Chapter 452 Lang Son Yang Family General
At the foot of Lang Mountain, the king of Yue surrendered.
Although Zhennanguan is dangerous, it only guards a mountain pass, surrounded by mountains, limited garrisons, and inconvenient supply, and can be self-sufficient by reclamation.
Lang Son is different. Although the surrounding area is surrounded by mountains and highlands, the terrain is steep, but the Qiongqi River, which flows left in the upper reaches of the Zuoxi River, flows through it, making this mountainous area also have a fertile intermountain basin plain.
What's more important is that this is still a place of lock and key. If you hold it, you can block the enemy from the north in the mountains of Yuebei.
Compared to Lang Son, Zhennanguan is at most a front yard gate, while Lang Son is the main entrance of the mansion. With the rare flat land in the river valley, Lang Son can completely support itself by farming, and can also build a large-scale city, which can meet the needs of troops and food storage, so that an army of no less than 10,000 people can be stationed here for a long time.
This is why Qin Lang has been staring at Lang Son.
Lang Son is such a good place, naturally it will not be unclaimed land, and because of the superiority of this place, the competition has always been fierce. Now it is the Yang family that controls this place, and their ancestors also came from the Central Plains. Yang Jiyuan, a family member, was captured when Liu Yuan sent troops to attack Li Fozi in the Sui Dynasty, so he surrendered to the court and was awarded a military post.
Later, after defeating Li Fozi's influence, he followed Liu Fang to conquer Lin Yiguo, which invaded Jiaozhou, and then went to Chang'an to meet the emperor, and served in Chang'an.
After the great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he returned to his hometown in Jiaozhou, recruited young men from the village, and organized a team. At that time, Zhou Shuxuan, a barbarian from Langshan, made a rebellion and claimed to be the black emperor, and robbed the Yang family. So Yang Jiyuan led his troops to fight Zhou Shuxuan, and finally captured and killed the black emperor Zhou Shuxuan, so Qiu He, the prefect of Jiaozhi, simply gave Yang Jiyuan the false soldier of Jiaozhi County, Cao Shenjun.
At that time, the Central Plains was in chaos, and Lingnan was also in chaos, so Yang Jiyuan simply suppressed the old villages of the Black Emperor in Langshan, and began to build Wubi, recruited refugees, gathered clan children, and took in many slang and barbarian tribes. Extremely strong, dare not attack from far or near.
Even the prefect of Cochin, Qiu He, was very polite to him.
Later, Qiu He joined forces with Xiao Xian in the south of Lingnan, but the officials he sent to pay tribute had not arrived in Jiangling. The Tang army under the leadership of Li Xiaogong and Li Jing had already wiped out Xiao Xian, so Qiu He turned to join Datang.
Jiaozhi was changed to Jiaozhou. Qiu He first became the governor of Jiaozhou, then the governor's office, and then the governor of Jiaozhou. For several years, Qiu He still commanded the Jiaozhou area, and Yang Jiyuan, who had a close relationship with Qiu He, also controlled the Lang Son area.
After Qiu He was conscripted into the court, Yang Jiyuan did not hold an official position anymore, but returned home. However, Langshanwubi has not only not been disbanded in the past few years, but has grown bigger and bigger.
"What did Yang Jiyuan say?" Qin Lang asked.
Guys like Yang Jiyuan are getting older, but they are even more difficult to deal with. These people are old Jianghu hob meat, and they have seen all kinds of scenes, so the way to deal with barbarians sometimes doesn't work for them.
The most important thing is that the Langshan Wubi of the Yang family is very powerful.
Things like Wubi, also called Wubao, were actually popular in the Central Plains at the earliest. From the Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the northern Central Plains area was full of wars, so many powerful local tycoons chose some dangerous places. , Or high mountains, or deep valleys, build a dock.
This kind of dock is a small castle with walls, moats, and even turrets.
Outside the fort is the reclaimed land, and the owner of the fort still has a large number of tribes and soldiers in the fort, as well as many people attached to it.
Even though Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty ordered the destruction of this kind of fort, it was banned repeatedly, especially at that time in the northwest frontier, where the Qiang barbarians harassed them, so the border residents spontaneously built the fort and defended themselves in groups.
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the north was in chaos, and the people were in dire straits. So the Han Chinese landlords and powerful people built Wubao one after another, organized village soldiers, gathered in the forts, and defended themselves according to danger.
This kind of Wubao is often able to defend itself when facing ordinary thieves and hungry people, or a small group of barbarians. If the opponent wants to attack these heavily fortified Wubao, it is not easy, so they must either bypass or blackmail them. Money and food.
During the darkest period in Wuhuluanhua, there were only three million Han Chinese left in the entire north, and most of these Han people survived by relying on these docks.
Later, the Wubao of these powerful Han Chinese in the Central Plains was also favored by those barbarians, so some of them followed suit and set up Wubao to live together.
In troubled times, Wubao was very useful, but after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wubao has gradually decreased, and the rest are only some large-scale Wubao that have formed a large scale.
For example, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin and Liu Wuzhou fought in the Bobi in Hedong. Bobi, in fact, is also called Bowu, which is a large fort.
In the frontier, Wubao was passed down.
Especially Wubao like Lang Son Wubao, because it is in a barren land, it is not under the administration of the imperial court, so there is no law here. .
There is a set of rules in the dock. The dock owner is actually the landlord, and the dock residents are the tenants and trilogy of the dock owner. There are also town soldiers, trilogy, and armed forces in the dock.
In Lang Son Wubao, the main body is actually the Yang family, so many members of the Yang family are landlords.
It was just because during the Sui Dynasty, the Yang family also conquered many Xiaomandongs, so there were still many barbarians attached to the Yang family in the fort.
There are houses and markets in the dock, and even warehouses and prisons are complete.
