Chapter 255: News from the North Road

Originally, the Heishui Governor's Mansion, which was not set up until the Kaiyuan period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, was instigated by the appearance of Li Yu and established an administrative institution here 58 years ahead of schedule. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Compared with the Governor's Mansion set up by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Governor's Mansion set up by Li Yu undoubtedly really made the tentacles of China penetrate deep into the inland of the Northeast and began to affect the development of human civilization between the white mountains and black waters.

Compared with the Phoenix Guard, several generals proofread the Yan King and sent them to guard the cold and reckless land of Heishui, full of complaints. Cheng Boxian did not complain about the latest appointment, and his subordinates built the city of Boli on the east bank of the confluence of the Heishui and Ussuri rivers, where the former Heishui village was located.

Boli was originally a Boli Prefecture established by Tang Xuanzong in history, and Li Yu couldn't think of a good name, so he borrowed it directly.

As a shareholder of Xuanji Commercial Bank, which is responsible for the production and sales of cement, Cheng Boxian is too aware of the advantages of using cement.

But the monthly output of the cement mill built in Pyongyang is not enough at all, and Heishui is 2,000 miles away from Pyongyang, Cheng Boxian can only think in his mind that if His Highness gives me enough cement, I can build the city in ten days.

Without cement, Cheng Boxian could only use local materials under the guidance of the city-building technicians sent by Li Yu to dig up soil and stone to cut down large trees, and use logs as skeletons to fill in soil and stones to build a mixed structure of the city wall.

Fortunately, more than 600 prisoners were captured, and Li Yu sent people to escort 500 slave laborers, which alleviated the problem of labor shortage in the construction of the city, otherwise Cheng Boxian and his soldiers would have been tired enough.

Just when Cheng Boxian was leading a group of soldiers to build the city in full swing, as a participant in the alliance of the four divisions of the Black Water Spirit, the Simu Department sent an envoy to surrender.

The envoy of the Simu Department who invited him to surrender knelt in the big tent of the Phoenix Guard Army nervously, and saw that the generals in the tent were concerned about his bad face, and they also spoke carefully so as not to anger the Tang people and harm the tribe.

Cheng Boxian was a little surprised, and thought that this group of savages in the forest would hide in the mountains and forests to avoid it. It's also a good thing to surrender, you don't have to wait for the city to be built and lead the army to the crusade.

Looking at the envoy of the Simu Department with a round face and small eyes, and an unappetizing rat tail on the back of his head, Cheng Boxian said with a disgusted face: "Your Simu Department colluded with Heishui, Yuexi, and Tieli to enter my Tang Dynasty, killing and injuring thousands of our soldiers and civilians. If you are defeated, you want to surrender when you flee back? You'll have to ask my men if they agree. ”

"The general is right, you savages in the forest don't think about kinghood, and brazenly enter the army, causing more than 2,000 casualties in our army, how can this matter be good."

"Escort your nonsense fierce place to cut us off, hang your head on our army's gate, and my Datang will accept your surrender."

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Cheng Bozheng and several generals shouted noisily with a donkey face, and wanted to beat and kill the Simu Ministry, and specially ordered the translator to translate into the Ya language, which frightened the envoys of the Simu Ministry.

There are less than 300 children who can fight in the Simu Department, and if they fight again, they will be wiped out. The envoy cried and pleaded to Cheng Boxian is three heads: "Honorable General Shangguo, our department did not intend to collude with Heishui, Yuexi, and Tieli to offend Shangguo, but was actually held hostage by the Heishui Ministry with the strength of the tribe." As for the losses caused by our department to the kingdom, I am willing to pay a tribute of twenty mink skins, twenty grizzly bear skins, ten tiger skins, and twenty large pearls on my thumb every year to ask for forgiveness from the kingdom. ”

"Wow! This Simu is still quite rich! Cheng Bozheng gasped, calculating in his heart how much it was worth to transport these things back to the Central Plains.

The other generals in the tent were all starry-eyed, and the angry scolding of the envoy of the Simu Department before suddenly disappeared, and they talked about the sincerity of the Simu Ministry, but they could accept their surrender.

Seeing that his subordinates were fascinated by this little gift from the Simu Ministry, Cheng Boxian suddenly felt that his face was gloomy. Could it be that all of his subordinates are from Gunda Shefu? Haven't seen the world before?

The fourth brother Cheng Bozheng was greedy, Cheng Boxian couldn't wait to go up and lift him up and slap his butt into eight petals, which was really a shame on the family. Anyway, our Cheng family is also the founding of the country, and they want the right to ask for money and money, and their hometown is still a local tyrant, and a woman from the Cui family in Qinghe can marry a family background, so you kid, why is it like a Tian Shefu?

Cheng Boxian glanced at Cheng Boheng and Cheng Boli, and was quite pleased, and the second and third brothers Gujing Wubo, gave our old Cheng parents face.

