Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 657
In the second year of Shaoming, 947 A.D., on the second day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Ting got advice from Tuoba Heng, so he didn't plan to wait in Langzhou to meet the barbarians in various streams west of Huxiang, especially Peng Shichou.

Zhang Ting is not a small separatist king like Ma Xifan, he is the son of the emperor, and it is indeed not suitable for him to go to Langzhou at this stage to swear an oath to a few barbarians who control tens of thousands of people.

Of course, the most important thing is that Tuoba Heng made Zhang Tie realize that now is not the best time to solve the problems of the ethnic groups in the southwest, and the native official system cannot be implemented immediately. This matter should wait until the world is settled, and then slowly Solved as well.

Before Zhang Ke set off to leave, Guo Rong in Langzhou also sent good news.

Pan Mei led [-] elite soldiers to raid the Dazhai in the mountains of Langzhou Man on a snowy night. The barbarians were caught off guard and were defeated by Pan Mei and the [-] warriors.

Guo Rong took the opportunity and Zhao Kuangyin led the army to attack on both sides, and once again defeated the barbarians in Cili County, beheaded more than a thousand, captured more than [-] cattle, and arrested Ma Xie's confidant Zhu Jinzhong and other generals who had fled to the barbarians in Langzhou. .

The Langzhou barbarians suffered heavy losses this time, and the attack power of the imperial army also shocked the barbarians. Many leaders were frightened and did not dare to support a few people to fight against the imperial court.

So Xiang, Tian, ​​Lei and other tribes of more than sixty caves, the barbarians, finally chose to be sent down the mountain to surrender to Guo Rong.

Guo Rong confiscated nearly [-] men and women, and seized countless luggage. Most of the gold, silver, brocade, armor, swords, and cattle looted by the barbarians from Tanzhou were recovered.

As the Xixi Dongman in the west of Huxiang with the highest degree of Sinicization, the barbarians in Langzhou were actually at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and they were no different from the Han people in Hunan.

They have also learned advanced farming techniques from the Han people long ago, and many of them even fled into the mountains because of the unbearable turmoil of the Han people.

This kind of situation is actually very common in Hunan. When the regime on the plain was stable, Xidongman went down the mountain to accept the management of the government and became Han people.

The plains are in turmoil, and the Han people will also run to the Wuling Mountains and become Xidongman.

This operation of exchanging identities between the two in order to survive has lasted for at least one or two thousand years.

Cili County is located in the area where the Wuling Mountains transition to the Dongting Lake Plain, and further west, there is a vast primeval forest.

The Langzhou barbarians have been farming on the flat land for seven to eighty years, and most of them have long since lost the courage to go back to the deep mountains and old forests to live a hard life.

Farming cattle are their lifeblood. In Langzhou Manzhong, a steer is more important than the lives of the whole family, and it is the most important tool of life and production.

Therefore, after Guo Rong captured thousands of cattle, if they didn't want to go into the mountains to be horrible upright apes, they could only come down and surrender in order to ask the court to treat them leniently.

Zhang Tie immediately ordered Guo Rong to conduct a careful screening, and punish the big and small barbarians who responded to Ma Xie and committed crimes in Tanzhou City according to the law.

Those who should be beheaded should be decapitated, those who should be exiled should be exiled, those who should be doing hard labor should be detained immediately, and many of them should be beaten.

But in fact, this is a helpless choice, because until now, there is no way to screen them one by one. There must be a lot of fish that slipped through the net, but Zhang Ting can only do this, and he can't kill them all. .

This is also the reason why Zhang Tie handed over the matter to Guo Rong, because although the historical Zhou Shizong was good at governing the country, he did not have a good temper, but he had a rather violent temper.

Sure enough, in Cili County, Guo Rong killed more than 15 people from various streams and caves, and more than [-] barbarian generals served as hard laborers. There are more than a thousand young people.

Then they also confiscated the gold and silver accumulated by the Mantou family in Zhuxidong for hundreds of years, worth more than [-] guan.

