Chapter four hundred and sixty-eight buying people's hearts
After arriving at Fucheng Village, Ye An finally understood why Zhou Guozuo did not rush to the rescue of Pingyuan Village, but sat back and watched Pingyuan Village break out to save itself under the siege of the Western Qiang people. After passing a forest in front of Fucheng Village, he had left the boundary of Qingzhou.
Enter Huanzhou.
Standing on Fucheng Walled Village, you can already clearly see the high wall of Pingyuan Village opposite, and you can even see the Xiqiang Rangers scattered outside Pingyuan Village.
Cao Yi's plan was to raid Pingyuan Stronghold. The Xiqiang people were scattered troops, and they gathered together to take advantage of the situation, but their combat power was not enough, especially in the battle to defend the city. They lacked experience to compete with the Song army.
But Ye An doesn't think so. In his opinion, as long as it is a siege battle, the casualties will be heavy, and it will even require a lot of physical strength. The best way is to "subdue the enemy's troops without fighting."
This idea made Chen Lin and Cao Yi sneer. The Xiqiang people were not stupid. Since they dared to capture the Song Dynasty's military stronghold, how could they easily withdraw? Why did they capture Pingyuan Stronghold? Isn't it just to block Qingzhou's access to the ring?
The state comes to the rescue?!
Even the soldiers and civilians who fled from Pingyuan Village to Fucheng Village thought so. Their guess was not wrong, but the problem was that the Xiqiang people had no intention of fighting to the death with the huge empire of the Song Dynasty from the beginning.
Otherwise, heavy troops will be gathered to capture Tongyuan City and completely occupy Huanzhou. At present, many fortress towns in Huanzhou, including Tongyuan City, are still under the control of the Song Dynasty. This shows that the Xiqiang people have not completely occupied Huanzhou at all.
plan.
In the final analysis, the Western Qiang people were not powerful enough and their power was insufficient. The dispersion of the Western Qiang tribes was also a big problem, and they could not unite to fight a large-scale war against the Song Dynasty.
Since this is the case, even if the Xiqiang people in Pingyuan Village are not elite, they have no chance of blocking the Song army.
Ye An stood on the high platform, and the generals of the Cao family were "borrowed" by him from Cao Yi to show off, and the "fake ax" representing the official family was shown. This fake was not meant to be true or false, but
It means using human hands.
The ceremony of awarding talismans and festival axes is often called "false festival", and the ministers who are awarded talisman festivals are called "holding festivals". Ye An, as the deputy envoy of body comfort, also has the right to hold festivals.
I don’t know if Fan Yong did it intentionally or not. Before they left, he directly asked his servant to give his Jie Yue to Ye An, saying that he wanted him to arrive in Huanzhou as soon as possible and show off the Jie Yue awarded by the Heavenly Family to calm the hearts of Huanzhou soldiers and people.
It also has another function, deterring the rebellious officials and traitors of Xiqiang.
In this case, Ye An was not polite. With Tieniu and the generals of the Cao family helping him, and showing off the Jie Yue, the soldiers and civilians in Fucheng Village immediately bowed to the Jie Yue and shouted long live.
Although Ye An is young, his status is not low. In the city of Tokyo, the founding prince and the young minister of Sinong Temple may not be considered powerful officials, but in Huanzhou, they are regarded as beings that people look up to.
There were originally more than 1,500 soldiers in Fucheng Village, plus the more than 2,000 soldiers brought by Ye An, the total of 4,000 soldiers can be said to be a large number, and the confidence is also stronger.
The total number of soldiers and civilians who broke out from Pingyuan Village was 3,000, of whom only 500 were combat soldiers. It can be seen that Liu Kang led his troops to fight to the end in the battle of Pingyuan Village, which bought the people time to evacuate.
For this era, people are everything. On the contrary, land is not that important. During Taizong's Northern Expedition, the greatest achievement was to bring nearly 100,000 Han people back to the Song Dynasty from the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun.
While increasing its own effective strength, it also weakened the national power of the Liao Dynasty.
