Han Khan

Chapter 35: Thirty-four, Wei and Xin
"The descendants of Songtsen Gampo in the Snowland of Tibet have long been caught up in endless disputes and divisions. They have fought each other to the point of bloodshed and fled from Lhasa in a miserable state.

And the Buddha, who was once regarded as sacred by you, has long been expelled from the snowy land.

You stupid dog slaves should have gratefully accepted the shelter and livestock I gave you, but you are so ungrateful! Haotian warriors! Where are the brave warriors of Jinhan? Kill all these hateful and dirty dog ​​slaves!

For those who dare to resist, I will grant them endless unrest in their lifetime, and their souls will fall into hell forever, suffering from eternal suffering!"

Zhang Sheng said this on the stage.

"We will obey your will! We will execute these traitorous heretics!"

Jinhan warriors everywhere roared, raised their weapons, and rushed towards the traitors.

Zhang Sheng had anticipated this rebellion and dispatched soldiers to patrol during the game in advance.

Although almost all the original centurions had left Zhang Sheng's central army to serve as centurions of various hundred households.

But the organization of the central army remained, with many soldiers left behind. Under the leadership of the captain, they were patrolling continuously while the competition was being held. When they noticed that the Tibetans and Qiangs were attempting to resist, they caught none of them.

Immediately afterwards, 368 Tibetans and Qiangs who participated in the rebellion were tied to wooden stakes in the camp.

This time Zhang Sheng showed no mercy and executed the leader and his accomplices on the spot.

After 368 heads fell to the ground, the Tibetans and Qiangs, who had lost their leader, began to understand the importance of fear and obedience.

"This is the first and last time. From today on, this will be the fate of those who violate my laws! If one person makes a mistake, the people in the same ten or hundred households will all be punished unless they report it! Today's competition is over, and each hundred household must manage the people in their own hundred or ten households well." Zhang Sheng said sternly.

Zhang Sheng knew the habits of these Hu people very well.

These Hu people are free and easy by nature and are accustomed to an unrestrained lifestyle.

However, the internal order of their clans and tribes is very stable and united. They only obey the orders of their patriarchs and heads, and ordinary means have no effect on them at all.

It was for this reason that Zhang Sheng decided to establish the Hundred-Household System to reorganize all the tribesmen.

This is not only true for the Hu people, there are also many difficult-to-discipline troublemakers among the Han people.

Faced with such a situation, Zhang Sheng knew that only tough measures could have a deterrent effect and thus establish his own prestige.

After all, prestige is something that requires "prestige" first before it can generate "credibility".

At this moment, the bloody heads on the ground and the cruel screams of many people being whipped made the tribesmen present feel terrified and their eyes were filled with fear.

Whether voluntarily or forced, as long as you take Zhang Sheng's job, you will be under his control.

In special times, only special measures can be taken. Of course, this is only the first step.

In view of the generally low level of education of the people at that time, Zhang Sheng asked Zhang Jinda to lead the patrol soldiers to erect tall wooden pillars in various corners of the camp, and carefully carved a line of eye-catching red characters on them: "Those who betray the tribe and disobey the leader's orders will be beheaded!"

It was also deliberately painted a bright blood red, revealing a chilling murderous aura.

Not only that, Zhang Sheng also ordered the soldiers in charge of patrolling to read these texts aloud while patrolling.

So, every time the soldiers passed by the wooden pillars, they would shout out those intimidating words at the top of their lungs, filling the entire camp with a serious and tense atmosphere.

After seeing and hearing this, all the tribesmen became more compliant, and the resistance to the hundred-household system implemented by the Jinhan tribe was significantly reduced.

For most of the Hu people, they would be very satisfied if they could drink two bowls of hot porridge every day.

After all, before this, they often had to face the torture of hunger and cold.

In addition, Zhang Sheng's decree treated Han and Hu people equally and did not contain any form of discrimination or prejudice.

Over time, the tribesmen gradually became accustomed to this fair and just management method.

The leader of the Jinhan tribe was protected by the gods, and the army was very powerful. Although life was difficult, in such an environment, their lives were at least stable.

When have they ever had such a life in the snowy areas and at the foot of the Qilian Mountains?
They face the danger of being plundered by other clans and tribes at any time every day, and they face a huge survival crisis every day, which makes them feel suffocated.

For Zhang Sheng, the system of hundred households was just a matter of killing people to establish his authority, and the next step was to establish his credibility.

This is to let the tribe know that the leader is not a person who kills people at will and does not keep his word. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the court situation has been unstable between the eunuchs and the relatives of the emperor, focusing on internal struggles, the country is declining, dark and corrupt, but don't think that the Hu people can plunder the south without restraint.

