"Dear Li Observation, the villain is benevolent and noble, and I would like to express my most sincere respect to you as Elder Xi of the Niutou Tribe." An old man with a white beard who looked like a tribal elder knelt down on one knee to salute Li Zhongyi and spoke fluent Chinese.

Li Zhongyi thought to himself, after the Fan and Han people lived together, some of the Fan tribes were really very strict in sinicization. If you don't look at this benevolent and expensive appearance, and hear his voice on the road, I'm afraid that you will think that it is an authentic Hanmin.

"Elder Renduo is so polite, please get up." Li Zhongyi held his hands weakly and politely let Ren Duogui get up.

Changshi Yang Zhenggao smiled and introduced: "Elder Renduogui, who was originally the patriarch of the Niutou tribe in the east of the Dangxiang clan, had to lead his old subordinates to take refuge under my Lingzhou command because of the rebellion within the clan. ”

Li Zhongyi's eyes flashed slightly, there were many mysteries in Yang Zhenggao's words. Although Yang Zhenggao explained the origin of Ren Duogui, what is the relationship between the eastern tribe of Niutou and the Niutou tribe, he said it very vaguely.

Seven or eight tribal leaders came to the scene, either elders or patriarchs, and their attitudes were quite respectful. However, none of the five largest tribes in the region came.

However, there is no need to be in a hurry, after Li Zhongyi officially takes over, there will be time to take care of the affairs of these Tibetan ministries.

After first going to the observation and disposal embassy and formally taking over the supreme administrative power of the two prefectures of Yanling, Li Zhongyi sat in the state government and accepted the great gifts of the officials under him.

After the hall was completed, Li Zhongyi took Zhou Hecheng, Changshi Yang Zhenggao, Sima Hua Yuandong, and Xie Jinlong, the deputy head of the soldiers and horses. Stay together for tea.

Don't drive Zhou Hecheng, he has always been the first official in front of the vanity, and he has no real power at hand. So he said very little, he would answer whatever Li Zhongyi asked, and he didn't say much in half a sentence.

Changshi Yang Zhenggao, but he is the most powerful Zuo 2 official in Lingzhou Prefecture, he introduced the most information, but he only said half of the words, Li Zhongyi not only understood. On the contrary, it is even more confusing.

Sima Sun Zifeng was an official of the Later Han Dynasty who was demoted from Kaifeng, and why was he demoted. And why after the change of dynasty, he was not transferred back to Kaifeng, no one knows.

Xie Jinlong, the deputy head of the soldiers and horses, is a typical general, Li Zhongyi said. But he could say three things. The information introduced is the most abundant, and the connotation is also the richest.

"Li observed, there are many barbarians in this state, and they often gather crowds to make trouble." Xie Jinlong ignored the eyes of Yang Zhenggao, the elder of the long history, and spat at the bottom of the affairs in Benzhou, "The last general will not dare to deceive the envoy, because I have a few major generals in Lingzhou." There are far more Fan people than Han Chinese, so. These dead barbarians have always been arrogant and arrogant. Some people, in order to blackmail money, even pretended to be dead on the street and made endless trouble. ”

Li Zhongyi was holding a teacup in his hand, but he was thinking in his heart that there were more Fan people than Han people in Lingzhou, and once the proportion was out of balance, there would definitely be constant disputes.

There are many people who hate to divide money, but there are few people who are afraid of fighting! The Central Plains Dynasty during the Five Dynasties period had a long history of civil strife, and its control over the border areas was naturally not as strict as that in the early Tang Dynasty.

Most of these people don't read, they don't know reason, they only know how to speak with their fists. No matter where there are few Han people, if you meet a timid and fearful state and county official, the arrogance of this Fan will only become more arrogant.

Li Zhongyi's purpose in coming to Lingzhou was to take advantage of the opportunity for the imperial army to advance northward and attack Xiazhou.

In a sneak attack, you must quietly enter the village, and you don't want to shoot. However, Lingzhou is full of half-hearted Tibetans.

I'm afraid that Li Zhongyi has just sent troops here, and the party members entrenched in Xiazhou will know the news and strengthen their vigilance.

In addition, Li Zhongyi knew very well in his heart that between Lingzhou and Xiazhou, another big obstacle to the army was hundreds of miles of Hanhai (desert).

According to the advance prediction, as long as Chai Rongbing is in the northwest, the Liu family in the Northern Han Dynasty, and the Tuoba family in Xiazhou will definitely be alarmed at the same time.

Moreover, based on the truth that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, there is at least an eighty percent chance that the Northern Han Dynasty will send troops to rescue the Tuoba family.

Then, the Khitan Xijing Road is also likely to send elite cavalry to join the battle group.

Therefore, the four prefectures of Xia, Yin, Sui, and You, which were small in the Dingyan Army, were implicated in the overall situation in the northwest of the entire Great Zhou, as well as the four sides and three countries.

"How many people are there in the Niutou tribe? How many knives and guns? How many war horses? Li Zhongyi had the intention to test Xie Jinlong's military literacy, and deliberately asked very carefully.

Xie Jinlong hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Don't hide it from the envoy, this affairs of the Ministry of Tibet are complex and changeable, today's elders may be prisoners tomorrow, so some of the news that the last general knows is often outdated." ”

Li Zhongyi understood, this Xie Jinlong was only raising a question because he was shouldering the heavy responsibility of suppressing the Tibetan Ministry, but there was no good way to solve the problem.

According to Li Zhongyi's speculation, Xie Jinlong is probably not very clear, how many local people are there?

Before coming to Lingzhou, Li Zhongyi specially borrowed Liu Dexian, Hou of Qinghe County, from Chai Rong.

