Chapter 41: Peace Talks (Revision)

When it comes to specific negotiations, there is no need for Liu Wei to go out in person, and a negotiation team composed of Liu Bei and Cao Cao was dispatched to start negotiations with the Qiang kings such as Midang, Vatong, and Mozasai sent by the Qiang side.

And Liu Wei just took out the pear wine and red fire, tasted wine and drank with Lao Qiang Wang, chatted about the sky and enhanced their feelings.

Originally, Liu Wei thought that the two sides would fight at the negotiation table, but he never thought that the two sides would go very smoothly, and it took only three days to finalize the specific details of the peace talks.

The reason for this is that Liu Wei's personal visit made the Qiang people feel the great sincerity released by the imperial court. Moreover, the terms of the peace talks were not very excessive for the Qiang people, who had not yet formed the concept of a state and were still in the stage of tribal slavery, and did not have much rejection of naturalization in the powerful Han Dynasty.

They had been attached to the Han Dynasty before, but they could not stand the rule of the Han people and rebelled. Now that the Han people have returned again and brought with them the promise of equality, giving the Qiang people the same right to live as the Han people, the Qiang people still choose to believe, because at this time, both the Han and the Qiang people are in a hurry and peace has come. The vendetta between the Han and Qiang ethnic groups for more than a century has made the Han and Qiang ethnic groups tired, and peace is the trend of the times.

Liu Wei only discovered at this time that whether it was the Qiang people or the Yellow Turban Army, they were essentially the last resistance of a group of people who couldn't survive in order to survive. If the imperial court could create an equal living environment, there would not be so much turmoil.

It is very clear, but throughout thousands of years of Chinese history, has there been a regime that has done it?

Liu Wei shook his head helplessly, and suddenly lost some confidence in his future reforms.

Based on the principle of "Qiang people governing Qiang and a high degree of autonomy" put forward by Liu Bian, and taking the Han-Hungarian "Dingyang Treaty" as a reference, after the Han-Qiang peace talks, the imperial court will set up the Qiang capital protectorate in the Qiang land, under the jurisdiction of the five major tribes of Dangdangqiang, Baimaqiang, Shenwolf Qiang, Xianlingqiang, and Daqiqiang and hundreds of small tribes under them, with a total of about 500,000 people. The yak Qiang, who also belonged to the Qiang tribe, did not participate in this alliance because of the distance, but the old Qiang king had sent an envoy to ask them what they meant, and if they wished, they could also join the Qiang capital protectorate.

The Qiang Protectorate set up the post of Qiang Zhonglang General, which was at the same level as the state pastor, with a rank of 2,000 stones. And the Qiang tribes elected a highly respected person into the elders' house as elders, and the Qiang Zhonglang will jointly manage the capital of the palace.

The elders who entered the House of Elders for the first time were naturally the Qiang kings such as Vatong and Mozasai, and the old Qiang King was elected as the chief elder of the House of Elders at the suggestion of Liu Bian, responsible for managing the daily work of the House of Elders.

As for the candidate for the general of Huqiang Zhonglang, Liu Wei chose Liu Bei.

Although this decision gave Liu Bei the right to lead troops and a base for development. However, Liu Wei was not worried about Liu Bei's dissenting intentions.

Qiang is poor, and if it wants to develop, unless Liu Bei now has the assistance of a perverted internal affairs talent like Zhuge Liang, it will be difficult to reach the point where he dares to call out the imperial court within a few decades. Moreover, Liu Bei has always regarded himself as a loyal man who supports the Han family and is even more difficult to openly rebel against the imperial court, so Liu Wei relieved him to let him out, firstly, because of his ability to communicate with different races, and secondly, how to observe and exercise his internal affairs ability.

What really worries Liu Wei is a recital from Yanzhou and an intention that he has thought about again and again.

The election of the House of Elders was carried out smoothly within the Qiang people, and although the Qiang kings from various ministries were basically admitted to the House of Elders, it was still a democratic political activity with the participation of the Qiang people. In fact, this parliamentary system of the House of Elders is also the system that Liu Wei will implement within the Han Empire in his future reforms, but compared with the hierarchical Central Plains, it is much easier to implement a democratic parliamentary system in the Qiang people, and there is no need to be so careful and prepare in many ways.

