Since the Battle of Didao, Wei Wei has generally made adjustments to its northwest layout.
Xu Miao, the governor of Liangzhou, appealed for carelessness and took the responsibility for the war alone. However, General Cao Zhen refuted this, claiming that the scheduling of the war was due to his eagerness for quick success.
Therefore, Cao Rui, the emperor of Wei, was not harsh on Xu Miao.
He simply transferred his concurrent post of captain of the Qiang Protector to Guo Huai, who had experienced this battle before the troops were sent out. Let Xu Miao be in charge of government affairs in Liangzhou, Guo Huai be in charge of resisting the Han, and Xia Houru The division of labor among the four counties west of Anhe is clear.
And gave away all the benefits of the formal Silk Road.
All the counties and counties in Liangzhou were filled with joy as well as the Qiang and Hu tribes, which actually covered up the panic among the people of Didao's defeat.
In order to find some trouble for Bashu, Emperor Wei Cao Rui also sent an envoy to confer Tang Fan, the leader of the Di tribe at the head of the river, as the "King of Heguan Guiyi", and also transferred Baishi, Wuhan and Heguan County, as well as those who were conquered by the Han Dynasty. Daxia County and Didao, where the army was based, were all included in the newly established "Heshou County" and he was given the command of the prefect.
The intention was obvious, leaving no room for relaxation between him and the big man.
After all, bees are poisonous!
Tang Fanruo was a big Han who took the post of governor and kept saying that he wanted to "conquer the Central Plains". In order to maintain the prestige of Han Jing in the northwest, it was impossible to spare him.
Naturally, Tang Fan couldn't refuse this.
Because when the Wei army entered Daxia County, he could no longer play both sides.
As long as they are involved in the game, those with weak strength will become pawns in the game without exception.
Therefore, he used the Daxia River as the boundary to cut off the Silk Road on the western front, and prepared for the attack of the Han Dynasty, and waited for the opportunity to seize Didao with the Wei army in the future.
In this regard, Zheng Pu, who was stationed in Didao, was deliberately planning to destroy Tang Fan.
It is also a responsibility that cannot be shied away from.
His original intention to lead the Wei army into an ambush at Didao, and get Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's approval, was to use this battle to delay the anti-Wei army's departure from Longyou, so that Longyou could safely survive the turbulent period of changing ownership.
Unexpectedly, although the war was a great victory, it also caused Tang Fan, the head of the river, to become a enemy, and lost the interests of the Silk Road, which was relied on to appease the Bashu wealthy families to settle down in Longyou!
However, if he asked for orders to lead the army and asked for it, the prime minister would not agree.
Because the shackles on the neck of the big man, "difficulty in transporting on the Shu Road", have not disappeared to this day.
Hanzhong County has been abandoned for too many years!
Reopening those abandoned fields and setting up ditches and water conservancy to restore soil fertility is by no means a temporary success.
Even if there is no need to pay taxes on the land and attract countless poor tenants to flock in, it will still take three to five years to cultivate and hoard the grain to supply Longyou's army.
Now that the army has been out of Longyou for more than a year, there is almost no time to put out the sword.
The supply of grain and fodder in Bashu has reached its limit.
Especially now that we are in the farming season.
Due to emotion and reason, the prime minister would not dry up the lake to fish, and once again levied corvees to allow households to transfer grain.
After all, compared with the threat from Heshou Tang Fan, the Prime Minister cares more about the vitality of Bashu's continuous blood supply, and will never lose the big for the small.
Anyway, the cavalry is still being recruited and trained, and it will take two or three years before the troops leave Liangzhou. After considering the overall situation, we should take advantage of the time when Wei Wei will not come to the border to urge Longyou and Hanzhong counties to farm and colonize the valley. It is more important to ensure food for this year.
As for Tang Fan at the head of the river, Gao Xiang's tribe and Zheng Pu's tribe guarded the Daxia River in Longxi and the Taoshui defense line could not pose a threat to the Han Dynasty.
Let’s leave it alone for now!
After accumulating strength in the future, we can treat this as a prelude to retaking Liangzhou.
In fact, after the prime minister heard Zheng Pu's military report, he had already ordered all the ministries to stop their activities and start farming.
