Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 189 Huizhou ([-])

"In the second year of Emperor Wuzong's Huichang (842), Tubo Zanpulangdama was assassinated by a monk, and the country was in chaos. The general talked about the rise of the fever, and claimed to be the prime minister. He led an army of 20 to attack Shanzhou Delun who did not respect orders (equivalent to festivals) The whole army was wiped out. They attacked again in the next year, but they were defeated again, and their momentum declined day by day.” On the carriage to Ningzhou, Zhao Guangfeng, an important member of the Dingnan army, was explaining the river to Shao Shude. Long past events.

"Zhao Suishi, after Lang Dama's assassination, will Tubo be full of feudal vassals and towns like the Guo Dynasty?" Shao Shude asked.

"Exactly." Zhao Guangfeng replied: "The Tubo headquarters is the 'Ru-Dongdai' system, based on the tribe, there are thousands of households, called 'Dongdai', the head of the clan is the head of the thousand households; ten thousand households are a wing, It is called 'Ru', and the wing is long. The Tubo headquarters has five wings, that is, [-] households. The army governs the people, and the military and government are integrated. Each wing is long, just like the Jieshuai. They regard Zanpu as the common master, but they are extremely independent. "

"What is that theory of virtue?" Shao Shude asked again.

"In the last years of Tianbao, there were many troubles in the Central Plains. Elite soldiers from Hexi, Longyou, and Anxi were transferred eastward to quell the rebellion. There were very few people left behind, and most of them were old and weak, so they were invaded one by one by Tubo." Zhao Guangfeng replied: "Tubo has occupied Han Naturally, it can no longer be governed by the "Ru-Dongdai" system, so it has been changed. For example, in the Hexi states, a meeting of moral discussions was set up, and the chief said "moral theory". There is a military town, which is in charge of the soldiers, and there is a state under the military town.

Shao Shude understood a little bit.

Taking Hedong Dao as an example, "moral theory" is equivalent to the head of the army who is in charge of the entire Hedong. "Military towns" are equivalent to Datong, Hedong, Hezhong, Zhaoyi and other vassal towns in Hedong Road, each governing one or several different states.Under the state, there are three levels of small army heads, ten thousand households, one thousand households, and generals. All of them are military-government-integrated systems that manage both the army and the people.

The Tubo people know how to adapt to local conditions. They mixed their own set of slavery, military and civilian, into the state system of Taoism, prefectures, counties, townships, and villages, which is very similar to the current state system.Roads, feudal towns, prefectures, counties, townships, and villages corresponded one by one, and it was almost the same as that of the Tang Dynasty.

"On the fear of heat and the attack and killing of maidservants and maidservants for several years, it has become more and more exhausted. In addition, he is brutal and plunders Shan, Kuo, Gua, Su and other states. He has killed people in the wild, both inside and outside resentment, and has many subordinates. Rebelled, so he returned to our court in the third year of Dazhong (849), threatened to ask 50 Tang soldiers to help him quell the chaos, and registered him as Zanpu. After returning to the court, please be the Hewei Jiedu envoy, the emperor forbids it. So Going to Luomenchuan again, collecting the remnants of the troops, and going to invade the border, there will be continuous rainy days, no supply of food and wages, fearing that all the troops will disperse, only 300 people are left, so they will go to Kuozhou." Zhao Guangfeng said.

"After the fear of the heat returned to the court, the imperial court learned of the reality of Tubo, so they marched into the old land of Helong. The Fengxiang Army recovered Qingshui and Qinzhou; the Jingyuan Army recovered the counties of Yuanzhou and Shimen Pass, Yizang Pass, Muxia Pass, Zhisheng Pass, Liupanguan and Shixiaguan captured tens of thousands of people and animals; Shuofang Army recovered Anle Prefecture and declared it Weizhou; Binning Army recovered Xiaoguan. At that time, Xia Sui Army and Zhenwu Army also sent troops to help in the battle, eight towns in the northwest of Beijing and Chang'an Almost all the Shence Army participated, this is called the restoration of the three prefectures and seven passes during the Dazhong period."

"Why didn't you continue to march later?"

"Tubo lured the party to cause chaos, and the imperial court had no choice but to punish it." Zhao Guangfeng replied.

"What about after discussing?"

"The cost is huge and the money is not enough, so the imperial edict is to 'disarm the people' and 'recover within their means'. If there are Tubo tribes included, they will be collected, and if they are not, they will build city walls and send troops to guard them to protect the environment and the people. Marshals on the edge are still After some accomplishments, the three prefectures of Cheng, Wei, and Fu were recovered one after another, but without the support of money, food and equipment from the imperial court, it could only stop there."

Shao Shude let out a long sigh.At that time, the Guiyi army expelled the Tubo town generals, occupied Guazhou and Shazhou, and sent envoys to detour the Tiande army to return to the court, and the border towns regained six states and seven passes. Such a good situation, because of successive years of conquests against the party, it cost a lot of money , "I am tired of using troops", so I stopped.

In fact, he also knew that Emperor Xuanzong had just ascended the throne at that time, and he needed dazzling achievements to stabilize his throne.It was enough for him that the Guiyi army returned to the court and recovered the six states and seven passes.Continue to recover the lost land from the enemy, what if it fails?Clearly not worth the risk.

Moreover, it was true that too much money was spent on the conquest of the party, mobilizing the eight towns in the northwest of Beijing and the troops from all the roads in the east of the river. It is estimated that the imperial court's financial resources are somewhat insufficient.

"What's the ending of Fear of Fever?"

