Chapter 950 Grassland Affairs (1)
Juyan County is the main passage in and out of Liangzhou and the desert. In the past few years, the Hu people on the grassland could come and leave whenever they wanted.
Since Feng Jishi sent troops to regain this place, order has finally been restored in Juyan County, ending the chaos of these years.
Now if you want to leave the fortress, you must have a certificate from the government.
If you want to enter the fortress, you also need the permission of the Guansai officers and soldiers.
The rebuilt barrier has once again fulfilled its duties.
Although the comings and goings of officers and soldiers in and out of the Guan Fortress have been very frequent in the past two years, it has given the people of Juyan County in the Guan Fortress an inexplicable sense of peace of mind.
The forts built on the grasslands by the former Han Dynasty, after leaving Juyan County, did not meander all the way due east, but walked slightly northeast for a distance (i.e., entered the territory of Mongolia in later generations).
Then it slowly turns southwest somewhere in Mobei until it reaches the hometown of Jiuyuan.
What’s interesting is that when I followed the Guansai ruins eastward from Juyan County, I discovered halfway that another Guansai would pop up in the south.
There are two passes, one in the south and one in the north, both leading to the hometown of Jiuyuan.
Later generations called the pass in the north the Great Wall outside Han Dynasty, and the one in the south the Great Wall inside Han Dynasty.
(The direction of the Han Great Wall in the desert is slightly parallel to the Inner Mongolia section of the later G7 Expressway, except that the G7 Expressway is in China)
Even in later generations, after two thousand years, the ruins of the Han Great Wall are still preserved in many places in the desert.
The Three Kingdoms era was only two to three hundred years after the Han Dynasty. The completeness of the pass on the desert was much better than Feng Yong originally imagined.
There are even some beacons and city barriers that still retain their general appearance.
The so-called beacon tower is a beacon tower, a high platform used to light smoke for early warning.
The city barrier is the place where the soldiers and civilians live in the pass.
There were rules for building forts in the Early Han Dynasty. Basically, there was a beacon every ten miles, and a city barrier every hundred miles.
Feng Tubie is sincerely grateful to the former Han Dynasty for its majestic atmosphere.
Because these city barriers listed on the grassland were natural marching camps for the Han army setting out from Juyan County.
Even if you are stationed in a dilapidated city barrier, it is much better than stationed in a meadow where the wind blows from all directions.
More importantly, the relatively well-preserved city barriers near Juyan County should be renovated.
An additional three to five hundred soldiers were stationed at each city barrier, which would be the outpost of the Han's influence extending to the grassland.
Since the death of Tanshihuai, the fortune of the Xianbei Hu people seems to have been in decline.
Kebineng appeared in the east, and there was some sign of unifying the Hu people in the north. Unexpectedly, he was defeated by the Wei people a few years ago and was almost driven to Mobei.
Then Xianbei in the west was stabbed in the back by King Feng Gui in the past two years.
The western Xianbei, which was in a period of division and decline, could not even defeat the Hu Qiyi army led by Tufa Tianli, let alone face the Han cavalry army that was ahead of its time.
In the past, the Hu people on the grasslands could still implement the policy of running away if they couldn't fight, and used the strategy of exhausting the Han army.
Now, if you want to blame, the people of the same clan who moved to Liangzhou are working too hard.
The land that Xianbei in Hexi relied on was not used even half of it. However, the grain-growing land hidden in every corner of the grassland was completely ruined by the Han army.
Hu people also need to eat food. If they only eat meat and milk, they will definitely not be able to live longer than those who also eat food.
Moreover, if you eat too much milk and meat, you will often die of dryness and suffer excruciating pain before death.
This is also the reason why the Hu people continue to move south from the grasslands to their hometown of Jiuyuan.
After all, not only can you graze cattle, but you can also grow food there.
There are not many suitable places for growing food on the grassland. Wherever there are suitable places, they are occupied by large tribes, who sow some seeds and wait for the harvest.
Tribes that have more exchanges with the Han people will even send dedicated people for farming.
In the past, when the Han army went out of the fortress and penetrated into the grassland, it was good to be able to identify the direction, let alone find the land where the barbarians grew food.
The army that King Feng Ghost sent into the grassland is completely different from before.
They ate milk tablets and dry food mixed with sugar, rode artificially bred horses, and carried weapons made of fine iron.
Without the pressure of logistics, coupled with the Han cavalry equipped with three-piece cavalry suits, it would be a real crushing of the Xianbei people who were in a state of social regression.
Xianbei in the west, let alone fight, can't escape even by running.
There happened to be a group of the same people, howling and shouting, more active than the Han army.
They were familiar with the grasslands. In spring, they led the Han army to the grain-growing areas to eat seedlings, and in the autumn, they led the Han troops to the grain-growing areas to set fire...