As for the local barbarians who went down the mountain to seek refuge, they were scattered and resettled by Guo Rong according to Zhang Ting's request to break up the original tribal system.

Although leaders will still be promoted from among the barbarians to manage them, these promoted people are no longer barbarians, but village elders and village chiefs, and their power will be under the supervision of the government at any time.

The Langzhou barbarians existed in the pre-Han period. Since Lei Man raised his troops to separate the regime, it has been prosperous for more than ten or twenty years. Ma Yin can only divide them.

Now Zhang Tie finally took advantage of their big mistake and they were particularly weak, and took them under the management of the court.

Speaking of it, it is thanks to Ma Xie. If he hadn't lured these brooks out and made them a fortune, and in the end the good fortune was hard to give up and refused to escape to the mountains like before, these would have cost about [-] yuan. The barbarian Langzhou Xidong barbarian is really not so easy to defeat.

Of course, the Langzhou barbarians currently captured by Guo Rong can only be said to be the essence of them, and at least [-]% of the Langzhou barbarians still chose to flee to the deep mountains.

These people can only be blocked and appeased at the same time. After all, the vast mountains in western Hunan cannot be conquered by force alone.

However, this also brought about a consequence, that is, Peng Shichou, Peng Shisong's father, delayed the pace of arriving in Langzhou.

No matter how much Peng Shisong tried to persuade him, Peng Shichou did not dare to go to Langzhou, for fear that he would be imprisoned by Zhang Tie.

Zhang Teng, who got Peng Shisong's letter of guilt, did not force it, which further confirmed Tuoba Heng's remonstrance.

To recover the ethnic groups in the Southwest, the foundation is to conquer and awe with weapons, and the native official system is the flower that blooms from this foundation.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Tie ordered to kill Ma Xichong, Zhu Jinzhong, Xu Qiong and more than [-] rebel generals on the bank of the Xiangjiang River outside the city of Tanzhou.

At the same time, more than [-] soldiers of the Wu'an Army who looted Tanzhou were also executed, and the Xiangjiang River was blood red.

The people in Tanzhou rushed to tell each other that a family member had died in the hands of these people, and the people rushed to them with sticks and kitchen knives.

The angry people chopped up the corpses all over the ground, and they didn't even have to bury them. They rushed directly into the Xiangjiang River to feed the fish.

As for Ma Xi'e, it is natural that he will be brought back to Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, for Mingzheng punishment, so as to show the majesty of the army.

After killing people, Zhang Ting pretended to confer on Ma Xiguang the title of King of Chu, Chief History of Tanzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Commander of Jiangnan All Taoists, and Jiedu Envoy of Wu'an Army.

How could Ma Xiguang dare to accept it, so he could only kneel outside the east gate of Tanzhou and beg, saying that Ma Chu's luck was dead, and he would like to give the land to the country.

So Zhang Ke immediately went down the slope to abolish the Chu vassal state of Machu, changed the entire Machu land into Hunan Province, changed Tanzhou to Changsha Mansion, Langzhou to Wuling Mansion, and Guizhou to Guilin Mansion.

Ma Xiguang was appointed as the Pingzhang of Hunan Province, but Ma Xiguang declined again, so Zhang Tie withdrew his order, and made Ma Xiguang the inspector Taifu, Youbao Taowei General, Zhongshu Ling, and the title of Changsha County King.

He married the princess of Yutan County and was specially appointed as the prince's son-in-law.

All of Ma Xiguang's positions are false, especially the Zhongshu Ling, which seems to have a high position and authority, but in fact Zhang Zhou's Zhongshu Ling is Zhang Tie himself.

On weekdays, it is Zhongshu Shilang and Zhangtai Ling and Luantai Ling who are in charge of affairs. The sealed Zhongshu Ling is just a salary.

After Ma Xiguang was sealed off, Zhang Teng moved more than [-] members of the Ma clan, including Ma Xizhan, Ma Xineng, and Ma Xiguan, all of Ma Yin's sons, to Luoyang, the capital of the gods. Build temples for sacrifices.

