The dark clouds are low, and the drizzle is coming with snow particles,
The wind and snow see off the returning guests.
Soldiers and horses marched along the Lightning River,
"The Guangbian army and the disciples of Shanhou will separate here. You can return to Shanhou by the original route. I will lead the rest to the west via Bashang and return to Guangning."
Wei Siren, the envoy of the Guangbian Army, Huguahou, accepted Wu Huaiyu's arrangement. It was freezing cold, the wind and snow suddenly fell, and he needed to return as soon as possible.
"Please rest assured, Governor, Gao will first assist Wei Jun envoy to lead the troops back to the mountain, and then come to Guangning to join the Governor." Gao Wei, Sima of the Guangbian Army and Deputy Military Envoy of Youzhou Governor's Office, said, "Yeah."
Shanhou has now surrendered to the imperial court, and the people have been registered as household members. The village soldiers have also selected three thousand as government soldiers, and another thousand of them have been transferred to the Guangbian Army. Another three thousand have been selected to train for the martial arts regiment. Many frontier heroes also
All were given official positions, and many of their children were born.
The villages behind Gaowei and other mountains were actually quite satisfied, especially this time when Wu Huaiyu met with King Xi Kedu. In just one sentence, he got the Tanghe River Valley from the Xi tribe, and also pushed the border to the west bank of the Chaohe River.
Half of the Chaohe River Valley, the Chaohe River is a big river behind the mountains, the valley is wider, and there is more arable and pasture land.
Most of the newly obtained lands such as Tanghe and Chaohe will move northward, leaving behind large open spaces. Wu Huaiyu has promised that some of them will be used for government troops, frontier troops, governors of prefectures and counties, and public houses.
The remaining land, farmland, job fields, etc. were partially sold, and about one-third was used to distribute to the people behind the mountain, including naturally the powerful families in the back of the mountain.
Regardless of whether it is divided or bought, this time the wealthy people behind the mountains can benefit from it and add a lot of land and pasture for themselves, which naturally wins their strong support and appreciation.
Wu Huaiyu first showed powerful force to intimidate the Queen of Mountains, and then gave them special rewards to appease them. With the stick and carrot, the Queen of Mountains was now very respectful to the Tang Dynasty, to the Youzhou Governor's Office and Wu Huaiyu, and even said that he was very respectful.
A very close alliance was formed.
Wu Huaiyu also intended to reuse the people behind the mountains and the Tibetan people such as Mohe and Xiqi in Youzhou to check and balance the old tycoons of famous gentry clans such as the Fanyang Lu family.
Beiyan Prefecture added four new border counties: Chicheng County, Longmen County, Guangning County, and Fengning County; Tanzhou added Xinlong County, Yingzhou added Kuancheng County, Jizhou added Zunhua County, and seven new counties were added along the border.
Thirteen border markets will be established one after another to trade with the Xiqi Turks.
The two counties of Chicheng and Fengning were added to Shanhou alone. The emphasis on Shanhou was extraordinary, not to mention that Wu Huaiyu also wanted to restart Wangyunyi Road.
From Youzhou, pass through Jundu Pass, Chang'an Mountains, Diaowo Fort, Chicheng, until Dukou Fort exits the fortress.
On this post road, we also need to build a garrison fortress with a series of fortresses on one side. Not only must we restore Baiyun Fort and build Chicheng, we must also build Wangyun Fort to the north of Chicheng and restore the Guguan Monolithic Fort.
Even a civil fortress was built between the Sanggan River and the Guihe River in Huairong County to enhance the defense of Beiyanzhou City.
In addition to setting up counties and building forts and reopening post roads, the most important thing is that border markets will be opened here. Post roads are also commercial routes, and border markets are wealth.
The Red River Basin has very good iron ore resources. Wu Huaiyu has reached a preliminary agreement with Gao Yaozi and other border magnates. Wu Huaiyu organizes craftsmen to be responsible for the mining and smelting technology. The border magnates mainly provide manpower, and everyone cooperates in mining and smelting.
Iron, even making iron pots, iron plows and other iron tools,
There are excellent iron ore resources, plus border markets and trade routes, but are you still afraid that you will not make money?
Anyway, the pie that Wu Huaiyu painted for the wealthy people behind the mountain was big enough, and they were all very excited about it. He also gave Fan Yang and Lu family some scraps so that they could also share in the pie.
The area behind the mountains, which is several hundred miles away, is much larger than some states. There are now more than 10,000 households, so the potential is still huge.
