Chapter 1: Escape from the South 1()

The pseudo-Zhao Yiyang Gongjian was in charge of Guanzhong. The responsibilities were heavy. Those with long hair in civil and military officials were often pulled into crowns and tassels, and the rest were given to the palace servants. The chief minister took the hair of the king of Zhao, and the tiger was sent to the Jian and returned to Ye. The Leping Gongbao was used to serve as a prefecture. Fayong, Luo, Qin, and Bingzhou governed the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an.

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Zeng Hua stood on the south bank of Luoshui, and his depression and irritability surged in his heart like Luoshui. This is the upper reaches of Luoshui, belonging to Shangluo County, Zhao State (now Shang County, Shaanxi Province), or the world of Jiehu. In their eyes, he, a survivor of Jin State, belongs to the untouchables and "two-legged sheep" that can be killed or eaten, and his life may be threatened at any time. Failure to protect is the best portrayal of Zeng Hua now.

What Zeng Hua is depressed now is that he is a good college student in the 21st century. He got lost in Tianzhu Mountain and ended up running to an inexplicable era and place. It took more than ten days to Zeng Hua to figure out that it is the first year of Yonghe in the Jin Dynasty in the south and the eleventh year of Jianwu in the Zhao State in the north. As for the years AD, Zeng Hua, a major in mechanical manufacturing, could not calculate it. What he is even more depressed is that he clearly called Zeng Huayan, but because the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wu, had a name of Yan, and his companions said they wanted to avoid taboos, so they had to aggrieved him for short. Because of the powerful usurpation of Emperor Sima, who dealt with foreign tribes, changed his surname, which really made Zeng Hua very unhappy, and his image of the small dynasty of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was even worse.

However, according to the knowledge Zeng Hua learned from the history class in middle school, the north could not stay. There would be a melee here for hundreds of years. The Hu people and Han people finally criticized the loess. The fate of most Han people was much more miserable than that of the Hu people. At this time, there was also the imperial court in the south. Although the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not a good thing, it could still save its life there at least for the time being, so just let it go.

On the way to escape south, Zeng Hua met a group of refugees, about 400 people. They are now gathering in the woods by the river behind him to rest. They are also the source of Zeng Hua's troubles.

These refugees escaped from the east of the Qinling Mountains in Shiping County. They met on the second day after Zeng Hua came to this world. The leaders were two young men in their twenties, one named Zhang Shou and the other Gan Rui. Judging from the situation they learned about more than ten days of getting along, these refugees were originally two groups of people, but they gathered together later by chance. Moreover, these two young people who took the lead at first sight were not ordinary people.

Zhang Shou's great-grandfather was Zhang Guang, the former governor of Liangzhou (in the first year of Yongjia (307 AD), when the Sichuan thieves disappeared from Hanzhong, and the Liangzhou governor Zhang Guang, in the third year of the reign of Weixing, returned to Hanzhong.). Later, Emperor Huai Mengchen 1, Zhang Guang came out of Shiping Kingdom to serve the king, but was defeated and killed. Zhang Shou's grandfather and father had been living in seclusion in Shiping County. Later, King Shihu of Zhao made 260,000 people in Guanzhong to cultivate Chang'an. In desperation, Zhang Shou had to lead his tribesmen to flee to Jin.

Gan Rui's ancestor was Gan Ning, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms, and his grandfather was Gan Zhuo, the former governor of Liangzhou (in Xiangyang). During the Yongchang period (322 AD), the prime minister of Jin, Duke of Wuchang County, and governor of Jiangzhou, Wang Dun, was incompatible with the then confidant of Emperor Yuan of Jin, appointed Liu Wei, general of Zhenbei, governor of Qing, Xu, You, and Liu Wei, who was in peace with the military affairs of the four states, and brought troops to Jiankang in the name of clearing the monarchs. However, Gan Zhuo was restrained in Xiangyang, which made him deeply afraid. Later, Xiangyang prefect Zhou Li and others secretly inherited Dun's intentions and planned to murder Gan Zhuo. His four sons, Gan Rui's father, Gan Fan, were killed together. Gan Fan was young at that time, and under the escort of his personal soldiers, he rushed to the north of Guanzhong and lived in seclusion in Danshui source, and finally left incense for the Gan family. Later, it was spread to Gan Rui, and because of the turmoil in Guanzhong and the miss of his family, the clan fled to Jin east.

Zeng Hua is now worried that most of the group of refugees, old friends, women and children account for. They traveled long distances and slept in the open air. Even more than 100 young and strong men could not suffer. This team set out from Danshui and walked for twenty days for more than 300 miles. The Danshui County, which sounds very close, is still so far away.

