Chapter 944: West Sea Kingdom
Although Li Sanbao is only in his early twenties, because he has been a buddy in the shop for 12 years, he knows a few words and is more flexible, so he was lucky to be assigned an errand in the end.
From the land south of the Yangtze River, fleeing to the Central Plains, and then settling in Luoyang, Li Sanbao felt that his life had changed rapidly.
Not long ago, Luo Siye, the king of Jin, was feudal by the emperor on the shore of Qinghai Lake, renamed the king of the West Sea, and asked him to go to the vassal to establish the country. Luo Siye began to recruit closed households in Luoyang City.
The policy given by the imperial court was that those who were willing to go to the Xihai fiefdom with the heirs, and those who were willing to go were granted land and paid a settlement fee, and their houses and fields in the Central Plains could also be sold to the government for recycling, and when they got there, the heirs would pay to help them build houses and live in peace. And if it is an official slave, those who are willing to go, they will be exempted and repaid, and the land will also be given.
Although Li Sanbao had an errand in Luoyang, he was also very moved after reading this recruitment order. He wanted to have a field of his own and a house of his own. Even if he goes to the far West Sea, he thinks it's not bad. Staying in Luoyang, there are few people here, it is difficult for him to get his own land, and he doesn't want to be a shop guy forever.
After being recruited, because of his articulate and diligent work, he was quickly appreciated by the heir, and he was specially promoted to a state official in the Xihai Kingdom, responsible for assisting in recruitment.
He was the emperor's elder brother, and he received countless rewards, and he was not short of money.
For everyone who was willing to go with him, he gave a lot of money for settling-in, and even bought tents, shoes, clothes, and food for them on the road.
The emperor gave Heiye 800 li of land in the Xihai Sea to establish a state, and allowed him to recruit 3,000 feudal households, and gave him 800 personal guard cavalry, and at the same time, there were 20 monks, 20 Taoist priests, and 20 Confucian scholars, who would follow him and establish Buddhist temples, Taoist temples and Confucian colleges in the Xihai Kingdom.
Because he applied for the job early, and was appreciated by his heirs, he became a state official in the kingdom, and he knew more information than anyone else.
For example, the 800-mile fiefdom of the Xihai Kingdom is actually in the Tuyuhun country, and now the Tuyuhun country is in civil strife. A few years ago, the envoy Tang Jian sent an envoy to Tuyuhun to help Murong Shun, the prince of Tuyuhun, mutiny, seize the Tuyuhun royal city of Fuqi City, and imprisoned the old Khan, becoming the new Khan of Tuyuhun.
And his brother Murong Ke and his uncle, as well as the king of Xiangguo Tianzhu, all raised troops in the local rebellion because of this.
At this time, Murong Shun urgently needed the full support of the imperial court, and the emperor agreed to send troops to help Murong Shun quell the rebellion, but Tang Jian also made many conditions to Murong Shun.
Among them, Qinghai Hubei and the southern part of Qilian Mountain were handed over to the imperial court, and the feudal princes of the imperial court established the country.
Murong Shun was counterattacked by his brothers and uncles at this time, and he was very embarrassed, especially when the king of Tianzhu also invited the cavalry of the Tubo people, he had to agree to Daqin's request and agreed to hand over half of the northern part of Xihai County among the four counties of Qinghai to the imperial court to divide the princes.
It was also in this context that the emperor asked Heiye to immediately go to the establishment of the country.
The emperor appointed Siye as the commander of the Qinghai Road march, transferred 24,000 troops from Longyou Heshuo, handed them over to Heiye, and went to Qinghai to assist Murong Shun in defeating several other rebels.
Siye had already left Luoyang one step earlier and went to Longyou to gather troops and horses.
Li Sanbao realized that the Xihai Kingdom they were about to go to might not be too smooth for the founding of the country, and if the battle of heirs was not won, then the people of the West Sea who they set off after all these years might have no land to resettle.
But he believed that the Modao general Wang, who was good at fighting, would have the ability to defeat Tuyuhun and open up a stable new home for them in the West Sea.
After the New Year, the first batch of feudal households of the West Sea Kingdom began to set off.
Almost all of the feudal households are from the Central Plains recruited people, but most of them are not from the Central Plains, many of them are like him, they are people who fled north and south of the Yangtze River, they are in the Central Plains, unlike those Central Plains people, can directly enjoy the benefits of land distribution, they missed the best opportunity to divide land and grant land, so they can only get a small amount of land.
Now that they have the opportunity to get more land, these refugees from the south to the north are moved, so they sign up, and after receiving a settling-in allowance, they are more determined to believe that the future will be better.
The first group of people set out, there were more than 1,000 people, including 1,000 immigrants and 200 cavalry of the kingdom's personal guards.
They will be the first to reach the west of Xiping County, north of Qinghai Lake, and at the foot of the Qilian Mountains. They were to build a new city there, which the emperor had given the name Xining.
West of Xiping, Xining.
After the new Xining City is built, it will be the royal city of the Xihai Kingdom, and similarly, the imperial court will also set up the Xining Acropolis there and send government soldiers.
Because it is adjacent to the Hexi Corridor in the north, it is also known as the north gate of Qinghai by the imperial court, so the royal city of Heiye is the first choice here.
Here is the north of the river west Zhangye, the east to Xiping, the south of Qinghai, the control of the chokehold.
Starting from Luoyang, these 1,000 immigrants, plus 200 pro-army cavalry, followed by hundreds of caravans, they transported supplies for the heirs to Xining City, and then transferred to Fuqi City after delivery, preparing to buy a batch of Qinghai horses, green salt and other goods from Tuyuhun before returning to the Central Plains.
Therefore, it is not lonely along the way.
When starting from Luoyang, they took a boat, sat in Shaanxi County because of the dangerous beach, so they went ashore, after crossing the beach, and then changed to Chang'an's Wei boat, along the canal Yongtong Canal into Chang'an, where a short rest and replenishment, then changed the horse team, along the Wei River all the way to the west, out of Longshan, into Longxi, after crossing Tianshui and Longxi two counties, then continued to the west along the Hehuang River valley.
The farther west, the more difficult the road becomes, and the more sparsely populated, but fortunately, the security along the way is very good, and there are no robbers, but it is common to have government soldiers and county soldiers patrolling and guarding, and they will escort them through the defense area without pay.
On the way, Li Sanbao also asked the local soldiers and county soldiers who escorted them from time to time, asking them how the war is going in Qinghai now?
But the answer he got was either unclear, or that the army of the imperial court had already passed, but they did not know the subsequent battle.
In this way, with a feeling of anxiety, the Three Treasures finally left Xiping County at the beginning of the summer of the fourth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty and entered Qinghai, and from the moment they crossed the boundary monument of Xiping County, they officially set foot on the territory of the Xihai Kingdom.
"It's here, Great Qin West Sea Kingdom!"
A cavalryman galloped over and announced loudly.
Li Sanbao turned his head to look behind him, then turned around and looked ahead, standing in front of the boundary monument of Xiping County, he couldn't feel the difference between Xihai Country and Xiping County, both were about the same.
But he knew that with this step, he would truly become a feudal citizen of Luo Siye, the king of the West Sea.