Chapter 295: Building Yanmen
The next day, the new Yanmen Taishou Xun You rushed to the Yin Pavilion, and the first thing Xun You did when he took office was to publicly try all the leaders of the Southern Xiongnu tribes and the county officials who were connected with these people.
The public trial was held in the abandoned school grounds, and all the officials of the Yanmen Mansion and the Yinguan County Government were asked to be present at the scene, and even the former Taishou Liu De was guarded and stood aside waiting for someone to expose him.
Although most Han Chinese officials bowed their heads only under the threat of the Huns, the common people would not easily forgive them.
As the Taishou of Yanmen, Liude had more than 200,000 Han people and thousands of county soldiers as the backing, but he chose to open the door, and the entry of the Xiongnu soldiers and horses became the focus of many people's criticism.
The heads of several families even cried that Wang Yong was helping the leaders of the small tribes of the Huns to find young women in the territory.
Especially beautiful women from big families, in order to win the favor of these Hun leaders, they don't even care if they are married or not!
Liu De has been in Yanmen for eight years, and after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the imperial court has no heart to manage this side. These eight years are also the eight years when the Southern Xiongnu Yuvluo and other tribes quickly moved south, and it is also the eight years when the Yanmen Han people were completely enslaved by the Xiongnu.
Therefore, the crimes of virtue can be described as innumerable. Liu De also thought about contacting Wei Xuan before, but Wei Xuan did not give him a chance, but directly sent troops to occupy Yanmen.
The imperial court couldn't lock him up eight years ago, and now it's impossible for him to cry to the imperial court. Now the only thing he can count on is for the Huns to fight back as soon as possible, and maybe he can be the Taishou again.
But he didn't have a chance, because Xun You convicted him of death on the spot, and he was going to be beheaded for public display just after General Zhengxi's approval.
Seventeen people were convicted and 11 were dismissed. Next, with the recovery of the other 13 counties of Yanmen, it is expected that more officials will be punished in the future.
The concentrated Yanmen soldiers were also taken over by Zhang Liao, and after collecting the weapons, they were handed over to Xun You for disposal, because Zhang Liao was not allowed to expand his troops privately, and he didn't look down on these cowards.
Xun You just needs to recruit people, these people who are willing to stay in Hua can still stay to eat official meals, and those who are unwilling can also choose Juntun and Mintun.
Soon the exciting news came, because the Flying Tiger Army seized the pass out of the county for the first time, a large number of Huns became prisoners.
Wei Xuan gave the three soldiers and horses fifteen days to recover the entire territory of Yanmen, but Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and others made the Huns terrified with their bravery!
However, in five days, more than 500 Xiongnu and other scattered Xiongnu of the three tribes in Yanmen were killed, more than 3,000 Xiongnu became prisoners in the war, and more than 15,000 old and young women and children of the three tribes became prisoners with their cattle, sheep, and war horses.
More than 10,000 war horses, more than 8,000 cattle, and 780,000 sheep are the biggest harvest of the army occupying Yanmen.
Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were also dumbfounded when they saw these loot. What they don't know is that these cattle, sheep and horses, which seem to be worth a lot of money, were exchanged for millions of acres of arable land by hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese people.
At least 30,000 Han Chinese were rescued from these Huns' tents. Seeing this shocking figure, Zhang Liao couldn't be happy, because of the cowardice and inaction of the officials, the Huns actually controlled Yanmen County, where there were more than 200,000 Han Chinese, with less than 3,000 wars and a population of 20,000, and also oppressed more than 30,000 slaves for a long time.
It may take a few days to recover Yanmen in five days, but this is undoubtedly great news for the victims of Yanmen County, because they can carry out spring plowing with peace of mind.
In accordance with the deployment before the war, Xun You openly sold some of the cattle and sheep, and the price was only 50% of the local market price in Yanmen.
For those who were really in difficulty and the slaves who had just gained their freedom and Han household registration, they only needed to issue an IOU to the Taishou Mansion to take away a ploughing ox and five sheep.
Many heads of wealthy families privately asked Xun You, the new Taishou, through Li Yan, why didn't General Zhengxi give those cattle and sheep to the needy households in the county for free since he wanted to buy the hearts of the people, Xun You smiled and said nothing, or his own general was wise.
In Wei Xuan's plan, the government could not urge the people who borrowed cattle and sheep, but it must not tell them that the cattle and sheep did not want money.
The experience of poverty alleviation in later generations has long told him that for those lazy people in remote mountainous areas, if it is free, they will kill and eat meat as soon as possible.
No matter how much it is, it will be given for nothing. Then the entire Yanmen County took action, and with the supervision and help of the army, some people sent herds of cattle and sheep to Taiyuan, Shangdang and other places, and the spring ploughing here was about to begin.
And all the freed slaves received the good news that the government provided cattle and sheep and seeds, all without interest.
And because the Huns in Yanmen County were all concentrated, Taishou Xun wanted to recruit people, and after listening to the treatment, nearly 10,000 people signed up, and many bold people have applied to immigrate to Yunzhong and Dingxiang.
Because the government's preferential policy is not to collect taxes for three years, the Hu people robbed the government for compensation. The total number of slaves who applied for immigration and Yanmen County was as high as 50,000, which is about the same as the population of a county in the interior, but there may not be so many people in Dingxiang and Yunzhong counties.