(In the Tang Dynasty, our Han people were very clean, and there were few words to scold people, Tian Shefu was the most popular scolding language at that time, and I used it here without discrimination.) )

Seeing that the generals of the Tang Kingdom were very satisfied with the compensation they proposed, the envoy of the Simu Department breathed a sigh of relief.

Before he could finish this breath, he heard the general Tang Guo who was sitting on the throne not very satisfied: "Every year, I pay tribute to forty mink skins, forty grizzly bear skins, twenty tiger skins, and forty big thumb pearls, and the general agrees to accept the surrender of the Simu Department." ”

"This ......" The envoy of the Simu Department was entangled for a while, and this condition was acceptable before the tribal warriors died in a large number of battles, but now it is a little difficult.

"Give me a good word, Ben won't have time to wait for you." Cheng Boxian said impatiently.

"Yes, my Simu Department is willing to pay tribute as the general asks." The envoy of the Simu Department made a decision with great difficulty in his heart.

Cheng Bozheng quietly gave a thumbs up to his eldest brother, Jiang is still old and spicy! got a roll of the eyes of Cheng Boxian.

Just to pay tribute, let the Simu Department have a way to live, Cheng Boxian still doesn't want to be so cheap for the Simu Ministry. Maybe one day the Simubu will rebel after regaining its strength?

Touching his beard, Cheng Boxian thought about the strategy of the Simu Department, and couldn't help but think of the previous discussion with His Royal Highness about the governance of Yidi. His Highness's strategy is that if he wants to belong to Yidi and not rebel, he should seize his life and cut his momentum. The key to the gate is to build a strong city in the place where Yidi lives, send troops to defend it, and then send Confucian scholars to carry out indoctrination and divide the control and influence of the Yidi chieftain over the people, that is, to reduce its momentum, in order to achieve long-term peace and stability.

Cheng Boxian smiled: "Since the Simu Department has surrendered, the land it has become is the land of my Tang Dynasty!" In addition to paying tribute every year, the Simu Department also needs to build a city in the place where it lives to welcome the Tang Heavenly Soldiers to the town. In addition, the Son of Heaven is played, and Confucian scholars are invited to carry out education. Do you hear me? ”

"General, the people understand, after going back, we will report to our department and be safe, and gather all our strength to build a city to welcome the soldiers and horses of the kingdom." The envoy of the Simu Ministry reluctantly responded, and forced a flattering look so as not to cause dissatisfaction among the generals of the kingdom.

"It's good to understand." Cheng Boxian nodded with satisfaction, and ordered: "Cheng Boheng, you will lead three hundred horsemen to the Simu Department to supervise the construction of the city." ”

Cheng Boheng, who had been expressionless, arched his hand and replied loudly: "Huh." ”

This time he had no choice but to surrender to the truth, and he had to build a city and garrison Tang soldiers in the place where the headquarters lived, which really put the tribe completely under the control of the Tang State, and the envoy of the Simu Department lamented helplessly in his heart.

Since he was going to surrender to the Tang State, in order to win the favor of the Tang State, before leaving, Meng'an Hu Qunlu instructed that he could reveal a message to the Tang Army to show his sincerity.

The envoy of the Simu Ministry said: "General, before leaving, our department received news from the Ministry of Counties, the Ministry of Counties captured more than 80 people who passed through it a year ago, and swore that people dressed in the same clothes as the Kingdom of Heaven were slaves, I wonder if it was the expedition sent by the Kingdom of Heaven last year?" ”

Last year, the middle route expedition passed through the Simu Department along the black water, and the Simu Department knew who the expedition was.

According to the people of the county, the more than 80 people captured still went south along the coast from the north. The reason for their arrest was that the news of the Tang army's expulsion of the Funi tribe and the occupation of the Meituo Lake area reached the county Li department, and their subordinate Meng'an was related to the Funi tribe Meng'an, and when they learned of their death, they changed their attitude towards the Tang people, and planned to capture these Tang people as slaves in retaliation.

"What? Expedition? Tell me everything you know. Cheng Boxian stood up in shock, last year, His Royal Highness sent a three-way expedition to the north to the north of Longzhi has not returned, and the capital protectorate thought that the north road was killed, but he didn't think that he was captured by the county department.

For the safety of the headquarters, the envoy of the Simu Department, who was allowed by Meng'an of the headquarters, was in charge of the life and death of the county department, and told Cheng Boxian and other Tang army generals the news he got from the county department.

"What a county ministry doesn't know whether to live or die, and dares to take my Tang people as slaves?"

Cheng Bozheng was angry and patted the case, asking Cheng Boxian to allow him to lead his troops to level the county department, and other generals and colonels asked for battle, vowing not to destroy the county department is difficult to be a Tang man.

Cheng Boxian suppressed the generals' calls for battle and said, "This matter still needs to be reported to His Highness for decision." ”

In fact, the Phoenix Guard suffered hundreds of casualties, and he had to build a city and was unable to cross thousands of miles to expedition to the lower reaches of the Black Water, so the generals had to sit down with unwillingness.