Murong Xiaojun only felt that his mood was agitated, and he even wanted to go to Fuqi City right now to cheer up, everyone should stop insisting, what's wrong with becoming a commoner of the Han Dynasty?
Haven’t you had enough of living on the plateau eating ice and sleeping in the snow?
But he knew that the first thing he needed to do now was to understand and learn first.
Immediately, Murong Xiaojun solemnly raised his hands and his voice was trembling: "Your Majesty is so talented and benevolent that I can't help but bow to you."
Li Xingchen laughed: "Forget it, I just hope that the Murong Qing family can sincerely regard themselves as Han officials and do their best for the development of the Han Dynasty."
"We will definitely fulfill our mission!" Murong Xiaojun said with enthusiasm.
But Zhang Xutuo and others looked at each other in silence.
An important minister of Tuyuhun and a think tank of the Murong clan was so deceived that he became lame?
If he were asked to kill Murong Shifu with a sword at this time, he would do it, right?
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The place that Li Xinchen personally designated as Xining County was still a barren river valley at this time.
However, there is a very wide open space in the river valley. It is not a problem to call it a small basin.
Xiao Mohe led his army to advance northwest along the Huangshui River. When they arrived at this place, they stopped to rest. This open space was indeed beyond Xiao Mohe's expectation. He also did not expect that there would be such a place in the long and narrow Huangshui Valley.
A place that dazzles the eyes.
After a brief survey, the officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Industry who came with the army were pleased to tell Xiao Mohe that this place was indeed a good place for building a city and cultivating the surrounding area.
The place that everyone has been looking for to develop into an important stronghold for the Han Dynasty is obviously here.
Of course, at this time, Xiao Mohe and the others didn't know that even the name of this place had been confirmed in the court.
"Are you just setting up farming here?" The chief secretary accompanying the army looked around curiously.
Xiao Mohe nodded.
After collecting information these days, he already had a good idea.
If the Han Dynasty wanted to conquer Tuyuhun, their biggest enemy was not the Tuyuhun people or the Qiang people, but nature.
Cold weather, thin air, these are the enemies.
If the Han army cannot stay on the plateau, it will be useless even if the Tuyuhun people are beaten until they beg their grandfather to call them grandma. If the Han army retreats, the Tuyuhun people will naturally come out.
Therefore, it must be stationed and cultivated, even if it is military reclamation.
Fortunately, the ethnic specialty of the Chinese nation is farming.
As long as there are Chinese people, whether it is a desert or a snowfield, a world can always be opened up for vegetables and food to grow, and for life to spread in places where it may be difficult for people to survive.
The Huangshui Valley itself is one of the few areas in Tuyuhun that can be cultivated.
Precisely for this reason, it has been difficult for the Qiang people entrenched in the Huangshui Valley to integrate into Tuyuhun. In this era, the farming civilization and the nomadic civilization were originally in conflict with each other due to different cultural cognitions and lifestyles, and even broke out.
Raiding wars are not uncommon.
Therefore, the Qiang people have always been protected by Tuyuhun as vassals, and have not completely become a part of Tuyuhun. Even tribes led by Liang Qucong have no relationship with the Qiang people because their nomadic areas are close to the Huangshui Valley.
There are also attacks.
In addition, the Qiang people originally had one of the few cultivated lands that Tuyuhun could occupy, which naturally meant that the Qiang people had to bear a large part of Tuyuhun's food supply when the water and grass on the plateau were not abundant.
The threats and oppression caused the Qiang people and Tuyuhun to remain at odds with each other.
If the Central Plains dynasty hadn't become more powerful and left both sides with a feeling of despair, the two sides might have already started fighting.
Now, of course, there is no problem of pressure from the Central Plains dynasty, because the main force of Tuyuhun has been annihilated by the Han Dynasty in one battle, and the Qiang people have also been beaten by Xiao Mohe and begged for mercy. The Taoshui River Basin is the traditional gathering place of the Qiang people.
All of them have completely fallen into the hands of the Han. In addition, Xiao Mohe also leveled the Huangshui Valley along the way, and most of the Qiang camps chose to surrender.
However, Xiao Mohe did not compete with the Qiang people for the few cultivated lands in the valley, but continued to advance with his army.
He originally had the mentality of being able to fight all the way to Fuqi City, and finding large tracts of farmland along the way was another main purpose.
The land currently discovered is too close to Qinghai, the core area of Tuyuhun. Therefore, even though the Qiang people knew about it before, they did not cultivate it. Otherwise, wouldn’t the food grown there be cheaper for the Tuyuhun people?
For Xiao Maha, of course there is no such problem.
He is still looking forward to the Tuyuhun people rushing up to snatch the food, but he is worried that there is no way to gather you together and beat you up.
He has made preparations to lead his army to station and cultivate here for a long time.
The importance of this place can be seen at a glance by the veteran general who has been fighting for many years.
Several Qiang leaders accompanying the army walked around with the survey team and came back with smiles and rubbed their hands.
They are not afraid of the Han people and have even established good friendships with many Han people.
Originally, the Han people were too far away, Tuyuhun was too close, the lack of information, and the feud between the Qiang and the Han people from generation to generation made the Qiang people afraid to get too close to the Han people, for fear that the Han people would backfire and exterminate their clan.
Now they are no longer allowed to get close to each other. The flag of the Han army has been flying over their villages, and the Han army officers and soldiers have been stationed in the villages.
But when the Han army arrived, the Qiang people discovered that the big Han was not as scary as they thought.
Military discipline is strict and no one commits any crime.
All occupied houses are paid according to the price, and as long as there is a place to set up camp inside and outside the village, the Han army will not take the initiative to occupy the house, and in most cases they are warmly invited by the Qiang people who have come back to their senses.
Got in.
Several soldiers who tried to steal Qiang people's belongings were hung up and beaten until their skin was torn and their flesh was torn.
This is where the Han army's strict military discipline lies. Ever since this army was established, it has always followed such discipline.
What really supports such discipline is not actually how kind-hearted the soldiers are by nature. Even kind-hearted people, after fighting and killing one after another, always hope to vent their anger through robbery and so on.
Purpose.
In history, many elite troops often had a history of burning, killing, looting, and even massacring cities.
After the battle, the generals always need to find some way to let the soldiers vent.
Moreover, the salaries of many armies cannot make ends meet, and soldiers can only obtain money through robbery. Otherwise, wouldn't their lives be in vain?
However, doing so will only lead to a vicious cycle. The people of the occupied land, at least this generation, will not have much loyalty to the occupiers. Our family has been ruined, and you still want us to work for you?