Kebineng, who almost unified the Youbian Hu people, was defeated by Qin Lang.
Not to mention that there is not even a unified adult in western Xianbei.
Facing the Han army, which was more terrifying than the Wei army, Xianbei in the west had no power to resist.
After losing nearly 100,000 people, the remaining people either fled north or east, and no longer dared to come within a few hundred miles of Juyan County.
So after a lapse of ten years, Feng Guiwang Labor Company opened again after a long absence.
It’s just that this time the place of labor sales was transferred from Nanzhong to Liangzhou, to be precise, it was transferred to Juyan County of Liangzhou.
According to statistics from some people who do not want to be named, in the 12th and 13th years of Jianxing alone, a total of 50,000 to 60,000 men and women flowed into Juyan County.
These labor forces have greatly alleviated the labor shortage problem in Liangzhou’s new pastures, workshops and other places.
This does not include the more than 100,000 livestock captured, including cattle, sheep, and horses.
Liangzhou Governor's Office has survived the hard days in the past, and has eaten a lot of fat in the past two years.
Secretary Zhang Da, who had been tight on money in recent years, suddenly became rich. When he was happy, he graciously rewarded Governor Feng.
In any case, Governor Feng felt very happy several times for a period of time.
The grassland in August of the 13th year of Jianxing has begun to enter the crisp autumn weather.
A cavalry force of thousands of people was heading east along the former Han pass that appeared and disappeared.
The red flags and red armor all indicate their identity as Han soldiers.
Not far away, the collapsed beacons and the fortress wall were destroyed and fell into the grass. Even hundreds of years later, they were still trying their best to guide the Han army.
The leading general of this Han army was a young man. He sat on his horse, took out a map from his backpack, counted the beacon signs on it, and said silently in his heart:
"Ninth…"
Although it was not the first time to walk this road, marching on the vast grassland was completely different from marching in the Guansai interior.
There are official roads in the interior, but in the prairie, there are not even paths for pedestrians to walk out.
At first glance, in addition to green, it is still green, a vast expanse of green.
When the wind blows on the grassland, the green waves will rush into the distance one by one.
Even if there is a river, it is hidden under the grass and can only be discovered when you walk closer.
Unless it is a river that cannot be hidden like a big river.
Going out to attack the fortress sounds exciting, but if you are not fully prepared, far away from the fortress, and without road signs, it is not unusual for even an army of tens of thousands to get lost at any time.
It is precisely because it is not easy to get out of the fortress that Feng Governor stood on the ruins of the fortress and shouted "The big man is awesome".
The Han Dynasty, who had just entered the iron society, had no satellites, no coordinates, and no even accurate maps.
Not only did they enter the desert many times and deal devastating blows to the Hu people, but they also built more than 10,000 miles of fortresses on the grassland.
Even in the end, they built checkpoints along the Silk Road all the way to the Western Regions...
In this kind of dynasty, apart from cheating, there is only one explanation left: awesome!
Ji Han now has a human-shaped barrier, which is only based on the fortresses of the previous Han Dynasty. He selected a few relatively complete city barriers and rebuilt them as outposts.
The farthest of these city barriers is only five hundred miles away from Juyan County.
Every time you reach a road sign, take out a map and compare it carefully to avoid going astray.
Juyan County will send out cavalry troops to patrol along the pass every ten days to ensure the safety of the soldiers within the city barrier.
The Han cavalry that appeared here is responsible for the last patrol of this month.
“General, there is a scout report.”
Hearing this, the young general put away the map, carefully put it back in his backpack, and looked at the scouts who were slowing down their horses not far away.
"Report! General, there is a barbarian camp ahead. It looks like a tribe."
The scouts came forward and reported loudly with excitement on their faces.
As soon as these words came out, before the general could speak, the guard next to him was already full of joy:
“General, could it be that those fleeing Xianbei Hu’er have gone and come back?”
It’s not impossible!
This place is hundreds of miles away from Juyan County. If you want to come back to try your luck, that's normal.
In the past, those who were robbed on the grassland would only rob some cattle, sheep and horses.
Now...I won’t even leave you any wool, and you still want to escape?
Take them all away!
“What are you dreaming about? I think about working hard all day long!”
Unexpectedly, the young general scolded him directly, "I told you to read more books on weekdays, but you have already read them in the dog's belly!"
“I don’t even think about it, this is the last beacon, and about ten miles further, there is the city barrier. No matter how stupid the barbarians are, do they dare to stay near the tiger’s mouth?”
At this point, the young general touched his chin, which was already a bit unkempt, and said, "If my prediction is correct, we have entered the barbarian pasture newly designated by the monarch."
Hey, aren’t they wild barbarians?
When the guards heard this, they immediately felt bored.
Every veteran in the Liangzhou Army knows that if the king is ruthless to Hu Yi and his like, he is really ruthless. Otherwise, how could he be called "Feng Ghost King"?