This was the end of the Tang Dynasty, not the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The powerful warlords in the Central Plains fought against the Hu people, each one more ferocious than the other, and the generals in various places were extremely powerful and overbearing.

They were ruthless towards the surrounding barbarians and would often go to the grasslands to forage for food and plunder their people and livestock. They also had many Hu people under their command, who searched and plundered even more than the Hu Lu.

But the Hu people also plundered each other in the same way, and those Hu soldiers who followed the powerful Tang army made a lot of money.

However, that was in Hebei, Central Plains and other places. Although there were more Hu people there, the forces of the Tang people or those who identified with the Tang Dynasty were extremely powerful.

For example, Liu Rengong and his son Liu Shouguang, and the Shatuo people Li Keyong and his son Li Cunxu were extremely fierce when fighting against the Hu people.

Li Cunxu, in particular, was extremely brave. Just this year, he defeated Hou Liang in the south and pacified Jie Yan in the north, making his power known throughout the world.

The Khitans and the remaining Uighurs in the south and north of the desert were beaten so badly that they had no power to fight back and could only retreat to the grassland.

The Uighurs on the grasslands north and south of the desert have now been almost completely annexed by the Khitans. The Khitan leader, Abaoji, is also extremely ferocious. He has banned the Khitan nobles from electing a new Khan for several consecutive terms, and his desire to become emperor is obvious.

Wang Rong and Wang Chuzhi, envoys of the Later Liang Dynasty, entered Jin successively and jointly recommended Li Cunxu as the Minister of the Chancellery. Li Cunxu declined the position three times according to etiquette, and then accepted the position of Minister of the Chancellery. He opened a palace in Taiyuan and established a mobile office, and appointed officials in the name of the Tang emperor.

However, in the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions, the situations faced by the Tang people and their descendants were quite different.

They were constantly robbed and attacked by the Uighurs and the Tibetan slave tribes from the east and west.

What is the reason for this?

It turned out that the Han population here was sparse, and the Hu people who traveled between the north and south and the east and west often passed through here, and the sparse population was constantly being diluted.

When Zhang was in charge of the Guiyi Army, they dared to fight and struggle, but now military victory is almost non-existent.

The Jinhan tribe is now extremely powerful. Why? Because they have nothing. There is nothing left that cannot be abandoned.

If you can't govern the people under your rule, then what's the difficulty in killing them all?

Zhang Sheng could certainly spend some time, like his great-grandfather Zhang Yichao, to build good relationships with the Hu people, cultivate feelings, and enhance trust.

However, on the one hand, the time cost was too high and the results were mediocre. On the other hand, Zhang Sheng did not just want to use the Hu people, but wanted to transform them in a real sense and integrate them into the Jinhan tribe.

Zhang Sheng aims to build a stable and unified military, political and religious group. Although its current size is small, it is not important. However, the cohesion of the Jinhan tribe must be strong.

It is by no means a loose makeshift team that will collapse at the first blow.

Therefore, it is necessary to make the people under the rule firmly believe in the strength of Jin Han, and at the same time make them deeply believe that Jin Han will not easily kill and plunder its subjects.

Only in this way can Zhang Sheng and the Jin Han tribe truly gain the basic trust and support of the people.

To achieve this, he must practice what he preaches. He will only execute those who rebel and will never implicate other innocent people.

The so-called "faith" is the quality of being honest and trustworthy, keeping one's word, and being able to convince and trust others. Only with this kind of "faith" can the people who have been reorganized into hundreds of households live in peace and stability.

Zhang Sheng knows very well that if a leader loses the trust of the people, the force he leads will not be able to survive for long.

Therefore, he always adhered to the principle of "faith" to win the heartfelt support of his people.

The establishment of the hundred-household system was bound to break and disrupt the old organizations of the Han and Hu peoples, such as families, clans, and tribes, which were organized based on blood ties within the Jinhan tribe.

He would not let go even the Sai tribe that specialized in iron smelting and forging and was under his direct control.

They must be broken up and separated, and people from different ethnic groups who can forge iron will be added to the blacksmith hundred households. There will also be a large number of Sai people who cannot forge iron and will be assigned to other hundred households.

This was not a new method. It was to re-register the people of each tribe and clan, so that the previous tribes would fall apart and a new order and grassroots management organization system would be established.

This old order must be broken in order to establish a new, stable, and no longer fragmented tribe on the journey of migration.

Now there are few Han people under my command, but many Hu people. In order to rule this complex tribe, I have to do this and must act in this way.

(End of this chapter)