Overlord!

Chapter 118 He Qi's Great Achievement

As a famous general of the Eastern Wu, He Qi was a typical Jiangdong talent, handsome, but not tall, only seven feet five inches.

His height has nothing to do with nutrition, and he was also born in a family.His uncle He Chun once served as a servant and Jiangxia prefect.His father, He Fu, also served as the county magistrate of Yongning.

Yongning County is the big county in the east of Taimo County, and now the county magistrate is Han Yan specially transferred from Wu County by Sun Ce.

Further south from Yongning is Dongye County, where the rebellion has started.

It can be said that He Qi spent the first half of his life living in Taimo and Yongning at the southernmost tip of Kuaiji County, fighting the rebellion. Not only did he know the local geographical situation, humanities and customs well, he was also famous in southern Xinjiang for being powerful.

Sun Ce had high hopes for this young general, so after he returned to Shanyin, Sun Ce personally brought Zhang Hong and Wei Teng to meet him.

He Qi was not a general under Sun Ce's command before, but as the commander-in-chief, after Sun Ce entered Kuaiji, he chose to continue serving the county government, so he was regarded as a subordinate.

His status is actually somewhat similar to Zang Ba, who led Taishan soldiers to serve under Cao Cao's account.

However, Sun Ce had great trust in him, and not only promoted him as Xiaolian, but also promoted him to the southern captain, the governor of Kuaiji Southern Affairs.

Therefore, when He Qi saw Sun Ce enter the room, he was extremely respectful and took the initiative to salute: "I pay my respects to the Ming government. He is the hero of the world, and we have admired him for a long time. Today I finally saw the heroic appearance of the Ming Mansion, but I know that the Ming Mansion governs the poor county, and it will surely conquer the king's base and be transported to the southeast."

Sun Ce smiled and waved: "Excuse me, please take your seat."

After sitting on the chief seat, Sun Ce looked at He Qi with a smile, but it was not easy for him to say these words of admiration.

You must know that He Qi is the most typical Jiangdong talent. He not only has the madness in his personality, but also has a luxurious nature, a good military spirit, extremely good armor and equipment, and he can use sculls, spears, and melons. Literature and painting, bows, crossbows and arrows, all of which are salty.

With this flamboyant and vigorous character, he is a typical Huo Qubing-style general, a proud soldier, and a high-spirited general.

So when other generals were wearing standard military uniforms, he wore bright vermilion brocade military uniforms, which were gorgeous and radiant.

Seeing him, Sun Ce seemed to have seen those high-spirited generals in red robes and black armor during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

And for him to be able to show off his spirit like this, he naturally has his extraordinary talent.He is wise enough to resist the crowd, and brave enough to defeat the enemy. Even if it is a famous hero in southern Xinjiang, there are many people who have their heads chopped off by him. People in southern Xinjiang are all afraid of his sharpness.

Regarding the situation in southern Xinjiang, he has a precise control, and said: "Mingfu, I have returned from southern Xinjiang, so please discuss with Mingfu about the planning of southern Xinjiang."

Sun Ce nodded, but still asked curiously: "You returned from southern Xinjiang, don't you worry about rebellion and corruption, heroes go north?"

Although Sun Ce trusted him very much, but entrusted him with the entire southern border affairs, if he made the situation corrupt, then Sun Ce would not be punished for his crimes and had to replace him.

He Qi said very calmly: "The rebellion will never spread. Shang Sheng's generation is just a rising husband. They have no ambitions from the world. They just want to defend their own territory. They are afraid of my reputation and have sent envoys to beg for alliance."

Send envoys to beg for a alliance, that is, send envoys to request a covenant.

Sun Ce couldn't help but smile.When you launch a rebellion, why don't you take advantage of the fact that the government's army is defenseless, quickly send troops to march, attack counties and counties, expand cities, occupy dangerous places, and then use your plans to gain momentum and fight against the imperial court.In the end, you came up first to ask for the signing of the covenant?What covenant?Do you want the southern captain and you to have nothing to do with each other?Acknowledge your status as a separatist in southern Xinjiang?

Let's not talk about whether He Qi dares to sign it, even if he signs it, it counts?

Sun Ce wants to march, how can He Qi resist?

Instead of restraining the actions of the officers and soldiers, his sending of envoys to beg the alliance caused him to restrain himself.

Sure enough, in this troubled world, most of the so-called famous men are separatist, just for the sake of peace and happiness.

Their biggest expectation is that they can always be entrenched in the foundation, domineering.Preferably without any other princes bothering them.

Sun Ce said: "This kind of incompetent and incompetent person dares to start a rebellion. It is a shame for a hero. The covenant must not be concluded. It should be settled quickly. Even if the jumper is strong, he will be killed!"

