Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 426 Competing in the Central Plains ([-])

Three months later
Spring of the 316th year of Marquis Yan ([-])
Jicheng
After capturing Wang Jun, the counties of Youzhou surrendered to Yan State one after another.

For the newly occupied Youzhou area, Yan State has no idea of ​​actual control.

Because Youzhou is often attacked by the Central Plains and grasslands, it is not suitable for development.

Unlike overseas, as long as the wasteland is successfully opened up, it can be occupied for a lifetime without any worries, and it is impossible for foreign enemies to invade.

To occupy the territory of the Central Plains, the initial investment is small, as long as you win, but the follow-up investment is high, and you must constantly guard against invasion.

The reclamation of overseas wasteland requires a large initial investment, and a lot of manpower, material and financial resources are needed to reclaim it. However, after successful reclamation, it can become a stable back garden without foreign invasion at all.

Yan Houxue has a more long-term national policy, so she does not intend to actually control the Youzhou area, which is expensive to follow-up, but forcibly relocates the population and wealth of the Youzhou area to Liaodong, and then the wealth stays in Liaodong, and the population is sent overseas to open up wasteland.

As for the Youzhou area?

It is enough to support a puppet regime to rule, if it is not possible, you can also sell Youzhou to a certain regime.

At this moment, the soldiers of Yan State are arresting ordinary people wantonly in the city, taking them forcibly to Liaodong, and finally overseas. All the wealth that can be transferred in the city has also been removed, leaving many counties in Youzhou. Many empty towns.

After these ordinary people in Youzhou were brought to Liaodong, only craftsmen, doctors, scholars, beauties and other valuable talents would be left to live in Liaodong. guild.

However, Yan’s way of transporting Youzhou’s population is to take the sea route from Yuyang County, because there is a section of Xianbei between Youzhou and Shanhaiguan, so it is not suitable to take the land route.

Tai Shihu himself appointed himself the governor of Youzhou, and ordered all counties and counties in Youzhou to search for craftsmen, doctors, and scholars within their jurisdictions, and then bring them all to Yuyang County.

Obviously, the Wang family didn't intend to occupy Youzhou for a long time, but left with a fortune, leaving the mess of Youzhou to the next ruler.

As long as I don't rule, there is no ruling cost, and I don't have to worry about the rule being overthrown, nothing wrong!

Soon, half a year later

Under Yan State's sustainable predatory occupation, a large-scale refugee uprising broke out in the counties and counties of Youzhou.

More than [-] Youzhou rebels shouted the slogan "Expel Yanyi" to attack the city and seize the territory, trying to expel the soldiers of Yan State from Youzhou.

For these uprising refugees, the Wang family will send troops to suppress the small-scale ones, and simply ignore the large-scale ones.

It is definitely possible to fight, but it is easy to suffer heavy losses and is not worthwhile.

From the beginning to the end, the goal of Yan State's involvement in the melee in the Central Plains was to gain benefits, not to establish its own long-term rule.

Anyway, Yan State returned to Liaodong after fishing. Across Shanhaiguan Pass and the sea, the refugee rebel army in Youzhou could not attack Yan State. Let the next Youzhou ruler worry about the 10,000+ Youzhou refugee rebel army.

another year later
Under the plunder of the Yan State, the Youzhou refugee uprising army has reached 20, which is simply shocking.

The Wang family only had a port in Yuyang County left in Youzhou. Most of the rest of the land was occupied by refugees, and some were occupied by Duan Shi Xianbei.

Autumn of the 317th year of Marquis Yan ([-])
The last swallow boat left Youzhou, and it was full of gold, silver, jewelry, food, young girls, and various technical personnel.

Yan State did not intend to leave food to the people of Youzhou, but transported everything that could be transported away within the scope of its ability.

Let the next Youzhou ruler worry about the food shortage. Anyway, even if the hungry people want to rebel, they will rebel in Youzhou, and they will not be able to fight Liaodong.

Another six months later (318 years)
The Huns captured Chang'an, and the Jin emperor Sima Ye was captured.

After hearing the news, Sima Rui, who was far away in Jiankang, immediately proclaimed himself King Jin, and began to prepare for proclaiming himself emperor.

At the same time, Shi Le regrouped, captured the unsuspecting counties and counties of Jizhou, and prepared to continue northward to attack the refugee armed forces in Youzhou.

At the same time, after learning that Shi Le led the main force northward to attack Youzhou, Zu Ti took the opportunity to launch the second Northern Expedition, defeated Shihu who was stationed in the Central Plains, and captured many counties and counties in Yuzhou and Yanzhou.

The people of the Central Plains have long been living under the rule of Shihu, and they are looking forward to the return of the Jin Tianbing to the Central Plains day and night.

Shi Hu was cruel by nature, when Shi Le arranged to be stationed in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, he would slaughter several cities to add to the fun, which made people in the Central Plains panic.

Shi Le scolded Shi Hu many times and warned him not to kill innocent people indiscriminately, but Shi Hu nodded with a "hmm" every time, but next time he would continue to massacre the city.

Shi Le was also very helpless. After all, he was his nephew, the son of his elder brother. After his father died, it was his elder brother who raised him, so he had to take good care of his only blood in the world.

another three months later

Sima Ye was killed in Pingyang, and the news spread to Jiankang. Sima Rui immediately proclaimed himself emperor, and the Langya Wang family enjoyed the same noble privileges as the Sima royal family.

At the same time, Zu Ti's Northern Expedition was a great success and recovered most of the land south of the Yellow River.

Zu Ti wrote to the Jiankang court, hoping that the Jiankang court would provide him with logistics, food, supplies, weapons and equipment, war horses and civilian husbands, etc. He planned to take a rest for two years before launching the third Northern Expedition to recover Jizhou north of the Yellow River and at the same time regain the occupation of refugees Qingzhou.

However, the Jiankang court has just become orthodox, and is now busy consolidating power internally, and has no intention of going north.

The Langya Wang family and other aristocratic families were worried that if Zu Ti succeeded in the Northern Expedition, it would develop into a military aristocratic group in the former Han Dynasty, which would threaten the rule of their aristocratic families.

Therefore, the Jiankang court not only did not support Zu Ti's Northern Expedition, but also ordered many times to take back Zu Ti's military power, and placed various cronies in the army trained by Zu Ti himself, intensifying the conflict between Zu Ti and the soldiers, reducing the The combat effectiveness of Zu Ti's army prevented Zu Ti from succeeding in the Northern Expedition.

With the "help" of the Jiankang court, Zu Ti's third Northern Expedition plan went bankrupt before it started, and he could only watch Shi Le attack the city in Youzhou, and watch the Huns attack the city in Guanzhong.

At the same time, Zhang Mao of the Zhang family in eastern Liaodong established the Liang State (known as Qianliang in history) in Guzang, Liangzhou, and professed his minister to the Jiankang court.

In the Later Han Dynasty, the Zhang family was originally a noble family in Liaodong. Later, during the Yuan Zhao period, they changed land with the Wang family of Liaodong and moved to Dongjun, which is theoretically safer and richer.

But with the advent of troubled times, they migrated from Dongjun to Liangzhou to develop and became the Zhang family of Liangzhou. After more than ten years of development, they have become the actual rulers of Liangzhou.

Liang State and Yan State have similar positions. They are subjects of the Jin Dynasty in name, but they have actually established themselves independently.

Whether or not to listen to the orders of the Jin court depends on the specific situation. Listen when you want to listen, and don't listen when you don't want to listen.

Time has changed, more than 80 years have passed, the Zhang family and the Wang family have broken off their marriage, and the two sides have not communicated for almost 30 years.

(End of this chapter)