A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 286
Town Fort.

The east gate is called Yongning, and there is also an urn city at Yongning Gate. The gate opens to the south, which can protect Yongning Gate from direct attack.

There is also an archery tower behind Yongning Gate, which stands high in front of and behind the Yongning Gate Tower.

On the three-story Xieshan-style roof gate building, the carved beams and painted buildings built in the Sui Dynasty are still there, lifelike.

On both sides of the urn tower in front of Yongning Gate, there are two attics next to the city tower, one temple and one temple, dedicated to gods and Buddhas.

Although the wind and sand blowing made the pass city a bit eclipsed, it still showed its majesty after simple clean-up.

Eating Tan sheep on the top of the city gate, paired with overbearing persimmons and burning Erguotou spirits, it is a joy.

The bone-in lamb chops are stewed until they are overcooked, and then dipped in the seasoning and eaten with hands, the meat is tender without any smell.

Pan-fried butterfly steak, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, full of aroma.

Eating delicious Tan mutton, dipping in the high-quality green salt of Yanzhou, and even being served by a mountain beard maidservant, although it is not as luxurious as Rencheng King Li Daozong's hundred maidservants meat screen, but in the closed gate of the Great Wall, it is not Average.

Xue Wanche was very satisfied.

He didn't think it was enough to eat the mutton with his hands, so he directly brought up a large piece of boiled mutton tail oil. This guy took out a knife and cut off a piece, put it on his wrist, and sucked the whole mutton tail oil into his stomach. middle.

He likes this way of eating, but Wu Huaiyu and Dou Lu Huairang just laughed and didn't eat.

To be honest, the vast majority of people like to eat this way of eating sheep tail oil at this time, but generally most people who eat this way are low-level people. The real nobles and nobles will not eat like this. After all, sheep tail oil is a lump Grease, very greasy.

People who lack oil and water will not find it greasy, just like Huaiyu used to kill pigs for his servants and guys to eat, they like to pick the big fat meat with three layers of flowers, and the braised pork made by Wu Huaiyu is their favorite. of.

But fried shredded pork, they generally don't like to eat it. They feel that it is too thin and oily. They like the feeling of eating it in one bite, and the mouth is full of oil until it reaches the throat.

They like pork offal and fatty sausages more than tenderloin.

Huaiyu only likes to slice mutton tail oil and put it between the mutton when grilling skewers, so that the grilled meat skewers are more fragrant, but he can't eat it directly.

Xue Wanche also came from a general family, and now he is a dignitary of the Xue family of Chang'an Five Halberds, and he is the Duke of the county himself, but he just likes this way of eating, and he sucks one at a time.

The one that sucks is refreshing.

But look at his general belly, his Taishan-like body shape really needs fat, unlike Huaiyu and Doulu Huairang, who are also dignitaries, but they didn't grow a general belly.

Wu Huaiyu didn't want to grow into a wrestling and biting body. Although generals need such a body with more endurance and explosive power, he still thinks it's better to be slender and fit.

As for Doulu Huairang, the sixth princess of the family, his father was the nephew of Sui Wendi Yang Jian, and his grandmother was also a princess of the Sui Dynasty. She was so rich that she didn't need to fight for fame.

This guy was the seventh-rank official of the East Palace last year, and now he is the Sima of the Central Capital Governor's Mansion and the governor of Youzhou. One battle after another, one merit after another, this rank is only from the fifth rank.

Doulu Huairang was automatically promoted after a while, even jumping up.

Although he is the second son in the family, he has become the princess, and now he is the emperor's brother-in-law. As long as he doesn't make a fuss, sooner or later he will have the opportunity to become a county or even a state prince.

The three heads of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion sat there, looking like monsters and scholars. Wu Huaiyu and Dou Lu Huairang were romantic, suave and moist as jade, and Xue Wanche was like an undeveloped beast, sucking suet with his mouth open. Even the bearded maidservant next to her secretly disliked her appearance.

Xue Wanche was very happy after sucking a stick of sheep tail oil and drinking persimmon spirits.

After eating and drinking enough, Xue Wanche waved Hu Nu back.

