Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1368 Fortress
The Bodhisattva told himself over and over again to be patient.

But he soon wished he could slap himself a few times, and he almost vomited blood.At the foot of Yudu Mountain, after saying goodbye to Luo Keyong and Luo Simo, he returned to the tribe with Wang Juncheng, Liu Duwei, more than 100 county officials, and [-] Qin army soldiers.

Along the way, the two thousand cavalry troops were majestic, especially the tooth soldier Dutou, this guy was only an eighth-rank military cavalry captain, but he was actually the honor of Shangzhu Kingdom.

He is a majestic county prince, although he is a high-ranking official, he still has no honorary officers at all.When he knew that this tall guy was the guy who captured the mud alive, he couldn't help but marvel at the guy's good luck.

That Lieutenant Liu took people back to the tribe, but he didn't stop along the way.The Shangzhu Kingdom sent a group of light cavalry to run left and right, and map out the terrain along the road. There was no mountain, highland, valley, river, spring, or lake. Which lake is a saline lake? Tianshui Lake remembers clearly.

Whenever encountering critical terrain, they still study how to build forts and garrison troops, where to build beacon towers, where to build post stations, where to build patrol villages, and where to build military forts.

Every time a Huihe tribe passed by, Wang Juncheng and Liu Duwei would call these herdsmen, read the emperor's edict to them, and then engrave the place name on the stele.

Fatty Wang asked the interpreter to tell the tribal herdsmen that after the prefectures and counties were established, more Daqin merchants would come over there and pay for their cattle, sheep and horses, their furs and medicinal herbs, their milk, Meat, etc., will also bring many cheap and easy-to-use Central Plains products and so on.

It is also said that the emperor will garrison troops in the city to protect them from being plundered and stolen by other tribes, and will also set up medical schools and so on in the city.

The Bodhisattva became more and more dissatisfied with Fatty Wang and his actions, and the more he endured, the more uncomfortable he became.

Every night, the Bodhisattva would sit in meditation for a long time in the tent and swear to the Longevity Heaven.

The people of Qin want Tiele tribes to no longer use Turkic characters and speak Turkic languages, but to learn Chinese and use Chinese characters. They may even be unable to speak Tiele in the future. They also let them believe in the God of Haotian and believe in Confucius. Saint Guan Sheng established a Confucian school, and sent all herdsmen's children to schools in county towns, where they boarded and studied Hanshu for three years.

Isn't this just brainwashing their children?
Going north along the Suoling River, the river becomes wider and colder.

I haven't seen the Suoling River flow into the North Sea yet, but I can already see many mountain forests. On this day, I can already see a snow-capped snow-capped mountain in the distance.

There is still a long way to go north after crossing the snow-capped mountains to reach the North Sea. In winter, the Huihe tribe will not stay by the cold lake, but come to the south of the snow-capped mountains, where it is warmer.

Fatty Wang took the map and looked left and right, and then looked at the high snow mountain for a while.

He pointed to the bank of the Suoling River, "This place is not bad, with dangerous obstacles on the back and open front, it is suitable for building a city in the valley. Build the city with mountains and build gates at the mouth of the valley. This is a natural and dangerous mountain city."

The Bodhisattva looked at the place he was pointing at.

Not far from the river, there is a protruding highland with a mountain. The mountain is like an open dustpan. If the city wall is built along the ridge and the gate tower is at the mouth of the valley, this place is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially rare. What's more, this valley is still big, and if it is enclosed, it can accommodate many people.

In the past, this was a very good place to hide from winter.

"That's it. Next to here is the Suoling River. Not far upstream are the tributaries of the Kukun River, the Tongluo River, and the Dule River. They are the three counties of Mobei County and Tongluo. The traffic is also convenient."

Fatty Wang didn't leave.

He asked the Bodhisattva to send people to order the various ministries to summon the enfeoffed princes and knights from the nine Huihe tribes in Hanhai County to come.

"Let them come to Hanhai City to accept the saint's reward, and at the same time come to the alliance to take the position."

Liu Duwei asked Zhao Dayou to go to the valley to set up the red flag of Daqin, announcing that this place is the city of Hanhai County, Mobei Road, Daqin.

The surface of the Suoling River, which is a hundred feet wide, has long been frozen, and it will not thaw until April.When this great river freezes, it is equivalent to a wide and flat road.And in summer and autumn when the ice is thawed, it can be sailed again.

In particular, going along this big river to the North Sea and crossing the snow mountain pass is an important passage to the north.

The Bodhisattva couldn't help sighing, this Captain Liu had a good eye, and he picked such an important position at once, which is not only good for traffic control, but also easy for guarding.

There are four major rivers and one lake in Mobei.

In addition to the Suoling River, an important river in the center of Mobei, there are three major rivers flowing to the north. The river is expected to be built in the east, and its source comes from the other side of Langjuxu Mountain in the upper reaches of the Tongluo River.

In the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu once built a khan court at the foot of this mountain, which was named Langjuxu Mountain. Zhai Qubing defeated the Huns, and once conferred Zen on this mountain, achieving the great name of enfeoffing Langjuxu.

This mountain was once the center of Mobei, but now Mobei County City is located at the foot of Yudujun Mountain where Xue Yantuo was originally located, on the bank of the Qukun River to the west of it.

The Tongluo River originated from the west of Langjuxu Mountain, which is now the place where the Tongluo tribe is located, while the Wangjian River originated from the east, and flowed to the northeast, passing through Judunbo (Hulun Sea) and then merging into other rivers , Walking through the mountains and forests on the west side of the Daxianbei Mountains (Daxing'anling), reaching the south of the Waixing'anling Mountains in the north, converging with several major rivers and then flowing southeast, and going east for thousands of miles, it was renamed Heishui and merged into the sea (Heilongjiang).

