Chapter 251: Grassland
Wu Yingying pondered Zhang Zhongyao's proposal, which was indeed good. Different from the notorious towns in the Central Plains, the four towns of Anxi are simply synonymous with loyal ministers and good generals in the history books. The soldiers of the four towns of Anxi, before the Kaiyuan Tianbao, competed with the Turks, Uighurs, Tibetans, and Arabs in the Hanhai of the Western Regions, spilled blood with their heads, and opened up thousands of miles of territory for the imperial court. In the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court issued an edict, and the soldiers of the four towns returned to help, going forward one after another, Gao Xianzhi sealed Changqing and beheaded Tongguan, Cai Siye died in Yecheng, and Duan Xiushi died in the rebellion.
The so-called people's hearts are like scales, although the hometown of the four towns of Anxi has been reduced to a foreign land, but the loyalty and courage of the soldiers of the four towns have left an extremely deep impression on the court and the people of the Central Plains. "The strange soldiers are not in the crowd, and ten thousand horses save the Central Plains. There is no Hebei in talking and laughing, and the heart and liver are supreme. The lonely cloud follows the murderous aura, and the birds avoid the door. The joy of the day, the city is not noisy" is a true portrayal of the officers and soldiers of the four towns of Anxi.
"Although the four towns of Anxi have fallen, there have been wars between different races for a hundred years, and there are still many generals and soldiers of the Han town who have worked hard to insist, but the Western Regions is vast and thousands of miles, and the soldiers and people in each place are hundreds of hundreds, and the big ones are thousands. Zhang Zhongyao saw that Wu Yingying was still thinking, and was afraid that he would not be able to give up the prestige of Shuo Fangjiedu's envoy, so he added.
When the generals of the ancestors such as Fu Renliang and Shi Gongda from the Western Regions learned that the imperial court had given the envoy of the Fang Jiedu to Fengshuo, they didn't realize anything, and Zhang Zhongyao mentioned the word Anxi, but they were all shocked and moved, and they unconsciously sat upright. Wu Yingying quietly observed the reaction of the generals, and sighed in his heart, the four towns of Anxi have been annihilated for hundreds of years, and they still have prestige. Thinking of this, he nodded and said in a deep voice: "What Captain Zhang said is very true, I will write a letter here to refrain and ask the court to change the title of Anxi Jiedu." "It's the same fictitious title, exchanging Shuo Fang for Anxi, it is to use high to low, Wu Yingying talks about his loyalty, and the court has no reason to allow it. All the generals were happy, and they all felt honored.
Seeing that all the generals had no objections, Wu Yingying sent a military envoy to convey the intention of changing the town, and in the next few days, he began to arrange things during his visit to the court.
"The land west of the river is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, and although there are natural barriers of mountains on both sides, it is still easy to be cut off by the enemy. In order to gain more room for maneuver, the hussars should send cavalry detachments to subdue the grassland tribes north of Horsehair Mountain, Heli Mountain, and Longshou Mountain, and strive to turn the Qianli grassland north of the corridor into the pasture of our army. Seeing Xin Gu receiving the order, Wu Yingying nodded, and the hussars organized and carried out the battle to subdue the grassland tribes. The ruling system established by the sergeants as the backbone to manage the steppe tribes, the ten-captain, the centurion, and the lieutenant were actually similar to the ruling system established by the later generations of Temujin to unify the steppe. It's just that Temujin made more use of his own nobles and cronies to establish a ruling core, and used iron-blooded killing to annex other tribes. Wu Yingying, on the other hand, took advantage of the desire of the brave but unidentified warriors of the tribe to change their status, and established a ruling order based on the sergeant-shade system on the steppe in a more peaceful way.
Warriors with strength and brains are the rulers personally arranged by the Immortal Heaven, and the nobles who claim to be noble in blood but steal the high positions of the tribe are nothing but thieves and liars. These stupid and not enlightened aristocratic leaders are the root cause of the backwardness of the steppe tribes compared to the Central Plains. The elders of Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and Nestorianism all vowed that the army of the Great Khan of Wu was carrying out the will of God, and that it was time for the world to open up the world and replace the generation with a new group of people to hold power. The life of the grassland people can be as rich, decent, and even noble as the Han people of the Central Plains.
Whether it is the Central Plains or the grassland, it is the government that rules the society, and on the surface it is the government, the army, and the sword, but in essence, the ruling machine of these forces is just the last pass, and what really maintains the operation of society is the order recognized by everyone, this order, or the law of the fair, or the rules hidden at the beginning and the end. What really makes cattle and sheep lower their heads to eat grass is not the wolf's fangs and claws, but God's arrangement, the wolf eats the sheep, and the sheep eat grass, which is the will of God.
And the so-called moral order is just a metaphor borrowed from the destiny of heaven, just like Wu Yingying at this moment with the help of divine will, so that thousands of people, up and down, believe that life is like this. But in reality, human will is not providential. It's like all laws can't be broken like the laws of physics and chemistry.
But suddenly, there was a force carrying a new concept, like a storm, so that the cattle and sheep suddenly discovered that they were not born to eat grass, as long as they have sharp teeth and claws, they are wolves, they can be bloodthirsty, and they can make those walking corpses who were originally high above become sacrifices in the era of change, and become weak cattle and sheep. By this time, all the majesty and force that had maintained the old order was nothing more than a layer of paper gently lifted by this hurried and sudden change in the face of the restless wind. Now, through his hussars, Wu Yingying has told all the low-level tribal warriors of the steppe that you can, change.
This is the new concept that the Anxi army will spare no effort to promote in the grasslands in the next few years, if not decades, with scimitars, bows and arrows, and wealth, which will disintegrate the tribes from their roots more than burning the pastures, and continuously replenish the manpower, land, cattle and sheep into the growing towering tree of the Anxi army.
Listening to Wu Yingying's calm arrangement of events, Xingu believed that from the land of sunrise to the land of sunset, this great tree would shade all the pastures, mountains, lakes and swamps. In an instant, the hussars were in the position of deputy envoys, and the hussars were commanding high positions such as Xingu, and there was also a feeling of dedication to this. When Wu Yingying turned his head and explained to Luo Youtong about the attack on Qingtang City, Xin Gu Fang broke free from the feeling of almost converting to religion, which felt a little awkward, and then looked at Wu Yingying's gaze, and there was a complicated and incomprehensible respect.
"It has been several months since our army defeated the Uighurs of Ganzhou, but there is still no movement on the part of the Uighurs of Gaochang and Khotan, and it seems that not only is the road far away, but there is no relationship between the two Uighurs and the Uighurs of Ganzhou. There is still a large area of borderless land between Hexi and Gaochang and Khotan, our army can slowly infiltrate, and subdue large and small forces along the way, Chase led the Jiaorong army to operate the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains in Yumen Pass, General Xiao sat in my Dunhuang after arriving in Hexi, and Guo Nian led two thousand Lianrui troops out of Yangguan to manage the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. He paused for a moment, and then added: "Cai Shengtian, the king of Khotan, admires China and has been at war with the Qarakhanid Dynasty for many years, so as long as he does not threaten the hinterland of his headquarters, he should not be very resistant to the westward advance of our army, and it is even possible to ask our Anxi army to join forces, and before I return, I can contact him." Guo Nian nodded and replied yes, the Lord of the Heart Dao had never set foot in the Western Regions, and he knew the situation over there well, and secretly admired.