Chapter 37: The Pearl Destroyed by the Sky
After some corpses with gray eyes, deep eye sockets, high nose bridges, and mottled hair were buried in the loess, the valley quickly became quiet. .
After the army trampled on this soft land, the landform here became as hard as the roads in the rest of the valley, and no traces of turning could be found.
When the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty occupied the northwest land, the aloof Semu people became the rulers of this land, so Hui Islam was born.
The priests in various temples are still some lustful people. Even though the Meng Yuan Dynasty has long been destroyed, they still live a relaxed life in this area. The political power is gone, but they still have religious rights.
Even a rebel hero like Lao Huihui would find it difficult to kill when facing these people, and would even succumb to them, which shows how powerful these people are.
Yun Zhao encountered the White Lotus Sect when he was in Qingshui County. In his opinion, these evil people were more difficult to deal with than the ferocious Jiannu, and they seemed to be like weeds and could never be killed.
Today's Qingshui County is far from developing people's livelihood. In order to eradicate religious troubles, Qingshui County is one of the very few counties under Lantian County that does not prioritize the development of people's livelihood.
Obviously, the same is true for Ningxia Wei.
Wherever Li Dingguo’s army went, all kinds of local bandits suddenly disappeared, and all the people became obedient people. Wherever the army went, the people carried earth to pave the roads and sprinkled clean water on the streets. , welcome along the way.
It’s just that Li Dingguo didn’t show enough kindness to this scene. Everywhere he went, driving away the priests became the top priority.
He hoped that these people who were obviously different from the Ming people in appearance could return to their hometowns. To this end, he even sent soldiers and horses to escort these people away and return to their distant hometowns - also Libali Khanate.
The process of expelling these people was not difficult. Priests who looked different from Ming people were expelled. Immediately, imams who looked like Ming people wearing small hats and holding scriptures entered the temple here.
Unlike those poor Semu priests, these imams who look like Ming people will not only lead all believers in chanting and lecturing on sutras, but some knowledgeable imams will even act as sutra teachers and teach some Children in need of some literacy.
Some imams began to tell some fresh and interesting Han stories to the people here - for example, in the distant Guanzhong, there is a place full of gold - Lantian County.
There, no one is hungry, no one is cold, and those who do good will receive the Lord’s protection.
They even went out of their way to collect a copper coin from every believer. They believed that as long as they had enough copper coins, they could build the mountain of light, Yushan. A magnificent temple closest to heaven, where every believer can hear the Lord’s thunderous voice.
Just for the purposeJudging from the progress of the previous work, it was not bad. At least, Li Dingguo's army had arrived at his destination - Zhenlu Fort.
There are many fortresses similar to Zhenlu Fort here, and their names are similar, such as Pinglu Fort, Shalu Fort, Jingyuan Fort, etc.
Less than three hundred miles away from Zhenlu Fort is Ningxia Town, where Ningxia Prefecture is located!
This was also an important place in the past. However, since the rise of slave-building, the imperial court has focused on Jizhou, Liaodong, Xuanfu, and Datong. The land in the Western Regions had to be almost abandoned, especially Li Hongji. After all the giant bandits were related to this place, and Ningxia Town continued to lose troops and generals in the anti-bandit battles over the years, in the end, this place became a forgotten land.
Not to mention the prosperous Hamiwei in the past.
When the Ming Dynasty was strong, it fought many tug-of-wars with Hami in the Hami Guard, from the Chenghua period to the 16th year of Hongzhi. However, due to the occupation of the Hetao Plain by Wala, the Ming Dynasty's horse administration was not smooth, and in addition The inability to detour from the Oara occupied area led to the loss of Ming Dynasty again in the 18th year of Hongzhi.
Since then, the Ming Dynasty has used Jiayuguan as its border, and no soldiers have left the pass.
Duan Guoren sat by the fire, holding a xun in both hands and playing a sad and melodious tune. The sound produced by this instrument was ethereal and distant. When listening to this thing playing, his soul was easily moved. Be carried up to the sky by the misty music.
After the song was played, Duan Guoren put down the xun in his hand, cupped his hands towards Li Dingguo and said: "The general has come from afar, and Duan Guoren has no wine to welcome him, so he can only play "Yangguan Sandie" to wash away the general's dust."
Li Dingguo took his wine bag and threw it to Duan Guoren and said: "Have a good drink. Today, Guofeng and I will keep vigil for you, so you can get drunk as much as you want."
p>Duan Guoren took the wine bag, took a deep breath of the wine, and was intoxicated for a moment. After exhaling the wine breath, he returned the wine bag to Li Dingguo, pointed to his missing ear and said: "I was born with My hearing is not good, so I dare not blunt the rest of my spiritual sense."
