In the following time, Zhou Huaian, who was temporarily stationed in the Imperial City Zhongshu Province, also began to deal with the follow-up matters of the intricate Guan Nei campaign. This is certainly a military victory, but it is also a result that needs to be further consolidated and carried forward on the political level.
For example, after the Chang'an offensive and defensive ends, the priority and specific arrangements for marching into the traditional towns of Fengxiang, Yingning, Jingyuan, Jufang, Shuofang, Liangzhou, Xiasui, and Qincheng in the northwest of Beijing.
Another example is the restoration of water conservancy facilities and the dredging of river channels on the land of Qinchuan of eight hundred miles; the resumption of production and self-rescue movement in the form of Laimin villages; the reconstruction of Chang'an City and the resettlement of households, etc.;
But the first thing to deal with as a prerequisite is the suppression and elimination of the collapsed troops and remaining enemy forces around Gyeonggi Province. Therefore, although the battle on the macro level is over, the specific battle has not stopped because of this, and different targeted strike methods and handling strategies need to be adopted.
In a sense, compared with the three-surnamed Uighurs and Tubo relics scattered in the Guan, as well as the foreign tribes that existed for a long time in the Tang Dynasty, the various tribes at the end of the Wen Dynasty were a short-lived thing in history; In fact, it is a hodgepodge of people of all ethnic groups who were enslaved by Tubo.
Therefore, it is relatively simple to get them to accept Sinicization again and settle down on the spot. At least in the subtle transformation projects under agricultural settlement, the Taiping Army will not necessarily do worse than the Tubos from the plateau. .
The second was the Western Regions and city states, which were located in the Anxi Duhu Mansion and under the long-term and highly sinicized influence of Yanqi (now southwest of Yanqi, Xinjiang), Shanshan (now Kashgar, Xinjiang), and Yutian (now southwest of Hotan, Xinjiang). There is a high probability of surrender.
Because, regardless of how the Central Plains regime changes, as long as they can maintain sufficient deterrence and radiation, these Western countries that rely heavily on the Silk Road and continue to change, the posture of kneeling and licking afterwards is also basically the same as the past. .
Thirdly, Subi, Tuhun, and Dangxiang who once served as vassals of Tubo, Kugas in Beiting, and Dadan/Tatar in the grassland settlements were also under the influence and influence of the Middle-Earth culture represented by the Tang Dynasty for a long time. There is no strong bond.
As long as the Taiping Army regime can in the future, show a tendency to inherit the glory and authority of the former Tang Dynasty; it will naturally become a place where these people gather between Qingtang in the northwest and the grasslands of Moxi, but there are many contradictions with each other. The ethnic group has to rely on and respect the backbone.
Therefore, what is really more troublesome is the Uighur Khanate that once established the hegemony of the grassland. After its extinction, the Uighurs of three surnames were formed. Among them, the Uighurs of Ganzhou, which had the highest degree of sinicization and were basically settled, were the simplest. Its leader, An Ning, was himself a vassal of the Guiyi Army. After the collapse of the Guiyi Army, it is not a problem.
The second is the Xizhou Uighur, headed by the half-plowing and half-pastoral Pugu family, occupying the Luntai and other places of the Beiting Duhu Mansion. This Uighur has a deep relationship with the Li Tang dynasty, and it can even be traced back to the Anshi Rebellion between Tianbao and Qianyuan, second only to Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's Zhongxing heroic servant Gu Huai'en.
At the same time, it is also one of the important allies for the rise of the Guiyi Army, but with the support and win of the Li Tang dynasty, it gradually moved away from the Guiyi Army, and now there are competitions and confrontations in the northwest, but also implicitly communicate with each other. External love and killing state.
And the most troublesome is undoubtedly the Anxi Uighurs headed by Pang Teqin, the legacy of the Uighur royal family. They still maintain the nomadic tradition of the grassland generations, and at the same time directly or indirectly oppress and exploit the oasis city-states on the Silk Road. They are also the biggest obstacle to the Taiping Army's regaining of the Western Regions and the antagonists caused by vested interests.
