Zhang Xi took in the Qiang women and children, Zhuge Liang still knew about it after all.

For such a big matter, the sudden increase in food consumption, Zhang Xi must have to report it to Zhuge Liang, otherwise there is no way to explain it.

Zhuge Liang expressed his appreciation for Zhang Xi's approach.

Although it is a bit stupid to do this from a practical point of view, and it is a big risk in vain, it is not in line with Confucian values to see death and not save such a thing.

It is true that Confucianism pays attention to "repaying virtue with virtue and repaying grievances with straightforwardness", but it also pays attention to "benevolence" and "do unto others what you do not want to be done to yourself".

Zhang Xi did this, there is no problem.

Again, Zhuge Liang led the troops to fight this time, not only to quell the rebellion, but more importantly, to appease the Qiang people and stabilize the rear after the war, otherwise it will always be a trouble for the Qiang people to make trouble during the Northern Expedition in the future.

And with Zhang Xi's acceptance this time, it will be much easier to divide and appease the Qiang people in the future.

To a certain extent, Zhang Xi's acceptance of Qiang women and children this time is also to pave the way for Zhuge Liang's future appeasement work.

But in the end, it will be after the beginning of spring, and the top priority now is to let Zhang Xi hold Xixian and wait for the next spring to use troops.

Zhuge Liang has learned through the subtle work lurking in Nan'an County that there are many internal contradictions among the Qiang people in Nan'an County, and the five Qiang tribes are busy annexing small and medium-sized tribes, which has caused a lot of contradictions because of their ugly appearance.

In addition, between the five tribes of the Qiang people, there are also some gaps due to the annexation of small and medium-sized tribes, and now the five tribes of the Qiang people are based in one place, and there is a faint sense of mutual defense and mutual suspicion.

Now that the road is closed by heavy snow, the Qiang people cannot return to the grassland in the snow, so they are more restrained.

Once these people have the ability to return to the grassland, then these contradictions will erupt sooner or later.

What Zhuge Liang has to do is to take advantage of the uneven hearts of the Qiang people to launch another surprise attack to completely defeat this rebellious Qiang coalition army and weaken the power of the Qiang people on the grassland.

A concerted and powerful Qiang alliance is not what Zhuge Liang wants to see, only a Qiang alliance with its own ghosts, suspicion of each other, but lack of strength, and has to rely on the Han to survive, only has the need to support it.

In this way, we can truly solve the problem of the Qiang people, stabilize the rear, and add chaos to the Han people in this province.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang definitely couldn't just let the people of the five tribes of the Qiang people return to the grassland safely.

These five leaders, after this annexation, will more or less strengthen some strength, and if the leaders of these five tribes can still maintain a superficial alliance, then the next time the Qiang people make trouble, the threat will be as small.

Must fight again.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang sent a message to Zhang Xi, asking Zhang Xi to prepare, and once the snow melted in spring, he would immediately lead his troops to the north to attack Nan'an County, delay the speed of the Qiang people's five divisions to return to the grassland, and give the main army the main force to enter Nan'an County to the west and defeat the Qiang people's five divisions again to gain time.

After Zhang Xi received the military order, he found Pang De and Ma Dai and pondered it together. Actually, it's not that hard.

Xixian is just south of Nan'an County, and the distance between the two sides is not far.

Today's Xixian defenders, with 8,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, can use cavalry to harass the retreat speed of the Qiang-Hu coalition army, 8,000 cavalry quickly went north, seized the Di Dao on the west side of the Dao, blocked the shortcut for the Qiang-Hu coalition army to return to the grassland, forced them to retreat from Longxi County, and bought time for Zhuge Liang's main Han army.

As for whether the 11,000-step cavalry coalition army can block the Qiang-Hu coalition army, which is still at least 70,000 or 80,000, Zhang Xi thinks that it will not be a problem to block it for about ten days.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Qiang-Hu coalition army is like that, and Zhang Xi has already learned it.

And Di Dao is not a place without danger to defend, Di Dao is a small city in Di Dao City, but it's better to have a city than no city.

Moreover, with Zhuge Liang's ability to lead the army, ten days was enough for him to advance westward from Ji County, enter Nan'an County, and attack the flank of the Qianghu coalition army.

Even the longer Zhang Xi can hold back the Qiang-Hu coalition army, the greater the results Zhuge Liang will achieve.

This situation is basically similar to the situation in Nanzhong in Zhang Xi's early years.

It's just that this time Zhang Xi took on the role of Li Hui, making a detour to encircle the Qianghu coalition army, and Zhuge Liang's road was the real main attack.

It's just that there is a small problem here - what should I do with these more than 10,000 Qiang women and children?!

After all, there are few troops on his side, and if he sends troops, he will inevitably pour out of the nest and leave more than 10,000 Qiang women and children in Xixian, in case something happens, it will also be a trouble.

