Chapter 1177 Another big wave of miscellaneous people
Shao Shude spent the entire first month busy with various activities.
In February, the southern suburbs offer sacrifices to heaven, and the northern suburbs take up a lot of time.
Many Tibetan chiefs also participated in this sacrifice. Not only the tribes of Yinshan, Helong and Hexi also participated, with a large number of people, up to more than a hundred people.
"Go to Zhu, what kind of battle are you fighting this time?" After the sacrifice, Shao Shude looked at King Xi who was trembling in front of him and asked angrily.
"Your Majesty. "To put away all the great fear, I almost want to kneel down.
"We have been fighting against the Khitan for many years. Can't you see the tactics to lure the enemy?" Shao Shude asked accusingly.
"Your Majesty, I can only blame Abaoji for being too cunning." Qu Zhu defended: "The siege lasted for more than a month, the men and horses were exhausted, and when we were withdrawing our troops in a large scale, we were able to return to fight. I was careless, and I was defeated."
"It is understandable that he was defeated. But after he was defeated and retreated to Yuyi Town, why did he not even defend the city and retreat hastily?" Shao Shude asked still with an angry face.
"Your Majesty..." I don't know how to explain it. It seems that no matter what I say, it can't be justified.
Shao Shude looked at him coldly.
There were beads of sweat on Qu Zhu's forehead, and he murmured: "The army is newly defeated, and people are panicking. The chiefs of various tribes are not united. Some want to defend, and some want to retreat. In the end, we cannot defend, and retreat will not be successful."
This is to the point.
Similar to the tribal structure of Khitan, the Khan of the Six Tribes actually does not have much strength, and there are very few Uluses under his direct jurisdiction. Most of the strength of his subordinates is obtained by luring people from various tribes to join. Such an organization
, resulting in the following chieftains being very powerful, and the Khan's words becoming less useful.
"I will fine you five hundred households and send you to the Xianyou Palace, under the leadership of Tuoba Jin. Do you have any objections?" Just when Qu Zhukuai couldn't bear the pressure, Shao Shude asked,
"No objection, thank you for your magnanimity." Quezhu breathed a sigh of relief and responded immediately.
"Tuoba Jin, we fought well this time. The five hundred families who left Zhu have moved to Tanshan Mountain to graze. You must reorganize them. Make sure a bowl of water is leveled and you are not allowed to bully them at will." Shao Shude ordered.
"According to the order." Tuoba Jin responded.
Last year, the war with the Khitan lasted for more than three months. The biggest losses were caused by King Xi Quzhu, Xianyou Palace, and the tribe of the Tibetan Talent Party Xiang Wang. The latter two fought hard, and there is nothing to criticize. King Xi Quzhu performed better
If you are bad, you will naturally be punished.
But in fact, there is no way to punish him too harshly. After Zhu Zhu didn't have many people in the first place, he lost several thousand people this time, and after being fined 500 households, he only had about 14,000 to 5,000 people in his account. This point
The strength is just that of a typical small tribe on the grassland, not worth mentioning.
If it weren't for King Xi's trademark, Shao Shude would have even planned to annex it completely.
Transferring the confiscated Dingkou to Xianyou Palace is actually for his own benefit. After all, it is his own slave department, and he still has to take care of him. What's more, they fight very tenaciously, and there is not much to criticize from others.
As for the issue of punishing and merging Dingkou, it is actually not a big deal.
The origins of Shao Shude's slave tribes are inherently complicated.
Xianyou Palace initially had only 10,000 people, mainly the remnants of Tuoba Dangxiang in Youzhou. Later, when they conquered Helong, they also followed. While losing men, they replenished Dingkou. What are the Dangxiangs, Qiang people, and Tubo people?
There are all kinds of animals, and they are very complex. After they went to the Qinghai area for grazing, the number of Tubo people increased sharply, and they were about to become a Tubo tribe.
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Later, he was transferred to Tanshan Xianyou Palace, and added Tatar, Uighur, Tuyuhun, and Hei Cha Shi Wei Dingkou. The composition became more and more complicated, and even the languages cannot be understood.
