Chapter 535 A Good News Ninth Heaven
"Muan Zhuxia, don't worry about things!"
"Don't use barbarians to labor China, don't use uselessness to harm usefulness!"
In Luoyang Palace, Wei Zheng was still looking for an opportunity to persuade the emperor. In Wei Zheng's eyes, the mountains to the west and north of Yizhou were originally the territory of the Qiang Di and Xi Rong, and the Qiang Di there were also rebellious and capricious. . So there is no need to go to those places to compete with those barbarians.
Especially at a time like this, it's even more uneconomical.
Li Shimin didn't want to pay attention to Wei Zheng.
"Wei Zheng, stop talking."
Wei Zheng was also a little bit dry in persuasion, "Does Your Majesty want to ignore the safety of the country because of that little face?"
Li Shimin didn't bother to say any more, he got up directly, shook his sleeves and walked away. If he hadn't restrained himself, he would have almost kicked the case again.
How can this be a mere face problem?
Songfu and other states are indeed in need of shortage, but it is by no means a burden. On the contrary, this is a strategic high ground. Li Shimin, who fought against Wushuang in his early years, is not an ordinary emperor, he is an emperor on horseback, and his vision of the strategic situation is far beyond that of a civil servant like Wei Zheng.
From the point of view of a courtier like Wei Zheng, don’t provoke those barbarians around, it’s not worthwhile to get entangled with them, and the gain outweighs the loss. It's good to appease the barbarians, but Li Shimin didn't want to just build the Great Wall and set up fortresses for passive defense.
What he wants is a more active defense, using offense instead of defense.
The four sides are restless, so why is China stable?
If you treat barbarians with all your heart, they will only think you are weak and can be bullied, and the border will be even less peaceful. Just like this party invasion, the court has no way to retreat.
Back in the bedroom, Li Shimin drank half a pot of herbal tea. Now there are too many courtiers like Wei Zheng in the court. He misses the time when Qin Lang was in the court. That kid has good eyesight and good speech. If he is in the court, he can make Wei Zheng I can't even let out a single fart.
"Your Majesty, good news from Jiannan!"
"Say it fast!"
"Jiannan Qin Situ made a victory, claiming that he has regained Fuzhou and Wenzhou for the second time, wiped out more than 3,000 Dangxiang Qiang people in several battles, and captured more than 5,000 people. At present, the number of Qiang chieftains such as Xifeng Bulai and Feiting Changsheng is less than 30,000. Dangxiang Qiang fled in panic, and fled into Wuzhou, Longyou Road, trying to flee westward along the Qiang River! Qin Situ is leading his troops to pursue!"
"In addition, Huaiyang King Li Daoming and Jiannan Dao Changping envoy Jia Runfu defeated the ten thousand Qiang thieves in Gansongling!"
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After hearing the good news, Li Shimin was overjoyed, grabbed the good news in his hand, and read it carefully several times.
"Hahaha, I knew that Shubao would never let me worry. Well fought, this battle was fought really well!"
The emperor stood up with the news in hand, and shouted, "Get the map of Longyou quickly."
The servant hurriedly fetched the map of Longyou Road, hung it on the copper screen and spread it out. The emperor stepped forward and moved his eyes directly to the line of Qiangshui.
That is the most southwestern end of Longyou Road. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Liangzhou, it governed ten counties, of which Wudu County was located in the Wuzhou area in the lower reaches of the Qiang River.
The Liangzhou jurisdiction of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is peculiar. The northwest includes the Hexi Corridor including Zhangye Dunhuang Jiuquan, and the southeast includes Wudu County, which was assigned to Longyou by the Tang Dynasty, and even Xingzhou in the south of Shannan at this time. In addition, Anding County and Beidi County, which belonged to Guannei Road in the Tang Dynasty, and Tianshui County and Longxi County, which belonged to Longyou, were all included in this Liangzhou at that time.
The ten counties of Liangzhou at that time can be said to have occupied many areas in Hexi, Longyou, and even Shannan and Guannei. It was a super big state.
