The east gate is called Yongning. Yongning Gate also has an Wengcheng. The gate opens to the south, which can protect Yongning Gate from direct attacks.
There is also an arrow tower behind Yongning Gate, standing tall in front of and behind the Yongning Gate Gate Tower.
On the three-story city gate building with a gabled roof, the carved beams and paintings from the Sui Dynasty are still there, lifelike.
On both sides of the urn tower in front of Yongning Gate, there are two attics built next to the tower, one for temples and one for worshiping gods and Buddhas.
Although the wind and sand blowing made the Guancheng somewhat dim, but after simple cleaning, it still showed its majesty.
Eating Tan Yang on the city gate tower, paired with some overbearing persimmon-roasted Erguotou liquor, is a real pleasure.
The bone-in lamb chops are stewed until they are thoroughly cooked, taken out, dipped in seasonings and eaten with your hands. The meat is tender and has no odor.
Pan-fried butterfly steak, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, full of aroma.
Eating delicious Tan mutton, dipped in the finest green salt from Yanzhou, and even served by Shanhu maidservants. Although it is not as luxurious as the meat screen of Rencheng King Li Daozong's hundred maidservants, it is not as luxurious as the meat screen above the gate of the Great Wall.
Average.
Xue Wanche was very satisfied with the meal.
I couldn't eat the mutton with my hands, so I even had a large piece of sheep tail cooked in oil. This guy took out a knife and cut off a strip, put it on his wrist, and then sucked the whole piece of sheep tail oil into his stomach.
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He liked this way of eating it very much, but Wu Huaiyu and Doulu Huairang just laughed and refused to eat it.
To be honest, most people like to eat sheep's tail oil this way, but most of the people who eat it this way are the lower class people. Real nobles and nobles will not eat it this way. Sheep's tail oil is just a ball after all.
Grease, very greasy.
People who lack oil and water will not find it greasy. Just like in the past, Huaiyu killed pigs for his slaves. When the guys ate it, they liked to eat the big fat meat with three layers. They liked to eat the braised pork made by Wu Huaiyu the most.
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But they generally don't like to eat fried shredded pork because they think it's too thin and not oily. They like the feeling that after one bite, their mouths are filled with oil until it reaches their throats.
They like pig intestines and fattened intestines more than tenderloins because of their flavor.
Huaiyu only likes to slice the mutton tail in oil and sandwich it between the mutton when making kebabs, so that the grilled kebabs will be more fragrant, but he can't eat it directly.
Xue Wanche was also a general, and now he is a distinguished member of the Xue family of Chang'an Wuji. He is already a county prince, but he just likes to eat it this way, sucking one at a time.
It feels so good to suck it.
But look at his general belly. His body shape is like that of Tarzan, and it does need fat. Unlike Huaiyu and Doulu Huairang, these two were also nobles, but they didn't grow a general belly.
Wu Huaiyu didn't want to grow into a body shape that would break and bite his hands. Although a military commander needed such a body shape to have more endurance and explosive power, he still felt that it would be better to be slender and toned.
As for Doulu Huairang, the sixth princess of the family, her father was the nephew of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian, and her grandmother was also a princess of the Sui Dynasty. She was so rich that she didn't need to fight in battle to gain fame.
This guy was a seventh-rank official in the East Palace last year, and now he is Sima and governor of Youzhou in the Central Governor's Palace. He was even directly promoted to the third-rank Yinqing Guanglu doctor. That promotion is a rocket, and Wu Huaiyu is still a fighter.
Battle after battle, achievement after achievement, this level is only from the fifth level.
Doulu Huairang, on the other hand, was promoted automatically every once in a while, or even jumped up the ranks.
Although he is the second son in the family, he is married to a princess and is now the emperor's brother-in-law. As long as he does not seek death and engages in mischief, sooner or later he will have the opportunity to become a county prince or even a prince.
The three heads of the Lingzhou Dudu Mansion were sitting there, looking like monsters and scholars. Wu Huaiyu and Doulu Huairang were elegant and moist as jade, while Xue Wanche looked like an undeveloped beast, sucking suet oil with his mouth wide open.
His appearance made even the maidservant next to him secretly dislike him.