Tuoba Jin was a capable man. After several years of rectification, and with the help of Lifanyuan and Beiya, Xianyou Palace began to use Central Plains Mandarin as the communication language within the tribe, with each thousand and one hundred households leading the herding.
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Facts have proved that the organizational structure of the Xianyou Palace, which was born out of Tubo, has extremely strong cohesion and a high degree of organization. Facing the Khitan army, which was many times their number, they held on for a long time without surrendering, and even participated in the counterattack in the end.
Fighting shows his ability.
They also suffered a certain amount of losses this time, but after making up for the 500 herdsmen confiscated by King Xi,
The entire Xianyou Palace will have a population of 30,000, which is pretty good.
"I will be patrolling the north in a while, so be prepared." Shao Shude said, "If Li Keyong sends troops to rescue the towns in Hebei, he will launch a large-scale attack on Youzhou and cooperate with the main force of the Forbidden Army. I will not give in.
You fight in vain, and you will be rewarded with money, silk, and equipment."
"According to the order." Tuoba Jin responded directly without any nonsense.
Shao Shude nodded with satisfaction. Last year's battle in the northern grassland was actually quite a loss. None of the troops that participated in the battle gained much benefit. The captured cattle and sheep were not enough to be divided. In fact, they were not willing to divide them. Shao Shude asked people to use silk.
They were redeemed, shipped back to the Central Plains, and rented to the people in installments.
Of course, the Khitans also suffered a great loss. The two sides fought back and forth for three or four months, with two to three hundred thousand horses and horses. Just drinking milk was definitely not enough. The livestock were also slaughtered in large quantities for meat. The longer the fighting lasted, the more they were killed.
If you do too much, you will lose money in the end.
Logically speaking, it was time for the ministries to recuperate this year, but in view of the tense situation, Shao Shude still ordered the Yanbei and Yinshan ministries to attack - the scale could be smaller, but it must be launched.
"The tribes of the Qing and Tang Dynasties..." Shao Shude also called the leaders of the various tribes that were grazing in Qinghai, such as the Liang Family, Luo Family, Yang Family, Bai Family, etc.
"Wuzi." More than ten party chiefs came forward and knelt down directly.
"Last year, when the Tubo rebelled, you cooperated with the king's army to suppress it, but you did not do well." Shao Shude said, "Have all the soldiers who should have been released been released?"
"Huiwu soldiers, we will gather ten thousand troops from each tribe and set off in the first month. We should have left Qinzhou by now." Liang Xiangjian, the leader of the Liang family, responded.
"Move quickly and arrive in Luoyang this month." Shao Shude said.
"According to the decree." More than ten people responded in unison.
In the past, when dealing with these tribal leaders, they would sometimes bargain and squawk. After Shao Shude ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, this phenomenon became less and less. Perhaps these Tibetan people themselves also knew that the Wu soldiers were no longer powerful in the Central Plains.
If their opponents are too unhappy and the army marches westward, they will die without a place to bury them.
Don't think they are disloyal. In fact, everyone has ambitions, not to mention the Tibetan tribe leaders who are far away from the emperor these days. There have been reports in Shan and Kuo states, and the tribes around Qinghai Lake have been annexing scattered Tubo and Qiang tribes to grow stronger
In addition, the number of troops stationed in the local area has become smaller and smaller over the years, and their quality is not good enough. It is normal for the Tibetan people to be afraid of power and not to be immoral. They have some petty thoughts.
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But after all, they have been repaired very hard, and so far they are quite honest. Last year, the Tubo tribe rebelled, and they did not participate. After the Iron Cavalry and Dingnan armies arrived in the Huangshui Basin, they sent troops to help suppress it, and they fought hard.
When describing his achievements later, Shao Shude distributed some of the captured Tubo Dingkou to them, but strictly controlled the quantity to avoid fostering their ambitions - this ambition had nothing to do with the Tibetan Han people. Even if the Han tribes grazed there,
When you have the strength, you have to do the opposite.
