Ji Han Liu Zhang

Chapter 99 Nanzhong Temple counts two

Liu Zhang gave his response to Wu Yi's suggestion of dividing his troops and his plan to attack the Yong clan in Yizhou County after dividing his troops. He clapped his hands and praised: "The great kindness that Ziyuan said is exactly what I want."

Wu Yi's plan is basically consistent with Liu Zhang's strategy, and Liu Zhang's strategy comes from Zhuge Liang's plan for the Southern Expedition in history. Zhuge Liang gathered his army in Bodao County and divided it into three groups to attack the Southern Expedition rebels. .

Along the way, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang personally led the army to attack Gaoding in Yuexi County. There is a relevant record in "Zhuge Liang Collection": "At first, it was said that Gaoding lost his cave and gained his wife. At the end of the road, he should return to his head to survive." .However, Miao Man had a different intention, so he even killed people as allies and gathered more than [-] people of his kind to fight to the death. '.It records the details of how Zhuge Liang captured the wife of Gaoding, the king of Yi in Yuexi County, and occupied the Gaoding cave.

The other two routes of the Shu Han's southern expedition were one led by Ma Zhong, the prefect of Xangqi County, to attack Xangqi County, and the other led by Li Hui, the governor of Nijiang, to attack Yizhou County. This coincided with Wu Yi's plan.

He was indeed a man who sat in the position of a chariot general and had a certain strategic vision. Liu Zhang praised him from the bottom of his heart.

However, Liu Zhang needed to add something to Wu Yi's statement that among the three rebel forces, the Yong family in Yizhou County was the most powerful. He took out a letter from the documents on the desk and handed it to Wu Yi to read.

This is a document from the vassal state of Shu County. The vassal state of Shu County is located between Shu County and Yuexi County. It controls the four counties of Hanjia, Yiyang, Xindao and Yanniu. There is Qingyi River in its territory, and Qingyi Qiang live on both sides of the river. , the area in the southern part of Shu County's vassal state bordering Yuexi County is occupied by a group of Yiniu barbarians. Although it is called Shu County vassal state, it doesn't sound like the land of Nanzhong, but it is actually a place where barbarians and barbarians gather together.

Wu Yi took the document from the Shujun Kingdom and read it carefully. He read it quickly and understood the contents of the document in a moment.

After reading the document, he first exclaimed: "I didn't expect that the Yi King Gao Yuan of Yueqi County was so capable that he extended his hand to the vassal state of Shu County."

He handed the document back to Liu Zhang, and then he thought about it. The document from the vassal state of Shu County was not good news. It said that the Yi King Gaoyuan of Yueqi County sent his son Gaoding to the vassal state of Shu County to recruit the Yanniu Qiang and the Qiang. Among the Tsing Yi Qiang, many Soyi tribes led troops to Yuesi County under the inducement of Gaoding, including the tribe of Dazhong Langtan in the Yanniu Qiang.

Soyi tribes exist in the form of tribes, and they are divided into large tribes and small tribes. The large tribes of Soyi tribes generally have six to seven thousand people, the small tribes of Soyi tribes generally have two to three thousand people, and the smaller tribes have more than a thousand people. People.

Judging from the numbers of the Soyi tribe, if the Han government usually dispatched soldiers from each household, even the large Soyi tribe would not be able to send many soldiers. However, the Soyi tribe is different from the Han people. Even those in their teens The young men are also fierce and cruel, warlike and happy to kill. The women do not need to weave, but are more comfortable with swords and guns.

For example, the Soyi tribe with more than a thousand people can draw 400 warriors, reaching a crazy ratio of one out of four, or even one out of three.

In this way, the most powerful rebel force among the three counties of Yueqi, Yizhou, and Xangqi was the Yi King Gaoyuan of Yueqi County. After all, he recruited the Yanniu Yi in the southern part of Shu County and the Qingyi Qiang in the central Qingyi River Basin. In the past, although these Souyi from different tribes had never fought together in normal times and could only be regarded as a ragtag group, after all, they were more powerful in numbers.

