As soon as he arrived, the leaders of the small Qiang and Hu tribes were all silent.
There is no way, they are all small tribes with only a few hundred households (households), and the total number is only more than 3,000 households, how can they dare to shout at Zheng Pu.
Don’t you see that in the past, nearly ten thousand people of Kewu died, and the bones of the entire family were sealed by earth mounds outside Xuanwei City?
But Zheng Pu is not a bully.
After listening to their concerns, they were given three choices.
On the one hand, it allows them to have both sides.
For example, in addition to paying regular tribute to the Han Dynasty, Shuofang County could be sent to express surrender to the Southern Huns Liu Bao and transfer to Liu Bao the grain and fodder they claimed to support the Han army's hundreds of soldiers. In this way, Liu Bao was afraid of the Han army.
, they would definitely not use their cavalry to plunder them, lest they trigger an attack by Han soldiers and horses.
Anyone who openly offends our strong men will be punished no matter how far away they are.
Liu Bao also knew the Han Dynasty's usual style, especially now that Zheng Pu was supervising and controlling Liangzhou, he did not dare to provoke him again and again.
Because for him, the current Wei State can no longer restrain him!
The Wei army in the Helan Mountain area was completely wiped out, and the new government orders in the counties of Hetao could not affect more than ten miles outside the city. It was a good opportunity for him to realize his ambition to dominate the Hetao, so how could he come to provoke the Han army.
On the other hand, the Han Dynasty will send more than two hundred soldiers to guard Mingsha Mountain to protect them, but they must be completely integrated into the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty.
For example, they are obliged to send troops to serve in conquests, perform corvee service, etc. in accordance with the law.
Rights and obligations are equal.
With the current strength of the big man, he can already deal with small tribes like them without any pretense!
In the end, they only had to pay cattle, sheep, war horses and other assets in exchange for the thousand captured tribesmen, and then left on their own.
Whether it is to go and rely on Liu Bao, or to migrate to avoid disaster, or even to occupy the Mingsha Mountain area to continue grazing for self-sufficiency, it is a matter of making your own decision, and the Han Dynasty has no foreknowledge.
But after talking about this choice, Zheng Pu also made a special announcement.
"Today you are not attached to my great Han, and in the future my great Han will go north to return to Hetao and defeat Liu Bao, the Xiongnu in the south, and I will not treat you as my concubines!"
If the ministers and concubines are not allowed to do this, then they will naturally be punished as military slaves or be built as palaces in the capital...
After hearing this, all the leaders of the small Qiang and Hu tribes were shocked.
Don't even dare to argue.
After just a group discussion for a while, they chose the first option and left.
It also made Fei Yi feel a little emotional.
He spent several days trying to convince these bastards, but Zheng Pu made these people leave reluctantly with just a few words.
It can be seen that in a borderland like Liangzhou, it is difficult to achieve anything by relying on benevolence and righteousness alone.
More than ten days later, the news that Ni Wei would no longer come to fight for Gaoping arrived at the same time as the Prime Minister's letter dispatching various ministries in Hexi.
The Prime Minister has made a decision to replace Fei Yi in charge of Liangzhou's government affairs.
It's Ma Su.
However, the official position he was awarded was to govern Liangzhou and did not have military power.
The governorship of Liangzhou was still assigned to Wei Yan, and even the post of military officer protecting the Qiang was transferred to You Chu.
Jiang Wei wanted to escort the prisoners from the Yuwei battle back to Hanzhong County.
Because the Han army will enter Guanzhong next year, and the military camps that have been opened need to be supplemented with a lot of manpower, there is no need to leave those prisoners in Liangzhou and waste the fertile fields of Hanzhong.
Naturally, this move also meant that Jiang Wei rejoined the prime minister's army.
Meng Yan, the Hubu supervisor, had suffered from frequent injuries and illnesses in recent years, and Xiang Chong, who had come to Longyou as the governor of Guanzhong, was not yet familiar with military warfare, so allowing Jiang Wei to return was just a precaution.
As for Zheng Pu, the Prime Minister did not have any instructions.