After the rebellion was put down, Shao Shude ordered all ministries to recruit young men and go to the Central Plains to fight.
This is actually an old routine from when you were fighting Zhu Quanzhong. Move out your population, consume it continuously on the battlefield in the Central Plains, and then reward you with property as a reward for your merits.
As for which one is more important, wealth or population, this is a matter of opinion. Anyway, Shao Shude thinks population is more important.
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The rooster crows the dawn, the sky is dawning, and it is so refreshing to not have to go to court.
Shao Shude stretched his waist and woke up Queen Shuxian who was hugging him like an octopus.
Queen He opened her eyes and felt in a trance, as if she had gone back to the days before the Taifu became emperor. How great it would be if she were the real queen.
"Your Majesty, Ambassador Zhao arrived in Beijing last night and stayed in the southern suburbs." Seeing that Shao Shude woke up, the palace people came in one after another. Some were carrying washbasins, some were holding dragon robes, and some were holding a stack of official letters. Xie walked to the bed
, reported in a low voice.
"Okay, I understand." Shao Shude sat down and nodded.
"Zhao Shijun" is Zhao Kuangming.
As a vassal town that submitted to Daxia, the imperial court had an edict, so it was natural to send troops to help.
Jingnan Town sent three thousand troops, led by Zhao Kuangming himself, and they have arrived in the suburbs of Luoyang.
Qizhou defense envoy Ding Hui also sent 3,000 troops, led by general Kong Qing, who arrived in Bianzhou a few days ago.
Longjian Jiedu envoy Zhao Jian led 6,000 soldiers and horses to the vicinity of Chang'an.
While the war in central Sichuan was still going on, Zhao Jian was ordered to lead his army to Beijing. It can be imagined that his position as Jiedushi was in jeopardy. In fact, Prince Shao Chengjie had replaced many officials in the four prefectures of Longjianlilang in the past few months.
, Zhao Jian saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.
Maybe you have the intention to rebel and join Li Maozhen, but you can’t make up your mind. After all, Maozhen was beaten a bit badly, and Master Wang is making good progress. Maybe you have the intention not to obey the order, but you are worried that Master Wang will turn around and kill him. It’s really embarrassing. Here we are.
In the end, I could only let out a long sigh and bravely headed north.
Similar to Zhao Jian, Zhuge Tai, the governor of Bazhou, and Zhuge Shangren, the governor of Tongzhou, each commanded three to five thousand troops. They had already arrived in the Tongguan area.
Shannan West Road originally had soldiers and horses, with more than 20,000 people at its peak. When the town was dismissed, some wars broke out, and many were wiped out or defeated. Later, another group was taken away by the King of Qin, and there were not many left.
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Zhuge Shangren and Zhuge Tai were originally governors and generals from outside the town. Because they surrendered directly, they had relatively complete strength at hand. This time they were mobilized together, mainly the troops from outside the town, plus some Shannan barbarians, to accompany the emperor on his northern tour.
Everyone could see that Shao Sheng had committed his "old habit" again, using his righteous name and powerful imperial army to intimidate and consume all kinds of miscellaneous people.
So far, it seems to be going pretty smoothly, with no obvious resistance or disobedience.
"Your Majesty, envoys from Jiangxi Zhongchuan arrived last night." After Shao Shude got up, Xie glared at the two female historians who wanted to come forward to change Shao Shude's clothes, motioned them to serve Empress Shuxian, and then reported.
"Zhong Chuan is so domineering after all that he doesn't send troops." Shao Shude sneered and opened his arms, letting Jie Shi put on his clothes.
The two female historians went to Queen Shuxian, wiped her dirt with wet towels, and then helped her get up.
"Well, I didn't expect Zhong Chuan to be so obedient. The troops for this northern patrol are almost enough. There are twenty to thirty thousand Tibetan people and miscellaneous people. Even the ants are enough to attack the city." Shao Shude sighed.
He said in a loud voice: "We will attack and destroy Hebei and Hedong, and then we will deal with this group of people."
