The white clouds are gray, the sky is blue and the wind is gentle.
On the vast and boundless grassland, strong horses galloped. The soldiers spread out widely, driving the panicked prey towards the center.
Shao Shude was riding on a horse, with his bow and arrow drawn. Hearing a "swish" sound, a deer suddenly paused and then rolled to the ground. A horseman ran out quickly, turned sideways and picked up the prey that was not dead yet, and pocketed it.
After turning back, he said loudly: "The handsome man shot another deer."
Shao Shude laughed twice and said: "We have gained a lot today. Let's go back to eat meat and drink wine."
The soldiers naturally cheered.
We went hunting today and caught a lot of deer, foxes, rabbits, deer, and gazelles.
Marshal Shao's personal soldiers are not given for free. If you are not good at archery or riding, you will be embarrassed to stay here. The boys have been either guarding the Marshal or discussing battle cases all day long. They have been bored for a long time. I got the chance to go hunting today.
They worked hard and captured countless prey. For a time, the animals at the foot of Helan Mountain were in bad luck.
“Grill the venison first.” Shao Shude threw the riding bow to Li Renfu and said with a smile.
Deer is probably one of the easiest beasts for humans to hunt. It is gentle in nature, has delicious meat, and, uh, has a lot of antler.
There are a lot of deer in the six states of Lingxia, after all, there are many mountains and forests. In later generations, the number of deer in Xixia was very large. In the "Yue Yue Yue Shi" written in Xixia language, it is written: "In July... people hunt deer.
Herds, harvesting rice... In September, the deer screamed sadly, the wind blew the grass low, and the deer herds ran wildly in the wind like frightened horses."
Deer pictures were also unearthed from the Heishui City site. The Xixia text "Sheng Li Yi Hai" also recorded that deer were the wild animals most commonly hunted and eaten by the Xixia people.
Shao Shude likes to eat venison very much, and he also likes hunting. When he was in Xiazhou, once he had time, he would bring his own soldiers and invite the leaders of the nearby Dangxiang tribe to go hunting together, which could be regarded as a way of socializing.
There were people in the shogunate who tried to dissuade him from doing so, but Shao Shude dismissed them all on the grounds that hunting in the fields was a national matter.
If I conquer the world in the future, and my son will be influenced by me, he may go hunting often. But when my grandson's generation comes, will he be so good at the hands of the women in the palace that even going hunting will be stopped by the ministers? That would be too sad.
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It's a pity that the pair of golden eagles presented by Wei Cai Sudu were not brought out and were left in Xiazhou. I don't know if they were raised to death. What a shame!
"Commander, the leader of the Lingzhou Party has come to pay homage." Feng Yin came over to report.
Shao Shude stared at the deer breasts on the special grill and said, "Let them come over."
Soon, more than ten people of various sizes came over.
“Commander...” Someone immediately knelt down and cried, “Stop threshing grass and grain!”
“The sergeants, the commander, were so unreasonable that they took the cattle and sheep and left. After a few words of reasoning, they were killed with a single blow.”
“Commander, the Baowei people are willing to sacrifice five hundred cattle and sheep, just to ask the commander to withdraw his troops.”
“The Yixiang tribe is willing to offer 300 cattle and sheep, and 10,000 bundles of firewood, and beseeches the general to withdraw his troops.”
“The Yue people are willing to donate…”
The soldier carefully brought up two pieces of roasted deer breast. Shao Shude picked up the meat cleaver and said while eating: "Ni Xibu, Luo Yi, Bachi, Weiwei, the four tribes were arrogant and lawless, and were destroyed by someone.
Do you all know this?"
The Ni Xibu and Luo Yi tribes live in Mingsha and Wenchi counties, the Baqi tribe lives in Huaiyuan County, and the Weiwei tribe lives in Hongjing County. The four tribes add up to a total of more than 20,000 people, half farming and half grazing.
A few days ago, the cavalrymen of each group attacked separately and raided these tribes with lightning speed, beheading more than 3,000 people, capturing nearly 20,000 people, more than 40,000 hu of grain, and more than 50,000 cattle, sheep, horses and camels.
As for why these four tribes were eliminated, there is actually no reason. Marshal Shao just pointed on the map and wanted to destroy a few tribes to establish his power. It has been ten days since he took charge of Lingzhou, and he also won a victory over Beida in Huaiyuan County.
Are all your Hexi party members dead? No one came to pay tribute!
It seems that the efficiency of information dissemination is really low these days. No one has come to Ping Xia Dangxiang to inquire. This is your problem. Tax evaders will die! Those who have been evading taxes for many years will die without a burial place!
These Dangxiang tribes all live in Huile County. I originally wanted to attack them first, but then I thought about it, they are farming and the resources are precious, so I didn’t move and chose the semi-grazing and semi-cultivating ones farther away.
tribe.
