A few days later, Hou Junji sent by Luo Zhaoyun had already occupied Caohan County, and some local wealthy families and landlords had long heard that the young marshal had come to the northwest to govern the army, pacify the troubles, suppress the anti-king, and secretly responded, ventilated and reported the news, and helped the northwest Sui army quickly crush several local rebel armies. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And those county towns that were not attacked by the rebels, the county commanders and county lieutenants opened the city to welcome the imperial army horses.

As a result, Caohan County was taken, opened up territory for the Sui army in the northwest, recovered several cities, and increased the population, land, and property.

Xihai County, Douhe County, Heyuan County, Xiping County, Jincheng County, and Caohan County, the entire six counties are connected together, all of which are under the jurisdiction of Luo Zhaoyun, plus Zhangye County, which Li Jinggang conquered, and the seven counties in the northwest are all in the bag.

Luo Zhaoyun dispatched manpower, reappointed some local officials, counted household registration, census the population, opened warehouses and released grain, and did not allow people to starve to death.

These are the frontier lands of the Great Sui, the folk customs are simple, and even some lack of education, maintain a lot of backward and ignorant customs and habits, the economy is also relatively primitive, there are more cases of bartering, and there is a lack of trust in coins.

Luo Zhaoyun personally took his own soldiers to visit these counties, inspected the people's conditions, and then formulated some simple and practical systems, such as how to restore production, how to abolish some old harsh laws, not allowing the sale of slaves, and not allowing random punishment and killing in the name of the clan.

Because this area, mostly the Dangxiang people live, the Dangxiang is a branch of the West Qiang people, the birthplace is in Qinghai, the Han Dynasty, the Qiang people moved to Helong and Guanzhong in large numbers, because the Dangxiang people live a primitive nomadic tribe life, the vulgar is still armed forces, can not be ordered, each for the livelihood, there is a battle formation will gather together, no endowment, do not interact with each other.

In the northwest region, in addition to the seven wealthy clans, there are eight party items, and the tribes with the surnames are the Xifeng clan, the Fei Ting clan, the Xiangli clan, the Pochao clan, the Yeli clan, the Fangdang clan, the Mi Bao clan, the Tuoba clan and other eight big tribes, which are quite powerful, and live in Xiping, Douhe, Caohan, Lintao and other counties.

If Luo Zhaoyun wants to truly turn the northwest into his base, he needs to have a good relationship with the Seven Hao Clans and the Eight Tribes, and get their support.

At the same time of deterrence, how to promise benefits and benefits, so that they can get benefits, they will naturally lean towards him and sincerely join him.

At the same time, Luo Zhaoyun sent a letter to Zhuo County, transferring some orphans who had been adopted before to be trained in seven or eight years to learn in governing the people, business, handicrafts, blacksmiths, and other aspects to govern the northwest.

After Hou Junji saw Luo Zhaoyun, he said: "The Tubo and Qiang tribes, ready to move, infesting the border of Heyuan County and Lintao County, may disturb our territory, after all, it is autumn, this is the time when the border nomadic tribes gather as soldiers, come to fight the grass valley, plunder food, materials and population. ”

Luo Zhaoyun said coldly: "When I am under my jurisdiction, I will never allow such a thing to happen, anxious about the local warriors, form an army and government soldiers, and resist the invasion of the herdsmen of Tubo from coming north, in addition, send Mai Jicai to bring 5,000 soldiers and horses to the border to inspect and block the troops of Tubo." ”

Hou Junji nodded, knowing that this was related to the tranquility of the jurisdiction and the prestige of the young marshal, and the frontier could not be destroyed and invaded.

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Wuwei County.

Li Liang took the remnants of his soldiers and horses to gain a foothold in Wuwei County, occupying four larger cities of Guzang, Huining, Changsong, and Fanhe, but the scale was still a little short of Jincheng and Huangshui City.

Although tens of thousands of troops have a lot of troops, it is not easy to gain a foothold in Wuwei County and control the people in the clan.

Although Li Liang, Guan Jin, Liang Shuo, and Li Yun's ancestral hometowns are all Wuwei people, but they raised the flag in Xiping County, and the soldiers recruited under their command were mostly strong men from Xiping, after all, those soldiers were far away from their hometowns, and after a long time, they were a little homesick, and they didn't know how their families lived under the jurisdiction of the Sui army.

The people of Wuwei County are mostly Dangxiang, Xianbei, Tiele, and Han nationality, which are mixed and difficult to manage, and the Xiliang regime has no experience in governing the people, and blindly uses military force to suppress them, resulting in very few local grievances, and some people have fled to Xiping and Jincheng Counties.

After a long time, not only the people fled, but even deserters appeared in the army, and they were about to defect to the Sui army.

Li Liang was greatly annoyed, but he was helpless, at present, he did not have the strength to argue with Luo Jiajun, there were only two ways left, one was to unite Xue Ju, Liang Shidu, and Li Yuan to form a strategic alliance, and then fight Luo Zhaoyun to the end; The other way is to surrender to the Sui army, but life and death are unpredictable.

The king of Xiliang summoned the military generals of Wenchen to discuss countermeasures and how to choose the road behind, because Li Jing took Zhangye, Wuwei was surrounded by Zhangye, Jincheng, Hexi County, etc., and the north of Wuwei County was the Tengger Desert area, which could not migrate and survive, which was equivalent to a dead end.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how should you choose, whether to fight or surrender?"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if the battle continues, it will be difficult to resist, and if he returns one day earlier, he may be able to get a certain amount of treatment, and recruiting An as a Sui minister is also a plan to protect his life." Some ministers are unwilling to be enemies of the young marshal anymore and want to surrender, so that if they enter the Sui court, they may be able to continue to be officials.

Liang Shuo hurriedly stopped: "No, since we have rebelled against the imperial court, it is difficult to return to the reason, once the military power is handed over, when the time comes, people will be swordsmen, and I will be fish and meat, not to be slaughtered by others." ”

The crown prince Li Boyu also said: "Father, the court is about to perish, even if Luo Cheng is strong, he can't reverse the overall situation, we shouldn't take refuge in the court, otherwise, maybe other courtiers are fine, our Li family father and son can't escape the death penalty, we should unite Xue Ju, Liang Shidu, Turkic, Li Yuan and other forces to resist Luo Cheng!" ”

"The minister also agrees with the prince's words, it is not the time to run out of mountains and rivers, unite against Luo Cheng's soldiers and horses, fight vertically and horizontally, and seek living space!" An Xiuren paused, and then arched his hand: "The minister's eldest brother An Xinggui is the military affairs Sima under Li Yuan's account, and the minister asked Ying to go to see the Tang King, make an alliance, take care of each other, and put pressure on Luo Cheng, so that he does not dare to act rashly and become the target of the northwest public." ”