Seeing that the Turkish people's problems were solved, Zhao Xun smiled and said, "It's very good, so in the Western Regions battlefield, the Turks were excluded first. As for Gaochang, it is not a big problem for us. Destroy him,
It's easy. However, it's the most important thing to swallow these western countries."
"By the way, Zhang Yuanjing, Yanqi and the destroyed countries around him are now integrated into the three prefectures. What is the situation in various places?"
Zhang Yuanjing, who is responsible for government affairs in various places, said in a deep voice: "We have prepared for it. We have transferred a large number of officials so that all new cities can be built in an orderly manner and all settlements will start to live normally. For most people, our Zhao Junzhi
Life is better than before, so although they are dissatisfied with the rulers, they are generally stable and accept our rule.”
"However, there is also a big and small trouble. Among the prefectures and counties, there are horse thieves of all sizes. Some of them were horse thieves who made a living by robbery. Many of them were originally defeated by Yanqi's army and Yanqi's original Yanqi's original army.
And other nobles from small countries. Now, they are starting to attack the settlements around our new city in various places. Although the troops guarding the settlements are inferior to those of the troops, their equipment is good. The only regret is that they are
Their son, they were helpless against these horse thieves.”
"In the past month, the settlements and caravans around the newly built city have been robbed several times."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xun's face suddenly faded and said, "Ma thief? Let my personal guards compete with them. In addition, we will order all places to kill those who dare to collude with the Ma thief to destroy the nine clans!"
"Master, are you talking about these horse thieves colluding?" Zhang Yuanjing frowned.
Zhao Xun said coldly: "Of course, otherwise, we have troops stationed in residential areas everywhere. How can these horse thieves cross over the annexation garrison and secretly wards and rob the residential areas? Furthermore, these horse thieves are in this radius of thousands of miles.
How to supplement your daily needs? They are not allowed to produce."
Situ Liang nodded and said, "What the lord said is reasonable. If there is no inner support, it will never go smoothly. Besides, there are escorts in the past caravans, and without inner support, how can they know their journey and number of people?"
Zhao Xun said coldly: "It seems that there are still people in the settlements everywhere who are dissatisfied with us and miss the old master. Such people cannot be killed without killing them. We must use blood to warn them, either to implicate the nine tribes and die together, or
, just live here honestly."
"My personal guards are also cavalrymen, all of which are elite. I want to see if these horse thieves who wander around can compare with my elite soldiers."
When King Zhao was angry, the situation in various places suddenly happened. More than 15,000 guards were involved in the operation with Zhao Xun this time. The more than 15,000 people were immediately dispersed into teams of squads, in a radius.
The horse thieves began to be eliminated within a thousand miles of radius. Some of them directly patrol, move, and chase horse thieves. Some of them mingled in the caravan, led the enemy into the trap, and killed them in one fell swoop.
In just over ten days, more than 8,000 horse thieves and more than 300 horse thieves of all sizes were wiped out in the territory of the three prefectures. The residents of various countries involved were more than 500. In addition to their families and nine tribes, they
The relatives of the country were 10,000. However, the Zhao army showed no mercy at all. They proclaimed their crimes in public and killed them. They immediately made the entire newly occupied land tremble and fearful. Then, some reported ones were rewarded.
The residents who have made contributions will compare and let residents from all over the country understand how to do it.
Of course, this does not mean that all the horse thieves in various places have been wiped out. The personal guards are still patrolling various places, completely cutting off the soil for horse thieves to survive. Zhao Xun is very clear that if they cannot be eradicated at once, the future caravan will be passed by in the future.
A big trouble.
In early July, the envoy of Kucha appeared again in Xizhou City, which was the capital of Yanqi. The envoy this time was Li Yan and Bai Yi. Originally, there was only Li Yan this time, but Bai Yi deliberately
I forced myself to come to Xizhou City to see what the situation here was like after the Zhao army destroyed Yanqi.