"Everyone, get up." Shao Shude watched them finish eating a piece of deer breast, and then said: "From now on, if you pay tribute well, nothing will happen to you. You must also pay this year's taxes, and you will be given five thousand hu of dendrobium for grain and cattle for one part."
Five hundred sheep, horses and camels. You can also spread the news, and the tribes who did not come can just send their grain, cattle and sheep. Those who do not arrive by the end of June will suffer the same fate as Luo Yi and other tribes."
“Thank you, Marshal, for your kindness. We will go back and take care of things.” All the leaders said one after another.
Shao Shude waved his hand and told them to leave quickly and not to disturb him from eating meat.
He planned to disperse and resettle the 20,000 party members captured previously to six counties and two cities in Lingzhou, and organize the people into the same household, which can be almost 4,000 households, and 500 households in each area. The surnames of the Nixi Bu tribe will be uniformly changed.
The Xi, Bu, and Luo Yi tribe changed their surnames to Luo and Yi, the Baqi tribe changed their surnames to Chi, Chi, and the Wewei tribe changed their surnames to Wei and Wei. The customs will also move closer to the Central Plains, and customs will gradually change.
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be done purely by force. In fact, he will find a way to get a large number of immigrants from Guanzhong and Guandong, and slowly surround these people, live and work together. As time goes by, these 4,000 Hexi Dangxiang households will slowly
They have lost their own cultural characteristics, and their customs have moved closer to the Central Plains. The Dangxiang Qiang people have very little blood difference with the Han people, so the problem is not big.
By the way, a few days ago, Shao Shude also took over the three hundred farmers of Longxing Temple. They were all tenants who rented the temple land. They planted a total of two hundred hectares of land, just under the city. Because of the war and the subsequent
In the upcoming war, they haven't had time to plant seeds this year, so they just used them for experiments.
Shao Shude ordered to allocate land to them. Each household was given sixty acres of land and twenty cattle. The land and cattle were sold to them. One acre of land was priced at four hundred yuan, and one cow was calculated at two thousand four hundred yuan.
Pay it off in ten years, and there is no need to pay in the first year. Starting from the second year, they will give a few bushels of grain every year for ten consecutive years, and the land and cattle will completely belong to them.
In order to encourage their enthusiasm, Shao Shude designated these 300 households as the residence of his title of King of Lingwu County, and made it clear that he would not have to pay taxes to himself within three years.
Of course there are conditions, that is, strictly follow his requirements, twenty acres of wheat, twenty acres of soybeans, and twenty acres of alfalfa will be planted in rotation, and rented to cattle in Huile County for several years to see what the effect is.
To truly maintain the fertility of an acre of land, in addition to continuous nitrogen fixation by leguminous crops during the two-year fallow period, all the manure produced by a cow for a whole year is needed to fertilize the field, so that high yields can be obtained stably for many years. Light
Relying on the little excrement produced by humans is just a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, Shao Shude feels that this method cannot be replicated elsewhere, because it requires two conditions: first, a large amount of farmland without complicated property rights; second, a large number of large livestock. Both conditions are indispensable, and it is estimated that both of them are needed in the mainland.
If you can't do it, it's still not easy to do the first one.
It would be great to have large tracts of virgin land! The Bogulu Canal in Huile County alone could irrigate more than 40,000 hectares during the Northern Wei Dynasty, but now it has become an ownerless wasteland. What, you said that although those lands have not been cultivated for hundreds of years, they are all cultivated.
Lord? Say it again and try!
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On May 22nd, Shao Shude led the Tielin, Dingyuan, Tieqi, and Yi soldiers to arrive at Qifu Mountain at the northern foot of Helan Mountain.
The northern section of Helan Mountain was named after the Qifu clan of Xianbei who once lived here. It was also named Shizuishan in later generations because the rocks protruded like a mouth.
This place is more than 200 miles away from Lingzhou, 700 miles from Xihoujiang City where Shao Shude once lived for many years, and 700 miles from Fengzhou.
They brought more than 20,000 troops here not just for fun. On both sides of the Yellow River, a large number of Tibetan and Han masters were still transferring food and equipment to Dingyuan Military City. The cost was not a small amount.
Marshal Shao came here mainly to pursue Dang Xiang Po Chou and capture the second division. Unfortunately, he felt Zhu Di's sense of loss when he led his army deep into the grassland, but in the end Mao was not caught.
Po Chou, Mi Qin is a nomadic tribe, completely different from the farming or semi-farming tribes that came to seek refuge before. They don’t have much possessions when they run away, and they can leave at any time. However, in front of Shao with a large group of cavalry, even if he does not die, he will
You have to peel off a layer of skin.
