When Yu Miao left Beijing, Shao Xun took Princess Yu Wenjun, Prime Minister Yu Chen and others to see him off.
As a fairly good talent among the second generation of the Yu family, Yu Mian's journey has not been easy.
Because their father gave up his official career prematurely, the brothers began to take care of livestock when they were young. When they were a little older, they followed their mother to learn and read, and at the same time they also had to work in the fields.
If there is an invasion by foreign enemies, they must join the Wubao people in holding weapons to resist the enemy.
Speaking of which, he really hasn't had a good life. Even after working hard to this day, he still relies on the Yu Chen family and takes them as the leader, and together he contributes to the prosperity of the Yu family.
That's it for this mission.
However, he also thought clearly that without Yu Chen, Yu Liang and his son, his career would not go smoothly.
There are still people among the Yingchuan gentry who feel that if Yu Liang can't take over, they should change to another family. It can only be said that this is a helpless choice, and it is best not to do this, because these families lack one key thing: the affection of King Liang.
The King of Liang and Yu Chen, Yu Liang and his son had known each other for a long time and had a deep relationship.
In addition, it is said that King Liang prefers Mrs. Pei, but does King Liang really dislike Princess Yu? The fact may be beyond your expectation.
"Yuan Du, be careful on the road." Yu Chen let go of his nephew's hand and warned.
"Uncle, don't worry, we will fulfill our mission." Yu Mi said solemnly.
"Yuandu." Shao Xun waved.
"Your Majesty, Princess." Yu Mi walked over and saluted Shao Xun and Yu Wenjun.
"Go over there and find out more about the inside story and see how powerful the Helan tribe is and what Helan Aitou, Tuoba Yihuai and others think," Shao Xun said.
"As ordered." Yu Mi responded.
"Yuandu, don't show off when you go." Princess Yu Wenjun looked at Barbari and the others and said worriedly.
"Yes." Yu Mian replied expressionlessly.
Then he smiled bitterly in his heart, how could a mission be so simple?
There are only a few occasions when the emperor can perform the Linxuan ceremony. One of them is when a minister is sent to a foreign country, because this is an extremely dangerous action with too great unpredictable risks.
The princess didn't understand, but King Liang did, but King Liang only wanted to achieve his goal, and everything else was secondary, including his life.
After the farewell was over, Yu Mi and the Xianbei envoy got on their horses and headed north, escorted by a hundred knights who had joined the army in name only.
Shao Xun returned with Yu Wenjun and others.
Yu Wenjun is pregnant and will stay in the palace to rest.
Before her, Queen Hui Yang Xianrong was also pregnant.
For the next entire April, Shao Xun will not go out. Most of the time he will handle government affairs in Guangji Hall and Jianshi Hall.
Tuoba Heli's envoy is still stranded in Pingyang.
They also came to seek canonization, not as a duke, but as a king.
Moreover, Tuoba Hesheng did not set any conditions, except that he would not make any mistakes again, and he seemed to be very confident.
Shao Xun discussed with his staff and felt that the Qi family and their son were not very eager to seek canonization. Even if they could get the title of acting king, it would be good, and they could accept it if they couldn't get it.
They may be really confident. After all, being able to kill Tuoba Yulu shows a lot of problems: Although they have many opponents in Suotou, they also have many supporters.
Shao Xun had no intention of canonizing Tuoba Hesheng and endorsing his legitimacy. The envoys who received him were just making excuses.
Honglu Temple has received the order and will find various excuses to stay in Heli for a few more months, waiting for news from Xinshan and Daijun.
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After Yumi and Helanugen went north, they stayed at a post station outside the city of Yang County (near today's Hongdong County) in the evening.
When the post general saw such a large formation, he immediately complained: with only a few hundred horses, most of the forage they had accumulated would be eaten up.
Each station has a large area of ​​cultivated land and pasture, which is a benefit to them.
Correspondingly, when receiving benefits, one must assume obligations, such as entertaining business personnel according to certain specifications, and providing horse-changing services when necessary.
But there are too many people coming this time...
The person in charge of escorting Yu Mi and others was a volunteer soldier named Duan Shaoyu. When he saw this, he handed over a document and cursed with a smile: "This is the army's delivery. Don't leave the post. The county will give you money, take this."
Just ask for it.”
Dedun or Dundi is a professional term, which originally meant staying at a post station. Over time, it evolved into the expense that the local government had to bear when the army crossed the border.
One hundred cavalry escorted a delegation of nearly twenty people from both sides. The scale was not small, and it was indeed not something that a small post station could afford. It had to be incurred by the county. Therefore, Duan Shaoyu obtained the corresponding ultimatum before leaving, corresponding to the various places he passed along the way.
county.
But the regulations are regulations, and the reality is the reality. The post general is still bitter: the county may not be able to pay the full amount, and he will have to bleed if it is not covered.
But there was no need to tell Yu Mian and others about this matter. After calming down, he sent people to boil water, cook, and take care of the horses.
Helanugen stood beside the post road, silently looking at the farmland in the distance.
It was the post farm of the post station, which was about several hectares of land. It was distributed on both sides of the Fen River and connected by a wooden bridge.
Most of the people who farmed the post fields were post generals and post soldiers’ families.
Outside the post field there are larger mountains, forests and pastures, where children will graze cattle and sheep - they are also the post soldiers' family members.
Nugen was not very interested in the inn system, although it was a very critical "infrastructure". He was more interested in the wheat growing well in the fields.
The main crop of Tuoba Xianbei is millet, but it does not mean that they do not know other crops.
