Chapter 544 Xiongwei Frontier Town West Army
"Old thief Tuoba, dare you be so arrogant!"
In the city of Minzhou, Li Daoyan, who had hoped to make meritorious service by recruiting the Tuoba tribe in one fell swoop, saw that his staff returned in a state of embarrassment, and couldn't help being furious. When the staff member went there, he boasted that he would be able to recruit Tuoba Chici for the governor with his three-inch tongue. But whoever got there had a hard time.
He couldn't do business when he came back, so he held back a bad idea on the way. When he saw Li Daoyan, he made a lot of lies, saying how arrogant Tuoba Chici was, insulting the governor in every possible way, and so on.
Li Daoyan suffered early in his life. It was the days when he fled to the mountains with his father Li Shentong. He pretended to be a refugee to beg for food, went to the mountains to pick wild fruits, and lived a hard life for dozens of days. But this bit of suffering is actually not worth mentioning compared to the people who were in dire straits at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
As the great-grandson of the Eight-Pillar Kingdom in the Western Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyan has always been a high-ranking noble son, and whenever his staff tell a lie, he will be furious.
The staff took advantage of the situation and made another move.
"So feasible?" Li Daoyan hesitated after hearing this.
"Captain, I was ordered to go to the Tuoba tribe this time. I visited all the way and observed secretly. The Tuoba tribe was indeed seriously injured, and they didn't have much defense. If the governor sends troops, the students are willing to be guides. Since the old thief Tuoba If you don’t want to drink a toast but would rather take a fine wine, then let’s stop being polite to him, taking him down is still a great achievement.”
Li Daoyan was unavoidably shaken.
Although this kind of son is in a high position, he has never had any real insights. Many things are decided by his staff and subordinates. Hearing what the staff said is good, he is moved.
"Your Majesty, although the Tuoba tribe is known as the strongest of the eight tribes of the party, even Tuoba Chici married the daughter of Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun and was named king, but the Tuoba tribe only has tens of thousands of horsemen. Now they have not assembled , Chici camp usually only has more than a thousand cavalry and horses, we can make a surprise attack with light cavalry, and we will be able to win in one battle. When the time comes to capture Tuoba and Pinghequ, this will be a great contribution."
Li Daoyan turned around and hesitated for a long time.
"Should I contact Qin Lang? He has 3,000 fine cavalry under his command. Now he has turned into the Zhenxi Army. Last time he went deep into the party and fought against Tuyuhun in Diezhou. It would be safer to join forces with him."
"The governor's words are wrong. There are only a thousand horses in the Tuoba camp. We only need to gather 3,000 elite horses to defeat them by surprise. What's the use of asking Diezhou soldiers and horses? If we contact them to act together, the time will come. Afterwards, half of the credit will be given to them, and Qin Lang may even take away most of the credit, so he will make wedding clothes for others." The staff quickly persuaded them to object.
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The southern branch of Xiqing Mountain.
Dieshan, Diezhou.
Here is a busy scene. The newly established Zhechong Mansion has selected camps and built strongholds to welcome the families of the soldiers. The 3,000 frontier troops of the Zhenxi Army, plus the newly selected Qiang side soldiers and Di people's city side soldiers, as well as the Han people's native regiments, are busy repairing and adding beacon towers and building Guanzhai post stations. .
Border soldiers, township soldiers, and city soldiers all turned into civil engineering soldiers, rushing to work according to the blueprint plan. In order to grab the progress, Qin Lang also used money and food to hire the common people to work, and the conditions were very generous.
Because of the good conditions, people from Dang, Wu, Cheng, Min, Tao, Wei, and Qin prefectures even attracted people to come. It's still running well. For the people who have been poor in the past two years, such conditions are definitely worth it to work and earn some money and food to go home to support their wives and children.
Qin Lang also took the opportunity to secretly recruit these men who came to recruit jobs, and offered many favorable terms to lure them to settle down. What is it that you can divide the land as soon as you come here? Land reclamation, up to 100 mu for one person, and 500 mu for a family. The newly reclaimed land can be exempted from land tax for three years, and only half tax will be levied for another three years. Loans with interest, leasing cattle seeds, etc.
Various conditions are absolutely attractive.
Although Diezhou actually doesn’t have ready-made cultivated land, when they come here, they just look for those valleys that haven’t been occupied by anyone, and reclaim the land by themselves.
But for many people, it is very tempting to have a piece of land of their own, even in the frontier state. What's more, Qin Lang's record of defeating Dangxiang Qiang in Diezhou also made everyone feel that Diezhou would be safe with Qin Lang around.
