After being busy fighting drought and controlling locusts, Zeng Hua finally had time to delay his military and political affairs for three months, especially in the Mobei region, which had just finished the campaign last year.

After one winter, the number of Rouran tribes in the Wuhe region suddenly decreased from more than 600,000 to 300,000. Before the winter of the ninth year of Yonghe, that is, when Zeng Hua left for Chang'an, he had already issued an order for "extreme warfare".

Nearly 100,000 Beifu cavalry, together with the Mobei surrender tribe dominated by the Hulu clan, the Dou clan, and the Wuluolan clan, launched a two-month siege on all sides of the Rouran tribe of Wuhe, not seeking a decisive battle, but plundering cattle and sheep and destroying camp tents.

After more than 100,000 cavalry troops frantically invaded day and night, regardless of direction, the Rouran troops suffered heavy losses before the severe winter snowfall. Although the number of casualties was small, cattle, sheep, tents and other daily necessities were lost.

Losing these material bases for survival, the Rouran tribes suffered unprecedented heavy losses in the winter wind and snow in Mobei. More than 300,000 tribesmen and their tribes quietly disappeared into the vast snowstorm, and countless corpses were hidden in the snow. It's like no one knows when they came to the land of the five rivers, and no one knows when they left it.

Defeated and fled back to the court of the Khan of the Tianshan Mountains (Hangai Mountain), the Rouranbati Khan faced this dilemma but had nothing to do. The 70,000 elites were all folded in Monan, which greatly hurt Rouran's vitality. Then Tuoba Xianbei surrendered to Beifu, and most of the troops withdrew to Monan and Yinshan, leaving the original station, the Tuyuanshui Basin, to the surging Beifu cavalry.

Although when the dynasty fell, some nobles brought more than 100,000 people to the north to Rouran. The strength of the Rouran Department has increased to more than 600,000 at once, which sounds like a lot of expansion, but it still can't change the fate of the Rouran Department's doomed demise.

In the winter of the ninth year of Yonghe, Dou Lin announced that he would annex Beifu, pulled three small tribes nearby to move closer to the Beifu cavalry, and gave up the natural danger of Qionglong Ridge, so that the Khan's court and the hinterland of the Five River Basin were directly exposed to the iron hooves of the 60,000 Beifu cavalry in the north.

Zeng Hua announced that Jiang Nan would take over his command in Mobei, and directly commanded Ye Lixun, Zhong Cunlian, Fu Nandang, Dang Tu, Gong Tangxiu, Dangsu, Feng Yangli, Lu Zhen, Yang Su and other generals, as well as nearly 100,000 Beifu iron cavalry, plus Hu Lawyers, Dou Lin, and Wu Luolantuo led by the surrendered troops.

Jiang Nan, who was born in the Xiqiang grassland, and his subordinates know very well what the herdsmen on the grassland are most afraid of. Let's discuss it with the lawyers association who are familiar with the Mobei grassland. So all kinds of vicious means have been resorted. There is only one ultimate goal, and that is to make the Rouran Department hungry and frozen in the cold winter!

Although the Bati Khan temporarily concentrated a "new army" of 50,000 cavalry, it could not compete with the Beifu coalition army, which had more than 200,000 together, and Bati did not have the courage to fight to the death with the Beifu cavalry, so its role was to protect the safety of the royal court from the beginning.

When the cold crept in with the heavy snow, the Rouran tribe found that nature appeared in front of everyone with unprecedented cruelty. Although the Beifu cavalry was fierce, poor herdsmen and slaves, artisans, and young women were all merciful. But in the face of the cold. Whether you are a nobleman or a slave, a herdsman or a craftsman, a beautiful woman or an ugly woman, as long as you lose your cattle, sheep and tents, nature will kill you equally.

The various tribes of Rouran began to stir, everyone wanted to survive this winter, but if they wanted to survive when supplies were desperately scarce, they had to rob others of food and supplies. What is not good to say is that you have to step on other people's corpses to live. So all the tribes raised their swords and arrows in their hands. Especially in the northern annex area, there are more than 100,000 generations of rebels. When they followed the Tuoba tribe to mix the ground, they did not inflict much on the Rouran tribes, and at this grim and delicate moment, the two could easily spark off.

