In the spring of March in the northwest, the temperature began to warm up, under the blue sky and white clouds, on the desolate, dry and monotonous Mu Us Gobi, sea buckthorn and sand date saplings gradually emerged in the gravel field. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The water of the Yellow River on the other side of the river is turquoise, but it turns around on the Ulan side, flows through the Loess Plateau area of Helan Mountain through Hui and Lingzhou, and gradually becomes turbid in the northwest of Youzhou, and the soil erosion is very serious.

The Yellow River, which is still in the dry season, has only recently thawed, and the sharp-billed ospreys returning from the south for winter are flying on the surface of the water in groups to feed, or screaming and screaming to find a mate, and the wild yellow sheep, wild deer, bison and other animals that provoke drinking water by the river also watch from the neck, and some wild wolves hide behind the mounds on the river bank and watch from afar.

There was a dense sound of horses' hooves, and hundreds of knights trotted along the east bank of the Yellow River, startling the wild sheep to flee quickly, and the wild wolves, who had long been hungry, seized the opportunity to swoop away, chasing and galloping to the southeast.

The knight led by "Woo Hu ......" was Zhang Yue, he reined in his war horse and stopped on a mound on the bank of the river, looked back at Feng Qianhou, Li Shiwen and others who came up, and asked with a smile: "Look! How's that for here? ”

Wancheng was blown up, and the patriarch of the eighth department of the party also fought with Li Yiyin, and disappeared with that earth-shattering bang. The patriarchs of the various clans did not survive, but the clan leaders who actually managed the affairs of the tribe were still there, although the vitality of the eight tribes was greatly damaged, but they did not really die, and there were still some young and strong, hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, this is not what Zhang Yue wants to see.

At present, the new city has not yet been built, and after the troops of each town return to the town, Zhang Yue will demolish and clean up the ruins of Tongwan City and plan the construction of a new Yunzhong Mansion City These two important tasks were handed over to Hou Zhang, Gao Changhai, Du Yanhui and others to preside, and ordered the four states to summon eight small heads to come to the state to govern and meet.

It takes time for the order to be delivered, and all the tribes have lost a lot of young men in battle, and they are in a state of panic, and they don't know when they can arrive, Zhang Yue was idle, so he took his own soldiers north to Youzhou, visited and inspected the banks of the Yellow River in Jiuyuan, and now it is time to return.

"The soil in this place is not so desertified, and it should be feasible to build a city and resettle people! Build a military fort along the east bank of the Yellow River to Jiuyuan, connect with Shengzhou, and you can slowly operate. "Feng Qianhou still has a lot of military strategic vision, and he also attaches great importance to this Hetao.

"After all, it's a demographic problem! I don't know if the court can approve the relocation of the Gyeongju Fan Department, otherwise, I have to transfer a few tribes from Hahuang to occupy this place first. Zhang Yue is now immediately famous here in later generations, that is, Wuhai City on the bank of the Yellow River, more than 300 miles away from Yan'en County, Youzhou, and 200 miles away from the north of Lingzhou in the south, which is a very important transit place for the north to Jiuyuan.

"There is a vast area here, you can first transfer 10,000 people from the Dang clan to the party and the women to intermarry, and settle them to the north of Woyebo to boil salt, and if you have money and income, you can live in peace for a long time." Feng Qianhou proposed.

"Then send someone to Huining, inform the party Jinfu of the Second Regiment of the Zhenyuan Army, and let him handle this matter, if he himself is willing to come, he can be moved to Youzhou Defense Envoy. Judge Li should cooperate well and settle Youzhou as soon as possible. ”

The three counties of Youzhou are now garrisoned by Li Shiwen with 3,000 Shuo troops, and have been recommended as the history of Youzhou Thorn, under the rule of the main Yeci clan, Pochao clan, Mi Bao clan three clans, after the war there are less than 20,000 people left, of which women and children and the elderly account for more than half.

Under the persuasion and auspices of Zhang Yue's deliberate facilitation, Li Shiwen persuaded and presided over the marriage of party women who had lost their husbands with meritorious service to the garrison soldiers, completely abolishing the tribal model of the patriarch and the big and small heads ruling at various levels, and incorporating them into the state and county household registrations, which also solved many potential contradictions. Youzhou is only the first to pay for the test, and in the three prefectures of Xia, Yin, and Sui, Zhang Yue also intends to implement it in this way, and let the officers from all over the country who are temporarily stationed preside over it.

