With the end of the war, the Qiang land that has been fighting continuously since the rise of Tibet finally ushered in the dawn of peace, the Great Sui officially established Jiangyuan County in the Qiang land, appointed Li Shimo as the first Taishou, Zhou Shao, who showed his prominence in the war, was the county Cheng, and Yang Tong added Jiuzhi, Changzhi and Yuanzhi counties as the settlement place of the Qiang people in addition to Yongzhi (Jiyucheng).

The northwest is Jiuzhi, the northeast is Yuanzhi, and the southeast is Yongzhi; As for Changzhi, it is located on the bank of the Baihe River in the middle of Gangwon County, and is regarded as the county seat of Gangwon County. and transferred Xianbei Murong and the eight departments of the party to settle down.

Changzhi as a county, is naturally the first city to build, its location was originally a stronghold of Bailanqiang, not only more livable, but also the prototype of the settlement, the city is twenty miles around, can accommodate two or three hundred thousand people.

Yang Tong not only used all the prisoners of war, but also mobilized the herdsmen who would settle here, and the herdsmen who participated in the construction of the city were paid three years of tax exemption and a plot of land in the city to build houses.

In the wilderness, a square foundation with a circumference of 20 miles, a width of 3 zhang, and a depth of 5 feet has been dug out, and a group of prisoners of war are sweating like rain, and there are many people carrying earth and stones, and the stones are quarried from the mountains thirty miles away, and the square stones are red, and the new city built with this color stone will also be a red city.

Yang Tong rode a horse and stood on a hill, his eyes cast from the hot scene to the towering mountains beyond.

A few days ago, Wei Fengwu, Shui Tianji, and Du Ruhui had returned to Daxing, but he, the emperor, couldn't leave.

On the one hand, Jiang Yuan was initially decided, and the "Ten Banners System" had not yet been formally established, and if there was no strong figure and a large army to deter, Tuyuhun, the Eight Departments of the Party, and Zhuqiang might not be able to accept Li Shimo's governance in peace.

On the other hand, the Black Ice Terrace personnel sent a letter to the eagle, saying that Niang Shangsang had led the army from Chengdu, if it was not annihilated, Xianbei Murong and the eight departments of the party were very likely to return to Niang Shangsang and flee back to Tubo together. So? This battle is tantamount to helping the mother's clan.

"Holy!" Then? Li Shimo came on horseback and saluted: "The foundation of the city has been tamped? The next step is to layer upon layer. ”

Was the city wall rammed after the foundations were rammed? Build a clay wall about three feet high, and then ram the wall with dirt? After tamping and compacting, a second low wall is built on top of it. And so repeatedly? Up to the required height? It was finally covered with masonry, becoming a masonry-covered wall, which was much stronger than a simple rammed earth wall.

"Changzhi City is the governance of Jiangyuan County, and it is the center of the Great Sui Dynasty to rule and educate Zhuqiang? The fortification of the walls is extremely important. Yang Tong instructed: "Don't you just pursue a temporary progress? The thickness of the rammed layer is uneven, and the ramming is not dense enough. ”

The city was built by prisoners of war who had become slaves, even if the loss was great, Yang Tong would not feel distressed, but Jiangyuan is a border county, once there is a change in the southwest? As a county governor, Changzhi will inevitably become the target of the enemy's key attack, is the city wall strong? It is an important part of the decision to stick to it for a long time.

"The last will understand."

"Soon there will be a city, and the next thing is governance." Yang Tong smiled and asked, "Li Taishou?" Do you have any difficulties that the court needs to solve? ”

"Governance, of course, is not a problem, but the last general thinks about what happened before? I'm a little worried. ”

"Something before? What's the matter? Yang Tong hurriedly asked.

"According to the previous style of the Central Plains Dynasty? After winning a major war between the two countries? Generally, there are two ways to deal with the aftermath, one is to directly abandon the unlivable enemy land, and then move the enemy clan to live in the border county under the rule for unified management. But this practice has been used before, for example, the Han Dynasty's Huwuhuan Captain now seems to be a mistake, the Han Dynasty allowed the Hu people to enter the country to live, and also gave them a high degree of freedom to take care of themselves in military and political affairs, and the final result was that the Hu people were divided and established a country. Even though some Hu people have been completely assimilated, in the bitter cold land that can be abandoned, there is a rise of a more powerful nation. As for the second way to deal with the aftermath, after winning the enemy country, support the forces close to the Central Plains to defend the frontier, but you have also seen that at the beginning, we supported the Qimin Khan as the Great Khan of the East/Turks, but it turned out that it was only a generation, and the powerful Eastern/Turkic began to invade the Great Sui by relying on the Great Sui. Speaking of this, Li Shimo commented: "It can be seen that neither of the two ways to deal with the aftermath will work. ”

"Hmm!" Yang Tong thought for a moment: "We set up Jiangyuan County here to avoid this place being occupied by new ethnic groups, and we will not give them a high degree of autonomy in the future, and assimilate them in the way of education, so that the three major troubles of the two ways of dealing with the aftermath will be gone." ”

Li Shimo nodded and said, "That's true." ”

"And what are you worried about?" Yang Tong asked with a smile.

