"Whoever Reads My Poet" Han Shan
Everyone who reads my poetry must protect his heart.
Save greed and continue to be honest, and flattery.
Drive away evil karma and return to the true nature of acceptance.
Obtaining the body of the Buddha today is like a law.
—I am the dividing line —
"Wait, Wang Yanzhang met several tribes in Huizhou (now Jingyuan, Gansu) all the way?"
Zhou Huaian immediately looked at another letter with a little surprise, the memorial report sent back from the Baiting Guarding Army in Huizhou. At this time when the autumn high horse fat is about to be harvested, shouldn't it be the window period for the clan tribe outside the Great Wall and the Hu ethnic group to rob
Then, after reading the specific content, he slowly understood the whole story. Probably it was Wang Yanzhang's journey from the battle of Dianzheng Gorge, chasing after the tail of the Western Army's remnants, and after killing all the way to the territory of Huizhou, he suddenly received news of the surrender in Liangzhou City.
As a result, his fellow men never encountered any decent battles, and they almost descended from the wind along the way. Even the remnants of the Western army scattered on both sides of the road walked out of the forest under the hunger and cold. surrender.
Therefore, when Wang Yanzhang’s troops formally entered and took over Liangzhou Wuwei City, not only did the army have captured more than 30,000 prisoners, but even the Panhuan in the eastern part of Liangzhou's eastern Wenmen tribe did not hesitate to present to the Taiping Army Lamb Niu Jiu expressed submission.
Therefore, after a bit of repairs and supplements here, the number of people under his command has expanded to nearly 30,000, except for the nine stepping battalions as the core headquarters; almost most of them are selected by prisoners and local people. Zhongxin recruited (cold weapon) auxiliary pawns, so there are actually more than three thousand pawns.
Therefore, under relatively strong soldiers and horses, he also began to clean up and manage the four sides to further consolidate the Taiping Army's control over this Hexi protrusion and forward base. And the first thing he did was to force those in the eastern part of Wenzhou to settle in the households, and to restore the Han family's language and customs.
In this regard, I thought that there would be more fierce resistance and resistance, and the local Taiping army, who had already prepared corresponding fierce measures to suppress it; but it was a bit of a big loss. Except for a few stubborn accounts who did not dare to resist and flee away, the others accepted the New Deal quite obediently.
In summary, I realized that this is because the eastern Wenmo lost too many Ding Zhuangs in the pass (many people worked hard in the construction sites and mines), and it was difficult to gather enough resistance; on the contrary, they lost too much. Men cause severe weakness and become fat in the eyes of surrounding forces.
On the other hand, it is because of the nature and origin of Wen's tribe. The so-called Wenmo is not a specific ethnic group or concept, but a combination of multi-ethnic people who fled under the enslavement and oppression of Tubo, holding groups for self-protection and farming and pastoral production; therefore, the real birth time is very short. It's only ten years.
Therefore, it is a very good thing that the strong who can win the victory of the Central Plains hegemony will settle down for the people. Therefore, after a large number of women and children who had lost their backbone took the opportunity to post, the process of national integration suddenly moved forward a lot in just over a month.
And the subsequent takeover of Liangzhou Jiedu made the process of Baishanshu, Herong City, Chishui Army, Dadou Army, Jiaocheng Shouzhuo, Wu'anshu, and Xiutu City and other military cities and important towns in the territory become very difficult. Relaxed; it almost always progressed until the Yanzhi Mountain, which was adjacent to Ganzhou, did not stop.
Wang Yanzhang, who was able to stabilize the situation initially, on the one hand, in accordance with Chang'an’s instructions, sent a partial division consisting of a garrison battalion and two temporary battalions to escort the rebel Jiedushi who had returned to the rebel army before surrendering. Yi Chao's eldest son, Zhang Huaiding, traveled north to Guiyi Army-ruled Diguazhou to clean up and stabilize the situation.
On the other hand, continue to send troops to take over and clean up the fortresses of Yanbian fortresses along the great sand ruins (southern of the Badain Jaran Desert in present-day Inner Mongolia); and the reaction of these remnants of Yanbian soldiers and civilians is even more enthusiastic; the reason is simple, the court has already It has been a long time since they were provided with food and payment.
Although they rely on the local tradition of farming and self-cultivation, the yield of crops in the borderland is not too high after all. At the same time, the annual seeds, tools and livestock also need money or other equivalents to purchase.
Therefore, after many years of being left unattended by the imperial court or feudal towns, people who can run have already ran away a lot. When the western army united eastward to pass through Liangzhou, it was provided for them. A batch of grain and grass were used, but a batch of young adults who had just grown up were also expropriated.
Therefore, the Taiping army who went to search in these apparently disrepaired, or partially decaying, collapsed border towns, saw white-haired old men and half-old children and women on duty and working together. Dating scenes are almost everywhere.
In some of the outposts that were obviously abandoned due to lack of manpower, many pastoral divisions of the frontier fortresses have even lived; although they saw this foreign army, they were busy professing to be the descendants of the city guarding the border for the Tang Dynasty. So much.
Therefore, Wang Yanzhang personally convened these soldiers and representatives of the elders at a banquet, watching the simple noodles made of various kinds of wine, canned meat and canned fruit, some people cried one after another, saying that it was the Central Plains. The court has been in chaos for a long time, and finally some people think of them and their side and bones.
