More than 500 miles from Xihan to Dayun Valley, the two Shaodang Qiang kings had just planned the rebellion with Cao Wei's envoys, and were still recruiting troops and gathering many Qiang tribes to rebel together, when they were raided by Shen Chen 500 miles away. The formation killed two Qiang kings.
This news quickly spread among the Qiang tribes, and the Qiang were shaken for a while. No one in Liangzhou dared to look up to Shen Chen's power, and his fame naturally spread far and wide to Xiliang.
After that, Shen Chen divided the large Qiang and Di tribes such as Jincheng County, Longyou County, Tianshui County, and Wudu County, and allocated pastures to each of them. They were planned as small and medium-sized tribes and were not allowed to attack and annex each other. They were also established in each county. In the county school, scholars from Bashu were sent to Liangzhou to recruit Qiang Han children.
Shen Chen also gave great preferential treatment to Mr. Shen Chen who was willing to teach. For example, there would be extra points when taking the imperial examination to become an official. Those who performed well could even skip the imperial examination and be recruited as officials by the imperial court, so there were many followers. , even many aristocratic families in Liangzhou are willing to sign up.
The people of Xiliang are strong and fierce, making it a very good source of troops. Shen Chen also recruited Qiang Han soldiers, and his disciples appointed mid-level officers in the army to serve as ideological and political work. He strictly promoted Shen Chen's policy of treating Qiang and Han people equally and carried out military operations. train.
At this moment, in the Liangzhou Mu Mansion in Ji County, Tianshui County, Shen Chen was sitting high on the throne. Below and left and right were gathered senior civil servants and generals from Tianshui County, such as Zhao Yun, Pang De, Deng Zhi, Pang Yu and others, as well as a comparative figure. Special, he is a surrendered general.
The ban!
At this time in the ban's history, he had died of grief and anger due to Cao Pi's humiliation. Although he is not dead now, his whole body is extremely haggard, as if he has aged twenty years, like an eighty-year-old man, with a vicissitudes of life and a gray beard. He usually attends meetings. He often lowers his eyebrows and says nothing.
Shen Chen looked around at everyone and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, if your Majesty wants to revive Yanhan and attack Cao Wei, he must launch a northern expedition and attack Guandong from three sides. Our responsibility is to attack Chang'an from Yongliang and Hanzhong. Hanzhong is responsible for food and grass, and Liangzhou is responsible for Send out troops to first seize the land of the three auxiliaries, and then build up camp step by step to conquer Chang'an and return to the old capital."
Everyone raised their heads and looked at him.
Shen Chen continued: "So if we want to fulfill your majesty's long-cherished wish, we must work hard and never slack off. Liangzhou has 30,000 troops and Hanzhong has 40,000 troops. This is not enough. I want a hundred thousand troops to attack Chang'an. The great Han Dynasty wants all nations to come to court and hundreds of tribes to worship. There are many Qiang people in Liangzhou. If they cannot treat them equally, how can they serve them all? Therefore, I want to recruit Qiang soldiers and train them into strong soldiers. I will leave this matter to the general. manage."
Yu Jin was stunned and said quickly: "How dare you take on such an important task once you surrender to the general? I ask the Governor to think twice."
"If you can train troops, you can take on this responsibility."
Shen Chen looked at him and said.
Yu Jin said in shame: "I'm just a surrendered general, what dignity do I have?"
Shen Chen looked around and said, "Everyone should clearly understand their own situation and the class interests they represent. Prefect Pang, what is your origin?"
Pang Qiao said: "I am from a poor family, and my family has some land. After my father passed away, my mother did not give birth and was waiting for the opportunity to kill my grandfather's enemies. This matter caused a sensation in Liangzhou, and everyone should know about it."
"good."
Shen Chen nodded and said: "Prefect Pang is from a poor family, so he was able to study when his father passed away and his mother was not giving birth, and finally became an official. But General Yu was from a lower-class Guizhou family, so why was he able to become a former general of Cao Wei? ?”
"Why?"
someone asked.
"Because General Yu must work hard and work ten times and a hundred times harder than those from humble families, aristocratic families, and powerful people, in order to be able to reach a high position."
Shen Chen looked around the crowd and said: "Throughout history, heroes and heroes are often used as epics, but there are rarely stories about Guizhou and ordinary people as epic allusions. This is because the masters of history often use higher-level power. The author wrote. However, the common people in Guizhou have no way to rise. Even if they finally rise, they will eventually become members of aristocratic families and step on the heads of the common people in Guizhou."
"Well"
Everyone, look at me and I look at you. I don’t understand why Shen Chen said this.
Pang De then asked: "Yes, I am also from the head of Guizhou. Although Duke Shoucheng was poor in his early years after becoming General Fubo, we have to work hard to be promoted. But this depends on whether the general has trained his troops. What’s the relationship?”
Shen Chen said: "Yes, it has a lot to do with it. What I want to tell General Yu is that you have to work hard to be promoted. But in the eyes of the powerful people of the big family, you are still just the general of Guizhou, so how can you compare with others?" Family business? So I hope General Yu can understand why he is fighting for. Now I want to know why General Yu fought for Cao Wei in the first place?"
