Chapter 553 Disposal of the Huns
In the Hetao area, where the Southern Xiongnu grazed, Ningxia County was established, and the county was located in Lian County, which was under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou.
Zhou Fei sent Taishou and Du Wei to garrison 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry in Ningxia County.
The government is supportive of those who are willing to return to their hometowns and those in the surrounding counties who are willing to move here, and provides them with as much help and convenience as possible. To the great delight of the people, the Hetao area is the most suitable area for agricultural development in the surrounding area, and in many places, entire villages have been relocated from the Loess Plateau to the Hetao area; Many of the displaced locals have also chosen to return to their homeland to live.
Zhonglang will be stationed in Fuping County for the time being.
In the autumn of the ninth year of Xingping, the Xiongnu Shan Yu Huchuquan and the left and right virtuous kings Liu Bao and Liu Qubei arrived in Yecheng.
Gao Shun gave them a mansion and rewarded them with money, cloth, silk, wine, etc.; Later, he wrote to the imperial court, and the three people were county marquis, and the fiefs were arranged in Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou.
For all the kings and captains who came together, Gao Shun rewarded them one by one, and asked them to be sealed.
In Gao Shun's heart, as long as they leave the tribesmen, they will be nothing, and after that, their salaries and benefits will be slowly reduced, and they will be helpless, and it will not take long for them to be integrated into the Han people.
Without spending the court's money, Dong Zhuo was willing to befriend Gao Shun and readily approved Gao Shun's table; Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were only terrified that Gao Shun had so easily exterminated the Huns, Gao Shun's strength was too strong, but fortunately he kept his promise and did not attack the imperial court.
Of course, the people of Yongzhou and Bingzhou, who were the happiest at that time, destroyed the Huns, and they were less of a threat after that.
The commanders who arrived in Chang'an City, Zhou Fei and Fu Zhu warmly entertained, arranged reasonably, and gradually divided them.
The problem is that the resettlement of more than 100,000 Huns left in Ningxia County needs to be slowly digested at a great cost.
It's still the old way, conscription first, and the Huns are no strangers to this.
Strong body, suitable for the army, are the Xiongnu Shan Yu and the king's descendants of the cronies, now Shan Yu and the kings have left, they have no support, the army is their best choice.
The Governor sent people to select 12,000 people from the army, and together with their families, there were about 60,000 people.
According to Gao Shun's instructions, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Jizhou each arranged 2,500 people, and the soldiers were enlisted in the prefectures and counties, and their families were placed in each county, with only a few dozen people in each county, completely surrounded by the vast sea of Han people; Now, they enjoy the treatment of military households and do not have to pay taxes, but if there is no one in the family to continue to serve in the army, their military household treatment will be cancelled and they will be converted to civilian households.
There are about 16,000 remaining households, about 70,000 Huns, who were resettled in Bingzhou, Yongzhou, Pingzhou and Youzhou, and about 4,000 households in each prefecture were also resettled in various counties, scattered among the people, and enjoyed the treatment of private households.
In this way, there are not many Huns in any place, even if there are evil intentions in the future, they will not be able to succeed because they are too scattered, and I believe that after a few generations, they will be no different from the Han people.
The migration of these Huns cost a huge amount of money and grain, and in order to avoid future troubles, Gao Shun felt that it was worth spending any amount of food.
For those Huns who joined the army, not only did they have a good salary for joining the army, but their families did not have to pay taxes, and they would gladly accept any place the government arranged for them; As for those who did not have family members in the army, the government was very pleased that they treated them as the same as the Han Chinese, and they were powerless to oppose them anyway, and it was good that the government could accommodate them.
There are still about 2,000 Han people left in the local area, and they are hidden slaves of the Huns, which makes Zhou Fei and Fu Zhu and others very angry, feeling that they have been fooled by the Huns before, and decided to use this as an excuse to deal with those high-ranking Xiongnu officials.
After investigation, those thousand commanders in Chang'an City all had slaves, they confessed to this, Zhou Fei was furious, as early as when they moved to Ningxia County, Shan Yu promised to hand over all the Han slaves, but I didn't expect that after so many years, there are still so many Han people enslaved by them, is it tolerable?
So Zhou Fei ordered that all the more than 50 Huns be imprisoned; The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled were all pulled out and put to death; The beautiful unmarried women were sold into slavery, and those who were a little older or uglier were given either to the soldiers or to the common people who could not afford to marry them; Men, big and small, were sold into slavery.
Now that the conditions are better, the Han people no longer sell themselves as slaves, nor do they sell their sons and daughters because their families are poor; When they have children, they can receive support from the government, even if it is very difficult.
As a result, slaves on the market are now scarce and expensive, and they are very popular, and as soon as they are introduced, they are sold out.
Immediately after these Hun men were bought into slavery, they were put in strong, heavy wrought-iron shackles and filled with lead-water keyholes, which could not be removed for life.
For the more than 2,000 Han people who were rescued, following their personal opinions, the government that was willing to go home would pay them the travel expenses, and those who were unwilling to leave could be sent to the local army, and the government was responsible for providing for the elderly, so as to eliminate their worries.
In the end, these people chose to stay in the local area, they have been arrested for so many years, and they don't know if there are still people in their families, and even if there are still people, how can they have the face to return to their hometowns to face them? What will happen to their lives after that? It is better to rely on the current government if you are helpless.
The local land is fertile and easy to irrigate, and as long as it is cultivated, it is a good fertile land, much stronger than their hometown.
Gao Shun received Zhou Fei's report, and he was also furious in his heart, he didn't expect these Huns to be so cunning, but he was worried that he didn't have a chance to deal with these Hun kings and captains, such a reasonable excuse was very difficult to find, so he used Zhou Fei's method to secretly arrest all of them; For the sake of social stability, the impact was minimized, and they were not sold into slavery, but were imprisoned and reformed through labor; The women were isolated from them and gradually married to soldiers or served as servants in the barracks.
As for the Xiongnu Shan Yu and the left and right Xian kings, they were placed in three states and strictly guarded; Detached from the people, they have become disadvantaged tigers and no longer pose a threat to the Han Chinese.
After dealing with the Huns in Ningxia County, Gao Shun was overjoyed, and finally relieved him of a piece of his heart disease, changed the direction of history, eliminated part of the catastrophe of the Han people, and crossed it once in vain.
In order to cooperate with the attack of Luyi on Xiping County, Xu Rong strengthened the strength of Yonggu City, and sent troops to build the Dadou Bagu Pass (Bidu Pass) and restore the Dacaotan Horse Farm.
Yonggu City is an ancient city with a long history. It is located at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain, on the west side of Yanzhi Mountain, and is the main point of east-west traffic. It controls the Dadou Bagu Pass in the south, and is a shortcut to the south of the Hexi Corridor to the Huangzhong area, and it is a place where soldiers must fight.
In the middle section of the undulating Qilian Mountains, there is a peak mouth that is not more than ten zhang wide and sixty miles long, which is the dangerous pass of the canyon called "Dadou Ba Valley" by the ancients - Biandukou; The Biandukou Gorge is steep and rugged, connecting the Hexi Corridor and the Huangzhong area, connecting the north and south; The mountains in the valley are heavy and the water is compounded, the strange stones are craggy, and the two cliffs and strange peaks stand tall and the cliffs are abrupt. The terrain here is dangerous, and it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and it is also an important channel for business travelers.
There are strong troops stationed in these two places, which directly threatens the security of the rear of Xiping County, which makes Han Sui and others worried; Without the Huns, they had far fewer channels of information; The pass was blocked by the Han army, and they could no longer echo the Hu people in the Hexi region.