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Chapter 449 The Way of Conquest
Youjing Linshuo Palace.

Since Wang Junkuo and Xue Wanche set out to conquer Saibei, Li Chongjiu hung a huge map of Saibei in his room.

The north of the Great Wall is called the North of the Great Wall. Since Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall with the walls of other countries in the north, the inside of the Great Wall and the outside of the Great Wall have become the divisions of Han people and Fan people.

Even after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu and conquered Mobei, he only set up the various ministries of the Jimi Grassland, but did not really establish a system of counties and counties in this area to completely control it.

After Tuoba Xianbei entered the Central Plains, the connection with Saibei gradually became estranged, and the grassland was ruled by Rouran. Therefore, in order to defend Pingcheng, Tuoba Xianbei built six towns outside the Great Wall, plus Yuyi Town, and became the Central Plains Dynasty. A foothold outside the Great Wall.

But after the rebellion of the Six Towns, the border towns where heavy troops were stationed at the beginning have long been deserted. The former Six Towns warriors, such as Yu Wentai, Yang Jian, and Li Yuan entered the Central Plains one after another, but they no longer intend to take over the Six Towns.

Today, Li Chongjiu's rise to Huaihuang and the second town of Yuyi made the Central Plains forces take a solid step towards Mobei. Today, Li Chongjiu also controls the two towns. Ruoshui Prefecture Duhufu was established here.

Compared with four years ago, when Li Chongjiu first came to the position of Khan, the population of the two towns tripled.Now outside of the Great Wall outside the Great Wall, the territory of Ruoshui Prefecture Duhufu is marked on it, and its area is almost equivalent to Li Chongjiu's current seven counties in Hebei.

Thinking of this, Li Chongjiu frowned. Although he controlled a vast territory, his power on the grassland had reached a critical point. There were hundreds of cities and castles scattered in the seven counties of Hebei. Orders could be delivered at any time, but on the grassland Huaihuang and the two towns of Yuyi controlled such a large territory, it was extremely difficult to achieve.What's more, the two towns are still close to the Great Wall, and the Wuhou and Qinshui areas are inevitably out of reach.

So this time Yan Yelie rebelled, although it was unexpected, it was reasonable.Yan Yelie has always been a general that Li Chongjiu values ​​highly, and his tribe's allegiance to Zhao is only to Yan Yelie, not to Zhao.

Now that Yan Yelie died, it sounded a wake-up call for Li Chongjiu. If Yinghefu, Ertuo, Tudiji and other generals in the future die, will their descendants still be loyal to him?If one day he abdicates, will Yinghefu, Ertuo, and Tudiji be loyal to their children and grandchildren as they are loyal to themselves?
This is the defect of the system of confinement, otherwise Li Tang's unprecedentedly large Andong Protectorate would not disappear with the weakening of the Tang Empire.

At present, Li Chongjiu is only using the sons of the leaders of the various ministries to move to Youjing, let them study sinology in the county school, and at the same time use the method of hostages in disguise to restrain the ministries and prevent them from rebelling.Once their father died of illness, Li Chongjiu could designate the son of the headman to be an official in any tribe.

But this is only one step better than Li Tang's restraint system.This alone is not enough to truly eradicate the disaster that Saibei has plagued the Central Plains for hundreds of years.

When Zhang Xuansu suggested to himself that he wanted to pacify the Great Wall, he said that the hereditary system of chieftains among the tribes must be abolished, and that the best way to pacify the Great Wall was to reassign officials to govern.

Zhang Xuansu's words are in line with Li Chongjiu's meaning. This is also the method used by the Ming and Qing Dynasties to control the southwestern chieftains in history.

However, Li Chongjiu also knew how much time it took to carry out the strategy of reforming the land and returning it to the people in the southwest. Chaos.To carry out the strategy of reforming the land and returning it to the natives, one must rely on strong force, and the other must be that the local Fans can accept Sinicization.

Just as if you want to defeat a nation, you can use force, but if you want to conquer a nation, you still need to let the other party accept your own culture, or absorb the other party's culture yourself.

Li Chongjiu was able to build Ruoshui Prefecture Duhufu and Liaoxi County because of the above two.

This time, Zhang Xuansu was ordered by him to assist Xue Wanche in the northern expedition. Firstly, it was to quell the rebellion, and secondly, it was also to allow Zhao Guo's power to further extend to the grassland.

At this moment, Wang Junkuo met the envoy who claimed to be Yili Jin Qulie from the Fufuyu tribe by the Qinshui River in Wuhou.

This envoy was in his thirties, with hair that is unique to the Khitan people, and he was riding on two horses. When the other party saw the scene of tens of thousands of cavalry drinking horses by the river, and banners and banners flying in the vast sea of ​​grass, his face showed a look of shock, and he also He restrained his arrogance just now a lot.

"My lord." The other party spoke in unfluent Chinese.

Wang Junkuo and Liu Yi looked at each other and smiled. Han people only refer to their parents as adults, while Fanren and Goguryeo refer to the leaders of the tribe or those who hold official positions as adults.Isn't it ridiculous that this person calls them adults and doesn't think of them as parents.

"Erbu Trile Khan, what is the important matter for you to come to see us?"

The other party replied: "The chief protector, Qulie Khan asked me to inform that the leaders of the Khitan tribes led their troops to discuss in Lengxing Mountain. They will take advantage of the civil strife in Yan Yelie's tribe to plunder to make up for last year's war. Cattle, sheep and horses lost since the severe winter."

"Lengxing Mountain?"

Wang Junkuo and Liu Yi frowned, and a military leader of the Xi family said: "Lengxing Mountain is north of Huangshui, and it is five days' journey away from here. The Khitan, Xi, and Qi tribes With this as the boundary mountain, the Khitan tribe's khan courts often nomadic here."

I heard that Lengxing Mountain has a five-day journey, and all the generals know that the Khitan army is probably coming to Wuhou Qinshui at this moment.

At present, Wang Junkuo issued an order, and the army leaders put on strict guard. At the same time, they sent cavalry to swim across the river to investigate the situation of Yan Yelie's troops north of Wuhou Qinshui.

Wang Junkuo said: "The Khitan army is coming, what is Qulie Khan's attitude?"

This person said: "Since the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, Master Qulie was released by Khan and has been grateful for the great kindness of Khan. Now the Khitan tribes intend to invade the south. Although he is unwilling to invade the south, but under the coercion of the leaders of the tribes, only He led his troops to come, and he sent a villain to report that if the adults agree, he and his [-] warriors are willing to respond internally."

Wang Junkuo nodded when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "Very well, King Zhao will not forget Qu Lie's heart."

The other party said happily: "Thank you for your understanding. In addition, Sir Qu Lie, please be careful. This time, Khitan will also unite with the two departments of Baiyu and Nanshiwei."

Just as Wang Junkuo was about to speak, the army leader came forward and said, "Etuo led the army, and Yinghefu led the army, and each led [-] cavalry. [-] cavalry from Kunbu for reinforcements."

Wang Junkuo said: "Wait for this Khitan envoy to go down to rest, so that I can entertain you, and we will go to see Ertuo, Yinghefu immediately."

Although Wang Junkuo said that he was kind and entertaining, the soldiers all knew that the Khitan envoy was taken under surveillance. It is still unknown whether Qu Lie's surrender was real or false.

Although the Khitans are regarded as barbarians, they only say that their culture is vulgar, but the Khitans' resourcefulness is by no means inferior, even though the other party has three sons as hostages, and they are now in Youjing.Wang Junkuo will never be careless on this point, and the Khitan envoy is under strict supervision at the moment.

(End of this chapter)