Chapter 643 Anyone who doesn’t want us to live must die.
As for the attached tribes, given the current strong and civilized status of the Han Empire, there is no need to worry too much if you want to completely assimilate them.
But the Han Empire certainly couldn't do nothing. They still had to do what needed to be done. Otherwise, if they were so laissez-faire, they would still be able to maintain the status of the Southern Huns for a long time.
And Liu Bei wanted to speed up this process.
So he spent money to promote the assimilation policy, super doubling the assimilation process in terms of living customs and culture.
In addition, politics must also be accelerated.
The Southern Xiongnu tribes must implement the establishment of the Liangzhou New Deal from the time they join the Han Empire's household registration. They are based on the collective farm establishment and fully implement the management of the Liangzhou New Deal.
Jiangyi County was managed and taught by officials and teachers sent by the imperial court, in an attempt to master the knowledge that an ordinary Han citizen should master in the shortest possible time, so as to better become a Han citizen.
They need to further master perfect agricultural knowledge, further complete the organization and training to become professional farmers, and restore Jiangyi County to a large grain-producing county as soon as possible without missing the farming season.
Then Liu Bei was still prepared.
It takes a long time to tame a beast. For a beast that has seen blood, the best way to tame it is to pull out its claws.
So Liu Bei announced that more than 2,000 adult men from the former southern Xiongnu leadership and elite soldiers headed by Yu Fuluo would all be incorporated into the Han army. They would first go to the Luoyang recruit camp to receive rigorous military training. After the training, they would be
Respective assessment standards are incorporated into each army.
This strategy was proposed by Cheng Yu. Cheng Yu believed that although the Southern Xiongnu had surrendered now, their tribe's combat effectiveness would still exist for a long period of time, which was a security risk.
To eliminate this hidden danger, the best way is to recruit soldiers.
"Recruiting the most elite warriors from their tribe, together with the original leaders, into the army and managing them, is equivalent to pulling out their minions for the remaining Southern Xiongnu tribes."
Cheng Yu offered such advice.
Liu Bei agreed with this strategy and adopted it.
Liu Bei promised that Yu Fuluo's status was still at the level of Zhonglang General. According to their original status, his subordinates would not be lower than the level of captain, military commander, etc., and they would enjoy the normal benefits of Han army officers.
They were treated harshly because they were Huns.
As for the rest, it depends on their actual abilities.
Because there are so many outstanding talents in the Han army, it is natural that Yu Fuluo and others will not get ahead if they do not work hard enough.
The Southern Huns issue has been completely resolved.
It only takes some time, within three to five years, everything will be settled, and the Southern Xiongnu, an ethnic group with a far-reaching influence in Chinese history, will be completely integrated into the entire Han ethnic group.
Because of this achievement, Liu Bei once again received an award from the court and was praised by many scholars in Luoyang City. They believed that Liu Bei had simply solved the problem of the Southern Huns that had troubled the court for nearly a hundred years, and made the Southern Huns no longer exist.
, this contribution is really too great.
So there were once again calls from the government and the public to give Liu Bei a higher reward, which made Empress Dowager Dong very distressed and didn't know how to reward Liu Bei.
Liu Bei did not pay attention to this matter. The problem of the Southern Huns was easy to solve, but the problem of the Bingzhou bandits was not easy to solve, so at that time he focused all his energy on the Bingzhou bandits.
But in fact, compared with the problem of the Southern Huns, the problem of the Bingzhou bandits is not more difficult to solve.
Although Zhang Yan did not have very strong control over his subordinates, and the mountain people's trust in the imperial court was basically negative, the person handling this matter was Zhang Yan, not someone appointed by Liu Bei.
Therefore, Zhang Yan did not deal with it according to Liu Bei's ideas in Liangzhou, but used his own method - a simple and crude method.
The first thing is to deal with the subordinates who have soldiers.
The die-hards who were unwilling to cooperate have been cleared out before. Now those who remain are those with a milder attitude. They have also seen the strength of the Han army, so they will be more rational in their considerations. They know Liu Bei's requirements and understand them.