However, fortunately, in addition to the remnants of the Returned Army, the three-surnamed Uighur, who was enough to become a benchmark for the resistance of the Taiping Army, caused quite painful losses and injuries in the previous battles within the Guan. The leader of the Bone Department and the Ponzi Department. It's not even more of them.
Therefore, what the Taiping Army has to do at the moment is to further preemptively occupy the Xiaoguan line as the gateway to the northwest, and trap these various residual forces in the unfamiliar place of life. Slowly brew with the momentum of thunder sweeping acupoints.
Otherwise, let any one of them flee back to Longyou, Hexi. It would really be a return of the tiger to the mountain and the fish and the birds leaped. I don't know how many variables and twists and turns will be added to the future. Until the savior prime minister Zheng Tian, he almost mobilized most of the local forces in the northwestern provinces.
Therefore, once a preserved institutional force escapes, facing the general emptiness and weakness of Hexi Longyou, it is enough to form a catastrophic chain reaction that breaks the balance of power and balance in the region, and easily snowballs. Up.
After the fact, let’s not say that it was the returnees of the Han regime, and it is likely that they will no longer exist; even the Taiping Army will have to face a new adversary that has integrated the territory, population, and resources of many forces through its advantage. Up.
Therefore, the remaining forces of the three-surname Uighurs who still remain in the Guannei area have become the most priority targets for the Taiping Army to strike and annihilate.
"Li Chang Talisman from Fengtian? What does he want to do?"
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but said in surprise: He almost forgot that there was still such a lingering existence from the Western forces.
Later, a statement was sent to Zhou Huai'an, and it was read out softly by Han Jiyue's voice. Only among the words carved by the six and four words, there is only one basic meaning:
It is the humble hope that the Taiping Army regime, which has inherited the foundation and legal system of the Daqi New Dynasty, can continue to ratify and maintain the affiliation between Daqi and Fengxiang Town in the past, and is therefore willing to counterattack all parts of Northwest Beijing for the army.
"He wants to be beautiful!"
Zhou Huaian sneered lightly:
"Let him give up his illusion, and then disarm the city and surrender to accept the Taiping Army's fall. He can still save his life; otherwise, he will wait for his death!"
Although the Taiping Army now has more cumbersome things after entering the Pass, and there are more opportunities for fragmented and broken soldiers; but it is more than enough to eradicate his remnant force that was backlogged by the Western Army and only a corner of Go'an.
What's more, his leader of Fang Zhen, who is in the ranks of war and chaos, is no better than the special case of the Guiyi Army rising in the enemy-occupied area. He wants extra preferential treatment. However, as the saying goes, what I wanted to explain, at this time an announcement came from the outside again:
"My lord Qi, the captain Cao Yijin has already brought..."
As the first righteous person among the Western Army to surrender to the Taiping Army, he was also the highest rank among the surrenders; whether it was as an example and a basic attitude on the surface, or the need to reduce futile casualties in private; Zhou Huaian was the last one. Decided to give him a chance to meet.
After all, the Cao family, who has settled in Guazhou for generations, is a descendant of the nine surnames of Zhaowu among the naturalized Lite people, but in another time and space, he has worked hard to maintain the inheritance of the regime of the Guiyi army; and among the fans of the northwest group of demons. As an isolated island, the Han power lasted until the Northern Song Dynasty before being swallowed by the separatist Xixia regime.
In a sense, Zhou Huaian is not unfamiliar with this person, because he has already seen his true face and family portrait in the supporting figures in the Dunhuang murals of later generations; however, the real person in front of him is obviously more expensive than the painting. He was much younger and thinner, and his body was slender and sturdy, but his facial features couldn't see much traces of extraneous bloodlines.
"The criminal minister has seen the king..."
Cao Yijin, who was dressed in plain clothes and looked humble, tremblingly put his hands together and said: At this moment, he looks like he has lost the spirit and spirit that he depends on for support, and some ordinary neighbors are depressed and enraged. People are average.