Inhaling a strip of sheep tail oil and drinking strong liquor made with persimmons, Xue Wanche was very happy.
After eating and drinking, Xue Wanche waved his hand to Hu Nu to leave.
The three of them stood on the high city gate tower, looking at the northern scenery inside and outside the Great Wall.
"I heard that Duke Shouyang sent many people around to appease the barbarians in Yanzhou, but no one responded?" Xue Wanche smelled of alcohol and spoke with murderous intent.
Although Doulu Huaiyu looked graceful and graceful, his words were not good, "This time thousands of soldiers and horses from our Lingfu gathered here, why not take advantage of the situation and clean it up?"
Those bastards have always been fearful of power and unethical. Don't be too nice to them, and don't talk to them. Show force to them first. It's best to find someone to recommend and beat them up. That way
Only then will they know how powerful it is, only then will they know how to be afraid, and only then will they cooperate."
Wu Huaiyu quite agreed with these words.
He remembered that someone once said that even a good person must be able to hurt others.
If you are a harmless person, you may be despised or even hurt by others.
Only when you have enough ability to hurt others can you choose to be a good person or a bad person, otherwise you have no choice at all.
However, Wu Huaiyu didn't like the simple and crude methods of nobles like Li Daozong, Xue Wanche, and Doulu Huairang.
What happened to Helian Jinzhu's family and their hatred towards the Tang people are actually very revealing.
You have strong strength, but you are unreasonable because of it. You will beat others up no matter what, and you will even kick a dog passing by. Even if you are strong and others cannot beat you, this kind of behavior is not good.
There may even be hidden dangers.
Just like the Five Hus who invaded China, although the most important trigger was the inward migration of the Hu people, and in Luliang and other places, there were more Hu people than Han people, but another important trigger was the discriminatory and oppressive policies against the Hu people during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
As a result, even the powerful officials, including officials and local officials, did not regard the Hu people as human beings, and oppressed them at every turn, and even sold them into slavery.
When the dynasty is in turmoil, they will naturally cause chaos.
Huaiyu is not the kind of person who wants to be a saint, but at least he cannot punish without teaching, nor can he blindly oppress. After all, where there is oppression, there is resistance.
Fame comes from being a teacher.
You have to be the teacher of the king, instead of deliberately oppressing or provoking.
In other words, it is wrong for you to kick a dog twice without reason, but if the dog barks at you, you can kick it twice.
It is wrong for you to beat someone up for no reason, but of course you can beat someone up if they scold you or even steal or rob you.
If the opponent shows his sword, you can even counterattack infinitely.
You must have a good reputation as a teacher, which represents justice.
Wu Huaiyu sent people to send a message to those Tibetan Husbands, asking them to register and submit to the Yanzhou Yamen's control from now on in Yanzhou, and even have to pay tribute, pay taxes, and perform military service, etc.
These represent the orthodoxy of the imperial court and are legal and reasonable behaviors.
When the Tibetan people were on the land of the imperial court, they had to obey the legal system of the imperial court, and they had to pay taxes and serve.
Otherwise it is illegal.
Wu Huaiyu has the right to punish them accordingly in accordance with the law.
There is a saying that goes well, anti-crime requires evidence, anti-terrorism only requires lists, and counter-insurgency requires only coordinates.
Wu Huaiyu pays attention to etiquette first and then attack, and he must do it step by step.
"This is too troublesome." Xue Wanche shook his head after hearing this, "They are just some bastards. They are not human beings. Why talk so much? Just do it."
Treating Fan Hu directly as a beast, he is more ruthless than Li Daozong. After all, Li Daozong just doesn't treat slaves as human beings.
In Xue Wanche's eyes, all fanhus are directly equivalent to two-legged beasts.
Although he only had a few thousand soldiers and horses in his hands, to the scattered Hu tribes, these Tang soldiers wearing iron armor and riding war horses, holding sophisticated spears, cross swords, and even Modao battle axes and crossbows were absolutely incomparable.
One is worth ten.
There are thousands of elites. I dare not say that the Turkic Yushe who swept across the Hetao set up 50,000 tents, and I dare not say that the Liang division, which has tens of thousands of troops in several states, can attack them at will, but they can attack some small and scattered miscellaneous people.