Four counties and five dao in Wudu County include Qiangshui River and Gudao River Basin in the upper reaches of Jialing River. Five of them, Gudao, Jialingdao, Xunchengdao, Biandao and Pingledao, these five are a unique administrative division in the Han Dynasty. They were administrative units equivalent to the county level at that time, but they were specially used to set up those minority tribe areas. Yes, some are similar to the Jimi Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty, or the autonomous prefectures of later generations.
According to the official statement of the Western Han Dynasty, there are barbarian names in the county, such as Qiang Dao, Di Dao, Di Dao, Yiqudao, Yueshi Dao, Gang Di Dao, Dian Di Dao, etc., most of which directly bear the name of the barbarians, and some do not. Family names, such as Yinpingdao, Diaojiao, Lingguandao, etc.
The Western Han Dynasty was originally a system of prefectures and counties. Later, the Department of Governors and History of Thirteen Prefectures was established to supervise and inspect counties and counties all over the world.
On Li Shimin's map, there are no Dao names left along the Qiangshui River. Wuzhou City is Wudu County, which is no longer the name of Wudu Dao.
In fact, in terms of history, the Central Plains likes to refer to the barbarians in the northwest as Qiang, but in fact, the Qiang mentioned by the Central Plains people also includes Di. Di and Qiang are the same in the eyes of the Central Plains people, but they are still subdivided. There is a big difference.
Generally speaking, the Qiang is a nomadic tribe, and the Di is a half-herding and half-cultivating tribe. From the Qin and Han Dynasties, the boundary of the Qiang clan was actually roughly that the Qiang people mainly lived in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, while the Di people mainly lived in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
In the mountainous areas of southeast Gansu, southwest Shaanxi, and northwest Sichuan, the Di people were mainly active. Most of these places had established prefectures and counties by the time of the Tang Dynasty.
The Di people settled down to farming and also herding and hunting, so since the Qin and Han Dynasties, they were gradually encroached, annexed and conquered by the Central Plains Dynasty, and merged into the territory.
Li Shimin stared at the Qiangshui line on the southeast road of Longyou Road on the map, Die, Fang, Dang, and Wu prefectures. In the Western Han Dynasty, they belonged to Wudu County and Longxi County of the Liangzhou Governor's Department. There were all Qiang people there earlier.
"Dangxiang Qiang thief wants to flee westward from the Qiangshui River Valley and flee back to Dangxiang, but it is cunning."
"No, they are going to join Tuoba Chici and Tuyuhun people, and Qin Lang in Diezhou is in danger!"
Li Shimin moved his eyes to Diezhou in the upper reaches of the Qiang River, and sighed involuntarily.
Qin Lang had only a few thousand troops in Diezhou, facing the tens of thousands of Tuyuhun Wuyi party Xiang Tuoba Chici, if Xifeng Bulai led tens of thousands of troops to kill them from the east, wouldn't it be a double attack, and the danger would be extremely dangerous. risk.
South of the Qiangshui River is the Baishui Basin, with Fuwen and Fuwen prefectures. Qin Qiong and Zhang Shigui are separated by mountains, which are difficult to cross.
The north of the Qiang River is also surrounded by continuous mountains. Chengzhou, which is on the north of the Western Han River, and Weizhou in the northwest, are also not connected by roads.
For a while, it is difficult to solve the distant water and near the fire.
"Waiting Junji, Changsun Wuji, etc. to come, hurry up!"
Soon, a group of important officials were summoned, and a more detailed and accurate sand table of the states in the Qiangshui River Basin of Longyou Road was placed in the hall.
The monarchs and ministers stared at the sand table for research.
"If Xifeng Burai is allowed to flee to the city of Diezhou, after joining forces with Tuoba Chici and the Tuyuhun people, Diezhou is in danger, and Qin Lang is in danger. Think of a way." The emperor said.
Hou Junji stared at the sand table for a long time.
The Qiangshui River Valley is surrounded by high mountains on both sides. This is the most remote and difficult mountainous area, but after careful exploration, there are still a few roads that can lead to the outside.
