Shu Chen

Chapter 468 Borrowing a Knife
Zheng Pu lived up to Fei Yi's high expectations.

As soon as they arrived, the leaders of the small Qianghu tribes were silent.

There is no way, they are all small tribes with only a few hundred settled (households), and the total number is less than three thousand, so how dare they yell at Zheng Pu.

Don't you see that there was Ke Wu who was nearly ten thousand fallen, and the bones of his family were sealed by mounds outside Xuanwei City?

But Zheng Pu is not the type to bully others.

After listening to their concerns, they were given three options.

One, let them have both ways.

For example, in addition to paying regular tribute to the great Han, people from Shuofang County can be sent to show their surrender to Liu Bao, the Southern Huns, and transfer to Liu Bao the food they claim to support more than a hundred soldiers of the Han army.In this way, when Liu Bao was afraid of the Han army, he would definitely not use rangers to plunder them, so as not to induce the big Han soldiers to attack.

Anyone who offends my strong man will be punished even if he is far away.

Liu Bao also knew the style of the big man, especially now that Zheng Pu was in charge of Liangzhou, he didn't dare to provoke him again and again.

Because for him, the current state of Wei can no longer restrain him!

The Wei army in the Helan Mountain area was completely wiped out, and the new government decrees of the Hetao counties could not affect ten miles away from the city.

The other is that the Great Han will send more than two hundred soldiers to guard Mingsha Mountain and protect them comprehensively, but they must be completely integrated into the jurisdiction of the Great Han.

For example, according to the law, they undertake the obligations of sending troops to follow the conscription and corvee service.

Rights and obligations are equal.

With the current strength of the big man, he can already speak out against small tribes like them!

In the end, they only need to pay cattle, sheep, war horses and other resources in exchange for the thousand captured tribesmen and then leave on their own.

Whether it's going to rely on Liu Bao, or migrating to avoid disaster, or even occupying the Mingsha Mountain area and continuing to graze for self-sufficiency, it's up to you to make your own choice, and the big man has no precepts.

But after talking about this choice, Zheng Pu also specifically informed him. ,

"If you don't attach yourself to my big man today, in the future, my big man will go north to recover Hetao and break through the Southern Xiongnu Liu Bao, and we will not regard you as a concubine!"

If the courtiers and concubines can't do it, then naturally they will be punished as military slaves or be built as a Beijing temple.
All the leaders of the small Qiang and Hu tribes trembled when they heard this.

Don't even dare to argue.

After discussing with the group for a while, they chose the first plan and left.

It also made Fei Yi feel a little emotional.

He spent several days but couldn't convince these miscellaneous beards, and Zheng Pu made them leave obediently with just a few words.

It can be seen from this that in a borderland like Liangzhou, it is difficult to accomplish anything based on benevolence and righteousness alone.

More than ten days later, the news that Niwei would no longer come to fight for Gaoping arrived at the same time as the prime minister dispatched letters to various ministries in Hexi.

The prime minister has made a decision on who will succeed Fei Yi in charge of Liangzhou government affairs.

It was Ma Di.

However, the official position he was awarded was to be engaged in the governance of Liangzhou, and he did not preempt military power.

The governor of Liangzhou was still assigned to Wei Yan, and even the lieutenant of Qiang School was transferred to You Chu.

Jiang Wei, on the other hand, was going to escort the prisoners of the Battle of Naowei back to Hanzhong County.

Because the various ministries of the Han army will enter Guanzhong next year, and the already opened military bases will need a lot of manpower, there is no need to leave those captives in Liangzhou and waste the fertile fields of Hanzhong.

Naturally, this move also meant that Jiang Wei was rejoined the prime minister's central army.

Hubu Supervisor Meng Yan suffered frequent injuries and illnesses in recent years, and Xiang Chong, who came to Longyou as the governor of Guanzhong, was not yet familiar with military warfare, so Jiang Wei was brought back as a precautionary measure.

As for Zheng Pu, the Prime Minister did not have any instructions.

Just let him divide some infantry back to Longyou or Hanzhong as appropriate, so as to relieve the pressure of the shortage of food and fodder in Hexi.

