During the Tang and Song dynasties, the northern route of the eastern section of the Silk Road was diverted to Lingwu (present-day Yinchuan, Ningxia). Therefore, the camel bells clanged and the horseshoes clicked, all from Lingwu all the way to the western region, transporting Chinese porcelain, tea and silk to distant Europe, and then from Europe back to agate, spices and other goods. Lingwu is the hub of the Silk Road. However, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, all kinds of warlords sang and appeared like marquees, one by one, they were busy fighting fiercely, and the Lingwu also became chaotic, and the Silk Road was blocked. At this time, a general stepped forward and maintained the smooth flow of the Silk Road. He is Feng Hui.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" general > went out of the mountain and made a meritorious contribution</h1>
Feng Hui did not understand the Silk Road, the economy or anything at the beginning, he was just an ordinary soldier, because he was brave in fighting, he slowly rose to captain, and led a group of soldiers to gallop across the battlefield, making a living in the shadow of the sword and light. His official appearance on the stage of history came in a fierce battle.
The emperor at that time was The Later Tang Zhuangzong, who liked acting. Later, Tang Zhuangzong was first-class as an actor, but the governance of the country was very bad, so some ambitionists were ready to leave him and go it alone. One of the ambitionists made the envoy of Dongchuan (present-day central Sichuan Basin), believing that Sichuan was the country of Heaven and had the danger of sword pavilions, and if he did it alone, who could stop it? He raised a banner and set up his own portal. Later Tang Zhuangzong of course did not agree, so he sent an army to point his sword at Sichuan and prepare to destroy the rebels.
That ambitionist also came out with a knife head licking blood all the way, of course, it was the hard stubble of the war. He knew that when the Hou Tang army was coming, he would definitely attack the Heavenly Danger Sword Gate first, so he sent elite soldiers to guard the Sword Gate, and when the Hou Tang Army began to attack the stronghold, the rebels greeted him with bows and arrows, and the arrows came like flying locusts. After the Tang army was killed and wounded, it was in vain.
At this moment, Feng Hui disappeared. The commander-in-chief of the Hou Tang Army was very angry, this boy is usually very capable of fighting, will not be the front to escape, right? However, in that era, it was common for soldiers to escape in front of the battle, and everyone did not have the time and energy to investigate carefully, and after the Tang army still attacked, the rebels still counterattacked, and it seemed that there were more and less Feng Hui on the battlefield.
Suddenly, the drums on the side of the rebels were thunderous, and a crowd of horses and horses waved large knives and spears. These rebels were concentrating on the attack ahead, and they did not expect that they had knives inserted in their soft ribs, and their hands were suddenly in a hurry, and their morale was greatly reduced. This army was led by Feng Hui. It turned out that he did not escape from the battlefield, but detoured to be a strange soldier.
Since they had already succeeded, Feng Hui's brothers were not polite, and the large blade shook vigorously, killing the rebels completely, and the sword gate was captured. As soon as the sword gate was taken, the Later Tang army marched all the way into Dongchuan.
The ambitionist was a bit dumbfounded, and could only escape, but was later killed by another Later Tang general, paying the price with his life for his rebellion.
Soon after the conquest of the rebels, the Tang army was divided into a division, and feng Hui, who had made great merits in the imperial court, was awarded the post of assassin in Liaozhou (澶州, in modern Puyang, Henan), from an ordinary soldier to a major member of the party.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > for the sake of the people, enriching the people and strengthening the army</h1>
At that time, the commander-in-chief who recruited the careerist was no one else, but Shi Jingyao, the founder of the later Jin Dynasty. His bones are not very hard, but he can identify talents. He felt that Feng Hui was very good, brainy, and good at fighting. Therefore, after Shi Jingyao captured Later Tang Jiangshan and established The Later Jin Dynasty, he immediately promoted Feng Hui and appointed him as an envoy of Shuofang Jiedushi and left the capital to guard Lingwu.
At that time, the lingwu chaos became a mess. In order to please the tribes in the jurisdiction and to reward the soldiers, the generals who guarded Lingwu had been reaching out to the imperial court for grain and pay, amounting to 60 million. These things need to be porters, and they are transported by the people west of Tongguan, and there is no labor fee. The people have contributed but have no money, how to support their families? In desperation, the people fled one after another, and some even simply sharpened their knives and rose up to resist.
Feng Hui was born a commoner in Hebei, and although he had been a man for many years, he had not forgotten the sufferings of the people. As soon as he took office, he immediately changed his past practice and did not ask the imperial court for money.
If you don't reach out for money, where does the copper and tin you need come from? Feng Hui has a way. He gathered the fleeing people and told them to hurry home. The kind people heard that they no longer had to be free transport captains, and they all went home. The local population is growing day by day. Then, Feng Hui gathered these people together, divided the land for them, gave them agricultural tools, gave them seeds, and let them farm with his soldiers. As for the harvested grain, it was distributed in a certain proportion, most of which went to the people and a small part to the army. Through such reclamation, Feng Hui achieved three things in one fell swoop: the financial pressure of the imperial court was reduced, the people's lives were rich, and the army's salary and silver were sufficient.