He Qi bowed his hands and said, "In the Ming Dynasty, it is not difficult for Shang Sheng to be promoted at the beginning. He has no ambition to be a hero. I just need to send envoys to tell him good fortune and good fortune, and analyze the pros and cons. After he recognizes it, he will beg for surrender. But Shang Sheng lives and dies alone. , is not enough to decide the matter of southern Xinjiang."

"The frequent rebellion in southern Xinjiang, I think the root cause is that the famous people occupy the place, and the mountains hide in the mountains and forests. Those who are waiting for the opportunity will come out as bandits and robbers, and the swarms will come when they fight. Detain also."

Sun Ce nodded. For Shanyue, it was not that the imperial court did not think about Jimi, that is, to recognize the local indigenous leaders and bring them under the imperial court's management.

But there is a very serious problem, that is, once the court has a gap, it will wait for an opportunity to rebel.After all, digging soil in the mountains is not as pleasant as looting.

The situation would be slightly better if Yamagoshi could be integrated as a whole.

A Shanyue king always has to consider the cost of the war and the tribal casualties caused by the imperial army coming to suppress the rebellion after the looting.

But the current situation is just the opposite. The mountains are more and more broken, and there are famous tycoons and Zongshuai everywhere. They don't have any ambitions, and they will directly wreak havoc when they have the opportunity.When the imperial army came, they surrendered, and if they could not surrender, they fled into the mountains.

Anyway, they didn't have much power in the first place, even if they lost money, compared to the money obtained by looting, the benefits of looting were higher.

These messy and entrenched celebrities and Zong Shuai are the most troublesome.Ambitious and lacking in ambition, so he has been troubled.

Sun Ce asked, "Then how do you think it will be calmed down?"

To be reasonable, Sun Ce didn't think He Qi was capable of solving this problem.

Although he is indeed one of Soochow's most famous generals who are good at dealing with Shanyue, he can even stand shoulder to shoulder with Lu Xun in this respect.

However, mountain overcrowding is a very difficult and stubborn disease, at least He Qi has no way to solve it in history.

But He Qi was really excited, got up excitedly, and said to Sun Ce: "Mingfu, before the country was unable to control the mountains, the key is that the imperial court was unable to control the local area by force. Sending fewer troops is not enough to shake the mountains. Sending more troops, then Not enough to pay for it."

Wei Teng very much agrees with his statement.Wei Teng is also from Kuaiji. He may not know much about military and horse warfare, but he has a very clear understanding of the difficulties in controlling the local area.

He frowned and said: "Before, the imperial court also swept the caves and sent more than [-] troops south to quell the rebellion. But after the army wiped out the rebellion, they had to return to the north. The south of the county and the north of the county are nearly thousands of miles away. Food is simply not enough to sustain the consumption of an army of tens of thousands. But to subdue the local area, one has to garrison troops.”

After all, he looked at He Qi and said, "Lieutenant He Du, I know that you have the ambition to subdue the southern border and wipe out the rebellion. But the famine in Kuaiji is not easy for you to put down the rebellion. It takes years and months to garrison troops there. It is really difficult to supply with few troops.”

But He Qi's fighting spirit was completely unaffected, and he was still full of vigor, and said: "Of course I know the difficulty Wei Gongcao said. This is also the second key point that I want to talk to Mingfu, and it is even enough to solve Shan Yue key."

"You can talk freely." Unlike Wei Teng, Sun Ce was smiling and always willing to give his subordinate Yingjie a chance to show off.

What if it succeeds?
What if these heroes really bring surprises?
He Qi immediately raised his spirits, talked eloquently, and said: "Mingfu, I thought that before the difficulty of calming down the mountains and mountains, it was necessary to mobilize troops and mobilize the masses, but now it is no longer a problem. The tiger and wolf divisions under Mingfu's command are elite and brave. Hundreds of men! If the Ming government trusts me, and send several troops to the south, I will be able to control the people and wipe out the rebellion for the Ming government. With only a few thousand people, we can subdue the southern border."

Sun Ce nodded, this is to be expected.Theoretically, every school lieutenant in the army should have the ability to lead a thousand soldiers to defeat thousands of people in the mountains.

Especially the mandarin duck formation is practiced in the army, which is most suitable for the broken terrain with many hills in the south of Kuaiji.Even if they can't attack Shanyue's stronghold, the bottom line estimate is that they should be able to defeat thousands of Shanyue's descendants in the wild.

And He Qi also said immediately: "At this time, the famous heroes dare not rebel, and the mountain is too dangerous. I think that we should not be in a hurry to attack the mountain, but should divide the generals. The soldiers should be blocked, but the fence should not be confronted. ! Several new counties were set up in the south, ordering each to protect its borders, and clearly establishing a tribe.”

Zhang Hong looked at He Qi. Although what He Qi said was high-spirited, in the final analysis, there was nothing new about it.It's just to divide troops to guard the traffic passes, strengthen and consolidate the border, and trap Shanyue inside.

