Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 865 - Go South
Just when the curtain fell on the Southern Han Dynasty, the last of the Ten Kingdoms, the [-] troops led by Zhang Cheng also approached the former Dali Tonghai Governor's Mansion.

The general scope of this place is comparable to Gejiu City and Honghe Prefecture in the later Republic, including the one that often appears on various short video platforms. Vietnamese people like to go to Hekou County, which is also among them.

Speaking of it, the ruling style of Dali and even Nanzhao is similar to that of Zhang Xiancun's Chu Kingdom.

Both regard the white people and the Han people as nationalities, and let them go out of the town to rule the black Cuan, Baiyi and other large and small tribes. The difference is that Zhang Xiancun has a strong backer.

The land of the Tonghai Governor's Mansion has a very special status in Dali, because the ancestors of the Duan family were sent here by the Nanzhao King to appease the Baiyi. Duan Siping's father, grandfather and other generations were all in the navy at that time. Jiedushi.

At the same time, Duan Siping's mother is the daughter of a powerful chieftain of the Uman tribe on Tonghai's side.

The Wuman tribe, also known as the Heman tribe, is very powerful in the southeast of Dali, and its control area is basically equivalent to that of Honghe Prefecture in later generations of Yunnan.

In history, Duan Siping was persecuted by Yang Ganzhen because he took shelter from his uncle Cuanjuan, a powerful chieftain of the Wuman tribe.

It was also under the protection of the Wuman tribe that Duan Siping was able to hold an alliance in Tonghai City, and formed an alliance with the 37 tribes in eastern Yunnan to overthrow Yang Ganzhen's Dayi Ningguo.

After winning the country, Duan Siping was very grateful to his uncle for his blessings in the past, and upgraded Tonghai Jiedu Envoy to Tonghai Dudufu.

He sent his son Duan Sizhong to Tonghai as the governor, and let Duan Sizhong marry his uncle Cuanpan's granddaughter, which further strengthened the relationship between the two families.

In addition, Duan Siping also rewarded the Wuman tribe with a large amount of property, and added thousands of Pyu people who were captured from the Lishui Jiedushi to the Wuman tribe. There are more than [-] Buddha statues (brass).

The return of this kind of strength made the strength of the Wuman tribe begin to expand rapidly, and the relationship with the Duan family in Dali became closer. More than [-] golden Buddha statues also brought the prosperity of Buddhism here.

So when Zhang Cheng arrived at Tonghai Governor's Mansion, what he faced was a barbarian who was deeply bound to the Duan family, regarded the Gao family and the Dong family as traitors, and was not very backward.

In addition, the local Azali sect of Buddhism refused to accept the call of Chongsheng Temple to go to Tianzhu, and at the same time did not accept the Six Dharma School, the atmosphere of religious resistance was very fanatical.

The combination of the two sides is simple.

Zhang Cheng also knew that in the face of this situation, war was the only option, but at the same time, as he took on the important task of attacking Jing Haijun, he couldn't completely wash Tonghai Dudu's Mansion with blood.

Otherwise, this place will not be able to be used as a logistics base for daily quelling the Jing Navy rebellion in the future.

Fortunately, Zhang Cheng is not only strong in personal martial arts and military, but also very strong in politics.

If Murong Nobunaga was the first apprentice handed over by Zhang Tie, then Zhang Chengcheng was the second.

Originally, there was Li Cunhui, but Zhang Tie didn't teach this guy to be a bit elm-headed as soon as he left the army.

Therefore, after Zhang Cheng quickly conquered Tonghai City, he forcefully restrained his army without committing any crime.

Because Zhang Cheng came too quickly, almost all family members of Duan Sizhong and others were captured, and thousands of defeated troops were captured at the same time.

Zhang Cheng ordered people to protect their family members as a pledge, hoping to have a detailed discussion with Duan Sizhong and the Wuman tribe.

As a result, Duan Sizhong and the Wuman tribe did not reply at all, and continued to retreat to Jianshui City in the southeast direction.

Zhang Cheng resisted all opinions and took the initiative to release the family members of Duan Sizhong and Wuman. He distributed fifty catties of beans, wheat, black millet and other grains to each of the captured soldiers as food for the road. freed.

Of course, Zhang Cheng still kept an eye out, the released soldiers did not include officers above a centurion, and they were not given any weapons other than simple daggers and short knives.

The fifty catties of grain given is definitely a fortune for the poor people of all tribes at this time.