Not only did the original national tribe and the Rouran tribe have a brutal and bloody battle. Even the Rouran tribe began to fight endlessly, and every tribe and everyone became more and more crazy in the increasingly cold and snowy wind. Cutting down others is their only thought, no matter whether it is their enemies or their relatives who are lying in a pool of blood, as long as there are people around, and there will be a threat to cattle, sheep and tents, they will not hesitate to wave the knife in their hands.

When the last person around him disappeared from his sight, the exhausted victor also fell into the vast wind and snow, and disappeared into the white as far as the eye could see.

Faced with the extremely chaotic situation, Khan Bati was no longer able to cope with it, and the 50,000 iron cavalry around him were now instigated by the turmoil that swept through Mobei, and these cavalrymen from different surnames and tribes had long forgotten the task of protecting Bati. Soon, these cavalry left the royal court one after another and joined the battle of their respective tribes, and in the end, Bati could only control less than 10,000 cavalry of his headquarters.

Looking at the tragic reports day after day, Bati knew that the Rouran Department was finished. The extremely powerful Xiongnu were also attacked by Rouran, Xianbei and other departments in the year of heavy snowfall, and man-made disasters and natural disasters finally collapsed. Rouran is not as strong as the Huns, so the end will be even worse, not to mention that there are more than 200,000 enemies outside, only waiting for the spring when the flowers bloom to beat the water dogs, so Bati began to plan a way back for himself.

When the spring of the tenth year of Yonghe came, Bati took the first action, led 5,000 cavalry, covered more than 300 of his relatives to pass through Baifu in the south of the Tianshan Mountains, and fled to the Qigu tribe in the Jianshui Valley with lightning speed, leaving more than 300,000 dying Rouran tribesmen.

Jiang Nan, who had been closely observing the soft movements, saw the snow melting in spring, and immediately ordered the Beifu cavalry, which had been waiting for a winter, to immediately dispatch and begin to clean up the mess in the Five River Valleys. The Beifu cavalry, which had survived the winter with the looted cattle and sheep tents, received orders one after another, set off from their respective stations, and slowly marched towards the Five Rivers Valley as a whole team. At this time, Rouran had been tortured to the point that she didn't have a few breaths left, so she didn't have any combat power, and she didn't have the strength to resist even if she wanted to.

In May, the Beifu cavalry army entered the court of Rouran Khan at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains and officially took over the remnants of Rouran. June. Lu Zhen led 10,000 cavalry troops to attack the eastern part of the Beihai region in the north, engaged in the battle for two months, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and collected 269 troops and 150,000 troops. So far, most of the east of Jinshan in Mobei and most of the west of Xianbei Mountain (Great Xing'an Mountains) have been pacified.

After this great victory over Yu Wei, Zeng Hua began to vigorously transform the various departments of Mobei. According to the demographic statistics that began in the ninth year of Yonghe. At present, there are 206,319 households of various ethnic groups such as Eile, Rouran, Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Donghu in Mobei. One hundred and sixty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty-four.

Zeng Hua ordered all the troops in Mobei to be disorganized and mixed. Regardless of whether it was a Cele, a Rouran, a Xiongnu, or a Donghu, the tribal surname system was abolished, but the household was the basic unit, and the political system was divided into ten, hundred, and thousand households, with chiefs, hundreds, and thousands of households, and the military establishment was set up as cavalry captains, captains, and school captains, and the military and government were completely separated. Mobei, excluding those who were assigned to military merit and slaves, still had 821,651 people left. 153,653 households.

Zeng Hua gave another order, more than 95,000 cavalry troops in Beifu settled on the spot, and according to the level of military merit, they were selected to serve as the commander, 100 households, 1,000 households, cavalry captains, capital lieutenants, and school captains, while the rest of the cavalry who did not hold positions had families to take over their families, and those who did not have a home became families on the spot, and led the slaves and maids assigned to them to settle down in the rich Wuhe River Basin, Heishui and Wanshui Valley. While continuing to perform the duties of guarding Mobei, he began to stabilize Mobei as the main body.