Especially because it has tended to be stable in recent years, and Lang Son is guarded between Jiaoyong and Jiaozhou. When entering Jiaozhou by land, Lang Son is a must pass, so business transactions here have been very lively in recent years.
The power of the Yang family expanded even further.
Compared to the villages of barbarians, the significant difference of Wubao is that it has a strong defense capability, unlike some villages of barbarians, it is actually a simple village. There are big and small Wubao. The small Wubao, like the Hakka Tulou in later generations, is actually a simple version of Wubao. The large Wubao can accommodate thousands of people and become a fully functional castle.
The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the end of the Western Jin Dynasty were the era when there were many forts in the Central Plains.
The Yang family has redeveloped the Wubao of their ancestors in the Central Plains in Langshan, Jiaozhou, and it has even surpassed the Wubao of their ancestors.
There are thousands of people living in the main village of Langshan in the Yang family, and there are twelve villages scattered around. There are more than 20,000 people in the mountainous area.
Before I came to Jiaozhou, I looked at the records of the household department of the imperial court. There were only 20,000 households in Jiaozhou, but I found out that the records were not accurate at all.
The 20,000 or so households are only the population of Jiaozhou City and several counties, plus the population of some Han villages outside the city, not counting those barbarians at all, nor counting the descendants of Han immigrants like the Yang family in the mountains.
In fact, there are many people by the mountain stream.
A Jinjidong tribal alliance has a population of more than 10,000, and now a Lang Son Yang family has more than 20,000 people. And that's just in the mountains.
Qin Lang sent someone to invite Yang Jiyuan to Zhennanguan to attend his concubine ceremony, but Yang Jiyuan didn't come.
Sent a few people to give some gifts, Ah Huang was very angry when he talked about the gift.
"His mother just sent a few scorpions, a few jars of willow pulp, and some stuff called soil meat. What do you mean? Are you sending beggars away?"
"Oh, by the way, the old tortoise surnamed Yang also sent a woman with black teeth, who was also dark and thin."
When Qin Lang went south, those barbarians either sent pearls or gold, or ivory or rhino horn, or agarwood or something.
Qin Lang who gave away turtle feet, willow pulp, soil meat and black-toothed girls has never met.
Yang Jiyuan can be regarded as a knowledgeable and handsome man, what is the meaning of this?
"Show me that **** you mentioned!"
"If there is anything to see, I will let people throw it away."
"Let's show it to me first, I don't believe that Yang Jiyuan really sent me some scumbags."
Ah Huang went back cursing and found the things he had thrown away, holding them up with a disgusted expression on his face.
"We are from Chang'an, what good food haven't we eaten? Want to eat scorpion?"
Qin Lang asked Ah Huang to take out the **** he mentioned and put it on the table for him to watch. After Dugu Yanyun heard about it, they all came to watch.
A few very strange things were placed on the table. It looked like a turtle in shape, but its feet looked like crabs, but it had twelve legs, all of which grew on its abdomen.
Turn it over, there are still seeds on the abdomen, which are dense and small.
At this time, Nong Cunxin came over, "This is called Hongyu. The female carries the male on her back. These sesame-like seeds under the belly can be picked out and eaten as sauce. They are very delicious."
Qin Lang felt that the length of this thing was indeed very distinctive, but upon closer inspection, it seemed to resemble a folded stingray. This kind of fish is commonly known as a devil fish, which is very flat and has patterns. There are many classifications of devil fish, but the general ones are quite different from this kind. Qin Lang feels that even if this is not a devil fish, it should be a close relative.
To say that Yang Jiyuan sent Wang Bajiao away seems to have wronged him.
And Nong Cunxin said that this is called Hongyu, which is very fresh, especially the sauce that the belly boy makes is more delicious. It seems that this is a local specialty of Jiaozhou. Although Lang Son is a mountainous area, it is not far from the sea after all.
"What the **** is that earthy meat squid?"
The person sent by the Yang family to give the gift told Qin Lang that this earthy pork jerky is meat sauce made from earthen meat.
"What the **** is soil meat?"
"A kind of sandworm. It digs holes in the sand and lives there. It is like a silkworm chrysalis. It has no head and no feet. It has narrow front and rear points. It is soft and wriggling." Nong Cunxin said quickly, "This thing is delicious and can be baked. eat."
The Yang family member said proudly, "The meat sauce of my family is not the meat sauce made of ordinary soil meat. , I dug a sand hole and got a soil meat king, tens of feet long and more than ten feet thick, like a mountain of soil meat, my dock owner first fed this soil meat king with various precious medicinal materials, and after three years of feeding , just slaughtered and made into earth meat squid, this is a unique delicacy, only this batch, these squids have been eaten for three years, after opening, they are not only fragrant and fresh, but also have the purpose of strengthening the body and health care. My dock owner I specially sent the Nine Altars to Prime Minister Xuan."
After listening to the explanation, Qin Lang cried out in his heart, what the hell, according to what Nong Cunxin said, this soil meat is just like ordinary sandworms, it can be eaten, and the taste is not bad, but what the Yang family said is too Exaggerated.
It is tens of feet long, and more than ten feet thick. This is really the earth meat king, or even the earth meat emperor, but Qin Lang thinks it is not credible. How can a sandworm without a shell grow so big?
It was also dug up when digging the foundation of Wubao. This old guy is really good at bluffing.
As for the other two gifts, willow catkin juice and black-toothed girl, they are actually not that exaggerated. Willow catkin juice is not squeezed from catkins, but the seeds wrapped in catkins are ground into pulp, and then the pulp is used to make wine, which has a unique flavor.
As for the black-toothed women, it is actually a tradition of the mountain barbarian women in the Lang Son area. They dye their teeth black, which they regard as beauty.
(end of this chapter)