Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 210
The Heaven Worship Conference was held smoothly.

Those who participated were all tribes inside and outside the Yinshan Mountains, including farming and nomadic.There may be hatred between each other, but under Shao Shude's suppression, everyone can still sit together.

Among the various tribes, Wang Xie, the leader of the Xiangzangcai Department of the Montenegro Party, has the largest number of tribes.

There are 38 ethnic groups in Tibet. According to the Song Dynasty's "Continued Zizhi Tongjian Changbian", "more than one hundred thousand people" live in the vast area from Fengzhou to Zhenwu Army, both inside and outside the Yinshan Mountains. They are mainly nomadic. There may be a part of it too.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, some of the 38 Tibetan tribes voted for the Song Dynasty, and some were subdued by the Liao Dynasty's collapsed Ling Jiedu envoys.

Wang Xie claimed to be the "captain leader" of the 38 Tibetan tribes, but Shao Shude estimated that he probably didn't control the entire Tibetan tribe, and he had tens of thousands of people under his command.Well, even if there are tens of thousands of people, that is a big family, enough for him to get a job as an inspector of Mulashan (now Wulashan).

"Inspector Wang, your son volunteered to join the army, which shows Wang's loyalty to the imperial court." On the grassland, Shao Shude was leading a group of leaders to hunt wild horses.

Wild horse crotch leather has always been one of the tributes of the Fengzhou Fan tribe. There are a lot of them in the territory, and they are often hunted by people.

"Marshal, the Wang family has always been respectful. In the past, when Li Guochang and his son were challenged, it was too late to accept the imperial court's order, and the troops were only halfway there. The rebels have been defeated, which is a pity." Wang Xie said with a smile.

This guy's face doesn't change when he tells a lie, and his face doesn't turn red, it's really amazing.However, in terms of the degree of his heart towards the imperial court, Zangcai Wang's family is indeed relatively high, which can be seen from his taking a Han surname and respecting Han culture.What's more, his son also came to vote for him, and he brought three hundred soldiers with him. His attitude was very submissive, so there was nothing to say.

Compared with Zangcai Wang, Qibibu is also a little bit more loyal.At the meeting against Li Guochang, the imperial court ordered that both Qibi and Helian dispatched troops. Although there was a suspicion that they were not working hard, they had an attitude.

In fact, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, these grassland tribes were generally quite obedient.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, they were really wild, and no one would accept it.It wasn't until the Khitans unified the eastern part of the grassland and marched westward that they sent troops several times to subdue them.

So when Shao Dashuai communicated with them, he also pulled Datang's tiger skin.

The heritage of the Tang Dynasty is indeed rich, and this signboard is also very useful. Shao Shude is not sure if these tribes would still be so obedient if they did not use the banner of the Tang Dynasty.

"Whoosh!" As soon as the arrow flew out, Shao Shude took out the feathered arrow from his quiver, and was about to shoot it for the second time, but he saw several people rushing forward, shooting arrows repeatedly, knocking down a galloping wild horse.

"These bastards, the horse skin is broken!" Shao Shude scolded with a smile.

The few people who jumped out were warriors from the Qibi tribe.

Qi Bizhang, who was just behind, saw him, stepped forward with his horse's belly, and apologized: "The children are ignorant, and they robbed the commander-in-chief's prey."

"It doesn't matter." Shao Shude said with a smile: "I like warriors the most."

Qi Bizhang heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

But just seven or eight years ago, his status was far from that of Shao Shude's.However, it was a matter of disputing Li Guochang and his son. After that, Shao rose rapidly, and he got nothing because of his lack of effort during the war.

The battle against Huangchao in Guanzhong laid the foundation for Shao Shude's current status.However, Qi Bizhang took advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Zhenwu Army was short of clothing and food, entered the army city, and proclaimed himself Jiedushi, and the soldiers of the Zhenwu Army had no objections.

But this position is really not so good to sit.You can't play without money.

Qi Bizhang tried his best, but in the end he couldn't support it, and was kicked off the stage by the sergeants-including many soldiers of the Zhenwu Army Yamen who originally belonged to the Qibi Department.

Now Qi Bizhang is worried all day long that Li Ke will use Qiu Hou to settle accounts, because he has teased that one-eyed dragon more than once.At the time of the crusade against Huangchao, the Tiande Army, Zhenwu Army, Datong Army, and Youzhou Army also ordered another crusade against Li Keyong, which ended in failure.

