Han Hai Tang Ergui

Five years ago, the eighth year of Shaoming, AD 953, four years after Bai Congxin conquered Shiguo City.

Hezhong Province, Bai Country, Wanli City.

This Wanli City has nothing to do with the Emperor Wanli of the later Ming Dynasty. The meaning of Wanli is the Xinli City thousands of miles away.

Just by hearing the name, one can tell that the lord of this city is most likely from Licheng County, Jinan Prefecture, Jiaodong Province, which is the later Licheng District of Jinan.

This is true.

Song Heishan was wearing a brown tunic-flowered round-neck gown, walking swaggeringly on the streets of Wanli City.

He is one of the six envoys of Wanli City Zhang Baoyi Zhang Xuanwei, and the hometown of Wanli City Xuanwei Zhang Baoyi's hometown is Licheng County.

This guy was originally Yang Guangyuan's tooth soldier, and Yang Guangyuan was an old traitor who raised troops to respond to the Khitan people when Yelu Deguang first attempted to enter the Central Plains.

Zhang Baoyi followed such a chaste style, so naturally he didn't get any better.

After Yang Guangyuan was defeated and killed by Li Shouzhen, Zhang Baoyi, who managed to escape with his life, and a hundred veterans of the Pinglu Army ran to the southwest of Juye Ze to become bandits.

Well, it is the water park Liangshan in the Water Margin of later generations.

Zhang Zhou's rule of the people is actually a bit rough. The biggest reason is that Zhang Zhou has fought everywhere in the Southern and Northern Wars since the founding of the country.

Who made Emperor Zhang have no foundation in the Central Plains, but at the same time, his spirit was very high.

He has been fighting all the way along the way, because only by fighting can other people submit to him, a bandit from Hexi.

And even if there are very few gaps without fighting, Zhang Ting is still appointing "cool officials" like Pei Yuan and Zhao Pu to make troubles.

Therefore, there is not much time to clean up the folks. The only large-scale search of mountains and seas was to recruit black and evil elements on a large scale against Buddhism.

Zhang Baoyi and the others happened to have nothing to do with the Buddhist sect. On the contrary, they were hired by several patrol inspectors around Juyeze because of their slight force.

But Zhang Baoyi didn't dare to go, because in Zhang Zhou, he served as an internal response to the Khitan people, and he was also a soldier under the command of a big traitor like Yang Guangyuan. If he was discovered, he might be beheaded.

As a result, these soldiers of the Pinglu Army continued to settle down in Shuibo Liangshan. They took dozens of households to Liangshan to plant land for them, and coerced more than 100 boatmen from Juyeze to pay them protection fees. Life is a bit poor, but still manageable.

Then, Yao Yuanfu saw a way to make a fortune from Bai Congxin, so he sent his sons back to the Central Plains with his trilogy, and started a Wagnerian conscription.

Yao Yuanfu is also an old tooth general, with him in charge, Zhang Baoyi and others will soon be unable to hide.

Yao Yuanfu's eldest son went to the mountain to persuade the former Pinglu Army general, but Zhang Baoyi still didn't believe him, and he didn't want to go to Hezhong, thousands of miles away.

Therefore, no matter what the eldest son of Yao Yuanfu said, he just didn't let go. He even suspected that it was because the imperial court wanted to earn him money to go down the mountain and cut him down.

But then, no surprise, as soon as Yao Yuanfu's eldest son left, on the third day, a capital of Jinbo town, the imperial court's imperial navy, killed Juyeze.

Led by the fisherman who deeply hated Zhang Baoyi and others for oppressing them, they quickly blocked Zhang Baoyi and others in the cottage.

At this point, Zhang Baoyi was very sensible and didn't let his subordinates and children and grandchildren resist, because that would not have a second result other than the death of the whole family.

Following Zhang Baoyi and others were captured almost at the same time, there were more than 400 bandits, water bandits, and bullies around Juyeze, and there were as many as 2000 people including their families.

Later, on a small flat-bottomed boat in Jinbo Town, a small official in a green robe who claimed to be a county lieutenant in Yuncheng County confirmed the crimes of Zhang Baoyi and others in just half a cup of tea.

Zhang Baoyi was speechless in shock, feeling that his world view was shattered, a donkey entered, a heinous crime of exiling his whole family for eight thousand miles, and the case was over in the time it took to drink his saliva?
Well, he didn't realize it until he saw the figure of Yao Yuanfu's eldest son among the officers and soldiers escorting them to the river.

Damn it, this is being targeted by the villain!
However, Song Heishan touched the brown brocade robe with tufted flowers on his body, patted the horizontal knife on his body, straightened his big belly that had already started to get fat, and looked at the red-headed servant who nodded and bowed behind him, it seemed. deficit.