After entering the city, Bai Yi saw that the entire Xizhou City was building a large-scale construction. At first, Bai Yi thought that King Zhao was building an open palace. Later, he found out that the Zhao army was preparing to expand the city.
The construction of water conservancy, planting trees and afforestation, introducing Central Plains products, building various workshops, and using various means to settle the livelihoods of the people gathered by the Zhao army, but also implicit various profound meanings. The people in the city were not expected by Bai Yi.
In this way, he hated the Zhao army and had no place to live. The workshops in the city required a large amount of labor, and the Zhao army also transported a large amount of food. Soon, the normal circulation of materials here became effective.
order.
"The King of Zhao is not simple. He is really a hero. Who can compare with the countries of the Western Regions?" After seeing the situation in the city and understanding some of the situation, Bai Yi couldn't help but sigh. He was surprised by the Zhao army's methods.
, while worried about the fate of Kucha. He knew very well that the Zhao army's current methods would soon be able to win the hearts of the people here. If the people win the hearts, they would win the world. If the people's hearts are not lost, these places will not take long,
Become a part of King Zhao's command.
"Your Highness, King Zhao, this is my right prime minister, Bai Yibai, and I."
"Right Prime Minister? How can the Prime Minister become an envoy and come here in person?" Zhao Xun had already known that this person was coming, but he still asked with a smile.
Bai Yi said in a deep voice: "The power of King Zhao is pointed at by the sharp sword and the army arrives. I just want to see what the Yanqi Kingdom was like under the rule of King Zhao in the past?"
Li Yan on the side was shocked when he heard Bai Yi say this. What Bai Yi said was clearly provoking.
Zhao Xun smiled indifferently and said, "How? Is it as you think that the people here live a life worse than death? Is it true that after I occupy the Yanqi Kingdom, the people here become slaves?"
Bai Yi said respectfully: "I dare not, I am ashamed of my subordinates! Although the people here are suffering a little now, they will live a better life in the future. My subordinates also deeply feel the power of the king, and in this short half a month
Among them, the people of the former capital of the Yanqi King can be owned by the king."
"Haha..." Zhao Xun laughed and said, "Yanqi Kingdom? Now, they no longer exist. The change of dynasties is a common sense in the world. Now, this Yanqi Kingdom is already the territory of my Great Zhao." In his words,
The affirmation is clearly obvious.
"In this way, the territory of the Yanqi Kingdom that I, Kucha, now occupying, will also belong to the king?"
Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "Bai Xiangguo, in your opinion, what is the reason for a country to exist? Power? No, in my opinion, the existence of a country is to make every citizen have a core and all people
All the people can live better under effective order.”
"There are too many countries in the Western Regions, big and small, and they cannot work together. They can only fight each other, waste national strength, and make the people's lives increasingly poor. Bai Xiangguo, do you think that under the governance of my Da Zhao, the people here are no longer as before
better?"
Bai Yining said in a voice: "King, even though that is the case, the countries in our Western Regions all have their own countries, and every citizen will fight to the death for their own country."
"Is that true? If so, your Kucha Kingdom will not be established. Where did Kucha Kingdom come from? Isn't it based on the demise of the previous country?" Zhao Xun said coldly, "I want the countries of the Western Regions to be from
People live under the same blue sky and live better. This is the general trend. Those who cannot change the general trend. Those who follow it will prosper and rebellion will perish.”
Bai Yi and Li Yan both changed their faces when they heard this. Zhao Xun's words clearly showed that he wanted to annex the entire Western Regions. Even if he was Kucha, he was no exception.
Just as Bai Yi was stunned, Zhao Xun said indifferently: "I heard that the Prime Minister of Bai is in Kucha, and he insists on opposing the alliance between Kucha and our Zhao army. I don't know what the meaning is?"
"You are Turkic in the north, and you don't know much about the Turkic people. More than two hundred years ago, the Turkic people entered the Western Regions, and you know more about the disasters brought by them. If it weren't for the Great Yan Empire sending troops to the Western Regions,
I am afraid that the countries you and others no longer exist. Is this what you want to see?"
