Northern Dynasties

Chapter 144
Li Tai didn't kill indiscriminately either, except for the guard Zhuang Ding who was killed when attacking the manor, after entering the manor, he only killed this Lei family member and Zhuang Ding who had killed the members of the water family.

It's just that the Lei family is prosperous, and there are more than [-] clansmen left in the village, plus more than a dozen murderers recognized by the Zhuang people, so the scene of this pile of corpses looks a bit cruel.

Li Tai no longer had the arrogance of standing on the wall and yelling, saluted Yang Shaochang, and then said in a deep voice: "Before I didn't dare to publicize the crime in public, because there was still something hidden about the murder of subordinates. Several people who broke through the siege went to the county government for emergency , but was taken into this place by the county magistrate and killed.

There are all witnesses to this matter, I dare not ask the county and county personnel for details, but the evil has not been eliminated, and my heart is still resentful. I implore Yang Shijun to return this unjustly dead person with justice. I will definitely remember it Make Jun Ende! "

Hearing this, Yang Shao's face changed again, and he didn't care to reprimand Li Tai for the crime, he just said in a deep voice: "Quickly attract all the witnesses! No, no, I will go to the house for interrogation! "

After Li Tai heard the words, he ordered his staff to clean out a spare room in the village, and invited Yang Shao to sit down inside, and then asked people to summon the people from the village one by one.

Yang Shao summoned more than a dozen villagers in a row, and after a while he came out with a heavy face, bowed deeply to Li Tai, and said in a deep voice, "Thank you Li Lang for my reputation. It is indeed extremely evil! If Li Lang believes in me, please let me handle this matter, and I will never let your subordinates die in vain!"

"If I didn't trust the envoy, I wouldn't ride lightly into the county. I would go to Xingcheng first to take advantage of the situation. The local bandits are arrogant, so what? I also know that this matter cannot be blamed on the envoy. The situation in the village is twisted and dark. Covering inside and outside, who is not caught in this net, who can see clearly?"

After Li Tai heard the words, he said that after he heard the news from Zhuangkou, he was also shocked.

Although he didn't intend to let it go, he also knew that he couldn't directly attack the county magistrate.

Yang Shaoqing was not innocent, and he didn't know, but he was a sheriff selected by the imperial court after all, and he was also from a powerful Guanlong family, so he wouldn't be able to join forces with a townsman, so he decided to fight for Yang Shao.

"Hey, I'm really ashamed, I've lived in the county for several years but I never thought of condoning the evil!"

It is not a decent thing for a subordinate official to collude with a strong man, and he has to be reported by others. Yang Shao sighed with shame again: "There are indeed many difficulties in governing here. Apart from the villains in the village, there is still a lot of trouble." You Jihu frequently harass the territory. The soldiers are useless, and sometimes they have to rely on the strength of the village to help them defend, so they dare not investigate."

He turned his eyes to the side, signaling Li Tai to go to a remote place, and then said: "This village thief, Lei, is a Qiang who has lived here for a long time, and another family member lives in Jingzhou. Xi'an Prefecture often envoys the old When governing Jingzhou, he recruited powerful Qiang people as his disciples.

Later, often made the emperor transfer to Wuyuan, ruled the army and garrisoned in Yanchi, and many Qiang disciples followed him.Because the northern defense army was in a hurry, it asked for funds from the wealthy family in Neizhou County. This Lei was also listed as a member of the permanent envoy because of his introduction from the same family.Since then, I have been sending things to help the army, and I have become more and more rebellious in the village..."

"Xi'an Prefecture is far to the north, so they can actually mobilize the material resources of Beihua Prefecture?"

After Li Tai heard this, he felt a little strange. Although Chang Shan was the founder of the mansion, it's not like you don't have any in Beihua Prefecture, so you just tolerate him stepping on the boundary?

After Yang Shao heard the words, he sighed again: "Li Lang, you mostly live in a governed area, and you may not know much about the troubled states and counties here. All the states and counties in the north are just convenient names listed by the orders of the superiors. Where are you? In addition to the city defense, most of the territory is barbaric and there is no order at all.

The point of the blade, the command can be reached, and the king's flag is not overturned, it is a foreigner.Wherever the government is governed, households are organized carelessly, and the governors of the prefectures and counties only raise soldiers to guard against thieves.There is no foundation for the people to rely on.The armaments of the various states are not well-known, and only the neighbors help each other to survive independently..."

Li Tai couldn't help but stare wide-eyed when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "Didn't some envoys of Beihua Prefecture attack Jihu last year and create victories bravely?"

Yang Shao probably couldn't find anyone to talk to for a long time, and when he heard Li Tai's question, he began to introduce the situation here in detail.

At present, the biggest problem that plagues the rule of northern Shaanxi is mainly Jihu.

There are many Jihu tribes, which are widely distributed on the northern Shaanxi plateau. Because of their diverse tribes, they are often named after their settlements and activities.Just around Fucheng County, there are Jihu tribes such as Diaoyinhu, Heishuihu, Beishanhu and so on.

These Jihu tribes are widely distributed among the mountains and forests of the northern Shaanxi Plateau. The small-scale tribes consist of tens of hundreds of people, while the large-scale tribes gather tens of thousands.These Jihu are usually half-cultivating and half-grazing, and they are very good at hunting, and they often plunder people and materials.

The core ruling area of ​​the Western Wei Dynasty was only in the Guanzhong Plain, and because it often fought with the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the Heluo area, the main military forces were also deployed along this area.Therefore, for the northern plateau and mountainous areas, the ruling power that can be invested is not large.