Three years ago, after Song Heishan followed Zhang Baoyi to the vicinity of Shiguo City in Hezhong, he soon felt like a fish in water.

Because what they did in Juyeze was to plunder the people to farm for them, which is what they specialize in!Perfect re-employment belongs to yes.

So this group of dozens of old tooth soldiers brought two or three hundred children, grandchildren and nephews into the state in an instant.

Taking armor and weapons on credit from Bai Congxin, they quickly conquered a small tribe of more than 300 people with a population of [-].

Then, like a snowball, until now, Zhang Baoyi has controlled more than 5 households in the southwest of Shiguo City, nearly [-] local aborigines, established his own town, Wanli City, and became Bai Congxin's Wanli Consolation Envoy .

The backbone of Song Heishan under him also got the official position of a thousand households and the governor.

Now, Song Heishan's family is the king of the 7000 indigenous people in one thousand households. Compared with Juyeze, almost one household has to support one of them. The life is so beautiful.

"My lord, the servant has inquired about it. Someone from their family is going back to Chang'an recently, and they can bring back ten pieces of the finest Yunxia Shu brocade."

Behind Song Heishan, the middle-aged red-headed servant said in a crappy Tang accent, only the word Chang'an was pronounced very accurately, with a sense of inexplicable envy.

The word master can be regarded as a typical example of export to domestic sales.

The word Yeye of the Han people was absorbed by the Northern Wei Dynasty who went south during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and then accepted by the people outside the Great Wall, and then lost its original meaning, changing from expressing father to a title for people with status.

Historically, it was not until the end of the Yuan Dynasty that Lao Ye became the meaning of future generations in Chinese, but this time and space has already become popular in Hezhong.

Because the Han people who gradually mastered the strategic initiative in Hezhong felt that the local aborigines were not worthy of using the titles of Langjun and Alang like them, so the titles of master and uncle came into being.

This is used by the natives of the river to address the Han people, and the Han people still call each other Lang.

Of course, the scope of this Han people is a bit broad. In addition to the original Han people, the grassland people who believed in the Six Dharma School and were recruited by Tian Khan to help Hezhong were also called Han people in Hezhong.

Song Heishan nodded, ten bolts of Yunxia Shu brocade are not cheap, but the money must be spent, and it is worth it, because it is used for his eldest son Song Dalang's betrothal gift.

The woman's family is the Ma family of Khotan Han people. It is said that when the Holy Son of Heaven first arrived in Khotan, Ma Furong, who was then the inspector of the Jin Dynasty, went to greet him.

Ma Furong's younger brother Ma Jirong also followed Sheng Tianzi to Suiye and Ningyuan. Although he did not return to the east with him in the end, he also achieved the high position of deputy governor in the Ningyuan Governor's District.

Of course, Song Heishan's son would not be able to marry the direct daughter or granddaughter of Ma Furong and Ma Jirong's brothers, but for Song Heishan's background, being able to marry Ma Jirong's niece is already considered a tall order.

You must know that in today's river, every man and woman is precious.

Not to mention the rich Anxi Han people like the Ma family, even women from the Zubu and Xiajiasi tribes from the grasslands, as long as they can speak broken Chinese, they are all sought-after.

If Li Congde, King of the Kingdom of Jin, hadn't started to prepare to move his vassal to Kangju City (Samarkand), and needed to rely on them, the Han Chinese vassals in the river, even if the Ma family was a collateral daughter, it would not be the turn of Song Heishan's son.

This is a shop opened by Tang people. Song Heishan remembers that the owner seems to be surnamed Mi, and his granddaughter married a big propaganda envoy from Baishui City, so he has some strength.

On the territory of the Han people in Hezhong formed mainly by the four Han cities of Suiye-Talos-Baishuicheng-Shiguocheng, they have a bit of a black and white take-all ability.

The so-called Great Announcement and Consolation Envoy actually refers to Uncle Fang, but it cannot be called Uncle Fang yet.

Because the sage hadn't officially closed the river camp, Bai Congxin, the head of the camp, was the king of the Bai Kingdom, and Lu Zhen Lu Sanlang, who was also in Baishui City, had not yet received the title of Grand Duke of Baishui.

Therefore, the current situation is still a bit embarrassing, Bai Congxin can only continue to issue orders in the name of the head of the Hezhong Camp, and the princes, Fang Bo, etc. who have gone out under his command can only be crowned with the title of Da Xuan Consolation Envoy.

Because although the consolation envoys and the appeasement envoys are vassals, they can be said to be court officials to cover up on the surface.

Similarly, the little vassals who were supposed to be gentlemen and gentlemen are now also called comfort envoys and envoys.