Bai Yining said in a voice: "But, the Turks are now in civil strife and have no time to take care of them."
Zhao Xun said coldly: "Internal strife? No time to care about others? The Turkic people will eventually be unified. Now the southern part of the Turkic people are my Great Zhao in the east, and the western part are your Western countries. You said, this Turkic people
After quelling civil strife, people want to restore their strength, or when they go south to rob, should they enter my Great Zhao? Or invade your Western Regions?”
"This..." Bai Yi was speechless.
"Of course it is your Western Regions! Because you do not have an effective rule, because you fight each other, because you have left a country like Gaochang, which is under the command of the Turks. And my Great Zhao, who travels thousands of miles, has surrounded him.
There were countless soldiers, and they dared not invade." Zhao Xun said sternly.
"Whether you are destroyed by the Turks or become a member of my Great Zhao depends on how you choose. Looking at the situation in the city, Bai Xiangguo should think carefully."
"Li Yan, is your coming this time just discussing the issue of sending troops with me?" Zhao Xun ignored Bai Yi, who was in deep thought, and turned to ask Li Yan.
Li Yan said: "That's true. Our army has waited for the king's dispatch."
"Very good. In this operation, you will start, and the army will go directly north, heading straight to Changji and Wusu, and breaking into Gaochang from the southwest. The reason is that it uses the Turks to intend to move south and invade Kucha.
.Of course, you can just use other excuses.”
"And my army will attack from the south and east. We will form a circle of encirclement, attack everywhere, and destroy it in one fell swoop. Remember, I don't want you to have any problems, otherwise..." Although Zhao Xun did not say
Otherwise, Li Yanxin understood that if his side had apart from the problem, the Zhao army might appear directly in the capital of Kucha.
"As for the situation of sending troops to the west, I will send someone to your army in person and act with your commander. Of course, what I need is that you can restrain Gaochang's attention, rather than letting you die with Gaochang's country.
Fight. My army is enough to siege Gaochang. What I need to think about now is that the Turks cannot intervene in it."
"My dearest!" Li Yan said respectfully.
"King, will I be annexed by you in Kucha? " Bai Yi, who was silent for a while, asked in a voice.
Zhao Xun looked at Bai Yi and said in a deep voice: "What do you mean by annexation? Don't you think that under the unified jurisdiction of my Great Zhao, this place will be more peaceful and the people's lives will be better? Or
You can't bear to leave your position as prime minister?" Zhao Xun knew that Bai Yi was definitely not like the common people, who put the interests of the family above the kingdom. This person is a person who is truly loyal to the country and seeks profit for the people.
It was because of this that he repeatedly opposed Kucha's country and Zhao's army walking together.
Logically speaking, Zhao Xun should not have any good attitude towards such a person, but Zhao Xun feels that if this person can stand on his own side, he can better resolve the Kucha issue peacefully. Just as Situ Liang was worried about the problem at first.
, The Kucha State united with itself to conquer Yanqi State and Gaochang State. In any case, it could not directly use force against Kucha State, otherwise the consequences would be extremely bad. Therefore, the problem of Kucha State,
He could only press forward step by step, weaken it step by step, and force him to integrate into the Zhao army.
After a while of silence, Bai Yi said: "What should King Zhao do if our country's kings and civil and military officials?"
Zhao Xun was happy and felt that Bai Yi slowly began to change his mind and moved closer to him. He smiled and said, "The King of Kucha is still the King of Kucha, but, like here, the king can only be a title, not governing the people.
If you don’t take the people, you will enjoy the treatment of my King of Great Zhao. Besides, in the era of the Protectorate, your countries had sent royal princes as hostages to the Han court, but in this Western Region, there were also the Protectorate.
exist?"
Although Bai Yi had no response, Zhao Xun understood that Bai Yi had already begun to change his ideas. Of course, Zhao Xun did not think that it was his own words that made the prime minister bow down and surrender. The most important thing was Zhao Jun.
and the living conditions of the people in Xizhou City.
