A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 569 The Conqueror

Xi Beishan.

It generally refers to the Xi tribe in the mountains north of Yanshan Mountain, from the Chaohe River Basin in the west to the Bailangshui in the east. There are many Xi tribes scattered in the vast northern territory of Youyun in the Tang Dynasty.

These tribes are relatively scattered, and there are many tribes such as the Sogdian Hu, the Mohe who moved to the west, and the Shiwei who moved to the south.

Now, because of Wu Huaiyu's finger, the mountains and river valleys where they had lived for generations were transferred to the Tang Dynasty. However, King Xi, whom they once submitted to, also sold them. They are not convinced and they want to resist.

"Some evidence shows that the people of Turkic Jieli Khan secretly instigated Beishanxi to raise troops, and even conferred titles such as Qijin on the chiefs of the tribes, promising them to attach themselves to Turks, and let them replace Keduzhe and their five tribes in the future and become the new Xi department controller."

"It doesn't matter, Xieli is too busy to take care of himself now, so he dares to hide in the dark and do some small tricks. If he really wants to be capable, why doesn't he just send troops to attack the Tuli, Keduzhe, Mohui who betrayed him?"

In Youzhou Yacheng, Wu Huaiyu held a military meeting.

Liucheng, Yingzhou, where the Anton Governor's Mansion is located, but the focus of the Governor Wu Huaiyu's work is still in Youzhou, so this military meeting is still held in Youzhou.

Attending the meeting were all the officers and generals of the Protectorate of Andong, the soldiers, and the governors, governors, and generals of the Sanfan. The Emperor Chang'an had already agreed to use troops against Beishanxi, and Wu Huaiyu's military strategy was directly approved. This war It will be led by the Anton Protectorate, with the coordination of the Sanfan and the support of the Youfu.

Sitting there, flipping through the statistics.

Beishan Xi has a total of [-] to [-] tents, and the population is still quite large. During the Sui Dynasty, the Xi people basically occupied the Luan River Basin, as well as the Chao and Bai River Basins, and even the Bai River Basin in Yingzhou. In the area of ​​Langshui and Qinglong River, they all came to nomadic hunting.

They also followed King Xi Kedu and sent troops to plunder Tanzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, Beiyanzhou, Yingzhou and other places at the request of Gao Kaidao.
Although the Luan River Basin is not as important as the Huzhen River Basin, they are completely under their control, and most of the Chao, Baihe, Bailangshui and Qinglong River areas are still under their control.

Wu Huaiyu looked at the map,

He planned that since the atmosphere was so good and the opportunity was rare this time, he would simply take the opportunity to push the border to the Luanhe River. At least the area on the west bank of the Luanhe River north of Yanshan would be brought under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and the area east of the Luanhe River would be brought under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. area, its southeast is bounded by the Waterfall River.

The Xi tribe in the vast area west of the Luanhe River and south of the Puhe River would either surrender and be organized into households, or they would be destroyed by the allied forces, and the population and livestock would be divided between the Tang Dynasty and Sanbo. The land would still belong to the Tang Dynasty.

"How do you feel?"

"Who disagrees?"

"Who supports and who opposes?"

Wu Huaiyu asked three times.

Although the generals on the Tang side were surprised by Wu Huaiyu's appetite, no one objected. Anton's deputy governor, Yingzhou governor, and Pinglu army envoy Cheng Yaojin were eager to swallow the east bank of the Luan River.

Not only did Wei Xiaojie, the governor of Youzhou Governor's Mansion and the governor of Anton Governor's Mansion, the governor of Jizhou, and the envoy of Jingsai Army, Wei Xiaojie not object, but also cast his eyes on the chiefs of the three tribes. Very intimidating.

Su Lie, the Sima of the Governor's Mansion of Youzhou, is also the Sima of the Protectorate of the Governor's Mansion. He is also the Inspector of Yanzhou and the envoy of the Qingyi Army. This one just kept laughing like that, and he didn't know what he was laughing at.

