In early March, the governor of Guiyang County reported that there was a rebellion by barbarians in the area under his jurisdiction.
Guiyang County belongs to the southernmost part of Jingzhou, which later became Chenzhou City in Hunan Province.
In the eyes of the aristocratic families in the northern part of the Sui Dynasty, with Guanzhong and the Central Plains as the core, Hunan was the place where barbarians were born. Even in later generations, they were nicknamed "Hunan barbarians", but at that time, barbarians mostly referred to a kind of struggle.
The spirit of being proactive, pursuing truth, and having the courage to sacrifice is commendable.
But in the Sui Dynasty, it had a purely derogatory meaning, the kind that was relegated to the home.
The Manzi of Guiyang, called Guiyang Man, are the ancestors of the Yao people.
Jingzhou under the jurisdiction of Yang Ming was half Hubei and half Hunan. The entire Hunan territory was full of barbarians.
The main ones are Linyang Man, Changsha Man, Wuling Man, Xiangzhou Man, Lingling Man, Hengyang Man, etc. They are the ancestors of Tujia, Miao, Yao, Dong and other ethnic minorities.
We are still in a semi-civilized stage and are not to be trifled with.
Whether it was the Old Chen, the Old Liang, or the current Sui Dynasty, they all actively encouraged Han people to enter the Manzi area to farm and work in order to promote the integration between Han and Barbarians, including the exile of criminals, who were also concentrated in the area where the Manzi were located.
Actually, it didn't work.
"That's right," Yang Yinjiang said to Pei Shuying: "Didn't you say last year that there would be an emergency this year? He must have other purposes, and it is definitely not as simple as releasing water to raise fish."
The barbarians who entered the county to plunder food this time were only a few thousand men, and were not included in the troop dispatch.
How to deal with the barbarian rebellion? There is only one way, which is to hurt him.
This time the barbarian rebellion in Guiyang County came from several barbarian villages in the mountains surrounding Linwu County. They came down from the mountains to steal food.
Because it is difficult to suppress.
After saying that, Pei Shuying looked at Yang Ming and said, "You should understand this, so you must be holding back other bad things."
Yang Ming ate his dinner and said with a smile: "The family is big and the business is big, so it won't hurt your muscles and bones. If he comes again, he will be sent away."
Barbarians are barbaric and vulgar. The system of step marriage is popular in barbarian areas, that is, "when a brother dies, his sister-in-law is taken, and when a brother dies, his brother's wife is taken in." This was denounced by the Han people as "obscene and obscene news", which was despised.
"Why are you unwilling to send troops?"
In the Great Sui Dynasty, the north occupied two-thirds of the army, and the entire south only accounted for one-third. There were very few soldiers in the south. If Yang Ming wanted to wipe out these barbarians, he would have to mobilize troops from the north of Jingzhou, which would be very costly and not cost-effective.
"If he doesn't say anything, he just treats us two as outsiders," Yang Yinjiang tugged on Pei Shuying's sleeves and winked: "Or maybe he thinks that we are just women and not worth discussing."
Therefore, barbarian rebellions have always been based on scale. If there are more than 3,000 people, the government army will be dispatched to kill them. If there are no more than 3,000 people, they will usually be ignored.
These people don't pay taxes. They basically belong to my territory, and I have the authority to call them the king of the mountain. Each village has its own mountain king.
Pei Shuying made the point, and Yang Yinjiang suddenly realized: "This method is not bad? It can make up for the salary of the school inspector."
Yang Ming put down his chopsticks angrily, glared at Pei Shuying, and said:
"Last time you said that if a woman doesn't discuss important matters, you'll just slap yourself in the face today."
Yang Yinjiang and Pei Shuying's smiles froze at the same time, exactly the same,
"Ask me again if I'm a dog!" Yang Yinjiang angrily threw up her sleeves and went out.
Pei Shuying covered her mouth and laughed, almost laughing.
"Okay. Since you have said so," Yang Ming sighed, looking at the expectant expressions on the faces of the two women, and said, "Then don't ask me anymore."