The beginning of spring is the time when cattle and horses begin to grow fat, and they eat hay all in winter, and this is the time to release it. Now that the war is over, except for the Li clan who was executed by the clan, the remaining prisoners of war have been released in batches, and the garrison has sent orders everywhere to calm the people, and the surviving old and weak people of the tribes are finally relieved. Those who died in the war are dead, and half of them are dead in Tongwan City, so what can they do, but the remaining widows and widows still have to live, and some herdsmen have already brought camp tents and small families, driving herds of horses, cattle and sheep to graze nearby.

In addition to the vicinity of Wuding River in Xiazhou City, south of Woyebo, and north of Wushui, this area is undoubtedly the most fertile place for water and grass in Xiasui Sizhou, and the surviving fine seal Bizan was stationed in Jingde County before the war, and was captured by Li Shiwen and Xue Chucun of the Shuofang Army and sent to the Wuding River camp for interrogation, and was beaten and bruised.

Because he is the younger brother of the former patriarch Xi Feng Bi Ci, he has a certain influence, plus his brother died in battle, but a pair of children are still there, Hou Zhang's old man actually left his niece Xi Feng Qiyue, and asked him to come forward to appease all ethnic groups and set an example.

In this regard, it is difficult for him to protect himself, and he is unwilling and dare not refuse, although his nephew is dissatisfied, but if he sacrifices a little girl in exchange for the survival of the tribe, this is more important than anything else in the eyes of Xifeng Bizan. So he agreed, and he was released, and he was given back some sheep and cattle and possessions. In the other tribes, many leaders refused to give in because of their stubbornness, and as a result, they were killed in this way, and all the tribal cattle, sheep and horses were confiscated.

The Xifeng family originally had 2,000 tents with slaves, but now less than half of them are left, and the state city is gone, and they are temporarily placed on the north bank of Wushui east of Qiwu Mountain. It is said that in April, the young and strong people were to be recruited to build a new city, and Xifeng Bizan had to hurry up to prepare, and as soon as he returned home, he took his tribe to graze along the banks of the Wushui River.

Seeing that the sheep who were gnawing a little grass seedlings were skinny, Bi Zan's heart was confused for a while, now that the Li family is gone, everyone has nowhere to go, so they can only rely on Da Zhou, it is said that a small amount of taxes will be collected at the beginning of the year, how can this life go on.

Suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, a biao of about three or four hundred horses were slowly walking towards this side, at a glance they knew that it was an official army, if they asked for cattle and sheep, what should they do, Xifeng Bizan was a little worried, riding a horse stiffly standing there, the horsewhip also hung down, I don't know whether to meet or not to salute.

"Huh? Someone actually came out to graze, but there was no ghost in the wild before the trip, and the old man Hou Zhang was okay...... "It was Zhang Yue who returned from Youzhou on horseback, and all the way was deserted and populated.

"It's been more than half a month, he has to do something!" Feng Qianhou nodded and smiled.

"Who's that! What tribe are you from? Is it assigned to Jingde County, or is it from Yunzhong Prefecture? Zhang Yue Lema stopped, beckoned from afar and asked, in the four counties under the rule of Xiazhou, the surviving population must be re-registered and settled.

The general in front of him looked extraordinary, not like an ordinary low-level officer, and he still had a little bit of a look in his eyes, so he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and trotted forward to press his chest as a salute.

"No courtesy, no courtesy!" Zhang Yue planned to stay and rest, seeing that the Qiang herdsmen in front of him still saluted according to their chests, he immediately frowned and did not like it, and now he is implementing the naturalization policy and implementing the change of customs, Zhang Yue jumped down from the horse, smiled and corrected: "You must understand, since you are begging for a living in the land of the Great Zhou, that is, a Zhou person, and when you see an official in the future, or a member of your own family, you have to bow your hand, do you know?" ”

"This ...... Is it appropriate? We have been this custom for generations, will it offend the gods if it is suddenly changed, I am afraid that the clansmen will also complain...... "It is not stupid to seal Bizan, if even the etiquette is changed to follow the Han rites of the Central Plains, the party will not be completely destroyed."

"How so? The gods only favor the honest, and if you believe in the gods in your heart, then naturally you can't even be vague about etiquette. Although the Li family is the minister of the Great Zhou, they have been abandoned by the gods, do you still want to follow in his footsteps. ”

What kind of gods, Zhang Yue believes in it, he has always been an atheist, and now he is just a victor in the way of clever words. And the failed party members, if the Zhou army doesn't kill them all, thank God, who dares to have half a word of nonsense. (To be continued.) )