These people narrowly escaped death and got rewards, the first thing they think of is definitely not going back to find Duan Sizhong and others, but how to send the food home as soon as possible.

At the same time, carrying fifty catties of grain on the road can greatly weaken their physical strength, so that they will not make trouble halfway.

And without officers above a centurion, their organization will be cut off.

Only daggers and short knives ensure that their combat effectiveness will not recover soon.

At this time, broadswords, long spears, bows and arrows are all quite valuable items, not to mention armor, without which there is not much combat effectiveness.

Afterwards, Zhang Cheng left 2000 people to guard the city, and continued to lead the remaining [-] troops to attack Jianshui City southward.

Jianshui City had only low earthen walls, and there was no place for the Zhou army who was good at attacking the city. Zhang Cheng deliberately surrounded three buildings and let Duan Sizhong and others escape.

During the [-]-day siege, Duan Sizhong and others did not escape from the Zhou army, but the family members who had just caught up with them were captured again by the Zhou army, and at the same time thousands of soldiers in the city were also captured again.

At this point, Zhang Cheng chose to release the family members and soldiers again, but before the release, Zhang Cheng asked the elders of these family members and the brave soldiers among the soldiers to visit the Zhou army barracks.

On the one hand, let them see how powerful the imperial court is, and on the other hand, let them know that after two releases, the soldiers below are already very dissatisfied.

Because every prisoner is their meritorious service, with Zhang Cheng's prestige, he can only be released twice.

Zhang Cheng made it clear to them that if Duan Sizhong and the Wuman tribe continued to resist, then after the next war, the female family members would be military prostitutes, the young men would be slave laborers, and all boys taller than wheels would be killed. to the point.

After all, Zhang Cheng released thousands of family members of Duan Sizhong and the heads of the Wuman tribe for the second time, as well as all the soldiers, and then continued to advance to Sixiaguan (Mengzi) further south.

But this time it was different, the released Duan Sizhong's family members were unwilling to leave.

One is that the farther south the road is, the more difficult it is to walk. They may die a lot if they cannot reach the place after a long journey. Second, the next time they are captured, they will not be given preferential treatment.

Seeing that the imperial army is so powerful, don't think about it, there is a high probability of being captured next time, and it will be troublesome at that time, so they only sent a dozen and a half boys on horseback to inform Duan Sizhong and others, and the rest did not leave .

This was exactly what Zhang Cheng wanted, so he immediately placed his family members in Jianshui City.

In mid-May, Zhang Cheng led his army to Sixia hall, which was completely unguarded, and the people in the city did not panic after seeing Zhou's army.

Because after more than three months of two captures and two releases, Zhang Cheng has successfully played Zhou Jun's signature.

Not only did the people in the city not panic, there were even a large number of white people who did not leave and chose to take refuge, and revealed to Zhang Cheng the news that Duan Sizhong and others had fled to the mountainous area controlled by the Wuman tribe in the southwest, that is, the area around Luchun County, Yunnan Province in later generations. .

Soon, the head of the Abo tribe, who was located on Qilin Mountain in the east of Gejiu City in later generations, led dozens of people from various chieftains to visit Zhang Cheng in Sixia Hall and express their submission.

Two days later, more than a hundred people from various tribes, such as Nong Minfu, who controlled Wenshan and Malipo in later generations, came to the Sixia Hall to meet Zhang Cheng, and also expressed their willingness to join imperial court.

The reason why these two ministries came so quickly is because Zhang Cheng released a large number of civilians from these two ministries.

Not only did Zhang Cheng not kill them, but he also gave them food such as beans, wheat, black millet, etc., and his sincerity to deal with the matter with gentleness moved the two departments.

Among them, after the Abo tribe was attached, it marked that Duan Sizhong and the Wuman tribe had no choice.

Because on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, there is not much food produced in the mountains and forests, let alone necessities such as salt, sugar, tea and cloth.

The only places with rich products are some basin plains called dams mixed with these high mountains.

However, there are only three dams under the jurisdiction of Tonghai Dudufu, namely Tonghai, Jianshui, Sixiaguan and Muze (Gejiu).

With these three dams in hand, Zhang Cheng can wait for Duan Sizhong and Wu Manbu to come down the mountain to find him, no matter whether it is a fight or a draw, there will be a result.

Generally speaking, when conquering Yunnan and Guizhou, you don’t need to go all over the mountains to chase them. They are locals, and you can’t catch them at all. Once you drill into the mountains and forests, you will disappear in an instant.