The Qiang people do not have the monarch and minister program system of the Han society, which means that they still have the legacy of electing leaders in the primitive society. They are no strangers to the use of elections to establish leaders, nor are they averse. Therefore, the election of the House of Elders can proceed smoothly.

In addition, according to the requirements of the imperial court during the negotiations, the Qiang Protectorate must obey the command of the Han Empire diplomatically, politically, and militarily, and the rest of the affairs can be administered autonomously.

Liu Wei knew that it was not enough to talk to these elites of the Qiang nationality, and only by letting all the Qiang people participate in the construction of the Han Empire could they truly have a sense of belonging. Therefore, the negotiation stipulated that the Qiang people and the Han people were both Han people, and the two ethnic groups could also enjoy various social welfare benefits provided by the imperial court, and at the same time bear the same obligations of tax payment and military service. The imperial court also encouraged Han and Qiang intermarriages and Qiang people to hold important positions in the imperial court.

Because the languages of the Qiang nationality are complex and different, it is difficult to have unified communication, so Liu Wei took the opportunity to put forward the proposal of using Chinese as the official language and the Qiang language of each ethnic group as the national language. It also stipulates that all Qiang people who serve as the Qiang capital protector or serve in other parts of the Han court must be able to speak Chinese and learn Chinese characters before they can become officials.

Regarding the sinicization of the court's intentions, the kind and simple Qiang people actually did not have as much resistance. First, they don't have any concept of cultural aggression in their eyes, and they also feel that the complicated Qiang languages of various ethnic groups are really troublesome, anyway, they have also naturalized the Han people, and speaking Chinese and writing Chinese characters is also good for communicating with the imperial court, which is more conducive to trade with the Han people. Second, many Qiang people have lived together with the Han people for a long time, in fact, they have long been influenced by the Han culture. For the Han Dynasty, which was more civilized than itself, it was naturally willing to accept it.

Seeing that the Qiang people readily agreed, Liu Wei instructed Liu Bei and others to propose that in order to enable the Qiang brothers to keep up with the footsteps of the Central Plains civilization as soon as possible, the imperial court would set up a mission department in the Qiang Protectorate to teach the Central Plains culture.

The Department of Missions and Education is independent of the Qiang Metropolitan Protectorate, and is not under the management of the Qiang Zhonglang General and the Qiang Elders' House. Teach the Qiang people to know good and evil, know etiquette, understand the outline, respect people, learn Chinese characters, wear Hanfu, and use Han tools.

The Department of Missions and Education was originally under the jurisdiction of the Unified Investigation Society, which shows that Liu Bian's move harbored evil intentions. It was entirely a desire to carry out cultural aggression and at the same time spy operations against the Qiang. However, later, because of the strong demand of Cai Yong of Taixue (Cai Yong believed that this kind of moral and religious affairs should be passed on by the master and the Confucian scholars, and should not be managed by the secret services) and the taming and naturalization of the Qiang people, it finally became the responsibility of the Taixue.

On the recommendation of Cai Yong, the first missionary envoy of the Qiang Protectorate was served by Hua Xin, who was Shang Shulang at the time, and soon after, Hua Xin recommended Guan Ning, Bing Yuan and others for Liu Bian, and successively served as doctors of the Propaganda Department.

Since then, the Hanqiang peace talks have finally achieved complete success. The Qiang Rebellion, which had plagued the Han Empire for more than a century, was finally effectively resolved. This was of great significance to the Han Empire, which finally had the opportunity to take a break from the country. Since then, there has been no major turmoil among the Qiang people, and even Ma Teng Han Sui's rebellion again in the future wanted to invite the Qiang people to participate, but they were also sternly refused.

Moreover, Liu Wei solved the Qiang problem in a peaceful way without spending a single soldier, avoiding the hardships of the people and the burden of the imperial court under the danger of war and fierceness. When later historians record Liu Wei's historical achievements, they always regard this incident as Liu Wei's first achievement, and the capture of Dong Zhuo before this and the suppression of Li Dao and Guo Yan's rebellion are nothing compared to this.

Although the Sino-Qiang peace talks were a great success, not all Qiang people agreed with the naturalization of the Qiang. After all, the Hanqiang struggle has lasted for more than a hundred years, and the hatred between them is very deep, and it cannot be resolved by one or two negotiations. However, after all, the negotiations brought a huge turnaround, and the vast majority of Qiang people are still willing to hope for peace, but it is true that a small number of people have expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the success of the peace talks. King Cherrigi of the Wolf Qiang is one of them.