But to say it’s good, it’s really good.
Otherwise, the Hu people in Liangzhou would not regard the king as the descendant of the mountain god.
For example, in the past two years, tens of thousands of people have become laborers during the attack on Xianbei in the west.
But similarly, there are also several tribes, because the tribal leaders can recognize the situation in time and join the Han Dynasty, and then they are arranged by the king in their hometown of Xianbei in the west.
More importantly, the king even divided the territory for them to prevent them from fighting each other for the pasture.
Someone else said with some regret: "Those tribes have a lot of people. If they were all replaced by labor..."
Before he finished speaking, the young general cursed the other party:
"Work hard, work hard! You know the hard work all day long, and how can you guess the prince's thoughts?"
Do you know that this is what Yuexun County did back then?
Some barbarian tribes who were unwilling to move to the plains wanted to continue to enjoy their freedom, but Feng Junhou did not force him to do so, and thoughtfully allocated territory for them to live in.
It even stipulates that each tribe is not allowed to cross the border at will to avoid disputes. Otherwise, the government will impose heavy penalties and the tribes will attack.
It’s almost ten years now, right?
Those tribal leaders at the beginning, now suddenly some people began to take the initiative to ask for household registration.
Why?
Because the originally designated territory was no longer able to support the tribe.
But do you dare to break the rules set by Feng Junhou and wander into other people's lands for nomadic hunting?
So in the end, it’s either a household registration.
Either release the extra young men and join the Han army.
Either divide a part of the population and fill in other places...
The Foresighted Ghost King, is this a joke?
So don’t look at how these grassland tribes who have received good things from the sky are laughing now, but who knows how they will cry in the future!
Not to mention, the disasters on the grassland are much more severe than Yuexun.
After a white disaster, no one knows how many people died.
You could run to other places before, but now?
Want to run?
Does the big man agree?
Unless you are willing to give up the protection of the big man and the pasture allocated to you.
Still, the benefits of Feng Gui are so easy to take, and that is simply called Feng Dashan.
"Kill them and caress them, and give them kindness and power at the same time. This is the way to control Hu. Those who don't obey will be destroyed, and those who surrender will care for them."
“If we don’t distinguish between right and wrong and just use them as labor, then who among the barbarians will dare to surrender to the Han?”
"Not to mention that the barbarians are like grass. If you leave an empty space, other barbarians will come to fill it. If the new barbarians refuse to obey, are you going to send out troops to destroy them? When will they be finished?"
"It would be better to leave the obedient ones behind, so that the big man can attack the thieves with peace of mind."
"You guys are a bunch of idiots. When I get back, I will ask the school for some papers so that you can take the exam. If you fail, let's see how I deal with you!"
When everyone heard this, their faces turned pale:
“Chief, we know we are wrong!”
The young general snorted angrily, "The king has his own rules and regulations. There are only generals in the army, so where are the clan leaders?"
"You have already taken an advantage compared to others. If you dare to act recklessly again, get back to Yinping! Go down later and get ten military sticks!"
The young general known as the clan leader is Yang Wanwan, who was transferred to Yinping as the prefect in recent years.
After the Battle of Longyou that year, Yang Ju, Yang Wanwan's lord, was appointed as the prefect of Yinping by the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty. It was precisely in order to use Yang Judi's identity as king to appease the Yinping Qiang Di.
Later Yang Ju died of serious illness, and Feng Yong took the initiative to recommend Yang Wanwan to succeed Yinping Prefect.
With the continuous development of Yuexun County, the Wenshan and Hanjia counties sandwiched between Yuexun and Yinping have almost all surrendered to the Yi people over the years.
So this year Feng Yong requested the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty to transfer Yang Wanwan to serve in the Liangzhou army.
The reason is also very simple.
The main force of the Liangzhou Army in the future will definitely be the cavalry army.
At present, Liangzhou's fine cavalry is led by Liu Hun, and Tufa Khotan is led by Hu Renyi to join the army to assist them.
The heavy cavalry is commanded by Zhao Guang, but the auxiliary cavalry generals of the heavy cavalry have never been determined.
So after Wenshan and Hanjia were completely stabilized, Yang Wanwan, who had led Hu Renyi's army to participate in the Battle of Xiaoguan, was naturally the best candidate in Feng's eyes.
Although Yang Wanwan’s inherited status as King of Di is no longer valuable, his clan members still have it.
When one person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
These personal guards are naturally the most trusted clan members of King Yang Di.
In the Liangzhou Army, training is hard, but the treatment is really nothing to say.
A year of hard work for a family in Yinping is not as good as two or three months for one person in the Liangzhou army.
These personal guards followed Yang Wanwan to Liangzhou. After seeing the world, how could they think of returning to Yinping?
At the moment, I quickly turned to Weiwei.
(End of this chapter)