The Emperor ordered Zhao Tang

Chapter 132 Silver County
Migazu sat on the horse in a daze. Shun Tang, it's not impossible, but he felt willing. It's hard to give up Weizhou, which I occupied. Many things, there is often only one chance in a lifetime, if you miss it, your life will be ruined.

But the aggressive Tang people were definitely not something that I could deal with alone.

He had a strong premonition that after opening up the He and Wei rivers, Tian Khan would continue to advance towards Shancheng, Xihai, and Jincheng. After all, this vast and fertile land had been under the jurisdiction of the court since Emperor Wu. In the difficult situation of the Later Han Dynasty, many ministers advocated giving up the Liangzhou Provincial Administration, but the Han emperor did not agree and sent three officials to fight against it, which shows the obsession of the Central Plains with this land.

Moreover, with the two saints now coexisting, I am afraid that Tian Khan would like to take over Guanxi to fight against the heroes in Guandong.

How can he fight against the Emperor of Daliang with only the eight towns in Guannei Road?
Ugh.

What bad luck! If Zhu Quanzhong hadn't rushed to claim the throne, scaring the Heavenly Khan into panic, there wouldn't have been such an unexpected disaster in Guanxi!
While he was deep in thought, He Xian rode past on his horse and shouted, "The Tang people are chasing us, hurry up!"

"Jie'er, are you really going to Jincheng?" An Qucong pulled the reins and said with tears in his eyes, "The Liangzhou army is in the north. They will definitely respond to the imperial edict and attack the tribes in Jincheng. It is better to go west from Shancheng to the West Sea and escape to the islands in the sea."

Migazu was silent for a moment, and looked at his subordinates who were covered in dust. They didn't even dare to go to Jincheng... Were they scared by the Tang people? He looked back at the lush and green Bird and Mouse Tongxue Mountain and sighed, "Then let's go to the West Sea and seek the protection of the sea god."

The Tang people will probably continue to move westward. Jincheng and Shancheng are not good places to go, but the West Sea is not necessarily a good place. Once they reach the islands in the sea, they will be truly lost; but Migazu has no other choice now.

Go there and try your luck. If you can't stay there, you can only go west to the Zhuledusi Grassland and the Qaidam River...

"Let's go."

Migazu, with his men who seemed to have fewer men, quickly found the way down and disappeared into the vast sea of trees.

On the sixth day of the sixth month of the second year of the Jingfu reign, Zhang Fan, the commander-in-chief of the cavalry and infantry of the Jingyuan Yameng, led 10,000 infantry and cavalry, led by the Dangxiang people, and arrived at Yuzhong County, south of Jincheng.

In the early morning of the seventh day, the Tibetan noble leaders Gadebei and Lunjiqiong and the great Tibetan shaman Ashina Laimei, Bai Yuerong, Hedouling Wujia and others, representing the heads of various Tibetan and Han tribes, temples, and lords, formally surrendered to the Tang people.

As the city gates were suddenly opened, it was announced that the royal army had recovered Weizhou, and the Tibetan rule came to an end.

Except for the 5,000 remnant soldiers who broke out with Migazu and Sangbaobao, all other warriors stationed in the city, as well as elite auxiliary soldiers, and tens of thousands of male and female slaves, all laid down their weapons, lined up to walk out of the city, and were surrendered by the Tang people.

The sage issued an edict to change the name of Xiangwu City to Jingfu Shoujiang City.

All the Tibetan nobles and monks in the city, including those from a noble Tibetan family like Gadebei, performed dances at the city gate.

Amid thunderous cheers, the army marched into the city with the saint on horseback, armed with swords and spears.

He was full of ambition before, but after taking Weizhou, he did not feel the joy of regaining the old territory as he had imagined. His heart was so calm without even a ripple.

"There used to be a Guandi Temple there." The saint pointed at a place with his whip and said softly.

The temple had long been in disrepair, with only the mountain gate and drum tower remaining from the main structure. The images of unicorns, elephants, tigers, and deer carved on the stone walls had become blurred by hundreds of years of rain and wind.

A group of children hid in the temple, crouching behind the collapsed statues and secretly spying on the new ruler.

The saint looked at these children expressionlessly. Everyone's face was painted with dark red paint to a greater or lesser extent, which was the "red face" of the Tibetan custom. As for their attire, they either had dirty pigtails or simply let their hair down.

Left-side lapel... can only speak a few Chinese words... perhaps these children are descendants of the Tianbao survivors, or maybe they are real mixed Hu people; no one can tell.

"This is an inscription of the Wei State from 600 years ago." Walking into another alley, the sage saw a stone tablet covered with moss. The parallel prose written on it could still be vaguely recognized, which said that Xu Zhi, a general under the command of General Chen Tai, was killed in battle by Jiang Wei, and Jiang Wei "captured" tens of thousands of people in the south. This made the sage very surprised. It turned out that after Zhuge Liang's death, the Han and Wei fought for more than ten years in Longxi.

