On May 18th, the second year of Jianji, mobilization began again in the north and south of Yinshan Mountain.
Yang Yao, the privy envoy of Beiya Shang, rushed to Shengzhou to supervise.
With the privy envoys here, the people below naturally did not dare to delay. What's more, the tribal chiefs went down to various pastures separately, urging the herdsmen to stop what they were doing and quickly go to Shengzhou to gather.
For a time, people were coming and going and traffic was busy on the great post road in Fengsheng Erzhou.
Liu Xiuniang sat under the locust tree in front of her house, looking quietly into the distance.
Her family is now prosperous, and the courtyard with three entrances is beautifully built. Her children are all married, and they all live nearby, making it easy to get around.
Over the years, His Majesty has given a lot of money in private. Li Yanling, Lu Huaizhong and other generals also sent people to send money and silk. In fact, not only her family, but also His Majesty's brothers in the early team were killed or injured five years before Qianfu. Large rewards were received one after another, and other children were selected to serve as guards in the palace and shine on the family lintel.
Up and down Fengzhou, who dares to say that the current situation is not good? He is afraid that he will be beaten to death and thrown into the grass to be eaten by wild wolves.
Another group of people passed by on the post road.
Judging from their attire, they are definitely not Tibetan people from around Fengzhou, not even from Shanyiquanzhuanglangbu. The locals all know that they are Tibetan people from Miaoyiquan, Kedun City, Dijinze, Kujiesha and other places. , many of them can speak Mandarin, and their attire is different from traditional Tibetan people. They should be somewhere between Han people and Chu people, and they are very different from these pure and rough Tibetan people.
"A bunch of bastards need to talk to the county. The next group of people will go to the northern grassland and can't cross Fengzhou." Li Zhengchen Datou came over and complained.
Liu Xiu Niang smiled and continued to knit the woolen sweater in her hand.
Chen Datou swallowed.
Liu Xiuniang's husband had died a long time ago. After he was sent to Helong, the saint personally ordered a search, but he could not be found. Everyone said that he had died in some wilderness.
It is impossible to say that no one is covetous of such a pretty widow. But there are rumors from all over the country that Xiu Niang had an affair with Jin Shang, and that her husband was killed by a saint. There is even a "perpetrator", Li Yanling, Lu Huaizhong secretly captured him and turned off the guard. Li Yixian and Qian Shousu took action, hanged him to death with a bowstring, and threw his body into the valley.
It sounds a bit outrageous, but ordinary people love to hear these gossips and believe them without doubt.
In such a situation, no one dared to take advantage of this woman. Even the county and township officials were affected and treated her politely——What if it is true? What are the hobbies of a saint? Not sure?
"The army is passing through the border, but the people eat the horses' chews, and not a blade of grass grows. Alas," Chen Datou said for a while, but when the embroiderer didn't answer anything, he walked away dejectedly.
The embroiderer looked up at the waterwheel on the river bank in the distance.
With the rumble of the cars, bucket after bucket of water was lifted ashore, merged into the pond, and then slowly flowed into the fields, stirring the wheat that was growing taller in the fields.
Beside the waterwheel, a large group of Tibetan people were sitting on the ground. They set up tents and fetched water for cooking.
Meals are provided by the county, and the amount of old rice transported from Cangcheng is definitely not enough. The Tibetan people have to get some milk themselves, dig some wild vegetables, and make do with it. But the Tibetan soldiers who have passed through the border have already taken out the food in the field.
The pasture has been swept away, the new grass has not had time to grow taller, and the cattle and sheep cannot eat enough, how can they produce milk?…
Li Zheng was right, we can't go on this road anymore, we have to slow down. The pasture in the wild seems to be ownerless, but the locals often drive their cattle and sheep here to graze. Now there is nothing
, Alas, it’s not easy for everyone!
Another group of knights came at the end of the post road.
They did not go far, but patrolled around. It was obvious that these were government soldiers who had been temporarily recruited to maintain order.
Liu Xiuniang didn't know how many government soldiers there were in Da'an County, but there were indeed some, and she had even seen them.
Hundreds of sergeants with foreign accents dispersed to various villages, numbly accepted the fields, orchards, and a small number of livestock that belonged to them, and left their names on the military register of Zhechong Prefecture.
They don't know how to farm, everyone can see that.
The government hired some Tibetan people for them, but the number was too small. So some people started to escape, but they were quickly caught. Their fate is unknown, but they should be
It won't be good.
To run away from such a good world is to let down the hard work of the officials, and he deserves to die.
The sun gradually set. Liu Xiu Niang packed up her things, picked up the maza, and went home to cook.
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"Such a scenery is really refreshing." Sima Ye got off his horse, picked up a handful of water, washed his face, and said with emotion.
He is also an old man, a native of Wen County, Mengzhou, and currently the transit envoy of Guanbei Road.
In the early years, he served as a judge in Wang Bian's Huazhou shogunate.
When Shao Shude entered Henan, he established Shaozhou, and Sima Ye was transferred to Shaozhou as a voyeur and post inspector.
In the third year of Qianning (896), he was promoted to Shaoyin of Henan Prefecture.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in Daxia, he was transferred to Guanbei Road as the transit envoy.
Sima Ye was a professional bureaucrat. He did what he did and loved what he did. When he got a job in a certain place, he would sit down in that place. For example, the imperial court and Guanbei Province talked about tax division for a long time, but they didn't get a clue. Until now.
