Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Da Tinghuaien entered the door and bowed respectfully to Wang Wenzuo. Wang Wenzuo sighed: "You said you have something important to see me about, so tell me! Is it still about the Khitan rebellion?"

"Exactly!" Da Ting Huaien gritted his teeth: "The general ordered the villain to go back and wait. Originally, the villain should obey the order. But after the villain returned, he met an old friend and got some news from him. The villain felt that I should have told the general that you dared to disturb me!"

"Speak!" Wang Wenzuo raised his head and asked the maid to wipe his beard: "The ground is hard and my knees hurt when I kneel on it. You should get up and talk first!"

"Thank you, General!" Dating Huai'en bowed again before standing up. He recounted what he had planned with Wang Kuan in the bathhouse, and finally said: "General, it is good to take care of the overall situation. , But if a title is given to the general, and the general is asked to recruit brave men and conquer the enemy, victory will be the result of the general's planning, and defeat will not hurt the king's army at all, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

"Haha!" Wang Wenzuo listened to Da Ting Hua'en's suggestion and laughed after a moment of silence: "Dating Hua'en, if I follow your method, you will be gambling with your own life and the lives of those Liao refugees. I won the bet. Just sit back and enjoy the profits, and I won’t suffer any harm if I lose the bet! Isn’t this too advantageous for me?”

"Don't dare!" Da Ting Huai'en quickly lowered his head: "The villain is a hostage of the Khitan. His mother clan has caused rebellion, and the villain is guilty. This villain is clearing himself from suspicion, and it can't be said to be a gamble!"

"Clear yourself from suspicion!" Wang Wenzuo looked at Dating Huai'en and sighed: "Do you think I refuse to send troops because I don't believe you? I'm afraid of falling into a trap and losing our troops? You're wrong to think so. Let's put it this way, The reason why I don’t want to send troops is because it’s not the right time yet. If I really plan to send troops to attack you, even if I have suspicions about you, I won’t change my mind! Wang was ordered by the emperor to appoint the emperor’s own brother as commander, and to command the people of Shandong and Hebei. , How can it be like crushing the top of Mount Tai with this method? Even the mountains have been trampled to pieces, and the sea has been filled up? How can you, just a shooting general, be able to control it?"

Facing Wang Wenzuo's scolding, Dahe Huaien felt his knees weaken and immediately knelt down.Wang Wenzuo picked up a letter from several cases and threw it in front of the other party: "Look at this! Don't think I am. Boast! If I really want to quell the Khitan rebellion, why do I need to send troops? Just relying on the reputation of the emperor, I can turn you all into powder even without firing a single arrow!"

Dahe Huaien picked up the letter and opened it, his hands trembled. It turned out that the letter was written by a prince of Huihe. In the letter, he expressed his indignation at the Khitan rebellion and claimed that he was willing to send troops to quell the rebellion. If the Tang Dynasty gave him a title, the Uighur cavalry would surely trample the Khitan tooth tents into powder, make the Khitan women maidservants and the men slaves, and the name of the Khitan would no longer be spread on the grasslands.

"General, you must not do this!" Da He Huai'en knelt on the ground and kowtowed as if pounding garlic.It turns out that this Uighur tribe originally belonged to the Tiele tribe. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Uighur tribe was nomadic in the Ili, Orkhon and Selenge river basins and was under the servitude of the Turkic Khanate.In the first year of Daye of the Sui Dynasty, the Uighur tribe resisted the oppression of the Turks and formed an alliance with the Pugu, Tongluo, and Bayegu tribes in the Tiele tribe, collectively known as the Uighur tribe.

After the fall of the Sui Dynasty, the Eastern Turks became powerful, but the Uighurs always resisted the Turkic rule. They finally survived the reunification of the Central Plains and the rise of the Tang Dynasty, and played a considerable role in the Tang's war to eliminate the Eastern Turkic Empire.After the fall of the Eastern Turks and the rise of Xueyantuo, the Uighurs participated in the war to eliminate the Xueyantuo people as allies of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, the Uighurs also participated in many wars of conquest of various grassland forces by the Tang Dynasty.

As an emerging force among the grassland ethnic groups at that time, the Huihe people have always been famous for their swiftness, bravery and good fighting skills.This was confirmed by the combat effectiveness of the Uighur cavalry during the Anshi Rebellion decades later from both the rebels and the Tang army. The Uighur cavalry, with a total of only [-] cavalry, played a decisive role in many battles with the rebels.