In the sparsely populated northwest region, especially in the objective situation that Lingzhou and Yanzhou are far away, carrier pigeons should be able to play a good liaison effect.

According to previous war reports, whenever the grass is green or yellow, or when a catastrophe occurs, it is the time when the party members go south to plunder.

Li Zhongyi took precautions and had to have a few more eyes, lest the people in the jurisdiction be robbed of by the party members.

"How many soldiers are there in this state?" Li Zhongyi didn't want to just take office, so he let Xie Jinlong not get off the stage, so he took the initiative to change the topic, anyway, he didn't expect this surname Xie.

"If you return to the envoy, there are a total of 3,000 forbidden troops and more than 1,000 Xiang troops in this state." Xie Jinlong was more familiar with his subordinates, and he opened his mouth to answer, but all the numbers he said were approximate numbers, and none of them were accurate.

Li Zhongyi is also a person who leads troops, and he naturally understands in his heart that according to the logic of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, in these years, there are almost no generals who do not eat empty salaries and do not drink the blood of soldiers.

The 3,000 forbidden troops mentioned by Xie Jinlong can only be stored on paper, and the actual number of soldiers is likely to be less than seventy percent, or even less than fifty percent.

As for the Benzhou Xiang Army, which has been civilianized, there are even more cats in it, and of the 1,000 people on the surface, I am afraid that one of them is two or three percent, which is enough to satisfy Li Zhongyi.

On the way to Lingzhou, Li Zhongyi and his old subordinates had already repeatedly considered that they must start anew and spend a few months to rebuild a new army.

The military name of the old Shuofang Army has long existed in name only, and it is indeed a feasible plan to secretly expand the old Hechi Township Army with the Laohechi Township Army as the backbone force.

Therefore, how many of Xie Jinlong's subordinates there are and what their combat effectiveness is, Li Zhongyi actually doesn't care much.

As long as Xie Jinlong does not defect to the party, his soldiers can hold Lingzhou City, and Li Zhongyi does not have too many requirements.

After chatting for more than an hour, don't drive Zhou Hecheng to excuse Li Zhongyi's hard work, and take the initiative to say goodbye.

Although Zhou Hecheng has no real power, after all, his identity is here, he opened his mouth to leave, and it was inconvenient for Sun Zifeng, Yang Zhenggao and Xie Jinlong to continue to stay, and everyone followed and said goodbye.

Li Zhongyi stood up, turned around and entered the backyard, and as soon as he bypassed the screen, he saw Zuo Ziguang greeting him with a smile.

"Jiang Ming, did you hear everything? How can you teach me? Li Zhongyi knew that Zuo Ziguang, a bold guy, listened to the corner behind him.

Because Li Zhongyi's cronies were guarded by the tooth soldiers all around, Zuo Ziguang had no scruples about speaking, and he sighed: "There is a lot of hope, but it is not a small difficulty." I just heard that in this Lingzhou City, we Han people have to bend down and salute when we see the patriarch or elder of the Tibetan tribe in private. ”

"This ...... Outrageous! Li Zhongyi felt a little unbelievable, if this is really the case, then, is Lingzhou still the Lingzhou of the Great Zhou Dynasty?

Li Zhongyi thought that after the Western Xia took Lingzhou, he built Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Western Xia, in the nearby Huaiyuan County, and then he suddenly realized that the Tuoba family had a good mass foundation in this place!

If it is not of my race, its heart will be different!

For foreign races, there is no other good way than to assimilate them, this is the truth that has been tested in practice for thousands of years of history in the Celestial Empire.

"Jiangming, don't worry, eat the meal one bite at a time." When Li Zhongyi saw Guo Huai coming, he advised, "Our Han army, we must support the sons of the Han family, you immediately send 500 people to patrol along the streets." Whoever dares to resist arrest by force will be killed. ”

"Whoa." Guo Huai repeated loudly, "Those who dare to resist arrest by force will be killed." ”

"Teacher, let's just do this, aren't we afraid of startling the grass?" After Guo Huai left, Zuo Ziguang looked at Li Zhongyi with some concern.

Li Zhongyi curled the corners of his mouth, smiled slightly, and said, "If there are many Han people in this state, I don't need to do this. But the problem is that there are few Han people, and they are oppressed by the Fan people in private, so if they don't support the sons of the Han Dynasty, it will only make everyone more chilling and ununited. ”

Zuo Ziguang thought about it carefully, couldn't help clapping his hands, and said with a smile: "Qin's strategy to destroy the Six Kingdoms, divide and rule." ”

Li Zhongyi thought to himself, this Zuo Jiangming is really shrewd, and he has obviously seen through his intentions.

Yes, although the Han Chinese are small, if they are united, they are much larger than any of the Tibetan tribes in the state.

At the same time, he was the enemy of the Fan people in the state, and Li Zhongyi disdained this kind of brain-dead behavior.

Mao Taizu used the united front to play the supernatural Cheng dù, which is indeed very admirable.

Unite the power of unity, pull a faction, fight a faction, mix sand, dig corners, beat sticks, throw stones, these famous sayings from the mouth of Mao Taizu, after Li Zhongyi's grandfather's repeated chanting, he has reached the familiar Cheng dù.

"Hehe, when I first arrived, I threw a stone down, Jiang Ming, what will happen to the harvest?" Li Zhongyi looked at Zuo Ziguang with a smile.

Zuo Ziguang flicked the sleeves of his robe lightly and said, "I'm afraid that one stone will stir up a thousand waves!" ”

Li Zhongyi laughed and said, "A certain family has always had a wish to rebuild the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate of the Celestial Empire!" (To be continued!)

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