Chapter Thirty
Without Linghu Sheng, Yang Zheng suddenly felt that something was missing.
He said he was a superior and subordinate, but in his heart, Yang Zheng regarded him as a comrade-in-arms.
No matter ancient or modern, it is not easy to find people with similar interests.
But in this world, how easy is it to control your own destiny or the destiny of those around you?
Take a deep breath, life must go on.
Yang Zheng devoted himself to intense training again.
The advantage of having fewer people is that no one is outside, and Yang Zheng doesn't have any airs. We eat, drink, and practice martial arts together.
Even the rescued children joined in.
Girls learn some female skills from Chun Niang.
The training of soldiers mostly involves stone locks, horns, bows and arrows, etc. to build up their strength.
Yang Zheng is not used to it and likes to bear heavy weights.
Occasionally, Yang Zheng would lament that life like this was not bad, as he didn't have to think about who was out to get him or who was out to harm him every day.
It's a pity that the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop.
As the autumn harvest approaches, the atmosphere in Fufeng County becomes tense.
The number of private soldiers in the manor is increasing day by day, and the frequency of patrols has become intensive. It is unknown what they are guarding against.
At night, there is often the sound of galloping horse hooves.
There are often floating corpses floating in the Wei River...
Outside Wugong City, figures of rangers appear from time to time, and their attire does not look like that of the Shu army.
Yang Zheng suddenly became nervous, wondering whether the nearby horse bandits were targeting Wugong City?
It's a pity that the Wuwei camp is composed of Luoyang Chinese troops and they don't know the situation in Guanzhong.
It is really dangerous to have a black eye.
Instead of passively waiting for the crisis to come, it is better to take the initiative to see where the crisis comes from.
Yang Zheng organized four teams of scouts, each with twenty people, and sent them to the southeast, northwest, and to see what was going on.
At the same time, the city was put on guard, and all men, women, old and young, who could hold weapons, were to go up to the city wall.
At dusk, the scouts returned one after another. The Shu army in the south was quiet on Shenling, and Hu County in the east was calm, but Meiyang in the northwest and Xi County in the west were in commotion.
A large-scale armed fight broke out between the Qiang and Di tribes and the powerful Han people.
In the 24th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei ordered his army to kill the Xiahou, and the momentum was overwhelming. Wei Wu was afraid that the Di people would be used by Liu Bei, so he ordered Zhang Ji, the governor of Yongzhou, to move to Wudu, where more than 50,000 Di people fell, and settled in Fufeng and Tianshui counties.
Not long after, Liu Bei captured Hanzhong and forced Xiabian. Yang Fu, the governor of Wudu in Wei, moved more than 10,000 Han, Di, and Qi households to Yongliang counties.
Objectively speaking, the Qiang, Di, and Xiongnu made great contributions to the recovery of Guanzhong.
It also provided troops for the imperial court.
In this battle against Shu, the Qiang and Di contributed a lot of force.
There were also a large number of Qiang and Di brave men in the Yongliang army.
But it also laid the foundation for a huge crisis.
When Cao Wei was strong, these crises were nothing, and the Xiongnu in southern Qiang and Di were willing to live their lives honestly by farming.
As long as the Central Plains Empire wasn't completely rotten, these minority tribes would have no chance at all.
The three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu could attack the surrounding foreigners with one hand.
It's a pity that Cao Wei cannot be strong forever.
And Sima Jin, who unified the Three Kingdoms, happened to be one of the two worst eras in China.
In the late Ming Dynasty, Cao Wei's power was already showing signs of decline, so he had no choice but to cooperate with aristocratic families to survive.
The Eastern Han Dynasty did not solve its own chronic problems, neither did Cao Wei, nor could the Sima family solve them.
Nowadays, the imperial court is decaying day by day, life is difficult for the Han people, life is even more difficult for the Qiang and Di Xiongnu, and rifts have arisen.
The Wuhu chaos did not arise overnight, but was a long-term accumulation process.
Yang Zheng roughly analyzed the background of the era based on the arguments on later generations' Internet and the memory of the original owner.
Those who are not of my race must have different intentions. The Qiang, Di and Xiongnu have evil intentions, but the wealthy people are not good birds.
"Send more manpower every day to explore the north and west." Yang Zheng said to Zhang Te and Zhou Yu.
The two took orders.
Yang Zheng also inspected the city's defense and prepared more rolling stones and wood.
