A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 530 Xuanyuan Terrace Releases Military Power

The north wind is howling, and the snowflakes are flying.

North Yanzhou.

On the bank of Sanggan River, forty miles southeast of Yongxing County.

"Snowflakes in Yanshan Mountain are as big as a mat, blowing down Xuanyuan Terrace in pieces!"

"This is Xuanyuan Terrace?"

Who would have thought that the unremarkable high platform on Qiaoshan Mountain was actually Xuanyuan Terrace, which was only more than one meter high and only about two meters long and wide.

"Shan Hai Jing Da Huang Xi Jing, in the Great Wilderness, there is Lingshan, to the west there are Queen Mother's Mountain, Huoshan, Haishan, and Qiongshan Mountains, and there is Xuanyuan Tower, and there is Xuanyuan Tower. tower."

"The poor mountain is the bridge mountain in front of you."

Wu Huaiyu looked at her eyes and felt a little emotional. No wonder the poets of the Southern Dynasties once said that after thousands of years of solitude, who would be afraid of Xuanyuan Terrace.

Qiaoshan is named for its natural arched stone bridge.

The Yellow Emperor collapsed and was buried in Qiaoshan.

The former Huangdi Temple has disappeared, leaving this big square stone, which is said to be the board where the Yellow Emperor and the immortal Guangchengzi played chess.

On Yuzi Mountain in Pinggu, Tanzhou, there is also a large tomb, which is said to be Emperor Xuanyuan Mausoleum, also commonly known as Xuanyuan Terrace. Every year at the Xuanyuan Temple Fair on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people from all over the world gather to offer incense and sacrifice.

In contrast, Xuanyuan Terrace at Qiaoshan, located in Zhuolu, is silent and unknown.

Li Tudiji brought a group of children and grandchildren to offer sacrifices to Shitai respectfully, and kowtowed seriously.

Li Tudiji pays homage to the two Xuanyuan Terraces every year.

Although Xuanyuan is not the ancestor of their Mohe, but he now regards himself as Huaxia, so of course he wants to worship this ancestor.

Li Tudiji didn't care where the Yellow Emperor was buried.

"I used to go hunting in Northern Yanzhou, and I didn't dare to shoot westward. I was in awe of the Xuanyuan Tower."

The old man looked serious, and in front of Huaiyu, he taught his children and grandchildren a good lesson, telling them who Xuanyuan Huangdi is and how to be in awe.

Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasty said that after thousands of years of loneliness, who would be afraid of Xuanyuan Terrace.

However, Tudiji, the leader of Neifu Mohe, said that they did not dare to shoot westward because there was Xuanyuantai in the west.

Even the frontier residents and Fanhu who lived here before, with just one word, respected this stone platform very much, and they would come to worship every year.

"Duan joins the army."

"Subordinates are here."

"You make arrangements to set up a tomb here as a mausoleum, set up a temple to worship, and build Xuanyuan Hall to worship my Huaxia Emperor."

The required materials are provided by merchants, and the labor is directly used by the captive Sogdian Hu.

Xuanyuan is the human emperor, the god of heaven, and the ancestor of China.

In fact, there are various theories about the location of Qiaoshan and Xuanyuan Terrace in various parts of the world, but the Qiaoshan and the emperor's mausoleum officially certified by the Tang Dynasty are actually in Fangzhou, Guanzhong, listed in the national ceremonies, and worshiped in four seasons.

But for Wu Huaiyu, in the newly established Yongxing County in North Yanzhou, it is not a bad thing to verify the legend of Xuanyuantai that has been going on in the local area.

The Xuanyuan Terrace was built here. In this frontier, where Hu and Han are mixed together, it is quite meaningful to invite the ancestors out, and even use Sogdian captives to build it.

Anyway, it doesn't cost too much money.

"When the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum is completed, some big households will be moved here to guard the mausoleum."

