"What I'm worried about is that if I am hostile to the Shanyang Army, I will end up with the Xiaoguo Army. If we gather them, we will suffer in the end, but it will be the Shanyang Army that will gain the ultimate benefit. An army in a mere place can make Xu Jie fall and replace him, which is not something that ordinary people can do. Zhong Yan said with a frown.

Zhong Yan, like Zhang Tu, regarded this Shanyang army as the most difficult opponent to deal with. Since the Shanyang Army and Xu Jie's joint attack on the Wuwei Army, in addition to taking some action at the beginning, it was followed by taking control of the territory it seized from the Wuwei Army, and began to implement new policies to win the hearts of the people. Immediately afterwards, there was a big recruitment. It was precisely because of the ferocious attack of the Shanyang Army at the beginning that it defeated the Wuwei Army. made Xu Jie's inability to refute justly, so he had to let the Shanyang army come in the south.

But then, after Xu Jie and the Xuzhou army joined forces to defeat the Wuwei army with great losses, causing both sides to lose their troops, the Shanyang army reneged on the agreement and attacked from the north and south, and replaced Xu Jie and the Yanzhou army in a daze. Such behavior, such a character, can't help but make Zhang Tu, Zhong Yan and others vigilant.

"What you are worried about, I am worried about. However, his position is very special, and it is connected to Jizhou, so we can't help it. And the Tang Army in the north of it, surrounded by the Shanyang Army and the Xiaoguo Army, naturally did not dare to act rashly. Not to mention the Xuzhou Army, if it really goes west, I am afraid that even if it can defeat the Shanyang Army, it will involve the Xiaoguo Army. When the time comes, we won't get anything. Murong Cheng said with some resentment.

Zhong Yan sighed and said, "Lord Wang, since that's the case, let's put it aside for the time being." To say that the land occupied by the Shanyang Army, whether it is the Tang Army or the Xuzhou Army, it is impossible not to be unmoved by this. In that case, let's watch the chaos here. At the moment, it is still important to attack Situ Lei. ”

"That's all there is to it!" Murong Cheng said in a muffled voice, and the feelings in his heart were pressed in the bottom of his heart.

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When the Central Plains War was going on, when the Turkic tribes in the north of Bingzhou were defending and the west of Dingzhou, Zhao Xun, the lord of the Xiaoguo Army, was receiving the envoys of the two remaining tribes of the Liaodong Kingdom and the Sumo Tribe.

After learning that the Xiaoguo army and the Turks were clamouring, and that the Xiaoguo army wanted to completely solve the situation of the Ya tribes before starting a war with the Turks, under the persuasion of the envoys of the Xiaoguo army and the protests of the people of the two tribes, the leaders of the two tribes and the monarch finally surrendered. If you don't accept it, it's not just the gap in strength, but more importantly, because last year's snow disaster has not been dealt with after the beginning of spring, plus the Xiaoguo army is preparing to attack the army, and the people of these two departments can't sit back and wait for the Xiaoguo army to kill.

After receiving the rumors spread by the Xiaoguo Army, these people learned that as long as the leaders of the two tribes submit and the two tribes accept the jurisdiction of the Xiaoguo Army, then these people can be resettled by the Xiaoguo Army. The people are gone, they want to live, even the soldiers are gone. Finally, under internal and external persecution, on May 20 of the first year of Changping, he surrendered to the Xiaoguo army.

Immediately, Zhao Xun ordered that all the nobles, royal families, chiefs and other people in power in these two departments should give up their military power, but guarantee the ownership of their property. Of course, all slaves under his command will be confiscated. Because, what Zhao Xun meant was that these chiefs and nobles could not keep anything but property, and as for the slaves, they were also pardoned, given civilian status, and given Han surnames and names.

Not only that, these former rulers, all under the escort of the Xiaoguo Army, entered Youzhou City. The two royal families were all canonized marquises, namely the Marquis of Guifu and the Marquis of Shunyi.