At least, in addition to millet, they also grow a small amount of millet and beans. Occasionally, you can see someone planting wheat, but it is very rare.
The weather in Xianbei is bitter and cold, so spring wheat is the natural choice.
With Enugen's knowledge, he really didn't understand why the wheat planted in spring could grow so tall that it was about to mature - unless it was not spring.
Thinking back to the lush crops that I occasionally saw on the road when I arrived, I finally realized: they were planted in the second half of last year. After successfully surviving the cold winter, they grew steadily and matured in more than a month.
May - haha, in some relatively cold places in Dai State, millet planting begins in May. For example, at the southern foot of Daqing Mountain, it takes ninety days to harvest.
In slightly warmer places, such as Shengle and Pingcheng, sow seeds in April.
Further south, such as Yanmen Pass, sow seeds in March.
The earliest millet sown takes four months to harvest, but it tastes good and yields a high yield per mu.
If sown the next time, it will take more than a hundred days.
The latest one to be sown only takes ninety days, but it has the worst taste and the lowest yield per acre.
Yes, the same millet is very different when sown in different places - Tuoba Xianbei, in its long-term agricultural practice, divided millet into three varieties: late maturing, medium late maturing and early maturing, corresponding to different sowing seasons and growth.
Expect.
They knew very well that the further south they went, the warmer it would be, the higher the crop yields would be, and the more people they could feed, which is why they had to go south to Bingzhou.
Who doesn’t want good land? Let alone farming, even grazing is far better than grassland. That’s a gap of five or ten times.
After a rain in Luliang Mountain, the grass grew wildly.
There is little rain in the grassland and the grass grows weakly.
That's the difference.
"After the wheat harvest in May, Daqingshan began to grow bamboo shoots. If Jin people also grow bamboo shoots, it would be feasible. Maybe they can grow bamboo shoots that last for more than a hundred days, and they will be delicious." Nugen sighed softly: "It's too different.
.Fortunately, people in Jin do not graze. If they also do half-grazing and half-cultivation, it would not be too easy to cultivate the grassland. Well, that would be——"
"What is the envoy looking at?" Yu Mi walked over and took a closer look at the east bank of the Fen River, and then said: "That is the Yongguang Mausoleum of Liu Han, where Liu Yuanhai is buried. There are dozens of families guarding the tomb, and the order of the King of Liang
He cultivated the mausoleum field, swept it regularly, and repaired Yongguang Mausoleum."
"Why is that so?" Nugen was not actually looking at the mausoleum, but at the group of people grazing to the east of the mausoleum. However, he was also attracted by Yu Mi's words and asked casually.
"Liu Yuanhai is an old friend of the King of Liang." Yu Mi explained briefly, then pointed to the large farmland behind the mausoleum and the grassland on the hills, and said: "Those are the people of Yang County. If the prediction is correct, they must be Di Qiang.
No doubt about it.”
"In the past, Liu Can captured dozens of Di Qiang chiefs and tortured them in various ways to falsely accuse Liu Yi. After the chiefs died, there were tens of thousands of Di Qiang people in Pingyang. The king of Liang gathered them, organized households into all the people, and distributed land.
Half-herding and half-ploughing, you think you are innocent."
"Your Highness is really kind-hearted." Nugen praised.
Nugen knew that it was not that simple to create a household system for the people, especially for non-Han people.
Otherwise, why didn’t Wuhuan, the Xiongnu who moved inland during the Later Han Dynasty and Cao Wei years, establish a household system for the common people? Was it because they were afraid of rebellion?
It was these Di and Qiang chiefs who were killed by Liu Can. They lost their nobles and had no one to organize and call on them to rebel, so they could smoothly reorganize their households and unite the people.
However, there are also many people in Bingzhou who are part-herders and part-farmers, and they must have a lot of horses.
These people have been riding horses since childhood and hunting from time to time. By the time they reach adulthood, they have mastered various small skills. They can maintain their shape when going up and down hills, stand up or sideways to shoot arrows, poke guns, ride horses bareback, or jump to change horses during a charge...
After they are recruited into the army, they need almost no training in riding and shooting. They only need to practice a little with lances and sabers, but they may need to practice longer with horses.
What I practice the most is probably discipline, and getting familiar with new playing styles and sophisticated equipment.
If there were no such people and a farmer would be brought from the fields to train in cavalry combat, it would only take one year for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's cavalry to learn how to ride a horse, but it would take eight years to become proficient in cavalry combat. It was too expensive.
After defeating Shi Le and Liu Cong successively, Shao Xun was able to recruit more and more herdsmen and cavalry. Although these herdsmen would definitely not be able to defeat the Xianbei herdsmen in a cavalry battle, they were enough to protect the infantry.
Yu Mi looked at Nugen quietly, probably knowing what he was thinking, and suddenly sighed secretly.
It's also good to let him look at you more along the way, so as not to fail to recognize yourself and make arbitrary conditions when you return.
After resting for a night in Yang County, the mission continued its journey and arrived at Jinyang via Yong'an and Guanjuejin.
At this time, they did not go north to Yanmen via Xingxing because it was too dangerous. Instead, they waited for ten days until hundreds of Huns cavalry were sent from the direction of Daqian City, and then turned west and entered Kelan County, where they returned.
Go north.
Although the Qi family killed Tuoba Yulu in Shengle and the New Party controlled the power of the country, unlike what most people imagined, Shengle was surrounded by a large number of Old Party tribes, so it was safer to go this way.
They kept walking and stopping along the way, and when they finally arrived at Yixin Mountain, it was already mid-May.
Chapter completed!