Guo Song came to Yunzhou to inspect, mainly to understand the situation of the Sijie Department, as well as the situation of the Sijie herdsmen entering Yunzhou, once the Sijie Department collapsed, he must beware of the re-emergence of the Hui people.

The accompanying team consisted of nearly 4,000 people, including 3,000 cavalry and 500 scout troops led by scout general Zhang Yun.

When Li Dian, the assassin of Yunzhou, heard that the princess and the prince had brought, he hurriedly arranged for his wife to accompany the princess.

The envoy of Yunzhou town is Li Ji, the deputy general who followed Guo Song to Anxi as an envoy, and Guo Song has transferred him from Fengzhou to serve as the envoy of Yunzhou town, commanding 8,000 troops.

Li Ji is good at Tuntian, he led the army to Tuntian in Fengzhou, and now he continues to play his advantages in Yunzhou.

Guo Song settled his wife and children, and he couldn't take care of resting himself, so he immediately met with Li Dian, the assassin, and Li Ji, the town guard, and listened to their reports.

"Your Highness, after writing a letter last time, hundreds of Sijie herdsmen have fled one after another, and so far, there are a total of 1,800 Sijie herdsmen, about 9,000 people."

"They are all herdsmen of the Muwence tribe?" Guo Song asked again.

Li Dian nodded, "It's all!" ”

Li Ji added: "The humble post inquired about the situation of the Sijie civil strife, there is not a lot of useful news, Sijie Khan seems to favor a concubine, the concubine gave birth to a son to him, he loved it very much, so he decided to let this little son inherit his throne, for this he deprived his two brothers of the right to inherit, just a banquet not long ago, he suddenly fainted, the personnel did not wake up, his two brothers and three sons claimed to inherit the throne by themselves, so they fought, Mu Wence was the first force to be defeated, His whereabouts are unknown, his tribe has been plundered, and some of the herders in the south have fled to Yunzhou. ”

"How old is this little son he wants to make Khan?"

"About six years old."

Guo Song shook his head, the biggest problem after getting a son when he was old was that he was hot-headed and wanted to make his young son the emperor, and how many dynasties were ruined on it.

"How many people are in Muwenze's tribe?"

Li Ji and Li Dian looked at each other, shook their heads together, and said, "I didn't ask about this." ”

"Let's see!"

Everyone surrounded Guo Song and walked out of the city.

........

Yunzhong County to the southeast to the foot of Wuzhou Mountain is a large plain, close to the county seat has been reclaimed tuntian, planted a thousand hectares of wheat, wheat fields as far as the eye can see, surrounding Yunzhong County.

To the west, there are large grasslands, distributed along the Purple River, and the domes are located on both sides of the Purple River.

Guo Song was not in a hurry to go to the herdsmen's area, but first inspected Tuntian, he bent down and grabbed a handful of soil, looked at it carefully, smelled it again, and said to Li Ji: "The soil quality here does not seem to be as good as Fengzhou!" ”

Li Ji said with a smile: "It is indeed a little more than Fengzhou, the land of Fengzhou is black soil, very fertile, you can directly plant wheat after reclamation, here at least half a year to a year, last year we planted 300 hectares of wheat, the yield per mu is only 200 catties, less than Fengzhou 30%. ”

"Is it because of Xiao Nian?"

Li Ji shook his head, "It's not because of the small year, but according to last year's yield per mu, in the final analysis, the soil fertility is not as good as Fengzhou." ”

"You can only plant one season here, right?" Guo Song asked with a smile again.

"We can only grow one season of wheat, and this more than 1,000 hectares of land can harvest about 170,000 stone wheat, which is enough for us to eat ourselves, and we can also exchange cattle and sheep with herdsmen."

Guo Song turned back to Li Dian and asked, "How many wheat fields are there for the people in the city?" “

"Three or four hundred acres!"

Li Xun felt that the number was a little less, and hurriedly added: "The population of Yunzhong County is too small, only 30% of the land is cultivated, 30% is grazing, and the rest are pottery and business, and there are more than 100 hectares of official land, and the grain is basically self-sufficient." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Let's go see the ranch!" ”

Everyone got on their horses one after another, turned around and ran in the direction of the purple river.

On both sides of the Purple River is a fertile grassland, with a radius of thousands of miles, which is an important grassland in the east of the river, but the grassland resources of the Jin army are relatively large, and the grassland of Yunzhou is not used for the time being.

After entering the grassland, everyone slowed down, and as they walked, Li Dian reported to Guo Song: "We are considering placing more than 1,000 herdsmen on both sides of the Purple River, in fact, most of their cattle and sheep are eventually sold to the government except for a small amount for their own consumption, from this point of view, I think a small number of nomads should still be welcomed south." ”

Guo Song groaned and said: "I agree with this point, just like the Liangzhou and Ganzhou official mansions, as well as the Longyou official mansion, there are also many Qiang herdsmen under their rule, we support these herdsmen, but Shatuo and the party people, we must resolutely eliminate them, where does Li Tingshi think the reason?" ”

Li Dian thought for a while and said: "They have territorial claims and want to build an independent state, but their ambitions are too big and they are too aggressive. ”

"That's pretty much it, but the real reason is that Shatuo and the party have formed a core ruling class, once there is a ruler, there will be a demand for statehood, historically, the Han Dynasty placed the Xiongnu in the vast areas of the border, and still let them maintain the internal ruling aristocracy, which left a bane for the later Wuhu Chaohua.

