Chapter 46: The scenery is different in autumn (3)
Hao Zhenwei rode his horse and walked on the road to Zhoucheng.
He is the defense history of the capital of Xicheng and Zhongcheng of Tiande Army, and he is also the governor of Fengzhou. But at this time, he has no confidence that the state city will accept him, let alone Xicheng and Zhongcheng. Zhongcheng is originally under the control of Zhenwu Military.
After Li Keyong was assigned to the Tiande Army.
Shao Shude was staying overnight in Zhongcheng at this time. It was September 28, the second year of Guangqi's reign.
The Tiande Army governs three cities in the west, middle and north, and two counties, Wuyuan and Yongfeng. The population is not large, less than 50,000 people in total.
Of course, these are just households farming. Most of them are Tang people, but not necessarily all Han people. However, the state does not care about these. As long as you have compiled a household registration, it does not matter whether you are Han, Dangxiang, Uighur or Turk.
They are from the Tang Dynasty. The Tibetan people are nomadic and do not have households, and they cannot do so. Even if the Han people go nomadic for a long time, they will still think that you are a Tibetan.
The naked occupational discrimination is actually due to the limited government control means. At this level of productivity, there is no better way.
During the day, Shao Shude met several Xiangtou people from the Hebei Party. They mainly lived on both sides of the Yellow River and its tributaries in Fengzhou, Zhongcheng, Dongcheng, and Shengzhou. They made a living by farming. There were quite a few of them, totaling more than 100,000.
Generally speaking, they are relatively respectful, and their sign is that they pay some taxes from time to time.
Shao Shude coveted these farming Dangxiang people and wanted to integrate them into households. Once a hundred thousand people are trained in Chinese style and brought under government control, and they are well educated, who will still consider themselves Dangxiang people after a few decades?
This is not an era when national ideology explodes.
But he hesitated after all. The reason was that the Hebao Party was too big and he was afraid of forcing these people to rebel. Among the so-called 460,000 Tang people in Dingnan Seven Prefectures, there were actually quite a few farming Party members. The most recent one was Ling
The prefectures have registered 4,000 households, and the two prefectures of Sui and Yin have done so piecemeal. However, cumulatively over the years, the number is quite large. The nine counties of Sui and Yin have registered no less than 7,000 households.
Shao Shude also went to see those people. Without the control of the leader, he himself was relatively poor, and was in a psychologically dwarfed and inferior position. He was forced to change customs by the government, and coupled with the influence of the surrounding Tang people, it was easier to accept advanced
culture.
If this process is not interrupted, in fifty or sixty years you can tell their descendants that you are actually a party member and see if they believe you? This is the power of assimilation.
Then there are the 20,000 households that Yinzhou established at one time. The women and many children in these households were actually kidnapped from the grasslands. The ethnic composition is very complex, and they can't even speak Mandarin.
I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to change, but their children are basically Tang people, there is no doubt about it.
What you have accepted since childhood is the mainstream culture, and your appearance is no different from that of the main ethnic group. There will be trouble if assimilation fails.
Shao Dashuai's version of "stealing the next generation" has been silently implemented for several years, and everything seems to be going well so far.
The size of the Hebei Dangxiang is indeed a bit large, so we need to plan for it slowly. The Zhenwu Army and the Tiande Army have not forced assimilation of them before. They have always adopted a policy of restraint and collected some tribute from time to time.
You have to find opportunities to do this slowly.
After resting one night in Zhongcheng, the army continued westward.
Along the way, besides grasslands, there are farmlands. If you ignore the Yinshan Mountains to the north, this place is almost an endless plain.
"Judge Chen, I have seen a lot of scenery these days. What do you think?" Shao Shude asked during the march.
"Commander, the land of Baidaochuan is boundless and barren. It is a pity to abandon it without cultivating it." Chen Cheng shook his head and sighed: "Jinhe and Baiqu water run across it. There are lakes and big rivers. The land is flat and fertile. The Qin and Han Dynasties established
Yunzhong and Dingxiang counties were heavily immigrated. In the thirty-fifth year of the First Emperor's reign, '30,000 households moved to Liyi and 50,000 households to Yunyang'. In the thirty-sixth year, '30,000 households moved to Beihe and Yuzhong'.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also immigrated 100,000 people to this place. It is now desolate and uninhabited, which is a pity."
"So where are the households that Emperor Qin and the Han Dynasty moved to now?" Shao Shude asked.
Chen Cheng couldn't answer.
