238 pacification of Wuhuan
Lu Bu knew that he had few soldiers, but he was afraid that the Wuhuan people would return to the army to attack, and he would not be able to resist it, so he hurriedly reorganized the more than 100,000 Han people, selected 15,000 young and strong among them, and called Wei Xu to lead 500 people, became officers at all levels, and organized 15,000 foot soldiers, and selected hundreds of Wuhuan people who were willing to surrender as cavalry. Today, Lu Bu has 3,000 cavalry and 15,000 foot soldiers, which is not the same as when he only had dozens of cavalry under his command.
The logistics and supplies of the Wuhuan people were all in Liucheng, and they were taken away by Lu Bu, and the Wuhuan people who were fighting in front of them could only drink the northwest wind. wants to attack Liu Bei, Liu Bei is strong and not an opponent. The Wuhuan people are much stronger than Lu Bu's men and horses, the problem is that Lu Bu has Liucheng to defend the city, as for the Wuhuan people's ability to attack the city, don't mention it.
These Wuhuan cavalry were flanked by Liu Bei and Lu Bu before and after, and they could not advance or retreat, and Liu Bei sent Xian Yufu to persuade them to surrender. These Wuhuan people were originally mercenaries of the Han court, but now they are in a dilemma, and under the persuasion of Xian Yufu, they naturally surrendered to Liu Bei.
Lu Fengxian still knows the current affairs, and he didn't have any thoughts of self-reliance because he had 3,000 cavalry and 15,000 foot soldiers.
In fact, Lu Bu also understood that he couldn't stand on his own, and among these people, the foot soldiers were not trained. As for the cavalry, all of them have the status of Northland knights. The Knight of the Northland is a title set up by Liu Bei with the policy of restoring Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty, with 5,000 acres of land, but he has to bring his own weapons and horses to serve as cavalry Liu Bei, and it is impossible to follow Lu Bu against Liu Bei.
These Wuhuan people who surrendered, Liu Bei had some ideas, so he called everyone to discuss how to completely eliminate the threat of this Wuhuan people. Some people suggested that the Wuhuan people in this area should be moved back to Youzhou together with the captured Han Chinese, so that the external trouble of Wuhuan could be eradicated. Liu Bei knew that it wouldn't work, this was tantamount to helping the Xianbei people expand, so it was better to keep the Wuhuan people.
Liu Bei took out his own ideas and let them see if it was feasible or not, of course, these methods have been proven by history.
Before this, Liu Bei had not captured foreign people, but they were all on his own territory, and he had an absolute population advantage, so he could naturally pick out and absorb the brave people among these people, and throw the old and weak into slaves. This time is different, this is the first time that so many Wuhuan soldiers have been captured in a place where foreign races have an advantage, and I don't know if it will work if I use this method again.
However, Liu Bei still has to give it a try, and when he deals with foreign races in the future, he is afraid that there will be no less. This time, he's going to do a three-pronged approach.
First of all, it is better to single out the warriors in Wuhuan first, and it is an open selection, absolutely fair and just. After picking them out, they were given the status of banner people, and then the remaining part of the Wuhuan people were given to them as slaves, so that the Wuhuan people were artificially cut into two parts, or two classes, one was a slave owner, and one was a slave.
Then, he picked out the people and horses he brought, and selected those who were willing to stay, everyone gave them the status of knights in the Northland, and no one gave them five thousand acres of land, not only for Wuhuan slaves to cultivate for them, but also to give them Wuhuan women as concubines. Before sending troops this time, Liu Bei specially selected those concubines, second sons and others in the family, so that they could be regarded as giving them a family business, and naturally there would be people who were willing to stay.
In the end, it is to control them ideologically, of course, with religion, the Central Plains Dynasty in history could not control the grassland, to a large extent did not prescribe the right medicine, to deal with this ignorant nomadic people, the words of the sage are not understood, but the words of God, are still very believable.
Well, in the future, we will gather all the monks from all over the country and send them to the grassland to educate this group of herdsmen, and the monks and the grassland are a perfect match.
As for now, I can only temporarily use Zuo Ci and the religion I made up to make it up for the time being.
After telling his subordinates about these three principles, it was Lu Bu who was the first to come out and suggest, saying: "Ming Gong, Bu has rescued more than 100,000 Han people here in Liucheng this time, and it is completely possible not to let them return to their hometown Youzhou, but to settle on the spot. In this way, it will not be possible to alleviate the problem of insufficient number of Han people here. ”
These more than 100,000 people were left behind when Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun rebelled, and Zhang Ju and Zhang Ju coerced 300,000 people at the beginning. Zhang Ju died, but these ordinary people were not let go by the Wuhuan people, and now they can be regarded as slaves turned into masters.
There is also Cheng Yu's advice: "Wuhuan has been taking refuge in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, although he is undecided, but there are many people in the clan who have Han blood, it is better to count these people as Han people, as long as they are willing to be Han people, they will be exempted from the status of slaves, so that the number of Han people here will naturally increase." However, if these Wuhuan people want to be Han Chinese, they have to make them speak Chinese. ”
Liu Bei's eyes lit up, this is also a good way, Wuhuan people are the same as Xianbei people, they are all white. However, this era is different from later generations, even if it is black skin, it is much more noble than the Han people, let alone white skin. But now it's different, these Wuhuan people will send women from the clan to "borrow" from the Han people, so after a long time, there are many people who look similar to the Han people.
As for speaking Chinese, Han was an international language in East Asia these days, and Wuhuan was a mercenary of the Han family, so basically everyone could speak Chinese. Therefore, Liu Bei also secretly made important instructions, asking these Wuhuan people who claimed to have Han family blood to explain their bloodlines clearly. Of course, the secret criterion is that only those young people and their families who have enough combat effectiveness are qualified to become Han Chinese.
As for how to deal with the rest of the Wuhuan people, the answer given by Liu Bei is that they all go to be flag bearers.
However, it is not the Eight Banners, but the Five Elements Banner. In fact, this is all the same thing, it's just that Liu Bei didn't want the name of the Eight Banners, but replaced it with the Five Elements Banner.
In the beginning, the Manchus were not actually a people, but a military group, or bandit gang.
The Eight Banners system created by the wild boar skin created a bandit group, at the beginning, the combat effectiveness was still very strong, but soon the Eight Banners transformed into a tofu scum soldier who carried a cage and a bird, and when the stupid man forced Wu Sangui to rebel, he could only rely on the Ganshan Green Battalion to quell the rebellion. This kind of "rise is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden." The military system is exactly what Liu Bei wants.
If these Wuhuan and Xianbei people are allowed to maintain their combat effectiveness, it will make Liu Bei uneasy, because this is tantamount to leaving hidden dangers for future generations!