This is an imitation of the mausoleum system of the Han Dynasty. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the powerful people in the world were moved to the vicinity of the emperor's mausoleum to form a mausoleum for the rich to live in. If there is nothing to do, you can prepare for the barbarian. If the princes change, it is enough to attack the east and use it as a frontier. This weak technique.

The Lingyi system not only strengthened the standard system in Guanzhong, but also strengthened military defenses. Most importantly, it weakened the local powerful forces in the Guandong, and even restrained land annexation.

Wu Huaiyu built the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in North Yanzhou, and he will definitely rebuild the Xuanyuan Terrace in Pinggu, Tanzhou in the future. At that time, some powerful people from the interior of Youzhou will be moved to these two prefectures. Suppressing the powerful forces in the interior of Youzhou can also enrich the frontier.

Anyway, it counts.

Since Li Shimin ascended the throne and changed Yuan Zhenguan, the imperial court has been actively abolishing prefectures and counties and merging the governor's office. However, after Wu Huaiyu came to Youzhou, many new counties were established.

Just like North Yanzhou, there was only one Huairong County before, but after Wu Huaiyu took over the villages behind Fushan, he newly established Chicheng County and Fengning County.

After returning from inspections beyond the Great Wall, four new counties, Guangning, Huai'an, Wende, and Yongxing, were established in the area where Sogdian Hu was based.
This is not over yet. After Wu Huaiyu wiped out Hu Sanqian's family in Sogdia, other border residents and Tibetan households in Northern Yanzhou who had not registered their citizenship also took the initiative to request registration as a registered household, tax payment and service. , newly established Longmen County and Chongli County,

and Guichuan County.

Now in the name of building Xuanyuantai Shouling Mausoleum, the original will be transferred to the Zhuoshui area of ​​Yongxing, and Fanshan County will be newly established.

As a result, North Yanzhou originally only governed Huairong County, but now there are Huairong, Guichuan, Fanshan, Yongxing, Chicheng, Fengning, Longmen, Chongli, Guangning, Huai'an, Wende eleven counties.

Suddenly increased from one county to eleven counties, of course Wu Huaiyu is not fooling around.

With so many counties set up, it is natural that the place is so big, and secondly, it is necessary to prepare for the next large-scale immigration and military deployment.

As the shoulders of Youfu, North Yan Prefecture is a strategic location for transportation, so it is natural to strengthen and speed up its development. The Qingyi Army, Guangbian Army, and Guangning Army are directly stationed here.

There are five new military mansions.

It is also necessary to organize and practice martial arts regiments, Fanhu Chengpong and so on.

There are many soldiers and horses, and there is also a lot of food and grass needs. It is impossible to transport grain to the border by using the salt method. Wu Huaiyu still hopes to use the vast land and sparse population of the border area to set up farmland.

The first is the military station.

The Governor's Mansion of Youzhou will be divided into three Tuntian districts, Youji Tuntian District, where the land is fertile, the rivers are criss-crossed, irrigation is convenient, and the agricultural conditions are excellent. Draining water from Lugou can open up thousands of hectares of rice fields. Preliminary estimates, Youjitun District, You can open the army to garrison hundreds of tun, and each tun is 50 mu, which is [-] mu of land.

The second Tuntian District is Pingying Tuntian District, Pingzhou Yingzhou, in the west of Youzhou, and even reaches the Liaohe River in the east. The Puhe River Basin, as well as the large tracts of land north of Lulongsai, can reclaim many military settlements.

This village area has more fields than Youjitun area, but its agricultural conditions are not as good, with more than 100 villages and five to six thousand hectares of land.

The third Tuntian area is naturally behind the mountain. North Yanzhou and Tanzhou can both be called the land north of the mountain. The strategic location is prominent, and it is the shoulder of Youzhou.

There are many basins in North Yanzhou. Rivers such as Yuyanshui and Sanggan River pass by. There is no population at present. Tuen.

As long as there are enough people, if these three military areas are developed, they can reach [-] villages and more than one million mu of land, which is quite astonishing.

In addition to military settlements, civilian settlements can also be used to enrich the frontiers by immigrating to farmland and granting land.