Especially for those poor frontier residents, many of them are actually proletarians, otherwise they would not come here to work and earn money. The settlement conditions offered by Qin Lang are too tempting.
Many people are a little scrupulous, mainly because they are Qimin registered in other states, and if they flee from their nationality, they are afraid that the government will chase them away. But Qin Lang told them that as long as they come to Diezhou, no one can take them back, let alone punish their crimes, and he is willing to help them bear anything.
He will let them settle down here.
This is a practice that violates the normal system, but they feel that Qin Lang's words are very important, and many people are moved. Some people have even started to receive the resettlement allowance from Qin Lang to return home, and they are going to quietly take their families to Diezhou. .
This method of poaching people from other prefectures violates the imperial household registration management system, but Qin Lang doesn't care about these. If Diezhou wants to develop, it cannot do without people.
Although Diezhou now has a population of 50,000, but such a big place, 50,000 people are actually too small. He has a prefecture, an army and eight counties, but only 50,000 people in total. Although there are many mountains and rivers here, there are countless people. Valleys and valleys, as long as they are reclaimed, can accommodate many people. Even if the population doubles, there will be no surplus.
Other officials would not dare to do this kind of thing, they would only do it secretly, and they would definitely not admit it if they were discovered. But Qin Lang was not afraid, and did it openly and boldly.
Qin Lang is now in Diezhou, which is a bit similar to those deputies from the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen who went to the impoverished areas of the Northwest to take up second jobs. He himself has a deep background and connections. Many projects have been settled and helped to take off.
Qin Lang's relationship with the court is nothing to say, and he himself has strong capital, so he has already reopened the border market in Diezhou, and through the many rare commodities in his hand, Diezhou has now become a An important gateway for the Qiang and Tuyuhun people to import goods from the Central Plains, and countless caravans came here.
At the same time, Qin Lang also increased investment in mining the copper mine in Diezhou. The mining of a large copper mine, coupled with supporting industries such as smelting and transportation, will drive more than just one or two points.
That copper mine has now formed a mining town with 6,000 to 7,000 people including miner slaves and artisans, and there are 5,000 miner slaves alone.
The Qiang herdsmen in Diezhou are living a good life recently, and the sales of livestock products are very good. In the past, cattle and sheep were very cheap. The most valuable thing in Diezhou is the musk of Tugong. But now the border market is prosperous here, and the border army is large. The increase in the number of people has greatly increased the consumption of milk and meat, which can be sold at a good price. Things such as fur and herbs that were always sold at a low price are now all sold, and they are not sold at a good price.
The Qiang and Han people who farm the land are doing well now, and their agricultural products, livestock and poultry are selling well, and along the way, they have the opportunity to earn money. During the slack season, they can make money by building cities, paving roads, building bridges, reclaiming wasteland, or working in workshops and mines. A subsidy for the family.
It turns out that the officials in Diezhou and Fangzhou are all very happy now. They really feel the power of traffic. Diezhou has grown from a poor and remote frontier state, from repeated invasions, traffic impassability, and sparse population, to the current state. It is so prosperous and lively, which not only fills the treasury of the prefecture and county finance and government quickly, but also allows them, the officials, to live in style.
As long as they don't violate Qin Lang's bottom line, Qin Lang actually doesn't restrict the gray income of officials. It also looks very hard.
When encountering this kind of boss who will come to trouble, in fact, the people below like it very much. They are afraid of encountering the kind of boss who wants you to run away but doesn't give you grass, that will be a lot of complaints.
"If this momentum continues, within three years, our Diezhou will be officially promoted to Zhongzhou."
"Zhongzhou is not rare."
By the Qiang River, Qin Lang is planning a new state city. The original Hechuan City is located on the top of Dushan Mountain. The military city is stationed, and the state city is planned to be built in a flat river valley. In this way, the new state city will be a city that is convenient for transportation, business, and living.
The military task is left to the military city of the Zhenxi Army.
Otherwise, the county seat of Zhoucheng is on the top of the mountain, and you have to walk up the winding path to enter the city. There is only one way to go up and down the city, and the development of this Diezhou will be limited everywhere.
"The newly established Anhua County, how is it doing recently, is there any party member coming to violate the territory?" Qin Lang asked.
Zhenxi Army envoy Liang Jian said conveniently, "Not yet, sorry they don't dare to come."
Anhua County is Qin Lang's new land in the west of Yuanzhou, Diezhou. This is the source of Qiangshui, where Anhua County is located. Qiangshui is just a small mountain stream with a width of only seven or eight feet.
