A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 524

Wind blows.

The dark clouds are low, and the drizzle is mixed with snow particles,

Blizzard sent home guests.

Soldiers marched along the Lightning River,

"The Guangbian army and the children behind the mountain will part here. You return to the mountain by the same route, and I will lead the rest to go west to Guangning via the dam."

Wei Siren, the envoy of the Guangbian Army, accepted Wu Huaiyu's arrangement. The weather was freezing and the snow was falling suddenly, so he needed to return as soon as possible.

"Please don't worry, the governor. Gao will first assist Wei Jun to lead the troops back to the mountain, and then come to Guangning to join the governor." Gao Wei, the Sima of the Guangbian Army and the deputy envoy of the army and horses of the governor of Youzhou, said,
"Ah."

Shanhou has now been attached to the imperial court, the common people are registered as households and naturalized, and the township soldiers also selected [-] to be the government soldiers, and another [-] were transferred from them to the Guangbian Army, and another [-] were selected to train for the Wuqi regiment.Many border tycoons are also appointed officials, and many of their children are also born.

Gaowei and other villages behind the mountains are actually quite satisfied, especially this time when Wu Huaiyu met Xi Wang Kedu, he took the Tanghe River Valley from Xibu in one sentence, and pushed the border to the west bank of the Chaohe River. Half of the Chaohe River Valley, the Chaohe River is a big river behind the mountains, the valley is wider, and there is more arable pasture land.

Most of the land newly acquired by Tanghe, Chaohe and others will be moved northward, leaving a large area of ​​open space. Wu Huaiyu has promised that some of it will be used for government soldiers, frontier troops, governor's prefectures and counties, and public farms. Farmland, job fields, etc., and the rest are partially sold, and about one-third is used to distribute to the people behind the mountain, including these powerful households behind the mountain.

No matter whether it is to share or buy, this time the rich people behind the mountain can enjoy themselves and add a lot of land and pastures for themselves, which naturally wins their strong support and appreciation.

Wu Huaiyu first displayed his powerful force to deter Shanhou, and then rewarded and appeased them with a big stick and carrot. Shanhou is now very respectful to Datang, to Youzhou Governor's Mansion and Wu Huaiyu, even saying that he is already Forged a very close alliance.

Wu Huaiyu also intends to reuse the frontier people behind the mountain and the Mohe, Xiqi and other aboriginal people attached to Youzhou to check and balance the old tyrants of famous families such as the Lu family in Fanyang.

Four border counties of Chicheng County, Longmen County, Guangning County and Fengning County were newly added in North Yanzhou, Xinlong County was added in Tanzhou, Kuancheng County was added in Yingzhou, Zunhua County was added in Jizhou, and seven new counties were added along the border. Thirteen border markets will be established one after another to trade with Xiqi Turks.

The two counties of Chicheng and Fengning have been added to the back of the mountain alone, and they attach great importance to the back of the mountain. What's more, Wu Huaiyu has to restart Wangyunyi Road.

From Youzhou, go through Junduguan, Chang'anling, Diaowopu, Chicheng, until Dukoubao.

On this post road, a garrison fortress will be built, with a string of forts on one side. Not only will Baiyun Fort be restored and Chicheng built, but Wangyun Fort will be built to the north of Chicheng, and Guguan Dushi Fort will be restored.

Even between the Sanggan River and the Gui River in Huairong County, another civil fort was built to enhance the defense of North Yanzhou City.

In addition to setting up counties, building forts and reopening post roads, the most important thing is that there will be border markets here. Post roads are also commercial routes, and border markets are even wealth.

There are very good iron ore resources in the Red River Basin. Wu Huaiyu has reached a preliminary agreement with Gao Yaozi and other frontier tycoons. Wu Huaiyu organizes artisans to be responsible for mining and smelting technology. The border tycoons mainly provide manpower. Everyone cooperates in mining and smelting. Iron, and even made iron pots, iron plows and other iron utensils,

With excellent iron ore resources, plus border markets and trade routes, are you afraid that you won't make money by then?

Anyway, the pie Wu Huaiyu drew for the heroes behind the mountain was big enough to make them extremely excited, and he also shared some leftovers with Fan Yang and Lu Shi, so that they could also share a share of the pie.

Behind the mountain, hundreds of miles away, it is much larger than some prefectures, and now there are more than [-] households, so the potential is still great.