Fatty Sima Wu from Youzhou even held a pen in his hand, looked at everyone, and memorized the name of anyone who objected.

Dai Tuli, who was in charge of the Bei'an Governor's Mansion, laughed twice and was the first to express his position. Anyway, we are going to fight Beishan Xi this time. Although there are some small Turkic tribes in it, it is mainly the territory of the Xi people and the Xi tribe, so He is very relaxed.

Follow Datang Qian Beishan Xi, not only to show loyalty, but also to grab a hand by the way, so as to recover the heavy casualties lost in the last defeat.

"I am Bei'an Governor's Mansion, and I am willing to send [-] fine cavalry." Shetu said in a high-profile statement that it would be no difficulty for him to fight Beishanxi.

Sima Lu Chengye of Bei'an Dudu's Mansion followed, "The four prefectures of Bei'an Dudu's Mansion each send [-] troops, and the Dudu's Mansion sends another [-] troops, making a total of [-] elites. We can go down the Luan River, or go south from the upper reaches of Chao and Baihe Rivers." .”

The Khitan Khan Club is also unwilling to lag behind.

"We, the eight tribes and ten states of Khitan, are also willing to send [-] elite troops directly down the Huzhen River."

Xi Wang and Li Kedu did not expect that Wu Huaiyu suddenly pushed the border forward so much, and directly drew away the entire west bank of the Luan River. The previous one was drawn with the Chao River as the boundary, but now it is drawn eastward again. hundred miles.

Although a long time ago, the Luan River did become the boundary river of Xibu, but they have already crossed the Luan River to herd and develop.
But look at the situation today,
Wu Huaiyu has a tough attitude and is determined to win.

The Turks and Khitans looked like they were watching a good show, and even wanted to take advantage of it.

Li Kedu knows that this time he can only accept it.

Wu Huaiyu accepted her daughter as a concubine, and she was also canonized by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty as Loufan County Duke and Rao Le Governor, and given the country's surname Li, but now it seems that they don't really regard him as their own.

Gritting his teeth, Li Kedu nodded with difficulty.

"All under the command of the governor."

The north of Yanshan Mountain is bordered by the Luan River, and there are about [-] to [-] Beishan Xi tribes there. Although these people are not all Xi tribes, if they can understand the general situation and use it for themselves, it is equivalent to [-]-[-]% of the entire Xi tribe population. It's a pity that now it will be divided up by Tang Lianhe and other tribes.

"Great governor, I only have one request. I hope that before the war begins, the governor can let someone send someone to appease them and make them respect the court. If anyone is willing to move north, please give them a chance."

Wu Huaiyu nodded and readily agreed.

"As long as the heavenly soldiers arrive, those who voluntarily move north across the Luan River will still be allowed to do as they please.
Of course, if one voluntarily chooses to stay and joins the imperial court to organize the household of Qimin, then the county will be set up with his tribe, and the villages in the township will be designated, and the coalition forces will no longer be able to attack and plunder.
Only those who are stubborn and unreliable rise up to fight against the heavenly soldiers, follow the established plan to attack and destroy, the land will be returned to the Tang Dynasty, the population, livestock, money and silk will be given three points first, and those who have paid will get one point first, and the Tang Dynasty will get one point, and the remaining points will be shared equally among all the ministries of the coalition forces. .

how is it? "

"We Turks are willing!"

"Khitan agrees to the arrangement of the governor."

Kedu gritted his teeth and nodded, "Minister Xi obeys the order of the governor of the capital."

It's all agreed,
Turkic, Xi, and Khitan, the three Fan Hu Dudu Mansions, a total of 24 prefectures, sent a total of [-] Fan cavalry to join the conquest, and the Tang Army mainly consisted of [-] soldiers and horses under the command of the Anton Du Hu Mansion. The state capital will also cooperate.

The Tibetan cavalry of the Sanfan have their own food, grass and weapons, which the Tang side does not supply.

