Chapter 62: Northland County (1)
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"Xuan Xiu, when did your ancestor move into Guanzhong?" Sima Shu rode on his horse and asked Li Te, who was beside him.
After a period of understanding, Sima Shu knew that the Sinicization of Di people like Li Teh and them was very serious, except for vaguely knowing that their ancestors were Di people who moved inward, there was no difference from the Han people in other aspects.
Li Te, who was next to him, smiled honestly, and then replied in standard "official dialect": "As early as the Jian'an period, the ancestors of the ministers moved to Guanzhong, and the ancestors of the original ministers were made a minor official by Emperor Wu of Wei because of their bravery in battle, and then moved their families into Guanzhong. ”
"It is said that when the ancestor of the first minister was fighting the enemy, he cut off the heads of four enemy cavalry in a row, and it happened to be seen by Emperor Wei Wu, who was inspecting the battlefield, so he rewarded my ancestor with joy." Speaking of this, Li Te's face was full of pride, and it seemed that he was very honored that his ancestor was praised by Emperor Wu of Wei.
"Yes, at the beginning, the Qiang and Di tribes had fought bloodily and made great contributions to the battle of Chinese unification. But now because King Zhao is ravaging Guanzhong, the Di people have rebelled from the imperial court, which is very undesirable. However, Gu knew that most of the Di people were still willing to live in peace with the Han Chinese. ”
"Xuan Xiu, do you know how to eliminate disputes and wars between various races?" Sima Shu asked suddenly.
Li Te thought carefully for a while, during this period of time he was by Sima Shu's side, and he came into contact with many views on ethnic integration, and he very much agreed with the prince's view of "one nation, one culture, and one country", and was very willing to let the entire Di people integrate into the Han nationality.
Because he himself is a realistic column, and he is different from Qi Wannian, who has not been sinicized, he himself has almost been completely sinicized, so he can feel the charm of Han culture. Qi Wannian is different, Qi Wannian only superficially accepts the rule of the Han people, but in fact he is the ruler of a Di separatist regime.
"In order to completely eliminate the strife between various ethnic groups, it is necessary to realize the ideal of 'one country, one people, one culture' as His Highness said, and only when we are all the same kind of people and live under the same country can we achieve true peace."
"Well, Xuan Xiu, you have made a lot of progress! It is well said that the war between the Han people and the Xiongnu in the former dynasty lasted for more than a hundred years, and how many people died during this period? Lone didn't want this tragedy to happen again. Although you are from the Di ethnic group, do you see the difference between yourself and the Han people? ”
"In the future, I want all the Di people to learn Chinese characters, read Chinese books, and be Han people like you, and move all the Di people who live in the deep mountains and old forests to Guanzhong, the Central Plains, and even the Jiangdong region, so that they can be real Han people. Do you think those people are willing? ”
"If His Royal Highness is really willing to give the Di people a chance to become Han Chinese, I believe that no one can refuse such a good thing! Your Highness doesn't know, in fact, the life of our Di people is also very miserable, especially those Hu people who live at the bottom, if Your Highness can treat them equally, I believe that more Hu people will defect to Your Highness. ”
"Well, this matter is easier said than done, but no matter how difficult it is, this palace will not give up. Of course, just in case, Gu plans to try it out in Beidi and Feng Yi counties. These two counties are basically a mixture of Hu and Han, and the Hu people are mainly Xiongnu and Qiang, accounting for more than half of the population of the two counties. ”
"If these two counties can successfully realize the idea of turning Hu into Han, Gu plans to implement this measure in the entire Guanzhong, and then Xuan Xiu must help Gu Ji."
"Your Highness rest assured, the minister is willing to smear His Highness's liver and brain, and he will never give up."
Li Te, who said this, was also sincere, the prince had the grace of knowing him, and directly promoted him from a grass man to the chief general of an army, and became the prince's confidant. And the prince is very important to him, this time on the order of King Liang to go to Beidi County, the prince insisted on taking the four brothers of the Li family, leaving Zu Ti and others to guard the camp.
It turned out that after a month's rest, in the sixth year of Yuankang, after Sima Shu initially completed the recruit training, Sun Xiu issued an order to send troops through the King of Liang, and he seemed to know that the prince had completed the recruit training, so he did not hesitate to send the prince to Beidi and Fengyi two counties, responsible for suppressing the rebellion in the two places.
And Meng Guan, Xiahou Jun, Liu Yuan, Xie and others commanded an army of 60,000 to attack the rebels' lair, Anding County.
When Meng Guan and the crown prince set out with a large army respectively, King Liang suddenly became idle, drinking all day long and ignoring other things. Even when Meng Guan sent the news that the army had successfully recovered the lost territory, King Liang only nodded slightly, and only buried his head in drinking: "Let General Sun Xiu do it!" From now on, everything will be handled by General Sun! ”
Several staff members advised him in many ways, and King Liang still went his own way. Some people who saw the wind and steered slowly gathered around Sun Xiu. It didn't take long for Sun Xiu to become the de facto controller of the army. Sun Xiu was very happy about this, he not only took the opportunity to transfer the prince to the north, but also secretly colluded with the Huns to prepare for action.
