A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 144 Make the best use of everything, Hanoi Bai family

Zhang Liang said: "The third purpose of this Sun Yin is to attract the hatred of the Bai family for Your Majesty!"

"Oh? What's your explanation?"

"In any case, the Bai family was forced to surrender by His Majesty. Although it can be said that Your Majesty and King Bai participated in the alliance and King Bai voluntarily abdicated, in the hearts of everyone in the Bai family, every time they think of this kind of thing, there will be a root. The thorn lies between Liu and Bai.

The purpose of retaining Sun Yin is to ease the relationship between His Majesty and the Bai family. As long as Sun Yin and his descendants exist, they will spread their grievances on the Sun family, instead of just focusing on His Majesty, the Liu family, and even the Han Dynasty. , so to ensure that the Sun family is immortal, the Liu family and the Bai family can work closely together. "

After hearing this, Emperor Han laughed loudly and said: "I see, it seems that Sun Yin is still very useful? If I don't kill him, I think it is a good deal to keep such a person and get the help of the entire Bai family!" "

Then he asked: "What about these four functions?"

Zhang Liang said: "Does your Majesty know the origin of the Sun family where Sun Yin is located?"

Although the Han Emperor knew some of the secrets of the Bai family, he still didn't know much about the Sun family. Zhang Liang said: "The Sun family prospered in the Bai Kingdom after the famous general Sun Bin of the Bai Kingdom. But before Sun Bin, his ancestor was the famous general Sun Wu of the Wu Kingdom. As a result, the Sun family has two masterpieces of military strategism, "Sun Bin's Art of War" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

Although Sun Yin was not a very good person, his family's military skills and military leadership skills were still very powerful. This is why Sun Yin disobeyed King Bai's orders many times and was still active in the army after experiencing the great defeat of Dongjun. Reasons for the White Army.

Your Majesty's acquisition of Sun Yin is equivalent to receiving one-tenth of the inheritance of the military strategist. This will be of great help to the combat effectiveness of the Han army. Even if your Majesty does not use Han Xin in the future, he will not be in a situation where he cannot find someone who knows the military. predicament, and because the Sun family must be under His Majesty's protection to avoid being wiped out by the Bai family, the Sun family's loyalty to His Majesty is predictable. "

"Okay! Okay! That's great! It is indeed the greatest luck in my life to get an ovary!"

Zhang Liang was modest and did not dare to say so, and then said: "But I still have a few requests and a few details that need to be added. I wonder if your majesty will agree to it?"

Emperor Han was very happy at this time. He waved his sleeves and said loudly: "As long as I can do it, I will definitely promise you!"

Zhang Liang thanked him first, and then said: "One of the additional things is that your majesty ordered Han Xin to enter the Bai country. Qiu Qiu should have done nothing wrong. After all, this is not a war, but a forced surrender. If there is bloodshed of innocent people, It will definitely add variables to the negotiations between the Chinese and White parties."

Emperor Han agreed very much and said: "That's exactly it!"

"Secondly, in order to ensure the success of the recruitment, the person who goes to recruit Sun Yin must be His Majesty's confidant and be able to speak eloquently. Otherwise, Sun Yin will be afraid that His Majesty will kill the donkey and refuse to surrender, and must promise him Take away some of the clansmen and trusted generals.”

"can!"

"Third, this is for both public and private reasons. Your Majesty, please ask those who recruit Sun Yin to surrender. They must not harm the lives of Wang Zhang and his men, because Wang Zhang is not only a good friend of me, but also a close minister of King Bai. If Wang Zhang was killed for no reason, and the relationship between His Majesty and King Bai may no longer be able to work closely together."

Emperor Han thought for a while and said, "That's true. I agree with this."

"There is one last piece of advice. Your Majesty, please don't have too high expectations for Mr. Bai's official career."

Emperor Han wondered: "Why?"

Zhang Liang said: "The Bai family is not like other people. Most of them act according to their own nature, or travel around the world, or are knowledgeable about the classics, or are chivalrous and righteous. However, this does not prevent the Bai family from helping His Majesty. It's just that It is possible that in the early stage, no one of Bai’s sons will join the court as an official.”