In the ancient land of the Jinyun clan of the Huangdi tribe, Nvqi County was set up in Diaowozhai in the Han Dynasty. The north of it was the place where Doupi County built the sun. To Xiangping.

Later, the Han Dynasty abandoned the land nine hundred miles north of Zaoyang, and gave up beyond the Great Wall.

In the Jin Dynasty, this was the Xialuo County of Guangning County. The Northern Wei Dynasty built the Great Wall from Chicheng to the west to Wuyuan. inside the Great Wall.

During the reign of Wude, the Tang army basically only controlled the land of North Yanzhou within the Junduguan and outside the Junduguan. It was only recovered in the last years of Wude, and basically only controlled one city of Huairong.

Now that Wu Huaiyu has arrived, of course he will not be satisfied with just restoring the old land of North Yanzhou and bringing several basins under control.

The back of the mountain must be controlled, let alone the Huai'an area in Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua.

Now in this area, the Sogdian Hu lived together and developed self-government.

These commercial peoples who came all the way along the Silk Road are good at speaking, have great business acumen, and even maintain their own traditions through Zoroastrianism.

Of course, there are also some Sogdians, which are called Turkicization. After Tumen Khan established the Turkic Khanate, a large number of Sogdians flooded into the Turkic territory. They gradually controlled the trade and diplomacy of the Turkic Khanate, and even influenced and transformed the Turkic culture. , Invaded the Turkic power center, and the Sogdian caravans were all sent to Persia Sassan and Eastern Rome on behalf of the Turkic Khanate many times.

Even the Turkic Khanate used Sogdian script at one time. Both Shibi and Xieli today trust Sogdian Hu very much, and there are a large number of Sogdian Hu in their khan court.

Even the veteran Ashina Simo was born to a Sogdian beard girl, with a Sogdian beard look on his face.

Today, in the Eastern Turks ruled by Jieli, there is a special Hu tribe, all of which are tribes composed of Sogdians.

However, while the Sogdians influenced the Turks, they were also influenced by the Turks. Many Turkic Sogdian tribes were Turkified, just like Hispanics.

They have been with the Turkic people for a long time, settled down, and accepted the Turkic way of life, but they still have the talent for business,
Many Sogdian Hu tribes mainly settled and lived in areas where farming and nomadism intersect, such as the Hexi Corridor, the Hetao Plain, Daibei, Youyan, and even Yingzhou.

They chose to settle in these interlaced areas of farming and animal husbandry, which was also a speculative choice of these Sogdian Hu people who were good at doing business. They even took a fancy to the geographical convenience of these locations. It is also beyond the reach of all parties who fancy these interlaced areas of farming.

Many of the Sogdian Hu people in the Yanghe River Basin to the west of Yanbei Prefecture belonged to the hybrid Hu people, that is, Sogdian and Turkic people, and even Han and Xi.

When Wu Huaiyu returned to Youzhou this time, he deliberately did not go the same way, but went to Zhangjiakou, which is his newly established Guangning County, in order to recruit the Sogdian Hus who had begun to be Turkic, and even the hybrid Hus.

Li Bai said, "Hu Ma Ke in Youzhou, with green eyes and tiger skin crown, smiling and flicking two arrows, ten thousand people can't do it, bending the bow like turning the moon, white geese fall into the clouds.

Gao Shi said that young people in Yingzhou are all over the fields, they hunt down the city with fur covered in fox fur, they don't get drunk after a thousand minutes of wine, and Hu'er can ride a horse at the age of ten.

Historically, these Sogdian Hus continued to move inland and grow stronger in the Tang Dynasty, and finally a miscellaneous Hu rebel general like An Lushan came out, almost overthrowing the Tang Dynasty.

The woman laughed immediately, her face was like a jade plate.Turn into shooting birds and beasts, spend the moon drunk and carve saddles.There are four rays of light on the head, fighting like bees.

Compared with those Sogdians who immigrated to Chang'an, Luoyang and other inland areas of the Central Plains, most of them respected traditions more, maintained their belief in Zoroastrianism, even insisted on intermarriage among the Sogdians, and maintained the Sogdian Hu clothing.

Cooking wild camels with scorched plowed oxen and fine wine from the river, the Sogdians are naturally profit-seeking, and they are used to making their homes everywhere.

It is said that their ancestors, with nine surnames of Zhaowu, originally lived in Hexi, and later moved all the way to Hezhong in the Western Regions. Later, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they began to move eastward in large numbers, along the Silk Road, from the Hexi Corridor to Chang'an Luoyang, to the Saishang Grassland, and to the border of the Great Wall. On the road, they are everywhere, and there are countless Sog Ding settlements.