Li Shimo said solemnly: "The Holy Lord set up Jiangyuan County here to avoid the troubles of new ethnic groups moving here and slowly becoming stronger. But there is not a single Han here, and the last general is worried that the Qiang people will become a new nation similar to Goguryeo in the future. If the court in the future turns a blind eye and pays insufficient attention, I am afraid that some people will rise up to build a state, and it will be difficult to conquer them at that time. ”

"......" Yang Tong was dumbfounded, and after a long time, he smiled bitterly: "Then what do you say?" ”

Li Shimo said that he was waiting for this sentence, but he said: "The meaning of the last general is to move a large number of Han people up, and then give them houses and livestock, exempt them from taxes for a few years, and assimilate them before Zhuqiang becomes a new nation." ”

"Peacefully, this is your true intention......" Yang Tong is not stupid, and immediately understood Li Shimo's "sinister" intentions, but he also knows that the 'new nation' that Li Shimo said is not nonsense, let alone unfounded, just because Western Xia almost came about like this.

But......

"How can I have a large number of Hermes-Epitek for you?"

Li Shimo arched his hand and said: "In order to avoid the war and avoid heavy taxes, the people of Yizhou have fled to Hanzhong and Guanzhong, if they are placed in Hanzhong and Guanzhong, it will not be long before the phenomenon of more people and less land, a large number of reclamation, and destruction of vegetation. If they had settled in Guanzhong Han first, and the imperial court would have wanted to relocate them to these three counties in the future, it would probably have hated the imperial court very much. Since you are going to move in the future, why not move here once and for all? Why not make them grateful instead of hateful? ”

"You're a successful lobbyist, and I have nothing to say." Yang Tong laughed: "I'm right, these displaced people will be resettled in Jiangyuan first. ”

"Thank you, Holy Lord." Li Shimo was overjoyed.

Yang Tong nodded: "What else do you want?" Let's talk about it together. ”

Li Shimo said: "In addition, each county will send one or two thousand retired veterans to let them continue to have children in each county. ”

"Retired veterans?" Yang Tong frowned and said: "The retired veteran has made great contributions to the Great Sui, tell me your reason." ”

Li Shimo said solemnly: "Shengshang, in the future, Jiangyuan will be a mixed place of Han people, Dangxiang Qiang, Bailanqiang, Xianbei people, Subi people, and Tubo people, and there will be some chaos and turmoil. If everything is inevitably supported only by officials, retired veterans are the most loyal and brave men of the Great Sui, if they can come, first, they can assist officials in dealing with daily contradictions, second, as an example, play a guiding role, third, better spend the initial period, fourth, lay a guarantee for the security of the four counties, once a war breaks out in the surrounding areas, they can quickly organize to defend the frontier. ”

Yang Tong thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, it's decided." Transfer 1,000 retired veterans to each county! Lujiang. ”

"The end will be." Yang Qinfang responded.

"Send a letter to the third child, and I will appoint him as the governor of Yongzhou, and cooperate with the counties and counties of Guanzhong and Hanzhong to send the displaced people to Jiangyuan safely;"

"Whoa."

"In addition, I also sent a letter eagle to Wei Fu, and asked him to arrange 1,000 retired veterans for each of the four counties of Jiangyuan."

The Ministry of Armed Forces is in charge of the national county soldiers, county service, retired soldiers, and disabled soldiers, but because Pei Renji, the secretary of the Ministry of Armed Forces, is fighting in the south, Wei Yunqi is temporarily acting as an agent.

"Whoa." Yang Qinfang replied and asked again, "Is there anything else?" ”

"There's another thing, it's about population." Yang Tong said: "Yesterday I received a briefing from Yang Shidao, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who said that the war in the Great Sui was endless, which led to a sharp decline in the population of various places, and in order to make the population of the Great Sui grow rapidly, it was recommended that the unmarried women who reached the age of marriage should be punished accordingly. After the discussion of Zuo Servant, Wei Servant, and the various ministries, they agreed that women who were not married at the age of fifteen should be taxed, which could indeed make the population skyrocket; But the fourteen-year-old girl is too young, if she is pregnant, she will be injured and her life will be short, and she will die in childbirth. I have adjusted this legal age to 18 years old, and those who do not marry beyond this age will be punished in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and those who become married earlier than 18 will not be punished or rewarded. ”

In order to restore the population to the pre-war level as soon as possible, some dynasties will put the age of marriage to twelve or thirteen years old, and those who do not marry will be urged by the government first, if the unmarried person has no marriage partner, then the local government will help arrange, if he does not agree, not only will be punished, but the marriage will still be concluded, so the ancient man does not worry about no daughter-in-law at all.