"I am also greedy for this place, but it is located on the border, and there is only a Yinshan Mountain between it and the grassland. Once the cavalry breaks in and plunders the population, wouldn't it be all in vain?" Shao Shude said: "The imperial dynasty moved Dangxiang here.
The purpose of attaching the tribes here is actually to let them replace the Han people as a solid border. Once they are plundered, we will not feel bad. We only need to take good care of the fertile soil in Lingzhou, Fengzhou, and Zhenwu Army, and we will talk about it later."
The three plains of Qiantao, Houtao and Xitao are about 10,000 square kilometers each. They are indeed very good places. However, Qiantao and Houtao are too far to the north and are suitable for military bases, not logistics bases.
Since the Ming Dynasty, when the grasslands were peaceful, they would immigrate here to provide supplies to the border troops nearby and reduce costs. However, once there is a police force in the north and the situation becomes difficult to control, the population of the two places will be moved to the rear.
, for example, Lingzhou was afraid that it would be plundered by prairie bandits and lose its population in vain.
Marshal Shao attaches great importance to the population, and naturally he does not want to lose it, even though the grassland in the north is ownerless at this time.
The Xitao Plain cannot be developed yet. Who wants to take care of the front and back areas? Let’s continue to let the populations of Fengzhou and Zhenwujun live in the local areas. This will provide some goods and reduce transshipments at the rear.
The quantity of supplies.
"Judge Chen, does he know why you must capture Fengzhou and Zhenwu Army?"
"It's just to build a line of defense."
"Of course. The grassland has no owner at the moment, but sooner or later there will be one. With our current strength, we can't dream of controlling the grassland. Being able to control some tribes and weaken the strength of the grassland is already the limit."
"As the commander-in-chief came along, the tribesmen came to submit their votes one after another. It seems that they can compete with each other."
"It's still far from it. The grassland is vast. If you want to truly control it, you must build cities, set up officials, and send troops. But how can you maintain it?" Shao Shude shook his head.
Why are those people in the Hetao Grassland obedient? The reason is very simple. There are Tang Dynasty official troops in the four directions, east, west, south and north, and in the middle there is Yuduole City where the army was originally stationed. This is equivalent to Tang troops on all sides and inside. And its own population is not
There are so many that there is no way to escape.
In addition, he was not harsh on them, and the tributes he demanded were within the range that he could bear. At the same time, he also married the most powerful Weicai tribe, so he could barely maintain his rule.
The grassland north of Yinshan Mountain is more than ten times more difficult to operate!
"Compared with the grassland tribes north of Yinshan Mountain, the Helong land has a larger population, richer products, more scattered sand, and there are cities where troops can be garrisoned. It is self-evident where to choose." Shao Shude laughed and said: "A certain person patrolled Yinshan Mountain in the north.
, in fact, it’s still for Helong.”
Chen Cheng was speechless. Of course he understood the truth, but he was not willing to accept it. Although the commander sometimes jokingly called himself a khan, and some ignorant party members also called him "Wuzi", the khan of this small grassland in Hetao,
How can it be compared with the khans on the grasslands north of Yinshan Mountain? Once controlled, 200,000 people who control the strings will be at your fingertips, and they will lead them to fight for the world, and success is bound to happen!
But what the commander is doing now is obviously to take precautions first. At most, he will confine a small number of close tribes to act as a peripheral defense line north of Yinshan Mountain. If the grassland is unified by others, there will be serious trouble!
"Judge Chen, why should you sigh? If you have great ambitions, everything will be easy first and then difficult. In the northern grassland, you will have to spend your whole life to find a proper solution." Shao Shude said.
There is another sentence he didn't say. If we don't solve this problem, what if Temujin appears again one day? Wouldn't he be the Chinese Lu Chen? The mental state of the Tang people and the Ming people are completely different. Is there any influence of the Mongols?
It's hard to say, but you should avoid this kind of thing as much as possible.
Of course, this is just an idea, and in fact he is not very confident. The Central Plains dynasty must have a technological gap in the grassland in order to survive. During the Western Han Dynasty, the Huns were still using bone arrows, and the Han soldiers were armed to the teeth, so they could
One Han Dynasty can defeat five barbarians. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, grassland technology had developed to some extent. Chen Tang said that now only one Han Dynasty could defeat three barbarians.
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was really tragic. A large number of craftsmen from the Central Plains were kidnapped, which greatly improved the military industry strength of the grasslands. It is really hard to say whether there is a generation gap in technology. At least in the Song Dynasty, there would be no generation gap, and even in the Song Dynasty, there would be no generation gap.