As soon as the rulers moved away, the Xiaoguo army immediately exercised military control over the two territories, and tens of thousands of troops were stationed in the two cities. Subsequently, these people began to move from land to Dingzhou and Youzhou, and from waterways to Qingzhou, Jizhou and other places. Of course, the slogan is naturally for disaster relief and resettlement of victims. A total of more than 1.5 million people in the two departments, one million of them will move into other jurisdictions, and at the same time, millions of people will move in from other jurisdictions to this place, and this place will be sinicized.

Of course, this was followed by the opening of Han Chinese government offices, officials, and academies. At the same time, the soldiers of the two divisions were dismantled, or divided into the common people, or incorporated into the soldiers of each department, or incorporated into the baggage brigade or the people.

Of course, it was impossible for these millions of people to move out in a day, so in the name of disaster relief, the government recruited these people to repair cities, official roads, and water conservancy projects in these places in the name of disaster relief.

According to Zhao Xun's meaning, the Zhu Zhu and the eastern part of the Beihai Department were combined to form Liaozhou, which was a state. This Liaozhou region is larger than that of Youzhou, of course, it is also more bitter cold, and the economy is more backward. Naturally, these need to be operated by the government. However, now that the biggest problems have been solved, these problems are secondary.

This land of Liaozhou is not the grassland terrain of Dingzhou, here are plains, hills and mountains. Although the land of Liaozhou is different from the three eastern provinces in later generations, its jurisdiction to the east and northeast exceeds the land of the three eastern provinces in later generations. After all, in the east of Liaozhou, it has direct access to the ocean. In the eastern region, the Shogo army had built three seaports and waited for the arrival of ships.

However, on the whole, it did not go beyond in the northwest direction. In terms of overall area, it is indeed much smaller. However, this is also very good, compared to the Great Yan Kingdom, I don't know how much more territory it has exceeded. In the future, as long as the northward expansion continues, the people can withstand the cold and can be killed all the way to the north.

Of course, the territory of Liaozhou on the map is indeed large, however, many places are empty. It can be said that at least a quarter of the territory of Liaozhou was demarcated by Zhao Xun, but there were not too many residents and garrisons stationed in Xiaoguo. However, this is also the goal that the Xiaoguo Army will carry out in the future.

However, although Liaozhou was established, the weather in Liaozhou was cold, which was also a helpless thing. Therefore, in addition to the people in the north, people like Jizhou and Qingzhou still can't move in directly for a while. However, no matter what, the people moved out of Youzhou, and then added to Youzhou from Jizhou and Qingzhuang. Immediately, they accepted displaced people from all over the Central Plains, and migrated foreigners from the north to the interior, and Sinicized their tribes. Perhaps, in a few years, this younger generation will be able to continue to live in the north.

At the same time that the Xiaoguo army took over the Yan Ya Department, the four town soldiers began to attack from Dingzhou to the west. According to Zhao Xun's meaning, they will attack and kill at will, and the cavalry will lead with weapons. As for the infantry army, then use weapons and earth-shaking thunder to deal with the cavalry of the Turks. Along with the infantry, of course, there are also crossbow machines. Under the assembly line operation of the Xiaoguo Army, the manufacturing speed of the crossbow machine has increased greatly, and the Xiaoguo Army is still equipped with a lot of troops to conquer the Turks. Therefore, with the infantry against the enemy, the Xiaoguo army was not afraid of the cavalry superiority of the Turks.

100,000 people, the soldiers of the four towns, went out in four ways and killed them to the west. In addition to the necessary alliance, Zhao Xun issued a military order to them, kill, burn and rob the Sanguang policy, and avenge the people in the north. Of course, the killing here is not about killing all the Turks. Instead, they killed the adversing Turkic army, robbed the Turkic tribes of their livestock, population, and property, and burned down the tribal yurts that the tribes plundered.

Don't say that the Xiaoguo army is ruthless, after all, the Turks did this in the territory of Yan State, and what the Xiaoguo army did was just repeating the Turkic practices. It is understandable that war is what it is.

For the war in the Turkic territory, Zhao Xun did not personally lead the army, but the generals of the four towns were in charge. First, Zhao Xun wanted to cultivate their ability to fight independently. After all, as the lord, do you also have to give your subordinates the opportunity to make meritorious contributions? Second, Zhao Xun is now strengthening the northern states, the reply of Liaozhou, the overall situation of the Shanyang army, and the Central Plains War. Therefore, Zhao Xun can't stay away lightly, he doesn't want to be far away in the grassland when there is an emergency.