Qi Bizhang had no other choice right now, if he didn't vote for Shao Shude, who would he vote for?
And Shao Shude didn't have any psychological burden on accepting Li Keyong's enemy, and directly granted Qi Bizhang the status of Bai Daochuan's patrol envoy. The foundation of cooperation between the two parties is very solid.

"The commander-in-chief likes wild horse skins, and he will send someone to send a hundred of them when he goes back." A rough and loud voice sounded behind him.

Qi Bizhang looked back, and it turned out that it was Zhuang Langshen, the chief of the Xiangzhuang Lang Department of the Shanhou Party.

Dangxiang in the back of the mountain, as you can tell by the name, is a herd on the grassland north of Yinshan Mountain.

"Tens of thousands of tents are connected to Khitan in the east, Tatar in the north, and the river in the south."Of course, this is the data of the Song Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuanglang people once lived in the south of the Yellow River, and their number was not large.However, after the mid-Tang Dynasty, when Dangxiang crossed the Yinshan Mountains and moved north to the grasslands, they also began to move to the grasslands, and their power gradually grew.

Zhuanglang's department is now considered a large department, and it is the Tiande Army's Jifan Department.Shao Shude suspects that they are from Tubo, because Tubo also has the Zhuanglang clan, just over there in Lanzhou, and is one of the few powerful Tibetan tribes in the area.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, according to the history of the Liao Dynasty, Dangxiang Zhuanglang invaded the border many times, and was later wiped out by the recruiting division in the southwest. The rest were divided between Liao and Xia. The Dangxiang tribe fought several wars, which were very fierce.

Generally speaking, the grassland party items, including the Zhuanglang tribe, not only invaded the borders of the Song Dynasty, but also invaded the borders of Xixia and Liao.Of course, they all died in the end, mainly because they were attacked by troops sent by the Liao Kingdom.

Zhuang Langshen was named the inspection envoy of Jiyuquan.Geyuquan is roughly located in the Uniusu area of ​​today's Urad Rear Banner. Strictly speaking, all ethnic groups live together in this place. There are Dangxiang in Hexi, Tatars, Uighurs, and Dangxiang in Shanhou.Shao Dashuai gave Zhuang Lang's department such a name, and he will probably support some equipment in the future. I don't know if they can completely occupy it.

"The inspection envoy Zhuang Lang had a good harvest today. He hunted a lot of sheep and wild deer, but the wild horses were missing." Shao Shude slowed down his horse, waiting for Zhuang Lang to stretch out.

"Marshal, Zhuang Langbu has wild horse skins, so of course he has them too." Another prairie man rushed up from behind, glanced at Zhuang Langshen, and said.

Zhuang Langshen was a little annoyed by this guy's impolite eyes, but Shao Shude was here, and he couldn't get angry, so he endured it.

The visitor's name was Hun Wen, Shao Shude's newly-appointed patrol envoy of Kedun City, and a Uighur.

Kedun City was built by the Turkic Khan for his concubine. It is located at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain near the present-day Urad Middle Banner, about [-] miles west of Jiyu Spring.

The Uighurs of the Tiande Army all went south and attached themselves after the royal court was broken.

Strictly speaking, the Hun tribe is Tiele. Like the Qibi tribe, it is one of the nine tribes of Tiele. There are not many people, less than 2 people.This branch mainly lives in the south of Yinshan Mountain. This time, Shao Shude asked them to move to nomadic areas near Ketun City, that is, to the north of Yinshan Mountain.

The strength of the Hun tribe is not as good as that of the Zhuanglang tribe, the Zangcai tribe, or even the Qibi tribe, and it is about the same strength as Shao Shude's newly promoted Fengzhou Turkic Geshu tribe.

The Turks and the Uyghurs were forced to elevate their status by Shao.

There are too many Dangxiang in Fengzhou, Dangxiang in Shannan, and Dangxiang in Heyu. If they have national consciousness, they are almost the main ethnic groups in the front and back plains.Shao Dashuai was afraid of these "great men descended from heaven" in the party, and after several days of hard thinking, he decided to promote the leader of the Turkic Geshu tribe, Ge Shuque, as the inspection envoy of Shannan to suppress these scattered party tribes.

The origin of Fengzhou Turks can be traced back to the Zhenguan period.

In the 13th year of Zhenguan, there were already "[-] Turks in Fengzhou, [-] victorious soldiers".After Zhenguan, various Turkic tribes continued to come and descend, and they were distributed in the six prefectures of Feng, Sheng, Lin, Xia, Ling, and Dai.In the third year of Kaiyuan, ten Turkic surnames "come and surrender one after another, with a total of more than ten thousand accounts", and they were mainly placed in Fengzhou and Zhenwu Army.