After knowing how to mobilize for war, the matter was shelved indefinitely. After all, it was not appropriate to discuss this matter during the war.
"Sima Caosi should go out more often. In fact, this desert scene is quite interesting." The speaker was Shi Shucong, the commander of Guanbei Province.
As a descendant of Liang Jun, it must be said that he was able to take this position. But many people don't know how this good fortune came about, and they are very puzzled. This kid is not ranked high under Zhu Quanzhong's account.
Ah, how come he was favored by the saint and became the commander of the capital, managing all the soldiers in the state.
But then again, the generals of the imperial army looked down upon the state soldiers more or less, and were not willing to manage the state soldiers. The lack of competition may be an important reason for Shi Shucong's rise to power.
Shi Shucong cherishes this position very much.
People who have never been unemployed don’t know the pain of taking a break. Ordinary people look forward to being more leisurely and relaxed, but people like them who have been generals usually have crowds of people, and the scenery is incomparable. But once they are idle at home, there are no people around.
I don't know how painful it is. This kind of psychological and status gap is difficult for ordinary people to accept.
Therefore, Shi Shucong has generally worked very hard in the past year or so.
He would travel to a state almost every month, and then squat there, training the sergeants hard and improving their technical and tactical skills.
During the years of peace in Guanbei, the former backbone of the state soldiers were gradually transferred away. The remaining people were really not very good, let alone crooked melons and cracked jujubes. After Shi Shucong took office, he carried out vigorous rectification, and he did not have the slightest chance of being demoted.
The kind of cautious, unqualified soldiers were removed from the state army, incompetent officers were demoted or laid off, and capable new generals were vigorously promoted, which severely changed the atmosphere of the 30,000 state soldiers in the whole province...
Of course, he did this at a cost.
Officials from the Ministry of War reported several times that someone in Guanbei Road had reported that Shi Shucong was nepotistic and intended to rebel.
An accusation of this level is quite scary to be honest. Fortunately, after listening to Wangsi's report, Shao Shude chose to believe Shi Quancong and supported him to vigorously rectify the troops. In fact, he did not believe that Liang Jun surrendered at all.
General, you can rebel in the land of Longxing in Guanbei, are you kidding me?
Shao Shude's reaction made Shi Shucong a little surprised. He had a higher evaluation of the new saint and acted more confidently and boldly. Although he didn't know who was reporting me, he just practiced hard and practiced hard.
Already.
"At the head of the clan, after the state soldiers have gathered together, please restrain the troops." Sima Ye said, "I also need your help in transporting grain and grass."
"It's all a matter for the imperial court. It's not a question of whether we can help or not." Shi Shucong replied casually, but his eyes fell on a group of soldiers who had just arrived.
This group of lightly-armed cavalry, armed with lances and cavalry bows, numbered over a thousand.
Judging from the smoke and dust in the distance, the main force should still be behind.
"Silver Spear Army?" Sima Ye said subconsciously.
"This is not the Silver Spear Army." Shishu Cong said: "The Yinshan Zhenjun came from Fengzhou."
Sima Ye suddenly realized.
He knew about Zhenbing. After all, food and salary would eventually be distributed by various warehouses under the jurisdiction of the transshipment envoy. But he had not dealt with him face to face, so he didn't recognize him for a while.
Shi Shucong stared at these people quietly for a long time, and then he looked away only after they were all gone.
"The Zhongwu Army and the Huaixi Army are not very good. As a town soldier like this, if you encounter a more ferocious barbarian, wouldn't it make people laugh at you?" Shishu Cong sighed.
"Where did the ferocious barbarians come from?" Sima Ye laughed: "North and south of the Yinshan Mountains are all extremely docile Tibetan people."
"That's what I'm worried about." Shi Shucong shook his head and said, "Domestic dogs are not as vicious as wild wolves outside. In recent years, the tribes in Yinshan have been focusing on business, and the smell of copper is very strong. I don't think it's a good sign.
The Zhuanglang clan, the Geshu clan, the Hun clan and other clan chiefs are extremely extravagant and depraved. At present, they are recruiting troops to fight every year. To put it mildly, when the horses are released to Nanshan in the future, their combat effectiveness will deteriorate very quickly. Sima Caosi also
Have you seen the Tibetan people from Hexi, how do they compare with the tribes of Yinshan?"
"Hexi Tibetan people..." Sima Ye recalled carefully and said: "They are indeed more fierce. Maybe their life is too hard."
"I have learned a little about Hexi Road." Shi Shucong said: "The Tibetan people in Hexi were not at odds with the imperial court at first, but were later defeated and had to surrender. But they were very complicated internally, with the largest number of Dangxiang people, followed by the Uyghurs and Tubos. At the end of the song, there were also many Sogdians, Longjia, and Tartars. Even with the pressure of the imperial court, internal fighting was still very frequent. In the north, the Uighurs and Tartars also went south to plunder from time to time, and there were not many wars. The tribes of Yinshan are currently After this generation dies, they will definitely not be able to compete with the Hexi Tibetan people."·
"Why do you care about being so far away?" Sima Ye said with a smile, "Let's go camp quickly."
The Rouzhou camp is located in Jining County.
At this time, there were already many flags and people shouting, horses neighing.
The imperial army, the town army, the state army, the Tibetan army, and the local peasants gathered here more and more every day.
On the post roads that extend in all directions, the endless team is still moving forward slowly.
Once the military machine starts running, it is difficult to stop it without bloodshed.