The Shanyang army is now connected with Jizhou, Zhao Xun is not too worried, if there is any accident, the Xiaoguo army of Jizhou will not hesitate to enter the land of Yanzhou. After all, the mouths of Tong Guò Feng Ziming and Tang Bin have already revealed that the Shanyang Army and the Xiaoguo Army have this layer of secret connection, and they have more or less leaked out.

Zhao Xun now has to deal with the situation in Liaozhou, laying down a place, governing a place, and stabilizing a place. That's the real place to control, otherwise, it's no different from the rogue. The land of Liaozhou is bordered by Youzhou Dongsanfu in the south, Beihai in the east, Heishui in the north, and Dingzhou grassland in the west. It can be said that now in terms of security, foreign enemies are no longer to be feared. As long as the place is settled, this land of Liaozhou is another territory of the Xiaoguo Army, and it is a territory that covers a large area and contains a lot of resources.

In addition to the relocation of the population, the collection of two armed forces, Zhao Xun also wantonly recruited these people who have not been evacuated in time to build the city, according to Zhao Xun's plan, this Liaozhou land, must build more cities, official roads, in order to achieve communication, convenient exchanges, in this way, in order to make the land of Liaozhou and Youzhou and Xiaoguo Army other state capitals very quickly in line.

In the land of Liaozhou, wood, herbs, furs and other items are abundant, and people in many places have a lot of such materials in their homes. In the past, because of the blockade policy of the Xiaoguo Army, these people had to store these things at home. But now, after the same commercial tax and countless Youzhou merchants entered the country, the commerce of this northern land immediately flourished.

By the time they arrived in mid-May, the entire Liaozhou region had gradually begun to regain its vitality, and the Xiaoguo army, which was originally stationed in the eastern three prefectures, was now stationed in all the large and small cities of Liaozhou. In addition, most of the shops in the cities have reopened, and some of them are run by merchants from the south, except for some of the original people of the city. Even in the wild mountains and forests, you can occasionally see those hunters who have been confiscated bows and arrows, big swords, and can only hold javelins and hunting forks up the mountain.

Because of last year's snow disaster, the Heishui Jin tribe and the Nanmuro Wei tribe who were ordered by Zhao Xun also suffered a catastrophe and stopped attacking the Heishui Jing tribe. Of course, the Black Water Sect is no better. After the Xiaoguo army came to the aid of Dingzhou, the Southern Murwei Department was already much better. At least, in the absence of the help of the Xiaoguo army, among the tribes, I am afraid that many people will starve to death and freeze to death. It is also because of this that the South Murwei Department has a good impression of the Xiaoguo Army, and it is also because of this that the Murwei Department sees the strength of the Xiaoguo Army and the soundness of logistics. Let them extinguish the idea of competing with the Great Yan Kingdom again. After all, he couldn't even survive a natural disaster, but the other party turned a blind eye to it.

The Xiaoguo army did not continue to fight any war with the Heishui Tribe, and after taking the Liaodong Kingdom and the Sumo Army, Zhao Xun temporarily set the border line. The land of Liaozhou is the important place where the Xiaoguo Army will operate next. After all, the north is bitterly cold, and the people are scarce, and after the attack, there may not be many people who can move inside.

The war stopped, and the mass migration and restoration of local development were dominant. Of course, it has also begun to spread out in a big way. Ever since before the winter of the previous year, the Black Water Warrior had expressed its submission to the Xiaoguo Army. Of course, Xiao Guojun's hand couldn't reach there at that time. In addition, there is no direct interest relationship between the two sides, so the Xiaoguo army did not take any measures against it, and now, the Black Water Sect and the Murwei Department have also begun to become the trade objects of Liaozhou merchants. In addition, the Goguryeo state of the Silla Peninsula, the land of Liaozhou and the three eastern provinces of Youzhou, suddenly became a trade route and important place in the north.

