In the fifth year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty, on February 18th, 940 AD, Zhang Zhao's 60,000-strong army besieged Xiazhou City for more than five months.
Under the continuous blows, especially when the imperial army that the disaster-defeating army was expecting never appeared, the soldiers and civilians of Xiazhou's inner west city finally couldn't bear it any longer.
At nine o'clock in the morning on February 18th, Li Yiyin, the military commander of the Dingnan Army, killed sixteen members of his family and set themselves on fire.
Of course, self-immolation was only half the success, because the heads of him and his four sons were cut off by Tuoba Chongbin, Xifeng Xili and others and placed on plates.
Because these people are afraid that if they die without any evidence, they will be held accountable by Zhang Zhao.
After Zhang Zhao entered the city, the rebel army behaved in a very disciplined manner. They did not plunder, let alone kill anyone indiscriminately, and the people's hearts were settled.
On the second day, Zhang Zhaosuo seized more than 17,000 relatives of the Li family in the Xia tribe and confiscated them all as slaves, but allowed them to pay to redeem themselves.
Among the more than 17,000 people, more than 3,000 people used all their property to redeem their families, relatives and friends, and returned to the rebel army and received property and treasures worth more than 300,000 guan.
In addition, the property belonging to the Li family of Dingnan Army was confiscated and more than 200,000 yuan was obtained.
The remaining more than 14,000 Pingxia men and women who cannot afford the money will be assigned to meritorious ministers and become low-status slaves.
After confiscating the property and treasures, Zhang Zhao confiscated all the Pingxia tribe's property again, acquiring more than 800,000 acres of land, more than 400 camels, more than 3,000 cattle, 27,000 mules and horses, and more than 60 sheep.
Ten thousand, 70,000 stones of food, hundreds of sets of armor, more than 100,000 arrows, countless swords, spears and bows.
In addition, including the occupied Yanzhou and the four major salt ponds snatched from the Li family, including Baiyanchi, Qingyanchi, Wuchi, and Huamachi, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of salt were obtained.
It can also produce more than 100,000 catties per year, and the salt shortage situation in Longyou, Hexi Province was immediately improved.
As expected, war and plunder are the quickest ways to earn money. After swallowing up the trouble-making army, Zhang Zhao's six-month campaign was immediately rewarded.
On February 25, Zhang Zhao summoned all party departments to gather in Xiazhou City.
Qingzhou Dangxiang Li Yansi, Yuanzhou Dangxiang Li Zhongchao, Weizhou Dangxiang Zhu Qiang leader Ye Lifeng, Huizhou Dangxiang Zhu Qiang tribe.
In the four prefectures of Yinxia and Yousui, there are ten surnames: Xifeng, Feiting, Quli, Fangdang, Miqin, Luo Li, Wu Yi, Yue Yi, Gui Ren, Baosi, Baoxiang, etc.
Seventeen parts.
In addition, dozens of people including Tuoba Yanchao, the leader of the Tuoba tribe, the largest party in Lingzhou, all arrived in Xiazhou.
As soon as everyone arrived, Zhang Zhao first ordered the soldiers from Hanshandu to wear a thousand sets of cloth-covered iron armor and hold Mo swords to show that the rebel army's infantry was invincible.
Later, Li Ruotai's 800 armored cavalry and Bai Congxin's 1,000 light-armored cavalry marched around the field, each holding a horse, a divine arm and a bow, etc., showing the power of the Guiyi cavalry.
Thirty-seven tribes with eleven surnames in various states were frightened out of their wits.
Dozens of leaders knelt down in front of Zhang Zhao, trembling and not daring to move. Not only did they not dare to move, they did not even dare to raise their heads.
After these party leaders were really frightened, Zhang Zhao asked them to stand up and offer seats to them.
But before he could sit still, Zhang Dawang's bad water came out again, and he coughed heavily.
"Chiefs, do you know who you want to thank for being able to sit here today? Whose kindness do you owe it to?"
Some spiritually minded people immediately flattered us loudly, "We are able to gather together today only because of the kindness of the king and the king's kindness and love, which saved us from the suffering of the sword."
"Humph!" Zhang Zhao sneered.
The leaders of all the Dangxiang Qiang present were stunned, their hearts pounding. They wondered what this great king who had just destroyed the Li family of the Pingxia tribe was going to do?
"A good person is bullied by others, and a good person is bullied by others. When you say this, you want to put a label of kindness on someone and bully someone one by one, right?"
Everyone is speechless. What did you say? It was obviously said by a few sycophants, okay?
Still bullying you? We would be thankful if you, King Zhang, didn’t kill us all.
However, even though they were complaining like this in their hearts, no one dared to say it. When everyone saw Zhang Zhao's unkind expression, even though they had just sat down, they left the table and quickly knelt down.
"It seems that you really don't know who to thank? Everyone has forgotten their purpose!"
Zhang Zhao seemed to be getting angrier as he talked, and suddenly he pointed at Li Zhongchao, leader of the Yuanzhou party, and asked.