Zhang Guofeng took a large piece of mutton skewers wrapped with red willow branches from the sand and said to Duan Guoren: "Listen in the academy. There are rumors about you. You have poor hearing, but you are the best player of musical instruments in the academy. I also heard that you are the best at playing the flute. Your song "A Hundred Birds Pay Attention to the Phoenix" once became famous in Yushan Academy. , even Mr. Xu praised you for having the talents of Dong Da and Li Guinian, but you were born at the wrong time!"
Duan Guoren listened carefully to Zhang Guofeng's words and then shook his head and said: "I don't like music, nor do I. I like musical instruments. I just want to prove to others that even if I am born without half of my hearing, I can still do things that others cannot do.
I would rather be a Ningxia musician than a musician. Wei's big body makes my blood boil even more."
Zhang Guofeng covered his mouth and said softly to Li Dingguo: "Be careful when you speak in the future. This guy has poor hearing, but he has a pair of ears. He has a good eye and can recognize the words by looking at people's mouth patterns."
Li.Dingguo nodded and said to Duan Guoren: "Lao Duan, we have killed all the Semu people we can find, and the remaining Semu people should be killed by Lao Huihui and the others within ten days.
All the Semu people are dead, and you have found a new batch of imams to replace them. Is this a temporary measure or a plan to wipe out the Semu people?"
Duan Guoren said with a smile: "Destroy the Semu people. This is just the first step. The next step is to target people from different religious sects and support the minority." Li Dingguo frowned and said, "You said they are not the same group?"
Duan Guoren smiled, pointed to the dark distance and said: "There can be ambiguities among people from mouth to mouth. Ten thousand people can recite a "Chongdian" with ten thousand meanings. The most terrible thing is that every time All these interpretations come from eminent monks and great virtues, and miracles often come when these eminent monks and great virtues interpret the "Chongdian" in their understanding, indicating that the only God approves of this interpretation.
The only God approves. However, the other eminent monks did not agree, so when there was no way to come up with a good result, the knife became the only authoritative explanation."
Zhang Guofeng spit out a piece of fat lamb and said, "What if. If we deal with them, will they unite to deal with us?"
Duan Guoren said: "Their only god has said that all believers in the world are brothers, no matter what ideals they believe in, if we are like the Great If water floods this land, they will naturally put aside their internal conflicts and join forces to deal with us.
So, I am going to support the weak one, help them oppress the other sects, and then develop. Develop new doctrines, overthrow old sects, gradually localize their doctrines, and completely eliminate the shadow of the Semu people. To this extent, what they believe has nothing to do with us, it is purely a matter of the people themselves. "
Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "I know nothing about this."
Duan Guoren said: "I have been studying their classics for three years and know "Chongdian" by heart. , I have also dabbled in their vast collection of classics. Give me a few more years and I might even become a wise man in their sect."
Zhang Guofeng said: "Since you are so sure, plus when we came. , the county magistrate asked us to cooperate with your actions, so all actions are based on you. However, speaking of the front, Lantian County is currently in crisis, and a whole army is placed in the Ningxia Guard. If we cannot play the role we should play, we I would suggest leaving. There is still a large area of land in the Central Plains for us to roam."
Duan Guoren looked at the dark night sky and said: "The longer I stay here, the more I like it. Every day. Just listening to the sound of wind in the distance can make me excited.
If I can visit the hometown of wind in my lifetime, I will be satisfied. ”
Li Dingguo took a bite. Mutton said: "Give me a deadline!"
Duan Guoren seemed to have heard the wind again, and murmured in a drunken voice: "One year!"
"One year?" Li Dingguo,Zhang Guofeng all stopped eating meat.
"One year, if the Ningxia Wei cannot be pacified within one year, it means that my strategy has completely failed, and we have no choice but to use knives to reason with everyone here."
p>Duan Guoren stood up as he spoke, put his hands in the shape of a trumpet and placed it on his good ear. He said to Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng: "I heard the sound of Zhang Qian's camel bell and the sound of Ban Chao's horse hooves. I heard Xuanzang's chanting, and I even heard Kumarajiva's footsteps... You should also listen, it's very clear."
Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng did not hear what he said. The two of them even heard nothing about the noises made by Zhang Qian, Xuanzang, Ban Chao and others many, many years ago.
"Is this a pure lunatic?"
Li Dingguo said to Zhang Guofeng.
"Even if he is a madman, he is still a madman who can pass the top ten among a group of perverts. Oh, by the way, there is one thing I haven't told you. I heard that this guy's hearing is not good and he can't practice well. For sword skills, I chose a good blunderbuss, improved it through secret methods, spent countless gunpowder and lead bullets, and spent several years to develop good spear skills.
According to me. As far as we know, Yunfu was defeated after competing with him.
As for his secret method of improving the gun, only a few people in the county and the Wuyan Academy knew about it. For this reason, Lantian County owed this guy five hundred taels of gold. , as long as he wants, he can withdraw it from the Finance Department at any time.
So, among the many students in Yushan Academy, this guy is the richest one.
Even if this guy is the richest one. Pervert, please bear with him."