"It took 24 years to attack and kill with Shang Maid and Maid. In the seventh year of Xiantong, Tuoba Huaiguang was beheaded by the Shang Maid and Maid in Kuozhou, and his head was presented to the court." Zhao Guangfeng said.

After listening to it, Shao Shude only felt a tightness in his chest, so he got out of the carriage and rode on the horse, only then did he feel more comfortable.

Tubo in the Helong area still has some strength. 40 years ago, 20 troops could be mobilized, but that should be the last afterglow. Thirty years ago, it was possible to mobilize an army of less than 30, but now, Tubo in the Helong region has been killing each other for many years, and the homeland has experienced a serf uprising. It's getting weaker and weaker.

Shao Shude wondered if they could still deploy an army of 2.He remembered that more than ten years later in history, Shuofang Jiedu envoy Han Xun led his army westward, and Tubo sent seven thousand horses.After all, for 2 people, there must be at least two [-] households. With their scattered appearance, it is difficult to unite.

Just now he also asked Zhao Guangfeng what was going on in Tubo, Huizhou, and he was very surprised to learn that he was a leader of ten thousand households.Asking again, it turns out that Wan Hu's men may not necessarily have 5000 soldiers, but three to [-] soldiers, so he was a little relieved.

Guochao's intelligence work on Tubo has been done too badly!If Lun Fear hadn't surrendered, he wouldn't have known what the internal chaos was like, and he didn't care about his neighbors at all!

However, the population of the Helong area is really large.During the Tianbao period, there were more than [-] households and more than one million people. Most of them were Han people. Before the Anshi Rebellion, it was a well-known and prosperous area in the Tang Dynasty.After the Anshi Rebellion, the Helong area fell, and the household registration statistics were naturally impossible to talk about.But it can also be understood from some aspects. For example, the population of Dunhuang under the Tubo rule increased by [-]% compared with that of the Xuanzong Dynasty.At that time, Tubo ruled the area very stably, and there was no population migration caused by the war. Such a population change was a bit unbelievable. It can only be said that a large number of Tubo people and their affiliated tribes came over.

Maybe this is just an isolated case. After all, the population growth from more than one million to nearly 200 million is too exaggerated.But Shao Shude suspects that even after 40 years of war, there may still be a million people there, because Uyghurs and Party members continue to migrate there to replenish the population.

I just don't know how many Tibetans there are, and how many Han people there are.

"Zhao Suishi, in the Helong Prefectures, besides the Guiyi Army, do you have the sons of the Han family?" Shao Shude turned his horse around and asked Zhao Guangfeng.

"Report to Marshal." Zhao Guangfeng got off the carriage and replied: "In the second year of Changqing (822), Liu Yuanding entered the Tubo League, surpassed Chengji, Wuchuan, and arrived at Heguangwuliang, so the city outline had not yet fallen. , the land in Lanzhou is full of japonica rice, peaches, plums, elms, willows, and Cenwei, and the households are all from the Tang Dynasty. Seeing the envoy's cover, they appear between the roads."

"When did Lanzhou fall?"

"The first year of Guangde (763)."

"From the first year of Guangde to the second year of Changqing, 60 years have passed. Do the local people still remember the Tang Dynasty?"

"When Liu Yuanding arrived in Lanzhou, more than a thousand local elders worshiped and wept, saying: 'Qing joined the army here, and today's descendants can't bear to forget Tang clothes'." Zhao Guangfeng was also a little sentimental at this point.

"It's been another 60 years..." Shao Shude murmured.

"In the fifth year of Dazhong (851), Zhang Yichao returned to the country. Guazhou and Shazhou, with their elegant characters, came together in the mainland. A few years ago, Zhang Huaishen made a statement saying that he would recruit the Tibetans in the states and train them with Huafeng, The customs have changed." At this point, Zhao Guangfeng hesitated for a moment, but still said: "If you go early, it may be too late. There are more than one million survivors of Tianbao, and there must be a heart for the Great Tang."

"Recover Huizhou first." Shao Shude flicked his horsewhip, and said, "The imperial court doesn't care about the over one million Han people who have fallen into Tibet, but someone has to take care of it. After 60 years of occupied Tubo, once the envoy of the Tang Dynasty left, the people still lined up to welcome them. How could the court abandon them?" regardless of!"

"If the commander-in-chief regains the Helong states, he will definitely make the world look at him." Zhao Guangfeng Surong said: "The Kanto states, the feudal towns attack each other, you kill me, I kill you, what's the point? If you regain your homeland, restore me The old customs of China, the heroes of the world heard of it, felt ashamed to serve it, and came to vote for the commander."

Shao Shude suddenly thought of Yang Yue who had been hidden by him until now.Isn't he willing to vote for himself at a critical moment because of a promise to capture Hexi?
Don't let the hero wait until his head turns white. When he goes back, he should have a good chat with Old General Yang.

On the 25th day of the first month of the second year of Guangqi, Shao Shude arrived in Dingping County with a large army.Then continue to the north, turn to the northwest through Lisuo Ding'an County (now Ning County) in Ningzhou, and arrive at Hue County in Gyeongju (now Qingyang North) on the [-]th.

The main force of the Yicong army had already gone north to Lingzhou via Yanzhou, leaving only 3000 people from Hengshandu and Zhongyongdu here.The Jinglue Army was stationed [-] miles southwest of Gyeongju, and the Tielin Army was still in the southeast of Gyeongju. Shao Shude led the Iron Cavalry to camp outside the city of Gyeongju.

The next step is to go west to Yuanzhou, but before that, he still needs to wait for Cheng Zongchu's reply.

(End of this chapter)