Chapter 46 Co-opts the Khitans
The emergence of coal is very timely for Zou Yu, which can save many people from cutting down trees, making wood fire, making salt and forging at the same time, which is also much more convenient, as well as firing kilns, making pottery, and bricks and tiles are also large consumers, which can really be said to benefit the country and the people.
Of course, good things must be made as soon as possible, and people should be arranged to dig coal by hand, Zou Yu is secretly proud, and now I will also be a coal boss for a while.
Fortunately, this is an open-pit coal mine, easy to dig, set up a workshop nearby, dig out the coal, grind it into powder with a stone mill, and then send it to the city, and the major mining areas, after all, after this thing is made, it is inconvenient to transport, and it can only be made nearby.
Now Zou Yu has to consider the problem of the Evil Clan, although there is no sign of the Black Water Evil Clan, but it has to be prepared for a rainy day.
Thinking about it, I still have to make an idea from the Khitans, after all, only they can win over at present.
found Han Qianxun and others to discuss, and finally decided to use the old method - to blame the trouble.
arranged for Liu Jin and his son, who had not missed the meeting, to lead a team of Khitan cavalry to harass the Yan people, which was called revenge.
Of course, the Khitan cavalry would not have thought that this was simply to bring trouble to their former compatriots, but they were very happy, for Zou Yu this was for their sake, and they followed with a roar, in their eyes, revenge is a normal operation.
By the middle of August, the Tatars could no longer bear it anymore and raised troops to attack the Khitans again. The Khitans hurriedly asked for help, and Zou Yu and others once again used the autumn harvest as an excuse to delay time.
The Khitan people had no choice but to ask for help from the Xi people with a lot of money, because this time the Baishan Ya tribe also borrowed 20,000 soldiers and horses, and as soon as they fought, they made the Khitan coalition retreat step by step, and finally retreated to the territory of the Xi people.
In mid-September, after a month's delay, the autumn harvest was over, and it was also learned that Yang Guang had failed again, and completely cut off the idea of returning to the Central Plains, and everyone began to plan this battle wholeheartedly.
After more than half a year, this time Buyeo City dispatched 10,000 cavalry, combined with the lessons of the last failure, all of them were equipped with bamboo armor.
Bamboo armor, leather armor, rattan armor, this is the main means of protection for ethnic minorities, nomads use leather armor, Fuyu City leather is not a lot, but most of them are used to make clothes.
Leather armor is generally several layers of skin, in order to protect bows and arrows and knives and guns, there is no leather, in fact, bamboo armor is the same, and bamboo armor for the bow and arrow protection effect is better, wearing leather clothes, wearing leather armor, not to mention how to defend, at least the Buyeo City army has a unified uniform.
The people of the Yan Dynasty were smart this time, and as soon as they saw the arrival of the army in Buyeo City, they immediately retreated, and asked Zou Yu why they were favoritic, after all, they also sold a lot of wool to Zou Yu and them.
It's not easy to take this words, after all, it was a war that he provoked, but fortunately, he had already thought of countermeasures at this point, and Zou Yu replied that the Khitans were willing to join Fuyu City, so he sent troops.
On the one hand, he delayed, and on the other hand, he told the Khitan people that they could break their wealth and avoid disasters, as long as they spent some money and sent the Tatar people away, so that everyone would not have to die and could be resolved peacefully.
There is no way to do it, after all, this time the people of the Yan tribe dispatched 50,000 cavalry, and on their own side, they are only in their early 30,000s, and it is not a problem to hold on, if they want to win, it will be too difficult, after all, Zou Yu and they can't be too desperate.
20,000 sheep were sent and 5,000 yaks were sent to quell the fighting, and the people of the Ya tribe received benefits, so they accepted it when they saw it and withdrew their troops and left.
"The enemy has withdrawn, why is the khan still not happy?" Zou Yu asked pretending to be concerned.
"I... Alas! The Mokai begged for help from the lord of the castle. Mo Hui said with a bitter old face and a sigh.
"Khan, but it doesn't hurt to say that he can help him." Zou Yu said with a smile.
"Thank you city lord, that's the case, I want to ask you for a batch of grain for the winter." Mohui said happily.
"Grain? Could it be that the Khitan has no food for the winter? Zou Yu asked in surprise.
"It's not a secret, there was a battle in the spring, not only injured many people, but also delayed the spring ploughing, and consumed a lot of cattle and sheep, and now there is another battle, in addition to asking Xi people to help, but also compensated the Yan tribe, now there are only lambs and ewes left in the clan, if you eat, our Khitan will not be far from the dead clan." Mo Hui explained with a confused look in his eyes.
"I can't imagine that the Khitan is already so difficult, to be honest, I am very willing to help my friends, but the Khan doesn't know it, this Buyeo City is not my own decision." Zou Yu said with a sincere look in his eyes.
"Ahh This... Why is that? Mokai was surprised and asked in surprise.
"This is going to talk about our origins, we were originally the army of the imperial court to conquer Goguryeo, but because of the defeat, they fled here, and occupied Buyeo City by luck, I, the city lord, are actually very low in official rank, and there are two other people with higher official positions, just because they are not convinced by anyone, so they elected me to be the city lord. So in any case, they will not help outsiders. Zou Yu explained half-truthfully.
"And this kind of thing, isn't it heaven that will kill me? Is there really no way around it? Mo asked with a sad face.
"Well... It's not impossible. Zou Yu was embarrassed and said with a frown.
"The lord of the city save me! For the sake of so many of our Khitan people, save us. Mo Hui pulled Zou Yu and said excitedly.
It can be seen that the Khitans have indeed reached the end of the mountain, Zou Yu continued: "Although outsiders can't help, if it's my own people, even if I help, others can't say anything." ”
"What do you mean?" Mo Hui let go of Zou Yu and asked hesitantly.
"That's right, what I mean is that all the Khitans will join Buyeo City, so that everyone is their own people." Zou Yu nodded.
"This..."
"Khan, think about it, there is no harm in joining us, you have also seen the life of your people in the past two years, it is much better than before, and you don't have to go around grazing, you are always worried about wild beasts and enemies." Seeing that Mo would hesitate, Zou Yu persuaded while the iron was hot.
"But are such Khitan people still Khitan?" Mo Hui said with a frown.
"Why not, we in Fuyu City advocate multi-ethnic homeland construction, and now there are Han people, Xi people, Khitan people, and Xi people in the city, and we respect the living habits of every ethnic group." Zou Yu continued to persuade.
"Why don't you have a Goguryeo?" Mohui asked, confused.
"Goguryeo is a non-existent ethnic group, it was only split from our Central Plains, and fundamentally speaking, they belong to the Han nationality." Zou Yu said solemnly.