Chapter 435 Xuanwei Savage
Xu Jingzong thought for a while, "If you talk about the palace, you can be the grass head king for three to five days, but you will definitely die. Now you obey the destiny and accept the reward and Zhaoan. Years of wealth and honor are worth it."
"Yeah, it's worth it. Tan Dian is not stupid. Feng An, Chen Longshu, Li Xizhi and other Lingnan lords all surrendered and loyal to the imperial court. How dare he be a chariot? It was just a bit of a rush to jump the wall before. Once there is a retreat , he will not jump the wall."
To put it bluntly, in fact, the Lingnan rebellion was never taken seriously by the imperial court. How many people actually succeeded in the Lingnan rebellion? Zhao Tuo founded the Nanyue Kingdom, but Zhao Tuo himself was also an official of the Southern Expedition Army of Qin State, not a native of Lingnan.
It was not the barbarians that he relied on to establish the country, but the Qin army that went south that year.
The southern barbarians don’t have any talented people with vision and style. No matter how they dance, give them a little sweetness, and wave a big stick to frighten them, they will immediately admit cowardice.
"The conditions for Tandian are indeed good, but how can we ensure that after Tandian is attached, the rest of the Xidong barbarians will also be attached?" Xu Jingzong asked.
If only one person is bought, it won't work, right?
"It's also simple. The Tandian can recruit security, can't the other chiefs? It's just like dealing with the Yuecheng barbarians. Set up more Jiji counties in the major mountains, and appoint those Xidong county magistrates, etc. If some tribes are powerful and powerful, they can simply set up a prefecture and let them be the governors. If they are stronger, they can also set aside a place like the Hall of Talks, and give it to the chiefs as a world fief. , that's all."
Add some trade, promise not to register households, naturalize and collect taxes, etc., I believe those barbarians will happily accept it. They will think that they have defeated the court and forced the court to agree to their request.
But they didn't know that on the surface they won, but in fact the court was not losing money, and at worst they just returned to the previous situation of barbarian autonomy.
But in fact, as long as the barbarians are no longer hostile to the imperial court and do not cause chaos, the imperial court can logically and legitimately go south to Lingnan, and infiltrate and influence a little bit through trade and transactions.
Open the market first, then open the post station, and then immigrate to farmland, set up military stations, fortresses, deploy military mansions, etc. Slowly, they will find that they can't do without the merchants of the Central Plains, and they can't get rid of the court. The government's governance, even if they want to reverse it one day, those military castles, local soldiers, etc., will be like sharp knives on their backs, making them afraid to move.
To deal with the barbarians, there is actually only one thing, be steady, don't worry.
It should be the same as baking small fish, bake it slowly on the smallest fire, and it will be burned if you are impatient. The taste is either bitter, or it is turned into charcoal and wasted.
Bake slowly on a low fire, and finally you can get a crispy and crispy dried fish, which melts in your mouth and is extremely delicious.
In fact, the Southern Barbarians cannot pose a huge threat to the Central Plains like the Northern Hu nomads. The most important thing is the way of life. The barbarians live in the mountains and by the river. Like the farming civilization, they actually live together and are relatively fixed. Tribes The space is relatively closed, and it is more difficult to form a unity.
Even long-term internal fighting will consume them, making them unable to get out of the mountains.
But their internal fighting is not as brutal as the nomads' conquest, fighting every year, fighting from generation to generation, that's all. Unlike on the grassland, in one or two hundred years, there will always be a tribe that rises up, then conquers other tribes, unifies the grassland, and then forms a powerful grassland force that can threaten the Central Plains dynasty.
Southern barbarians generally do not, they are very closed, fighting back and forth, that is, internal fighting within a hundred miles, it is always difficult to get out of that narrow circle, it is difficult to get out of the closed mountains, and technology, tactics, etc. will always be behind the Central Plains many.
The imperial court only needs to differentiate and differentiate them, and then fry them slowly.
The method of the Qin Dynasty's 500,000 troops storming Lingnan was actually not optimal.
Qin Lang's eyes fell on the map of Lingnan. On the upper reaches of the Yu River, where the Zuoxi and Youxi converge, a Yongzhou City stands there, and to the west of the Yongzhou City, there are three major rivers: Zuoxi, Youxi, and Dunijiang. The river basins on both sides of the strait, thousands of miles away, are blank on a huge fan-shaped surface.
There are only wild mountains and three flowing rivers. There is no prefecture or county there, and even Jimi prefecture and county have not been established. It can be seen that this is a truly barbaric land completely controlled by barbarians and even barbarians.
Compared to the east, that side is wilder and more backward, and his fief of Qin Lang is at the foot of the mountain southeast of the wild world of the blank map.
So theoretically speaking, Qin Lang's land is very good. First, it is close to the sea, and second, it is close to Jiaozhou, the core of Annan. The transportation is convenient, and there is also a strong city to rely on.
The most important thing is that there is a lot of room for expansion.
As long as Qin Lang expands to the northeast mountainous area, theoretically speaking, as long as he has the ability, there will be 1,200 miles of watershed in the upper reaches of the Zuojiang River alone that can be developed on his behalf.
This is only from Langshan to Yongzhou (Nanning), and there is Youjiang River to the north of Zuojiang River, which is also a watershed of more than a thousand miles, and Duni River to the north of Youjiang River, which is even more terrible. There are more than 1,000 miles in the state, and its upstream is the Beipan River and Nanpan River in Yunnan and Guizhou. Duni River is also called Hongshui River in later generations.
The upper reaches of the Nanpan River and the Bei Pan River are now equally barbaric lands occupied by barbarians.