In addition, the Eastern Wei Dynasty failed to gain a geographical advantage in the Hedong area, and Jinyang, the core of its rule, was close to the Hetao area in northern Shaanxi, so it often incited the Jihu tribe in the territory to rebel.

For example, Cao Ni, who made troubles in Lingzhou in the early years of Datong, belonged to Cao Erchenghu, which belonged to Jihu.When Cao Ni rebelled for the first time, he was put down by Li Hu, but the Western Wei court did not kill him, and still kept him in Lingzhou.

In the second year, Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty sent troops to directly capture Xiazhou, and Cao Ni also took the opportunity to rebel again, leading his subordinates to surrender directly to the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Xiazhou can be said to be the starting point of Yuwentai's hegemony. He led his troops south to take over He Bayue's power when he was the governor of Xiazhou, and became the new overlord of Guanzhong.

As a result, the land of Longxing was once attacked by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, which shows the weakness of the Western Wei Dynasty in the north.So he and Gao Huan are old enemies. He poked a human lung tube in Hedong, and Gao Huan knocked on his Tianling Cap in northern Shaanxi.

It can be said that the Western Wei Dynasty ruled in northern Shaanxi, and there were only a few limited town defenses, but in the vast area outside these military strongholds, Jihu was the real master.

But fortunately, the Jihu tribes themselves do not have a strong integration, and they often only operate in their respective regions.What some Hui attacked last year was part of the Diaoyinhu that was active in the upper reaches of the Luoshui River, but the other Jihu tribes have not been greatly affected.

Although the Eastern Wei Dynasty wooed and instigated some Jihu tribes in northern Shaanxi, the territory itself was not peaceful. There were also many Jihu tribes distributed west of Fenshui.Gao Huan has never been addicted to the emperor in his life, but Jihu Liu Lisheng has been the emperor in Shanxi for more than ten years.

Although the Jihu regime was overthrown, the Jihu's forces still existed. The Lishihu and Shilouhu on the west side of Luliang Mountain were all hostile forces operating under Gao Huan's nose.

Many people don't know what Gao Huan was doing after the Battle of Mang Mountain. He was fighting Jihu, and the Jihu in Luliang Mountain rebelled again.This problem had to be postponed until the Gaoyang period to be considered a more complete solution. The Eastern Wei Dynasty was forced to directly build a Great Wall in Shanxi.

In short, Jihu's dog-skin plaster was stubbornly pasted in the plateau and mountains between the Eastern and Western Wei, and it even outlived the regimes of the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi.

Yu Wentai and Gao Huan, the old enemies, basically apart from making an appointment near Heluo, they each took time to do Jihu, and by the way, they planned to oppose Jihu in the other side's territory.

After listening to Yang Shao's explanation, Li Tai also felt a little helpless.As he got to know more, the more he felt that this Jihu was really a big trouble.Especially now that he is in charge of Luoshui, and there are Jihu activities in half of Luoshui's watershed.

Right now he is just listening to the excitement, but in the near future, this is the problem he needs to face directly.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be thankful that he had killed the Lei family early on. If he had a better understanding of the situation in the northern border, although he would still kill, he would inevitably have entanglements. At least it felt good at the time .

After all, if he wants to continue to develop in the upper reaches of Luoshui River, he must cooperate with the local garrison, and a considerable part of these garrisons are under the control of Changshan in Xi'an Prefecture, and some are simply his family soldiers.

Now that everyone has been killed and offended, there is no need to think about those boring issues.It's best for Chang Shan to see it on his own, but if he doesn't see me, he will deduct his military rations!
What's more, he has also reached a cooperation with Li He, a local tycoon in Xiazhou, so there is no need to worry about the lack of assistance from the north, but it is a bit difficult to extend his tentacles to Yanchi, Xi'an.

But other than that, he is not afraid of being retaliated by the other party.Then Chang Shan won't stay in Xi'an Prefecture forever. When his power develops to the upper reaches, maybe the other party has already transferred away. After all, the boss is serious about wiping his ass.

"Will Li Lang continue to stay here, or will he return to the south?"

Yang Shao asked again, he really didn't want Li Tai to stay, otherwise if Chang Shan sent someone to ask, he would have to be caught in the middle and be difficult to be a man.

"When I join the subordinates here, I will lead my troops back to the headquarters. I am really sorry for disturbing the envoy."

Li Tai went north this time to avenge and save people. Naturally, he won't stay long after his goal is achieved, but the village's personnel affairs have to be finished, so he said: "But the county government will collect the evidence of the village's personnel crimes. still……"

"Except for the certificates of the officers involved in the county affairs, the rest will be issued by Li Lang! Lei Mou disobeyed the order of the capital water department, and even dared to harm the envoys. The county will never cover up this villain!"

Yang Shao quickly said, since Li Tai didn't expose his subordinates' collusion with local bandits, there was a tacit understanding between them.What's more, this Lei is still a student of Changshan in Xi'an Prefecture, so he is causing trouble for himself by intervening in the decision.

Li Tai didn't think this was a troublesome thing, just now his subordinates took a rough inventory of the manor's inventory, and he knew that he had slaughtered a fat sheep, and now Dushui Guancang is so poor that mice are tearful, of course it must be transported back to enrich the inventory.

After mutual agreement, Yang Shao didn't stay for long, left the manor and first arrested Nalei's commander on the charge of being good at mobilizing the village regiment, and went with Li Tai's subordinates to Pushan Temple where the subordinates of Dushui were trapped. People lead.

The subordinates went back and forth, but told Li Tai and Mao Shijian that it was inconvenient to come to meet him, because this guy had killed many monks in the temple in the past few days, and if he was taken over by the county government, there might be another twists and turns.

(End of this chapter)