Chapter 869 Ah Cha
Cheng Chumo couldn't help asking, "Shouldn't we win the support of the powerful and barbarian leaders first, but why should we first go to the low-level barbarians?"
"Let me ask you, are there more barbarians at the bottom, or more leaders at the top?"
"But the upper echelons hold the power, these barbarians."
Qin Lang shook his head, "Why don't you understand? The upper-level leaders have indeed been ruling here and controlling every aspect of this place, but because of our arrival, they have already touched and damaged their interests. They have always been dissatisfied with us, even if we show favor to them, it will not change this, but on the contrary, those barbarians at the bottom are actually not affected by our arrival, and we have little conflict of interest with them , so if we help them and give them profits, then we can try to draw them to our side, so what we want to win now is the barbarians at the bottom, not the leaders at the top. Divide, win over the majority of the bottom barbarians and attack the few upper barbarians, understand?"
"But the bottom barbarians are all controlled by the leaders?"
"So we need to find a way. Didn't you go to various places to select united soldiers before, one out of ten households? These barbarians are assembled and have to serve in the united army for three years. We have three years. Haven't you Do you have the ability to draw these people to our side? Didn’t I also give you an idea to grant these barbarian united soldiers fields, and even select loyal and elite soldiers from them to join the general navy?”
This is the land equalization system and the mansion army system in disguise, and it is also aimed at the southern barbarians. Although the imperial court has abolished the land equalization system and the mansion army system is not complete in the Central Plains, Qin Lang believes that it is still necessary to implement this in Yunnan and other regions kind of system.
Adapt measures to local conditions.
It is simply unrealistic to immigrate from the Central Plains and transfer troops from the Central Plains. The imperial court does not have the ability to immigrate to Yunnan, Guangxi and other places on a large scale, and it is impossible to deploy precious troops in Nanzhong and Lingnan. As far as the imperial court is concerned, southern Xinjiang has never been too much of a threat.
Therefore, the Tonghai Governor's Mansion can only ask for people from the barbarians, but it cannot be led away by those leaders. Therefore, the plan Qin Lang gave was to create another class from the barbarians, and create a new class, a group of pro-Tang A group of people, a group of new classes who are tied to the interests of the Tang Dynasty and separated from the leaders.
How to create?
Qin Lang gave two plans. The first is to recruit a group of young and low-level barbarians from the barbarian villages through recruitment, and organize them into the joint defense brigade of Baojia, the inspection brigade of the township inspection, and the county inspection brigade. The strong squad of the Yamen, the Minzhuang Brigade, and the Unity Battalion of the prefectures and counties.
First receive unified training, and then divide them step by step. Those with the highest loyalty will be selected into the unity camp.
In the Unity Battalion, after training and observation, those with high loyalty and good performance are selected to be transferred to the Tong Navy, and even awarded the status of Fubing.
According to the different identities of joint defense team members, patrol team members, civilian strong team members, united soldiers, Tonghai soldiers, government soldiers, etc., different benefits are given.
For example, how many acres of land will be awarded to those who can be selected for the joint defense team, and then the other levels will be increased step by step.
If you can become a Fubing, you will be directly granted a hundred acres of land and exempted from class service.
It is through these things that we can get a pro-Tang Xinman from among the barbarians who is tied to the interests of the Tang Dynasty.
For those leaders, Qin Lang's opinion is to win them over as much as possible, and for those who refuse to cooperate or submit, they will come one by one.
Those who are obedient, even those who are superficially loyal, should establish good relations. You can give them some titles, or give them a little reward, and then recruit their children to serve in the army, or to study in newly established government schools in prefectures and counties. Teaching Han culture is also regarded as taking hostages, and subtly invading them.
You can also pull them to do business, open mines and build workshops, and the interests are connected.
As for those diehards, first look for soft people to pinch, and if they don’t make a move, they must act as a deterrent. They must be decisive, steady, accurate, and ruthless.
They must be uprooted. When the time comes, the leader and the upper class will all be killed and eliminated, and all their families will be sent to Jiaozhou to be sold as slaves. The rest of the barbarians will also be disrupted and scattered to other places for resettlement. Confiscated into the public, and then used as public land or distributed to the township Yong Minzhuang and other pro-Tang people.
"According to the several important lines of communication we have drawn up, first straighten out the barbarians on these lines, and then gradually spread to the mountains. The goals must be clear and organized."
Cheng Chumo scratched his head, "Sanlang said that very well, he just pointed out a clear way for me. Once you say that, I will just follow suit in the future. It will save me like a headless chicken. I don't know what to do." Where to hit."
"For those recalcitrants, kill as soon as you need to, and be ruthless. But in normal times, when dealing with other tribes, you must show kindness and justice, especially the soldiers under your hands. You must manage them well. There must be no such thing as bullying the barbarians. Things happen. I can give you some more military expenses, and you can improve the treatment of the brothers, but the military discipline must be maintained. If their knives move wildly, you can't show mercy, otherwise once the military discipline is corrupted, you will also be merciless. With the people's hearts scattered, which barbarian will really trust us by then?"
In the following days, Qin Lang continued to stay in Qilu Lake. He still had to fight for the newly established Tonghai Governor's Mansion, and he also had to keep an eye on the meeting for Cheng Chumo. I was also worried that the Cuan family on the other side of the Dianchi Lake had something wrong with them.
Originally Qin Lang planned to return to Wu'an Prefecture for the New Year, but this plan was difficult to realize.
