Chastity Layman

  Chapter 357 Tong Wan

  Qin Lang liked Tong Wancheng very much.

  This white male city has now regained its name of Shuofang.

  Standing on the head of the majestic Shuofang city, you can feel the strong aura of the frontier, which is rough and barbaric and even more sturdy. In Xiazhou City, there is no trace of the false Liang Dynasty. Although Master Liang has proclaimed himself emperor here for ten years, the hearts of the people have abandoned him. Everyone wants to get rid of all traces of the false Liang as soon as possible. Get back to some peaceful days.

   "The imperial court hasn't replied to me yet!" Qin Qiong held a cup of milk tea and looked at the ice and snow in the north.

  The wind is blowing.

Qin Lang felt that his skin seemed to be thickened again. In order to avoid frequent scratches on his face, he started to apply sheep oil on his face like everyone else. The effect of antifreeze was good, and his face would not often The blood was opened, but the smell of mutton was unavoidable.

   "If this continues, I will become a barbarian." Qin Lang said with a smile.

Qin Qiong took a sip of tea, "This milk tea is pretty good, but I can't stay outside the town any longer. Regardless of whether the court agrees or not, I have to go back this time." After saying this, Qin Qiong seemed a little dissatisfied. Abandon. It has been more than a year since he came to Lingwu. He is here to guard and host, and to watch the little changes here. These are all his painstaking efforts.

   "Grandfather can stay, if you really want to go back to court, it's more suitable for me to go back."

   "It's not as good as you staying if I stay. The great changes in Lingbei are all due to you."

  Qin Lang took off his leather gloves, grabbed a snow ball, and rolled the snowball. The small snow ball got bigger and bigger, and soon rolled into a giant ball.

New Year approached.

   Both Qin Qiong and Qin Lang submitted memorials to the imperial court, mentioning the matter of entering the Beijing Chaoji.

  But now the court has not responded for a long time.

   Both Qin Qiong and Qin Lang have their own relationships and news, so both of them are relatively clear about the movements in the court in Beijing. This time Qin Lang made a great achievement, which can be called the greatest military achievement since the Zhenguan Dynasty.

  The imperial court was happy, and the emperor was even happier.

  This magnificent martial arts, but it wiped away the shame of being forced to sign the bridge alliance last year when Jieli soldiers forced Chang'an.

   It was just that there were a lot of controversies in the court's discussion of merits and the issue of the attached Turks, Zahu and other tribes.

Faced with Qin Lang's deeds of destroying the country, many people showed jealousy. They called Qin Lang's contribution good luck, and said that the attachment of Liang Shidu and Yuan Junzhang was just because they had already been The imperial court's siege was over, and Xieli's confrontation with Qin Lang this time was also said to be just a personal act of some barbaric tribal leaders in Turkic.

  Not only did they not recognize Qin Lang's achievements, they also began to impeach Qin Lang for deliberate provocation, risky start of war, etc. Some guys even concocted hundreds of crimes in one go.

  After Qin Lang heard the news, he was not very angry, and even expected it.

   What he cared about was the attitude of the emperor and the Zhengshitang.

   Fortunately, Li Shimin did not meet his expectations, and he was a reasonable emperor. The Son of Heaven is relatively fair and objective, and has no intention of discrediting Qin Lang's achievements.

  Now the emperor means to set up one Daduhufu and five Dudufu, of which the two Dudufu, Lingwu and Yansui, are not under the jurisdiction of the Daduhufu, and the other three Dudufu's six prefectures are under the jurisdiction of the Daduhufu.

  Qin Lang will also take advantage of the opportunity to be promoted to deputy governor, governor of Langshan, governor of Fengzhou, and the emperor will grant him three hundred additional household seals.

   But now many people are against it.

  The emperor also got a temper, and it is said that the daily court meeting is very lively.

"Those guys from the so-called noble families only know empty talk, and empty talk is harmful to the country. Can empty talk solve the problem of border troubles? If the problem of border troubles is not solved, how will the northern border states and counties that are thousands of miles long develop? Without stability, how will they develop? People's livelihood? I'm not surprised that Lu Chengzong and others are farting, but I'm still quite surprised by Wei Zheng's attitude. How to convince people?"

  Qin Lang is really disappointed with Wei Zheng now, but fortunately, when Wei Zheng dealt with the Turks and other barbarians, he said something more useful.

  This is not some kind of heart-breaking words, but a summary of thousands of years of valuable experience.

  Li Shimin's thinking was relatively simple. He wanted to set up 24 Jimi prefectures in the five governor's mansions. In these prefectures, he would set aside territory for those Hu people, so that the Hu people's leaders could continue to manage their own tribes.

  In fact, this is the strategy of a country within a country. Compared with the real prison system, it is a reversal of history.

"The so-called ji 縻, ji, the head of the horse, 縻, the ox. The 縻 is originally a means of controlling cattle and horses, but it is extended to control the barbarian Hu people in the frontier, using the barbarians to control the barbarians, recognizing the local barbarian leaders, conferring officials and titles, and bringing them into the imperial court. Management. For those places beyond the reach of the whip and difficult to effectively manage and control, this method is not wrong, but the mistake lies in the fact that the current five capitals are already the Zhengzhou of the imperial court, and the next step should be to strengthen actual control , who immigrated to the border, plowed the wasteland and farmed the fields, why would they want to move the Hu people south and set up twenty-four Jimi prefectures? Isn’t this nonsense?”

