Chapter 391: Qiang policy drawbacks
Yan Xing woke up in pain, he was stabbed by Zhang Fei with several wounds in the chest, one of which was a penetrating injury, Zhang Fei also asked people to carry him to perform in the Jun army array, and he fainted directly under the mixture of shame and anger and the pain.
When he woke up, he found that he was still in his military tent, but he did change his master.
Yan Xing led more than 30,000 people from the six coalition forces to be raided by Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and Zhang Ji, and fought hard for more than two hours. The candidate was captured, and Cheng Yin and Liang Xing left with the remnants of the soldiers. I have to say that these rebels in Liangzhou are also veterans of the battlefield, and their will to fight is still relatively tenacious, and more than 30,000 people have fought until most of the losses before choosing to surrender after losing their main general.
The losses of the attackers were not small, among which the biggest loss was Zhang Jibu, who attacked the most bravely, but fortunately, most of his army were Liangzhou soldiers, and the current prisoners were enough for him to reorganize on the spot. Zhang Ji was also unceremonious, first selected cavalry from Zhongtian, increased his cavalry to 4,000 people, and then replenished the infantry, and handed over the rest to Zhao Yun to escort to Didao.
The news of the fiasco of the six coalition forces at Shouyang followed???????????????? Liang Xing and Cheng Yin fled back to Jincheng with the remnants of the army and spread to Han Sui No. 2 Middle School. Han Sui was also surprised when he heard the news, he had heard that Wei Xuanjun was powerful, but the first victory of the Cheng family father and son made him relax his vigilance, and now it seems that the Cheng family father and son had obviously been taken down by the imperial army, otherwise it would be impossible for the four soldiers and horses of the imperial court to appear at the same time one hundred and fifty miles away from Di Dao.
Although there are still more than 10,000 cavalry in Jincheng today, relying on these soldiers and horses alone will definitely not be able to withstand Jincheng. Therefore, Han Sui appeased Cheng Yin and Liang Xing on the one hand, and gave money and food to Cheng Yin and Liang Xing to go back to their original territory to recruit troops. At the same time, Han Sui sent people to send letters to Ma Teng and the Qiang tribes asking for help.
Except for Han Sui, Wei Xuan did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the four soldiers and horses have been lingering in Shouyang. Of course, Han Sui didn't know what Wei Xuan was thinking, and historical experience told him that the main problem in Liangzhou was not the local Han people, but the Qiang people, and to solve the problem of the Qiang people in two weeks, it was necessary to solve the problem of the Qiang people.
Longxi, Jincheng to the west of Wuwei, Jiuquan, Dunhuang to the south of the vast area is entrenched by the Qiang people.
The Han Dynasty was the first unified dynasty in Chinese history that lasted for a long time, and the national strength of the two Han Dynasty was also very strong. "Those who dare to offend strong men will be punished even if they are far away!" It was also the strongest voice of that era, and the entire nation took Han as the name of the nation.
However, the Eastern Han Dynasty actually fought against the Qiang people for a hundred years, and finally did not solve the problem of the Qiang rebellion. The Qiang people are far worse than the Xiongnu in terms of population, civilization and combat effectiveness, why was the Eastern Han Dynasty dragged down by the Qiang people?
Wei Xuan once raised this issue at a military meeting, and Jia Xu, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others all put forward their own opinions, but because of the limitations of the times, the truth of many things has covered up the Lord. The protracted and costly Han-Qiang Hundred Years War is not well known.
The Qiang people were originally united with the Xiongnu, and after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu, he dug through the Western Regions and cut off the connection between the Xiongnu and the Qiang people. In the era of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Chongguo carried out a local attack on the Xian Lingqiang who repeatedly violated the border, and the same was true of Ma Yuan in the era of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty.
The first Qiang rebellion occurred during the period of the Han and Emperor He, although small-scale rebellions were quickly suppressed, but the Qiang people rose one after another, lasting for more than ten years. In order to suppress the Qiang Rebellion, the Eastern Han Dynasty stationed more than 200,000 troops on the border of the empire, consumed more than 24 billion military expenditures, and almost hollowed out Bingzhou and Liangzhou.
The second Qiang rebellion occurred after Emperor Yonghe of Han Shun, and the rebellion of the Qiang people at that time spread to a large area in the northwest of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Bingzhou, Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Jizhou were all harassed, and the imperial court once again spent more than 8 billion yuan to quell the rebellion, temporarily stabilizing the situation.
The third Qiang Rebellion was during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, which was familiar to Wei Xuan's generation, and the names of Zhang Huan, Huangfu Gui, and Duan Cheng "Liangzhou Sanming" resounded throughout the northwest, but the country still spent 4.4 billion. It lasted for nearly 100 years and cost tens of billions of military spending, but in fact the Qiang Rebellion was never completely resolved.
Not only was the Qiang rebellion not resolved, but in Liangzhou, Bingzhou and other places, military strongmen such as Han Sui, Ma Teng, and Dong Zhuo appeared, and they ???????????????? Either one side is divided, or the court is in trouble. Many of these warlords simply served as soldiers from the Qiang ethnic group. After that, there was a rebellion in Liangzhou, and the Eastern Han court was also plunged into the abyss.
It is unceremonious to say that the Eastern Han court was at a loss on the Qiang issue.
To be fair, the national strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty is not weak, why has it never been able to solve the problem of Qiang chaos? Wei Xuan believes that there are mainly the following reasons:
First, the founding situation of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Wei Xuan believes that the national strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty is not as good as that of the Western Han Dynasty, and the most important reason is that the Western Han Dynasty built the capital Chang'an, while the Eastern Han Dynasty built the capital Luoyang, which is quoted in detail below.
