Chapter 452: The Way of Conquest

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Youjing Linshuo Palace.

Since Wang Junkuo, Xue Wanche set out to conquer Saibei, and Li Chongjiu hung a huge map of Saibei in the room.

To the north of the Great Wall, it is called Saibei, since Qin Shi Huang connected the north of the countries to the city wall, and since the construction of the Great Wall, the outside of the Senese has become the division of the Han people.

Even later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu and conquered Mobei, but he only set up various departments of the grassland, but did not really set up a county system in this area to completely dominate.

After Tuoba Xianbei entered the Central Plains, the connection with Saibei gradually became estranged, and the grassland was ruled by Rouran, so Tuoba Xianbei built six towns outside the Great Wall in order to defend Pingcheng, plus Yuyi Town, which became the foothold of the Central Plains Dynasty outside the Saiwai.

But after the rebellion of the six towns, the border towns where heavy troops were stationed at the beginning were already barren, and the former warriors of the six towns, such as Yu Wentai, Yang Jian, and Li Yuan, successively entered the Central Plains, but they no longer had any intention of subduing the six towns.

Today, Li Chongjiu rises to Huaihuang, Yuyi two towns, so that the Central Plains forces to Mobei took a solid step, to this day, Li Chongjiu also dominates the two towns, with nearly 100,000 people, more than 30,000 Han people, here set up the weak water state capital.

Compared with four years ago, when Li Chongjiu first ascended the throne of Khan, the population of the two towns has tripled. Now outside the Great Wall, the territory of the capital of the weak water prefecture is marked on it, and its geographical area is almost the same as Li Chongjiu's current seven counties in Hebei.

Thinking of this, Li Chongjiu frowned, although the territory of control zhì is very wide, but his power in the grassland, has reached the critical point, the seven counties of Hebei, there are hundreds of large and small cities and pond forts, under the second level of the county and county, Li Chongjiu's order is conveyed at any time, but on the grassland, it is extremely difficult to reach such a large territory with Huai Famine, Yuyi and two towns, and control such a large territory. What's more, the two towns are still close to the Great Wall, and the Wuhou and Qinshui regions will inevitably be beyond their reach.

So this time Yan Yelie rebelled, although it was unexpected, but it was reasonable. Yan Yelie has always been a general of Li Chongjiu, and his tribesmen are loyal to the Zhao State, but they are loyal to Yan Yelie, not to the Zhao State.

Now that Yan Yelie is dead, it has sounded a wake-up call for Li Chongjiu, if in the future, generals such as Yinghefu, Eto, and Tudiji, in case of death, will their descendants still be loyal to themselves? If one day they abdicate their throne, will they be as loyal to their children as they are to their own children?

This is the defect of the fetters system, otherwise the unprecedentedly large Andong Protectorate of the historical Li Tang Dynasty would not have died out with the weakening of the Tang Empire.

At present, Li Chongjiu is only the son of the head of each ministry to move into Youjing, let them learn Sinology in the county school, and at the same time disguise himself as a hostage, to restrain the various ministries and make them not have the heart of rebellion. Once their father dies of illness, Li Chongjiu can appoint the son of the head man to become an official in any tribe.

But this is only a line better than Li Tang's fetters system. If we want to truly eradicate the disaster that has plagued the Central Plains for hundreds of years, this alone is not enough.

When Zhang Xuansu proposed to himself to pacify the Saiwai, he said that the hereditary system of chiefs among the tribes must be abolished, and the best policy to pacify the Saibei was to reassign the officials to govern.

Zhang Xuansu's words are deeply in line with Li Chongjiu's meaning, which is also the means used by the Ming and Qing dynasties to control the southwest Tusi in history.

However, Li Chongjiu also knew how much time it took to change the land and return to the southwest to the southwest, from the Tang army's defeat in Nanzhao, to the founding of Dali, to the rebellion of luxury at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and to the Qing Dynasty to successfully change the land and return to the stream, and there was no major chaos in the southwest. To carry out the policy of changing the land and returning to the stream,First, we must use strong force,Second, we must be able to accept the sinicization of the local people。

Just as to defeat a nation, it is enough to use force, but to conquer a nation, it is necessary to make the other side accept its own culture, or to absorb the other person's culture.