The Wangjian River, which is thousands of miles long, is also called the Gun River by the Huihe people.

There is also a river originating from the North Sea, which pours into the Ice Sea all the way north. That river is called the Dao River.In the Tanman Mountain in the west of Mobei, there is also a big river that originated, and it flows into the ice sea all the way to the north. This river is called Jianhe.

Jianhe, Daohe and Gunhe.

Only the source of these three major rivers is inhabited by the Tiele people, and the more distant middle and lower reaches are inhabited by the wilder northern barbarians.

In fact, after passing the Snow Mountain, Tanman Mountain and Langjuxu Mountain, they are no longer grasslands, but high mountains and dense forests. The traditional customs of some tribes living there are closer to fishing and hunting.

Xue Yantuo liked the tactic of horseback riding at the beginning, and it was also because many of Xue Yantuo's fighters came from these mountain forests, and they didn't like galloping and shooting.

Theoretically speaking, Hanhai County is already a border county in the north of Mobei Road. There is no specific boundary line in the north of Mobei Road. But there is no tribe that can threaten the Tiele people. In the past, those barbarians also showed an attitude of not violating the Tiele people, and sometimes even came to express their submission and respect, and traded by the way.

Therefore, if Daqin crossed the border across the North Sea to the wilderness of Beimang, or even reached the Great Ice Sea in the north of Beimang that the expedition team had explored, theoretically there was nothing wrong with it.

Of course, in fact, in the past, the Tiele people's activities in the north were mainly in the south of the snow-capped mountains, and the area around the North Sea was already intersected with the barbarians.

The emperor established the reward system, and also established the system that the feudal lords and knights should participate in the alliance. Under normal circumstances, the alliance will be held in the county seat in winter, and the leader of the county alliance is the county magistrate sent by the imperial court. In summer, he will go to the county In the city meeting, the leader of the meeting is the governor of the county. In autumn, you have to go to Daocheng to meet the meeting. The leader of the meeting is the Xuanfu envoy or the governor.

In winter, you have to go to the Central Plains capital Chaoji Emperor.

Court officials are the initiators and hosts responsible for convening alliances at all levels.

The alliance is actually a tradition on the grasslands. In the past, whether it was the Huns who ruled the grasslands or the Xianbei, Rouran, and Turks controlled the grasslands, they also used this alliance system to maintain the authority of the Khan. It will come to solve the problems among the tribes, etc., and even decide the major decisions of the Khanate.

Now the imperial court adopts the alliance system, but it has been slightly modified.

There are alliances in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the four alliances are of different levels, and the people who can participate are also different. Naturally, all the princes and knights in the county must participate in the county-level alliance, but at the county level, Then only some knights and all the princes participated.In the Dao League, all the feudal lords and a small number of knights will participate. As for entering the Beijing Chaoji in winter, only the feudal lords are eligible to participate.

As soon as Liu Duwei arrived at the place, he was in a hurry to hold a meeting.

This is the first Hanhai County League, and the court's canonization edict will also be officially issued at the alliance meeting. Those marquises and knights will receive the canonization edict from Wang Juncheng and Liu Duwei. The territory will also be demarcated by the League.

The Bodhisattva believes that enfeoffing princes and knights should be a first-level enfeoffment system.

For example, he is the Duke of the county, the prefect, and the Khan of the Nine Parts of Huihe.

Then even if he went to the Khan, he was still the master of the nine ministries. The emperor canonized him as the county magistrate and prefect, and then the next nine county magistrates and nine marquises should be conferred or petitioned by him.

The titles below are conferred or requested by the Marquis of each county.

Then, each feudal lord confers knights on his own, and assigns them knight territories. In this way, just like the Zhou Dynasty in China, the emperor conferred feudal lords, and feudal vassals conferred dukes, dignitaries, and scholar-officials. In this way, my feudal lord’s feudal lord is not mine. Lord, my vassals' vassals are not my vassals.

That's right.

But now, the imperial court directly confers knights at all levels, even knights. All knights and knights at all levels are directly loyal to the emperor.

Except for the county where his son is the magistrate, the other eight counties that are not the headquarters, whether they are feudal lords, knights or tribesmen, are no longer directly under his control.

"The Duke of the county should also have some contact with the Northern Mang tribe in the jungles north of the North Sea, right?"

Bodhisattva said, "I have some connections with several tribes, but I'm not familiar with them."

"It's okay, I still need to trouble the county government to send someone to lead the way, and lead the people from the court to declare the great Qin Tianwei and persuade all the tribes to naturalize. The court is also willing to award titles and rewards to those who are willing to submit."

Bodhisattva nodded, "Okay, I'll arrange it now."

He has now begun to doubt whether his strategy of forbearance is correct. If this continues, there will be no place for him in Mobei. Even Hanhai County, I am afraid that it will soon be dominated by doves and magpies.

This is considered to invite the wolf into the house.

Two thousand soldiers from the Qin government had already begun to set up camp in the valley. The city couldn't be repaired for a while, but the camp had to be erected immediately. First, a temporary camp would be set up, and later it would be reinforced until the mountain city was built.

Before that, the two thousand government soldiers would not divide their troops.

"Mr. Jun, please rest in the camp. Before the county city is built, you can only ask the Duke to do business for the saint in this simple camp like us." Fatty Wang said with a smile.

Bodhisattva nodded silently, and understood in his heart, it seems that Fatty Wang and Liu Duwei don't want him to leave Qinying and go back to the tribe for the time being.

(End of this chapter)