These people have a bit of Viking bravery, but they mainly open their way with trade and commerce.

But no matter where these people go, they always regard themselves as Sogdians, which is what Wu Huaiyu dislikes the most.

If he could integrate into the Sinicization like the Xianbei people, he would actually welcome these people. Unfortunately, the Anshi Rebellion proved that these people will always be Hu people.

The most frightening thing about the Sogdians is not that they are good at doing business and talking and dancing, but that no matter where they go, they always maintain their own tribal organization, a relatively closed group, and they still maintain a common belief.

"The governor plans to attack Sogdian Hu?" Lu Chengye asked.

"These Sogdian Hus live within the Great Wall, so they should be the people of our Tang Dynasty. But since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although they have paid tribute and registration, they have not been in the household department. These people have their own leader, Sabao, and their own Zoroastrian priests. Compared with the villages behind the mountains before, it is the real heart of trouble."

"It's just a group of businessmen who like to trade. With them, it's really convenient to communicate with each other. It's not that serious, right?" Lu Chengye felt that Wu Huaiyu was making a fuss out of a molehill.

What kind of storm can a group of Sogdian Hu stir up.

He felt that the Sogdian Hu chose to settle in these places because it was more convenient for trade. Moreover, since the Sui Dynasty, it has become a frontier fortress where agriculture and animal husbandry intersect, and it can survive in the cracks.

"Lu Chengjun should be familiar with these Sogdian Hus?"

"It's not familiar, but I have some contacts."

"Then Laolu joins the army one step ahead, enters the Great Wall first, meets Sogdhu in Yuyanshui, and talks with their Sabao first."

Yanghe River was called Yuyanshui at this time, also known as Xiushui.

Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty recorded in the Notes of the Water Classic that Yu Yanshui came out of the west of Rouxuan Town outside the Great Wall, and the hills in the south of Changchuan City.

In the upper reaches of Yanshui, there are three tributaries in the southeast and north, which converge near Zhangjiakou, flow southeast through Xuanhua, and flow into the Sanggan River in Zhuolu, and into the Yongding River in Youzhou.

This river is quite long, although the river is not wide and the water is not deep, but sometimes it is quite urgent, and it is prone to floods during heavy rains in summer.

The upstream tributary is nearly 500 miles long in the east of Yanshui, and the main stream is more than [-] miles long, with a total length of more than [-] miles. The Yuyanshui basin is also a relatively good basin, especially the main stream and Dongyuyanshui basin. More than five hundred miles long, they are all excellent basin plains.

At the same time, passing through the Yanshui River Valley in the east is also an important passage leading directly to the North Yunzhou of the Hedong Dynasty, that is, Datong, which is as important as the Sanggan River Valley in the south leading directly to Yunshuo.

The Sogdians chose Yuyanshui to settle in the watershed, and indeed they chose a good place. Through Yuyanshui and its tributaries, they can enter Youzhou in the east and go out of the Great Wall in the north. They can also pass through Yunshuo and Taiyuan, and from Feihuxing It is also more convenient to go to Yizhou and Dingzhou.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhangjiakou became one of the northern commercial centers, a commodity distribution center and a transportation hub.Although the current Youzhou is still only a frontier governor's mansion, it has not become a capital city, and the location of Zhangjiakou is not that important.

But the commercial value of this place, no doubt the Sogdians were keenly aware of it, and occupied it first.

"What does the governor want me to talk to them about?" Lu Chengye asked.

This Lu Wulang has never stopped since he was conscripted by Wu Huaiyu to join the army. Wu Huaiyu likes to use him very much.

"First of all, it is natural to register the households of Qimin, then it is not allowed to privately own armed forces, and then trade and business, open shops and merchants, have to pay taxes. In the Yanshui River Basin, I have newly established Yongxing (Zhuo County), Wende (Xuanhua) , Huai'an, and Guangning (Zhangjiakou) four counties, each with a township and a village, and they will be under the jurisdiction of the imperial court in the future, "

By implication, there is no right to self-government, and especially no right to extraterritoriality.

"Of course, I also respect the traditions of the Sogdians. The Zoroastrianism they believe in and the Hu Temple they built can be preserved as long as they accept the management and supervision of the imperial court."

(End of this chapter)