The sunlight shines on the ancient monument covered by weeds, looking bleak.

“Who lives in Wuyi Lane? Looking back reminds me of the Xie family…” The saint was a little disappointed.

Xiangwu is still the ancient city of Xiangwu that has witnessed a lot of history, but Weizhou is very different from the picture he imagined.

He thought that the survivors of the Tianbao period and the Dai Delue people would come out of their homes to tell the royal teacher about the sufferings of the past generations, welcome the arrival of the Han emperor, and then express that they had finally waited for the liberator, just like the foreign herdsmen and Han people in Liangzhou who surrounded the passing envoys from Chang'an and chattered about "How is the saint?"

It is a pity.

No.

The 150-year enslavement rule of the Tibetans over the Longxi He, Wei, Jin and Shan states far surpassed that of Liangzhou, Dunhuang, Jiuquan and Zhangye in the Hexi Corridor in terms of depth, breadth and intensity, and was enough to wear away anyone's longing for their homeland.

In Xiangwu City, the eyes that looked at Master Wang were filled with vigilance, fear and curiosity.

Even the few who knew that their ancestors were Han Chinese had distant expressions.

There were also a dozen Han monks who showed up and swore their loyalty in unison, but the saint was not happy, but felt a sense of loss.

It is easy to recapture Longxi by force, but how to govern this place where the customs of the people have changed drastically is a difficult problem.

Clothes, hairstyles, and language can be changed with an imperial edict. But what about the people's hidden feelings of wariness and vigilance towards the Central Plains?

The Han people all spoke in the Hu language, but they cursed the Han people from the top of the city wall, not to mention others.

Later, He Yexian was doing business in the Western Regions and accidentally discovered a royal descendant, Qinan Lingwen. He was overjoyed and brought him back to Hewei. Thousands of Tibetan clans and other ethnic forces from far and near heard the news and came to pay homage to him and respected him as the king. When Qinan Lingwen was restored, Zen brother Song Zhenzong had already come to power. How many years had Tubo been destroyed? This appeal and influence are outrageous. Obviously, the Tibetan royal family still has leadership in Helong, and the people here are not the same as Hua.

In other words, there is a high possibility that the people here will suddenly gather together one day to resist the brutal rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Submission to rule and acceptance of rule are two different things. Later on, the policies of setting up counties, sending officials, enclosing pastures and improving farmland, destroying Buddhist temples, and freeing slaves will definitely be implemented. These policies involve the core interests of lords, monks, and chiefs, so how can there not be many enemies?

Now, under the pressure of the army, everyone is silent. Whatever you say, "Yes, yes, yes, please be kind." Once the army leaves, it is likely that they will have this expression: "Yes, yes, good..." Ask them to do something, not just blowing wind and rain.

How to digest the Hewei states and what strategies to use to control them are the questions that the sage is thinking about now.

Weizhou was taken by force. Considering their own strength, the six states of He, Tao, Wu, Min, Die and Kuo probably wouldn't dare to resist any more.

Just because the Tang army didn't massacre the city doesn't mean they won't do it in other states and counties. The sage doesn't really like to do this, but his generals are all experts. At most, they can send out Cui Gong, Li Zan, Fu Daozhao, Wu Xiong, Yin Shouzhi, Zhao Chong, and Zha Zhu to attack a state alone. Without being watched by the sage, it will also allow everyone to get to know the warriors of the Central Plains; the Tibetans should know the benefits and disadvantages.

If these states are willing to surrender, together with Weizhou, there will be seven states.

However, these seven states were not big. In the Tang Dynasty, the establishment of states and counties was rampant. Based on economic, geographical, and population factors, states were divided into seven levels: Fu, Xiong, Wang, Jin, Shang, Zhong, and Xia. But in practice, a small corner or a village with a few thousand men and women could often be turned into a county... Tao, Die, and Kuo were examples of this.

For example, Xiazhou Guzhou had only 3964 households at the peak of Kaiyuan. The total population was not as large as a street in Chang'an City or a village in a regular county like Lantian. Setting up a state in this place would not make much sense except for adding a number of positions to arrange for civil servants. At this time when the Miga soldiers were looking north in panic, the army was sweeping Longxi, and the Fan and Han tribes were terrified, some things were best done early while the opportunity arose.

Li planned to abolish the administrative system of these states and reduce them to counties, and all the original counties would be reduced to townships. Hetao, Min, Die, Dang, Wei, Baosai, He, and Xicang states, together with the military cities of Shen Ce City, Yao Wu City, and Bai Gu City, would be combined into one county.

The saint has already thought of a name, it’s called Yin County.