If from the perspective of the ethnic groups on the grassland, the Tang Dynasty is a male lion, then the Huihe people are like jackals that follow the lion and eat the remains. Maybe they are not as big as the Tang Dynasty, but they are still more ferocious and unruly. No less, it is not difficult to imagine how horrified Dahe Huaien would be when he heard that the Uighurs requested to conquer his own tribe.

"Don't worry, I won't agree to the Huihe people's request!" Wang Wenzuo said: "This is obviously a trap by the Silla people, and I won't fall for it!"

"Thank you, General!" Da Ting Huaien hurriedly thanked him, but he still didn't understand what Wang Wenzuo said about "the Silla people's trap", but he knew that since Wang Wenzuo read the letter to him, he also stated that he would not accept the Huihe people. The request will naturally explain the whole thing clearly, so there is no rush.

"The Khitan people have no sweat. They only have tribal leaders who are replaced every three years. With this method, they can only protect themselves. If they want to invade, they are not ready. I know this, and the Silla people also know it. So. The Silla people spent so much effort to bribe the Khitan noble chiefs and let them raise the flag of rebellion, not because they expected the Khitans to raise their troops and go south, but because they hoped that after the Tang Dynasty learned about it, they would send troops to quell the rebellion. This completely muddied the water. They Only then can we profit from it!”

"Yes!" Dating Huaien was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "In this incident, the only people who really want to fight are the adults and the great shaman. The others are just following along, trying to gain some benefits and grab something. , if you want to fight with the Tang Dynasty, you won’t even dare to lend them three courages!”

"So I don't plan to send troops to conquer the Khitans for the time being! Nor do I plan to use the power of Huihe to suppress the rebellion!" Wang Wenzuo said: "Anyway, as long as the chaos of Silla and the Mohe people is settled, the chaos of the Khitans will be like a rootless tree. At that time, we can capture it with just a piece of paper, so there is no need to use weapons! On the other hand, if we send the Khitan troops first, this place is nearly a thousand miles away from your tent, and the transfer will be very difficult. If it is delayed for a long time, we will be in trouble!"

"What the general said is that the villain made a mistake!" Dating Huaien said respectfully. Of course, he also knew that the outcome of running thousands of temporarily recruited men and horses to attack the tooth tent was unpredictable, but the situation was unpredictable. Just a last resort.Now that I know that I don't have to gamble with my life, I am naturally very happy.

"But there is one thing you did well. You reminded me! Those Liao refugees were displaced due to the war, but I can't ignore them!" Wang Wenzuo asked: "What's the name of your friend?"

"Wang Kuan!"

"Okay, tomorrow you and Wang Kuan will get [-] kilograms of rice from me. First, build a porridge shop among the refugees. Taking advantage of the opportunity of giving porridge, you can use the opportunity of giving porridge to the Liao refugees to see how many young people there are, how many old, weak, women and children there are." Check it out, copy it into a book and send it to me."

"Little man obeys!"

After Dating Huaien left, Wang Wenzuo breathed a sigh of relief.He has worn so many official hats from the emperor this time. Of course, he came to Fanyang not just to quell the chaos, chop off thousands of heads, and level Silla.

He knew very well that since the Northern Wei Dynasty, Hu and Han people had intermingled in a large area of ​​land from Hebei to Haidong. Tens of millions of people with different cultures and languages ​​lived in this land.The powerful military power of the Tang Empire forced them to temporarily surrender, but the Tang Empire did not take advantage of the rare surrender to gather this huge group of people and recast them as part of the Second Chinese Empire.The Anshi Rebellion decades later shattered it. After that, although the Tang Empire and his successors tried every means to rebuild this great empire that unified China and the barbarians, they ultimately failed.The next time those who tried to accomplish this ambitious goal were no longer the Han, but the Mongols and Jurchens.

To use an analogy, what Wang Wenzuo is doing is like a jigsaw puzzle, but what he has in his hands is not pieces of cardboard with colorful patterns, but real tribes, khanates, cities, and even countries.He wants to splice these scattered, seemingly disorganized small squares into a gorgeous empire.

The first step in this game is Hebei, which is also the first step in his entire grand plan. Only with the support of the local nobles in Hebei can Wang Wenzuo mobilize the abundant manpower and material resources in this land to complete the second step of his plan— -northeast.

The reason for choosing this place is simple. There are large areas of fertile land for cultivation, mineral deposits and forests. In addition to irrigation, the crisscrossing rivers are also natural transportation roads.With the popularity of cotton cultivation, these fertile lands will attract thousands of immigrants from Hebei and Shandong. The rich iron ore will be forged into hoes and axes, and forests and swamps will be opened up into fields.

