Guo Song came to Yunzhou to inspect, mainly to understand the situation of the Sijie tribe and the situation of Sijie herdsmen entering Yunzhou. Once the Sijie tribe collapsed, he must beware of the re-emergence of the Uighurs.
The team that came with them included nearly 4,000 people, including 3,000 cavalry and 500 scouts led by scout general Zhang Yun.
Li Dian, the governor of Yunzhou, heard that both the princess and the prince were brought, so he quickly arranged for his wife to accompany the princess.
The garrison envoy to Yunzhou was Li Ji, the deputy general who accompanied Guo Song on his mission to Anxi. Guo Song had transferred him from Fengzhou to serve as the garrison envoy to Yunzhou, commanding an army of eight thousand.
Li Ji is good at farming. He did a good job in leading the army to farm in Fengzhou, and now he continues to use his advantages in Yunzhou.
After Guo Song had settled down with his wife and children, he could not take time to rest, so he immediately met with the governor Li Dian and the garrison envoy Li Ji to listen to their reports.
"Your Highness, after I wrote the letter last time, hundreds more households of Sijie herdsmen have fled one after another. So far, there are a total of 1,800 households of Sijie herdsmen, about 9,000 people."
"Are they all herdsmen from the Muwence tribe?" Guo Song asked again.
Li Dian nodded, "Both are!"
Li Ji added: "The humble post asked about the situation of the civil strife in Sijie. There was not much useful information. Khan Sijie seemed to be doting on a concubine, who gave birth to a son. He loved it very much, so he decided to
He allowed this youngest son to inherit his throne. For this reason, he deprived his two brothers of their inheritance rights. At a banquet not long ago, he suddenly fainted and became unconscious. His two brothers and three sons were all
Claiming that he would inherit the throne, a fight broke out. Mu Wence was the first force to be defeated. His whereabouts are currently unknown. His tribe was divided and plundered by everyone, and some of the herdsmen in the south fled to Yunzhou."
"How old is this little son he wants to make Khan?"
"About six years old."
Guo Song shook his head. The biggest problem after getting a son in old age is that he has a hothead and wants to make his younger son the emperor. Many dynasties have been ruined by this.
"How many people are there in Muwence's tribe?"
Li Ji and Li Dian looked at each other, shook their heads and said, "I didn't ask about that."
"Let's take a look!"
The crowd gathered around Guo Song and walked out of the city.
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There is a large plain in Yunzhong County to the southeast all the way to the foot of Wuzhou Mountain. Farms have been reclaimed near the county seat, and a thousand hectares of wheat have been planted. The wheat fields stretch as far as the eye can see and surround Yunzhong County.
To the west is a large grassland, distributed along the Zi River, with dome tents located on both sides of the Zi River.
Guo Song was not in a hurry to go to the herdsmen's area, but inspected the farmland first. He bent down and grabbed a handful of soil, looked at it carefully, smelled it, and said to Li Ji: "The quality of the soil here seems not as good as Fengzhou!"
Li Ji smiled and said: "It is indeed a little more difficult to check than Fengzhou. The land in Fengzhou is black soil and is very fertile. Once it is reclaimed, wheat can be grown directly. It will take at least half a year to a year to grow wheat here. Last year we planted three hundred hectares."
The yield of wheat per mu is only two hundred catties, which is 30% less than that of Fengzhou."
"Is it because of the young age?"
Li Ji shook his head, "It's not because of the off-season, but based on last year's yield per mu, in the final analysis, the soil fertility is not as good as Fengzhou."
"We can only plant it for one season here, right?" Guo Song asked with a smile.
"We can only grow wheat for one season. From this more than 1,000 hectares of land, we can harvest about 170,000 shi of wheat. This is enough for our own consumption, and we can also exchange it with herdsmen for cattle and sheep."
Guo Song turned back and asked Li Dian, "How many wheat fields are there for the people in the city?"
"Three to four hundred hectares!"
Li Xun felt that the number was a little less, and quickly added: "The population of Yunzhong County is too small, only 30% are farming, 30% are grazing, and the rest are making pottery, doing business, etc., and there are 100 official fields.
With more hectares, we can basically be self-sufficient in food.”
Guo Song nodded, "Let's go see the ranch!"
Everyone got on their horses one after another, turned around and ran towards Zihe.
There are fertile grasslands on both sides of the Zihe River, with a radius of thousands of miles. It is an important grassland in the east of Hedong. However, the Jin army has relatively large grassland resources, and the grassland in Yunzhou has not been used for the time being.
After entering the grassland, everyone slowed down. As they walked, Li Dian reported to Guo Songhui: "We are considering settling more than a thousand herdsmen households on both sides of the Zihe River. In fact, except for a small amount of their cattle and sheep, most of them are consumed by themselves.
Part of it was eventually sold to the government. From this point of view, I think a small number of nomads should be welcomed to go south."
Guo Song pondered for a while and said: "I agree with this point. Just like the Liangzhou and Ganzhou government, as well as the Longyou government, they also have many Qiang herdsmen under their rule. We support these herdsmen, but Shatuo and Dangxiang
People, we must resolutely eliminate them, what do Li Governor think the reason is?"
Li Dian thought for a while and said: "Since they have territorial demands and want to establish an independent country, they are too ambitious and too aggressive."