Hu, that’s really a dimensionality reduction blow.
"Mr. Wu An, don't worry. If we really want to attack these bastards, of course we can sweep them away, but the terrain here in Shuofang is difficult. To the east is Baiyu Mountain, Hengshan Mountain Valley, and countless river valleys. To the north, there are endless deserts and Gobi deserts.
It is unrealistic for us to defeat all the bastards.
We can defeat them, but it will be difficult to capture them all. Doing so will only leave them with no other choice and will only fight us to the end."
Wu Huaiyu did not want to have to bear the terrorist attacks of these bastards every day in the future.
After all, although the bastards are backward, this is the frontier, not the inland, just like the United States and the Soviet Union once occupied Afghanistan, but were stuck in the quagmire.
These backward bastards will attack you every day. They will not attack your city. They will only attack your salt ponds, attack your trade routes, even destroy your villages and fortresses, and attack and plunder your people. You will also suffer.
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Thousands of elites are powerful, but if they are broken into pieces and neither defend the city nor confront them head-on, it will be a headache.
"Then what are Duke Shouyang's plans?"
"Picture it slowly."
He distributed official documents from the Yamen of the Governor of Yanzhou to various places, asking them to accept the management of the Yamen, register, pay tribute and taxes, and serve in the military. He also asked them to nominate prestigious people such as tribal chiefs, and granted them some titles such as village chiefs.
Class title.
On the other hand, Huaiyu advocated strengthening economic ties, promoting trade with them, and purchasing their livestock, furs, herbs, etc.
Even for the slave trade, which Li Daozong and the others were most concerned about, Wu Huaiyu felt that there was no need to capture it himself. Instead, he found some influential tribes throughout Yanzhou, let them become his agents, and paid to buy from them.
Or exchange them with Datang's goods.
When the time comes, these tribes will become slave-catching warriors and take the initiative to attack other tribesmen.
By letting the barbarians fight among themselves, the Tang Dynasty could be more detached, and even be able to find a balance by then. Whoever was too powerful would win over others to suppress it.
Take it step by step, don't rush.
Today you can go to the tribe to barter, tomorrow you can exchange things for slaves, and the day after tomorrow you can also spend money to hire them to dry salt and build a city.
Put the bridle on them step by step.
You can't directly fight and kill, that will only unite all the barbarians to resist the Tang Dynasty. Let them fight on their own, and then they will all rush to seek the support of the Tang Dynasty.
Unless those blind people come directly to rob salt ponds, rob trade routes, and attack cities and towns, then they need to directly send troops to suppress them, which will also make them famous.
On one side is the iron cavalry and the long sword, on the other side is the financial inducement, let Zhuhu choose.
Anyone who dares to act differently will be swept away by thunder.
"What should we do next?" Xue Wanche asked.
"Concentrate on restoring the salt production in the salt ponds. Our state soldiers can guard and patrol while also stationing and cultivating the fields."
Although half of Yanzhou is outside the Great Wall, it is not impossible to farm here. It is also possible to grow buckwheat, oats, etc., but the yield is lower.
Nowadays, the land here is vast and sparsely populated, and much of the land is fertile farmland. Once the canals are repaired, production can be restored, soldiers can work in the fields, and some pastures can be built. At least it will be self-sufficient, and it can even store military rations for war.
As long as Yanchi resumes production, Yanzhou will soon prosper. When salt is exchanged for grain, salt is exchanged for horses, salt is exchanged for money, Yanzhou will be very wealthy.
If you have the Great Wall and passes, money, food, horses, and elite soldiers, doesn't that mean you have the initiative and are in an invincible position?
Xue Wanche was very disappointed when he heard that Wu Huaiyu wanted to focus on farming and making salt in Yanzhou.
"If this is the case, then I will go back to Lingzhou directly."
Dou Lu Huairang supported Wu Huaiyu. He had never been interested in fighting and killing. "I will stay for the time being to help restore the salt pond production and resume trade."
"It's up to you."
Anyway, Xue Wanche and everyone in Lingzhou also had a share of the benefits of trade in this salt pond.