However, his dissatisfaction with the naturalization of the Qiang people is not just because of ethnic hatred, but also because of the shame of being captured by the Han people as the king of the Qiang.

Although the court released him in order to show his sincerity, Cherrigi did not have any thoughts of gratitude, on the contrary, the humiliation of being captured was difficult to shake off in his heart, and thinking of the whispers of other Qiang people behind his back, Cherrigi became irritable.

Even if it was a personal grudge, on the surface, Cheriji still used the Han-Qiang contradiction as an excuse to encourage other Qiang people to naturalize the Han and Qiang. It's just that peace between Han and Qiang is the trend of the times, and Cherrigi is clamoring from all sides, but it still has little effect.

In desperation, Cherrigi had no choice but to decide to go into battle in person and found Yadan to plot in his tent.

As soon as they met, Cherrigi said indignantly to Yadan: "The Han people have humiliated me many times, and I must avenge this revenge." ”

Yadan is not good by force, but he is a dog-headed military advisor who participates in the wolf and Qiang, and he himself has great prejudices against the Han people and opposes the naturalization of the Qiang people. Seeing that Cherrigi said this, he immediately agreed and said: "How cunning the Han people are, at this time they pretend to reconcile with us, and they will definitely cause us to die without a place to bury in the future!" ”

Cheriji nodded again and again, and then asked Yadan: "The other Qiang kings don't believe me at all, what good way do you have to deal with the Han people?" ”

Yadan's eyes rolled and he thought of a poisonous plan.

"The little emperor of the Han people is in the Qiang land, if we kill him, the Han court will be in chaos, and then we can take advantage of it."

The death of the little emperor of the Han people in the Qiang land will inevitably cause the anger of the Han court, and then the war will break out again, and the Han-Qiang peace talks will collapse instantly.

Thinking of this, Cherrigi said excitedly: "We will lead the troops to kill us now." ”

Yadan hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't be in a hurry, the king."

"What's wrong?" Cherrigi asked.

"Sima Zhao Yun of the Xiyuan Army is brave and good at fighting, and it is difficult for us to start with him to protect the little emperor." Yadan reminded him.

Cherrigi was deflated. Zhao Yun's force is best known to him. The fierce general Yue Ji, who he had always regarded as the enemy of 10,000 people, was killed by him in one move, and at this time he was already regarded as a god-like existence among the Qiang people.

Cherrigi hung his head and asked Yadan, "What do you think?" ”

Yadan had already had an idea, and said with a wicked smile: "In the name of the king, I invited Zhao Yun to come and drink, and killed him while he was drunk." The king took this opportunity to lead his troops to attack the camp of the Han people and killed the little emperor. ”

The idea sounded good, and Cherrigi laughed with satisfaction. At this time, if Liu Wei was by their side, he would definitely feel that Yadan's strategy was very familiar, and then exclaimed: "That's how Dian Wei died. ”

After making up his mind, Yadan sent someone to invite Zhao Yun to come to the camp of the wolf in the evening to attend the banquet.

Zhao Yun agreed, and in the evening, he led a team of people to the camp of Shenwolf Qiang as promised. Yadan welcomed them warmly. Zhao Yun was invited to the camp alone to drink, and the others stayed outside to set up a banquet to eat.

Yadan personally sat on Zhao Yun's drooping hand, holding the wine jar and pouring him a bowl of wine. Zhao Yun didn't even think about it, and drank it all.

Yadan thought that Zhao Yun was addicted to alcohol, and felt that there was an opportunity, and then poured a bowl of wine for Zhao Yun, and said flatteringly: "Zhao Sima will drink another bowl." ”

Zhao Yun glanced at him and asked, "Why don't you drink it?" ”

Yadan smiled and replied: "The rule of our Qiang people, guests drink three bowls first. ”

Zhao Yun pursed his lips, and said in his heart What kind of bullshit rule is this, I have been here for many days in the Qiang tribe, but I haven't seen other tribes have such rules.

