A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 497: Enfeoffment and Construction of the Southwest

"Father, why do you agree with them to let the army disperse?" asked the young man who had been opposing it just now.

The middle-aged man didn't say anything. He stood up and came to the center of the tent and said calmly: "If we don't let them go back, what else can we do?"

"Don't let them go back and let each family collect food and grass to prevent the gang from attacking?" the young man said.

"What if Ganren doesn't attack?"

"Then confront them!"

"Confrontation? Do you know how much food and grass we still have now?" The middle-aged man turned to look at his son and said, "Only enough for two months!"

"If the confrontation continues, everyone will starve to death in two months!"

"Yes, but those fuckers"

"Those Gan people occupy vast plains and have as much food as mountains. How can we compare with them? If we don't let other cave masters and village owners return home, don't let the warriors go back to farm, and don't have Gan people to attack, we will all starve. died!"

The middle-aged man said calmly: "You are very smart, but you have to look at things comprehensively. Those cave masters and village masters have already received a lot of money, and they are no longer willing to fight anymore! You continue to force and command everyone to completely collapse! "

"Father, what will happen next? Ganren will not give up and will definitely come to attack us!"

"It's very simple. Wait until those people are maimed, scared, and beaten to death! When they can't stand it anymore, they will naturally come to beg us! Only then can we integrate the nine holes and twenty-eight villages, and then we can fight against the Ganren!" After saying that, the middle-aged man turned around and left the tent.

The southwestern barbarians soon began to disperse, and each barbarian returned to their caves with rich loot.

In the Bazhong Ganjun camp, Ma Heng was looking at the sand table in front of him. This sand table was carefully sorted out based on the places he visited during the last battle, and then combined with previous data from scouts and surrounding counties.

"General, according to the information we received, the southwestern barbarians have retreated!" A general hurried over and said with his hands in his hands.

"Retreating?" Ma Heng looked up at the information, then smiled and said: "These barbarians have no food!"

"Then let's go attack now!" the general next to him said excitedly.

"No!" Ma Heng shook his head and said: "The three armies have just started training and have not yet fully adapted to the soil and water. Going out at this time will cause a lot of casualties. In addition, if we go out at this time, it is very likely that the southwest barbarians will unite!"

After a failure, Ma Heng became very cautious. He only had one chance to turn around now and absolutely no mistakes were allowed. Daqian has a deep foundation and can fight those barbarians, but those barbarians will not last long.

Next, Ma Heng continued to train his soldiers. After all the sick soldiers in the army recovered, he began to send troops to the southwestern barbarians. Moreover, the number of troops Ma Heng sent out for the first time was not large, but more to familiarize the soldiers with fighting in the mountains and forests.

At the same time, Ma Heng looked for the local people, looked for hunters among the people, and asked them to serve as guides.

The local people suffered heavy casualties due to the barbarian raids in the southwest. Everyone wanted to kill all the barbarians to avenge their relatives, so they immediately agreed to Ma Heng's invitation. With the help of these hunters, the movement of Dagan soldiers in the jungle became much easier. After rigorous training, Ma Heng began to attack the southwest barbarians.

After several months of hard training, Dagan soldiers have barely adapted to fighting in the mountains and forests. Although they are far inferior to those southwest barbarians, they are much stronger than the first time. Coupled with Dagan's weapons and armor, Dagan The Qian army was able to fight back and forth with the southwestern barbarians in the mountains and forests.

In order to motivate his soldiers, Wang Che specially sent people to release the news that he was preparing to enfeoff farmers and soldiers in the southern counties of Bazhong. It can be said that the morale of the Daqian army was high.

After the imperial court counted the land in several counties around Bazhong, it specially ordered the Wang family to send fifty people to Bazhong. On the one hand, it is to examine the climate near Bazhong and study which crops are better to grow, and on the other hand, it is to divide the farms.

At the same time, because the climate in the southwest is very different from that in the Central Plains, there are many poisonous insects and miasma, making it easy to get sick. Wang Che also sent people here to find some ways to treat common diseases.

Because Bazhong was severely cleaned up by the imperial court, coupled with the war and serious population loss, the imperial court wanted to immigrate here. However, due to climate reasons, a large number of immigrants here are likely to cause a large number of people to be acclimatized and sick. If they are not careful, there will be heavy casualties. Wang Che then recruited a large number of Wang's sons from Luoyang.

After these Wangs came to the southwest, they first studied the diseases here and looked for treatments. The Wang family has focused on medical skills since the time of Zijue and has been making progress for hundreds of years. Therefore, many members of the Wang family are proficient in medical skills and can be regarded as miracle doctors.

After research by these people, it is not difficult to find a cure. At the same time, some of the Wang family members began to count the acres of land in the southwest and selected different plants for cultivation here.

Depending on the climate here, adjust the planting time.

Because of the loss of a large number of people, there were large tracts of land in the counties and counties of Bazhong. The Wang family began to divide the land. The farms here were not just randomly enclosed pieces of land. You also need to check the surrounding rivers, water sources, woods, etc. Divide the land as fairly as possible.

In such a place where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, if the Wang family had not come to divide the land, Wang Che would be worried that those people would do whatever they want.

Therefore, he sent a large number of Wang's sons to divide the manor. A manor in southern Bazhong is 400 acres, of which 300 acres are farmland, then 10 acres of mulberry forest, 20 acres of pasture, and the rest can be used to grow fruits and raise cattle. Sheep, war horses, or raising fish, etc.

The imperial court tried its best to allow the peasants and soldiers to survive here for a long time.

The imperial court prepared two thousand such manors. Two thousand peasant soldiers have taken root here, and each peasant soldier has several brothers as auxiliary soldiers. As long as the system is successfully established, the southwestern barbarians will no longer be able to cause any trouble.

A warrior who is skilled in bow and horse and possesses weapons and armor, coupled with a few auxiliary soldiers, can defeat a dozen unarmored soldiers.

Such a farm produces more and better than the medieval knight's manor in Europe.

Although the southwestern barbarians plundered prefectures and counties and captured the salt fields, they did not capture the county seat. Their weapons are even worse than Da Gan. If those southwest barbarians dare to attack again, the peasant soldiers of the court can easily defeat these people.

Because the well salt field was destroyed, the land of Bashu began to suffer from a shortage of salt. Wang Che ordered the transportation of green salt from Hexi to Bashu, and at the same time ordered the Yancheng Salt Farm to use the Yangtze River waterway to transport salt upstream to Bashu.

The well salt field also began to be repaired. At that time, the barbarians destroyed the salt wells, and the court now needed to dig salt wells as soon as possible to restore the salt supply in Bashu.

(End of this chapter)