These immigrants will cover the entire land suitable for farming and living in Northeast Asia within 200 to [-] years. They will conflict with the local indigenous people, bleed, communicate, and intermarry. Their common production and lifestyle will allow their descendants to integrate. Become one and become the true master of this land.The national borders of modern society will not hinder them thousands of years ago. This is the real legacy Wang Wenzuo left to future generations.

And this grand plan has just begun. Wang Wenzuo did not tell anyone, not even the emperor Li Hong.He knew his plans were so grand that they exceeded even the wildest imaginations of his men.In their opinion, the general was planning for a difficult war in the future, but they did not expect that Wang Wenzuo had prepared much more.

"Counting the time, Di Renjie should have arrived in Xiongjin. I hope he has a smooth journey and doesn't encounter any setbacks!" Wang Wenzuo thought to himself.

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Baijiangkou.

"Di Xianggong, the Baijiangkou is ahead!" Sancho pointed to the dark gray coastline in the distance with great interest: "It was here that the general led us to defeat the Japanese and Baekje rebel fleets and put down the chaos in one fell swoop. . At that time, the sea was full of floating ship fragments and the corpses of thieves. The local fishermen did not eat fish for a long time because the fish often had human bones in their stomachs."

Sancho was so busy talking to himself that he didn't notice Di Renjie's pale face at all.The sea made him sick to his stomach.Not only was he afraid of drowning, but he also hated the rocking of the ship and the heaving of the deck beneath his feet.

But his official position and responsibilities forced Di Renjie to always show a dignified look. However, no matter how hard Di Renjie tried, vomiting and diarrhea continued to torture him, making him weaker and tired day by day.

"Did you see it?" Sancho pointed to a raised island in the distance: "On that small island, two thousand Japanese people fled to the island. They refused to surrender, but there was no fresh water on the island until the fourth day. They surrendered to me, and I only had two ships and less than 100 men at that time. With this merit, the general rewarded me with land..."

Sancho's endless chatter made Di Renjie more and more bored, and he had to shift his gaze to the rowing oars. This at least diverted his attention and made him feel more comfortable.

"After passing Baijiangkou, we arrived at Zhouliu City. It is a beautiful city with many merchant ships coming there. Although it is not as good as Nambajin and Yangzhou, it still has a population of more than 1. There is a local dish that is very good. I have waited for it. Oh, I'll let my wife make it for you to taste——"

Di Renjie finally couldn't bear Sanqiu's chatter and started vomiting violently.Sancho hurriedly asked someone to take him back to the cabin. The loud sound of conch woke everyone on board.

"It's pirates! Or it's Silla people!" the captain shouted loudly. After the war broke out, the Silla people recruited many pirates and let them openly rob various ships of Xiongjin and Japan.Compared with Japan and Xiongjin, which had opened up maritime trade routes with the Tang Dynasty, Silla's maritime trade was negligible, and its natural maritime power was far weaker than that of Wang Wenzuo. Therefore, the existing maritime power of the Silla people was almost entirely provided by the sea. Made up of thieves.

"Don't panic, their ship is smaller than ours! Their weapons are far inferior to ours!" Sancho raised his voice to encourage the sailors on the ship: "Look, there is smoke rising, and a patrol boat will soon come to help us. !”

The plume of smoke rising from the river bank aroused the morale of the sailors. The captain distributed shields, short spears and bows and arrows to the sailors. In addition, there was a scorpion at the bow and stern of the ship.As for Sancho, he and the ten guards had already put on full iron armor, and the sun shone on their breastplates and shoulder pads like metal statues.

"What happened!" Di Renjie came out of the cabin with difficulty. He heard the movement outside. "There's nothing to worry about. We met a few thieves! Just rest in the cabin for a while and I'll take care of them all!" Sancho said with a nonchalant smile.

Di Renjie looked at the sea. Judging from the number of pirates, they definitely couldn't be called "little pirates" - three brigs, five sloops, and several boats. The decks of each ship were full of people. A person holding a weapon.Judging from the number of people, it was at least five times the number on the ship.

"Bring me my armor!" Di Renjie said.

"There's no need for you to take action!" Sancho wanted to persuade Di Renjie to hide below the deck. In his opinion, Di Renjie was just a scribe who had made a mess of vomiting. Letting him continue to stand on the deck would only be a disservice. If he was shot by a stray arrow, he would be in trouble. Trouble!
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