The three of them stood on the tall city gate, looking at the northern scenery inside and outside the Great Wall.

"I heard that Lord Shouyang sent many people to appease the fanhus in Yanzhou, but no one responded?" Xue Wanche was full of alcohol, and his words were murderous.

Although Doulu Huaiyu looked elegant and graceful, he was not a good one when he said it, "This time, thousands of soldiers and horses from our Lingfu gathered here, why don't we take advantage of the situation and clean it up?
Those fanhus have always been afraid of power and not virtuous. You can't treat them too well, and don't reason with them. Show them your strength first. It's best to find someone to beat them hard. They only know how powerful they are, only then do they know how to be afraid, and only then can they cooperate. "

Wu Huaiyu quite agrees with these words.

He remembered that someone once said such a sentence, even a good person must have the ability to hurt others.

If you are a harmless person, you may be despised or even hurt by others.

Only when you have enough ability to hurt people can you choose to be a good person or a bad person, otherwise you have no choice at all.

However, Wu Huaiyu didn't like the simple and rude way of nobles like Li Daozong, Xue Wanche, and Dou Luhuairang.

What happened to Helian Jinzhu's family, as well as their hatred for the Tang people, is actually very revealing.

You have great strength, but you are unreasonable because of this. If you have nothing to do, you have to beat others up. You even kick a passing dog twice. Even if you are strong and others can't beat you, this kind of behavior is not good.

There may even be hidden dangers.

Just like Wu Huanhua, although the most important fuse is the inward migration of Hu people, and then in Luliang and other places, there are more Hu people than Han people, but there is another important fuse that is the discriminatory and oppressive policy against Hu people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties As a result, when they went up to the government and went down to the local scholars and powerful people, they didn't treat the Hu people as human beings at all, oppressed them at every turn, and even sold them into slavery.

When the dynasty is in turmoil, they will naturally make chaos.

Huaiyu is not the kind of person who wants to be a saint, but at least he can't be punished without teaching, and he can't just blindly oppress. After all, where there is oppression, there is resistance.

It is famous to learn from others.

You have to be the teacher of the king, not deliberately oppress and provoke.

In other words, it is wrong for a dog to kick you for no reason, but if the dog barks at you, you are allowed to kick it.

It's wrong for you to beat someone up for no reason, but if someone scolds you, or even steals and robs you, you can of course beat them up.

If the opponent shines a knife, you can even counterattack infinitely.

You must learn from others to be famous, that represents justice.

Wu Huaiyu sent someone to pass on a message to those fanhus, asking them to register in the bureau, ordering them to obey the control of the Yanzhou Yamen after they were in Yanzhou, and even to pay tribute, pay taxes and perform military service, etc.
All of these represent the orthodoxy of the imperial court and are legal and reasonable behaviors.

When they were on the land of the imperial court, they had to obey the legal system of the imperial court, and they had to pay taxes and serve.

Otherwise it is illegal.

Wu Huaiyu has the right to punish them accordingly according to law.

There is a saying that is good, anti-crime needs evidence, anti-terrorism only needs lists, and if counter-insurgency, then only coordinates are needed.

Wu Huaiyu pays attention to etiquette first and soldiers later, and has to be done step by step.

"It's too troublesome." Xue Wanche shook his head straight after hearing this, "They're just wild beards, not even human beings, why talk so much, just do it."

Treating Fan Hu directly as a beast, he is more ruthless than Li Daozong, after all, Li Daozong just doesn't treat slaves as human beings.

In Xue Wanche's eyes, all fanhus are directly equivalent to two-legged beasts.

He has strong soldiers and horses in his hands. Although there are only a few thousand soldiers and horses, for the scattered Hu tribes, these Tang soldiers in iron armor, riding on war horses, holding excellent spears, horizontal knives, and even mo knives, battle axes and crossbows are absolutely incredible. One counts as ten.

Thousands of elites, dare not say that Turkic Yushe, who swept Hetao, set up [-] tents, and dare not say that Liang Shi, who has tens of thousands of troops in the land of several states, can fight casually, but fight some small and scattered mobs. Huh, that's really a dimensionality reduction blow.