Yu Jinnanana said: "It's because I served Lord Bao at that time. Before Lord Fu died, he entrusted us all to King Wei, so I have been serving King Wei since then."
"Um."
Shen Chen said: "This is where everyone is short-sighted. The general only knows how to obey the orders from above, but does not know why he is fighting. When I build a new army in Liangzhou, I must let the soldiers know what they are fighting for. If the company cannot The general himself doesn’t know, so what should he do?”
Pang Qiao asked: "Please tell me, the Governor, what should we fight for?"
"Mencius said that the people are the most precious and the king is the least. The people are the foundation of the country. If there were no people, where would the aristocratic families, dignitaries, officials, generals, nobles, ministers, and emperors come from?"
Shen Chen looked at them and said: "The people in the capital of Guizhou are all Han people, but the generals of Cao and Wei followed the orders of Cao Cao and massacred Xuzhou. This is because they are standing on the opposite side of the people. It is also because the people are not enlightened and do not understand who is theirs." Enemies, otherwise how could Cao Cao have a foothold?"
Yu Jin remained silent.
Shen Chen continued: "I believe that the people are the foundation of a country. The main ethnic group in our country is the Han people. The Han people should embrace all kinds of rivers. In the national system dominated by the Han people, other ethnic groups should be accommodated so that everyone can have something to do. A place to live. The country is one, and everyone has the strength to work together, and the strength comes out together, regardless of you and me, only then can we unite as one and build a strong country. General Yu is good at training troops, so I let him train troops, but before I let him train troops What I wanted to tell him before was that you, Yu Jin, were also from Guizhou Province. You were recruited by Bao Xin, a fellow countryman, and you enlisted in the army. You have made many military exploits to get where you are today. But you have forgotten your past identity. You came from Guizhou Province, but you want to help others. , slaughtering people, is this what an upright person should do? Now I am asking you to train in the army to give you a chance to change your ways. Don't make the same mistake again and again, remember that you were once a common person!"
Yu Jin lowered his head in shame.
Shen Chen looked at him and said, "Now, does General Yu understand why he will fight in the future?"
Yu Jin said dullly: "Fight for the people."
"good."
Shen Chen nodded: "You may still not understand why you have to fight for the people, but I don't need you to understand. You just need to know this. The people are the foundation and your origin. If If you even abandon your origin, how are you any different from an animal?"
"yes."
Yu Jin lowered his head and responded.
Shen Chen looked around at the crowd again and said: "There have been many rebellions in Liangzhou because it is too far away from the central court and many local aristocratic families are doing bad things. For example, Wuwei Yanjun, Zhangye Heluan, Jiuquan Huanghua, and Jincheng Quyan are all from rich families, like The ancestor of the Huang family in Jiuquan was once the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, Huang Ba, but now he rebels against the court and creates trouble for himself. Where is Pound's ban?"
"The end is here!"
Pang De stood up.
Yu Jin had no choice but to stand up and cup his hands and said: "The end will be here."
"I want to form an army and recruit elite soldiers from various counties. Pang De will be the chief general and Yu Jin will be the deputy general. Pang De will be responsible for leading the army and Yu Jin will be responsible for training the troops. Now some of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang are acquired by Cao Wei, and some are local. The family is in trouble, so you two must form a new army within a year to defeat it!"
"yes!"
Both of them agreed.
Shen Chen nodded. Seeing that Yu Jin still seemed to be struggling a little, he smiled and said, "I know what General Yu is worried about."
He said and clapped his hands.
After a while, a man, a woman and a child walked out of the side courtyard.
Both men and women were in their thirties and forties, and the child was about eleven or twelve years old. He became very excited when he saw Yu Jin.
"Father!"
Yu Gui stepped forward and bowed to the ground.
Yu Jin was also excited. He went up and hugged his son, and said happily: "Gui'er."
Shen Chen smiled and said: "Fortunately, Cao Pi is still humane and does not make things difficult for the family members of those who surrendered. There is no one to monitor him. I asked General Yu to take the general's family out of Luoyang and send them to Nanyang. I didn't inform you in advance. Please don't do it." To blame.”
Yu Jin was a low-class Guizhou leader and had only one son, Yu Gui. Historically, after Yu Jin's death, Yu Gui inherited his title, and the Yu family basically had no sense of existence in the Cao Wei Group.
Now because of Yu Jin's surrender, the life of the Yu family is even more embarrassing. Although Cao Pi did not punish them, they were looked down upon and suppressed. Yu Gui also felt very uneasy, so he accepted the arrangement of Shen Chen's spy in Luoyang and went there smoothly. Nanyang.
The process was so simple and smooth that it is unimaginable. Because of Yu Jin's surrender, the Yu family was very low-key. They did not dare to go out or interact with others too much. They were afraid of Cao Pi's questioning, so they stayed in the mansion for a long time without going out.