Emperor Han sighed: "That's fine! As long as I can get Bai's help, it doesn't matter whether I get it or not? I have this psychological expectation."

Zhang Liang immediately bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, you are wise!"

When Zhang Liang left the palace, he looked at the white clouds in the sky and murmured:

"Ziliang, Bai Qing, this is probably the best solution I can think of between you and Your Majesty. Please don't blame me. It's so tiring! When the world is really stable, I will definitely go to practice Taoism. Regardless of these worries, I am really tired!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Liang covered his head and walked towards his house. The noble nobles who passed by thought Liuhou had suffered a head injury and expressed concern, but Zhang Liang could only smile in return.

Han six years

January

Han Xin, who was stationed in Dai County, received a secret message from Liu Bang: "The time has come!"

Han Xin was refreshed and could finally take revenge. After becoming the Queen of Chu, Han Xin returned to his hometown, settled the knot of the past humiliation, repaid the old woman's favor for a meal, and other grudges. Now only the humiliation of Sun Yin and the grudges of the military battle are left.

He quickly sent someone to invite King Zhao over. He first described his past grievances, then showed the Han Emperor's warrant and promised that there would be no conflict and only created opportunities for the Han Emperor.

Zhang Ao heard that he was just waving the flag and shouting, thinking that he had nothing to lose and could gain the favor of the Han Emperor, so he decided to follow Han Xin on the spot.

at the same time
Chaoge, Sun family's residence, Sun Yin is receiving an honored guest and has blocked others.

"General Sun, how are you thinking?"

Sun Yin hesitated and said: "Mr. Chen, you also know that my Sun family has been following the Bai family since Bai Wangwei. It has been more than three hundred years. It is not easy to break away."

Chen Ping looked at Sun Yin and said with a smile: "General Sun is worrying too much. It's only three hundred years. Compared with the Su family, the Yuan family, the Quan family, and even the Hei family, what is it? Besides, my family Your Excellency, we do not need the surrender of the entire Sun family, all we need is you, general. As for the lives of other Sun families, what do you have to do with it?"

"But, they are all my brothers, brothers and sisters!" Sun Yin covered his face with his hands and said in pain.

Chen Ping looked at the sad Sun Yin and felt a little funny in his heart. If Zhang Liang hadn't told me what kind of person you were, I would have almost been deceived by you. But this can only be what he thought in his heart, and then said:
"General, you are too kind. Not to mention that you regard them as brothers, but will they regard you as their clan leader? I heard that in the White Army, there are some generals of the Sun family who do not stand by you. side.

Instead, he sided with King Bai. So, who is the leader of the Sun clan, you or King Bai? "

Seeing that Sun Yin had not responded yet, Chen Ping cursed secretly. He really didn't express his position without seeing gold and silver. Finally, he said: "General, don't worry, as long as you can help the master realize what he wants, after the matter is accomplished, will you still be stingy in the position of Duke?" ?
The general has been in the Bai Kingdom for more than 30 years and is only a lieutenant general. Wang Zhang can only get the title of general and Gaopingjun by virtue of his royal status, and he still controls most of the military power of the Bai Kingdom. Is this fair to the general? "

Sun Yin raised his head and looked at Chen Ping, who responded firmly to show his sincerity.

Sun Yin thought for a while and said, "I can cooperate with you, sir, but I can't kill people. I don't want to be hunted by the Bai family for the rest of my life."

Chen Ping said: "Of course, sir, you don't want any bloodshed."

Sun Yin added: "I want to send my relatives out of the Bai Kingdom first. When the time comes, I will leave directly from Daijun and never return to the Bai Kingdom."

Chen Ping nodded.

A few days later, Sun Yin asked his wife to move his relatives to Taiyuan in the name of traveling. He also summoned several Sun brothers who were close to him and asked them to move their relatives out of Bai Kingdom. Although they were a little confused, they felt sorry for Sun. Yin's trust made them agree without asking any further questions.

this day
Bai Qing received a report from the domestic shadow guards, which stated that the Sun family had made big moves and that several clan members were migrating to Taiyuan.