"Li Zhongchao, tell me, where did your Yuanzhou gang Xiang live? How did you get to Yuanzhou?"
Li Zhongchao was the first person to join Zhang Zhao, and his grandson Li Xiaojie also joined Zhang Zhao's volunteer army.
Of course I knew what Zhang Zhao meant, so I walked a few steps out of the queue on my knees, then put my head on the ground and answered loudly.
"My family originally lived in the west of Shanzhou. Tubo oppressed us very hard. In the first year of Zetian's reign (692), with the grace of Zetian's great sage and queen, we moved to live near Yuanzhou. Only then were we able to escape from the clutches of Tubo and multiply.
Living and breathing to this day.”
"Ye Lifeng, when did your family move to Weizhou?" Zhang Zhao pointed at Ye Lifeng, the leader of the Qiang tribe in Weizhou.
"The Chen family originally lived on the high mountains of Guiju (Songpan) and were oppressed by Tubo Dongdai. Fortunately, with the grace of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, they moved to Gyeongju in the first year of Yonglong (680), and later moved to Weiju, northwest of Gyeongju.
live."
Ye Lifeng, who had long been controlled by the Guiyi Army, also quickly stepped forward to answer. Now everyone understood a little bit what Zhang Zhao meant by accepting someone's grace.
These party members originally lived in the snow-capped mountains of the Qingtang Plateau. The rising Tubo Empire regarded them as slaves. It was indeed thanks to the kindness of the Tang Dynasty that they were able to escape control and go to the rich lands of the Central Plains to thrive.
"Li Yansi, when did your Dongshan Department Party Xiang arrive in Qingzhou? Do you know whose grace it is?" Zhang Zhao continued to ask Li Yansi, a party member in Qingzhou.
Li Yansi's father, Li Yuanzai, was forced by Yin Zhuzhu to resist the distress troops in Qingzhou. After he was accused of selling military supplies, he was fired from all official positions and was arranged by Zhang Zhao to live in Liangzhou for retirement.
Gyeongju Danghang is currently owned by Li Yansi and his younger brother Li Yanli, each of whom controls one.
“My ancestors lived by the West Sea (Qinghai), and it was also the first year of Emperor Yonglong’s reign that he moved inland.
In the second year of Guangde (764) of the Great Dynasty, the Uyghur people rebelled against their kindness, and the ancestor Tuoba Qimei came to the court to pay homage to the emperor in the temple. He was able to move to the sacred land of Qingzhou, and it was first called the Dongshan Division."
"It seems that you still know, and you also know why you are and whose kindness you have inherited, so that you can come to Shuofang's blessed land to thrive.
I often hear that some people say that this place is the ancestral land of the Dangxiang people, hum!"
Zhang Zhao snorted coldly and slammed the table in front of him, "Your ancestral land is on the snowy mountains of the Qingtang Plateau. If it weren't for the kindness of His Majesty, you would still be treated as slaves by the Tubo people.
Hard work on the snowy mountains.
From now on, if someone dares to say that Shuofang and Guannai Road are their ancestral land, then he will move his entire family to the Qingtang Plateau where snow falls in June and let them return to their ancestral land.
How do you like it?"
When the leaders of the party heard this, they immediately fell silent. It was said that it was snowing in June on the Qingtang Plateau at this time. That was not an exaggeration at all, but a description of the reality. If they moved back now, it would be better to die.
"We don't dare! Remember your Majesty's teachings!" The frightened people quickly expressed their stance.
Zhang Zhao nodded with satisfaction, and then pointed to Li Yimin, who was kneeling at the front.
"My favorite person is someone who knows how to repay kindness and never forgets his roots. Li Yimin, come forward!"
This younger brother of Li Yiyin, who was forced to cut off his rear after being escorted by Li Yiyin's Hengshan Bubazi, was the first member of the Li family of the disaster-defeating army to seek refuge with Zhang Zhao.
Although he failed to recruit Yinzhou to surrender, he finally succeeded in recruiting Li Yijun of Youzhou and the Dangxiang tribes of Dijinze and Woyebo on behalf of Zhang Zhao.
"Although brothers Li Yichao and Li Yiyin had evil intentions, they not only refused to move the town, but also occupied Yanzhou and more than ten salt ponds owned by the imperial court.
But back then, your ancestor Tuoba Sigong, Tuoba Sizhong brother, was loyal to the country and made great achievements.
Although a certain person sent a large army to kill the disobedient Li Yiyin, he would not hold everyone accountable.
Today I will give you, Li Yimin, 4,000 members of the Pingxia tribe, and appoint you as the governor of Yanzhou and the supervisor of Huamachi, so as to continue the incense of brothers Tuoba Sigong and Tuoba Sizhong."
Zhang Zhao's move was very clever, as it showed that he did not attack Xiazhou to seize the wealth of the Dingnan Army, but to punish the unruly ministers for the imperial court.