Zeng Huabiao Jiang Nan was the general of Longcheng, commanding more than 30,000 households in the western and central five river basins; Ye Li Xun is the general of Wolf Mountain. Commanded more than 20,000 households in the East Five River Basin; Lu Zhen is the general of Beihai. Commanded 15,000 households in Beihai; Yang Su is the general of Heishui, commanding 10,000 households in Heishui; When the decoction is the general of the water, he leads 10,000 households of the water; Fei Ting's puppet is General Modong. Commanded 8,000 households in Shuinan and Modong; Gong Tangxiu was the general of Lingnan, commanding 7,000 households in the south of Qionglong; The one who was the beard was the Lingnan general, who commanded 7,000 households in the north of Yinshan; Feng Yangli is the general of Nuoshui, commanding 6,000 households in the north of Yinshan and the Nuoshui Basin.

He was also the general of Jinshan, leading 12,000 households in Jinshan East and Shishui West; Dou Lin is the general of Ding Ling, who commands 10,000 households in the forehead; Ulolanto is the general of Yanbei, commanding 10,000 households south of Xianbei Mountain and Wanshui.

The deputy Fuluo department, the Dashu cadres, the weeping Fuli department, the Weichi department, the Guhun department, the Baye department, the Hegu department and other departments who had made meritorious contributions in the battle, under the "coercion" of the 100,000 Beifu cavalry and the Rouran Destruction Land, had to hand over their local people for reorganization, but they were not less slaves, and they all got official positions such as Qianhu and school captain, but their subordinates were replaced.

Zeng Hua immediately announced the implementation of the uniform field system in Mobei, with households as the unit, and emphasized the pacification and protection of ordinary herdsmen, and no military position such as the head of the eye, the hundred households, the thousand households, or the cavalry captain could arbitrarily oppress the herdsmen.

Through judicial independence and the direct appointment and dismissal of officials above the rank of 100 households and governors, Zeng Hua began to incorporate Mobei into the Beifu system, following the example of Xiqiang.

In addition, Zeng Hua set up 29 markets in Mobei, such as Longcheng, Wolf Mountain, and Baifu, and incorporated Mobei into the Beifu trade and economic system.

Zeng Hua divided Yinshan and Xianbei Mountain into counties, Yinshan South belonged to Shuozhou, Wuyuan, Yunzhong three counties north extension area, and Xianbei Mountain southwest should belong to Youzhou's Dai County, Shanggu County, but now Youzhou is not under the control of the North Prefecture, so Zeng Hua first assigned this place to Shuozhou for temporary management. Zeng Hua readjusted the three county guards and continued to entrust Xie Ai to govern Shuozhou. After all, there are more than 400,000 original Tuoba tribes who surrendered to the south, and hundreds of thousands of other tribes who have surrendered in two years, plus there have been chaos here for many years, and it has been hundreds of years since it broke away from the Central Plains regime, and now it is necessary to make great efforts to govern the center. And the cavalry army has already gone north, relying only on more than 100,000 Zhenbei infantry troops and government soldiers to defend, this task is a bit arduous, so the horse can fight, and the horse can govern Xie Ai is the best personnel.

But one of Zeng's next policies caused controversy in the center of Beifu. Zeng Hua planned to follow the Xiqiang example, in addition to setting up churches in various parts of Mobei and using the power of the church to promote medical care and basic education in Mobei in the process of mission, but also planned to let the children of hundreds of households in Mobei and officials above the rank of cavalry captain to study in Yongzhou, Beifu, and Beifu treated them equally, according to other students in Beifu, not only free tuition, but also food and lodging in the government.

It was the latter decision that made the officials in Beifu oppose one after another, especially led by Che Yin and Mao Muzhi, which was very intense, and Park, who had always been consistent with Zeng Hua, unexpectedly stood on the side of Che and Mao this time, and Wang Meng, the remaining of the Big Four, remained neutral. Neither against nor in favor of it. And the only one who supports Zeng Huadi is Xie Ai in Shuozhou.

Che Yin and others believe that the land of Mobei and the land of Xiqiang are completely different. Xiqiang did not pose much danger to the Central Plains from the beginning of the Han Dynasty in history, but Mobei was different, from the beginning of the strong Qin to dominate the world until now, the harm to the Central Plains is simply countless. If these northern barbarians were allowed to learn cultural knowledge and be proficient in the art of war and governing the country, then the chaos would be even more harmful to the Central Plains.