Zhang Ting received about 57 guan of Ma's property, shops, farmland, gold, silver, brocade and other property in Chu, leaving [-] guan to Ma Xiguang and [-] guan to the horses.

Ma Xiguang and others were grateful, and under the escort and surveillance of Zuobao Taowei with five hundred cavalry, they bid farewell to Changsha City and Ma's Sheji Ancestral Temple, and set off for the north.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Tie officially appointed Guo Wei as the Pingzhang of Hunan Province and the defense envoy of Hunan Province.

He also asked Guo Wei to build the Changsha Town of the Forbidden Army in Juntian, Hunan, and at the same time establish the Guards Army in Changsha, Wuling, Yueyang, Hengyang and other places.

Later, Guo Wei applied to move the government office to Wuling Mansion (Langzhou) on the grounds that Changsha was dilapidated. Zhang Tie immediately agreed and appointed Guo Wei as the Governor of Wuling Mansion.

Changsha now has only [-] residents, and the city is full of rubble. It really can't be used as a provincial capital. Moreover, it can better suppress the Langzhou barbarians who have just surrendered when they arrive in Wuling (Changde).

Later, Zhang Ke left He Zhongju in Changsha, serving as the inspector of Hunan Province and governor of Changsha, and presided over the restoration work of Changsha.

At the same time, Zhang Ting ordered Zhang Zhaojun (Ma Shacai) to lead a [-]-step cavalry south to Guilin Mansion.

Zhang Zhaojun was appointed as General Chijie Pingnan, the military governor of the prefectures and counties south of Guilin Mansion, and concurrently served as the governor of Guilin Mansion and the supervisor of Guilin Mansion soldiers and horses.

After Zhang Zhaojun arrived in Guilin Mansion, he rectified the local Ma Chu Jingbian Army tooth soldiers, and got more than 6000 elite soldiers, Juntian got nearly [-] guard troops, plus [-] pro-army and forbidden troops with him, the strength reached [-]. The scale is enough for Nanhan not to dare to peep.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhaojun repaired the Lingqu between the Lijiang River and the Xiangjiang River according to Zhang Tie's request, compiled and trained the Lijiang River Navy, collected the hydrological conditions of the Lijiang River, built large and small warships and grain transport ships, and began to make preliminary preparations for the destruction of the Southern Han Dynasty. Work.

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Tie arrived at Yueyang Mansion again and personally presided over the wedding of his son Zhao Yanjin and his young daughter Ma Xiguang.

At the same time, Zhao Yanjin was appointed as the Superintendent of Soldiers and Horses in Yueyang Mansion, and handed over all of Yueyang's navy and army to Zhao Yanjin.

At this time, Lu Yin, who was on an envoy to the Southern Tang Dynasty, came back, and Li Jing was so frightened by Zhang Ting's soft and hard tactics that he lost his opinion at all.

Yuan Heng (Tuoba Heng), who had changed his surname back to Yuan, and Liao Kuangtu, the new Governor of Yueyang, immediately suggested that Zhang Ting take advantage of the opportunity to raid Ezhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty. As long as Ezhou is touched, the entire Southern Tang Dynasty will completely lose its advantage on the Yangtze River.

But Zhang Ting didn't want to do this for the time being, because Nantang was just the fat on his lips, so there was no need to do this. The important thing now was to get Meng Shu settled.

Because of the news from the middle of Shu, Meng Chang was not as extravagant and laid back as in history, but was still trying to gather strength, and seemed to have some ideas.

Zhang Tie's original views on Meng Shu, especially Meng Chang, were actually misled by historical results.

In history, there are two huge reasons for Meng Chang's debauchery, besides his own character flaws.

One is Meng Shu's move to enter Guanzhong, which was continuously attacked by the Later Han and Later Zhou. The elite soldiers, especially Sun Hanshao and Zhang Qianzhao, basically called off the curtain, and there was no hope at all.