The Jiedushi system was no longer used, at least not in Longxi. Although it was beneficial to improve the work enthusiasm and external expansion desire of the chief officers and reduce the financial pressure of the central government, it was very risky, such as fostering independent and powerful vassals and the ambition of Jiedushi. Now that the Migazu had been driven away by himself, he had to be careful of other ambitious people showing up, whether internally or externally.

In view of the mixed residence of Tibetans and Han people, there were many surrendered Tibetan and Dangxiang lords, and considering the potential for rebellion, the governor of Yin County was given the titles of "guarding and capturing envoy" and "field camp recruiting envoy".

In the Tang Dynasty, in places with beautiful mountains and rivers and complex situations, foreign troops were stationed. Larger places with more than 10,000 warriors were called armies, and smaller places were called garrisons, forts, and towns. Armies had military envoys, forts had city envoys, towns had town commanders, and various institutions had envoys. The military was basically independent. Within your defense zone, no one could control you except the imperial court and the Jiedushi.

As for the permanent post of the Field Camp Recruiting and Suppressing, it was first established by the imperial court to contain the Shatuo, Turkic, Uighur, and Hun tribes. The Hedong Jiedushi and Zhenwujunshi held the post concurrently for a long time. Xianfei's grandfather had done it... To put it bluntly, it allowed local officials holding this post to strike at the region or a certain force at any time without obtaining the knowledge and consent of the central government.

It is of great significance, so the places where the imperial court regularly posts field camps and recruiting envoys have always been very rare.

The saint thought that the governor of Yin County needed this authority. Why not give it to the lieutenant of Yin County? Is there any need to talk about the pros and cons of a warrior holding a butcher's knife getting this power?

The saint had already thought of the candidates for the governor and lieutenant of Yin County.

Cui Gong and Wu Xiong form a team. With Cui Gong's experience, he is more than qualified to be the governor. Wu and the remaining Binshi... these little brats are too naughty, they need to be transformed by using exotic customs... just like the more than 2,000 households of the Yun army who brought their families to Liangzhou to guard the border, and they became good kids in just a few years... this is what a good warrior should be!

Master Bin disagrees?
Ahem, the saint would not ask for their opinions at all. Not settling old scores is a sign of the emperor's kindness. Send the parents, wives and children of these more than 6,000 warriors here, and everyone can live a good life in Yin County.

The last thing is how the armies of Gadebei, Lunjiqiong, Yesi Changming and other Dangxiang tribes were reorganized.

There is actually a successful precedent in our dynasty.

Before the An-Shi Rebellion, there were a large number of "imperial army" in Guanxi, such as the Doulu Army stationed in Dunhuang under the command of the Hexi Jiedushi, whose soldiers were all Tuyuhun and other Hu people. Another example is the Moli Army, which was composed of Xueyantuo, Tuyuhun, and Turks. Have you ever seen a large number of Hu people helping Han soldiers suppress a large number of rebellious Hu people? There were in later generations, but it was the other way around.

This can be done temporarily.

The sage decided to select 500 soldiers from each of the nine schools of the foreign army, and then transfer a captain from the Imperial Guards, and form the Pingyi, Wulu, and Jinjian armies with more than 20,000 people from Gadbei and other tribes. The ten generals and above were to be promoted by the old men of Yingwu. He had led these captains for more than two years. They had been together when fighting in Qishan, and the soldiers recognized him.

In this way, it would not matter if leaders like Gadebei, Lunjiqiong and Yesichangming were appointed as military envoys.

Even if they have ulterior motives, a word from Li can make the heroic and brave people start to stir up trouble.

This is the general idea, and the details will be gradually improved.

Originally, the sage had planned to continue westward to attack Jincheng after capturing Weizhou, but now it seems that there will be a delay.

...

On the eighth day of June, Master Wang issued a notice to implement a series of post-war policies.

At the same time, Li ordered that all Han and Tibetan soldiers and civilians, regardless of whether they wore their hair in a knot, with their hair hanging down, in a bun, or with their hair hanging down, cut, tied up, or tied, must grow their hair and tie it up. Those who had shaved their heads were not allowed to shave their hair again after it grew out.

If you want to shave your hair, you will be beheaded; if you want to keep your hair, you will grow it. This is not a simple revenge, but a habitual method. In the future, there will undoubtedly be immigration to the border areas in Longxi. If the various ethnic groups want to integrate, they will have to get rid of some overly obvious differences.

In addition, all slaves and peasants were unconditionally free. If they wanted to return to their hometowns, they could do so. If they did not want to leave, they would be registered as households and granted land.

This is a test of obedience, while the army is still here. Otherwise, if I leave and then issue the order to free the slaves, the slave owners may not understand the situation and unite to rebel. If you want to cause trouble, do it now, as soon as possible.

　I haven't written for many days. I feel confused, my hands are not used to it, and I can't find the feeling. I feel that the quality has dropped seriously. Just read it and let me find the state.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)