A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 676 Controlling Hexi
The Western Region also has a large number of cavalry. The Wang family has a total of five thousand cavalry in the Western Region, of which three thousand are elite cavalry relying on the temple, and the other two thousand are elite cavalry formed from various places.

Others included a large number of light cavalry and even a mounted infantryman.

In order to maintain this army, the Wang family sends a large amount of food from overseas to the Western Regions through the Cave World every year. This is also the bulk of the Wang family's annual consumption of luck.

Eighty percent of the luck Wang received from the Western Regions and overseas was used for this purpose.

The lower-level soldiers of the Turks basically do not need money and food supplies. These people do not even have armor, and their weapons are very crude. In fact, they are just a group of herdsmen who were recruited.

These Turks have no food and wages and do not need Shanyu to support them at ordinary times. Once there is a war, they will be summoned. What the Chanyu paid was only a little food. As for military pay, there was no military pay. The only way they could obtain property was to rob.

The Wang family was very familiar with the tactics of the Turks in the Western Regions. After learning that the Turks used these tactics, the Wang family immediately established beacon towers in various places in the Western Regions.

These beacon towers were not big, and were usually guarded by only a dozen soldiers. There was some food inside, and the soldiers also had war horses. Once a Turk was discovered, they would send off smoke as a warning, and they would start to rely on the beacon tower to encircle and suppress the Turks.

Although this cannot completely eliminate those Turkic Rangers, it can still cause heavy casualties to the Turkic Rangers. The Turkic Rangers basically had no equipment. How could they be Wang's opponents? As long as there were too many dead, no more would dare to come.

When the Turks realize that sending Turkic cavalry is sacrificing lives, they will basically give up this behavior.

What is the way to integrate people from all over the world as quickly as possible? Quite simply, festive.

The land of Hexi.

The population of the Western Region controlled by the Wang family is about one million, but its distribution range is so wide that there are many places that need to be garrisoned.

The Turks saw this situation and continued to invade.

Wang Xuanji looked at the victims who were resettled here. The emotions of these victims were relatively stable and there was no resentment.

Wang Xuanji held collective gatherings on the winter solstice, the twelfth lunar month, New Year's Day and other festivals.

Although these people come from different places, they basically celebrate the same festival. On this kind of festival, Wang Xuanji specially prepared food, drinks, and celebration activities.

With the lively activities, food and wine, these strangers soon became familiar.

Spring had passed for several days, and there was nothing going on at this time. They had enough time to come.

A distance of several hundred miles was not too far for the cavalry.

Wang Xuanji was waiting for their arrival in Hehuang.

After Wang Xuanji inspected Hexi, he began to order the powerful and distinguished nobles in Hexi and Hehuang to come for a meeting.

If the imperial court wants to manage Hexi and the Western Regions, it needs to win over these people. Of course, it must also deter them from having any different intentions.

Moreover, this kind of collective festival will also increase the cohesion of these people.

Wang Xuanji attaches great importance to the resettlement work. Some of these people are from Ji, Bing, Longyou, Guanzhong and other places. They did not know each other at first, but after several months of running in, they can already live in harmony.

If you want to survive in a place like this, you must work together.

After experiencing war and drought, these victims have basically seen the darkest world. Now the court is helping them, restoring order and cohesion bit by bit, and giving them hope.

The festival of spring plays a very important role in this era, because the arrival of spring also marks the beginning of spring plowing. Although the imperial court has promoted winter wheat, due to time issues last year, the imperial court reclaimed some land and planted winter wheat, but there was still some land that could not be cultivated in time.

So this time we still need to carry out spring plowing.

Wang Xuanji followed Wang Xuanlie in the battles and was familiar with military affairs as well as civil affairs. Although his military strategy was not as good as Wang Xuanlie's and his civil affairs was not as good as Wang Xuanjing's, he was still a rare talent.

Many of these victims had lost their wives and still had husbands. Wang Xuanji personally went to match these people and help them form families again.

The imperial court allocated thirty acres of farmland to these victims. If all of them were planted with food, it would be enough for a family.

At the same time, Wang Xuanji also ordered the team leaders and generals in various places to treat the people more kindly. At the same time, they were instructed to practice regularly.

They are not required to go into battle to kill the enemy, but they must form formations to protect themselves.

Therefore, these disaster victims were also gathered together in the wilderness to practice.

The same is true for the noble families and powerful nobles here. The power of the nobles is divided into three types. The first one is the troops that the imperial court allows them to equip themselves.

This has been popular since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Even during the Daqian Period, the imperial court did not deprive the gentry of this right.

Of course, the number of these tribes is very small, usually fifty, and the most are no more than a hundred, because no matter how many there are, they cannot afford to support them, and it will also make the court think that if you raise so many people, you are going to rebel.

These people are not engaged in production, but spend all day working out their muscles and practicing martial arts. Once the master goes into battle, these people will be their personal guards.

Just like many fierce generals who dare to charge into battle, it is because of these troops who will fight to the death.

The requirements for the part are extremely high, so the number is also the minimum.

The largest number of people are villagers, which are simply called tenants. These tenants rely on the gentry to live their lives and cultivate their land. During slack periods, they will be organized for drills and during busy periods, they will cultivate.

They don't need to do any martial arts training, they basically just form some simple military formations. Just let these people line up in a military formation and assassinate them with spears.

Don't think that these are simple. On the battlefield, this kind of assassination is often the bloodiest and most courageous.

However, the vast majority of bankers cannot pass this cruel test, so such bankers are easily defeated.

After all, it’s just a little money and food, so why bother?

The elites trained by the imperial court are actually mainly military formations, and then practice cooperating with assassinations. Of course, it is much more difficult than the dealers. They need to go through thousands of tempers and have a strong will.

Zhuangke's formation would collapse at the first touch when encountering these soldiers.

The second type of armed force of the gentry is the guards. Most of them are related to the master's family or are of the same clan. They have their own land.

They are usually used to protect their homeland and do not fight external battles. These people have some martial arts skills, good food and plenty of training, so they can barely be regarded as qualified soldiers.

In many places, the nobles in many places were able to respond to a hundred calls, relying on this kind of power. If the nobles raised an army, these people would basically be the first batch of soldiers.

(End of this chapter)