Zeng Hua now feels that his responsibility is quite important. After Zhang Shou and Gan Rui were "who were impressed" by themselves, they had already become the leader of this refugee. Unexpectedly, they were the head of the children when they were young, the class leader, the team leader, the Youth League Committee secretary, and the vice chairman of the student union in college. Now, when they traveled back to ancient times, they soon became the leader of a refugee team. Could it be that they really had the aura of a turtle?

Like his father, Zeng Hua was born in a division headquarters of the Xinjiang Construction Corps. He is the third generation of Xinjiang Agricultural Reclamation Army. His grandfather was a Sanxiang soldier who followed General Wang Zhen to Xinjiang Agricultural Reclamation Army. He served as battalion commander, regiment commander, division commander, and grandmother was a Sanxiang female soldier who was later expanded. The two old men bloomed in Yili, Xinjiang. He became curious about this peer who was dressed strangely (although Zeng Hua's clothes were strange, they were much better than the refugees who were covered with lichens in the Central Plains, and they looked a bit unrestrained and unique.

He was carefully asked about Zeng Hua's family background. Under the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system at that time, only a few people could master the knowledge. It was seen from the talent and knowledge shown by Zeng Hua (fortunately, he was just fooled by his mouth and had no conditions to write, otherwise our Comrade Zeng Hua would be revealed immediately). He should have come from a famous family. However, in the memories of Zhang and Gan, the Zeng family in Lu County, the Zeng family in Tianshui County, and the Zeng family in Luling County (these places are all county-leaders with the surname Zeng) seem to have no such person as Zeng Hua.

Isn't this checking my household registration? My household registration is still in the Sixth Agricultural Reclamation Division of the Xinjiang Construction Corps. My family's ancestors were all poor peasants of HN. Grandparents later participated in the revolution, Han nationality, one with the rank of major general and the other with major; my father and mother are also Han nationality, and their ancestral home... What do you say about me?

Under Zhang and Gan's questioning, Zeng Hua could only vaguely say that he was a descendant of Zeng Yu, the Han Censor, and his ancestors had guarded Liangzhou in the Western Regions for generations. Later, the Jin Dynasty was in trouble and broke the news with the Central Plains and lived in the Western Regions. In the end, because the family was a "minority" in the Central Plains in the Western Regions and was implicated in the uneasy situation, the parents and tribe members died one after another, and in the end only a dozen descendants of the tribes were left. Under the orders of his ancestors, Zeng Hua, the "directly inherited family leader", he returned to the Central Plains under the leadership of the "directly inherited family leader". Unexpectedly, after going through hardships on the road, he was the only one left. Moreover, the affairs of his ancestors had been intermittent for decades, and the turmoil and uneasy were not very clear.

Zhang and Gan immediately guessed Zeng Hua's family background. The ancestor was the lineage of the Han Censor Zeng Yu, and was a prominent family of Fufeng County, a subsidiary of the Zeng family (now southeast of Xingping, Shaanxi Province). The ancestors of the family served as the Han Sili School, the governor of Liangzhou, the prefect of Wuwei County, the prefect of the northern Taijun County, and the governor of Liangzhou, the last appearance of Zeng Hua's family background was in the ninth year of Yongkang of Emperor Wu of the Emperor of Liangzhou. The governor of Liangzhou, the captain of Xuji, the captain of Xuji, the captain of the Western Regions, and Zeng Nian was Zeng Hua's great-grandfather.

Zeng Hua was stunned when he heard this. He could not have imagined that Zhang Shou and Gan Rui were so strong that they could easily sort out their prominent family backgrounds that they could not even calculate. You should know that in the Jin and Southern Dynasties, you were not afraid of you not having talent, but you were afraid of you not having family backgrounds, especially those with continuous and continuous family backgrounds of several dynasties and generations, who were respected everywhere they went. Didn’t Yuan Shao always like to say something very bad? “I miss my Yuan family for four generations and three ministers.”

In fact, it was Zeng Hua's temperament and knowledge that impressed Zhang Shou and Gan Rui. In this era, it was hard for them to imagine how to cultivate such talents without a good family background? (Of course there are very few self-taught poor families.) Zhang and Gan are both humble gentlemen, and they naturally admire Zeng Hua's extensive knowledge and conversation. Moreover, they are all children of aristocratic families with profound knowledge and knowledge. Zeng Hua's every word and action has made them realize that this person is not an idiot. They know very well that Zeng Hua may not be like in a peaceful and prosperous era, but in this cruel and chaotic era, it is a dragon entering the sea and storm.

On the way, it was precisely because of Zeng Hua's cleverness and wisdom and decisive decision that this team of more than 400 people avoided being caught by Zhao **shi, who was swaying around and arresting strong men. This also made Zhang Shou and Gan Rui even more determined to make his judgment. In the troubled times, following the "strong ones" is the only chance to save their lives and even become famous. Although Zeng Hua is just a little bit of glory now, Zhang Shou and Gan Rui are like people who fall into the water grabbing straws. Any step people take in troubled times is gambling.