But now, Meng Shu's strength has not been greatly weakened, on the contrary, he is still thriving, and Meng Chang still has some expectations in his heart.

To be precise, the future of Shu has not reached the point where Meng Chang is completely desperate.

Second, Zhao Jiliang, a virtuous official who could guide Meng Chang, had just passed away, and Mrs. Huarui had just been brought into the palace by Meng Chang, so King Meng hadn't had time to reveal his true nature.

But today, in the kingdoms of the world, Khitan is basically destroyed, Nanping and Ma Chu have been settled, and Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty is terrified. Qian Yue and the Southern Han Dynasty are not to be feared. Only Meng Shu still has some strength. Of course, Zhang Tie must beat him first. .

Although this is the case, Yuan Heng still suggested: "The Southern Tang Dynasty was able to stand up, and there were three pillars, one is the natural danger of the Yangtze River, the other is the sharp navy, and the third is the brave generals and loyal ministers.

Among the three pillars, the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the sharpness of the navy are about to be lost. Among the loyal ministers, Chen Qiao, Chen Ziqiao in Jizhou, and Lu Jiang, Lu Jinqing in Hongzhou.

Therefore, only the brave generals Liu Renzhan of Shouzhou, He Jingzhu of Ezhou, etc., command the soldiers and guard the dangers of the sky, which is a serious problem for the imperial court.

Even if Ezhou is not taken, He Jingzhu cannot be allowed to continue to serve in Ezhou. "

"What good strategy does Qing have to drive away He Jingzhu?" The time is not ripe to attack Ezhou, but getting He Jingzhu away can be considered.

Yuan Heng immediately said to Zhang Ting: "Since Gao Baoxu and others are in Ezhou, His Majesty can send envoys to demand the surrender of Gao Baoxu and others.

Didn't the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty say that he did not order Gao Baoxu to be accepted and blamed He Jingzhu for the fault? Then we just use this excuse to blame He Jingzhu.

Moreover, since the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty was canonized by a saint and was a subject of the Great Zhou Dynasty, He Jingzhu, the envoy of the Wuchang Army in Ezhou, should also be a subject of a saint.

So when we asked He Jingzhu to hand over Gao Baoxu and others, we also asked him to go out of the city to explain the situation to the angel. As soon as he left the city, we immediately captured him and sent him to the court to serve. "

Zhang Ting touched his chin, "He Jingzhu has been operating in Ezhou for many years. The Wuchang Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty still has [-] troops, and the navy has at least [-]. Is it too risky for us to arrest their commander in Ezhou?"

Zhao Yanjin, who had just taken off the bridegroom's wedding dress, immediately walked over, pointed at Zhang Ting on the map and said, "My lord, there is a city called Hanchuan in the east of Ezhou, let the angels stay in Hanchuan, and order He Jingzhu to come here." .

If he is captured here, the Wuchang army in Ezhou will not be able to rescue him in a short time, and the minister will lead the Yueyang navy to meet him, so it will be safe. "

It seems that He Jingzhu must still have some ability, because both the local Zhang Shaodi and his adopted son Zhao Yanjin are quite wary of him.

Thinking of this, Zhang Teng decided to be cruel, "If that's the case, I will first order Du Lun Chixin to lead Jiangling's navy to go to Yueyang Mansion. If the arrest fails, we must beware of the Southern Tang navy's attack."

Then Zhang Wei looked behind him with a smile and asked: "To pass the decree, a bold and careful person is needed. I don't know which Qing family is willing to go?"

Wang Jiu laughed in the distance, "Saint, this is a certain family that is doing their part. It was not enough to scold the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty before, so this time I will use He Jingzhu to make up for it."

Ok!Zhang Tie also felt that only Wang Jiu could do such a thing, so he immediately poured a bowl of wine for Wang Jiu himself.

"This time He Jingzhu was captured and returned to the court, and your title will be secured."

(End of this chapter)