Yang Ming smiled and said: "Wait a little longer."
Xiao Xuan was born in the Xiao family of Lanling. He was appointed as a county magistrate in Jiangling County and had an empty salary. Because his biological grandfather Xiao Qian had adopted Yang Ming's mother-in-law, he was very prosperous in Jingzhou and Yangzhou.
"Understood,"
Barbarians live in high mountains and dense forests, living in groups in villages and cottages. Once you get into the mountains, it's really hard to find them.
The food was in the granary in the county town. If they robbed the granary, wasn't that a rebellion? What's more, they killed dozens of civilians and ran away after grabbing the food.
After Yuan Wendu left, Yang Yinjiang asked curiously:
In fact, the process of civilization is much slower than that in the north. Later, after the great integration of ethnic groups, everyone became the same thing.
Since this year, Yang Ming has not allowed military governments in various places to send troops to suppress bandits, and deliberately released water to raise fish. As a result, the water bandits no longer have the threat of government soldiers, and they have wreaked havoc and spread to all the rivers in Jingzhou area, making business travelers miserable.
There is intermarriage between shanzhai and shanzhai, in order to avoid incest marriage and the birth of offspring with physical defects.
Of course, Yang Ming would not ignore the Southern Barbarians' problems, but at the moment, there really was no good solution. Even the big guys in the Great Sui Center couldn't solve the problem, and he certainly couldn't solve it either.
At present, Han people are only concentrated in counties and towns, and most of the remaining areas are owned by barbarians.
What's more, there are more and more water bandits in the Yangtze River, Han River, Honghu Lake, and Dongting areas this year.
"Are you waiting for the sheep to be fattened before slaughtering them?"
Therefore, intermarriage between several villages will form a larger mountain king.
Therefore, this rebellion was also defined as a riot. Since it was a riot, there was no need to report it to the court.
That night, after Yuan Wendu sent Xiao Xuan, the prime minister of Jiangling County, away, he came to the inner garden to see Yang Ming:
Pei Shuying on the side curled her lips and said: "It must not be that simple. This method of making money is a bit inferior and easy to be seen through. It will cause those who do water transport to complain that Your Highness releases water to raise fish. Water transport has official and democratic movements, and official transport returns."
The Water Ministry Manager, one of the four departments of the Ministry of Industry, all the water boats of the Water Ministry have been robbed. If they take the matter to the next level, it may be detrimental to His Highness."
Pei Shuying stuck out her tongue in embarrassment: "I'm just curious. If you don't want to tell me, I won't tell you."
"When he left, he was full of complaints, complaining that the military government was unwilling to suppress the bandits, resulting in heavy losses to his fleet."
But the current Sui Dynasty cannot integrate because of different concepts, language barriers, and different living habits, which has caused inevitable conflicts.
Yuan Wendu and Pang Ben did not recommend the suppression, because in their opinion, the loss this time was not big, because the official warehouse in Linwu County did not have much grain, and most of the grain had been shipped to Jiangling and Jiangxia as early as the end of last year.
Okura.
It is better to do less than to do more. The affairs in the north of Jingzhou have not been settled yet.
In fact, Pei Shuying guessed correctly from the very beginning. Yang Ming wanted to create an emergency situation so that he could report to the imperial court and ask for the use of money and food from the treasury.
Pei Shuying cooperated: "We overstepped our bounds, and we will never ask again."
What is it used for? Of course it is to suppress bandits. The bandits are currently very powerful and have already robbed many commercial ships. If left unchecked, the situation will be formed in another month.
At that time, navy ships will be needed to suppress bandits, and Yang Ming just wants to use the money from the treasury to rebuild the Xiangyang navy.
And this naval force, from top to bottom, must be his people.
Today's second chapter is a bit short. Someone at home has sun exposure. I have to take the child out for shelter. The child is only 10 months old and he can't handle it. We have had a lot of sun exposure recently. I don't know if everyone has had it.