Li Yimin and other three thousand people who had been beaten into slaves were suddenly released at this time. One can imagine their gratitude.
Since Li Yimin took refuge, he has been very respectful. Giving him some benefits and serving as the governor of Yanzhou, and then being mainly responsible for the production of green salt in Huamachi, is enough reward and shows his magnanimity.
Sure enough, when he heard that Zhang Zhao released his people and appointed him as the governor of Yanzhou and the supervisor of Huamachi, Li Yimin knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
"Your Majesty, Li Yimin, thanks you for your kindness. From now on, I will always be your servant."
Well, Zhang Zhao's meaning is very obvious. He has the intention of being independent and wants all the ministries and parties to pay their allegiance immediately!
Otherwise, as the King of Han in Hexi and the Ambassador of Longyou in Hexi, why should he deal with Lingwu and the tribes on the territory of the two armies?
Immediately, the leaders of the thirty-seven tribes of the eleven surnames, who were blessed in their hearts, expressed their intention to become King Zhang's servants forever.
The time has come! Guo Tiance, who was standing behind King Zhang, glanced at Weizhou party leader Ye Lifeng.
The leader of the Weizhou Party Xiang Zhuqiang, who was frightened by the fierce tactics of the Guiyi Army, suddenly shouted.
"We are willing to serve as your Majesty's servants, but I also have something to ask for!"
"Everyone, please stand up!" Zhang Zhao smiled kindly, and first asked the party leaders of the eleven and thirty-seven tribes on the ground to stand up, and then said to Ye Lifeng: "Chief Ye Li, please speak!"
"We have been greatly favored by the Tang Dynasty. We have been sons of the Tang Dynasty for generations, and now we have been favored by the great king. In this case, why should we use surnames such as Yeli and Xifeng?
I dare to thank the king for giving me the Han family surname, so that Dangxiang and the Han people will be one and there will be no distinction between them!"
"Okay!" Zhang Zhao shouted, regardless of whether others agreed or not, he immediately decided to give him a surname.
"The loyalty of the leader Yeli is commendable, so he gave Yeli the surname Zhang, appointed Zhang Feng as the governor of Weizhou, and gave him a hundred cattle, two thousand sheep, fifty kilograms of sugar, and two hundred bricks of tea."
Tu Qiongdeng agreed, but the leaders of the other tribes did not object. They just changed their surnames to Han. This is a good thing!
Therefore, Zhang Zhao immediately gave Yeli, Lingzhou Tuoba tribe, Youzhou Baoli, Baoxiang and other surnames Zhang.
Change Luo Li to Luo, Xifeng to Feng, Mi Qin to Mi, Fei Ting to Fei, Fangdang to Fang, Wu Yi to Wu, and Yue Yi to Le.
The rest of the tribes whose surname was Li remained unchanged, and the tribe with Zuo Ren's hair was ordered to change immediately.
Finally, more than 50,000 members of the Li family of the Pingxia tribe, the Zhang family of Baoli, and the Fei family of Feiting were relocated to Lanzhou and Hezhou to balance the local power.
When they moved to Wu, they moved their tribes with the surname Wu, and from the Yue tribe, they moved more than 20,000 people with the surname Yue to Tao and Min prefectures, restricting the local Tubo tribes.
The vacated land is not intended to receive the people of Yunzhou. The people of Yunzhou will be resettled on the territory of the Li family of the disaster-defeating army obtained by Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao decided to move more than 70,000 people and spent a lot of money and manpower. In fact, the purpose was to seal the Mu Us Sandy Land where Dijinze was located for grazing, and to send special tribes to plant trees.
Because a major source of sediment in the Yellow River is the Mu Us Sandy Land.
Due to the excessive nomadic life of the Dangxiang tribes, serious desertification has occurred here. Hundreds of millions of tons of sediment enter the Yellow River from here every year.
If we don’t govern it now, it will be too late by the time of Zhenzong and Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty.
At that time, the Yellow River had already become an above-ground river in Kaifeng and other sections, and the cost of treatment would be unimaginable. In fact, the problem is huge now, but it is still too late.
Moreover, Zhang Zhao is not only preparing to control Mu Us. In the future, Fengzhou, Fuzhou, and Shengzhou, which have a large amount of sediment entering the Yellow River, will all carry out control in order to restore the ecology of northern Shaanxi and the Hetao area.
After changing the surname, the intimidation was over, the big stick was beaten, and then it was sweet date time.
Zhang Zhao gave a large amount of sugar, tea, treasures, and other valuables, and granted officials to the leaders of various ministries, and finally took them with him to worship the Heavenly Alliance Oath.
And a large stone tablet more than six meters high was erected by the Wuding River outside the east city of Xiazhou, and the contents of the oath were engraved on it.
Thirty-seven tribes of 11 Qiang surnames in Dangxiang swore together to never rebel against the Tang Dynasty. From then on, they considered themselves Han people and guarded the northwest of the dynasty together!