Ten counties were newly established in Yanzhou in the north, and the total population is now less than 3000 households. Adding the more than [-] households in Huairong, there are less than [-] households. This also includes many Fanhu who also registered for naturalization up,

In these counties, [-] households in each county are enough.

The needs of the population are great.

Compared with Youzhou, which is vast and sparsely populated, the Hebei Plain in Jizhou has gradually recovered, especially those old aristocratic and powerful families still occupy a large amount of land, coupled with the annexation of land by the new rich, ordinary people still occupy only a few miles There is even no land to cultivate.

Wu Huaiyu still hopes to pry some tenants and tribes from these powerful families, and move to the frontier fortress to divide the land and enrich the frontier.

The newly created soldiers and regiments give priority to the allocation of land, and even their family members and children also give priority to the allocation of land, and the upper limit of one teeny mu is full.

These frontier troops stationed at the frontier fortress are stationed at the same time as they farm. In addition to the military supplies and reserves, they also have to share a proportion of the food they earn to the soldiers in the farm. It is equivalent to a bonus reward and motivates everyone.

Wind and snow.

Wu Huaiyu, Tudiji, Fuyu and Lu Chengye were enjoying the snow and drinking under Xuanyuan Terrace.

"Guo surname, the children of Sumo Mohe in Yanzhou are very brave and tough. The governor wants to choose more soldiers and martial arts to enrich the frontier defense, and select some yamen soldiers who are the governor. Would you like to?"

Li Tudiji has been attached to the Central Plains for more than [-] years, and he is no longer a barbarian who knows nothing.

Hearing the string song, he knows the elegant meaning, and he has been with Wu Huaiyu for a while, and he immediately understood what Wu Huaiyu meant, but he got up without hesitation, raised his wine glass and served first as a respect, "That's what the governor thinks of these bastards, They are lucky in their lives to be selected as soldiers of the government, or even the soldiers of the governor’s government, and I will thank the governor on their behalf.”

Wu Huaiyu wanted to select Mohe's children as soldiers and knights, and let them go to Beijing to serve as guards, or guard at the border, or become Wu Huaiyu's tooth soldiers. This means that these elite young and strong Mohe children will be separated from Li Tu Diji even left Yanzhou.

But he didn't refuse, not even a trace of hesitation.

After more than [-] years of enclosing it, Tudiji understood the truth that the only way out to truly live a good life is to fully integrate and become a Han Chinese.

It is not a good thing to keep Hu Feng all the time, and even settle down.

The old patriarch who took the initiative to let his beloved youngest son worship Wu Huaiyu as his adoptive father, and sent the whole family of the bravest eldest son to Chang'an, saw it very clearly.

Even if their thousands of Sumohe people are all dispersed, so what, even if Yanzhou is abolished and merged into Youzhou, so what,

Yu Yanshui's three thousand Sogdian beards had just perished, and even he led the Mohe disciples to contribute a lot.

"The Governor of Floating Elm?"

"Me too!" Fuyu chose to follow Tudiji's footsteps without hesitation.

At the beginning, they Fuyu Mohe Wusugu tribe, followed Sumo Eight tribes and moved westward to the Sui Dynasty. After decades, he felt that this was the right way to choose, and now there is nothing to hesitate about.

Breaking it up into parts and distributing them is undoubtedly a good way to avoid getting too big.

Wu Huaiyu was very satisfied with the straightforwardness of the two Mohe leaders, and stood up to toast each of them.

Li Tuji responded respectfully, and even bluntly said, "I moved to the west and settled in the west, and resettled in the west of Liaoning. Later, when the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, the turmoil was precarious, and the court was kind, and I still allocated land to settle in prefectures and counties." He bluntly said that he was old. "I'm already used to staying in Youzhou. Now my children have the opportunity to choose the soldiers and regiment training. I am very grateful. I can't go back to Liaoxi, and I don't want to go back. I think it is no longer necessary to keep Yan. In the name of Shenzhou and Shenzhou, I request the governor to write a letter to His Majesty to abolish the overseas Chinese and set up Yanzhou, which will be directly under the jurisdiction of Youzhou."