At the same time, Tang people is also a rather playful statement.

According to the current addressing, the Central Plains people in Hezhong are either called Han people or Zhou people, because now the Central Plains is the Great Zhou and not the Great Tang, so there will never be such a title as Tang people.

Therefore, these people who are deliberately called Tang people are actually Sogdians from Beiting in the west to Beipingfu in the east.

The Sogdians are a very special group. It is estimated that there are as many as 200 million in the Central Plains, and there are several factions among them.

For example, Kang Fu and An Shenqi, they returned to the Tang Dynasty with Li Keyong, and Li Cunxu rebuilt the Tang Dynasty together, and they are no different from the Han people.

There are also Hexi Sogdians who started their business with Zhang Tie, such as Kang Jinshan and Mi Guozhong of the Hexi Chamber of Commerce.

But neither of these two factions is the most numerous. The most is that many have settled in the Central Plains and can already speak fluent Chinese, but they are regarded as Sogdians in the Central Plains, but they are considered by the local Sogdians in the river as the existence of Tang Er. , There are more than 100 million.

After these people saw that Zhang Yu was determined to be Xiajunyimin in Hezhong, they immediately moved their minds, and they also wanted to take advantage of this shareholder wind to be a pioneer of Xiajunyimin in what should be their hometown, and take advantage of their status to fight. A big fortune.

However, after these people arrived in the river, the status of the Han people has been raised.

The local Sogdians who were ruled did not want to admit that those who looked similar to them and had left their hometown for hundreds of years were also Han masters.

At the same time, these Sogdians who pretended to be half-Han in Shatuo did not want others to regard them as Sogdians, and insisted on keeping their identity as Han Chinese, so they gradually accepted the name Tang people.

It's no big deal, Tang people are always better than Hu people.

Only in this way, in order to completely distinguish them, they began to try their best to refuse that their fellow clansmen who stayed in the river used the Han surnames like An, Shi, Mi, and Kang like them.

Bai Congxin didn't stop it, because the benefits were obvious. What these Sogdians did was to build a firewall between the locals and the Han people!
The Sogdians below will definitely hate them, the Sogdians from the east who are no longer of the same ethnicity, instead of directly hating the Han people.

At the same time, there are at least 150 million Sogdians in the Central Plains. They do not need to be mobilized to have the motivation to come east. Their way of thinking and language are Chinese-style. They are a very useful middle class.
Song Heishan was about to go in to discuss the price with the head of the Mi family and place a deposit when he suddenly heard the big bell in Wanli City ringing. The pedestrians in the market panicked and hid on both sides of the street.

"There are thieves making trouble in Yingchun Fort, there are thieves making trouble in Yingchun Fort, all the government soldiers are armed to the Yamen to listen to orders!"

As the bell rang, there was a Marquis Wu riding a horse and shouting along the street while beating the gong.

"No, Wang Liu is in Yingchun Fort!" Song Heishan yelled, Wang Liu was one of the old teeth soldiers who fell grass with them in Juye Ze, and was sealed to Yingchun Fort as an inspection envoy.

"These thieves are really good at timing." Song Heishan scolded immediately.

The reason why he said this was because at this moment, the Han army in the river was fighting with the Saman Persian army along the river, starting a brutal tug-of-war for both sides.

What happened in these years was exactly as Zhang Tie and Bai Congxin expected.

After Bai Congxin gained a firm foothold in Shiguo City, Salah, the actual controller of Saman Persia, couldn't help it.

In four years, he used all his power to cross the Yaosha River three times in an attempt to recover Shiguo City.

The force used was more than the first time, and this time was the turn, which was the fourth time to go north.

Saleh not only mobilized a full [-] troops in Saman Persia, but also summoned more than [-] troops from the Buwehi Dynasty that controlled Iraq, the Safar Dynasty in the south of Persia, and even the Iheshidi Dynasty that controlled Egypt. God Warrior.

There are a total of 12 troops, and there are as many as 20 without the title of civilian husbands.

In order to guard against Salah's attack, Bai Congxin also began a large-scale conscription in the four cities of Hezhong. Six thousand Chinese heavy armor soldiers were recruited around Shiguo City alone, and he also asked for assistance from Ningyuan and Khotan.

This is the fourth battle of medicine to kill water that determined the fate of the river in history.

At this time, it was the most difficult time for the fourth battle of Yaoshashui. At this time, Bai Congxin and Lu Sanlang had already filled almost all of their [-] soldiers and troops to the shore of Yaoshuishui.

After three confrontations with the Central Plains Zhou army, the combat effectiveness of the Saman Persian army has been rapidly improved.