In ancient times, the Jinyun clan of the Huangdi tribe established Nvqi County in Diaowozhai during the Han Dynasty. To the north of it, it belonged to the land of Doubi County to create Yang. After Yan defeated Donghu in the Warring States Period, they built the Great Wall of Yan, which started from the west to create Yang and to the east.
To Xiangping.
Later, the Han Dynasty abandoned the land nine hundred miles north of Zaoyang and abandoned the area beyond the Great Wall.
During the Jin Dynasty, this was Xialuo County of Guangning County. The Great Wall was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty from Chicheng to Wuyuan in the west, covering more than 2,000 miles from east to west. Yuyi Town, one of the six border towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty, was located south of Dushi
The Great Wall of China.
During the Wude period, the Tang army basically only controlled the northern Yanzhou area within Jundu Pass and outside Jundu Pass. It was only in the last years of Wude that it was recovered, and it basically only controlled one Huairong city.
Now that Wu Huaiyu has arrived, he will certainly not be satisfied with just restoring the old land of Beiyanzhou and bringing several basins under his control.
We need to control the mountains behind us, let alone the Huai'an area in Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua.
In this area now, Sogdian barbarians live together and develop self-government.
These business peoples who came all the way along the Silk Road were eloquent and had great business acumen. They even maintained their own traditions through Zoroastrianism.
Of course, there are also some Sogdian Hus, who are called Turks. After Tumen Khan established the Turkic Khanate, a large number of Sogdian Hus poured into the Turkic territory. They gradually controlled the trade and diplomacy of the Turkic Khanate, and even influenced and transformed the Turkic culture.
, invaded the center of Turkic power, and sent many Sogdian caravans to Persia, Sassanid and Eastern Rome on behalf of the Turkic Khanate.
Even the Turkic Khanate used the Sogdian script for a time. Whether it was the beginning or the present, Jieli trusted Sogdian Hu very much, and there were a large number of Sogdian Hus in his Khan's court.
Even the veteran Ashina Simo was born to a Sogdian woman with a Sogdian appearance.
Nowadays, in the Eastern Turks ruled by Jieli, there is a special Hu tribe, which are all tribes composed of Sogdians.
However, while the Sogdians influenced the Turks, they were also influenced by the Turks. Many Turkic Sogdian barbarians were also Turkicized, just like Hispanics.
They have lived with the Turks for a long time, settled down, and accepted the Turks' way of life, but they still have the talent for business. Many Sogdian Hu tribes mainly settle and live in farming and nomadic areas, such as the Hexi Corridor and the Hetao.
On the plains, there are places like Daibei, Youyan, and even Yingzhou,
They chose to settle in these intersecting areas of agriculture and animal husbandry. This was also a speculative choice of the Sogdian Hu people who were good at business. They even chose these locations for their geographical convenience, which made it convenient to buy and sell things, circulate goods from the Central Plains and grasslands, and even
It is also beyond the reach of all parties who are interested in these agricultural interlaced areas.
Many of the Sogdian barbarians in the Yanghe River Basin to the west of Yanbei Prefecture are hybrid barbarians, that is, Sogdians, Turks, and even Han, Xi and other intermarriages.
When Wu Huaiyu returned to Youzhou this time, he deliberately did not take the original route, but detoured to Zhangjiakou, which was his newly established Guangning County, in order to collect these Sogdian Hu, and even hybrid Hu, who had begun to become Turkic.
Li Bai said that Huma Ke from Youzhou has green eyes and a tiger-skin crown. He smiles and flicks two arrows. Ten thousand people cannot attack him. He bends his bow like a moon and makes white geese fall into the clouds.
Gao Shi said that the young men of Yingzhou were all over the wilderness, hunting under the city with foxes and velvet covered with fur, and they would not be intoxicated even after a thousand minutes of wine, and Hu'er could ride a horse at the age of ten.
Historically, these Sogdian barbarians continued to migrate inland and grew stronger during the Tang Dynasty. Finally, a miscellaneous barbarian rebel general like An Lushan emerged and almost overthrew the Tang Dynasty.
The woman immediately smiled, her face was like a jade plate. She turned around and shot birds and beasts. She was drunk with flowers and the moon and carved a saddle. With four rays of light on her head, she fought like a swarm of bees.
Compared with those Sogdians who moved to the interior of the Central Plains such as Chang'an and Luoyang, most of them respect tradition more and always maintain their belief in Zoroastrianism. They even insist on intermarriage within the Sogdians and maintain Sogdian Hu clothing.
The plowing cattle cook wild camels, and the rivers are filled with fine wine and gold. The Sogdians are born to pursue profit, and are accustomed to being at home all over the world.