"Holy mercy, holy wisdom." Yang Qinfang and other girls rejoiced and sang praises.

"Go and send the Eagle Letter."

"Whoa."

Not long after Yang Qinfang left, a scout rode his horse and saluted from afar: "Qiqi Sheng, General Wang has returned from Jiyu City, uh, Yongzhi City. ”

With the surrender of the various departments, Jiyu City, which was renamed Yongzhi, was taken over by Pei Xingyan with a large army, and Wang Xiongdan's mission was to collect weapons and armor from the various party departments.

"Let's go, let's see." After Yang Tong finished speaking, he took the lead in leaving.

The group traveled more than ten miles and came to the military camp.

On the school grounds, there were already huge open wooden figures, which were either armor or weapons.

At first glance, there are thousands of boxes.

When he saw this, Yang Tong's face couldn't help but be gloomy like water.

Yin Mingyue, Li Shimo, Zhou Shaoze, Cheng Chumo and other pure lands couldn't help but gasp.

They originally thought that the strength of the party's eight departments had been weakened to the extreme after being exploited by Tubo and Tuguhun, and they did not think so, but they did not think so, Yang Dong sent people to collect weapons and equipment. When they saw so many weapons and equipment, they finally understood that the party should not be underestimated.

Moreover, the Eight Chiefs not only did not mention it in advance, but also did not use it on the battlefield, which was not only a weapon and equipment, but also a huge ambition of the party. There was a spear wrapped in a straw bag next to it, and when I looked closely, there was a bundle of brand-new spears inside, about thirty of them, which were completely the spears of the Sui army, Li Shimo took out one and came to watch, and instantly recognized it, and said: "Shengshang, this is the standard spear in the Great Cause period, and the grassland does not grow rice, this straw bag is obviously from the Central Plains." ”

Even though Yang Tong dismounted, he took out a horizontal knife from a box, only to see that the cold light was shining and murderous, all of them were high-grade horizontal knives, and there was also the Mingguang armor of the system during the Great Cause period.

Xiang Wang Xiongtan asked, "Where did you come from?" ”

"Saint, these are all from the Tuoba clan, according to Tuoba Xidou's confession, part of it is a transaction between Murong Fuyun and Tuoba Chici, and Murong Fuyun exchanged weapons for Tuyuhun's survival. The other part was exchanged for the Hequ Horse and the Guanlong family. ”

"How many are there?"

"There are more than 22,000 sets of armor, spears, and knives, and there are many scattered items that have been handed over from the other seven." Wang Xiongdan hurriedly replied.

"So much?" Li Shimo exclaimed, "There are so many of the eight party departments, in addition to these eight departments, Jiang Yuan has dozens of small and medium-sized tribes, if they are collected one by one, the overall strength should not be underestimated." ”

The others nodded one after another, fortunately this was under Yang Tong's arrangement, otherwise Zhuqiang would definitely be a potential threat.

Yang Tong asked, "They just let you collect it so honestly?" ”

"Yes, very honestly. However, the last general saw that they did not want to resist, but did not dare. After Wang Xiongdan finished speaking, he suggested: "When I implemented the government military system in the past, the government soldiers needed to bring their own weapons, but that was only a short blade such as swords, bows and arrows, and armor and some large weapons were developed by the army at the same time, and it was a capital crime to hide armor privately. Now that Jiangyuan belongs to my Great Sui, naturally I must follow the laws of the Great Sui, or let the last generals force them again, and simply confiscate their leather armor. ”

"The iron armor must be collected, but now that we are about to fight with Niang Shangnan, we don't have that much energy, and even if they still have it, there is not much left, and there is not much threat to the imperial court. After settling down, they will be confiscated one by one through legal publicity and rewards for reporting. As for the leather armor, it didn't have much effect on my Great Sui's various crossbow arrows. Yang Tong said to Li Shimo: "The matter of iron armor must be taken to heart and grasped as the top priority." ”

He clearly remembered that after the rise of Western Xia, the Song Dynasty was harmed as badly as it was! Countless Western troops died at the hands of the Iron Harrier.

Although you can't solve your own future problems once and for all, at least the regulations on the return of armor must be implemented in this dynasty.

"The last will understand." Li Shimo solemnly obeyed.