Chapter seven hundred and eighty third old things (three)
Generally speaking, when Feng Xuan led the Yongzhou marching army to regain the Hetao Plain on the south side of Yin Mountain, Wen Bo led the Hedong (Jinzhou) marching army to regain Yunshuo Wei and other states at the northwest foot of Yanshan, and Li Xiu led the Heshuo marching army
After regaining the northern and southern foothills of Yanshan Mountain and Liaodong and other places, the conventional military operations on the northern front are almost over.
These areas have a good agricultural foundation. Hu and Han people have lived together for thousands of years. Not only have a large number of Han people lived and multiplied in these places, but the barbarians have also been better integrated into the Central Plains civilization and considered themselves Han people. It was only after the end of the previous dynasty that the Central Plains people came to
Separate the territory and go out.
After sending troops to recover these areas, it will not be too difficult to establish an effective ruling order by using both suppressive and pacifying strategies. With a little more effort, it can be completely integrated into the territory of Daliang.
However, apart from these areas, Mobei in the north, Hexi in the west, Anxi, Tubo and other places are all vast deserts, oases, grasslands or cold plateaus.
, Tubo and other forces are mainly nomadic in pursuit of water and grass. They live in no fixed place and can advance and retreat freely. How to launch military operations in Mobei, Hexi, Anxi, Tubo and other regions in the future to expand the territory of the Liang Empire?
Going to these areas and restoring the territory as it was when the previous dynasty was in its heyday is a huge headache for everyone.
Of course, we must first solve the problem of Mobei and the remnant Mongol tribe. To solve this problem, we still place our best hope on the nobles who fled north.
Instead of trying to win over and appease the nobles who fled north, we directly sent a large army deep into the desert to conduct conquests and exterminations. Even if we could overcome various difficulties and achieve some military victories, the best result would probably be to force the nobles who fled north and the remaining Mongol tribes to flee.
Let's escape from Mobei together and migrate to the west and the broader bitter cold land in the north.
And even if the remnants of the Mongol tribe and the northern fleeing tribes are expelled from Mobei, many tribes on the Mobei grassland are like weeds on the spring wilderness, they grow again after being cut, and they come and go like the wind, unruly and unruly.
How to establish effective governance in these bitter and cold places in the future and make them truly the territory of Daliang?
Although it is difficult, the General Staff Office has continuously sent scouts to Mobei in the past few years to collect intelligence. Kong Xirong and the others' interrogation of Wang Jingrong and other captured generals in southern Shanxi some time ago also further refined the intelligence on Mobei.
At the end of the previous dynasty, in order to avoid the attack and persecution of Emperor Gaozu of Daliang, Xiao Yiqing led the Guanshan and Heluo tribesmen to flee north to join the Mongols. Initially, they helped the Mongols to establish divisions and camps in Hanzhou in Mobei.
The development of farming, smelting, casting and other industries allowed the Mongol cavalry, who were already brave and good at fighting, to obtain a stable supply of food, armor, ordnance, etc., and their combat effectiveness was greatly improved. It was also on this basis that the Mongol cavalry first obtained a stable supply of food, armor, ordnance.
He captured Yanyun and other states, then conquered various tribes in Liaodong, and his territory was once as vast as thousands of miles.
After the southern invasion, Wusu Dashi and Xiao Yiqing pushed the Mongol people to move south. Since the season has entered the cold period in the past 20 to 30 years, Mobei has become colder and colder. Countless people and animals freeze to death every year. The Mongol people are also eager to move south.
The first batch of Mongol people who moved south were mainly the Thirteen Wings tribe under the jurisdiction of Nanyuan, while the gentry who fled north mainly stayed in Mobei.
Although the children and family members of the northern gentry who initially fled to Mobei and attached themselves to the Mongols, experienced tragic casualties during the escape, and the number of survivors in the end was less than 10,000, but over the past thirty years,
In the past, through recruiting people from Yanyun and Liaodong and intermarrying with tribes in Mobei under the promotion of Wusu Dashi, the population has multiplied and grown to more than 40,000 people.
