Hezhou officials arrived one after another and were shocked when they saw Yang Lin.
"Young Zai has come all the way, why didn't you inform us in advance so that we can come and greet him?" Guo Chaoyong, the prefect of Hezhou, held his official robe and started shouting from a distance.
Yang Lin was sitting under a big tree. Seeing that the people had almost arrived, his face turned cold and he cursed: "Why did the imperial court send you to guard one side? Is it to welcome me?"
Under your rule, a town was completely slaughtered, and as local officials, don’t you even know about it?”
Everyone was stunned. The northwest is different from the Central Plains. It is a vast and sparsely populated place, and many small towns rarely communicate with the outside world.
Those on the main traffic roads are better, but as for this small town, few people visit it.
If Yang Lin's Long Live Camp hadn't been unfamiliar with the place, and had not believed Gao Bing's words, and had taken a shortcut they imagined, the horrors here would not have been discovered.
"Shaozai, this"
Guo Chaoyong winked, and immediately someone from the Inspection Department came with a businessman to enter the town to check.
Yang Lin glared at him and cursed: "You all go in and take a good look at how you protect one party."
No less than a hundred officials from Hezhou, big and small, entered the town together.
When he came out again, his eyes were already a little wet, and Guo Chaoyong even knelt down facing the town.
"Young Shaozai, I am guilty as a subordinate."
Yang Lin rolled his eyelids and said, "Do you know who did it?"
Fang Jinyun, the general judge of Hezhou, looked ashen as he stood up and said, "Young Master, this is a common method used by the Uighur thieves."
"Uighur thieves?" Gao Bing said quickly, "What kind of bird thieves are they? They are so heartless."
Guo Chaoyong, the prefect who was kneeling on the ground, said in a deep voice: "During Renzong's time, the Hexi Uighurs were destroyed by Xia Ni Li Yuanhao. The Uighur Khan was killed in the night, and a large number of Uighurs fled to Hehuang. At that time, this place was still owned by the Tubo people.
They set up many rules in order to turn these Uighurs into their own slaves.
Later, these Uighurs couldn't bear the humiliation, so they elected a leader to resist the Tibetan oppression.
These people were defeated by the Tubo people and became a group of bandits roaming Hehuang, making a living by robbing passing caravans and torturing local people.
Their whereabouts are mysterious, they come and go as often as they like, and they are cruel and murderous. We have carried out several encirclement and suppression campaigns, but we have not been able to find them."
It turns out that there is still this history, and Yang Lin knows very little about it. The last time he destroyed Xixia, Yang Lin took care of dividing the Qiang people. But at that time, the Hexi Uighurs were already very submissive, because they were suppressed by the party members all year round.
Angry, the Song Dynasty actually helped them by destroying Xixia.
The rulers of Xixia, the party nobles, were all very cruel to other tribesmen in Xixia at that time. Even their own tribe, the Hengshan Qiqiang, were managed as livestock by them.
Yang Lin sneered and said: "Now that all the Hexi Uighurs have surrendered to the Song Dynasty, their people don't care either?"
Gao Bing coughed lightly, leaned closer and said, "Young Zai, when you were in the northwest, didn't you plan them into various states? The Uighurs no longer have their own army or clan leaders."
Yang Lin spat and cursed: "Then the Karakhan dynasty farther west should be responsible. Our people in the Song Dynasty were massacred for no reason. We must not just pursue a Uighur thief and leave it like this."
Hezhou officials have not yet come out of their grief and anger, and they are all dumbfounded.
What does the rebellion of the Uighur bandits have to do with their fellow tribesmen of the Karakhanid dynasty? You must know that the complete Uighur Khanate was destroyed at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
The Uighur thieves who are causing trouble now are part of the Hexi Uighurs, and strictly speaking they are the people of the Song Dynasty.
This is equivalent to if Korean compatriots commit trouble in Yanbian in later generations, we will go to South Korea and North Korea to cause trouble.
"Ask Song Jiang to come to Hezhou to meet me!"
Regardless of everyone's reaction, Yang Lin ordered his men to go and call Song Gongming, the envoy of the Northwest System.
Obviously, he is not just talking, but actually taking action.
"Isn't the Western Army training their cavalry? First, they will bring in the Uighur thieves to practice their skills. I will capture all of these people and make them pay for their sins. Then, I will go back and tell your Majesty that we will do it again.
Let’s settle accounts with the Karakhanid Dynasty.”
The Uighur thieves, the chief culprit, have now become a minor player who can be dealt with easily. The Uighur dynasty, which could not be defeated by eight poles, was in great misfortune.
After all, Yang Lin still needs to train his troops. Since the Western Army lost its old enemy Xixia, it is now happily trading with the Klei people and has developed into a group of qualified and professional mutton traders and horse dealers.
The large-scale recruitment of Uighur soldiers, Kelei soldiers, and Qiang soldiers also needs to be tested, or they need to have friction at the starting point, and they need to be trained in battle at all times to maintain combat effectiveness and deal with the Jin people in the future.
If everyone fights more wars for the Song Dynasty, they will also develop a sense of belonging to the Central Plains Dynasty.
Furthermore, the current territory of the Uighur Dynasty was called Anxi Protectorate and Beiting Protectorate during the Tang Dynasty.
In other words, that land has belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, and the evidence is conclusive and irrefutable.
The Song Dynasty inherited the dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, and of course this property must be recovered.
The tragedy in a small town in Hezhou also exposed how many horrific crimes are being committed all the time under the rugged folk customs in the northwest.
This chaos must be changed. In the early stage, iron and blood must be used to shock these people, so that they know pain, fear, and fear, and then they will restrain themselves.
Since it is included in the territory of the Song Dynasty, there is no place outside the law, and there are no people who can be abused and killed at will. No matter which tribe he is from, he is a Song person. He is protected by the Song Dynasty army and must obey the Song Dynasty.
law.
Yang Lin calculated with his fingers that the new Western Army had nearly ten years to train and regain its homeland on this land.
In the future, when you compete with the Jin people, your skills in selling mutton will be of no use at all.
Because all the powerful enemies around have been eliminated or are allies, the northwest of the Song Dynasty is a little too comfortable now.
Once a tyrannical nomadic tribe appeared on the grasslands, this kind of comfort would kill the Song Dynasty, and the border troops must be allowed to maintain their combat effectiveness.
Yang Lin didn't care whether they could accept it or not, and led everyone to leave this bloody town. Hezhou Prefecture left people to bury the bodies, and other officials followed Yang Lin back to Hezhou City.
The short-lived false peace in the northwest is about to be torn apart. It is conceivable that another round of competition will follow.
Without glorious achievements, there is no way to live in peace with others here. This is an ancient battlefield where the strong are respected.
Once a grassland dynasty rises, their eyes will inevitably be fixed on the Hexi Corridor. So after the revitalization of the Central Plains dynasty, why should they remain complacent?