"That's pretty much the performance, but the real reason is that Shatuo and Dangxiang have formed the core ruling class. Once there is a ruler, there will be demands for the founding of the country. Historically, the Han Dynasty placed the Xiongnu in the vast border areas.
Let them maintain the internal ruling aristocracy, which left the root of the disaster for the later Five Husties.
In addition, the Northern Wei Dynasty placed the surrendered soldiers who rebelled in the Sixth Army of the Grasslands in Longyou and Hebei, but did not remove their leaders. After they rebelled in the Central Plains, they formed the Northern Qi and the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The Sui and Tang Dynasties were also established by their descendants, and the six towns were
The descendants are today's Guanlong nobles, and they still control the Tang Dynasty to this day.
There are also Khitan, Xi, Goguryeo, and Bohai Kingdom. Emperor Taizong went to the east and destroyed Goguryeo. A large number of Liaodong nomads were resettled in Youzhou and Hebei, which finally triggered the Anshi Rebellion and today's Hebei feudal towns."
Today Guo Song had a lot of emotions in his heart and talked a lot. He slowly said to Li Dian: "What I mean is that we can't compromise on the nomadic people's attachment to the south, let alone give special treatment. First of all, we don't allow the emergence of a ruling class within them.
, not even the slightest sign is allowed, let them become people of the Tang Dynasty and pay taxes the same, and secondly, they must be broken into parts and gradually assimilate them."
Li Dian smiled bitterly and said: "Listening to what His Highness said, I feel a lot of pressure in my humble position."
Guo Song chuckled, "What I'm talking about will take hundreds of years to complete. It can't be accomplished overnight, but one key thing to remember is that those who come must be ordinary herdsmen and cannot have any ties to nobles."
"I understand the humble position, just like the gang of Tao people in the county. After driving away the three leading Tao people, the two hundred Tao people in the county now obey the government's management, and no one makes trouble anymore."
"That's what I mean. Let me sum it up at the end. You must always be vigilant. Once you find that any noble nobles have sneaked in, you must eradicate them immediately. No matter how groveling their attitude is, they must be killed. This is the principle. To this end,
You need to cultivate eye spies among the Sijie herdsmen so that you can keep track of the movements of these herdsmen."
"Remember your humble position!"
Guo Song turned back and asked Li Ji, "Has the guard remembered it?"
Li Ji bowed and said: "His Royal Highness's teachings and humiliating duties will be borne in mind without missing a single word."
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Everyone came to the gathering of seven or eight dome tents, where a large family lived. An old man fled to Yunzhou with his three sons, daughter-in-law and more than a dozen grandchildren.
The old man has no name. Everyone calls him Tudor, which means the best herdsman. For decades, he has been coming to Yunzhou to sell sheep every year and he can speak fluent Chinese.
"It's Governor Li, and the guardian envoy, welcome!" The old man came up with his entire family.
Li Dian introduced Guo Song to him, "This is His Royal Highness the King of Jin, our lord, coming from Taiyuan."
The old man Tuduoer quickly knelt down with his family and said, "Young people, please bow to His Highness the King of Jin!"
Guo Song smiled and said: "Everyone, please get up, get up!"
Everyone stood up one after another. Tudor's eldest son took a careful look at Guo Song and whispered to his father: "That's him!"
Guo Song heard this clearly and asked with a smile: "Do you know me?"
The sturdy Sijie herdsman mustered up his courage and said: "You are the White Wolf Warrior back then, I still remember you!"
Guo Song laughed loudly, "Yes, I was the one who hunted the White Wolf King back then. I also participated in the war between you and Absi."
The myth of the White Wolf Warrior is still circulated among the various tribes in Sijie. I heard that Guo Song was the legendary warrior, and everyone looked at Guo Song from fear to admiration.
Everyone sat down in the largest dome tent, and old man Tuduoer personally cooked a bowl of milk tea for Guo Song. This is the highest etiquette for Sijie herdsmen to entertain guests, and the elder cooks tea for the guests.
Guo Song took the bowl, put it on his forehead and tapped it gently, then drank it all in one gulp, and everyone applauded together.
Guo Song was familiar with the etiquette of the Sijie tribe and was a hero that everyone admired. The relationship between everyone suddenly became harmonious.
The old man Tuduoer said to Guo Song: "Our tribe was actually occupied by Mu Wence. The original old chief and his family were all killed. There are more than 500 households in our tribe, which can only be regarded as a small tribe. Twenty Years ago, there were more than thirty tribes in the Sijie tribe, and now they have gradually been annexed into six large tribes, all occupied by the Khan's brothers and several sons."
Guo Song asked again: "How many people are there in the Muwence tribe? After they were defeated, do you know where they went to their father-in-law?"
"Of course I know that there are more than 9,000 herdsmen households in Mu Wence. After Mu Wence was defeated by several other Ye Hus, more than half of the herdsmen were divided up by several Ye Hus. Mu Wence took some of them away, and the rest was us. , fled south to Yunzhou."
"Where did Muwence take the herdsmen?" Guo Song continued to ask. This was the key.
Tudor sighed, "Of course he defected to the Uighurs. He and the Uighurs have always had a close relationship. This time they competed for the Golden Wolf Head of the Khan. The Uighurs supported his rise to power, so several other brothers and uncles united to deal with him first."
Guo Song's heart sank. What he was most worried about had indeed happened. Uighur would never be absent this time due to civil strife.