In 228 A.D., Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, who had completed the southern and southern barbarians and the west, wrote to His Majesty the Emperor of Shu Han: he decided to officially lead the army to start the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei. So then Zhuge Liang personally led the Shu Han army and successively started five Northern Expeditions against Cao Wei. And every time, the result was that he was worried that the supply of grain and grass for the Shu Han army could not keep up, and he had to take the initiative to retreat. What's even more tragic is that he was worried about the last Northern Expedition, and he died directly of illness in Wuzhangyuan, the front line of the Northern Expedition. In fact, objectively speaking, Shu Han raised the strength of the whole country to rejuvenate the Northern Expedition, which is also a bit self-sufficient. For example, at the beginning of the Shu Han Dynasty, the Shu Han Dynasty had thousands of miles of fertile fields in the Western Plains, and the food supply was not a problemHowever, the forage needed to feed the horses, according to the reality of the place where Shu Han lived, this is a fatal problem, which bluntly states that the Sichuan Basin is just a suitable place to lock down the country and fend for itself by virtue of natural hazards. But Liu Bei, the first emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty, didn't believe this, and had to go east to conquer Eastern Wu, and as a result, he was defeated in Yiling, not to mention, and at the end of his life, he came to the White Emperor to entrust Gu, so that Prime Minister Ge Cheng inherited his will. So Ge Liang had to spend a lot of money to conquer the Southern Barbarians for the first time, so that the people of the Southern Barbarians could provide a steady stream of forage for the Shu Han army. So after Zhuge Liang had the confidence to supply this forage, he led the Shu Han army to start a years-long Northern Expedition. Because Zhuge Liang led the Shu Han army out of Qishan several times, they were all defeated by themselves because the supply of grain and grass could not keep up, and later generations commented that it was caused by the inactive supply of forage with the Nanban. But this may not be the case, let's take a look at the reality of the survival of the people of the Southern Barbarians at that time, and you will understand who is right and who is wrong.
In the Shu of the northern land of the South Barbarians, there is the Shan Po River that flows into the Changjiang River of the South River from the north to the south, and at the same time, there is also a post road in the Central Plains region from the south to the south of the river. During the Northern Expedition of the Shu Han Dynasty, this post road naturally became the main channel for the Southern Barbarian forage to supply the Shu Han army. In addition, this was the last supplement of forage for the Shu Han army in the southern barbarian land, so the low-level barbarians here at that time were quite hard to survive.
Legend has it that at that time, there lived a mother and son on the side of the post road in the upper reaches of this Sepo River: his mother had been blind for many years, and the boy was called Nie Lang. Nie Lang made a living by cutting grass and exchanging grain with passing horse owners, of course, only if he had to pay the forage tax paid by his family. After all, this is the only livelihood of Nie Lang's son and mother, so Nie Lang has to go out early and return late every day to mow the grass, only in this way can the two of them basically maintain their livelihood, but in winter, because there is almost no grass to cut, it is even more difficult to survive in winter.
It is said that one year was only early winter, and it snowed heavily for several days in the middle of Nanban Shu. A few days later, when the weather finally cleared, Nie Lang rushed to the white mountain stream to look for wild things, but Nie Lang searched everywhere for a long time, and the result was still no gain, but it was impossible to return empty-handed, after all, there was still an old mother at home who was hungry!However, fortunately, the emperor was not a caring person, and he suddenly saw a large tuft of green grass growing on the white cliff rocks by the stream.
So Nie Lang climbed the rock cliff with a lot of effort, and he was pleasantly surprised when he saw the cluster of green, which was very difficult to find for human-animal food. But then suddenly the sky began to have snowflakes again, and it soon became bigger and bigger. So Nie Lang hurriedly approached and quickly picked up the cluster of green plants, so that he could quickly finish picking them back, and the old lady was hungry and waiting for him to go back. But at this time, a very miraculous scene happened: that is, the green plants he had just picked suddenly grew into the ones he had never picked before. So Nie Lang picked it again, and after it was picked again, Nie Lang was stunned for a while after repeating it. Fortunately, the snow was getting heavier and heavier at this time, so he couldn't be surprised, so he could only quickly bring the green plants he had picked down to the rocks.
It is said that Nie Lang returned home happily, and there was a winter miracle in the family that the horse gang who went north to the south and returned to the southern barbarian land borrowed to live, and his old lady had already borrowed to fill her hunger. At this time, Nie Lang, who returned home, was not stingy, and directly shared the green plants he brought back with everyone. It is said that the next day, when the caravan said goodbye to continue the road back to the south, they also gave the mother and son less rice. Although there are few people, it is enough for the mother and son to last for a few days. However, Nie Lang is not a person who sits and waits to eat the empty mountain, he is still thinking about the green plants on the cliff by the stream, so he plans to hurry up and come back to prepare some more, in case of need. But when he looked at the green cluster again, he changed his mind, why not dig it up and plant it, and then take it whenever he wantedSo he didn't hesitate to uproot the cluster of green plants, and what he didn't expect was that there was a shining night pearl under the grassroots.
That night he hid it in a rice jar, and the next day the rice jar was full, so Nie Lang distributed the surplus rice to the same poor neighbors, and later this matter was known to the local tyrants, so they came to the door to force it. Nie Ji had no choice but to eat the night pearl before he came to the door, and the local tyrant led people to the door and found nothing, so he had to take the people away in a gray manner. Nie Lang, who then ate the night pearl, was very thirsty and uncomfortable, and the old mother hurriedly asked him to go to the water tank to eat water to quench his thirst, but the water tank quickly bottomed out to no avail, so Nie Lang said to the old lady that he was going to the stream to quench his thirst.
Legend has it that Nie Lang immediately threw himself into the river when he arrived at the river, and then he became a dragon, and then the dragon had to go down the river that had burst at this time, but he couldn't leave his old lady, so he turned back step by step, and formed the twenty-four Wangniangtan in the history of the later generations on the river and sand, and the biography of the twenty-four Wangniangtan was not only circulated in the streamside basin of Sepo Creek, which was therefore called Zhuxi, but also gradually spread to all the places where the Baipu Nanban tribe lived.