At this time, the number of Turkic people in the front and back groups was almost beyond the charts, and there was even a rebellion.The imperial court sent troops to suppress them, massacred them, and then relocated more than [-] people to Xu, Ru, Tang, Deng and other states in the interior.

In the fourth year of Tianbao, the Eastern Turks were destroyed, most of them moved westward, and a small part went south to Fengzhou to surrender.Since its development, the number of Turkic tribes in Toyosu has been around 2 because they are constantly being bullied by party members.Shao Shude suspected that if he did not intervene, these Turkic people would one day be annexed by the party members.

As a result, Ge Shubu caught up with this historical trend and was promoted to Shannan Inspection Envoy, and his status rose a lot.

The five inspector tribes, from west to east.The farthest to the west is Zhuanglang, the inspection envoy of Geyuquan, and Dangxiang at the back of the mountain; two hundred miles to the east is the inspection envoy of Ketun City, the Uighurhun, or Tielehun; Li is the pastoral area of ​​the inspector of Mula Mountain of the Ministry of Tibetan Talents, who was born in Dangxiang of Montenegro; four or five hundred miles to the east of the Ministry of Tibetan Talents is the pastoral area of ​​Qibizhang, that is, the pastoral area of ​​the inspector of Baidaochuan.

And in Fengzhou, south of Yinshan Mountain, there are also Shannan inspection envoys, led by the Turkic Geshu Department.

Two are in the south of the mountain, two are in the north of the mountain, and one is inside and outside the Yin Mountain.These five are the outer defense lines of the Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army.

Marshal Shao promised Zhuanglang, Hun, Wang, Geshu, and Qibi that their five families would be the leaders of each department for generations.Who dares to commit rebellion and snatch the control of the tribe, just send someone to tell, and he will send troops to the north to help them suppress the rebels, kill all the rebels, and keep the wealth of the five families forever in exchange for their loyalty.

The Weicai family in the Hetao grassland in the south, the Dangxiangyeli family and the Meizang family in Hengshan also received such promises from him.

Just as the Weicai family is the Niubihuan of the Hetao Grassland, and Yeli and Mizang are the core of the Hengshan Dangxiang, these five tribes are also the core tribes inside and outside the Yinshan Mountains.With their support, there will be no chaos here, and I can rest assured that I will conquer Helong and expand my strength.

During this northern tour, the actual control of the Zhenwu Army and the Tiande Army is the first major task, which has basically been completed; the second major task is to recover the Jijifan tribe in the two towns, and it is almost the same.Finally, there is a small task that is not a task, and that is to go back to my hometown in Xicheng.Well, our Marshal Shao wants to return to his hometown.

On November [-]th of the second year of Guangqi, Shao Shude arrived at Xishou surrendered city with the Iron Cavalry Army, Leopard Cavalry Capital and the leaders of the five tribes of Yinshan.

Shao Shude went into the city and saw, good guy, the old house with leaks everywhere has been rebuilt, the area has been enlarged several times, and the decoration is also quite elegant.If I ask more carefully, it turns out that the old house collapsed on a snowstorm night two years ago...

Shao Shude didn't bother to care who paid for the new house.In his position, some people are flattering, and there are even more people who want to flatter but have no way out.

The house was fully furnished, and after a few days, even the maids were there.Zhuang Langshen selected a few pretty-looking girls from a large number of his daughters, granddaughters, and nieces, and sent them over. The other four books followed suit. Nearly twenty prairie girls came here at once, washing, cooking, and scrubbing. All inclusive, this corrupt life!

He could also guess what these people were thinking.The sons and nephews were sent to serve in the Leopard Cavalry Capital. They were hostages and could also accumulate military merits. Their daughters and granddaughters were sent to the mansion to serve as maids.

It's just that Shao's scalp is a little numb when dealing with women now, and he has passed the difficult time of marriage.These young girls will be sent to the Helan Mountain villa to serve as maids in the future.It's a bit too much for Xiazhou County Prince's Mansion to be full of maids from the Zhe family. It's not that he doesn't trust the Zhe family, but it's not normal.

"Lieutenant Sun, I want to recommend you as the defense envoy of the Tiande Army's West City and Central City." Looking at Sun Ba who came to visit, Shao Shude felt a little emotional. Sun Ba is his benefactor. If he hadn't recommended himself to Qiu Weidao, it might not be There is the following fortune.Therefore, when he can repay, he does not hesitate to show it.