Cattle, sheep, horses, wild animals, etc., of the northern tribes, also entered the market at this time. Between the major tribes and states such as the Murowei tribe, the Heishui Jin tribe, and Goguryeo, the Tongguò was located in the land of the Eastern Three Prefectures and Liaozhou, and each took what he needed.

Later, Zhao Xun found that the business and trade atmosphere of this Liaozhou land is not bad, and at the same time, the wood of this Liaozhou land is the best material for shipbuilding, and the people here cannot be completely settled in the short term. Therefore, Zhao Xun asked the White Feather Merchant under his command and some merchants closely related to the Xiaoguo Army to open a lot of workshops here, basically producing all kinds of gadgets.

Finished medicines, clothing, boots, furniture, and even various ceramics and other utensils processed from medicinal materials, furs, wood, etc., except for grain and ironware, which are prohibited from being sold at will, basically other goods are allowed to be bought and sold in Liaozhou. After all, when commerce and trade start, the number of people will gradually increase. Only when the economy is up, can the place grow and develop.

Since taking Liaozhou, Goguryeo, which was originally a little antagonistic to the Xiaoguo army, and even sometimes caused friction, shrank suddenly, and no longer dared to harass the Xiaoguo army lightly. After Liaozhou was settled, Goguryeo quickly retreated to the south of the Yalu River and expressed friendship to the Xiaoguo army.

Zhao Xun didn't have a good impression of this Goguryeo, which was originally a small country on the Silla Peninsula, and took advantage of Dayan's internal and external troubles to expand northward. If it weren't for the strength of the Ya tribes, I am afraid that the territory occupied by the Ya tribes in the past would be occupied by Goguryeo. However, since Goguryeo was soft, and the Xiaoguo army was now focusing on fighting with the Turks, and also taking into account the situation in the Central Plains, Zhao Xun still responded to Goguryeo's attitude.

Of course, Zhao Xun also believes. As long as the Xiaoguo army is weakened, then this small country in the eastern corner will definitely rush out to the north. The current submission is just the fear of retaliation from the Xiaoguo Army.

However, this Goguryeo submission was soft, which was still extremely beneficial to Liaozhou and the three eastern prefectures. After Goguryeo retreated, the Eastern Three Prefectures no longer had to worry about Goguryeo's surprise attack, at least, after Goguryeo withdrew to the south of the Yalu River, after the Xiaoguo Army sent troops to garrison this place, the flanks of the Eastern Three Prefectures and then Liaozhou were much safer.

At the same time, after learning that the tribes of the Yan Dynasty had been pacified, and after learning that Goguryeo had been subdued, those merchants of the Central Plains in Jizhou, Qingzhou, and even further south were suddenly like cats that smelled fish. Because of the establishment of Liaozhou, this merchant learned from the White Feather Merchant and some merchants close to the Xiaoguo Army that this Liaozhou land is a good place for trade. Secondly, after learning that Goguryeo was soft, these southern merchants, especially those from the southeast, became even more energetic.

There is no need for the Xiaoguo army to do anything more, as soon as the end of the war comes out, especially the surrender of the Ya tribe and the submission of Goguryeo, the news of these merchants is no less than that of the princes everywhere, no, it should be said that the speed at which these merchants get the news is even faster than most of the princes.

Needless to say, most of them set off with the army, transporting grain and grass for the army, selling various materials, it can be said that in many cases, Youzhou merchants are almost an alternative baggage team. They were followed by merchants from Jizhou and Qingqingzhou, and they all flocked here. A variety of products from Liaozhou, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Murowei and other places became sought-after goods in the hands of merchants.

Even the young women of Goguryeo became the most eye-catching commodity in the hands of merchants in the Central Plains. Because in Goguryeo, there were many slaves in the hands of the nobles, and in addition to these nobles trafficking in human beings, more were captured by the Xiaoguo army. Yes, it was really captured, although Goguryeo softened, Zhao Xun had no intention of continuing to fight with Goguryeo. However, this does not mean that Zhao Xun has forgotten the idea that Goguryeo was preparing to act in the flank and rear when the Xiaoguo army and the Jin Yabu Road started a war last year. The war will not be fought, but the Xiaoguo army will still enter the territory of Goguryeo to carry out various activities. This capture of slaves was one of the great incomes.