The army's grain could not be eaten, and Feng Hui would not let them go badly. He thought about going further, building more than a thousand warehouses filled with endless grain. At this time, the Central Plains were in turmoil, starving everywhere, and in the far northwest, such a happy land appeared, and everyone sang and danced, and their happiness was not central, achieving the good effect of the people's unadowed and the jurisdiction of the jurisdiction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > soldiers without bloodshed, peace is restored</h1>
Local governance has achieved initial results, and Feng Hui hopes to return to the pilgrimage to see Shi Jingyao. Shi Jingyao immediately persuaded him to stop and gave him a holy will: Shuofang is a military stronghold, and many tribes are spying, "If it is not qingxiong's name, why is it suppressed"! Shi Jingyao also specially gave Feng Hui a medal, ordering officials throughout the country to follow Feng Hui's example, work hard, and actively make progress.
Shi Jingyao was right, there were many ethnic minority tribes in the Lingwu area at that time. In the past, the guards here were faint and incompetent, and all day long they only knew how to drink and listen to music, chat with beautiful women, and the tribal armed people saw through the reality of this place and began to plunder everywhere, doing nothing. In particular, the Qi and Qiang people in the Area of Qinggang and Tuqiao had a very accurate vision, and at a glance they saw that this place was a must for the Silk Road, and often went out to plunder, snatching the Central Plains merchants and Western merchants who were full of goods and servants into lonely families.
There were also some merchants with higher IQs who would bribe the local guards to send them as bodyguards. So there was such a strange scenery in the Lingwu area: the caravan was escorted by the army, and the horn whined into the distance.
In view of such a situation, Feng Hui planned to capture the thief first. The "king" in his picture is Tuoba Yanchao (also known as Tuoba Yanzhao), the leader of a large Dangxiang clan in Lingwu. Tuoba Yanchao is very strong and has a wide range of contacts. The other tribes in the Lingwu area all stared at Tuoba Yanchao with their eyes glazed over, and if Tuoba Yanchao was happy, he shouted, "Dude, let's submit to the imperial court", everyone would applaud in unison, and along with him, the banner would be unfurled to the imperial court; if one day Tuoba Yanchao was unhappy, the table slapped, shouting, "Dude, I am very unhappy, I want to betray the imperial court", the other tribes will immediately respond as soon as they hear it.
The previous local guards felt a lot of pain in their heads about this, but there was no good way to do it. Feng Hui had a way. He specially sent an invitation to Tuoba Yanchao, and Tuoba Yanchao was ready to visit after receiving it. However, Tuoba Yanchao was also afraid that he would be "done" by Feng Hui, and asked his subordinates to prepare in advance, and if they did not come back after they went, their subordinates would need to kill and save people.
Everything was properly arranged, Tuoba Yanchao rode his horse to meet Feng Hui, and after he went, he did not go back for a few days. Tuoba Yanchao's men were all anxious to sweat beads on the tip of their noses and rushed to ask for someone. Feng Hui was not angry either, and directly let them go to see Tuoba Yanchao. After they went in, they asked Tuoba Yanchao to hurry back, who knew that Tuoba Yanchao actually shook his head and did not want to go back. The subordinates thought that he had been blackmailed by Feng Hui, and one by one, their swords were fierce, and when they took a closer look, they also resolutely requested to stay with the boss and did not plan to go back.
It turned out that for Tuoba Yanchao, Feng Hui was not as condescending as the generals of the past, but was very affinity. As an emissary of the party, Feng Hui personally arranged Tuoba Yanchao's life, built a new mansion for him in the city, and also gave him a lot of property, so that Tuoba Yanchao's life was convenient, which was not a little stronger than the original tribal life. Tuoba Yanchao was very satisfied with this, of course, he did not want to leave. When did these subordinates enjoy such a day, the happiness index soared, and of course they did not want to leave.
When the other tribes inquired, Tuoba bosses were so close to General Feng, and we also called General Feng brothers, so one by one they all came to attach.
In such a peaceful atmosphere, the tribes no longer did nothing to buy and sell, and began to herd cattle, sheep and horses, and trade with Feng Hui. Feng Hui accumulated grain extensively because of the reclamation, and what the herders lacked was grain, and the tribes competed to trade the grain with sheep and horses. In mutual trading, Feng Huiguang buys 5,000 warhorses a year.
In that era, war horses were the advanced weapons of the army, and they could sweep the world when matched with athletes and sabers. And the stronger Feng Hui's military strength, the more stable the environment of Lingwu and the more unimpeded the Silk Road became. Merchants from the Central Plains and the Western Regions liked to stay here to replenish food and drinking water. In this way, Lingwu is more prosperous and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" > re-emerge from Lingwu to maintain the Silk Road</h1>
At this time, Shi Jingyao had died, and his adopted son ascended the throne, that is, the Jin Emperor. These two traitorous courtiers who were favored by the emperor controlled the government of the dynasty, and the promotion of talents did not look at political achievements or military achievements, but only at how much property the other side sent them. Feng Hui disdained to seduce them and became a thorn in their side.