Li Chongjiu was able to build the capital of the weak water prefecture and the county of Liaoxi, and the reason is precisely because of these two.

This time, Zhang Xuansu was ordered by himself to assist Xue Wanche in his northern expedition, firstly, to quell the rebellion, and secondly, to let the forces of Zhao State further extend to the grassland.

At this moment, Wang Junkuo met with the envoy who claimed to be Fufu Yubu Yili Jin Qulie on the bank of the Wuhou Qinshui River.

This envoy was in his thirties, with the unique hair of the Khitans, riding two horses, and when the other party saw the scene of tens of thousands of cavalry drinking horses on the banks of the river and flying flags in the vast sea of grass, his face showed a look of shock, and he also restrained the arrogance of Fang Cai a lot.

"Meet your lordship." The other party said in Chinese, which is not fluent.

Wang Junkuo and Liu Yi glanced at each other and smiled, the Han people only call their parents adults, while the Fan people, Goguryeo are the leaders of the tribe, or people with official positions, are all called adults. Isn't it funny that this person calls them adults instead of parents?

"Erbu Kulje Khan, what is the important thing you want to come to us?"

The other party replied: "Dadu Hu, Qu Lie Khan asked me to inform that the Khitan lords led the army to discuss in Lengcheng Mountain, and they want to take advantage of the opportunity of the civil strife in Yan Yelie's department to loot and make up for the cattle, sheep and horses lost since the great cold last winter." ”

"Leng Cheng Mountain?"

Wang Junkuo and Liu Yi were all frowning, and a military master of the Xi Department said: "Lengcheng Mountain is north of Huangshui, and there are still five days of horse journey from here, and the Khitan, Xi, and Xia tribes take this as the boundary mountain, and the Khitan Khan Court often nomads here. ”

I heard that there is a five-day horse journey in Lengcheng Mountain, and all the generals know that the Khitan army is likely to be fully pressed towards Wuhou Qinshui at this moment.

At that moment, Wang Junkuo gave an order, and the army lords were on strict alert, and at the same time sent cavalry to swim across the river to reconnoiter the situation of Yan Yelie's troops north of Wuhou Qinshui.

Wang Jun said: "When the Khitan army comes, what is the attitude of Qulie Khan? ”

This person said: "Since the battle of White Wolf Mountain, the Lord Qu Lie was released by the Khan, and has been grateful for the great grace of the Khan, and now the Khitan tribes are willing to invade the south, although he is unwilling to invade the south, but he has no choice but to lead the people of the headquarters to come, he sent the villain to come and tell him, if several adults allow, he and his subordinates 3,000 warriors are willing to make internal responses. ”

Wang Junkuo nodded when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Very good, King Zhao will not forget JΓ¬ Qu Lie's thoughts." ”

The other party said happily: "Thank you for your understanding." In addition, Lord Qu Lie, also implored most of the capital to be careful, and this time, the Khitan also united Bai Fei and Nanmur Wei. ”

Just as Wang Junkuo was speaking, the army lord on the side came to announce and said: "Eto and Yinghefu have led 8,000 cavalry each, and have rushed here. In addition, Qiu Lihan also agreed to send 3,000 cavalry from the Mukun Department to reinforce him. ”

Wang Jun said: "When this Khitan envoy goes down to rest and entertain him, we will immediately go to see Eto, Yinghefu." ”

Although Wang Junkuo said that he was a good hospitality, the soldiers all knew that the Khitan envoy was taken under surveillance, and it was still unknown whether Qu Lie was really inferior or fake.

Although the Khitan regarded them as barbarians, they only said that their culture was vulgar, but the wisdom of the Khitans would never be inferior, although the other party had three sons as hostages, and now they were in Youjing. Wang Junkuo would never be careless at this point, and the Khitan envoy was strictly guarded at the moment. (To be continued.) )