Bai Qing was a little confused, so he immediately called the clan elder in charge of the genealogy hall and asked him to check whether the Sun family's migration had been reported.

The next day, the elders reported back: "After we went to investigate, the Sun Clan Ancestral Hall said that this was a normal family separation. Because the Sun Yin clan was a collateral line, they requested the Sun Clan Elders Association to start a clan in Taiyuan. The clan’s ancestral hall agreed.”

Bai Qing nodded and said he understood, because this is normal. Every year, whether it is a public clan or a subject clan, some small clans split off and go to various places to establish branch clans, and the headquarters has twenty small clans that go out to open up. years of support.

Whether it is allocating positions, introducing local connections, or recruiting their disciples to enter the Bai Academy, etc., these preferential policies can very well help these inexperienced tribesmen to establish a foothold in the local area.

However, due to limited power, the further away from the headquarters, the smaller the help from the headquarters. For some families who want to go to Jiangdong or Bashu to develop, the headquarters can only give some money or promise to have good seedlings in the family. You can enroll in Bai's Academy for free within ten years, with a quota of three.

It has been nearly three hundred years since Mr. Bai began to implement the policy of integrating the Bai family into the world. The Bai family, as well as the Su family, Yuan family, and Quan family who came out of the Taihang Mountains and the Bai Kingdom do not know. Fanji.

The Bai family also relied on the branches that branched out, so that they could firmly control the Hanoi area and the Taihang Mountains area with the help of a family of several hundred people.

There are two consequences for small tribes that go out to develop. One is that they fail to develop locally. Some of them lose their genealogy, family education, family training, and family laws, and become low-class common people. Some of them are directly exterminated due to various reasons. .

The other type successfully took root in the local area, and some of them became local powerful people, and some even became prominent members of the county.

But there are two situations. There are those who voluntarily break away from the control of the Bai family and no longer recognize that they are from the Bai family, but there are also those who always regard the Bai family as the main sect.

However, generally speaking, there are very few small tribes who do not admit that they are descended from the Bai family, because they will not enjoy the resources and influence of the Bai family, and more often they will listen to the instructions but not the propaganda.

Therefore, it is precisely due to a combination of various reasons that although the Bai family has developed for hundreds of years, its influence so far has only spread throughout Hebei, excluding the border areas and Yandi, and the core areas are Hanoi and the Taihang Mountains.

Among them, the Bai family's influence on Hanoi can reach the control of the township level, reaching 60%, and on the Taihang Mountains, it can reach almost every mountain and every stream, reaching 80%. However, the control over other pan-influenced areas is only more than ten to twenty percent.

But it is much stronger than the Han Emperor's control over Hanzhong. According to Bai Qing's estimation, the Han Emperor's control over Guanzhong, due to the emperor's title and superb management skills, is only 40% at most, while other Sixty percent is in the hands of the local clans.

Even Xiang Yu's control over Jiangdong only reaches 50%, but this 50% can become the strongest guarantee for Xiang Yu to dominate the world.

Despite the fact that the Bai Kingdom only had 200,000 troops, this was due to the Bai family's unwillingness to exploit the people's strength and their heavy investment in education, medical skills, craftsmanship and other details.

If the Bai family completely eliminates the management costs and the support for the family, and overdraws all their vitality, relying on the taxes from Hanoi and Taihang, as well as the income from the Bai family business, they will be able to raise an army of one million and sustain the five-year battle.

However, if you do this, it will be fine if the Bai family succeeds. If it fails, Bai family will use up hundreds of years of foundation and become a rural power, and its reputation in Hebei will be bad.

The result is either to move to other areas and start over, or to rely on their understanding of the Taihang Mountains to become a rogue family, and only rogues.

Because the Bai family will not be recognized by any people in the Taihang Mountains and Hebei area. After all, people in every household have been killed by the Bai family on the battlefield. Who will have a good look on the Bai family?
Coupled with the fact that the losers are wanted by those in power, it is estimated that the next time Bai's name is heard in the world will be three hundred years from now.

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