Zeng Hua could not understand what Zhang and Gan were thinking so thoroughly. He just understood that what he did along the way was a huge explosion of potential. Perhaps he was standing at the height of history and understanding what kind of cruel and ruthless historical era he was in, so he could only be a frog that jumped into the boiling water. The only thing he could do was to jump to death.

"Brother Baishan (Zhang Shou's name) and brother Changbao (Gan Rui's name)" Zeng Hua bowed his hand and replied, "Our journey is too slow now. If this continues, I'm afraid that one day will be discovered by Zhao Jun and Hu people." He couldn't help but sigh at this point.

Zhang and Gan looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh.

Gan Rui asked hesitantly: "Brother Xuping, what should I do?" The two understood that the team was so slow, and it was because of the burden of the elderly, young, women and children. If they were to get rid of them, they would have arrived in Xiangyang City with the strength of more than a hundred young and strong people. Now some young and middle-aged people have begun to complain, saying that the way of walking is to die together, and it is better to go their separate ways and survive more people.

Could it be that Zeng Hua did the same thing? Zhang Shou stood aside without saying a word, but the anxiety and suspicion on his face were still visible.

"What should we do?" Zeng Hua sighed depressedly and said, "Leave the old, young, women and children, we young and strong can indeed return to Jin faster." Hearing this, Zhang and Gan couldn't help but look pale.

Zeng Hua, who was silent for a while, suddenly smiled: "Is this what we men do for leaving the elderly, young, women and children, and running away alone? Is this what we are doing? Is it the meaning of our life? We used to run too many times, and always thought that throwing our companions behind and getting closer to the wolf's mouth can temporarily fill the wolf's belly and allow ourselves to escape. But as long as you escape, whether you are running in front or behind, you will inevitably die in the wolf's belly."

"what to do?"

Zeng Hua turned around, looked directly at Zhang and Gan, and asked sternly. The fierce aura made Zhang Shou and Gan Rui burst into cold sweats.

"Only fighting to the death is the way out. No matter how many sheep there are, they will always become others' prey. Only by uniting and forming like a herd of bison, no matter who comes, as long as you dare to eat me, you will be a horn. Either you die or I die! Even the greedy jackal can only stop!"

"The Hu people don't have more hands than us, and our blood is bright red and hot like the Hu people! Why do we become Hu people's two-legged sheep so obediently? Death is terrible, but it is even more terrifying to die without dignity and humiliation! Is the dignified Chinese man just watching his tribe members be harmed but indifferent? Are we fewer people than Hu people? Are the steel knives in our hands not sharp? Can't cut off the Hu people's heads? We would rather die standing than be killed like a beast by Hu people!" Zeng Hua stood there, and became more excited as he spoke.

"No! No! Yes! Yes! We want to fight!" It was Zhang Shou and Gan Rui at first, and then more and more Zhang and Gan people surrounded Zeng Hua, clenched their fists excitedly, and responded loudly.

When Zeng Hua saw everyone like this, he couldn't help but feel relieved. Fortunately, their blood was not completely cold. They must realize that the current historical environment is a moment of life and death, they must awaken them from confusion and fear, and they must feel the pain of hatred deeply. Only in this way can their blood heat up again.

Zeng Hua secretly wore a cold sweat. Fortunately, I was the secretary of the Youth League Committee and a student union cadre. I attended the "third echelon" training class of the Party School for a few days, and was praised by the tutors as a "born speech inspirator" (this comment is so familiar). These people were motivated in a few words. People of this era, especially those of the Jin people, lack a kind of blood. The Chinese nation's courage to look forward to the world in the Qin and Han dynasties had become indulgent and unruly talk and inaction.

"The struggle is a must, but we also have to talk about the location. Now our biggest task is to bring everyone back to Jin safely." Zeng Hua quickly poured cold water on everyone, and it seemed that he would incite him for a few more times. These people probably had to go to Yecheng to chop off the Shihu.

After all, Zhang Shou and Gan Rui were still knowledgeable, so they immediately calmed down and turned to comfort their tribe members with Zeng Hua.

"You two return to their respective tribes, encourage everyone and give them hope. Only hope can people have motivation. Then, according to my previous organization, promote the people with firm will, send close friends to monitor the people with uncertain will, and order that if other people are safely escorted back to Jin, there will be a great reward. After stabilizing the people's hearts, the team will send young and strong detectives from afar to respond to the unexpected."

Zhang and Gan responded quickly and returned to their own tribe to rectify their own efforts.
Chapter completed!