As for the capture, whoever captures the tribe’s captive population and seizes livestock can keep one-third first, and the remaining two-thirds must be handed over to the coalition forces. Datang will first take one-third of the two-thirds, and the remaining two-thirds will be the last. Allied forces together.This point is also very particular, anyway, it is the remaining one-third, at that time, some rewards for military merits will be given out first, casualties will be compensated, and the rest will be divided equally.

Wu Huaiyu's arrangement sounds rather domineering. Datang occupied the land and had to share the spoils, one-third first, and the last third together.

Kexi, Khitan, and even Turks have no objection to this.

In the past, when they were subordinate to Jieli Khan, they obeyed the call to send troops and prepared their own dry food. The Khan's court often took more of what they captured.

Beishan Xi with 10,000 to [-] tents, with a population of [-]+, will be hunted by them soon. The Tang Dynasty and the Sanfan will be divided up. The Tang Dynasty can occupy the majority, and the other Sanfan families can at least get [-] to [-] people and a lot of livestock.
This is a big fat sheep.

Since the Tang Dynasty unified the Central Plains, Xi Qi has not dared to easily cross the border and invade the south on a large scale. It usually involves small-scale plundering along the border. Even the Turks' southward invasion in recent years has not actually taken much advantage.

In the seventh year of Wude's massive invasion of Guanzhong, he was blocked in Binzhou and failed to enter the Guanzhong Plain.

In the ninth year of Wude's attack at the foot of Chang'an, it seemed mighty but in fact suffered a greater loss. All the soldiers were lost and generals were lost. In the end, they didn't get any cheap, and they withdrew in desperation.

And in the battle at Dongye Fox Ridge, Jie Lina even lost the Golden Wolf Band.

The military meeting is over.

Wu Huaiyu called another group of subordinate officials for a meeting, mainly with the soldiers from the local gentry in Hebei who he recruited,

The battle has not yet been fought, and the land in the north of the mountain is still in the hands of Beishan Xi, but Wu Huaiyu is now talking directly with the representatives of these gentry clans and families about enclosing land and farming.

Wu Huaiyu encouraged Fan Yang, Lu family, Boling Cui family, Fan Yangzu family, Qinghe Zhang family, and other aristocratic families to organize caravans with the army, and even go to the newly conquered lands to enclose and buy land at the first time, and even the captured Beishan Xi would also It will be sold to them first so that they can reclaim wasteland.

The price of land is cheap, and the price of prisoners of war can be discounted. The only requirement is to ensure that the land will be reclaimed immediately after the land is acquired, and the amount of publicly purchased grain sold to the government every year must be guaranteed.

These are to help the imperial court develop new occupied areas, and provide logistics and food guarantee for the frontier garrisons of the Anton Governor's Mansion and Youzhou Governor's Mansion.

If the soldiers and horses are not moving, the grain and grass will go first.

Even this time when the coalition forces conquer Beishan Xi, these gentry and tycoons will contract many logistics supply tasks of food and grass, and sign contracts with them directly,
There is no need for Youfu to temporarily recruit civilian husbands and people for transportation.

Faced with these profit-making cooperation conditions offered by Wu Huaiyu, even Lu Chengye and Zhang Wende couldn't help but breathe a little more heavily.

As long as they are willing to believe in Wu Huaiyu, now a family can acquire thousands or even thousands of hectares of land at one time. That is 10,000+, hundreds of thousands of acres of land. Even if it is raw land, the amount is too tempting.

There are risks. After all, it is a border area, and it is still in the hands of Beishan Xi. Even after it is defeated, who can guarantee that Xi Hu will not invade frequently in the future?

But the benefits are too tempting.

Not only is the land price cheap, but they even admitted to tie-in Beishanxi slaves and livestock for them, so that they can directly reclaim wasteland and farmland, and have the tax relief conditions of previous years,
The most important thing is that these lands are connected by a large area, which is most conducive to manor planting.

It was difficult for Lu Chengye to refuse, "Can the imperial court approve what the governor said?"