In this kind of mountain forest, the heavily armored warriors who grew up in the vast North China Plain, and the iron cavalry from the Hexi and grasslands, may not be as fast as others who are half as fast as others.

So it is still the same routine as conquering the grassland. The grassland is found along the river, and Yunnan and Guizhou occupy the dam and wait for them to come.

Of course, you can also choose to do it recklessly, but the price is that both sides will be exhausted and suffer heavy casualties. If it is not on the scale of the She'an Rebellion in the late Ming Dynasty, this method must not be adopted.

And if the Abo tribe's refuge cut off the last hope of Duan Sizhong and the Wuman tribe, then the arrival of Nong Minfu from the Liaozi tribe was no less than an earthquake in the hearts of the local people.

Because Nong Minfu represents not only the Liao people who now control the Wenshan and Malipo areas.

He also represents the Nong family of Liaoren who received the canonization of the Southern Han Dynasty, in the northwest of Guangxi, that is, Xilin and other counties west of Baise, and now belongs to Guangyuan Prefecture of Jinghai Navy (Gaoping area of ​​Vietnam).

The Nong surname can be said to be the largest and most influential clan among these tribes that were later attributed to the Zhuang nationality.

And the Nong family, who have been loyal to the imperial court for thousands of years after the Song Dynasty, is a good partner for cooperation.

Historically, after the Jing navy at the end of the Tang Dynasty became Vietnam independently, the Nong family became the main force in the southwestern frontier against encroachment by Vietnam.

Even Nong Zhigao, who caused a rebellion in the Northern Song Dynasty, was a poor man, and his intention was not to resist.

I, Da Song, do have a special ability to push our own people to the enemy.

Nong Zhigao's father and uncle were killed by the Vietnamese Li Dynasty, and the master who had a deep hatred with the Vietnamese was forced to rebel.

Thinking back in history, Nong Zhigao contributed several times with training elephants, gold and silver, and finally he was so humble that he asked the coach to make such a trash official, and even asked the Northern Song Dynasty court to give him an official robe to scare Li Chaozhi. If you can be forced to the point where you can only raise your troops and do a desperate fight.

As a result, the Northern Song Dynasty suddenly realized that the entire Guangnan West Road was almost corrupted, hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed and injured, and millions of military expenditures were spent.

I, Zhang Shengren, naturally would not do soft things like the Northern Song court, so I have an explanation for how Zhang Cheng dealt with the various ethnic groups in the Southwest.

In Zhang Shengren's view, the most suitable system for these places at present is the chieftain system.

Where there are few local rich people, powerful and brave Han people are placed as chieftains.

If there are big clans in the local area, let these big clans directly become chieftains recognized by the court.

In addition, their strength should be appropriately strengthened, so that they can continue to migrate the excess population to the south, and every time they occupy and develop a land in the south, they will directly smash the chieftain's titles and rewards to help them gain a firm foothold in the local area.

Let them and the Han people, to be precise, the second and third generations of Zhang Zhouxun in the Longtao Academy continue to encroach on the south, and establish hundreds of large and small semi-independent vassal states in the Indochina Peninsula.

Of course, the most important thing is that these southwestern chieftains must be Sinicized first.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Cheng heard that the Nong family had arrived, he immediately sent an urgent letter to Zhang Xiancun, the king of Chu who was in Dali City.

This kind of local snake that can command 30 to [-] people must be recruited by Zhang Xiancun himself to get a more perfect effect.

Nong Minfu sounds like he is quite old by his name, but he is actually only 21 years old this year, so this is not an easy character to get along with.

Because the Nong family is the largest local tyrant in the west of Lingnan, it is also a fairly large family, and Nong Minfu is not the most direct descendant of the Nong family, but with his excellent ability and the two generations of father and son, they are in the right and left of various forces. Eventually became the head of the Nong family.

Historically, Nong Minfu not only accepted the canonizations of the Southern Han Dynasty and Dali, but was also conferred official positions such as inspector Situ and Shangzhu Kingdom in the Northern Song Dynasty. Nong Zhigao, who was forced into a catastrophe, was the grandson of Nong Minfu .

The reason why he rushed to Wenshan from Guangyuan Prefecture, and then came to meet Zhang Cheng in person, was because Zhang Cheng had indeed made a name for himself in the past few months, which made Nong Minfu feel that Zhang Cheng was someone who could be approached.

Don't think that these chiefs deep in the mountains must be ignorant of things outside the mountains. These people are outstanding among the local natives. There are cruel and arrogant ones, but there are no fools.