All he had to do was find a night for a family of three to get on a carriage heading south, and then enter Nanyang from the Dabie Mountains without any obstacles. There were spies arranged by Shen Chen to support him along the way, and Yu Gui even escaped for half a month. Only later did Cao Pi find out about it.
After meeting his son and his family, Yu Jin finally felt relieved. He raised his hands to Shen Chen seriously and said, "Grand Governor, from now on, Yu Jin is at his mercy."
"Um."
Shen Chen nodded and said: "You are familiar with Cao Wei's military battles. If you want to make contributions and do something for future generations and the people of Li, then you can't slack off."
"only!"
Yu Jin is sincerely convinced.
In fact, as a former leader of Guizhou, he had to do whatever it took to climb up in order to gain Cao Cao's trust.
Therefore, he doesn't care what status he once had, as long as he can obtain status, it is enough.
It is much more difficult to climb up from the bottom than from a wealthy family. Therefore, he needs to work hard to help Cao Wei in order to gain power. Even if Cao Cao orders him to massacre the same people at the bottom.
This is the class that betrays itself and wants to advance to a higher class by suppressing its own class.
But even if he climbed up like this, to the wealthy family, he was still from the bottom, and they would never think highly of him, just like Cao Pi only mocked him, but did not have the dedicated respect he had for Cao Wei for so many years.
Therefore, he is an alien to the lower class, and he is also an alien to the wealthy families.
He cannot please both sides, but his family will always be his biggest weakness. Even if he is afraid of death and chooses to surrender, he will still worry about his son's situation with Cao Wei.
Now that Yu Gui has been sent over, Yu Jin is a veteran in the army. Shen Chen's people-oriented argument may not be able to convince him, but as long as his family can be by his side, then naturally whatever Shen Chen says is right. Just listen.
Shen Chen didn't need Yu Jin to have such a high consciousness to understand what he said, but some words had to be said correctly. Now after arranging the work, he looked around at everyone and said: "Everyone, if the country wants to prosper, it cannot do without the support of the people. "Some of the people here are local officials, and some are generals. Your Majesty loves the people like his own sons, and is benevolent and righteous. You must cherish this hard-won reputation. I hope you will work harder to govern Liangzhou well."
"only!"
Everyone responded in unison.
Now Shen Chen has been in Xiliang for more than half a year.
The policy of treating all Qiang and Han people equally is in full swing.
There are definitely conflicts, but these are solvable problems.
As long as the enthusiasm of the Qiang people can be mobilized, even if the Qiang people are the dominant ethnic group in Liangzhou, they are still willing to accept the rule of the Han people.
But now there are still some problems, that is, the powerful local families in Liangzhou.
When Liu Bei occupied Xiliang, he enforced his policy of suppressing local powerful people and supporting the people at the bottom.
Just like what was done in Jingzhou and Yizhou, many powerful locals fled to Wuwei, Zhangye and other counties in the north, and even launched rebellions and occupied these places.
Therefore, in the area currently occupied by Liu Bei, that is, the four counties of Longyou, most Yizhou officials serve as local chief officials, and the number of local powerful people is relatively small.
Shen Chen planned to train new soldiers. He would first operate in Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and other places to get rid of the powerful families who rebelled in Wuwei, Zhangye and other places, as well as the Cao Wei officials in Jiuquan and Dunhuang, to see the training effect.
He sent Deng Ai Jiangwei as a Qiang captain to maintain the stability of the Qiang people in Jincheng and other places, and also to prepare for the subsequent attack on Wuwei County.
Shen Chen didn't plan to go there in person for these trivial matters. He now had two other problems.
One is the Qiang Di from Anding County and Beidi County.
The second is cavalry training.
Hanzhong Iron Warehouse is already manufacturing stirrups, horseshoes and saddles at full capacity.
Next month, Shen Chen plans to take the nearly 20,000 cavalry currently owned by Liu Bei Group and go directly to Hanzhong, put on new equipment, and gallop around the Hanzhong Plain area to let the cavalry adapt first.
This is also considered secret training.
The main reason is that they are afraid that Cao Wei's spies will get these military secrets immediately. After all, Cao Wei has Bingzhou and Youzhou, and there will only be more cavalry than Liu Bei's group.
Therefore, confidentiality work must also be carried out, and the cavalry must be taken to Hanzhong to check the training effect.
As for the Qiang Di issue in Anding County and Beidi County.
Shen Chen decided to hand it over to Zhao Yun.
One and a half years have passed since the three-year expedition against Wei was set in the second year of Zhangwu.
Now he is still solving the problems of Hanzhong grain road and Liangzhou rear area.
Although many things have not yet been resolved, at least the problems are on the way to being resolved. Now is the time to actively prepare for the Northern Expedition.
It’s not that I’m overthinking, firstly, there needs to be some transitional plot. Secondly, the problem of grain roads in Hanzhong and the stability of the rear in Xiliang are indeed real, and the protagonist must also solve them. I haven’t written them in such detail. If I had written them more carefully, I could still There will be more than ten chapters. I will try my best to speed up the progress and start the Northern Expedition as soon as possible.