He also set out to appease the Yizhou wealthy families whose interests were cut off by the Longyou Silk Road.
Instead, he sent a letter to Jiang Wei and asked him to discuss with the Shenlangzhong Qiang in Wangqu Valley on his behalf. On the premise that the Han army paid a certain amount of supplies, the Han army's caravans could be allowed to pass through their pastures and sent to fight with the Han army entrenched in the West Sea.
Shaodang Qiang trade.
Because in addition to walking along the Jishi Gorge at the head of the river to the Cizhi River Valley and the Huangshui River Valley in Xiping County, you can also walk along the Tao River through the "Wangqu Valley-Xiqing Mountain" habitat of the wolf species and Qiang, and go north to the West Sea.
Well, after relinquishing silk interests to the Wei Dynasty, the Qiang and Hu tribes in Xiping, Jincheng and Wuwei County have rarely sent people to ask for Shu brocade tea and other supplies.
Only those who refused to surrender to the Central Plains Dynasty and cultivated Qiang could not obtain silk from the Wei Dynasty, so they could continue to eagerly look forward to trade with the Han Dynasty.
However, Jiang Wei had not yet reached an agreement with the powerful commanders of the Shenlang Zhong Qiang tribes, but Shaodang Zhong Qiang sent people to Didao first.
Unlike other Qiang tribes in the northwest, the Shaodang Qiang have always had a Qiang king.
And there are two of them!
This has to start with their origins.
At the earliest, the Shaodang Qiang lived in the Dayun Valley where the Cizhi River meanders into Xiping County.
Because the small people are poor, they are often invaded by powerful and wealthy Zhongqiang tribes such as Xianling and Beinan, who seize cattle, sheep and people.
The leader could not bear the long-term bullying, so the Shuai Li people fought to the death, defeated the most powerful Xianling Qiang at the time, and occupied the Yu Valley.
In the new habitat, there was a large river in the north as a natural barrier against enemies, close proximity to the fish and salt from the West Sea (today's Qinghai Lake), and fertile land suitable for livestock farming, allowing the Shaodang Qiang species to gradually become stronger.
Therefore, after their rise, they frequently invaded the three counties of Jincheng, Longxi and Wuwei of the Han Dynasty, and were often the leaders of the Qiang rebellion in the northwest.
It also ushered in tragic consequences.
They were repeatedly defeated by the Han Dynasty, and the tribe began to split up and live in various places.
Later, during the Qiang rebellion that lasted for more than a hundred years, some of the Shaodang Qiang people surrendered to the Han and sought annexation, and lived in the Huangshui River Valley in Xiping County.
The Huangshui River Valley can be called the ancestral land that gave birth to various tribes of Qiang.
From the founding of the Han Dynasty by the great ancestor Liu Bang to Emperor Wu, more than 200 Qiang tribes were born.
If the Shaodang Qiang tribes that moved into the Huangshui River Valley could not unite into one group, they would be easily defeated by other Qiang tribes and be annexed, suppressed, or exterminated.
Therefore, the Qiang king has inherited it to this day.
The Shaodangzhong Qiang, another tribe that was defeated by the Han Dynasty and unwilling to surrender, was expelled from the territory of the Han Dynasty and thrived around the West Sea.
Similarly, they have always had their own Qiang king.
Now, the Shu brocade tea trade was cut off by Tang Fan at the head of the river and the Wei army in Xiping County. In order to continue to benefit from the Silk Road, they couldn't wait to send people to find the big man.
They want to conspire with the big man to completely wipe out the Heshou Tang Fan from the world!
Hearing this news, Zheng Pu was overjoyed.
He was worrying that he had no reason to convince Prime Minister Zhuge Liang to allow him to lead the army to attack the head of the river!
Now that the Shaodang Qiang people were sent, he advised the prime minister and asked Ma Dai to lead the Xiliang cavalry to "fight to support war"! After destroying Tang Fan, he took advantage of the situation to declare to the Shaodang Qiang that he was a great Han Dynasty.
Powerful!
After all, although the land at the head of the river is useless to the big man, Zheng Pu does not want to attract wolves into his house!