There are also the Northern Wei Dynasty placed the surrendered soldiers of the rebellion of the six military towns of the grassland in Longyou and Hebei, but did not remove their leaders, after they rebelled in the Central Plains, the formation of the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou, the Sui and Tang dynasties were also established by their descendants, and the descendants of the six towns are today's Guanlong nobles, who still control the Tang Dynasty.

There are also Khitan, Xi, Goguryeo, and Bohai Kingdoms, after Emperor Taizong went east and destroyed Goguryeo, a large number of Liaodong nomads were settled in Youzhou and Hebei, and finally triggered the Anshi Rebellion and today's Hebei Domain. ”

Today, Guo Song felt a lot of emotion in his heart, and he said a lot, he slowly said to Li Dian: "I mean to say, for the nomads to go south, you can't compromise, let alone special preferential treatment, first of all, you don't allow the ruling class to appear within them, not even the slightest sign is allowed, let them become the people of the Tang Dynasty, pay taxes the same, and secondly, you have to break them into pieces and gradually assimilate them." ”

Li Dian smiled bitterly: "Hearing His Highness say this, I feel a lot of pressure on my humble position. ”

Guo Song smiled, "What I said will take hundreds of years to complete, and it is impossible to achieve it overnight, but there is a key thing to remember, it must be ordinary herdsmen, not nobles." ”

"I understand the humble position, just like the potters in the county, after driving away the three leading potters, now the two hundred potters in the county are all under the management of the government, and no one makes trouble anymore."

"That's what it means, I will conclude by saying that you must always be vigilant, once you find that there are Sijie nobles mixed in, you must immediately eradicate them, no matter how groveling their attitude is, you must kill them, this is the principle, for this reason, you need to cultivate eyeliner among the Sijie herdsmen, in order to keep abreast of the movements of these herdsmen."

"Humble, remember!"

Guo Song turned back and asked Li Ji, "Did the town guard remember?" ”

Li Ji bowed and said: "Your Highness's teachings, keep your humble duties in mind, and not a word is missed. ”

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Everyone came to the seven or eight dome tents gathered, where a large family lived, and an old man fled to Yunzhou with three sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren.

The old man has no name, everyone calls him Tushuer, which means the best herdsman, and for decades, he has come to Yunzhou every year to sell sheep and can speak fluent Chinese.

"It's Li Tingshi, and the town guard, welcome!" The old man came up with a large family.

Li Dian introduced Guo Song to him, "This is His Royal Highness the King of Jin, our lord, who came from Taiyuan." ”

The old man of Tushuer hurriedly led the family to kneel, "Xiaomin knocks on His Royal Highness the King of Jin!" ”

Guo Song smiled: "Everyone, please get up, get up!" ”

Everyone got up one after another, and Tushuer's eldest son took a closer look at Guo Song and whispered to his father: "It's him!" ”

Guo Song heard it clearly, and asked with a smile: "Do you know me?" ”

The sturdy Sijie herdsman mustered up his courage and said, "You are the white wolf warrior of the year, I still remember!" ”

Guo Song laughed, "That's right, I was the one who hunted the White Wolf King back then, and I also participated in the war between you and Abs. ”

The myth of the white wolf warrior is still circulating among the tribes of Sijie, and when I heard that Guo Song was the legendary warrior, everyone's eyes on Guo Song changed from fear to worship.

Everyone sat down in one of the largest domes, and the old man Tushuer personally cooked a bowl of milk tea for Guo Song, which is the highest etiquette for Sijie herdsmen to entertain guests, and the elders made tea for the guests.

Guo Song took the bowl, put it on his forehead and lightly pushed it, and then drank it all, and everyone applauded together.

Guo Song was familiar with the etiquette of the Sijie Department, and he was a hero that everyone worshipped, and everyone's relationship became harmonious all of a sudden.

The old man said to Guo Song: "Our tribe was actually forcibly occupied by Mu Wence, the original old chief's family was killed, our tribe has a total of more than 500 households, can only be regarded as a small tribe, twenty years ago, there were more than 30 tribes in the Sijie Department, and now they are gradually annexed into six large tribes, all of which are occupied by the Khan's brothers and several sons. ”

Guo Song asked again: "How many people are there in the Muwence tribe, and after being defeated, do they know where they went to Lao Zhang?" ”

"Of course I know, Mu Wence has a total of more than 9,000 herdsmen, after Mu Wence was defeated by several other Ye Hu, more than half of the herdsmen were divided by a few Ye Hu, Mu Wence took some of them, and some of them were us, and fled south to Yunzhou."

"Where did Mu Wence go with the herdsmen?" Guo Song continued to ask, this is the key.

Tu Shuer sighed, "Of course he defected to Hui Hui, he has always had a close relationship with Hui Hui, this time he competed for the head of the Khan Golden Wolf, and Hui Hui supported him to ascend to the throne, so several other brothers and uncles joined forces to deal with him first." ”

Guo Song's heart sank, what he was most worried about really happened, this time he thought about the civil strife, and Hui Hui would never be absent.