Afterwards, Zhao Xun sent a man named Sui Li Yan to join the Kucha team stationed outside Xizhou Prefecture to the west, responsible for pointing out the target direction of the Kucha team, and Zhao Xun followed.
Be prepared for the war.
"Lord, now the county and town system in the three prefectures has been planned. Next, the county soldiers and government soldiers are in the local garrison system. How should the county soldiers and dungeons be arranged in this place?"
After solving the problem of horse thieves, Zhang Yuanjing asked Zhao again for follow-up problems of the three prefectures after the Yanqi Kingdom and more than ten small surrounding countries were destroyed by the Zhao army.
Zhao Xunning said in a voice: "Are we very few Han people in this Western Region?"
Zhang Yuanjing nodded and said, "Yes, the opportunity can be said to be negligible. Of course, the current garrison troops here have caused the proportion of Chinese people to increase. In addition, the arrival of some merchants has also added a lot to us. However,
, This is still very rare. Therefore, the local garrison army is a huge problem. The soldiers recruited are still young and strong in the original countries."
Zhao Xun rubbed his eyebrows and said, "This is also a difficult problem. If it weren't for this, the Central Plains court would have annexed it long ago, and it wouldn't be our turn."
Situ Liang on one side said in a muffled voice: "It seems that we should still move the people and strengthen the proportion of Chinese people. In addition, here, we should implement Chinese language education to make Chinese language the mainstream here. We should also downplay their original influence of all countries and ethnic groups.
, let them all become members of the Han people."
Zhang Yuanjing smiled bitterly and said, "We have already started to implement these. This was originally the lord who proposed the policy of integrating ethnic groups. How can we not implement them here? However, this method takes time and is not a day's effort. And this
The county soldiers and government soldiers above the local area need to be organized immediately. We need them to maintain local public security and local rule."
Situ Liang said in a deep voice: "What about the military military soldiers? Although they are not as good as the military soldiers, they are enough as the government soldiers and county soldiers in the local area. Moreover, there are many military soldiers who come to military farm this time, and they are enough.
There are tens of thousands."
Zhang Yuanjing said in a muffled voice: "But here is only one Yanqi country and more than ten small countries around it. Among the countries in the Western Regions, we only occupy a little more than one-sixth. If we use all the troops, we should
How? As we attacked Gaochang State, we had to arrange these troops to the north. After all, the Turks were the north of Gaochang State, which was more important to us."
Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "It seems that the families of these soldiers who have been stationed have also moved here. Situ Liang sent an order to the soldiers who are stationed, and anyone who is willing to move their families here will be exempted from tax for three years. In addition, he also encouraged
These soldiers are here to get married and have children."
"Pick out part of the garrison troops, and then select some of the more honest local residents from the local residents, and merge to form a local garrison army. In addition, strengthen the proportion of Hawkeye Division and Shadow Division here."
"All local residents who join the local garrison army will all be added to Chinese citizenship and enjoy certain tax exemptions and tax exemptions. Let them know who their benefits come from. They can also compare their advantages and disadvantages with other residents and make a difference.
Open their relationship with other residents.”
Situ Liang added: "It is best to let these people who have been selected into the local garrison army become in-laws with the stationed troops. In this way, they can better connect them with us. Even if they want to repeat, they must consider the original countries.
Can the people accept it? In addition to their superior treatment, don’t other people regard them as our loyalty?”
Zhao Xun nodded and said, "This is feasible. In addition, the most important thing is to change from the perspective of thought. The implementation of Chinese language education here must be strengthened and accelerated, and academies in various places must be opened as soon as possible. With Liaozhou
Likewise, we can tame the Marines and the Western Regions people."
"Aren't there so many scholars in the Central Plains who have nothing to do? They are not worried about their livelihoods? Now that they have the opportunity, let them come here to educate the people. This is a great event that will last for thousands of years, and maybe they will remember history in the future.
With the good treatment, I believe that there will still be many people who are willing to come here."