It is said that their ancestors, the nine surnamed Zhaowu, originally lived in Hexi, and then moved all the way to the rivers in the Western Regions. Later, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they began to move eastward in large numbers, along the Silk Road, from the Hexi Corridor to Luoyang, Chang'an, to the Saishang Grassland, and to the border of the Great Wall.
Their presence can be seen everywhere in countless Sogdian settlements.
These people are somewhat brave like Vikings, but they mainly open roads for trade.
However, no matter where they go, these people always regard themselves as Sogdians, which is what Wu Huaiyu dislikes the most.
If he could integrate into the Chinese people like the Xianbei people, he would actually welcome these people. Unfortunately, the Anshi Rebellion proved that these people will always be barbarians.
The most terrifying thing about the Sogdians is not that they are good at business or dancing, but that they always maintain their own tribal organization no matter where they go. They are a relatively closed group and maintain a common belief.
"The governor plans to take action against Sogdiana?" Lu Chengye asked.
"These Sogdian barbarians living within the Great Wall should be our subjects of the Tang Dynasty. However, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although they have paid tribute to the government, they have not been admitted to the household department. These people have their own leader Sabao and their own Zoroastrian priests.
Compared with the previous villages at the back of the mountain, they are the real source of worry."
"It's just a group of businessmen who like to trade. With them here, it's really convenient for each other to have what they need. Isn't it that serious?" Lu Chengye felt that Wu Huaiyu was making a fuss out of a molehill.
What kind of trouble can a group of Sogdian beards stir up?
He felt that Sogdian Hu chose to settle in these places because they thought it would be more convenient for trade. Moreover, since the Sui Dynasty, this place had become a frontier agricultural and pastoral area, so he could survive in the cracks.
"Lu Chengjun should be familiar with these Sogdian Hu, right?"
"It's not really familiar, but I've had some contact with him."
"Then Lao Lu joins the army and takes the first step, enters the Great Wall and goes to Yanshui to meet the Sogdian Hus and talk to their Sabao first."
Yanghe is now called Yuyanshui, also known as Xiushui.
It is recorded in the commentary of Li Daoyuan's Shui Jing of the Northern Wei Dynasty that the Yanshui River goes out to the west of Rouxuan Town outside the Great Wall, and flows through the hill south of Changchuan City in the southeast and is like the old city of the county, that is, Xiushui.
There are three tributaries in the upper reaches of the Yanshui River, which converge near Zhangjiakou. They merge into the Sanggan River at Zhuolu via Xuanhua and into the Yongding River at Youzhou.
This river is quite long. Although the river is neither wide nor deep, it can be quite fast at times. It is prone to flooding during heavy rains in summer.
The upstream tributary is nearly 300 miles long to the east of Yanshui, and the main stream is more than 200 miles long, with a total length of more than 500 miles. The Yanshui basin is also a relatively good basin, especially the main stream and the eastern Yanshui basin.
The total length is more than 500 miles, which is an excellent basin and plain.
At the same time, passing through the Yanshui River Valley in the east is also an important passage leading directly to Hedong and Beiyunzhou, that is, Datong. It is as important as the Sanggan River Valley in the south leading directly to Yunshuo.
The Sogdians chose to settle in the Yanshui river basin, and they indeed chose a good place. Through Yuyanshui and its tributaries, one can enter Youzhou in the east, go out beyond the Great Wall in the north, and can also connect to Yunshuo, Taiyuan, and Feihuxing.
It is also more convenient to travel from Yizhou to Dingzhou.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhangjiakou became one of the northern trade centers, a commodity distribution center and a transportation hub. Although Youzhou today is still just a border governor's house and has not become a capital, Zhangjiakou's location is not that important yet.
But the Sogdians were undoubtedly keenly aware of the commercial value of this place and occupied it first.
"What does the governor want me to talk to them about?" Lu Chengye asked.
This Lu Wulang has never stopped joining the army since he was recruited by Wu Huaiyu. Wu Huaiyu likes to use him very much.
"First of all, it is natural to organize households and bring together the people. Then, private armed groups are not allowed. Furthermore, trade, business, and shops must be taxed. In the Yanshui Basin, I have newly established Yongxing (Zhuoxian) and Wende (Xuanhua).
, Huai'an, Guangning (Zhangjiakou) four counties, each set up a township, Sogdian Hu will be under the jurisdiction of the imperial government from now on."
The implication is that there is no right of autonomy, especially no extraterritoriality.
"Of course, I also respect the traditions of the Sogdians. The Zoroastrianism they believe in and the Hu temples they built can be preserved as long as they accept the management and supervision of the imperial court."