Wei Xuan didn't expect these people to pay taxes, but he still hoped that they would sell their grain to the local garrison.
So the support policy is in place in one step! Of course, with the first assistant of Yanmen, they can also enjoy the policies enjoyed by wealthy families in Taiyuan, Hedong and other places, such as the enrollment of the second phase of Luoyang Academy, which is about to open, will take care of Yanmen.
The news came out that the wealthy families in the 13 counties of Yanmen rushed to tell each other, they had not been separated from the Han court for a long time, and they did not know much about the situation in the Han Dynasty, but they knew what the Luoyang Academy with Zheng Xuan as the president represented.
And what Zhang Liao said before that the release effort will be paid to Wei Xuan, which includes the agency of luxury goods and the gift of thread-bound books!
Li Yan, as the hero of the recovery of Yanmen, naturally took the lead in getting all the samples provided by the Wei family, and the current Li Mansion system has become the site of the exposition.
After seeing these, many Yanmen people sighed that they had only left the court for seven or eight years, as if they had been away for seventy or eighty years.
Fortunately, Wei Xuan came, with the army and products. The people of Mayi were more direct, they formed more than 1,000 young people, and directly found Zhang Liao and asked to join the army, in order to protect Yanmen.
In this regard, Zhang Liao could only hand them over to Xun You to deal with. Driven by them, there are enthusiastic young people from all over Yanmen who have reported to the Taishou Mansion, and it just so happens that Xun You is also going to reorganize the county soldiers, so they will not refuse.
At the same time, he asked Wei Xuan to send one or two Simas to help train these people, and Wei Xuanxiang thought about it and then decided to let Xu Zhi and Hao Zhao go to Yanmen.
Xu is in place as a lieutenant, and Hao Zhao is Sima. The Yanmen County soldiers are implemented with reference to the treatment and training plan of the Yingchuan County soldiers.
Wei Xuan's purpose in doing this was to integrate Yanmen into his system economically, politically, and militarily as soon as possible.
With Yanmen in control, coupled with Taishou and Shangdang in hand, Wei Xuan has actually completely blocked the door that Yuan Shao coveted and annexed the state.
After a short rest, Zhang Liao, Du Peng and Xu Huang naturally left Yanmen and headed to the northwest, while Tai Shici, Zhao Yun and others in the south also started one after another.
King Qubei and Hutu definitely couldn't have imagined that Wei Xuan would come so quickly, and he couldn't imagine that most of the Huns in Yanmen County had not escaped, and even the people they sent into Yanmen County to lobby the three tribes did not go back.
Now that he and King Hutu were a little anxious, the contact between the two gradually became more frequent.
The kings of Qubei and Hutu sent men from Xihe and Dingxiang respectively to tempt, but without exception they were blocked from Taiyuan and Yanmen.
What surprised the two even more was that Wei Xuan immediately ordered Tai Shici, Zhang Yang, and Weitong to attack Xihe just three days after recovering Yanmen, and ordered Du Peng, Zhang Liao, and Xu Huang to attack Dingxiang in the northwest.
With the spread of the two attacking soldiers and horses, there was no intention of hiding the total, and the tribes of the Southern Xiongnu gradually knew that Wei Xuan was coming not 20,000 or 30,000 people, but at least 50,000!
With such a large number of regular troops, it was impossible for any single tribe of the Southern Xiongnu to stop it head-on.
As the army approached, it was only a condition for negotiations with Qiangqu and Tuhun, but now it has become an ultimatum to the Southern Huns of the Great Han Dynasty, requiring all the Huns who entered the territory of Bingzhou to immediately release the Han slave soldiers and evacuate the annexed state, otherwise they will be regarded as the object of war.
If it is found that there is a fire enslavement of the Han people in the ropeway of the army, the same number of Huns will be detained and sent to the Central Plains to do absenteeism.
Wei Xuan's sudden turn of face obviously caught the entire Southern Xiongnu tribes off guard, and Wei Xuan's elite army turned out to be as large as 50,000 people, which was beyond the capacity of the Huns.
Take the Qubei tribe as an example, his tribe claims to have forty or fifty thousand people, but the real warriors are actually only seven or eight thousand young people who regularly participate in training.
Even if you bring all the men you want who can ride horses, there will be less than 30,000 people! So Qubei made a decisive decision, on the one hand, he moved the old and young women and children who stayed in Xihe and the Han slaves in the tribe to Shangjun, and on the other hand, he continued to recruit strong men in the tribe, and took nearly 15,000 people directly north to join the tribe of King Hutu.
Because he knew that with his own tribe, even if all the people were soldiers, he was not an opponent for selection, and if he ran late, it was likely to be the fate of those Huns in Yanmen.
In Qubei's view, because of the obstruction of the Yellow River, after Wei Xuan occupies the West River, the two roads will definitely converge in Dingxiang.
Therefore King Hutu must have agreed to his dream. In fact, it was also the case, the king of Hutu, who received the news, sent to ask for Qiangqu on the one hand, but secretly sent people to ask for help from Kebineng, and he knew that he and the Qubei tribe could only occupy thirty or forty thousand strong men.
Once Qiangqu is unwilling to support, this battle really doesn't know whether to win or lose.