Chapter 9: The Invitation to Expand the Army (2-in-1)
After waiting for a little half a month in Ziting, a group of people in ragged clothes like beggars and refugees poured out of Dangjin Pass.
Pei Min looked at the people who were more beggars than beggars, and felt some emotion in his heart, this is the miracle created by human desire to survive.
Dangjin Mountain is west of Altun Mountain, and east of Qilian Mountain.
The two places of Altun Mountain and Qilian Mountain were places of death in ancient times, and it was almost impossible for manpower to climb them.
Dangjin Mountain at the junction of the two mountains is the only passage, which can be conquered by manpower, but it is also a series of mountains, steep mountains, sparse vegetation, and vertical and horizontal valleys.
In the case of lack of food, clothing and water cuts, more than 80,000 people overcame many difficulties and came to the Tang Realm over the mountains and mountains.
It's not easy.
Pei Min strode up to meet him.
Zhan Peng and a young man, supporting a slightly human-like purple-clothed "beggar", walked at the forefront.
Zhanpeng seemed to tell the purple-clothed "beggar" about Pei Min's identity, pointing to this side.
The purple-clothed "beggar" excitedly pushed the two away and limped towards him as fast as he could.
"Poof" and knelt on the ground.
"Murong Yan bowed to Pei Guogong for his great kindness, and the Murong clan is willing to be grateful for Guogong's great virtue for generations."
Murong Yan knocked on the ground and couldn't cry.
The current Tubo is somewhat similar to the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period.
The Shu Kingdom is a small country with few people, while the Great Wei has most of the world. Only by playing Guanzhong can there be hope to compete for the world.
Sitting on the ground and holding on to death is nothing but sitting and waiting for destruction.
The difference is that Shu has Zhuge Liang, and sending troops can take advantage.
However, the future of Tibet is very bleak. Yu Military is not an opponent of the Tang Dynasty at all, and he can't fight, and he can't drag it out. The gap between the two countries can only be narrowed by squeezing the people's power.
The unfair treatment that Tuyuhun has received now is just the beginning, and the more it continues, the more serious the situation becomes.
Faced with this situation, Murong Yan had no choice but to leave his homeland and defect to Datang.
When making this decision, Murong Yan suffered all kinds of suffering.
He had been thinking about it three years earlier.
After thinking about it, it was three whole years, which shows that it is difficult to choose.
He has 80,000 people, how many can reach Datang alive?
Has he been being oppressed in Tibet and is surviving for a long time, or is he desperate?
In the end, Murong Yan made up his mind.
The subordinate of his family, Hun Shizhi, is the playmate of his son Murong Hui, and has accompanied Murong Hui to study literature and martial arts since he was a child.
Murong Hui's talent is mediocre and he has nothing to learn, but he is quite talented, has the talent of battle formation, and is skilled in archery and horses, which can be of great use.
Murong Yan used his relationship to recommend Hun Shizhi, but he was humiliated.
Compared with the Tang Dynasty's inclusiveness, the xenophobia of Tibet is extremely serious.
Not to mention a subordinate like Hun Shizhi, even if he is a nobleman from Tugu Hun, it is difficult to mix a good background.
Murong Yan also made up his mind because of this, it was difficult for them to have a chance to stand out in Tubo. And the Tang Dynasty on the other side, as long as he has the ability, no matter what his identity, even if he is of a different race, he can still become the commander of the three armies, so that his people can have a future to look forward to, instead of being a slave to Tubo for the rest of their lives.
For this reason, Murong Yan was mentally prepared, 80,000 people, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, could reach the Tang Realm smoothly with 40,000 and half, all of which was worth it.
As a result, under Pei Min's arrangement, Zhan Peng and Sun Zhou brought all 80,000 of them to the Tang Realm by various means.
Except for some inevitable stragglers and deaths, they were hardly harmed by the Tibetan soldiers.
Even the beacon soldiers along the way were cleared.
Such a great favor, Murong Yan didn't know how to repay it, so he could only bow and thank, and at the same time cry with joy, he made the most correct decision.
"Get up!"
Pei Min helped Murong Yan up and said with a bit of respect: "The patriarch has worked hard all the way. ”
He was not familiar with Murong Yan, but he knew that Murong Yan was still living a very comfortable life in Tubo.
In any case, he is the royal family of Tuyuhun.
The Tibetans would not be stupid enough to enslave a spiritual leader like Murong Yan.
Murong Yan took the risk purely for the sake of his own people, which is worthy of respect.