Although the troops were weak, with only about 400 people, they were all our own people, united as one, and their morale was pretty good. They didn't take it seriously when they heard that the Qiang and Di nobles were causing trouble.
Two days later, the number of floating corpses in the Wei River gradually increased.
Black smoke billowed to the west, and the noise became louder and louder.
The cries of burning and killing floated in the distance.
Yang Zheng saw dozens of cavalry chasing two to three hundred unarmed Han people on the city wall.
One look at the costumes of those cavalrymen, and one can tell that they are private soldiers of wealthy families.
The equipment is well-equipped and the horses are strong.
The Wuwei camp is known as the elite of the Chinese army, but they don't have such good horses.
The Qiang and Di are causing chaos, and the wealthy families are quietly making money.
It can be considered a routine operation in this era.
The cavalry shouted loudly, as if driving a flock of sheep, and beat them hard, trying to prevent them from escaping to Wugong City.
The people were wailing and howling, and an old man fell to the ground and immediately let out a scream under the hooves of the horse.
The cavalryman laughed.
"It must be these powerful men who are robbing the people and making them slaves!" said Zhou Yu, who seldom spoke.
"I'm going to kill these beasts now!" Zhang Te said angrily.
Both of them are from civilian backgrounds, so they naturally feel the same way.
Yang Zheng observed the momentum of the cavalry. They were well-trained and well organized in their movements.
There were not many war horses in the city.
The predecessor of Wuwei Camp was the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. Unfortunately, thirty years later, most of the horses disappeared inexplicably, and the remaining ones were weak and died of thirst in the Luo Valley.
It is too risky for infantry to leave the city.
Moreover, it is obviously unwise to directly antagonize the wealthy family.
A strong dragon will not overwhelm a local snake.
Others are local snakes, but you may not be a strong dragon.
But it's obviously not Yang Zheng's style to be familiar with something but not see it. It's okay if you don't see it. If you see it and you are indifferent, you are doing something wrong.
Moreover, Wugong City is also short of people, "Gather a hundred people and follow me out of the city."
Not long after, Yang Zheng led a hundred infantrymen out of formation.
After all, he was a general and a mid-level officer, but he didn't even have a decent mount. Yang Zheng really felt shabby.
Not only was he shabby, but so were his subordinates.
Wearing tattered armor with blood stains on it, there is no military appearance at all.
Not much better than a beggar.
When people are poor, they are determined, and when they are poor, they lack confidence.
"Who are you waiting for? How dare you insult the people here!" Yang Zheng shouted in a deep voice, feeling that his words were light and weightless.
"Who are you? Dare to meddle in other people's business?" A man came out of the cavalry, wearing bright armor, dragging a long green cloak, holding a long spear and pointing at Yang Zheng, with a rather arrogant expression.
I am an officer and a soldier, and this guy is a citizen and a slave. How dare you talk to me like this?
Are there still royal laws? Are there still laws?
The soldiers around him were also murderous.
Yang Zheng originally wanted to mediate so that everyone could give each other face.
I didn't expect that others didn't treat me as a green onion at all.
Yang Zheng deliberately lowered his voice and said: "We are all citizens of the Wei Dynasty, why should the people deserve it? Why don't we let them go and just make friends with someone."
Yang Zheng has seen too many times of this kind of dog-fighting.
Under normal circumstances, once a dog starts barking, it will never stop because of people's concessions, but will only become more aggressive.
The man sneered on the horse and said: "How dare you be friends with our Du family? If you don't get out of here, I'll kill you too!"
Du family?
Yang Zheng thought of Du Zhan. Active in the court were General Chijie Jianwei, Captain Huwuwan, and Youzhou Governor Du Shu, and his son was Du Yu, a famous general who would destroy Wu in the future.
As long as it is not the Cao family, Xiahou family, or Sima family, it will be fine.
It is obviously impossible to be unworthy of others in this world.
The Du family in Jingzhao can only be regarded as a second-rate family, and cannot be compared with the Xun family, Jia family and Zhong family in the imperial court.
Du Shu had a reputation as a virtuous man in the court, but he didn't expect that the Du family was so domineering.
Of course, Du Shu is Du Shu, and the Du family is the Du family. Although the two are related, they are not completely equivalent.
"The Du family is so lucky!" Yang Zheng simply stopped pretending and winked at Zhang Te and Zhou Yu who were beside him. They each led a team of people to outflank them.
Chapter completed!