If Qin Lang really had the ability, he would really have as many territories as he wanted, and even generations of descendants would have room to open up.
At the beginning, Qin Lang chose this place because of this.
The neighboring state is close to the coast, which guarantees that it will not be closed and backward, but behind it is an endless wilderness, which can be used for continuous development in the future.
Qin Lang wrote another letter to Tan Dian, and then sent Feng Shan and A Huang to meet him in Nanping on his behalf.
Tan Dian was very useful, especially those Dong Lords under him, and the barbarian kings from Zuoxi River. After learning that Qin Lang would be lenient and caring for all Xidong, he really didn't talk about fighting against each other.
Qin Lang asked each Xidong man to report the tribe's population and territory by himself, and based on this, he divided the state and county territory for the chiefs, conferred official titles such as the governor, county magistrate, and even the world.
As a result, the barbarian kings asked their subordinates to make books of the facts and facts of each family, and also drew the detailed boundary routes of Xidong, etc., in order to ask Qin Lang for the truth.
They didn't know or they didn't care. By doing this, they had already revealed all the facts about themselves to Qin Lang.
"I have 3,000 households, how can I get a governor?"
"Then I, Fusan, is the leader of the entire Zuoxi Man, so why can't I get a worldly title of governor like Tan Dian, and a county duke?"
"That's it!"
The barbarian kings laughed and laughed, discussing what kind of official titles they should be able to get based on their territory, population, and strength.
They even couldn't wait for people to start writing letters for them, and sent them to Xunzhou with these maps and books, and directly asked Qin Lang for officials.
Xunzhou, in the city of Guiping.
August Mid-Autumn Festival.
Qin Lang specially asked people to beat a lot of sweet-scented osmanthus, and then made a lot of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes.
Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my relatives every festive season.
Those who went south on the Dragon Boat Festival were still halfway by the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Qin Lang's subordinates in Guiping couldn't help feeling homesick at this time.
A little sweet-scented osmanthus cake is completely made in Chang'an, but it makes everyone believe in their hometown even more after eating it.
After more than 100 days in Lingnan, I have fully adapted to the climate in Lingnan, and the weather has finally cooled down. I don’t need to wear armor or march under the scorching sun. With toilet water and wormwood repellent, life will be smoother.
But today, after eating the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, everyone had to put on their armor and ride their horses.
No other.
On this festive day today, many barbarian chiefs came into the city to see Prime Minister Xuan.
Minister Xuan requested that in front of these Xidong barbarian kings, the strength of Datang should be well demonstrated.
Fully armed, put on armor and go into battle.
Fortunately, the sky today is not bad, it is cloudy without the sun, and the wind keeps blowing.
The wind was blowing, and everyone in the camp shouted to put on armor for each other.
The red nails tightly strangled the nails, and someone shouted, "Why the **** is he still fat?"
"Well, I gained weight too."
People are not only fat, but many people's horses are actually fat. These horses have also adapted to the climate in the south of the Five Ridges. They eat well and are leisurely, so the horses are also fat.
The nail leaves are polished, and all the weapons are also polished to shine.
When the drums and horns sounded, all the knights, warriors, and attendants with hippie smiles put away their smiles and spoke seriously.
The generals shouted in front of the assembled formation on horseback.
"I don't care how playful and cynical you usually are, but today is a review and even a battle. Everyone put on their best form for me. If anyone loses Xuanxiang's face in front of those barbarian kings today, I will turn around." Grind your skin and cram your tendons!"
"Do you understand everything?"
"clear!"
Everyone roared like a mountain roar.
"Are you all ready?"
"Ready!"
"Let's get started!"
Drums and horns burst out, and teams of soldiers and horses set off.
Walking in the front is Qin Lang's guard of honor, a giant man more than two meters tall riding a handsome Dawan horse, holding a flag more than five meters high and walking in the front, the one on the left is holding a black lacquered horse of Zhang Ba The flag guard of the lance, and the flag guard on the right holding the Zhang Ba Zhan Ma Mo Dao.
The three of them are majestic, as if the gods descended from the earth.
Behind them, there is a squad of Lancers, a squad of Archers, a squad of Armored Cavalry, then a squad of Modao Heavy Infantry, and then a squad of Archers.
After the flag team passed, it was a military band.
War drums, horns, and command flags, they played the passionate military music and marched forward.
Behind them, Qin Lang's five pro-army troops passed by in sequence, including wolf guard iron cavalry, silver saddle iron Lu light cavalry, rampant shooting eagle mountain infantry, silver spear effect heavy infantry, and black cloud long cavalry. Sword Light Infantry!
Knight phalanx, warrior phalanx, attendant phalanx.
There was even a phalanx of heavy crossbow chariots in the back, and the eight-ox crossbow on the baggage cart came murderously.
Finally, there was the phalanx of the auxiliary soldiers. Thousands of Chang'an gangsters and criminals walked past with a murderous look, armed with spears and horizontal knives, carrying bows and arrows on their backs.
Qin Lang's thousands of troops lined up in dozens of large and small square formations, with the imposing manner of tens of thousands of army kings. On the gate tower, Qin Lang sat there to be reviewed, with Chen Longshu on the left and Tan Dian on the right. Next to him were Zuojiang barbarian king Fusan and other barbarian chiefs.
When the elite phalanx passed by in high spirits one by one, the expressions on the faces of the barbarian kings became more and more surprised, and almost all of them were sluggish in the end.
Qin Lang admired their appearance with satisfaction, and the effect was very good, shocking them.
Tan Dian was still holding his breath, but many of the masters who came from the left and right streams were already writhing like sores on their buttocks, fidgeting and fidgeting.
(end of this chapter)