Compared with the more than 500,000 tribesmen of the directly governed northern Mongolian tribes, the total number of men, women, and children who fled to the north was only over 40,000, which seemed a bit small.
However, these more than 40,000 people built a city and lived in it. They still wore Han clothes and were not Huhua. And because of Xiao Yiqing's contribution, their organizational power and internal cohesion were extremely strong.
If they can accept the recruitment and join Daliang, they will be like two nails, firmly rooted in the two prefectures of divisions and camps at the core of Mobei, and will continue to reproduce their descendants in Mobei, thus completely turning Mobei into a
A land of Han Chinese invaders.
With the help of the nobles fleeing north and sending a large army to the north, the supply of bulk materials such as food will become relatively simple. It even only needs to send 20,000 to 30,000 elite cavalry and a certain size of artillery troops to go north, and the desert can be solved relatively easily.
Hidden dangers in the north.
Without the help of the nobles who fled north, it will be much more difficult to solve the problem in Mobei. It may even be difficult to solve this problem within three to five years.
As long as Mobei is not a problem and is completely incorporated into the territory of Daliang, it will lay a solid foundation for the subsequent inclusion of the Western Region into the territory of Daliang.
In the main hall of Liuyunguan, Han Qian, Wang Jun, and Zhao Ting'er were sitting on the floor. Wang Jingrong, Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan, and Yao Xishui were also invited to sit behind the long desk in front and speak; Yun Puzi, Li Zhigao, Han Daoming, Tian Cheng, and others were seated separately.
Both sides.
Han Qian stated his intention slowly and unabashedly:
“When the former dynasty was in its heyday, it extended to Luofu Prefecture in the south, Xuanque Prefecture in the north, Anxi in the west, and Liaodong in the east, with a territory of more than 50 million square miles. However, in the middle period, Mobei and the Western Regions fell to the hands of powerful vassals one after another.
The Central Plains was also a place where vassal towns were divided. It had long lost the momentum of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. After that, the economy and people's livelihood declined again and again. Eventually, refugees with no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies rose up and swept the world. Even if Emperor Gaozu did not take advantage of the situation to rise, the previous dynasty
The destruction has already been overturned. Although old grudges are hard to break, even if you don't care about the broken mountains and rivers, can you really bear to see the more than 40,000 survivors of the former dynasty in the two prefectures become lonely ghosts outside the territory? In addition to Zhigao, Yao Xishui
You are also a descendant of the Li family, a nobleman of the former dynasty, and a descendant of Prince Lu's family. Do you not want to be able to correct your name and show your identity to the world one day?"
Wang Jinrong is naturally a very crucial role in whether he can recruit the nobles who fled to the north. But besides Wang Jingrong and Li Zhigao, Yao Xishui is not only the daughter of King Lu, but her mother is also one of the three surnames of the nobles who fled to the north.
The current situation, to put it bluntly, is to give the northern nobles a step to accept recruitment, and at the same time to eliminate the wariness and precautions of the northern northerners.
Han Qian originally thought that Kong Xirong and the others could capture Xiao Yiqing and Xiao Siqing's uncle and nephew alive in southern Shanxi and make some articles from these two uncles and nephews. However, he did not expect that after Xiao Siqing died in the battle, Xiao Yiqing also died for Wusu Dashi.
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Then he could only place his hope of recruiting the nobles who fled north to Yao Xishui and Wang Jinrong.
Wang Jingrong couldn't wait to step forward and kneel down to show his service, but when he saw Li Zhigao, Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan and others all looking at Yao Xishui, they were also slightly startled, so they didn't realize that Yao Xishui might be more intolerable than him at this moment.
Replacement.
Even though Xiao Yiqing and Xiao Siqing's uncle and nephew are dead, among the captured Mongolian generals, Luoyang is not without other options besides him, but in comparison
For Yao Xishui, Li Zhigao interceded on her behalf, but the weight was heavier than his.
