Chapter 223: Yongchang Rebellion
The Andong Pioneer Group's migrant fleets set sail every half month from the Weihe and Yellow River crossings, carrying between 20,000 and 30,000 people per fleet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter arriving at the Bohai County ferry port and transferring to the sea fleet, the fleet departing from the two ports returned to the sea.
So far, the shipping of the Yellow River and the Wei River has never been as busy as this year, so that most of the civilian boats sailing on the two rivers were hired by the Anton Pioneer Group to transport migrants, and others who wanted to hire a larger ship could not find it.
The most important New Year of the year also floated by in the celebration of people, the first month is the beginning of the year, but the month of celebration has come from the southern Xinjiang bad news.
The barbarians of Yongchang, Yaozhou, Jiannan Province (Baoshan, Yunnan) rose up, gathered more than 200,000 troops to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, and attacked all sides.
When the news came, Li Zhi urgently summoned the ministers to discuss the counterinsurgency.
Yongchang is located in the mountain valley in the mountains of the southwest of Erhai Lake, where the ancient Ailao country is located, the old rule is the Yongchang County from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the residents are the ancestors of the Dai nationality. After entering the Tang Dynasty, Yongchang Prefecture was set up in Yongchang, which was under the rule of the Yaozhou Governor's Office, located in the southwest of the hammer, west of Tubo, and the southern barbarians who were not attached to the Tang Dynasty.
Since the Tibetans repeatedly plundered the northwest and southwest sides of the Tang Dynasty, the barbarians in the southwest of Jiannan Province gradually entered the field of vision of the Tibetans, and became the objects of the Tubo conquest to relocate the Tang Dynasty.
Behind the Yongchang barbarian rebellion is the figure of Tibet.
Tubo is centered on Qamdo in the east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the sword is aimed at the southwestern states of the Tang Dynasty. In the third year of Xianqing (658), he successively occupied the thirteen prefectures of Zhuqiang south of Hehuang, and during the Longshuo period (661-663), he descended to Dang and Xierzhou Zhuqiang, and took advantage of the Tang Dynasty to attack Goguryeo and Baekje to destroy the opportunity of the western Gu. In the second year of Qianfeng (667), he invaded the capital where the Qiang people lived, flowing, tuning, and making together, and the twelve states of general, creeping, instrument, er, qi, rate, and difference.
The southwest of Longyou Road in the Tang Dynasty, the west of Xishan in Jiannan Road, and the various prefectures and fanping fell into the hands of Tubo. However, when the Tubo army attacked the prefectures and counties of the Tang Dynasty garrisoned by the Tang army, they were attacked head-on, and they had to plunder the border counties as a means. The main force was placed in the Qiang Barbarian Hu tribes that continued to attack the Qiang Barbarian Hu troops who were still subservient to the Tang Dynasty along the border, trying to cut the Tang Dynasty as much as possible, and using the troops and horses to conquer the Qiang Barbarian Hu troops to attack the Tang Dynasty.
It is a pity that the crisis of the situation in the southwest has not yet been taken seriously by the courtiers, and it is impossible to know that the Tibetan secret troops were stationed in the area of Zhongdian and Weixi in the northwest of Yunnan in the later generations, and a chain bridge was built on the Jinsha River as a way to march into the southwest of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Zhi asked the princes in the Qianyuan Hall of Luoyang Palace, Zhang Wenguan was in line with the locust drought in Guanzhong, and the foreign soldiers and civilians could not bear military service for many years, and they needed to recuperate and recuperate, and opposed sending troops to the barbarians of Pingyongchang.
"Yongchang is a barbarian residence in this world, the Eastern Han Dynasty voluntarily attached to my Han family, more than 400 years after the county, in the South Chen when the resignation of more than 100 years, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the barbarians returned to the Yongchang Prefecture to reset. It is already a small state in the southwest, the land is narrow, the people are poor, the valley is barren, and the barbarians do not want to belong to the Tang Dynasty, so what is the pity of losing it? Sending troops to quell the traitors costs money and food, hurts the soldiers, and increases the burden on the people......"
Zhang Wenguan kept preaching his set of strategies for recuperation and recuperation with the people, if the wild land is lost, it will be lost, and it is enough to guard all sides of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yu, who was sitting on the side, didn't know whether to laugh or not?
