After more than a year of self-cultivation, the Qiang people have also recovered some of their vitality.
With Zhang Yu and Chen Shan beside Niu Shisan, and Xu Rong in charge of the Hetao, Wang Ding now has a very good understanding of the situation of the Qiang people.
Xu Rong is counting how many tribes the Qiang people have now and how many people each tribe has.
It can be said that Wang Ding now understands them even better than the Qiang people.
In the past, there were many Qiang tribal leaders who had no one to take care of other Qiang tribes. If they knew the population of their own tribe, they were already considered very caring leaders.
Last year, Wang Ding swept away more than three bowls of Qiang warriors. Today, the Qiang people in the Hetao area still have a population of 150,000, but there are less than 20,000 young and middle-aged men.
The others are old, weak, women and children.
Even the Niuli tribe, the most powerful tribe now, only has more than 8,000 people.
You can count the tribes with a population of thousands on one hand.
More than 90% of them are small tribes, with a population of only a few hundred people.
It’s not even as large as the population of a village in Dahan.
Some of the defeated tribes were dispersed, while others fled deep into the grassland.
Not all Qiang tribes are willing to bow to the Han.
Some drifted away, while others went to seek refuge with the Huns.
Wang Ding did not insist on exterminating the Qiang people.
This time, he just wanted to recruit five thousand Qiang warriors to fight for him.
The Qiang people still have to integrate into the Han people and get used to the life of the Han people.
Even though Xu Rong was stationed in Hetao, the Han's control over Hetao was still too weak.
After all, there is the prairie to the north. If the Qiang people really want to leave and plunge into the grassland, Wang Ding will not be able to do anything to them.
For more than a year, Wang Ding did not particularly exploit the Qiang people.
Xu Rong only monitored the Qiang people to prevent the Qiang tribe from growing and becoming difficult to control.
In fact, preferential treatment is given to those small tribes. Over the past year or so, the lives of the small Qiang tribes have been better than before.
In the past, even if they were not controlled by the big men, they were oppressed by the big tribes.
Every year, many cattle and sheep must be paid tribute to the big tribes to ensure that their tribe can live in the Hetao.
The water and grass here are abundant, and even in winter, it is warmer than the prairie.
Hundreds of years ago, this was the wintering place for the Huns.
Most Qiang people do not want to migrate to other places.
Here, even in the harsh winter, Tribal Plum can save a few people from freezing to death.
For more than a year, the Qiang tribe has been living in fear under the gaze of the Han army, fearing that one day they will be captured by the Han army, their heads chopped off, and they will be cast into Jingguan.
But over the past year or so, those small tribes have also discovered that their lives are more comfortable than before.
In addition to the taxes that had to be handed over to the Han Dynasty, they did not need to pay tribute to those large tribes.
The taxes paid to the Han Dynasty were those cattle and sheep, which was the general amount they paid tribute to the large tribes in the past.
In the beginning, not many people from the small tribe participated in the battle, and they were all coerced by the large tribe.
Now that they have noticed the changes, their hatred has also transferred from the Han people to the big tribes back then.
If the Tanlang Tribe and the Rooster Tribe had not forced them to join the war, the warriors in their tribe would not have died at the hands of the Han people.
Therefore, all the faults belong to the original Greedy Wolf Tribe.
It's just that the Greedy Wolf Tribe, the Rooster Tribe, and the Wildfire Tribe... have long since disappeared.
There is no trace of these tribes in this Hetao area.
One year is not enough for the Qiang people to forget the original war, nor will they forget the Jingguan on the bank of the Yellow River.
The fear of big men is still imprinted in their bones and blood.
If they hadn't realized that their lives were better than before, and for more than a year, the Han people had not specifically targeted them. As long as they paid their taxes honestly, no one would bully them.
The remaining Qiang people may have left Hetao.
Life can still go on and be better than before, so let them choose to stay in the Loop.
Perhaps, it is the right choice to really take refuge in the big man.
Zhang Yu returned to Hetao with Wang Ding's order.
He first went to see Xu Rong.
"Congratulations to General Xu." Zhang Yu dismounted and congratulated Xu Rong immediately after seeing Xu Rong.
"Captain Zhang, what do you like about me?" Xu Rong was also very polite to Zhang Yu.
His current position is higher than Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu is Wang Ding's personal guard.
Although Xu Rong didn't say that he wanted to please Zhang Yu and Chen Shan, he definitely didn't want to offend the two of them.
Zhang Yu took out an imperial edict from his arms and said: "General Xu Rong, who protects the Qiang, is stationed in Hetao, stabilizes the situation of the Qiang people, contributes horses, cattle and sheep to the empire. Xu Rong is specially granted the title of Marquis of Baoshan Pavilion, with a settlement of 500 households."<
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"Weak minister Xu Rong, thank you for your grace." Xu Rong quickly knelt down to express his gratitude.
Zhang Yu handed the imperial edict to Xu Rong and said: "General Xu, General Chariot and Cavalry also have instructions. This time, five thousand Qiang cavalry are to be recruited among the Qiang people and sent to Chang'an."
Xu Rongdao: "Leave this matter to someone, and within half a month, five thousand Qiang cavalry will be sent outside Chang'an City."
The imperial edict was issued by Liu Xie, but Xu Rong knew very well that this Baoshan Tinghou was destined to be given to him by the king.
Otherwise, how could Liu Xie know about him?
Zhang Yu said: "I want to go back to the Niuli tribe, so I won't stay any longer."
Zhang Yu came as quickly as he left.
He and Chen Shan have spent most of their time in the Niu Li tribe for more than a year.
Their mission is to monitor Niu Shisan and prevent Niu Shisan from having other intentions.
Xu Rong controls all the Qiang tribes in the Hetao area.
Zhang Yu and Chen Shan would communicate with Xu Rong every once in a while.
Xu Rong gave Zhang Yu a fast horse.
After Zhang Yu left, Xu Rong also made the soldiers under his command move.
One by one, the soldiers rode out of the camp on war horses and headed in all directions to the west.
They were going to notify various Qiang tribes and let them prepare.
Xu Rong has the rosters of each tribe in his hand, and he can directly ask how many people from each tribe to send according to the recorded rosters.
Ensure that the Qiang warriors recruited from each tribe are evenly distributed and ensure the number of young and middle-aged warriors in each tribe.
Zhang Yu only brought Wang Ding's instructions, but Xu Rong knew the meaning behind Wang Ding's move.
The Hetao area must be stable and become the best horse farm in Dahan.
The Qiang people should not be too powerful and should be easily controlled by them.
Xu Rong guessed something, but he didn't know that Wang Ding wanted to integrate the Qiang people into the Han people.
The news that the Han Dynasty was recruiting troops among the Qiang people had been delivered to the leaders of every tribe in Hetao in just one day.
Niu Shisan didn't need Xu Rong to notify him. Zhang Yu returned to Niu Li tribe and found Niu Shisan.
As the largest Qiang tribe in Hetao today, Wang is recruiting Qiang warriors this time, and the Niu Li tribe will naturally produce the most people.
Facing Zhang Yu, Niu Shisan did not dare to say no. He could only nod his head and agree that he would cooperate with the big man.