He was just asked to send some infantry back to Longyou or Hanzhong as appropriate to alleviate the pressure of insufficient food and fodder in Hexi.
But what Zheng Pu did was very surprising.
In addition to the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the two thousand soldiers of Yan Yu's tribe who guarded the Manyin City Fortress, there were also the two hundred armored cavalry who originally belonged to the Prime Minister's Central Army, Fu Qian's tribe who supervised more than a thousand people, Jiang Shu's tribe stationed in Pupang County, and Zhou Tai's troops after returning to Chengdu.
Zheng Pu asked Jiang Wei to take back the remaining soldiers and horses.
Even for the heavy infantry, which had been under his direct control since the formation of the army, he claimed that after the lightly wounded soldiers had recovered, he would ask Liu Lin to take them back to Hanzhong to replenish their strength and join the prime minister's central army.
In this way, Jiang Wei and Fei Yi are incomprehensible.
Although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is there, Liu Bao, the Southern Huns, will definitely not dare to come and invade.
However, neither Zheng Pu nor the Xiliang Cavalry could stay in Hexi forever!
In the future, the Xiliang cavalry will go to Guanzhong to fight, and the Hexi Corridor will be weakly defended. Not to mention the Southern Xiongnu Liu Bao, even some Qiang and Hu tribes may have malicious intentions.
Moreover, with such arrangements, Zheng Pu, as the general of Zhenxi, supervising the military affairs of one of the only two states in the Han Dynasty, only had two or three thousand horsemen left in the mobile troops he commanded...
His military power is inferior to that of Zhao Guang, and he is at best a miscellaneous general.
Therefore, Jiang Wei and Fei Yi tried to persuade him several times.
But Zheng Pu could not change his mind.
It is claimed that all the four counties in Hexi have implemented the "Sangzi Self-defense" bow and arrow society, which can ensure the safety of the common people without much garrison; and the Qiang school captains still live in Hexi, and there is no need to worry about the Qiang and Hu tribes daring to cause trouble.
As for the threat from Liu Bao of the Southern Huns...
He worried Fei Yi and Jiang Weimo, and vowed that Liu Bao was not a problem.
But just such a statement made Fei Yi and Jiang Wei even more worried.
Because they know Zheng Pu’s style of behavior very well!
The so-called "not prepared for danger" in his mouth is not an inference of the situation, but his intention to promote the facts!
Especially after Zheng Pu returned to Guzang County in Wuwei, he sent the Xiliang cavalry to Shandan Ranch in Zhangye County, and asked Xu Zhi and Zhang Te to select cavalry from the remaining Shaodang tribe and replenish it to three thousand.
ride.
Combined with the fact that Zheng Pu was very "generous" in the past and allowed the Qiang and Hu tribes to use their resources to please Liu Bao...
Isn't it obvious what he wants to do?
But even though Fei Yi and Jiang Wei understood it, they didn't know how to persuade them.
Everyone knows that Zheng Pu is known for his headstrong temperament. Once he decides on something, it is difficult for even the prime minister to change him, let alone the two of them.
Besides, they are about to leave Hexi, so they can no longer comment on Liangzhou affairs.
In desperation, they had no choice but to vaguely claim that the Prime Minister was currently preparing to move various ministries into Guanzhong, and that he might soon summon the Xiliang cavalry to go south, and advised Zheng Pu to make preparations as soon as possible.
Zheng Pu agreed immediately.
It was as if, with his intelligence, he couldn't understand their subtext.
Well, Fei Yi and Jiang Wei, who could no longer persuade them, followed Zheng Pu's instructions and led the various tribes in Hexi to return.
In fact, their hunch was correct. Zheng Pu did have plans to use troops against Liu Bao, the Southern Huns.
Not only because of the fear of danger in times of peace, "How can I allow others to snore next to my bed", but also because he must retaliate for his anger - his wife's brother Zhang Bao was killed in the Battle of Quwu Mountain, and the Southern Huns Liu Bao also participated in it!
Just by killing Deng Ai but not Liu Bao, his revenge has not yet been completed.
Of course, he would not miss the country's merits or ruin the preparations for the Prime Minister to enter Guanzhong just because of revenge.
