Zhang Lu actually had the advantage of geographical advantage in Hanzhong and had a large number of households. Especially after Guanzhong was robbed by Dong Zhuo, a large number of farmers fled to Hanzhong.
And Zhang Lu relied on the concept of Tianshi Dao to quickly absorb and digest this part of the refugees...
The most important thing to absorb the refugees smoothly is to "reinforce their belly" and "acquire their heart". Zhang Lu originally had a lot of wealth in Hanzhong, and the laws of the Tianshi Mansion originally had many "too ideal" parts, such as
Make the patient repent and pray for self-healing, forgive the prisoner three times, execute him for big mistakes, build roads for minor mistakes, ban alcohol, build a "charity house" on the official road, place food and water for passers-by...
Although there are many disadvantages, and a large amount of money cannot be supervised at all, it can only be entrusted to "ghosts and gods", that is, curses. Naturally, it is only useful to true believers of the Heavenly Master - others who do not believe in evil are not afraid of those curses...
People who take more food from charity will be punished by ghosts and gods? If you don’t believe in ghosts and gods, there will be no punishment.
But it has to be said that this kind of laws and regulations based on a simple view of right and wrong are very suitable for the initial stage when the people are not enlightened and the road is still unclear.
After all, more complete laws like the "Laws of Chu" cannot be implemented until society has developed to a certain level. Even in today's Chu State, it is still somewhat "stealing the seedlings to encourage growth", and it is not suitable to start from scratch.
It's just not counterproductive, but it's definitely not a perfect match. This is because Bai Tu took into account the development speed of Chu State and made it mandatory - just like ordering school uniforms for children in the developmental period to be one size larger.
Even the Yangzhou Prefecture and the General's Prefecture, the predecessors of the Chu State, completed their initial infrastructure construction by relying on work-for-relief, that is, extremely cheap manpower - at that time, there was no current welfare guarantee and food-filling relief.
Food, negligible remuneration, and work intensity that does not threaten health constitute all the rules of "relief for work".
Of course, the days when a large amount of cheap labor could be easily obtained are gone forever in Chu State. Workshop owners who want to "come back" need the Ministry of Punishment to talk to them.
Zhang Lu was very successful in his initial stage, occupying Hanzhong, eroding Bajun and Guanghan, and causing refugees to rely on him one after another...
However, later on, it was restricted by the Celestial Master's Dao, and it was difficult to grow among the princes. It kept maintaining these outdated rules. Even if no one attacked, Hanzhong's problems would gradually be exposed.
Moreover, although Zhang Lu was sitting in Hanzhong, he really had no capable people under his command. After all, the "Tianshi Dao" was simply fallacy in the eyes of the world's aristocratic families. China would never entrust its power of governance to ghosts and gods.
Even though Taoism was respected in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they only used Taoist theory as material for metaphysical talk, rather than truly believing in gods.
Therefore, Ma Teng and Han Sui were full of confidence in their trip. The two families had nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses, pretending to be 200,000. There were also more than 100,000 "mercenaries" from the Qiang people, and tens of thousands of civilians to transport their troops.
It is said that there are a total of 500,000 troops...
As mercenaries, they are not really paid to hire, but refer to the Qiang tribes surrendered by Ma Teng and Han Sui. In order to show their submission, they sacrificed their soldiers for them, as well as mobilized some of the subordinate tribes. Basically
You only need to take care of the food!
Of course, don't expect the foreign tribes to be surrendered so easily. Don't expect them to have high combat effectiveness, let alone compared with the Xiongnu royal court who had back and forth with the former Han Dynasty. Even the current Southern Xiongnu and Hexi Xianbei, individual soldiers
Their combat effectiveness is also much stronger than that of the Qiang people.
Qiang cavalry is basically at the bottom among all types of cavalry, but their numbers are huge, and the quality of both men and horses is not high...
In contrast, the Qiang people also have a cultural habit of submitting to the strong, which is far inferior to the Southern Xiongnu who once surrendered.
For example, now... the Qiang people regard Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, as the "Mighty General" - ever since Ma Chao defeated all Qiang invincibles, this "foreigner" has become the god of the Qiang people.
This is also one of the reasons why the two people from Xiliang easily mobilized a large number of Qiang people. If they had not taken into account the supply of grain and grass, they could have mobilized more!
Zhang Wei led his troops to garrison at Yangping Pass, trying to block the enemy west of Yangping Pass.
Yangpingguan is one of the northern gateways of Hanzhong, located northwest of "Nanzheng City" where Hanzhong was governed.
The Hanzhong Basin is sandwiched between the Qinling Mountains in the north and the Daba Mountains in the south, so it is easier to defend from the south than from the north. Yangping Pass was built on the west side, at a pass between Daba Mountain and the Qinling Mountains.
The two famous plank roads in the Qinling Mountains, Qishan Road and Chencang Road, both lead to Yangping Pass. After entering from these two plank roads, you need to take Yangping Pass to enter the Hanzhong Basin...
The difference is that Qishan Dao and Chencang Dao are famous for their Northern Expedition from Hanzhong, while Zhang Lu occupied Hanzhong. Although they were successful because of the unity of the people, they were slow to respond strategically and were very "conservative" and could only defend the enemy at Yangping Pass.
In fact, if it weren't for Liu Zhang's fault, Zhang Lu would have even wanted to surrender a long time ago. He took his family and disciples to Chang'an, purely as a Celestial Master of Celestial Master Tao, and it would be good to study and spread Taoism.
However, because of Liu Zhang's existence, Zhang Lu had no option to surrender to the Han Dynasty - not only Zhang Lu himself could not forgive Liu Zhang for killing his mother and many relatives, but also because of the perennial war between Hanzhong and Xichuan, after his majesty was wiped out, he could not forgive Liu Zhang for killing his mother and many relatives.
The Han Dynasty, which was gradually improving, must have been determined to use him to scare the monkeys.
In history, Zhang Lu trusted Cao Cao, but now Zhang Lu cannot trust the Han Dynasty. Even if Liu Xie agrees to accept the surrender of Hanzhong, Zhang Lu will never dare to give up Hanzhong and leave...
When Zhang Wei came to Yangping Pass, it can be said that he was very angry and prepared to make these Liangzhou barbarians look good. However... when he saw Wuyang Wuyang's troops and horses came outside the pass, he was overwhelmed by this "popularity" and his momentum
Suddenly he was three points shorter.
In fact, if you take a closer look, you will see that the troops outside the Pass are not only in disorder, but most of them are dressed in shabby felt clothes...
Since we are going to attack the city, we naturally put the least distressed ones first.
"Qiang" cannot be regarded as an ethnic group at this time, but is a collective name for the foreign ethnic groups in the west. In fact, the Qiang people are also divided into different ethnic groups. For example, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the "Di" he was from,
There are also Dangxiang people who established Xixia in the Song Dynasty, and they are all part of the "Qiang" now.
"My brother Hanninghou, like your lords Yonghou and Zhaihou, is a prince of the Han Dynasty. You and others... have invaded our prefecture and county without any reason. Doesn't the Han Dynasty have no royal law?" Zhang Wei was a little timid.
shouted.
However, the current attempt to use the king's method to block the Xiliang army is obviously a fool's errand. It has not even had the effect of shaking the morale of the army. Instead, the cowardly tone has had the opposite effect.
At this time, I saw a young general slowly walking out from the forward center. He was not wearing any armor or driving a war horse. He just walked out step by step. However, where he passed, not only did the Qiang seem to lack training,
The soldiers gave way one after another, and all of them lowered their heads, not daring to look directly...