You must know that Qiang women have always been famous for their vigor, although they are not as good as men, but they are not without combat effectiveness at all.

Once Zhang Xi leads the troops to the battle, what should be done with these Qiang women and children?!

And for this question. Pound and Ma Dai said they had a solution.

Zhang Xi immediately humbly asked for advice.

But what these two people say, it's not human words.

Ma Dai said, he sent someone to investigate, although there are now more than 10,000 Qiang women and children in the city, belonging to more than 30 different tribes, but among these 30 tribes, the largest and the largest number of tribesmen are three.

And unfortunately, the leaders of these three tribes were all killed in the previous two battles.

So now things are simple, the three of them can discuss, each of them take the widow or daughter of a tribal leader as a concubine, so that it is their own person, and then through these three slightly older tribesmen, they can control the women and children of other small tribes.

In this way, even if the whole army is mobilized in the spring of next year, there will be people in Xixian County to control these Qianghu women and children, and there will be no big chaos.

That's the idea given by these two heartless goods.

Zhang Xi objected on the spot!!

Good guy, I'm going to do this, and I can still have a good life after returning to Chang'an City?!

Besides, why do you take other people's widows and orphans as concubines, and people will listen to you, don't forget, other people's husbands or fathers died in our hands.

Great hatred, where is it so easy to forget?!

It's really an incredible thing to stay in Han Land, but. This is the northwest borderland, and the other party is a Qianghu woman and child.

The Qiang people have a view of marriage, which can confirm that the ancestors of the people also have the inheritance of the Eight Classics, and compared with other Hu people, they have to be more disciplined.

But the problem is that the living environment in the northwest of Liangzhou is really not very good, and from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, the Liangzhou region has not been very stable, and under the pressure of life, although the Qiang people have a concept of marriage, but the concept of chastity is really not strong.

Even, in the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, widowers remarrying were also everywhere in the Han Dynasty, and even Cao Cao's wives and concubines had widows who remarried.

Except for those big families who are well fed and supported, no one will say anything about these poor women.

By the way, although Cao Cao is often jokingly said to be a good wife, in fact, Cao Cao is just simply lustful, as long as he likes it, he doesn't care if the other party is a widow or not.

All in all, the way of the world is like this, especially in the northwest, there is no shame in remarrying a widow.

As the widows and orphans of these Qiang tribal leaders, they themselves have a certain influence in the tribe, and now the identities of these women and children are at best called captives, if it is ugly, according to the rules of the grassland, they are now slaves.

If Zhang Xi and the others are really willing to accept the widows and orphans of these three tribes as concubines, then not only will the widows and orphans themselves have something to rely on, but their clansmen will also have a backer, in this case, they will not care whether their tribal leaders are Qiang or not.

This kind of thing is too common in the grassland.

And Zhang Xi and the three of them can also use this relationship to guide the clansmen of these three tribes and let them manage other women and children, which is much more useful than leaving soldiers to guard these women and children.

Although Pound and Ma Dai don't understand what the "two-devil effect" is, they have been in the Northwest for so many years, and there are too many similar scenes to see.

One more. Pang De and Ma Dai really don't understand, they gave you a woman for nothing, why do you Zhang Yuanchang still have a sad face? !

It's the widow or orphan daughter of the tribal leader, in terms of appearance, it must be one of the best in a tribe, and even in many surrounding tribes.

And the Qiang people are not the same as other Hu people, the Qiang people are very close to the Han people from facial features to aesthetics, and even some etiquette rules, and it is rumored that the ancestors of the Qiang people are even Emperor Yan. It's not like you're going to take an ugly bastard home, as for it!

Well, even if you take a step back, this can barely be regarded as a political marriage, and it is also conducive to the stability of the future The beauty and ugliness of the place do not matter at all, it is important whether it is beneficial to the Han Dynasty!!

You, Zhang Yuanchang, as the assassin of Yongzhou and an important minister of the imperial court, how can you be so unconscious?!

Really, it's really shameless to say this to these two goods!!

Is this the way to stabilize the place?!

If this can also stabilize the place, why don't you two marry the daughters of the leaders of the Qiang tribe?! Or, why don't you two find one for our Prime Minister Zhuge too?!

What kind of "couch Su Wu" style strategy is this?!

Besides, if this method can appease the Qiang people, what else do you two want to do?!

A captain of Huqiang, a Sima of Qinzhou, can't the two of you have some way of thinking in your minds that a normal military general should have?!

In a word - you two make excuses for being, don't drag me into the water!!

Lao Tzu really dares to do this, and when he returns to the backyard of Yongzhou Thorn Mansion, Lao Tzu will kneel on the washboard!!!

(End of chapter)