Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 247 New Year's Eve

Naturally, all tribes in Monan knew about Chen Qingsi's construction of the city in Fuyun Temple immediately, and they all understood that the rebellion of the five Tieles made the imperial court decide to strengthen its control over Monan and Mobei.

But there was nothing they could do.

Although they now live in this land and own the lush pastures of Southern Mon, nominally speaking, Mon Southern and Northern Mon are the territory of the Tang Dynasty. It was only the benevolence of the imperial court that gave the place to them to live.

Although they do not agree with this truth in their hearts, the grassland is their grassland, but no one dares to say it directly.

Facing Chen Qingsi's behavior of building a surrender city in Monan, they had no other choice but to curse Bi Su and Alvi.

With the completion of the city of surrender, Sijie Dilu asked his son to come and see the city of surrender to decide Sijie's future, whether he should be a son or a grandson.

It is no coincidence that the Turks often went south to plunder and chose to worship the gods in Fuyun Temple.

This is the most convenient way for them to attack and retreat. Only by making sure it is safe can they go south with confidence. Now that this strategic location is in the hands of the imperial court, its deterrent power is naturally unusual.

Chen Qingsi did not build the surrendered city as a city for rest and settlement. The value of its existence was fighting.

It is not a simple structure like a city wall, gate, or urn, but a structure similar to the forts of the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.

During the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the turmoil in the world, in order to resist the Hu rulers' deportations and wars, the northern Han people gathered their clan brothers and defended themselves in danger. They built battle forts to resist foreign invasion.

All the facilities of this kind of battle fort are used for fighting, not to mention the external dock wall fortress, which can be attacked or defended. Even inside, the buildings, courtyards, oars and oars are all guarded by soldiers for archery.

Not only the entire city can be attacked or defended, but every courtyard in the city and the residence where soldiers rest are strategically important locations that can be attacked or defended.

Sijie Yingcai had not yet seen the internal situation, but just looked at the periphery of the surrender city, looking at the towering towers everywhere, imagining that the Tang army with strong bows and crossbows was on top, shooting at them.

Not to mention that they are not good at siege, even if they have the same siege skills as in the Central Plains, they can't build such a fortress...

So this look changed directly.

There are such people in the Central Plains, how dare you have two minds?

"Mr. Chen!"

Si Jie Yingcai's rather strong back was bent even lower.

"I haven't had time to congratulate you, Mr. Sijie. I heard that you were promoted to the top because of your merit. I'm so happy and congratulations!"

"She" is an official position in the Tiele tribe.

Under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, tribes were not allowed to call themselves khan without the permission of the imperial court. Their clan leader is called Ye Hu. Under Ye Hu is She, and under She is Special Qin.

In other words, Si Jie Yingcai is already the second person in Si Jie Department, a true heir.

I miss the talented people but can't be happy.

Who has no ambition?

Sijie Yingcai admires the culture of the Tang Dynasty and introduces the culture of the Central Plains into the tribe, not to become a Tang person, but to let his tribe learn more culture and give birth to more talents, so that he can become this grassland in the future. owner.

Now that the tribe's development prospects are getting bleaker, Sijie Yingcai is already feeling a mountain of pressure even before he becomes Ye Hu.

The road ahead is bleak.

"Mr. Chen, please don't make fun of the younger generation. If it hadn't been for your clever idea, I would have died in Huaiyuan County."

Facing Chen Qingsi, Sijie Yingcai did not dare to reveal too much, and bowed and said: "As ordered by my father, I invite you to come to our department to congratulate you on the Spring Festival. I hope you will show your favor..."

Chen Qingsi said: "This is unfortunate. I have decided to spend New Year's Eve with the people in the city of Shoujiang. I can't make it in time for the Spring Festival."

Zhongshou Jiangcheng is more than two hundred miles away from Sijiebu, and it is impossible to catch up with it no matter what.

Sijie Yingcai said: "What about the Shangyuan Festival? Our department also celebrates the Shangyuan Festival, so we can move the festival we are preparing to the Shangyuan Festival."

Chen Qingsi said: "It's okay for Shangyuan Festival, so let's set it for Shangyuan Festival!" The location of Xishoujiang City is near Sijiebu. After celebrating the Spring Festival, they will also go west to build Xishoujiang City.

After the construction of Xishoujiang City, it was just in time for spring plowing.

After the spring plowing, they gathered again and headed east to build Dongshoujiang City. After completion, it was also the autumn harvest time.

During this back and forth, Chen Qingsi took everything into consideration.

Having seen the plight of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, Chen Qingsi did not want to see the people in Ling, Xia, and Yan prefectures also suffer corresponding disasters.

Sijie Yingcai's face was full of joy and he said: "The junior is waiting for you in the clan."

Seeing that he was about to say goodbye, Chen Qingsi stopped him first and said, "The city of Shoujie has just been completed, and Mr. Sijie is here to meet you. Why don't you go inside to visit and give me some opinions?"

Sijie Yingcai also wanted to see the inside of Shoujiang City and readily agreed.

But after entering the city, Sijie Yingcai immediately regretted it. The situation inside the city was even more distressing than outside the city.

It turns out that breaking through the outer perimeter is just the beginning. The interior is full of twists and turns, and troops can be ambushed everywhere.

Si Jie Yingcai wanted to ask: "Is this important? There is no need to bother to guard against us."

Sijie Yingcai's visit was confusing. When he came out, he felt that his legs were weak. He left for a hundred miles in one breath. Only then did he recover. He looked back at the already invisible Shoujiang City. It was obviously not a very big castle, but it was Looming like a wild beast.

From today on, there is an extra chain around their necks.

This is also the result Chen Qingsi wants.

The existence of Shoujiang City is not really about fighting, but more about deterrence and stopping the war, so that all the tribes in the Hetao Plain can learn to reason.

With the arrival of New Year's Eve.

The city was full of joy, every house was decorated with lights, and the smell of meat filled the entire new city.

The people doing corvee work gathered in groups around the hot cauldron, waving their index fingers.

They chatted with each other happily, but their eyes were fixed on the big iron pot, and their throats were crawling.

A cook grabbed a handful of green salt and sprinkled it into the pot.

A person next to him urged: "Put more, put more, don't be stingy, it's not worth a lot of money. We have a lot of these things in our place, and my family uses more to feed cattle than this."

A common man in Yanzhou couldn't help but complain.

The cook rolled his eyes and said, "This is Monan!"

Di Renjie, who was passing by, heard this and said with a smile: "How about Monan? Envoy Chen Fu knew the situation in Yanzhou and the problems faced by Yanzhou. He specially planned a road connecting the towering Khan Road to connect the green salt of Yanzhou to Sales in the north, let alone Monan, will not take more than two months, even Mobei will be able to eat salt from Yanzhou."

He didn't have the self-consciousness of a son of an aristocratic family, so he stepped forward and took a deep breath of the aroma of the broth, and said: "If you are celebrating the New Year, don't be stingy, just add a pinch of salt."

The cook didn't dare to disobey and added an extra handful.

The people around him cheered loudly.

Only the people of Yanzhou said with some excitement: "Does Mr. Lang really mean what he said?"

Di Renjie nodded seriously and said: "You may not believe me, but you have to believe Mr. Chen. In addition, Mr. Chen asked someone to inform everyone that tonight he will stay at the government office in the city. If you have any injustices in your lives or good suggestions, you can Find him privately."

(End of this chapter)