Nong had longed for him to go back to celebrate the New Year, because she was pregnant. After going to Chang'an, Nong followed Qin Lang all the way south. The two spent a rare year together, and Nong, who was looking forward to left and right, finally became pregnant. Huai, the older he got, the more he hoped that Qin Lang could go back and spend more time together, preferably with him until the child was born.
Qin Lang reluctantly wrote to Anon, telling him that he could not go back for the New Year for the time being.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, the chaos has been lifted, and the vassals, town soldiers, and young men have also returned to their hometowns one after another. The rewards are still being settled, but many people still took a lot of spoils and returned to their hometowns.
Cattle, horses, money, food, and even barbarian slaves.
After the chaos in Juding, Jiaozhou Port and Taiping Port became more and more prosperous. The war attracted merchants, and a great victory meant that more than 100,000 prisoners of war and slaves could be produced, as well as countless spoils of war. All are good enough to drive businessmen crazy.
The people of Wu'an Prefecture will be able to live a stable and prosperous year this year. There is some sadness among the laughter and laughter. After all, some people will die in battle, and some will be injured and disabled.
Some happy and some sad, the eighth year of Zhenguan is coming.
Qin Lang, who is thousands of miles away, still sits on the bank of Qilu Lake every day, watching the sea, feeding the birds and basking in the sun.
The winter in Chang'an should be very cold at this time. Yu Xiao wrote a letter saying that her son has grown taller again, and also said that Chang'an has been snowing heavily since winter, and it is very cold.
The family has more children, and it becomes more and more lively, but Qin Lang is not in Beijing, everyone always feels that there is something missing in this family, and they are looking forward to his return.
In October of this year, Qin Qiong set off from Songzhou to Beijing Chaoji.
This is the emperor who sent someone to welcome him into the capital. Qin Qiong hasn't returned to the capital for several years since he became a fan of Songzhou. Li Shimin misses this old man.
It was already the twelfth lunar month when Qin Qiong returned to Chang'an, and the two Qin residences of Pingkangfang and Qinrenfang were very lively because of this.
When Qin Taiwei entered Beijing, there was an endless stream of visitors every day, and there was a lot of traffic in front of the door. But as soon as he entered Beijing, he was summoned into the palace by the emperor, and even left him to sleep on the same bed in the Palace of Manna.
"Sanlang, Cuan Hongda said that his old illness had relapsed and it was difficult to come to see him. He specially sent his son Cuan Guiwang to come to see him." Zhang Chao came to report.
Qin Lang smiled.
"Cuan Hongda is afraid that I will fail if I eat him, so timid?"
"This King Cuangui is his eldest son, so he is quite sincere." Zhang Chao said.
"It's really sincere, he should have come to see me in person a long time ago, and he won't dawdle until now. He sent people to summon him several times but failed to come." Qin Lang waved his hand, "Where is King Cuangui?"
"We have arrived in Yuxi Prefecture!"
"How many people did you bring?"
"More than a thousand people and horses transported a lot of food, grass, money and silk, saying that they are going to come to the labor army to express their condolences."
"Hahaha!"
Qin Lang laughed loudly, "Send someone to take over his money and food. As for his thousand-odd troops, just stay outside Tonghai. King Cuangui will bring a team of followers. Bring so many people to Tonghai. , I don’t have that much food to entertain.”
"Is it possible that Saburo is still afraid of their surprise attack?"
"It's just that I don't want to waste food. There are more than a thousand people, and they eat a lot of horse chews every day. Our current food and grass have to be collected from the countryside. In addition, it has to be transported all the way from Jiaozhou. It takes more than a month to travel by water. , how can there be such food to entertain them?"
Zhang Chao took out a piece of paper, "Here are some information about King Cuangui that we have. He is the eldest son of Cuan Hongda. The Qiqushui area (Zhaotong), a tributary of the Jinsha River, was very powerful. At that time, Cuan Hongda’s father, Cuanwan, was defeated by the Sui army three times. Da and his wife and brothers were also captured in Chang'an, and they were not slaves. When King Cuangui was born, it happened to be the day when the Cuan family was defeated. He was also taken to Chang'an and served as an official slave for eighteen years. In the first year of Wude, he was restored to his status by the Supreme Emperor, and returned to his hometown with his father helping his ancestor's coffin..."
King Cuangui was born by the Dianchi Lake, but grew up in Chang'an. After being a slave for eighteen years in Chang'an, he returned to Yunnan with his father, and it has been almost eighteen years since then.
After returning to Yunnan from Chang'an, King Cuangui married a woman from his mother's Wumeng tribe, and married a cousin from his mother's uncle's family.
"The more than a thousand troops who came with King Cuanui this time are the Wumeng cavalry led by his wife, Acha. They are very elite. Speaking of which, his wife, Acha, is also very good. Numan, after the Cuan clan split the east and west, Dong Cuan has been trying to control the Wumeng tribe, but since Cuan Hongda came back to serve as the governor of Kunzhou, the Wumeng tribe stopped obeying Dong Cuan's orders immediately after Cuan Hongda returned to serve as the governor of Kunzhou. Cuan Qianfu of Cuan sent troops to crusade several times, but was defeated by the Wumeng tribe. The leaders of the army were Acha's father and daughter. Later, after Acha married Cuan Hongda, he stood firmly on Xi Cuan's side Listen to the orders of Kunzhou."
"The mountain cavalry of the Wumeng tribe are very powerful, and Ah Cha is even better at riding and shooting. She is a female cavalry general."
Qin Lang was greatly surprised when he heard this information, there are really heroes everywhere.
(end of this chapter)