"Why do they condemn the ministers?"
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but asked quietly:
"I have returned to the rebel army for the Han family, and I have always been committed to China. I am determined to keep the frontier and open frontiers for the country. Although I am ruined and abandoned, I only live as my subjects..."
Cao Yijin couldn't help raising his eyelids when he heard the words, and whispered slightly in surprise in his heart:
"The king now changes his dynasty to Dingxin and enters the rule of the world. Naturally, he should be the family of the parents of the survivors from outside the territory. It was just that he had followed the old dynasty and did not know the general situation of the world and the mighty force of the heavens. He thought that the enemy caused casualties. , This is the sin of humbleness... but dare to use shame as a sinner..."
"That's a good word, it's a bit of a meaning..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but admire: This is worthy of being the "Yue Family" diplomat in later history. He praised the Taiping Army's career and righteousness without showing a trace, but also showed himself. His position and difficulties can be said to be mellow and mature and not leaking.
"The sinner said it was a sincere heart, but also to redeem the crime of not knowing the destiny and resisting the soldiers, only to listen and not dare to complain..."
Cao Yijin continued to say in a humble voice:
"I just ask the king to give me a little compassion, and I will stick to my clan's contemptuous place for many years, and spare my family's five-served foreigners, so as to save a little ancestry..."
"Then you will be a monk in Chang'an, and then take all the dependents over, and then choose someone to temporarily replace the Cao family in Guazhou..."
Zhou Huaian said after thinking about it:
"Thank you for your pardon from the Governor General, and thank God Enhao the King.."
Cao Yijin suddenly felt relieved, at least his family was saved, and he did not hesitate to kowtow to thank you again and again.
Zhou Huaian just sighed as he looked at the figure of the other party who had retired thanks to his many gratitudes. Of course, this situation is also in Zhou Huaian's basic expectations and the judgment provided by the staff, but Cao Yijin is much more submissive and understanding than expected.
Since the other party had already put his posture and figure so low, and he had obviously worked hard on the Taiping Army's policy of treating aristocratic families before; it also made people unable to stay below his limit and demanded more.
It is easy to destroy these long-standing local clans by force, but it is another matter to clean up the subsequent situation. After all, after the occupation and poisoning of the Tubo people, Hexi and Longyou have become a complex situation of mixed Hu and Han and canine teeth.
When there are gaps and gaps, people will naturally fill and occupy them. Instead of the cats and dogs who have come out of nowhere, it is better to set an example and model and maintain the status quo for the time being.
At least, before the Taiping Army sorts out the three rivers of Guannei and Jiannan, and re-enters the vast Hexi and Longyou areas, these indigenous local forces are still needed to maintain relative stability and balance, so as not to let the inherently limited Han population. , Wasted in the disputes and wars.
After all, in these places, the conflicts between the Chinese and the Yi races and the struggle for survival are greater than the common class conflicts between ordinary poor people and wealthy families in the mainland; this is also the leadership of the Guiyi Army headed by Zhang Yichao, which has been maintained for generations. One of the roots of hard work and struggle.
And similar methods and countermeasures can also be extended to frontier forces such as the surrendered Shuofang army. At least their existence is to deter and maintain, the basic elements and cornerstones of the extended stability of the old Datang territory. They did not participate much in suppressing the peasant uprisings in the interior, and they belonged to a group that could fight for and reform.
Therefore, if this Cao Yijin behaves honestly and submissively in the future, besides being unable to continue to lead the soldiers, his full body of words and lobbying skills is not impossible to send in the process of recovering Helong. More usefulness and opportunities to develop your strengths.
At the same time, outside the city of Xianyang, north of the Weishui River, under the escort of only a few hundred guards and guards, the prime minister Zheng Tian, who was able to escape from the dead, was looking at his son who was tied up on the top of the city. Zheng Ningji did not speak for a long time. (End of this chapter)