"Don't worry, what I said has already been consulted by the sage in Chang'an and has been approved by the sage. The sage also encourages the gentry to go to the frontiers to open up wasteland. As long as you are willing to buy, you can trade with cash and sign a contract. Don't enclose land and leave it uncultivated, sell the amount of grain purchased by the public every year according to the agreement, and the imperial court does not limit the amount of land you buy."

Unlimited number of land purchases,

This is simply a temptation that no one can refuse.

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, we are willing to serve the imperial court." Lu Chengye could not refuse after all.

Wu Huaiyu smiled and appreciated him. Of course, the imperial court still hopes to mobilize more people from the interior to move to the real border, but the problem is that ordinary people are not willing to move to the borderlands. Even if the imperial court has a policy to divide and grant land, the main reason is ordinary people. There is not much risk-taking ability, or many people who are willing to relocate are poor people without land,

They moved to the frontiers and were able to get land, but they did not have the basic conditions to reclaim wasteland and settle fields. At this stage, those who can meet the conditions for the imperial court to quickly develop new conquered lands are those powerful families.

The imperial court can also subsidize and help ordinary people who are willing to move to the border, even such as interest-free loans, lending cattle seeds, etc., but there are too many subsidies here, and the imperial court cannot support too large a scale.

The newly conquered Beishan land should not be left unused, for after a long time, it will become a pasture for the barbarians again.

The cooperation between the imperial court and the gentry tyrants is also a win-win situation. Although this will make the gentry tyrants bigger, it is still possible to develop as a premise and fight in cooperation.

Jinglue, Lulong, Pinglu, Jingsai, Qingyi, Huaihuang, Yuyi, Weiwu, Guangbian, Guangning, all the towns have drawn elite soldiers and horses to form this Northern Expedition camp, probably the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty 18, Mohe and others attached Fanhu, Tuanlian, and more than [-] children, and then the three Fanfans rode [-], combined with [-] troops, and claimed to send [-] elite troops to conquer Beishan Xi's rebellion.

These [-] soldiers were actually divided into five groups to attack. The Sanfan attacked from three directions from the north to the south, while the Tang army divided into two corps, east and west, to attack from the north.

Regarding this use of troops, everyone in Youzhou felt that it was a piece of cake. A group of Beishan Xihu, even if there were [-] to [-] troops, was just a rabble. In terms of strength alone, the tribes were not even as good as the previous villages behind the mountain and Yu Yan. Sogdian beard of water.

Quantity without quality is useless.

Although there was intelligence that Jieli had sent people to join in the agitation, everyone dismissed Jieli's defeated general who had abandoned his armor and let him roam around for a while. The Northern Expedition would destroy him in autumn and winter.

In fact, from Chang'an to Youzhou, even the common people are already shouting the countdown to the Northern Expedition to destroy Jieli. It seems that the whole country has already known that the imperial court will send troops to destroy Jieli this year, probably at the time when autumn is high and horses are fat.

Everyone knows that this kind of thing is done, and it can only be said to be a kind of heart attack tactics by the imperial court. Even if I tell you that I will send troops to the Northern Expedition to destroy you this year, what can you do?
This kind of overwhelming aura really proves that Datang has really stood up.

"I heard that Cui Dunli was detained by Xieli in the grassland?"

"Well, Jie Li said that he would be sent to Mobei Xiaohai to herd sheep,"

Old Cheng said disdainfully, "Jie Lixian's hand can reach Mobei? Now Mobei Hanhai is controlled by Guli cadres from the north of the Huihe tribe. I heard that Guli cadres won five thousand soldiers. , but now they and Ba Yegu, a tribe in Hanhaidong, have surrendered to the Xueyantuo Khanate, and it is very hard to beat the Turks."

Wu Huaiyu didn't care about Cui Dunli being detained by Jie Li, and it was not surprising for the envoy to encounter such a thing, but he was an envoy of the Tang Dynasty after all, so Jie Li probably didn't dare to do anything to him.

"We wiped out Beishan Xibu, why don't we go east?"

All the way to the east, it is natural that the sword is aimed at the Turkic Dingxiang Khan Court, and the old Cheng is very ambitious.

(End of this chapter)