"It's the same for us in Shenzhou." Fu Yu followed.

Based on the consideration of some special circumstances, the imperial court set up Dudu Mansions and prefectures within the borders of some of the Fan Hus attached to them, and they were still ruled by their chiefs. Direct management, no account registration and no taxation.

There is also a state called Neifu Overseas Chinese Home Fuzhou, such as Yanzhou. Originally, Tudiji and others like them attached to the Central Plains and settled in Liaoxi. Liaoxi County was set up under Yanjun. They have territory, but they manage their own tribes. , In fact, there is basically no taxation, only a little tribute.

But later Tudiji and others moved inward, and set up Yanzhou in Youzhou to manage the tribal population of the original Yan County and Liaoxi County.

This continues the tradition since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. For example, a certain state was captured by an enemy country, so the state was set up in the rear to accommodate the soldiers and civilians who managed the original state.

At the beginning of Tang Wude, Yanzhou fell into the enemy's hands, and the imperial court set up Yanzhou Yamen in the city of Lingzhou.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the establishment of prefectures and counties by overseas Chinese was originally a means to collect refugees and appease the overseas Chinese, and it was regarded as a temporary policy.

When Yanzhou of Tudiji was sent to govern the city of Youzhou, there was no real soil, but later, in order to win over and appease them, the imperial court specially allocated a piece of land in the northwest of Youzhou City for them and set up Yanzhou for them, which is equivalent to upgrading Zhengzhou has been established, but the actual land is only one county, and it basically manages the Mohe tribe.

Tudiji is now asking for the abolition of Yanzhou, not even the overseas home, which is a very positive show of loyalty.

Wu Huaiyu was very happy about this.

In fact, he also hates such things as setting up prefectures and counties by overseas Chinese, or setting up such autonomous prefectures and counties for Fanhu, and creating a state within a state, which is harmful but not beneficial.

Even if it is a temporary expediency, it will definitely be canceled if there is a chance.

Now is not the right time.

So Wu Huaiyu asked Lu Chengye to immediately write a memorial for Tudiji and Fuyu, requesting the abolition of Yanzhou and Shenzhou, and merging them into Youzhou.

After writing it, Wu Huaiyu also signed his name, which can be regarded as a joint letter.

Tudiji is now the surname of Ciguo and the Duke of Yiguo, while Fuyu is only the Marquis of Fuyu.

This guy also knew that he didn't have the prestige and strength of Tudiji, and he couldn't get the surname of the country directly from the emperor, so he came up with the idea of ​​Wu Huaiyu. He worshiped Huaiyu as his adoptive father.

Fuyu's youngest son, Hutou Hunao, is his No. 20 third son. Fuyu is very capable of giving birth. He gave birth to 23 sons and a bunch of daughters. A few died of illness and battle. Now he has 23 sons. This little [-] is about the same age as Li Jinxing,

"Atai pays homage to foster father."

"Hahaha, okay, the governor will accept you as his adopted son."

"Please give him a name from the governor."

"I'll give you the word Sigong. I hope you will remember it well."

Fu Yu patted his son's head that had just cut off the braids, and the newly grown hair was like a peach, "You will be called Wu Sigong from now on, why don't you hurry up and thank Mr. Wu."

"Boy, Wu Sigong, thank you adoptive father for giving me the name." This kid was quick to respond.

Wu Huaiyu originally only said to give him a name, but did not ask him to change his surname.

Before he could open his mouth, Fu Yu also thanked him, saying that his surname would be Wu in the future.

"Wu Fuyu thanked the governor for giving her a surname."

Wu Huaiyu couldn't help laughing when he looked at the two hairy heads of the old and the young, that's all, since the two insist on clinging, it doesn't matter.

The old man immediately said again, from now on, they will change their surname to Wu in Fuyu Wusugu's tribe.

Good guy, suddenly there are thousands of Mohe Wu families.

(End of this chapter)