This is the Langmusi Temple of later generations, located at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu, with the Songpan Grassland in the south, the Taohe Valley states leading to Taomin in the north, and the Qiangshui River Valley states in Diedang in the east.
This place is very important. In the past, it was a buffer zone between the Tuyuhun people and the Dangxiang people, and also a buffer zone between the Central Plains and the Qiang people, but now Qin Lang doesn't care about these things, and directly resettled the Qiang people in the inner Diezhou to nomadic here, waving his hand In a circle, Anhua County was newly established, and Liang Jianfang's Zhenxi Army began to build battlements and forts here.
This is an outpost.
The Qiang people in Anhua County are themselves a buffer.
Tao River, Qiang River, Yellow River, three rivers are near here, Jishi Mountain, Xiqing Mountain, the two mountains face each other.
Qin Lang took a fancy to the strategic position here, so he deliberately moved the Neifu Qiang people here to set up a new county of Anhua.
The topography of Longtan and Tiger's Den made Qin Lang attack it.
There are jagged and bare red stone mountains in the southeast, forested and evergreen grand canyons in the southwest, hills in the west, and high mountains with bare rocks in the north.
In this narrow and long river valley surrounded by mountains and hills, Qin Lang used the Qiang people to herd horses here, and at the same time stationed troops to suppress the west, and built a border market in the valley, and built a tea-horse road along the Qiang River to go directly to this place. It is planned to connect to Taomin in the north, Tuyuhun in Qinghai, and Dangxiang Zhuqiang in the south.
Qin Lang planned to build a fortress of the Zhenxi Army in this canyon.
"Dangxiang people and Tuyuhun people just let us occupy such an important place? They swallow their breath so hard? Doesn't it look like their style?" Qin Lang squeezed his chin, a little suspicious, "Is it because they are plotting some kind of conspiracy, Liang Military envoy, you have to be more careful, since I, Qin Lang, have occupied this place, I don't intend to let it out again."
"Don't worry, Mr. Wei, our Zhenxi army has set up camp in Anhua. Even if they attack, they will not be absolutely fearless. We will definitely ensure that An County will not be lost."
"Okay, I like this kind of self-confidence. Castles and fortresses can be built slowly. Anyway, it can't be built in a day or two, but you can't relax your vigilance. This Anhua is our gateway to Diezhou. It is very important to us, not only It allows us to defend Diezhou against the enemy outside the gate, and occupying this place can also make us unable to attack and defend, no longer just being blocked in the Qiangshui River Valley and unable to get out, we can go out of the Qiangshui River Valley to fight back. war, and can also control the western passages with the Taomin states."
In short, in Qin Lang's plan, with this place, Diezhou is alive, its defense is alive, and its economy is alive. Without this place, Diezhou will be dead.
"Should I ask the general to send a few Qingqi to the west to scout the movements of the Dangxiang people and the Tuyuhun people? Especially Tuoba Qiang, these people have not moved at all recently, and I feel a little uncomfortable because of it." Liang Jianfang said the same thing. A seasoned general, although he was only a partial general when he was in the Qin Palace, he was also experienced after all.
Too calm, let him catch a trace of something wrong.
Qin Lang also felt this way.
"Yes, but we must be careful, and safety is the top priority. No matter what tricks the thieves play, as long as we take precautions, we will be invincible."
Liang Jianfang nodded, he reassured Qin Lang.
Although the number of the Zhenxi Army is only 3,000, it is actually very small in the first-level unit of the army, and it is not even as good as some guards in the north.
However, at critical times, the Zhenxi Army can also borrow from Qin Lang, the governor, to assist soldiers and horses such as united soldiers and Chengbangfan soldiers. In addition, Zhechong Mansion in the state can also be called at critical times. In this way, Really comprehensive mobilization, in fact, the Zhenxi Army can mobilize tens of thousands of people, which is already a very strong force.
The Songzhou Dudufu in the south now also governs the four Zhengzhous of Song, Fu, Wen, and Long, and the seven Qiang Jili Prefectures including Gekuo. The strength is not weak, and they can also go north for reinforcements at any time.
It can be said that today's Xijiang is no longer the situation before the Songzhou War. Now there are Qin Lang and Qin Qiong sitting in the town, and there are two frontier troops in Diezhou Zhenxi Army and Songzhou Ningyuan Army. Basically, there is no need to worry about the Qiang people attacking and harassing the border again, unless it is the soldiers of Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun and the whole country.
(end of this chapter)