"Mr. Wu'an, don't worry. If we really want to attack these miscellaneous beards, of course we can sweep them away, but the terrain here in Shuofang is dangerous. There are countless river valleys in the east, Baiyu Mountain and Hengshan Valley, and the Gobi Desert in the north.
It is unrealistic for us to want to defeat and capture all the miscellaneous beards.

We can defeat them, but it is very difficult to capture them all. Doing so will only leave them with no other choice, and will only fight us to the end. "

Wu Huaiyu didn't want to have to endure the terrorist attacks of these miscellaneous beards every day in the future.

After all, although the miscellaneous beards are backward, this is a frontier, not a hinterland, just like the United States and the Soviet Union once occupied Afghanistan, but they were mired in a quagmire.

These backward miscellaneous Husbands will attack you every day, and they don’t need to attack your city. They only attack your salt ponds, attack your trade routes, even destroy your village security, attack and plunder your people, and you will also be affected. No way.

Thousands of elites are powerful, but they are broken into pieces, and they don't defend the city and don't confront them head-on, which is also a headache.

"Then what is the plan of Lord Shouyang?"

"Picture it slowly."

He issued the official documents of Yanzhou governor's yamen to all places, letting them accept the management of the yamen, register into the bureau, pay tribute, pay taxes and serve in the service, let them elect tribal patriarchs and other prestigious people, and grant them some Lizheng village heads. The title of the class.

On the other hand, Huaiyu advocated strengthening economic ties, promoting trade with them, and purchasing livestock, fur, and herbs in their hands.

Even for the slave trade that Li Daozong and the others were most concerned about, Wu Huaiyu felt that there was no need to catch it by himself. He found some influential tribes in various places in Yanzhou, let them become his agents, and bought them from them with money. Or use Datang's commercial goods to exchange them with them.

At that time, under the lure, these tribes will become slave hunters and take the initiative to attack other fanhus.

Let the fanhus fight on their own, Datang can be more detached, and even balance it out at that time, if the strength is too strong, it will win over others to suppress it.

Take it step by step, no rush.

Today you can go to the tribe to barter, tomorrow you can exchange things for slaves, and the day after tomorrow you can also spend money to hire them to dry salt and build cities.

Bridle them step by step.

You can't fight and kill directly, that will only make those fanhus unite against Datang, if they want to fight on their own, then they will all scramble to ask Datang for support.

Unless those unscrupulous Fanhu directly came to rob Yanchi, rob trade routes, and attack the city, then they needed to directly send troops to suppress it, and that was also famous.

On one side is the iron cavalry long sword, on the other side is the temptation of money, let Zhuhu choose.

Anyone who dares to have a different intention will be mopped up by thunder.

"What should we do next?" Xue Wanche asked.

"Concentrate on restoring the salt production of the various salt ponds. Our state town soldiers can guard and patrol while they can also cultivate fields."

Although half of Yanzhou is outside the Great Wall, it is not impossible to cultivate here. It is also possible to grow buckwheat and oats, but the yield is lower.

Now the land here is sparsely populated, and many of the lands are fertile farmland. Once the canals are repaired, production can be resumed. Soldiers can farm the fields and build some pastures. At least it is enough for self-sufficiency.

As long as Yanchi resumes production, Yanzhou will prosper very quickly. At that time, salt will be exchanged for grain, salt will be exchanged for horses, salt will be exchanged for money, and Yanzhou will be very rich.

With the Great Wall and passes, money, food, horses, and elite soldiers, isn't that the right to seize the initiative and be invincible?

Xue Wanche was disappointed when he heard that Wu Huaiyu wanted to focus on farming and salt production in Yanzhou.

"If that's the case, then I'll go back to Lingzhou directly."

Dou Lu Huairang supported Wu Huaiyu, he had never been interested in fighting, "I will stay here to help restore production in Yanchi and resume trade."

"Let's go with you."

Anyway, Xue Wanche and Lingzhou also have a share of the salt pond and trade benefits.

(End of this chapter)