Pei Min looked at the refugees in the distance and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, when you reach the boundary of my Datang, it means safety." Give the Tibetans ten dares, and they will not dare to take a step beyond my borders. From this day on, we are one family, and we have no separation from each other. Not far ahead is our camp, and I have prepared food and clothing for you, and everyone will have a share. But it's all some gruel, greens. It's not that I, Pei Min, am stingy, and I'm reluctant to give you big fish and meat. It's really that you've been hungry for a long time, and suddenly eating big fish and meat is not good for your health. When you come to your senses and enter the territory of Guazhou, I will treat you to a good meal. ”
Most of the people in Tuyuhun couldn't understand Pei Min's words, so Murong Yan personally translated and expressed the meaning of Pei Min's words through the Tubo language.
Pei Min's intentions were quickly conveyed, and the people of Tuyuhun who were worried along the way, hearing Pei Min think so thoughtfully for them, couldn't help but feel a trace of warmth in their hearts, and they shouted one after another.
Wang Zhongsi looked at the Tuyuhun people who were grateful to Pei Min on the side, looked at his brother, and sighed in his eyes.
He felt strange, why didn't Pei Min send the grain directly?
This is more than enough to help Tuyuhun tide over the difficulties.
Now he understands that he really has to be taken care of as a father and mother along the way.
That's the icing on the cake, Tuyuhun eats ready-made, wears ready-made, at best, it's just thanks.
Now they are working hard all the way, their lives are hanging by a thread, and Pei Min will give free help.
The image instantly grew taller.
The icing on the cake has the same meaning, but the meaning is completely different.
Pei Min led the people to the camp.
I have been hungry for more than ten days, during which there is no meal, and the "beggars" are facing bowls of fragrant rice porridge, where can they survive?
flocked to each base to get dishes and chopsticks, and went to different porridge points to get porridge.
A large bowl of meat porridge, plus some side dishes, everyone was very happy to eat.
The whole camp is in full swing.
Murong Yan and Zhan Peng also ate with relish.
Pei Min came to Zhan Peng's side and said, "This time it was done, Uncle Zhan has worked hard, if it weren't for you, it would never have been so smooth." ”
Zhan Peng drank the warm porridge and said, "Fortunately, Guogong can have today, and it really has the potential to achieve great things." ”
Pei Minqi said: "How do you say this? ”
Zhan Peng wiped his mouth and said: "Those who have achieved great things, the most intuitive manifestation is the people next to him. Whether it is a gangster like Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, or a celebrity like Di Gelao, they all have a group of reliable and available talents gathered around them to help make things happen. Sun Zhou's name is not known, and he is too far away from the famous Zhang Jiuling, Wang Changling, Wang Zhilian and others under the command of Guogong, but he has unexpected talents, which makes people look at it differently. ”
The most critical point that can go so smoothly this time is that he rebelled against the Tubo deputy general Duo Rilong.
At that time, Zhanpeng was ordered to divide the relationship between Tubo Zampu and the god of war.
Their group investigated all the people related to Juniper Mangpoj and Gar Chin Ling.
At that time, Duo Rilong was the bodyguard of Juniper Mangpoje, guarding the safety of the Potala Palace.
is also within the scope of Zhanpeng's investigation, and they knew about the affair between Duo Rilong and the Nepalese princess. It's still a joke in his spare time, and he secretly laughs at Juniper Mangpoj and brings a big hat.
This time to continue the investigation for many days, Zhanpeng's old subordinate jokingly said about this matter.
Zhan Peng and his party left Tibet after Juniper Mangpojie was punished by a divisive plan to kill Gar Qinling.
Ten years later, Juniper Mangpoj died of illness, and the Nepalese princess naturally didn't know about the bag for Duo Rilong.
Sun Zhou saw this through the tiny details, so he grabbed Duo Rilong's handle and forced him to commit it.
Zhanpeng always thought that he was the first in this mission, but he didn't want Sun Zhou to come out on top and let him look at him differently.
Pei Min also smiled: "He likes to think blindly, and he likes to think about it." He doesn't have the ability to analyze intelligence, but no one else has the right to analyze intelligence. ”
Zhan Peng said: "I can see it, in our business, with the backing of such an expert in analyzing intelligence, it can help a lot." Originally, I thought that Ru'er and Xue'er would not be able to take on the big responsibility, but now it seems that even if I don't get out of the horse, I still have a chance to contribute to this. ”
"But it won't be so easy, and it's not possible to bring all 80,000 people!" Pei Min is full of praise for Zhanpeng's ability.
Sun Zhou had already given him a secret letter, and the letter showed the ability of Zhan Peng and his old subordinates, which was far from being comparable to novices like Zhan Ru and Zhan Xue.
If you can get his help, it will be like a tiger with wings.
Zhan Peng was also not modest, and said: "This is the truth...... he paused and said: "After everything is done in Chang'an, I will settle in Liangzhou in the future." Guogong really has a place where he can go up and down, and he can inform Ru'er and Xue'er. ”
"Good!" Pei Min heard the meaning of Zhan Peng's words.