"There is such a good thing, so you are welcome." Sun Ba smiled freely: "Xie Lingwu County King."

"Sun Duwei, why are you so unfamiliar with our love?"

"With the recommendation of the king of Lingwu County, there will be superiority and inferiority, and etiquette cannot be dismissed." Sun Ba said: "Otherwise, the defense will not be solid, and the prestige of the king of Lingwu County will also be damaged. I don't have much interest in official positions anymore, but in this troubled world, alas, you have no power, and you will be bullied by others."

Shao Shude laughed straight at the words, and said: "Lieutenant Sun has seen through the world."

"Those who don't see through are dead."

The Turkic girl brought tea to the two of them, and Shao Shude asked Sun Ba to taste it: "Lingzhou tea, the taste is not bad."

"It's really good." Sun Ba took a sip and praised.

Girl Tie Le brought some snacks, and took a deep look at Shao Shude when she left.

Damn, the prairie girl is like this - no manners!
"Lieutenant Sun, if someone wants to go west next year, he may recruit the Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army to go south." After a moment of silence, Shao Shude suddenly said.

Sun Ba was taken aback, and asked, "What about the defense of the two places?"

"Someone will transfer the Feng'an Army and the Economic Strategy Army to the north to take over the defense of the two places." Shao Shude asked.

Sun Ba suddenly realized.

Shao Shude was still a little embarrassed there, just after he said he wanted to recommend someone to defend the German army that day, but the German army was gone, and the whole army had to go south.There are [-] Feng'an troops who came to take over, can Sun Ba command them?

However, Sun Ba seemed really free and easy, he was stunned for a while, and then he said with a smile: "Go south, let's go south, but, the [-] yuan monthly salary of the defense envoy is indispensable."

Shao Shude laughed.Talking to smart people is comfortable. Sun Ba is indeed more open-minded than Hao Zhenwei, and he has been in a relationship with him for many years, so he believes that he will not treat him badly.

"The sons and daughters have been living a bit tight these past few years. I heard that the king of Lingwu County never discounts the rewards, so I asked them to receive more money, and it would be better if they had more money." Sun Ba said again: "Zhenwu Army King Bian , how do you plan to deal with it?"

"I wanted to drive him back to Beijing, but he took the initiative to vote. It's not easy to do so now. It's a headache." Shao Shude said.

"Wang Bian is different from Hao Zhenwei. He is a genuine Jiedushi, so it is really difficult." Sun Ba frowned and said.

The full name of the Zhenwu Army Envoy is Zhenwu Linsheng Jiedu Envoy, Yingtian Envoy, Observation and Disposal Envoy, Envoy of Detaining Fan, Protector of Zhenbei, and a lot of titles, which are indeed not comparable to Tiande Army Envoy.Either give him a comparable position and transfer him away, or simply make it empty.

Shao Shude felt Wang Bian's background and knew that he wanted to continue working in the position of Jiedushi of the Zhenwu Army.He took the initiative to come to see himself, with the intention of seeking refuge and submitting, but he also did not want to hand over his power.To put it bluntly, I just want to be a subordinate feudal town with a certain degree of autonomy, following the example of Li Xiaochang, the Baosai Army.

I don't want to do everything right, but in today's world, how can I give him any position?No way, I still have to make it clear first, and then ask my uncle and nephew Simon Sigong to see if there is any good place to go.Yang Fugong hired so many fakes out of the town, what happened to asking for a job for Wang Bian himself?
If it doesn't work, let Wang Bian lead the troops to go south next year, follow him out to fight, and see if he agrees.If you shouldn't, it's justified to do it to him.

As a Jiedushi, can you still command a sergeant?Can the Fans be obedient after the detainment of the Fans?
After Sun Ba left, Shao Shude called Chen Cheng and Zhao Guangfeng to ask them to think about how to deal with Wang Bian.

"Marshal, why not recommend Wang Bian to serve as the governor of Tongzhou or Huazhou. Guanzhong Dazhou, and he is from Chang'an, so he must be willing." Chen Cheng suggested.

"This is indeed a good way." Shao Shude said: "Which one is not richer than the Zhenwu Army in Tongzhou or Huazhou? If Wang Bian is no longer satisfied, he can't justify it. Let him come to see me immediately! After finishing this matter, we Then you can go back to Xiazhou. This tour of the Yinshan Mountains in the north has been fully accomplished!"

(End of this chapter)