As a result, the famous Lingzhou cavalry army was dispatched again, plus the cavalry of the Dingyuan Army, a total of four thousand cavalry. According to the information reported by the Dangxiang tribe who came to surrender, they went out of the Helan Mountain pass and drove a large group of cattle donated by various ministries.
Yang, went straight to the northwest. Pochou, Miqin and their affiliated tribes should have fled to Mi'e River.
Mi'e River is the Jilantai Salt Pond in later generations. It's not very far away. Run away. I was captured and killed more than 6,000 people in Hexi before, but they didn't come to surrender. It's really unreasonable! Well, could it be that they were killed too hard?
, there is too much internal opposition, and you don’t want to vote? Then just beat him to death with a stick. Last time, we weakened part of it, and this time we will kill another part. In the future, the 7,500 Dingyuan Army alone will probably be enough to suppress them.
Staying with you.
After the cavalry set off, Shao Shude set up tents near Qifu Mountain and received the heads of various tribes who came to pay their respects.
Different from the Dangxiang tribes in the southern counties, these tribes who came to seek refuge were a mix of nomadic and farming tribes, totaling more than ten, with a total population of more than 50,000.
The Yibu clan, the Qu clan (this is the Tubo clan), the Fuer clan, the Wanshan clan, the Big and Small Liang clans, etc. In addition, there are also various clans that have been mixed into the Tatars by Dangxiang, such as the Yeli prince clan (this is the southern Yeli clan).
When they moved, they were merged into Tatar, one of the nine Tatar tribes), the Moro prince clan, and the Manu prince clan (Dangxiang was merged into Tatar, that is, a branch of the Dijinze party Xiang Manu tribe that appeared earlier, one of the nine Tatar tribes).
1), the Yueqi tribe, the Dachong Prince tribe (Dangxiang has Dazhong tribe, one of the nine tribes of Tatars), Shao Shude was speechless looking at these strange names. Of course, he knew that these were Chinese transliterations and their true meaning in Dangxiang language.
This may not be the case, but there is still a desire to complain.
These tribes, collectively known as the Helan Mountain Fan Tribe, are part of the Hexi Dangxiang tribe. In fact, the Hexi Dangxiang area of residence is very wide, not only in Lingzhou, Liangzhou and other places, but some of them are even ruled by other ethnic groups.
Relatively speaking, Lingzhou should have the most.
Counting the tens of thousands of people who came to vote from the south, during this expedition, he at least nominally ruled nearly 100,000 Hexi party members. Although this kind of rule was still very weak, and once the army withdrew, these people would not admit it. But
No matter what, let's collect the taxes that need to be collected first. With a population of tens of thousands, it is not excessive to collect 100,000 grains and 40,000 cattle and sheep.
"You are all Tibetan people under the rule of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You should be aware of your affairs. From now on, you must pay tribute diligently. At the end of the twelfth lunar month every year, send cattle, sheep, and grain to Lingzhou City. If you fail to arrive after the deadline, don't blame the imperial army for conquering!"
Shao Shude said.
Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, despite the weakening of the government and the separatism of vassal towns, the imperial court still used troops against Dangxiang on several occasions. Mainly from the eight towns in the northwestern part of Beijing belonging to the Shence Military Department, sometimes the Shence Army from Chang'an also directly dispatched, killing Dangxiang's heads.
Therefore, the tiger skin of the Tang Dynasty can continue to be ripped off, and the Tibetan people still accept it.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that there is no strong tribe in the northwest region. The power is too scattered and no one obeys anyone, so they will naturally be bullied. When Tuoba Dangxiang started in later generations, even Pingxia Dangxiang did not fully control it, and Hengshan Dangxiang also
Wandering outside. As for the Hexi party items, that will happen after the capture of Lingzhou.
In the Lingxia region, Tuoba clan was killed by him, and Shaw clan is now the super doubled version of Tuoba clan.
Shao almost did everything from military strikes, political marriages, trade bindings, religious metaphysics, to bring as many party members into his rule as possible.
Even if the rule of restraint is temporarily implemented, it doesn't matter, as long as it has a name. I don't have that big an appetite to swallow it all in one go. Take your time, eat a little this year, eat a little more next year, digest and absorb step by step, one day these party items will
The tribe will recognize the reality.
The Yeli clan, the Wuzang clan, and the Weicai clan are now equivalent to the vassals under me, the lord. I feel that the rule of Dangxiang in Hexi is even weaker, but there is no way, this is the case in the new land. Besides, I
The core ruling area is in the three states of Xia Suiyin, which are too far away, and the cost of dispatching a large army is too high.
We can only wait until the counties in Lingzhou develop and have some savings before taking care of it.