If it's just this step, at most it can be regarded as a trap to trap Shanyue.

It's still far from being resolved.The point is, how to provide supplies to these soldiers is still unresolved.

It is impossible to carry out farming after the fence.Wouldn't that mean imitating Ju Yansai and adding a lot of burden to the rear treasury out of thin air.

So Zhang Hong asked, "Then how do you plan to feed these guards?"

He Qi immediately said in high spirits: "Why do we need food? "Sun Tzu's Art of War" says that a wise general will feed on the enemy. If he eats the enemy for one minute, he will serve him for twenty minutes; if he avoids a stone, he will serve him for twenty stones."

"It's not that Shanyue in the south is not free from production. There are tens of thousands of people, farming and raising livestock, enough to support thousands of soldiers. It's just that the capital of farming in the past is not for us."

"I thought that after dividing and besieging them with key passes and strong borders as a net, when the grain and crops were about to ripen, I would mow them down so that there would be no seeds left."

"Old valleys are exhausted, new fields are not reaped, and they cannot be invaded by plunder. This will make the mountain people hungry and poor, and they will gradually come out of the mountains and descend."

"Once they come out and surrender, they will all set up villages and live in settlements, with 150 people as the villages, and order each of them to live in high castles, starting from the coast in the east and reaching the border in the west. The danger of entering and exiting rivers and mountains will not be harmed by bandits, but people will have to cultivate them. Such an army Saving funds is enough to relieve his worries."

Sun Ce's eyes lit up immediately, He Qi's plan was not original, it was obviously an improvement on the current art of war.

Whenever the big Han sent troops, they like to send troops during spring plowing, the purpose is to interfere with the grain production of the Qiang and Shanyue.

What he relies on is a man who has enough soldiers and food, and a rich treasury.Consuming the opponents can't produce, and finally collapsed in poverty and starved to death.

But He Qi's plan went a step further, allowing the mountains to be cultivated, but every time it was harvest time, the officers and soldiers came to "tax".

He Qi was in charge of the generals, and he didn't send troops to attack the steep hills anyway, but led his troops to harvest the wheat at the foot of the mountain.

Let the soldiers mow so that there are no seeds left!
That is to say, nothing is left for Shanyue, even if the harvest is not enough, he would rather burn it than leave a grain of grain.

At this time, Shanyue was unable to fight again and again, unable to break through the network tightly surrounded by the county soldiers and the heavily defended territory. They either starved to death in the deep mountains or came out and surrendered.

And the most important thing is the idea of ​​gathering villages and building forts that he proposed.

This should be an idea that the entire Han Dynasty, even the Wei and Jin Dynasties, did not have.It is already a bit similar to Song Dynasty's Baojia method.

The armies of today's vassals, whether they are fighting Qiang, Di or Shanyue, usually move inward or resettle locally after they have captured tens of thousands of people.

For example, Cao Wei, he likes to do this kind of thing.After defeating the Qiang people, tens of thousands of men and women were won, and they were often resettled directly.

If the original land is vacated, other tribes will take advantage of it.

These men and women resettled may not be able to integrate into the county.

So there were rebellions one after another.Just one Liangzhou, tossing for decades.As long as the officers and soldiers leave, the locality may rebel.

Of course, this is not a problem of Cao Wei's family.

Yi Di's attitude is not the same as that of Hua.Non-my family, its heart must be different.

Every regime inevitably faces this problem.

It is also impossible for Shanyue in Jiangdong to be directly converted into registered households after resettlement.

Therefore, He Qi did not intend to directly move Shanyue's registered household, Qimin, into the mainland.

Instead, they directly set up fortresses locally and continued production. There are 150 people in a village, and any people in the village who escaped can be directly investigated, which is very similar to the Baojia Law.

Apparently at this point, He Qi didn't pursue the one-step process to fully integrate Shanyue into the county.

The key point is that you have to move these mountains out of the mountains!

The requirements of counties and counties are very simple, as long as you live on the plains, it is enough.

But on the plains, these famous men would not be able to interfere with Shan Yue.

Because they all dispersed and gathered in the village.Managed by each village.

We must believe that the more managers there are for a power, the more dispersed the power will be, and the more people will be discordant.

Pulling up a tribal rebellion is not the same as gathering ten village rebellions.

Moreover, these people came down from the mountains to enrich the local population, so that there is no emptiness in the local area, and other mountain tribes will not take advantage of it.

These lands under effective control will continuously provide military resources to the garrison and continue to besiege Shanyue in the deep mountains.

Sun Ce was full of courage, and said to He Qi: "The plan you mentioned is not only for killing evil spirits, but also for military use. I don't know if it will succeed, but I still want to give you a chance to try."

He Qi bowed to the end immediately, and said excitedly: "Qi will serve to the death with allegiance, and complete this cause for the Ming government."

(End of this chapter)