"Your Majesty, you can go to Wuzhou from Wenzhou, or you can go south from Chengzhou to Wuzhou, or you can go south from Minzhou to Dangzhou. Other than that, you can only go west from Taozhou and go west to the mountains. West of the state."
Li Shimin frowned. The only way to get directly to Diezhou was Taozhou, but the journey was far away. The problem was that he still had to pass through Tuyuhun and Dangxiangren territory.
As for the other three roads, one passes through Dangzhou, and the other two arrive at Wuzhou first.
And Bu Lai, who has fine eyes, has already fled from Wenzhou and passed through Wuzhou.
"Going south from Minzhou to Dangzhou, can we reach the interception before the Ministry of Sealing?" the emperor asked.
"There are two roads from Minzhou to Dangzhou in the south, one is 230 miles and the other is 260 miles. The east road goes straight to Dangzhou Chenghuai Road, while the west road first reaches the Liangshui River at the border of Dangfang. Gongshan garrison under the fort."
Dangzhou Huaidao City is a state city. Although it is a small city on the border of Xiazhou, it is a state city after all. Lianggong Mountain Fortress is a frontier garrison fort, just a small fort for dozens of frontier troops to garrison .
The biggest problem is that there are not many soldiers in Minzhou, which is located by the Tao River. Troops have to be transferred from the surrounding Taozhou, Weizhou or Lanzhou and Hezhou.
The problem is, it's not close, and I'm afraid it's too late.
Hou Junji looked at the sand table for a long time, "Your Majesty, why don't you let Qin Lang retreat from Diezhou first?"
"Qin Lang is in Diezhou, surrounded by tens of thousands of Tuyuhun people and Dangxiang Qiang people. How can he retreat? It's hard to fly even with wings!"
Qin Lang wants to withdraw, either along the Qiang River to the west and over the mountains, and run to the territory of the party members, or along the Qiang River to the east, to Dangzhou, but now there are enemies on both sides.
Qin Lang's troops may be able to hold out for a while according to the city's danger. If he abandons the city and runs away, he will not only seek his own death.
Even Li Shimin felt that he could only stick to the city of Diezhou and wait for help.
"Then we can only pin our hopes on Qin Qiong, I hope Qin Qiong can catch up with Xifeng Bulai soon!" Hou Junji said, feeling a little excited for some reason.
He has always disliked the father and son of the Qin family. Now that he can finally see them in distress, he really hopes that something will happen to them, especially Qin San'er. Arrogant and domineering.
Li Shimin was very angry.
But he can't do anything now.
"Fuzhou Inspector Jiang Shanhe lost the army, lost the land and fell into the city, seized the title and dismissed the office, and expelled the citizenship for the people!" The emperor was annoyed and gave a severe punishment to the Fuzhou Inspector Jiang Shanhe who had previously lost Fuzhou.
One stroke to the end, from the governor of the county to the common people.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty!"
A servant hurried in.
The emperor was still angry, and shouted angrily, "I didn't see me discussing with the minister, and trespassed rudely, what should I do?"
The servant's face paled in shock, and he quickly knelt down, "Your servant is dead, I just received the news of Diezhou's victory, so I hurried to report to Your Majesty, and I am dead."
"Happy News from Diezhou?" Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment.
"Your Majesty, great joy, Duke Wei of Diezhou achieved victory. A few days ago, under the city of Diezhou, he wiped out ten thousand people from the Wuyi tribe of Tuyuhun, captured the famous king Wuyi and hundreds of generals alive, beheaded more than 5,000 people, and captured more than 4,000 people. Seized tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, wiped out all the Wusu troops!"
"impossible!"
There was a loud shout in the hall, but it was Hou Junji who made an unbelievable voice.
"Qin Lang was besieged in Diezhou by thousands of Tuyuhun and Qiang people, with only a few thousand horses and horses, not enough to protect himself, how could he annihilate thousands of people?"
The emperor is also full of doubts, yes, how did this happen? He was still worried about Qin Lang just now, how could he turn around and win?
(end of this chapter)