  Qin Lang complained in front of the old man.

  He always felt that Li Shimin was a wise and mighty emperor. He had won the battle ahead, so Li Shimin should take advantage of the situation and follow up. It would be nice to set up the five capitals, but why would you want to add more things later?

After drinking the milk tea, Qin Qiong pointed to many people in the city and said, "It's not easy to cultivate their teachings, and it's not easy to make their own government suitable. It's ad hoc. It's a little bit according to their customs, prevent their big mistakes, and tolerate their small mistakes. Rule the barbarians with the barbarians." , This is the tradition of governing the border, and it is also an effective method. Look at Shuofang City, which is already at the foot of the Great Wall, but there are mixed Han people here, and there are even more mixed Hu people than Han people. If the imperial court directly adopts that from the mainland A system to govern this land is outdated and prone to problems."

  Qin Lang didn't agree with the old man's idea. It's right to let the barbarians in the border areas surrender first, and incorporate them into the system, but we can't leave many hidden dangers.

  Here, the biggest difference between Qin Lang and Li Shimin Qin Qiong lies in what is called a side.

  Perhaps in the eyes of Li Shimin and others, the Great Wall is considered a border.

As for places other than the Great Wall, they can be governed by barbarians and let the barbarians govern themselves, but Qin Lang doesn't think so. He always believes that although the Great Wall line is actually very close to the 400mm rainfall line suitable for farming, the Great Wall In the north, there is indeed insufficient rainfall, which is not suitable for farming, but more suitable for nomads.

  But this is not absolute.

  For example, the Hetao area, where the Yellow River has all kinds of harm but only one set of wealth, is a relatively good arable area.

   Another example is the Mayiyun middle land in Daibei, which can actually be farmed. As a border land, it is impossible for them to have the density of agriculture in the Central Plains. Therefore, half-cultivation and half-grazing can completely allow the Central Plains Dynasty to develop on the border.

  The border area of ​​​​this semi-arid area actually holds a very strong strategic advantage.

This is like every military strategist knows that to guard the river, you must guard the Huai River. If you want to rule the river, the premise is to control Huainan. Half of Jiangnan can be worry-free.

  If you can control the upper reaches of Bashu, you will have the basis to unite the north with the south.

  The importance of places like Hetao and Daibei to the Central Plains court is higher than that of Longyou and Hexi. These are strategic highlands. Sitting on these places can drive the grassland regime to Mobei and use the desert as a buffer zone. If you retreat, you can also defend on the front line of Yinshan to further avoid the impact and harassment of the Hu people on the important places in the Central Plains, Guanzhong, Hedong, and Hebei.

  During a war, the defenders of the city know that they cannot retreat and defend the city, but must defend the outer strongholds, so that they can attack and defend.

   It is of course feasible to demarcate Jili Prefecture, but it has to be demarcated to the north of Langshan, Yinshan and Yanshan.

   But the fact made Qin Lang very annoyed.

Not to mention that now the emperor actually wants to set up Jimizhou in Shuofang, Daibei, Hetao and other Zhengzhous. Since the first year of Wude, the imperial court has been busy fighting for the Central Plains, but it has long been doing this to the barbarians on all sides. It's a kind of Jimi policy. For example, in the southwest region, Yunnan and Guizhou in later generations basically belong to Jimi Prefecture now, and western Hunan, western Sichuan and other places basically belong to Jimi Prefecture now.

Even Guangdong and Guangxi in the south of the Lingnan area are basically of the nature of confinement. Ning Changzhen, Feng An, and Tan Dian are all local local emperors recognized by the imperial court. .

But relatively speaking, for the prefectures and counties set up by the Wude Dynasty, he originally had the strategy of setting up the prefectures and counties, but now he finally achieved such a great victory in the north, but Li Shimin wanted to backtrack, not seize the opportunity, and set up the right The state sent officials to garrison troops to immigrate, but instead wanted to move the Turkic people in the interior to the south and resettled them closer to the Great Wall.

  The emperor may have wanted to imitate Yang Jian who used to raise Turkic people as watchdogs, but the facts have proved that Yang Jian's set-up can only be used for a while, and he will eat back his master after a long time.

  Qin Lang has already written to Li Shimin, resolutely opposing his approach.

  Shuofang is getting colder every day, and the end of the new year is getting closer.

  The imperial court never negotiated a result.

  Qin Qiong sent an urgent letter to Chang'an directly, saying that he was suddenly seriously ill and asked to return to Beijing immediately.

  When the letter arrived in Chang'an, Li Shimin was taken aback. Hearing that Qin Qiong's old illness seemed to have relapsed, and after he became seriously ill, he didn't dare to delay, so he quickly ordered Lingwu to send Qin Qiong to Beijing.

   Qin Qiong asked in the letter to send someone to take over the position, but Li Shimin hesitated.

Qin Qiong has been in Lingwu for more than a year, and his performance is impressive, much better than that of Li Daozong and Li Jing. Although the situation is different, he did a very good job. Qin Lang was able to destroy Liang Shidu this time, and Qin Qiong also has merit of.

  It is really difficult to decide who to send to succeed Lingwu.

   "Take Shubao back to recuperate first, Beijing will be warmer, and medical conditions will be better!"

  (end of this chapter)