This time he was ordered to go on the expedition, Sima Shu did not take Zu Ti and Sima Ya, but let them stay in the camp and be responsible for guarding important materials, the most important of which is to prevent firearms leakage, and the other is to be responsible for training recruits.
Since Qi Wannian's defeat, the Hu people in Guanzhong who were about to move suddenly became honest, although Sima Shu knew that this calm was just the calm before the storm, but he lacked time and a stable external environment now.
Riding on a tall horse, Sima Shu looked at the newly recruited Hu cavalry wearing Han soldiers' uniforms, and was a little emotional. To tell the truth, the Hu people were still very envious of the life of the Han people, so when Sima Shu proposed to give the Hu soldiers the identity of Han people, whether it was the declining Di people, or the Huns and Qiang people living at the bottom, they came to enlist in the army.
In the end, Sima Shu was stunned to recruit 5,000 Hu allied troops, plus 1,000 Han people in Guanzhong who were good at riding and shooting, Sima Shu broke them up and formed a cavalry team of an army, each with two horses.
This force was different from the dragoons in that it was a light cavalry in the traditional sense, which was established by Sima Shu following the example of the Mongol cavalry that later dominated the world.
This time, on the order of King Liang, he went to Beidi and Fengyi counties, and Sima Shu only brought 6,000 cavalry of the new army, on the one hand, it was to train the new army, on the other hand, the main force of the rebel army had been eliminated, and the rest was no longer to worry about.
"Why doesn't Your Highness bring dragoons?" Zu Yue followed behind Sima Shu and asked quietly, "Isn't this unsafe?" These 6,000 are recruits who have only been trained for a month? In case of ......"
Sima Shu only brought four Li Te's brothers with him on this expedition, and as for Zu Ti and Sima Ya, they were all left by the prince to guard the camp, and in the end, Zu Ti was not at ease, so he asked his brother Zu Yue to follow and protect the prince.
"Don't worry, at the moment, the main force of the Hu rebels has been defeated, and most of the remaining forces are concentrated in Anding County, as for where we are going, there are basically no large-scale Hu rebels, we are just going through the motions."
Sima Shu did not take Zu Ti and them on the expedition, also out of balance considerations, Zu Ti followed him the earliest, and made the greatest contributions, and now he is the first general under his command. If you take Zu Ti with you every time you go on an expedition, there will definitely be a situation in the future where you will have high achievements and no seals, which is not a good thing for Sima Shu and Zu Ti.
Therefore, from now on, Sima Shu must cultivate another group of forces in the army to prevent the emergence of a situation in which one family dominates. And the Li Teh brothers just met Sima Shu's requirements, so they took this opportunity to take them out to experience and make some contributions by the way.
The army led by the crown prince did not greet King Liang before leaving, but set off directly from the camp of Haoqi and crossed Jingshui to Beidi County. Maybe it's a hundred secrets, maybe it's a wise man's thousand worries, in short, Sima Shu knew that the Di people were mainly concentrated in Wudu, Yinping, and Anding counties, and still obeyed the dispatch of King Liang to go to Beidi County, where the Huns and Qiang people gathered.
After crossing the Jingshui, the army will pass through a place called Jie Xue Mountain, which is high and steep, but the mountain is high but easy to climb. From the Ertai peak, five main mountain beams extend to the northeast, forming a fan-shaped landform dominated by the northeast slope. The five peaks are the highest point of the five mountain beams, and the southern slope of the peaks is steep, like a knife and an axe.
Emperor Xuanyuan, the ancestor of Chinese humanities, once cast a tripod here, according to the "Historical Records" record: the Yellow Emperor cast the sun of Jingshan (Xue Mountain), and Dingcheng drove the dragon to ascend to heaven. In the Tang Dynasty in later generations, Dingzhou was set up here, and there was a stone tablet of "Yellow Emperor Casting Ding", and the people here have been glorified for thousands of years.
Sima Shu rode to the foot of the Xue Mountain, and ordered the army to set up camp at the foot of the mountain, and he was ready to pay tribute to the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor this time, mainly to carry out ideological education for these recruits, and its core was to instill the concept of "one nation, one culture, and one country" to the people.
"Your Highness, is this the place where Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor cast the Ding?" Li Tet asked in disbelief as he looked at the bare stones around him.
"Of course, let's go, let's go up and worship Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor!" Sima Shu stepped forward on foot, climbed to the top and looked south of Xue Mountain, Jing Wei was distinct, and the Guanzhong Plain was in full view.
Sima Shu asked people to put the livestock and incense burners prepared in advance on the ground, looked at the surrounding rolling mountains, and sighed: "Since the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor passed down the civilization, my Huaxia has been threatened by barbarian peoples. Especially during the Han Dynasty, the Huns threatened for more than a hundred years, and until now they are still threatening the northern part of China. ”
"In the future, once there is a chance, Lone will completely solve the problem in the north no matter what, and Lone hopes that after my Great Jin, there will be no Hu people in the north!"
Here Sima Shu is busy going out, and the king of Liang is also mobilizing a large army to prepare for the final blow to the Di rebels. However, no one noticed, and halfway through, the 5,000 Huns suddenly broke away from the main army and quietly galloped away in the northeast direction.