What Zhang Wenguan said is actually true, Yongchang has to be found on the map for a long time to find it in the southwest side hammer, and it would be good to find a few Han people in the territory.
From the beginning of Yongchang County in the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, the number of counties increased to eight, but now there is only one county left. To go to Yongchang, you have to pass through the Erhai Sea and the six swamps of the state, not to mention the high mountains and dangerous valleys along the way, the dense forest poisoning insects, ants, beasts, and miasma are the biggest dilemma faced by the Chinese Dynasty in the southwest with troops.
Decades later, during the Tianbao period, Tang Xuanzong sent more than 200,000 troops to the south to conquer Nanzhao, but because of the water and soil, before seeing the enemy, his own soldiers were infected with the epidemic and lost more than half, and the result was that the whole army was wiped out.
Sending troops to quell the rebellion against Yongchang Barbarian, to be honest, the gains outweigh the losses, and the defeat will also damage the country's prestige.
Li Yu admitted that Nuo did not come through time, and the modern indignant thoughts of the territory theory (the bigger the territory, the better, not an inch of land, and every inch of land must be fought for), it is estimated that when the courtiers took out the interests of counterinsurgency, Li Yu gave up the idea of sending troops to quell the rebellion.
This is also the method usually adopted by the vast majority of emperors in the face of the rebellion of the barbarians on the frontier, to abolish the administration and establish governance.
Otherwise, you don't see that the border of the Han land in the north of the Tang Dynasty has shrunk significantly to the south compared to the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the once vast territory of Liaoxi and Youbeiping County has lost most of the county governance in the Han and Han dynasties. In the past, Liaoxi County was changed to Yingzhou, and only a lonely Liucheng County was left in the huge Liaoxi Corridor, and there were only 1,000 Han people living in the city, and the rest were all Hu.
Zhang Wenguan's suggestion was not approved by other prime ministers, and Zhang Da'an pointed out that if the imperial court did not send troops to quell the rebellion in time, the barbarians in the southwest believed that the Tang Dynasty was strong and strong, and it was necessary to investigate the rebellion in the future.
Li Zhi listened to the advice of the ministers, they each had their own reasoning, how to choose Li Zhi was a little difficult for a while, and he couldn't help frowning and thinking about the pros and cons.
Zhang Wenguan and Zhang Da'an's faction were at loggerheads over whether to send troops to quell the rebellion, and Li Yu's legs were a little numb. It is also true that Zhang Wenguan slandered the people, and he talked about recuperating with the people all day long, and he should not be engaged in side affairs, and the national defense policy of the main defense should be guarded.
The Song and Ming dynasties both took defense as their national defense policy, but what about their end? The territory became smaller day by day, and eventually the country and the world perished.
Hey, even in the vigorous Tang Dynasty, the literati were not weak scholars of the Song and Ming dynasties, but they lacked strategic awareness in border defense, and it was almost a common problem for literati who did not learn the art of war and did not know martial arts.
Li Yu remembered that more than ten years later, Di Renjie, who was at the top of the name and was now only the governor of the prefecture, did not hesitate to abolish the four towns of Anxi and the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in order to reduce the financial burden.
The Yongchang rebellion is only a trivial matter in history, and Li Yu is not a historian of the Tang Dynasty, so he does not know that this incident happened this year, and there is no way to know whether Li Zhi sent troops to quell the rebellion.
Li Yu glanced at the eldest father sitting on the top position, although the eldest father left a weak and mediocre impression on future generations in the history books, in fact, although the great father's talent and virtue are not as good as the previous emperor's eloquence, but he is also a pioneer king, far from the weak and mediocre contained in the history books. It's just that because he was sandwiched between the first emperor of the ages, Tang Taizong, and the only female emperor of the ages, his light was covered and ignored by future generations.
For example, the military power has never been touched by the mother, the generals in the army have been promoted and transferred, and the transfer of soldiers and horses is determined by the eldest father, and the prime minister of the DPRK and China, except for Xu Jingzong, who is about to die, no one is a close confidant of his mother.
Therefore, Li Yu commented on his eldest father, "soft on the outside and rigid on the inside!" ”