One hundred thousand people may be nothing in future generations, but in this era it is a very powerful force. As long as these one hundred thousand people are stabilized, it only takes a few years for one hundred thousand people to become hundreds of thousands.
People, hundreds of thousands of people!
The Han rulers of all dynasties all understood the truth that population is the key to a country, and a large part of the evaluation of local officials also depends on the size of the population.
Looking at the densely packed soldiers and civilians standing in the Fucheng Walled City, Ye An suddenly felt that the burden on his body had become heavier. There were at least 30,000 people in the Fucheng Walled City, and most of them were ordinary people who came from villages from all over.
They already know what happened in Pingyuan Village, and they are afraid that if the Xiqiang people go south again, Qingzhou will become another Huanzhou. Who wouldn't worry when the war comes to them?
The news that Ye An led the Qingzhou Anhua Army to conquer Pingyuan Village has already spread in Qingzhou, and the people gathered in Fucheng Village to seek shelter.
The defenders of Fuchengzhai felt confident after seeing Cao Yi. They did not think highly of Ye An and only regarded him as an ordinary civil servant, not to mention he was so young.
As for Fan Yong's surrounding body, the comfort messengers did not arrive, which was quite disappointing for them.
But in the eyes of the people, Ye An, who is handsome, young, and holds a high position, may also be a good choice. Why? He hasn't been "touted" yet.
In Anhua City, the story of Ye An's angry attack on Zhou Guozuo has been spread by "intentional" people. Chen Lin was quite proud of what she had done, and looked at Ye An as if she owed him eight hundred dollars.
The young marquis had won the trust of the officials and saints, and his talents and strategies were as good as those of the court ministers. Any words that could highlight Ye An's civil and military abilities were used by the Imperial City Division's guards.
Cheng Gongshou and Xu Yongzhang, two old acquaintances, were also sent to Ye An by Chen Lin, feeling pity for his useless personal soldiers.
Every time he thought of this Ye An, his teeth itched with hatred. When he was in Tokyo City, Wang Yuan specifically told him that the reason for his trip was to appease the chaos in Huanzhou, and that he could call in his own soldiers to protect his safety.
Chen Lin said that there was no need for that. There were a lot of soldiers to choose from in the army, and he was not a military general. He had no personal soldiers or generals to use. The Imperial City Division's soldiers were much more elite than the personal soldiers.
Ye An didn't take it seriously, but now it seems that a problem has arisen. Aren't the guards of the Imperial City Division Chen Lin's minions? He, Chen Lin, is Cao Yi's supervisor, not his supervisor who appeases the deputy envoy.
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Why do I feel like Chen Lin has been spying on me since I left Tokyo?!
"In the Huanzhou Rebellion, the Western Qiang people killed officials and rebelled. The government originally focused on appeasement. However, the Western Qiang tribes were ambitious and the land of Huanzhou was in ruins. How could we, the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, tolerate the Fan tribe's rebellion? The people in the northwest have always been simple and honest.
However, I have heard that the people of Longxi are many heroes, that is because of you people of Longxi, our Song Dynasty has not lost an inch of territory in the northwest! Now that the Qiang people in the West are causing trouble in our Longxi, all the folks in Longxi may suffer such a great humiliation?!"
"Of course I can't!"
The folk customs of the northwest are fierce! They are the most adept at fighting in the Han civilization. The fighting genes passed down from the Qin Dynasty are not generally powerful.
Ye An cleverly blurred Huanzhou and Qingzhou, and divided Longxi into regions, letting the people here know that it was us Longxi people who were bullied by the Western Qiang people.
This naturally made the people of Qingzhou feel the same. Even Chen Lin was secretly praising Ye An's cleverness. Cao Yi curled her lips at the side: "You see, this is a scholar! A few words can make people who were a little hesitant just now
The soldiers and civilians in Fuchengzhai feel the same way, but unfortunately this may not be enough, as the righteousness of the family and the country will not be beneficial after all."
Chen Lin glared at Cao Yi dissatisfied: "Isn't this enough?!"
However, Cao Yi's attitude towards Chen Lin soon changed, and Chen Lin even thought that Ye An was crazy...