From the pre-Qin period to the unification of the six kingdoms by the Qin state, the activities of the Chinese ancestors were mainly in the Yellow River Valley. The armed forces in the upper reaches of the west are superior, and the lower reaches of the east are more culturally and economically developed. The Western Han Dynasty built the capital of Guanzhong Chang'an, and the culture and economy of the East continued to be transported to the west, condensed with the Western armed forces, and then extended from Chang'an to the northwest. This is the root cause of the Western Han Dynasty's expulsion of the Xiongnu and the development of the Western Regions.
The founding posture of the Western Han Dynasty was coordinated, dynamic and enterprising. On the other hand, the Eastern Han Dynasty was often dry, quiet, and retreating. The main reason for this is that because the Eastern Han Dynasty built the capital of Luoyang, the economy and culture of the East no longer moved westward, nor was it exempt from weakening. The population density of the east and west is not adjusted, and the social economy is prone to shaking, so the small Xiqiang Rebellion has become a major disease in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Based on this experience, Wei Xuan felt that if he had mastered the power of the imperial court, he should migrate to Jinyang for the first time, because the main threat of my Han nationality was always the nomadic people in the north. If it is rare to open the Western Regions, it is impossible to say that it can still be used to establish a northern capital protectorate.
Second, the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty had internal friction. In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the emperor's short life and premature death, relatives and eunuchs took turns in power, which led to huge disputes in the imperial court. It was the scholars who conspired with their relatives to punish the eunuchs, and finally derived two "party disasters", and the entire court of the Eastern Han Dynasty fell into a huge split! There was even a feat of slaughtering the palace with domestic slaves after the fourth and third dukes like Yuan Shao. This is something that only happens in the case of extreme contempt for imperial power. Compared with the Yuan Shao brothers, in fact, the martial artist Dong Zhuo was much more cautious after leading the troops into a stationary.
In addition, despite the repeated unfavorable battles, the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty still insisted on transferring troops from the eastern part of the country to suppress it, and did not use the Liangzhou Haojie nearby, which was not the reason for the huge cost of suppressing the Qiang rebellion. The proposal of abandoning Liangzhou and moving the border people within was stopped because the Eastern Han Dynasty was worried that the heroes of Liangzhou would rebel, which still clearly reflected the serious estrangement between the east and the west within the Eastern Han Dynasty and the jealousy of the Kwantung court against the heroes of the Kansai region. Now Wei Xuan's adoption of Ma Teng to suppress Han Sui is also anxious for this consideration, and Liangzhou still has to rely on some Liangzhou people.
Third, the exploitation and oppression of the Qiang people by Han officials. In the process of pacifying the Qiang Rebellion, the Eastern Han Dynasty court actually proposed to abandon Liangzhou many times. And all the border people in Liangzhou were moved inward, and most of the local officials in Liangzhou used by the imperial court were Kwantung people (too long to keep the order, afraid of the military, all of them were people who were not in this land, and they couldn't get hurt, and the disaster could not reach my family, so they fought for the county and moved inward.
Since there are many Orientals in the Qiang, the Qiang Guards and the local county guards in the East, they oppress and enslave the Qiang people. The Qiang people "were seen by the petty officials and the people of the Qiang, and they were poor and bored, so they rebelled", "???????????????? When all the people were distributed in the counties, they were all requisitioned by the officials and the right, and they accumulated grievances. "Not only did the officials oppress the Qiang, but the Han people in the county also enslaved the Qiang, so it caused tension between ethnic groups.
The slaves are full of minions, but the Eastern Han Dynasty was dragged into the quagmire by the Qiang people, it cannot be said that the national strength is not good or the Qiang people are too strong, it can only be said that the Eastern Han Dynasty itself has failed to deal with it!
To solve the problem of Liangzhou, the most important thing is to solve the problem of the Qiang people, and there are many Qiang tribes, most of them advocate the strong, which is also the main reason why Han Sui, Ma Teng and the former Dong Zhuo can eat well in Liangzhou. Now that Wei Xuan is here, of course, he must give Han Sui a chance to unite most of the Qiang people to have a decisive battle with himself, and the defeat of the Qiang people in a battle can deter the Qiang people for decades.
Of course, Han Sui didn't know this, and his envoys frequently went in and out of the Qiang tribes, and most of the Qiang tribes sent their own young people to support Han Sui.
In the vicinity of Jincheng, the daily arrival celebrations range from two or three thousand to four or five thousand.
Seeing these Qiang people gradually gathering, Han Sui's heart was finally relieved.
Although the imperial army seemed menacing, the long journey to Jincheng was almost the end of the crossbow. When they learned that they were going to face a cavalry that was about the same number or even more than them, I believed that the expressions of Wei Xuan and the other generals would be very exciting.
The only thing that made Han Sui a little worried was that Ma Teng had not moved, although Han Sui and Ma Teng had sent protons to Chang'an. But Ma Teng seems to be closer to Ma Chao, the eldest son of the concubine, which Han Sui knows.
Han Sui felt that Ma Teng couldn't become a master like this, and now that the Han court had fallen apart, Wei Xuan looked strong, but he also couldn't get the support of the Kwantung heroes, as long as he and the others would eat and live here, Wei Xuan would definitely retire soon.
Of course, Han Sui also had a private message, although Yan Xing did not know whether he was alive or dead, his own son, daughter and family were all in Jincheng. It is far away from Chang'an but close to the Qiang people, and it is also a very tolerant thing to hide your family. This means that he is invincible.