Starting from the Dangjin Mountain Pass, they were chased by wolves and almost captured by the nomadic Xianbei people. Qinchuan and his party explored the East Tubo Road and made a lot of discoveries.
Qin Chuan and Zhang Hua went south from Dangjin Pass to explore the situation on Longyou East Road.
Unexpectedly, Qin Chuan became even more excited after running all the way for several days.
When they arrived at the camp, Qin Chuan said to Zhang Hua:
"The level of governance of the Tubo people is too rough. Isn't it even as good as that of the Yuan Dynasty?"
Zhang Hua also smiled and said: "Tubo was still a slave-holding regime. Its level of civilization was not as good as that of Silla and Japan. Of course, its governance skills were not good."
Qin Chuan also lamented that he didn't even see a decent city along the way east.
Is this the Tubo East Road?
You must know that the East Tubo Road is the most prosperous area among the four Tubo Roads.
It can be said that after the Tubo people occupied the Tuyuhun area, they even regressed compared to the Tuyuhun era.
The only things that can be seen are the manors and the serfs who work hard under the servitude of the manor owners.
Even after the Tubo people occupied the Tuyuhun area, they demolished part of the city and converted it into fortress-like manors and castles.
Qin Chuan took off his boots, dried the straps on his feet with flames, and then slowly loosened the soles of his feet.
Zhang Hua and other team members set up iron pots and started cooking dinner.
Zhang Hua took out the water bag and said: "Qin Da, this is the mountain spring water I received. Drink it and see, it's really a bit sweet."
Qin Chuan took the water bag, and it was indeed sweet in the mouth: "This is the melting mountain spring on the snow-capped mountains, isn't it? In the real world, isn't it better than Evian?"
Zhang Hua burst out laughing.
Qin Chuan lit up the fire and said, "I didn't expect that the Tubo people still haven't completely swallowed Tuyuhun after decades of work."
Zhang Hua nodded and said: "Yes, the main reason is that Tubo's governance level is too poor. It does not win over the top officials of Xianbei and does not show mercy to the people at the bottom. Serfdom is still practiced in this era. Isn't this perverse?"
Qin Chuan nodded and said: "I have also asked Teacher Fang. In fact, Tuyuhun was already a quite Chinese-style Xianbei government. Many cities were built during the Tuyuhun era."
"The royal family of Tuyuhun are the survivors of Xianbei who moved from Liaodong to the Western Regions. They should be the remnants of Murong Xianbei."
"Murong Xianbei was a nation that was Sinicized during the Jin Dynasty. Tuyuhun was also a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral regime, which was more developed than Longyou at that time."
"Later, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty destroyed Tuyuhun and destroyed some cities in Tuyuhun."
"After the Tubo people came, they simply moved and leveled all the cities except Tianqian City."
Qin Chuan took a sip of mountain spring water and continued: "Teacher Fang said that the main level - castle owner - manor owner - yeoman farmers and serfs, these are the four levels of Tubo society."
"Shang Qixin'er is the master of the East Road, which is equivalent to the governor of the East Road of Tubo. He is a prince who has military and political control."
"As long as Shang Qixin'er does not commit the serious crime of rebellion, Tubo Zanpu will not easily offend him."
"And the castle owners were the vassals of Tubo Dalun. The castles they were granted were often the size of a county or even a state."
"The castle owners are all Shang Qi Xin'er's retainers. They will take turns to assist Shang Qi Xin'er in handling military and government affairs."
"The castle owner is a middle-class noble in Tubo, and according to Tubo's feudal system, even Zanpu has no right to deal with the castle owner under Da Lun, so they are the most loyal to Shang Qixin'er."
"The castle owners live in castles one after another, and they also have private armies. If their subordinates perform meritorious service in the war, the castle owners will also allocate some manors to reward them. These are the lowest nobles in Tubo, the manor owners.
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"The manor owners are the lowest level of warriors. The manors they are granted are the size of a village, and they are also the source of Tibetan soldiers."
These manors are scattered throughout the Tuyuhun region and constitute the most basic level of the Tubo regime.
The peasants and slaves further down were not considered human beings in the eyes of the Tibetan rulers and had no human rights.
Qin Chuan said with emotion: "I can only say that Tubo's system of slavery is too reactionary. We have encountered so many rebels along the way, including Han people, Xianbei people, Qiang people, and there are rebels everywhere who cannot survive.
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Zhang Hua also said: "Recently, Shang Qixin'er has deployed troops one after another and raided the east road vigorously, so the number of rebels has increased."
However, Qin Chuan said: "The governance model of Tubo is that each castle owner and manor owner is entrusted to defend himself. It is the most difficult to destroy the rebels. As long as you hide in the territory of other manor owners, you will not be able to lead the troops to destroy them."
Zhang Hua also nodded and said: "Qin Da, you are right, the political system of Tubo is still too backward."
Qin Chuan looked at the map he drew by himself and said: "According to the information from Yuantong, a manor owner probably owns between seven and thirty slaves. Adding in the manor owner's family members, a manor can only have ten slaves at most.
Soldier."
"The castle owner will have some full-time private soldiers to protect the castle owner's safety, but the number of private soldiers will not exceed two hundred."
"Now that all Tibetan soldiers have been deployed to the front line, the entire eastern Tibetan province is very weak."
Zhang Hua also came over and said: "So Qin Da, you want to attack Tibet from Dangjin Mountain Pass? But we only have more than a thousand people, can we defeat it?"
Qin Chuan said categorically: "If you ask me to lead troops to fight from Dangjin Mountain Pass to Tianqian City, of course I can't do it, but I can still create some trouble on the east side of Tubo."
Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said: "In this system of castle lord-manor lord, once there is a war, the castle lord will recruit his manor lords to fight."
"If we directly remove the castle owner, the manor owners will lose their leader. And the relationship between them is parallel to each other, and the manor owner cannot mobilize other manor owners."
"Furthermore, in the closed manor system of Tubo, each manor owner operates a small-scale peasant economy behind closed doors and has little contact with the outside world."
"So my plan is to kill the castle owners along the way, so that the loose manor owners won't be anything to worry about!"
Zhang Hua gave a thumbs up and said: "How great! As long as we remove those castle owners, the rest can be handed over to the rebels."
Qin Chuan continued: "So I have contacted Monk Yuantong and asked him to come to the western area of Tubo East Road to pull a team. After we return to Dangjin Mountain Pass, we will pull a team to invade Tubo East Road!"
Zhang Hua coughed and said: "Qin Da, you are wrong. This is the Tubo East Road. It is obviously the Tuyuhun region of the Tang Dynasty!"
"The territory of our Datang Dynasty was inherited from the Sui Dynasty. This has been the territory of our Datang Dynasty since ancient times!"
The two looked at each other and smiled, and an investigation report on the western region of Tuyuhun appeared on the forum, causing heated discussions among players.