Then, when this generation was drunk and drunk again, he couldn't help but vomit bitterly, saying that if the court no longer sends people to take over, I am afraid that their next generation will not be able to continue; because the frontiers are already male. With more and less girls, you won't even be able to grab the women from the clan tribe in a few years. .
And because of intermarriage with foreign tribes (copycat women) and lack of sufficient mother education, some of the young children of the new generation can no longer speak the complete Tang language. That is really a great crisis of extinction.
Therefore, in the reorganization process afterwards, these soldiers and civilians of Yanbian, who have seriously exceeded the service level of the Taiping Army, almost eagerly signed up; because as long as they are included in this border registration, they can get a basic money and food. Subsidies, and it's a manifestation of full-term payment on the spot.
Therefore, in Wang Yanzhang’s description, it was even reluctantly mentioned that many old bones lying on the bed, or children with runny noses, were pulled out and sent to the temporary camp to pray for registration. ；
Then, a lot of guys with obvious appearances of different Tang people mingled among them, also known as the descendants of the city who were loyal to the times, and came to join the army. But it was those members of the clan tribe who lived in the abandoned fortresses, and they also got the corresponding news.
However, Wang Yanzhang also did not refuse to accept all the visitors, and then sent people to calculate the population and the number of cattle and horses according to their settlements, and re-planned the defense areas and responsibilities; then left two garrison camps to reorganize and retrain on the spot. , And under the guidance of the local guide, continue to go north and deep into Dashaqi.
Along the Macheng River that flows into the desert, through the Mingweishu (near Minqin County, Gansu Province) where there are only two or three kittens left on the site of the Great Wall of Han Dynasty, and arrived there after traveling more than a hundred miles north. Going deep into the northernmost barrier of Dashaqi, the Baiting guarding location between Xiutuze and Baitinghai is now.
Here is also tenaciously holding on to a hundred veterans who are already gray-haired; but in addition to the main part of the huge guarding military city, other beacons, guards, and villages have all been moved by the miscellaneous Hu Fans who have migrated from the water and grass. Department occupied.
Then, under the suggestion of the entourage officer Yu, Wang Yanzhang sent many guides to lead the way, armed declarations and threats to summon the leaders of the settlements that can be found nearby to Xiutuze;
Then, after demonstrating to the public the process of frying and catching fish with dynamite, and after eating a whole fish banquet, these people were busy swearing to the heavens and became a freshly baked new dynasty Loyalty City. And Fan Luo. Four more tribes requested to be included afterwards.
The reason is also very simple. They are all new losers who have been expelled from their own struggles. The horses and cows they carry are not enough to survive this long winter safely, but they can't even beat the tribes who have been here for a long time. Therefore, they can only sell themselves to the Central Plains regime.
This is also the traditional art of the Li and Tang dynasty that has managed to manage beyond the Great Wall. It has continuously attacked the newly emerging powerful on the grassland, and at the same time sheltered and restrained the losers among them. At the appropriate time, it will be the leading party to divide and disintegrate, and any one that may integrate the grassland Large powers maintain relative stability under a finite balance of power.
Of course, like the great Song Dynasty in my later generations, I am constantly striving for self-improvement, but constantly through alliances and coins with tigers for skin, to unify the nomadic regimes of the grasslands one by one, so that they will nourish and grow to the point of smashing their own feet, too. This is a unique example of a wonderful flower in all dynasties.
As a result, these alternate grassland forces could not pose a sufficient threat to the Central Plains. Instead, in order not to be overwhelmed by other tribes, they had to fight to claim tribute to the Central Plains regime, and make the low and low to ensure the border exchange. Tea, salt, iron and other important survival resources.
Of course, the scattered Koubian still cannot be forbidden; because there are always many tribes who can’t survive in the grassland power struggle every year, they will try to fight for their lives in the fall and winter and consume the excess. A large population or multiple channels are sufficient resources to survive the winter.
This is the meaning of the existence of these border soldiers and civilians; they ensure the border security maintained at a lower cost. As for the robbery in the real winter, the basic thing is to look for death, either being frozen to death on the way or being killed on the side wall.
Therefore, these four tribes are also very representative and symbolic. Among them are the party members who were expelled from Yanzhou, the turbulent people who came from Xizhou, and the others were expelled from Tingzhou of Anbei Duhu. The Uighurs, there is even a Khitan other species, the ghost knows how to run from the northeast Songmo Dudu Mansion.
Well, on the surface, it seems that Datang's remaining prestige of the various ethnic groups outside the Great Wall has not been completely lost. There is actually a certain kind of historical inertia from a foreigner who came over for shelter and nurturing. But this involves the diplomatic strategy of the Metropolitan Government, and it is not something that Wang Yanzhang, a military chief, can decide.
Therefore, there is also a regular list of money, food, materials, and professional and technical personnel needed to restore Yanbian's basic defense force and military presence after preliminary assessment.
In the end, Zhou Huaian approved most of these projects, as well as the resettlement pilots for the four attached tribes, as one of the preparatory preparations for the tentacles to go deep into the grasslands in the future! In his expectation, the Han and Tang Dynasties have been since ancient times. The sphere of influence since then is the most basic line of control in the future. (End of this chapter)