Yao Xishui sat behind the case in a daze, with mixed feelings in her heart. After a long time, she suddenly realized that the hall was completely silent because of her. She lifted up her shabby skirt, walked to the hall, knelt down, and knelt down for the first time.
She lowered her head in front of Han Qian and said: "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to cherish the water and make meritorious service..."
"The secret secretary has selected some people from the Wanhonglou disciples. Wang Zhe will arrange for you to go to Yanzhou to meet Feng Xuan first, and then sneak to Mobei. Zhigao and I are waiting for your good news in Luoyang." Han Qian said.
The marching army in Hedong and the marching army in Heshuo will subsequently recover northern Shanxi, Heshuo, Liaodong and other places. The combat tasks no longer seem arduous, but they are numerous.
Aiming at the remaining forces of the Mongol Beiyuan in Mobei, the early military strikes were mainly carried out by the Yongzhou (Guanzhong) Camping Army; Yao Xishui, Wang Jingrong and others would also report directly to Feng Xuan, so they were asked to go to Yanzhou in Weibei first
Meet Feng Xuan.
The general trend of the world has been decided, but Han Qian is not afraid of Yao Xishui. Wang Jinrong sneaks to Mobei, returns to the mountains and forests with tigers, and does not obey orders.
In addition to some young disciples who had been trained in Wanhonglou, Han Qian also agreed that Wang Jingrong could select some suitable personnel from the captured disciples of Guanjianglou and the generals of the gentry who fled north, and persuade them to go north together.
Han Qian was not worried that these people would bite him back.
Even if these people cannot be used, it will only delay the solution of the problem in Mobei, but it will not affect his overall situation and process of unifying the Central Plains.
"Xishui will never disappoint you again." Yao Xishui leaned over and said. At this moment, she could not believe that she would say such words.
"You get up and sit back and talk." Han Qian thought of Yao Xishui's misdeeds over the years and was willing to criticize her. Instead, he comforted her and said, "It doesn't make much sense to dwell on old grudges. Fleeing to the north and joining the rebels.
They were captives and helped Zhou to commit oppression, seemingly to avenge the country and the family. However, in Yanyun, Heshuo, Sanjin, Hehuai, Guanzhong, which piece of land was not the homeland of the Tang Dynasty and was ravaged and trampled on? Which one was displaced and died?
Aren't the people who suffered from war and famine the remnants of the Tang Dynasty? Even if the country's name is changed, the territory of Daliang is no longer the homeland of the Tang Dynasty? The people of Daliang are no longer the remnants of the Tang Dynasty. You
Are my clothes the clothes of the Han people? Of course, all the old things have been revealed. Before you go north, I will also issue a secret edict to pardon the sin of rebellion by the nobles who fled north. There are tribes on the Mobei grassland who are willing to do it.
People of Daliang, you should also do everything possible to fight for..."
And Han Qian came to Liuyunguan, accompanied by Cao Zhe and Sima De, and talked about these things that could be said to be top secrets, but he did not avoid it.
Especially for Cao Zhe, Han Qian still hopes that he will see the lenient policy adopted by Luoyang to solve a series of problems left over by the previous dynasty, and hope that he can use this to more effectively persuade Wang Yong, Jing Qiongwen and his father Cao Qian to win the
Peacefully resolve the Sichuan-Sichuan issue.
Han Qian did not hesitate to make a direct promise at this time:
"When Xishui and the princes returned the good news, the survivors of the previous dynasty returned to the Central Plains. General Zhigao was granted the title of Duke of Tang on behalf of the survivors of the previous dynasty, and his title was permanently inherited. I have ordered Zhou Dan to choose a good land in Luoyang City to build the Kingdom of Shu.
The Duke's Mansion is waiting for Brother Wang Yong to come to Luoyang and talk about old times with me again."
At this time, Cao Zhe could only say that he would take these words back to Chengdu Mansion. He could not and was not qualified to make any promises...