Zeng Hua thought that they were right, Xiqiang did not do much harm to the Central Plains, so they didn't take it to heart. faintly regarded as his own person. So the last time I did this, I didn't object to it. But the harm of Mobei is too great. And Liu Yuan and other "Monan immigrants" who have learned cultural knowledge have turned the Central Plains upside down, this is still a matter of the past few decades, how dare these people forget?

According to Zeng Hua's own historical knowledge, it must be noted that many people from India and Vietnam studied in Britain and France, but these people sounded the death knell for British and French colonial rule in India and Vietnam, and finally let those who had educated them leave their hometowns in disgrace.

But Zeng Hua thought about it. Still felt that the benefits of doing this method far outweighed the disadvantages, so he asked the Big Four to have a good talk.

"In fact, Mobei, like Xiqiang, does not have its own real culture and nation, but Mobei has established several regimes, and Xiqiang has not established, so you think Xiqiang is much more reliable than Mobei. But have you ever thought about it, in fact, Mobei is the same as Xiqiang, it is a blank slate. In the past, we used to use force to conquer these desert people. However, the text is to deal with these people in the desert with a rewarding attitude. I look down on it, but I can't beat it. We can't afford to make such mistakes again, and we can't let Mobei become a border trouble in our north again, because we can't guarantee that we will still be so strong in a hundred years. ”

Zeng Hua said very patiently. And the Big Four were all there to listen quietly, they knew that many of their lords' thoughts and ideas were very "unbelievable" and "advanced", but they would all get their approval before they could do it, and at least they had to be convinced.

"This Mobei victory can be said to be the most obvious advantage of the Central Plains over Mobei, and we must seize this opportunity to let Mobei completely integrate into it. In addition to force and economy, culture is also an important tool. We can educate them from generation to generation, so that they can accept that we are a people and that they will love a country with us. It is only through continuous education and nurturing that we can gain their approval. And only in this way can we incorporate Mobei into the territory of China, not only can it not become a threat to us,

We continue to help strongly! ”

Zeng Hua's words sound very reasonable, and Che Yin and others are still very confident in the ability of the Central Plains culture to "educate" people, and their hearts began to slowly loosen. In the past, they had always heard the lord shouting about turning the wolves into wolfdogs, but now they also realized that they could only occupy an advantage for a period of time by force alone, and that only by using the most powerful weapon in the Central Plains - culture to assimilate them could they be regarded as long-term peace and stability.

Zeng Hua was even more confident in his heart, that dynasty with braided hair, after ruling for two hundred years, actually made many people identify with those braids that represented backwardness and ignorance. In comparison, it should be easier for the Central Plains culture to acquiesce in the barbarian land of the desert north.

Zeng Hua felt that he had done nothing wrong, anyway, some historians in later generations always sang the praises of the great national integration of this history, no matter how much blood and injustice there were. I conformed to the trend of history and also engaged in a great national integration, but the bloody and unjust souls in it have changed objects, I don't know what those historians in later generations will think of their own national integration? Think it's too bloody and doesn't fit the characteristics of Chinese ethnic integration? Leave him alone, do your own thing first.

Under Zeng Hua's persuasion, the four giants finally unanimously agreed with Zeng Hua's point of view, agreed with his plan to study in Yongzhou, the children of various nobles in Mobei, and agreed to allocate this money from the budget of Beifu.

Zeng Hua could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Zeng Hua knew that he was far-sighted and far-sighted, and he could be said to be standing on the head of a giant to eat, drink, and Lazar, but he also knew that his actual administrative ability was a mess, and even a medium county guard might not be able to compare. Zeng Hua knows his strengths and weaknesses, so in addition to personally grasping key matters, he is very willing to delegate power.

Starting from the Changshui Army, Zeng Hua often only formulated policies and strategies, ignored the specific implementation work, and completely handed over the corresponding subordinates to handle it, and only supervised and coordinated, plus came forward to do what a supreme leader should do. For example, the announcement of laws and regulations. Praise and punishment, or fight in the ring with Jiangling and Jianye, this kind of "scoundrel" life Zeng Hua has a lot of fun.

After finishing the affairs of Mobei, Zeng Hua hurried to finish the affairs of the church. After finishing these mundane things, Zeng Hua hurried to be the groom.