These Goguryeo slave girls are indeed quite popular with the gentry and wealthy families of the Central Plains, as the so-called rare things are expensive, and they are also less things, the more valuable they are. In addition, Zhao Xun limited the number of Goguryeo female slaves traded, and only a small part was traded at a time, making the price of Goguryeo female slaves unspeakably expensive. Those aristocratic families in the Central Plains, and even those wealthy merchants, everyone wanted to buy one or two Goguryeo slave girls to go home. It seems that there are no one or two Goguryeo slave girls in the family, and they all seem to be embarrassed to hang out in front of people, and this Goguryeo slave girl has also become one of the standards for comparison among the Jiangnan clans.

A large number of medicinal herbs, furs, cattle, sheep, horses, livestock and other products from the northeast were transported to the southern Central Plains through guò merchants from all over the country, and in the same way, every time the merchants from the south did not come empty-handed, tea, porcelain, silk cloth, and even all kinds of consumer goods.

Because of the retreat of Goguryeo, because of the stability of Liaozhou, and because of the strength of the Xiaoguo army and navy, most of the merchants in the southeast region were merchants who carried out north-south trade, especially the merchants in the south of Yangzhou and Jiangzhou, and they were also through the sea merchants, who traveled between the north and the south to communicate the south and north of the Great Yan Kingdom. Of course, the same is true for land routes, in the territory of the Xiaoguo Army, the official roads in Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou and other places have been built very smoothly with the cooperation of countless displaced people and foreign captives. Among them, this is also related to materials such as cement.

It has to be said that semi-finished cement, which is far from meeting the standards of cement in later generations, does play a vital role here. At the very least, there is no need to worry about the official road becoming potholes and mud due to the rainy weather, and there is no need to worry about the water rushing through it, and he will become a series of trenches of different heights. Basically, these official roads are covered with cement, smooth and smooth, and there is no need to worry about the problems that often arise in this or that way. After all, unlike later generations, there are no large carts weighing a few tons or dozens of tons to pass.

Of course, the road is only part of the factors, and more importantly, the unified collection of commercial taxes in the territory of the Xiaoguo Army is based on the amount of goods sold, and the tax is levied on the basis of the documents in and out of the country. The most important thing is that the territory of this Xiaoguo army is safe, and there will be no attacks and harassment by bandits, rebels, rebels, and disaster victims who are led by war and chaos in various parts of the south. In the past, merchants from the south had to use guò by land, so it was very difficult to reach the land of Liaodong and Liaozhou from the south. On the long road, you have to worry about wars and robbers along the way, and in the end, you can make a profit, and the profit is very small, and you are even more afraid of being harassed by the local government.

However, now that the land of the three eastern provinces in the secluded north has been safe, Goguryeo, who often harassed the eastern three provinces, has also retreated. In other words, the land of Liaozhou and the southern part of Liaozhou all the way to the seaside will be safe. For merchants, it would be faster and safer to trade with the countries of the Silla Peninsula and with the northern provinces of Liaozhou.

In addition to this, these merchants could continue to enter the Silla Peninsula for trade. This was not possible before, and if these merchants entered the Silla Peninsula, unless they had a very special relationship, it was difficult to guarantee that they would not be oppressed by Goguryeo or even robbed of money.

However, this is no longer the case, and if the merchants want to continue south to Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, then they only need to pay a certain amount of protection money, and then the dart board under the banner of the Xiaoguo army will escort them along the way. Don't forget, this game was also run by Sergeant Xiaoguo after he was discharged from the army. In other words, these Xiaoguo armies are the backstage of these dart games. Unless Goguryeo and other countries want to start a complete war with the Xiaoguo army, they will never take these darts lightly.

Of course, these methods, in addition to allowing the Han caravan to trade on the Silla Peninsula and promoting the invincibility of the Xiaoguo army, were also to probe the intelligence here, and at the same time to buy off the nobles and ministers of various countries. Zhao Xun hoped that through these caravans, unknowingly, the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division would expand their power and establish an intelligence network in various countries.