The other party obviously also saw his hidden recruitment intentions, but he was unwilling to continue to engage in this work, so he politely refused.
But if there are really dangerous and difficult things, he will still go out of the mountain.
After all, Zhan Ru and Zhan Xue are his sons and daughters, and they have to look at the Buddha face if they don't look at the monk's face.
Pei Min doesn't force it, anyway, there is really a big problem, not for himself, for his children, he will definitely help him.
After resting in the camp for an hour and a half, Pei Min led the remnants of 80,000 Tuyuhun into Ziting to guard and arrest.
After resting for the night in Ziting, Pei Min continued to lead them to Guazhou and temporarily settled them in Guazhou.
As for the specific placement, we still have to wait for news from Chang'an.
For the resettlement of these 80,000 people, Pei Min has no decision.
These are the things that Li Longji and Prime Minister Zhang said about them.
After the rebellion of Kang Zhibin in the early years, the imperial court changed its foreign strategy, no longer gathering the Hu people together to control, but scattering them to the Central Plains, so that they could truly integrate into the Tang Dynasty and become a part of the Tang Dynasty.
The original Liuhu Prefecture now has no Hu people. All of them were scattered and sent to all parts of Datang.
Pei Min strongly agrees with this way of placing Hu people.
Confucianism in China is a very brainwashing and profound doctrine, no matter what nationality you are, if you really come into contact with Confucianism and learn Confucianism, it will not be long before you forget your original life and accept a new life.
If you want to open up, there are only two ways, either you will not merge, or you will learn from Temuzhen to commit massacres and genocides.
With Pei Min's heart at the moment, let him kill tens of thousands of people, he can be ruthless, but if he wants to be like Temujin, kill tens of millions of people, and indirectly kill hundreds of millions.
Take pleasure in slaughter and pursue pleasure from extermination.
He really can't do it......
Therefore, compared with slaughter, assimilation and integration are the correct plan for the general trend in Pei Min's eyes.
However, for these 80,000 Tuyuhun people, Pei Min's thoughts are a little different from the current policy.
Pei Min had the intention to select thousands of elites from these 80,000 Tuyuhun to form an army adapted to the plateau climate for future battles with Tubo.
Moreover, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is mountainous and jungled, and Qinghai Lake is hilly and ravine.
They are of great use, so naturally they cannot be scattered and placed elsewhere.
Therefore, Pei Min proposed to place the 80,000 people in Tuyuhun in Taozhou.
Taozhou was attacked many times in the early years, and the population in the territory was insufficient, and Taozhou was one of the few places in the Tang Dynasty that was not mainly based on farming, which was suitable for nomads like Tuyuhun to live.
The meaning of Pei Min's performance soon spread to Chang'an, and was sent to Zhang Shuo, the Chinese book.
Many Wenchen naturally had a burst of criticism, and Zhang Shuo did not express his position, but took this letter to meet Li Longji in person.
Li Longji's mood has been a little irritable recently, because his beloved Wu Jieyu is sick, which is a little serious.
Li Longji was furious and went directly to the cold palace to visit.
Zhang said that he was not Song Jing after all, he was not as upright as him, he opened one eye and closed one eye, and did not touch Li Longji's brow.
Li Longji was obviously satisfied with this, and felt that it was a wise move to remove Song Jing, an old stubborn, from office.
Tuyuhun's annexation is a good thing to promote the country's prestige, and after Li Longji received Pei Min's secret letter, he immediately replied to the secret letter, asking him to do his best to assist Murong Yan to return to Tang.
Seeing that at the beginning of the chapter, Murong Yan led 80,000 clansmen to return to Tang, Li Longji's depressed mood became cheerful and said with a smile: "Jingyuan has never disappointed me. ”
Looking at Pei Min's request on the chapter, which was inconsistent with their current policy, he groaned slightly: "What is Zhang Xiang's opinion?" ”
Zhang said: "The prince of the country is far-sighted, and the minister also knows the soldiers, and is well aware of the difference between water and soil in Tibet, which is beneficial to the overall situation in the long run." For the sake of the overall situation, only can't. ”
Li Longji bowed his head and said: "I also think the same way, Jingyuan once said that Qinghai Lake is rich. I've been salivating for a long time, and that's it. ”
Zhang Shuo continued: "Then next, it is also possible to cut the Liangzhou army by 5,000 to recruit 5,000 Tuyuhun soldiers?" ”
Li Longji thought for a while and said: "There is no need to be so troublesome, if I dare to hand over 145,000 soldiers and horses from Longyou and Hexi to him, it will not be more than 5,000." I ordered the upper limit of 70,000 soldiers in Hexi Jiedu to be expanded to 75,000, and made up for it with Tuyuhun soldiers, so that he would not live up to my high hopes and let Qinghai Lake belong to my Datang one day earlier. ”