Western Regions far more harshly than the previous four times. This happened because the Han people desperately needed to absorb nutrients, and the methods naturally couldn't be too gentle.

The Western Regions has never been a unified place. Even if it has been controlled again and again, there are still many kingdoms, city-states, and tribes, and the number of ethnic groups is far beyond imagination.

The complicated situation led to entanglements among the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions.

Now that the Han people are pouring into the Western Regions, doing all kinds of things like burning, killing and looting, it stands to reason that the people of the Western Regions should unite to deal with the Han people, right?But it doesn't.

That has something to do with the Han people’s policy of burning, killing, and looting everyone. Some kingdoms and city-states that know the current affairs are only being gently “sucked” by the Han people. Tribes are not distinguished.

The Han people's approach to tribes with migratory habits is very simple. If they find one, they will destroy the other.This is because those tribes keep moving and think it is difficult to control, which is a very bad unstable factor, and the best way to eliminate the unstable factor must be to eliminate it.

In fact, among the tribes that maintain migration habits in the western regions, at least seven out of ten are horse thieves. Absolutely.

"Xijun." Fang Lun finished sharpening the knife, put it in the scabbard, stood up, and said while packing the tools for herding sheep, "I'm going out."

Buyi has been called Xijun for a long time, but he didn't know that it was a Han man's name for his wife. He thought that his name translated into Chinese would be Xijun, or the Han name given to him by his husband.

Soon, Fang Lun drove about thirty sheep out of the sheepfold, and drove the flock out of the gate surrounding the house with a whimper.

Buyi trotted a few steps to the side of the fence, watched Fang Lun drive away the flock of sheep, looked back at his own house.

This is a house covering an area of ​​about [-] square meters. The surrounding fence was built with the help of the villagers, and the house was built by the engineering team of the Western Region Protectorate.

A fence surrounds the entire house, and there is a gate on the south and north sides, which divides it into a front yard and a back yard.

According to the habits of the Han people, the distribution of the courtyard is that a pavilion will be set up in the front yard, and eating is usually in the pavilion. In addition to the pavilion, there will be an open space, which is usually used for something; there must be a pavilion in the backyard. In the vegetable garden, the livestock and poultry raised at home will also build corresponding huts, houses, and pens.

The language barrier with her husband is not a problem. Buyi is very satisfied with her current life, and she is also working hard to understand every word her husband says.

No, perhaps it should be said that Bouyie's current life is far beyond all his imagination of beauty.She thinks that Han men are the best husbands in the world, who can take care of others, are willing to work, and have the ability to protect the family, which is a quality that is hard to find in men from the Western Regions.

"Buy!"

"Lisa?"

"Is your husband out?"

"Yes, he went to herd the sheep."

"Then you come out."

"Okay, I'll be right there."

There are more than a hundred families in this village, all of them are Han men who decided to stay in the Western Regions. Most of them married a Western Region woman, and more Han family men chose a Western Region woman as their concubine .

Taking a woman from another race as a concubine is the habit of Han men nowadays. No matter where they are, most Han men will still hope to marry a Han woman as long as their title is high enough.

Taking a concubine first and then marrying a wife is a very common thing for Han people. For example, Lisa is the concubine of a Han man, but according to the understanding of the people in the Western Regions, there is no concubine. Women are distinguished by ranking, that is, No. 1 wife, No. 2, No. 3... and so on.

Buyi and Lisa came to the village square together. Before they arrived, there were quite a lot of people here, most of them were women.

They sit in rows, and there is a wooden tray filled with sand in front of each seat, and they also hold a branch in their hands.

Those are tools for literacy, the branches are naturally used for writing, and the wooden plate filled with sand is used for writing. After each word is written, it can be erased and rewritten.

In addition to the wives and concubines of Han men, there are actually some Han people who do not need to work. Some are adult men, and a small number are children and women. They also come to learn knowledge.

"According to the strokes, write each character several times." Lin Sui's voice was very loud, and he said once in Chinese and in the dialect of the Western Regions: "Wait a while, I will teach some words again."

Lin Sui is actually one of the villagers. It took him nearly half a year to learn the dialect of the Western Regions in this area, and he himself read some books.

When the Protectorate of the Western Regions organized to learn Chinese and write Chinese characters, someone originally sent people over, and later found Lin Sui. After negotiation, Lin Sui was incorporated into the Protectorate of the Western Regions, but not as a soldier on the battlefield, but with In terms of culture and education.

"What is going on in the country to educate mothers is for the next generation, and we can be considered rich." Lin Sui held the water bottle, took a few sips after speaking, and said happily: "Quality mothers can teach better next generation, I think There's nothing wrong with that."

"We don't understand the big truth." Wang Mian said plainly: "I only know that literacy is definitely a good thing!"

(End of this chapter)