The quality of their ordnance was not as good as that of Liao and Xixia.
The technological generation gap between the Central Plains and the grasslands has once again widened, leading to the era of hot weapons. This time the grasslands are really unable to turn around, because modern industry is becoming more and more complex, and it cannot be established by robbing a few craftsmen.
There is still a long way to go.
On the seventh day of October, the army arrived at Tiande Military City.
While on the road, Shao Shude had already received the news: Hao Zhenwei went out hunting, and when he returned, Beicheng was closed and he had no choice but to escape with his soldiers. He rushed to the prefecture city overnight, but was not accepted, and then went to Yongfeng County.
Being executed.
Shao Shude has ordered that Hao's family be sent to Yongfeng County and provide them with money to return to the capital. Everyone once fought side by side, and now it is normal for them to get together and disperse.
The people who ordered the city gate to be closed were former Hao Zhenwei's generals Shi Rong, Tuoba Gui and others. Although this generation helped him, Shao Shude was not happy. The seller was seeking glory, and with such conduct, could he be reused? But at this time, it is still necessary
Give him gentle words to comfort him, give him generous rewards, and then gradually marginalize him in the future.
Tian Xing was the only one who didn't express his position, but he didn't object either. He is a smart man and can be observed later.
"Welcome to the King of Lingwu County." There are three generals in the city, namely Shi Rong, Tuoba Gui, and Tian Xing. The first two command the infantry, and the latter once served as the Youyi envoy and led the cavalry.
"They are all old people who used to fight against Li Guochang and his son. They are very happy when they see each other." Shao Shude personally helped the three of them and said with a smile: "In the future, we will have to rely on a few of them for the defense of the north."
The three of them were all a little happy after hearing this. It was good that Prince Lingwu did not kill the donkey. Originally, they were worried that they would be sent somewhere else. Now it seems that Prince Lingwu still trusts everyone. .
"I am also from the Tiande Army. Looking at this city, I feel very friendly with this flag. Well, there is an old house in the west city. I don't know if it has collapsed."
Everyone laughed when they heard this. Some of them were thinking quickly, and they were already thinking about whether to inform Sun Ba and quickly repair the ancestral home of Prince Lingwu to earn favors.
"Why don't you, Your Majesty, stay in the city today? We've prepared a banquet..." Shi Rong said softly.
"That's all. How can we be so particular when we are out on the march?" Shao Shude said: "Furthermore, the soldiers of Tiande Army have been guarding the border for many years, but now the expenses are insufficient and life is poor. Let's cancel this banquet."
"Your Majesty also knows our sufferings." Upon hearing Shao Shude mention this, Shi Rong and Tuobagui cried out their sufferings, and the other generals also responded.
"Well..." Shao Shude pretended to ponder for a while and then said: "In that case, let's order the troops. I want to reward the sergeants."
Shi Rong and Tuoba Gui were stunned.
"I want to give rewards to the sergeants, so I immediately ordered the troops to form a formation." Shao Shude said with a look on his face.
Shi and Tuoba felt bitter in their mouths, but now that the matter had come to this, they could only bite the bullet and said: "As ordered."
The Tiande army was still well-trained. There were more than 2,000 soldiers in Beicheng, and they quickly formed an array outside the city.
Shao Shude, escorted by his own soldiers, stood in front of the formation and ordered: "I will give you two pieces of money and two pieces of silk."
The grain commander Qiang Quansheng took the order and left. His men were divided into various camps and spread the news.
"Thank you, Prince Lingwu!" After hearing this, the soldiers of Tiande shouted and expressed their thanks one after another.
Shi Rong and Tuoba Gui turned pale. This was different from what they expected. Shouldn't the money be given to them first?
"Whose reward are you receiving?"
"Whose food do you eat?"
"The prince of Lingwu County is well fed and paid, and there is never any corruption or deprivation in the army."
"After receiving the reward, I will serve you well."
Qiang Quansheng's men were in the same line as Li Yanling back then, and they did not forget to brainwash and educate them when giving out rewards. Naturally, the sergeants thanked him profusely and expressed their willingness to die for the Lingwu County King.
"The three generals also have heavy rewards." Shao Shude smiled and said to Shi Rong, Tuoba Gui and Tian Xing: "You must continue to serve the imperial court in the future, don't slack off."
"We shall obey our orders." The three of them responded.