Although he was slandered in his heart, Zhao Yun continued to cook two bowls in a row, then put down the wine bowl and smashed his mouth, saying, "It's boring!" ”

Yadan thought that he meant that he was bored with drinking, so he said earnestly: "Since Sima Zhao is bored, he can summon singing and dancing to help the fun." ”

Zhao Yun glanced at him and said angrily: "I mean the wine is boring!" ”

Yes? Yadan was stunned.

Zhao Yun ordered his men to go outside the tent and fetch a jar of red fire that he brought, and regardless of whether Yadan agreed or not, he picked up the wine jar and poured a bowl full of it for Yadan and himself.

"Brother Yadan, you can taste the wine of our Central Plains."

Under Zhao Yun's knife-like gaze, Yadan had no choice but to pick up the wine bowl. Halfway through the drink, a spicy sensation rushed to his throat, and Yadan almost spit out the wine in his mouth.

Different from the slightly sweet pear wine, the spicy red fire is only suitable for drinking, and among the Han people, only a pervert like Zhang Fei will drink it in a big bowl, and then there are people like Zhao Yun who were pulled by Zhang Fei to drink, and they are not brothers if they don't drink in a big bowl, and they are people who have been devastated by perversion.

Zhao Yun drank the red fire in the wine bowl. It's all been worked out.

After coughing, Yadan watched in astonishment as Zhao Yun drank the wine in the bowl, and asked in a spicy voice: "This wine is extremely spicy, swallowed in the stomach like a fire, Zhao Sima can actually drink him all?" ”

Zhao Yun smiled slightly, and said: "This is our Central Plains spirits red fire, my Central Plains warriors often drink this wine, and Yun is always around." ”

Yadan was speechless and said admiringly: "Zhao Sima really drank heavily!" ”

Zhao Yun thought of Zhang Fei's figure of drinking spirits, shook his head, and said, "There is something more than me can drink!" ”

Yadan was stunned. Is there anything more to drink? Perverted!

It seemed that the idea of getting Zhao Yun drunk was unlikely to succeed, and Yadan couldn't help but look bitter. I didn't dare to drink it anymore, and my face was hesitant.

Zhao Yun, who had long been suspicious, saw that Yadan's expression was wrong, and he was even more suspicious. He asked aloud, "Where is King Cherrigi?" The guest has arrived, why hasn't the host shown up for a long time? ”

Cherrigi was leading troops to attack Liu Wei's camp at this time, how dare Yadan say it. After a long time, seeing that Zhao Yun's face was getting heavier and heavier, Yadan panicked, and wanted to go out when he got up.

Zhao Yun grabbed him. The weak-hearted Yadan shouted in fright: "Where are the ambushes? ”

The soldiers who had been in ambush outside the tent heard Yadan's call and immediately rushed in. Relying on the strength of the crowd, Yadan said triumphantly: "Hangou has not surrendered obediently and accepted ......"

Before he finished speaking, the silver spear had already passed through his throat. Yadan's eyes widened in disbelief, and then he remembered that he was too proud, completely ignoring that his wrist was still in Zhao Yun's hand.

Zhao Yun pulled out the silver spear, blood spurted like a waterfall, and Yadan fell to the ground without saying a word.

Things happened so quickly, the surrounding Qiang soldiers were still stunned and didn't react. Zhao Yun didn't care what they did, the silver spear flew up and down, killing these Qiang soldiers with their heads in their hands.

The soldiers brought by Zhao Yun outside the tent had already run over when they heard the movement in the tent, and with Zhao Yun's internal and external attacks, the Qiang soldiers without Yadan's command and dispatch quickly collapsed. Either fleeing in all directions, or kneeling and surrendering, there are few who are not afraid of the dead, and they are also blocked by Zhao Yun, who is full of force.

Thinking in my heart that Yadan invited himself to come, it was definitely not as simple as just trying to plot himself. Thinking of Cherrigi, who had never shown up, Zhao Yun's heart was faintly uneasy. The fleeing Qiang soldiers did not chase after them, but only captured the captives and asked, and sure enough, as they guessed in their hearts, Cherrigi led people to attack and kill Liu Wei.

Zhao Yun, who was anxious, didn't care about the prisoners, but ordered someone to tie them up and throw them in the camp tent. He immediately rushed to Liu Wei's camp with people.

To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter.

ps: The original text of Nuoqiang originally belonged to the Western Regions, and it was mistakenly classified as the Qiang tribe, and now it is modified to Da Qiqiang, and I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused to readers.