The two traitorous courtiers went up to the Emperor of Jin, saying that Feng Hui had so many soldiers and horses, and he was good at war, so he must be on guard! Emperor Jin felt that it was quite reasonable, and immediately issued a holy decree to Feng Hui to change his defenses and become the emissary of the JingNan Army (around present-day Qingyang, Gansu); soon after, he changed his defense and ordered Feng Hui to be the envoy of the Baoyi Army (present-day Tianshui, Gansu). Feng Hui had just taken office, and his position was not yet hot, so he issued the order again, allowing him to enter the dynasty, as a commander of the guards and infantry, and concurrently served as an envoy to Heyang (in present-day Jiaozuo, Hebi, and Zhengzhou, Henan).
Feng Hui could have so many military and political achievements, and his IQ was naturally very high, and from these abnormal appointments, he already knew that the Jin Emperor was guarding against himself. He was not willing to leave the post he loved, so he changed his attitude and pretended to be particularly friendly to the two traitors, inviting them to enter the restaurant from time to time to pick up a meal and send some treasures . As soon as the two of them looked, this famous minister was sincerely afraid in front of him, and his heart was naturally very happy, so he no longer continued to harass him, and Feng Hui's career initially lifted the alarm.
At the same time, after Feng Hui left Lingwu, the officials who succeeded him handled border affairs very confusedly. Because of this man's incompetence, the tribes that had already submitted to the rebellion once again raised their flags and whipped their war horses to start a new round of rebellion. For a time, Lingwu once again sword and light sword shadow, soldiers and soldiers exchanged, and the Silk Road was blocked again.
After learning this news, Feng Hui immediately made a generous statement to Emperor Jin, "Let me go, I can put an end to the rebellion of Lingwu." ”
Emperor Jin listened, looked at his two chief "think tanks" and asked for advice. The two traitors' pockets were so stuffed that they had long forgotten their previous rumors about Feng Huijin, and they nodded their heads one after another: "Necessary, without Feng Hui's horse, the Silk Road is afraid that it will become a wasteland." Emperor Jin promised Feng Huan to take office.
Feng Hui took advantage of the hot iron and demanded: "Now the imperial court is an eventful autumn, all along the way are rebel opponents, without the escort of the army, my old Feng is unable to move, and I have to recruit troops." Emperor Jin looked at his two favorites again, and the two nodded and passed again. So Feng Hui recruited more than a thousand people and horses, and once again rushed to Lingwu.
At this time, Lingwu's situation was very different from when Feng Hui left. Those rebellious tribes were shocked to hear that Feng Hui had come to take office. Everyone knows that Feng Hui has the ability, and if he wants to succeed in the rebellion, he must prevent Feng Hui from taking office.
In this regard, Feng Hui did not know, but also full of confidence, thinking that everyone would eat pot pulp to meet him, so he sent people all the way to publicize: "My old Feng is back again, you should do whatever you want, living and working in peace and contentment is the king's way." ”
Halfway down the road, a tribal leader came to greet him. However, as soon as they met, Feng Hui was stunned: the leader held his arms in both hands, carried a group of fierce little brothers, and carried steel knives and iron spears at his waist.
Feng Hui was very calm, looked at the leader with a slight smile, pointed to the sword on his waist and exclaimed, "Is this the sword of the Itabashi Wang Clan?" I heard that the Wang's sword is a weapon in the world! As he spoke, as if he was ready to appreciate it, he suddenly reached out and drew out the other party's long sword like lightning, and as soon as the sword flashed, the other party fell to the ground. Almost at the same time, Feng Hui's subordinates moved together, and in the flying sword light, more than a dozen of the clan leader's men were killed. The crisis was over, and one of Feng Hui's fierce generals still had a lingering feeling about the danger between the lightning stones and the fire just now, and asked Feng Hui, "There are still five or six hundred miles away from Lingwu here, what should we do?" In case there are still large rebel troops ahead, how can we resist? ”
Feng Hui smiled confidently and analyzed, "Those who dare to compete with us face to face must be the heroic men in the tribe." Now, this cattle man was killed by us, and the other tribes must have been frightened when they heard about it, and they did not dare to continue to be unfavorable to us. With that, he continued to advance with his troops.
There were still rebellious tribes on the main road to block it, but Feng Hui often only said one sentence: "You measure your own strength, is there a cow from the previous one?" If not, be careful with your neck. The rebels of all nationalities listened, thought about it, and dismounted one by one.
When Feng Hui successfully entered Lingwu City, he wore new shoes and walked the old road, still governing Lingwu according to the mature methods that had been tested in practice in the past, paying attention to integrity and treating all departments equally. Lingwu once again restored peace, the Silk Road was once again unimpeded, the merchants of the Central Plains and the Western Regions left a laughter, and the local people all lived and worked in peace and contentment, a prosperous scene of song and dance.