Let’s all add up Liu Bei’s conditions together.
Eighteen of the twenty-one leaders agreed, but the remaining three had serious concerns. They suspected that the imperial court was planning a plan to wipe out all of them step by step, so they had to take measures.
Such as resistance.
So Zhang Yan nodded, threw a cup as a signal, and killed the three people.
"Anyone who doesn't want us to live must die."
This was not the first time for Zhang Yan's fierce determination. The eighteen people present felt a sense of déjà vu, but said nothing. Then, they began to organize their troops according to Zhang Yan's arrangements, and began
Urge the mountain people to come down from the mountain and accept the reorganization of the Bingzhou government.
To be fair, if the mountain people want to go down the mountain on their own, it is really unnecessary. Based on their view of the imperial court, not treating the imperial court as an enemy is considered an extrajudicial favor. It is also normal to treat the imperial court as a life and death enemy.
things.
So letting them return to their household registration is tantamount to letting them fall into a trap.
But the problem is that if Zhang Yan and the others want to be officials, they can only ask the mountain people to submit certificates to show that they and the court are wearing the same pants. Then the mountain people will definitely go down the mountain obediently in despair, and they will not go down.
They were also forced to go down the mountain.
So when things got to this point, there was nothing to say. The mountain people were driven down the mountain in droves, and Zhang Yan and others took the initiative to become the bad guys.
The mountain residents who were driven down the mountain were first resettled in Taiyuan County and Yanmen County. They all followed the Liangzhou New Deal method and started large-scale grouping operations with collective farms as the basic units.
Due to the shortage of manpower, Man Chong even discussed with Guan Yu Qianzhao and urgently recruited more than a thousand soldiers to join the Bingzhou Governor's Office as temporary clerks to assist the Bingzhou Governor's Office in handling civil affairs.
At the same time, the imperial army also began a large-scale destruction operation against the strong armed resistance of the Han people in Bingzhou. Anyone who did not accept the slave restriction order was labeled as a rebel, which means, in two words, annihilated.
Guan Yu and Qianzhao were very happy because they had achieved military success again.
They sent troops to annihilate the rebels in each county one by one. They attacked multiple times. The army was led by captains and military lords and attacked from multiple directions. It didn't take much effort to deal with those powerful tribes.
From early June to early July, in one month, Guan Yu and Qianzhao destroyed a total of 106 families and acquired more than 150,000 male and female slaves, most of whom were young men and women.
The actions of the imperial army in Bingzhou and Sili areas not only dealt a heavy blow to the centrifugal forces in the two areas, but also had a deterrent effect on some people in other areas after the news spread.
The emergence of a military strongman was the first time in the entire history of the empire. The powerful forces in the Sili and Bingzhou regions did not have time to adapt to this, while the powerful forces in other regions had time to adapt, but this process was too scary.
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In particular, Liu Bei was so ruthless against these two areas. People in other areas had good reason to suspect that this was just the beginning. Liu Bei would send troops to their areas at any time and carry out the same actions. If they did not agree to implement the slave restriction
order, it will be completely eradicated.
And Liu Bei's military force was so powerful that they could not resist it.
Wherever the news of the slave restriction order spread, the powerful forces there became gloomy. People with some ideas began to take action, while people who lacked flexibility and caution even began to think about whether to sell their property and flee further south to avoid Liu Bei's power.
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It is an unshakable fact that Liu Bei's power has moved from Kansai to Kanto.
Liangzhou is his base camp and the place where he started. After the Sili area and Bingzhou implement the slave restriction order, all the forces that oppose him will be eradicated by him. So where will his next step be?
Yizhou? Youzhou? Or Jizhou? Or Yuzhou?
These places all have Liu Bei's power tentacles, and Liu Bei's cronies are serving as officials. His power continues to expand, and so does his military strength, gradually expanding to a point where everyone feels extremely uncomfortable and frightened.
Is the rule of military strongmen such a terrifying thing?
Is it such a terrible thing that force is not as good as human beings?