But what Zheng Pu did was surprising.

In addition to the iron cavalry of Xiliang and the [-] soldiers of Yan Yu's department guarding the fortress of Yuyin, such as the [-] armored cavalry who originally belonged to the prime minister's central army, the Fuqin department who supervised more than a thousand people, the Jiangshu department stationed in Pulu County, and Zhou Tai after he returned to Chengdu. Zheng Pu asked Jiang Wei to take all the remaining soldiers and horses back.

Even the heavy infantry who had been directly under him after becoming an army, he claimed that after the slightly injured soldiers had recuperated, he asked Liu Lin to take them back to Hanzhong to replenish their strength and belong to the prime minister's central army.

In this way, Jiang Wei and Fei Yi are incomprehensible.

Although there are Xiliang iron cavalry, Liu Bao, the Southern Xiongnu, will definitely not dare to come and harass him.

However, it is impossible for both Zheng Pu and Xiliang cavalry to stay in Hexi forever!

In the future, Xiliang iron cavalry will go to Guanzhong to fight, and the Hexi Corridor will be weakly defended. Not to mention the Southern Huns Liu Bao, even some Qianghu tribes may have malicious intentions.

Furthermore, with such a dispatch, Zheng Pu, who is the general of Zhenxi and supervised the military affairs of one of the only two states of the Han Dynasty, only had two or three thousand cavalry soldiers left
His military power is inferior to that of Zhao Guang, at best he is a miscellaneous general.

Therefore, both Jiang Wei and Fei Yi persuaded him several times.

But Zheng Pu never changed his mind.

It is claimed that the four counties in Hexi have implemented the bow and arrow club of "Self-defense of the hometown", which can guarantee the safety of the common people without many garrisons; and the guards and lieutenants of the Qiang school still live in Hexi, so there is no need to worry about the Qianghu tribe daring to make trouble.

As for the threat of Liu Bao from the Southern Huns?
He made Fei Yi and Jiang Weimo worry, and vowed that Liu Bao was not a problem.

But it was just such a statement, which made Fei Yi and Jiang Wei even more worried.

Because they know Zheng Pu's style too well!
The so-called "insufficient danger" in his mouth is not an inference of the situation, but he wants to promote the facts!

In particular, after Zheng Pu returned to Guzang County, Wuwei, he sent Xiliang iron cavalry to Shandan Ranch in Zhangye County, and asked Xu Zhi and Zhang Te to select cavalry from the remaining Shaodang tribe and replenish them to [-] ride.

Combined with Zheng Pu's "magnanimity" before, he let those Qiang and Hu tribes have their own resources, and used their resources to please Liu Bao.
Isn't it obvious what he wants to do?
But even though Fei Yi and Jiang Wei understood, they didn't know how to persuade them.

Everyone knows that Zheng Pu's temperament is known for his stubbornness. Once a decision is made, it is difficult for even the prime minister to persuade him to change it, let alone the two of them.

Besides, they were about to leave Hexi, so it was difficult to comment on Liangzhou affairs.

In desperation, they had no choice but to vaguely claim that the prime minister is now preparing for the entry of various ministries into the Guanzhong, and they fear that they will call Xiliang iron cavalry to go south in the near future, and persuade Zheng Pu to make preparations as soon as possible.

Zheng Pu agreed immediately.

As if with his wisdom, he couldn't understand their subtext.

Well, Fei Yi and Jiang Wei, who could no longer persuade them, followed Zheng Pu's instructions and led the Hexi tribes back.

In fact, their premonition was not wrong, Zheng Pu did have plans to use troops against Liu Bao, the Southern Huns.

Not only because of the fear of danger in times of peace that "there is no way to allow others to snore on the side of the couch", but also because he must take revenge-the battle of Quwu Mountain in which his wife and brother Zhang Bao died in battle, and Liu Bao of the Southern Huns also participated in it!

Just killing Deng Ai but Liu Bao survived, the revenge has not been completed yet.

Of course, he will not miss the country's merits and ruin the prime minister's preparations for entering the pass because of revenge.

But, he can kill with a knife!

(End of this chapter)