He gathered the remaining forces of Wang Shichong with the Shangdang as the center. Half a month later, he went north and fought a decisive battle with the main force of 180,000 Eastern Turks at the foot of Yuci City.
In the field battle, Ye Chen personally killed the great Turkic master Wu Zun Bixuan, penetrated the central Turkic army, cut off an arm of the Eastern Turkic Khan Shibi, and defeated the Eastern Turkic army. He pursued the victory all the way and won eighteen battles in a row, finally at Yanmen Pass.
He caught up at the entrance. He blocked the retreat of the Turkic army alone at the pass. Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded him and annihilated all the Turkic coalition forces at Yanmen Pass. He beheaded the Eastern Turkic Khan in formation, which shocked the world.
On the other side of the battlefield, Zhang Ling led an army of 250,000 to the north, divided into two groups, and an army of 50,000 marched westward to garrison Dashan Pass to block Tuyuhun and other Western Region coalition forces.
The other unit went north, advancing slowly and steadily, and launched an offensive and defensive battle with the Eastern Turks coalition forces near Zheshu City. Ye Chen completely wiped out the Eastern Turks and then detoured to the Hetao area. Both sides fought for half a month, with each winning or losing.
When he led 30,000 troops across the Yellow River from Mengmendu, crossed the Wuding River, and appeared from behind the Western Turks, the Western Turks were shocked. Zhang Ling took the opportunity to launch an attack. The two armies attacked and defeated the Western Turk coalition.
What followed was a pursuit that lasted until Yumen Pass captured Dunhuang City. More than half of the Western Turks' more than 200,000 troops were killed or wounded, and the remaining defeated troops, less than 70,000, escaped from Yumen Pass and dispersed into the vast desert.
Then Ye Chen sent troops to Dunhuang as the center to encircle and suppress all the foreign barbarians within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. With the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions had been freed from Han rule for hundreds of years. Nowadays, barbarians are everywhere, and the Han people are living
It was difficult. Now that he had regained this place, he must clear out the Hu people, especially those rebellious Hu people, and exterminate them all.
He has already planned to establish a large administrative area in Dunhuang. It will not be a protective palace like the Han Dynasty, but will rebuild Liangzhou and put the Western Region under the direct rule of Dakun, using this as the central power to radiate.
Throughout the Western Regions, some Han people slowly migrated over and slowly assimilated the local Hu people.
He probably won't have time to see this. This is just a plan. It's hard to say when it will be realized. If future generations don't work hard, it may never be realized.
Leaving 50,000 troops to guard Dunhuang, Ye Chen led the remaining troops back to Beijing. By the time they arrived in Luoyang, Xu Shiji had completely eliminated Wang Shichong's forces, and Dou Jiande formally surrendered. At this point, the entire north of the Yangtze River was under his rule, leaving only those in the south of the Yangtze River.
The Yuwen clan, the Song clan, and Li Yuan who fled to Chengdu in the middle of Shu were not caught last time when they sent people to hunt them down.
But not long after, something unexpected happened to him. The leader of the Song Dynasty, Song Que, the Sky Sword, sent his brother Song Zhi, the Earth Sword, as an envoy to Luoyang. He was willing to join the Kun Dynasty and asked to marry his second daughter, Song Yuzhi.
The palace is a noble concubine.
Ye Chen simply agreed. Not to mention that a beautiful woman came to his door, the Song clan surrendered, which meant that the world had been unified.
Although the remaining Yuwen Clan is quite powerful, it is no longer on the same level as Dakun. Not to mention Li Yuan who is in Shuzhong, the threat is even smaller. Some other small forces are afraid that they will turn away as soon as the army arrives.
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In mid-June of the year of Dakun Shenwu, General Dugu Zhan led an army of 300,000 people southwards and attacked Jinling City. All the important figures of the Dugu Clan died in the battle, and the Yuwen Clan was destroyed.
In late June of the year Dakun Shenwu, Song Shidao led an army of 100,000 Song clans up the Yangtze River, and with an army of 70,000 led by Wang Xuan entered Shu from Jianmen Pass, they attacked Chengdu and completely destroyed Li Yuan's forces.
After the city was broken, Wang Xuan captured Li Xiuning, Li Yuan's daughter, and sent her to Luoyang to present to the emperor. After reading it, Ye Chen commented on her as "a peerless beauty" and sentenced her to death!
Although he likes beauties, he is not really promiscuous. He can still distinguish between beauties he can and cannot have. Li Yuan's family all died in his hands. If he wants to put Li Xiuning into the harem, he will probably be in trouble in the future.
In fact, if it weren't for the mission, he would have thought of killing Fan Qinghui directly. Even now, he is on guard against her. Unlike Wanwan, who can hold power, even Dugu Feng can lead an army. She had an army with her during the attack on Jinling.
When she went to war, she, Fan Qinghui, could not have any power and could only stay in the harem and be a canary.
With Cihang Jingzhai as an excuse, she had no choice but to give in.
After unifying the world, Ye Chen began to implement his own plan and began to drastically weaken the powerful families in various places. He would suppress those who should be suppressed, even the Dugu clan and the Song clan. He was no exception.
Of course, the situation of these two families was special. Not only for the sake of their support, but also for the sake of Dugu Feng and Song Yuzhi, he couldn't go too far.
For these two families, first of all, the military power must be taken away. There is no need to discuss this. Then the land must be re-measured. They will not take away all the land like other big families, but the land that has been secretly hidden must be spit out. The two families are just talking openly.
There are more than 100,000 acres of private land in the country, and there are probably only a lot more private fields that have not been registered. All of these private fields must be handed over.
Ye Chen has done what Yang Jian and Yang Guang have done. Unfortunately, they do not have enough strength to suppress the big landowners and nobles. But he is different. Whenever the founding king of a dynasty is the most authoritative, he is even more powerful and has unrivaled force in the world.
, and after a change of dynasties, the most powerful and ambitious clans have been eliminated, and the remaining ones have been greatly damaged and can no longer compete with him. Only then can this land policy be slowly implemented.
He did not completely copy future generations, nor could he copy future generations. He just gave ordinary civilians more opportunities and made their lives better.
In this era, the requirements of civilians are really very low. As long as they can survive, no one will be full to support themselves and rebel. When they rebel, they will not be able to survive.
In addition to land reform, Ye Chen's second major policy is the problem of official corruption. This is more difficult than the previous one and difficult to cure.
Ye Chen was not a god and could not think of a radical cure. He could only find a way to suppress it.
He thought of a simple way, which is to decentralize power and establish a complete supervision mechanism. For example, in a county, the county magistrate is in charge of the administrative work of a county, but no longer has the power to trial cases. The investigation and trial of cases will be handed over to the county magistrate.
The Ministry of Justice directly manages the county soldiers and the militias in various townships and towns are managed by the county lieutenant, who is directly managed by the Ministry of War. These three official positions are the county magistrate and the county captain, and the county magistrate is half a level higher, but they have no command jurisdiction and are independent of each other.
In addition, each level of locality also has a supervisory censor to supervise each place. The supervisory censor is independent of the local area. No one has the right to command and is only responsible to the emperor.
In order to better strengthen the centralized rule, Ye Chen activated the Jinyiwei department. Its specifications were similar to those of the Ming Dynasty. It was divided into four major towns and divisions: southeast, southeast, and northwest. They had different powers and powers, including monitoring, arresting, interrogating, collecting military information, and instigating rebellion against the enemy.
Generals and other functions. The leader is still called the Jinyiwei Commander, who is served by a female official close to the emperor in the palace and is directly responsible to the emperor.