Nong Minfu certainly knew that the Central Plains had been unified, and also knew that there was another dynasty like the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, although these natives still basically manage themselves, it has become a practice to ask the northern court for a canonization and take control of the land with a good name.

The second thing is that the demise of Dali and the imminent demise of the Southern Han Dynasty frightened Nong Minfu.

He originally wanted to contact Qu Yanqing who was besieging Yongzhou (Nanning), but the hundreds of people he sent did not know what was going on, and Qu Yanqing regarded them as soldiers who came to reinforce Yongzhou, and they were beaten in a surprise attack. collapsed.

Dozens of people who were lucky enough to survive ran back to Guangyuan Prefecture to add fuel to the meal, and only described the Central Plains soldiers as gods descending to earth.

This frightened Nong Minfu. At this time, he was very afraid that after the end of the Southern Han Dynasty, the court would ask him to blame him for this incident.

So when he heard that General Zhou in Dali was relatively gentle, he ran over in a hurry.

Zhang Xiancun came very quickly, because the young man has now found a little bit of the excitement of being a king.

When Zhang Tie taught him before, telling him not to let his eyes get stuck on a woman and he couldn't take it off, he said that the happiness of a man is only a small part between the beds.

Holding power, opening up territories, and deciding the lives and sorrows of thousands of people with one word, and leaving behind great achievements and history, is the ultimate joy of a man. Zhang Xiancun now fully understands it.

When Nong Minfu saw Zhang Xiancun, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, because he felt that he was already a young hero, but he didn't expect that the king of Chu Fan was even younger than him.

At this time, Zhang Xiancun was wearing a silver-white over-the-shoulder python robe, a gauze scarf on his head, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, showing elegance and elegance, and he had the natural wealth and noble temperament of a prince and grandson.

A fair-skinned girl next to Nong Minfu was fascinated, and forgot to put the crispy cake in her hand into her mouth. Her bulging cheeks seemed to be full of saliva, and they looked like they were about to come down from the corner of her mouth.

Although Nong Minfu was shocked by Zhang Xiancun's demeanor and temperament, he paid more attention to the two strong men behind Zhang Xiancun.

One of them was wearing heavy armor like a giant bear. Nong Zhigao was sure that if any assassination happened now, this strong man would be the best shield, enough to cover Zhang Xiancun without any blind spots.

The other man has long arms and thick muscles. He walks like a dragon and a tiger. It seems that he can suddenly jump in front of you in the next second, and then kill you with a knife.

"True tiger minister!" Nong Minfu couldn't help admiring in a low voice. If he had such a warrior under his command, he would at least be able to manage thousands of people in a cave and be his right-hand man.

But beside the King of Chu, it was only enough to be a personal guard.

While sighing, Nong Minfu inadvertently glanced to the left, and immediately found that Guangyuan's Yizhihua sister, whom no good athlete in his state would look up to, was in a nympho.

Nong Minfu's heart moved, and he made a decision immediately.

As soon as Zhang Xiancun arrived, more than a dozen generals at the scene immediately proclaimed the king, and knelt down to the ground.

Nong Minfu and the leaders of the Abo tribe were taken aback for a moment, especially Nong Minfu, who knew very well that kneeling was not a daily etiquette for the Han people, and there was a high probability that it was aimed at them.

But people are under the eaves, the two of them didn't have much reason, and they immediately knelt down. It's not a good thing to hesitate at this time.

Zhang Xiancun walked slowly to Nong Minfu, helped him up with his own hands, then took the hands of Nong Minfu and the head of the Abo tribe with his left and right hands, walked to the two sides of the banquet chairman, and said to them with a smile:
"Today is a day of reunion. Guzi brought fine wine from the Central Plains from Dali City. The two of you are with Guzi, just drink freely."

Zhang Xiancun will not discuss with them in detail at this time, because Zhang Xiancun has not figured out the purpose of the two of them, especially Nong Minfu, from Guangyuan Prefecture.

Cooperation is definitely necessary, but it must be done after knowing the basics.

Most importantly, Zhang Xian was waiting for the result of Qu Yanqing's attack on Yongzhou (Nanning).

Although Zhang Xiancun knew that the Southern Han Dynasty was doomed, he was not sure when Qu Yanqing would be able to win Yongzhou.

Only when Yongzhou was taken, the army of Chu Fan and the imperial court could squeeze the territory of the Nong clan to the left and right, and that was the best time to accept the puppet.

　I may have to ask for a day off tomorrow. I am not in the office to organize team building activities, so I can’t type.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)