Although they are not as good at fighting as Zhou Jun, they are not as vulnerable as before, and their equipment has also been greatly improved due to the support of the Tianfang Sect countries in the Middle East.

This led to the main force led by Bai Congxin. Although they defeated the forward army of Saman Persian Salar Abu Yusuf several times, they have not been able to achieve the result of defeating the enemy army that can cause mass destruction.

Instead, Abu Yusuf, backed by the Jeddah Fortress, continued to increase troops, trying to use Saman Persia's population of as many as 400 million to consume Bai Congxin, who had only 10,000+ in the heart.

His tactic has already had an effect so far. Under the threat of tens of thousands of people on the opposite side, the Zhou army had to shrink its troops to avoid the confrontation with the Saman Persian army from turning into a competition, which in turn led to being defeated by various smash.

This trick was very effective, and immediately turned the numerical advantage of the Saman Persian army into a bloated one. They were constantly defeated by the Zhou army in key areas, and the losses were not small.

But Bai Congxin's shrinking force has a disadvantage, that is, it will cause Saman Persia's rangers to penetrate into the four cities of Han, they attack everywhere, and continue to encourage the local Tianfang believers to resist.

This was a well-planned attack, and Abu Yusuf played with an extremely short time difference, because this battle was only more than three months away from the last one.

Half of the main force of the Zhou army that participated in the last war had returned to Suiye City for repairs more than two months ago. No one expected that Saman Persia would be able to mobilize again so soon.

Of course, this does not mean that the Saman Persians have much advantage, because the Han Sicheng Army headed by Bai Congxin also has a powerful assistant-the vassal army of the Khotan Kingdom.

The current situation in Anxi is that half of the original Khotan Jin army was controlled by Huguang and became the main force of the Han army in Anxi.

Half of them belong to Li Congde's control, which is the Jin Guofan army, with almost 2 people, controlled by Ma Jirong, the deputy governor of Ningyuan, and Xue Shouli, the military envoy of Ningyuan.

At the same time, in the hands of Zhang Zhong, who guarded the millions of acres of private property in Ningyuan for Zhang Yu, there is also a [-] imperial private soldiers controlled by Dangjin who can be drawn into the battlefield at any time.

So the focus now is when the Jin Guofan army and the emperor's five thousand private soldiers will be mobilized to leave Tianmen Pass.

Only when they broke through the blockade of the water city established by Abu Yusuf on the Yaosha water, and stabbed the chrysanthemum of the Saman Persian army-cutting off the logistics supply road of the Persian army, could they win the war.

. . . .

Song Heishan drew out his horizontal saber, and quickly mounted a war horse. He was the comfort envoy, and he could replace Zhang Baoyi to exercise certain powers when the comfort envoy Zhang Baoyi and his eldest son and other young men had all gone to the front line.

By the time Song Heishan ran to the gate of the yamen, more than a hundred Han troops had gathered here, all of them with horizontal knives and spears, followed by servants holding armor, bows and arrows and other equipment.

Song Heishan saw Zou Dalang, another governor, and was immediately relieved. He rode his horse over and said:
"Zou Da, someone knows the way to Yingchun Fort. Let me take 200 people to reinforce. You stay in the city. If there are thieves who want to attack Wanli City, pay attention to it. Someone needs to direct it."

Zou Dalang nodded emphatically, and then said with confidence:

"You take all these 300 people away! If you recruit people over 13 years old and over 45 years old in the city, you can still gather 200 people. Ordinary thieves are not our opponents."

Song Heishan thought about it for a while, and immediately agreed. He got on his horse and shouted to Zhang Baoyi's 13-year-old eldest son:
"Give the silver and white flag to a certain family. You stay in the city and listen to Uncle Zou's arrangements. Don't be afraid."

The 13-year-old Zhang Dalang blushed. He put on a slightly smaller cloth-covered iron armor three times, and shouted loudly:
"Uncle Song is still so contemptuous of people. Although my nephew is not yet a weak crown, but the sharp blade in his waist has already killed five thieves who were not ministers. How can you be afraid of a dignified and good man!"

"Hahaha!" Song Heishan laughed loudly and praised three times: "It is the seed of our Han people. With you here, Wanli City will definitely be safe."

After all, he looked at the gray-bearded and gray-haired men behind him who were mostly in their 40s and shouted: "The children and grandchildren can't return after killing the thieves with medicine and water. Can you still fight?"

"Song officials don't worry, although a certain family is over forty years old, it is still no problem to kill five or eight Hu thieves." Someone immediately replied loudly.

"Okay, then let those Saman thieves who came over take a look, his grandfather is old, but the long sword in his hand is not old!"

Song Heishan waved his hand, and the first rider flew out, and a silver-white three-star flag immediately flew behind him and began to flutter in the wind!