Regarding the current situation, Wu Yi added to his plan: "Ming Gong, we still have to divide our troops, but the three-pronged army should be led by the army that went to Yue Xi County to suppress the rebellion. The troops needed to conquer Yue Xi County are needed. Only with around ten thousand people can we safely bring peace to the barbarians in Yuesi County."

Liu Zhang followed suit and nodded in approval of Wu Yi's supplementary plan. Then he expressed his inner plan: "Ziyuan, the Soyi people in Yueqi County are the most powerful, so I will pacify them. I want you to lead the army to conquer Pingjian as a vassal state first." , we can rely on the Yangguan River to go south, and then go south to capture the important area of ​​Cun County, and then join us to attack the Yong family in Yizhou County." "As for Zangda County, it has been some time since Lieutenant Gan Ning, the Lieutenant of the Han Dynasty, arrived in Bodao County. The sergeant must have been recuperated and has had some time to recharge his batteries. I have sent a document asking Gan Ning to lead the army to Zangda County to pacify the rebellion caused by Zhu Bao, the chief minister of Ding County."

"I don't know what you think."

Upon hearing Liu Zhang's order to let him lead an army alone and go to the vassal state of Qianwei to pacify the Soyi, Wu Yi's eyes widened slightly, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited.

It was time to put the hammer down. An idea flashed through his mind and he gave his own judgment. His sister Wu Ran was definitely related to Liu Zhang. Otherwise, how could Liu Zhang feel comfortable letting him lead an army alone and lead troops to conquer the Qianwei country.

Thinking back to what he saw in the Prefectural Mufu before the expedition, his sister Wu Ran lived in another courtyard and took care of Liu Zhang's son Liu Xun. This was the job of the matron of the Prefectural Mufu.

He bowed down and accepted Liu Zhang's order: "What Ming Gong said is naturally the safest. Yi is willing to accept the order."

The two discussed for a while, and when it was late at night, Wu Yi resigned and left, but Liu Zhang was not sleepy at all. He was still thinking about the policy against the southerners and barbarians in Nanzhong.

When it comes to how to deal with the southwestern barbarians, each dynasty in China's 2000-year history has its own approach.

In the Tang Dynasty, Jisi prefectures and prefectures were established, with ethnic minority leaders serving as governors or governors, and their positions were allowed to be hereditary.In addition to their positional rights, these ethnic minority leaders also had financial autonomy, but they had to accept the supervision of the Duhufu, the highest local administrative agency established in the Tang Dynasty. This approach adopted a policy of co-optation and loose management of ethnic minorities. policy.

The Yuan Dynasty was a central government established by the Mongols who took over the Central Plains. The ruling class itself was very short of administrative and official talents, but it was not very confident about appointing Han people to govern the barbarians in the southwest, so it did not set up Jisifu or prefectures like the Tang Dynasty. , but established a system of chieftain autonomy in the southwest region. This was not only a compromise with the Yi leaders in the southwest Yunnan-Guizhou region, but also used it to restrict the Han people.

After the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, as a Han empire, naturally would not continue the Yuan Dynasty's policy of making the chieftains autonomous and restricting the Han people. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty only partially continued the chieftain system from the beginning.

According to the size of the areas under the jurisdiction of hereditary chieftains, the Ming Dynasty first established three civil service positions: Tu Zhifu, Tu Zhizhou, and Tu Zhixian.This arrangement somehow incorporated chieftains into the official system of the Ming Dynasty government, weakening their local color and strengthening their administrative color.

This created the conditions for the later implementation of "returning local chieftains to local officials" in the southwest Yunnan-Guizhou region, that is, changing hereditary chieftains into mobile officials appointed entirely by the court, thus strengthening the court's control over the southwest Yunnan-Guizhou region.

Liu Zhang considered these four words carefully.

(End of this chapter)