Zeng Hua announced the "Holy Religion Decree" in the name of the head of the Northern Prefecture, officially recognizing the legal status of the Holy Religion in the Northern Prefecture on behalf of the Beifu government (this is a bit nonsense). At the same time, in the name of the head of the Northern Prefecture, he announced the "Organizational Rules of the Holy Church", officially putting a tight spell on the church.

The Church is based on the diocese, and the number of people in each diocese is not limited, but the maximum number of households cannot exceed 1,000. There must be a church. No matter how big or small. Above the parish are the county and county dioceses and the state diocese. And the church is just a place where the parishioners pray and worship. It can only be used for religious activities or charitable activities in holy places, and it is strictly forbidden to conduct any politically related gatherings and activities.

Churches are presided over by priests or priests, who are only responsible for administering the church, conducting prayers and services, or proselytizing and enlightening the people, and allowing the opening and operation of infirmaries and schools. And these priests were promoted by missionaries after graduating from seminary.

Missionaries must serve in a parish church for at least three years and then be evaluated by the parishioners. He was considered a qualified clergyman so that he could be ordained a priest by a higher church. Only those who have served in the priesthood for more than three years are eligible to be elected as a priest by the parishion, and the number of priests is divided according to the number of parishioners, and the number of priests varies from parish to parishion, generally twenty priests to have one priest.

Priests can form a chaplain's council, which is the governing body of the county diocese. Several meetings are held a year to review the work of the church in the district. Agree to appoint new clergy. The chaplaincy is elected as the day-to-day governing body of the county diocese, and the chaplains of the chaplaincy are called deacon pastors.

The Synod of Bishops is the governing body of the state diocese by electing bishops from the Synod of Bishops. It also meets several times a year to review the work of the Church and appoint new pastors, and to elect the bishopric as the day-to-day governing body of the state diocese, and the bishops of the bishops' conference are called deacons and bishops.

The Synod of Bishops then elected the archbishops, which is the highest governing body of the Holy Church, and has the same functions as other two-level council bodies, and Zeng Hua, as the prophet and king, appointed seven red-robed archbishops from the Archbishops' Conference to form the Archbishopric, which became the highest daily governing body of the Holy Church.

In addition to these frameworks, there are very detailed provisions, such as the fact that the church does not have its own property, because all their land and money are donated by the parishioners. Therefore, in addition to receiving a fixed salary to support the family, the clergy have no ownership of the fixed assets of the church such as the church, but only the right to manage them. All the wealth of the Church is concentrated in the Church Commons, and this money is divided into two parts, one part is used as the state church fund to entrust the state church to manage and operate, and to use it for the daily expenses of the churches at all levels below the state diocese. The other part is concentrated in the Ecclesiastical Synod, which is controlled by the Archbishopric and is used for the maintenance of "high-level" churches such as the Great Temple, as well as for the expenditure of institutions and personnel such as the Archbishopric, as well as for other purposes such as the expansion of missions.

According to the Tsanghua Songbu statute, any money used by the church must not only be approved by the priests' council, the synopsian synod, and the archbishopric, but also be subject to the jurisdiction of the government's auditing body, which has the right to audit the church's revenues and expenditures, supervise and punish them according to law, and publicize them to the public.

Because of Zeng Hua's status, the Holy Church must accept this clause no matter what, and the Church has fully accepted it and published it as a guideline. Fan Zhe and other members of the Archbishopric also compiled the "Guidelines for the Clergy of the Holy Church", which was handed over to Zeng Hua to promulgate in the name of the prophet Ming King.

This guideline, which is based entirely on the principles of the Constitution of the Holy Church, stipulates in great detail that the clergy must serve God with their bodies, and therefore must not take concubinage, collect money, interfere in secular affairs, etc. The most important core of this code is that the clergy only guide and help the parishioners to believe in God, and do not have the power and ability to convey God's "will" (because the words have been finished by the Prophet Zeng Hua), so they cannot interpret the holy scriptures without authorization, and more importantly, it stipulates that the clergy must draw a clear line from secular affairs and strictly prohibit interference in them.

Zeng Hua's promulgation of the "Holy Decree" and the "Organic Law of the Holy Church" in the name of the head of the Northern Prefecture and the "Code of Conduct for the Sacred Clergy" in the name of the head of the church are of profound significance, and he wants to declare to the world and future generations that the church and the secular government are strictly separated, and the church cannot absolutely influence the secular power, but the secular power can affect the church.